A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

Bei Nuan felt that something was off when she woke up in the morning. She couldn't quite put her finger on what it was.

Today was a rare day when everyone was home.

Since the rollout of vaccines and transformation agents, the Alliance's biggest shortage was doctors and nurses.

Lu Xingchi and Du Ruo both worked in the Alliance's medical institutions. Bei Nuan and Jiang Fei volunteered at the hospital. Tang Tang was enrolled in Ye Ruocheng's university and continued his studies, helping out when he didn't have classes.

The group had agreed to stay home and rest today.

Bei Nuan glanced at the time on her phone and comfortably flopped back onto the bed. The large bed was comfortable and spacious, allowing her to stretch out her arms and legs, forming a big shape.

After returning to this world, Bei Nuan resolutely extinguished Lu Xingchi's delusion of moving into the master bedroom.

I probably won't be able to sleep alone for long, so I need to seize the moment and enjoy it while I can.

At the time, Lu Xingchi had said calmly, "It's so big here. Do you really think you're the only one in the room every night?"

Bei Nuan scoffed and ignored him.

In this house, Bei Nuan felt instinctively warm and safe, not afraid at all.

But today, something really did seem off.

Before she could figure it out, she heard a howl from Du Ruo's room.

It was quite a frightening scream.

Bei Nuan immediately jumped out of bed and rushed over. By the time she reached Du Ruo's door, Lu Xingchi and the others had already arrived.

Du Ruo, however, was sitting on the bed in his pajamas, looking serious. He raised an eyebrow slightly, a hint of confusion in his eyes: "Why are you all here?"

"What are you yelling about?" Jiang Fei said, "You scared me. I thought you were being eaten by a ghost."

Du Ruo replied calmly, "Was that yelling? I was cheering."

Jiang Fei didn't understand, "What are you cheering about for no reason?"

Du Ruo replied nonchalantly, "For… the sunny and beautiful new day?"

Lu Xingchi took one look and asked, "What are you hiding under the covers that you don't want people to see?"

Looking closely, Du Ruo's movements were indeed a bit evasive.

Bei Nuan nudged Lu Xingchi's waist, telling him to mind his own business.

After all, we've been living in the safe zone for so many days. What if Du Ruo brought a girl home?

"I'm not hiding anything."

Du Ruo reached into the covers with both hands and fiddled around for a moment, then suddenly threw them off.

There was indeed nothing under the covers.

All the way until breakfast, Du Ruo wore a mysterious smile, occasionally spacing out, motionless, as if lost in thought.

Most importantly, he barely ate any breakfast.

Bei Nuan thought worriedly, He's not even eating. This kid might be going crazy.

While eating breakfast, Lu Xingchi suddenly "hmm?" softly.

Du Ruo winked at him knowingly. Lu Xingchi's eyes were full of surprise, then he smiled and also began to space out.

Jiang Fei glanced at them, then at Bei Nuan, and smiled: "Isn't this a bit much?"

Bei Nuan was confused: What charade are they playing?

Only Tang Tang seemed the most normal. After finishing breakfast, he ran to the refrigerator, rummaged around, and called back to Bei Nuan: "Sister Nuannuan, the fruit in the refrigerator is all gone. Can you take some more out of your space?"

The others around the table shouted in unison: "Tang Tang!"

But it was too late. Bei Nuan was already suspicious and took a look at her space.

The space looked like it had been ransacked.

Especially the snacks. The neatly stacked boxes had been opened one by one, scattered all over the place.

Someone, like a little mouse, had opened all the snack boxes and rummaged through them, leaving the boxes and bags of all sizes thrown around in a mess.

The most terrifying thing was that someone was playing with the ship, dragging it around the space like a toy boat, zooming back and forth.

Bei Nuan was furious: "Who! Did! All! This!"

Lu Xingchi immediately pretended to be innocent: "Not me. Look, I'm helping you tidy up the boxes they messed up."

An invisible hand clumsily lifted a box of snacks, wobbling unsteadily, and then dropped it to the ground with a thud, scattering the contents everywhere.

Lu Xingchi looked embarrassed.

Jiang Fei said gently and innocently, "Bei Nuan, I've been trying to stop the ship the whole time. Otherwise, Du Ruo would be able to drive even faster."

Du Ruo exposed him speechlessly: "You're just competing with me to see who can grab control of the ship, right? But Lu Xingchi is really weak."

Jiang Fei agreed: "It's just lifting a box. It shouldn't be too difficult. Even Bei Nuan can do it with her small strength."

Lu Xingchi: "…"

Moving things in the space has nothing to do with strength, only with intention and familiarity.

Bei Nuan used her mind to hold down the ship that was running around everywhere.

