A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

Why did Lu Ding specifically ask the boss of TIX to meet Bei Nuan and Lu Xingchi?

Bei Nuan was a little wary.

Lu Xingchi's expression, however, was very calm, and he exchanged a few polite words with Shang Yan.

"Let's go sit down." Lu Ding led everyone to the dining table.

On the long table was a not-small round grill, next to it were slices of meat and various vegetables and sauces. Nothing had been touched at all, it looked like Lu Ding and Shang Yan had been waiting for Bei Nuan and the others.

Bei Nuan thought, didn't Lu Ding say he had something important to say? Was he really going to have a midnight snack?

Having just eaten hotpot, another meal was a bit too much.

Lu Ding had everyone sit down and started grilling the meat himself.

The marbled meat sizzled on the grill, slowly changing color, oozing oil, and an enticing aroma filled the room.

"My younger brother has always been particularly picky since he was a child," Lu Ding said to Shang Yan, "With this kind of grilled meat, if the quality of the meat and the heat are slightly off, he won't touch it. No matter how delicious it is, he'll only eat a couple more bites."

After grilling the first slice, Lu Ding didn't give it to Shang Yan, who could be considered the guest here, but used the tongs to put it directly into Lu Xingchi's plate.

Lu Ding smiled at Shang Yan, "I can't help it, he's my own brother, I can only spoil him."

Shang Yan could only smile and reply, "General Lu's brotherly affection is truly admirable."

Lu Ding asked Lu Xingchi, "You guys came from the infected area this time, it wasn't easy on the road, was it?"

Lu Xingchi calmly replied, "It was alright."

Lu Ding continued to ask, "It seems you also encountered someone from Mr. Shang's company, what was his name, Huo something?"

Bei Nuan knew the answer to this question and replied, "Huo Ren."

While speaking, the second slice of grilled meat was ready, and this time Lu Ding placed it in Bei Nuan's plate.

Bei Nuan understood.

Lu Ding called Shang Yan here, not for a midnight snack, but to show off his power.

Bei Nuan tasted it without hesitation, the grilled meat had a charred aroma, but it was also very tender, melting in her mouth, with the right amount of fat and lean, Bei Nuan felt like she could eat more.

Shang Yan's expression showed a bit more embarrassment.

"TIX has such a person?" Shang Yan's tone carried a slight surprise, and then he revealed a bit of a wry smile, "TIX has employees all over the world, probably the population of a small country, sometimes it's really hard to manage. That… Huo Ren? If he has offended you in any way, I will have him apologize to you in person when I find out who he is."

Lu Ding flipped the slices of meat with the tongs and said calmly, "That won't be necessary, that Huo Ren seems to be dead already."

Shang Yan's expression changed slightly, but it only lasted for less than half a second before he regained his composure.

"Dead?" he said, "Good riddance."

Huo Ren, no matter how arrogant and conceited he was, was just a pawn, and in the cracks of crushing interests, he disappeared so lightly.

Shang Yan picked up the bottle of soju next to him and gracefully filled everyone's glass, taking the lead to raise his own, "It's my poor management, I'll punish myself with a drink first."

Then he raised his wrist and drank it all in one gulp.

Only then did Lu Ding put a freshly grilled slice of meat into Shang Yan's plate and said with a smile, "Mr. Shang, don't just drink, try the grilled meat too."

Bei Nuan thought, even if he wanted to eat, he wouldn't have any, because you haven't given him any.

Now that things were out in the open, the atmosphere finally relaxed a little.

Lu Ding also grilled a slice for himself and sighed, "I've been in meetings all afternoon, and I haven't had time to eat until now."

Shang Yan exchanged pleasantries, "General Lu has worked hard."

Then he asked, "I heard that the meeting today was very heated, and someone suggested using U577 on the cities in the infected area?"

Lu Ding didn't answer, flipping the grilled meat, looking like he didn't plan to talk about it with him.

Shang Yan smiled and said, "It's not a big secret, I wouldn't be so out of the loop that I wouldn't even know this kind of news. Our Alliance only has U577 available now, right?"

Bei Nuan didn't understand what U577 was at all.

Shang Yan saw her confused expression and explained, "U577 is a new type of high-energy particle beam weapon. By adjusting it, it can strike a single target on a small scale, and melt an entire city on a large scale. It's much cleaner than a nuclear bomb, with no radiation."

Melt an entire city?

Bei Nuan was speechless.

Cities were where the zombies in the infected area were concentrated, so some people in the Alliance were planning to use this weapon to melt the cities.

In other words, they were planning to abandon the survivors who were still struggling to survive in the cities in the infected area?

Bei Nuan thought of her classmates from Shui Da, thought of Fang Chen's family who were still waiting for their mother to return home in Huicheng, and felt a pang of sadness in her heart.

