A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

Bei Nuan breathed a sigh of relief. They had made it sound so tragic; his flag should be considered pulled, right?

Luo Yuan called some people over and had them escort Du Ruo and Lu Xingchi out of the city, and also sent the remaining Bei Nuan and the others to the back to rest.

A young orderly arrived and led Bei Nuan, Jiang Fei, and Tang Tang away from the main house, through the back courtyard.

Further back, there was a separate small building.

This was the Salun City wartime command center. The generator was running, and the lights were on everywhere, a rare sight. Even though it was the middle of the night, it wasn't dark at all.

The orderly led Bei Nuan and the others into the small building, opened the doors to two rooms on the first floor for them, and left.

Inside were probably the original guest rooms of this mansion, tidied up and clean, with a double bed and an attached bathroom.

Jiang Fei and Tang Tang stayed in one room, and Bei Nuan had a room to herself.

Jiang Fei comforted Bei Nuan, "Don't worry, Du Ruo is experienced now. She can probably find mutated zombies faster than she could in Faman City. They'll be back soon."

Bei Nuan nodded.

She really wasn't too worried.

There was nothing safer than putting Lu Xingchi in a metal can like a helicopter, and flying him in the sky where zombies couldn't touch him.

With Lu Xingchi around, Du Ruo wouldn't suffer any losses either.

Bei Nuan was just a little excited and not sleepy at all, even though it was past midnight.

After Jiang Fei and Tang Tang went to sleep next door, Bei Nuan continued to play with her new ability by herself, changing back and forth, not knowing how long she played.

Since there was no one else here, Bei Nuan got down on all fours and turned herself into a coffee table about the same size as her.

She silently lay on the ground for a while, experiencing the boring life of furniture, then changed back and opened the door to the hallway.

The lights were on in the hallway, but there was no one there. Bei Nuan wandered around and went up to the second floor.

She had only taken a few steps on the second floor when she suddenly heard people arguing in the room ahead.

It was a woman's faint voice, excitedly saying something, but the soundproofing here was pretty good, so it was hard to hear clearly.

Then the door opened.

Without thinking, Bei Nuan instantly transformed herself into the appearance of the orderly from earlier.

As the door opened, a familiar male voice came from the room, lazy and indifferent.

"Get out of here. Who do you think you are? Stop flitting around in front of me."

Hearing this voice, Bei Nuan really wanted to roll her eyes and immediately went to find the Minghong Blade in her dimension.

But then she suddenly realized that the Minghong Blade had been taken by Du Ruo to kill mutated zombies.

At the same time, a girl came out of the door. It was indeed Zhen Zhen again.

She looked even thinner and paler than the last time they met in the tribe, as if a gust of wind could blow her away. Her eyes were red, she had probably just finished crying, and she looked heartbroken.

Her gaze swept over Bei Nuan, and thinking that Bei Nuan was a young orderly, she forced a smile at her.

Bei Nuan thought, You don't need to cry. Huo Ren is telling you to get out, but he hasn't shot you. By his bizarre standards, that's already considered love.

Bei Nuan greeted her and followed her downstairs in a hurry.

Without the Minghong Blade in hand, and without Lu Boss to protect her, Bei Nuan was no match for Huo Ren. It was better to leave quickly.

Rushing back to her room in one breath, Bei Nuan's heart was still pounding wildly.

She was a little conflicted about whether to wake up Jiang Fei and Tang Tang and tell them that Huo Ren was staying upstairs, but she didn't think there would be any benefit.

No matter how good Jiang Fei was with a knife, he couldn't beat Huo Ren, who could turn into a shadow.

Besides, Huo Ren had only seen Lu Xingchi in Taiping Gate, besides Bei Nuan, and didn't know Jiang Fei and the others. They shouldn't be in too much danger.

It was better to just hide in the room and wait quietly for dawn.

Given Du Ruo's speed in killing mutated zombies last time, she might be back after dawn. Once Lu Xingchi and the Minghong Blade returned, everything would be fine.

The sounds of gunfire and cannons outside the city came in waves, like thunder, shaking the window frames.

Bei Nuan paced back and forth in the room, and went through all kinds of weapons in her dimension again, trying to figure out how to deal with Huo Ren.

No matter how she thought about it, without the Minghong Blade, it was simply hopeless.

