A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

The mutated zombies were cunning, definitely hiding where guns and cannons couldn't reach. Du Ruo headed off into the distance, going around behind the mountain, gradually disappearing from sight.

Using binoculars to watch Du Ruo walk out of the range covered by the city's pre-set artillery fire, Bei Nuan finally felt a little relieved, putting down the binoculars with a sigh.

"He's a man, not a child."

Lu Xingchi comforted her, "He's not afraid of viral infections, and with his physique, he can knock down a zombie with one punch, no problem. Besides, he has a gun."

He was right. In terms of height and build alone, Du Ruo was actually about the same as Lu Xingchi.

The fierce battle continued, and Bei Nuan stayed on the city wall, helping the soldiers defending the city to shoot zombies one by one, trying to take them out before they could reach the base of the wall.

They fought until the afternoon, when Bei Nuan went down to take a break for a meal, but the sound of gunfire suddenly stopped.

Bei Nuan rushed back up to the city wall, taking the steps three at a time.

Everyone was looking down.

They saw that the countless zombies below the city, just like last time, had suddenly stopped their charge.

Also like the last time when Bei Nuan controlled them, they stood in place, looking around blankly, as if they had suddenly lost their purpose in life.

But then, all the zombies did something strange together.

They decisively found the zombies next to them, lined up neatly like children, and put their hands on the shoulders of the zombie in front of them.

The chaotic, swarming mass of corpses below the city suddenly organized themselves in an orderly manner.

One team after another appeared.

The length of the teams grew rapidly, connecting with each other, small teams becoming long teams, and long teams becoming even longer teams.

Before long, it turned into a winding, continuous dragon.

The dragon was so long that it coiled around and around Faman City like a giant mosquito coil, and there were still zombies who hadn't joined the line, trying hard to squeeze in, wanting to become a part of it.

After the vast majority of zombies had joined the dragon, the line moved.

All the zombies began to do the same movements together.

They carefully stretched their left feet twice to the left, then stretched their right feet twice to the right, and then jumped forward together, jumped backward, and then jumped forward, forward, forward.

Just like that, left, left, right, right, front, back, front, front, front, left, left, right, right, front, back, front, front, front.

Bei Nuan was silent for a moment. Was this the Bunny Hop?

The zombies' movements were cheerful and synchronized, stretching their feet and jumping, everyone doing it very seriously.

It was like a super-large group dance performance.

Everyone: "…"

The head of this dancing line was unknown, probably hidden behind the mountains.

The winding line was like a gluttonous snake, except this snake used its body to collect scraps, gathering all the stragglers who hadn't joined the line in time, dancing and hopping, slowly moving into the distance.

The line was so long that it took a long time before this giant mosquito coil coiled below the city gradually unwound circle by circle and hopped away completely.

It was obvious that this was Du Ruo's masterpiece. Only he could do something like this.

It seemed that the mutated zombies had been dealt with. He even had the ability to control the zombie horde. No one knew how he did it.

"Where's Brother Du Ruo?" Tang Tang had been carefully searching in the line, but didn't see Du Ruo.

"You can guess where he is," Jiang Fei said with a smile.

That's right. If such a fun, forward-hopping line was organized by Du Ruo, he would definitely put himself in the front.

The area below the city was cleared again, leaving only the people on the city wall who had watched the super-large Bunny Hop, each one dumbfounded.

Bei Nuan was still worried and ran down the city wall and out of the city.

Lu Xingchi and the others followed her out. Everyone searched the area thoroughly, but didn't see Du Ruo's shadow.

There was no Du Ruo, and no zombies. He was probably fine. No one knew where he had taken his zombie subjects.

Bei Nuan waited anxiously for a whole day.

The zombies didn't come back, and Du Ruo didn't come back either.

Once they left the Faman City defense area, they entered the safety zone, but Du Ruo hadn't returned, and no one wanted to leave.

Everyone didn't want to eat. Without the most enthusiastic person, Jiang Fei wasn't in the mood to cook either, so they just had a simple meal in the military camp's cafeteria for dinner.

Bei Nuan drank a bellyful of the cafeteria's strange soup that she couldn't identify, and lay on the bed in the barracks in a daze, not knowing when she fell asleep.

It seemed to be around dawn when someone tickled Bei Nuan's nostrils with something.

Bei Nuan sneezed loudly and swung her arm out without opening her eyes.

Then she heard Du Ruo's soft laughter.

Bei Nuan woke up immediately and opened her eyes quickly.

She saw Du Ruo squatting in front of her bed, pinching a strand of Bei Nuan's own hair with two fingers.

"That's too violent," Du Ruo said. "Lu Xingchi told me to wake you up, saying that since I didn't come back, you couldn't eat or sleep well, so he told me to wake you up so you could feel at ease."

Lu Xingchi came in from outside, holding a glass of water in his hand, and handed it to Du Ruo, "I told you to wake her up, not to bully her."

Du Ruo stood up, took the water, and drank it all in one gulp.

Jiang Fei, Tang Tang, and the others had all gotten up, and candles were lit in the barracks.

