Bai Qingqing was very glad that she had made the decision to raise Shen as a zombie. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been able to figure out how to deal with Shen Mingxuan. His foul temper was unbearable for anyone.
The relationship between them was like a dead knot that could never be untied.
They stared at each other with cold eyes, like enemies engaged in a bitter struggle. The room was so quiet that even the sound of a falling needle could be heard.
The bedroom had poor soundproofing, and as advanced zombies with keen hearing, the Zombie Kings Zhou Hang and Yang Li outside could hear their argument clearly.
Can zombies and humans have love?
Humans wanted to exterminate all zombies, and zombies also desired to devour humans. Zhou Hang and Yang Li didn’t believe that love could exist between different species.
When Zhou Hang’s girlfriend, Yang Li, underwent a mutation, he had the idea that she wouldn’t survive alone, so he escaped with her. Even if it meant death, he didn’t want the soldiers to kill Yang Li. He would rather be bitten and mutated together with his beloved.
They survived in the form of monsters, becoming anomalies in the world.
Despite becoming anomalies, Zhou Hang and Yang Li still deeply loved each other. They wanted to secure a future for themselves as monsters and create a world with a zombie leader.
At first, Zhou Hang and Yang Li thought that the Zombie Emperor and Bai Qingqing were in love. He had been searching for his loved one all along, but it turned out that only the Zombie Emperor himself had an unrequited love for the girl named Bai Qingqing.
Love without reciprocation was very painful, and both parties suffered.
As their subordinates, they wouldn’t interfere or have the right to meddle in the Zombie Emperor’s personal affairs. They sighed for him in their hearts.
Shen Mingxuan was well aware that Bai Qingqing didn’t like him. Her heart had always belonged to Fu Chen alone. He wouldn’t let her go. No matter how forceful it seemed, he wanted her.
Even if he had to keep her captive by his side, as long as he could gaze upon her, he would willingly endure any pain.
If he hadn’t experienced warmth before, he could have stayed in the darkness, pretending not to care about anyone. But he had once received her gentle treatment.
He had turned into a zombie, so hideous and terrifying, yet she wasn’t afraid or repulsed by him. She took care of him wholeheartedly, allowing him to upgrade and regain his sanity while living as a zombie.
Regardless of her motives for raising a zombie, those days were deeply etched in his memory.
His rationality told him that he couldn’t expose his bloody heart to her.
Bai Qingqing wasn’t a gentle girl; she was like a wicked witch who held his heart. Whenever she grasped it, she would ruthlessly pierce him with a blade. Yet he still admitted his love for her, giving her a powerful weapon.
The disdainful and hateful gaze from the girl deeply wounded his heart. This room felt like it was filled with seawater, suffocating him. He wanted to leave the room to catch his breath, but he couldn’t. Whenever he got distracted, she would take the opportunity to hide in her space.
Bai Qingqing glared at Shen Mingxuan for a while, knowing that he had been staring at her and preventing her from entering the space. She lay on the bed with her back turned to him.
Once again, she had disappeared. Fu Chen must be worried sick. She had originally planned to send Cheng Rui off the next day, but she was abducted by Shen Mingxuan, disrupting all her plans.
This room had been unused for a long time, and the bed was covered in dust. After lying down for a while, her whole body felt uncomfortable, so she abruptly sat up.
Bai Qingqing turned to look at the small sofa in the room, where Shen Mingxuan closed his eyes. His androgynous and bewitching face was hidden in the shadows, resembling a sleeping vampire prince, sickly yet beautiful.
She snorted coldly in her heart. It was just a facade. No matter how good-looking he appeared, it was only superficial. Inside, he was brutal and terrifying.
Zombies and humans rested at different times. She knew he wasn’t asleep and said, “I’m hungry, and this place is dirty. I can’t sleep.”
Shen Mingxuan opened his exquisite silver-grey eyes. Previously, in the Thunder Squad, Bai Qingqing had been particularly spoiled, even in the scarce post-apocalyptic world. With her spatial ability, her life was still as luxurious as a pampered princess.
He understood her temperament. Whenever something didn’t go her way, she would throw a tantrum.
When you like someone, even if they are wilful and capricious, they become exceptionally cute. He only wanted to pamper her and find ways to make her happy.
In the end, Shen Mingxuan couldn’t bear to see her hungry. The surrounding environment was indeed not that great, and both Yang Li and Zhou Hang needed time for their wounds to heal.
He knew that the spatial ability had its drawbacks, such as time limitations and entering the space at specific locations. When coming out, it would be in the same place, not too far away.
“You can enter the space,” he said calmly. “Don’t try any tricks. You know I have the ability to bring you back once, and I’ll be able to catch you the second time.”
As long as he sensed her presence, he could capture her effortlessly.
Bai Qingqing detected the warning tone in his voice and asked, “Can you lift the ban now?”
Shen Mingxuan lifted the ban, and she entered the space, casually getting some food to eat and basking in the sunlight within the space. Although the scenery inside the space was beautiful, it felt artificial and not as vibrant as the real world.
She closed her eyes to rest and unknowingly fell asleep.
“Bai Qingqing,” Shen Mingxuan’s icy voice rang out. “Come out.”
