A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

During the retreat, the sudden teleportation, forcibly pulling everyone back to the spot where they were just killing zombies, left most people stunned.

The zombies once again surged out from the doorway, baring their teeth and full of energy, just like before.

This time, Lu Xingchi didn't hesitate, using a speed that barely qualified as within the bounds of a normal person, swiftly eliminating all the zombies.

"It seems we've been repeating a small segment of time, a loop, over and over," Lu Xingchi said. "The duration is about one minute."

Du Ruo immediately chimed in, "Really? How interesting!"

Everyone: "…"

Du Ruo continued to let his thoughts run wild, "Then if I stay here, wouldn't I be immortal?"

Jiang Fei said helplessly, "What's the point of an immortality where you're constantly killing zombies in a hospital basement?"

"It doesn't necessarily have to be killing zombies," Tang Tang said. "Anyway, it refreshes every minute. What if we just let them rush over?"

"You could die and become a zombie," Bei Nuan said. "I suggest you don't try it. Who knows if you can come back to life after you die?"

Of course, there was a possibility that even if someone died, they would come back to life when the minute was up and the loop refreshed.

However, there was another possibility.

What if dying automatically kicked them out of the time loop trap, and they couldn't revive?

Wouldn't that be a wasted life?

Unless someone was willing to risk their life to do the experiment, anyone trapped in the time loop had to keep working hard to kill the zombies, over and over again, for the sake of their own lives.

Although everyone returned to their state from a minute ago when it refreshed, and theoretically shouldn't get tired, no one could stand having to concentrate so intensely to kill the same batch of zombies repeatedly.

It would probably drive a normal person crazy.

Fortunately, Lu Xingchi was there to easily take on this most tedious task, giving everyone time and energy to think about their current situation besides killing zombies.

Bei Nuan felt that this short time loop was a bit like her newly acquired ability.

But it had one very big difference.

Everyone trapped inside retained the memories from the previous loops, like witnesses.

As they were talking, the bodies of the zombies that Lu Xingchi had shot down disappeared quietly, and the same batch of zombies came charging out of the door again, lively and kicking.

Lu Xingchi didn't want to waste time and casually dealt with them.

"It seems we can't retreat," Lu Xingchi said. "Then let's go inside and see what's there."

"That's right," Shao Bai agreed, pondering. "If we go in and kill the person who created this weird thing, maybe we can get out."

Du Ruo opened his mouth, as if wanting to say something.

Bei Nuan knew what he wanted to say.

Du Ruo couldn't be attacked by zombies at all. This place was just an ordinary place for him. He could ignore the zombies and come and go as he pleased.

It would be most appropriate for him to go in and find the person.

Bei Nuan frowned severely at him.

At the same time, Lu Xingchi also gave Du Ruo a stern look of prohibition.

Shao Bai and the others were all members of the Federal Army. If Du Ruo displayed such extraordinary abilities in front of them, he might be immediately captured for research.

It might even expose the matter of the virus inhibitor.

Although Shao Bai seemed like a nice person and was a soldier of the Federation, people's hearts were unpredictable. The matter of the virus inhibitor was too important to be revealed casually.

"I'll go in and take a look," Lu Xingchi said, preempting Du Ruo.

He took a few steps forward.

Then he suddenly stopped.

Lu Xingchi reached out and pushed the air in front of him, "Can't get out."

It was as if there was an invisible wall standing there.

The invisible wall meant that this trap had spatial boundaries. It seemed that the loop only occurred in this small area in front of the door.

They could smoothly enter the time trap along the normal timeline, but once inside, they were isolated from the timeline of the normal world and couldn't get out.

Lu Xingchi reached out to probe the boundary next to him, but the next second, it refreshed again.

Lu Xingchi was pulled back to his original position.

In one minute, he had to kill zombies and find a way out of the trap. It was simply an impossible mission.

Lu Xingchi killed the zombies without hesitation and stepped forward to try again.

But Bei Nuan was silently thinking about something else.

Of course, Bei Nuan had a way to get everyone out of this one-minute time trap.

It was very simple to jump out. She just had to use her newly acquired ability to rewind time once.

Although they had been in this one-minute time trap for more than ten times, Bei Nuan deeply suspected that no matter how many loops they stayed in, it would only count as one minute.

So if she rewound time, she would jump back ten minutes.

At that time, everyone was coming this way in the corridor and hadn't fallen into the trap yet. She just had to get the special operations team to retreat directly.

But there was a huge problem.

If time was rewound to ten minutes ago, what if Bei Nuan couldn't successfully convince Shao Bai and the others to retreat quickly?

If they failed to retreat and everyone stepped into the trap again, or if the situation changed after the rewind and the person who set the time trap moved the trap's location, causing them to fall into it again, what should she do?

Then the problem would be big.

