Su Wenwen also hadn’t expected that she would go from fearing zombies approaching at the very beginning to being accustomed to it now. Having a piece of flesh bitten off was already painful to the point of numbness, even to the point of being fearless.
After all, she had a system, and so many attribute points to exchange for items. It could be said she was a big meat shield1 with super thick health. As long as she protected her head, there was no difference between her and a zombie; she was completely unkillable.
Therefore, when Su Wenwen saw Father Lin large mouth about to bite Luo Xi, she subconsciously reached out her hand to protect her. Skin and flesh were rawly separated from each other, and dripping fresh blood slid down her fair, tender wrist, covering Luo Xi’s face…
In that instant, Su Wenwen felt an unprecedented heart palpitation2, as if a basin of ice water had been poured over her from head to toe. And this indescribable feeling was actually being emitted by Luo Xi.
She glanced sideways slightly.
Luo Xi’s expression looked a bit strange, as if she had been stimulated and had fallen into some kind of terrifying scenario. Her mental power was in disarray, her beautiful black hair flew about, and the tadpoles3 that had flown over upon smelling the scent of blood were instantly ground into fine powder by this abnormal energy.
Next, the bodies of Lin Father and Mother Lin were dismantled, like building blocks that had been constructed, pushed over into wooden blocks torn into four parts and five cracks. Even the faceless zombies that looked like they were about to explode were also disintegrated one by one.
The countless pieces of corpses piled up into a foul stench. All around was a stretch of dead silence; it seemed to be safe.
Before Su Wenwen had time to breathe a sigh of relief, she felt the ground shake violently. The soft walls covering the walls fell off one after another, the ceiling wall cracked with fine seams, and lime fell like a fine, continuous rain…
“Don’t be in a daze, go quickly.”
The Adjutant, who had found this place at some unknown time, relied on his powerful body and special ability, carrying one person in each hand and forcefully dragging the two of them outward. A piece of cement from the ceiling happened to fall off just then, smashing heavily onto the ground.
Only when Su Wenwen came back to her senses did she discover that Luo Xi had once again fallen unconscious. She hurriedly steadied herself, held Luo Xi in her arms, and continuously ran outward behind the Adjutant.
The pillars supporting the garage broke and collapsed one by one, and the originally slick, soft walls had now also become sticky.
Dust was kicked up everywhere, and rocks fell from time to time. Fearing Luo Xi would be hit, Su Wenwen changed to a princess carry posture, protecting the person firmly in her arms.
With her current strength, holding Luo Xi was no different from holding a feather; it didn’t affect her running speed in the slightest.
However, the underground garage was divided into two levels. Although they were currently on the upper level, the ground had also cracked with many fine seams because of this. As a huge boulder from above fell and smashed onto the ground, it caused the tottering floor to break apart as well, falling to the bottom-most level.
There were pits and potholes everywhere, with no intact road. Yet, the nearest exit required crossing this pitted land.
The Adjutant leaped, barely landing on the edge of the crack. Just as he was about to turn back to help Su Wenwen, he saw her, holding Luo Xi, actually jump even farther than him, landing steadily in front of him.
The Adjutant didn’t dare to hesitate and ran behind Su Wenwen. The few of them successfully ran out of the underground garage before the building collapsed.
Lin Wan had already woken up. After listening to Shen Ming’s description of what happened after she fell unconscious, she learned that the Adjutant had found the exit by himself, then turned back to inform Shen Ming and go find Su Wenwen and Luo Xi.
She looked at the tottering building, not daring to leave, and had been waiting anxiously at the exit. Seeing the three of them were safe and sound, she subconsciously glanced again at the exit full of smoke and dust.
Lin Father, Mother Lin, and her younger brother did not come out. Lin Wan’s feelings were slightly complicated, like both a release and a loss. She held the chaotic mixture in her chest, and it finally turned to nothingness with a sigh.
Sisi was simple and didn’t understand these things. Not seeing Lin Father and Mother Lin come out, she subconsciously tightened her grip on Lin Wan’s hand and looked at her in confusion, asking: “And what about Daddy and Mommy?”
Lin Wan stroked Sisi’s head: “Be good, Sisi. Daddy and Mommy can’t come out anymore. For them, it counts as a release, I suppose.”
Sisi nodded as if she half-understood. Although she had some affection for Lin Father and Mother Lin, it wasn’t so strong that she couldn’t be without them. Just like at this moment, Sisi was thinking that it was very good to have several big sisters by her side.
After Su Wenwen came out, she coughed slightly, wanting to cough out the dust she had just inhaled into her lungs. After catching her breath, she finally took a deep breath.
Although it was cold outside, the air was clear.
She checked Luo Xi’s condition. It was possibly the disarray of her mental power that caused her to be unconscious, but fortunately, she wasn’t injured.
The team had lost quite a few people. At a rough estimate, only seventy or eighty people were left. Supplies were also lost. The small amount of food that remained was barely enough for one meal. If the food in the spatial backpack was included, perhaps they could eat for two meals.
Calculating the time, two meals were enough for everyone to last twenty-four hours. They could hold out until they returned to the sea base.
The sky was already dark by now. Su Wenwen gave an order for everyone to rest and reorganize on the spot for one hour, then continue on their way.
Everyone just ate a little something and took a short nap. No one dared to sleep deeply. Even so, some people were awakened by nightmares, scared into a cold sweat.
Their mental state was not very good. Su Wenwen knew they were very tired, but they still had to hurry back as soon as possible and couldn’t stay outside for too long.
One hour later, the team set off on time in the dark. The Adjutant had rich experience in leading teams. Su Wenwen originally wanted to let him lead, but the Adjutant refused.
