The situation of Luo Wei and Fan Guoping was different. Fan Guoping was infected with the virus for too long, and the degree of mutation was too extreme. When Shen Shian discovered it, he already had no breathing and heartbeat. His eyes were muddy and dull, and they were like zombies’.

However, apart from a small area on his back where the mutation occurred, Luo Wei’s breathing was normal and his heartbeat was still strong. He did not look any different from a normal person.

The chance of him being cured was high, and Shen Xun’s “curse” ensured the safety of the space. It could be said that the conditions were favourable and because of that, Shen Shian decided to give him a chance to live.

The dog spirit once said that the spring water could heal living people but not the dead. Luo Wei’s situation, in fact, he could be cured if he soaked in the spring.

But Shen Shian did not intend to do so. In the past, the spring eye was very unstable after drying twice. He could not predict what effect would Luo Wei, carrying the zombie virus, have on the spring eye. Not only that, 400 people had already witnessed Luo Wei’s wound infected by the zombie virus. If Shen Shian cured him with the spring water, even with Shen Xun’s curse, there was absolutely no way to hide this secret.

As survivors would evolve more and more abilities, it’s one thing to expose their “space storage” ability, and it’s another thing to expose their capability to cure the zombie virus.

Once the spiritual spring was exposed, let alone the Qin family would want it, survivors from all over the world would try to catch him, and the consequences would be disastrous.

Shen Shian could help them under the premise of his safety being ensured, but he had no selflessness to be willing to put himself and Shen Xun in danger for others.

The initiative to put Luo Wei on the second floor of the bamboo building was already the greatest help he could provide. As to whether Luo Wei would survive in the end, as he told Tao Yuan, it was not under his control.

After carefully checking Luo Wei’s situation, Shen Shian took the child down the stairs and sat down on the lounge chair in the corridor.

The thick peach tree outside the corridor was still full of flowers, and it had been like this since he practised his cultivation. The peach blossoms on the tree were like the magnificent rose-tinted sky at sunrise. From time to time, some petals would float down and spread evenly on the side of the corridor.

Shen Xun glanced at this peach tree, which was only blooming and had no fruits. He held the fruit pot and drilled into Shen Shian’s arms to feed him a strawberry. “An An, what are you thinking?”

Shen Shian swallowed the strawberry and moved the child. “Thinking about the connection between abilities and the zombie virus.”

There was no doubt that abilities were related to the outbreak of the zombie virus. But obviously, it was not possible to evolve abilities by being infected with the zombie virus. At present, all the people who were known to have been scratched or bitten by zombies had became zombies, including the four sacrificed soldiers in the garrison——Shen Shian asked Tao Yuan, but he said that they all killed themselves before they lost their control and became zombies.

So what is the connection between abilities and the zombie virus?

According to information known by Shen Shian, all ability users seemed to have one thing in common before they evolved their abilities: fever.

This was true for Ms. Dong in the library, Chen Nan and Liu Fangzhou, and for the six ability users who fled the tobacco factory together.

It was roughly certain that fever was at least a condition to evolving an ability or a sign to evolving an ability.

This reminded Shen Shian of the flu virus that swept the world before the apocalypse: the virus caused almost half of the world’s population to have a cold and fever. There were no cured cases, and he was afraid that all of them had became the first zombies.

In other words, if they had fever before the apocalypse, they would become zombies, but if they had fever after the apocalypse, they would evolve an ability.

Is there any difference between these two fevers? Or is it just because the person with the fever is different? What’s so special about April 3rd?

Shen Shian had speculated that people who had a fever before the apocalypse became zombies because the flu virus had mutated into a zombie virus for some reason. So, he boldly assumed that people with a fever after the apocalypse were also infected with the flu virus, but this time the flu virus did not mutate into the zombie virus, but instead it made some kind of transformation on the body of the survivor, making them evolve an ability.

If this assumption was correct, then it could explain another question: why did not one of the 261 garrison’s members evolve an ability?

Because their physique was much stronger than ordinary people, it was not easy for them to be infected with the flu virus, or it was not easy for them to be transformed by the flu virus.

If you think about it this way, it seemed that the ability users known so far were indeed weak: Ms. Dong, middle-aged, Liu Fangzhou, who is underage, the dark-skinned, skinny Ma Zhongyi, and Zhou Jianghai, who was over 50 years old…

Chen Nan alone was a special case. He was a professional athlete of the provincial track and field team. He had received a lot of training for a long time, and his physique should be particularly strong. However, he did say that he had fever after discovering that his brother became a zombie. So he was grieved, and such a strong emotional fluctuation had a high probability of affecting a person’s physical condition and immune system. The “broken heart syndrome” that has been certified in modern medicine refers to the symptoms of sharp contraction of the left ventricle after a severe sad event. The symptoms were similar to an acute heart attack. In severe cases, it might even lead to sudden death.

All kinds of thoughts were running fast, and the thoughts in his mind were becoming clearer. After Shen Xun finished eating a pot full of strawberries, Shen Shian sighed and hugged him before getting up from the chair, “Go, let’s sleep in the car.”

Everything was normal in the off-road vehicle, but there was a figure sitting beside the protective line in the distance.

Shen Shian thought for a moment. He let the child lie down and covered him with a quilt. “You go to sleep first, I will come back immediately.”

Tao Yuan turned his head when he heard the footsteps and immediately stood up. “Mr. Shen, did I wake you up?”

Shen Shian patted his shoulders and sat down next to him. “No, the child had too much energy, he made me busy.”

Tao Yuan looked at him and stopped talking. He seemed to be embarrassed. Shen Shian guessed what he was thinking, “You can rest assured that Captain Luo’s condition is very good. The virus hasn’t spread further.”

Tao Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, looking at Shen Shian with eyes full of gratitude. “Mr. Shen, for you, for the captain, and for all the other comrades, I really don’t know how to thank you. If there is anything that I could do, please don’t be polite. I will even climb mountains and dive into a sea of fire, ten thousand deaths will not prevent me!” Liu Fangzhou had already told him about the three crystal nuclei as food expenses every day. What few nuclei can repay him. If it were not for Mr. Shen saving their lives, they would all be dead in the base.

Shen Shian did not directly refuse, and thought about it before answering, “It’s not necessary to go up the mountain and down the sea of ​​fire, but I do have something that may need to trouble you: I don’t know if you want to help train Chen Nan and Liu Fangzhou? Just follow the method in your army, be merciless.”

“I’m willing, I’m willing! Of course I’d be willing!” As long as there was a way to express his gratitude, Tao Yuan couldn’t ask for more. “Mr. Shen, don’t worry, this matter will be covered by me!”

“Thank you, you don’t need to call me Mr. Shen. Since you are joining the team, we are now partners. Just call me by my name. By the way, how old are you?”

“Twenty-six.”

Shen Shian silently swallowed back the sentence “If you don’t dislike it, you can call me brother Shen”, his baby face is too advantageous.

He stood up from the grass, “It’s not too early, I’ll go back to coax the child to sleep, you also have to rest early.”

Tao Yuan also stood up, “En, I will go to bed immediately, good night.”

“Good night,” Shen Shian looked at his eyes and said warmly. “Tomorrow morning is going to be another brand new day.”