Bei Nuan carefully looked at Du Ruo in the flickering candlelight. Du Ruo looked good, not injured at all, just with a bit of dirt on his clothes.

Jiang Fei smiled at Du Ruo and said, "Bei Nuan is awake, you can talk now, right?"

Du Ruo sat on the opposite bed, holding the glass, looking tired but excited.

"Guess how many pearls I ate? A full eight."

It turned out that as soon as Du Ruo entered the zombie horde, he discovered that in addition to receiving instructions from the mutated zombies, he also had the ability to control the zombies.

Thinking about it, it was obvious that this special ability that suddenly appeared was the effect of swallowing the pearls.

However, in order not to alert the enemy, Du Ruo didn't compete with the mutated zombies for control of the horde, but instead quietly searched for their traces in the horde.

"It was especially easy to find them," Du Ruo said. "I found that after I ate the pearls, I could sense their location."

Jiang Fei was curious, "So what did you do after you found them? Shoot them?"

"No." Du Ruo patted the Minghong Saber placed next to him. "I used this. It's especially useful. One slash can take one down."

Bei Nuan: ?

It seemed that this strange knife that hadn't even been sharpened had shown its power again.

Du Ruo seemed to know what she was thinking, "This knife usually looks a little dull, but when I was slashing mutated zombies, it flashed with a cold light and immediately turned into a treasure sword. It didn't take any effort at all to slash down."

This knife was indeed very special. Last time, Bei Nuan was the same. When she used it to slash Huo Ren, the knife flashed, and Huo Ren, in his shadow state, was hit.

Bei Nuan suddenly had a guess.

Maybe this was a knife that could easily kill special beings of the same kind.

Huo Ren was likely someone who had transmigrated into this world, like Bei Nuan, so Bei Nuan could use this knife to cut the shadow state of Huo Ren. Lu Xingchi wasn't a transmigrator, so it had no effect on him.

And after Du Ruo swallowed the pearls, he had the ability to remotely control the zombie horde, becoming more like a mutated zombie, so he could use this knife to easily chop down the mutated zombies.

Tang Tang asked, "Brother Du Ruo, when you were chopping those mutated zombies, did the other zombies not care?"

"Don't be silly," Du Ruo said a little proudly. "I'm more powerful than them. All the ordinary zombies listen to me."

This was obvious.

He could organize all the zombies in front of the city to dance the Bunny Hop together, which was much better than those mutated zombies who couldn't even organize a large-scale charge.

Bei Nuan asked, "They can sense each other, didn't they know you were killing them?"

"The first few were all sneak attacks. They didn't even have time to react," Du Ruo said casually. "The last two realized something was wrong, but they weren't as powerful as me."

Du Ruo's eyebrows lowered, and he narrowed his eyes.

Bei Nuan saw a hint of murderous intent in his warm, moist, golden retriever-like eyes for the first time.

Du Ruo said, "Those mutated zombies deliberately sent so many of my subjects into the line of fire. Killing them is letting them off easy."

He had personally witnessed the mutated zombies directing large numbers of foolish ordinary zombies to their deaths as cannon fodder, piling them up to use as human ladders for them to climb over the city wall. He had probably been unhappy about it for a long time.

Du Ruo continued, "And I found that the more pearls you swallow, the stronger your abilities become."

Du Ruo thought for a moment, and said with a hint of regret, "The biggest one I ate was the one I dug out from the zombie that Bei Nuan sniped yesterday. The others were smaller than it, and the smallest was only the size of a grain of rice."

In this way, he used the mutated zombies' senses to eliminate all the mutated zombies outside Faman City.

After taking them down and getting all the pearls, he retreated with the spectacular zombie army dancing the Bunny Hop on a whim.

After listening, Lu Xingchi smiled and asked a strange question, "So how far did you hop?"

"We only hopped to the end of the line and went around behind the mountain," Du Ruo's face flushed slightly, and he defended himself, "I found that hopping like that… seemed a little tiring."

That made sense.

Faman City was his big stage, and the Bunny Hop was the zombie horde's exit performance. Once they retreated behind the scenes, they could walk properly.

"The reason I came back so late was because I wanted to take the zombie horde as far away as possible," Du Ruo said seriously. "I was afraid that if they were near the blockade line, they would be recruited to the front line as cannon fodder by other mutated zombies."

His concerns were very reasonable.

Du Ruo breathed a sigh of relief. "Walking so far made me starving to death. Is there anything good to eat?"

Jiang Fei stood up. "What do you want to eat? I can make anything. Just name it."

Du Ruo thought for a moment. "I want to eat rice, and vegetables, hot and spicy, a big pot, and preferably fast, because I'm really hungry."

Jiang Fei replied with a smile, "Simple."

Jiang Fei asked Bei Nuan to cook rice in the space, and asked her to take out the cleaned fish. He sliced the fish into fillets, blanched the vegetables, and asked Tang Tang to prepare Sichuan peppercorns and chili peppers.

He was going to make boiled fish.

