Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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“Sister, what’s going on?” Ya Ya looked at Fu Ke with a blank expression, wanting to peek out, but Fu Ke stopped her.
“Ya Ya, be good, stay here and don’t move.” Fu Ke watched the skinny guy and Qiu Yi go upstairs, a smile flashing in her eyes.
The skinny guy at this time was very different from the skinny guy in her previous life. However, at this time in her previous life, she hadn’t met Brother Long or the skinny guy yet.
But she knew very well that when meeting the skinny guy in her previous life, she hadn’t seen Qiu Yi.
Did Qiu Yi run away on his own? Or did the skinny guy in this life go to the D City base? Fu Ke was full of questions.
However, the skinny guy was very different from the one in her previous life, and she recognized him at a glance. Brother Long and the skinny guy were probably people she would never forget in her life.
But thinking of Brother Long, Fu Ke’s eyes darkened slightly.
She was also almost prepared that even if she found the skinny guy, he would be like Brother Long. After all, their experiences were different, and they couldn’t accept her as without any reservations as they had in her previous life.
Focusing her mental energy on Lan Zhi, Fu Ke felt an envy that she herself didn’t realize.
Because, Lan Zhi had Lan Sheng.
The skinny man stood by the window, cautiously looking outside. His breath caught in his throat as he looked.
The entire courtyard was surrounded by men dressed in white. He squinted, then looked through another window; it was still the same group of people. Who were they? The skinny man narrowed his eyes. These people had very white skin and looked very thin, like flowers grown in a greenhouse.
Wait…
“Are these people doctors?” Qiu Yi also saw them surrounded, but he recognized the white coats— the ones the doctors he hated most often wore.
The skinny man stared at Qiu Yi. Doctors? He squinted, looking closely: “No, no, they look more like researchers.”
Then why were they surrounding them? Had they discovered them?
Suddenly, he remembered hearing about a place conducting human experiments in his previous life. They were arresting people everywhere just to conduct experiments. Could this be them?
No, even if they were arresting experimental subjects, they wouldn’t send defenseless researchers. Was this group of people arresting someone else, or waiting to be arrested?
Unless, of course, they were superhumans?
“Researchers?” Qiu Yi peeked out. “Then why are they surrounding us? And how did they know there were people here?”
Just then, a man jumped out of the truck. He walked over slowly, his posture somewhat strange.
He looked very smart in a black suit and trousers, wearing black leather shoes. He stood out among the group of people in white coats. He wore sunglasses, his hair was a little messy, and he looked over expressionlessly, appearing very arrogant.
His pointed chin lifted slightly, and Qiu Yi almost thought the man had seen him, so he quickly dodged.
“Master, another one has arrived!”
“Call me Skinny!” Skinny slapped the boy hard. He had corrected him countless times, but the boy insisted on being addressed as “Master.”
“Oh, that’s not the point. Look, another one’s coming. Should we run away?” Qiu Yi rubbed his head, inwardly cursing. He always hits his head; if this keeps up, he’ll be turned into an idiot.
The skinny man looked at the man standing at the courtyard gate. The black suit made him look particularly thin, and his exposed skin was even whiter than those in white.
Wait, this whiteness is a bit too much!
Even the color of his lips is off. Looking down, the skinny man saw the man’s hand hanging by his side, and he could vaguely see sharp fingernails!
“A zombie!” the skinny man said in disbelief. He looked carefully at the people in white; they were indeed human. And they were terrified when they saw the zombie in the black suit.
So there are conscious zombies already?
In his past life, he had only seen one person who could make humans bow down: Lan Zhi…
But then again, this person looked somewhat similar to Lan Zhi.
“Zombies?” Qiu Yi was stunned for a moment. He looked outside. “Master, are you sure you’re not mistaken? These people are zombies?”
“No, it’s that man in the suit, he’s a zombie. Look closely at his face and skin, it’s too pale, and his lips are a strange color. His nails are also faintly black and very sharp.”
Although they were quite far apart, the skinny man observed very carefully.
As a superhuman, Qiu Yi already had sharper senses than ordinary people, but he hadn’t paid much attention before. Now, with the skinny man’s explanation, he observed carefully and indeed, it was true.
‘Slap!’
“Master! Why did you hit me again?” Qiu Yi had just realized that, as the skinny man said, the man was indeed a zombie. But before he could even feel a jolt of fear, the skinny man slapped him hard on the head.
For a moment, he couldn’t care less about the shock of how he could be a zombie and looked at the skinny man accusingly.
“Call me skinny and I won’t hit you anymore,” the skinny man said calmly.
Qiu Yi choked, looking at the skinny man: “Then you should still hit him.”
“…” The skinny man looked at Qiu Yi strangely. Had this kid been beaten silly?
“Master, let’s run! There are so many of them. And there’s a zombie. I don’t know what level it is…” Qiu Yi was worried that these people had come prepared.
The skinny man’s hands were itching. He glared at Qiu Yi fiercely, but in the end, he didn’t continue hitting him.
He’d already beaten the kid silly. If he continued, wouldn’t he be responsible for the rest of this devilish child’s life?
“Run? What are you running for? We’re surrounded. These people in white coats, if they’re ordinary people, it’s fine, but if they’re ability users, we won’t be able to escape at all.” The skinny man said irritably.
“Then what do we do now?” Qiu Yi asked.
The skinny man pondered for a moment: “Watch me.”
