A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

He definitely knew something.

Bei Nuan sighed silently in her heart.

It's so hard to live.

She hadn't intended to reveal it to him explicitly, nor had she planned to hint at it. Choosing him as a witness wasn't intentional at all. Would that damn monitoring system penalize her?

It was Lu Xingchi himself who was too smart; it really had nothing to do with her.

After dinner, the sky outside gradually darkened, and the birds returning to their nests were making a racket in the trees.

Now that everyone had safely retreated back to the camp, Bei Nuan stopped worrying about the time trap, and peacefully washed up, tidied up, and prepared to sleep.

Du Ruo, however, seemed a little distracted, not even hearing Bei Nuan ask if he wanted a glass of bedtime milk.

"What's wrong?" Bei Nuan asked him.

Du Ruo was worried.

"I'm thinking, we're leaving soon. Given Shao Bai's personality, to complete the mission, he's highly likely to return to that hospital. Without Lu Xingchi there, they'll definitely think the strange thing about the guns being snatched away is gone, and they'll keep pushing in, eventually getting trapped in that time loop again and unable to get out."

His concerns were very reasonable.

Bei Nuan comforted him, "Without us, just relying on those people, they might not be able to break in."

"But you guys cleared out all the zombies outside today, leaving only half a corridor in the basement. Maybe they'll go in and try."

Bei Nuan thought for a moment.

"Otherwise, before we leave, let's have a good talk with Shao Bai and tell him the truth. He shouldn't go again then."

Du Ruo asked, "What if he doesn't believe it? What if he believes it but really wants to go?"

He was right. Shao Bai looked like the kind of soldier who would stop at nothing, disregard his personal safety, and focus solely on completing the mission.

"If he doesn't believe it, there's nothing we can do." Bei Nuan reassured him, "Du Ruo, everyone has their own fate. You can only try your best to persuade him. Whether he listens or not is entirely up to him."

Du Ruo thought for a moment and then said, "But even if their special forces team doesn't go, there's a time trap there. What if someone else accidentally falls into it in the future?"

Bei Nuan: "Then… just… let them be… immortal inside?"

Xiao San suddenly spoke in her mind, "Bei Nuan, a new Saintly Mother mission has been unlocked."

Bei Nuan: "…"

A mission unlocked at this time definitely wouldn't be anything good.

"Bei Nuan, just take a look?" Xiao San coaxed her.

Bei Nuan sighed, walked back to her bunk, sat down, and opened the mission panel.

A new mission had appeared in the mission panel, named "For the Safety of Others."

Looking at the name, and thinking about what Du Ruo had just said, Bei Nuan asked in agony, "Xiao San, you wouldn't be thinking of sending me back to that damn hospital again, would you?"

Xiao San chuckled sheepishly, "Sending you back… is right, but I can also provide you with a way to remove that time trap."

"How to remove it?"

The mission description was another little essay, densely packed with lines of text. Bei Nuan didn't want to read it herself.

If she misunderstood it herself, it was her own fault. If Xiao San explained it wrong, it was his fault.

Xiao San patiently explained, "At the entrance of the door you went to today, there is indeed a time trap, and it's still there now, like a real trap. It has a range, so you can go around it."

Go around it? Easier said than done.

Bei Nuan said, "I don't know where the range of the trap is. I accidentally stepped into it today."

After entering, Lu Xingchi did feel an invisible wall around the trap.

But when entering the trap, there was no feeling of the wall at all.

In other words, the boundary of the trap was one-way; you could enter smoothly, but once inside, you couldn't get out.

Bei Nuan was speechless. "Xiao San, you wouldn't want me to enter the trap again and feel out the range of the trap bit by bit from the inside, would you?"

It was doable, but it was too dangerous, and Bei Nuan didn't want to do it.

Xiao San smiled, "Bei Nuan, if you don't want to enter the trap and risk it, would you be willing to use Saintly Mother Points to exchange for a mission hint?"

Use Saintly Mother Points to exchange for a hint?

Bei Nuan asked, "Will it use a lot of Saintly Mother Points? Is it worth it?"

"If you complete this mission, compared to the Saintly Mother Points rewarded by the mission, of course it's very worthwhile," Xiao San said.

In other words, if the mission wasn't completed, it would be a big loss.

Bei Nuan considered it and agreed.

The beautiful, bright green progress bar of Saintly Mother Points immediately shrank a little, making Bei Nuan feel very distressed.

Xiao San said, "The method to detect the range of the trap without entering it is very simple. That trap has a characteristic: if something touches its boundary, the space on the boundary will be momentarily distorted. You need to find a way to observe the distorted area to discover the range of the trap."

Bei Nuan understood, "And then?"

"After you find the boundary, go around the trap, and you can enter the door and find the little boss who set the trap."

