The sixth month after the zombie virus outbreak,
January 30 of the following year.
Today was the final day predicted by the Heavenly Net, the day all zombies worldwide would become evolved zombies.
Shen Jin feared that something unexpected might happen today.
So none of Home No. 1's Zombie Slaying Squads ventured too far out.
Shen Jin had each squad carefully patrol the territory they had captured this month, conducting a thorough sweep.
They had to ensure no new zombies had slipped into any of those places. Otherwise, once the base's ordinary people began moving around freely,
a zombie horde would erupt from within and dig right in.
Shen Jin and Yang Ao hovered 100 meters above the ground with [Jetpacks] on their backs.
"Actually, I've never understood why the Heavenly Net is so certain that after one month-in other words, today-the zombies will definitely complete their first round of evolution. They even... issued another notice on the news yesterday. Are conditions the same everywhere? Wouldn't factors like climate, geographical location, thin air, population density, hours of sunlight, and so on affect it?"
Yang Ao nodded too.
"I'm a little puzzled myself. When I went out sweeping with the Zombie Slaying Squad yesterday, most of the zombies had indeed become evolved zombies, but... some of them hadn't grown green fuzz on their bodies yet. About 20%, I'd say. Judging by their condition, according to the normal logic of zombie evolution, they definitely won't become evolved zombies today."
In fact, after all this time clearing zombies, and as the Heavenly Net's broadcasts had already stated, the degree of a zombie's initial evolution was related to the density of the green moss on its body. Once the green moss covered its entire body, the next step was for it to turn into