He took out a seed from Qiu Yi’s pocket. This was a vine seed that he had found before to train Qiu Yi’s wood-type ability. What the skinny guy couldn’t understand was that Qiu Yi’s spatial ability, which he hadn’t trained much, was developing faster than his wood-based ability.
He flicked a seed between his fingertips.
The seed was very small, and no one except Fu Ke noticed that the skinny guy and the others had flicked it.
Just then, the seed rolled down next to a man in a white coat, who was completely unaware of it. Slowly, the seed sank into the soil, and a tender green sprout broke through the earth, growing wildly.
By the time the man realized something was wrong, the vines had already wrapped around him.
“Ah!” The man screamed in terror as he was entangled by the vines. The people around him were so frightened that they retreated, looking in horror at the man who had suddenly been entangled and held up by the vines.
Seeing their chaotic reaction, the skinny guy was somewhat surprised: “These people are all ordinary people.”
This was strange. They had no fighting ability, so why were they surrounding them?
Even ordinary people would usually help cut the vines and save the man in this situation, right? However, this group of people seemed like terrified mice, only thinking about escaping.
But he seemed to be holding back something, wanting to escape yet afraid to. It was really strange.
“Lan Zhi, go and get him down,” Fu Ke instructed Lan Zhi with his mental power.
Lan Zhi, who had been standing motionless at the door since the beginning, heard this and looked at the white coat entangled in vines. He didn’t want to go and help at all.
He hated everyone in that research institute, so before the vines appeared and before Fu Ke spoke, he turned a deaf ear.
In their eyes, he was just a zombie obeying Fu Ke’s orders.
So he hadn’t taken action to pulled the person down. But now that Fu Ke had spoken, he felt a fear, admiration, and dependence on Fu Ke that seemed to come from the depths of his soul.
In short, it drove him to obey her orders.
Lan Zhi disliked this feeling, the feeling of being driven. But he also knew that if it weren’t for Fu Ke, even if Lan Sheng didn’t want to kill him, Lan Sheng alone couldn’t protect him.
More importantly, if his former brother-in-arms attacked him, Lan Zhi couldn’t have brought himself to attack them.
He strode forward, reaching out to grasp the thick vine, black energy slowly emanating from his hand. Where Lan Zhi touched, the vine visibly corroded and broke off.
The skinny man didn’t control his further attack; he stared at Lan Zhi in astonishment. What the hell was this ability? He’d never even heard of it in his past life!
Corrosion, it was corrosion?
“Qiu Yi, quick, let’s leave from the back!” The skinny man grabbed Qiu Yi and quickly ran to the other window. The white-coated figures weren’t a threat.
But this zombie man made the skinny man wary— an ability he didn’t even know existed: corrosion. This was enough to fill him with vigilance and fear, even without knowing the ability. He licked his lips, flicking the vine to wrap around the bedpost, and leaped out of the window with Qiu Yi in his arms.
The vine’s force brought him to a smooth landing.
The researchers surrounding the area saw the skinny man and glared fiercely at them.
Fu Ke only ordered them to surround the area, saying nothing else. Now, a man jumped down from the building. His fierce eyes clearly showed he’d seen blood.
Several researchers instinctively moved away.
The skinny man’s gaze became even stranger. If they moved away so easily, why surround them?
Fu Ke jumped out of the car, but Ya Ya grabbed her arm.
“Sister, take me with you, okay? I don’t want to be separated from you.” Ya Ya looked at Fu Ke with dependent eyes.
Fu Ke paused, then smiled and picked up Ya Ya: “Okay.”
She didn’t enjoy being alone; so she preferred the days she spent with the skinny man, Brother Long, in her previous life. Unfortunately, those days were long gone.
She knew it yet couldn’t control her urge to search for them again.
Ya Ya’s appearance might not be a bad thing. At least, if the skinny man was like Brother Long, she wouldn’t feel sad, heartbroken, or disappointed.
Probably.
Fu Ke’s lips curled up, and carrying Ya Ya, she quickly circled around to the back of the courtyard, blocking the skinny man’s path.
“Sister Fu?” Qiu Yi saw Fu Ke and froze. He then let go of the skinny man’s hand and rushed over. “It really is you! Sister Fu, what are you doing here?”
“Yeah, just passing by.” Fu Ke smiled, her gaze lingering on the skinny man.
Compared to her previous life, the skinny man was much prettier now. Fu Ke smiled at the skinny man, then her gaze fell on Qiu Yi. “What are you doing here?”
It was as if she didn’t recognize the skinny man.
The skinny man was stunned for a long time, his eyes slightly reddening, his throat choked as he stammered, “Xiao Bai—”
Fu Ke subconsciously looked up at the skinny man, almost doubting her ears.
Xiao Bai, in this life, no one knew this name. This name had long since disappeared with her death in her previous life. So, no one would know the name Xiao Bai.
Even if they did, they wouldn’t call her that.
But the skinny man was clearly calling her Xiao Bai.
“Xiao Bai!” The skinny man strode over, laughing and crying excitedly. He waved his arms and opened his mouth, but couldn’t utter a single word, only repeatedly calling out, “Xiao Bai!”
“…” Like a fool, Qiu Yi suddenly didn’t want to call the skinny man “Master” anymore. Even more foolish than a fool, like someone with an intellectual disability! But, Sister Fu is the Xiao Bai the skinny man has been searching for?
Qiu Yi’s eyes dimmed. Sister Fu is here, but where is Mom?
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