The Daily Life of the Zombie

 Chapter 4. Setting

The existence of Gu Chen is absolutely special to Xiao Xiao, which she is very sure of.

    However, Xiao Xiao only realized that after her death that her existence seemed to be dispensable to Gu Chen?

    Even without her, Gu Chen would still be able to live very well, and he would even turn against the Lin family at the end, causing turmoil in the Y City base, and almost a crisis of zombie siege.

    Although this may be Xiao Xiao's own inferiority complex, it is not without reason.

    There are not many people who have awakened this kind of spatial power in the apocalypsis. It was absolutely unnecessary to drag a burden around and it was very likely that Gu Chen was just taking care of her.

    In Xiao Xiao's memory, there were many times when they met other survivor teams. Considering her safety, Gu Chen always declined the invitation from other powerhouses? for her safity.

    'Gu Chen...'

    Standing at the intersection, Xiao Xiao thought a lot, but she didn't seem to think about anything. In the end, she could only step forward and slowly walk towards the home she remembered. In any case, the most important thing now is to get to know what to do now, and talk about the rest later.

    Walking on the road, she felt a little stiff in her body. She didn't know if she had been lying down for too long or if her body was just really abnormal. Xiao Xiao looked at the familiar and unfamiliar streets. People on the road were still rushing to make a living.

    After the end of the world, all civilizations were destroyed. Other people were not friendlier than zombies.

    When disaster strikes, they do not work together to overcome the difficulties, but instead they calculate and frame each other, and use desire as their driving force. In the end, they will only lead to a bigger disaster or even destruction.

    Along the way, as if enjoying this rare peace, Xiao Xiao walked slowly back to the front of the house.

    Looking at this dilapidated third-floor house, Xiao Xiao felt a little bit sentimental...

    'Dad... Mom... I'm back! '

    Since the awakening of her spiritual power, Xiao Xiao's memory can be shown at any time like a computer, and it can be called unforgettable.

    Even the memories that have been buried in the depths of the mind are the same. As long as Xiao Xiaoyi uses her abilities, the memories can still be replayed, and even things that most people would forget when they were young can be played back.

    Xiao Xiao took out the key and opened the old door in front of her, as if she had entered a time tunnel.

    "Crack..." The wooden door made a sound of wood rubbing, which made Xiao Xiao miss it quite a bit.

    In the reconstruction after the disaster, for safety reasons, the doors of basically all houses were made of metal.

    Anyone who has heard story about three little pigs knows that the wooden door can't stop the big wild wolf, let alone the more ferocious zombies!

    The advantage of using this kind of metal door is that when it is attacked by zombies, the door will make a harsh rubbing sound.

    This is also a means of warning, so that people have a certain time to react, so as not to be awakened by zombies crawling on the bed.

    After walking into the house, Xiao Xiao closed the door.

    Xiao Xiao circled around in the hallway, looking at the furniture and shoe cabinets covered with a thick layer of dust, the memories of her parents in childhood memories are still vivid in her mind.

    "Xiaoxiao! Come here!"

    "Mom...Mom..."

    "Hehehe, our baby Xiaoxiao is so good!"

"Don't move your feet when you eat, just sit down and play when you're full!"

    "You will always be our baby!"

    As soon as she entered the living room and looked at the old sofa, Xiao Xiao lost her mind again. Those uncontrollable memories flooded up from the depths of her mind again and again.

    Xiao Xiao didn't know that the corners of her eyes were gradually brimming with tears. Only then did she know what it was like to feel at home.

    Although the time spent with her parents was very short, it was Xiao Xiao's most precious time.

    People always cherish after losing, but Xiao Xiao has not yet understood what loss is, and in her ignorance, she has lost everything that normal people have.

    It was not until her mental power was awakened that she used her spare time in prison to recall it, which was also the motivation for her to support her five-year prison life and continue to live.

    For the sake of her parents, she has to continue to live well!

