Chapter 2

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For someone like Shen Shanwu, who had the ability to change his body, infiltrating a human base was much easier than one might think.

After all, the most firm human knowledge about zombies comes from their red pupils and black sclera. This was the reason why Captain Li, who guarded the city wall, would take it lightly. In fact, except for Shen Shanwu, there were indeed no other zombies who could show normal human eyes.

There were many remote and uninhabited corners in the suburbs. Not only were there no people, but there were also no living things. After all, even the moss in the corners was eaten up by hungry people in the suburbs a long time ago.

Shen Shanwu slowly stopped and listened to the surroundings for a while. Confirming that he was the only one around, he then silently tore open the broken cloak on his body and then threw away the extremely stupid helmet, revealing a brand-new and neat sweater and trousers underneath, as well as the snow-white sneakers and the bulging black backpack behind him.

He transformed from a poor orphan to a pampered young master.

Shen Shanwu took out a small glass bottle from the side pocket of his backpack. There were three pieces of black nails inside, which were fan-shaped, about a centimeter wide, and the tips were very sharp.

He took out a piece, knocked on it, and then threw it on the ground.

If there was someone else here, then they would definitely be screaming, because just as the nail landed, flesh and blood suddenly grew out of it. First a pale finger, then the blood vessels and veins continued to extend, clinging to the snow-white bones that emerged earlier. Scarlet muscles and yellow fat were formed, and then evenly stretched and wrapped into the bloodless skin.

The palms, arms, internal organs, torso, legs, and feet…were arranged in turn, and finally, an adult man slowly opened his eyes in this dim and hidden alley.

Shen Shanwu looked at the man’s clothes and couldn’t help being upset, “Where are your goggles, mask, and protective cloak?”

The man lowered his head, and along with it were a pair of black and red eyes, showing his non-human identity. He opened his mouth, two rows of sharp teeth appeared. “I don’t need those. I don’t need to disguise my identity and blend in with the crowd. It’s you who are waiting for the opportunity to give the ‘President’s’ son a birthday gift. I’ll find an unmanned corner and wait for you to pick me up.”

As he was talking, the man smiled, “Top student, you looked so cute when you were 11 or 12 years old. What’s that idiom again…like pink carved jade?”

“..Fuck you.” The little jade boy said with intensity. “If it weren’t for it being too boring lately, who would go all the way to help him give a birthday gift to a kid?”

“I’ve also been very bored lately..” The man shrugged and suddenly thought of something. “Why don’t we wait for you to deliver the gift, then go to Wuyou City in the south to play? I heard that a new large-scale dance hall has been opened. Though really, it’s an official brothel. Tsk, apocalyptic people still engage in these extravagances..I like it!”

“Think again.” Shen Shanwu straightened his hair that was messed up by the helmet. He suddenly thought that he would have to wear it again to pretend to block the radiation later. “We mutants have no sperm, and we’ll go there for nothing.”

“Isn’t it just fine to feel it?” The man retorted solemnly. Shen Shanwu didn’t bother to pay attention to him, and lowered his eyes to hide the temper that belonged to an adult all over his body. “I’ll go first. I’ll just knock on your nails and call you when I’m done.”

“Okay, don’t be reluctant to use the nails. I’ve cut a lot of them recently and saved them just to waste them.”

“I see, be careful yourself.” After that, Shen Shanwu waved his hand and left the alley without looking back.

Mutants are currently the most special and rare type of race in the world, with no more than 100 worldwide, and a total of nine in China. They were originally zombies, but one day, they suddenly developed their sanity and became half-human, half-zombie monsters. The reason for this mutation was still unknown.

The mutants were extremely powerful and fast. They don’t need to eat or sleep, and they weren’t affected by radiation. They were considered to be the freest and most powerful beings in this apocalyptic world. The only drawback was the inability to reproduce.

They were like a small strand of branches in the process of human evolution, a small strand of mutation, born specifically for the end of the world, and were immediately stopped by God because the genes were too powerful.

Shen Shanwu was one of them. He died in the zombie tide in the first year after the end of the world, and in the third year, he miraculously awakened and became a mutant.

Of course, the information was all human cognition of mutants, and there was also information that mutants could blend in with people. In addition, they also have some incredible abilities and were well hidden, just like the man in the alley could change shape through his own cut nails, just as Shen Shanwu could change his appearance at will.

He was 31 years old this year, but he could pretend to be 13 years old and easily blend into the group of students around the inner city wall who were about to skip school and go out to play.

“You guys snuck out too?” Shen Shanwu naturally approached the children, his eyes swept across their masked faces one by one, pretending to be familiar by having his arm around the neck of one of them.

Although the person who was hugged showed a ‘Who are you?’ expression, but here, at the end of the world, the neater the clothes, the stronger the background. After all, only those who eat and drink worry-free have the time to clean themselves up. At first glance, a child like Shen Shanwu, who didn’t even have a single crease in his sneakers, at first glance, his family was either rich or valuable.

