I Pursued My Scummy Ex’s White Moonlight – Chapter 98

After Sisi washed up, she lay on the bed and fell asleep very early, but a small hand tightly gripped Su Wenwen’s wrist and would not let go; clearly, her small inner heart was very uneasy.

Su Wenwen broke free from the small hand little by little, tucked the quilt in for Sisi, and touched her head with some heartache.

Afterwards, she opened the system panel to prepare for tomorrow’s evacuation.

She maxed out all her attribute points, and also purchased the last piece of high-grade equipment, replacing the mid-grade equipment.

In the blink of an eye, Su Wenwen’s personal attributes grew rapidly, and the high-grade equipment also came with a passive skill: Fire Attribute Attack (effective when holding an item)

Su Wenwen looked around, holding the water cup from the table. The cup was made of glass, and it visibly turned a brilliant red color. The temperature continued to soar, and the water inside boiled, but the glass cup did not change because of the high temperature.

It probably wasn’t the kind of meaning of being burned hot and red by fire, but rather that the system had overlaid the fire attribute onto the glass cup, and this temperature seemed higher than magma; the water inside was evaporated clean in a short while.

“This is your new ability?” Luo Xi had just finished folding the quilt on the other bed when she felt a scalding temperature coming from behind her.

Su Wenwen nodded and withdrew the fire attribute. The cup immediately returned to its original state, with only the water’s temperature and the residual warmth in the air remaining.

Luo Xi took the cup from Su Wenwen’s hand and looked at it, saying: “It is indeed magical, the cup is actually unaffected.”

“But I still can’t beat you.” Although her strength had improved a lot, once she thought of Xiao Luo’s death, Su Wenwen couldn’t help but worry. The apocalypse had far too many uncertainties; could this bit of strength really protect the people around her?

Luo Xi put down the cup, her gaze sizing up the expression that Su Wenwen still couldn’t hide on her face. From the time she herself woke up until now, Su Wenwen’s brow had been tightly furrowed.

“Why do you need to win against me?”

“Do you think I am very formidable, that I am omnipotent?” Luo Xi sighed softly, “I also have weaknesses, so I learned to let go. You also shouldn’t push yourself too hard.”

Su Wenwen did not want Luo Xi to worry, and besides, she wasn’t a child and wasn’t that sentimental. She needed some time to sort out her mentality, so she nodded obediently.

At this moment, the room door was knocked. Su Wenwen turned to open the door. Lin Wan was standing at the doorway. She glanced at Sisi, who was sleeping soundly on the bed. Although her body was covered, Sisi’s little face was still sallow, clearly malnourished. She pressed her lips together and said: “I’m really not a good older sister. Sisi was clearly right by my side, yet I didn’t know that my parents actually weren’t giving her enough to eat. If it weren’t for you all…”

Looking at Lin Wan’s self-reproachful appearance, Su Wenwen couldn’t help but wonder if she herself had also just revealed such an expression that would make people feel at a loss?

At certain times, Lin Wan was the same as Su Wenwen, drilling into a bull’s horn¹. It was just that Su Wenwen had Luo Xi by her side, while Lin Wan could only rely on herself, researching medicaments day and night, which was also only for the sake of exchanging for a higher value.

So, other people could tolerate Father Lin and Mother Lin entirely because of her value. Lin Wan knew the pros and cons of this; she thought Father Lin and Mother Lin were the same, that at least on account of her being useful, they would take a little more care of Sisi.

But she didn’t expect that their eyes were high but their hands were low², only caring for immediate benefits. Or in other words, relying on their title as parents, they simply did not put Lin Wan in their eyes³.

“Knowing now is not considered too late.”

When Lin Wan heard Su Wenwen say this, a slight smile appeared on her face: “Yes, but I still have to thank you all. My parents are still making a scene over there. Can I sleep here tonight?”

“Of course you can.”

The next day, everyone got up very early. Their full spirits made them full of fighting will.

To ensure the safety of the majority, the personnel safety of the scientific research building was handed over to Shen Ming to be responsible for. Su Wenwen and Luo Xi were still responsible for leading the team members as the vanguard, so their backpacks were filled with ammunition.

The supplies were basically in Shen Ming’s team.

The biggest problem now was actually not breaking out, but rather Doctor Liu, this unscheduled bomb.

After talking with Lin Wan before sleeping last night, she learned that in the first few days after Doctor Liu arrived, he used his medical skills to win the good impression of many people. There were also many girls who had a secret crush on him, but it was not clear what his special ability was.

It was also unknown what his purpose was, because besides helping people with their illnesses, Doctor Liu made no other moves.

However, since he came here, besides the medicament, there seemed to be nothing else worth Luo Tianyang residing in his heart and accumulating thoughts⁴ to send someone over for.

But once the medicament experiment succeeded, it would be put into use. Even if Luo Tianyang didn’t send people, he would be able to get the medicament formula table sooner or later, so why be anxious for this one moment?

Su Wenwen saw that the Adjutant was being stared at by Doctor Liu at every moment. Clearly, Luo Tianyang did not completely trust the Adjutant, and naturally would not tell the Adjutant the reasons for it.

Perhaps Doctor Liu knew something.

“Have you felt that Doctor Liu doesn’t seem to be worried about that hidden zombie?” Su Wenwen saw that Doctor Liu’s expression was composed and felt it was very strange; compared to the other people in the team, he was like a square woodblock that doesn’t fit⁵.

Luo Xi nodded: “Quietly observe its changes.”

