Chapter 236

"Head! Come on down!"

Grizzly and Duan Lei brought the enhanced zombie back to An Xue. Then, Duan Lei led the zombie directly into An Xue's living room, while Grizzly waved to Li Chenzhou, who was still strolling on the rooftop.

Li Chenzhou had already seen Duan Lei and the others bringing back a zombie, which surprised him. He had expected the zombie to be tied up, with its head covered to prevent it from biting people, and carried back by Grizzly.

But now, the zombie was behaving like a good little baby, closely following behind Duan Lei, showing no signs of aggression.

So, he quickly went downstairs and rushed into An Huo. He sized up the enhanced zombie, which was standing obediently in the living room, and then turned to Duan Lei and asked:

"What's the situation? You can only control these things for ten minutes at most, right?"

Duan Lei's mental control depended on the target's level. Ten minutes for targets below his level, three minutes for those at the same level, and only a few seconds for those one level higher.

Although Duan Lei had leveled up, unlike Li Chenzhou, he hadn't upgraded his existing skills but had gained a new one: Mental Shield!

Mental Shield: Use mental power to form a shield within a certain range, blocking all mental attacks no higher than one's own mental power!

This skill was highly targeted, only effective against mental attacks. So, when facing mental skills, this skill was godlike, but when fighting other types of evolved beings, this skill was basically useless.

Because of this new skill, Duan Lei's mental control hadn't improved. Therefore, this enhanced zombie was level one, and Duan Lei was level two. If it was one level higher, the duration of mental control would be a maximum of ten minutes.

But now, much more than ten minutes had passed, and the zombie was still very obedient, definitely still under control!

"Boss, that's how it is with normal creatures, of course, but this zombie has been 'modified'!"

Duan Lei pointed at the enhanced zombie.

"Modified?"

Li Chenzhou was stunned. Zombies could be modified? Why hadn't he heard of this in his previous life?

He walked up to the zombie and began to examine it closely, trying to find traces of its modification. However, Duan Lei's next words immediately made him abandon his idea:

"Boss, the modification I'm talking about isn't its body, but here!!!"

Duan Lei said, pointing to his temple with his index finger:

"Boss, you said that enhanced zombies, except for the intelligent-type corpse kings, only have their bodies enhanced, but their brains are no different from ordinary zombies, right? Their combat and hunting are all based on instinct, right?

But this guy's brain has been… I don't know how to describe it, but his brain has been completely changed, even his instincts have disappeared. Now it's a puppet that only obeys orders. Whatever I tell it to do, it will do. What I don't let it do, it will never do! The execution is extremely strong!"

"Are you sure?"

Li Chenzhou was stunned.

"Yes! I'm sure!"

Duan Lei nodded vigorously. Then, he gave Grizzly a look. Grizzly stood up somewhat dejectedly and walked towards Li Chenzhou and the enhanced zombie. At the same time, he drew his dagger, held it in his left hand, and gently moved it, causing blood to slowly drip from his palm…

Arriving in front of the enhanced zombie, Grizzly actually opened his injured palm and stretched it forward, directly pressing it against the zombie's face, with the wound landing squarely on the zombie's nose.

Zombies were extremely sensitive to blood, not to mention that Grizzly had now brought his injured hand to its mouth. Wasn't this clearly courting death?

Li Chenzhou was instantly shocked. Even if Grizzly was only level one, even if he was at a higher level, it was impossible to resist the zombie virus. If he was bitten by this guy, he would be completely finished!

But next, the zombie's performance surprised Li Chenzhou even more, who had rushed forward to stop Grizzly. The zombie was still standing there blankly, its body motionless, as if… it couldn't smell the scent of blood that was so irresistible to zombies.

"See that? Boss, that's what I'm talking about, they… even their instincts have been taken away!"

Duan Lei said with a wry smile.

Hearing Duan Lei's words, Li Chenzhou looked at the zombie in front of him with a solemn expression. Grizzly had even dripped his blood on the zombie's face, sliding down its nose and flowing over its mouth. The zombie was still tightly closed its mouth and didn't even stick out its tongue to lick it.

"This… can turn zombies into this? What kind of creature did this?"

Li Chenzhou asked.

"I don't know!"

Duan Lei said:

"When I was controlling it, I also got some information. This information is the order given to them by the creature that controls them!

Their orders are very simple: to hide in the tall buildings throughout the city, monitor us, determine our route, and then return to report!

And during this period, besides staring at us, they can't do anything, can't hunt, can't kill, even if they see living people, they have to pretend they don't see them!"

"Damn! So that's why this guy ignored us after we went in, until you controlled it?"

Grizzly suddenly realized and said. Then, he looked at Li Chenzhou and recounted what happened after they entered the room where the zombie was.

"You just said… them? There are many enhanced zombies like this?"

Li Chenzhou looked at Duan Lei and asked.

"Yes! Many! And they should all be like this one, guys with absolutely strong execution!"

Duan Lei nodded:

"However, this guy has no concept of numbers, so I don't know the specifics. The information I got from it is about the orders it received, but it doesn't have any information about the creature that issued the orders, not even a vague image!"

"Why are they monitoring us?"

Li Chenzhou looked at the horde of corpses within the inner second ring road in the distance and said softly.

Duan Lei and Grizzly all looked over as well. Duan Lei also frowned and pondered, saying:

"Yeah, logically speaking, they are all in the city center, so there's no need to monitor us, because no matter which direction we come from, no matter what we do on the road, we will eventually arrive here. They just need to wait for us here!"

"That's right! So, there must be a reason for them to do this, but… we can't guess what their purpose is for the time being!"

Li Chenzhou nodded.

"That's simple!"

Grizzly suddenly laughed:

"The Captain said that there is a simplest way to figure out the enemy's purpose!!!"