Capturing and Raising Zombies!

Therefore, the losses incurred at the very beginning were extremely heavy.

However, the situation changed rapidly.

Due to the town's environment, the zombies soon began to wander all over the place.

Consequently, the number of zombies inside the town decreased, and the pressure of survival plummeted drastically.

"I managed to get by pretty well with my supernatural ability, and I wasn't short on food. The survivors inside the town all united together, and one of them possessed terrifyingly strong combat power!" The bearded man gritted his teeth as he said this.

It seemed that the extremely powerful person the bearded man mentioned was the one who had persecuted them.

The bearded man did not know that person's real name, but names did not matter much in the apocalypse.

Everyone simply referred to him as the Factory Director.

It was said that before the apocalypse broke out, that person had been the manager of a small factory.

"The Factory Director's ability is poison! And his toxic power is so potent that even zombies cannot withstand it! Gradually, he cleared out all the zombies in the town," the bearded man continued.

The Factory Director led their group, not only clearing out the zombies.

He also fortified the surrounding streets and cleared out a large area for activities.

A massive amount of food and supplies was stockpiled there, enough to last for a very long time.

There were about nine hundred survivors in total.

Nine hundred people?

Xue Feng was quite surprised when he heard this number.

He had not expected a place like River Town to actually have over five hundred survivors.

Yet, upon second thought, it became understandable.

After all, the situation in River Town was different from that of major cities.

In the cities, the living territories of survivors were fragmented into isolated pockets.

River Town was different. When the apocalypse broke out, there were many scattered survivors in the surrounding areas.

Because their dwelling places were remote, they did not encounter zombie attacks immediately.

Once they learned that there was a survivor base in River Town, they flocked there to join.

Thus, gathering nine hundred people was not really strange.

"It was great at the beginning. Everyone was figuring out how to expand the living territory, grow crops, and so on. But soon, the Factory Director discovered a secret." The bearded man's gaze grew much deeper as he said this.

A secret?

Xue Feng instantly perked up, eager to know what secret the bearded man was referring to.

There were simply too many mysteries in the current apocalypse.

And countless secrets were waiting to be uncovered.

"It's fine to tell you about this, but I hope you won't spread it. It's no good if too many people know," the bearded man said in a deep voice.

"Alright," Xue Feng nodded.

Promising him meant no loss anyway.

"The energy cores inside the heads of zombies can be used for many things, and ability users can enhance their powers by consuming them," the bearded man said slowly.

Right after saying this, the bearded man watched as Xue Feng casually pulled out a zombie's energy core from somewhere.

It even looked like it came from a Tier-2 mutant, and Xue Feng swallowed it directly.

"Turns out you already know," the bearded man said awkwardly.

The bearded man had originally thought that this secret was only known to the people of River Town.

After all, who would have nothing better to do than eat energy cores?

They were extremely hard to chew and could only be swallowed with great difficulty.

"Hmm, I suppose I know a bit about it," Xue Feng nodded.

"After discovering the usefulness of the energy cores inside zombie heads, the Factory Director started a plan... He is breeding zombies!" the bearded man said.

What!

Breeding zombies!

Xue Feng truly had not expected someone to be so out of their mind.

Why do zombies evolve? According to the speculation between Xue Feng and Nie Xiaoyue,

it must be related to energy.

As long as they absorbed enough energy, they could complete their evolution.

This was the most basic logic of biology.

"He's breeding zombies! What is he using to breed them?" Xue Feng asked.

"Living things, of course. At first, it was animals..." The bearded man hesitated, leaving his sentence unfinished.

Zombies would pounce on any living creature.

Animals were no exception and would be eaten by zombies.

Using animals to feed zombies was a viable method.

However, judging by the bearded man's expression, Xue Feng knew the targets were definitely no longer just animals.

After all, animals were extremely vital sources of food.

In the apocalypse, many people couldn't even get a bite of bread, let alone meat.

On the contrary, under such circumstances, survivors had instead become a burden.

"Later on, he started using humans, didn't he?" Xue Feng stated.

"Exactly! At first, it was people who died of illness, and then the elderly... The rest of us refused to go along with it, so he poisoned us!" Whenever the bearded man brought this up, he remained filled with righteous indignation.

Clearly, the bearded man had no desire to partake in such acts.

And it was not just the bearded man.

Others were unwilling to do this as well, which was why they fled with him.

"Of course, if it were only that reason, I wouldn't be entirely honest with my brother here. In truth, we were also worried that we might become the next targets for feeding," the bearded man explained further.

"Why? You guys were going to be used as feed too?" Xue Feng found this even stranger.

No matter where one went, ability users should always be prized assets.

They represented a crucial source of combat power.

How could anyone deliberately feed ability users to zombies?

"Because consuming ability users accelerates the zombies' evolution rate even faster. The Factory Director has already found excuses to kill two ability users. All six of us are animal-type ability users, which belong to a relatively low tier among ability users, so we all felt a sense of crisis," the bearded man sighed.

"Animal-type ability users?" Xue Feng was slightly stunned.

He had not expected the bearded man and his companions to all possess animal transformation abilities.

"That's right. Supernatural abilities can roughly be divided into three types: the Animal category, the Super category, and the Natural category. Among them, the Animal category has the lowest potential," the bearded man said.

"Hmm..."

Hearing this, Xue Feng found it strangely familiar.

Wasn't this the setup from a certain anime?

Thinking carefully, supernatural abilities could indeed be categorized into these three types.

However, Xue Feng had never actually encountered any Natural-type ability users.

His own ability, Divine Heavens, should theoretically belong to the Natural category.

Yet he could not transform into lightning.

The director he met earlier at the psychiatric hospital could also summon lightning.

Yet he couldn't turn into lightning to immune damage either.

Wait!

Xue Feng's eyes suddenly lit up.

Could it be that they couldn't transform into natural elements not because it was impossible, but because their tiers were simply not high enough yet?

As long as they continued to elevate their abilities, sooner or later they would reach the point where they could transform into natural forces.

At this thought, Xue Feng vaguely felt as though he had grasped the evolutionary path of supernatural abilities.

"Brother, I've told you all of this. We aren't particularly righteous people; we just want to survive and don't want to become food in a zombie's mouth," the bearded man heaved a heavy sigh.

He had truly opened his heart to Xue Feng.

Xue Feng nodded to show his understanding, then asked the bearded man what they planned to do next.

"We guys just want to stay alive. We don't know what kind of person the leader here in Jiang City is, but anyone capable of ruling the entire Jiang City must be someone extraordinary. To be honest, we're still a bit scared, so we want to leave this place," the bearded man admitted frankly.