Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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“I saw your team go out to find supplies, why didn’t you go?” Qiu Yingying asked curiously.
“Don’t mention it.” Chen Meijia waved her hand: “We spoke up for Fu Ke before, so now my team is ostracizing me. So what if they ostracize me? I can go alone.”
She shrugged indifferently.
Qiu Yingying smiled bitterly. It wasn’t just Chen Meijia who was being ostracized. Everyone who had spoken up for Fu Ke before seemed to be facing ostracism.
“Let’s go together.” Qiu Yingying looked at Chen Meijia.
“With pleasure!” Chen Meijia grinned.
“Count me in.” Feng Han walked up from behind them.
Qiu Yingying and Chen Meijia both looked at Feng Han in surprise: “Weren’t you not required to go out to collect supplies?”
“Just like you, I’ve been ostracized. I’ve been squeezed out of my position and am all alone now. How about it, do you want to take me in?” Feng Han joked.
“Of course we welcome you,” Chen Meihua said with some doubt, “but you’ve been squeezed out. Doesn’t Liu Guo’an care?”
Feng Han sighed upon hearing this, “Why should he care? Liu Guo’an isn’t doing well either. The base is getting more and more unstable. I don’t know if this base can continue to function properly in the future.”
For some reason, Qin Long had abandoned all involvement. He left the base alone and returned at night. He didn’t concern himself with anything at the base.
Those who were originally suppressed by Qin Long after Zhang Zhongmin left were starting to stir. Liu Guo’an was already preoccupied with his own problems.
Moreover, it was said that Xie Changyi had also woken up. It seemed like the base was about to undergo a major upheaval.
“By the way, where’s Lu Xun?” Feng Han suddenly remembered.
Chen Meijia gestured with her lips, “The people in the base don’t dare to lay a hand on Lu Xun because Fu Ke was careful when he left. But there are still a lot of eyes on him and all sorts of unpleasant things to say. He moved to the Exclusive Restaurant yesterday and is staying alone.”
As soon as she finished speaking, the group exchanged glances.
“Why don’t we go over there too?” the group suddenly said in unison. At the suburban villa, Qiu Yi dragged the zombie back, bound like a dumpling with vines. Exhausted, he collapsed onto the sofa, unable to move.
The skinny man poked Qiu Yi with his chopsticks: “You’re already this tired after just one?”
Qiu Yi glared at him: “Why don’t you try?”
The skinny man grinned: “You’re the one who needs to train your abilities, not me!”
His smug look made Qiu Yi want to scratch his face.
Ya Ya came over with a glass of water, her big eyes blinking adorably: “Brother, have some water.”
“Thank you.” Qiu Yi picked up the glass and gulped it down in no time.
After finishing, Qiu Yi threw the zombie into the backyard.
There were already several zombies in the backyard. When Qiu Yi arrived, Fu Ke was standing there. With Fu Ke present, the zombies stood obediently, motionless.
Even with Qiu Yi approaching, the zombies, smelling the food, dared not move.
“Sister Fu,” Qiu Yi said, walking over. “How are you?”
Fu Ke was puzzled. “They don’t seem to like eating crystal cores. They’ll eat them when they’re really hungry, but they’re very disgusted… But I didn’t ask Xiao Hei to eat crystal cores, and he ate them himself.”
“Probably just different tastes, like humans being picky eaters,” Qiu Yi said after thinking for a moment.
Fu Ke nodded, finding Qiu Yi’s words highly likely. However, with her, there was no choice; besides crystal cores, animal meat was out of the question.
Looking at Qiu Yi, he asked, “How are you feeling?”
Qiu Yi immediately made a bitter face. “I’m exhausted, Sister Fu, but it really worked! Although my abilities haven’t increased, I’m much more adept at using them than before.”
“It seems this really works for you. Come on, let’s eat. After eating, rest, and we’ll continue tomorrow,” Fu Ke said.
“…” Compared to catching zombies, he suddenly felt that killing them was better. Qiu Yi listlessly untied the zombie she had just bound. Sure enough, the zombie stood motionless after being untied.
