TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 38

After Xie YunChuan finished eating, he took off Luo Shuyou’s clothes and used his ability to rinse him from head to toe, then put clean clothes on him.

At twenty-two years old, Luo Shuyou still had the figure of a young man. He wasn’t particularly tall and straight, even somewhat frail. His black hair was damp, water still dripping from the ends, the droplets sliding down his slender, fair neck, flowing past his delicate collarbones.

Fortunately, the weather was hot and dry, so it would dry naturally quickly. Otherwise, Xie YunChuan really wouldn’t be so diligent in giving him a bath.

Luo Shuyou, who had been rolling around in the mud all day, transformed back into a fragrant and soft little cutie.

In contrast to his patient and meticulous care for Luo Shuyou, Xie YunChuan casually rinsed himself off and gave the White Tiger Cub a quick wash before calling it a day, spending less than half the time he spent bathing Luo Shuyou.

Fortunately, he had awakened the water ability. Otherwise, in this end of the world where most water sources were polluted, it would be really difficult to keep Luo Shuyou fragrant and fair.

Although Luo Shuyou was a zombie, he was cleaner than everyone else and still smelled of his favorite gardenia-scented shower gel. Who could compare?

Xie YunChuan casually laid some clothes on the ground, hugged Luo Shuyou, and the White Tiger Cub lay at their feet. The family of three leisurely admired the moon.

Clearly, it was a desolate and filthy end of the world, yet the moon was bright, the stars were sparse, and the scene was breathtakingly beautiful.

It was a full moon. Counting the days, the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching.

Xie YunChuan took out the Jīngpò he had collected earlier. Luo Shuyou’s eyes lit up when he saw them, his eyebrows curving happily. He grabbed them and wouldn’t let go.

Xie YunChuan didn’t know if he could absorb the energy inside. He just liked shiny things. Even if it was an ordinary crystal, he would hug it and not let go.

“Youyou must work hard to absorb it. If your ability improves, you’ll be able to speak. Then you won’t have to suffer grievances and only be able to squeak and scream, understand?”

“Awoo~!” Luo Shuyou was currently fascinated by the Jīngpò and didn’t care what Xie YunChuan said. He couldn’t understand it anyway.

Xie YunChuan tried to train and improve his ability. Through self-training, he could only improve his mastery of the ability, develop new skills, and integrate the use of the three abilities.

It seemed that he could only upgrade his ability by accumulating energy, that is, absorbing Jīngpò.

Yes, he had awakened a total of three abilities, one after another. At first, he thought water and ice belonged to the same ability, just in different forms. Later, he discovered that there was a fundamental difference between the two and they should be considered two abilities.

He didn’t know if multi-type abilities were common in the end of the world. The only other person he knew of was Lin Yi, who had awakened the earth ability. Furthermore, the notebook mentioned that wind, thunder, and metal abilities would be awakened, but the specific situation was unknown.

He still had to find places with people, not only to collect supplies, but also to gather information and understand the new situation.

He stroked Luo Shuyou in his arms with some worry. He had played enough and fell asleep clutching the Jīngpò.

He thought somewhat inappropriately: Do zombies also sleep?

He couldn’t figure it out. Anyway, Luo Shuyou slept every day, with a more regular schedule than him, a normal person.

With his current abilities, he didn’t know if he could protect Luo Shuyou well. Yesterday, Luo Shuyou had killed the zombie with his bare hands. Otherwise, he might have already died at the hands of a zombie.

Xie YunChuan didn’t understand Luo Shuyou’s current physical mechanism. He usually looked very weak, so why did he burst out with so much energy at that time, as if he was invincible?

He didn’t know how Luo Shuyou’s transformation was triggered, and he didn’t dare to gamble, so he had to find a way to quickly catch more zombies to obtain Jīngpò and improve his ability, so as to better ensure the safety of himself and Luo Shuyou.

Tomorrow, he would go to a nearby town first. With more people, there should be a few evolved and upgraded zombies.

At noon, the sun was scorching. Xie YunChuan carried Luo Shuyou on his back and came to a small town. Although it was much better than Niujia Village, it was still a backward town. However, judging from the scattered houses, it should have had a large population before. He hoped to hunt down a few zombies and obtain Jīngpò as he wished.

This small town was much more normal. There were a few zombies wandering around on the road. This actually relieved Xie YunChuan. Things that were too abnormal were bound to be strange, just like Niujia Village, which hid a big Boss. That would be even more troublesome.

Xie YunChuan carefully walked through, without disturbing the zombies. If unnecessary, he didn’t want to waste his ability. No one knew what he would encounter next, so he should conserve his strength if he could.

The slightly troublesome thing was that he didn’t know how to identify those zombies that produced Jīngpò in their brains after evolving. Only zombies of primary level and above would have Jīngpò in their brains. Killing other zombies was useless.

Seeing that the zombie before focused on attacking him and Luo Shuyou, and Lin Yi as well, it seemed that ability users themselves had something that attracted zombies. Then it should be a two-way hunt. Ability users could improve their abilities through zombie Jīngpò, and primary or higher-level zombies with vague consciousness could also improve themselves by hunting ability users.

Perhaps, not only zombies had Jīngpò in their brains, but ability users also had them.

Xie YunChuan found a relatively secluded empty house with fewer zombies wandering around and went inside to rest. He was waiting, waiting for those evolved zombies to smell the scent and come.

Perhaps this was the disadvantage of humans. Zombies inherently had a predator’s sensitivity to food towards humans, and upgraded zombies seemed to be even better at sensing the location of ability users. In this regard, humans were really passive.

For a long time, Xie YunChuan even began to doubt whether there were any evolved zombies here.

Suddenly, he felt a movement. It was coming!

Xie YunChuan dodged the zombie’s attacking claws in a flash. Similarly, seeing Xie YunChuan dodge, it turned its head and attacked Luo Shuyou next to him. Xie YunChuan immediately threw out vines to entangle it, and a conjured ice pick pierced through the air. When it reached the top of its head, it broke free from the binding vines and reached out to catch it, crushing it into pieces.

This zombie was different from the one in Niujia Village. It was weaker than that one, and the one in Niujia Village strengthened its speed, while this one seemed to strengthen its strength. From the fact that it could easily break free from his vine restraints and crush the ice pick, it could be seen that its strength was far greater than other zombies.

In this case, the one in Niujia Village should already be a level one zombie, and this one was only a primary.

He had to fight quickly. He didn’t know how many primary zombies there were here. It would be troublesome if the others came together.

Xie YunChuan used all three abilities at the same time. The powerful water flow knocked it to the ground, followed by vine restraints and an ice pick piercing its brain. The coherent movements were completed in one go, giving the zombie no time to react.

Easily taken down. Sure enough, after fighting a level one zombie, it was much easier to deal with a lower-level primary zombie.

Digging out the Jīngpò in its brain, it looked no different from a level one Jīngpò, but the level one Jīngpò could be seen to be faintly red, while this one seemed to have none at all.

The Jīngpò that Luo Shuyou was holding yesterday was gone when Xie YunChuan looked at it early this morning. All that was left in his hand were some powders. It seemed that it had been absorbed. Luo Shuyou was still the same, with no obvious changes.

But he couldn’t be impatient. It would be wishful thinking to expect a significant change with just one level one Jīngpò. He would take it slowly.

Xie YunChuan planned to use this one himself. He had to ensure that his ability was steadily improving first, so that he could find more Jīngpò for Luo Shuyou, and also protect themselves from having their Jīngpò dug out by others.