Chapter 323 – Having a Girlfriend and Knowing How to Love Are Two Different Things

“I…”

Zhang Yu stared wide-eyed at the empty window, feeling as if a thousand alpacas were stampeding through his mind.

“Hey, did you catch it?”

Yuwen Xuan arrived just in time, but before he could finish his question, he saw Zhang Yu, with a face ashen with anger, running past him.

“Hey!”

Zhang Yu ran all the way downstairs and then found the body.

The person had jumped from the seventh floor and died on the spot. But when Zhang Yu turned the body over, he was stunned.

“A… a zombie?”

Another zombie?

The last time he sensed this aura, it was coming from a zombie…

But this time, Zhang Yu didn’t immediately think of the worst outcome. Instead, he had a vague sense of something peculiar.

This zombie’s face wasn’t twisted, indicating it was a Senior Zombie with a certain level of Intelligence.

If it had just jumped off the building, Zhang Yu might have been merely puzzled.

After all, zombies are a very mysterious species, and no one dares to claim they truly understand them.

But this aura appeared on this zombie and the previous eerie one, so it couldn’t be a coincidence.

“Why did you run? What’s going on?”

Yuwen Xuan chased after him and immediately saw the body lying on the ground. He exclaimed in surprise, “Is this… a zombie?! Could it be the one from just now?”

Zhang Yu nodded and then, with a serious expression, took a walkie-talkie out of his pocket. “Falcon, Falcon, quickly check the situation on the trailer, over.”

A response came through the walkie-talkie shortly, “Report, a part of the brain has been dug out and eaten, over.”

“Huh, so he went to steal food?”

Zhang Yu felt like he was missing something, which cast a veil over the whole situation in front of him.

He glanced worriedly at Yuwen Xuan, thinking that if it weren’t for this mad captain, he wouldn’t bother with such matters.

But Mad Xuan’s nickname wasn’t for nothing. Once he set his mind on something, even if it was on a whim, he would stop at nothing to achieve it.

Now, Zhang Yu was holding him back, but once Yuwen Xuan lost patience, who knows what kind of trouble he might stir up.

Yuwen Xuan carefully examined the corpse with great surprise but ultimately found nothing conclusive.

As for Zhang Yu, he chose to hide the results of his sensing when recounting the events.

“Finally, something interesting happens, and it ends up being disappointing… Sigh,” Yuwen Xuan sighed.

Zhang Yu rolled his eyes at him and sighed inwardly, “I really don’t want to be dragged around on this death mission. How can I find her quickly… Help!”

The cleanup at Falcon Camp took a full week, during which Ling Mo and his girlfriends managed to pick up quite a haul nearby.

Ling Mo filled most of his backpack with Virus Gel, enough for Ye Lian and the others to snack on.

A large amount of the virus entering their bodies helped Ye Lian move a tiny bit closer to her next evolutionary threshold.

With a solid foundation, the chances of making the final leap in one go are much higher. Although at her level, the effect of ordinary gel is minimal, it all adds up over time.

Ling Mo was very dedicated to Ye Lian’s evolution. Her evolution differed from Li Yalin’s and Xia Na’s, making it a new experience for Ling Mo.

He had to be careful, at least to avoid another situation like Xia Na’s…

Thinking of Xia Na, Ling Mo felt a bit helpless.

She didn’t mind sharing a bed, but whenever Ling Mo’s Tentacle or Main Body started acting up, she would silently jump up and switch to her zombie state, entering Black Na mode.

Indeed, he hadn’t had much interaction with Xia Na in her human form. Did this mean he had to court her all over again?

But courting girls had always been Ling Mo’s weak point!

If he were a romance expert, he wouldn’t have liked a girl for over ten years without ever confessing!

However, remembering what Xia Na said to him before taking her final step, Ling Mo was deeply moved.

“No matter what, I like you…”

“So, can I also express my feelings of liking you… no, loving you, in my own way…”

Ling Mo really didn’t understand a girl’s heart. One of the girls by his side was the silly Ye Lian, and the other was the Senior Sister who had no common sense and kept shouting about wanting to have children…

No matter who he asked, it seemed unreliable!

“Why is it that although I slept with both of them in the Psychic Realm, after they successfully evolved, they both look at me strangely?”

Ling Mo was utterly confused. Even with his low emotional intelligence, he knew he couldn’t just ask Xia Na about it directly.

If he did ask, she might really get so mad that she’d bite him.

Moreover, Ling Mo could vaguely sense that every time Xia Na avoided him, she looked at him with a gaze that was both expectant and anxious.

What did she really want?!

“Ah! This is driving me crazy! Even though I have three girlfriends, my biggest weakness is romance! Who would believe this if I told them? Who?”

Meanwhile, Black Silk seemed to have eaten too much and fallen into a deep sleep.

Even the Host Body appeared sluggish and lacked energy.

The combat power of a glutton was truly astonishing. Even from several meters away, Ling Mo could feel the intense chill emanating from her.

Having swallowed too much Virus Gel, Black Silk was likely on the verge of another evolution.

This time, Ling Mo focused his attention on her, wanting to see how this creature, which always brought him surprises, would evolve.

While cleaning up the battlefield, over a thousand people were gradually being sent from the Camp.

This time, the survivors included both men and women, and the orderliness had deteriorated significantly.

Even from a distance, Ling Mo could often hear people crying and screaming.

Every time the survivors got off the vehicles, it felt like a funeral was taking place…

“Why do we have to go to the battlefield? I’m just a woman!”

“You liars! Liars!”

“Sob, sob, I want to go back! Please, let me go back. I’m not cut out to handle a gun!”

“The piercing screams of women are really intense…”

Ling Mo couldn’t help but comment.

Actually, Ling Mo had also noticed that Falcon Camp hadn’t brought out their real core forces.

As for making the survivors take up arms and fight, Ling Mo didn’t see anything wrong with that.

In this world, no one could truly protect another; to survive, one had to contribute.

A large Survivor Camp could indeed provide stronger protection, but that didn’t mean one could just sit back and become a happy parasite.

The more people there were, the more resources they needed.

The establishment of an isolation zone was merely to carve out a relatively safe area for them to gather.

To stay alive, they still had to venture into zombie-infested areas to scavenge for supplies. While food and vegetables could be grown, essential items like spices still needed to be gathered.

The productivity destroyed by the catastrophe couldn’t be easily restored. Ling Mo believed that if conditions allowed, Falcon Camp would definitely prioritize the production of weapons over improving living conditions.

After the battlefield was mostly cleared, new teams of searchers were dispatched, clearly intending to continue expanding the isolation zone.

Ling Mo planned to leave once they started their second round of battles. He had learned almost everything he needed to know and was just waiting for Black Silk to complete her evolution.

However, it seemed he wasn’t the only one observing nearby. Every day he went out to scavenge, he accidentally ran into a few other survivors.

But whenever he spotted them in advance, he would immediately avoid them.

Unless absolutely necessary, he preferred not to interact with these survivors.

While digging through corpses outside a supermarket, Ling Mo encountered another group.

The two men leading the group were armed with guns and had tactical knives strapped to their waists. Their clothes were filthy, faces smeared with dirt, and they were covered in bloodstains.

Yet, their expressions were quite excited, chatting animatedly as they walked.

“This time we scored big, got so many things!” one of the men exclaimed.

The other nodded in agreement. “Yeah, it was worth the risk coming here. But are we really not joining them?”

“Are you stupid? They’re clearly gearing up for more battles. Joining now would just make us cannon fodder. Let’s wait until they stabilize and start production; then we can join.”

Ling Mo frowned, about to leave, but suddenly paused.