Chapter 1361: The Truth About the Virus
Chapter 1361: The Truth About the Virus
From the first glance at Ling Mo, the Spider Queen had already noticed his change. But immediately after, her gaze shifted to Ye Lian.
Ye Lian blinked her big eyes and calmly met her gaze.
“Looks like you already know,” the Spider Queen said, turning her eyes back to Ling Mo.
“Not completely,” Ling Mo replied, suddenly glancing at Chuchu. The moment she sensed something was wrong, two figures had already darted out from behind Ling Mo.
She hurriedly retreated, but a massive figure suddenly appeared behind her.
Several Senior Zombies from the alliance tried to step forward, only to see a cold gleam flash before their eyes. The next moment, Ting was already standing atop their corpses, holding a blood-dripping axe.
“Ah!”
Chuchu let out a muffled groan, and in the next second, she was already pressed in front of Ling Mo.
The surrounding Survivors immediately took a step back… The oppressive feeling from these Senior Zombies was simply too overwhelming.
But what shocked most people even more was…
“What just happened?”
“Such a Senior Zombie was captured alive just like that?”
Before the virus upgraded, their feelings weren’t so intense.
But now, looking at Ling Mo and his girlfriends, they sensed something different.
A difference between them…
Chuchu, held by Xia Na and Li Yalin, also wore a look of disbelief on her face.
She looked up at Ting, then turned her head to look at Yuwen Xuan.
Finally, when she looked at Ling Mo, the human had just walked up to her: “Why so surprised? Girls can always be lured away, don’t you know? Even Zombies are no exception.”
“You…”
“What do you want to do?” the Spider Queen asked.
She actually had a chance to act just now, but she knew very well that Ling Mo had been watching her closely since the moment she appeared.
“I want to ask her a few questions.” Ling Mo stared into Chuchu’s eyes, then lowered his voice and asked, “You should be very clear about my current situation, right?” 𝙍ά𝐍∅BĚṦ
Chuchu struggled twice, gritted her teeth, and said nothing.
“No need to call me an anomaly, because you are too. What I want to know now is, I know why I am, but how did you become an anomaly? To be precise, you.” Ling Mo observed Chuchu’s expression as he spoke.
“I am… it’s because I stayed with Zombies, we have a connection. The Spider Queen is… it’s because I have her seed inside me, I have a connection with her, but why are you?”
Chuchu was silent for two seconds, then said, “I’ve already explained it to you…”
“You didn’t lie about Central City, you definitely went there. But about your identity, you’ve always avoided talking about it. Is it because…” Seeing Chuchu’s pupils contract slightly, Ling Mo reached out and squeezed, and an invisible psychic power instantly rose from beneath Chuchu’s feet, wrapping her up in an instant.
Boom!
With a muffled sound, Chuchu’s body began to split explosively, but every part was trapped inside the net of psychic power.
With a flick of his finger, Ling Mo made a mother hive appear in his palm.
He handed the mother hive to Ye Lian, then turned to look at the Spider Queen.
“When did you find out?” the Spider Queen asked.
“Just now,” Ling Mo replied. “She couldn’t possibly be an anomaly. So she’s actually your Host Body, right? Including that corpse picked up by Falcon, it’s the same. You wanted to test if you could become a perfect body on your own, didn’t you? You became an anomaly because of me, but to become a perfect body you need to Devour me. You couldn’t be sure of that at first…”
The surrounding Survivors looked at each other, unable to fully understand these words.
But this Senior Female Zombie was just a Host Body of that Progenitor? That was too shocking.
And what did Ling Mo mean by “Devour him”?
“Yes, you react quickly.” The Spider Queen nodded, not denying it. “I guess what you want to know most now is how I know all this, right? After all, when I started plotting against you, it was a long time ago. You want to know why I knew all this so early?”
“Isn’t that what we’re negotiating about?” Ling Mo said.
He did want to know-only by grasping the core could he understand what the virus truly was.
“Why don’t you first tell me your theories about the virus,” the Spider Queen said.
Lin Luanqiu looked at Wang Lin, then at the squirrel who wanted to speak but was too scared, and took the initiative to step forward and ask, “May I speak?”
“Human? Of course you may.” The Spider Queen nodded.
Her approach made the Zombies stir a little, but Lin Luanqiu’s calm expression clearly helped stabilize them.
“The virus couldn’t have appeared out of nowhere. We’ve always wanted to figure it out, to end everything we’ve been through. But what happened today proves that the virus can’t be stopped. It will keep upgrading, and will always influence the thinking patterns of infected people, so we think…”
“The virus has consciousness,” Ling Mo added.
“Consciousness? That’s right, it has its own instincts,” the Spider Queen said. “So how do you think it came about? Laboratory virus leak? An upgrade of an existing Earth virus? Or some kind of mutated virus that suddenly appeared?”
The human Survivors exchanged glances… If they could be sure of any of these, they wouldn’t be so lost now.
Faced with the drastic changes in their own fate, everyone wanted to understand what was really going on. But all the research so far had shown that these viruses were beyond current human understanding. They knew how it operated, what deadly effects it brought, but now they were confused again. The virus had infected them, but hadn’t destroyed them again.
The proportion of humans losing control was much smaller than when people first mutated into Zombies after being infected.
Does this mean the virus has become weaker? No, the virus has clearly upgraded.
So what does the virus really want? This virus that can turn people into Zombies, Monsters, infected people-where did it come from?
“Before I was infected, I was a scientific researcher, or at least part of me was. After regaining my memory, I began to study this virus. At first, I didn’t realize it did anything besides altering the Creature’s body, until I started studying myself.” One of the Spider Queen’s Tentacles moved and took something out.
“Seed.” Ling Mo showed a wary expression.
But the Spider Queen sucked the seed back into her Tentacle: “How do you think my Host Body came about? Another characteristic of the virus is fusion between different Creatures. That is its main purpose.”