Meanwhile, Zhan Yi had already taken the photos and returned to the car.
Perhaps due to a lack of familiarity with the process, the first few Polaroid photos were severely overexposed, but they improved considerably later on, at least allowing for a general understanding of the situation.
The only room on the entire third floor that showed signs of life was the innermost room, but there was no one there at the moment, and the door was only slightly ajar, left just after the zombies were killed.
Shen Muyu still saw the bread she had given her on the ground, but she didn't touch it.
"I wonder where they and those zombies were taken. Could there be another dimension?" Shen Muyu rubbed his temples in frustration.
"Little A, let's go check somewhere else." We can't just wait here. Those survivors are useless; not a single one of them has come out to scout the situation, so they're basically unreliable.
Xiao A slowly drove out of the villa hotel and headed into the scenic area, while Shen Muyu replenished a few milliliters of energy liquid and continued to release his consciousness.
She and Xiao A have different perspectives now, so maybe they'll make some new discoveries.
"Little A, stop for a moment!" Shen Muyu saw the human-faced flower again and quickly said before the black aura spread.
This time, instead of simply defending and retreating, she directly condensed her mental energy into a single stream and probed into the human-faced flower's body.
The black energy rushed towards Shen Muyu in an instant, but it was completely blocked by the white light barrier emitted by the bracelet.
"Crystal core!" Shen Muyu was moved to tears when he saw the crystal core inside the human-faced flower. It was such a hard-won achievement. This was the first time he had seen this cute little guy since he came in. Killing flower-shaped zombies before was like working for nothing, which was so frustrating!
The human-faced flower once again gathered a wisp of black mist, but this time it was not as fast as Shen Muyu. In just an instant, its crystal core exploded, and the black mist dissipated.
Seeing the black mist disappear, Shen Muyu breathed a sigh of relief. She was almost about to cut off her mental energy, after all, she didn't want to experience the consequences of being infected by the black mist.
Shen Muyu's spiritual power slowly enveloped the corpse of the human-faced flower, but during the exploration, she suddenly discovered a small branch that was still active.
The branch seemed to have its own consciousness; after sensing Shen Muyu's spiritual embrace, it immediately burrowed into the ground and ran into the distance.
"Drive west, little A! Quick!" Shen Muyu's consciousness couldn't normally penetrate the soil, but this branch made a small hole in the soil as it "ran," and Shen Muyu was able to keep up by following the hole.
Xiao A immediately started the car and sped over, the car instantly leaving the road and starting to run over the grass.
The car drove further and further off course. Fortunately, the scenic area was not divided into sections for isolation, otherwise Shen Muyu would have been devastated if she had been stopped by the protective netting.
As they got closer to the mountain and the number of rocks increased, Shen Muyu was jolted and swayed in her seat, while Zhan Yi silently grabbed the armrest next to her.
That branch probably felt it couldn't outrun Shen Muyu, so it stopped.
Shen Muyu paused for a moment before extending his mental energy further.
However, just as Shen Muyu's mental energy was about to grasp it, the branch disappeared on the spot.
"Master, it's getting dark," came Little A's voice.
Shen Muyu severed that small portion of spiritual energy and looked outside, where there was only a pile of rocks and nothing else.
"The darkness is so random. I wonder if it's controlled by someone or because it's a special area," Shen Muyu said with his eyes closed and brows furrowed.
"Xiao A, let's go back to the villa." Shen Muyu had gone to the limit but still couldn't find anything else, so she could only tell Xiao A to go back. She felt that the human-faced flower should be related to the flower-shaped zombie.
They were just trying to see where the branch would go, so neither Shen Muyu nor Xiao A used their full strength. As a result, the return trip was much faster, and they arrived back at the villa hotel in about ten minutes.
The pits dug by the zombies have disappeared, but the zombie limbs remain in the same spot.
Although the old pit was gone, a new pit was created by zombies not far away in front of the villa. However, the zombies were no longer in the original spot. Shen Muyu used his mental power to check and found that they were all piled up inside the villa.
The people in the villa still chose to fight on the third floor. Shen Muyu randomly selected a few people to investigate, and sure enough, plant roots had already parasitized their bodies.
"They've all turned into zombies, just as expected." Shen Muyu glanced at the zombies and found the bearded man from before on the first floor.
Perhaps due to the short parasitic period, the bearded man's face didn't have many flowers, and his features were still barely discernible.
As if remembering something, Shen Muyu focused his mental energy on the villa where the bearded man had lived, and saw that the long-haired man's dismembered limbs were still in place.
"Wait a minute? Are there fewer corpses?" Shen Muyu looked towards the door with some doubt. Although the bearded man and the old man were not very efficient, they had still killed about twenty or thirty zombies. But there were only eleven heads on the ground.
"Where are the bodies? They've disappeared." Shen Muyu asked, puzzled. He then ran to another villa and searched through the pile of zombies.
"Who put this together? It's quite detailed." After a careful search, Shen Muyu finally found some zombies that were not quite the same.
These zombies were clearly stitched back together, but the cuts were covered with flowers of varying sizes, making them difficult to spot without close inspection.
Shen Muyu still managed to glean some clues from the torn clothes.