[Hunter] How to kill a zombie

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Zooey looked bitter: "No - I think you misunderstood."

"Confession." Shi Ping nodded calmly, and asserted, "What occupation is it? Are you also a hunter? Or an ordinary person?"

"Uh, robber?"

"Oh oh oh——" Banana looked shocked, "Zoe, you are really hiding your secrets. First the vice president and then the little robber brother? Wow——"

"But he killed my uncle."

Banana, who was still excited just now, suddenly shut up.

"I was thinking just now, maybe you have that kind of physique." Shi Ping thought about it.

"what?"

"It's the kind that attracts strange people... the perverted kind."

"Condolences." Banana patted Zoe's shoulder.

Zooey was also very sad, because she vaguely felt that what Shiping said seemed to make sense.

It's so sad.

strange

The reconnaissance work with Kate and his team was much smoother than expected, and life in the jungle was much easier than Zoe thought.She was in one group with Kate, and the others were divided into two groups.Zoe discovered that zombies can also repel mosquitoes (generally small animals are reluctant to approach them, which also made Kate the one who discovered the fewest new species in the team).Not only does it repel mosquitoes, but she doesn't need to sleep, so she can work as a night watchman. In short, it is surprisingly convenient.

Kate is a very nice person, and she also proposed to change shifts several times, but she refused them all.After all, she really doesn't need to rest physically, and even her dreams are mostly related to those unpleasant memories of the past.Some—no, most memories didn't belong to her yet.

Over the years, Zoe felt that she had gradually learned how to isolate those emotions that did not belong to her.She imagined a membrane to wrap her real self, and despite the countless voices outside, this was the only way to stay awake.People are born to be an independent person, not a community of destiny for a group of people.No matter how much a person wants to blend into the group, he cannot really do it, as long as he does not abandon himself.

For Zoe, it's the other way around.She has to work hard to distinguish her own voice from the crowd, so most of the time she simply chooses not to listen to her so-called "inner voice".It's really not that hard - especially if you have something to do.For example, participating in the game of Greed Island, trying to get a certain card, or dealing with the difficult Kuroro, or busy ecological record work during the day.But at night, when everything is quiet, and she sits alone under the night sky, with no screen or bright lights to distract her—these voices occasionally pop up again.

endlessly.

Sometimes she would read a book by the light of the bonfire.Books are something she brings with her, because unlike other people, she has no regular "dietary needs", so there is a lot more room for her to choose her luggage.If she was still alive, reading under such wobbly lights would probably be bad for her eyes, but now she can no longer say that... In the end, if her body organs are all degraded, why is her eyes not blind? Are the vocal cords damaged?Logically speaking, the process of corruption is irreversible, but because of a simple act of cannibalism, it can be alleviated or even reversed. This world is really incomprehensible.

She closed her eyes and listened to the voices of those souls crying in the middle of the night, the memories and time that were taken away by her.

Death is a long process.After a certain point in life, what was life becomes death.A person may still be repeating what he did "before he was alive", but he is unaware that he is moving in the opposite direction.And when a person dies in the biological sense, the spirit that supports life activities, that mysterious thing, and the thing that helps you maintain consciousness, we often call it "soul".

If it is Arthur's ability to keep her awake, the memory of "herself", does that mean that the essence of the soul is actually memory?

Sometimes, she really doesn't understand the meaning of existence of something like herself, just like she can't understand many things.

The world is a chaotic mess, she thought.

Kate seemed to have gradually discovered the problem with her mental state, but he didn't raise it directly, which caused Zoe who was really not in a good state of mind to realize it.In fact, it was just the norm for her.But her normality is not so for an ordinary person-and sometimes she does forget this, that is, she was once an ordinary person.

Zooey thought, it's not her fault.Of course, but she didn't know who to blame either.

One afternoon, she couldn't remember the exact day, Kate was sitting by a big tree grilling fish.He looked at Zooey a little hesitantly, as if he was thinking about how to speak.Zoe didn't notice because she was concerned about Lucas' progress. Jin said that he had found the ability user of "Archangel's Breath", and the other party also agreed to help.Zooey, who saw the news, felt that a stone in her chest was finally about to fall, but she couldn't let go of that last breath, and it wasn't time yet.

"Zoe—" Finally, Kate decided to speak.

Zoe had already taken off her contact lenses, and her sky blue eyes looked at the man beside her with quiet and reserved questions, but the conversation was interrupted because——

Suddenly a light appeared behind them.

Then came the voice of a child.

"gold……"

Kate turned her head.

"Is it Xiaojie?"

"Kate!"

The sudden appearance of an acquaintance under such an accident made Zooey stunned.What is this?Fate?She seems to run into these two little guys all the time.

"Ah! Sister Zoe!" Xiaojie, who had finished the story with Kate, pointed at Zoe.

Qi Ya also looked at her with an expression of "Why is it you again".

Zooey herself wondered why.

The sudden change interrupted the original conversation, and Zooey almost completely forgot what Kate wanted to say to her just now. She thought Kate was the same, but it was just her thought.

Of course Kate didn't forget what he wanted to say, but he finally decided not to say it.

In fact, Lucas had recovered his health a week ago, but his memory was still a bit confused when he woke up from a long-term coma.Jin was silent for a moment after telling him about it, and then asked him to let him judge when to tell Zooey about it.

Kate could see why Kim would say that.

He had also seen that look on Zooey’s face in the eyes of others before.

Her spirit was in jeopardy, like a string that was so tight that it was about to break.

In this case, telling her about Lucas may have unforeseen consequences, and it's best to wait until she's stabilized... or find something else to distract her... Have to say, Jack and Odd Ya came just in time.

Several other people in the expedition team returned to the camp soon, and they introduced each other.Everyone seems to be amazed that Xiaojie and Qiya have become their seniors (professional hunters) at a young age.

"I thought zombies were the strangest thing I've encountered recently." Shi Ping murmured with emotion.

"So, why is this guy here?" Qi Ya asked, pointing to his only acquaintance, Zoe Corleone.

Zoe, who became the center of the topic, did not gather around to enjoy the food with them at this time.For the dead, watching the living gather around to eat happily is tantamount to torture, but she has finished reading the book, so she is sitting not far from them in a daze. Watching.

She doesn't dislike Shiping and Banana, she even likes them very much.There are also Dina, Kate, Xiaojie and Qi Ya...even Xia Ke and Kuroro.But the lively and warm place of the living does not belong to her after all, it is their world.

So she sat there, listening to countless voices outside her body and in her head, thinking, over and over again.

Where is her world?

And what was she going to do when the dust settled, when Lucas recovered?

This death, this stagnant time...

long night

If the world is a room, darkness is its boundary.

The darkness blurs the boundaries between things, wrapping everything thickly, like the film formed on the surface of milk that has been left for too long, hiding the inside firmly.Zooey felt like a circle of unstable silhouettes, crumbling in the darkness.The only distinct thing here should be the life that lives here—flying insects, beasts, and human beings, but she can feel her boundaries constantly fluctuating and undulating, stabbing like black thorns. into the night.The blurred boundaries are not only everything visible to the naked eye, but also life and death.

However, there is no life without talking about death.

vice versa……

She can still maintain a normal appearance during the day.Normal means that she will watch animal videos with Kita and Jay, bicker occasionally, or help Kate fight.She even lived happily most of the time, which is really a rare experience for her, because she always feels that she has not experienced the emotion of "happiness" for a long time.

However, the more fulfilling the day's life, the more difficult the silent night is.

She tried to pick up the book, but failed.

A certain inner peace seemed to be broken.

Is it because of what?The sufferings along the way did not defeat her, Arthur's death, everything eaten by her