Bai Qingqing woke up from her dream, yawned, and leisurely took something from the space before coming out.
In the living room, there stood three tall figures. Shen Mingxuan led his two subordinates, looking at her with cold eyes. When they saw her appear out of thin air, Zhou Hang and Yang Li both showed surprised expressions.
The previous Lord had considered using Bai Qingqing’s ability to transport zombies, but whether it was living creatures or zombies, as soon as they entered Bai Qingqing’s space, they would immediately perish without vitality.
Bai Qingqing’s ability to allow the spirit and flesh to enter the space together was quite rare. Everyone wanted such an ability that could be endlessly utilized.
Shen Mingxuan felt slightly relieved when he saw Bai Qingqing come out. He would need to reach the ninth or tenth stage to tear through space. If Bai Qingqing really wanted to confront him, it would waste a lot of time for her to return to the city.
This place was still too close to the Jingzhou Base, and they couldn’t stay for long.
Shen Mingxuan grabbed Bai Qingqing and carried her horizontally. The three zombies simultaneously leaped from the building, swiftly heading towards the direction of the zombie kingdom.
Bai Qingqing had wondered before why they didn’t choose to drive back, but now she realized their speed was astonishing.
Towering buildings emerged from the vast plains, rising like human cities. Zombies sluggishly roamed the streets, and there were monsters in the shape of zombies everywhere, some working, some patrolling. It was as if it were a uniquely humanized city.
Bai Qingqing looked through Shen Mingxuan’s shoulder and felt astonished. In just a year, he had gathered so many zombies and established a base kingdom of their own.
In the centre of the city, a castle appeared before their eyes. The garden had mutated plants growing on the grass, and the magnificent buildings were grand, resembling the estate of nobility.
Shen Mingxuan released her hand at the entrance, firmly holding onto her hand and pulling her inside. They encountered many zombies wearing clean and tidy clothes on the way, who called him their leader or master.
In this life, Shen Mingxuan did not become the leader of the Snowfield Base, but even after turning into a zombie, he still created his own kingdom.
Shen Mingxuan brought her to a luxuriously decorated hall, tossing her aside and directly sitting down on a chair. Zhou Hang and Yang Li needed to recover from their injuries and left the room.
Several intelligent zombies entered and reported the progress of various projects. One zombie couldn’t help but glance at Bai Qingqing, and instantly, scars appeared on his face. He immediately withdrew his gaze, trembling slightly.
Shen Mingxuan coldly said, “If you dare to look again, I’ll gouge out your eyeballs and feed them to the dogs.”
“Please spare me, my lord,” the zombie immediately kneeled down.
Bai Qingqing remained silent, silently observing the scene.
Zombie meetings weren’t particularly interesting, and she felt bored. She took out a chair from the space and sat on a recliner, occupying herself with playing games on her phone.
No zombie dared to curiously glance at her anymore. They respectfully continued with their reports and hurriedly left the hall after it was over.
Shen Mingxuan slightly turned his body and looked at the girl who was leisurely playing games not far away.
When Bai Qingqing was brought here initially, she cried and screamed, fearing that she would become the zombies’ food. But now, she seemed fearless, unafraid of being brought to the zombie stronghold.
His eyes flickered slightly. If she were afraid of zombies, she wouldn’t have chosen to keep him alive back then.
“Shen Mingxuan!” a crisp voice rang out. A girl in a white dress hurriedly ran into the hall, her hands clenched into fists as she excitedly exclaimed, “You’ve captured Qingqing?”
Bai Qingqing heard the sharp questioning and put down her phone to look.
After more than a year apart, she finally saw Bai Tiantian again. Apart from looking a bit pale, she seemed fine.
While Bai Qingqing had been raising her level by hunting in the forest to stay alive, getting seriously injured several times and almost dying in the mouths of high-level mutated plants and sea creatures, Bai Tiantian had been living comfortably in the zombie stronghold.
“Qingqing!” Bai Tiantian’s eyes filled with tears, and she rushed over, embracing her and crying with sadness and grievances. “Qingqing, wuwuwu, I missed you so much.”
At the same time, the voice of the system sounded:
[Ding, activate a side quest to help the female lead Bai Tiantian escape from the zombie stronghold and obtain clues to eliminate the zombies.]
Bai Qingqing, caught off guard while hugging Bai Tiantian, keenly sensed that it was about eliminating the zombies, not the virus. The virus vaccine developed by Li Jin was injectable, providing immunity against the zombies. But to eliminate the zombies, they would need to rely on force.
Now that the number of zombies in the world was several times that of humans, even if they developed a vaccine, they didn’t know when they would be able to wipe out all the zombies.
Bai Qingqing raised her gaze to look at Shen Mingxuan, who was sitting on the chair. She knew in her heart that to save this world, they would have to eliminate all the zombies.
“Let her go,” Shen Mingxuan commanded coldly.
Bai Tiantian looked at him tearfully. This bastard, he wasn’t human.
“Alright, you can let go now,” Bai Qingqing patted her back.
The puzzle of the former Zombie Emperor capturing Bai Tiantian was solved. Regardless, the survival of humanity in the future would definitely be related to Bai Tiantian. She had to find a way to rescue her.
The world needed to be set right, and she and Fu Chen were destined to do so.
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