Chapter 49: There’s a Zombie Pig Here
The village ahead looked very small, mostly earth kilns, most of which had collapsed. The zombies wandering on the road were mostly elderly and children, not even one young adult appeared. Gu Qingji circled the village but couldn’t find any house that looked like it had living people.
“Are we going to stay here?” Gu Qingji was a little hesitant. An entire village without a living person made him feel uneasy just thinking about it.
“Stay. I saw the vegetables planted in everyone’s yards. We can pick some more while it’s still light,” Gu Qingyue said, pointing to a relatively decent house on the edge of the village. “Go there.”
“Okay,” Gu Qingji drove the car over. The three of them got out and quickly cleared the surrounding zombies before entering the yard.
The yard was arranged neatly, and the vegetable garden in the yard was clean. The weeds clearly looked newly grown, with only a few scattered ones. There were red tomatoes, green cucumbers, and palm-sized peppers, which was simply a naked temptation for this group who could only eat instant food.
Lu Weiyi quickly scanned the area with his mental power. The people in the main house were buried under the half-collapsed building. There was a group of zombified chickens in the chicken coop in the backyard, but nothing else.
“Brother, you drive to lure them over, and the two of us will clear the nearby zombies,” Gu Qingji said, then looked at Lu Weiyi. “Okay?”
Lu Weiyi nodded, directly went into the vegetable garden and picked a tomato, wiped it casually, and took a bite. “Delicious.” He threw one to each of them.
“If you like it, we can have a cold salad tonight. I think we have some white sugar in our supplies,” Gu Qingyue said, taking a bite as well. “Have a cucumber too. I’ll take some to let them try. Be careful, safety first.”
Gu Qingyue took two more cucumbers and a few tomatoes and drove off. Gu Qingji and Lu Weiyi left the yard and walked towards the village. Along the way, while Lu Weiyi used his mental power to scout the path, he also sent out the little green branch, sending all the intact chickens and ducks in the yards into his space. The few vegetable gardens they encountered didn’t even have a blade of grass left.
Although he didn’t particularly care about collecting supplies, he would be a fool to pass up anything he came across. Of course, the reason he secretly collected things wasn’t because he was greedy for everyone’s belongings, but because his space couldn’t be exposed, so he could only secretly collect things behind everyone’s backs. And even if these many things were left behind, everyone wouldn’t be able to take them anyway, so it was better to take them himself than to let them benefit others.
As they reached the end of the village, the obvious zombies had basically been cleared. The two were about to return. Just as they turned around to leave, a snorting sound came from the grass, and something rushed over extremely fast. By the time it entered Lu Weiyi’s mental power range and he saw what it was and prepared to warn Gu Qingji, it was already right in front of them.
“Back up!” Lu Weiyi said, slashing out with his knife, but unfortunately only hit its body.
Gu Qingji’s reaction was also quick. While retreating, he immediately followed with a swing of his stick, but it didn’t even break the skin. They watched helplessly as it charged straight towards them.
“Is that a pig?” Gu Qingji couldn’t quite believe what he was seeing. A fat-headed, big-eared pig, apart from its cloudy, dull eyes, looked no different from a normal pig. At this moment, it was baring its teeth at the two of them.
“Mm,” Lu Weiyi responded, kicking the zombie pig hard, but its weight was considerable, only slowing it down without much other effect.
Gu Qingji was also constantly swinging his knife at the side, but even when he hit it, it only left a wound and had no other impact.
Zombie animals had always been a relatively troublesome thing in the early days because animals were generally fast, while in the beginning, ability users were one in a million, and ordinary people had weak combat power. Compared to all kinds of charging zombie animals, they had almost no advantage.
If Antonio were standing here at this moment, he might only need to run away from a distance and then control his flying knives to directly pierce the zombie pig’s head to finish it off. But for early-stage mental ability users with basically no long-range combat power, their ability was really useless at this moment.
The two of them could only barely ensure they weren’t injured for a long time. Lu Weiyi gradually lost patience. “Keep it busy,” he said to Gu Qingji, while quickly retreating, taking out the Desert Eagle Li Zhuang had given him from his pocket, and neatly firing three shots at the pig’s head.
As the zombie pig fell to the ground with a “thump,” Lu Weiyi and Gu Qingji looked around warily.
Zombies were most sensitive to sound and blood. This was why few people in the apocalypse actively drew guns. If a bullet was fired in a place with many zombies, it might not kill the zombie but instead directly attract a swarm of zombies, costing you your life.
Fortunately, they were in a small village and had already cleared the zombies once. The gunshots attracted not only five or six child zombies who had been hiding in some corner but also Li Zhuang and the others who had just gotten out of the car.
“Young Master, what happened?” Lin Yimu asked hurriedly as he approached.
Lu Weiyi gave the zombie pig another slash, cutting its head in half, quietly took out the crystal core, and raised his chin to signal him to look for himself.
He felt a bit uncomfortable, really missing the ability of his SS-level mental power to directly retrieve zombie crystal cores remotely.
“Zombie pig…” Gu Qingyue said after checking Gu Qingji, “It seems we’ll have to be more careful in the future. This was a very large animal. If it were a mouse, it could be impossible for us to defend against.”
The others nodded. Li Zhuang looked at the pig on the ground and sighed. “What a pity, hundreds of pounds of meat.”
“Then take a bite,” Lu Weiyi retorted.
“That won’t do. What if I turn into a zombie and bite a tender little kid in the middle of the night?” Li Zhuang took a bite of cucumber, teasing amidst the crunching sound.
“Then prepare to eat bullets,” Lu Weiyi stuffed the gun back into his pocket, with no intention of returning it.
“Hey, you took my gun and still want to kill me? There’s no justice in this world! Isn’t anyone going to manage this unreasonable person?”
“…No.”
Lu Weiyi walked back ahead, Li Zhuang followed behind, hooking his lips and making jokes, Gu Qingyue watched the two of them laugh helplessly, Gu Qingji tightly gripped Gu Qingyue’s arm, and Lin Yimu walked at the end, watching the front and guarding the rear.
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