Villainous Zombie King (4)
Song Xuyi clutched the chocolate in her hand, deeply regretting her impulsive decision driven by attraction.
Seeing Ye Shuiyu’s smug little expression, Song Xuyi felt utterly embarrassed. She wanted to stuff all the chocolate into Ye Shuiyu’s mouth to shut her up. Never in a million years did Song Xuyi expect Ye Shuiyu to blurt out something like “ten kisses”…
For a moment, Song Xuyi even had a bad premonition: when Ye Shuiyu regains her memory and knows all about her black history, Song Xuyi might be the first one to be killed by an enraged and humiliated Ye Shuiyu—
But even so, Song Xuyi sighed, accepted her fate, and broke the chocolate into small pieces to feed into Ye Shuiyu’s lips.
Ye Shuiyu’s eyes were incredibly bright as she gazed at Song Xuyi. The joy in her eyes was clearly visible, even though she would slightly furrow her brow each time the chocolate entered her mouth. It was hard to tell if she genuinely disliked the chocolate or if she was just putting on a show for Song Xuyi. But the happiness in her eyes looked extremely pure, almost overflowing. Even the small red mole at the corner of her eye seemed to have become more vibrant…
Infected by Ye Shuiyu’s happiness, Song Xuyi couldn’t help but curve her lips into a smile. Although she didn’t want to admit it, thanks to that face, Ye Shuiyu’s actions were not only not annoying but even… seemed a bit cute.
Of course, if she could just keep that mouth of hers shut and not say things like “Xuyi, you should feed me every meal from now on” to Song Xuyi after finishing the chocolate, Song Xuyi thought she would find her even cuter…
After finishing the food, the two of them set off on their journey once again.
This time, Ye Shuiyu didn’t speak anymore. She seemed a bit tired and closed her eyes to sleep in the passenger seat. Who knows what she was dreaming about, but Ye Shuiyu’s brows were tightly furrowed in her sleep, indicating she wasn’t resting peacefully.
With Ye Shuiyu no longer causing mischief, Song Xuyi could finally continue driving in peace.
However, this process wasn’t as comfortable as Song Xuyi had imagined.
By now, the zombie virus had begun to spread. Although she had long since grown accustomed to the ruins along the road and the zombies wandering about, seeing the once beautiful landscape from the original owner’s memories turned into such chaos still made Song Xuyi feel somewhat sad. She couldn’t help but think about the original owner of this body—
The original Song Xuyi could be considered an extremely cold and selfish person. Her relationship with her parents and relatives wasn’t good, and she put all her energy into her professional research.
She had previously studied the zombie virus simply because she found it fascinating and wanted to explore its mysteries, without any intention of solving the problems of the apocalypse.
In the original plot summary, when the male and female protagonists’ base was destroyed, the male lead had sent people to find the original Song Xuyi for help, but she couldn’t be found anywhere. Now, having inherited the original’s memories and knowing her nature, Song Xuyi suspected that the original had likely seized the opportunity to escape when she sensed trouble.
But all of this was just Song Xuyi’s speculation.
Now it was Song Xuyi who had arrived here, inheriting the original owner’s memories.
Song Xuyi naturally had her own plans: once things stabilized, she decided to continue the original’s professional research on the zombie virus. Perhaps one day she could find the cause of the zombie virus’s spread, come up with a solution to the zombie virus, and restore the world to prosperity…
While contemplating her future plans, Song Xuyi only realized that the weather had changed again when she noticed it. Rain had started falling from the sky at some point, growing heavier and heavier, hitting the car windows with a ‘pong pong’ sound, which also woke up the seemingly soundly sleeping Ye Shuiyu.
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“We need to find a place to take shelter from the rain.” The car was currently on a mountain road, and with such heavy rain, mudslides could easily occur. Driving in this weather was far too dangerous.
Whether it was due to the weather or not, Ye Shuiyu’s face suddenly turned pale. She frowned as she glanced at the road conditions ahead, weakly nodded, and said softly, “There’s a house about five hundred meters ahead.”
She then turned her head towards Song Xuyi, clutching her stomach, her lips curling into a pale smile: “Xuyi, don’t be afraid. I’ve already killed the zombies inside that house.”
Song Xuyi had been asking the system if it could sense any houses nearby when she was caught off guard by Ye Shuiyu’s words, momentarily stunned.
The information contained in this statement was quite substantial.
Song Xuyi had originally thought that Ye Shuiyu was naturally gifted, awakening a powerful wind-based ability at the start to kill those villainous villagers. However, at this moment, Song Xuyi suddenly realized: Ye Shuiyu had not only awakened a wind-based ability, but it seemed she had even awakened a mental-based ability!
Moreover, based on Ye Shuiyu’s action of killing zombies five hundred meters away, it could be inferred that her mental ability was not just at its beginning stage. It must be at least much stronger than that of the mental-ability villager she had killed…
How exceptional must Ye Shuiyu have been before losing her memory, to possess such powerful abilities at the very beginning of the apocalypse…
While marveling at Ye Shuiyu’s incredible strength, Song Xuyi belatedly noticed Ye Shuiyu’s pale complexion. As she drove forward, she asked, “Shuiyu, what’s wrong?”
Ye Shuiyu weakly glanced at Song Xuyi, shook her head, and closed her eyes. “I’m fine.”
