I Pursued My Scummy Ex’s White Moonlight – Chapter 12

Triple the pain

Canned food, dry rations, ropes, knives, and so on took up more than half of the space. Just as Su Wenwen finished packing, her phone started ringing incessantly.

She answered the video call and asked while walking out of her room, “Mom, what’s wrong?”

“Nannan, the village committee sent a message. We need to prepare our things and go to the air-raid shelter to take refuge. Mom just called to let you know. Once we’re in the air-raid shelter, our phones won’t have any signal.”

An air-raid shelter?

No wonder Su Wenwen hadn’t found her parents when she returned home in her previous life. It turned out everyone in the village had gone to the air-raid shelter.

Su Wenwen hadn’t paid attention to what happened to that air-raid shelter later, so she could only ask the system.

【In the early stages, all defensive locations failed to be established. Success can only be achieved after survivors awaken their abilities, and the prerequisite is that the female lead and the male lead must stay alive.】

Su Wenwen walked to the living room window and looked at the sky. The dark clouds were growing thicker, and no light could be seen during the day, making it seem like night.

She remembered that after this heavy rain had been brewing for five or six days, a red rain would fall. This rain naturally carried a virus. Once the rain stopped and the sun came out, scorching everything, the virus would enter the air.

The zombies would undergo a full evolution.

Survivors also became virus carriers. If lucky, they could evolve abilities, but this was where the problem lay.

All living people becoming virus carriers didn’t mean they were immune to the virus. This microbial virus from outer space would keep body cells active after a person died. Even if not bitten by a zombie, they would still turn into one.

And the female lead would develop a vaccine to suppress the virus, preventing normal people from turning into zombies after death. The male lead possessed antibodies and was the subject of the female lead’s research, so neither of them could die.

Otherwise, even if a base was successfully established, a new crisis would still erupt if someone died of old age or an accident.

“Mom, how much food do we still have at home?”

“We thought you were coming back, so we bought a lot of your favorite snacks and dried goods. The potatoes and melons in the field are ripe too. Your dad and I dug some up last night when no one was around and stored them at home. We have enough for at least a month or more.”

“Then don’t go to the air-raid shelter. I’ll come home to find you in a few days.”

“Ai, but everyone is preparing to go to the air-raid shelter. It’s too dangerous for us to stay at home. You shouldn’t come over either. What if you encounter zombies on the way?”

Su Wenwen was determined to make a trip home. Otherwise, once the zombies evolved to a certain extent, the air-raid shelter wouldn’t be able to hold them off at all; instead, they’d be like turtles in a jar¹ for the zombies.

“Mom, if you bring so much food, people will get jealous². When the food runs out, the village cadres will definitely organize people to go out and find more. That will be even more dangerous. It’s better to wait for me at home.”

Mother Su was a little swayed. Her gaze shifted to Father Su beside her, who then took the phone. His expression was very serious.

“How will you come over alone?”

Su Wenwen’s first thought was to drive. There were so many abandoned cars on the roadside; she could just find any one.

But then she saw the worried look in her father’s eyes and realized his emphasis was on “alone,” not on how she would get there.

“Uncle, don’t worry. I’ll go with Wenwen to find you,” Luo Xi said, walking in front of the camera.

Father Su was stunned for a moment, clearly not expecting this turn of events. He averted his gaze somewhat unnaturally and nodded lightly, which counted as agreement.

Su Wenwen blinked and glanced at the villain.

Luo Xi noticed Su Wenwen’s gaze and turned her head to look. She was already beautiful, and as she gently curved her lips, her eyes became captivating.

It made Su Wenwen recall being pulled into the bathroom last night. Although it was just a hurried glimpse then, the exquisite curve of her waist and the feel of her delicate skin were deeply etched in her mind.

Her cheeks burned again. Su Wenwen quickly looked away and saw Mother Su’s magnified face on the screen, looking like she wanted to drill right through the phone, which startled Su Wenwen.

“Mom, what are you doing?”

Mother Su quickly backed away and chuckled, “Ai, my old eyes are dim³, I can’t see your face clearly. But if you’re coming, be careful on the road. Don’t rush. Your dad and I can hold out at home for two months, no problem.”

“Mm, I know.”

Su Wenwen gave a couple more instructions, telling them to reinforce the doors and windows, not to open the door for anyone they met, and not to let others see the food hoarded at home.

After hanging up, Su Wenwen asked the villain, “Are you really going back with me?” She wasn’t sure if what the villain had just said was merely to reassure her parents.

“That depends on what you think.”

Hearing the villain say this, Su Wenwen felt there was a hint of ambiguity in her words. But the villain casually sat down on the sofa and started looking at her phone, seemingly not taking the matter to heart.

She scratched her hair. Naturally, she hoped the villain would come along; after all, the mission was bound to the villain.

Su Wenwen followed and sat down next to the villain, saying, “I don’t care, you have to keep your word and go back with me.”

Luo Xi smiled. “Mm.”

Then, the villain handed her phone to Su Wenwen.

Su Wenwen glanced at it. It was a very complex architectural drawing that she couldn’t understand. “What’s this?”

“Blueprints for a defensive location. My older brother sent them to me.”

The villain tapped the screen, opening a world map.