    Xiao Xiao walked into the bathroom slowly and looked at the mirror on the sink. The young but thin face, dry skin, and dry hair of the person in the mirror all showed that Xiao Xiao had returned to the place before the disaster struck.

    But when Xiao Xiao stared at the mirror, she suddenly found that her eyes seemed to be flickering with a little red light?

    Xiao Xiao stared hard and found that it was not her illusion, her eyes seemed to have really turned red.

    'It's not right, it's very wrong! ' Xiao Xiao thought to herself.

    From the moment she woke up, her mental ability automatically simulated Chen Wei as a rabbit, and she didn't feel any soreness when she walked all the way back. This was very unscientific for her physique just out of prison. The pupils all indicate... Xiao Xiao, it seems that she has become a zombie, and she is probably not an ordinary zombie!

    Xiao Xiao stared at the mirror, recalling the data she had seen before, trying to find a similar description.

    ...

    In the end of the world, the largest number of zombies that appeared at the beginning were first-tier zombies. Most of them only had bodies like walking corpses.

    The biggest difference between first-tier loss and second-tier zombies is the body.

    Compared with the first-order zombies, the second-tier zombies have faster speed, stronger power, and even some instincts to seek good luck and avoid evil.

    After all, without reason, the only thing left is hunting instinct, and there is some simple thinking, isn't it a beast?

    And the probability of the emergence of second-tier zombies is about three or four of the average 10,000 first tier zombies that can evolve into second-tier creatures.

    Don't look at this not high ratio, this number of corpses can cause many problems!

    Tier 3 zombies are more terrifying than Tier 2, because they have special ability. As long as the ability evolves, it will become Tier 3 zombies, but there are also strong and weak points.

    Fourth-tier zombies have physical evolution, some will grow wings, some will grow claws and tails, but most of them are still humanoids, but the only thing in common is that they can command a large number of zombies, so fourth-tier zombies are called the Corpse King.

    ...

    In that memory, Xiao Xiao still hadn't seen fifth-tier zombies before she died, but the human side has always had speculations about fifth-tier zombies.

    Looking back now, when she was besieged, it seemed that she was besieged by a group of Tier 4? This is abnormal!

    After all, there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Unless there are higher-level existences on it, it is possible to gather such a large number of zombie kings!

    You must know that all Tier 4 zombies are inherently hostile, and the corpse king only needs to devour the opponent's crystal core to continue to evolve, becoming stronger and stronger, so it is impossible to coexist peacefully!

    Although the blood grenades that Lin Wei threw have contributed greatly, it is still very unreasonable for such a group of corpse kings!

    It's a pity that the vision of God that Xiao Xiao got after her death was all stuck to Gu Chen. In short, it was a spirit-like existence behind him, so Xiao Xiao didn't know whether there were other higher-level existences behind those corpse kings at that time.

    When human beingan rebuilt their civilization later, they never heard any news of fifth-tier zombies appearing anywhere.

    However, Xiao Xiao suspects that she is like a fifth-tier zombie now, because her current situation is very consistent with one of the states of human conjecture.

    Xiao Xiao doesn't know!

    Because at that time there was indeed a fifth-tier zombie hidden in the Y city base, and it was attached to the Lin family as a lone ranger.

    Because it felt that Xiao Xiao's mental power was approaching the critical value, if she broke through, she would find that they were different, so she encouraged the Lin family to take action. This is the origin of the conspiracy.

    Regarding the classification of zombies, Xiao Xiao has read the information analyzed by humans.

    That analysis was written like this:

    ...

    Darwin's theory of evolution said that the superior prevail over the inferior, and the fittest survive.

    In this analysis, it is assumed that the apocalypse originates from some kind of bacteria or virus, which, because of special effects, spreads to the living organisms on earth.

    Humans, the race that dominates the earth for a few millennials, bear the brunt of it.

    Among them, those with strong adaptability stand out from this evolution and become superhumans.

    Those with weaker adaptability are the so-called ordinary people, that is, the gene invasion failed, but the infection was successfully resisted.

