After the Cannon Fodder Awakened, She Married the Female Lead! [Quick Transmigration] 80

Chapter 80

Li Mo dodged with some disgust. The evolved zombie was fine when it didn’t open its mouth, but as soon as it did, a rotten stench rushed towards her, almost making Li Mo vomit her breakfast.

“Master, the other two evolved zombies are moving here. Please be careful, Master!” 033 sounded an alarm. “They are expected to arrive in two minutes.”

Could evolved zombies communicate with each other? Li Mo’s brows furrowed slightly. At this time, she couldn’t be bothered with whether it was disgusting or not. She directly had both of her arms abilitized, turning into a dual-hammer warrior, and smashed them on the evolved zombie.

With only one large hammer attacking, the evolved zombie could still barely hold on, but under the attack of the dual hammers, he was soon beaten down and smashed into a bloody mess.

After confirming that the unrecognizable zombie on the ground had already died, Li Mo frowned and pulled out a crystal from the mess.

The crystal was transparent and about the size of a little finger, a circle larger than an ordinary ability user’s crystal core.

Hearing 033 start to count down the arrival time of the other two zombies, Li Mo very neatly crushed the crystal core and absorbed the energy inside.

Hiss— Li Mo suddenly knelt on one knee, her right hand on her forehead, her brows furrowed tightly.

The moment she crushed the crystal core and absorbed it, her head hurt as if it were about to split open, as if someone were hitting the back of her head with a pointed hammer.

Fortunately, the pain came as suddenly as it went. It disappeared in just ten seconds, but even though it was only ten seconds, Li Mo’s forehead was covered in cold sweat.

“033, what happened just now? Was there a problem with the crystal core?” Li Mo closed her eyes and used the last ten or so seconds to feel the ability she had just obtained…

Li Mo opened her eyes in surprise and looked at her empty palm.

Hmm? Why was there nothing? Had the absorption failed just now?

“Master, no problem has been found with the crystal core for the time being. Just now, your body’s various values skyrocketed for a period of time, and the ‘core’ concentration also increased a lot in an instant, but it soon fell again,” 033 said.

Li Mo looked at her hand. She was very sure that she had completely absorbed the evolved zombie’s crystal core. Why was this? Could it be that all evolved zombies would get a perverted defense? So it wasn’t considered an ability?

Before Li Mo could find an answer, the other two evolved zombies, No. 2 and No. 3, also arrived on the scene.

Their appearance was not much different from the already dead No. 1. After discovering that their companion was dead, they let out a mournful cry, and then also revealed their sharp fangs and claws, attacking Li Mo from the left and right respectively.

This time, Li Mo had experience. She didn’t use any weapons and directly created ten large hammers. In less than a minute, she had smashed No. 2 and No. 3 to pieces.

After taking out the same type of crystal core, this time, Li Mo did not rush to absorb it, but carefully observed it.

Besides the slight difference in size and color, these two crystal cores did not look to have any special texture and did not look much different from an ability user’s crystal core.

“033, is this a crystal core produced by a zombie?” Li Mo frowned slightly. Evolved zombies should have some ability, otherwise they wouldn’t be evolved zombies.

“Master, the energy contained in these two crystal cores is the same as the one you absorbed. They are all very high-concentration ‘cores’,” 033’s voice was a little puzzled.

“As for whether it’s a zombie crystal core, because you haven’t absorbed a zombie crystal core, Master, we can’t make a comparison for the time being, but they are very similar to an ability user’s crystal core. I don’t know why you won’t get a new ability after absorbing it, Master.”

Hearing 033’s answer, Li Mo’s brows furrowed even tighter.

As everyone knows, the energy produced by the crystal cores of different ability users is different. Besides being rich in a large amount of “core,” there will also be corresponding elemental energy in it, so the crystal cores of different ability users are slightly different in color.

“Master, a lot of zombies have suddenly appeared in the vicinity. They seem to be attracted by the crystal core in your hand,” 033 said, immediately enlarging the nearby floor plan.

From the small red dots moving around, it could be seen that not only were most of the zombies in the villa area moving towards the music fountain, but many zombies were also starting to move towards the villa from the woods outside.

Now, the number of zombies in the villa area alone was more than two hundred, not to mention the zombies that were constantly running here from outside the villa.

“How can there be so many zombies in this kind of place?” Li Mo found it a little hard to understand. There were only about thirty buildings in the villa area. Even if it was calculated according to a one-third mutation rate, the number of zombies should only be one or two hundred.

If today were the first day of the apocalypse, she could barely understand this number, but it had been almost half a year since the apocalypse had begun. How could there still be so many zombies? At least when the people in the villa area were evacuating, they would have cleaned up some of the zombies.

