BC Chapter 35

“Then what are you trying to say?” Lu Ziming was completely drawn in by Zhou Yuanyuan’s words at this point. Seeing that she was being vague, she pressed for an answer.

“Because I feel like my hearing right now is not normal at all.” A look of panic slowly crept into Zhou Yuanyuan’s eyes. To be honest, if Lu Ziming hadn’t saved her several times, she really wouldn’t have dared to say such a thing to anyone else. In these special times, everyone’s attitude is basically, “Better to kill a thousand by mistake than to let one go.” If people knew that she had been infected and had a high chance of mutating into the same kind of man-eating zombie monsters, she might face a “humane” termination that most people would agree with, before she could even explain anything.

“Do you remember when you saved me in the underground parking lot the first time?” Zhou Yuanyuan thought for a moment and decided to tell Lu Ziming all her feelings and thoughts.

Lu Ziming nodded, her expression serious as she gazed at Zhou Yuanyuan’s profile.

“The reason I was nauseous back then was because I accidentally splashed blood from the ground into my mouth when I was in a hurry to get up after falling.” Although it had been a few days, Zhou Yuanyuan still subconsciously covered her mouth when she mentioned this, recalling the feeling in her mouth at the time, and her face turned pale at the same time.

Lu Ziming could guess Zhou Yuanyuan’s disgusting feeling just by imagining it. Although her expression also became a bit unpleasant, she hesitated for a long time before reaching out from behind the tree trunk to gently pat Zhou Yuanyuan’s shoulder to comfort her.

“Although I quickly spat it out with saliva, I couldn’t avoid the possibility of being infected for a moment, it’s just a question of whether the symptoms are mild or severe.” After feeling Lu Ziming’s rare gentle attitude, Zhou Yuanyuan’s expression softened a little, and she continued to say to Lu Ziming, “But the problem is, several days have passed, and apart from having a fever for a while that night, I haven’t felt anything unusual at all. It wasn’t until just now that I noticed the problem with my hearing, and also, my physical strength seems to be a little better. The only feeling that’s not so good right now is—my eyes are a little itchy.”

We all know that viruses are very prone to mutation. With the exception of viroids, viruses can be said to be the simplest members of living organisms. Their genetic code or genome is mainly concentrated on the nucleic acid chain, and any change in this nucleic acid chain will affect the characteristics of their offspring. In fact, the genome of a virus is not static during its proliferation process, but is constantly mutating automatically. Most of these mutations are lethal, and only a few can survive. Because a virus replicates millions of times during an infection, there is a chance for mutations to occur. Therefore, from a population level, a virus is not genetically homogeneous. The natural variation of viruses is very slow, but this variation process can be accelerated by the stimulation of strong external factors.

And the two most important conditions that can stimulate the accelerated mutation of viruses are:

1. Environment.

2. Host.

Virus reproduction and mutation cannot be separated from an external environment that meets the characteristics of the virus, and a suitable host plays an even greater role in virus mutation than the environment.

So Lu Ziming couldn’t explain why Zhou Yuanyuan’s body was undergoing these changes. After all, she didn’t study medicine in college. Apart from taking biology classes for a while in junior and senior high school, she had no contact with this stuff at all.

“But since the virus hasn’t caused any harm to your body, then there’s no need to worry. Right?” Lu Ziming was the worst at comforting people, so these words didn’t sound convincing at all.

“Heh, I hope so. But, Lu Ziming, can you promise me one thing?” Zhou Yuanyuan forced a weak smile and echoed Lu Ziming’s words. Then she straightened her face and looked at Lu Ziming seriously, asking.

“What is it? Tell me.” Lu Ziming knew that many things were like this. When things didn’t happen to you, everyone could make jokes without feeling anything. But only when you became the person involved would you truly feel that deep sense of helplessness, and only then could you face the pain that things brought. So now, all she could do was be a good listener.

“If I really mutate into a zombie like them one day, please be sure to kill me without hesitation. Don’t keep me around when I’ve already lost the qualification to be human. Thank you in advance.” Zhou Yuanyuan earnestly and solemnly instructed Lu Ziming.

“Okay.” Lu Ziming had never been a sentimental person, so no matter how much struggle there was in her heart, she would always make a rational choice in the end.

…

After Wu Hao and the Yin siblings had rested well on the second day, they went to the 4S store to find a car as planned. Fortunately, they really found the car keys to several test drive vehicles in the drawers of the service staff’s office, so the three of them chose a pure green SUV that seemed safer and drove away.

The car drove smoothly all the way, thanks to the fact that the three of them had cleared the streets themselves yesterday. However, after driving for a while, the noise of the car gradually attracted more and more zombies.

“Damn… there are too many of them, right?” Yin Zhouhang turned his head and looked at the large group of zombies following behind the car, and said in a daze. After looking at it for a long time, he finally noticed that something seemed wrong.

“Why do these things in front not look human and feel so fast…” Yin Zhouhang simply unbuckled his seat belt and leaned over the back of the seat to look at the zombies from the rear window.

“That’s not right! We didn’t encounter any that ran this fast yesterday! Sister, take a look!” Yin Zhouhang felt a sinking feeling in his heart. He thought he could shake off these undead guys by driving. But it didn’t seem to be the case at all. Their car was already very fast, but in order to ensure the safety of the road ahead while shaking off the zombie horde behind, Wu Hao could only control the car at a certain speed, not too fast and not too slow.

So, in this way, the speeding zombies that were closely following gradually became the vanguard of the entire zombie horde, steadily hanging behind Wu Hao and the others’ SUV.

Yin Suna, who was applying foundation to her face, rolled her eyes. Although she hadn’t looked back yet, she subconsciously felt that Yin Zhouhang was making a big deal out of nothing. She had never liked this younger brother of hers since she was a child. So for so many years, no matter how Yin Zhouhang behaved, she always stood on the opposite side of him, as if the grudges from their previous lives hadn’t been settled and had to be carried over to this life.

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