Perhaps sensing the danger, the zombie reluctantly gave up the food in front of it for the time being. Not being able to eat in peace made it extremely irritable, and it wildly lashed out arcs of electricity towards Lin Qingqing. Lightning - type skills were no ordinary ones. They not only had great lethality but also a strong paralyzing effect. Lin Qingqing didn't dare to get hit even once. For safety's sake, she chose to block with ice armor. Her ice armor was condensed from pure abilities, and even if it melted, it would turn into pure water, so it wouldn't conduct electricity.
As Lin Qingqing's ice armors shattered one after another, the zombie was also slashed with wounds all over its body by her. After enduring a wave of the zombie's skill burst, seeing that the time interval between its skill releases was getting longer and longer, Lin Qingqing began to prepare for a counter - attack.
Another arc of electricity came, and Lin Qingqing quickly condensed an ice armor to resist. The power of this arc was much weaker compared to the beginning. Taking advantage of the gap between the zombie's skills, Lin Qingqing rapidly condensed two ice blades and shot them simultaneously towards the zombie's eyes.
With a soft "clang". Although one of them was blocked by the zombie's waving hand, the other one successfully pierced into the zombie's left eye. Being hit in a vital part, the zombie immediately let out a miserable howl and charged towards Lin Qingqing regardless.
Lin Qingqing dodged a sharp claw, then condensed two more ice blades. This time, her target was the zombie's huge, stinking open mouth. One smoothly entered the oral cavity and sank into its throat, while the other was blocked by the zombie's teeth outside the mouth and shattered with a "snap~".
Having suffered two consecutive heavy blows, the zombie started to wildly scratch around. Lin Qingqing wasn't flustered. She took the opportunity to roll on the spot, crouched down, and slashed at its knee with a knife. This strike was accurate and fierce. The zombie stumbled, and its already not - so - flexible lower limbs instantly lost balance, and it fell to the ground.
Seeing this, Lin Qingqing was delighted. She quickly rushed forward, stepped on its wrist, held the ice - blade in her backhand, and directly cut into the zombie's head through its right eye. Then she rotated the blade to crush its brain.
After killing the zombie, Lin Qingqing used the ice - blade to pry open its still - wide - open mouth and, as expected, found a purple lightning - type crystal core. Then she turned to Chu Wei's body and searched for his belongings.
After looking around several times, she found that except for the ponytail - girl behind the tree, there was no one else in sight. Xiao Hu probably took the opportunity to slip away long ago. She hadn't seen Xiao Hu since the zombie started chasing Chu Wei.
"This guy is quite smart!" Lin Qingqing didn't dwell on it. She walked up to the girl she had saved earlier and asked, "What's your name? Where are you from? How old are you?"
The girl seemed a bit afraid of her. She opened her mouth nervously for a long time before she could get the words out clearly.
"I... I'm Lei, Lei Min. I'm 22 this year. My home is in H Province." After saying that, she looked up at Lin Qingqing, hesitated for a moment, and then continued, "I'm a lightning - type ability user. I was a postgraduate student at Rongcheng University before the end of the world."Lightning - type? Why is there another lightning - type ability user? Lin Qingqing subconsciously glanced at the corpse of the zombie behind her. Could it be that these people knew there was a lightning - type Level - 2 zombie here and came to hunt it?
After quickly going over the performance of those six young people in her mind, she became less certain. They were neatly dressed, but didn't even have a weapon in their hands. It seemed they hadn't fought that zombie at all.
"Were those people with you before? What were you doing in the park?" Lin Qingqing asked again.
"I'm classmates with those five people. We've been together since the end of the world. I brought them here today because... because my cousin works in this park. She's an administrator here, and I came to look for her." Her voice got smaller and smaller towards the end.
Oh, so they came here to look for someone. No wonder.
"Did you find her?"
"I... found her." Then she lowered her head, buried her face in her knees, and continued in a trembling voice, "The zombie you just killed was her!"
"Huh?" Lin Qingqing was truly shocked this time. She had thought it was just a coincidence, but she really didn't expect there to be such a blood - related connection between them.
However, this lightning - type girl's cousin happened to be a lightning - type zombie. Could there be some inevitable connection? Both sisters were lightning - type. She remembered that Zhou Mang and his cousin were both fire - type. Could the attribute of an ability not be random? Was it related to genetics? The ability chain in her mind taking the shape of DNA didn't seem so unreasonable after all. Lin Qingqing made wild guesses.
Then, as if she thought of something again, she came to the zombie's side once more and observed it carefully.
The zombie was wearing the park administrator's unified dark blue work clothes, but now the clothes were in tatters from her slashes. Lin Qingqing used the ice - blade to lift its clothes and examined them closely. Besides the wounds caused by the ice - blade, she found two black round holes on its abdomen.
There was also a large area of irregular black - red substance around the round holes. Against the zombie's blue - purple skin, it was particularly noticeable.
These holes... seemed to be bullet holes. If that large area of black - red substance was blood, then these two bullet holes were likely made a long time ago, and might even be fatal wounds.
Was it possible that after the end of the world, it didn't turn into a zombie right away, but instead awakened the lightning - type ability like her cousin? Later, although it was killed by a gunshot, after turning into a zombie, it still retained its previous ability, thus becoming a lightning - type zombie?Unfortunately, she had only seen this one case and couldn't prove that an ability user would definitely turn into a zombie of the same attribute after death. But what if it were really the case?
Would someone take advantage of this rule and wantonly hunt down ability users just to obtain crystal cores of the same attribute?
"If someone really does this, I don't know how chaotic the world will become in the future," Lin Qingqing sighed.
She secretly suppressed this thought, then called Lei Min over and pointed out the two bullet holes to her, without mentioning her previous speculation.
After hearing Lin Qingqing's words, Lei Min's emotions were on the verge of collapse. She had always thought that her cousin had turned into a zombie at the beginning of the apocalypse, but she never expected that she was actually killed later. This was even more difficult to accept than thinking she had directly turned into a zombie.
Coupled with the fact that she had just experienced the betrayal of her companions, under the double blow, this originally strong girl could no longer hold back. She squatted on the ground, hugged her head, and began to cry loudly.
Looking at the girl crying sadly on the ground, Lin Qingqing felt a bit of pity. She wasn't good at comforting people, so she could only tentatively reach out and gently pat her on the head.
But to her surprise, this consoling gesture made the girl pause, and then she actually hugged Lin Qingqing's calf and cried even louder. Lin Qingqing's hand froze in mid - air.
"Why does it seem like the more I comfort her, the worse it gets?"