Just as she was getting anxious, there was a slight sound behind her.

Someone cleared their throat softly.

The hairs on Bei Nuan's back stood on end.

She suddenly turned around and was shocked to find that Huo Ren was standing behind her.

Huo Ren narrowed his eyes, raised one corner of his mouth, and was watching Bei Nuan silently.

How did he get in so silently? Bei Nuan immediately realized that he had walked through the wall.

Bei Nuan was very sure that when she was upstairs just now, he was in the room and hadn't seen Bei Nuan.

To break into someone else's guest room for no reason, this person was a pervert.

Sure enough, Huo Ren said, "I was just trying to take a shortcut downstairs, but look who I found?"

Bei Nuan quickly assessed her current state.

First of all, he had just walked through the wall, so he was most likely in shadow form. Even if he wasn't, he would definitely turn into a safer shadow form after seeing Bei Nuan.

If he was in shadow form, no physical attack would work on him except for the Minghong Blade.

Second, he was also immune to abilities.

Bei Nuan was a little unsure. If she turned into something else to escape now, would he be able to see through it?

Bei Nuan had always suspected that Huo Ren could see through illusions.

Something like what Song Ce did should be an illusion.

Song Ce could turn into the person each individual loved most. When he activated his ability, everyone saw a different Song Ce.

Bei Nuan saw her father, and Lu Xingchi saw Bei Nuan, so this transformation of his must not be a real transformation, but an illusion.

But Bei Nuan's current transformation was not an illusion, but her body really turning into various things that could hurt people, solid and real.

Could Huo Ren see through this kind of physical transformation?

Bei Nuan called out to Xiao San in her mind, "Xiao San, I want to use Saintly Mother Points to redeem a hint about abilities."

Xiao San answered quickly, "Go ahead."

Bei Nuan asked him, "Can Huo Ren see through the transformations of the 'As You Wish' ability? For example, if I turn into a rabbit, can he still tell that the rabbit is me?"

The Saintly Mother Points decreased by a chunk.

Xiao San's helpless voice came, "When you turn into a rabbit, you turn into a rabbit. It's not fake. How could he tell?"

Bei Nuan cheered silently and dismissed Xiao San, "Okay, that's all."

Xiao San couldn't help but add, "Bei Nuan, 'As You Wish' is a physical, real transformation. So if you transform a knife in your hand, it will really be a metal knife. In everyone's perception, it will be a metal knife."

He said this in a roundabout way, and Bei Nuan said "Oh" and didn't take it too seriously.

A second later, Bei Nuan suddenly understood what Xiao San meant.

If turning into metal meant it was metal, then when she was having fun playing with her new ability in the car, in Lu Xingchi's perception, wasn't Bei Nuan's body sprouting a dagger or a steel claw every now and then?

No wonder Lu Xingchi said at the time, "I feel like you're very busy."

Bei Nuan: "…"

Bei Nuan was busy thinking about all sorts of things in her head and hadn't said a word. Huo Ren on the opposite side couldn't help but speak, "Aren't you going to say hello to me? Scared silly?"

Bei Nuan quickly pulled her thoughts back on track.

So she could transform and escape at any time.

Bei Nuan quickly thought it over and decided that escaping now wasn't a worthwhile thing to do.

The risk was that if she didn't escape successfully, she would expose her ability to transform, and it would be difficult to escape or sneak attack later.

Since she could transform and he couldn't see through it, Bei Nuan felt that she could stay put for the time being and see what happened.

Huo Ren was the kind of person who could shoot someone for no reason. Last time, she had cut off his finger, and the two of them had formed such a big feud, but when he was standing behind her just now, he didn't attack.

He must have something else in mind and didn't want to kill Bei Nuan. She might as well listen to what he had to say.

Sure enough, Huo Ren asked, "Where's that knife of yours that can cut off my fingers? Where is it hidden? Take it out and let me see."

That was what he was concerned about.

A knife that could cut him was a huge threat to him. He didn't seem to realize that only Bei Nuan could use that knife to deal with him.

For him, finding the knife was more important than finding Bei Nuan.

Bei Nuan saw him take out a gun from his body.

He slowly pointed the muzzle of the gun at Bei Nuan's head.

