The Melon Dropped
Although they had not exactly used the sky as their blanket and the earth as their mat, doing that sort of thing in broad daylight, in a place that was not especially hidden, still left Jun Yueyue far too tense. Even though Fang Anyu had made something woven from vines to cover them both, by the time it was over, her muscles were a little sore.
After the two of them tidied themselves up, the vines rustled softly and returned to their original state. Jun Yueyue lay with her head resting sideways on Fang Anyu’s knee while he held a tissue and wiped the tree sap from her fingers, stained there from gripping the leaves too hard earlier.
Fang Anyu looked especially content. His movements were slow and leisurely, and his entire body radiated satisfaction. He lowered his head every now and then to kiss Jun Yueyue, gentle in a way that made him seem like a completely different person from earlier.
Jun Yueyue watched him for a while, then reached out and pinched the flesh at his waist. “You can’t do this again. In a place like this, who knows if someone training might pass by.”
Fang Anyu smiled warmly and nodded. But when he lowered his eyes, an emotion too quick to catch flashed through them.
He had chosen this place. The flowers and grasses on the mountain had told him that this place was indeed rarely visited.
But there was one person who came here to give himself extra physical training.
And just now, that person had indeed come exactly as Fang Anyu had expected. Only…
The dimples at the corners of Fang Anyu’s mouth deepened.
Wu Zhenfei was walking down the mountain right now, his small face pale as he coughed quietly.
After going back last night, he had slept until very late. Today, he seemed to have caught a cold. After taking medicine, he had wanted to come over and train for a while. He had not expected to run into…
If last night, when Wu Zhenfei lost control of his feelings for a moment and kissed Jun Yueyue as though possessed, only to be punished by Fang Anyu’s climbing roses, he had still felt heartbroken, then at this moment, what he had just seen on the slope had completely crushed his heart.
Like the rose petals battered down by last night’s storm, his heart had become muddy, wrinkled, and lifeless.
He had completely given up.
He and Jun Yueyue could be considered childhood friends. With a personality like hers, he had never seen her indulge anyone to such an extent. When they were young, her family had been biased, and she had barely been close to anyone. Even when she made friends, she was never particularly warm. If she wanted to fall out with someone, she did so without the slightest consideration for sentiment.
She had only been somewhat patient with him. But ever since others had seen that he liked her, it had become difficult for him to get close to her again.
In truth, many people said Jun Yue was cold by nature. Even when she had been infatuated with Fang Anyan, she had mostly expressed it through destruction. She destroyed his engagement, destroyed his car, and so on. Wu Zhenfei had never known that she could also indulge someone to the point of letting them bully her like that.
Her low pleas for mercy circled in his ears and would not leave. Wu Zhenfei quickly ran down the mountain and then circled the resort, sweating heavily.
His long and painful secret love, and later his open love, had not even retreated yesterday when his life had been threatened. Yet on a noon like this, it came to an abrupt and unexpected end.
Once, when Wu Zhenfei had gone out drinking with Jun Yue, he had watched her arrogantly swirl her wine glass and say that if she ever fell in love with someone, even if she loved them terribly, she would never lose herself.
Wu Zhenfei had liked her that way. He had watched her go mad over Fang Anyan, and yet, just as she said, she had indeed never lost herself. Wu Zhenfei had thought that was simply who she was.
But only now did Wu Zhenfei understand.
Her madness had just been madness. Her desire to destroy and possess had only been a desire to destroy and possess. She had never loved Fang Anyan at all.
When she truly loved someone, she would compromise in every possible way for him and indulge him in doing whatever he wanted.
He ran until his legs could no longer move. Lying on the grass, he suddenly laughed.
Actually, he had once possessed this kind of love too. It was just that his heart had always been turned toward someone else, and he had never looked back.
