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“How do you want me to make up to you?” Lan Lu asked Lin Qiao relaxedly. Since she had solved the problem, the rest would be easy. The compensation was totally negotiable.
Lin Qiao cut the entire bear into small pieces, then put it in the buckets and covered the lids before putting the buckets into her space. After finishing doing that, she looked at him and said, “I’ve also helped you to knock your Chief out this time, and your zombie friends are still in my base. Their faces have almost recovered, so it’s time for them to come back. To pay me back and make up to me, you can get me a level-eight nucleus.”
“Oh,” Lan Lu understood what she meant, “You want me to get you the wolf king’s nucleus, don’t you? You are really greedy. You already have the level-eight fire bear’s nucleus.”
“No,” Lin Qiao shook her head and said, “I’ll get the wolf by myself. You need to get me a level-eight nucleus from somewhere else. You can get it from a zombie, a beast, a human being, or a mutated plant.”
Wherever the nucleus might come from, Lan Lu had to harvest it by himself or get it through some other ways.
Of course, his Chief could get him a level-eight nucleus if the man woke up and regained his power within a short span of time. However, that would be impossible. Dong Xiaowei, who had been out-of-control for months, wouldn’t wake up so quickly. And after he woke up, his power wouldn’t come back within a short time.
Therefore, Lan Lu needed to do the hunting himself.
After putting all the buckets into her space, Lin Qiao waved at Lan Lu and said, “Alright, your problem has been solved. I’ve got to go. You should seize the time and take your boss back to your base.”
After saying that, she waved at her zombies, then turned and darted out toward where the wolf’s vibe came from.
Watching Lin Qiao and her zombies leave, Chang Qingqing couldn’t help but ask Lan Lu, “Is she really going after that wolf? The wolf ran away long ago. Can she still find it?”
Lan Lu carried Dong Xiaowei, the turned and said to her, “I don’t think there’s a good chance for any of her preys to run, because she’s a zombie emperor now.” After saying that, he leaped high and disappeared with his Chief.
Chang Qingqing glanced at the road that Lin Qiao and her zombies took, then disappeared as well.
Soon after they split up, the entire forest abruptly quaked. Clouds of gray mist rose from the ground, and then the mutated insects in the forest were startled, desperately crawling toward the higher places.
Not long after she parted with Lan Lu, Lin Qiao stopped moving on top of a tree, then raised an arm to signal for her zombies to stop as well. Then, she narrowed her eyes and spent a few seconds looking down at the ground. After that, she looked at the sky.
Xie Dong and the others landed on the trees behind her, looked at her quietly without uttering any sound to disturb her.
Lin Qiao spent a short while observing the surrounding environment, then lowered her head and looked at the dense forest in front of her, “I have a bad feeling.”
Xie Dong and the others glanced at each other. They didn’t really understand what she meant, but they believed that she said that for a reason. Lin Qiao rarely sounded so serious. Her serious tone of speaking made the other zombies take her words with a serious attitude.
As same as Lin Qiao, Mo Yan, who had been pursuing a level-five mutated fox, abruptly stopped and raised his head to look at the sky, with a faint purple light glowing out of his eyes.
“Roar!” As Mo Yan stopped attacking it, the lightning-powered mutated fox seized the opportunity to run. However, once it made a movement, a white figure pressed it down. Before the fox could let out a scream, a claw sank into its skull and dug out a purple nucleus.
The zombie girl in a white dress walked to Mo Yan’s side and handed him the nucleus.
Mo Yan lowered his head and glanced at her, then raised a hand and took the nucleus over. After that, he found a clean spot to sit down and started to absorb the nucleus. The zombie girl stayed by his side, standing on a rock and paying close attention to the surrounding environment while brushing her long and smooth hair with her fingers. Not a slight sign could escape her eyes.
Mo Yan spent less than half an hour to absorb the level-five nucleus. He clapped off the dust in his palm, then brought the zombie girl to the tallest mountain nearby. Before long, they arrived at the mountain top.