No, this number was very wrong. It was very much like someone had arranged a large number of zombies in the vicinity in advance.

Li Mo picked up the wireless walkie-talkie. “All team leaders, report the situation. How is the killing progress? Have you found anything abnormal?”

Team Leader 1: “Captain Li, the number of zombies found at present is not large. We have already cleaned up more than thirty. These zombies seem to be a little more flexible than other zombies and can also use tools and weapons.”

Team Leader 2: “Report, Captain Li. Our situation is similar. We have already searched five villas. The supplies in the villas are basically zero.”

Team Leader 3: “Captain Li, the zombies on our side seem to be moving towards the center. There are new zombies approaching from outside the villa area. We are currently cleaning them up.”

After hearing the reports from the three team leaders, the more Li Mo thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong. She instructed them not to act rashly. The three teams would gather first and then start to clean up the zombies while ensuring their safety.

Li Mo still remembered her special constitution. Before the ordinary zombies could surround her, she put one of the crystal cores into her space, and the other crystal core was directly thrown into the music fountain.

The ordinary zombies soon surrounded her. Li Mo’s appearance had become much more normal, but they still did not attack her. After walking a couple of steps towards her curiously, they were then attracted by the crystal core in the fountain and kept squeezing towards the music fountain.

The attraction of the crystal core was stronger than her own? Li Mo’s brows were not relaxed. To see more clearly, she directly jumped to the top of the music fountain and looked down from above.

The crystal core that Li Mo had thrown into the fountain was soon found by a zombie. Before that zombie could swallow the crystal core, the zombie closest to him made a move first, directly biting off his hand, and after a few chews, he directly swallowed it.

Ten seconds later, the zombie that had swallowed the crystal core let out a roar. Its appearance had changed significantly, and then in one minute, it had turned into an evolved zombie, the exact same kind.

What the heck? Zombies would mutate after swallowing a crystal core? This shouldn’t be. Many ability users had also been devoured by zombies because of exhaustion before, but those zombies had not mutated.

Or was it that only zombies would evolve after swallowing a zombie crystal core?

Before Li Mo could sort out the relationship, the evolved zombie No. 4 rushed towards her.

Practice makes perfect. Li Mo took ten seconds to deal with No. 4, but the zombies around her were faster than her. When No. 4 fell, they swarmed up and began to devour No. 4’s flesh and blood.

“Tsk, is this the circle of life?” Li Mo began to take out the hot weapons she had prepared in advance. Taking advantage of the fact that the zombies were gathered together, she directly threw five grenades into them.

Dense explosions sounded. Li Mo immediately retreated, avoiding the rotten flesh that was splashing everywhere.

The ordinary zombies were basically dealt with by the grenades. The remaining evolved zombie No. 5 only suffered some flesh wounds and rushed towards Li Mo, roaring.

Just as Li Mo was about to use the same trick again, gunshots sounded from not far away. Most of the flying bullets were aimed at No. 5, but there were also a few that were aimed at Li Mo.

Someone’s here? Is it an enemy?

Li Mo nimbly dodged the bullets that were flying towards her, temporarily put away her strange ability, and before the other party could get close, she used two short knives to block the zombie’s attack.

“Do you need help, Captain Li?” a slightly familiar voice came from behind.

Li Mo took the time to turn her head and take a look. She found that the person who had come was an ability user from the third team. If her memory was not wrong, his ability seemed to be related to water, and he belonged to the logistics type.

“No need. Why are you here alone? Didn’t I say that you should try not to separate?” Li Mo said, somewhat perfunctorily blocking No. 5’s attack, and thinking about how to deal with No. 5 without exposing her ability.

The short knives in her hand could not break through the other party’s defense at all. If she wanted to deal with it, she had to have a heavy enough blunt weapon.

“Captain Li, I don’t know how I got separated from the main group. I can’t find them now. Can I follow you for now, Captain Li?” As he spoke, Little Shui slowly walked over.

Li Mo gave a hum. “Alright. You stand there and don’t move. Wait for me to deal with this zombie.”

Taking advantage of the fact that Li Mo’s back was to him, Little Shui very ungratefully raised the gun in his hand and directly fired five shots at her head and heart.

Oh ho, now there’s no need to worry about how to cover it up. Just kill him.

The corners of Li Mo’s lips rose. She directly went around to the back, letting No. 5 act as a zombie-type bulletproof vest, blocking the five bullets that were flying towards her.

“You’ve come at the right time. I’m just short of a test subject,” as she spoke, Li Mo activated her strange ability in front of Little Shui. She used her abilitized left hand to deal with No. 5, and her other right hand directly wrapped around Little Shui’s neck, lifting him up.

The sword that was wrapped around Li Mo’s neck, Little Shui’s neck lost its breathing function. After less than twenty seconds, he began to kick his legs wildly, and his face turned red.

