Ye Qingcheng stopped talking. She had told Xiao Wangye that everyone who had come into contact with Wang Daocheng should be isolated for at least seven days to see if any symptoms developed.
However, Xiao Wangye remained silent until he escorted Ye Qingcheng to her separate tent.
"How strange, I thought you would ask me how I knew these things," Ye Qingcheng was still in the mood to tease Xiao Wangye. Having lived in the apocalypse for a long time, becoming a zombie was something everyone had prepared themselves for mentally.
Ye Qingcheng thought it through well. Once she met any misfortune, with the backward technology of this ancient era, it would be impossible to research any zombie antidote. It would be better to write down some of her experiences in advance to save this dynasty's survival rate. Then she reminded Xiao Wangye to pay attention to those involved with deities and ghosts, as they were likely to be transmigrators carrying the zombie virus seeking revenge on society.
However, the quiet atmosphere made Ye Qingcheng ponder again. One of the main reasons for the spread of modern zombie viruses was the drastic change in Earth's environment. Ancient times lacked these preconditions, so the biological mutations that followed on Earth should not be as severe.
Xiao Wangye said with a blank expression, "Since you are not desperately seeking death anyway, hurry up and say whatever dying words you have, lest you have to crawl out of the underworld as a ghost to harm people."
Ye Qingcheng, uncharacteristically, did not get angry. She didn't feel depressed at this moment and even wanted to hum a song.
"Gently knock awake the sleeping heart, slowly open your eyes~"
Ye Qingcheng hummed a little tune, but her mind was filled with past memories.
In the beginning, the zombie virus spread widely across Blue Star because a meteorite fell onto Blue Star.
The astronomical stations of various countries observed it for a short time. Just as it approached Blue Star, they launched continuous interception measures against it.
However, this stone seemed to contain some special substance. According to the saying at the time, the space-time around this stone was compressed and distorted, so humans failed to destroy it in outer space.
But eventually, countries joined forces to fire special weapons at it not far from Blue Star, destroying the stone.
Ye Qingcheng remembered that she and those two people were excitedly discussing this matter. At that time, she was still an ordinary girl. Although her family was a medical lineage, it only gave her a little extra prestige.
Like everyone else in the world, she cheered that the end of the world had not arrived.
Unexpectedly, the apocalypse came.
She struggled in the apocalypse for seven years.
She encountered many difficult predicaments and directly faced the struggles of human nature.
So, when she was bitten to death by a zombie, it was even a release. But she came here instead, and she cherished this world.
She still had Bi Xi, Jing Xiu, Luan Yunmeng, and some newly made friends.
Xiao Wangye didn't count. He was too annoying.
The proud and unruly regent watched Ye Qingcheng daze without speaking. He impatiently tapped the armrest of his wheelchair and shouted at her, "Speak! Are you mute?"
He really, truly disliked this woman's expression, as if she were about to depart at any moment.
Clearly, her life was in his hands.
Yet Ye Qingcheng always went against him.
Or, a smile would be good. At least Xiao Wangye didn't want to see her with a sad face because of him.
Ye Qingcheng blinked, blinking away the slight redness in her eyes before replying, "Oh, my apologies, Your Highness, I didn't hear you just now."
"According to my guess..." The guess was already an excuse.
Ye Qingcheng didn't have much information. She didn't know who was behind it, what their purpose was, or how they did it.
She could only describe the virus as a guess, and in a way that ancient people could understand.
"Then what do you think about those who can control others through sound?"
"I think it's a skill learned by infected people. Wang Daocheng thought that the stone given to him by that person gave him this ability. In reality, he had already mutated first to gain the ability, and then used the stone to suppress further mutation, preventing the disease from infecting his head, which allowed him to maintain his sanity."
The area where the stone was buried should have been carefully chosen, but in the apocalypse, among the savior research institutes that Ye Qingcheng knew of, there was no such evil method of controlling zombies through living people.
She said in a low voice, "Those few injured soldiers are currently only in the early stages of mutation. If not controlled, they will gradually turn blue all over, their hearts will stop beating, and they will lose their minds. Their bodies will also begin to rot, and they will eat people."
Once turned into a zombie, they could no longer be called human.
Because even if an antidote was developed, the zombie virus would damage the brain, making a mess of it.
Xiao Wangye was unmoved. Or rather, those not affected by the apocalypse were more concerned with the present.
"Ye Qingcheng, are you human or ghost? You'd better confess honestly!"
Ye Qingcheng emerged from those heavy memories and met Xiao Wangye's question head-on. She rolled her eyes first but still felt a trace of guilt.
She mumbled, "Of course I'm human," while obediently sitting in the tent and pretending to be foolish.
But if she had carefully considered his words, she might have realized that the regent was more likely asking, "What kind of person are you?"
Xiao Wangye could tell at a glance whether Ye Qingcheng was feigning madness or feeling guilty when she directly affirmed that she was human.
He felt a slightly awkward happiness from digging into Ye Qingcheng's background a little, and then sullenly sulked because of this happiness.
Thinking of Wang Daocheng's appearance now, his heart sank. Thinking of whether Ye Qingcheng was now contaminated with those filthy things, his heart ached.
He sulked to himself, and his expression was frigid. Ye Qingcheng, however, was already extremely familiar with this demeanor of his and could smoothly ignore him.
But after all, this was a battlefield. After the noisy chaos of today, Xiao Wangye still had to return to take charge of the overall situation.
Xiao Wangye had initially wanted to stay a bit longer, but Ye Qingcheng found him annoying, finding him distracting here. So she mockingly said with a forced smile, "I see our Great General is quite idle. With his legs not good, he runs around everywhere, and the military affairs in the tent are all handled by his subordinates. Your Highness, you don't fight wars by having your subordinates do the work while you leisurely have tea and direct the situation, do you?"
They returned to their contentious dynamic, as if nothing had progressed further. Xiao Wangye was directly angered away.
The battles during this period were almost over, and Xiao Wangye had just chosen a place to encamp. Those people, like Ye Qingcheng, who were separated and isolated, stayed in their quarantine tents for several days. They didn't know what had happened. The explanation they received was that Doctor Wang, who had contact with them, was a spy and was currently being investigated in the army.
It was also fortunate that the regent's army had strict discipline. With multiple layers of secrecy, no information leaked out.