Villainous Zombie King (14)
Ye Shuiyu’s ears turned red.
Song Xuyi’s face flushed even more.
The only one smiling innocently was Zhao Miaomiao, holding the flowers.
Song Xuyi took a deep breath, trying her best to calm down. However, she still felt unable to regain her composure to face the older and younger ones, and finally decided to cool off alone for a while.
“Zhao Miaomiao,” Song Xuyi took a deep breath and took back the flowers from Zhao Miaomiao’s arms, putting on a stern face: “I feel you quite like your Aunt Shuiyu. Tonight, you can sleep with her next door!”
Song Xuyi originally thought Zhao Miaomiao would cry and make a fuss, and she was prepared to be “iron-hearted” (an idiom meaning resolute or determined) to deal with Zhao Miaomiao’s crying. However, to Song Xuyi’s surprise, Zhao Miaomiao pouted and looked at Song Xuyi resentfully, but said nothing. She hung her head, took her blanket, and followed Ye Shuiyu next door.
Song Xuyi was surprised but also relieved.
She returned to her room, and the heat on her cheeks finally dissipated. However, for some reason, perhaps because she had already grown accustomed to Zhao Miaomiao and Ye Shuiyu sleeping nearby, Song Xuyi couldn’t fall asleep that night.
Time passed minute by minute, and it was already two in the morning. Song Xuyi felt she still had no sleepiness and was about to give up on sleeping to get up and practice her supernatural ability. Unexpectedly, at a certain moment, sleepiness suddenly surged, Song Xuyi yawned, her mind became dizzy, and she involuntarily fell asleep.
Meanwhile, in the room next door, Zhao Miaomiao also had a dream.
In the dream world, many years had passed.
In that dream, Zhao Miaomiao had not met Song Xuyi. Later, she was so hungry that she couldn’t bear it and climbed out of the window. Luckily, she was adopted by a couple with supernatural abilities.
The couple with supernatural abilities treated her well. Although life was tumultuous, there were also moments of warmth. However, the good times didn’t last long. Soon, Zhao Miaomiao had a dream: she dreamed that the couple with supernatural abilities was torn apart by a ferocious zombie.
At first, Zhao Miaomiao didn’t take this dream seriously. She followed the couple to a small base. To make a living, the couple joined a small team of people with supernatural abilities, and life seemed to get better.
Until one day, the captain of the supernatural ability team frantically relayed a message saying that the couple had been killed by zombies.
Zhao Miaomiao went to the place where the couple had met their demise, and the environment was exactly the same as what she had dreamed.
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At first, Zhao Miaomiao didn’t take this incident to heart, but later, as the events in her dreams came true one by one, Zhao Miaomiao realized that she seemed to have awakened the ability of precognition.
But this ability was too strange and brought Zhao Miaomiao deep pain.
In her subsequent life, Zhao Miaomiao discovered that for precognitive dreams involving herself, she could change her own fate through her efforts. But once it involved other people, no matter how hard Zhao Miaomiao tried, she couldn’t change others’ destinies.
Beaten down repeatedly by this sense of powerlessness, Zhao Miaomiao gradually became numb. But when she saw in her dream that her distant cousin Zhao Ningning, who had become the leader of the base, was engulfed by a horde of zombies, Zhao Miaomiao decided to try one more time.
As usual, Zhao Ningning didn’t believe Zhao Miaomiao’s words. After all, no one in this world had ever seen such a precognitive ability, and people hadn’t seen large-scale zombie hordes in these years.
But even though Zhao Miaomiao said words that seemed almost like a curse to Zhao Ningning, Zhao Ningning still took Zhao Miaomiao in at the base.
Having witnessed the treachery of human nature over the years, Zhao Miaomiao didn’t expect that the base established by Zhao Ningning and Li Sibai would be a pure land in the chaotic world. Their base didn’t have those intrigues and the law of the jungle. Even between the highest-ranking Zhao Ningning and Li Sibai, they still adhered to the former monogamous system, and the relationship between the two was pure and simple. At Zhao Ningning’s base, Zhao Miaomiao also saw Song Xuyi, but at that time, Song Xuyi was gloomy and cold, only focused on her own research, not caring about the life and death of others in the outside world.
Zhao Miaomiao ultimately failed again. The arrival of the zombie horde was sudden, and people never thought there would be so many zombies gathered with organization and discipline. Zhao Ningning chose to stay at the base with Li Sibai to protect the ordinary people there, but they entrusted their adopted children to Zhao Miaomiao, asking her and some people with supernatural abilities to escort the children of the base to escape to the largest base in Jingshi.
Zhao Ningning and Li Sibai sacrificed themselves.
After “nine cows and two tigers” (an idiom meaning tremendous effort), Zhao Miaomiao arrived at the Jingshi base. She saw Song Xuyi, who had joined under the Jingshi base leader Yu Song, but Song Xuyi pretended not to know her.
Zhao Miaomiao formed a small team with other people with supernatural abilities, struggling to raise the children. However, at this time, Zhao Miaomiao had another precognitive dream:
In the dream, millions of zombies besieged Jingshi, and Jingshi was losing ground step by step. In the center of the layers upon layers of zombies, Zhao Miaomiao saw a woman with red light flashing in her eyes: Jingshi’s highest leader, Yu Song, was kneeling in front of the woman, crying bitterly, but the woman coldly twisted Yu Song’s neck…
The woman’s face, beautiful beyond compare, was clearly Ye Shuiyu’s appearance!