This time, no one could move it.

Tang Tang was confused, "What are you all talking about?"

After a pause of two seconds, he suddenly cheered, "Sister Nuannuan, why is there a small dot in the upper right corner of my vision? When I click it, I can see your space? Has your space been hacked?"

Bei Nuan knew exactly what was going on.

Last night, before going to bed, when she was half-asleep, Xiao San's voice suddenly popped up.

He said that although Bei Nuan's mission had long been completed, he still had many job opportunities in his hands, such as some experimental worlds that had not yet been put into operation and needed someone to help test them.

These tests were completely safe, and no matter what happened during the test, they could come out safely.

Most importantly, testers received very considerable rewards, ranging from wealth in this world to abilities that only the system could provide.

In short, Bei Nuan thought it was quite a good deal.

As soon as Bei Nuan nodded, Xiao San sent a large number of windows for Bei Nuan to check and agree to.

Like the service agreements of various websites, a large amount of text dazzled the eyes. Bei Nuan patiently read a few lines and lost her patience.

"Xiao San, there aren't any traps in this pile of stuff, right?"

"Put your heart at ease," Xiao San solemnly promised, "I swear on my performance, I will never harm you."

Bei Nuan thought he sounded quite sincere, so she simply dragged each page to the bottom and directly checked the "agree" box, then went to sleep.

As a result, there really were traps inside.

Xiao San now had work to do in other worlds and only left a call button on the interface for Bei Nuan.

Bei Nuan frantically tapped it with her mind.

"Xiao San, what's going on? How do they all have access to my space?" Bei Nuan asked.

Xiao San said sheepishly, "I really had no choice. Just one and a half days, I guarantee it'll only be open for one and a half days, only thirty-six hours, and to be fair, I've also opened up other people's permissions to you!"

After saying that, he couldn't be called out again.

What does this mean?

Bei Nuan suddenly understood what he meant.

From morning until now, there had been a vague, strange feeling.

Many things around her had a different kind of presence than usual. Even with her eyes closed, she could sense them.

That feeling was indescribable, as if there was a sixth sense in addition to the normal five senses.

It was just faint and not very clear.

Could this be—Lu Xingchi's perception of metal?

His metal ability permissions had also been opened.

Bei Nuan tried to reach out her hand.

A metal spoon on the table wobbled and stood up, floating unsteadily towards Bei Nuan.

It only flew halfway before suddenly changing direction, like it was drunk, swaying towards Du Ruo.

Du Ruo successfully intercepted it, looking happy, but the spoon suddenly turned again, as if it had suddenly sobered up, and shot into Lu Xingchi's hand with lightning speed.

No one was better at using metal abilities than him. No one could snatch it from him. Lu Xingchi, who had just been ridiculed as "weak," finally won back a round.

Lu Xingchi explained to everyone, "Xiao San signed an agreement with me last night. I agreed to open up metal ability permissions to you for one and a half days. I just didn't expect it to be so fast."

Bei Nuan was speechless: He actually volunteered.

Lu Xingchi looked at her expression and immediately understood.

Lu Xingchi's eyes showed a smile, and he asked Bei Nuan, "Looks like you signed an agreement too? You wouldn't be so lazy that you didn't even look at those agreements and just checked 'agree,' would you?"

"Of course not. Of course, I read every single one carefully," Bei Nuan replied softly, burying her head in her milk.

Today, everyone could suddenly use the space, and everyone had metal abilities.

Bei Nuan thought, If space and metal ability permissions have been opened, the transformation ability probably won't be spared either.

Sure enough, the next second, Du Ruo disappeared.

A brand-new handheld vacuum cleaner whirred and shook, opening itself and moving around like a ghost.

Immediately afterward, a jaguar leaped off the dining chair, first winking at Bei Nuan with a familiar fifteen-degree side profile, then chasing after the vacuum cleaner with a lithe gait.

Then, a round, chubby baby panda appeared, rolling and crawling forward like a ball, calling out in Tang Tang's voice: "Brother Du Ruo, Brother Jiang Fei, wait for me."

Bei Nuan: "…"

"It's only thirty-six hours. It'll be over soon."

Only Lu Xingchi was still in his normal human form, sitting quietly and steadily at the dining table, eating breakfast, and casually comforting Bei Nuan.

Bei Nuan saw a flash of light out of the corner of her eye and lifted the tablecloth.

Lu Xingchi quickly returned to normal.

But in that instant, Bei Nuan had clearly seen that Lu Xingchi's legs had just turned into a shimmering silver fishtail.

Bei Nuan was shocked. Lu Boss actually has a dream of being a mermaid?

"I've always wanted to experience how fast a fish can swim," Lu Xingchi said calmly, but you could still feel a hint of hidden shyness.