Little Shui’s hands were also working very hard. He formed a water knife in front of him and tried to cut the thing on his neck.

Li Mo glanced at Little Shui indifferently, then dealt with No. 5 first, and at the same time, dug out the transparent crystal core in his head.

Seeing that Little Shui was trying so hard to survive, Li Mo kindly loosened her restraint on him so that he would not die of suffocation.

“Captain Li, I…” After being able to breathe again, Little Shui’s first reaction was to explain, but just as he opened his mouth, a cold and blood-stained crystal core was directly stuffed into his throat.

Gulp. Little Shui swallowed the crystal core without any preparation.

Seeing this, Li Mo also loosened her restraint on Little Shui and stood on the side with great patience, watching Little Shui’s reaction.

Little Shui quickly reacted. After realizing what he had swallowed, he directly gave up on explaining, put his finger into his throat, and tried his best to vomit the crystal core.

“If you tell me how this kind of crystal core was made, I might be able to spare your life,” Li Mo said unhurriedly.

“Vomit—” Little Shui did not bother with Li Mo’s words and still insisted on sticking his finger down his throat. The expression on his face also became more and more ferocious.

Li Mo was dissatisfied with being ignored. She kicked Little Shui, sending him to the ground, and then stepped on his wrist, forcing him to stop his throat-sticking behavior.

“This kind of crystal core, was it extracted from a zombie? Or was it extracted from an ability user?”

“Do you think I’ll tell you?” After realizing that he was doing useless work, Little Shui suddenly stopped struggling and lay flat on the ground, looking at Li Mo with a mocking expression.

“What will happen next will be what you will be like in the future,” Little Shui said. “The people from the research institute have already set their sights on you. You can’t escape.”

“They’ve set their sights on me? So they deliberately arranged for three evolved zombies for me?” Li Mo bent down and looked at Little Shui, a hint of pity in her eyes. “What a pity. If you had obediently followed me, you could have lived on. But now, you’re about to die?”

“What’s the use of living? If you don’t improve your strength, death will come one day! What’s the use of following you? Can you always protect us?”

Little Shui’s voice grew louder and louder. His whole body began to twitch, and his skin slowly cracked. Blood kept gushing from his mouth and nose.

He was about to mutate. Li Mo took a step back. She was not in a hurry to deal with Little Shui, but continued to stand on the side, looking at Little Shui’s body change from a normal person’s to a deformed monster with an indifferent expression.

Hmm? Why did he turn into a monster? The zombie had only turned into an evolved zombie with a very strong defense after swallowing the transparent crystal core.

Another three minutes passed, and Little Shui had completely completed his mutation. His height had changed from 1.75 meters to about 2.15 meters. Besides his head, which had not been enlarged, his other torso and limbs had almost doubled in size.

Little Shui tilted his head and looked at Li Mo with great confusion, as if he were judging whether she was a friend or a foe.

Li Mo took the initiative to walk a distance forward. Seeing that the other party still did not attack her, she took out a dagger from her space and threw it out with a “swish,” accurately inserting it into Little Shui’s abdomen.

“Aow—” Little Shui let out a roar, and then opened his hands and rushed towards Li Mo.

Little Shui’s speed was about the same as an ordinary person’s. Li Mo very easily pulled away from him, and then used the same trick again, constantly throwing out daggers, as if she were playing a small game of stabbing, counting as she threw.

By the time she had counted to thirty-five, Little Shui’s body was already covered in wounds, and his movement speed was even slower. He was walking while bleeding with a rotten smell.

“033, have you collected the relevant data?” Li Mo had been keeping him alive not because she had any special quirk, but to leave some time for 033 to collect data through this mutated sample of Little Shui.

“Master, the comparison results are out. The initial transparent crystal core should have been extracted from a zombie. If it is swallowed by a zombie, it will evolve in a single direction.”

“If it is swallowed by an ordinary person, the body will mutate, and there is a ninety percent chance of becoming an evolved zombie.”

“Is there a ten percent chance of becoming an ability user?” Li Mo asked.

“Only less than one percent. The remaining nine percent died because of the mutation,” 033 directly pulled out a detailed data comparison chart for Li Mo to check.

“It’s the same if it’s swallowed by an ability user. There’s only a less than one percent chance of improving the ability,” 033 added.

Li Mo frowned and read it once, then neatly reaped Little Shui’s life and dug out the crystal core in his head.

“This crystal core is different again. It has a hint of a water blue color,” Li Mo observed carefully, and at the same time, she also took out the transparent crystal core that was in her space.

“Master, the energy of this crystal core seems to be much gentler. If this one is absorbed by an ordinary person, the probability of becoming an ability user is fifty-five percent!” 033 raised its volume.