Before Ming Zhen began chasing after him, she had also been a very famous young lady in Qiuhai City. She was beautiful, capable, from a good family, and had always been proud. Later, in order to be with him, she had done every foolish thing possible. She had not hesitated to drug him and fake a pregnancy. Her group of sisters had despised her for it, and she had even threatened him with death, refusing to sign the divorce agreement.
Wu Zhenfei had never looked carefully at her many times. But the first time he took out the divorce agreement, when Ming Zhen went to the kitchen, took a knife, and placed it against her neck, he had been so shocked and confused that he remembered it very clearly.
Thinking about it now, that humble and crazed version of her was no different from him constantly chasing after Jun Yueyue.
But not liking someone meant not liking them. Jun Yueyue did not like him no matter what. And he…
Wu Zhenfei grabbed the grass and climbed up, cutting off his own thoughts.
She was already dead.
When he woke up from his coma, he had never seen her again. Thinking about anything was meaningless.
Before the phone signal had been completely cut off, he had already tried to connect to Heji Province. That place had already fallen. His father, whom he had not seen for years and who had only ever known how to force him to do this and that, had most likely become a zombie wandering somewhere unknown.
In this world, he was the only one left.
He let out a deep breath, stood up, and continued running, throwing his heavy emotions and the gradually fading sourness in his heart behind him.
At the same time, Fang Anyu, who had successfully used last night’s heavy rain to chill Wu Zhenfei, and who had just now stabbed a knife hard into his heart, calmly enjoyed peaceful days with Jun Yueyue. Carrying their snacks and blanket, they finished their “picnic” and returned home.
When they came back, they ran into Fang Anyan and Ji Fei at the door. The two seemed to be arguing. Fang Anyan’s cheeks were bright red, and he looked like he was on the verge of exploding. But Ji Fei said something in a low voice, and he seemed like a balloon that had been stabbed—he deflated with a puff, looking as if he had just signed away his country’s sovereignty under humiliation.
While Fang Anyu pulled Jun Yueyue into the house, Jun Yueyue kept turning her head to watch the drama. Inwardly, she clicked her tongue in amazement. Sure enough, a tyrannosaurus like Fang Anyan could only be properly trained by the dragon rider Ji Fei.
“Your brother is being completely controlled,” Jun Yueyue said to the back of Fang Anyu’s head as she walked inside. “Tsk, tsk, tsk. You didn’t see it. I don’t know what Ji Fei said, but he instantly wilted. I’ve never seen him this cowardly.”
Fang Anyu stopped and turned around. Looking at Jun Yueyue, he took out his phone and typed:
Are you curious?
Jun Yueyue’s smile froze.
Thinking of all those awful things from the previous life, she immediately shook her head madly. “Not curious!”
“I’m really not curious. I just thought it was funny. Don’t overthink…”
Fang Anyu quickly typed and handed it to Jun Yueyue. After reading it, Jun Yueyue immediately burst out laughing.
Ji Fei told my brother that if he kept being awkward, she would turn into a man tonight and do him.
Thinking of Ji Fei’s ability, Jun Yueyue let out a “holy crap” and laughed like a chicken.
When she had gone over that day, the two of them had been playing transformation games. That surging figure of hers looked like it could suffocate someone if buried in it. Jun Yueyue had even wondered how good Fang Anyan must have it.
But if Ji Fei turned into a man…
Jun Yueyue had seen her turn into a black man before. Her whole body instantly felt wrong.
No wonder Fang Anyan had instantly lost all his arrogance. Who would not be scared?
After laughing for a while, Jun Yueyue suddenly remembered something and looked sharply at Fang Anyu. “How do you know what they said?”
She had been straining her ears just now and had not heard anything. Fang Anyu had been walking in front of her and had not even turned his head. How had he heard it?
Fang Anyu put away the snacks they had barely eaten, turned around, and typed to Jun Yueyue:
The vines in front of their door told me.
Jun Yueyue’s eyes widened after reading it. “The vines told you?”
