Chapter 74 – WuYi and the Antibody Factor

Editor: xiaoxiao
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Nie Xiao asked Xiao WuYi as he carried him while walking. The zombies surrounding them weren’t his opponent at all, and they were easily destroyed by him.

Faced with Nie Xiao’s question, Xiao WuYi slightly creased his small brows, thought about it for a moment and raised his head. “Daddy, the biggest difference is probably Brother Bai Mei’s alive, and the other zombies don’t have any life!!!”

Judging from Bai Mei’s external appearance and his ability to control low-level zombies, there was no doubt that he was a zombie king. But according to Xiao WuYi’s comparison just now, it can be seen that although Bai Mei was a zombie, he was fundamentally different from ordinary zombies.

Apart from his strength and clear-headedness, there was, in fact, a faint breath of life hidden in Bai Mei’s body, and it was merely buried by the dense breath of decay and death, which made it seem not so eye-catching.

Xiao WuYi carefully recalled and told him how he had felt when being in contact with Bai Mei, “Daddy, didn’t you find that Brother Bai Mei didn’t have any rancid smell? Although his restorative medicine lost its effectiveness, which made him change back to the distinctive appearance of zombies and made his skin become pale, fragile with decay, there was no unpleasant smell on his body!!! When he wears Sislow’s black robe to cover up those obvious features, you won’t find too many abnormalities at a glance. Otherwise, the smell alone would’ve caused suspicion when we returned to the base!”

Having it explained this way, Nie Xiao couldn’t help but also think of Bai Mei’s difference. He had to admit that among the many zombies, Bai Mei really stood out and was beautiful. Although he could be identified as a zombie at a glance, except for his pale ice-cold skin, long fangs, and blue-black nails… and other obvious zombie features, there were indeed no traces of ugliness or rancid smell.

Sometimes he was more biased towards the beautiful vampires in the movies than the zombies. However, Nie Xiao and the others had always thought that he was a zombie king with unique characteristics.

While Nie Xiao was thinking, Xiao WuYi continued to speak while touching his chin, “Not only does Brother Bai Mei look good and not smell bad, but Baby also won’t be uncomfortable like earlier when being near him! Even though there’s still a lot of death aura in him, Baby can feel the touch of vitality hidden in a deeper place. Although this vitality is covered up and is very weak and small, it’s still a huge gap from those ordinary zombies just now!”

“That’s why Baby said from the beginning that Brother Bai Mei’s alive!!! Baby’s power of vitality should also work on Brother Bai Mei, but it wouldn’t when used on these ordinary zombies that are completely dead.”

Xiao WuYi hugged Nie Xiao’s neck. Looking at the ugly zombies that were wandering and scattered around the roadside, with organs falling out and without any self-consciousness, he exclaimed, “They’re really very different!”

Nie Xiao completely believed what Xiao WuYi had said. His own cub had no reason to lie about this matter, and he had absolute proficiency when appraising a creature’s breath.

But what was going on with the vitality that existed in Bai Mei’s body? Could this vitality be the root cause of Bai Mei becoming the zombie king? The reason behind the differences in appearance and smell between him and ordinary zombies?

Why was it Bai Mei alone who was sober, why did he possess self-consciousness, and what was the relationship between this and that wisp of vitality?

Nie Xiao suddenly knitted his brows and fell into contemplation.

Xiao WuYi saw Nie Xiao’s tightly furrowed brows. He couldn’t help but stretch out his little finger to rub the gully between his eyebrows, forcing it to smoothen. He asked worriedly, “Daddy, what are you thinking about again?”

“I’m wondering what that trace of vitality in Bai Mei’s body is. Baby, what do you think it is?” Nie Xiao, whose brows were slightly smoothed out, raised his head to look at Xiao WuYi. He didn’t conceal his thoughts as he asked him.

When he was asked this, Xiao WuYi couldn’t help but fall into contemplation. Then he combined his own thoughts, rubbing his small chin while guessing, “Baby thinks that if this vitality was absent, Brother Bai Mei will definitely be completely invaded and contaminated by the zombie virus and then become no different from these ordinary zombies. Therefore, this vitality must be protecting Brother Bai Mei, thus creating his unique status as a zombie king and causing Brother Baimei to not only have his own consciousness but also prevent his body from easily rotting and emit stench like ordinary zombies…

“…Wait!!

“Daddy… could this be the legendary antibody factor!!?”

Xiao WuYi guessed boldly, shocking himself by his own bold conjecture. He slowly put down his small hand that was touching his own chin, looked straight at Nie Xiao’s eyes, and couldn’t help but gulp.

“…Oh my god… No way…”

Nie Xiao stared back into Xiao WuYi’s eyes, stunned. His steps halted, and huge waves were set off in his heart because of this bold guess.

Both parties’ breathing became involuntarily tense and hurried, and their chests rose and fell slightly. When they thought about it carefully, this was indeed very likely to be possible!!!

“Baby…” Nie Xiao swallowed hard and looked at Xiao WuYi’s cute and silly face. He couldn’t help but raise his hand and rub the other’s soft black hair. “You might’ve done a meritorious deed!!!”

The eyes of both parties were suddenly filled with uncontrollable ecstasy.

Xiao WuYi didn’t expect to get such a result, and his entire person was stupefied. “…Oh my god, Baby’s a little Sherlock hamster!!”

Nie Xiao watched his adorable expression and generously kissed Xiao WuYi several times. He couldn’t help but smile happily and say, “Baby is the cutest and smartest little hamster in the universe!!”

The little hamster exclaimed ‘chi chi’ in excitement and joy.

