Apocalypse: The White Moonlight Became a Possessive Mad Dog

Besides Zhang Qiang, several other survivors also died. They all lived near Zhang Qiang, and there was no necessary connection between the deceased.

It certainly looked like the work of zombies, but Su Han found it hard to believe that this had nothing to do with Wang Jiafu.

Because of Zhang Qiang's death, everyone in the base was on edge, and no one mentioned the half warehouse of supplies that Wang Jiafu had promised today.

Seemingly to appease the crowd, Wang Jiafu ordered Zhang Qiang's body to be displayed in a plaza near the mission hall, so that everyone could see the gruesome state of the corpse.

When Su Han arrived, five or six superhumans had already surrounded the corpse, each with a furrowed brow and a gloomy expression.

Su Han glanced at the mangled corpse and her heart skipped a beat.

so familiar...

It was almost exactly the same as when Shen Chengyin was thrown off the city wall; his abdomen was ripped open and his skin was abnormally torn.

No, it's not quite the same.

Su Han's gaze was fixed on the corpse's chest and abdominal cavity.

Zhang Qiang's heart is missing.

But compared to the complete dismemberment of the body, this minor damage seemed insignificant, and no one else noticed it except him.

Both superhumans and zombies are essentially mutants created by viral infection; superhumans possess the same crystal cores that zombies have.

The cold voice of System 111 echoed in my mind.

The difference is that a zombie's crystal core is in its head, while a superhuman's crystal core is in their heart.

"You mean, Wang Jiafu took Zhang Qiang's crystal core?"

In the early days of the apocalypse, resources were plentiful, and the time for cannibalism hadn't yet come, so naturally few people knew this.

System 111 snorted, [The energy contained in a superhuman's crystal core is far greater than that in a zombie's crystal core... This is all stated in the original text.]

Strange, if Wang Jiafu knew this, why didn't he take Shen Chengyin's heart back then?

Did he not know about superhuman crystal cores back then?

Before he could think any further, the guards arrived with Wang Jiafu's orders.

The guards dispersed the survivors and superhumans who were watching around the corpse.

"By order of the leader, all teams are forbidden from leaving the city today. Conduct a thorough safety inspection of the base and be sure to capture any mid-level zombies!"

*

The entire city was under martial law, and Su Han was forced to stay at home, sitting on the same bed with Shen Chengyin.

When he got home, the man was reading a book, a nature magazine he'd somehow found, all in English.

Separated from the two by only one wall, the new roommate was packing her luggage.

"Chief Wang is capable of anything for the sake of a vanity project; he killed Zhang Qiang, a top-tier superhuman, without hesitation."

Su Han felt a pang of regret, not only because of the loss of a life, but also because there was one less person she could use.

If this continues, the base will probably soon revert to its old ways of blindly following the leader.

Shen Chengyin remained silent, as if he were deaf.

Su Han sat cross-legged on the bed, glanced at the man, and cautiously shifted her position, moving a tiny bit closer to Shen Chengyin.

"It's so strange. You don't know, I've been asking around every day lately. It seems like no one in the entire base has had close contact with the former leader. We don't know what kind of person he was."

Shen Cheng didn't even look up, but Su Han took advantage of the situation and leaned forward again.

The bed wasn't very big to begin with, and he quickly shifted his position, soon almost touching the man's waist.

"Could it be that all of the former leader's friends are dead?"

Thinking about it that way, it doesn't seem difficult. If you happen to be in a zombie siege, you can fake the deaths of those people and throw them into the zombie horde. Forget about evidence, you won't even be able to find the bodies.

Shen Chengyin finally managed to look up at Su Han.

"Are you interested in the former leader's affairs?"

"I'm very interested. It's a pity I arrived too late and didn't get to meet him in person. To be able to write so many base regulations that benefit ordinary survivors, he must be a compassionate and great person."

The man chuckled, a hint of disdain in his voice.

He closed the book in his hand and leaned closer to Su Han.

Su Han was caught completely off guard and crashed headfirst into the man's dark eyes.

Like a deep pool, it holds many inexplicable emotions, almost sucking people in.

"Everyone who knew him is dead. Even he himself is dead," Shen Chengyin questioned in a hoarse voice. "Don't you find it ridiculous to talk about heroes now?"

You're still alive, aren't you?

Su Han muttered to himself, he only dared to think these words but dared not say them, for fear that if he displeased the male lead, he would be strangled to death.

Su Han shifted her position again, moving a little further away from Shen Chengyin.

"How can it be meaningless? Can't I offer him a few sticks of incense...?"

The man narrowed his eyes, and Su Han shrank back in fear, afraid that if the male lead displeased him, he would lose his life.

Just then, there was a knock on the door, and an unfamiliar voice rang out:

"Your things are in the way in the hallway, move them."