It had gone from less than one percent to fifty-five percent in one go. This was a bit of a big leap. Could it be that the people from the research institute had found out about her absorbing crystal cores to gain abilities? So they had set a trap for her?

No, the fact that ability users had crystal cores in their heads was almost a public secret now.

The people from the research institute should only know that she liked to improve her strength by absorbing crystal cores, and did not know that she could directly swallow the ability contained in the crystal core. Otherwise, there would have been more than just three evolved zombies this time.

Because Li Mo had taken out the transparent crystal core, the zombies on the ground that were not yet dead began to move again. These zombies were either missing a hand or a foot. They could only wriggle forward, trying to get to Li Mo.

What a terrifying thing. Fortunately, her constitution was special enough. Compared to the people who had passively mutated, she had actively absorbed the “core” and had a corresponding cultivation technique to absorb and digest the “core.”

It was good that the person who had taken the mission was her. If it had been Wen Runan, it might have brought her some fatal danger.

“Master, actually, you don’t have to worry about Wen Runan. She is the savior chosen by the world’s consciousness. If the person who came was her, when she was absorbing the crystal core, that less than one percent probability would have become one hundred percent.”

Li Mo looked at the crystal core in her hand with some disgust, and then threw both of them into her space.

“If it were me, even if I were to absorb a crystal core that had been purified by an ability user, I would still mutate?”

“Master, you have a corresponding cultivation technique. So you will only feel a little uncomfortable when you are absorbing it,” 033 gave a more tactful answer.

Because when Li Mo had come over, the original owner had already died. In the future world line, this Li Mo did not exist at all.

So the higher Li Mo’s popularity, the worse her luck would be correspondingly. If she were to gamble on her luck, she would basically encounter the most unlucky possibility.

“Alright, I see. Enlarge the search range and see if there are any other restless people in the team,” Li Mo took out her gun and dealt with a few of the zombies that were still crawling on the ground.

In the previous battle, Li Mo had attracted the attention of all the evolved zombies and most of the ordinary zombies alone. The pressure on the remaining fifty or so people was very low. On average, each person only had to kill about three zombies to clean up the zombies that had come from the periphery.

“Captain Li, Little Shui has gotten separated from us for some reason. He doesn’t have a walkie-talkie either,” seeing Li Mo appear, the third captain said with an anxious expression.

“Although Little Shui is an ability user, his ability is not very strong in terms of attack power. If he encounters a relatively large number of zombies, it is very likely that he will be in danger. Why don’t we split up and look for him?”

“No need. I saw him just now,” Li Mo said. “He left the team to find me.”

“So he went to find you, Captain Li. That’s great. Where is Little Shui now? Did he go to the door in advance?” the third captain asked.

Li Mo stared at him indifferently for a short while. “As soon as he saw me, he aimed his gun at me. A total of seven bullets were aimed at my head and heart.”

“This… how could this be…” The surprise on the third captain’s face was very real. After the surprise, it quickly turned into anger. “Did Little Shui betray our team! How could he do this!”

“I have a question for you. Have the people from the research institute contacted you?” Li Mo did not move her gaze, but observed the third captain’s micro-expressions.

As a qualified captain, it was very necessary to keep abreast of the team members’ news, not to mention the few team members who had abilities. As long as they encountered a battle, the captain would basically confirm their position.

The third captain had tried very hard to keep a straight face, but he was very guilty. Under Li Mo’s gaze, he did not have the guts to lie.

“I didn’t agree to their recruitment…” The third captain said, lowering his head, not daring to continue to look at Li Mo.

“But you didn’t refuse either, just like you didn’t stop Little Shui when you knew he had left the team. You were hesitating, weighing the pros and cons,” Li Mo had seen too many people. Almost at the moment the third captain had lowered his head, he had already roughly guessed it.

“Stay or quit. You think it through yourself,” Li Mo’s voice was very cold. “Seeing that you didn’t make a move, I won’t do anything to you either.”

“Captain Li, I didn’t do it on purpose. The conditions they proposed were too tempting! It’s the apocalypse now. Who doesn’t want to become stronger?” The third captain seemed a little dissatisfied with Li Mo’s attitude, and his emotions exploded at once.

“Captain Li, you’re very amazing, that’s true, but have you thought about us? We also want to become stronger!” the third captain said. “We don’t want to be wastes who only know how to hide behind you!”

“Have I stopped you from becoming stronger?” Li Mo’s voice was even colder.

What a bunch of idiots. She had gone to the trouble of protecting them, and they were actually complaining that she didn’t give them a chance to become stronger?

“Who else has such an idea? You can stand up now,” Li Mo’s gaze swept over the fifty-nine people present. “I can give you a chance to become stronger now. Do you want it?”