Even the zombies possessing the pale golden crystals were not few in number, and Lin Fan did not make a move against the ordinary zombies, always searching swiftly, one crystal after another being pocketed by him.
An angry voice came from afar.
Hearing the voice, Lin Fan stopped what he was doing, raised his head to look into the distance, silent for a moment, then leaped up and headed in the direction of the sound.
The surrounding zombies appeared as if controlled by some mysterious power, standing a distance away, always maintaining a space from Lin Fan, and in his line of sight, an ordinary zombie stood on the roof of a car, watching Lin Fan.
Lin Fan immediately noticed something different about this ordinary zombie. It wasn’t that the zombie had any special traits, but rather, he saw a human-like expression on its face.
"Hello," the zombie said slowly.
As this zombie spoke.
Lin Fan’s mouth hung open, his eyes widened in shock. He had never expected to encounter a talking zombie, the only one he had ever seen since the apocalypse began.
Even Officer Huang, though he retained some rationality, still could not speak, and the difference between the two became clear upon careful thought.
"You can talk," Lin Fan exclaimed in astonishment.
The ordinary zombie standing on the car rooftop slowly opened its mouth, saying, "You humans will have no future."
"Hello, my name is Lin Fan," Lin Fan replied with a smile.
The ordinary zombie said, "Brain Eaters can absorb your thoughts, understand your predicaments. You have no future."
"Who is the Brain Eater?"
"You have no future."
"Hmm, I know. Whether there’s a future isn’t important. I want to know who the Brain Eater is."
"Can you understand me?"
Lin Fan frowned; he was trying to have a proper talk with the zombie, but for some reason, he always felt that the creature’s behavior was odd, a strange feeling he couldn’t articulate.
Though capable of speech.
Upon reflection, it seemed like some pre-programmed routine, reciting the same words when triggered.
"Hello, I come from Huang City. I know this is not your true form. You can control this ordinary zombie to communicate with me, probably like two dummies transmitting some kind of waves to each other that I don’t understand. I would like to meet you. Can you let me see you?" Lin Fan asked amiably.
He always believed that a friendly attitude could open up a path for cordial relations between humans and zombies, thereby achieving a deeper level of contact.
He hoped this ordinary zombie would take him to its master behind the scenes.
Then he smiled, drew his Sword of Frost and Sorrow, and chopped off the other’s head, retrieved the crystal within, then turned around and left to return to his shelter.
He had never encountered such a situation with zombies before; they did not exist in Huang City.
Possibly it was because he had been clearing out the zombies in Huang City, preventing some zombies from evolving to such an extent, essentially nipping the so-called talented zombies in the bud.
The ordinary zombie slowly said, "Brain Eaters can feel your emotions. You are afraid, trembling, in terror."
The ordinary zombie raised its head, emitting a piercing scream, the sound loud and grating like thunder, breaking the glass of the surrounding buildings.
He saw the zombie’s neck bursting open, as if its throat could not bear such a noise.
"What a sharp noise," Lin Fan commented in surprise, knowing that such a sound could burst anyone’s eardrums.
The ground shook violently, as if legions of soldiers were marching forth.
He saw the street packed with zombies, all shapes and colors, all types of zombies present.
"It’s no wonder this is a zombie city allowed to develop on its own, where Evolutionary Zombies are as common as cabbages."
Looking up, the zombies crowded the windows of surrounding buildings, some standing on rooftops, looking down from above.
Countless zombies swarmed towards Lin Fan, while those in the buildings jumped out of the windows, and those on the rooftops leapt down fearlessly from heights.
Anyone else might have gone pale with fear at the sight.
Lin Fan, accustomed to large-scale events, remained calm, his Sword of Frost and Sorrow vibrating slightly in his hand.
"If they think they can overwhelm me with sheer numbers of zombies, then I would have been dead long ago."
Sword Radiance flickered.
An invisible Sword Radiance sliced through, and the zombies, once ferocious, split in an instant, their thick blood spraying everywhere.
One sword strike before.
One sword strike after.
Just four strokes in total.
With the appearance of four swaths of Sword Radiance, the dismembered zombie remains fell to the ground, instantly turning the previously dry street sticky.
Lin Fan looked at the rooftop, where the screeching zombie’s neck had burst and it fell to the ground. Shaking his head in regret, he skillfully collected the crystals.
He jumped onto the roof of a tall building, gazing into the distance.
"Strange zombies, hiding in the dark, capable of remote controlling zombies to speak, possessing intelligence. Not being able to find such zombies truly leaves one uneasy."
Trying to locate this creature within Xiangshan City would be challenging, like searching for a needle in a haystack.
The bag was full, and the haul was quite satisfying.
And in a dark underground parking lot in Xiangshan City.