Villainous Zombie King (5)
Song Xuyi woke up hungry on the second day.
The rain outside seemed to have lessened a bit but hadn’t stopped, still falling in a “xixi lili” (onomatopoeia for light rain) drizzle.
In the moment of waking, Song Xuyi seemed to faintly smell the scent of blood, but by the time Song Xuyi opened her eyes, only the earthy smell unique to after-rain remained in the surroundings.
Ye Shuiyu, beside her, looked over with a smile, raising her voice: “Xuyi, good morning! I have something I want to give you!”
Ye Shuiyu’s complexion had already recovered, and when looking at Song Xuyi, her eyes were once again filled with the light of joy.
Although she knew she shouldn’t, Song Xuyi was still infected by Ye Shuiyu’s happiness and couldn’t help but curve her lips, her voice involuntarily softening: “What gift—”
Ye Shuiyu smiled and took two steps closer.
She was born very beautiful, and this beauty was further magnified by the morning light, giving it extreme aggressiveness. Looking at Ye Shuiyu’s face within arm’s reach, Song Xuyi suddenly felt a bit flustered and couldn’t help but take a step back—
Ye Shuiyu didn’t notice Song Xuyi’s avoidance.
She took Song Xuyi’s hand and, as if presenting a treasure, stuffed something into Song Xuyi’s palm.
“—Xuyi, eat this!”
Song Xuyi looked at the red transparent crystal in her palm.
This crystal was like yet unlike crystal, and Song Xuyi didn’t know how to describe it. When her hand touched this crystal, Song Xuyi felt extremely warm. For a moment, Song Xuyi even thought that this crystal would taste quite good…
But… how could this crystal be eaten?
Song Xuyi shook her head, feeling that she had been led astray by Ye Shuiyu, and sighed: “Shuiyu, you can’t eat things recklessly!”
Remembering that Ye Shuiyu’s current memory was only that of a four-year-old, Song Xuyi couldn’t help but voice her concern: “Shuiyu, most four-year-old children are already in middle class of kindergarten. You should know not to eat unfamiliar things recklessly, right?”
“Xuyi, you’ve remembered wrong!” Ye Shuiyu furrowed her brows and looked at Song Xuyi with a wronged expression: “I’m five years old this year!”
“Moreover, when I was five, I had already skipped grades and was in the second grade!”
Song Xuyi widened her eyes and carefully examined Ye Shuiyu’s expression, belatedly realizing: Ye Shuiyu’s memories seemed to be gradually recovering, aging one year in just a day…
Thinking this way, Song Xuyi also felt relieved. At this rate, Ye Shuiyu would probably recover all her memories in about half a month.
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“Alright, put that stone down first. If you’re hungry, I’ll go make some soup for you to drink.”
Song Xuyi decided to change the subject.
Remembering that there seemed to be an induction cooker in the kitchen, Song Xuyi was just about to go cook something hot to eat when she saw Ye Shuiyu looking at her thoughtfully: “Xuyi, do you not know how to eat it?”
Ye Shuiyu took a piece of red crystal from Song Xuyi’s hand, put on a serious face, her expression looking extremely earnest: “Xuyi, watch carefully! Watch closely how I eat it. If you don’t learn, I’ll be angry!”
Ye Shuiyu placed the crystal in her hand, clenched her fist tightly, and closed her eyes…
At first, Song Xuyi was just watching Ye Shuiyu’s actions with a playful mindset. However, as she observed Ye Shuiyu’s movements and saw her empty palm after reopening her hand, Song Xuyi’s smile gradually faded. She belatedly realized: could this red crystal be a crystal core?
Initially, Song Xuyi didn’t think in that direction because she believed it was impossible for crystal cores to exist in the early stages of the apocalypse. But she remembered that the plot outline mentioned that ability users could extract crystal cores from mutated zombies or mutated beasts to replenish energy…
Recalling the zombies with gouged-out eyes in the house last night, Song Xuyi made a rough guess: there must have been a mutated beast hidden in this villa. The mutated beast ate people’s eyes, then turned them into zombies.
So mutated beasts existed this early?