If Song Ce's transformation agent was effective, hundreds of millions of zombies might be able to be transformed back into humans.

Were they unwilling to wait and try?

Lu Ding saw that Bei Nuan and Lu Xingchi were both looking at him, and said, "This is a proposal from the U Country and S Country commissioners. We will absolutely not agree to use this kind of thing on the infected area until the very last moment. Let's eat."

He said this, and his tone was very firm, which made Bei Nuan feel a little relieved.

It was already midnight when they came out from Lu Ding's place, and the city was silent.

Bei Nuan had eaten one meal after another tonight, binge-eating, and was stuffed to death.

In the car, Bei Nuan pondered, Lu Ding's arrangement of this feast for Shang Yan, the central idea was very simple, he was telling Shang Yan that the person who caused you trouble is my brother, so be careful.

Protecting Lu Xingchi was quite obvious.

With Lu Ding's driver present, it wasn't convenient to talk. It wasn't until they returned to the dormitory building where they lived and the two of them climbed the stairs that Bei Nuan asked Lu Xingchi.

"Your brother seems to be very good to you, are you half-siblings? But you look quite similar."

Lu Xingchi was silent for a moment before saying, "In name, we are half-siblings, biologically, we are step-brothers."

Bei Nuan's gossip soul immediately burst into flames.

They had the same father, Lu Ding was the older brother, born first, but in name he was someone else's child. Lu Ding's mother only married his father after Lu Xingchi's mother divorced.

How complicated, how melodramatic.

Looking at the appearance of the two brothers, their father must have been very earth-shattering in appearance to be able to create such a love triangle.

Growing up in such a complex family, it wasn't easy for Lu Xingchi either.

Bei Nuan reached out and took Lu Xingchi's hand.

Lu Xingchi took the opportunity to hug her, "So sympathetic to me? Then transform into something cute to comfort me?"

"Okay."

Bei Nuan broke away from him, her body suddenly shrinking, and she suddenly turned into a black hellhound, glaring with blood-red glowing eyes, baring a mouthful of long fangs.

Bei Nuan estimated that on the stairs with only moonlight shining in, the effect should be pretty good, especially "cute."

Lu Xingchi glanced at her and said leisurely, "Bei Nuan, why is there someone behind you?"

Knowing that he was trying to scare her, Bei Nuan still "wailed" and stood up, pouncing on him.

Lu Xingchi hugged her tightly and chuckled softly.

He really wasn't picky, he dared to hug anything.

Bei Nuan quickly returned to normal, not daring to scare herself anymore, and crawled out of his arms, transforming into a new form.

This time, she wore a phoenix-winged purple-gold crown, a chainmail golden armor, lotus silk cloud-walking boots, and held a wish-fulfilling golden cudgel.

With fiery golden eyes, majestic and awe-inspiring, her face was covered in fur.

Lu Xingchi "…"

When you're scared, of course you have to summon the Great Sage Equaling Heaven. Once the golden cudgel arrives, all the demons and monsters will cry for their parents.

Bei Nuan waved the cudgel and jumped up the stairs in a few steps, turning back to call Lu Xingchi, "Idiot, hurry up."

Lu Xingchi felt a little wronged and followed a few steps, "Even if it's just based on my face, I could still be a master, right?"

It seemed that this world also had Journey to the West, and she couldn't take advantage of him.

The next morning, Lu Xingchi got out of bed and came to call Bei Nuan, saying that he wanted to see Lu Ding again.

They had finally arrived in the safe zone and could sleep in comfortably, but Bei Nuan wrapped herself in the quilt and resolutely refused to get up.

Lu Xingchi had no choice but to leave with Du Ruo.

Lu Xingchi had something to say to Lu Ding last night, but with Shang Yan present, and it was too late after the midnight snack, he had to go to Lu Ding's place again today.

They wanted Lu Ding to help them go to the blockade line to find mutated zombies.

Although Faman City and Salun City were now safe, there were still several points on the long defense line of the safe zone that were being attacked by waves of zombies.

Bei Nuan understood Lu Xingchi's thoughts.

If Du Ruo could deal with all the mutated zombies, the crisis on the blockade line could be resolved immediately.

With less pressure on the blockade line, they probably wouldn't easily use something like U577, and they could wait for the things in Song Ce's hands to be made, and everyone might be saved.

After they left, Bei Nuan went back to sleep, and halfway through, she heard someone knocking on the door.

And they kept knocking.

Bei Nuan reluctantly got up, opened the door, and found that it was Shang Yan standing outside the door.

The morning sun shone on the corridor outside, it was already very hot, and the heat was rising. Shang Yan was still dressed impeccably, and Bei Nuan felt hot for him.

