I Pursued My Scummy Ex’s White Moonlight – Chapter 65

Ambush

The defense and speed of that zombie were both extremely high. In the blink of an eye, several people in the team had their necks bitten off, without even the possibility of mutating into zombies.

Its swallowing speed was also quite fast. Its thin neck was stretched wide like a rubber band, bulging into a round shape, then slowly slid down to its abdomen and disappeared. Afterward, it extended a sticky tongue to lick the bloodstains from its sharp teeth and let out a satisfied hiss.

“What are you still standing there stunned for? Hurry and retreat.”

Amid his angry roar, Lin Yu flash-appeared behind the zombie. The dagger in his hand felt like it had struck iron as it stabbed the zombie’s body, the impact making his wrist go numb. He was then swatted away by a fling of the zombie’s hand. Lin Yu spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, which caused the zombie to become excited and open its mouth to let out a low roar.

The moment Lin Yu fell to the ground, the zombie was by his side. That large mouth appeared before his eyes, so close his nose could smell the foul, fishy stench. However, his body was numb from the fall, and his ability felt like it was stuck in his throat; for a moment, he was unable to move.

He had originally prepared to meet his death, but he did not expect that before his head was enveloped by that large mouth, it would be kicked into the sky by someone’s foot, tracing a perfect arc before falling into the river.

Lin Yu came back to his senses, his cold and hard eyes showing surprise as he asked Su Wenwen, who had rescued him, “You are… an ability user?”

“I guess so.” Su Wenwen avoided his gaze. Seeing the turbulent waves on the river’s surface, she quickly changed the subject, “I don’t know if that zombie can climb ashore. We should leave this place quickly.”

Lin Yu nodded, propped up his body, and called for the remaining team members to evacuate the area swiftly. Su Wenwen followed behind and felt a wet slipperiness on her ankle. Looking down, it seemed like a current of water was wrapped around it. Before she could react, she was violently pulled to the ground by the current and dragged all the way into the river.

In the instant she fell into the water, Su Wenwen saw the smile on the lips of the water-type ability user, as well as the panicked expressions of Chen Zixuan and Lin Yu.

Su Wenwen unhurriedly moved her limbs. She had originally intended to swim upward, but the water current wrapped around her ankle kept pulling her down. If it were an ordinary person, they would have probably drowned after a little while longer. Even if they did not drown, the zombie in the water was more than enough to take a person’s life.

However, what Su Wenwen did not expect was that both Lin Yu and Chen Zixuan jumped into the river and swam toward her. But because Su Wenwen was sinking too fast, the two of them could not catch up at all. However, the river channel was not the ocean, after all; it was not that deep. In a short while, her feet touched the mud.

Su Wenwen moved her foot; it was still tightly bound. Chen Zixuan and Lin Yu swam to her side. The two of them combined their strength to pull her hand but were unable to pull her up.

Su Wenwen shook her head, pointed at the evolved-type zombie swimming over not far away, and waved her hand, signaling for the two of them to leave first. Because Chen Zixuan and Lin Yu could not hold their breath any longer, they could only swim back up.

Su Wenwen smiled. Before, on the shore, she could only see clearly how fast the zombie was, but her body could not keep up. Thanks to the water-type ability user, the evolved-type zombie in the river completely lost its speed advantage and could only swim clumsily.

Su Wenwen stood on the spot, ready and waiting.

The zombie had little intelligence and relied on instinct to find its prey. It was completely unaware that a living person trapped in the water could not possibly appear so calm. The river’s resistance made it spend a great deal of time just to swim to Su Wenwen’s side. Just as it impatiently opened its mouth, Su Wenwen reached out and pinched its neck, pressing the zombie’s head firmly into the mud.

The zombie sensed a threat and struggled violently with its limbs. The mud billowed up in the water, and its fingernails scratched Su Wenwen’s arm, but she still did not let go. She raised the military knife in her hand and stabbed fiercely at the zombie’s body. After several stabs, she had only managed to barely cut open the zombie’s skin.

Su Wenwen directly used an equipment special skill, increasing all her attribute values by twenty percent. She then forcefully stabbed toward the zombie’s mouth. Only then did the zombie stop moving.

【Attribute Points Gained: 3400】

Su Wenwen smiled; this trip finally had some gains. Afterward, she cracked open the zombie’s skull in the river and dug out a total of twenty crystal cores, stuffing them into her pocket. With a slight exertion of force from her feet, she directly broke free from the water current’s restraint and swam ashore in a short while.

“Su Wenwen, are you okay?”

Chen Zixuan quickly pulled Su Wenwen up from the riverbank. Seeing that she was fine, Lin Yu breathed a sigh of relief. But the water-type ability user’s face was so pale it looked like he could be buried at any moment. He could not understand how, even if Su Wenwen was an ability user, and judging from the force she used to kick the zombie earlier, she should be a strength-type, it was impossible for her to hold her breath in the water for ten minutes and still escape the zombie’s pursuit.

Just as he was lowering his head in thought, his shoulder was patted by Lin Yu. He raised his head and saw Lin Yu’s bone-chilling gaze. Cold sweat instantly broke out on his back, leaving him frozen on the spot, not knowing how to react.

“Don’t think that what you did was unknown to gods and ghosts. After we return to the base, just wait for the Commander-in-Chief to deal with you!”

After Lin Yu released his hand and left, his face also darkened. He gave Su Wenwen a sinister look. Su Wenwen felt his gaze and returned a smile, but this smile was very faint, and the temperature in her eyes was much colder than Lin Yu’s.

The water-type ability user was bound by Lin Yu and taken away from the village. The team outside the village had also more or less finished collecting the crystal cores. The overturned armored vehicle was righted by the combined efforts of the ability users. The vehicle could still start normally and was not affected for driving.

