However, according to Professor Qiao’s theory, he should have appeared directly in front of Liang Xian with the little deer, just like he would appear in front of the tombstone every time, but now there is no Liang Xian in front of him, but a group of zombies.
Did Liang Xian really become a zombie? Tan Yan panicked slightly, he was not afraid of the tide of zombies, he was only worried about Liang Xian.
When the zombies saw someone in front of them, they all rushed over recklessly. Among them were second-level or even third-level zombies. They were the fastest and rushed in front of Tan Yan in less than a few seconds.
Tan Yan took his time, jumped up gently, holding the little deer, stepped directly on the head of the third-level zombie, and jumped onto the head of the second-level zombie in front of him before it stretched out its claws to grab him.
As if playing hopscotch, Tan Yan moved easily over the zombie’s head. The surrounding ionizing radiation was controlled by Tan Yan, which produced a strong Qi that surrounded him. The nails of the third-level zombies were only touched by such ‘Qi’, and the nails, which were so sharp that they could cut through steel, shattered.
“Liang Xian!” Tan Yan searched with difficulty among the zombies, shouting as he searched, not caring that it would attract zombies.
But he can’t see Liang Xian anywhere, so why was he transmitted here?
The study these days finally gave Tan Yan some ideas about quantum entanglement. He thought hard, since the little deer is quantum entangled with Liang Xian’s consciousness, the place he teleported to, even without Liang Xian himself, must still have his ‘consciousness’.
In other words, Liang Xian’s consciousness appeared among the crowd of zombies.
Guessing this, Tan Yan felt a chill in his heart. He still remembers that zombies above level 4 can control the group of zombies with their own consciousness, and zombie kings at level 5 can even control the human mind. He will be transmitted here, could it be that Liang Xian controlled the ‘zombie’ and the little deer was attracted by the ‘consciousness’, and the two arrived here.
“Can you feel where Liang Xian is now?” Tan Yan asked the little deer.
The little deer shook his head, and there was a flash of innocence in his big watery eyes.
Tan Yan looked at his arm, from the transmission to the present, a minute already passed. From the tombstone in Ping County to the shopping mall in B City, even if he had to run, it would take half an hour at the fastest.
Considering that this is two round trips and the loss of travel time, the safety time is one and a half hours.
He only had three and a half hours to find Liang Xian.
If the little deer don’t feel it, then his only clue now is this group of zombies.
As long as he is here, the zombies will temporarily forget what they are going to do and focus on attacking him.
Then he can’t let the zombies find out that he’s human.
Tan Yan felt the ionizing radiation around him, just like he used to make a human skin mask, controlled these particles to gather around him and the little deer little by little, condensing into a transparent film.
As soon as the film covered their bodies, the zombies immediately stopped attacking, they scratched around Tan Yan in confusion, and when they couldn’t find a target to attack, they slowly walked in one direction again.
The moving speed of the zombies is really too slow. The zombies of the second- and third-levels are probably trying to resist this consciousness, so they walk slower, which happens to be about the same speed as ordinary zombies. Tan Yan followed the zombies forward at turtle speed, feeling anxious in his heart.
Time is running out, he can’t keep up like this.
Think, think fast, he can’t just focus on finding the transmission point and going home, like he did in the past when he crossed over and didn’t have to think about anything. Now he has to think on his own, and think of a way to find Liang Xian.
The rusty brain is struggling to turn. Fortunately, Tan Yan has developed a little brain from studying these days, and finally has some thinking ability.
The ordinary zombie is a kind of existence that does not have any thinking ability and only concentrates on the target. If they were to go somewhere, what route would they choose? Will they choose to walk on the main road considering that there are rivers, villages, and valleys along the way?
Will not.
So they must be moving in a straight line, and if Liang Xian is gathering zombies, then he will definitely meet new zombies on the way to join the team, he doesn’t need to follow only one.
In order to verify his conjecture, Tan Yan grabbed a zombie and turned its body a hundred and eighty degrees abruptly. The zombie was stunned for a moment, then slowly turned around and continued to move forward.
He tried a few more, and these zombies would all try to move in one direction, without any exceptions.
This is it!
As long as he follows this direction, he will encounter other zombies pointing the way along the way. The place where the zombies are gradually gathering is most likely where Liang Xian is!
Thinking up to this, Tan Yan no longer slowly followed the group of zombies, but ran wildly on the ground with the little deer.
The little deer is the only one in the supernatural team who can keep up with Tan Yan, he happily ran beside Tan Yan, and kept calling ‘Bell, bell’, as if urging Tan Yan to ride on its back, and he’ll run carrying Tan Yan.
Tan Yan just patted the little deer’s head, how could he be willing to ride a young deer that hadn’t even grown his antlers?
“When you grow up and are faster than me, I will ride you. Don’t be anxious yet, take care of your body and grow up well, when you become the healthiest deer, I will definitely rely on you.” Tan Yan promised the little deer.
