Chapter 1135: The Key Point!

That’s right!

If it were a common zombie, they would never question themselves!

But Ye Lian’s diary…

She actually analyzed the differences between herself and her human period from various angles…

That already says it all!

“This is great… really great!”

Ling Mo was so excited he was almost incoherent. He grabbed Ye Lian’s hand and asked, “When did this start? Why didn’t you tell me?”

“After I… broke through to King level… I guess…” Ye Lian replied softly, “At first… I didn’t know what was happening… so…”

“Alright, alright, then… do you know how it happened?” Ling Mo raised a crucial question.

Yes, this was the most important thing…

If they could figure out how it all began, then combined with the clues he had gathered, maybe they could…

Find the Ye Lian from before in one fell swoop!

However, this didn’t mean the current Zombie Ye Lian would disappear…

In fact, from Xu Shuhan’s situation, Ling Mo had already vaguely guessed… Even if Ye Lian regained those lost human emotions, she would never fully return to the way she was. More likely, what would appear was an amalgam with both a human side… and a zombie side…

“How it happened…” Ye Lian looked at Ling Mo and said, “Just like I said… at first, I didn’t know what was going on… I just naturally… started observing the differences between you and us…”

Ling Mo was stunned, then recalled certain scenes…

Indeed, for a long time, Ye Lian had just quietly watched them from the sidelines…

Only now did he realize that this Female Zombie was observing…

“The more differences I discovered… the more I couldn’t help but wonder… why do these differences exist? I recalled memories from when I was human… I thought, if it were me back then, maybe I would understand these things… So, I started remembering the things I used to write, and wrote them down again…” Ye Lian said.

So those entries… really were a diary!

“No, I didn’t just recall the diary… I also remembered the things that happened… But… when I tried to recall, I couldn’t understand the feelings recorded in the diary… I couldn’t figure it out, nor did I understand why I used to think that way… And there were just too many things I couldn’t understand…” Ye Lian continued.

Hearing this, Ling Mo’s heart inexplicably trembled, and he gripped Ye Lian’s hand a little tighter.

“It’s okay…”

Ye Lian kept looking at Ling Mo and slowly said, “But there’s one thing I do understand… and that is… you want me to understand these things… If I never understand, maybe that means… the old Ye Lian is nothing but a memory now… right?” R̃𝘼₦𝔬BÈ𐌔

Ling Mo didn’t say anything…

But after a while, he showed a faint smile.

“Silly girl…”

To be able to say that… doesn’t it mean she’s already starting to understand herself…

And from the moment he saw the handwriting, Ling Mo understood…

Maybe Ye Lian still hadn’t found her human self… but the things she had as a person weren’t completely lost…

The virus hadn’t completely changed her…

And that, was hope!

“I want to understand myself… Maybe when I do… I’ll know what the meaning of our existence really is… This question, maybe humans can’t figure it out, and zombies can’t either… But if I can be both human and zombie at the same time…” Ye Lian said with difficulty.

“And one more thing… I wasn’t sure before, but just now, I sensed it clearly… So, Ling-Ge, I want to tell you… During the process of questioning these things, it seems like some changes slowly started happening in my mind…”

“Swish!”

Ling Mo stood up at once.

Changes!

Though it was a simple word, the meaning behind it was immense!

“What kind of changes?” Ling Mo asked impatiently.

Ye Lian closed her eyes, breathing softly as she answered, “I don’t know how to describe it… It’s like… when I was exploring and digging in my mind… I slowly touched a membrane… I think I know what’s on the other side…”

It was… human emotion!

Ling Mo’s heartbeat couldn’t help but skip a beat.

If what he saw before was just hope… then now, he saw a path!

As long as they kept walking down this path, they’d succeed!

Even if Ye Lian was the only one experiencing this phenomenon for now, it still gave Xia Na and Senior Sister a direction.

All they needed was one success!

No… I need to stay calm, calm…

After saying this, Ye Lian’s eyes clearly showed a trace of helpless confusion…

Yes, she wasn’t reporting her progress… she was asking for help.

