Not Enough Zombie Sparring Partners

The rats were plump and no longer feared humans at all.

Even when they discovered someone had entered, they continued to gnaw on things as if no one else was there.

The buzzing of the green-headed flies swarming overhead made one's scalp tingle.

Recently, Jiang You had noticed that some zombies had begun to devour their own kind.

This was a sign of zombie evolution.

Low-tier zombies had no instinct to consume their own kind.

However, in the past few days, she had often seen zombies on the streets gnawing on the corpses of their own kind.

The numerous corpses in the stadium had naturally attracted quite a few zombies.

Jiang You quickly dealt with the few zombies that approached her and then dumped the zombie corpses from her Space.

She then retreated rapidly.

The place reeked disgustingly, but she had no other way to dispose of the zombie corpses.

If she dumped them all near the training warehouse, it would be unusable within two days.

The moment the fresh zombie corpses appeared, the first to react were the rats. They swarmed out, squeaking in unison, and quickly covered the piles of corpses.

Then, they began to feast.

Some rats even gnawed through the skin and flesh, burrowing inside the zombie bodies to eat.

To fight for food, these rats would even kill each other.

The weaker ones would be severely injured and then eaten by other rats.

Jiang You frowned and looked at a few zombies in the distance who were focused on eating.

She noticed that these zombies first consumed the heads of their own kind. Once the heads were gone and there was nothing else to eat, they would resort to eating other parts of the body.

It wasn't just the zombies; the rats were the same, eating the heads first.

Jiang You couldn't help but recall Da Zhuang's habit of eating mutated rats and zombie heads.

Although these mutated animals didn't possess high intelligence, their instincts drove them to consume the most beneficial food first.

After disposing of the garbage, Jiang You went home and had lunch.

Her training was intense, so she naturally ate a lot. She ate three large bowls of rice for this meal.

She didn't spare any of the sauce from the stir-fried shredded pork with green peppers or the scrambled eggs with tomatoes, mixing it directly with the rice and eating it all clean.

After the meal, she even drank a large cup of grass jelly before taking a nap.

Afternoon.

Jiang You arrived at Warehouse No. 2.

If Warehouse No. 1 was for combat training, Warehouse No. 2 was for agility training.

This underground warehouse housed six Tier 2 zombies. All the Tier 2 zombies here were either speed-type or strength-type.

They were specifically used for combat practice. Since the zombie virus couldn't infect her, she had no qualms.

Tier 2 zombies were already difficult to find, let alone with her specific requirements.

She needed strength-type and speed-type zombies that would be helpful for close-quarters combat training.

Every zombie in this warehouse had been carefully selected by her.

Da Zhuang scouted everywhere daily. As soon as he found a Tier 2 zombie, he would report back to her.

She would then capture it to be used as a sparring partner.

Initially, there was only one Tier 2 zombie in this warehouse. After she could handle it one-on-one with ease, she captured a second one, starting one-on-two training.

She gradually increased the number, and now Jiang You could handle six at once.

The longest-serving zombie sparring partner among these six Tier 2 zombies was a one-eyed zombie she had captured a week ago.

The remaining five were new "employees" who had arrived just today.

Zombie sparring partners were, after all, consumables. Injuries like losing limbs were inevitable during training.

When the extent of a Tier 2 zombie's damage began to affect normal training, it was time for it to be dismissed.

After being "fired" from their sparring jobs, the only value these zombies held was for their crystal cores to be extracted.

This kind of multi-on-one sparring, which didn't require a paid membership, was truly essential for home and travel.

Warehouse No. 2 was underground. Apart from a square reinforced steel plate at the entrance, the rest was thick concrete and layers of earth.

This was also why these zombies couldn't escape.

Jiang You opened the steel plate at the entrance, quickly locked it, and descended the stairs into the warehouse.

The moment she opened the steel plate, she heard the characteristic low growls of zombies emanating from below.

There was also the sound of fingernails scraping against the walls, making a squeaking noise.

The first sparring partner was a one-eyed zombie, the oldest employee. One of its eyes had been pierced by Jiang You, and the dagger still remained in the socket.

The second sparring partner was a speed-type zombie. It was as thin and small as a monkey, but incredibly agile.

The third sparring partner was a strength-type zombie. It stood about two meters tall, its body covered in bulging muscles, its grayish-blue skin looking like it would split open at any moment.

The fourth sparring partner had long, slender limbs and was adept at climbing, moving as freely on walls as it did on the ground.

The fifth sparring partner's hands and feet had transformed into claws. The sharp hooks were incredibly keen. When capturing it, Jiang You had personally witnessed it tear another Tier 2 zombie in half. It was vicious.

As for the sixth sparring partner, it was a zombie captured just yesterday.

It clearly hadn't fully adapted to the work environment and had already clashed with the older employees.

It had been gnawed down to mere bone fragments by the five senior employees.

As soon as Jiang You entered the underground warehouse, her eyes swept over the area and she noticed one of her employees was missing.

The five Tier 2 zombies, seeing their boss's welcome, bared their sharp claws and charged at Jiang You in unison.

It was this damned human who captured them and locked them here!

