A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

The young man who was about to take another bite suddenly stopped moving.

A long, cold nail was embedded right between his eyebrows.

Bei Nuan turned her head and saw Lu Xingchi standing not far away.

He had no expression on his face and was holding the metallic crossbow in his hand.

It was then that Bei Nuan realized that the chaotic gas station had become incredibly quiet.

Except for Bei Nuan, there was nothing else that moved.

If there was a target drawn on everyone's forehead with the center between the eyebrows, whether it was shot from the back or from the front, every single one of Lu Xingchi's nails had accurately hit the bullseye.

It was eerily accurate.

"Are you hurt?" Lu Xingchi glanced at Bei Nuan.

Bei Nuan knew that he wasn't asking out of concern. If Bei Nuan was injured, the next nail would definitely be heading straight for her forehead.

Bei Nuan immediately solemnly assured, "No, absolutely not!"

Bei Nuan quickly took off her helmet, untied the magazine from her leg, pulled up her pants leg, and revealed the calf that had just been held by the zombie.

"Do you want to check?" Bei Nuan raised her head and asked innocently.

Her calves and ankles were slender, fair, and smooth, clearly unharmed.

Lu Xingchi's cold gaze fell on her beautifully curved calves, paused for a second, and then returned to Bei Nuan's face.

He walked over with the crossbow, squatted down in front of Bei Nuan, and lowered his voice.

"A honey trap? Do you think I wouldn't have the heart to kill you because of this?"

Bei Nuan's little thoughts were directly exposed by him. After only a moment of embarrassment, she changed to an even more innocent expression and said sincerely, "I just wanted to show you that I'm really not hurt."

Lu Xingchi curled his lips slightly and stood up.

Du Ruo jumped out of the SUV and also spoke up for Bei Nuan, laughing, "How could she be hurt? She's wrapped up so tightly."

Lu Xingchi didn't say anything else and turned to refuel the car.

Bei Nuan sat where she was, picked up the magazine that had been bitten by the zombie, tore off the dirty pages on the outside, and retied the rest.

She casually asked Du Ruo, "Weren't you two in front? Why are you back?"

Du Ruo swayed over to Bei Nuan and squatted down, winking at her, "He said there was a gas station here, so we had to come back and fill up."

Bei Nuan immediately understood what he meant.

They had all driven forward for a long time, and there was no need to go back to refuel. Could it be that there was no gas station at the service area ahead?

They had obviously come back specifically for her, but they wouldn't admit it.

Bei Nuan immediately raised her head and asked Lu Xingchi, who was refueling, with a hopeful face, "Then can you take me with you this time?"

Lu Xingchi stared at the fuel gun and didn't look at her. After a long time, he uttered two words, "No."

No means no.

Fortunately, she had finally caught up with them this time. As long as she stayed within the male lead's sight, there would be a chance for her Holy Mother points to increase, right?

"Aren't you guys leaving yet?" Bei Nuan asked Du Ruo.

"We'll be a while, we still need to fill up a few more gas cans."

Civilization was rapidly collapsing, and in a few days, gasoline would become an important and scarce resource.

With Lu Xingchi guarding, there was nothing to worry about. Bei Nuan entered the convenience store.

According to the timeline in the book, the first line of defense would be built outside S City before dark. This place would soon be occupied by zombies, and there was a whole supermarket of supplies, so she couldn't let it go to waste.

There were no zombies in the store. Bei Nuan walked around the shelves, her fingertips quickly sweeping over them.

Potato chips, nougat, spicy beef jerky, squid slices, enoki mushrooms, self-heating hot pot, everything she touched disappeared out of thin air.

They all went into Bei Nuan's portable space.

The various ice creams in the freezer were also swept away by Bei Nuan.

There was no passage of time in the upper layer of the portable space. Whatever the ice cream looked like when it was put in, it would still be the same when it was taken out. It wouldn't melt at all.

Finally, there were all kinds of alcohol displayed in the counter.

In the apocalypse, alcohol could be used to drown one's sorrows and disinfect wounds. It was undoubtedly a hard currency.

There were many boxes piled up in the small warehouse at the back. Bei Nuan didn't have time to look closely and put them all into her space.

As soon as she finished, Lu Xingchi came in and was stunned to see the empty shelves.

Bei Nuan thought to herself, "Sorry, you're late. All the good stuff is gone."

"It seems like everything is sold out," Bei Nuan said.

Lu Xingchi hummed in response, walked around, and finally stopped in front of the food shelf.

The shelf was empty except for a row of mushroom stewed chicken noodles.

"Do you want some?" he asked Bei Nuan, picking up a package.

Bei Nuan decisively refused.

The big boss picked up the few packages of mushroom stewed chicken noodles that Bei Nuan had left behind, looking a little pitiful.

They went out together, and Bei Nuan reached into her bag, actually taking out a pack of disposable tablecloths from her space, and walked towards the people lying on the ground.

The long nails in their foreheads were all gone, probably taken away and reused by Lu Xingchi.

Bei Nuan carefully covered them all with white tablecloths, tucked them in, and muttered something to each of them.

Her Holy Mother progress bar went "hahaha" several times.

Lu Xingchi watched Bei Nuan deal with the aftermath and was speechless.

Du Ruo leaned against the car door nonchalantly.

"Just let her get in the car. You can't bear to leave her behind again, can you? Don't even try to pretend. If you really could bear it, would you have gone so far out of your way to come back?"

He was right.

Lu Xingchi should have learned his lesson.

Logic told Lu Xingchi that he absolutely couldn't take Bei Nuan with him this time, but for some reason, he just couldn't bring himself to leave her behind.

As he drove, all he could think about was the way she stood by the road, holding her helmet in her hand, looking lost.