    The group with the least adaptability, and the group with the largest number of people on the planet, all became zombies.

    This inference is based on the fact that in the apocalypse, only humans have become zombies, but animals and plants have only mutated, and they do not have the massive, infectious and annihilating existence like zombies.

    That is to say, there are no zombie beasts, zombie plants, etc., and the mutant animals have been tested and are all edible by humans, which are rich in energy and even promote the possibility of supernatural power upgrade and awakening!

    It can even be boldly deduced whether human beings have been pampered for many years. In peaceful times, what everyone pursues is no longer physical strength, and labor is gradually replaced by the brain, and this gene is aimed at the largest short version of human beings—the body, so what will lead to the production of a large number of zombies?

    Furthermore, if this mutation factor really exists, will the zombies evolve to the end, have enough energy, and restore their senses, will they eventually produce so-called new humans?

    And if there is... Or, have there already been the existence of fifth-tier zombies, and have they successfully evolved to hide in the crowd?

    None of this is known to human beings and can only be inferred, because there is no evidence at all for this kind of thing.

    Humans are social animals, and the desire for companionship is one of the instincts inscribed in genes.

    ...

    After the review of the analysis is over, the record ends here.

    A situation like Xiao Xiao might be an anomaly in today's peaceful age, but if it is in the end of the world, at most, she will be considered as a powerful ability user, isn't it?

    In addition, by the way, power users are different from zombies!

    The ability user is born at the first level, and then according to the amount of ability energy that the body can store, it is gradually upgraded, and the sixth level is a watershed.

    When humans become power users and have enough energy, most people can rise to the sixth level.

    As for the seventh rank, in Xiao Xiao's long memory, there are only dozens of people in the world.

    All of these people are the existence of the last force of the base, which is equivalent to Dinghai Shenzhen. Basically, a seventh-order is equivalent to the leader of a base.

    From the perspective after her death, Xiao Xiao knew how the world ended.

    From the time of her death, three years later, the bases blew the horns of counterattack. In addition to fighting zombies and mutant beasts, they also faced each other with the blades of other bases.

    ...

    In the tenth year of the end of the world, a certain research institute claimed to have successfully researched a method to exterminate zombies, which caused a bloody storm.

    After the last big base agreement, this method was published directly.

    The principle of this weapon is basically to use the senses to deceive and let the zombies die naturally.

    It was a metal ball glowing blue floating in the air, which seemed to be an overclocking attack using some kind of sound or light wave.

    ...

    In the fifteenth year, all the zombies below the second rank were wiped out, and the remaining high-ranking ones also hid.

    The entire earth has become a state in which half belongs to mutant beasts and half belongs to human beings.

    After the end of the apocalypse, the calculation methods of all abilities and superpowers have continued.

    When Gu Chen killed the Lin family, he only made his move after reaching the seventh rank, so he could easily destroy the Lin family without causing turmoil.

    ...

    After the situation stabilized, in the twentieth year of the end of the world, Gu Chen became the only eighth-tier ability user in the world, and at the same time was named the general of the Federation. Due to the existence of Gu Chen, the situation of some warlords' separatism ended in an instant, the control of the entire situation returned to its original state, and the leaders of the bases returned to China and formed the China Federation.

    Gu Chen never married, and it seems that he never got out of the pain. He didn't say anything to explain it.

    There is one thing Xiao Xiao doesn’t know, in the 60th year of the end of the world, or the 40th year of the China Federation, when Xiao Xiao left, Gu Chen in the picture suddenly raised his head and stared at a certain place with a feeling: " Xiao Xiao, you've always been there, right?"

    Gu Chen, who was nearly 100 years old, still looked like a middle-aged forty-year-old, and it seemed that longevity was also a gift brought by evolution.

    In the end, Gu Chen still sighed faintly, shook his head and laughed at himself, thinking too much, how could it be possible?

    Then he lowered his head and continued to process the unfinished documents on the table.