Standing on top of the mountain where provided him with a wide view, he narrowed his eyes to observe the forest down the mountain. He was, in fact, not far away from where Lin Qiao was. Lin Qiao let him hunt freely for nuclei to improve his power, but he had been following her all the time.
After spending a short while looking into the forest, Mo Yan started to feel some special vibes coming from a few different directions. A mysterious and dangerous vibe was spreading speedily. Clearly, something strange was showing up. Those vibes made Mo Yan, a zombie emperor, feel under threat. Without a question, that something was definitely dangerous.
He glanced at the area where Lin Qiao was and figured that she might have sensed the special vibe as well.
About a hundred miles away from where both Lin Qiao and Mo Yan were paying attention to, the bottom of a dried river in a valley was covered in cracks. And from those cracks, a weird vibe gushed out.
The river had been dried for a long time. The largest earth crack was about five meters wide, and the smaller ones were two or three meters wide.
Puff! A weirdly-looking claw reached out of a crack and inserted itself into the ground.
“Gooo… rooo…” A head slowly stuck out of the crack and let out a strange sound. The round-headed creature soon reached out its other claw and slowly crawled out of the earth.
The creature had round, basin-sized head which was thickly covered in blinking eyes. Its body was slim, and… it had no legs. The round-headed creature had a pair of forelimbs and a flat, bucket-sized, leech-liked body. It was about four meters long.
The multiple-eyed creature crawled out from underground and looked around, then bared its sharp teeth.
“Goorooooo…” With its pair of forelimbs which were as thick as an adult’s thighs, it ran left and came back, then ran right. Before long, it ran back again. Then, it quickly moved to the edge of the earth crack, reached its head down, and let out a series of gooroo.
“Goooorooooo…” The sounds of countless creatures were instantly heard from deep down the earth crack. Soon, countless creatures that had round heads, multiple eyes, and large mouths crawled out from underground, letting out waves of gooroo sounds. As more and more of those creatures crawled out, the ‘gooroo’ sounds grew louder and louder, traveling to farther areas.
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Lin Qiao stayed where she was and carefully sensed the weird, ominous vibe. She thought for a moment, then decided to go to where the vibe came from and take a look.
The vibe made her feel not good, as if something extremely dangerous had shown up. Therefore, she decided to give up on the wolf and go find the source of the vibe. After she had figured out what gave out the vibe, she might continue tracking the wolf.
“Follow me… Speed up!” Lin Qiao gave her order and then disappeared. Hearing her order, Xie Dong and the other zombies followed her vibe at their highest speeds.
Lin Qiao swiftly moved through the treetops or mountain tops, toward the source of the weird vibe. Before long, the group of zombies behind her could barely see her. Except for the few who had wind powers, no one was able to catch up with Lin Qiao the zombie emperor.
More than a hundred miles only took Lin Qiao about ten minutes. She stood on top of the tallest tree on a mountaintop as she looked at the dried river and the herd of disgusting creatures which had occupied the river bed. Her brows were knitted into a deep frown.
Why did those creatures have so many eyes? Were those eyes for seeing? And their disgusting bodies… Were they mutated leeches or slugs? Why did they only have two legs? They looked so misshapen, even worse than some legless creatures!
Lin Qiao couldn’t help but cover her eyes with a hand and turn her face away with disgust. Those creatures were so blindingly ugly, especially their eye-covered head. Her trypophobia was nearly triggered!
Those creatures gathered in a huge herd. They weren’t large in size, but did have terribly strong vibes. Even the smallest one of them gave out a vibe as strong as that of a level-six mutated beast, while the largest ones seemed to be at level-eight. Moreover, their number was ridiculously large.
As Lin Qiao curved her eyes and turned her head, the creatures in the valley all paused, then turned toward the mountaintop that she was on simultaneously.
