Chapter 651: Both Hell and Paradise
The village was very quiet.
In front of each household, a significant amount of spinach was still being planted.
The doors were tightly shut.
Bai Yifan knew that inside these yards, there were zombie villagers with their families, along with survivors who were being kept captive.
Bai Yifan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his fingers gripping the bronze sword were slightly pale.
He didn’t understand why there could be such a vicious Zombie King.
Clearly, he had human memories, didn’t he?
The journey was incredibly smooth, without seeing any zombies. Just as he was approaching the two-story villa where Zombie King Li Mucheng lived, a figure suddenly appeared ahead.
This figure was dirty, with its back facing the group, lying on the ground at the doorway of a yard.
From the back, it seemed to be a small-framed boy, roughly about 1.4 meters tall, resembling a middle school student.
"You, you need to move aside!"
Bai Yifan mustered up some courage, managing to use a somewhat scolding tone.
Hearing Bai Yifan’s voice, the figure’s back instantly stiffened on the spot.
Slowly standing up from the ground, he then remained motionless.
From the back, it wasn’t clear whether it was a human or a zombie, but Bai Yifan noticed that the exposed neck part of the back looked dirty, but it wasn’t the kind of zombie’s decaying flesh.
This should be a human.
"Turn around!"
If it were a human, Bai Yifan wouldn’t be as scared.
The small boy’s body trembled and turned around shakily, inching his body, head down, finally facing Bai Yifan.
His mouth was stuffed full, all with spinach.
The exposed skin was all dirty black, like a little beggar.
From a distance, Bai Yifan could smell the scent emanating from him.
"What are you doing here? It’s dangerous here, you better leave quickly!"
Seeing this boy even younger than himself, Bai Yifan’s expression softened a lot, and his tone was as gentle as possible.
Hearing Bai Yifan speaking, the boy’s eyes showed no emotional fluctuations, his mouth moving swiftly, chewing the spinach in his mouth with speed.
After swallowing, the boy squatted down and quickly pulled out some spinach, stuffing them into his mouth again.
Raw spinach has mild toxins.
But to the starving boy, it was nothing, it seemed like eating spinach was the only thing he needed to do.
"Hey, how did you...?"
Bai Yifan was about to speak further when he suddenly noticed the needle marks on the boy’s arm.
The arm was covered with densely packed needle marks.
Crunch, crunch.
The boy continued eating the crisp spinach, unprocessed, just pulled from the ground and eaten directly.
Spinach contains a large amount of iron atoms, which can replenish blood.
Watching the small boy with an expressionless face, Bai Yifan suddenly found himself at a loss for words.
The little boy quickly pulled out spinach from the ground, after eating a lot himself, he picked more and clutched them in his arms. Then under Bai Yifan’s gaze, he opened the gate of a yard and ran straight in.
Bai Yifan stood at the doorway and could see the zombie villagers standing in the yard, it was a family of four zombies.
"Roar—"
One of the zombies let out a low roar at the boy, like a reprimand.
The boy didn’t respond, he ran straight into the house, soon inside the house, a little girl’s voice was heard.
This was a pair of siblings.
In less than a minute, a blood bag was thrown out from a window, directly tossed to the zombie villagers standing outside.
...The little boy was willingly being fed.
Not just Bai Yifan was stunned, but Bai Xiqin and Leng Yebai also stayed silent.
It was indeed very difficult for ordinary people to survive. Even within a safety base, if they don’t go out and fight with zombies, they would go hungry or struggle to linger on.
Kids that age, without any superpowers, surviving was a luxury.
This was hell, yet it was also their paradise.
The zombie villagers rushed to drink the blood bags thrown over by the boy, letting out satisfied growls from their throats.
They didn’t care about Bai Xiqin and the others standing at the door.
Because they were accustomed to not eating fresh flesh, only drinking the blood of survivors.
Eating flesh meant it would be gone soon, but having human survivors provide blood, meant they wouldn’t have to worry about food for a long time.
Through the window, Bai Xiqin vaguely saw a little girl smaller than the boy eating spinach.
"Let’s go over there first."
Bai Xiqin forced herself not to look this way and continued walking towards Li Mucheng’s house.
"Brother Zhang..."
Bai Yifan glanced at Zhang Yiming, hesitating to speak.
"Don’t worry, they’ll be fine."
Zhang Yiming nodded slightly, giving Bai Yifan a reassuring look.
Bai Yifan let out a slight breath, gripping the bronze sword, and caught up with Bai Xiqin, walking side by side.
Now, his goal was to kill Li Mucheng.
Even if he couldn’t kill him, he would sit down and make a scene.
Surely someone couldn’t stand it and would step in to help.
Sister, Leng Yebai, Zhang Yiming, any one of them would do!
He wasn’t picky!
When Bai Xiqin and the others arrived at Li Mucheng’s house, Li Mucheng had already opened the gate of the yard.
He leisurely sat on a deck chair at the courtyard gate, squinting his eyes under the blazing sun.
There was no decaying smell on him, yet he didn’t seem to feel the warmth of the sun either.
Several zombies stood beside him with agile limbs, holding wine bottles in their hands.
The bottles weren’t filled with wine, but blood.
The zombies’ crimson eyes were fixed on their wine bottles, looking as if they could barely restrain themselves from devouring all the blood in them.
"You’ve finally arrived, I haven’t settled the old score with you from last time. I didn’t go find you first, yet you came over."
Zombie King Li Mucheng raised the wine glass in his hand, a zombie beside him immediately poured some blood into it.
The red blood looked even more sinister in the wine glass.
Zombie King Li Mucheng took a gentle sip as if tasting the finest wine.
His beautiful eyebrows knit slightly, his gaze fell on Bai Xiqin, and he said with a smile, "Before you arrived, I found the taste of the blood immensely delightful, but after you came, the scent on you is so much more fragrant than other superpower users, I simply can’t drink this blood anymore."
After speaking, Zombie King Li Mucheng poured the blood from the wine glass onto the ground.
The red blood quickly evaporated under the sun, leaving only a dark red stain.
The light refracted by the gold-rimmed glasses fell right on Bai Xiqin, and those eyes looked excited.
Zombie King Li Mucheng almost couldn’t contain himself. If Bai Xiqin wasn’t living in Yunhua Safety Base, with that madman base commander, he wouldn’t have waited so long without causing trouble to the Bai Family.
This family’s blood, just smelling it was delicious, especially this girl in front of him, made him want to imprison her in a room, providing exclusive blood just for him.
Just the thought of it made Zombie King Li Mucheng’s eyes narrow contentedly.
He took a deep breath greedily, inhaling the blood scent only zombies could smell, his lips curled up dangerously.
"Monster, meet your demise!"
Bai Yifan stood protectively in front of Bai Xiqin, pointing the sword at Zombie King Li Mucheng with a righteous demeanor.
He didn’t feel panicked at all.
Because he saw Zhang Yiming and Leng Yebai’s slightly clenched fingers.
This guy daring to look at his sister in that way, probably didn’t want to live any longer.