Fang Anyu nodded and continued typing:
The night before last, this was what I wanted to tell you. I can already control and use plants within a certain range.
Jun Yueyue was so happy she did not know what to do. She hugged Fang Anyu and bounced a few times before saying, “This ability is amazing! If it keeps going like this, won’t all the plants in the world become your spies?”
Fang Anyu raised his hand and stroked her hair, pulling her into his arms. Then he typed another question:
Want to shower together?
Jun Yueyue happily agreed.
But she truly had not expected that even this shower would not be peaceful. Fang Anyu seduced her again, and once again, she failed to hold herself back. By the time they finished washing and came out, she flopped onto the quilt. It was already evening. On this day of rest, the two of them had basically done nothing else…
Jun Yueyue was not tired.
What she was not quite used to was that she had indulged in broad daylight for an entire day and yet was not tired. Fang Anyu was like a supply station. After being intimate with him, other than feeling comfortable, she still felt comfortable.
Wood-type abilities were really amazing.
Just now, he had been holding and carrying her the entire time, yet now he still had the energy to cook.
Jun Yueyue thought to herself that if this continued, it really would not do. No matter how impressive wood-type abilities were, they could not be used specifically for this kind of thing.
Fang Anyu busied himself in the kitchen for a while, and soon a fragrance drifted out. Jun Yueyue was truly hungry. She got up, her hair messy and fluffy, and went to the kitchen just as Fang Anyu finished serving the noodles.
This was relatively simple and was the dish Fang Anyu made best. Neither of them carried the food to the kang to eat, nor did they put it on a small table. They simply used two small stools and squatted by the stove to eat.
After finishing a whole bowl, Jun Yueyue narrowed her eyes in satisfaction.
Humans did not actually need many things. Among them, food and desire were the easiest to satisfy, and the easiest to make people feel satisfied.
After eating and drinking their fill, the sunset outside spread across the sky and earth. Jun Yueyue and Fang Anyu left the house and sat on stools in the courtyard, leaning shoulder to shoulder as they watched the sunset.
Jun Yueyue had experienced this kind of golden sky many times. She knew that it meant Fang Anyu was very happy. Fang Anyu held her fingers and played with them while she lazily hummed a song.
It was her old phone ringtone. Now that phones generally could no longer be used, she no longer carried hers around much. But she liked this song very much. In the past, she had not sung it because Fang Anyu could not hear. Now that he could hear through another method, Jun Yueyue hummed it softly for him.
“Just let me follow close behind you, through every rise and turn~ let me write a romance novel for you…”
“Stop singing. On the other side of the drawbridge, we found a large number of zombies gathering. I looked through binoculars. Someone’s trapped in the office building opposite our resort.”
A voice suddenly came from outside, scattering the beautiful atmosphere between Jun Yueyue and Fang Anyu.
Jun Yueyue stood up. “Can you give some kind of warning? You walk without making any sound. You scared me!”
“How come I didn’t see you jump?” Li Li glanced at Fang Anyu and said, “Our loudspeaker still hasn’t been installed. A few days ago, when we were catching zombies for training, I had someone put up a sign opposite the resort’s drawbridge.”
“It simply said that there were survivors inside the resort, and that if someone saw it, they could make a noise to ask for help,” Li Li said. “This morning, someone heard a loud explosion from the other side. They detonated a car and attracted a crowd of zombies. Now they’re in the building opposite.”
“How many people?” Jun Yueyue took two steps toward the door. Fang Anyu also stood up and followed behind her.
Every time Li Li saw the two of them, even if they did nothing, he felt choked. Especially Fang Anyu. His ability was clearly the strongest in the base. The fruit and vegetable base in the backyard, as well as the patients inside, had all been ripened and healed by him. Being bitten by zombies did not cause infection, and he could even fight against zombie hordes. What kind of heaven-defying ability was that?