This kind of thing was completely unfamiliar to Ye Lian now…

And the only one who could help her was Ling Mo…

“Hoo…”

After several deep breaths, Ling Mo finally regained his composure. He gripped Ye Lian’s hand tightly and said in a low but firm voice, “Don’t worry… I’m here.”

Ye Lian immediately showed a faint smile.

The confusion in her eyes disappeared, replaced by a heavy nod: “Mm!”

“Alright, you need to tell me in detail… did this breakthrough change that membrane?” Ling Mo asked.

Ye Lian bit her lip: “Change… I showed you everything… that membrane… did get impacted a bit… but… Ling-Ge, you must have noticed too… this breakthrough… is different from before… I can feel changes inside me… but it’s very slow…”

“So… my evolution time will be very uncertain… maybe it’ll end soon, but maybe it’ll last a long time… during this period, I’ll always be in the process of evolving…” As Ye Lian spoke, she couldn’t help but lower her head, her voice growing even softer, “It’ll probably… cause trouble…”

Ling Mo was stunned for a moment, then realized.

Indeed, during the evolution process, Ye Lian’s aura couldn’t be suppressed…

But before evolving, Ye Lian herself didn’t know this would happen.

Thinking about her series of behaviors after evolving, maybe it was because she felt a bit lost…

So, she could only leave the decision to Ling Mo.

Thinking of this, Ling Mo smiled again and said solemnly, “It’s fine.”

“Mm…” Ye Lian glanced at him and nodded.

“If we were afraid of trouble, we wouldn’t have struggled to survive until now. But what’s important now is still that membrane of yours… From the intelligence we have so far, you discovered the existence of this membrane because of long-term self-doubt, and breakthroughs can affect it, but you only started having these thoughts after reaching King level…”

Ling Mo sorted through it, thought for a while, and finally realized, “I get it! I know why this change only happens after King level!”

“It’s because before King level, zombies might not awaken all their memories, but starting from King level, at least ten percent of their memories can be awakened, and their intelligence can recover to a certain level. This ‘certain’ level probably varies from zombie to zombie, but as long as they can think normally, it should count as passing the threshold. At this point, zombies will develop so-called self-awareness… Or maybe, after becoming a Progenitor, this could happen too.” Ling Mo’s standard for intelligence was summarized based on Ye Lian and that mental ability zombie Progenitor.

“Ye Lian follows me, so she starts by observing the differences between me and zombies. As for other zombies, their thoughts are different. But their common trait is that they no longer only think about eating… instead, they consider more complex things… In the end, all these thoughts converge on a special point… that is, what exactly am I, what can I do… This is actually quite similar to how humans think. The difference is, humans express it as planning and expectations for their own lives. Zombies don’t have that concept, so what they think about are more fundamental questions.”

“Maybe… this is the most crucial point in zombie evolution… also the most fundamental point. At this stage, zombies undergo a certain degree of transformation. This transformation is different from all previous evolutions and breakthroughs; it’s a true rebirth in every sense…”

“And we’re lucky enough… Ye Lian, after repeated guidance and influence, really reached this point… But the problem is, this time, we have no experience… And according to Ye Lian, her evolution time is uncertain. Maybe what determines the evolution time is whether that membrane gets pierced… Whether my guess is right or not, at least one thing is certain: that’s definitely the key!”

Zombies above King level, Ling Mo hadn’t encountered any so far… he hadn’t even heard of them…

But thinking about it… these zombies all have self-awareness now, so naturally they wouldn’t wander the streets like common zombies, and it’s impossible to run into them easily… Besides, Ling Mo had never deliberately hunted them. The places he’d reached were limited. He always avoided the areas where zombies truly gathered…

“Maybe… that Spider Queen has reached a level above King level…”

Ling Mo suddenly thought of this, and immediately remembered the thing in his heart…

“Always hiding isn’t a solution… That thing may not have grown, but it’s rooted in my body, a ticking time bomb… If I could get her to come to me, that would be best, but if not…”

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