And there was Du Ruo, who would occasionally say from the back seat, "Do you think she'll fall into the hands of zombies first, or humans? Lu Xingchi, what's your bet?"

So in the end, he still turned around and came back.

As soon as they came back, while they were still on the opposite lane, he saw her get into a small yellow car.

The driver was a young man.

At a time like this, she really dared to get into any car. She had no vigilance at all.

The little yellow car left the main road and turned into the gas station, and Lu Xingchi simply followed.

As soon as he entered the gas station, he saw her tragically raise a huge durian, ready to smash someone's head.

Lu Xingchi pointed his chin at Bei Nuan.

"Don't worry about letting her get in the car. Look."

Bei Nuan was opening the door of the bright yellow Beetle and got in to start the car.

The little car turned around with a chug.

It hit the curb with a bang.

With so much space, and it being empty, she could actually find something to hit. It was a miracle.

Lu Xingchi looked at her little yellow car thoughtfully.

The person in the car with her had turned into a zombie in a blink of an eye and had been shot in the head. If it had been the Bei Nuan from his previous life, she would have started crying by now.

Although the current Bei Nuan had also covered them with a cloth, she didn't shed a single tear and turned around to take the key and drive away.

This absolutely pragmatic approach was completely different from the Bei Nuan of the past.

Thus, a strange sight appeared on the S1 highway, which was filled with black smoke from the apocalypse.

A sturdy black SUV was driving in the slowest lane, followed by a bright yellow mini car that was dangerously speeding up and slowing down.

"Lu Xingchi, if you really don't want to take her with you, why are you driving so slowly? Why don't you just let her come up?"

Du Ruo leaned on the car window and looked back at Bei Nuan.

"The point is, I think if she keeps driving like that, she'll hit our rear bumper sooner or later."

Lu Xingchi glanced at the little yellow car in the rearview mirror, smiled slightly, and continued to drive at a leisurely pace.

Bei Nuan gripped the steering wheel, concentrating on the SUV in front of her, her palms sweating.

As a newbie who had taken the driving test five times and hadn't touched the steering wheel since getting her license, it was too much for her to drive 80 on the highway for the first time.

However, compared to being sent home by the system and crushed into a pancake by a truck, this was nothing.

Fortunately, the SUV wasn't driving very fast, so she could barely keep up.

Before they could drive much further, Little Three's cheerful voice rang out in her head, "Congratulations on successfully completing the novice stage and escaping from S City. The 'Voice of the Holy Mother' has been activated."

Bei Nuan: "…"

"What is the 'Voice of the Holy Mother'?"

"The 'Voice of the Holy Mother' is a series of small tasks that will give you extra rewards upon completion!"

It sounded pretty good.

"What kind of small tasks?" Bei Nuan asked Little Three distractedly while gripping the steering wheel.

"For example, in front of the male lead, hug someone who's about to turn into a zombie and say sadly, 'Who will save him? Can someone come and help him?'"

Bei Nuan was speechless. "Is this a Holy Mother? This is mental illness, right? What's the reward?"

"All Holy Mother points earned in the next 24 hours will be doubled."

The risk was too great to hug someone who was about to turn into a zombie for the sake of double Holy Mother points for 24 hours. Bei Nuan didn't really want to do it.

"Is there anything else?"

Little Three replied, "Yes, in front of the male lead, reasonably say the phrase 'He's just a child' twice. The reward is double Holy Mother points for five hours."

Bei Nuan thought to herself, this is doable, much easier.

She was lost in thought when the taillights of the SUV in front of her suddenly lit up and it slowed down abruptly.

Bei Nuan hurriedly stepped on the brake, but she accidentally stepped on the accelerator. The small car shot forward, about to hit the rear of the SUV.

Lu Xingchi seemed to have expected this. The SUV nimbly swerved to the side, giving Bei Nuan space to brake.

Bei Nuan hurriedly braked the car, breaking out in a cold sweat.

It turned out that there was a multi-car pileup ahead.

Countless cars and trucks were jammed together. In this chaotic situation, every car was desperately trying to squeeze forward. There were no lanes anymore, just chaos.

Bei Nuan got out of the car with Lu Xingchi and Du Ruo and looked ahead.

In the book, there was indeed a multi-car pileup that blocked the highway from S City to Ning City, but the male lead and his group had reached Ning City smoothly after leaving S City. The accident should have happened behind them.

Bei Nuan thought for a moment and understood. Lu Xingchi had turned the car around to refuel, which was later than the time in the original book, so they had encountered this massive traffic jam.

There seemed to be no hope of getting through.

Lu Xingchi looked at the chaotic traffic jam ahead. "Let's get off the highway and take a detour."

There was a highway exit right next to them.

Du Ruo agreed and was about to get into the car when Bei Nuan suddenly grabbed him.

"Don't move!"

"Keep your foot up! Don't put it down!"

"Yes, just like that, hold it!"

Du Ruo was so scared that he froze in place, not daring to move. He looked at Bei Nuan in bewilderment.

Bei Nuan squatted down and picked up a round, cute little red ladybug from under Du Ruo's foot, which he was about to put down. She held it in her palm.

"Don't step on it. It's just a child!"

Du Ruo: "…"

Lu Xingchi: "…"

"Child" task of the Voice of the Holy Mother (1/2).

Bei Nuan carefully carried the little ladybug to the side of the road and blew it away with a puff of air. "Little ladybug, be good and go home to your mother!"

Lu Xingchi's cold and leisurely voice came from behind her.

"That's an adult ladybug, not a baby. Ladybugs undergo metamorphosis. They look very ugly when they're young, like caterpillars. I don't think you'd want to hold one in your hand."

Bei Nuan: "…"

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