“The red dots on the map mark the most severely affected areas. The military has basically been dispatched to these red-dot regions. Next are the purple, yellow, and green dots, indicating different disaster situations.”

Gray dots are unknown areas.

“The lightest are the green-marked areas, mostly concentrated in remote villages and sparsely populated, harsh environments like the North and South Poles. The military is fighting on the front lines and doesn’t have the spare capacity to build bases, so they entrusted the task of establishing bases to Feichuang Group⁴.”

Feichuang Group originally made its fortune in construction and later diversified into industries like internet and new media. The group has many outstanding employees, making them perfectly suited to be responsible for building bases.

However, because the initial base construction efforts all failed, Feichuang Group suffered a severe blow and lacked the additional strength to rebuild. As a result, the villain and her family were ostracized and not respected.

Having witnessed too much darkness, the villain gradually started down the path of ‘blackening’.

“Why are you showing me this?”

“I want to hear your opinion.”

Su Wenwen didn’t know what the villain meant by this. She was just an ordinary person, so why would the villain ask for her opinion? Could it be that she had done something that made the villain notice something unusual?

Seeing Su Wenwen remain silent, Luo Xi added, “I’m not teasing you anymore. My brother thinks it would be smoother to establish a base in the least affected area. My going to the countryside with you is also just to inspect whether the surrounding environment is suitable for base construction.”

Su Wenwen breathed a sigh of relief.

“Oh, I see… But I don’t think we need to be in such a hurry to establish the base. It’s better to first set up temporary defensive locations that can be evacuated at any time. It won’t be too late to build a permanent base once we have a better grasp of the situation.”

Luo Xi pondered for a moment. “Temporary defensive locations can be built in multiple batches, and survivors can be managed separately. If something really happens, at least it won’t be a total wipeout.”

Su Wenwen nodded. “Yes, that’s what I mean.”

Actually, Su Wenwen wasn’t good at lying. Every time, she would avoid Luo Xi’s gaze when answering. Recalling how Su Wenwen had just tried so hard to dissuade Mother Su and Father Su, Luo Xi felt that Su Wenwen seemed to be hiding a very important secret.

Luo Xi wasn’t the type to pry into others’ privacy. Since Su Wenwen didn’t want to say, there was no need for her to press further. However, she felt a little bothered by it, a feeling that was unfamiliar even to herself.

She edited a text message, sending what Su Wenwen had just said, then put her phone aside and gazed out the window.

Luo Xi had also noticed the unusually bad weather.

But even knowing the weather was abnormal, she could do nothing about it. Instead, she turned to discuss with Su Wenwen how to get to the village.

This was S City. Su Wenwen’s parents lived in Jiujia Village⁵, a remote town in G City. If they drove, and the roads were clear, it would take two days and one night. But people couldn’t go without sleep, nor could they expect no zombies or abandoned vehicles blocking the road.

In the worst-case scenario, they would have to abandon the car and walk.

Su Wenwen said, “We have to bypass the severely affected areas. If we drive around them, it will take another two days. Calculating for ten days, a small car can’t hold that much food. We need to find a larger commercial vehicle.”

The vehicles visible outside were either wrecked or too small. Even if there was a barely suitable one, it looked very flimsy. Su Wenwen planned to go out tomorrow and look around nearby.

“No need for that trouble. We’ll go to my place tomorrow to get a car,” Luo Xi said. “I have a bulletproof car. It’s spacious enough, and I have spare gasoline at home, so we won’t have to go to a gas station.”

Su Wenwen nodded. Having a goal settled her heart a lot. What she feared most in the apocalypse was wandering aimlessly; living day by day was truly hard to endure.

She spent the whole day at home with nothing to do.

There wasn’t much to check on the system panel, and she had also forgotten about the punishment. When it was time to sleep at night, Su Wenwen felt uncomfortable all over.

It was hard to say exactly how.

It just felt like the blanket on her was particularly sensitive; every movement felt like someone was caressing her, giving her constant nightmares. She always felt like she was being spied on. In the middle of the night, she got up and looked beside her.

Lin Sisi was sleeping soundly and properly.

The villain was also motionless.

But Su Wenwen just felt unwell, very uncomfortable. Something seemed to be churning in her lower abdomen. She quickly got up, went to the toilet, and saw that her period⁶ had arrived.

But this time, her period made Su Wenwen curl up in pain in the toilet, unwilling to come out. Although she usually had menstrual cramps, it had never been this painful. It felt like her internal organs were being torn apart, more painful than being bitten by a zombie.

Her body turned cold, and she trembled all over.

Moving even slightly doubled the pain.

“System, help!”

【Sorry, I can’t help.】

Su Wenwen supported herself against the wall to get up, slowly moved to the doorway, and opened the door to see the villain standing in front of her. As if she had found her lifeline, she quickly hugged the person tightly.

“I’m going to die…”

Luo Xi’s limbs were a bit stiff. Then, seeing Su Wenwen’s deathly pale face, she quickly helped her to the bed, made her brown sugar water⁷, and rubbed her lower abdomen. She barely slept all night.

Because Su Wenwen was in so much pain, she had completely lost any sense of shyness and just wished the villain’s palm would keep rubbing her lower abdomen.

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