“This time, when we get back to the sea base, it will already be difficult for me to explain to Luo Tianyang. If I still lead the team openly and brazenly, then he will trust me even less. What you need to do now is suppress me.”
“I will also use the news that you are a special ability user to dispel his suspicions about me this time, so after you go back, you don’t need to hide your fire-type ability.”
Su Wenwen nodded: “I understand.”
Su Wenwen couldn’t figure out the twists and turns4 in all this. Since the Adjutant said so, she did as she was told.
Therefore, along the entire way, Su Wenwen did not distribute any food to the Adjutant, and made the Adjutant walk at the back of the team, responsible for the work of bringing up the rear5.
One must know, the two most dangerous places in a team are the front rank and the rear rank. And in the apocalypse, the rear rank is even more dangerous; if you are even a little bit slow, you won’t have time to escape.
The team would occasionally stop to rest. Su Wenwen would then put Luo Xi down and check the wound on Lin Wan’s neck.
Fortunately, it was treated in time. The wound was not inflamed, nor were there any signs of mutation. It seemed the effect of the medicine was stronger than imagined.
The next time Su Wenwen picked Luo Xi up, she discovered that Luo Xi’s long eyelashes fluttered. That skin as bright as the stars and moon made Su Wenwen unable to bear patting her, so she could only call out softly: “Luo Xi, how are you feeling?”
After Luo Xi opened her eyes, they seemed to be covered by a layer of bewildered fog, like a lost child standing in the middle of a crossroads, a sight that made one’s heart ache.
Su Wenwen asked again: “What’s wrong, are you uncomfortable somewhere?”
Luo Xi pursed her lips, reached out and pushed Su Wenwen away. After surveying her surroundings and confirming the current situation, she said: “I’m fine, let’s continue on our way!”
This kind of cold attitude made Su Wenwen a bit stunned, but now was not the time to think about these things. She turned and instructed the team members to immediately get up and continue on their way.
With no one causing trouble, the rest of the journey was quite smooth. Before dawn, the team successfully returned to the harbor.
The harbor had high walls blocking it off, so it was relatively safe. The team temporarily rested and reorganized at this location.
Su Wenwen was afraid of exposing the existence of the spatial backpack, so she only took out a little food to distribute to everyone. Although it was a bit like a cup of water on a cart of burning firewood6, it could still allow everyone to relax psychologically.
Afterward, everyone picked up clean snow from the ground, melted it into water with fire to drink. Each person drank a large bowl of water, and the feeling of hunger in their abdomens was also reduced a lot.
Su Wenwen changed Lin Wan’s dressing again. Seeing the wound on her neck was scabbing over, she was finally able to completely put her mind at ease, and then secretly stuffed a lot of food to Lin Wan.
Lin Wan was a smart person and accepted it without any hesitation: “Thank you.”
“Why be so polite? In the future, many people will still have to rely on you to research more medicines to save people.”
Lin Wan smiled: “I’ll do my best. However… it seems that person of yours hasn’t given you a pleasant look since she woke up, right? Did you two have a fight?”
“How could we? We would never fight.”
Although she said that, Su Wenwen also felt in her heart that Luo Xi’s attitude towards her had become much colder since she woke up. At first, she could still find excuses, feeling it wasn’t the right time to talk about personal feelings.
But now that they were in a relatively safe place, Su Wenwen couldn’t find a reason to let Luo Xi’s strange attitude go unaddressed.
“Go talk to her!”
Hearing this, Su Wenwen nodded. Her gaze didn’t even need to search for Luo Xi’s figure; she directly got up, found the parking lot, and got into the familiar nanny van.
Luo Xi was lying in the driver’s seat, closing her eyes to rest her spirit. Su Wenwen sat in the front passenger seat, and for a moment, she didn’t know what to say, so she lay down along with her.
At this moment, Su Wenwen felt that not having a blackening value was a very inconvenient thing. She could feel that Luo Xi was angry, but she didn’t know what she was angry about, or when she had started being angry.
There were no clues at all.
Su Wenwen seemed to be resting with her eyes closed, but her mind was frantically thinking about how to coax her girlfriend when she was angry.
After a while, Su Wenwen really couldn’t stand this passive-aggressive atmosphere, so she sat up properly again and said in an ingratiating tone: “You’ve been ignoring me ever since you woke up. Did I do something wrong?”
Luo Xi opened her eyes, but she didn’t look at Su Wenwen. Instead, she looked at the brightening sky and said: “What do you think?”
Su Wenwen took Luo Xi’s hand: “I’m asking you precisely because I don’t know. Don’t be angry, okay?”
“Angry?” Only then did Luo Xi look at Su Wenwen. “You think I’m angry?”
Eh? Isn’t that it?
Ignoring someone for several hours, no matter how you look at it, seems like being angry, and she was even giving her a look. Su Wenwen felt wronged, but it wasn’t a good time to act out, so she could only continue to smile apologetically: “Okay, okay, baby’s not angry. Then can you tell me why you’re ignoring me?”
Luo Xi’s gaze was as deep as an abyss, as if veiled by thousands of layers of disguise, while Su Wenwen was like a peeled egg, so white it was translucent; one didn’t need to look to know what it was like on the inside.
Therefore, the way Su Wenwen tried so hard to be ingratiating in order to coax out the reason for “why she was ignoring her” appeared particularly jarring.
Luo Xi had no need for Su Wenwen to lower her head and curry favor. She couldn’t help but reach out and clamp the chin of the person a head shorter than her, forcing it to lift up, and said: “What do you see on my face?”
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