The water-type ability user was caught red-handed, but his face showed not the slightest hint of panic. Instead, he smiled at Su Wenwen with reckless confidence.

Seeing him like this, Su Wenwen could guess seven or eight-tenths of who the mastermind was. To not fear Ji Qingshuang’s punishment meant he had someone backing him up, and this person must also be someone Ji Qingshuang had reservations about.

Thinking it over, it could only be that Old Master Luo from the Luo family. After all, Old Master Luo had sent people to follow her before.

Su Wenwen sighed softly. She did not want Luo Xi to know about this matter, because according to what was written in the novel, Luo Xi had a very unpleasant falling out with Old Master Luo due to her father’s death. If she found out, she would probably break off with the Luo family immediately.

It was not that she cared that much about this Old Master Luo, but rather she did not want to make things difficult for Ji Qingshuang. The development of the base, for the time being, could not do without the Luo family’s manpower.

And Ji Qingshuang was indeed a very good leader. In the few days she had lived at the base, she had felt a long-lost sense of quiet and peace, to the point that her habit of lazing in bed had returned.

As for Luo Xi, she naturally also loved Ji Qingshuang and her brother very much. Thinking it over, it was better not to mention this matter.

By the time they returned to the base, the sky had almost completely darkened. Lin Yu ordered people to send the water-type ability user to Ji Qingshuang’s side, then counted the crystal cores. After setting aside the base’s half, the remaining several dozen people split the rest evenly. The crystal cores they received just by hand were over a thousand.

Upon receiving the crystal cores, Chen Zixuan said, “Finally, I can get a good night’s sleep. Su Wenwen, contact me by phone if anything comes up.”

Su Wenwen exchanged contact information with her and also instructed Chen Zixuan not to tell anyone about her being sneak-attacked today. Although Chen Zixuan did not quite understand, she nodded and promised not to tell anyone else. As for the others, she could only ask Lin Yu to help seal their lips.

The look in Lin Yu’s eyes as he looked at Su Wenwen was quite profound. He then said, “Okay, leave this matter to me.”

After getting Lin Yu’s definite answer, Su Wenwen also returned to her residence with peace of mind. She raised her head to look at the pitch-black night sky, then saw the brightly lit house, and her heart warmed. She impatiently opened the door and went inside.

“I’m back!”

Just as the door opened, her front foot had entered the house while her back foot had not yet been retracted, when she was met with a fiery kiss. Luo Xi encircled her in her arms and kicked the main door shut.

Su Wenwen and Luo Xi had kissed several times, but this time was the most intense, filled with an agonizing longing that had been accumulating, suppressing, and waiting for the moment of meeting to erupt.

Even though her lips were bitten until they hurt, she still closed her eyes, wrapped her arms around Luo Xi’s willow-like soft waist, and responded gently and meticulously, comforting her as if soothing a small beast.

Luo Xi pulled back slightly. That pair of eyes was like colored glass, setting off her beauty mark to be enchanting. Her low and hoarse voice was even more bewitching to the mind, “Are you injured?”

The words of concern contained no impurities, but Su Wenwen’s ears were particularly sensitive, and Luo Xi was speaking so close. The alluring voice fiercely scratched her heart through her ears. A wave of heat quickly climbed up her cheeks, making her say shyly, “No… not injured.”

Luo Xi understood Su Wenwen’s abilities very well. In fact, even if she were injured, she would not be able to tell. But seeing her soaking wet all over, the words of inquiry that reached her lips turned into, “Then you should go take a hot shower first, don’t catch a cold.”

Su Wenwen nodded.

She took clean clothes to the bathroom for a hot shower. While Su Wenwen was showering, Luo Xi also took out a brand-new mobile phone and dialed a number to call Chen Zixuan to ask about the situation.

Chen Zixuan only said, “We did indeed encounter a lot of zombies at the village entrance. Thankfully, it was a scare without any real danger. But later we ran into a completely smooth-skinned zombie, it felt like a combination of a monster and a human. It was fast and had high defense. Luckily, Su Wenwen was amazing and took care of that zombie.”

“She wasn’t injured?”

Chen Zixuan touched her “thump-thump” beating heart and said, “Not injured. She’s so amazing, she doesn’t need anyone’s protection at all. I feel like I was pretty redundant following along.”

“Is that so? Then it seems it doesn’t matter whether you are in my team or not.”

“Don’t, my dear paternal aunt¹, I’m telling the truth. Su Wenwen really wasn’t injured. It’s just that she was dragged into the water by a water-type ability user for about ten minutes.”

Chen Zixuan told the whole story. She touched her conscience and silently recited that it was not that she did not want to hide it, but mainly that Su Wenwen’s partner was too difficult to deal with. Her own skill level was not high enough, so she could only surrender obediently.

After Luo Xi hung up the phone, her face was so dark that even the warm furniture around her seemed to turn sinister.

Afterward, she got up and went to the kitchen to cook. Just looking at her back would make one think of a witch cooking, which could not help but make one’s heart grow cold with fear. This inexplicable cold feeling did not disappear until Su Wenwen came out of the bathroom.

Su Wenwen was completely unaware. She took out a portion of the crystal cores she had obtained today and gave them to Luo Xi.

Luo Xi looked at the expressionless Su Wenwen and helplessly raised a smile. She clearly knew the reason why Su Wenwen was hiding this matter, and precisely because of this, she could only follow Su Wenwen’s wishes, accept the crystal cores, and pretend that she knew nothing.

However… it was impossible for Luo Xi to watch Su Wenwen be bullied. This matter was not over yet.

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