After Ye Lian removed the gel from this mutated zombie's brain, Ling Mo immediately took it over and compared it with the gel he had obtained earlier.
Both gels came from mutated zombies, but the color was different from the ones he had encountered before. They were bloodier in hue, and even the smell was more pungent when held close to the nose. This indicated that the virus inside the brains of these two mutated zombies was even purer, causing the lesions that formed to change accordingly.
Indeed, the decision to come to the main urban area was correct. Only in areas densely populated with zombies would there be more and more powerful mutated zombies!
After securing the gel, Ling Mo led Ye Lian up the staircase of the building. A largely sealed-off building like this was bound to have more than just the mutated zombie they had just encountered. Though hunting mutated zombies was risky, when compared to the rewards, these risks were negligible.
In a post-apocalyptic world, those who dare not take risks will barely manage to survive and are doomed to live a terrible life. Ling Mo saw this especially clearly. While Ye Lian was undergoing evolution, other mutated zombies were evolving rapidly as well, and no one could predict what these mutated zombies would eventually become.
However, one thing was certain, the higher the level of evolution, the stronger the mutated zombies would be! If he didn't strive to advance and only sought stability, he would not only become weaker but also drag Ye Lian down with him! After all, the preferred targets of attack for mutated zombies were their own kind!
Now that Ye Lian was under his control, no matter when she regained her senses, he must consider her welfare.
What's a bit of risk taking? Before encountering even stronger mutated zombies, it was imperative to increase their strengths as much as possible—that was the most urgent task at hand!
Ling Mo's guess was soon proven correct. Many of the classrooms in the science and education building had been closed by fleeing people, and the zombies trapped inside had no other way out besides attacking each other. Unexpectedly, in one of the classrooms on the second floor, instead of producing a mutated zombie, they were all dead. This was a surprising discovery, but after careful observation for a while, he found the reason.
It wasn't that there were none, but rather that the mutated zombie had escaped through a broken window...
For a moment, Ling Mo couldn't help but worry about Xia Na. Such a scenario suggested that at least one mutated zombie was roaming the campus and might encounter them...
"With that girl's skills, she should be alright, right?" Ling Mo glanced out the window, through which he could see the playground behind the tree-lined path and a tall teaching building nearby, as well as what appeared to be dormitory buildings in the distance. The campus of the middle school was quite sizeable, but now it looked desolate and rundown, with bloodstains everywhere and zombies slowly shuffling about.
However, there was no sign of Xia Na or Liu Yuhao and the others. Shaking his head, Ling Mo turned his attention back to hunting...
In less than an hour, Ling Mo had hunted down six mutated zombies of varying strength in the science and education building and the laboratory building that followed. In his arms, he now held seven pieces of gel; apart from two that appeared dull in color, the other five were obviously very pure.
Ordinary people would avoid such a viral conglomerate at all costs, but holding these gels, Ling Mo felt nothing but joy.
With these gels, he could evolve again! Perhaps then his own physical strength could climb to a new level!
Now, Ling Mo's spiritual power had evolved, and he could even control two mutated zombies at the same time. When it came to ordinary zombies, controlling four simultaneously was no issue at all. The most crucial part was that he could feel when he controlled Ye Lian that there was no longer that sense of separation; it was as if Ye Lian had become a part of his own body. Thus, the coordination between the two naturally became more in sync.
But the fly in the ointment was that although Ling Mo's spiritual power had evolved, his physical strength had not undergone a qualitative breakthrough. After a morning of combat, although he was not completely worn out, he felt somewhat drained.
"If my body could also evolve, I wouldn't be so weak..."
In fact, Ling Mo's physical strength was already much stronger than that of an average person, but seeing Ye Lian looking not the slightest bit out of breath or flushed, he still felt endlessly frustrated.
Holding onto Ye Lian's arm with one hand and taking deep breaths with great effort for a while, Ling Mo finally felt a little bit revitalized. However, just as he straightened up, he caught a glimpse of Ye Lian's neckline at close range.
What Ye Lian was wearing was a shirt randomly found from a store, which probably had its buttons popped open due to the large movements during the fight, revealing a deep cleavage. The motion of Ling Mo looking up brought the tip of his nose just in front of her cleavage, and for a moment, he was dazzled by the sight of her fair and smooth skin, feeling a flame rise swiftly in his belly.
Staring at the cleavage for a long time, and even unconsciously leaning closer, Ling Mo finally snapped out of it.
"Control! Control!"
Usually, helping Ye Lian get dressed and bathe was a necessity, but he didn't want to take advantage of her in such a situation, especially when she was the girl he truly liked. Besides, a glance was enough to be considered a feast for the eyes...
After buttoning up Ye Lian's shirt, Ling Mo led her towards their next destination. Since they had gone to great lengths to come to this school, they naturally wanted to hunt as many Mutated Zombies as possible and obtain the Gel from their brains.
What Ling Mo didn't notice was that soon after he left, a bloodied human shadow suddenly appeared at the entrance of the shaded path, with resentful and sinister eyes, bloodshot as if completely engorged, fixedly staring at the other end of the path at the overlapping buildings.
This person's upper body was wrapped with bandages, but what made one's scalp tingle was that all visible skin was clawed to shreds. Between his fingernails, there was nothing but blood mixed with flesh forming a muddy paste. Most terrifying was his face, scratched beyond recognition, mouth slightly open, revealing bloody gums, and a pair of bloodshot eyes that were unbearable to look into.
Although completely altered in appearance, almost unrecognizable as human, it wasn't hard to tell that this person was Lu Xin, who had been left behind by Xia Na and the others in the supermarket.
"Giggle..."
After squeezing out an extremely hoarse and cold laugh from his throat, Lu Xin suddenly darted forward, quickly crossing the shaded path and rushing into the cluster of buildings.
Meanwhile, Ling Mo had just taken Ye Lian into the nearest teaching building, unaware that as he stepped onto the second floor's staircase, less than fifty meters away from him, Lu Xin was sprinting past.
"Hm?"
Ling Mo suddenly felt a hint of desire from Ye Lian, but he soon showed a smile: "There really are Mutated Zombies in this building!"