Chapter 127: Yang Ling's Experience

  "On January 7th, the day of the apocalypse, I was on my way to find someone in the southern part of the city. Just as I started walking, it began raining heavily. The rain got heavier and heavier, so I took shelter inside a nearby ATM booth. As soon as I entered the booth, I heard crashing sounds and screams coming from outside. When I turned around, I saw a bus had driven onto the sidewalk, hitting a commuter who was on their way to work. A crowd quickly gathered around the victim, and just as I thought of going out to see if they were still alive, the commuter suddenly stood up, swaying unsteadily, and then charged towards the onlookers."

  Yang Ling swallowed hard and continued to recount his adventures in the post-apocalyptic world.

  "At that time, I thought the commuter was a psychopath and was about to stop him, but what happened next scared me stiff. The commuter actually ate a person alive! As he was eating, some people in the crowd started attacking those around them, but I didn't know they were the first batch of infected."

  "After I struggled to rescue this person, he didn't say a word and directly bit my arm with all his might, refusing to let go no matter how hard I hit or scolded him..."

  "Have you been bitten by a zombie?" Liu Ting's words interrupted Yang Ling's narrative, and she asked him: "Then why didn't you turn into a zombie?"

  "I don't know, maybe I'm just lucky!" Yang Ling chuckled and continued: "Those who were pounced on also struggled to get up, but by then they couldn't be called human anymore. Some had their bellies gnawed open by the first batch of zombies, with intestines spilling out, crawling on the ground; some had their legs eaten off, yet still crawled towards me; and some even had their internal organs hollowed out, yet still surrounded me!"

  I killed the zombie that was biting my arm and started running. The pedestrians on the road were either being eaten by zombies or turning into them. Cars on the road kept crashing, some even drove onto the sidewalk. Thick smoke billowed from the high-rise buildings on both sides of the road, with people crying for help from upstairs. Some people in the high-rise building might not have been able to accept this doomsday and jumped off directly. Along the way, there were cries for help, screams, wails, crashing sounds, and explosions..., making the city like a purgatory.

  "What about afterwards?" Wu Xiaotian finally spoke up and asked, Wu Xiaotian was also concerned about Yang Ling being bitten by a zombie.

  Later, I hid in an underground parking lot. As I ran, my body felt hotter and more painful, as if my internal organs were melting together. My body temperature was so high that it felt like I was going to burn myself to death. I thought I was going to become a zombie too. At that time, I remembered my former comrades, the martyred battalion commander, the director of the orphanage, and at the same time, I remembered you, my brothers!

  "As I slowly recalled, I no longer felt the pain and heat. At that time, time passed unknowingly in my memories. When I came back to myself, I found that I hadn't become a zombie, but was still human."

  After hearing this, Wu Xiaotian knew that Yang Ling was not going to become a zombie after being bitten by the zombies, but instead had unlocked the mysterious "evolution lock". Even when he heard Yang Ling say that he had escaped, Wu Xiaotian's admiration for him did not change. A normal person who witnesses a zombie eating someone for the first time and is not scared out of their wits is already considered brave. When Wu Xiaotian first saw a zombie feeding, he was so frightened that his legs went soft and he couldn't move at all. But Yang Ling still had the energy to escape. What made Wu Xiaotian most admire him was that he didn't even faint during his evolution. Wu Xiaotian knew how painful it was to evolve, and both he and Du Ziteng had fainted from the pain of evolving. But Yang Ling had endured it all, and it had to be said that the willpower of the Huaxia military was truly too strong!

  "What about you, Old Yang? How did you discover your evolved abilities?" Wu Xiaotian was quite curious about this.

  "Oh, it's quite simple. After I went through the "evolution" you mentioned, I had to go out and find food to eat. At that time, I was really starving, like I hadn't eaten for ten days or half a month. As soon as I went out, I saw zombies wandering around outside. They discovered me as soon as I appeared and rushed towards me. But at that time, I looked at them with a strange feeling, as if I could control them. Then, acting on this feeling, by the time I reacted, those few zombies were like part of my body. I could control them freely, even making them jump into a fire pit, they would do it without hesitation."

  After listening to Yang Ling's description, Wu Xiaotian was also very interested and wanted to catch a zombie right away to let Yang Ling perform. But this idea was quickly suppressed by Wu Xiaotian, who asked: "Old Yang, how have you been doing these past few months? Why did you follow Duan Yue and the others back?"

  "These few months? Don't even mention it, I've been looking for you guys everywhere. At first, I went to your house and found that you were already gone, leaving behind a pile of supplies. Then I went to Duan Xiaozu's house, but he wasn't there either. I went to Yu Xiaozu's house, and still couldn't find any sign of him. I was so anxious that I was jumping up and down, thinking something had happened to you guys. Finally, I came to the northern part of the city to make one last search. If I couldn't find you, I would have turned the entire Spring City upside down. Just this morning, I saw a dump truck speeding past me, so I chased after it, wanting to ask the people inside if they had seen you guys. As a result, when I stopped the truck, the driver was actually Xiao Zhao and Duan Xiaozu."

  At that time, I was so excited that I urged them to bring me over. By the way, Tian Xiaozi, during my search for you, I also encountered a majestic white tiger. That white tiger was truly powerful, and with one swipe of its paw, it sent a mutated zombie flying. If there hadn't been zombies around me at the time, I would have killed that white tiger to eat with wine. Tian Xiaozi, why don't we join forces to kill that white tiger and drink wine together? You know, every part of the white tiger is a treasure!

  Liu Ting covered her mouth and giggled after hearing this, while Wu Xiaotian was directly frustrated, because he knew what kind of person the White Tiger was - it was his own brother Du Ziteng.

  "Tomorrow, we'll go find that white tiger together and kill it for food. The tiger meat is mine, the tiger's gall..."

  "Old Yang, that white tiger is Ziteng's ability, Ziteng's evolution ability is to transform into a tiger..."

  Yang Ling heard Wu Xiaotian's weak voice and immediately jumped up, shouting: "Heavens, are you kidding me?!"