Chapter 30 - Post-apocalyptic Literature 11
Another inexplicable stop.
Another staggered disembarkation at different times.
And once again, they were all looking for reasons to ask for food.
Sheng Lang was really a bit curious. What treasure was down there that made them so restless?
Shan Que had just asked Zhang Ni for a piece of cream cake. He went down for a few minutes and came back empty-handed, not even leaving the box behind. It was very strange.
Sheng Lang was about to speak when the phone suddenly rang.
The caller was “Aunt Jiang”.
Almost immediately, he withdrew his hand, quickly putting the unusual event behind him and holding the phone to his ear: “Auntie, what is it?”
“Ah-lang, the missing person posters have all been put up. Your uncle Jiang has taken care of the people who often go out of town, and they all have a photo of Huanhuan in their hands. We have also told them that as long as there is news, we will send them food…”.
Jiang’s mother’s voice choked: “Huanhuan has never suffered much since she was a child. Everyone in the family spoiled her. If I scolded her a little, she would feel terribly wronged.”
“You said she was delicate and couldn’t do anything. It’s so chaotic out there. How much suffering she must have endured…”
“She will come back,” Sheng Lang said. “I will find her.”
No matter what.
He still remembers the last time he saw her, her cheerful back as she walked out the door. Since then, he had woken up on countless dark nights, desperately trying to reach out to her, but always missing the chance.
The night the alarm went off, everyone went out to look for her, but due to the lack of surveillance, they could not find her.
Later, the darkened sky also became an element of his fear…
At that moment, the people who had gotten off the bus began to return. Zhang Ni was about to say that they were ready to go when Sheng Lang walked past her and said, “Wait a minute.
The painful memories were violently suppressed, but the temperature was still cold and gloomy. He wanted to go and bask in the sun.
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A rare pudding cake in the end times, with a red strawberry on top.
They were all already on the bus, so Yu Huan didn’t hide anymore, but stood there, happily eating the cake.
The little zombie held the cake in one hand and a spoon in the other.
He shoved a piece into his mouth, looking serious like a food critic at first, but soon he couldn’t help but blink from the deliciousness and let out an exclamation.
It was sweet, and he felt as if the whole world was melting away.
In their blurred vision, it seemed like someone had gotten out of the car and frozen there.
Yu Huan noticed this, but she didn’t feel any sense of crisis.
She recognized almost everyone on the car, whether it was Lin Qi, Song Qi, or the twin brothers, nothing would happen to them.
But that person was still looking at her motionlessly.
She wiped the cream from the corner of her lips and looked up. The blurry figure became detailed, and she suddenly felt confused.
The system immediately sounded a level 10 alarm, telling Yu Huan to run quickly.
But it was already too late.
Yu Huan had just taken a step back when the man, as if he had replayed this scene countless times in his dreams, used all his strength to pull her in, holding her tightly in his arms, almost trapping her.
“Gotcha.”
This time he had her.
His Adam’s apple rolled slightly, his voice light but hoarse. It was as if he had been dreaming, finally grabbing a life preserver in the swamp, able to see the light of day again.
The boy’s familiar, pleasant scent was transmitted to Yu Huan. The little zombie sniffed, and with her poor sense of smell, she could only detect a little of it.
After a long time, Sheng Lang slowly relaxed a bit, but his hand was still holding hers.
“Why didn’t you look for me?”
“We were so close and you didn’t tell me.”
He asked sentence after sentence, and when he saw the little zombie’s torn sleeve, he swallowed all the emotions of the past few days and took the blame on himself: “It’s my fault. I got off the bus so late. You didn’t know I was on the bus.”
It is true that she didn’t know.
If she had known, the system would have told her to run as fast as she could.
“Play dumb!” the system barked. Hurry up and play dumb, don’t let him see that you’re conscious, otherwise the male lead definitely won’t be able to go through with it, and the mission will be truly hopeless.
Yu Huan felt that it was already hopeless. But she gave it a try anyway.
The little zombie stood there obediently, but his gaze was confused, as if he didn’t understand what he was saying.
Sheng Lang forced herself to calm down, lifted her hand and felt around her neck… checking every part of her that she could.
Fortunately,
Apart from being infected and turned into a zombie, she hadn’t suffered any other injuries.
“Sheng Lang, don’t do anything!” Zhang Ni couldn’t wait any longer and stuck her head out to look. She saw Sheng Lang standing in front of the little zombie. Her heart was in her mouth and she didn’t have time to think about the volume of her voice. She rolled over and crawled down the cart, blocking Yu Huan’s path.
Her scream attracted the attention of the twin brothers, who also noticed the little zombie outside. They quickly got out of the car and went to stop it. Lin Qi’s face changed and he hurriedly got out of the car as well. Song Qi followed last, taking his time.
“Don’t hit her!”
“She’s a good zombie, she won’t bite.”
“Yes, Brother Sheng, you can’t do anything.”
Amidst the loud arguments, Sheng Lang lifted the corners of his mouth, looked down at the little zombie who didn’t say a word, stroked her head, and whispered, “She has many friends.
The little zombie looked extremely innocent.
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After a passionate discussion, Zhang Ni was dazed: “So the fiancée you’re looking for is her, she’s Yu Huan.”
Shan Que kept looking at the little zombie, inexplicably a little upset. Song Qi glanced at Sheng Lang, not knowing what he was thinking.
As if there was no one else around, Sheng Lang whispered to Yu Huan about the situation of the Jiang family, not caring whether she could understand or not.
“So what are you going to do?” Lin Qi asked. “It’s not realistic to take her back.”
The Sheng and Jiang families are both wealthy and powerful, and they will retain some power and prestige until the end of the world. Reclaiming Yu Huan is not difficult.
What is rare is the repercussions that will follow, which I fear will not be good for the reputation of the two families.
They sat in a circle and discussed the matter. The little zombie was brought over by Sheng Lang and sat cross-legged, paying no attention to what was going on outside the window, concentrating on eating the cake.
Somehow, she got some cream on the tip of her nose, so Sheng Lang casually wiped it off for her. Feeling a little embarrassed, she gave Sheng Lang a small smile.
Her soft face and clean smile made people’s hearts melt.
Lin Qi, who had just passionately expressed his opinion, saw this scene and couldn’t continue.
“Actually, it doesn’t matter,” Sheng Lang suddenly said, his voice clear and emotionless, “whether she can go back or not, I will always be by her side.”
“If she can go to the city, she can stay with her parents and take good care of her; if she can’t go to the city, I’ll go with her outside the city.”
His eyebrows and eyes were calm and steady as he said this, a peace of mind not seen since the end of the world.
“No!” Even though she had heard Lin Qi talk about his deep feelings for his fiancée a long time ago, Zhang Ni was still shocked and said crazily, “Without you, who can make strategies for us when there is a mission from above? No, no.”
Zhang Ni muttered, suddenly thinking of the base’s new laboratory, and her eyes lit up: “Why don’t we start with the lab? They are focusing on researching a zombie infection vaccine project, and there is a shortage of research subjects…”
“Don’t worry, this is a proper place, there won’t be any human experiments or anything like that.”
Zhang Ni’s elder brother was there, and she knew quite a bit about the inside story.
Sheng Lang gave the right to choose to Yu Huan, with a piece of candy in her left hand and a chocolate in her right.
The candy is “go” and the chocolate is “no go”.
Yu Huan then passed the question to the system.
Compared to the male lead and the female zombie lead wandering outside, going back to the city has become the best option by far. The system struggled and indicated to go back.
So the little zombie picked up the candy in Sheng Lang’s hand.