Ch63 - Cannibalism?

Du Hang sat quietly by the bed, his eyes were blank and his expression was dull, as usual, without any superfluous expression, like a real zombie.

But at this time, Wei Xuan didn’t like his face no matter how he looked at it, suppressing the anger in his heart, Wei Xuan crossed his arms in front of his chest, and looked at the honest and seemingly innocent child with the expression of looking at his own unsatisfactory child. Du Hang gritted his teeth.

Helpless, no matter whether he is pretending or not, anyway, he is a zombie now and cannot communicate with humans, so even if Wei Xuan grinds all his teeth, he can still maintain his current appearance, as the world’s most well-behaved child.

Taking another deep breath, Wei Xuan lowered his arm and directly began to examine the body of this uneasy zombie who sneaked out in the middle of the night.

There didn’t seem to be any abnormalities or wounds on the limbs, and it appeared that he hadn’t been injured. But Wei Xuan didn’t know if it was a psychological effect, he always felt that some places on Du Hang’s arms looked lighter, as if a zombie had automatically recovered from an injury.

It was still early morning outside, and the light in the room was not particularly bright. Seeing the traces of the suspected scars, Wei Xuan immediately got up, went to the bedside and turned on an LED flashlight, and used this thing to assist in the inspection.

After an inspection, Wei Xuan almost bit his tongue off with hatred – there were marks on his right forearm and waist, and other places that seemed to have just healed aside, but these two places looked similar. It seemed to be scratched by a sharp object, but the other place seemed to have been made by something like a rope or a whip. What made his blood rush to his head was the dried blood under Du Hang’s nails.

Du Hang rarely does anything with his hands. Every time he acts with Wei Xuan, he is mostly a coolie. That is to say, he is responsible for all kinds of heavy physical work, such as digging holes, planting potatoes, and other such tasks. He didn’t need to do anything at all, but now there are such marks in the crevices of his nails. What does this mean? 

“Where did you go last night!!” The marks on his body were left after a battle, and what made Wei Xuan even madder – was that the weather was relatively hot, and the two of them were sleeping on the bed in the room again. After eating, I want to eat his tofu again… Cough, in short, when the two of them sleep, they usually lie on the bed with only their underwear on, so now that there is no shirt to refer to, Wei Xuan can only judge from the marks on his body, otherwise, he would have been able to tell at a glance after waking up.

Just when he was about to put socks on for Du Hang, Wei Xuan found mud on his feet – not the dirt from bare feet on the ground, but the mud left from walking on the muddy ground outside! If his feet were just a little dirty, Wei Xuan would have thought that he had walked barefoot on the ground when he wasn’t paying attention, and he wouldn’t suspect anything, but these muddy and dried marks are very obvious. 

Not to mention, he also found some scars on Du Hang’s body, as well as dried blood left on his nails!

Therefore, Du Hang has gone out and fought with something!!

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Wei Xuan stood in front of Du Hang with a very ugly expression, and various thoughts flashed in his mind, he is a zombie, and maybe, he still can’t control his impulse of ​​hunting humans… 

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But from looking at this situation… From the bottom of my heart, a voice suddenly sounded, as if it was a demon’s whisper.

That’s right, in my previous life, I didn’t stay with him for at least half of the time, so how can I be sure that when Du Hang is not in front of me, he hasn’t eaten anyone?

They still stay together every day in this life, Du Hang will sneak out in the middle of the night, with traces of fighting on his body, and even blood stains on his nails… He may go out occasionally to catch people and eat them…

No, no, if he cannibalized, why did he have to pretend in front of him?!

Wei Xuan suddenly shook his head to shake off those inexplicable thoughts, and suddenly stepped forward again, holding the flashlight in one hand and pulling Duhang’s chin with the other, just like a person checking the teeth of cattle and sheep in the animal trading market…

Du Hang’s mouth is relatively clean because he usually only eats snowflakes, and he doesn’t even need to eat the food that humans usually eat, so Wei Xuan doesn’t need to brush his teeth every day… Well, this is also so that he doesn’t run out. 

At this moment, Du Hang’s mouth was illuminated by the flashlight. Seeing the situation in his mouth, Wei Wei was relieved, there was no blood, no meat pieces, and nothing that could show that he had eaten a person. 

