A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

Bei Nuan didn't know what she was thinking.

Just now in the woods, Bei Nuan saw a lynx mother with her lynx cub at a glance.

The lynx cub followed its mother half-heartedly, sniffing here and there, then stretched out a long, lazy stretch and yawned widely.

It looked fluffy and cute no matter how you looked at it, instantly conquering Bei Nuan's heart with its good looks.

The lynx mother noticed Bei Nuan and was a little wary. It was just passing by and had no intention of attacking Bei Nuan. It quickly disappeared into the darkness with its cub.

Bei Nuan chased after them for a few steps but couldn't catch up, so she tried hard to recall the lynx cub's movements just now.

Anyway, no one was watching, so Bei Nuan got down on all fours and imitated the lynx cub, arching and stretching her back, and yawning widely.

It actually worked.

She turned into an immature female lynx.

It didn't look exactly like the lynx cub from just now; it seemed smaller and its fur was brighter.

In short, it was Bei Nuan's version of a lynx cub.

It was the first time in her life that she had turned into a feline, and Bei Nuan was a little excited.

She ran around the woods for a while, jumping up and down, and climbed a tree for a while, then suddenly thought that she could go show Lu Xingchi.

Such beautiful fur would be a waste if she didn't show it off.

The camp was dark, with only a little candlelight coming from the tents. Bei Nuan slipped in silently under the cover of darkness.

She couldn't let the team members notice her. After all, there was more meat on a lynx than on a small bird, and someone might want to eat her as a midnight snack.

Bei Nuan quietly crossed the camp and sneaked to the outside of Lu Xingchi's tent.

There were candles lit inside the tent, and the curtain was rolled up a little, not completely lowered, which was convenient for Bei Nuan to peek inside.

As soon as she poked her head in, Jiang Fei noticed her.

Jiang Fei was sitting facing the door, seemingly peeling something. He suddenly looked up in this direction, his eyes full of alertness.

Bei Nuan quickly took two steps back.

Lynx were not as common as birds, after all. Did she really have to enter the tent so openly? Or should she find a way to call Lu Xingchi out?

When Jiang Fei lowered his head again, Bei Nuan approached a little and peeked into the tent again.

This time, Bei Nuan saw Lu Xingchi.

And more than just Lu Xingchi.

Lu Xingchi was sitting on his bunk, holding his palm in front of his eyes, carefully looking at something he was holding in his hand by the candlelight.

It was an ugly little lizard.

But he had a smile on his face, and the look in his eyes as he looked at it was so gentle that it could melt water.

He even reached out and gently touched the ugly lizard's head with an extremely gentle movement.

Bei Nuan's heart suddenly twisted.

Anyone with a brainstem would know that Lu Xingchi was so stupid that he actually mistook that lizard for her.

Even though she knew he was treating "someone else" as her, Bei Nuan was still very unhappy.

Twelve hundred percent unhappy.

And that lizard actually accepted his caress so calmly, without even trying to avoid it.

Bei Nuan thought, were all lizards so frivolous?

Then Bei Nuan saw that the little lizard suddenly moved, quickly climbing up his arm to his back, looking up, triumphantly stopping there for a moment, and was about to crawl into his clothes.

It actually dared to crawl into Lu Xingchi's clothes.

Too. Shameless.

Bei Nuan was furious and no longer cared how strange it would be for a lynx to enter the tent. She rushed in with a whoosh, and with one leap, slapped the lizard.

The very b*tchy little lizard was stunned. When it saw what had attacked it, it was so frightened that it fled in panic.

Bei Nuan chased after it relentlessly, slapping it wildly, chasing it around the tent several times.

The little lizard was not nearly as fast as she was. In the face of her overwhelming beating, it finally found the door and quickly disappeared into the darkness outside the tent.

Bei Nuan saw it crawl away and finally breathed a sigh of relief, feeling refreshed. She turned around.

Only then did she realize that Du Ruo and Tang Tang were staring at her in stunned silence.

Lu Xingchi wasn't. He looked guilty.

He pursed his lips, walked over, and bent down to pick up Bei Nuan.

As a result, she slapped him in the face.

Tang Tang had an expression of a collapsed worldview and asked Du Ruo, "What's going on now?"

Du Ruo sorted out her thoughts, "Uh… after beating the mistress, teach the husband a lesson? After all, you can't say it's all the mistress's fault, right?"

She hadn't really used her claws, so even if she slapped him hard, it wasn't a big deal. Lu Xingchi held her in his arms and walked back to his bunk.

Du Ruo thought for a moment, "No, this can only be considered the mistress beating the concubine. You guys are making such a fuss, where's the legal wife? Where's Bei Nuan?"

"She had something to do with Shao Bai and the others and said she'd be back in a while. She might be helping them with something, after all, she's so kind."

Lu Xingchi paused.