Bei Nuan narrowed her eyes at him, suddenly remembering the last time he used her as a toy.

"Since you can transform, transform into something fun for me to see," Bei Nuan ordered him, "You said yourself last time that you don't mind being my toy."

Lu Xingchi remained calm and asked, "What do you want me to transform into?"

Bei Nuan thought for a moment, "Like last time with me, transform into a mini version of you?"

Without a word of protest, Lu Xingchi disappeared.

Bei Nuan leaned over to look and found that he had turned into a figure a dozen centimeters tall and was trying hard to climb down from the chair.

Bei Nuan leaned over, casually picked him up, and placed him on the table in front of her.

The shrunken Lu Boss didn't look threatening at all.

He was very easy to bully.

Bei Nuan poked him with her finger.

It wasn't a small amount of force. Lu Xingchi staggered backward from her poke, but he didn't mind at all and asked, "What else do you want to play?"

Bei Nuan retaliated one by one, "Grow a pair of animal ears on your head."

Without saying anything, Lu Xingchi grew a new pair of ears on his head.

Sticking out to the left and right, they were bigger than his head, like huge gray fans.

Bei Nuan: "…"

Bei Nuan tentatively asked him, "Are you a pig?"

"Pig? Pig??" Lu Xingchi shook his huge ears, his clear eyes full of speechlessness, "This is an elephant! Look, I even threw in a tail for you."

He turned around for Bei Nuan to see. There really was a thin gray tail hanging behind him.

Bei Nuan didn't dare to say: If you ignore the little bit of hair on the tip of the tail, it looks even more like a pig.

Okay. If he's a pig, he's the most handsome pig in the world.

"Can you change it to something furrier and cuter?" Bei Nuan asked, "And get rid of that pig… uh… elephant tail."

Lu Xingchi changed again. This time, they were finally fluffy fox-like ears, but they were much, much bigger, a huge pair, standing on top of his head.

"These are fennec fox ears," Lu Xingchi explained.

He moved his ears and shook his thick fox tail behind him.

This was more like it.

Bei Nuan grabbed his big tail and tugged it, seeing a hint of red on his face.

The sliding door to the backyard suddenly opened, and the others rushed back in with a whoosh.

In just a short while, they had changed their appearances again.

This time, they were three wolves, each with shiny, thick fur, running wildly, howling, chasing each other, tearing and biting, rolling around.

One of them stopped, turned his head, and glanced at Lu Xingchi, who was standing on the table with a pair of fluffy ears and a fox tail.

He exclaimed, "Brother Lu is so cute."

The voice sounded like Tang Tang.

"Noble wolf brothers, fight for the honor of the wolf clan," Du Ruo said in a deep "wolf" voice, "Don't pay attention to that kind of scum who only wants to please humans."

Bei Nuan: "…"

What is all this?

Lu Xingchi snorted coldly. The next second, he also turned into a wolf, leaping nimbly from the table, and pinning Du Ruo to the ground with one paw from a high position, so that he would understand who was the boss of the wolf brotherhood.

Du Ruo twisted his waist and got up. The two wolves immediately wrestled into a ball.

Tang Tang quickly rushed up to break them up.

Jiang Fei also went up to break them up. Bei Nuan glanced over and saw him secretly helping Du Ruo pull Lu Xingchi's tail.

Unsurprisingly, the two of them, while trying to break them up, ended up joining the battle.

Four wolves rolled around, and for a time, the sunlight in the living room was full of flying fur.

The cleaning lady happened to come in and was startled by the scene.

She studied it for a while and asked doubtfully, "Miss Bei, when did you get so many huskies?"

The noble wolf brothers: "…"

Bei Nuan estimated that there would be no peace today and told all the workers to take the day off and not work.

As expected, the whole day was chaotic.

At dinner, Bei Nuan was forced to have a meal with a group of monsters who looked like aliens from Star Wars.

"I'm going back to my room," Bei Nuan put down her chopsticks and stood up, "I have to tidy up the space."

After returning to her room, Bei Nuan sat on the bed and painfully opened the space.

To her surprise, she found that the ship had been properly placed in a corner, the things that had been knocked over when the ship was running wildly had been put back up, and the boxes that had been thrown around had all been tidied up.

The boxes in the inventory were all sorted and placed neatly, with the same boxes stacked on top of each other, even with the side with the trademark facing the same direction.

This obsessive-compulsive way of arranging things was obviously someone's masterpiece.

Just as she was thinking this, Lu Xingchi opened the door.

He acted as naturally as if he were returning to his own room, relocking the door.

But seeing that he had obediently gone to tidy up the space, Bei Nuan didn't argue with him.