In other words, at most, he had fought with something and was injured by the other party, but the other party would not be intact – because there were blood stains on Du Hang’s nails.

So, what did he fight with??

After finally dispelling the most disturbing thoughts in his heart, Wei Xuan’s expression became much better. He rested his chin in thought and turned off the flashlight completely.

Because of the bloodstains, it is unlikely that he would go out and fight zombies for territory. The scars on his body showed that the opponent’s fighting power is not low. As for the marks on his body, what exactly caused the mark that looked like a whip?

Suddenly, Wei Xuan frowned, he remembered the two zombies from the house next door, what if there was a fight between them? This is not completely impossible, after all, they don’t usually get along. 

Thinking of this, Wei Xuan impatiently went to get Du Hang’s foot wash with a dark face: “You can ask me for anything you want to eat in the future, and you are not allowed to sneak out in the middle of the night…” 

Wei Xuan glanced at Du Hang who was still sitting on the bed honestly, “Hmph, it seems that starting from today, I’d better tie myself to you with rope even when we sleep at night!” 

The well-behaved baby who he thought was always obedient suddenly went out behind his back. This kind of thing made him feel quite hurt.

In particular, one of the reasons why Wei Xuan has always firmly assigned Du Hang to the category of ‘half-zombies’ is because he has always believed that Du Hang is a zombie that can control his instincts and does not eat people. This, combined with the ideas of those scientific lunatics, can pretty much prove that he is a ‘half-zombie’.

So, can the man-eating Du Hang still be considered a half-zombie?

That’s why he was so shocked after he suspected that Du Hang had gone out in the middle of the night and had contact with something.

But thinking about it carefully, even if Du Hang still has the urge and ability to eat people, judging from the huge disparity in combat power between himself and Du Hang, there is no way for him to stop Du Hang.

Moreover, even if he knew that Du Hang still needed to eat human flesh, would he leave Du Hang because of this?

This is completely impossible!

After rebirth, the only support in Wei Xuan’s heart is Du Hang. Since he found him immediately after the apocalypse started and lived with him for so long, even if he doesn’t want Du Hang to eat people, Wei Xuan will still accept it if it happens. 

Fortunately, after he checked Du Hang, he could confirm that he had indeed gone out to find something and had a fight, but he didn’t eat it. No matter whether he was fighting human beings or something else, no matter whether the thing ran away or Du Hang didn’t eat it after killing it, it would be much easier for Wei Xuan.

If you think about it carefully, doesn’t Wei Xuan still hold the idea of ​​”if he can’t continue living on, he can just directly turn himself into a zombie?” 

Du Hang, who doesn’t have the concept of human thinking, doesn’t care what he eats at that time, and it’s more likely for him to help Wei Xuan, who would be zombified, to catch people!

After washing the feet, hands, and nails of the guy who ran out to play in the mud, Wei Xuan put his shoes and socks on again and dragged him out and down the stairs together.

After such a toss, the sky has already completely brightened up. The weather today is very good, the sky is bright with some white fluffy clouds. When the sun rises, it will be another ‘good; day for roasting people to death.

Passing the zombies wandering around in the open space, Wei Xuan walked around to the door of the building where the two zombie neighbors lived. Before entering the building, he heard a strange sound coming from inside.

Wei Xuan’s heart tightened, and he immediately pulled Du Hang to hide under the wall next to the building. The strange sound inside still came faintly, and it sounded inexplicably familiar to Wei Xuan.

He frowned and thought for a while, and then listened for a while to confirm that there was no other sound except this one. Looking at the other zombies in the community and Du Hang’s indifference to this, he could confirm that it was not people who ran in. 

So Wei Xuan picked up a piece of brick that fell from somewhere, and walked into the corridor step by step, cautiously…

“…is it coming from that way?” Standing at the door of a locked room on the first floor, Wei Xuan stared at the big thick door that had been scratched with a hole in it, as expected of a zombie’s claw!

Uncle Du behind the door was still tirelessly scratching the door with his free hand.

“Okay, then you can go out for a stroll, just don’t go out of the community.” Wei Xuan shook his head, he seemed to know why he wandered out into the rain, he didn’t want to stay in the room at all! Now even if the door is locked, it can’t stop him from wanting to come out to bask in the sun!