Chapter 1222: Theyre Dividing Up This World

“Go ahead, what’s the serious matter?” Ban Yue pulled on her clothes, instantly regaining her cold and stern expression as she asked.

“Switching to normal in a second… Alright, it seems you’re much calmer than me about this…” Ling Mo muttered to himself, then pondered for a moment and said, “That fool Yu Shiran mentioned…”

“I heard everything.”

“Then that Female Zombie named Simple…”

“I heard it all too.” Ban Yue nodded, then stepped forward and stared at Ling Mo, asking, “So, what exactly do you want to know from me?”

“You might as well answer this question first…” Xia Na suddenly interjected, “What were you planning to do to Ling-Ge? Anyway, I know it definitely wasn’t as simple as executing him with your chest.”

Ban Yue was silent for a while before saying, “Are you trying to gauge how dangerous I am?”

“As long as you know.” Xia Na replied. She glanced at Ling Mo; although his complexion had improved a lot, he still looked a bit pale. In this situation, he probably wouldn’t recover to his peak state on his own.

Ling Mo’s eyes flashed… Indeed, not to mention Ban Yue is a normal Senior Zombie… Just Pear’s situation alone is complicated enough. Now, only half of her is under Ling Mo’s Control. If he wants to continue controlling Ban Yue, it probably won’t be easy…

“Alright…” Ban Yue hesitated for a moment, then said, “To be honest… I didn’t plan to kill him. I wanted to take Yu Shiran away, and at the same time… I also wanted him to do some things for us.”

“What things?” Xia Na pressed.

“Help us. Let us survive.” Ban Yue said.

“You want a human to help us?” Pear suddenly widened her eyes in shock and asked.

Ban Yue gave her a deep look, then nodded, “That’s right. Besides… he’s not an ordinary human.” She turned her gaze back to Ling Mo, “You know this very well yourself, don’t you?”

“So that’s why Simple is interested in you, and that’s why you showed up here…” Ban Yue glanced around, suddenly took a deep breath, then asked Ling Mo, “Do you want to know what that Host Body really is?”

Ling Mo thought for a moment and said, “How it came to be, and its basic function-I already know… But what I don’t understand is, why do you want to get it?”

Ban Yue didn’t look too surprised at his words. She was silent for a while, then answered, “To be parasitized.”

“What? But wouldn’t that…” Xia Na couldn’t help but exclaim when she heard this.

“Become a controlled Puppet? Yes.” Ban Yue nodded, “But that’s just one possibility. In fact, when we first found the Host Body, it was just to eat them. They contain a rich amount of virus. It’s more than three times the total flesh and blood of all common zombies…”

“That description sounds a bit familiar…”

“More importantly, this isn’t an ordinary virus, but a mutated virus from the Spider Queen. It can make the infected body much stronger, with higher muscle and skin strength, faster blood flow, and stronger healing ability… In short, it greatly enhances combat power. The drawback is… it doesn’t last unless it can fully fuse with the host…” Ban Yue said.

“So there are cases where it can’t fully fuse…” Ling Mo continued, looking at Ban Yue with some surprise. “You really do know a lot…”

“I’m also evolving and learning, okay?” Ban Yue rolled her eyes at him, then suddenly stretched out her right arm and said, “It’s a pity you didn’t get to see this earlier, because you were just too cunning… But now you can take a look…”

Under the watchful eyes of several people, she rolled up her sleeve, revealing her fair arm… But as she suddenly clenched her fist, the blood vessels under her skin began to slowly bulge…

“This scene looks familiar…” Ling Mo immediately thought of the mutation process of that Niepan Member earlier… Now it seemed pretty much the same, only Ban Yue’s right arm changed a bit more gently.

As these blood vessels bulged, Ban Yue’s skin also became even fairer… Soon, the blood vessels surfaced one by one along her arm, eventually spreading to her palm. At the same time, Ban Yue released her fist and stretched out her five fingers. Her nails grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, finally reaching a shocking length…

“10… 20… Damn, that’s thirty centimeters…” Xia Na gestured.

“But there are some zombies who can do that too…”

Before Ling Mo finished speaking, Ban Yue suddenly stabbed those five long nails into the wall beside her.