“Bell, bell~” The little deer called happily, it was a promise to Tan Yan.
Once I grow up, I will be your strength, like the person who instilled this idea in me.
One man and one deer were running wildly on the road, never changing direction. When they encounter a river, they step over it, and when they encounter a village, they cross it.
Along the way, they encountered a lot of zombies that were heading in their direction, which reinforced Tan Yan’s confidence.
After running for about an hour, when the time on the watch pointed to 21:20, the little deer suddenly stopped.
This is a small village, surrounded by many zombies, but not a single zombie will enter the village.
Some zombies even came out of the village slowly and stopped at the entrance of the village, motionless.
This is it!
Tan Yan took the little deer into the village, and went from house to house looking for people.
He smelled a strange smell, very smelly and familiar. This taste is…
Biogas1沼氣 zhǎo qì: biogas; marsh gas; methane CH4.! Tan Yan remembered that when he was a police officer, he had smelled this smell in some places where gas had exploded.
Indeed, many villages will use straw sewage and other organic materials to produce biogas, the biogas produced will provide heating and natural gas for the villages, and biogas digester organic materials, after fermentation, will become the best organic fertilizer, the biogas produced by the biogas digester will kill two birds with one stone.
However, there will not be such a strong biogas smell in the village. Generally, the sealing of biogas digesters is very good. After all, it is a combustible gas, safety measures must be taken.
Why do zombies gather near the village where the biogas is produced?
Tan Yan looked all the way, and saw that the sealing conditions of many biogas digesters were very poor, and each biogas digester had huge pipes. After looking at it several times in succession, he finds that these pipes all lead to one place.
Tan Yan and the little deer walked along the pipeline, the end of the pipeline turned out to be a granary near the village.
This village is obviously a grain-producing village, and the area of the grain storehouse is very large, Tan Yan opens a grain storehouse door, the grain storehouse is very well sealed, and it smells like biogas inside. If there is an open flame, it will be ignited immediately.
Every granary is like this, the sealing is very good, but the pipes are a little rough, which will allow some biogas to overflow.
It seems that the pipes were made under very bad conditions, and they were even spliced together from other places, that’s why the biogas leaked.
A guess gradually emerged in Tan Yan’s mind. He searched one after another, and finally saw a person lying in front of the biggest granary.
The man was dressed in the clothes of ordinary granary workers, and on his head was a big cotton hat for winter. The hat was so low that only his chin could be seen. His left hand rests on the wall of the pipe, leaning against the barn door, and seems to be asleep.
Tan Yan walked over slowly, squatted in front of the man, and opened his hat, it was Liang Xian.
Liang Xian’s complexion is normal, without the characteristic greenish-white color of a zombie, he looks as normal as Director Li that day, don’t know if he is a human or a fifth-level zombie.
But from the arrangement of these pipelines and biogas, as well as the unusual movement of the zombies, Tan Yan can probably guess what these devices are for.
He walked all the way in a straight line without encountering a single human base, and if the final location of this zombie wave is here, would have been injured.
Even if Liang Xian really became a fifth-level zombie, he didn’t think about hurting anyone, instead, he thought about how to get rid of the zombies.
The little deer said ‘Bell, bell’ twice, stepped forward, and arched Liang Xian, but he didn’t move, he was still asleep, as if he was dead.
Tan Yan was flustered for no reason, it was a feeling he had never felt before.
Such an excellent young man, smart and kind, sincere in emotion, brave to face himself in the face of feelings, frank and sincere. Even if he is left in a world that does not belong to him, he still abides by his duties and contributes all his strength to the country and the people.
If such a person really died, it would be a great loss to the country and the people.
Tan Yan leaned his head tremblingly against Liang Xian’s heart. When he fought with Director Li before, he found that although the fifth-level zombies were no different from humans in appearance, they had no heartbeat. Zombies are actually dead. Even if they regain consciousness, their way of thinking is different from before, and they are no longer human beings.
With Tan Yan’s hearing ability, in fact, he doesn’t need to press his head to the chest to hear it. But now he feels a little tinnitus, and he doesn’t want to believe his hearing, as long as he is close to his heart, as long as there is a heartbeat, at least he can still feel the vibration.
He was quietly sticking to it, not feeling anything.
“Bell, bell~” The little deer kept arching Liang Xian’s head with his mouth, and stuck out his tongue to lick his face, as if trying to wake him up.
No matter how witty the little deer is, he still doesn’t understand what death is like.
Tan Yan listened for a full minute, but still got nothing. He just leaned against Liang Xian’s heart, his face was slightly wet.
Perhaps if he had to kill Liang Xian with his own hands, a man of steel like Tan Yan would not shed tears. Seeing Liang Xian’s arrangement and seeing him sleeping against the granary door, Tan Yan cried uncontrollably.
Even if he becomes a zombie, he still cannot forget his mission, such a zombie, can you say he is not a soldier? Can you deny his human identity?
Tan Yan hugged Liang Xian and said softly: “Liang Xian, I’m here to take you home.”
