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Chapter 46 Second Generation Zombies
Pei Sihao and Gu Nanfeng were on the phone, while Lu Yuan, Yang Xiao, and Lin Yun stood in front of the large French windows in the living room with binoculars, observing the entire resort area.
Gu Nanfeng's room window faces the interior of the park, which is quite large. It includes a wildlife park, which is the furthest from the hotel and cannot be seen even with binoculars. Then there is a large amusement park with roller coasters and Ferris wheels, and then two themed trendy streets, one with a traditional Chinese style and the other with a Republican-era style.
Following the park map synchronized with Gu Nanfeng, Qin Yuan and Zhong Qiang, based on their observations, determined the locations of the three warehouses. The kitchen warehouse was the closest, located on the hotel's basement level. The convenience store warehouse and the themed shop warehouse were together, but their specific location was at a corner where two trendy streets intersected.
The entire resort area has driveways that connect to each zone, and there are also private car driveways in the wildlife park, which, although the furthest from the hotel, are still quite convenient to get to and from.
The basement warehouse is fine. The sixth floor is a special floor, and you need to scan your fingerprint to get up to the elevator. The elevator they took yesterday was also locked on the sixth floor by Gu Nanfeng, so they are unlikely to encounter zombies when they go up or down the elevator now.
The more troublesome areas are the warehouses of the convenience stores and the themed shops, which have the most supplies. Both of these popular streets are pedestrianized, with many themed buildings along the way. The ancient style area features small bridges, flowing water, pavilions, and towers, winding and turning. The Republic of China area has a large number of streets, and a complete Republic of China town has been built in a more dense manner.
"Both routes are difficult to navigate." Lin Yun handed the binoculars to Qin Yuan. If it weren't for Lu Yuan, who would have made it unnecessary to carry supplies, they wouldn't have been able to carry much on this winding road.
"I didn't see any zombies in the park either." Qin Yuan took the binoculars and scanned the entire park, but he didn't see a single zombie.
"Yes," Lu Yuan and Yang Xiao said in unison.
“I see at least three.” Yang Xiao put down his binoculars and tapped three times on the map Zhong Qiang had projected. Gu Nanfeng and Pei Sihao, who had just hung up the phone, came over and saw them too.
“One of them was wearing a suit. I saw it five times, and each time it disappeared from my sight as soon as I locked onto it. It was very fast.”
“It’s very intelligent.” Lu Yuan, who hadn’t spoken until now, kept his binoculars on. “It’s greeting me.”
As soon as Lu Yuan said this, Yang Xiao and Qin Yuan set up their binoculars again and looked in the direction Lu Yuan was looking. Pei Sihao also took out his and Gu Nanfeng's binoculars from their bags, and the four of them were looking for the zombie Lu Yuan had mentioned. Zhong Qiang, who had given his binoculars to Qin Yuan, and Lin Yun, who didn't have binoculars, also crowded to the window, wanting to take a look as well.
"Holy crap, it feels like it's staring right at me." Yang Xiao had spotted it five times during his observation, so he quickly found the zombie in the suit in the direction Lu Yuan was looking.
Its skin was bluish-purple, but unlike the rotting flesh of early zombies, it had no wounds on its body, and its suit jacket was exceptionally clean. Apart from its somewhat stiff and awkward movements, it looked like a normal person with bluish-purple skin.
“This is a second-generation zombie.” Gu Nanfeng quickly spotted the zombie as well. He learned from Pei Simin that this type of zombie, which had been bluish-purple all over but not ulcerated after being exposed to the second viral rain, was defined as a second-generation zombie by research experts in Beijing.
Second-generation zombies do not decompose, are fast, have better limb coordination, and retain 30% to 50% of their pre-zombification intelligence. In other words, the smarter the person, the smarter the zombie they become. However, what puzzles experts is that people infected by second-generation zombies still mutate into first-generation zombies that decompose and have extremely uncoordinated limbs. Therefore, experts in Beijing generally believe that there will be a third, or even a fourth or fifth, wave of viral outbreaks.
"Damn, it's actually waving." When Pei Sihao locked onto the zombie in the suit, it stiffly raised its right hand and waved it left and right in their direction. Through the binoculars, they could even see its lips moving on its bluish-purple face.
"It said see you next time," Lu Yuan said, quoting the words of the zombie in the suit. Lu Yuan had also made eye contact with a zombie on the day the second viral rain began, and this zombie in the suit today felt very similar. Although these zombies didn't have eyeballs, their eye sockets were all white, but Lu Yuan could clearly feel them looking at him.
"My God! It's so fast!" As soon as Lu Yuan finished speaking, the zombie in the suit disappeared from their sight. The group looked around again, but still couldn't find it.
"It doesn't have eyes, so why do I feel like it's watching me?" Qin Yuan stepped back from the French windows and sat down in the living room, letting out a long sigh. "And it's so far away."
"It's that it doesn't have eyeballs, not that it doesn't have eyes," Lin Yun corrected.
The people by the window returned to the living room one after another. Lu Yuan, who was at the back, thought for a moment, then went back and closed the curtains. He felt that if the curtains were open, all their activities in the room would be under the watchful eye of that zombie.
Lu Yuan sat down on the empty sofa seat they had left for him, and then took out seven bottles of iced soda from his storage space. They were very old domestic brands, with production dates and expiration dates almost a century old. Qin Yuan and Lin Yun wanted to remind them, but they found that they were quite calm and used the bottle openers that Lu Yuan had taken out to open and drink, their proficiency showing that they had drunk quite a lot.
"The second-generation zombies have improved significantly in intelligence, physical coordination, speed, strength, and even eyesight," Gu Nanfeng analyzed.
"I feel like my scalp is being stared at by it." Yang Xiao finally said after holding back for a long time. This was completely different from his dream, and he needed to process it.
“He seems to be very intelligent.” Pei Sihao took a sip of soda and suddenly remembered, “I remember the first time I came to this park, I met the manager here. He was specially sent by Sister Yi Ning from Beijing. I remember he graduated from X Qing Teng University. My second brother really wanted to hire him back then.”
“There might be more zombies in the park than the few we’ve observed.” After hearing Pei Sihao’s words, Lin Yun realized that even if Pei Sihao’s IQ was reduced to 30%, it would still be higher than Qin Yuan’s. If they went out rashly, they probably wouldn’t even know how they died.
"Yes, during the second viral rain, a lot of zombies appeared outside the safe base. They usually hide, so it's possible that they were directed by a high-IQ zombie." Seeing that Qin Yuan and Lin Yun didn't have binoculars in their personal equipment, Gu Nanfeng guessed that they might not have observed this strange phenomenon of the second viral rain, since there might not be many of these things in the base.
Lu Yuan didn't stand on ceremony. He took two binoculars and a walkie-talkie from his spatial storage and gave them to Qin Yuan and Lin Yun. Each of them got one binocular, and Qin Yuan had taken Zhong Qiang's walkie-talkie earlier, so he only gave it to Lin Yun this time. They had many questions about Lu Yuan's spatial storage that they didn't understand, but they knew that given their current relationship, they wouldn't get any answers. So they simply put the items away and didn't ask any questions.
The plan to go out and search for supplies was temporarily put on hold. It was already two or three in the afternoon. The group rested on the sofa for a while. Pei Sihao suggested that Lu Yuan take out a Switch, connect it to the hotel TV, and find a shooting game to relax and practice shooting.