After waiting for a long time, when he sizzled and poured hot oil that had been infused with Sichuan peppercorns and chili peppers over a pot of red boiled fish fillets, the neighbor's child wouldn't know, but Bei Nuan was about to cry with envy.

Du Ruo glanced at her expression. "He made so much, I might not be able to eat it all by myself…"

Before he could finish speaking, Bei Nuan had already sat down happily, and also distributed a set of bowls and chopsticks to everyone, placing them on the table. "I knew you couldn't eat it all by yourself. Everyone, let's eat together."

Du Ruo: "…"

Jiang Fei said with a smile, "Eat as much as you want. We still have fish, and we have the ingredients. If it's not enough, we can make another pot."

So everyone lit candles in the middle of the night and ate boiled fish together.

The first pot was wiped out. While waiting for the second pot, Bei Nuan suddenly remembered the task bar that she hadn't opened for a long time.

She also took a look at her Saintly Value. Of course, her Saintly Value had increased again.

Today, she had killed mutated zombies, guided everyone into the city, dispersed the zombie horde, and saved the precarious Faman City. If her Saintly Value didn't increase after doing so much, it would be strange.

Bei Nuan used her mind to pull the handle of the "Fun Little Task".

The roller stopped on four words - "Do As You Please".

Do As You Please? Judging from the name, it was definitely a wonderful ability.

Bei Nuan quickly went to read the task description.

It said: Insist for eight hours without saying the words "you", "I", and "no". After the pain, you will be able to do as you please. Once you violate the rules, the timer will reset.

Behind it was also a conspicuous yellow warning sign, which read:

Warning: It is forbidden to attempt to replace these three words with any other language, dialect, classical Chinese, homophone, text, symbol, gesture, or any other body language.

It is forbidden to use writing, body language, etc. to replace speaking.

It is forbidden not to answer other people's questions directly.

Violation of the above rules will be regarded as cheating. Cheating once will result in the existing timer being reset to zero and a one-hour penalty. The final interpretation right belongs to the system.

This warning was even longer than the task description, and the last sentence, "The final interpretation right belongs to the system", immediately dispelled Bei Nuan's wild ideas of trying to take shortcuts.

Even without cheating, this shouldn't be… too difficult, right?

Anyway, there was no penalty for violating the rules, just a reset of the timer.

Behind the task, the timer had already started, and by the time Bei Nuan had read the task description, it had already been running for more than a minute.

Eight hours wasn't long at all, and it looked promising.

Tang Tang was scooping the last bit of rice and turned around to ask Bei Nuan, "Sister Nuannuan, there's not much rice left, do you want more?"

Bei Nuan replied, "I'm not eating anymore, you eat it."

Then she watched the "Do As You Please" timer jump back and reset to zero.

Bei Nuan: "…"

Just one sentence, and she had said all three forbidden words at once.

This task really didn't seem as simple as it looked.

Lu Xingchi asked Bei Nuan, "After dawn, we'll go find Shao Bai and Yan Teng and talk about our abilities, right?"

They really needed to have a good talk with Shao Bai and the others.

This time, Bei Nuan, Lu Xingchi, and Du Ruo had all displayed their abilities in front of the onlookers. Bei Nuan didn't want to be treated like a monster and dragged into a lab as soon as she entered the safety zone.

Bei Nuan opened her mouth, and after a long time, she carefully said, "Okay, let's talk. That's fine."

Success.

She hadn't said a single forbidden word.

Lu Xingchi asked again, "Then we'll set off? So we need to hurry up and sleep after eating."

Bei Nuan cautiously replied, "Okay. We'll sleep after eating."

Still safe.

Every time she spoke, it was like passing a level. Bei Nuan silently gave herself a thumbs up in her heart.

Lu Xingchi gave her a strange look for no reason and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Bei Nuan paused for a second before answering word by word, "Nothing's wrong, everything's fine."

Lu Xingchi: ?

While they were talking, Jiang Fei had brought up a new pot of boiled fish. Du Ruo quickly found a few round straw mushrooms in the fish and put them in his bowl.

Bei Nuan quickly stood up to grab them.

Unfortunately, Du Ruo was too fast, and he found the last straw mushroom as well.

Du Ruo glanced at Bei Nuan triumphantly, "You want to eat them too? If you want to eat them, just tell me, and I'll give you half of the ones in my bowl."

Bei Nuan said tearfully, "Want to eat."

She answered too briefly. Under the system's power, Bei Nuan had to answer the question directly.

Bei Nuan thought for a moment and said helplessly in a low voice, "Bei Nuan… wants to eat."

Everyone: "…"

This expression was too terrible, and even Bei Nuan herself shivered silently.

Du Ruo raised his eyebrows and imitated her, "Bei Nuan wants to eat, Du Ruo wants to eat too, but Du Ruo is very kind, Du Ruo decided to give a few straw mushrooms to Bei Nuan."

Lu Xingchi was unmoved and ate the fish with a straight face.

Jiang Fei wasn't as composed as him, and his facial muscles twitched a few times.

Tang Tang couldn't stand it anymore and trembled as he rubbed the goosebumps that had been caused by their nauseating words.

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