Lu Xin's mutation wasn't a surprising result to Ling Mo. But since he caught Xia Na and threatened them, it meant that he could still think rationally.
Ling Mo was extremely interested in it. His biggest wish was to help Ye Lian recover but after the last evolution, Ye Lian had no further changes other than the slight sign of producing self-awareness.
Ling Mo couldn't help but feel down. Even though he knew that it wasn't a problem he could prove in a day, he immediately began to hunt for mutated zombies, hoping that he could urge Ye Lian to evolve further and regain her consciousness.
But Lu Xin's strange behavior made Ling Mo think that perhaps he could learn some new clues from Lu Xin.
Ling Mo wasn't going to give up if there was even the slightest hope, not to mention that Xia Na was caught and this idiot threatened him directly. A single mutated zombie wasn't a big threat to Ling Mo, yet Lu Xi was naive to think that he could take revenge against Ling Mo after turning from a mouse to an ill cat.
"Brother Ling! I'm begging you! We fought with each other on the way here as companions. I beg you…" Liu Yuhao pleaded miserably and his expressions became more panicked.
"Where are they?" Ling Mo made his decision and asked.
Liu Yuhao became delighted and quickly dragged Ling Mo downstairs, "They are in the boys' dorm! Hurry! I'm scared that Lu Xin will suddenly lose his consciousness and Xia Na will be dead by then!"
"That's true!" Ling Mo's scalp became dumb and walked faster. Under his control, Ye Lian naturally followed behind them tightly.
Liu Yuhao was in a hurry to save her and although he ran out of stamina, he still ran quickly. Ling Mo and Ye Lian followed easily yet Wang Cheng was panting like a buffalo. If he wasn't trying to save his own life, he would've collapsed on the ground already, yet the people ahead of him didn't want to stop and wait for him at all…
Wang Cheng looked at the back of the three and his glance became unkind, but he quickly masked his expressions away.
A few zombies appeared on the way to the boy's dorm as they were all attracted by the fresh bodies on the ground. Because of this, Ling Mo had a surprising discovery. Although these normal zombies didn't attack their own kind, they would devour the bodies of dead zombies when they appeared…
The zombies that appeared in front of the dorm was nibbling on the bodies of zombies. If more than the bodies of the head remained and Ling Mo could see the zombie's blood-red eyes, Ling Mo wouldn't have believed that what he saw with his eyes was real.
If so… Wouldn't more mutated zombies appear?! If so, the entire zombie group would evolve to become stronger and stronger!
Although their growth speed was far slower than those in a concealed environment as they relied on killing zombies to become mutated zombies, the advantage of the slow evolution was going to gradually show.
"Holy ****!" Ling Mo secretly cursed and waved his dagger at the same time, welcoming the zombies that were dashing towards him. With his power of puppet control and familiar teamwork skills, a few zombies were killed in a blink of an eye.
Perhaps other zombies will be attracted here and eat the bodies… But as a survivor, he didn't have the time and effort to clean up zombies. The slow progress of the zombies' evolution was impossible to stop.
"I didn't expect zombies to eat other zombies!"
Ling Mo lifted his head up to glance at the mess, smashed the bodies, and frowned.
However, Liu Yuhao raised his head and glanced at Ling Mo confusingly. He said naturally, "Of course they eat zombies. Brother Ling, you didn't know until now?"
Ling Mo shut his mouth without a choice. Liu Yuhao and the others lived with piles of zombies all this time and it wasn't strange for them to know. Meanwhile, Ling Mo lived away from zombies and relied on zombie puppets to search for food. Even if he killed the zombies, he wouldn't go back and check the condition of those dead zombies after a while and hence, it was impossible for him to know.
But again, it also proved that his guess was correct. The only way to survive in this harsher environment was to increase his ability as quickly as possible.
After killing a few more zombies, Ling Mo and the others finally made it into the dorm.
The narrow corridor of the dorm was like the path to hell. Whether it was the wall or the floor, they were filled with brown bloodstains. Parts of the rooms were half opened, which made the atmosphere eerier. They had to be careful at all moments since zombies could jump out from the rooms.
The building was five stories tall and roughly about more than a hundred rooms. Logically speaking, it wasn't an easy thing to find Lu Xin and Xia Na.
However, Ling Mo wasn't worried at all as upon one glance. He immediately discovered traces Lu Xin left behind.
He touched a drop of fresh blood from the ground and immediately asked, "Did Lu Xin's wounds bleed again or did Xia Na get hurt? I saw blood on the stairs and on the way here, but I wasn't sure because there are other bodies here. There is nothing around here, the blood must belong to one of them."
"It's Lu Xin," Liu Yuhao replied in a hurry. "I saw his body filled with blood and I don't know what happened."
"It's good that Xia Na isn't hurt." Ling Mo nodded with thoughts in his mind and looked towards the direction of the bloodstains.
The blood drops all fell on the brown stains on the ground and it was hard for ordinary people to discover. If it wasn't for Ling Mo's sensitive observation, he wouldn't have noticed it either. However, Lu Xin didn't look like he wanted to hide it either. The moment Ling Mo took Liu Yuhao and Wang Cheng up to the third floor following the blood, they saw Lu Xin standing in the corridor.
They barely parted for two hours and Ling Mo couldn't bear to look straight at Lu Xin!
He thought that Lu Xin only needed a smack but he was completely disgusted now. Lu Xin's skin was mashed from scratching and it began to fester. Turbid pus mixed with blood dripped down from his pants continuously. Ling Mo recalled that he just touched blood like his and he wanted to wash his hands.
But the look in his bloodshot eyes was still as arrogant and disgusting like before.
"Lu Xin! Where is Xia Na?!"
Liu Yuhao saw Lu Xin and panicked. If Ling Mo didn't pin him down, he would've tried to kill Lu Xin already.
Ling Mo thought that Lu Xin's condition wasn't normal. He didn't look like he was turning into a mutated zombie but more like he was gradually… rotting!
That's right! He was rotting! His eyes and his change in his strength were like zombies, but his body's change was completely different from what usually happened to zombies. Perhaps it was because he directly came in contact with mutated zombies and he couldn't bear it?
Compared to normal zombies, the virus from mutated zombies were purer and more poisonous!
Lu Xin's change explained that if ordinary people were infected by the virus and they didn't die immediately, they would indeed become zombies. However, if they were infected and suddenly became in contact with the virus of a high level of purity, their body wouldn't be able to bear it.