TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 125

Chapter 125: Even Zombies Have a Love for Beauty

The claw marks on his neck were also useless, even if they were deep enough to see bone. Zombies didn’t need flesh anyway. Harming his flesh, aside from affecting Wei Donglin’s vain mood, had a damage value of practically zero.

Their series of actions hadn’t even scratched Wei Donglin’s surface, but it was more than enough to enrage him.

Wei Donglin reached out with his left hand, which was almost indistinguishable from a human’s, and touched his neck, which had been completely destroyed to reveal the rotting flesh deep inside. His originally human-like black eyes instantly transformed into zombie eyes swirling with blood-red and black mist. He clenched his fists and tensed his body. Moments later, the skin that had been full of life was replaced by surging, rotting flesh and peeling skin.

Bizarre and chaotic facial features began to appear on his face, resembling one face and yet a combination of thousands. Various crooked and strange limbs sprouted from all over his body, creating a sense of crowdedness like a mountain of piled-up corpses, making one’s scalp tingle. Not only was it triggering trypophobia, but also a fear of ugliness.

Strange, so strange!

Ugly, so ugly!

Xie YunChuan watched as a decent-looking person transformed into this hideous and disgusting state in the blink of an eye, and a wave of nausea rose inappropriately. The disgust in his eyes was undisguised.

Li Shi knew things were going to be bad when he saw Wei Donglin give up protecting his skin and completely break down, reverting to his original form. And then he saw the blatant and glaring disgust in Xie YunChuan’s eyes…

He could only say: “We’re done for, completely done for!”

Of course, this glaring wasn’t glaring at him, but at Wei Donglin!

If Wei Donglin, confined by his skin and flesh, had a combat power level of three, then Wei Donglin, having shed that skin and running rampant, would have a combat power level of… ten!

Adding Xie YunChuan’s disgusted expression, great, add one level of rage value, and his combat power is maxed out!

Without giving them much time to be disgusted, Wei Donglin directly roared and attacked the offensive Xie YunChuan. Xie YunChuan struggled to fight back while utterly loathing the monster’s proximity.

Li Shi occasionally provided timely assistance when Xie YunChuan was about to suffer a fatal blow. Even though Li Shi joined the battle to help Xie YunChuan, Wei Donglin focused all his firepower on Xie YunChuan alone, beating him relentlessly, with a feeling that he was deliberately torturing Xie YunChuan to death slowly.

Xie YunChuan thought it was because he was a human; zombies would definitely prioritize attacking humans, which wasn’t strange!

Until Li Shi’s gnashing voice echoed in his mind: “If you don’t want to die too quickly, then give me a break and tone down that disgusted and loathing expression!”

Xie YunChuan immediately retorted in his mind: “What? Are you saying that when fighting a festering, stinking thing, I should put on an enjoyable expression?”

Besides, he couldn’t even beat him! That was a bit demanding, wasn’t it?

Fortunately, he only needed to think it subconsciously for Li Shi to know; otherwise, even if Wei Donglin didn’t intend to kill him, Xie YunChuan would still be killed by the intense, overwhelming attacks if he lost focus.

Li Shi spat, “Damn it! How should I explain this to you? I don’t have the energy to explain it now; just listen to me.”

Li Shi didn’t want to waste extra mental energy communicating with Xie YunChuan in this critical situation.

How should this be explained? It’s a long story…

Oh, right, why was Wei Donglin so concerned about his skin? …Because his true form was an extremely ugly multi-clawed monster, an ugly thing!

Always calling others ugly, when he was the ugliest one!

He was told not to eat zombies indiscriminately, but he wouldn’t listen. Eating everything would only harm him!

Wei Donglin’s evolved zombie talent was the ability to devour. He could endlessly devour the bodies and flesh of other zombies… including the unique evolutionary abilities of each zombie in different directions.

Although every zombie with the virus possessed evolutionary abilities, the evolutionary abilities and speeds of the virus nourished by different bodies were different. Furthermore, different degrees of external assistance—such as devouring others of their kind, digging out and eating the crystal cores of their kind, eating the flesh and blood of ability users, absorbing the crystal cores of ability users, etc.—meant that the degree of evolution and the strange skills that each zombie evolved were different.

Wei Donglin’s devouring ability was highly predatory. Therefore, the evolutionary speed and abilities of zombies that were about the same level as him were not as strong as his. The strong became stronger, and the weak became weaker. Gradually, Wei Donglin became unstoppable. In addition, he constantly devoured and merged with other zombies, becoming what he was now.

Why was he so concerned about his appearance and skin? Because zombies at the beginning, with low levels, had no self-awareness. At that time, he would only instinctively devour everything around him to strengthen himself.

When his level became higher and he regained some consciousness, his aesthetic sense as a human revived, and he began to loathe his ugly appearance. He couldn’t accept it.

He thought of many ways to change his shape and appearance. For a while, he even escalated his behavior, frantically devouring and hunting other zombies in the city, thinking that reaching a higher level would give him the ability to freely change his form.

Unexpectedly, after becoming a level four zombie, he not only failed to reduce the strange remaining limbs on his body but even uncontrollably acquired more and more.

That’s when he stopped his frantic devouring.

By chance, he discovered that healing ability users had the ability to repair rotting flesh and shape bodies, and could even regrow severed limbs. He thought they could restore his beauty.

At first, he directly captured healing ability users to dig out their crystal cores and absorb their energy, but he found that it didn’t work at all!

Energy was just energy. The crystal core taken from the body was just a broken stone storing abundant energy. Absorbing the energy inside only provided a single source of energy replenishment.

Healing crystal cores could only be used for healing purposes within the ability user’s body. Once separated from the ability user, they lost their healing ability.

This was why Wei Donglin was only putting on a show when he grabbed Luo Shuyou’s neck, making a big noise but not actually exerting any force.

Because if he strangled Luo Shuyou to death, he wouldn’t be able to use his healing ability to help him repair his skin.

This was a lesson he had learned after countless mistakes –

The first time, Wei Donglin directly captured a healing ability user and forced them to use their ability to help him repair his skin. Afterwards, he repaid kindness with evil by digging out their core and eating their flesh.

Oh, he even generously rewarded Li Shi with that crystal core. With his powerful devouring ability, he didn’t care about that little bit of energy.

Unexpectedly, the bridge was demolished before he crossed it, and the shore collapsed. Within a few days, he discovered that the newly repaired skin began to peel and crack, gradually exposing the dark, purple, dead flesh underneath.

Indeed, zombies had no life force. Even if fresh skin was generated, if it was attached to a dead body and not infused with vitality for a long time, it would still rot and stink in just a few days.

The second time, he learned his lesson. He captured an ability user and prepared to feed and care for them as a long-term “skincare product.” Then, the ability user accidentally… was pinched to death by Wei Donglin while trying to escape!!

The third time,…