Bei Nuan was curious, "But how do I know who is the little boss who can set traps?"

"Bei Nuan…" Xiao San hesitated.

"Need to use Saintly Mother Points to exchange for a hint again?" Bei Nuan guessed.

"That's right."

Bei Nuan sighed, "I already spent a sum of Saintly Mother Points just now. If I give up now, wouldn't the first sum be wasted? What else can I do? Keep exchanging."

Xiao San was silent for a moment.

"Bei Nuan, if someone tells you that you've won a prize or something in the future, and asks you to pay a few dozen yuan for a processing fee, then asks you to pay a few hundred yuan, and then asks you to pay a few thousand yuan, you must never fall for it."

Bei Nuan was speechless. "So you're that kind of scammer?"

Saintly Mother Points decreased a little more.

"No good deed goes unpunished," Xiao San said. "Do you see the new button that popped up behind the mission now? Press it, and you can see the little boss's head glowing."

Bei Nuan looked around and found that there was indeed a small button behind "For the Safety of Others," with a small crown on it.

Xiao San said, "As long as you find that little boss and kill it, the trap will naturally disappear, and your mission will be completed."

Bei Nuan was worried, "Even if I go around this trap and enter the door, what if it sets a second trap and makes me fall into it?"

Xiao San answered frankly, "It won't. To prove that I'm not a scammer, I'll give you a buy-two-get-one-free deal and give you another hint. The skill cooldown time for it to set a trap is very long. It still can't set a second one, so I suggest you seize the time and hurry over there while the trap is still in its original position. Now, immediately, right away."

Okay then.

Bei Nuan first used her eyes to find Lu Xingchi, who was tidying up his sleeping bag and preparing to sleep, and felt extremely conflicted in her heart.

It would be ideal to bring Lu Xingchi along, of course. He was the driver, the bodyguard, and even more so, a natural humanoid killing machine.

But to bring him along, she would have to explain the whole story to him.

According to the regulations, she absolutely couldn't reveal the mission to him, otherwise she would be penalized.

Bei Nuan sighed, stood up, and quietly slipped out of the tent while everyone wasn't paying attention.

Bei Nuan walked all the way to the sentry at the entrance. She said she had something to go out for. Shao Bai hadn't restricted their entry and exit from the camp, and the sentry readily let her go.

Walking far away to a place where the sentry couldn't see, Bei Nuan then took out the off-road vehicle.

She also took out all the guns and bullets that Shao Bai had given her and counted them again, and put on her combat uniform and tactical helmet with night vision goggles.

During the day, they had already cleared the courtyard and the first floor of the mental hospital.

Bei Nuan had great confidence in her abilities. Now, with her godlike marksmanship, one person could be worth a special forces team. She might be able to get to the door on the first floor underground by herself.

Sitting in the driver's seat, Bei Nuan took a deep breath.

More terrifying than killing zombies was driving. More terrifying than driving was getting lost.

Where was that hospital again?

Bei, god-shooter, failed the driving test five times, road-blind, Nuan sat in the driver's seat, propping her head up and thinking hard.

She had only taken Shao Bai and the others' car there once today, and she had been spacing out the whole way there and back.

Completely. Did. Not. Remember. The. Way.

It seemed to be to the east, or maybe to the west. In the middle, she turned a corner to the south or north, and then what?

While she was trying hard to think, the car door next to the driver's seat opened.

Lu Xingchi stood outside the car and gently patted Bei Nuan. "Crawl over."

Bei Nuan looked at him in surprise, and it took her a long time to come back to her senses. She scrambled to the passenger seat.

Lu Xingchi calmly sat in the driver's seat, skillfully started the car, and asked, "Where to?"

Bei Nuan suddenly became curious, "Can I say anywhere?"

Lu Xingchi replied, "Anywhere you want. Wherever you say, I'll go."

His eyes were gentle and calm, looking big, well-behaved, and reliable.

It seemed that if Bei Nuan said she wanted to go to the moon now, he could drive the off-road vehicle into the sky.

Bei Nuan suddenly remembered that when the zombie virus had just broken out, when they were leaving City S, and Bei Nuan wanted to ride in his off-road vehicle, he had made three rules with her.

The first was that she had to listen to his commands and was not allowed to make her own decisions about anything. The second was that she had to hide the fact that she had special abilities and not let anyone else know about them.

Who would have thought that now, the one obediently listening to commands had become him? He was even actively offering to listen to her commands, with an expression that said she could make any decision she wanted, and it didn't matter if she played it out in any way she wanted.

Bei Nuan couldn't help but curl the corners of her mouth.

"What are you smiling about so happily?" Lu Xingchi reached out and pinched Bei Nuan's cheek inside the tactical helmet.