Although red was the lowest-level tier-one crystal core, it was still the early stages of the apocalypse. These beasts that had already become tier-one at the beginning had incredible potential. If left to develop, they could become a regional disaster.
Ye Shuiyu had inadvertently done a service to the public by eliminating this threat.
Ye Shuiyu must have absorbed the crystal core, which explained why her complexion recovered so quickly.
These tier-one crystal cores might not count for much in the later stages of the apocalypse, but in the current early stage, they were still rare treasures.
Song Xuyi took a deep breath. Although she was starting to get used to the various shocks brought by Ye Shuiyu, it still took her a few seconds to understand the implications. She looked at Ye Shuiyu again and solemnly thanked her: “Thank you, Shuiyu.” Song Xuyi’s tone couldn’t help but contain some sincerity, after all, without Ye Shuiyu following her, with ability users and mutated beasts along the way, she would likely not have escaped misfortune. “But I’m not an ability user. Although this crystal core is valuable, it’s useless to me. I can’t absorb its energy…”
As she spoke, Song Xuyi reached out her hand, intending to push the crystal core back into Ye Shuiyu’s hand.
However, Ye Shuiyu grasped Song Xuyi’s hand, wrapping it up again.
“Xuyi, just try it! I feel like you can eat it…”
Ye Shuiyu’s beautiful eyes were brimming with pleading, gazing steadily at Song Xuyi in a coquettish manner. She held Song Xuyi’s hand extremely tightly, with the posture that she wouldn’t let go unless Song Xuyi tried.
“Alright!” Song Xuyi couldn’t resist Ye Shuiyu’s acting coquettish, sighed with a headache, and with the mindset of coaxing a child, took a crystal core and held it in her palm, following Ye Shuiyu’s instructions — “Close your eyes, meditate, empty your mind.”
— It was a very strange feeling. Song Xuyi felt as if her entire being was immersed in warm water, indescribably comfortable.
Something warm flowed bit by bit from the crystal core in her hand throughout her body. Her whole body felt incredibly refreshed, as if every pore was opening up. Her heart was very satisfied, feeling extremely pleasant, like having eaten her favorite food…
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When Song Xuyi opened her eyes again, the crystal in her hand had disappeared.
What is this?!
Weren’t only ability users able to absorb crystal cores?
After coming to her senses, Song Xuyi’s eyes widened. The original body had fallen into a coma due to the zombie virus, and then Song Xuyi had arrived in this world. When Song Xuyi first woke up, she had wondered if the original body might have awakened an ability. After all, people infected with the virus either became zombies or ability users. But soon after, Song Xuyi had dismissed the idea: all along the way, Song Xuyi hadn’t noticed anything about herself that was different from normal people.
However, now that she could absorb crystal cores…
Song Xuyi bit her lower lip tightly.
In the apocalyptic world, some people would awaken chicken rib (something useless but hard to give up) abilities, such as their bodies becoming extremely flexible, or their appetite becoming enormous… Perhaps she had awakened one of these chicken rib abilities.
Originally, Song Xuyi didn’t want the remaining crystal cores. After all, it would be more beneficial for both of them if Ye Shuiyu enhanced her ability rather than Song Xuyi, who didn’t know what ability she had awakened, absorbing energy to increase her level.
However, Ye Shuiyu insisted that Song Xuyi take the remaining crystal cores. She didn’t say things like kiss kiss or such, after all, Ye Shuiyu was now a five-year-old second-grade student who had skipped grades. But Ye Shuiyu pulled out a small notebook and a pen from somewhere, and wrote in it seriously: “On such-and-such year, month, and day, Xuyi not accepting my gift made me very angry, deducting one point.”
Song Xuyi was curious and couldn’t help but ask Ye Shuiyu: “So how many points do I have in total, and what happens if they’re all deducted?”
Ye Shuiyu bit her pen tip and glanced at Song Xuyi, pouting as she answered: “Ten points.” But she didn’t answer Song Xuyi’s other question.
At first, Song Xuyi refused to accept Ye Shuiyu’s crystal cores no matter what, until Ye Shuiyu angrily said that if Song Xuyi didn’t accept them, she would throw them away. Seeing the seriousness and stubbornness in Ye Shuiyu’s eyes, Song Xuyi had no choice but to reluctantly accept Ye Shuiyu’s crystal cores.
