Ah Fu yelled out these words before passing out completely. The figure looming over him gradually moved to his small head, crouched down, and seemed to be sizing him up.
"Do zombies also get exhausted to the point of collapse?"
The figure said this sentence with a voice like tinkling silver bells, vibrant with youth, and full of girlish sweetness. It was exceedingly pleasing to the ear.
"You don’t have to worry, I won’t harm you. You’re Ah Fu, right... no, your name is Tang Fu, also surnamed Tang, but you don’t resemble him at all. Do you know another zombie with the surname Tang? I don’t know what his name is, is he Li Henian?"
There was no one else around, and this figure was a girl of around seventeen or eighteen. She seemed to be speaking to Ah Fu, but also appeared to be talking to herself, squatting on the giant’s body just like that.
She was wearing a black coat, her waist wrapped in a belt, punctuated by thick syringes filled with differently colored liquids.
"Did he die? He probably didn’t... alright, I’ll save you. The people from the Peace Party will be here soon, they will take you back."
Having said that, she took out a syringe filled with a yellow liquid, inserted it into Ah Fu’s body, and injected all the liquid inside. After she finished, she pulled out the needle, patted the pinprick that hardly registered as a mosquito bite to Ah Fu, then hopped down from his body and walked away briskly.
The flesh near the needle hole started squirming after a while, rising and falling like it’s breathing, seemingly absorbing something.
Ah Fu’s body also began to shrink, the damaged parts of his body healed at an alarming rate. After a while, he transformed back into a three-meter-tall zombie.
Half an hour later, a pickup truck arrived. One person on the truck looked at Ah Fu and said to the others, "You all wait here, don’t come over."
A man got off the car. He was wearing a mask and a windbreaker that wrapped around him tightly. He approached Ah Fu at a not-so-fast pace and said puzzledly, "What on earth could have beaten you to this state?"
"Nevermind, I will cover you up first. Don’t move around later, people might get scared if they see your current state."
"Chairman, it’s bad!"
At the entrance of the Peace Party’s place, Tang Ye had just returned from Hua City when several Peace Party soldiers hurried up to him with anxious faces.
Tang Ye put several silver-armored zombie nuclei into his pocket and asked curiously.
"Chairman, you better go and see for yourself. The vice-chairman is injured and it looks serious."
"Xu Haishui? Hasn’t he been staying inside? What happened? Got beaten as soon as he went out?"
Tang Ye didn’t react for a moment. In his mind, given Ah Fu’s formidable power, even if he encountered a strong enemy outside, he might not be able to win, but at least he wouldn’t lose.
When he heard that the vice chairman of the Peace Party was seriously injured, he subconsciously thought that Xu Haishui had run into some formidable zombies while out searching for peculiar zombies, and was beaten unconscious. Unexpectedly hearing that Ah Fu was injured and seriously at that, left Tang Ye staggered.
"Ah Fu is injured? Who did it?"
The Peace Party soldiers shook their heads. Ah Fu still wasn’t awake, so they didn’t know what had happened.
Tang Ye furrowed his brows, and led by several soldiers, ran to the 306 Medical Office on the third floor. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Ah Fu, who was taking up four beds.
Sitting by Ah Fu’s bed was Xu Haishui. He had placed various evolution crystals in the blank space by the bed and was holding a cup of black blood in his hand, shaking it and looking puzzled.
The sound of Tang Ye’s voice rang out from behind. Xu Haishui gestured to him and then stood up and said, "Ah Fu is energetically exhausted and has fallen into a coma."
"Coma? Zombies can fall into a coma?" Tang Ye then shut the door to prevent their conversation from being heard by others.
"Zombies indeed won’t fall into a coma. In theory, Ah Fu should have woken up if he isn’t dead, but this is the situation now. I’ve just taken some blood from him to examine and found some problems."
"Someone has injected a drug into Ah Fu that even I don’t recognize. It’s not anti-life material, but like something specifically intended for zombies to consume..." Xu Haishui paused, not knowing how to describe what he had seen.
"What exactly is it?" Tang Ye was somewhat anxious. He hated when people beat around the bush.
"I also don’t know what this stuff is, but it should be something for zombies to eat... an anti-inflammatory medicine... no, that’s not right, it should be called a glandular hormone. Yes, someone has injected Ah Fu with a glandular hormone specifically for zombies, which can prevent massive loss of energy in zombies."
"What is that stuff? Is Ah Fu okay?"
"There’s no problem as such, but the weird thing is this, I’ve already fed Ah Fu over a dozen evolution crystals, but he still hasn’t woken up. When I found him he was almost dead, this stuff isn’t harmful to zombies, on the contrary, it saved Ah Fu’s life. In other words, Ah Fu would have been dead without it."
"Are you saying someone saved Ah Fu? Who saved him? And why was Ah Fu almost dead before?"
Xu Haishui shook his head, pulled a couple of lifeless strands of hair from behind his mask, and looking at Ah Fu’s face, said, "Ah Fu woke up once three hours ago, and I did find out some reasons. He saw some people from the City of Bright Moon at Li Songhua’s place, and Su Sigui also came. She brought some people along. From what he mentioned, it seemed Su Sigui came here to discuss something with Li Songhua while the people she brought with her sneaked off elsewhere, as if they were looking for something..."
Xu Haishui recounted everything that had happened to Ah Fu, everything from fighting with Su Sigui, being attacked by the Dragon Slayer Sword, and seeing an indistinct figure, without leaving out a single detail.
However, Ah Fu himself didn’t know what the Dragon Slayer Sword was called, so he referred to it as a super cannon that could easily kill him.
"Therefore, after Li Songhua killed him three times and saw that he wasn’t dead, she gave up on him. He was on the verge of death but survived because someone injected him with a glandular hormone."
After Tang Ye listened to it, the hair on the back of his neck stood up and he furrowed his eyebrows so tightly they formed a crease. He found a chair casually and sat down, beginning to think.
"Super cannon...what does it look like? Did Ah Fu mention anything?"
"No, he just mentioned that it was a cannon mounted on a vehicle that chased him from the control center out of Qinshan Base. The commotion was quite loud, it happened at noon, but we didn’t pay any attention to it back then."