Yet he was like a pretty little tail, following behind Jun Yueyue with a pure and innocent expression, perfectly maintaining the appearance of a delicate flower from before the apocalypse. He even liked pinching the corner of Jun Yueyue’s clothes…
Li Li clicked his tongue sourly and shifted his gaze from Fang Anyu’s porcelain-white face to Jun Yueyue. “They’re behind the building. I only saw a few and didn’t see very clearly. But there should be ability users among them. I saw someone standing by the window killing zombies downstairs. I couldn’t see what method they were using.”
Li Li asked Jun Yueyue, “Are we saving them? After training for all these days, we should go out and get some practical experience, right? We can also bring some supplies back. Our food is being consumed pretty quickly.”
Jun Yueyue nodded. “We definitely have to save them. But it’ll be dark soon. We should learn from what happened at the sanatorium. Since they’re temporarily safe, we’ll save them tomorrow morning.”
Li Li said, “That’s what I thought too. From what I saw, the zombies opposite are only gathered there. They aren’t trying to attack, so there probably aren’t any second-level zombies. As long as those people don’t court death and come out, they should be fine.”
Then Li Li’s tone changed. Somewhat unwillingly, he said, “Yu’er said she’s making ribbonfish tonight and told me to call you two over to eat.”
That evening, Jun Yueyue and Fang Anyu went to Li Li’s place to eat fish.
One had to praise Li Li’s cooking. He came from a bitter background. In the past, he had been a street vendor, applied phone screen protectors, cut hair, done tattoos, and tried all sorts of things. But the most useful thing was that he had learned cooking for a period of time. Because of that, the food he made tasted quite good.
Someone like Li Li looked rather frightening, with that ruffian air all over him. But after getting along with him, he was actually quite decent. If this were a normal world, even if he had not made something great of himself, he would still count as an all-round capable man. And toward Jun Yu, there was truly nothing to criticize. He was the typical man afraid of his wife. Jun Yueyue guessed that even if Old Master Jun were alive, after another year or two, seeing how good Li Li was to Jun Yu, he probably would no longer feel awkward about him.
When the food was served, everyone ate happily. Li Li’s physique paired with a completely mismatched floral apron was as ridiculous as it could possibly be.
Ever since Jun Yu awakened her ability, she could walk like a normal person. Her personality had visibly become much more cheerful. Now she smiled at Jun Yueyue with curved brows and eyes and said, “I found quite a few men’s things in the storeroom. I picked them all out. Later, take them back for brother-in-law.”
Jun Yueyue nodded. Li Li immediately got sour at the side. “Why not give them to me? I’m a man too.”
Jun Yu glanced sideways at him and did not speak.
They were all accessories, things Jun Yueyue had prepared before the apocalypse and had not yet cleared out. The sizes and styles were obviously Fang Anyu’s. No one else in the base could carry off that kind of flashy style.
Jun Yu did not like gaudy men. She did not dare imagine how eye-searing Li Li would look with his head full of scars and a diamond earring.
Li Li had, of course, also seen that pile of things. They truly did not seem like much on Fang Anyu. Fang Anyu was excessively delicate-looking, the kind of delicate that seemed almost unreal. From a distance, when he did not move, he looked like a life-sized doll. So slightly ornate accessories did not look out of place on him at all. If placed on someone else, they would look completely awkward.
Especially now, when everyone trained every day until they were either covered in sweat or mud, or tanned like black donkeys. Only Fang Anyu remained cold white when untouched by the sun and pinkish-white when the sun shone on him. But if one said he looked feminine, his height was even slightly taller than Fang Anyan’s. When he was not facing Jun Yueyue, he had no expression at all. He looked gentle and harmless, but when your eyes met his, you would realize his gaze was icy, without the slightest warmth. He was not feminine at all.
Moreover, his abilities and training, including combat, were all long-range. In the entire base, including Jun Yueyue, Fang Anyu was the only one who could wear a set of clothes home and still wear them again the next day.