But Song Xuyi didn’t intend to use these crystal cores: after all, Ye Shuiyu might regain her memory in more than ten days, and these crystal cores were extremely valuable in the early stages of the apocalypse. She had already inadvertently absorbed one, and Song Xuyi didn’t plan to keep the rest for herself.
Ye Shuiyu didn’t know Song Xuyi’s thoughts. Seeing that Song Xuyi had accepted the crystal cores, Ye Shuiyu’s expression changed quickly. She happily hugged Song Xuyi’s neck and smiled: “This is my good Xuyi!”
Ye Shuiyu’s smile was truly too radiant. Seeing the brilliant smile within arm’s reach, Song Xuyi’s heartbeat couldn’t help but accelerate, and her mind experienced a moment of daze: If Ye Shuiyu were really a five-year-old girl, Song Xuyi felt she would certainly be happy to let her be close, probably no one could bear to refuse an angel-like girl. But now Ye Shuiyu was a bright and beautiful gorgeous woman, allowing her to be so close seemed a bit like taking advantage of someone…
Coming back to her senses, Song Xuyi put on a stern face and imperceptibly pushed away Ye Shuiyu’s hand that was hugging her neck, trying not to hurt her current five-year-old heart: “Shuiyu, you’re a big girl now, you can’t act spoiled like this anymore, you need to behave like a big girl!”
“But Meimei from the next class is eight years old, and she still holds her mother’s hand and acts spoiled!” However, Song Xuyi seemed to have hurt Ye Shuiyu’s feelings. Ye Shuiyu puffed up her cheeks and glared at Song Xuyi indignantly, once again pulling out her little notebook…
Subsequently, Song Xuyi was penalized many times by Ye Shuiyu for various reasons such as “not taking Ye Shuiyu into the kitchen,” “not feeding Ye Shuiyu water,” “not holding Ye Shuiyu’s hand,” “not helping Ye Shuiyu bathe,” and so on.
Song Xuyi figured she had already been deducted about ten or more points, but looking at Ye Shuiyu’s demeanor, she estimated she would continue to lose points…
Sighing inwardly, looking at Ye Shuiyu who, even after bathing and without makeup, still looked incredibly beautiful, yet was puffing her cheeks and angrily writing something in her notebook, Song Xuyi once again felt Ye Shuiyu’s cuteness. Along with this, for the first time, she became curious about the grown-up Ye Shuiyu: being so likable as a child, she wondered what kind of personality the grown-up Ye Shuiyu had, probably a universally charming person who could conquer in all directions…
Thinking that she was, after all, her lifesaver, and that she had indeed been too cold towards her today to avoid suspicion, Song Xuyi looked at Ye Shuiyu’s long hair, still wet and dripping and not dried. Even though she knew ability users had good health and were unlikely to get sick, she still couldn’t help but speak up: “Shuiyu, shall I blow-dry your hair for you?”
Ye Shuiyu’s eyes indeed lit up!
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She quickly wrote something in her notebook, then eagerly brought the hair dryer, happily crouching in front of Song Xuyi. Although her demeanor didn’t resemble it at all, looking at Ye Shuiyu like this, Song Xuyi couldn’t help but think of a loyal, cute little puppy crouching in front of her, wanting a bone.
“Shuiyu, I’m helping you dry your hair, shouldn’t you add a point for me?” Meeting Ye Shuiyu’s wet gaze, Song Xuyi’s face inexplicably felt a bit hot. She coughed dryly and awkwardly changed the subject.
She had just said it casually, but unexpectedly, Ye Shuiyu seriously responded: “Of course! I’ll definitely add points for Xuyi!”
Ye Shuiyu tilted her chin up and pulled out her little notebook, handing it to Song Xuyi. At the bottom, there was clearly a line written—
“Xuyi dries my hair for me! Happily spinning in circles, +10000 points!”
The author has something to say:
I haven’t repeatedly emphasized, no, I haven’t. A proper author would never repeatedly emphasize their identity. From head to toe, I have five big characters written all over me: I am a serious person!
LP: Re-translated on November 03, 2024