Liang Xian saw Tan Yan as soon as he opened his eyes. He looked at Tan Yan and the little deer blankly, not knowing whether he was in a dream or in reality.
He raised his right hand and saw that the glove on it had been taken off, revealing the missing three fingers. Liang Xian immediately pulled his hand back and hid it behind him, while his body took two steps backward.
Behind him was the granary, which blocked Liang Xian’s pace, and the movement of backing up turned into rubbing his legs in the end.
Even in a dream, Liang Xian didn’t want to hurt Tan Yan. Emotions let him hug the sweetheart he hadn’t seen for more than a month, but reason told him to stay away. At this moment, Liang Xian’s reason can still prevail.
But at some point, he might lose his mind.
Tan Yan grabbed his left hand to prevent Liang Xian from escaping.
“You’re not dreaming,” Tan Yan saw the helplessness in his eyes, and said firmly, “You can send me flowers through the little deer, and I can find you by relying on the quantum entanglement between you.”
Liang Xian gradually sobered up a bit, he shook his head, lowered his head, and said: “You… don’t get so close, my brain sometimes works well, but sometimes it’s confused.”
“Be more rational, be stronger,” Tan Yan held Liang Xian’s face and said, “You have persevered for so long, you must be able to defeat the zombie virus!”
He is not good at words and can only say these vague words to encourage Liang Xian. But for Liang Xian, the fact that Tan Yan could appear in front of him was the greatest encouragement.
Liang Xian shook off his head, trying to clear his head, and asked, “How did you get here?”
Tan Yan briefly explained to Liang Xian what happened before and after receiving the flowers. Liang Xian’s face twitched slightly when he heard that his sticky note was put in the meeting for discussion.
Then he shook his head again: “If they know it, they know it, I can’t go back anyway, they can laugh as much as they like.”
More than a month of living in a different world seems to have changed Liang Xian, becoming more mature.
“I’m here to take you back.” Tan Yan said seriously.
“Impossible,” Liang Xian put his hand on his forehead, propped up his handsome face, and pointed to his chin, “Look at me, I haven’t shaved for more than a month, but I haven’t grown any hair.”
“And this.” As he spoke, he scratched his right arm with a knife, it turned red, but there was no blood.
“My metabolism has gradually stopped,” Liang Xian explained, “Although I have always used my consciousness to resist the invasion of the brain by the corpse poison, the changes in the body cannot deceive people.”
He is very calm, at least on the surface, but don’t know if he is really calm, or if he is pretending in front of Tan Yan.
Liang Xian straightened up slowly, and told Tan Yan what happened during the more than a month of separation.
After watching everyone leave, Liang Xian walked up to the fifth-level zombie, cut off some of his tissues and cells, and used the equipment in his backpack to analyze the composition of the zombie virus. As long as the composition is clear, Liang Xian may have hope to break down the corpse poison in his body.
But what is surprising is that there is no toxin in the fifth-level zombie body. After instrumental analysis, it is a corpse that has been dead for more than a year, but somehow the freshness of the corpse is maintained.
What happened to that corpse poison? What about his fading consciousness?
Liang Xian was very dizzy. He tried his best to stay rational and recalled the appearance of zombies he had seen.
Zombies are actually dead, but even if their joints are broken, they can still move. Only by hitting the brain hard can the zombies be killed.
So is it possible that what enters the body after being bitten is not a virus, but a burst of energy that can kill a person while maintaining the activity of the brain?
Thinking of this possibility, Liang Xian dug up the brain of the fifth-level zombie, and saw a blood-red crystal nucleus inside.
The crystal nucleus was the size of a fist, and it was bright red. Liang Xian looked at the skull of the zombie king. There were no brains inside, only this clean crystal nucleus.
Without a brain, what about thinking? Why can the zombie king regain consciousness and control people’s minds?
Liang Xian endured a headache to analyze the composition of the crystal nucleus, and unexpectedly found that it was not a substance, but an energy crystal.
Energy is invisible, but it can form such a crystal nucleus. It is conceivable how terrifying the power in the crystal nucleus is.
If the purpose of the energy of the zombie virus is to erode the brain, will it be effective if he uses his consciousness to resist?
Thinking of this, Liang Xian concentrated his energy, mobilized all the consciousness in his brain, controlling the energy in his body to resist the zombie virus, forced back the energy that was about to invade the heart and brain, and forced it to the index finger of his right hand.
Liang Xian looked at the finger that had turned black, and tried to move it, but found that he couldn’t control it at all, and the finger was slowly growing horrible nails. Liang Xian made a decisive decision, drew out his knife, and chopped off his finger.
When the finger was severed, his brain became clearer. Liang Xian knew that he had found a way to resist the virus, but at the same time he also found that the severed finger did not bleed, and he did not feel any pain.
The brain is still normal, because it is a concrete manifestation of consciousness, with strong energy, but the body can’t be helped. The zombie virus has gone around in the body, and it still has an impact on the body after all.
And when Liang Xian concentrated his consciousness to force the corpse poison to his fingertips, the crystal nucleus on his left hand silently became smaller.
Liang Xian burned the corpses of the fifth-level zombies, and told the residents living in Ping County that the person who protected them was dead, and that there would be a large number of zombies coming soon, so that the people of Ping County could find their own way out.