So Li Li was only running his mouth. He just wanted Jun Yu to look at him more.
The meal was very pleasant. Fang Anyu quietly ate the most. A small pile of fish bones gathered in front of his bowl. Li Li asked him with a great sense of accomplishment, “Tastes good, right?”
Fang Anyu gave him face and nodded.
When they returned home, it was already dark. At this time, there was not much entertainment. After washing up, the two lay on the kang and chatted.
Fang Anyu talked about little miscellaneous things, and Jun Yueyue listened seriously, responding from time to time. Once she listened carefully, she found it very magical.
For example, he said that when the ripe and unripe tomatoes in the field were about to be picked, they would bid each other farewell in heart-wrenching grief.
He also said that two pairs of people who usually did not speak when they met had already hooked up and were sneaking between rooms in the middle of the night. There were also people who were dissatisfied with Li Li being the big boss of the base, and so on. Many things Jun Yueyue had never paid attention to.
Gossip was something one never got tired of listening to. When Jun Yueyue heard the exciting parts, she only hated that she did not have melon seeds in hand.
“You’re saying one of the older sisters under Jun Yu who manages logistics got together with a young strength ability user in the base who has a mole on his face?”
Jun Yueyue thought about it a little. There had to be a gap of more than ten years between those two…
She immediately felt that if she had been holding a melon, the melon would have dropped.
However, out of the basic principle of not prying too much into other people’s privacy, Jun Yueyue held back from asking how far those two had gone. She smiled and asked instead, “When your tomatoes are bidding farewell, what do they usually say?”
Fang Anyu’s phone was almost out of battery, and the low battery warning popped up. Because the two of them had slept until noon during the day, they were both very energetic at night. Without realizing it, they had already been chatting for more than three hours.
He dismissed the “charge now” prompt and replied to Jun Yueyue:
They say, ‘You go first. I’ll come find you once I turn red.’
Some also say, ‘If we cannot be together in this life, we shall reunite in the next.’
“How am I supposed to eat tomatoes properly after this?” Jun Yueyue laughed uncontrollably. “But wait. What do you mean, if they can’t be together in this life? They grew on the same tomato plant. Shouldn’t they be siblings?”
Fang Anyu also laughed, his dimples deep. He typed:
Silly. I was lying to you. Tomatoes can’t talk. Actually, no plants can talk. Only when I drive them can they transmit some information.
Jun Yueyue laughed too and said nothing.
When she heard Fang Anyu say that the tomatoes parted with “If we cannot be together in this life, we shall reunite in the next,” she had already guessed he was tricking her.
But she liked this way of getting along with him.
Fang Anyu rubbed his fingers over the phone a few times, then typed a few words for Jun Yueyue to see.
Jun Yueyue widened her eyes. Before she could speak, Fang Anyu put down the phone, turned, held Jun Yueyue, and leaned down to press his lips against hers.
Give me another child.
Fang Anyu was extremely passionate, so passionate that Jun Yueyue had some trouble breathing. At first, she could not speak at all.
By the time Fang Anyu finally released her, Jun Yueyue met his eyes, which were so bright they seemed to contain an entire river of stars, and she could no longer bear to say anything.
Ability users had no reproductive ability.
Of course, no one had specifically researched it. After civilization collapsed, there was no way to use scientific methods to verify the reason behind it.
But Jun Yueyue remembered very clearly that in the previous life, from beginning to end, no ability user had ever had a child, no matter how many lovers or wives they had.
The previous life had also belonged to Fang Anyu’s world. But that had been the collapsed world after his death. Deep in his bones, he must have hated that she had been pregnant with “someone else’s” child back then. So in the base at that time, for several years until her death, there had not been a single new-born.
But it was also possible that it was due to the changes in ability users themselves. Perhaps abilities caused them to no longer be able to continue their bloodlines. So Jun Yueyue did not know what exactly was going on.