"Lu Xingchi isn't here." Bei Nuan said first, and then planned to close the door.

Shang Yan looked at Bei Nuan with deep eyes and said sincerely, "I'm not here to find him, I'm here to find you."

Huh?

Bei Nuan was completely baffled, "What do you want from me?"

"I want to invite you to go somewhere with me." Shang Yan replied, seeing Bei Nuan's suspicious and wary expression, he added, "Don't be afraid, I'm not planning to kidnap you, I really have something to say."

"Where do you want to go? What's the matter?" Bei Nuan asked him.

Shang Yan replied, "Not far, just on Garden Road. I just bought a new house there and would like to invite you to visit, and I have a few words I'd like to say to you."

Bei Nuan was puzzled, she didn't even know him, they had only met for the first time last night, what was so good about visiting his new house?

This was a lame excuse, he just had something to say.

She knew that what he wanted to say was either about Huo Ren or about Song Ce. Lu Ding was present at the midnight snack last night, and he felt it wasn't convenient to talk.

But why didn't he look for Lu Xingchi?

Seeing Bei Nuan looking at him with the eyes of a thief, Shang Yan couldn't help but smile slightly.

"How can I make you believe me? You have General Lu backing you, I wouldn't dare to do anything to you. Besides, if I wanted to kidnap you, I wouldn't come to your door myself, everyone here knows me."

He was right, it was morning now, people were coming and going in the corridor, and many people had seen Shang Yan and were secretly glancing over here.

Bei Nuan heard them whispering.

"Is that Shang Yan?"

"The boss of TIX?"

"Seems like it?"

Bei Nuan thought, he was probably easy to recognize, because besides him, probably no one would be so crazy as to wear so many layers of clothes on a hot day.

Shang Yan turned his head and smiled at the few people who were whispering, "That's right, I'm Shang Yan, I plan to take this lady to visit No. 37 Garden Road, but she doesn't dare to go with me."

Bei Nuan "…"

This person seemed like a lunatic.

The onlookers who were talking to him probably had the same idea as Bei Nuan, and they all slipped away in horror.

But Bei Nuan was now really a little curious about what he was planning to say.

Bei Nuan asked, "Can I bring my friends with me?"

Shang Yan answered very readily, "Of course."

So Bei Nuan took Jiang Fei and Tang Tang and got into Shang Yan's car.

There was no one else in the car, only a driver. He didn't lie, the car went straight to Garden Road.

Garden Road was even more beautiful during the day than at night, with towering trees on both sides of the road, and the lawns were neatly trimmed, like carefully cut green carpets. Many unknown trees were blooming.

As soon as they turned into Garden Road, they saw a beige mansion.

The mansion was faintly hidden in the green trees, and the driveway inside could be seen through the gaps in the black cast iron gate. On both sides of the driveway were clusters of various roses, with large flowers in full bloom.

Shang Yan noticed Bei Nuan looking outside and said, "This is No. 1 Garden Road, the largest and most beautiful house on Garden Road. It is said that no one has ever lived there. I really wanted to buy it, but unfortunately I don't know who the owner of this house is at all, so I can't buy it."

This was the legendary No. 1 Garden Road.

No one lived inside?

Bei Nuan leaned against the car window and looked over there. The house was well-maintained even though no one lived there.

The car continued to drive all the way inside, and after another distance, it finally drove to No. 37 Garden Road, which Shang Yan had mentioned.

The gate of No. 37 opened, and inside was a two-story building.

As soon as they got out of the car, Tang Tang exclaimed, "A mansion."

Jiang Fei just smiled and didn't speak, following Bei Nuan closely like a bodyguard.

This house could indeed be called a mansion. Although it wasn't as big and beautiful as No. 1 just now, it was small and exquisite, full of local flavor.

Shang Yan had the driver wait, took out a bunch of keys, opened the door, and led Bei Nuan and the others to tour inside and out.

The interior was also well-decorated, a mix of local luxurious exotic style and modern style. The entire row of curved floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room looked out onto a large lawn, and all the facilities were complete.

This place was comfortable and beautiful, a world apart from the Alliance staff dormitory.

No wonder everyone wanted to live in Garden Road.

Shang Yan said, "This house is equipped with TIX's latest solar power system, which has a very high conversion rate. The sunshine on the Puth Plain is sufficient, so as long as the sun doesn't go out, you don't have to worry about energy problems at all."

Bei Nuan felt that his tone was not like a landlord taking people to visit a new home, but more like a real estate agent planning to sell a house.

Wearing a suit so neatly on a hot day, he looked even more like a real estate agent.

After Shang Yan took them to visit the backyard, he glanced at Jiang Fei and the other two, and asked Bei Nuan, "Can I talk to you alone for a few words?"