Bei Nuan asked him, "Do you still remember when you agreed to take me with you, you made three rules with me? The first was to listen to your commands, the second was not to expose my special abilities. What was the third? You said you would leave it for now. Have you thought about it now?"

Lu Xingchi answered leisurely, "I've thought about it. The third is, once you get in my car, you're my person."

Bei Nuan made a sound of disagreement. "Dream on. Who's your person?"

Lu Xingchi calmly changed his words, "Okay, then let's change it. Once you get in my car, I'm your person?"

Bei Nuan said sympathetically, "So eager to give yourself away? What if no one wants you?"

"It doesn't matter. I'll give myself away a few more times. There will always be a time when I succeed. I have confidence." Lu Xingchi smiled at her. "Where are we going?"

"The hospital." Bei Nuan fastened her seat belt.

Lu Xingchi didn't ask a single question, stepped on the accelerator, turned the steering wheel, and skillfully turned the car around, driving in the direction of the hospital they had gone to during the day in the night.

He glanced at the gun in Bei Nuan's hand. "Put it away. Aren't you tired after shooting all day? I'll do it this time."

He had Bei Nuan take out all the boxes of long nails and put them all into his backpack.

Lu Xingchi drove much faster than Shao Bai and the others, and they arrived in the blink of an eye.

Bei Nuan discovered that the lights in the hospital were off again. She didn't know if the gasoline had run out, or if the power switch had been pulled again. The entire building was like a dark and cavernous behemoth, waiting to swallow people up.

And, miraculously, even though they had clearly cleared the zombies inside and outside the courtyard during the day, many more had appeared now.

Lu Xingchi and Bei Nuan got out of the car.

After Bei Nuan put the car away, Lu Xingchi raised his hand.

Without anyone else around, he didn't need to pretend to use a crossbow anymore.

Countless long nails swarmed out of the box in groups, shooting out in unison.

In just a few seconds, the zombies that had regrouped inside and outside the hospital courtyard were cleared.

He decisively led Bei Nuan into the building.

Zombies couldn't slow down his pace at all.

As he strode forward, the dense long nails in the air were like his huge black wings, flying and retracting, opening the way for him, unstoppable, instantly flattening everything.

In the blink of an eye, they returned to the generator room. Bei Nuan took out gasoline from her space again, Lu Xingchi poured it into the generator, and turned on the power switch.

This was the basement, without natural light. Day and night were the same. It looked no different from when they had come during the day.

The lights were bright, and Lu Xingchi's long nail swarm easily cleared the zombies in the corridor, arriving at the corner.

He glanced at the lights on the ceiling of the corridor. The lights that had been broken were now lit again, illuminating the place like daytime.

Lu Xingchi's boss function was complex and could also work as an electrician.

"Someone cut the wires on the lights," he explained.

Connecting the broken wires was not even a matter of lifting a finger for him.

Even the end of the originally dark corridor, in front of the familiar double doors, was now illuminated.

Just like during the day, the zombie horde was surging along the way, but the part in front of the door was strangely empty.

It seemed that Xiao San was right. The trap was still in its original position and hadn't moved.

The zombies' faces were pale and hideous under the illumination of the fluorescent lights, and their blood-red eyes were all looking at Bei Nuan and him, but they didn't come over, as if they were protecting something inside the door.

Lu Xingchi didn't need to go over. In an instant, long nails rained down, and everything that could move in the corridor, except for Bei Nuan and him, was wiped out.

"Do you want to go forward?" Lu Xingchi asked Bei Nuan.

He looked like a winged great demon king from hell, sweeping away everything, but in reality, he was the most well-behaved and obedient soldier.

He only carried out Bei Nuan's orders and didn't ask any extra questions.

A normal person would definitely have many questions in their mind by now.

For example, why did Bei Nuan suddenly want to return to this hospital? What was her purpose in coming?

Why did she dare to come to this underground floor again, which they had barely escaped from during the day?

And, there was a terrible time trap here. How did she plan to deal with it so that the two of them wouldn't fall into it again?

However, Lu Xingchi didn't ask anything. He went wherever she said to go, and he did whatever she asked him to do.

This made the one thousand eight hundred excuses and the eighteen thousand lies that Bei Nuan had prepared completely useless.

Well, that was good. It saved trouble.

But his not asking meant that he unconditionally believed all her decisions, and Bei Nuan suddenly felt a great responsibility on her shoulders.

Lu Xingchi was still waiting for Bei Nuan's answer. "Do you want to go forward?"

Ahead was the entrance to the double doors. The fluorescent lights were brightly illuminating that corner, which was the place where everyone had fallen into the loop during the day and couldn't get out.

Bei Nuan took out a bucket from her space and filled it with water.

