A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

Lu Xingchi saw her shoot and also directed the long nails to shoot at Li Rui.

Li Rui had barely escaped the door when a bullet pierced his head. Immediately after, he was pierced several more times by the long nails that shot over.

This child, a little murder demon when alive and a zombie murder demon when turned, instantly fell forward, completely dead.

Bei Nuan quickly walked over, took out her phone, and snapped several photos of Li Rui in rapid succession, so Shao Bai could conveniently hand them over to complete the mission back at base.

As she was taking photos, Li Rui's body disappeared.

"The place he fell is within the range of the trap; the body can only exist there for that one minute," Lu Xingchi said.

He was right.

Li Rui fell into the one-minute loop of the trap, never able to reach the next minute. So, in Bei Nuan's and his eyes, after one minute, he would disappear into thin air.

Fortunately, Bei Nuan took the photos quickly.

But this also showed that the trap was still working, and Bei Nuan's mission was not yet complete.

Bei Nuan carefully searched the room again.

There were no more living things in the room, only zombies lying scattered all over the place, none with glowing heads.

This was strange. Xiao San clearly said that the small boss who set the trap was in the room behind the door.

Where was it?

Lu Xingchi silently followed behind Bei Nuan. Although he didn't know what she was looking for, he followed her, looking everywhere.

A faint sound suddenly brushed past Bei Nuan's ear.

Buzz buzz. Buzz buzz.

Bei Nuan casually waved her hand twice and turned her head.

In Bei Nuan's eyes, a mosquito leisurely flew past her, glowing faintly like a firefly.

Bei Nuan: ???

Bei Nuan only paused for a second before pouncing.

As if possessed, she frantically slapped and swatted, jumping up and down.

Lu Xingchi: "…"

"Mosquito! Mosquito! Lu Xingchi! Help me kill that big mosquito!! Did you see it? Over here! Over there! Up there! It flew to the ceiling!"

Lu Xingchi: "…"

Bei Nuan couldn't reach it, so she simply took out her rifle, aimed carefully, and targeted the mosquito flying around in the air.

Lu Xingchi: "…"

However, auto-aim didn't work, it could only aim at heads. Trajectory lock also didn't work; the mosquito was too small and flew too fast. Bei Nuan couldn't lock onto it, so she had to abandon this ingenious idea and used the gun as a stick, chasing the mosquito with powerful swings.

If only she had a mosquito swatter.

Bei Nuan was distressed. Why hadn't she stored a mosquito swatter in her space?

The mosquito drew graceful arcs, buzzing as it flew back and forth in the air, its posture light and agile.

It would occasionally disappear for a few seconds, as if it could turn invisible, making it especially difficult to find.

Bei Nuan hopped and skipped after it, chasing it to the door. Just as she was about to rush out, Lu Xingchi grabbed her waist from behind.

Bei Nuan struggled wildly in his arms, "Let me go, the mosquito is going to escape! I know there's a trap outside the door, I won't fall into it, I'm not stupid!"

Lu Xingchi: …Really?

"Wait, I'll do it." Lu Xingchi raised his hand.

The countless long nails that had been fixed in the air suddenly gathered together, instantly melting and turning into a large, flat iron pancake.

The large iron pancake flew out and slapped the mosquito against the wall with a splat.

Bei Nuan quickly ran over.

The large iron pancake moved back, and in the pancake-shaped pit it left behind, there was a pool of red mosquito blood.

The small boss died under the attack of Lu's Mosquito Swatter.

Bei Nuan happily glanced at the mission bar. The "Safety of Others" mission showed as completed, and her Saintly Mother Points steadily increased.

The increase was much more than the Saintly Mother Points deducted for buying the hint. Today's deal was very cost-effective.

But to be safe, Bei Nuan still took out a bucket and poured water over the area. The water flowed smoothly over the range of the trap, and she watched without seeing any changes.

Lu Xingchi smiled slightly, "The trap is gone."

That's right.

The trap was gone. This place was no longer dangerous. If others came here again, no one would fall into the trap again. Du Ruo could rest assured.

Bei Nuan thought, the small boss was actually a mosquito.

Perhaps it sucked the blood of Li Rui, this mutated zombie with special abilities, and somehow, by chance, it also developed strange abilities. Maybe it became Li Rui's pet, able to communicate with him through telepathy.

These were all just guesses. Who knew?

Anyway, they were all dead.

Bei Nuan and Lu Xingchi waited a little longer. Although the trap was gone, Li Rui's body didn't reappear there. She didn't know where it went.

Bei Nuan wasn't too concerned about the whereabouts of Li Rui's body. The mission was complete. She asked Lu Xingchi, "Shall we go?"

Lu Xingchi nodded in agreement, and the two left the hospital.

In the mental hospital behind them, although the trap here was gone, in another dimension of time and space, Li Rui was still endlessly repeating his loop.