“Yeah, yeah.” Although the boy was young, he still knew how to follow the big guys. He hurriedly responded to this ‘big brother’. “Today, a very powerful team from the coastal base came to the school auditorium to give an opening speech, and we took the opportunity to sneak out to play. You too?”

“Yeah, but halfway through, I found that I forgot something to take.” Shen Shanwu sighed in disappointment, then took a few steps back and waved his hand to the group of students, “I’ll stop chatting and go back to school.”

“Then bye-bye??” The kid said goodbye to this familiar classmate with a blank expression, and then confusedly communicated with his friends who that guy was.

Behind them, Shen Shanwu looked at the student ID card he had just taken, hooked the corners of his lips, and sighed in his heart that kids these days were really easy to deceive.

Being on duty at the entrances and exits of the windy and rainy suburban cities was a fat job compared to being on duty at the entrances and exits of the inner cities where people were competing for it. Not to mention leisure, they often receive some ‘benefits’.

Identity information was not checked when going in and out of the inner city because, in order to maintain his political status, the leader of the Central Alliance trumpeted his beautiful concept of never engaging in division and isolation. In order to prove that “The inner and outer urban areas are all one family.”. All outer-city people were warmly welcomed to enter the inner city.

However, the inner city officers on duty would carefully pick out the clothes of those who entered the city. Just like beggars weren’t allowed to enter and exit high-end places, ragged suburban city people would be stopped and strictly questioned by the officers on duty in the inner city with an attitude of almost deliberately looking for trouble, and finally expelled with nitpicking questions.

Ideals were one thing, reality was another.

And a ‘big family’ like Shen Shanwu was respectfully let in. A huge circle of filters had been built around the inner city wall, and the filter elements were replaced every other week to filter radiation for the inner city day and night.

There was only one school in the Central Alliance. Shen Shanwu didn’t have to worry about getting lost in such a big place. He swiped his student ID in front of the gate and stepped inside with ease. A mutant from a black household, from head to toe, sneaked into the place where the Central Alliance represented the future and hope.

If Shen Shanwu wanted to, he could blood wash the auditorium where the school’s teachers and students would gather in half an hour, then tap his nails, and teleport unscathed by his companion to a severe radiation zone thousands of miles away.

That’s how mutants were, so powerful that they were unreasonable.

It’s a pity that the purpose of his trip was only to give a birthday gift to a child who had just turned fifteen.

The mutants were unable to bear children. This child was the crystallization of Shen Shanwu’s other companion, the ‘President’, and his wife before becoming a zombie. The ’President’ was as his name suggested. Before the end of the world, he was the boss of a rising company. He had assets of more than 100 million. He was even a celebrity in those days. Unfortunately, after the end of the world, everything aside from his body becomes useless digital codes.

Shen Shanwu’s title was ‘Top student’. In fact, he was only a college student at the beginning, and the end of the world came before he could graduate. However, because the university was the top in the country, he was nicknamed “Top student” by other mutants.

The man who played with his nails was called ‘Wolf dog’ because he had four black German shepherds in his family before the end of the world, and it was said that every one of them ate more than him.

The mutants seemed to like to call themselves by their characteristics when they were still human beings. They didn’t know if it was because of a habit or because they wanted to pay homage to something that would never come back.

The entire school was tightly protected by isolation glass and radiation-proof walls. Small filters were installed every 20 meters, and the measuring instruments standing in the open space were always kept green.

The teachers and students who came and went along the way were all well-dressed and didn’t wear masks. Shen Shanwu also took off his sweater hood and his mask, revealing a face that was seven or eight points similar to his adult image. He avoided the crowded auditorium and flashed sideways into the administrative office building next door.

His abilities only allowed him to become what he looked like for whatever period of time from childhood to adulthood. He can even advance to the age of fifty or sixty, but no matter how he changes, it will always be his own face.

The relationship between mutants and humans was very tense, and the friendship between the ‘President’ and his wife had gradually become indifferent. Their contact through a letter that only happens once every half a year was like a task. The content was alienated and polite, and the wife has also found a new romantic partner in Central Alliance.

Only their son was the constant connection between the two.

Although when Shen Shanwu was asked to give gifts to his son, the ‘President’ couldn’t remember for a while what his son’s grade and class were in school.

Shen Shanwu and he spread out the letters between the husband and wife over the years, staring at the contents for a long time, but in the end they did not find a reliable answer. In desperation, Shen Shanwu could only say that he would adapt to the situation.

And this so-called adaptability, this ‘opportunity’, lies in the fact that the opening ceremony of the school was being held in the auditorium today, and the administrative office building next door was sparsely staffed. The ‘opportunity’ lies in Shen Shanwu looking at the photos one by one to find the son. Now, he could swaggeringly enter the teacher’s office and find the student’s information.

He walked up the stairs freely, occasionally encountering people dressed as teachers and greeting them hello generously. At first glance, he looked like a normal student. He usually did a lot of infiltration work.

It was precisely because of his calmness that the outlaw Shen Shanwu did not suffer anyone’s suspicion until he found the dean’s office on the corner of the third floor.