However, facing Fang Anyu’s eyes, she truly could not bear to say it. She thought with a trace of luck: Forget it. This world is his too. Maybe if he wants it, it really can happen.
While indulging Fang Anyu, Jun Yueyue was still thinking in her head: if she really did get pregnant, it would be difficult without medical care if childbirth became complicated. And if the baby was born and she had no milk, then—
“Ah!”
Jun Yueyue’s thoughts snapped. She clung to Fang Anyu’s back and could no longer think of anything else.
Even if it was due to abilities, no matter how amazing they were, doing this three times a day like eating meals meant that, by the end, Fang Anyu had nothing left to give.
Jun Yueyue could not hold back her laughter. Stroking his sweaty back, she said, “Don’t be so eager for quick results. If it’s too frequent, the quality won’t be good either.”
Fang Anyu lay on his side and pulled Jun Yueyue’s hand over to kiss it.
The two lay there for a long time before simply cleaning up, plugging the phone in to charge, hugging each other, and turning off the light.
“What did I say? Only the ox dies of exhaustion,” Jun Yueyue was still teasing Fang Anyu in a daze. Fang Anyu bumped her lightly to scare her, and she stopped talking, obediently nestling beside him and closing her eyes.
They slept well through the night.
Early the next morning, everyone geared up and prepared to go across to rescue the people trapped in the building.
This time, all those going out were ability users. After all, it was just on the opposite side. They did not need to drive, and the drawbridge would not be raised. The ordinary people all stayed behind by the bridge to prevent zombies from entering the base along it.
After training for these days, everyone’s physical strength and abilities had improved to a certain extent. Through close combat, they had also learned how to preserve their strength and only use abilities when absolutely necessary.
The drawbridge opened, and everyone crossed it one after another.
Their positions were arranged in order. After leaving the drawbridge, the group formed a circle, entrusting their backs to their companions. Strength-type ability users took the lead, because when it came to close combat, they were still the strongest.
Jun Yueyue was the strongest strength-type mutant in the base. She and another tall strength-type mutant led the front.
Beside her as support was Ji Fei, who had turned into a black man.
Ji Fei’s ability was very strange. Of course, it was not only used behind closed doors for unspeakable matters. She could transform into and imitate anyone. After becoming that person, she could obtain that person’s strength.
The ability users had tested it. Ji Fei could not imitate an ability user and obtain the other person’s ability. But, for example, if she imitated this black man, she could obtain strength equivalent to that black man’s normal physique.
Just two days ago, Ji Fei had also proposed a bold idea to Jun Yueyue. She wanted to try whether, if she imitated a zombie, she could blend into a zombie horde without being attacked.
Today, while they came out to rescue those people, they were also going to test this idea.
If it worked, she would be able to move freely among thousands upon thousands of zombies. Although she could not control zombies like Fang Anyu, there was no doubt that it would bring enormous benefits in team combat.
Behind them came Li Li, Jun Yu, Fang Anyan, and the others in order. Huai Wenzhi had not yet learned how to split his electric shocks into multiple streams, but he could already release brief area shocks, so he took the rear.
And surrounded in the center by everyone was Fang Anyu.
He was not suited to close combat. Although he could drive vines, that required a medium. Green plants were common in the city, but not dense, and there were very few that could cause real damage. His wood-type ability was better used to heal everyone.
Furthermore, he lacked strength and did not know fighting techniques, so everyone protected him in the middle of the circle. But he could drive away zombies and slow their movements. He was their most important support.
As soon as they left the drawbridge, they began swinging the weapons in their hands and fighting. Like a rotating meat grinder, they moved slowly but irresistibly toward the office building opposite.
There were quite a few zombies gathered below the office building. The ones wandering on the street also came over one after another when they heard the sound. Fortunately, Jun Yueyue turned back twice to ask Fang Anyu whether there were any second-level zombies, and both times Fang Anyu shook his head.
That was excellent.
