By the time the afternoon is approaching, Ark found a small family motel near the national road, the rooms are clean, the scent of blood is not too strong, and the location is good for setting up as a temporary safe house. As he quickly searched the place, he deliberately found disinfectant and poured them out onto the floor in front of the door, so that almost no zombies would ever trace their smell to this place.
However, this kind of method could only work in place with a smaller number of zombies, if it were in the place of densely populated areas with dozens of zombies, it would backfire as they would be attracted...
After eating supper, and carefully looking over the windows for signs of trouble and locking the door, Ark finally sat in front of Yu Lian, and took out that piece of virus gel.
He don't know if it was exposed from the air for a long time, originally that light pungent smell became even denser and stronger, the moment he took it out, it stimulated Yu Lian's eyes to turn red. If it wasn't for Ark and Yu Lian already having a strong spiritual connection, she would probably resist his connection.
However, Ark felt like the smell was so disgusted like he was in torture chamber; he did not immediately give it to Yu Lian for her to eat is because he felt that the color of this gel is simply too bizarre, it looked like real green blood clots, and appeared to be very fresh. Never thought that virus can survive and be preserved....
At this moment, Yu Lian now has a strong instinctive desire, Ark could no longer handle the pungent smell as he handed the gel to hand, but Yu Lian could not resist her temptation it was quickly handed the gel to her mouth directly.
Yu Lian's lip was cold, when she opened her mouth to swallow the gel, that warm tongue was gently swept and coiled around Ark's fingers, and it made his heart suddenly jump. Watching Yu Lian whose eyes gradually calmed down, Ark even thought she had the urge to kiss him directly....
But just when Ark slowly lifted up her face, emotionless Yu Lian suddenly closed her eyes, her brows slightly wrinkled more.
This startled Ark; this is his second time seeing this kind of face expression on Yu Lian's face. Although this time Yu Lian firmly closed her eyes, but because her body exudes a dangerous aura emanating, it allowed Ark to feel a sudden decrease in temperature in his surroundings.
At the same time, an alternating hot and cold feel swept Ark's body once more, he was covered in shivers, then felt a wave of painful sensation across every bone in the body, his head also felt like it was going to split in half.
"Ahhh...!!!"
Could not help but to let out a snort of pain, Ark immediately curled down, and Yu Lian who was let go also fell down, paralyzed in bed.
Indescribable pain continuously raging, conveyed through Ark's each cell, and muscles as he felt his body is being torn apart little by little, and recombined together repeatedly. He was only affected by the spiritual connection of his ability, and he was able to feel to experience the inscrutable pain in which Yu Lian was also experienced directly.
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Ark holding out the pain, kneeled on the bed with blood shot eyes, his body involuntary trembled, but his eye were kept fixed on Yu Lian.
If Yu Lian could tolerate this pain, how could a big man like him not take it...
After a full thirty minutes, the pain finally eased down slowly, yet Ark felt it was five days and four night was passed.
Fortunately, there came with a sense of rejuvenation, which greatly ease the pain caused by complications. He could feel the changes he accumulated has received a throes of sublimation through the inscrutable pain, as if he was went through transformation through rebirth. With strength hidden inside his muscles, as well as unprecedented clear mind, it made Ark excited.
Similar to what happened to mutated zombie, he also received some form of evolution...even though it's not drastic of change showing from appearance, but Ark felt it completely. Like it spirit is welling up within inside of his body, Ark felt, because he was able to endure the pain with a pure will alone, he probably received a much higher spiritual evolution than the physical evolution.
Whether there was truly an such transformation to himself, Ark could only to test out in future battles ahead.
While Yu Lian stayed in coma-like state throughout the whole night, she always frowned slightly, from time to time tremble a little. Ark stood by her side, his heart filled with both concern and expectation. How much will Yu Lian can grow after absorbing the gel mutated zombie...
"Oh my, I actually suddenly fell asleep..."
Experience such extremely pain, his body felt the limits of his fatigue and allowed Ark to fall asleep after a night of sleep. But the habit and instinct he developed during the disaster outbreak let Ark woke up after a few minutes late.
This type of habit when sleeping is probably naturally obtained by all survivors during the doomsday. An almost instinctive sense of strong awareness in knowing time, it is even maintained during his sleep, and even a few minutes of deep sleep was enough for nerves to ease up.
Since Ark, an ability user of controlling bound zombies, due to his needs in maintaining spiritual connection, rarely falls into a deep sleep state. This is the first time....he was glad that he was.
After he nervously opened his eyes, he found himself something really so dumbfounded; Yu Lian was gone!
Did his spiritual connection with Yu Lian was cut off in that few minutes he was out?! But after calming down, Ark suddenly remembered some things. After evolution, Ark's [Zombie Bind] was acquired as an expansion of two spiritual abilities; from deliberately command to arbitrary command, a significant improvement of his standard ability.
At that time, although Yu Lian wasn't here in this room, but Ark could clearly sense the spiritual thread that he was still connected with her, spiritually.
Ever since under spiritual connection with him, from battles and going out, Yu Lian almost never act on her own, suddenly today...
Thought about that, puzzled Ark quickly converted the field of view to the spiritual bird's eye view perspective....
Fortunately, Yu Lian was still inside the motel, though her actions are still odd. If it was during normal days, besides attacking and waiting, Yu Lian would never do an action requiring self awareness involved, but now she was wandering around in the Motel.
And from time to time, she would stop at some place and quietly blank for an hour.
"What is going on?" Ark quickly returned his perspective as he ran out the door, and soon found Yu Lian in the main hallway downstairs.
Seeing Yu Lian at first sight, Ark almost exclaimed aloud. As the morning sun shone brightly through the windows while Yu Lian, who was standing under its light, slowly turned and looked at him, a clueless, vacant expression was worn on her face. But it was that clueless expression that made Ark trembling, relief, speechless or excitement and maybe all of it.
"Yu Lian!" Ark quickly rushed before Yu Lian, hand grabbed her shoulder, holding back the tears.
Did not expect so soon for he to return her consciousness...
"No,wait... something did not definitely feel right..." After tried to communicate Yu Lian a few times, Ark suddenly felt like someone from above pull a prank of bucket of cold water pouring on his head. Within just looking at her eyes, he only saw occasional clueless and loss expression and the usual blankness expression.
Perhaps the certain condition was met which the semi-evolution let loose a fraction of Yu Lian's consciousness, but it was definitely a step forward from reaching the full recovery. It could also possible that the virus enabled the creation of new sense in the emotionless Yu Lian...
"Yu Lian?" Concerned, after shouting a few more times, Ark reluctantly accepted the fact that Yu Lian was still in early phase and not full recovery.
The bright side, the fact Yu Lian was starting to show a trace of emotional expression, and some of her independent action was shown. Bit by bit, whether he will do different means for her recovery, even through same evolution, one or another, Ark expected to believe that he was right track.