TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 33

Chapter 33: Evolution and Upgrade

The mountains had only recently been connected to electricity. The elderly and children were still fascinated by it. During the day, the children would sit in front of the television watching dramas, while the elderly waited to watch the news in the evening.

Although the mountains were high and the roads were far, they slowly learned about what was happening outside through television, mobile phones, and other means.

They thought about the three people who said their car broke down some time ago and came to stay, but haven’t mentioned leaving until now.

The villagers couldn’t help but be suspicious, and since they arrived, except for the first day, they had never seen the son that the couple brought with them.

Strange noises occasionally came from the house they were staying in.

I took some people to discuss the matter, wanting them to leave or let us see if their son was healthy.

They looked evasive, begging and pleading, repeatedly emphasizing that their child was just sick and didn’t want to see anyone, and that there was no symptom of cannibalism.

The elderly were soft-hearted, and the children were ignorant, and this led to a great disaster.

In the following days, chickens or geese were lost in the village. At first, no one paid attention. Usually, naughty children from some families would steal chickens and geese, roast them, and eat them, not daring to admit it.

Now that I think about it, the couple must have secretly taken them to feed their child.

A few days later, the man’s wife also disappeared. The villagers became alert because more and more livestock were being lost. They soon caught the man who was stealing chickens.

The man knelt on the ground and begged us not to drive him away, saying that he had no other choice.

At this point, although we hadn’t seen him, we were all sure that his wife and children had turned into the biting monsters mentioned on TV. At that time, we had not yet realized the severity of the problem.

We only drove them to the abandoned breeding house not far from the end of the village, hoping that the man could take care of his wife and children himself and not let them out to harm others.

This idea was inevitably too naive. The fact is that in less than two days, some of the bolder and naughtier children in the village curiously touched over, wanting to see if the legendary man-eating monster was really as terrifying as it was on TV.

Curiosity killed the cat. Three children went together, and none of them survived. Now that I think about it, the man should also have been playing the role of a predator.

The loss of children in the village was a major event. The villagers first thought of the three outsiders. Although they had seen a lot of man-eating news, everyone always felt that it was just online speculation and exaggeration. This is why they didn’t completely drive the family away before. People are ultimately willing to believe their usual common sense.

The three families who lost their children gathered to make trouble. The man silently sneaked out and locked the courtyard door. When the villagers opened the iron gate to search, the five monsters locked in the house rushed out and bit anyone they saw. The breeding farm turned into a slaughterhouse, and most of the villagers were killed here, including the elderly and children.

By the time the others found out, it was too late. Everyone inside had turned into man-eating monsters. Someone suggested burning them all in a fire.

They were all people from the same village, either relatives of this family or family members of that family. Most people were unwilling to burn them to death like this.

So they sent people to guard here, and the village’s cattle, horses, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, etc. were successively sent in. This year was already dry, the climate was not right, and the crops did not grow. Now they had sent all the meat they could eat to feed those things, and food was gradually becoming scarce.

Some people couldn’t bear it and tried to set fire to the place secretly at night, but they were bitten in the neck on the spot. The next day, the villagers found his tragic death next to the bamboo forest, and the meat on his body was gnawed to pieces. Everyone thought that he was like this, he should be dead and could not be dead anymore.

Now everyone was worried that this villager had died here, obviously a monster had escaped. For a time, people were panic-stricken. At this time, they didn’t care whether they were relatives or not, they all busied themselves building firewood, preparing to burn this place in a fire.

None of the villagers who were coming and going in a hurry noticed that the corpse on the side twisted and climbed up, staggering and pouncing on an old man, biting him. Screams and roars were mixed together for a while.

In this way, the entire village was lost. The few people who escaped home closed their doors tightly and dared not go out, but in the end they still didn’t avoid it.

Among those things, there appeared one that could climb walls and eaves, and from time to time it would rush into the house and grab people to eat alive. It was impossible to defend against.

“That’s it?” Lin Yi asked.

Lu Yunzhou spread out the blank booklet for him to see, “That’s it.”

“What about what happened after that?”

“Isn’t that obvious? The author must have been eaten after writing here.”

“And you can guess what happened later. A mutated species appeared in the zombie group, and it was very powerful. The old, weak, women, and children in the village were unable to resist and were wiped out.”

“Then where did all those zombies go now?”

This should be asked to Xie YunChuan. The three of them looked at Xie YunChuan in unison. Lu Yunzhou asked in horror as if he had thought of something: “They weren’t all locked in that breeding house, were they?”

“No, it’s full of bones.”

Lu Yunzhou murmured in confusion: “All bones? Something ate them all? Even the zombies? What eats even zombies?”

Lin Yi said: “What else could it be? That mutated zombie. It can attack Luo Shuyou, so it’s not surprising that it eats other of its kind.”

Xie YunChuan took out a small broken notebook again, “Take a look at this.”

This was what he had just found in the side pocket of his backpack. He didn’t know when he had put it in there, and he had forgotten about it if he hadn’t touched it.

What was written inside should be information spread outside that someone heard through a radio channel.

Lu Yunzhou frowned after reading it and asked Xie YunChuan, “What do you think?”

“Basically true, but it’s already outdated.”

Lin Yi took the notebook from Lu Yunzhou and flipped through it, “How do you say that?”

Xie YunChuan slowly analyzed: “The zombies we encountered today should belong to the evolved and upgraded ones mentioned here. He is the son of that couple, the earliest infected person among this group of people.

In the notes mentioned by that person, it was already different from ordinary people at that time. Based on the current desolation, it is not difficult to infer that all the survivors in the village later died at its hands.

This place is located in an extremely remote location, surrounded by mountains on all sides, and Muyun City, which is the only place that is relatively close, will soon be blocked by heavy snow, making it difficult for outsiders to enter, and without anything to guide them, the zombies inside cannot get out either.

As time goes by, the extremely hungry zombies began to cannibalize each other, and eventually evolved and upgraded. This perfectly matches the zombie upgrade method described in the notes.”

“Heavy snow blocking the road. According to the notes, there is no abnormal heavy snow in other places outside.” Lu Yunzhou was puzzled, it seemed that Muyun City was a special existence.

“That’s right, low temperatures are not conducive to zombie activity, so we didn’t encounter any special zombie attacks when we came out. This heavy snow seems to have hindered their evolution.” Xie YunChuan guessed: “Or perhaps, it’s related to the strangeness of that forest.”

These were just speculations, and there was no way to verify the facts.