He ran into the trap in terror, his head pierced by a bullet in an instant, followed by several long nails piercing his head. He twitched and struggled in despair before losing consciousness.

Then he ran again, and was shot again.

Repeating the last moment before his death, over and over again, without end.

Bei Nuan and Lu Xingchi got into the car and drove back.

Bei Nuan secretly looked at Lu Xingchi again.

She asked him to come, and he came; she asked him to leave, and he left; she asked him to kill a mosquito, and he used a big iron pancake to swat it. He really didn't ask any questions.

Lu Xingchi knew she was looking at him and turned his head to glance at her, "What are you looking at? So captivated by my beauty that you can't tear yourself away?"

Bei Nuan: "…"

Bei Nuan thought, he seemed to know everything.

If he really knew everything, knew that she was here to do a mission, and also knew that she couldn't tell him about doing the mission, knew that if he asked, she could only lie, what would he do in this situation?

Bei Nuan thought, he wouldn't even ask a question.

As considerate as he was, he would silently help her complete the mission.

This morning, after getting off the boat and interrogating him on the trestle bridge, Bei Nuan seriously suspected that he was reborn.

She had been busy all day, helping the special forces kill zombies several times and playing with the new time-rewinding ability. Bei Nuan hadn't had time to think about this carefully.

Now that she thought about it, if he was really reborn, the problem would be too big.

"If he is reborn," these words were like a thread. Once pulled, a large string of interesting things would be attached.

According to Yuan Yuan's and Sheng Yi's experiences on the ship, they had both followed the plot of the book in their previous lives.

If Lu Xingchi was also reborn, he would definitely know the original Bei Nuan.

Although Bei Nuan was with Jiang Fei every day at that time, they had walked through the plot of an entire book together, so he should be very familiar with her.

Even ordinary people could see that Bei Nuan's personality had changed drastically, let alone him, whose profession was understanding people.

With his intelligence, since he felt that her personality was like that of a different person, but her appearance hadn't changed at all, he could definitely smoothly deduce that she was an imposter occupying this body.

If he was not only reborn, but also had a system and missions, he would definitely be able to guess that behind her various strange behaviors was also a bunch of terrible missions.

Bei Nuan took a deep breath.

Too scary.

The current feeling was like returning to that day on the ship when he pushed open the bathroom door, and she was completely naked, exposed in front of him.

Bei Nuan bit her lip and thought again.

Bei Nuan suddenly realized that, just like that day on the ship, he was also completely naked in front of her.

He had also completely stripped himself bare and showed it to her.

Because if he accepted her various strange actions calmly, without asking a single question, and even silently helped her do the mission, it was equivalent to admitting that he completely understood her situation and difficulties.

Then there was a high probability that he himself had the same difficulties.

Both of them couldn't speak due to the situation.

Bei Nuan turned to look at him.

Lu Xingchi was also turning his head, looking at her with those light, clear eyes that seemed to see through everything.

In his eyes, she saw deep understanding and trust.

She opened her mouth.

But all the words she wanted to say were against the rules. If they weren't against the rules, there was no point in saying them.

The air was filled with countless Elder Zhou Cangs of censorship.

Bei Nuan really didn't know what to say, so she could only smile at him.

Lu Xingchi looked into her eyes, as if he understood all her thoughts, and also curved the corners of his mouth, suddenly unbuckling his seat belt and leaning over.

"Lu Xingchi, you're driving, have you forgotten?!"

Bei Nuan was frightened by him.

Lu Xingchi's smile deepened, and he slammed on the brakes. The brakes screeched, and he abruptly stopped the car in the middle of the road.

Too scary.

Fortunately, this was the apocalypse, and there were no other cars on the road, otherwise the car behind would definitely curse them bloody.

Lu Boss was just a psychopath.

Lu Xingchi didn't care about that at all, as if the middle of the road was his home.

He continued to lean over, reached out to cup Bei Nuan's cheeks, and kissed her lips.

He stopped the car arrogantly, but his actions of kissing Bei Nuan were very gentle.

Very gentle, very steady, like the warm sun of late spring and early summer, heating up the cold ground of the entire winter and smoothing out all the doubts and suspicions in her heart.

He didn't say anything, and neither did she.

In the empty middle of the road in the apocalypse, in the quiet, deserted night, they sat in the car and seemed to use this kiss to reach a silent agreement.

This was a tacit understanding between the two of them.

Not a single word was spoken. Neither of them violated the rules of the system, but they completely understood what the other wanted to say, and said everything that needed to be said.

Bei Nuan's heart was more at ease than ever before.

After he kissed her, he still silently fastened his seat belt and restarted the car.

Bei Nuan quietly reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes. Lu Xingchi glanced down, freed a hand from the steering wheel, and held her hand.

