A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

Bei Nuan said, "Judging by this kind of contact name, it might really be his boss."

Lu Xingchi hummed in agreement and instructed, "Turn it off and put it in your dimension."

Satellite phones can be located. The person on the other end of the phone was already suspicious. For safety's sake, it's better to put it away.

It seems Huo Ren's boss is also in Ye Ruocheng, waiting for him to deliver Song Ce.

Bei Nuan asked Lu Xingchi, "So are we still going to Ye Ruocheng?"

Lu Xingchi wasn't shaken by this at all. He replied, "Yes, to Ye Ruocheng."

The SUV continued towards Ye Ruocheng. Bei Nuan deeply felt that they were like a car full of little lambs, galloping wildly, voluntarily delivering themselves into the tiger's mouth.

Except for stopping to eat, Lu Xingchi kept driving.

Probably worried that keeping Song Ce around would lead to complications, he drove all the way to the vicinity of Ye Ruocheng in one go.

Ye Ruocheng is located on the Pus Plain, backed by a valley and next to the Pulo River. It's an ancient city with a long history of thousands of years, and now it's the administrative center of the safety zone, even more bustling than before.

The Pulo River Valley has large tracts of farmland, and the dry central Pus Plain has coal mines and oil fields, as well as a large oil refinery.

Relying on this treasure land, the Alliance established a large number of wartime factories in Ye Ruocheng to meet the needs of frontline combat and the lives of people in the safety zone.

The outskirts of the city are lined with rows of hastily built factory buildings, with production lines running at full capacity and thick black smoke billowing from the chimneys.

The SUV drove directly into the city, traveling on the busy streets.

Due to the outbreak of the zombie virus, a large number of refugees poured into the city, and the population expanded rapidly, several times larger than before.

Everywhere were simple houses built by the Alliance for temporary residence, densely packed and extending into the distance, like countless small blue and gray beetles.

Bei Nuan discovered a problem.

If you look closely, you can see that Ye Ruocheng is full of the familiar LBD logo—an eye surrounded by three petals.

But above the petals, there are a few more letters: TIX.

That's the TIX that Song Ce mentioned, the parent company behind LBD.

On the factory buildings, on the vehicles, and on the walls of the simple houses, its logo is everywhere, like a virus, conquering every corner of Ye Ruocheng.

Lu Xingchi pulled the car over to the side of the road and asked for directions. After a while, he came back and said that the Alliance headquarters is in District Seven.

They divided Ye Ruocheng into several districts, with District Seven being the closest to the valley.

As soon as they entered District Seven, it was indeed different.

The streets were wider, and the clothes of the pedestrians were neater than outside. Many military vehicles and people in military uniforms hurried past.

There were people checking along the way. Lu Xingchi got out of the car and negotiated with them, and they actually passed through without any obstruction.

The SUV drove all the way to the outside of the Alliance headquarters.

This was a building that lay flat on the ground, seemingly ancient, with a beautiful spire. Under the spire hung the Alliance's intertwined golden wreath logo.

A row of flagpoles stood in the square in front of the door, with different flags flying on them.

Lu Xingchi didn't know what he said to the guarding soldiers, but before long, someone came out to lead them in and guided everyone to a room that looked like a reception room.

Bei Nuan had just sat down when voices came from outside the door.

The carved wooden door decorated with exotic patterns opened, and a person walked in.

He looked to be in his early thirties, wearing an Alliance military uniform, tall and straight, with a serious expression.

Because of the faintly revealed majesty of one accustomed to giving orders, it was easy to forget that he actually had an exceptionally handsome face.

The first thing he did when he came in was to scan the room, using his eyes to find Lu Xingchi.

He looked him up and down, then walked over quickly.

Lu Xingchi also stood up, glanced at him indifferently, and introduced him to Bei Nuan and the others, "This is Lu Ding, General Lu, the current chief executive officer of the Alliance."

Bei Nuan quickly thought, the chief executive officer of the Alliance?

According to what it said in the book, the Alliance is now a military and political entity, and the chief executive officer is the highest position in the Alliance, right?

The person in front of her is the holder of power and commander of the army of the entire wartime Alliance.

Lu Ding didn't speak when he heard Lu Xingchi introduce him, but looked at him with a complicated expression.

Lu Xingchi reluctantly added faintly, "He's my brother."

His brother?

Except for Du Ruo, everyone looked at the two of them in surprise.

So this Lu Ding is the half-brother that Lu Xingchi mentioned last time, with whom he has a so-so relationship?

Although the two are half-brothers and have no blood relationship, they are almost the same height and look quite similar. They look more like biological brothers.

Lu Xingchi reached out and put his arm around Bei Nuan, and said to Lu Ding, "This is Bei Nuan."