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a soft pulsating sound in his ear, and Liang Xian’s chest trembled slightly.
Tan Yan hurriedly put his hand under Liang Xian’s nose, still not breathing, but his heartbeat, although very weak and slow, and the interval also take a long time, but it was really there.
Little by little, beating weakly.
“Liang Xian, are you a human being now? Or a zombie? Can you hear me?” Tan Yan asked softly in Liang Xian’s ear.
Liang Xian didn’t move.
Tan Yan took out the sticky note from his pocket, Qiao Zhixue, who had a very low EQ, wanted to archive this note as the data for the first space transmission in the history of quantum transmission. This note will be recorded in the annals of history in the future, it represents the arrival of an era.
But Tan Yan didn’t agree, he said it was Liang Xian’s note, and it was up to Liang Xian to decide whether to make it public.
Tan Yan took the note and whispered in Liang Xian’s ear: “I received your birthday present.”
Liang Xian’s eyelashes trembled very weakly, and the keen Tan Yan immediately caught this movement.
With his eyesight, he would never be wrong. Liang Xian reacted to his words, especially the sticky notes.
“The response, I already said it to the little deer once. But the little deer can’t pass the information like you do, I need to say it to you again.” Tan Yan said in a calm voice.
Liang Xian moved his fingers, touching the pipe wall.
Tan Yan felt relieved when he saw that his work had stopped, he looked at his left hand, it was normal, there was no bite mark, then the injury is the right hand.
Liang Xian’s right hand was inserted into the pocket of the overalls. Tan Yan wanted to see his wound, so he pulled his right hand out of the pocket.
Just when he pulled out half of his hand, Tan Yan’s movements stopped.
Liang Xian wore a leather glove on his right hand, which looked a bit empty.
Tan Yan pulled open Liang Xian’s sleeve, there was a bite mark on his right arm, the teeth marks are very shallow, the teeth were small, and it was a child’s bite mark. Even though the marks are very light, the skin was bitten and bled a little.
Now the wound is nearly bloodless, but the scar is still there.
Tan Yan also took out gloves and put them on, trying not to touch the wound as much as possible.
He looked at the glove on Liang Xian’s right hand, and told himself that what he felt just now was probably an illusion, maybe it was just worn crookedly, and his fingers were curled up, it must not be…
Tan Yan slowly took off the gloves and looked at them one by one, but it was not an illusion.
Liang Xian’s right index finger, middle finger, and ring finger have been severed by a sharp weapon. Judging from Tan Yan’s many years of experience in criminal investigation, the incision on the finger was very smooth, the person who did it did not hesitate, and the direction was from left to right…
If it was done by someone else, that person could only cut such a wound if he hugged Liang Xian from behind. Generally, incisions made by others will be applied from the opposite side or side, and it is impossible to cause such an incision.
The only possibility is that the three fingers were cut by Liang Xian himself.
Tan Yan touched Liang Xian’s waist. There was a military short knife hanging there. It was prepared by Minister Yu and others before they went out.
Liang Xian used this knife to cut off three fingers one by one.
Tan Yan looked at the remaining two fingers. Unlike the palm and arm, these two fingers were greenish-black, similar to the skin color of a zombie, but the color did not spread to the palm, and the color of the thumb was slightly lighter, while the little finger looked very serious.
Tan Yan thought, he probably guessed how Liang Xian suppressed his corpse poison for more than a month.
If the corpse poison is imagined as a virus or energy, Liang Xian somehow controls the toxin at the extremities of the limbs. Once he can’t control it, he cuts off the limbs decisively and uses this method to inhibit the spread of the corpse’s poison.
Decisive and ruthless.
Just like Liang Xian who insisted on awakening his abilities at the beginning, he could risk his life to awaken his abilities in a state of near-death; He can also suppress his own zombification by self-mutilation.
Smart and vicious people will make people take precautions. But even if this person hurts himself, he doesn’t want to become a monster who loses his mind. When he can’t protect himself, he still wants to help survivors in other worlds.
“Losing you is a great loss to the country.” Tan Yan took off his gloves, and stroked Liang Xian’s face, his heart ached beyond control.
“Likewise, it is also my loss.”
Even though he is old and can’t keep up with the young thoughts both emotionally and mentally, he is still willing to respond to the feelings of such a young man.
Tan Yan removed the protective film on his body, held Liang Xian’s face, and gently touched his cracked lips with his own.
Such superficial movements are already the limit of what Tan Yan, who is restrained, can do.
After being kissed lightly, Liang Xian’s eyelashes trembled violently, and along with the increasingly powerful sound of his heartbeat, he opened his eyes.
Their first kiss!! And Liang Xian is sleeping, unaware!! LoL, he must’ve feel very vexed if he knew he missed their first kiss… 😂
Volume 1 is almost done, 2 chapter to go. Since the next 2 chapter is quite short, I’ll post both chapter tomorrow. ^^