Because Bei Nuan's time rewind function had a thirty-minute cooldown.

If they fell into this time trap a second time during the thirty-minute cooldown period, Bei Nuan estimated that there was a very high probability that no matter how many times the time repeated in this trap, it would only count as one minute.

Bei Nuan's ability would be permanently frozen in the cooldown state and could not be used a second time.

Then they would really be stuck in the trap and unable to get out.

So once time rewind was activated, the thirty minutes after the rewind would be extremely dangerous. They could fall into the trap again at any time and never escape.

After escaping this trap, they had to convince them to run away quickly and stay away from this ghostly place to be the safest.

Bei Nuan's gaze swept over Shao Bai.

Shao Bai was the captain. The best way was to choose him as the witness for the time rewind, let him retain his current memories, and then lead everyone to retreat.

But an ordinary person had never experienced such a strange thing. Would he really believe that his strange memories were not hallucinations, trust Bei Nuan, and be willing to lead the team to retreat obediently?

Bei Nuan was extremely conflicted and glanced at Du Ruo and the others.

Anyway, no matter what Shao Bai decided, her people would definitely follow her. Bei Nuan had absolute confidence in this.

Of course, it would be best if they could persuade Shao Bai and the others to leave. If not, then they could only wish them good luck. Bei Nuan couldn't control that much.

At the same time, Lu Xingchi had figured out the range of the trap in front of him. It was only two steps away from the door. This invisible wall was very sturdy and had no exit. He couldn't do anything about it.

One minute was too short. Lu Xingchi was pulled back to his original position, and the zombies refreshed again.

Bei Nuan thought to herself that she could only gamble that Shao Bai wasn't an idiot.

Bei Nuan silently recited "Upstream," found Shao Bai with her eyes, and waited for the wheel to spin out Shao Bai's name before clicking confirm.

But at that moment, Lu Xingchi lowered his head and called Bei Nuan, "Bei Nuan, I think…"

Bei Nuan subconsciously looked up at him, watching helplessly as the wheel spun out Lu Xingchi's name at the moment she clicked confirm.

It was over.

A burst of frantic time reversal.

The team returned to the vicinity of the generator room, and the entire basement was brightly lit as power was restored.

The zombies hiding in the darkness were startled by the sudden lights, and their howls echoed everywhere.

"This is much more convenient," a special operations team member said with emotion.

Bei Nuan heard Du Ruo's proud words again, "You didn't see it, did you? This generator was found by our Bei Nuan!"

The loop of the trap was indeed broken.

Time had successfully rewound to ten minutes ago.

The only problem was that, by mistake, Lu Xingchi had become the witness, while Captain Shao Bai was completely unaware of the current situation.

A bit tricky.

Bei Nuan had no choice but to talk nonsense to Shao Bai, "I feel like this place is very wrong. Should we retreat?"

Shao Bai glanced at Bei Nuan inexplicably.

They had finally fought their way here, found the generator, and turned on the lights. From the current situation, the special operations team seemed to have the advantage, but she suddenly said they should retreat.

Shao Bai had already made a gesture, signaling the team members to advance. He was a little puzzled, "Why retreat?"

"This place is really not right. I feel very dangerous," Bei Nuan looked back at Lu Xingchi and the others and said firmly, "We don't want to go any further."

Du Ruo, Jiang Fei, and the others naturally had no objections.

The special operations team would definitely complain if they stopped halfway.

One team member said in a low voice, "Women are just troublesome."

Lu Xingchi suddenly interjected and said to Shao Bai, "I also feel like something's not right here."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone's guns suddenly slipped out of their hands.

Every gun flew into the air, gathered together, and spun around like a tornado before clattering and smashing on the ground.

Weapons were the lives of soldiers. The sudden loss of their weapons frightened all the special operations team members.

Shao Bai didn't hesitate and immediately said, "Retreat."

The entire team picked up the guns scattered on the ground and quickly retreated.

Bei Nuan breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Xingchi was best at pretending to be a ghost to scare people. It was a stroke of luck that he had become the witness, which turned out to be very beneficial.

The guns in everyone's hands seemed to be alive, being pulled outwards by a mysterious force with considerable strength all the way, even Bei Nuan's was no exception.

Bei Nuan desperately held back her laughter and wrestled with Lu Xingchi, trying to hold onto her gun. She saw Lu Xingchi looking at her, his eyes full of mischievous laughter.

The special operations team exited the hospital gate in one breath, and only then did the guns in their hands calm down.

"How can it be so weird?"

"There must be something strange inside, right?"

One team member said with emotion, "Women are just sensitive. I didn't feel anything wrong holding the gun."

"Nonsense, her feel for guns is not at the same level as yours. She probably felt it as soon as the gun moved slightly."

Bei Nuan was silent: They weren't saying "women are just troublesome" now?