Lin Qiao’s heart leaped. She instantly turned back and found those creatures staring straight at her. The feeling of being targeted made her feel under pressure. The mountain was only about seven miles away from the valley, so those creatures easily detected her vibe and saw her.
None of them showed any fear to Lin Qiao’s zombie emperor vibe. The plants near them had all started dying and turning dark, while the tree leaves had fallen and the tree trunks had turned black. It looked like the darkness was spreading bit by bit from the valley.
Some mutated animals on the earth’s surface died and fell on the grass before being eaten by those creatures. The dead animals which had turned black emitted an odor like rotten corpses. However, those multiple-eyed creatures ate the dead bodies with great appetite.
That scene was very unpleasant to the eyes, but still, Lin Qiao needed to observe them. Wherever those creatures visited, all objects on the ground turned black quickly, and an odor spread along the area. The animals in further areas fell to the ground once they smelt the odor.
The lower-leveled mutated animals didn’t seem to sense the coming danger. Only the higher-leveled ones felt something and left vigilantly.
About half an hour later, Xie Dong and the other zombies finally showed up by Lin Qiao’s side. At that moment, the darkness from the valley had spread to a very obvious degree, so the group of zombies noticed it once they arrived.
“Whoa! What are those creatures? They’re so ugly!” Yan Xiao uttered a scream the first, then forced herself to observe those creatures with a twisted face. Those things were indescribably ugly.
Jingyan stayed composed and looked at those creatures carefully. “They are from the underground too. How come so many weird creatures crawled out of the earth after the apocalypse?” she pointed at the earth cracks on the river bed and said.
Xie Dong and the other male zombie didn’t react so strongly to those ugly creatures, but they did have their eye corners or mouth corners twitching. Six turned around the moment he saw the countless eyes squeezing together on those creatures’ heads. “Damn! I even have goosebumps! What the hell are those things! So disgusting!”
Ye Qingxian looked at him, then patted on his shoulder and laughed, “Bro, you’re not having what people called trypophobia, are you? Haha, it’s gonna be interesting if you are.”
Six stayed silent; he hated to admit it, but he did have trypophobia.
“What are they?” With a frown, Xie Dong looked at the valley that already had a big area turning black. Not even a slight trace of life-force could be detected from the valley as the sense of death spread in that area. Those monsters were obviously what turned the valley into that state.
Lin Qiao shook her head and said, “I don’t know. Base on my observation, these things are even harder to deal with than those underground gorillas near our base. They like to eat rotten dead bodies, and their bodies release a highly poisonous gas, which is spreading in all directions now.”
“And there are a lot of them. If they start to move, the entire Northwest might be affected,” said Xie Dong with worry.
Hearing what he said, Lin Qiao turned and looked around. Then, she turned back and folded her arms, putting a hand on her chin as she said uncertainly, “If I’m right… this isn’t the only place where the monsters showed up.”
The bad feeling that she was having grew stronger when she saw those creatures. The valley didn’t seem to be the only cause of that feeling.
On hearing her words, not only Xie Dong, but the other zombies all turned to her and looked at her with surprise.
“What? No way! Are there more of these things in other places?” Yan Xiao felt really uncomfortable on hearing that. She thought those creepy creatures wouldn’t affect her own base and the rest of China, as they were so far away from those places. However, Lin Qiao’s words ruined her good wish.
A huge herd of multiple-eyed creatures had already occupied the valley, and more had been coming out of the earth cracks. Yan Xiao would rather deal with a world full of zombies than facing the fact that those disgusting creatures might invade the entire earth!
Hearing what Yan Xiao said, Jingyan, Five, whose name was Liuli, and the other zombie ladies all felt chilly. Six flapped his own head and tried to slap those creatures’ serried eyes out of his mind.
Lin Qiao thought for a moment and said, “It might be different creatures, such as those underground gorillas. They don’t look the same as these things.”
Compared with these creatures in the valley, underground gorillas could even be called pretty.