He can’t help these people, Liang Xian doesn’t know when he will turn into a zombie.
Feeling unusually calm, Liang Xian walked all the way to a sparsely populated place in order not to hurt anyone. He found that zombies would not attack, in their eyes, he was no longer alive.
During this period of time, Liang Xian kept dissecting the brains of the zombies, some were ordinary, and some were second and third.
He found that the ordinary zombie’s brain was blank, only the dried brain matter, there was nothing left. They don’t attack their own kind, but they want to eat human brains. And if they eat too many people, they will evolve into a second-level zombie.
The second-level zombies have small crystal nuclei in their brains, and their bodies become more flexible. Apart from attacking humans, they prefer to attack the same kind, that is, fellow second-level zombies.
The same is true for the third and fourth levels, they snatch the crystal nucleus, and then the crystal nucleus gradually replaces the brain and restores consciousness.
In the end, to evolve into a zombie king like Director Li, at least tens of millions of human lives and the crystal nuclei of tens of thousands of mutated zombies are needed.
Liang Xian can reduce the virus in his body, but he can’t completely remove them. His physical condition is getting worse and worse. He can only cut off his fingers one by one. And in the process, he discovered that the reason why he was able to resist the virus was actually because he was slowly absorbing the crystal nucleus of the fifth-level zombie.
Without absorbing the crystal nucleus, the consciousness of the brain will not be able to fight the virus, but the price of absorption is that his metabolism has completely stopped.
If it wasn’t for his heart still beating slowly, Liang Xian would probably be in despair.
On the day when the fifth-level crystal nucleus was completely absorbed, Liang Xian suddenly found that the surrounding environment had changed.
He was lying beside Tan Yan, and Tan Yan fell asleep with his arms around him.
Liang Xian was ecstatic, he raised his hand to secure Tan Yan, but found that his palm turned into two hooves.
It’s not that his body has returned to the real world, but that his consciousness has entered the little deer’s body. The little deer seems to feel that someone is invading the brain, it moves, and the main consciousness wants to return.
At this moment, Liang Xian could feel the gap between his own strength and the little deer’s. He could easily capture the little deer’s consciousness, throws his body in the other world, and only his consciousness comes back.
And when he comes back, he can even use quantum entanglement to change his body and become a human again.
But he didn’t do anything, just told the little deer to send flowers to Tan Yan, and then returned to the zombie world.
At the same time, Liang Xian also understood how fifth-level zombies use their consciousness to control others, because he has also become so powerful.
Consciousness is a form of energy, when electronic activity reaches a certain level, it’s possible to disperse consciousness over long distances and affect other people’s brains.
Liang Xian didn’t know whether his brain was a crystal nucleus or brain matter, and he couldn’t open his own brain for observation.
But he found one thing, he needs the crystal nucleus. Even after absorbing the crystal nucleus of the fifth-level zombie, it is still difficult for him to fight against the virus in his body.
At this time, Liang Xian had another guess, corpse poison’s energy can only be transmitted in dead corpses, so they must turn themselves into dead bodies. But the crystal nucleus is just pure energy crystallization, can be absorbed and transformed by itself, and doesn’t care whether it is a human or a zombie.
Only when the nucleus is in the brain of the zombie, this energy will completely master the body, read the memory of the original body, and absorb the experience.
This energy is also a kind of consciousness. The reason why he can’t resist is because he is not strong enough.
In the end, Liang seemed to come to the conclusion that the cause of the end of the world is most likely a force of consciousness, which wants a body, just like himself, that once entered the little deer’s body.
It disperses its own consciousness in the world, turning human beings into zombies. Over time, all human beings will be eaten, and finally, the whole world will emerge the strongest zombies. Possesses the energy condensed by the consciousness of all people, that’s why ordinary zombies will attack humans, and high-level zombies will snatch the crystal nucleus. In the final analysis, it is for energy.
This force of consciousness is so strong that it can affect the world. It is impossible for Liang Xian to defeat it by relying on his own strength, he also needs crystal nuclei.
So, he summoned countless zombies, found such a village, used a biogas digester to make biogas, and wanted to wipe out all the zombies and seize the crystal nucleus.
His next plan is to keep killing zombies, obtain crystal nuclei, and enhance his consciousness.
When he is strong enough, he will open his brain to fight against that consciousness. At that time, whether he is dead or alive, human or zombie, depends on this battle.
“I’m like this… am I still considered human?” Liang Xian asked after speaking, “The consciousness is separated from the body and absorbs the crystal nucleus of zombies. Even if I win in the future, I may not be considered human anymore.”
He looked at his fingers. In fact, he really wanted to change his body. Even if he feel reluctant for the little deer or the people in his own world, the people in the zombie world would be fine, right?
With a healthy and handsome uninfected body, and with his consciousness of quantum entanglement with the little deer, he can follow the little deer and Tan Yan back to the real world, so it can be regarded as going home, right?
But he can’t do that.
Liang Xian looked firmly at Tan Yan and said: “I can’t touch the bottom line, so I can’t go home with you.”
If Liang Xian’s conjecture is correct, what that consciousness do is just like raising Gu1蠱 gǔ: Gu (poison)..
I’ll post the next chapter later today.