Through the surveillance outside the door, they confirmed there were no zombies in the surrounding area. Only then was the heavy iron door opened. Wind and snow scrambled to be the first to squeeze inside through the crack in the door, making everyone’s faces numb from the cold, and they unconsciously hugged their arms.

In this kind of ghost weather, walking on the snowy ground was extremely inconvenient. A group of people walked out one after another, taking almost ten minutes for everyone to exit the building, which showed how large the team was.

Su Wenwen opened her five senses.

Perhaps because her mental strength had improved a lot, she could hear different sounds of the wind in the corners between the buildings.

She searched very carefully, wanting to find the hidden zombie, but not only did she not find it, she instead discovered that a horde of zombies was blocking the military academy’s front and back gates. Clearly, that hidden zombie knew the team had to take one of these two roads to leave the military academy.

Its IQ was actually this high?

Luo Xi also discovered that the military academy’s main gate was blocked. She used a walkie-talkie to notify the others: “Prepare to forcefully break out.”

Hearing the sound, Lin Wan subconsciously hugged Sisi tightly. Father Lin and Mother Lin, however, took their son and followed behind Shen Ming. In their eyes, Shen Ming was more formidable than Lin Wan, and only by following Shen Ming closely would they have a chance to live.

Doctor Liu, however, smiled, looking grimly at the Adjutant and said: “When it gets chaotic in a moment, remember your mission.”

The Adjutant said expressionlessly: “I know.”

Hearing the conversation between the two, Su Wenwen placed more of her attention on the Adjutant.

The wind and snow seemed to drape a layer of hazy white gauze over the zombies, covering the clotted blood and mutilations on their bodies. If not for the hunger they roared with from their mouths, at first glance, one would have thought they were a group of normal people.

Bullets strafed, sparks flashed continuously, and the pervading gunpowder smoke was a bit pungent as it dispersed with the wind.

The male captain and female captain each led a team to spread out to the left and right. Using pulse handgun, they blasted the zombies rushing at the very front flying, then unfastened their backpacks and used all their strength to throw them into the zombie horde.

Bullets shot into the backpacks. The impact of the explosions brought up a sheet of snowflakes; the white and the firelight fused together, like blooming flowers.

But the number of zombies was truly too great. There would always be some fish that escaped the net⁶ rushing into the crowd. Some people were scared until their souls flew and scattered⁷. Accompanied by shrieks, a zombie’s head would be twisted off its neck by a formless power, and then a crystal core would fly out from its eye socket.

Many people then saw Luo Xi standing alone on the blank snow-covered ground, surrounded by a field of corpses. The brilliant red crystal cores were like elves, surrounding her one after another, treating her as the elf queen.

Her power made Doctor Liu frown. The originally powerful and terrifying zombie horde was actually being suppressed.

He pushed up the glasses on the bridge of his nose, his mood actually calm, and followed the team unhurriedly out of the military academy.

The zombies were scattered, biting closely at the team’s heels. The fire-type ability users and earth-type ability users coordinated with each other; earth spikes bloomed everywhere, nailing the zombies to this patch of snowy ground, after which they were incinerated by flames.

The zombie hidden in the corner emerged. This strangely shaped body clearly had no eyes, yet it seemed to know the team’s direction of retreat. Afterwards, its small mouth vibrated, and it moved its legs to follow behind the team.

Su Wenwen seemed to sense something and turned her head to look. Her line of sight clearly fell on that human-brain-chicken-leg zombie, but in her eyes, there was only heavy snow pasting over them.

If not for the system’s reminder, she would not have known at all that her own eyes and ears had been deceived by the zombie.

It seemed to be a zombie with extremely strong mental power that affected people’s nerves, which was why Su Wenwen could not see or hear it.

“It seems something is following us, but it’s far away, and my mental strength has no way of capturing it,” Luo Xi suddenly said, leaning toward Su Wenwen.

“It’s a mental-strength zombie, right behind the team,” Su Wenwen said.

“You lead the team, I’ll go to the back and have a look.”

“Then you be careful.”

After making an “En” sound, Luo Xi stood by the side of the road to observe the team’s situation. Just now, when they forcefully broke out, everyone had cooperated quite well, and there had been no casualties.

She exchanged a look with Doctor Liu and saw him give a slight smile, seeming quite disdainful. A strange feeling suddenly grew in her heart. She turned her head to look toward the rear of the team, then used her mental strength to scan the area, but did not discover any abnormalities.

But both she and Su Wenwen had sensed something following behind the team, so it was absolutely not a mistaken perception.

Doctor Liu’s smile just now clearly meant he knew what she was looking for, and also knew that she would certainly not be able to find it.

Luo Xi walked to Doctor Liu’s side. Because she was wearing a mask, only her pair of eyes was revealed, making it obvious that her gaze was as cold as the wind and snow.

Doctor Liu slightly pulled down his mask, feigning incomprehension: “Team Leader Luo, are you looking for me because you’re not feeling well?”

Luo Xi said faintly: “I just came to notify you that you have been reassigned to my team and will listen to my command.”

Doctor Liu unhurriedly spread his hands: “Although I am an ability user, my ability is not strong. And I am a doctor; I am not good at fighting.”

“That’s right, Doctor Liu looks gentle and refined, he’s truly not suited for combat. It would be better to let him stay in logistics. Many of us get sick with colds and need Doctor Liu to treat us.”

“That makes sense, each person manages their own duties.”

The surrounding people, hearing the conversation between Luo Xi and Doctor Liu, subconsciously wanted to help Doctor Liu. They were not clear on the situation and were just thinking from the most advantageous angle, afraid that if Doctor Liu accidentally died, they would not be able to find a doctor to treat them.

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