When Ling Mo led Ye Lian out towards the main city district, he realized that Ye Lian's changes in consciousness were not just limited to her self-initiated actions. More so, it was the amplification of her instincts.
Facing ordinary zombies, Ye Lian's attitude was as if she was facing insignificant lower lifeforms. Her killing methods were also cleaner and more decisive, with a look in her eyes as if she was just stomping on an ordinary insignificant bug. Furthermore, her attack speed had also become much faster. If she was like a cheetah before, then now she was completely a human-shaped cheetah.
The evolution of the virus, although making Ye Lian look more like an ordinary person externally, made her behavior become more and more like a true beast, especially when hunting weak creatures. To Ye Lian, ordinary zombies were probably just weak scum.
Ling Mo couldn't help but wonder, what would Ye Lian's reaction be when facing humans… However, under his control, stopping Ye Lian from attacking recklessly was still completely achievable.
Riding a bicycle with Ye Lian, swiftly passing through the streets and alleys, if not for the zombies everywhere around them, this scene made Ling Mo feel quite enjoyable.
But the good times didn't last long. Not long after entering the city district, Ling Mo discovered that trouble had come looking for him.
To be precise, he ran headfirst into two survivors being surrounded and killed by zombies.
These two survivors, one male and one female, didn't seem very old. From the backpacks on them, it wasn't hard to see that they had come out to look for food. The place where they were fighting was right outside the entrance of a supermarket. Using the supermarket entrance as cover, the two barely held off the zombies' frenzied attacks, but the increasing number of zombies around them started to frequently put them in peril.
These zombies themselves were extremely agile, with powerful attacks. The supermarket's glass doors were quickly smashed to pieces. The two survivors had no choice but to retreat inside, using the shelves and counters to evade and skirmish with the zombies.
From a distance, when Ling Mo saw this scene, he originally wanted to circle around and leave. But he was attracted by the gaze of that girl.
That girl was holding a long knife, always with a faint smile on her face. And every time a crisis occurred, her sudden rapid slashes could take care of all the zombies that rushed up to her. Her speed in that instant could even be compared with Ye Lian's. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Ling Mo really wouldn't have believed there was such an extraordinary girl with amazing skills among ordinary people.
Most crucial was her smile. A normal girl in this situation, even if not scared silly, would definitely be pale-faced and trembling all over. But looking at her expression, it seemed like she was thoroughly enjoying this combat, and that was in an obvious disadvantageous situation. No matter how strong she was, facing more and more zombies, her stamina would eventually be used up. Even Ling Mo could see that her momentary burst of accelerated attacks not only greatly taxed her stamina, but was also a huge challenge to her concentration.
But in this situation, she was actually still so calm…
For a moment, Ling Mo even had a flash of suspicion – could this girl also have some special ability like himself?
Once this thought popped up, Ling Mo immediately became extremely curious about this girl. But after looking at Ye Lian in the backseat, he decided it was still better to mind his own business. If the other side was just an ordinary survivor that was fine, but if she really had special abilities, she might be able to see through Ye Lian's true identity, which would be troublesome…
Just as he was about to circle around on his bike, a loud yell came from the supermarket – "Brother! Help!"
Hearing this yell, Ling Mo instantly felt a swelling pain in his head.
Not to mention this "brother" made Ling Mo feel gloomy, just this loud yell was enough to bring even bigger trouble! The hearing of zombies was even more acute than ordinary people's. With this yell from the guy, quite a few zombies immediately crawled out from nearby alleys and shops. And as soon as they appeared, they immediately noticed Ling Mo and Ye Lian, directly charging at them.
"Damn it!" Ling Mo cursed in his heart, pulling out the short knife at his waist and jumping off the bike. Because he was wary of the girl's identity, Ling Mo could only get Ye Lian to hide behind him and not let her make a move, in case her identity was exposed.
But fighting nearly ten zombies alone was his first time. Relying solely on his own attack abilities was far from enough to deal with so many.
Luckily, Ling Mo still had his puppeteer abilities, and now was a good time to verify their effectiveness. As he raised his short knife to meet the first zombie charging at him, Ling Mo's gaze had already turned to the second zombie. The moment their gazes met, his overbearing mental strength had already forcibly taken control of that zombie.
So as he beheaded the first zombie, the controlled second zombie was like voluntarily crashing into Ling Mo's knife.
This was just the beginning. Seeing several more zombies charging at him together, Ling Mo kicked away the corpse and hardened his heart, but his mind had never been clearer.
He had already tried controlling two zombies simultaneously. So what about three at once?
Simultaneously controlling three zombies was a fresh challenge for Ling Mo, but at this critical juncture, he had no time to think much about it. He just let this thought flash through his mind, and immediately put it into practice without hesitation.
Slashing the foremost zombie, at the same time controlling the two zombies right behind it, in that short moment when their movements froze, Ling Mo's short knife had already swiftly cut their throats open. This control method only influenced the zombies' actions for an extremely short time, and even Ling Mo didn't expect it to be so effective when applied in actual combat.
Following this pattern, it looked as if Ling Mo had very easily charged into the zombie group, using unbelievable speed to directly slash apart these nearly ten zombies. In almost the blink of an eye, the only thing left around Ling Mo were zombie corpses all over the ground.
Covered in bloodstains, Ling Mo now looked just like a god of slaughter, leaving the male and female in the supermarket dumbstruck.
"Damn! Shana, did you see that? What's with that guy, so vicious!" The male student was stunned speechless, unable to hold back his shock as he yelled out, but didn't notice a zombie squeezing through a gap in the counter and reaching out to grab him.
"Pfft!"
A flash of cold light passed before his eyes, and that hand fell at his feet. He was now drenched in cold sweat, looking at the girl right in front of him.
Shana glanced at him coldly, casually thrusting her long knife into the zombie's abdomen before forcefully pulling it back out. "What's it got to do with me?"
"We're saved! Come on, let's break out of the encirclement and get out!" Although Shana was cold in her reaction, the male student was extremely excited, since the situation had taken a turn for the better.
Not bothering if Ling Mo was willing to save them or not, the male student immediately charged out from behind the counter, and Shana closely followed after wrinkling her brow slightly.
Seeing these two people rushing towards him having broken out of the zombie horde, Ling Mo knew he couldn't shake them for now. Rather than watch them bring a group of zombies over, he might as well receive them after extracting them from the zombies.