As she was lost in her thoughts, Xu Haishui’s voice came through again.
"Huang Quanjiu, heed my command!"
"At two o’clock this afternoon, you will lead the First Team into Qinshan Base."
"Tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, the remaining team leaders will, in turn bring their teams into Qinshan Base. Our journey has begun. For the honor of the Peace Party, let’s go!"
The soldiers echoed once again, and Xu Haishui revealed a satisfied smile. At the same time, he conveyed ready-to-go information to Tang Ye in his mind.
Then he tossed away the dried-up cow carcass and mumbled to himself.
Xu Haishui mentioned he has a brainwashing method and said it would take a month. I wonder if the time has come, and what these brainwashed people look like now?
Thinking about this, Tang Ye glanced at the dried-up cow carcass at his feet and looked at a group of cow carcasses in the distance, which differed from the one under his feet.
This cow carcass had died because he had sucked out all of its nutrients, whereas the group in the distance had been killed by Tang Ye!
The reason for this is because Tang Ye was familiarizing himself with his abilities. Since his evolution to Level 6, he had only thought that he had enhanced his strength and defense. He knew the basic uses of some of his abilities, but not the techniques.
Just like a newborn baby, humans are born to walk, but a newborn needs to practice walking or running, and Tang Ye had previously been crawling like a baby.
Every single cow carcass had a significant difference from a normal cow; these cows were simply too big!
The smallest cow was as big as a car. In Tang Ye’s Zombie perception, it was a Level 1 evolved creature.Originally, he was supposed to return to Qinshan Base, but on the way, he saw a herd of cows and a vampire-like evolved creature with wings on its back fighting. Of course, in the end, the vampire-like creature took a cow away.
When Tang Ye saw this herd of cows, he had a sudden idea to use them to familiarize himself with his abilities, of course, also to satiate his hunger...
This herd of cows consisted of fifteen in total, each was an evolved creature. Strangely enough, there were only three that evolved to level 1, the majority had evolved to level 2, followed by level 3, and one had evolved to Level 4, which Tang Ye referred to as the Cow King.
"Should be good now, right?"
Tang Ye gave the Cow King’s body a kick. At this moment, its body had already turned silver-white, but it had not yet awakened. He took another look at the others and looked a few more times at a cow carcass that had no head.
The head of this cow carcass was chopped off by him because zombies he infected wouldn’t die even if their heads were lost. They would grow back. So, if the head of a creature was chopped off and then infected with the zombie virus, would it turn into a zombie?
After a few more minutes, finally, one of the cow carcasses came back to life, its roar to the heavens carried a harsh, heavy malicious aura.
Feeling its aura, Tang Ye was stunned.
"It went from level 1 to level 3?"
That’s right, this cow carcass was only a level 1 evolved creature when it was alive but became a Level 3 zombie after Tang Ye infected it!
Just as Tang Ye was about to move forward for a closer look, another zombie cow woke up. However, its aura was only Level 2.
"What’s going on here? They were both Level 1 before they died, how did one become Level 2 and the other Level 3?"
Summoning the two silver-armored zombie cows to his side, Tang Ye looked around. After about half a minute, he seemed to have found a clue.
The Level 3 zombie cow had larger wounds on its body, while the Level 2 zombie cow had smaller injuries. If the extent of the injuries was a determining factor in the level of infection, then the greater the injury, the higher the level of the zombie after transformation.
Every part of a zombie carries an anti-life matter. When they attack living creatures, their claws break the skin and a certain amount of this anti-life matter enters the victim’s body, causing infection.
The smaller the wound, the lesser the anti-life matter absorbed, and the lower the level of the resulting zombie. Conversely, the larger the wound, the greater the amount of anti-life matter absorbed and the higher the level of the resulting zombie.
However, Tang Ye had seen many zombies infecting humans, including Level 4 zombies. The people they infected only turned into ordinary zombies. The same thing happened when he infected the soldiers at Yindan Base to cover for him. None evolved into zombies.
"Because I’m a mutant zombie?"
Tang Ye quickly found the reason. During his evolution to Level 6, the anti-life matter in his body merged with another highly infectious substance to form a unique anti-life matter.
If the zombies infected by other high-level zombies only retain their strength from their previous life, then the zombies infected by Tang Ye come with enhancement features!
When he thought of these reasons, the look in Tang Ye’s eyes towards the Cow King’s carcass became brighter. He walked towards it. It did not have significant wounds, so Tang Ye planned to give it a few more cuts.
But he had only taken a few steps when the other cow carcasses started waking up one after the other. The Cow King didn’t wait for Tang Ye. It woke up before he even got close to it.
Tang Ye looked at it, and alas, it was still Level 4, there was no enhancement. As for the others, most were Level 3, and there was one that transformed from Level 3 to Level 4 after becoming a zombie.
It appeared that the stronger the entity, the smaller the enhancement effect they received after becoming a zombie.
After sensing the respectful messages transmitted towards him from these silver-armored zombie cows, Tang Ye looked again at the headless cow carcass. As expected, it hadn’t woken up. Its body hadn’t undergone silver armor transformation. Abiding by the principle of not wasting, Tang Ye sucked it dry.
"From now on, this will be your territory. Without my command, none of you can go out."
The thirteen silver-armored zombie cows let out a hoarse roar in reply. Tang Ye regretfully looked at the Cow King once more, then turned and left.
"It seems I need to find a new subject to infect."
Tang Ye needed to experiment, to see if injecting a large amount of anti-life matter into a high-level creature would instantly evolve it to Level 6, the same level as himself.
He can’t help himself. He would not mind having more powerful henchmen.
He wasn’t worried about these henchmen betraying him. The lives of the zombies he infected were always in his hands. Whoever he wanted to die, had to die!
Therefore, he didn’t fear henchmen whose power was comparable to or even stronger than his own. Ah Fu was an exemplar, whose power was already on par with his, but Tang Ye had never sensed a trace of disloyalty from Ah Fu.
This made him trust this peculiar connection.
Compared to the people in the Shiwuguan Base, he only believed in the absolute loyalty of the zombies.