"And so considerate, so generous," he added, "and so cute, so beautiful."

Lu Xingchi started flattering her while stroking Bei Nuan's forehead.

But it was useless. Bei Nuan slapped him again without hesitation.

Jiang Fei chuckled softly from afar.

Du Ruo was speechless, "No matter how many good things you say about her, she can't hear you. You might as well say something nice about me, and I won't tell Bei Nuan about your mistress and concubine situation."

Jiang Fei finally asked, "Is that a lynx cub?"

"Yes, it seems to be a cub. Adult lynx are much bigger than this," Tang Tang said. "It really looks like a cat, but it looks more imposing than a cat."

Bei Nuan liked that.

Bei Nuan straightened her neck reservedly and moved her ears to draw everyone's attention to the tuft of long hair that slanted out from the tips of her ears, which cats didn't have.

Tang Tang noticed it, as expected. "You can tell it's not an ordinary cat just by looking at the hair on its ears."

Bei Nuan then stretched out her paw and placed it on Lu Xingchi's shirt, deliberately opening it to show everyone the ferocious claws that domestic cats could never compare to.

Du Ruo exclaimed, "Those claws are really sharp."

Lu Xingchi wasn't afraid at all. He reached out to hold her paw in his hand.

The attempt to hold hands failed, and Lu Xingchi was slapped again.

Du Ruo studied Bei Nuan and asked, "Lu Xingchi, have you really gained some ability to control animals recently and secretly kept it from me?"

Lu Xingchi's lips curved slightly, "Not really. I've just suddenly become very popular with animals."

Du Ruo nodded, "Animal popularity that involves being slapped all the time."

Lu Xingchi risked being beaten again and picked up Bei Nuan, letting her two front paws rest on his shoulders, holding her tightly in his arms, and soothingly stroking her back.

He couldn't say it directly, but his apology was quite obvious. Bei Nuan lay comfortably on him, hesitating whether to continue slapping him.

They had all washed up, and the others looked at Bei Nuan with amusement for a while before getting sleepy.

Lu Xingchi casually put out the candle, "You guys go to sleep, I'll wait for Bei Nuan."

The surroundings darkened, but it had no effect on Bei Nuan's lynx-level vision. She could see everything clearly.

She looked around warily, still dominating Lu Xingchi, not moving, as if this was her territory.

What if that b*tchy little lizard came again?

What if it ran in again and crawled into his clothes, crawled into his sleeping bag, and took advantage of him?

Although it had just been beaten, it was just a lizard, not as smart as her. It didn't have much intelligence and probably wouldn't remember.

Lu Xingchi noticed that she didn't intend to leave, so he went with the flow and unzipped the sleeping bag, wrapping her and him together.

Bei Nuan snuggled in his arms and glanced at the countdown. There were still several hours before she could turn back into a human.

She'd take a nap here and then go back to her side, Bei Nuan thought. Anyway, even if she didn't make it back in time and turned into a human, she'd be wearing clothes, so there was nothing to worry about.

Lu Xingchi held her and closed his eyes to rest for a while, then heard the familiar little snore from the animal in his arms.

She only snored when she was tired.

She had been mischievous all day, so it would be strange if she wasn't tired. Lu Xingchi adjusted her position, letting her head rest on his arm.

Lu Xingchi didn't have the eyes of a lynx and couldn't see Bei Nuan in the darkness. He could only feel her fluffy fur and warm breath.

Lu Xingchi thought, even if she turned into an animal, she was too carefree.

He gently smoothed the fur on her back with his hand.

Bei Nuan seemed very comfortable, twisting a little and affectionately burying her head next to his neck.

Who could resist this?

Even a furry Bei Nuan was still Bei Nuan.

Lu Xingchi closed his eyes and endured it, but her soft fur rubbed against his cheeks and neck, making it impossible to sleep.

Lu Xingchi couldn't stand it anymore, found her mouth, and kissed it.

Du Ruo was sleeping soundly when she heard Lu Xingchi grunt, and quickly sat up.

"What's wrong?"

She vaguely saw Lu Xingchi sitting up, "Nothing."

Jiang Fei also woke up and, without minding the trouble, got out of his sleeping bag, found a lighter, and lit a candle. "Really nothing? You sound like you're in a lot of pain."

In the candlelight, everyone saw that the corner of Lu Xingchi's mouth was broken and bleeding.

The little lynx also woke up and was lying foolishly on Lu Xingchi's bed, most of her body buried in his sleeping bag, only her paw tips and fluffy head exposed.

She opened her round eyes, looking dazed.

Jiang Fei laughed first, "You didn't try to molest the little animal and get bitten, did you?"

A hint of embarrassment appeared on Lu Xingchi's calm face. He found a tissue and pressed it against his bleeding mouth, "Go to sleep."

He walked over and simply put out the candle.