Lu Ding's gaze paused on Lu Xingchi's hand holding Bei Nuan's shoulder, then he immediately smiled at Bei Nuan and shook her hand.

Lu Xingchi introduced the others one by one. Lu Ding listened patiently, greeted them, then picked up the topic again and asked Lu Xingchi, "Are you alright?"

He then explained, "On the morning of the zombie virus outbreak, they said you called me, but I was in a closed naval base at the time. By the time I looked for you again, I couldn't reach you…"

"I'm not here to discuss this with you." Lu Xingchi interrupted him impolitely and told Lu Ding about Song Ce and LBD.

Bei Nuan discovered that Lu Xingchi was very divided.

On the one hand, his attitude was cold and distant, and he didn't chat with this only brother at all.

On the other hand, he was extremely frank, telling Lu Ding all the information he knew in detail, even his ability and the fact that he had just killed Huo Ren, without any reservations.

He trusted this person he didn't even want to greet very much.

Bei Nuan raised her eyebrows.

Lu Ding listened to Lu Xingchi carefully, glanced at Song Ce, and only said three words, "Leave it to me."

Song Ce interjected, "I have a mentor named Qin Zhiyu, who should be in the Alliance's laboratory researching vaccines. I hope to go and work with him." Song Ce smiled wryly, "He advised me not to join TIX back then, but I didn't listen to him."

Lu Ding nodded, "Okay, you stay here first. The laboratory isn't in Ye Ruocheng. I'll find someone to send you over."

Then he turned the question back and asked Lu Xingchi for the third time, "Are you alright?"

Hearing that Lu Ding had taken over the matter, Lu Xingchi seemed to relax instantly. He stood up and spat out two words, "I'm fine."

He looked like he was planning to leave after handing Song Ce and his things over to Lu Ding.

"Wait a minute." Lu Ding stopped him. "You just arrived. I'll arrange a place for you to stay."

Lu Xingchi refused directly, "No need."

"Even if you weren't my brother, I would arrange accommodation for you in this situation." Lu Ding glanced at Bei Nuan, softened his voice, and advised Lu Xingchi, "The situation is too chaotic now, for safety's sake."

Lu Xingchi followed his gaze and glanced at Bei Nuan, hesitated, and didn't insist anymore.

Twenty minutes later, they had a new place to live.

It was in a dormitory-like apartment building in District Seven.

Each floor of the building had a long, open corridor facing the outside, connecting a row of rooms.

Lu Ding gave his brother special treatment, but not excessively.

This was the dormitory for ordinary Alliance staff. Many people in uniforms went in and out, with the Alliance emblem embroidered on their uniforms. Sometimes, soldiers could also be seen.

They were assigned three adjacent single rooms.

The single rooms had independent bathrooms with showers, but no kitchens or laundry rooms.

If they wanted to do laundry or cook, they had to go to the common area on the floor.

Bei Nuan studied it inside and out, checked the bathroom, and felt that although it was simple, it was quite clean.

"The conditions here are not bad." Bei Nuan said loudly.

No one answered outside.

Bei Nuan came out and found that the door was closed. Du Ruo and the others had returned to the next room, leaving only Lu Xingchi.

He was lying on her bed, already asleep.

Counting from when they left Faman City, he had been working non-stop and hadn't slept for a long time.

It seemed that the important matter was over, and he slept very peacefully and deeply, breathing steadily, his long eyelashes motionless.

Bei Nuan walked over gently, sat down next to him, leaned against the head of the bed, but couldn't fall asleep.

Xiao San's voice suddenly popped out.

"Bei Nuan, are you settled in? I'm here to give you the final stage of mission guidance."

Xiao San's voice sounded even more excited than Bei Nuan, "I just went to check the manual for you and wanted to talk to you about how to complete the mission."

Bei Nuan was speechless, "You're a system, and you still need to check the manual?"

Xiao San was a little embarrassed, "To be honest, we have so many mission worlds, and no host has ever really successfully completed the Saint Mary mission, so I'm not very familiar with the specific process."

Xiao San explained seriously, "The process is that when all the plots in this book are over, you will hear a beep indicating the end of the countdown. At that moment, the system will automatically detect your Saint Mary value progress bar. If the Saint Mary value is full, it will be judged that your Saint Mary mission is completed."

After listening, Bei Nuan had a big question.

"But how do you know when the plot is over? Because many things that are happening now are completely different from the plot in the book. Is it calculated according to the time in the book?"

"No, it's not." Xiao San said, "Because the events in this world have new changes, we can't determine the end of the plot according to the events and time in the book, so we actually have a very simple way to determine it—"

Xiao San paused.

"—It's the male lead's route. When he has completed all the key locations on the road, and stayed at the last key location for the time specified in the book, the plot is considered over."