The moment they saw her, all five Tier 2 zombies flew into a rage.

"You... ate the new employee?"

"Roar roar roar!!!!"

A new round of slaughter began...

Over an hour later, Jiang You emerged covered in blood. She tilted her head, blood seeping through her hair and dripping onto the ground.

Although she inevitably had some wounds, this exhilarating feeling was truly wonderful.

Da Zhuang immediately walked up to her and gestured.

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"Meow!!!"

Boss, I've found a new Tier 2 zombie!

Flocculi!

Jiang You immediately followed, replenishing the staff in Warehouse No. 2.

By evening.

Jiang You, just like before, carried a speaker on her shoulder to attract hordes of zombies, practicing her speed with a twenty-kilometer run.

She ran, they chased, flies buzzed behind them.

When she couldn't sleep at night, Jiang You would go to the twenty-second floor to train her mental power.

Look at me, so proactive and positive.

Sometimes I even admire myself, so disciplined!

The twenty-second floor was the mental power training room.

The training room's employee was a mental type zombie. Jiang You had searched the entire city and only found one mental type zombie.

How rare!

To prevent the zombie from escaping, she had bound it up like a zongzi.

Practicing mental power was much simpler: just go head-to-head with the mental zombie.

It was like breaking in a falcon!

Whoever lasted the longest won.

When this zombie first arrived, it was quite rebellious, always trying to sneak attack Jiang You with its mental power.

Initially, Jiang You had been hit a few times. But gradually, after adapting, she began to fight back.

Now, Jiang You felt this mental type zombie was a bit deranged.

As soon as it saw Jiang You, its eyes would cross into a squint, staring at her. Wherever she went, its cross-eyes would follow.

Jiang You looked at it, and it tilted its head to look at her, even shaking its head back and forth.

Saliva flew everywhere; it looked utterly insane.

Jiang You sighed.

"As the only employee in the mental department, you're supporting the entire department, and I know you've been working hard.

But you need to take care of yourself. Just hold on for a few more days, and maybe you'll have a colleague."

"You're a zombie, why are you acting so depressed?"

"Can't you have a little more spirit? Stand up, let's continue our practice, okay?"

The zombie squinted at her, its hair already standing on end like a bird's nest.

"Heh heh!"

It let out a low growl, looking a bit dim-witted.

"Forget it, forget it. Maybe I've been giving you too much work lately. How about this, you take a few days off. I'm not a heartless boss, so rest well. I'll come see you in a couple of days."

After all, many zombies worked together in the other training exercises.

But in terms of mental power, currently, only this individual was supporting the entire department alone.

It was unavoidable that the pressure would be a bit high.

A few days of rest would fix it.

Jiang You fed it a crystal core, patted its head, and then left.

Every day, as long as there was nothing else, her training sessions in the morning, afternoon, and evening were packed, and she never slacked off.

Did you think stocking up on supplies in the apocalypse meant you could just slack off?

No, she wanted to out-compete her peers!

While others stocked up and slacked off, she would quietly work hard and then out-compete all other survivors!

Her years on Forbidden Island had deeply impressed upon her one thing: if your fists weren't strong enough, you'd be captured, locked in a cage, and used for experiments.

A person who isn't powerful enough can never live freely, no matter where they are.

Jiang You was completely immersed in her own training. Before she became strong enough, she would absolutely not actively step into human settlements.

Especially places like bases. The more people there were, the more dangerous it became.

Under the high-intensity training plan, zombies were consumed extremely quickly.

She often spent a lot of time catching sparring partners. Jiang You sometimes even felt that she didn't have enough zombies.

She wondered if those zombies had gotten numb from being herded around.

As things progressed, Jiang You found that even if she carried a square dance speaker around the streets or rode a noisy motorcycle, making a deafening racket.

Many zombies, upon hearing the familiar music and the roar of the engine, would just glance in her direction indifferently and then go back to doing their own thing.

Only a small number of zombies would chase her.

They weren't enthusiastic at all anymore.

As expected, love fades.

Back then, these little zombies were so enthusiastic. Now that the new had replaced the old, there was no passion.

However, by then, her training plan was almost complete, so Jiang You didn't bother with them anymore.

Not long after, a group of survivors arrived in City A to search for supplies. They discovered that the zombies there were all very strange.

Zombies in other places would eagerly pounce on living people.

But the zombies here seemed a bit stupid.

When they saw humans appear, instead of pouncing forward instinctively, they would take a few tentative steps before starting to chase.

But within that brief moment of hesitation, the survivors had already long since escaped.

As the news spread, rumors circulated in many places that City A's zombies were of very low level due to unknown reasons, with no evolved zombies appearing.

The zombies in City A were considered trash, almost a universally accepted conclusion.

However, many years later, when an outsider survivor entered City A with the intention of witnessing the "stupidest" zombies, they discovered that it was all a lie!

Who the hell said the zombies here were stupid?!!

Although these zombies took longer to confirm their targets than normal zombies, once they locked on, they would bite to the death and never let go! They absolutely would not give up!

And these zombies ran incredibly fast!

Their speed was so great that their legs blurred, like they were wearing wind fire wheels!

They were simply a group of monstrous zombies!!

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