Xiao San had said that the edge of the time trap would show a momentary distortion of space when it touched something. Bei Nuan certainly wouldn't touch this terrible thing herself.

Bei Nuan carefully walked closer and splashed the water in the bucket out.

A miracle happened.

The water splashed in smoothly, but when it splashed over, at a certain moment in the middle, the crystal-clear feeling suddenly distorted, instantly outlining a cross-section.

Although the change was only for a moment, it was enough for people to see clearly.

The hint that Bei Nuan had bought from Xiao San at a great price was correct.

Bei Nuan took out another bucket of water.

"I'll do it." Lu Xingchi had already understood.

He carefully splashed it once, and the boundary of the trap was detected.

The trap was very large, almost filling the entire corridor, leaving only a gap wide enough for one person on the left side near the wall.

The two of them continued to detect the boundary of the trap while carefully walking along the gap.

The gap led to the front of the double doors.

The door was not included in the trap and could be entered.

Bei Nuan thought for a moment. The door wasn't inside, so why would she see the door opening again and again when she was in the trap?

She immediately understood that time in the trap was repeatedly repeating, so every time she looked out of the trap, the scenery outside the trap was the same.

Lu Xingchi opened the door.

The moment he opened the door, he raised his hand, and the originally dark room inside lit up.

The room inside was originally a very large room, with many empty hospital beds, she didn't know what it was used for. Now it was full of zombies, a dark mass.

Strangely, this large group of zombies didn't rush over directly like they usually did when they saw living people when they heard the door open.

Bei Nuan saw the person Shao Bai and the others were looking for in the zombie pile.

Li Rui.

He did look much older than in the photo, almost as tall as Bei Nuan. His face was the same as in the photo, still chilling, the biggest difference was that his eyes were now blood-red.

He was a zombie.

Suddenly seeing the lights turn on, Li Rui panicked, as if he was planning to find a place to escape, but he still calmed down and raised his hand to the zombie group in the room.

Without hearing him make any sound, the zombie group actually split into two groups, and rushed towards Bei Nuan and Lu Xingchi respectively.

He could actually remotely control zombies, without even making a sound, it seemed to be through his mind.

Immediately afterwards, there were also a few roars outside the door, and a group of zombies rushed in. Bei Nuan estimated that they were from the upper floors of the hospital and had also been mobilized by Li Rui.

It seemed that he could really control them remotely.

Bei Nuan noticed that the zombies that came in from outside the door actually knew to rush into the door along the safe passage next to the time trap.

She didn't know how Li Rui communicated with them, but these silly zombies all listened to him very well.

This zombie group, which was so large that it could drown ordinary people and eat them until there was nothing left, was nothing to Lu Xingchi.

Lu Xingchi didn't even raise his hand. His long nail swarm flying in the air was once again like huge black wings of death, rushing towards the zombie group with the whistling sound of tearing through the air.

It only took a few seconds, and the whole world was quiet.

All the zombies were lying on the ground, and only Li Rui was still standing in the room.

When she had just entered the door, Bei Nuan had clicked the small crown button behind the "For the Safety of Others" mission.

Bei Nuan could see very clearly that there were no zombies with glowing heads here, and Li Rui's head wasn't glowing either.

Li Rui wasn't the little boss who set the trap.

At most, he was an accomplice who knew there was a trap there.

"Should we take him back and hand him over to Shao Bai, or kill him directly?" Lu Xingchi continued to listen to Bei Nuan's commands.

Bei Nuan hesitated a little.

The two of them discussed how to deal with Li Rui as if no one else was around. It seemed that Li Rui understood everything.

He had always controlled the zombie horde to charge forward, while he hid far away. At the first sign of trouble, he would turn around and run. Now, all the zombies he could control were lying on the ground, and no one could protect him anymore.

People who like to bully the weak are usually terribly cowardly in front of people who are stronger than them.

This person, who only dared to vent his dissatisfaction with life on children smaller than him, didn't even have the idea of resisting Lu Xingchi and the others. His blood-red eyes showed fear, and he ran away.

Li Rui rushed to the door without regard for anything.

Outside the door was the time trap. Li Rui looked like he was running in a panic and had completely forgotten about it.

He rushed in with one step.

Bei Nuan remembered that Shao Bai had said that if they could catch him, they should catch him. If they couldn't catch him, they should kill him. In any case, they couldn't let him escape, otherwise there would be endless troubles.

She didn't know what would happen after letting him enter the trap, so Bei Nuan immediately raised her gun and fired without hesitation.

Only after firing did she mutter in a low voice, "Zombies aren't protected by the Minor Protection Law, right? Right?"

Lu Xingchi: "…"

Author's Note:

Lu Xingchi: Wife suddenly runs away from home? Not afraid. Chase after her and you'll find she's still sitting in the driver's seat contemplating life.

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