"However, with so many mutants, there shouldn't be much danger, right?" Alex couldn't help but interject, "With so many mutants?! Aren't you all very powerful? Zombies don't attack you proactively, and with your strong combat abilities, you should be able to live well in this apocalyptic world."
"That's not the case!" Lansiruo quickly corrected, "Although we mutants have significant advantages over ordinary people and aren't attacked by regular zombies, mutant zombies become extremely frenzied when they see us! So, we are actually not safer than ordinary people."
"I was nearly killed by a group of long-clawed mutant zombies. It was them who saved me!" Lansiruo added.
"And they also taught me how to fight!"
"I've been really happy spending time with them..."
"This is how it happened..." Cat-eared girl Lansiruo began to recount her story to Alex:
After being saved by the fox girl and others, Lansiruo was taken care of by several mutants. Due to their extraordinary healing abilities, Lansiruo quickly recovered.
Once she was healed, Nana, a bull-headed beauty, taught the innocent and adorable cat-eared girl Lansiruo combat skills, even taking her outside the shelter to kill zombies.
Soon, with her agile movements and sharp claws, Lansiruo became a strong member of the mutant team.
These mutants were all very kind and took good care of Lansiruo.
The fox woman Qianqian was stunningly beautiful and also very clever and cunning. Every time they went out to look for food, it was the fox woman Qianqian who devised the plan. Following her strategies helped them avoid many dangers and find many good things.
The bull-headed beauty, Nana, is a straightforward and honest tall woman, standing at 1.9 meters with super long legs. She is both sexy and somewhat strong, with a pair of bull horns on her head. Nana possesses incredible strength and often fights with a large iron rod.
The snake girl Miaomiao is a 14-15 year old girl with snake-like eyes and a super slender waist, possessing an alluring physique at such a young age. Miaomiao's specialty is spitting poison. The poison she emits can incapacitate both zombies and humans alike. However, there's a drawback; she can only use her ability once a day, and its maximum range is only five meters.
This makes her ability somewhat limited.
Because she can't be of much help to the group, Miaomiao has always felt inferior.
As for the centaur girl Yuanyuan, she is half human, half horse. She has the upper body of a beautiful woman with long, black, silky hair, but her lower half is that of a white horse. Yuanyuan's specialty is running! She is incredibly fast and has great endurance.
Tiger brother Kangkang is the strongest among the group. Not only is he physically strong, but his combat ability is also formidable. He can take on five or six junior mutant zombies without falling behind. Moreover, Kangkang is upright and kind, always eager to help others.
Then there's the wolf boy Pipi, a somewhat mischievous young boy with wolf ears and a tail. At just 11 or 12 years old, he already possesses significant combat skills. However, due to his mischievous nature, they don't allow Pipi to join them in their food searches, as he tends to cause trouble.
Initially, this group of individuals lived harmoniously and happily together, like a family, enjoying a blissful life. However, as more people joined their settlement, this happy period did not last long.
Every morning, the people in the settlement would gather together to share the food and water available within the community. The person in charge of distributing the food was the most prestigious former street office director, Old Dong.
Old Dong first scooped a bowl of noodles and noodle soup for a middle-aged man. No one objected to this, as the man's elderly father had been responsible for luring away the zombies during that day's food search. Moreover, his father had bravely sacrificed himself in the process.
The middle-aged man only drank a few sips of the noodle soup and left the noodles for his son, who was just thirteen and in his growing years.
Old Dong looked at the two with a bitter smile and shook his head slightly before starting to distribute food to others, one after the other. As the food in the pot dwindled, Old Dong reluctantly scooped a bowl of noodle soup for Lansiruo and her group. As the main force in the food search, they should have received the most food, but all they got was a bowl of soup with just a few noodles!
Even this meager bowl of soup stirred discontent among some in the crowd. "Let them find their own food!" a man with tattoos on his face suddenly stood up, looking displeasedly at Lansiruo and her group. "They are monsters! The zombies don't even attack them! They shouldn't be here taking our food! They should go out and find their own!"
"Yeah! There's barely enough food as it is! Why should these monsters share with us?!"
"Let them go find their own food!"
Echoes of agreement rose from the crowd.
In a moment, the crowd became agitated, with many agreeing with the tattooed man's suggestion.
"Why not? We brought back all this food!" Pipi angrily stood up, glaring fiercely at the tattooed man.
"It's because you are monsters! You're not human, but beasts! Beasts should be enslaved by humans!" Pipi's uncle, of all people, also stood up, looking at Pipi with disgust. "You thing that's neither human nor dog! You think you can be equal with us?!"
Saying this, Pipi's uncle went over to Old Dong, snatched the bowl of noodles that was handed to Pipi, and gave it to his own son, saying affectionately, "My dear son, you are growing; you should eat more!"
That was Pipi's cousin, the same age as him! If his cousin was growing, wasn't Pipi too? Moreover, Pipi had saved his uncle's family!
"Give it back to me!" Pipi, unable to bear this bullying any longer, clenched his fists, his eyes red with anger, and his muscles began to tense.
"Pipi! Calm down!" Kangkang quickly grabbed Pipi, scolding him, "He's your elder!"
Intimidated by Kangkang's glare, Pipi deflated like a punctured ball, turning back into a child and sitting down, feeling wronged.
"Hand it over! You vixen, don't even think about eating our food!"
The fox woman Qianqian's aunt ran up, snatched the bowl of noodle soup from Qianqian's hands, and handed it to her own son, saying, "We still have to rely on these young men to go out and find food! How can we let them go hungry!"
"But it was us who went out to find the food!" Qianqian also stood up angrily to defend herself, "Why can't we eat?"