Although they had retreated, Shao Bai was still a little unwilling.

Now it was even more confirmed that there was something strange hidden in the hospital basement. Shao Bai really couldn't bear to leave now.

Shao Bai thought for a while, "You all stay here. I'll go in and take another look myself."

The zombies in the courtyard and the hospital lobby had been cleared. He could at least walk to the generator room in the basement by himself.

He picked up his gun and went in again.

Bei Nuan remained silent and didn't stop him.

As a result, he came out of the building in less than a moment.

"It's no good," Shao Bai said. "As soon as I enter the door, I can't hold the gun at all."

Bei Nuan thought, that's because Lu Xingchi couldn't control you if you went too far, so he had to give you a warning as soon as you entered the door.

Without a gun in hand, even if you had one, you couldn't hold it steady, and there was no way to deal with the dense zombie hordes in the basement.

Lu Xingchi suggested, "There's no way for the time being. Let's come back after we figure out a solution? Let's go. It's not necessarily safe here either."

He was right.

Bei Nuan's rewind skill was currently on cooldown. If another time trap appeared here, the entire team would be finished.

This time, Shao Bai listened to Lu Xingchi and had everyone get in the car and leave the eerie hospital.

Everyone was pondering various ideas along the way.

Someone said, "Let's each bring a thick wooden stick next time. Maybe they won't slip out of our hands."

Someone retorted, "How do you know that metal weapons will slip out of our hands, but non-metal ones won't?"

Bei Nuan thought, he actually guessed right. Lu Xingchi Boss could only control metal weapons. There was really no way to deal with wooden sticks.

Someone scoffed, "There are so many zombies in the hospital. It's hard enough to kill them with guns. You want to use wooden sticks to deal with them? You're dreaming."

All of their thoughts had been led astray by Lu Xingchi's tricks, and they didn't know the true horror of what was hidden in that hospital.

Something that could set up a time trap, and once you fell into it, you could never get out.

Bei Nuan was lost in thought all the way, not speaking.

Lu Xingchi wasn't either, he was very quiet all the time.

Bei Nuan pondered for a long time.

This thing was too strange. She couldn't figure out how the trap was set up or how it worked. She was completely clueless. And Bei Nuan's ability had a fatal problem of a thirty-minute cooldown.

The final conclusion was that it was better to stay away from that strange hospital.

Whether it was that strange zombie named Li Rui, or someone with abilities hidden inside, the best way was to ignore it.

Now the remaining problem was that there was still a Lu Xingchi to deal with.

He had been a witness this time and remembered everything. The only way to deal with it was to deny to the death that the time rewind had anything to do with her and muddle through.

Bei Nuan glanced at Lu Xingchi and suddenly realized that while she was distracted, he had quietly taken her hand and was using his fingers to soothe the back of her hand.

Gently, again and again.

He should be comforting her, not taking advantage of her, right?

It wasn't until they returned to the camp and there were no outsiders that Lu Xingchi asked Bei Nuan, "What's going on?"

Bei Nuan pretended to be stupid, "What's going on?"

"You also remember that we were trapped in a one-minute-long time loop, right?" Lu Xingchi exposed her. "That's why you were so insistent on having Shao Bai and the others retreat."

There was no denying this.

Bei Nuan calmly replied, "That's right. You helped me, so you remember too, right?" Bei Nuan gave Lu Xingchi a bright smile. "Fortunately, you pretended to be a ghost. It was more useful than me persuading them with ten thousand words."

Du Ruo didn't understand at all, "What time loop are you talking about?"

Bei Nuan briefly and concisely told everyone what had really happened in the hospital.

Of course, she didn't mention a word about the fact that she was the one who rewound time and brought everyone out of the trap.

Du Ruo and the others were already knowledgeable and accepted this matter well.

Du Ruo asked, "If someone really set up that time trap, why did we run out again, and time even went back?"

Tang Tang thought for a while, "Maybe that trap can only repeat so many times. After it repeats, people are thrown out."

Bei Nuan thought, that's really not it.

Lu Xingchi opened his mouth, "I think the reason we were able to get out of it must be because someone was helping us. He rewound time and rescued everyone from the trap."

"Who is it?" Du Ruo and the others asked curiously.

"Who is it?" Bei Nuan also asked curiously along with them.

Lu Xingchi replied faintly, "Don't know."

Du Ruo was very regretful, "Such a fun thing happened, but unfortunately I don't remember any of it. Why can you two remember it? It's not fair."

Lu Xingchi calmly replied, "Maybe a little fairy wanted me to remember it."

Bei Nuan: ???

The little fairy really didn't want you to remember, Bei Nuan thought, the little fairy just slipped up.

Could he have guessed something?

Little Fairy Bei cautiously observed Lu Xingchi's expression.

Lu Xingchi only said this as a joke and didn't mean to delve into it any further.

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