On a street without second-level zombies, with Fang Anyu’s support preventing them from all swarming up at once, it had practically become their best training ground. Everyone let loose and killed freely. Very quickly, the zombies on this side of the street had been reduced to only a scattered few.
Meanwhile, the men upstairs in the office building had been watching them closely the entire time.
Seeing them kill zombies as easily as chopping vegetables, cutting a path all the way to the road without any one of them using an ability, the men felt as if they were witnessing something magical.
Yesterday, they had exhausted everyone’s abilities before finally reaching this place. They had come out carrying the hopes of everyone in their shelter. Halfway there, they had even lost their vehicle, been chased by zombies, and finally saw the sign standing at the entrance of the resort. Only then had they clung to a faint hope and used their last remaining gasoline bottle to detonate a car by the roadside.
The explosion attracted many zombies, but there had not been the slightest movement from the resort opposite.
They were not surprised. They had seen too many groups gather together thinking they were safe, only to die together in the end.
It was just that if this resort had also fallen, it would be truly regrettable. Once the drawbridge in this area was raised, there was clearly no other way in. It was practically a paradise.
If not for the drawbridge being raised, they definitely would have rushed over to take a look. If there were not many zombies inside, they could clear them out and use it as their base.
But the drawbridge only had chains. They could not cross.
They had planned to rest here. Today, once their abilities recovered, they would find a way to get a car and return to their own foothold. If they could collect some supplies along the way, that would be best.
They had not expected that early in the morning, before they could make a move, people actually came out from the resort opposite.
At first, when they saw only a few people come out, they all tensed up. They even shouted for them to go back. There were so many zombies, and only these few people had come out. Seeing that there were even two women among them, wasn’t that just seeking death?
However, their voices were drowned out by the zombies’ howls, and those people did not hear at all.
But now, at this moment, they were all dumbfounded.
These people had not even used abilities. They simply raised their knives and cut down one little friend after another—bah, one zombie after another. In not much time at all, they were about to kill their way to the bottom of the building.
The others, who had been enduring hunger with closed eyes because there was no food, also got up and leaned against the window to look down.
“Why do I feel like the zombies become strange when they get near them?” the leading man said.
“Right! I’ve been watching for a while too. It’s like they suddenly slow down. And they don’t all swarm up at once. They come in batches! Just enough for one batch to be killed before another fills in. It’s like…”
“It’s like someone can control the zombies’ movements!”
“They didn’t use abilities. I only saw that the two leading ones seem to have strength mutations like someone in our team. The others all look very weak.”
“Yeah. Look, there’s even a foreigner. That short woman beside the tall man tried several times to swing her knife and kill zombies, but the person beside her snatched them first.”
“In my opinion, the one in the middle is the one using a special ability. Otherwise, they wouldn’t protect him like that,” the leading man said. “They’re about to come over. Let’s go down too and kill zombies with them. Show them what we can do.”
Everyone agreed. They tidied their clothes and opened the door to go out.
They truly did need to show their strength. The resort was a good place. They still had many people without abilities waiting for them. If they could not return, those people would probably be trapped and starve to death. But society now was different from before. Order had collapsed, and people were divided into small organizations.
It was easy for ability users to join, but they had also encountered several groups that refused to accept the old, the weak, women, and children.
The resort had an overwhelming geographical advantage. If they could negotiate with the other side, as long as they could bring those people with them, they did not mind collecting supplies themselves, handing over most of them, and leaving the rest for the people they brought.
But the prerequisite for negotiating terms was absolute strength.
So, just as Jun Yueyue’s group had killed their way to the entrance, the building doors suddenly opened. Before they could clearly see the people inside, a large water ball was thrown out.
The water ball burst with a bang above the zombies’ heads at the entrance, drenching them all. Then it quickly turned into ice, briefly freezing a small group of zombies in place.
After that came a flashy display of abilities.
After the water ball came sand flying all over the sky, followed by glaring white light.