While Zhao Miaomiao was immersed in the nightmare, Ye Shuiyu suddenly got up from the bed without warning and slowly walked out the door.
Then, Song Xuyi’s locked door opened from the outside, and Ye Shuiyu leisurely walked in from outside.
At this moment, Ye Shuiyu’s eyes were glowing with an eerie red light, and her whole person looked eerily beautiful.
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Meeting the terrified gaze of the system in Song Xuyi’s mind, Ye Shuiyu slowly walked into the room, sat at the bedside, and began to examine Song Xuyi’s face.
She looked very carefully, her gaze as if tangible, inch by inch scanning Song Xuyi’s face, and finally slowly reached out her hand, once again caressing Song Xuyi’s neck…
The system watched Ye Shuiyu’s appearance with trepidation, always feeling that she would suddenly reach out and twist Song Xuyi’s neck. It strained its voice trying to wake Song Xuyi, but just like before, no matter how it called, it couldn’t wake her.
But to the system’s surprise, Ye Shuiyu withdrew her hand in an instant.
She bent down close to Song Xuyi, her cold lips near Song Xuyi’s cheek—
“When I was ten years old, my father took me into the laboratory. I never thought he would use me for experiments. At first, it was just small amounts of medicine, but later the medicines became stranger and stranger. He injected the medicines into my body one syringe after another. I was in so much pain, my whole being wanted to die. But he told me to keep it a secret, saying he was experimenting with ways to revive my mother…”
“When I was fourteen, because of an overdose of my father’s medicine, I became so thin that I looked like a skeleton. I begged my father to reduce the dosage of the medicine, but what I got in return was a slap from him. He held me back two grades and transferred me to his colleague’s school, constantly asking for sick leave for me, only letting me go to school for a month or two each year. He wanted to turn me into an ignorant animal that he could slaughter at will, but unfortunately, I inherited his smart and selfish genes.”
“In the rare moments of freedom, I studied desperately, finally learning to identify some fungal species and drugs, and also discovered his hypocritical true face: as a ‘phoenix man’ (a term for a man from a poor background who becomes successful), supported by my mother and maternal grandfather to complete his studies, he became a professor. He pretended to be deeply in love with my mother, used his own daughter for experiments, but had an affair with my homeroom teacher—his former student, the daughter of an official—even before my mother passed away.”
“I hated it so much! But I couldn’t resist at all. On countless nights when I was in too much pain to sleep, I would think about someone coming to save me: even if that person couldn’t save me, it would be good if someone just smiled at me. But at the suggestion of my homeroom teacher, I became a stupid held-back freak who would occasionally faint and bleed at the slightest touch, and most of my classmates chose to isolate me…”
“The fool from the daytime thinks she fell in love with you at first sight because she hasn’t remembered yet that when she was eighteen, you were her deskmate. Even though you were also wary of the ugly and weak me at that time, your passion for science overcame everything. You would bring me all the books I wanted, in exchange for letting me into your small laboratory after school to cooperate with your research.”
“However, compared to Yu Song, your little research was nothing to me. I even have to thank you because your small laboratory finally gave me the opportunity to start modifying myself based on Yu Song’s foundation, step by step becoming the monster I am now.”
“When I was twenty-six, my research on developing human potential virus had results, activating most of the potential in my body, but it also turned me into a living dead person completely. At the same time, Yu Song also developed an inferior virus that could activate human potential but had an extremely high mortality rate. Once the virus failed to activate potential in the human body, it would turn people into bloodthirsty monsters like walking corpses.”
“Yu Song felt the opportunity had come. He improved this virus, extracting a virus that could more safely activate human potential, but he still released the original first version of the virus—when the world becomes hell, with walking corpses rampaging through the world, he, who has the method to enhance the virus, would undoubtedly be embraced by everyone…”
“Yu Song succeeded. He married that homeroom teacher of mine and hypocritically became one of the leaders of Jingshi.”
“He calculated everything, but the only thing he didn’t expect was that I was still alive. After he released the zombie virus, he had his first-generation followers throw the ‘dead’ me far away, but didn’t expect that I would come back to life…”
“Actually, I’m not really alive either.” Ye Shuiyu sighed softly, taking Song Xuyi’s hand and placing it on her chest where there was no heartbeat: “At night, I have no heartbeat.”
“Yu Song couldn’t have imagined that I would come back to life. He would even less expect that I would be the strongest zombie in the world, possessing the ability to command all zombies.”
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“I also didn’t expect to meet you again. You seem to have become incredibly alluring, making people’s hearts race. But why weren’t you like this back then? If you had been like this back then… how wonderful that would have been!”
Ye Shuiyu slightly raised her hand, and the roar of zombies came from outside the window. She gazed at Song Xuyi with deep eyes, sighed softly, and finally placed a cold kiss on Song Xuyi’s lips: “Tell me, in a few days, when the fool from the daytime who has fallen in love with you and sees you as her light remembers that you also experimented on her, how will she treat you?”
“She will definitely think the same as me—wanting to destroy this cold and filthy world.”
“I look forward to it.”
The system in Song Xuyi’s mind was incredibly shocked as it digested all of this, watching Ye Shuiyu walk out of the room like a ghost again and into the zombie horde. The system was trying hard to wake Song Xuyi up and tell her to flee quickly, but unexpectedly, a long-absent broadcast from the main god space came through in her mind—
“Next door, Zhao Miaomiao’s character setting has shifted, need to erase the plot character’s memory…”
LP: Re-translated on November 14, 2024