Then he immediately stated, "I guarantee it will be within their sight, just standing a little further away."

Bei Nuan could feel that he really didn't have any malicious intentions.

She nodded to Jiang Fei, and Jiang Fei, who had been acting as a bodyguard, and Tang Tang retreated a little further away.

Shang Yan took a few more steps away.

He handed the bunch of keys in his hand to Bei Nuan, "Consider this house a gift from me."

Bei Nuan looked at the bunch of keys and understood in a second.

His subordinates had inadvertently offended the Alliance's highest executive's younger brother, so he was here to bribe her.

Of course, he couldn't give Lu Ding a house, nor could he give it to Lu Xingchi, so he took a big detour to find Bei Nuan.

He was playing a pretty deep game.

Bei Nuan shook her head at him, "I don't want it, and Lu Xingchi won't want it either."

Shang Yan didn't take the keys back.

"This has nothing to do with Lu Xingchi at all. The house is a personal gift to you."

Bei Nuan raised her eyebrows.

Did he think she was stupid?

Shang Yan smiled, "TIX is now cooperating with the Alliance in all aspects. I really don't want to offend Lu Ding, but I don't need to suck up to him so much. Besides, with his personality, when he wants to fall out with me, it's useless even if I buy the entire Garden Road and give it to him."

His tone was sincere, and it sounded quite real.

Shang Yan also said, "You're not really Lu Xingchi's fiancée, are you? At least you haven't confirmed the relationship yet, you're still free."

It seemed that when Lu Ding introduced Bei Nuan as Lu Xingchi's fiancée last night, Bei Nuan's surprised expression fell into his eyes. This person was quite smart.

Another scary thought ran into Bei Nuan's head.

Bei Nuan was a little embarrassed, "Uh… you wouldn't… wouldn't want to…"

Wouldn't want to keep her?

At least she was introduced to him as the fiancée of Lu Ding's younger brother, was he playing it so big?

Hearing her hesitant words, Shang Yan laughed.

"No, don't misunderstand, I don't mean that. This house is given to you, whether you plan to live with Lu Xingchi, or…" Shang Yan glanced at Jiang Fei and the others in the distance, "…plan to live with someone else, it's all up to you."

Bei Nuan was now completely confused.

What kind of medicine was this person selling in his gourd?

"You killed Huo Ren, didn't you?" Shang Yan suddenly asked.

His question was too unexpected, and Bei Nuan froze for a moment.

Her reaction was already considered an admission in Shang Yan's eyes, and Shang Yan continued, "I knew it. Actually, I kept advising Huo Ren not to touch you, not to go and cause you trouble, but he said that you had a knife in your hand that could kill him, and he had to find the knife. He was just asking for death."

Bei Nuan looked at him in surprise, so he actually admitted his relationship with Huo Ren?

Shang Yan continued, "Bei Nuan, although we only met for the first time yesterday, I have always known of your existence, and have been waiting for you. I really hope to cooperate with you."

Shang Yan glanced at the house, "A house is nothing. If you are willing, you can join TIX. Money, power, status, I can give you everything, as long as you are willing to stand on the same side as me."

Bei Nuan ???

She thought that Shang Yan behind Huo Ren was the Great Demon King, but she didn't expect him to be a crazy Great Demon King.

What good would it do to win her over with so much effort?

Shang Yan stared at Bei Nuan for a while, and suddenly said, "This world seems to be a book."

Bei Nuan looked at him in shock.

Shang Yan continued, "It's a book of rebirth or transmigration. I was reborn once, and Huo Ren transmigrated from another world. However, whether we are reborn or transmigrated, our purpose of existence is to serve the plot of others."

Shang Yan paused.

"Bei Nuan, in this book, you are uniquely favored by the God of the World, you get whatever you want, you are invincible, and anyone who has the misfortune of causing you trouble will die. Even someone like Huo Ren, who can't be killed at all, will die under your cheat-like knife. Bei Nuan, if I'm not mistaken, you are the protagonist of this book."

Bei Nuan was speechless.

The Great Demon King could actually guess that this was a book.

The problem was, Lu Xingchi was the protagonist, okay? She was really just a female supporting character.

Author's Note:

Werewolf Kill Cast List

Lu Xingchi: Prophet

Bei Nuan: Hidden Wolf

Xiao San: Cupid

Zhou Cang: Silencer (Eliminated)

Jiang Fei: Guardian

Du Ruo: Hybrid

Xie Yuanqing: Piper

Lao Hu: Seer

Huo Ren: Evil Spirit Knight (Eliminated)

Xiao Shouzi: Raven

Yuanyuan: Little Girl

Sheng Yi: Avenger

Song Ce: Faceless

Liao Yize: Wolf Godfather

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