My Girlfriend is a Zombie - Chapter 1109: The Progenitor We Missed All Those Years

“But why did it take Skinny Monkey? What does it want to do?” Gu Shuangshuang swung her Flashlight toward the depths of the passage, but all she saw ahead was darkness. The opponent’s speed was clearly astonishing; from grabbing Skinny Monkey to vanishing, it took less than a second.

Could she really catch up to such an enemy?

“No time to think. If I don’t go now, no one will… If something really happens to Skinny Monkey, I’ll be the one who watched him die without helping. I’d rather die than be that person…” Gu Shuangshuang bit her lip and charged in… “Ah… Skinny Monkey, you can’t die! Please don’t die! I… I won’t die either… The captain will come save us…”

Gu Shuangshuang shouted desperately in her heart, while droplets kept falling from her face… But even she couldn’t tell whether it was Sweat or tears…

“Captain, do you see anyone?” Ye Kai asked impatiently. The source of this content ɪs novel★fire.net

He was actually asking about Ling Mo’s psychic sensing, though he didn’t know that Ling Mo was really just using his eyes… After hearing the question, Ling Mo paused, then frowned and shook his head, “Not yet…”

“But when we heard the sound just now… the distance seemed about the same as what we’ve run so far…” Xu Shuhan, following behind Ling Mo, suddenly said. Her average speed couldn’t match those Senior Zombies, so after occasionally darting forward, she’d continue at a steady pace… At this moment, Yuwen Xuan also pointed ahead and said, “Right. Up ahead is where we found the corpse wall…”

Ye Lian and the others had already rushed near the corpse wall. But what Xia Na noticed first wasn’t the strip of cloth, but something even more shocking…

“Look…” Xia Na widened her eyes and pointed at a dark hole not far from the corpse wall, “That tunnel entrance… was it there before?”

Ye Lian thought for a moment, then shook her head and replied, “No… it wasn’t…”

“This tunnel entrance…” Li Yalin rushed over and examined the edge carefully, then looked up and said, “Well, this was definitely just dug out… Judging by the state of it, probably not long after we passed by… Hmm…”

She sounded quite certain, and with a Zombie’s eyesight, it was indeed hard to make a mistake about such things.

“Dug? Didn’t Ling-Ge say the problem was that woman? Could she dig this out?” Xia Na was skeptical. This kind of thing was fine for Zombies to do; not to mention just a hole, even an entire passage could be dug out bare-handed… But that woman, in every sense, looked just like a human… “So we should’ve killed her back then!” Li Yalin said.

“How could we? At the time, aside from suspecting she wanted to use us to kill someone for her, there was nothing else wrong. If we killed her just for that, Ling-Ge would be no different from a senseless killer… That’s what Nana said.” Xia Na replied.

“But that was already senseless killing…”

While Xia Na and Li Yalin were talking, Ye Lian had already walked a few steps into the new passage and found that strip of torn cloth…

“This… seems to be… from that human called Skinny Monkey…” Ye Lian said softly.

Her voice was quiet, but it immediately drew Xia Na and Li Yalin’s attention.

“Yeah, it really is…” Xia Na took it and glanced at it, confirming.

At that moment, Li Yalin also found a mark by the corpse wall…

“This… do you think it looks like someone was dragged out?” She pointed at a scratch on the ground.

Xia Na glanced at it, frowned, and said, “Hmm… Deep at the front, shallow at the back, probably left by the toes while being dragged. He struggled at first, but here… at the next moment, he suddenly lost the ability to resist… So the mark gets lighter, and finally disappears completely…”

The three Female Zombies exchanged glances, then turned their eyes toward the newly dug passage…

“Go!”

With Xia Na’s soft command, the three figures instantly vanished into the tunnel entrance. Right after, Ling Mo’s group arrived. But Ling Mo didn’t hesitate at all, leading the group straight in.

“This is…”

“How did another passage suddenly appear…”

“It must’ve been dug earlier, then blocked off. That woman followed after we left; she’s more familiar with the terrain than we are. She even knows about passages hidden behind walls,” Ling Mo answered.