Lu Xingchi came over familiarly, sat next to her, and leaned against the headboard with her.

The window was open, and Du Ruo's loud shouts came from the backyard, strangely mixed with the sound of galloping hooves.

Tang Tang was shouting, "Brother Du Ruo, you're cheating. You had twelve laps last time. How did this lap become fourteen?"

Jiang Fei laughed, "Your Brother Du Ruo's math teacher died early. You should forgive him."

Lu Xingchi explained, "The three of them are competing outside to see who can run thirty laps in the backyard first. Whoever does is the Horse King."

Bei Nuan: "…"

The summer night breeze blew in, bringing the fragrance of flowers and plants from the backyard. Everyone was doing well, laughing and talking, and Lu Xingchi was by her side.

Bei Nuan leaned closer to him, feeling content.

"What else do you want me to transform into?" Lu Xingchi tilted his head and asked in her ear.

Bei Nuan thought seriously for a moment, "How about a particularly handsome prince from a fairy tale? The kind wearing a dress uniform with epaulettes and carrying a sword."

Lu Xingchi was stunned for a moment, but he still transformed.

A white stand-up collar dress uniform, with fine gold tassels hanging around the gold epaulettes, and a jewel-encrusted longsword at his waist.

The face wasn't his, but like in a fairy tale, with a high nose and deep eyes, it was indeed very handsome, but the eyes were still his own light-colored eyes.

"Are you satisfied?" he asked.

"Not bad," Bei Nuan sized him up.

Lu Xingchi narrowed his eyes and suddenly tilted his head closer to Bei Nuan, making a gesture to kiss her.

His new outfit made her heart race, as if the prince from the stories of her childhood had really run into the third dimension.

Bei Nuan couldn't help but blush.

Lu Xingchi suddenly stopped between kissing and not kissing.

"You, really, want, to, kiss?"

He was almost touching Bei Nuan's lips, his voice slow and drawn out, with a hint of coldness.

Bei Nuan was confused, "No matter how much you transform, aren't you still you? You yourself don't mind kissing cats and birds, do you?"

Lu Xingchi still narrowed his eyes, not speaking.

Bei Nuan suddenly felt something entangled around her legs.

A Lu Xingchi who could transform and was jealous was not to be trifled with. The vigilance of a little rabbit arose spontaneously.

Bei Nuan quickly transformed, softening and slipping her legs to break free from his restraint, climbing down from the other side of the bed.

His movements were not slow at all, following her off the bed like a shadow. His arms suddenly lengthened, tightly hooped around Bei Nuan's waist, pulling her back into his arms.

He had already transformed back to his original appearance, lowering his head to kiss Bei Nuan.

Bei Nuan obediently let him kiss her, thinking that he was not happy and needed to be coaxed a little.

Just as she was thinking this, Bei Nuan suddenly felt someone behind her lifting her hair and kissing the back of her neck and shoulders.

Bei Nuan was scared out of her wits, broke away from Lu Xingchi's kiss, and quickly turned her head.

Standing behind her was another Lu Xingchi.

He was wearing the same shirt and pants, had the same beautiful eyes, and was leaning down with the same cold expression, intimately kissing her neck.

He was exactly the same as the Lu Xingchi in front of her, completely indistinguishable.

Seeing her turn her head, he kissed the tip of her nose and pressed his warm, solid chest against Bei Nuan's back.

How was this possible?

"Don't worry, don't be afraid, it's all me," the two Lu Xingchis said in perfect unison.

Bei Nuan stammered, "Can't you only transform into a single entity?"

The two Lu Xingchis raised their hands together for her to see.

Looking closely, you could see that their hands seemed to be holding each other, but they were actually connected.

This degree of volume increase was completely within the range allowed by the transformation ability. He had turned himself into two.

"Didn't you just say that no matter how much I transform, it's still me?"

One Lu Xingchi said leisurely, cupping Bei Nuan's face, his fingers stroking her lips, and kissing her again.

"One seems not enough. Still thinking about some prince? Then buy one get one free. How about I give you two?"

The other added in the same tone, leaning in from behind, holding her shoulders, and biting her neck.

The two had the same voice, the same temperature, and their actions were equally gentle but with an undeniable aggressiveness.

Bei Nuan thought dazedly, One Lu Xingchi is already scary enough, but there are two?

Is it too late to run now?

Author's Note:

Du Ruo: Help you keep an eye on Lu Xingchi, and report to you whenever he bullies Bei Nuan? Of course, but there's a condition. Can I borrow their abilities to play with?

Xiao San: Okay, you can only play for one day.

Du Ruo: Two days.

Xiao San: One and a half days.

Du Ruo: Deal.

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