After several people released their abilities in succession, one-third of the zombies at the entrance were dealt with.
At first, Jun Yueyue’s eyes lit up. But after seeing the actual killing power, she became somewhat speechless.
She thought of a saying: a whole set of moves fierce as a tiger, only to check the damage and find it was zero point five.
Those ability users standing on the steps at the entrance looked down from above at the circle of people who, because they had been fighting zombies up close, looked rather disheveled. There was a faint sense of looking down on them.
Only then did they take out knives and begin fighting the zombies directly.
Jun Yueyue exchanged a glance with the person leading them. Her gaze, which had dimmed, changed again in an instant. She almost shouted out loud.
Lei Ze!
The captain from her previous life!
Was this not too coincidental?
And although they were flashy without much substance, these people were actually all ability users!
In the rush, Jun Yueyue did not clearly see whether there were any other familiar team members. But very soon, she exchanged glances with her own people and continued throwing herself into battle.
Abilities were limited. Once consumed, they took a long time to recover. Physical strength would also drop rapidly alongside them.
So after showing off at the entrance, those few people’s faces gradually turned pale. Meanwhile, Jun Yueyue’s team’s method of cooperating—one person killing while another rested—became like electrified gears, tirelessly grinding the surrounding zombies to pieces.
By the time the two sides were almost joined together, the show-off group finally felt the satisfying effect of the zombies’ behaviour being controlled as they waited to be cut down.
There really was someone among them who could control zombies!
Although the show-off group was exhausted, they still gritted their teeth and worked together to kill all the surrounding zombies before stopping with trembling hands.
The leader was indeed Lei Ze, who in this life was also the owner of the grilled skewer shop where Fang Anyu had once opened a room and ordered skewers.
Jun Yueyue also saw two familiar faces beside him. Although their relationship in the previous life had not been good and they had hardly spoken—after all, she had only been a low-level strength mutant, and the hierarchy had been clear—in this life, she found them especially familiar and warm.
Because her gaze was too intense, the show-off group felt that their goal of letting these people “see their strength” had been achieved.
Each group sent two people to keep watch.
After glancing at Jun Yueyue, Lei Ze ignored Li Li, who had walked over preparing to conduct diplomacy. Instead, he addressed the person they assumed to be the most powerful, and therefore naturally the leader: Fang Anyu.
“Hello, I’m Lei Ze, captain of the Thunder Squad. Thank you for rescuing us.”
Everyone: “…”
Lei Ze’s hand froze in midair.
Jun Yueyue pressed her lips together.
Fang Anyu stared at Lei Ze with a baffled expression.
Was this person talking to him?
The atmosphere froze briefly.
Seeing that Fang Anyu did not speak, Lei Ze did not mind. He had encountered many arrogant people, especially those in charge of small bases who thought they were the heavens.
So he patiently said to Fang Anyu, “I won’t beat around the bush. I saw the sign at the entrance of your resort. May I ask what necessary conditions there are to join your base? It’s not just us few. We have many people.”
Lei Ze deliberately blurred the fact that among their many people, many were ordinary people.
In the previous life, Jun Yueyue had followed by his side and watched him use this kind of vague wording to fool many survivors, and merge with several fairly large bases, finally forming a large-scale group.
She found it familiar and intimate, especially at a time like this.
But after Lei Ze finished asking, Fang Anyu blinked strangely. Not only did he not answer, he turned his head toward Jun Yueyue instead. Then, with two fair, slender fingers—which, in this environment where everyone else was splattered with zombie flesh and blood, dirty and stinking, looked unrealistically clean—he poked a clean spot on Jun Yueyue’s back.
Jun Yueyue could not hold back and burst out laughing.
Everyone, including Li Li, whose hand was extended somewhat awkwardly, could not help laughing too.
This person really knew how to pick them.
Out of the whole group, he had specifically chosen the mute one to talk to.
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