It was the new roommate, and his tone was quite rude.

Compared to the male lead, Su Han was more afraid of him. He quickly jumped off the bed, exclaiming, "Coming! Coming right now!"

Without waiting for Shen Chengyin's expression, he took off running.

*

That afternoon, the guards captured the so-called "intermediate zombie".

The guards hung the zombie corpses and crystal cores on racks and paraded them through the streets, showing them to everyone in the base.

Standing in the crowd, Su Han could see it clearly. The crystal core, which was slightly larger than that of an ordinary zombie, was shimmering with a pale red light, reminding him only of the flames on Zhang Qiang's fist.

"That was a mid-level zombie... and they caught it so quickly!"

"As expected of the leader, I must have accumulated a lot of good fortune in my past life to be able to stay in such a good base."

The crowd erupted in a cacophony of praise.

Su Han pushed and shoved his way to the front of the crowd. He stared intently at the crystal core and exclaimed in admiration:

"Wow, as expected of a mid-level zombie's crystal core...it's really beautiful."

The guards and most of the superhumans knew Su Han.

This kid is a zombie-killing maniac. He's only been in the base for less than half a month, but he's already one of the top contributors to the number of crystal cores he's handed in.

One of the guards, who had met Su Han a few times before, joked, "How is it? How is it different from the ordinary zombie crystal cores you usually get?"

Su Han took out a low-level zombie crystal core from his pocket, tossed it around in his hand a couple of times, then tossed it high into the air and held it in his palm.

The eyes of everyone around were fixed on the crystal core as it moved up and down.

This is a basic zombie crystal core... it can be exchanged for a lot of supplies, and this kid just pulled it out like that!

"It's certainly very different from a low-level zombie crystal core... but how does it compare to this?"

Su Han took out another crystal core from her pocket and threw it directly into the guard's hand.

The guard held the crystal core up to the light, and everyone nearby could see it clearly.

"This crystal nucleus is also round!"

"It's a little smaller, but exactly the same as a mid-level zombie core!"

The crowd gasped in amazement.

So far, all the zombie crystal cores discovered by humans have been irregular, multifaceted crystals, but the so-called "intermediate zombie crystal core" that Wang Jiafu gave to everyone is a smooth ellipsoid.

Before this, no one had ever seen the crystal core of an intermediate-level zombie, so everyone naturally assumed that the crystal core of an intermediate-level zombie was ellipsoidal.

Several other ability users in the base rushed over upon hearing the news, and the spherical crystal core passed through their hands.

"Ahan, where did you get this crystal core from?"

"You killed a mid-level zombie?"

Su Han waved her hand, "How could that be? I picked it up from a corpse."

"It's strange, but when I went out to look for supplies yesterday, I saw a shiny, rotting corpse. When I went over and touched it, I found a crystal core in the area of ​​the corpse's heart."

After saying that, he took out a spherical crystal core from his pocket and tossed it to the other ability users. "There's another corpse next to that one, but it's not rotten. I just dug out its heart, and there's one of these inside."

One of the superpowered individuals shuddered upon hearing Su Han's words.

He suddenly remembered who the boy in front of him was.

The reason Zhang Qiang led the four superhumans out of the city overnight to search for supplies was because he heard this kid say that there were a few tons of coal in the south.

Because of this kid's words, they lost two brothers with superpowers, and now Zhang Qiang is dead too.

"Where did you find the crystal core?"

Su Han's smile became even brighter.

"It's south of the base. I found a cellar in a village there before, and it contained several tons of coal. I found the body on the way there yesterday."

The superhuman who spoke trembled violently upon hearing this.

He rummaged in his pocket for a while and finally pulled out a photograph.

This photo is one of the belongings of one of the superhumans who died that night.

"Are you referring to the two corpses and the person in this photo?"

Su Han pretended to stare at the photo for a while, then nodded.

"It's him. He's even wearing black overalls and a black vest... But how come you have photos of zombie corpses? Is he your friend?"

She described even the details of Su Han's clothing and appearance perfectly, which made the superhuman even more convinced that Su Han had seen her dead brother.

His eyes widened, his fists clenched, veins bulging on his forehead and arms, as he suppressed his anger and hatred, speaking slowly and deliberately:

"Because those weren't zombie corpses at all, they were the corpses of our base's superhumans. We went on a mission together last week, and Zhanjiang and Xiao Liang didn't come back... they're dead."

The man's eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth.

"There are too many low-level zombies... We simply don't have time to deal with the corpses."

Superhumans cannot be reinfected by the zombie virus, not even by corpses.

The crowd gradually quieted down, until finally, there was a deathly silence.

What did they hear? Superhumans also have crystal cores?

Therefore, the spherical crystal core that is currently hanging high does not belong to any intermediate-level zombie.

It belongs to a person with superpowers.