When she quickly pulled them out, not only did five black holes appear in the wall, but wisps of foul-smelling smoke also rose from them.

Xia Na leaned in to sniff, then turned back and said, “Acidic liquid…”

“This stuff is corrosive?” Ling Mo finally showed a hint of surprise.

This is a real weapon in battle! You know, five blood holes might not be enough to kill a Zombie, but acidic liquid can prevent their wounds from healing… ṟ𝙖₦о฿Ě𝘴

And with this level of sharpness…

“Also, before anyone fights you, they won’t know about this…” Ling Mo looked at Ban Yue’s arm and asked, “Is this the Host Body you obtained?”

Ban Yue’s palm and arm quickly returned to normal. She nodded and said, “Yes, but it can’t last very long. Compared to a complete Host Body, it has another drawback-it can’t cause a full-body variation, only affect a certain part. By the way, you can’t control which part it affects; it’s entirely up to your individual condition. But usually, it will enhance the abilities you already have, provided you’ve already evolved a variation ability.”

Ling Mo listened and nodded to himself.

Indeed, Ban Yue was right… Only, in his case, things were even more complicated… Because the Host Body he swallowed didn’t affect his body directly; to be precise, it influenced another Host Body inside Ling Mo…

“This triangle relationship really is everywhere…”

Ling Mo sighed silently, then asked, “So what’s the difference between this Host Body and a complete one?”

“A complete Host Body is something we can’t obtain. What we can get is only the Host Body taken from the corpse of a dead Puppet… In other words, it’s the ‘corpse’ of the Host Body. At this point, the Host Body still retains some of its abilities. But because it can’t affect the whole body anymore, my mind won’t be damaged.”

Ban Yue stared at Ling Mo and said, “To sum up… this kind of Host Body can be separated from a corpse again, and for Zombies, it’s like getting a direct chance to acquire a powerful variation ability, or to strengthen their own abilities… Even if it’s not us, other Zombies would be interested in it. As far as I know, quite a few of our kind have already come into contact with it… I know there’s one right here…”

“The Zombies you brought have all been wiped out,” Ling Mo suddenly said.

Ban Yue was stunned for a moment.

“So the news won’t get out. So you’d better relax and stay put,” Ling Mo said, then asked, “About what Dan Chun said… that Zombie black market alliance or whatever, and whoever is behind her, do you know anything?”

“This is the first time I’ve heard of it today…” Ban Yue glanced at Ling Mo, and said meaningfully, “Looks like you’re more popular than I am…”

“So, about the Zombie wars in different regions…”

“I’ve heard about it. And among Senior Zombies, the spread of information isn’t that slow.” Ban Yue looked at Xia Na and said, “But for ones like her, following a human… that’s hard to say.”

“So we’re really cut off from information,” Ling Mo said self-deprecatingly.

“At least faster than other humans, right?” Ban Yue said, “How many of your kind do you think are left in X City? Once all these extra troubles are wiped out, this place will become a hunting ground completely occupied by Zombies…”

“Isn’t it already?”

“I’m talking about… something like raising livestock… And by livestock, I don’t just mean you humans, but Zombies too…” As Ban Yue spoke, the blood-red color in her eyes suddenly deepened, “Like us…”

…

“I really can’t figure out how these Zombies started dividing up territory so smoothly… and this talk of no-man’s-land… Their evolution is way too fast! Sure, they have human memories to begin with, but this is just…” Not far from the passage entrance, Ling Mo was talking to Xia Na.

“Right… maybe it has something to do with the Lord of the City!” Ling Mo quickly snapped out of his thoughts, “When I first heard it, I thought it was some kind of embarrassing title or something, but now that I think about it, with the Zombies’ simple, direct way of thinking, it could very well be literal!”

“Sorry…” Ling Mo quickly noticed Xia Na’s strange expression.

“It’s fine, you weren’t wrong,” Xia Na continued, “And I agree with your view on the Lord of the City. It’s not a title, it should represent a level of evolution, something beyond King level… It’s just that they don’t name things, so they use the actions or instincts that come with reaching that level instead!”

“So the Lord of the City’s instinct is…”

“To establish a city of their own… And this ‘city’, to be precise, is their own hunting ground…”

Xia Na and Ling Mo looked at each other, their pupils contracting: “They’re dividing up this world…”

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