When Xiao San said this, Bei Nuan suddenly realized something.

Although many things had happened that were different from the book, Lu Xingchi had been accurately checking in at every important location in the book along the way, without missing a single one.

It was like a curve that fluctuated up and down around the center line. Although it was vibrating, it had never deviated too far.

Could this be part of his mission?

Bei Nuan thought for a while, "So now there's still…"

Xiao San interjected, "…That's right, there's still one last location left, which is Geta City, where the team was wiped out. The male lead stays in Geta City for thirteen hours, and the plot ends."

Bei Nuan suddenly became excited.

In other words, as long as Lu Xingchi never goes to Geta City, the plot will never end?

Then she can stay in this world forever?

The more Bei Nuan thought about it, the more excited she became. She almost wanted to shake Lu Xingchi, who was next to her, awake.

But after the initial excitement passed, Bei Nuan thought of something else.

It seemed that Lu Xingchi had to follow the route in the book.

If he never goes to Geta City, wouldn't his mission be incomplete? Would there be any punishment for him?

Unfortunately, she couldn't ask him directly. Asking him would be a violation.

Bei Nuan sighed, lay down next to Lu Xingchi, stared at the ceiling in a daze, and fell asleep after a while.

She didn't know how long she had slept, but Bei Nuan was awakened by a kiss.

Someone was affectionately nuzzling her face, kissing her from time to time, with gentle movements.

Bei Nuan opened her eyes.

In front of her was Lu Xingchi's handsome face. Behind him, the sky was still bright, but it was already dusk, and the room was full of golden-red light.

Lu Xingchi was leaning over her, gazing at her. Because he had slept enough, his eyes, which had been red from exhaustion, had returned to their clarity. The hair on his forehead hung down, a little messy.

"Are you awake?" Bei Nuan asked him.

He grunted vaguely, then lowered his head and kissed Bei Nuan's lips again, and then lingered and pressed against the tip of her nose.

After he finished kissing, Bei Nuan asked seriously, "Lu Xingchi, what are our plans next? Are we staying in Ye Ruocheng, or are we going somewhere else?"

Lu Xingchi answered without hesitation, "We'll rest for a while, then set off for Geta City."

He really planned to go to the last key location to check in.

The completion of the Saint Mary mission was just around the corner.

Bei Nuan's Saint Mary progress bar was almost full, with only a small gap left. She could fill it up by doing some more good deeds.

After the Saint Mary value was full, she would go to Geta City with him, stay for thirteen hours, and immediately return to her original world.

A safe world without zombies, and a world where she wouldn't be crushed by a truck again.

A world without Lu Xingchi.

Bei Nuan bit her lip, struggled for a long time, and finally mustered the courage to ask him, "Can we… not go to Geta City?"

Before she could finish speaking, a sharp alarm suddenly sounded in Bei Nuan's mind.

The sound was so loud that Bei Nuan felt like she was going deaf.

A mechanical female voice sounded.

"Warning. Host is suspected of implying the content of the Saint Mary mission. Considering this is a first offense, the monitoring system will deduct Saint Mary value as punishment."

Just saying to Lu Xingchi that she didn't want to go to Geta City was considered implying the content of the Saint Mary mission?

Was this monitoring system sick?

Bei Nuan watched helplessly as a section of the almost full Saint Mary value progress bar disappeared.

Fine. Now that there was a section missing from the Saint Mary value progress bar, she really couldn't go to Geta City this time.

Bei Nuan said sincerely, "We've been rushing all the time and haven't rested. Now that we're in the safety zone, why don't we rest for a few days before we talk about it?"

This time, because a section of the Saint Mary value was missing, Bei Nuan was delaying going to Geta City, and the monitoring system didn't pop up a warning.

The alarm sound that was so noisy in her mind finally stopped.

Lu Xingchi had been observing Bei Nuan's expression silently from beginning to end. The complex changes on her face all fell into his eyes.

"So what do you think?" Bei Nuan asked him.

"Okay."

Lu Xingchi agreed.

Bei Nuan breathed a sigh of relief. At least she would have time to replenish the Saint Mary value that had just been deducted.

Then, she heard Lu Xingchi continue, "We can never go to Geta City."

What did he say?

Bei Nuan looked at Lu Xingchi in shock.

His eyes were light and clear, insightful, and all the schemes, baseness, and lies were nowhere to hide.

But at this moment, Bei Nuan only saw her own shadow in his eyes, small, clear, unique, wrapped in his gentle warmth.

As in the past, so it would be in the future, he understood what she was thinking, without her needing to say another word.

Bei Nuan's vision was blurred little by little by the tears that welled up, finally turning into a blur.

Lu Xingchi's fingers stroked her forehead.

"We," he lowered his head and kissed her eyes, "will never go."

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