“Right…” Mu Chen suddenly shuddered and said, “I did feel it before… like someone was watching me… but when I turned around, there was nothing there. And… it was right around here…”

“That must have been her,” Ling Mo nodded.

“This…” Mu Chen immediately showed a hint of guilt. If only he had brought it up back then…

“Don’t get any strange ideas. There are already plenty of eyes in this place, no one would suddenly think of that. Besides, that woman really was knocked out at the time, so she wasn’t even on our watch list…” Ling Mo said.

“So that means… Gu Shuangshuang and the others, along with that woman, all went this way…” Yuwen Xuan said as he ran, glancing ahead.

They hadn’t paid much attention when they rushed in, but now they noticed that this really was an abandoned passage. Not only was it covered in all kinds of Spider Silk, but the air also felt rather stagnant…

“At least this tells us one thing…” Ling Mo said, “this passage isn’t short.”

Sure enough, after several seconds, Ling Mo and his group finally reached the first “crossroads”…

“Did that big Spider hollow out the whole underground here?” Mu Chen glanced into the new passage and said.

“You all saw it, it just loves digging holes, and it has the time…” These words came out of Yuwen Xuan’s mouth in all seriousness, but for some reason, they still left everyone speechless…

Normally, Ling Mo would have made fun of him, but he wasn’t in the mood now… He looked around, and soon locked onto a hastily drawn circle on the ground: “This way. This is probably left for us by Gu Shuangshuang. We just need to follow the marks.”

In fact, Xia Na and the others who had passed through earlier had already confirmed that these were drawn by Gu Shuangshuang… And at this moment, they had already gone deep into this passage… With their speed and strength, not only did they have a chance to catch up with Gu Shuangshuang and the others, they could also ensure their own safety and that of Gu Shuangshuang’s group…

“So that means… Gu Shuangshuang isn’t in danger for now? But she ran all the way to a place like this…” Mu Chen said with a frown.

Ling Mo sighed, “Because something happened to Skinny Monkey… that’s the only explanation that makes sense. And Gu Shuangshuang is well aware of the gap in strength between herself and the enemy, so she left us marks, hoping we could catch up to them as soon as possible…”

As he spoke, Ling Mo also sped up again. He vaguely felt that the reason that woman did all this was to lure them to a certain place… And at the end of that place, he might just see that Zombie…

“Since you’ve gone to all this trouble to meet me, let’s have that meeting then…” In Ling Mo’s mind, Xiao Hei’s “heart” couldn’t help but appear again… The mental zombie created by fusing it with the big Spider already contained so much psychic energy, so what about that Zombie itself? If he devoured it…

Just then, Ling Mo suddenly felt a jolt in his heart…

He knew where he had seen that kind of Zombie before… No wonder it always felt so familiar…

“Xia Na, do you all remember that kind of Zombie? The ones wrapped in Spider Silk, constantly rotting… I remember there was an Infant… and an Infection Source… which is the Progenitor, right… But when we got there, the Progenitor was already gone.” Ling Mo asked in his mind.

“Be more specific…”

Ling Mo couldn’t help but touch his backpack and said, “master ball…”

“Hmm? You mean that thing that’s been silent ever since it turned into a ball? I thought it really had evolved into a master ball… Only good for throwing at people now…” As soon as Xia Na spoke, she completely roasted that spherical object…

But Ling Mo had to admit, that really was the current state of the master ball. In fact, even he himself wasn’t sure what this earliest “storage battery” would eventually become, or when it would be useful again…

But now that he remembered what kind of Zombie it was, he suddenly had a strong feeling that it was time to throw out this master ball…

“So, are these Zombies related to the master ball? Or… are they the same type as those variation zombies?” Xia Na quickly caught on.

“I can’t be sure, but I have that feeling. Maybe, this Zombie now is the Progenitor we missed back then… a mental ability variation zombie Progenitor…” Ling Mo said slowly.

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