Chrysalis

Chapter 647: Under the Square

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Lin Qiao skinned the roe deer and cut it open, then dug out its internal organs and put them aside. After that, she cut off a leg of the roe deer and stood up as she began eating it. While eating, she turned and saw Lin Kui staring at her with surprise.

“Do you want some?” She asked.

Lin Kui hurriedly shook his head.

“You’ve tried and failed, right?” Lin Qiao glanced at him and asked while biting the leg.

Lin Kui looked at her with a deep confusion, nodding slowly.

Lin Qiao looked at the puzzled Lin Kui. Maybe because he was too shocked, his panther ears and tail had popped out, and he didn’t even know.

Lin Qiao couldn’t help but laugh, “I think I’m different from normal zombies. I can eat humans too. Human flesh is very attractive to me as well, but I don’t hate eating animals. They taste good to me actually.”

She nodded while speaking, then made another bite.

Lin Kui had noticed that she skinned the roe deer smoothly and skilfully. By now, he figured that she must have grown that skill through practice. As a zombie, not only could she restrain her appetite, but also feed on animals. She had really mutated in a strange way.

At that moment, Xie Dong walked out from behind Lin Kui as he glanced at Lin Qiao and then at Lin Kui. After that, he curved his lips in a faint smile and stood by Lin Kui’s side.

Ever since he became a zombie, Xie Dong’s expressions barely changed. After knowing that his woman never loved him, he looked even more distant than before. He was not icy cold, but looked faintly lonely and sad.

His lips were only curved slightly, but that already made him seem to have been kissed by a spring breeze.

Lin Qiao quickly glanced at him and then moved her eyes away.

“I’ve found something strange. You guys don’t eat animals, but Lu Tianyi and I can. I don’t know why! This meat can’t provide me with energy, but can ease my hunger more or less. Xie Dong, would you like to try some?” Lin Qiao thought for a moment and then looked at Xie Dong.

Xie Dong paused briefly, then shook his head. He had tried once, and found that animals tasted like mud! He would never try it again, as he clearly knew that it would taste no better than mud.

But, she just said that Lu Tianyi could eat animals too. Why?

Seeing the confused look in his eyes, Lin Qiao nodded and responded, “That’s right. Animal meat doesn’t repel him at all.”

Both Xie Dong and Lin Kui looked at Lin Qiao with confusion, who had started thinking.

“About that, I think I need to catch an ordinary zombie to do an experiment first!” Lin Qiao murmured, then finished the roe deer leg in her hands with just a couple of bites. After finishing the leg, she ignored the weird look on the others’ faces and threw the bone upward, then waved a hand to release a stream of dark mist that wrapped it up.

The bone disappeared before it could even fall to the ground.

Following her movement, Lin Kui and Xie Dong automatically turned their eyes to the bone. As they turned back, they found that Lin Qiao had already disappeared.

Lin Qiao exited her space, then headed straight to the square which was used for the show earlier today.

She knew that a lot of zombies were kept in there, under the square. There should be an underground prison or something like that.

Lin Qiao flashed across the darkness and soon arrived at the square.

The wall around the square had been lowered to the original height, and the ground had been cleaned. The man who was used as bait had already been scared to death.

Lin Qiao lifted a lid on the ground, then squatted and looked into it. It was all dark in there, yet she could see clearly. There was a ladder leading down to a narrow path. The underground space was deep.

She leaped down, soon landing on the ground. She glanced up, and then walked into the path.

Bloodstains and claw marks were all over the wall, clearly left by the zombies.

She followed the zombie scent and walked for over ten minutes before finding a thick metal door. The door was under remote control. She raised a hand and vanished the entire door with her black fire.

Behind the door was another path that was illuminated. Clearly, it was for human beings.

Lin Qiao learned that apart from a great number of zombies, some keepers were also there.

She walked into the path and reached a crossroad. Zombie scent could be sensed in every direction. Hence, she decided to choose a random way to go.

Boom! Suddenly, a door in the path was bumped open. A man shambled out, his head dropped and hands on his chest.

Lin Qiao took back her foot which was making a step, then turned and looked at that man who was running toward her.

That was a soldier. The soldier rushed past her, without sensing her existence at all.

She kept her eyes on his back and frowned slightly.

That was a young soldier. His head was dropped, so she couldn’t see his face clearly. However, judging by his scent, he was young and tasty.

However, that soldier was giving out a very dark, violent, and hopeless vibe.

Hatred, the intention of killing, violence, ferocity, madness… All kinds of negative emotions had been twisting in his mind. But that was not important. What caught Lin Qiao’s attention was that he carried the zombie virus!

She quietly looked at the young soldier who was running away, then turned to the door where he came out of. She knew that a few people would come out of that door soon enough to chase the soldier.

Seeing that weird thing, she, of course, would do something about it. But first, she wanted to find out what exactly was happening. She wasn’t in a rush to do her experiment anyway.

“Hurry up! Don’t let the boy run!” Before long, over ten people rushed out of the door, over to the crossroad near Lin Qiao.

Those people didn’t linger near the crossroad. They automatically divided into three groups and then moved in three different directions.

Lin Qiao jumped down from the ceiling. Just now as those people rushed out, she hopped up to the ceiling to avoid them.

When those people ran through below her, she heard some of their thoughts.

‘We’ll die if we let the boy run…’

‘He carries the virus…’

‘Damn! How dare he fight back!’

‘He can’t run…’

All their thoughts were similar. All in all, they must not let the soldier run.

The soldier had terribly dark and twisted emotions. Lin Qiao could easily imagine what those people had done to him, because she had grasped one thought from that soldier earlier on — ‘Perish together.’

What made him so despairing? Lin Qiao guessed that it had something to do with the virus inside him, and those people were part of the reason too.