Fu Ke planned to feed the zombies to test her theory. Actually, a single command from Fu Ke would have been enough to bring a group of zombies over; Qiu Yi wouldn’t have needed to catch them.
However, Fu Ke did this to train Qiu Yi. Every time Qiu Yi went out, she had the skinny guy follow behind, just without Qiu Yi noticing.
Once Qiu Yi successfully caught a zombie, the skinny guy would return first, so Qiu Yi had no idea he was secretly protecting her.
While cooking, Fu Ke took out a bag of first-tier crystal cores and gave it to Lan Zhi: “Keep an eye on them, make them eat them.”
Lan Zhi took the first-tier crystal cores given by Fu Ke and went to the backyard. Besides the first-tier crystal cores for the zombies in the back, Fu Ke also gave Lan Zhi three third-tier crystal cores, ostensibly to hire him to keep an eye on the remaining zombies.
This explanation made it much easier for Lan Zhi to accept. This wasn’t just freeloading; he was doing the work too.
“What do you want to eat?” Fu Ke asked after washing her hands.
“How about some vegetables? Cooked dishes are fine, just no seafood,” the skinny guy immediately chimed in.
Since Fu Ke could eat solid food, she seemed to particularly enjoy seafood. Before, when she asked the skinny guy, he always said anything was fine. Then, for several days in a row, it was seafood, seafood, seafood! While it was indeed delicious, it was still too much to eat every day.
“Huh? I was originally thinking of making honey-glazed abalone[1]…” Fu Ke looked bewildered, because lately everyone had said anything was fine, so Fu Ke had just followed her own preferences. As usual, she had already prepared what to make when she asked casually, but this time the skinny guy didn’t say anything was fine.
“I want to eat porridge,” Qiu Yi couldn’t help but say.
“Porridge,” Ya Ya looked at Qiu Yi, then pulled Fu Ke and said, “Sister, shall we eat porridge?”
“Okay.” Fu Ke lowered her head and pinched Ya Ya’s cheek, then went into the kitchen.
Skinny and Qiu Yi exchanged glances and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
In the apocalypse, zombies travelled much more safely than humans, but they relied on their own two feet to walk and could not drive or use tools like humans.
This was why Lin Yiyi arrived late at the villa Fu Ke had led her to.
Fu Ke, who was washing lettuce, shook the water off her hands: “Skinny, come wash the vegetables.”
“Okay.” Skinny was peeling garlic cloves, and when he heard Fu Ke call him, he immediately put down what he was doing and went over.
Fu Ke wiped the water off his hands and opened the door with Qiu Yi, walking towards the courtyard gate.
Standing outside the courtyard gate, Lin Yiyi’s bloodshot eyes were dull, without a trace of liveliness in them. Although they were the same as Fu Ke’s, Lan Zhi’s, and Xiao Hei’s eyes, they were also different.
“Teacher Lin…” Qiu Yi’s eyes immediately reddened. Lin Yiyi’s face was deathly pale, and many parts of her skin were ulcerated. Most of his hair had been pulled out, and his clothes were tattered and barely covering his body.
Qiu Yi almost burst into tears. If it weren’t for him, Teacher Lin wouldn’t have left the base. If she hadn’t left, Teacher Ling would still be alright, not like she is now.
But Lin Yiyi didn’t react to Qiu Yi at all. She stared blankly ahead, like a soulless puppet.
Fu Ke raised his hand and patted Qiu Yi’s head, urging Lin Yiyi to go to the backyard.
Qiu Yi couldn’t help but hug Fu Ke and burst into tears, as if she had returned to the time when she learned that her mother was gone. Her tears soaked Fu Ke’s clothes.
Fu Ke sighed helplessly, looking at his white dress, silently calculating how many outfits he still didn’t wear.
It seemed like quite a few.
She liked white. Actually, in her previous life, before becoming a zombie, she didn’t particularly like white. But after becoming Xiao Bai, she especially loved white.
