Chapter 109: Zombies Can Eat Normal Food Too

"Whew, I'm stuffed!" As Du Yun slumped against the table, clutching her belly, the others were in a similar state. Only the two zombies continued to feast until every scrap of food on the table was gone, at which point they finally stopped, looking as though they could still eat more.

"So comfortable. It's been so long since I've eaten something this delicious!" Lia, who had arrived uninvited at some point, cupped her face and said blissfully. The previously cold and detached expression was completely gone from her slightly flushed cheeks, replaced by a charming, naive look.

"I'm glad you liked it," Du Yun said with a smile. Seeing Taozi looking equally happy, she reached out to stroke her small cheek.

"I wasn't complimenting you!" Upon hearing Du Yun, Lia seemed to suddenly realize what she had said. She pursed her lips and muttered under her breath, yet she was truly too embarrassed to put on a cold face again. Her awkward, cute demeanor made Du Yun chuckle.

"What do you think? If you can eat food like this, does that mean you can be satisfied?" Now that the meal was over, Du Yun hadn't forgotten the primary purpose of this lunch. She turned to the two high-level zombies, specifically the officer, Ji Yun, and asked.

"Yes, I am full." An awkward look appeared on Ji Yun's face, as if he wanted to smile but was forcing himself not to. He tilted his head and said to Du Yun, "If you cook for me every day, I can consider not eating you people!"

"It's a deal, then—no eating people!" Du Yun felt a weight lift from her heart, though she also thought Ji Yun was a truly stubborn fellow. Was it really that hard for him to admit her cooking was good?

"Fine, eat food, not people!" Ji Yun nodded earnestly, causing everyone present to breathe a sigh of relief.

"If we know zombies can eat food, does that mean other zombies, once awakened, could also eat instead of consuming humans or other zombies?" With the hypothesis that zombies could eat verified, the previous assumption was nullified. Could they be bolder and use the blue light, originally intended for luring and killing zombies, to awaken them instead?

"Master, if the zombies can eat, we don't have to worry about them killing each other anymore. Let's save this planet!" Dou Zhi suddenly piped up in Du Yun's mind.

"Save them? Can we really do it?" Du Yun pondered this, but with their meager numbers, could they truly accomplish something so massive?

"How will we know if we don't try? Master, I've mastered the programs of this starship. As long as we can establish communication with the other starships, I can take control of them. We won't be in any danger!" Dou Zhi's original world had been destroyed by zombies; he held both fear and resentment toward them.

But for Dou Zhi, what mattered more was cutting off the zombies' path to high-level evolution, preventing them from growing strong or spreading across the entire galaxy and the Alliance, ultimately preserving a small flicker of human civilization.

"No danger?" Hearing this, Du Yun couldn't help but hope for the best. If the blue light could awaken the zombies, did that mean she could cure the zombies on this planet? A surge of boundless hope welled up in her; perhaps she really did have the potential to be a savior.

To be honest, Du Yun was no saint, but she couldn't stand by and watch an entire planet fall, with all humans turning into zombies. Once there was an opportunity to save so many people without putting her own life in too much danger, she felt she had to try.

"Should we try testing the effects of the blue light?" Du Yun turned to look at the leader.

"You mean, we should awaken the zombies?" Hearing her tone and considering the current situation, the leader immediately grasped what she was thinking.

"Do you think it's possible?" It was just an idea in Du Yun's mind; to actually carry it out, she would need the leader and his team. After all, she was just one person, and her strength was far too limited.

"Let's try it!" The leader thought for a moment and nodded. He was a soldier, a soldier of the entire Imperial Alliance; protecting the safety of the Alliance and its people was his duty.

Since there was an opportunity to save them—even if it didn't mean a full restoration to normalcy—it was still better than slinking away on a stolen starship back to the Imperial Star. The potential reward was enough for the leader to take a gamble.

The leader lived up to his reputation as a captain of an elite unit. While Du Yun had only thought of using the blue light to restore the zombies, the leader had his team pull up maps of the entire planet and divide the land into countless blocks to create an operational plan.

As for the effects of the blue light, the leader had Da Zhuang and his team conduct detailed research, confirming the precise duration of blue light exposure needed to restore consciousness. Aside from the zombies captured in the initial small vehicle, other vehicles returned with full loads of zombies, providing them with plenty of subjects for their research.

Skinny Monkey wasn't idle either; he examined the energy crystal storage and the high-temperature, high-pressure apparatus. He discovered that the blue light and the high-pressure system could be operated independently. This meant they could bring the zombies up to be exposed to the blue light without having to compress them into energy crystals.

This was crucial for their goal. Otherwise, if all the zombies were exposed to the blue light and regained human emotions, only to realize they were about to be killed, it would be better to let them remain as they were than to subject them to such terror and despair.

With the research done and the plan set, the next step was to activate the starships and begin broadcasting the blue light across the world.

This was the time for Du Yun and Dou Zhi to shine. Dou Zhi located the distribution and operational ranges of all the starships from the main control program and calculated flight paths to quickly capture them.

Following these paths, Dou Zhi worked his magic. Once a blue-light starship entered radar range, he would establish a link, and within seconds, he would seize control of the ship, turning it into a tool for restoring the world.

In just a few short days, the majority of the surviving zombies on the planet were exposed to the light and regained their consciousness. Looking at the starships flying overhead, marveling at their suddenly clear eyes, and feeling the changes in their bodies, the survivors—now possessing human emotions—began their new lives in the old world.