The Best Nourishment for Mutated Species Evolution

The hair-raising sobbing and the shrill scratching at the door continued, but the moment she pressed against Qi Xing, Jiang Zhaosu felt her head grow hazy.

There was no helping it.

Qi Xing smelled far too delicious.

No matter how much flesh and blood she had eaten, as soon as she drew near Qi Xing, saliva began secreting in Jiang Zhaosu's mouth, and gastric acid churned.

The hunger that came with being a zombie seemed impossible to satisfy. Jiang Zhaosu's entire body grew restless, eager to move.

Looking at it this way, Qi Xing had been right to put a Bite Restrainer on her. Otherwise, she really might not have been able to control herself.

But did this man think that putting a Bite Restrainer on her meant everything was fine?

Qi Xing showed no awareness whatsoever of keeping his distance from a zombie. One arm rested around her shoulders, and when he spoke, his thin lips were nearly against her ear. "There's a Mutated Species outside. It probably caught our scent and came looking for food."

A Mutated Species?

Jiang Zhaosu struggled to suppress the urge to bite Qi Xing's neck as she stiffly searched her sparse mental database of zombie knowledge for the term "Mutated Species."

Based on the novels she had read, Mutated Species were generally mutated zombies. They only attacked humans and posed no threat to their own kind.

What kind of trouble was that?

It was only a threat to Qi Xing.

Maybe once the Mutated Species came in and finished gnawing on Qi Xing, it would even leave her some meat and bones to suck on.

With that thought, Jiang Zhaosu immediately relaxed and flung Qi Xing's arm away with a slap.

Judging by how tense Qi Xing looked, he probably couldn't beat this Mutated Species.

He was about to become a corpse anyway. What did she have to be afraid of?

"Roar, roar!"

Jiang Zhaosu got to her feet and let out a gloating snarl at Qi Xing.

Unfortunately, she had been zombified for too long. Her facial features had long since stiffened, leaving her unable to make a mocking expression.

Then Jiang Zhaosu walked to the door and pressed down the round handle.

Esteemed Mutated Species, this way, please.

Qi Xing was inside. Could it spare her a bite of meat while it ate?

"Uh."

Qi Xing remained behind the bed. Watching her movements, he did not stop her.

Jiang Zhaosu had seen quite a few zombies today and thought she had already prepared herself for what her companions might look like. She had accepted it well enough.

But when she saw the thing outside the door, Jiang Zhaosu could not help swallowing.

She admitted it—she had not prepared nearly enough.

A powerful stench of blood and rot hit her head-on. At first, Jiang Zhaosu did not even see the Mutated Species. Only when she lowered her gaze did she spot a bloody, rotting infant crawling across the floor.

Rather than calling it an infant, it would have been more fitting to call it a deformed lump of flesh.

Only its head was still recognizable as a child's. Its limbs and torso had long since warped and fused together, like a malformed tumor of flesh, its entire body covered in lumpy, festering pustules.

Everywhere it crawled, it left behind sticky blackened blood and disgusting pus.

Because its body was too short to reach their room's door handle, the tiny Mutated Species could only keep clawing at the door panel.

The door, fifty millimeters thick, had already been gouged with deep marks by its blade-like nails and was on the verge of breaking apart.

The sudden sight of such a shockingly grotesque monster nearly made Jiang Zhaosu vomit.

"Waaah... Mama... Mama..."

That pitiful, weak crying voice came from the throat of this disgusting, malformed Mutated Species.

When it saw her open the door, the Mutated Species lifted its little face to look at her too.

Its face could no longer be called human. It had no eyebrows. One eyeball was cloudy and red, while the other dangled half-out of its socket. Its nasal bridge had collapsed into a large black hole, and its tiny mouth twitched.

"Mama..."

The Mutated Species let out another thin, plaintive sob, then suddenly opened its mouth. The bloody corners of its lips split all the way to its ears.

Though it was such a tiny infant, its mouth was packed with jagged, ghastly white teeth. It opened wide and bit down on Jiang Zhaosu's stunned lower leg.

"Roar!"

The instant her calf was bitten, Jiang Zhaosu screamed.

Not because it hurt, but because it was disgusting.

Fuck, fuck, fuck! This thing definitely has a virus in its mouth!

Just as she raised her leg to kick the Mutated Species away, Qi Xing's voice sounded behind her.

"Fortune!"

A dark green vine shot over like a snake from behind and wrapped around her waist. Before Jiang Zhaosu could react, her body was already flung high into the air.

Bang!

The world spun before her eyes. Qi Xing violently hurled her through a window, shattering the glass and throwing her outside.

Crack...

Her back slammed into the ground, and Jiang Zhaosu clearly heard the sound of her spine shattering.

Compared to that one bite from the Mutated Species, Qi Xing had hurt her far worse.

Qi Xing then jumped down from the second-floor window as well. After a nimble roll, he landed lightly on the ground.

The disgusting mutated creature followed close behind, but instead of chasing Qi Xing, it used all four limbs to crawl straight at her like a spider, its posture incredibly twisted and bizarre.

"Roar, roar!"

Jiang Zhaosu howled in terror and tried to climb off the ground, only to discover that the calf bitten by the Mutated Species had somehow gone stiff and numb.

She kicked hard against the ground, and that leg snapped cleanly off her body.

Jiang Zhaosu watched herself lose a lower leg with her own eyes, and her eyes nearly split open.

If she were not a zombie now, she would probably have fainted from fright.

The Mutated Species crawled right up to her, opening its bloody maw as it prepared to bite into her face.

Jiang Zhaosu could even smell the fishy stench of the saliva in its mouth.

But her hands were restrained by Cotton Gloves, and the zombie's sharp teeth were trapped behind the Bite Restrainer. She had no power to fight back.

At that critical moment, several blades of grass glowing with a faint green light flew in from their left.

Empowered by Qi Xing's ability, the tender grass blades became razor-sharp weapons capable of slicing through iron. They pierced through the Mutated Species' malformed skull and sheared off half its head.

A shrill, explosive cry came from the mutated creature's tiny throat.

"Waaah... Mama! Mama!"

A zombie's fatal weakness was its head. Having lost half its skull, the horrifying Mutated Species let out a scream and fell silent in an instant.

Cloudy white mucus reeking of rot burst from its head and sprayed across Jiang Zhaosu's face.

"Bleurgh..."

Jiang Zhaosu could no longer hold it in. She bent over and vomited violently.

Qi Xing came over then, kicking the little Mutated Species off her body before stepping on its skull and grinding down hard.

As Jiang Zhaosu vomited, she watched Qi Xing expressionlessly crush the skull of the infant-shaped Mutated Species completely.

Once she felt a little better, Qi Xing crouched down and removed the Bite Restrainer from her face.

Jiang Zhaosu had been scared senseless by now and only stared blankly at Qi Xing.

"Fortune." Qi Xing pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the slime from her face, speaking with amusement. "Seeing you charge in so bravely, I thought you had some kind of backup plan. Turns out you just went over to offer yourself up."

"You're the best nourishment for a Mutated Species' evolution—a conscious little zombie like you. Don't tell me you didn't know that?"