So even after being reborn, she hadn’t changed her habit of wearing white dresses.
Qiu Yi stood at the door hugging Fu Ke and crying for a while, then he wiped away his tears. Looking up at Fu Ke, Qiu Yi smiled and said, “Sister Fu, thank you.”
Thank you for bringing back Mom, and thank you for finding Teacher Lin.
“You’re welcome.” Fu Ke didn’t know what Qiu Yi was thanking her for, but she could sense his deep gratitude through her spiritual power, so she shook her head.
After returning home, Fu Ke prepared a meal: garlic lettuce, corn and pork rib soup, and hand-shredded king oyster mushrooms.
Although there was stew, Qiu Yi said he wanted porridge, so Fu Ke still cooked a pot of porridge.
Lan Zhi returned, and Fu Ke suddenly remembered Lan Sheng: “What is your brother doing? They haven’t come over yet after so long. Haven’t they found the place?”
As long as Lan Sheng found the base in D City, Lu Xun would bring Lan Sheng over, but it had been so long, and they still hadn’t arrived?
Lan Zhi made two anxious sounds in her throat, worried that something might have happened to Lan Sheng on the way.
Fu Ke paused, “Probably not. There are only a handful of fifth-tier zombies left. As long as he doesn’t encounter one, I think your brother should be fine.”
If he does encounter a fifth-tier zombie… well, that just means he’s unlucky. Fu Ke hadn’t even considered using her mental powers to check.
She was interested in Lan Zhi, but from the skinny guy, she already knew what stage Lan Zhi might reach in the future. However, she was still very curious whether her sudden appearance had changed Lan Zhi’s fate.
After all, the skinny guy said Lan Zhi was a mental-type ability user, but she knew very well that Lan Zhi wasn’t currently a mental-type.
As for Lan Sheng, well, he was here. If he really couldn’t come, she’d welcome him to join the zombie army.
Before, Fu Ke had no plans for herself, but now that she was starting to have some ideas, she had a rough plan in mind.
Hearing Fu Ke say this, Lan Zhi was still worried and looked at Xiao Hei.
Seemingly sensing Lan Zhi watching him, Xiao Hei instinctively shrank into the corner. His claws had just recovered, and he didn’t want them to be corroded again.
On Lan Sheng’s side, they hadn’t found the truck, but they had found a van. The ten of them could squeeze in without any problem.
Song Jing, being a woman, shared the passenger seat with Shu Ming. Lan Sheng drove, and the others squeezed into the back.
Shu Ming sat on Song Jing’s lap, pressed against the window, his gaze fixed on the direction of the Glorious Base.
Song Jing felt a pang of sadness. She patted Shu Ming’s head: “Don’t worry.”
Any words of comfort seemed so pale and powerless. She wanted to comfort the little boy, but she simply didn’t know what to say.
Shu Ming looked up at Song Jing, then continued to press against the window.
Even though they had gone very, very far, and he couldn’t see the Glorious Base at all, he stubbornly kept his eyes open, staring in that direction. Seeing his stubbornness, everyone in the van fell silent.
Glorious Base.
The old woman was bound to the wooden cross, blood spilling from her mouth, her cloudy eyes gradually dimming.
“Speak, where are they?”
The old woman’s face was extremely pale; she looked like she was in her twilight years.
She weakly lifted her eyes, looking at the angry faces before her.
“Beasts… at least they know not to eat their own kind. You… are worse than beasts!” the old woman said intermittently.
“Heh…” The man sneered. Although he was questioning her while she was bound, he knew clearly that the group had been released. They had already escaped and were nowhere to be found.
He waved his hand: “Untie this old woman.”
The people around exchanged glances, hesitant to act rashly. Their gazes lingered on the man, as if asking why.
The man chuckled: “Boil her alive!”
Hearing this, the old woman slowly closed her eyes, her face showing no fear. The people around her immediately cheered.
Although an old lady’s meat certainly doesn’t taste as good as a young person’s or a child’s, it’s still good to have something to eat.
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