Song Xuyi wasn’t reassured. Drawing on the bit of medical knowledge she had accumulated from previous worlds, she checked Ye Shuiyu’s pulse. Feeling the normal pulse, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Sure enough, within a few minutes, Song Xuyi spotted a house by the roadside.
From its appearance, this house seemed to be a wealthy person’s vacation villa. As evening approached, the sensor-activated street lamps in front of the villa lit up, while the spots where security guards should have been standing were empty.
Song Xuyi drove up to the main gate, just about to get out of the car to figure out how to open the large iron gate in front of the villa, when Ye Shuiyu placed her hand on Song Xuyi’s—
“Xuyi, let me handle this.”
Meeting Song Xuyi’s astonished gaze, the expensive and luxurious metal lock on the villa’s main gate made a ‘ka-ka’ sound as if something was twisting. A few seconds later, the lock fell to the ground, and the iron gates automatically swung open on both sides…
Meeting Ye Shuiyu’s gaze, which contained a hint of showing off mixed with anticipation, Song Xuyi stiffly forced out a smile: “Shuiyu, you’re really amazing!”
Only then did Ye Shuiyu smile with satisfaction.
Song Xuyi felt that even if Ye Shuiyu were to perform feats like starting a fire with bare hands, creating water out of thin air, or materializing earth from nothing… she wouldn’t be surprised.
However, the facilities in this house looked extremely well-equipped, leaving no room for Ye Shuiyu to further demonstrate her abilities.
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Song Xuyi drove the car all the way in, parking in front of the house.
The villa’s main door was ajar, opening with just a touch.
The villa had its own power generation and water circulation system. While other places had long since lost water and electricity, Song Xuyi discovered that the villa still had power.
This discovery instantly lifted her mood.
Song Xuyi pushed open the door and turned on the lights, finding more than ten freshly dead, oddly-shaped zombies lying on the floor. Strangely, these zombies all lacked eyeballs, with only dark, empty eye sockets.
Song Xuyi furrowed her brow, carefully examining the zombies’ corpses: The zombies’ eye sockets were dry, indicating that they had been without eyeballs for quite some time. It was impossible that Ye Shuiyu had removed their eyeballs…
So what exactly had caused these zombies to lose their eyeballs?
Song Xuyi couldn’t help but look towards the door.
Instinctively, Song Xuyi felt an ominous premonition, not daring to stay in this villa any longer. However, the rain outside was getting heavier, making it impossible to drive in such conditions…
Song Xuyi glanced again at Ye Shuiyu beside her, noticing that her face seemed to be growing increasingly pale…
“Are you really alright?” Song Xuyi couldn’t help but ask again.
“I’m fine,” Ye Shuiyu gave the same answer as before. She lifted her head and forced a smile at Song Xuyi: “Xuyi, don’t worry about me.”
But how could Song Xuyi truly not worry about her?
Seeing Ye Shuiyu’s weak appearance, Song Xuyi couldn’t help but recall the records about ability users from the original plot summary: ability users often experience weakness and dizziness when they overuse their abilities.
This condition usually requires the crystal cores from zombie brains to alleviate, but in the current situation, most zombies had just evolved, and crystal cores couldn’t be found.
Thinking this, Song Xuyi didn’t pursue the matter of the zombies losing their eyeballs any further. She took some clean clothes and went to the bathroom to take a shower. She wasn’t sure if it was her imagination, but while showering, she felt like she heard some ‘jili gurulu’ chattering sounds. However, by the time Song Xuyi finished her shower and left the bathroom, those sounds had completely stopped. In the living room, only Ye Shuiyu was sitting there, and the more than ten zombie corpses that were previously there had disappeared from the living room…
“I was scared seeing those corpses, so I moved them all out…” Ye Shuiyu looked completely innocent, her face seeming even paler. She gazed pitifully at Song Xuyi: “I’m afraid I’ll have nightmares tonight. Could Xuyi tell me a story?”
Ye Shuiyu had killed so many villagers without batting an eye earlier; Song Xuyi couldn’t believe she was actually scared. But considering that Ye Shuiyu had been protecting her all along the way, to return the favor, Song Xuyi sat down in front of Ye Shuiyu and began telling fairy tales…
Song Xuyi had originally thought she could lull Ye Shuiyu to sleep, but Ye Shuiyu’s gaze remained as bright as ever. Instead, it was Song Xuyi who felt increasingly drowsy as she told the stories, not even realizing when she had fallen asleep…
Almost the instant Song Xuyi closed her eyes, a part of the air twisted, and suddenly, several red-eyed rat corpses dropped out from the middle.
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If Song Xuyi had been awake, she would have been utterly amazed: so Ye Shuiyu also had spatial abilities—
At this moment, Ye Shuiyu shed her docile image that she had maintained in front of Song Xuyi. With an expressionless face, she narrowed her eyes and walked to the window.
Sure enough, a huge red-eyed rat stood at the window.
That rat, filled with resentment for Ye Shuiyu’s slaughter of its offspring, stood gesticulating on the windowsill. Its greedy red eyes fixed intently on Ye Shuiyu’s eyes, unaware that in Ye Shuiyu’s eyes, it too was just a flowing stone glowing with red light…
The author has something to say:
As such a proper person, I’m truly apprehensive. I seem to not understand such improper talk. What will my proper readers think of me, a proper sweet romance author, when they see this?
Actually, after saying all this, I just want to ask: After saying “proper” so many times, can everyone still recognize the word “proper”? Hahaha…
LP: Re-translated on October 31, 2024