Mutated Animals

Nile somersaulted and landed on the ground with a pose.

He will not let the same thing happen twice. When he moved to the base of Maximo's neck, he already included getting thrown out as a possible scenario.

And when it really happened, he was already prepared.

He turned around and observed Maximo. Now is the chance to know if Maximo is also consuming the Apocalypse Virus to mutate.

Maximo is staring at the corpse of the zombie.

The clean cut on the head, the two wounds on its arms, and the various little wounds on the zombie's body.

Maximo is observing the zombie's body, intently. Its nose arrived at the head part of the zombie where it was cleanly cut.

Suddenly, Maximo made an unusual expression. It gagged and its tongue was even drawn out from its mouth. It suddenly turned around and started to vomit water on the ground.

He was dumbfounded by what he saw.

If you do not plan on eating it, why the hell did you even smell it?

Are you satisfied now after smelling a rotting corpse?

He held his laughter, even though Maximo was still an animal, Nile thought that it would be rude to laugh at someone's misfortune.

Maximo turned towards Nile, its tongue was stuck out and it would sometimes bulge its eyes out. While Maximo glanced at Nile, it could not help but also took a glance at the corpse. It then suddenly remembered something awful, and it started to vomit the water it consumed earlier.

Nile was bewildered.

Is this the first time you saw a corpse? Stop being a sissy and get used to it.

Nile wanted to say it, but he endured his urges.

He approached Maximo and petted Maximo's neck.

"Take it easy, you'll get used to it soon." He said.

With that, Nile can more or less confirm that Maximo is not using Apocalypse Virus as the way to get stronger.

It was the same with the zombie that he had killed before, the zombie who is fighting Maximo. When it died, Maximo was lying on the ground unable to move. That was why he thought that it must be the reason why it did not check on the zombie's corpse to search for the Apocalypse Virus.

But this time around, Maximo had been sniffing the zombie's corpse, and it even vomited because of it.

It can be said that Maximo had no prior experience on killing and collecting a zombie's Apocalypse Virus. Because if it had, it would surely not react that way.

'If it was not the Apocalypse Virus that had caused Maximo to mutate, what is?' Nile pondered deeply.

This is also important for him, because the stronger Maximo gets, the faster his ride will be. He will also gain a strong sidekick.

The fight earlier should have been finished instantly if only the two of them knew what the other party wanted.

If Maximo side-steps at that time before the collision, Nile will be able to make a clean cut on the zombie's head. With their inertia at that time, cutting the zombie's body directly will not even be a problem.

On the other hand, if he knew from the start that Maximo would ram the zombie, he would surely try to pierce the zombie's head directly. Both of the zombie's arms at that time had been impaled on Maximo's horn, so that was the best chance for Nile to kill the zombie instantly.

Alas, because of their inexperience, the result is satisfactory but could be outstanding if they knew what to do.

If only Nile knew how to make Maximo stronger, he would surely do his part to make it happen.

"How could I forget?" Nile smacks his head a little. The smack dealt a little damage that was absorbed by the hoodie that he wears.

The System. Nile suddenly remembered that the System would answer some of his questions from before.

He forgot that his System was not the cold-type which would not answer their host's question.

With that realization, Nile asks the System eagerly. The System responded inside his head with the usual lengthy explanation.

[ Host, when the first virus is released, all life forms with a brain are affected. It includes the animals and various other species as long as they have a brain or nervous system.

The First Virus, when it occurred, the people of Pangea were always in a state of emergency. The people that are severely affected by the First Virus will vomit a metallic-gray liquid. The First Virus is used to metalise a person's gene in preparation for the Second Virus's descent. After the Second Virus finds its way to the brain of a person, it will send signals to the First Virus that is lurking around the person's body to...]

It took Nile almost half an hour of reading to understand the System's usual lengthy explanation.

But basically, it says that when the first virus attacks; the animals are also affected as they have brains. In fact, it was the animals who have been severely affected by that Virus, as the moment they got infected by it, they will immediately enter hibernation.

The house pets, because of their owner's 'care', had been injected with the Second Virus while hibernating. With their weak Will, house pets could not endure the onslaught as they all became zombies. The animals in the wild and those animals that did not get injected by the Second Virus are safe.

One month later, they woke up. The house pets that had become a zombie, run off to the wild. As they are animals, they must do their best to spread the Virus on their kind so that they could also get stronger.

The animals that did not get injected with the Second Virus, could do nothing and only run by the site of the zombie dogs and cats.

It was only a month later, two months after the Apocalypse Virus started did the animals start to mutate.

Their bodies metallised and became hard. With that, they now have the basic capability of protecting themselves from the zombie pets.

And their way to get stronger? Eat and Eat and Eat.

It was the only way according to the System.

And what the animals needed to eat in order to get stronger?

Mutated Plants and other Mutated Animals.

Mutated Humans? Of course.

The Animal's side is pitiful. Not only are they attacked by the zombie pets, they will not even gain anything from killing them.

The only way for them to get stronger is to consume the mutated plants, mutated humans and also their kind.

If the human survivors knew of the fact that animal parts could be used to make a weapon, the animal's side would surely be hunted.

Nile is lucky that Maximo is a herbivore, or Maximo was lucky because he is a herbivore, or else if they started to fight, Maximo will become Nile's lunch while Maximo's body part will be stored on the Storage Space.

'How will the meat of a mutated animal taste?' He pondered.

As Nile thought of that, Maximo also turned his head towards him, and suddenly, Maximo felt an electric current running through his body upon seeing Nile's gaze.

It's as if the almighty god is planning to eat him?

Maximo suddenly felt shivers running on his spine.