The tent was plunged back into darkness.

Lu Xingchi put out the candle, returned to his bunk, and lay down. He suddenly felt someone brush against his hand in the darkness.

"I'm fine," he said softly, and pulled the little lynx back into his arms.

He thought, it was worth it to be bitten, at least she didn't seem angry anymore.

The next day, as soon as it dawned, special forces team members came to each tent to wake everyone up so they could set off quickly.

Lu Xingchi realized that his arms were empty.

Bei Nuan was lying properly in her own sleeping bag, just opening her eyes. When she saw him, she smiled brightly at him, "Lu Xingchi, what happened to your mouth? Were you bitten? How pitiful."

Lu Xingchi: "…"

After everyone had breakfast, the convoy continued forward along the snake-like mountain road.

Before they had driven far, they found zombies on the road ahead.

At first, there were only a few scattered ones, but then they began to gather in groups of three or five, or even dozens or hundreds, converging from various forks in the road, becoming more and more numerous.

They were all walking along the road, and they didn't seem to be wandering aimlessly as usual. Instead, they seemed to be heading in one direction purposefully.

It really looked like they were marching.

Could there be zombies marching to the blockade line on this route as well?

Afraid that the gunshots would attract more zombies, Lu Xingchi told Shao Bai and the others not to take action. He silently cleared the zombies on the road with his spikes.

Later, there were more and more zombies, and it was impossible to clear them all.

They couldn't continue forward along the road, so everyone had to abandon their vehicles and leave the main road.

Bei Nuan took advantage of the others' inattention, lagged behind a few steps with Lu Xingchi, and quietly put the off-road vehicle into her dimension before catching up with everyone.

Shao Bai looked at the direction and led everyone to take small paths and cross mountains.

Thinking about it, they were a little excited. The team had been traveling for so long, and the blockade line and safe zone were just ahead.

Shao Bai said that the newly built blockade line was much better than the old one.

It spanned three countries, extending from the largest inland sea in the middle of the continent, the Kuman Sea, connecting to the vast and turbulent Yenisei River to the north and a high wall dividing the national borders to the south.

This high wall was built on the border between two small countries. It was originally built because the two countries had been at war for many years, but it played a significant role this time, becoming an important part of the rapidly built blockade line.

However, something seemed wrong ahead.

Du Ruo asked, "Is it thunder?"

Everyone looked at him speechlessly.

Everyone could hear that the continuous rumbling sound, like thunder, should be the sound of artillery fire.

Closer, they could also hear dense gunfire.

One of the team members muttered, "Maybe there are zombies outside Faman Ancient City again."

"It's normal. There are troops from our alliance guarding it. It's nothing. We'll be safe once we get inside."

The route Bei Nuan and the others were taking this time was to enter the safe zone from an entrance in the blockade line ahead—Faman Ancient City.

Faman Ancient City was the only way to go west from here. It had been a strategic fortress since ancient times.

The ancient city was built about four hundred years ago and was a bit special. It was a star fort.

Unlike ordinary square fortresses, the structure of this star fort was a petal-shaped polygon. No matter which part of the city wall was attacked, it would be subjected to crossfire from other directions.

The star fort was well-preserved and had been a famous tourist attraction here for many years.

Unexpectedly, it would bloom again in its old age and play its role as a fortress again.

Although old, its special structure made it very effective against zombies without artillery.

The mountains were densely forested, and the sound of gunfire became clearer and clearer. The whole team struggled to advance through the dense forest, finally climbing to the top of the mountain with great difficulty.

From the top of the mountain, they could see the six-petal flower-shaped Faman Ancient City star fort in the distance.

However, everyone's attention was not on the strangely shaped ancient city.

It was on the zombies outside the city.

Bei Nuan had never seen so many zombies gathered together in her life.

Bei Nuan had no way to estimate how many there were. As far as the eye could see, they were densely packed, countless.

They were like a swarm of ants covering the mountains and plains, stretching from in front of Faman Ancient City, along the road and the surrounding mountain valleys and wilderness, all the way to the distance, with no end in sight.

This was an ocean of zombies.

The tide-like horde of corpses ran, howled, and rushed madly towards the ancient city, regardless of everything.

Faman City was like an isolated island in the middle of a vast ocean, enduring wave after wave of fierce impact from the sea.

The sound of heavy machine guns was like rain, and the mortar shells exploded in the zombie horde in a series.

Row after row of zombies fell, but the zombies behind continued to rush forward.

The rain of ammunition could not slow down the advance of the zombie horde.

Bei Nuan and the others exchanged glances.

They no longer needed to think about entering the blockade line.

Tens of thousands of zombies stood between them and the ancient city, making it impossible to pass.

Author's Note:

Lu Xingchi: My wife's tongue is prickly and has two extra pairs of small canine teeth.

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