Reunion with Childhood Friend

Through the zombie puppet's vision, Ling Mo could vaguely see the situation inside the car. 

The pitch-black carriage was filled with many blurry figures, all motionless.

Walking around the front, he could see that the front and back doors were badly dented from the impact and couldn't be opened. 

However, several of the glass windows had shattered, though not enough for someone to crawl out. Ling Mo controlled the zombie puppet to completely smash one area and then crawled inside.

The smell inside the carriage was very strong. Although it was sensed through the zombie puppet, Ling Mo still couldn't help but frown. 

The scent of blood, the stench of decay, all mixed together, was simply nauseating.

As soon as the zombie puppet jumped in, it stepped on a corpse. Looking down, Ling Mo was shocked. 

Although the corpse was rotting, the swollen face still had a pair of bright red eyes clearly visible. Obviously, he had turned into a zombie before dying.

No one had escaped or gone inside, could this zombie have starved to death?

Ling Mo quickly controlled the zombie puppet to continue walking deeper inside. However, he soon realized something was wrong.

There were bloodstains and torn clothes everywhere in the carriage, clearly there had been a massacre after someone mutated inside. 

But now lying here were all mutated zombies, and Ling Mo noticed their brains had been gouged out.

Who did this?

Ling Mo suddenly felt a chill down his spine. In that moment of distraction, a shadow suddenly leapt out from behind a seat, pouncing on the zombie puppet's back as swift as a nimble leopard. 

This shadow moved silently and extremely agilely. Although not very strong, by the time Ling Mo sensed it, the shadow had already stabbed towards the zombie puppet's brainstem.

Ling Mo was shocked and almost instinctively controlled the zombie puppet to fall back heavily, pinning the shadow beneath it. 

At the same time, the zombie puppet's brainstem was already torn open, blood gushing out rapidly.

"Damn…those hands are like knives!" 

After finally obtaining such a young and powerful zombie puppet, Ling Mo felt a pang of distress. He was also extremely wary of this pinned shadow.

He controlled the zombie puppet to use its elbow to press down on the shadow's neck, while grabbing its wrist with the other hand. Using that leverage, it started to get up.

Unexpectedly, just as it rose, the shadow's other hand had already stabbed into the zombie puppet's soft belly.

Although the puppet felt no pain, Ling Mo's expression immediately became very complex. 

To be precise, the moment the shadow moved, Ling Mo had already prepared a counterattack, but froze upon seeing the shadow's appearance.

"Ye…Ye Lian…"

The shadow pinned beneath, with one hand stabbed into the zombie puppet's abdomen, was none other than his target, Ye Lian.

Ling Mo had imagined many possibilities, but never expected to find Ye Lian in this kind of situation.

After mutation, Ye Lian's beautiful big eyes had turned blood red, but her expression was normal, not twisted like regular zombies, just very cold.

For a moment, Ling Mo even felt a little lost, but when Ye Lian pulled out the zombie puppet's intestines with her hand, he was immediately shocked back to reality. 

On the outside, Ye Lian's small hands looked no different than before, but her nails were extraordinarily hard, her fingers very powerful, enough to pierce through a chest. This was clearly unlike regular zombies.

Also, normal zombies wouldn't attack zombie puppets as one of their own… Looking at the zombie bodies filling the car and then at Ye Lian, Ling Mo suddenly understood something.

After the normal humans were all eaten, the remaining starving zombies turned on each other. And the last survivor, Ye Lian, seemed to have undergone some even stranger mutations beyond the zombie state…

While Ling Mo was distracted, Ye Lian had already ripped out the puppet's intestines, blood spurting everywhere, splattering all over her. 

Stimulated by the fresh blood, her eyes seemed to turn an even deeper red, her strength suddenly greater, grabbing the puppet's arm and flinging it aside.

The zombie puppet had just fallen to the ground when Ye Lian pounced on it, hands clutching its neck directly. 

Her movements were far more agile than a normal zombie's. Ling Mo didn't even have time to react before being pinned by Ye Lian.

As the suffocating feeling came, the puppet's instincts were stimulated and Ling Mo felt his mind go blank. This meant the zombie puppet was about to break free of his control.

Finally snapping out of the shock of reuniting with Ye Lian, Ling Mo summoned all his might to control the puppet.

A bold idea suddenly came to him. Since the zombies were just infected by a virus, and Ye Lian's condition seemed to be a mutation of it, then perhaps there was a way to cure her…

Even if the hope was slim, as long as there was a shred of possibility, Ling Mo wanted to try. 

With this thought, he immediately controlled the zombie puppet to stare fixedly into Ye Lian's eyes. As Ling Mo's mind quickly focused, the area around Ye Lian's head soon turned into a glowing sphere.

But the color of this sphere was different from regular zombies. Having lost reason due to the virus, zombies operated purely on instinct, so the glowing sphere representing their mental world was completely still and blurred. But Ye Lian's was clearly much brighter, tinged with red.

What was going on?

But there was no time for Ling Mo to think more. He concentrated his attention on Ye Lian's glowing sphere, trying to delve deeper inside. 

Indeed different from regular zombies, where Ling Mo met no resistance, he felt some pushback from Ye Lian, weak but making his heart skip a beat.

Could it be…Ye Lian had regained some consciousness? But from her appearance, it didn't seem so…

By the time Ling Mo finally controlled Ye Lian, his whole body was drenched in cold sweat, while the zombie puppet had been completely strangled to death by her.

But just as Ling Mo carefully controlled Ye Lian to stand, he suddenly sensed a craving. This craving originated from Ye Lian's mental world, aimed at some object in the zombie puppet's brainstem…

When manipulating the previous zombie puppet, Ling Mo had never sensed any emotional fluctuations from it, because aside from instinct, the puppet itself had no desires.

But now he sensed it from Ye Lian, leaving him both puzzled and delighted. Since desires emerged after mutation, then continuing to mutate may restore reason!

Thinking of this, he controlled Ye Lian to pierce the zombie puppet's brainstem. Guided by this craving, she swiftly pulled out a small, infected gel-like substance from its brain. 

This was like some brain tissue being infected and mutated by the virus, slightly reddish and rubbery when held. 

Suppressing his disgust, Ling Mo stuffed this gel into Ye Lian's mouth.

A heat instantly rose from her stomach, quickly circulating her entire body, seeming to restore her previously weakened form.

Unexpectedly, this disgusting gel had such an effect. Perhaps Ye Lian's mutation was caused by consuming this!

Controlling Ye Lian to jump out of the car and to where he hid, Ling Mo could finally be considered as truly meeting her.

Looking at Ye Lian's blood-stained body, pale complexion, and eerie red eyes, Ling Mo had complicated feelings. Although now Ye Lian gave off an icy dangerous vibe, her familiar face still made Ling Mo feel somewhat lost.

He couldn't help but reach out to wipe the blood from her face. "Don't worry, big brother will definitely find a way to restore you."