"Hurry up. You still owe me two fingers. If you take too long, I'll make you pay me back one by one."

Bei Nuan was extremely conflicted.

If he wanted to shoot Bei Nuan, he would have to become solid. If he became solid, Bei Nuan could counterattack.

But she couldn't tell when he was solid and when he wasn't.

If she acted rashly, she would be the one to suffer.

Bei Nuan answered him seriously, "The knife was taken away by my boyfriend. He hasn't come back yet. He went out of the city to find mutated zombies. He said that knife is especially fast at killing zombies, one knife for each."

Huo Ren stared at her eyes, assessing the truth of her words.

Bei Nuan had long experience in lying to Lu Xingchi, so she didn't take Huo Ren's assessing gaze to heart at all, and looked back at his eyes calmly.

Huo Ren looked at Bei Nuan for a while, seemed to believe her, and smiled.

"You haven't changed men yet? Still the one with the metal ability from last time? He suits your taste so well?"

He glanced at the double bed next to her.

Bei Nuan felt a chill in her heart.

Fortunately, he turned his gaze away and gestured at Bei Nuan with the gun, "Come out."

He led Bei Nuan up to the second floor, walked to the door of a room, and said to the inside, "Get out here, all of you."

There was the sound of someone rushing to open the door inside.

The door opened, and two people came out. Bei Nuan had seen one of them before. He had small eyes and a pair of thick, dark, broom-like eyebrows. This person had followed Huo Ren back in the Jiujian Shelter, and she had seen him again in the tribe. He was one of his subordinates.

The other one was unfamiliar, wearing a vest and floral shorts, with a small mustache above his philtrum. He must have been someone Huo Ren called over for support.

"You guys take out your guns and escort her downstairs," Huo Ren ordered them.

Huo Ren hadn't found the Minghong Blade yet and didn't dare to solidify himself, so having others escort Bei Nuan was a good idea.

He didn't intend to kill Bei Nuan.

Bei Nuan understood immediately. He wanted to deal with Lu Xingchi, but he wasn't confident. Now he was keeping Bei Nuan as a card in his hand, and then waiting for Lu Xingchi to return.

The guy with the mustache immediately went back into the room to get a gun, held it against Bei Nuan's back, and escorted her downstairs, with Huo Ren and the guy with the broom-like eyebrows following behind.

It was easy to deal with the guy with the mustache, but difficult to deal with Huo Ren.

She could continue to stall for time.

Stalling for time would only benefit Bei Nuan. Lu Xingchi and the Minghong Blade were coming back soon.

There was a basement floor below the first floor, with iron doors one after another starting from the entrance.

It didn't look like a place to lock people up, but more like a solid shelter that the owner of the house had built for himself.

The subordinate with the broom-like eyebrows used a bunch of keys to open the doors one by one.

She had heard Yan Teng and the others say last time that LBD seemed to have a good relationship with the military because he had donated a lot of things to the Alliance army during the war.

Bei Nuan guessed that Huo Ren had an LBD background, so he had become a guest of honor at the Salun City command center, staying here and even being able to borrow the basement here to lock people up.

They took Bei Nuan to a room at the end of the corridor.

This room was like an office, with a desk and a row of filing cabinets along the wall, with things piled up randomly.

Huo Ren waited for the broom-like eyebrows and the other guy to close the door before chuckling softly, "This place is good. Soundproof."

Bei Nuan didn't say a word, and the hairs on her body stood on end. She thought to herself, This person is too perverted. No matter what he wants to do, as long as he solidifies, I'll try to sneak attack him.

Huo Ren asked the guy with the mustache, "Did you bring a dagger?"

The guy with the mustache immediately took out a dagger from his pocket.

Huo Ren didn't take it, but said to Bei Nuan, "I'll give you one last chance. Take out the knife and give it to me, and nothing will happen to you."

He still didn't believe Bei Nuan.

Last time when Bei Nuan cut him, she had conjured a knife out of thin air, and he had seen it.

Although he couldn't figure out what Bei Nuan was up to, it seemed that he still thought the knife might be hidden by Bei Nuan and hadn't been taken out.

Bei Nuan said, "That knife really, really isn't with me."

This was the truth.

Even if Lu Xingchi was here now, observing Bei Nuan's expression in person, he would have to admit that Bei Nuan was telling the absolute truth.