“Daddy, let’s hurry to the Capital Base and bring the research equipment back, then tell Dr. Wei, Brother Baiyue, and them the news!!!” Xiao WuYi, who was in Nie Xiao’s arms, said almost impatiently.

Nie Xiao nodded, put Xiao WuYi down, and pulled out the map of the capital city from the small strawberry schoolbag. He pointed to their current location before pointing to the troops in the Northern Military Region. He patiently and gently said, “We’re currently here. About seven or eight kilometers to the north is where the Capital Base is.”

“Un, un!” Xiao WuYi looked at the map and instantly understood. He put Nie Xiao into his little storage, then drew a circle out of thin air. Like a happy bunny, he jumped directly into the space hole.

The two disappeared from the desolate suburbs in an instant.

***

At that very moment, at the Capital Base.

The original military-district center where the Capital Base had been established was enlarged manyfold larger than when Nie Xiao’s group had come there before. The tall and towering city wall was a bit different from WuYi Base’s, but it basically had the same satisfactory outcome.

The many survivors were busy in the base. People came and went on the streets, and everyone was performing their own duties, carrying out their daily tasks and jobs in the base in an orderly manner. Ability users could be seen everywhere, and mission vehicles would come in and out of the base’s gate from time to time.

At that moment, while people came and went along the middle of the streets of the base, the surrounding air suddenly distorted, and a space hole appeared out of nowhere. Xiao WuYi and Nie Xiao came out of it one after the other.

This magical scene scared the pedestrians passing by. Someone almost collided with Xiao WuYi. If it weren’t for Nie Xiao’s swift movements of pulling the latter away, both of them would have fallen to the ground and blossomed¹The one in films when protagonists fall on top of each other and bgm + flower filters come up. The blossom here can also mean ‘a new development grows out’..

“Y-y-you… who are you!!!”

They had never seen these unfamiliar faces, and they had never heard of a weird ability which “made a person appear”²It’s the magic trick where the magician puts up a cloth then a person appears when they put it down or any other magic trick where a person appears in exchange of an object or inside something like a box. in the Capital Base, thus immediately causing a riot in the surrounding area. If it weren’t for the present human beings coexisting in the face of life and death as a whole, they would’ve been regarded as enemies invading in just minutes.

Nie Xiao didn’t expect Xiao WuYi to fall in the base so accurately in the first try and even on the center of this bustling road. Seeing that they were regarded as terrorists and surrounded by the patrol team, Nie Xiao was both helpless and amused.

Xiao WuYi, with a small strawberry backpack, took in the Capital Base’s appearance. His clear eyes were shining as if he were out on an outing. He exclaimed cutely, “Daddy, is this the Capital Base? It looks like our base, and there are so many people too!!”

“Be good. Stay quiet first.” Nie Xiao smiled helplessly as he rubbed Xiao WuYi’s head and then faced the crowd of onlookers next to him, announcing in a very friendly manner, “Hello, everyone. I am really sorry for directly barging in like this. Both of us are from WuYi base; we carry no malice. Could we ask you to please tell Chief Xia that Nie Xiao and WuYi are visiting from WuYi Base?”

“!!!!”

“WuYi Base!? WTF! Is this true or false?!!”

“It’s actually Nie Xiao and WuYi in the flesh! Sure enough, their face value is off the charts like in the rumors aahhh!!!”

……

Although they were separated by more than half of China, the names WuYi and Nie Xiao were still very famous in the Capital Base. Just like Chief Xia and Lancheng Base’s Miss Mei, the powerful people and big figures in each base had become well-known since the establishment of communications.

Nie Xiao and WuYi, two of the founders of a base in Fengcheng, were idol-level legendary powerhouses in the eyes of ordinary survivors, and their names were very famous everywhere.

Xiao WuYi was very well-adapted to the inquiring and interested gazes from all around because, in WuYi Base, these kinds of attentive gazes were even more fervent.

“Hello everyone!!” Xiao WuYi amicably waved his hand and took the initiative to respond with a super sweet smile, killing a bunch of people with meng. Coming to the Capital Base for the first time, he was full of curiosity and enthusiasm for everything around.

Xiao WuYi and Nie Xiao both noticed the white woven net above their heads. The entirety of the large net perfectly covered the sky above the Capital Base. It looked very spectacular and beautiful, giving everyone a bit of shade in this blistering summer.

“What is that?” Xiao WuYi couldn’t help but ask the surrounding people, then he looked at Nie Xiao and spoke, “It looks a bit similar to Xiao Yu-meimei’s defensive shield!”

Nie Xiao nodded and replied, “It should also be some kind of ability used to prevent zombie insects and birds. It’s impossible to manually make something this large and intact.”

Hearing the conversation between the two, someone next to them immediately helped answer, “This is our Big Sister Lu’s ability, ‘spider web,’ and it’s indeed used for defense. Zombie insects and birds will be entangled once they come in contact with it! Although not comparable to your base’s defensive shield, it’s already really good!”

“It’s indeed really good.” Nie Xiao nodded in agreement. The other bases had tried their best to guard against zombie insects and birds. After all, not every base could have an ability like Wu Wenyu’s. It was already considered very fortunate for the Capital Base to have this “spider web” ability.

Nie Xiao and WuYi stood in place for a while as they observed the appearance of the Capital Base. Soon, Chief Xia received the news and rushed over.

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  The one in films when protagonists fall on top of each other and bgm + flower filters come up. The blossom here can also mean ‘a new development grows out’. ↩︎
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  It’s the magic trick where the magician puts up a cloth then a person appears when they put it down or any other magic trick where a person appears in exchange of an object or inside something like a box. ↩︎