Huo Ren also tilted his head and looked at Bei Nuan's expression for a long time, and finally said, "With a face like that, others would believe your lies, right? I don't quite believe you, you little liar."

"Hand over the knife, or I'll…" He looked Bei Nuan up and down in a relaxed and pleasant manner, "…where should I start?"

The guy with the mustache jokingly suggested to his boss, "Slash her face. Women are afraid of that."

Bei Nuan immediately glanced at the guy with the mustache, thinking, You want to slash my face? If I don't slash your face today, my name isn't Bei.

Huo Ren laughed, "You're thinking that you must slash his face, aren't you? See, I know you so well, because we're the same kind of person, we always take revenge. Speaking of which, I really have an idea."

Huo Ren raised his right hand.

On his right hand, the little finger and ring finger were missing a section.

"You did it."

Huo Ren accused her half-jokingly.

"You don't know how inconvenient it is to be missing two sections of fingers. So I'm going to let you experience it too."

Huo Ren gestured to the guy with the mustache with his chin.

The guy with the mustache understood immediately, grabbed Bei Nuan's hand, pressed it on the table, and pressed the dagger on the knuckle of her little finger.

"I'll ask you one more time," Huo Ren said with a smile, arms crossed, "Where's that knife?"

Bei Nuan looked at her hand being held down with a terrified expression, then looked at the very sharp dagger in the guy with the mustache's hand, and said to Huo Ren in the most sincere tone, "The knife was really taken away by him."

Huo Ren raised his eyebrows and gave the guy with the mustache a look.

The guy with the mustache looked excited and immediately started to cut Bei Nuan's little finger without hesitation.

Bei Nuan screamed and struggled desperately, but she was small and weak, and couldn't break free from the guy with the mustache holding her down.

There was blood everywhere.

The guy with the mustache cut it off neatly in a few strokes.

Bei Nuan lay on the table, crying and shivering in pain, her face pale, covered in cold sweat and tears.

Huo Ren admired her crying and dying appearance, licked his lips, his eyes full of excitement.

"I find that you're very suitable for this expression, even more beautiful than usual. I'll ask you one more time, where's the knife?"

Bei Nuan said while crying, "Really…taken…away…"

Huo Ren said leisurely, "Haven't thought it through yet? Or should we cut off another one and see?"

Bei Nuan tried hard to raise her head while sobbing, her face covered in tears, and said to him, "I'm not lying…the knife really isn't with me…"

Huo Ren raised his chin at the guy with the mustache.

The guy with the mustache immediately used the dagger to cut Bei Nuan's ring finger.

This time Bei Nuan screamed and then fell silent.

The guy with the mustache looked down, "Passed out? This woman is too weak, is she dead?"

Huo Ren tilted his head and studied Bei Nuan, and came to a conclusion leisurely, "Okay, I'll believe that the knife isn't with you. I'll go find your boyfriend, and I'll come back and play with you later."

Then he said to the guy with the mustache, "You guys watch her."

Huo Ren went out and left.

The guy with the mustache glanced at Bei Nuan, who was lying motionless on the table, and ordered the broom-like eyebrows, "You guard outside."

The broom-like eyebrows agreed obsequiously and quickly closed the door and went out.

The guy with the mustache looked at Bei Nuan again, a lecherous smile on his face, and swayed to Bei Nuan's side.

He reached out to turn Bei Nuan's head, but Bei Nuan raised her head herself first.

Something was wrong.

The guy with the mustache thought.

Very wrong.

Bei Nuan's hair, which had been messed up during the struggle just now, was now perfectly smooth, and her pure face was clean, without a drop of cold sweat or a trace of tears, her eyes clear and bright, with distinct black and white.

Most importantly, all the blood on the table was gone, and the hand she had placed on the table was fair and soft, with dimples, and not a finger was missing.

Bei Nuan blinked at him and asked sincerely, "You want to slash my face?"

The guy with the mustache recovered from his shock and felt a chill all over his body. He lowered his head.

He saw a sharp metal spike extending from Bei Nuan's other hand, which had pierced him through.

Bei Nuan straightened up, raised the hand that had just been cut, and a row of glittering metal claws popped out, slashing at the guy with the mustache's face.

Slashed his face.

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