Driving with one hand, he still drove fiercely and wildly, without reducing his speed at all.

Bei Nuan thought: He was completely demonstrating what dangerous driving was tonight.

If it weren't the apocalypse now, his driver's license would probably be gone long ago.

When Lu Xingchi sped back to the camp, the camp was pitch black. Everyone else was probably asleep, only Du Ruo and the others were still awake.

"We didn't go on a date, we went to kill a big monster for you. The trap you were worried about is gone now," Bei Nuan said to Du Ruo first.

Lu Xingchi went out to find Shao Bai, and Shao Bai came over a little later.

Bei Nuan told him about their trip to the hospital again, skipping the time trap part and showing him the photos of Li Rui on her phone.

Bei Nuan said regretfully, "Unfortunately, he was about to run away at the time, and there wasn't enough time to capture him alive for you."

"It's okay, that place is too dangerous. It's not easy to capture him alive. It's already very good that you were able to kill him."

The decapitation mission targeting the mutated zombie was suddenly completed, and joy appeared on Shao Bai's usually serious face.

However, Shao Bai didn't have a phone, so he couldn't send the photos.

He was a little embarrassed, "I'll go ask who has a phone."

He searched for a long time before finding a phone, but it was out of power.

It belonged to a member of the special forces, a man in his thirties with a high nose, deep eyes, and a slightly dark complexion, named A'Nier.

"There's my daughter on it, two years old. I miss her, so I keep looking at it until it runs out of power."

His ethnicity was different, and he didn't speak very fluently, but with a combination of speaking and gesturing, they could roughly understand what he meant.

"I have a power bank." Bei Nuan took out a charged power bank from her backpack.

A'Nier's phone screen lit up again in a moment. Seeing the way his eyes lit up, Shao Bai and Bei Nuan didn't send the photos and handed the phone to him first.

A'Nier flipped through the album, which was full of pictures of a chubby little girl with black hair and a round red dot on her forehead.

There was also a video in the album. A'Nier carefully glanced at Shao Bai.

Electricity was very precious now and shouldn't be wasted.

Shao Bai nodded, "Go ahead and watch."

A'Nier watched the video on his phone. The content was his daughter using her chubby little hands to grab rice, getting her face covered in it.

The two-minute video was all of the little girl eating, her big, black, grape-like eyes fixed on the rice, slurping from beginning to end.

A'Nier watched the video with relish.

Only parents would watch such a video with such relish.

After he finished watching, Bei Nuan couldn't help but ask her, "Where is your daughter now?"

Now it was the apocalypse, so this was actually a dangerous question.

Fortunately, he replied, "She and her mother are in a safe zone. After this mission is over, I'll go back…"

Bei Nuan quickly interrupted him and took the phone from his hand.

"Have you finished watching? Let's send the photos!"

Standard flags like "I'll go home after this mission is over" should never be allowed to be set. This was a book, and according to the rules of storytelling, people who set flags were destined to not live long.

After the photos were transferred via Bluetooth, Bei Nuan also gave him the power bank, which he would probably cherish for a long time.

Bei Nuan caught a glimpse that when the power bank was given away, her Saintly Mother Points quietly increased a little.

She had been doing all sorts of good deeds during this time, developing a habit. Bei Nuan had naturally gotten used to giving things away and had forgotten that it could increase her Saintly Mother Points.

After all the tossing and turning this day, first helping the special forces, then rescuing everyone from the time trap, and also completing a "Safety of Others" mission, her Saintly Mother Points had increased by a large amount again.

Bei Nuan happily thought, Increase, increase! Maybe if it increases enough, I can unlock some new good stuff.

"Bei Nuan." After A'Nier and the others left, Lu Xingchi squatted down in front of Bei Nuan's bunk.

"Actually, if you wanted to give him one, I bought a few large-capacity solar power banks in Ning City last time. Wouldn't that be better than the electric one you gave him?"

Bei Nuan was a little touched.

He seemed to really understand what mission she needed to do.

He didn't say it when A'Nier was there, but specifically waited until people had left before telling Bei Nuan, so that she could take it and give it away, so that this good deed could be credited to her.

But Bei Nuan didn't know anything about the power bank, "Where is it?"

"It's in the pile of stuff from Ning City, along with various tools and batteries."

Bei Nuan rummaged for a long time before finally finding them. There was a stack of them, all packed in boxes, without even being opened.

Everyone came over to take a look.

Du Ruo wailed, "Lu Xingchi, that's too much, right? You have such good stuff, and you didn't say anything? Every time my phone can only be charged for a little while when Bei Nuan takes out the generator."

Lu Xingchi replied calmly, "If I had said it, wouldn't you all be playing with your phones every day? Don't you think your eyes are better lately without looking at your phones?"

His tone was like a parent managing everyone.

Lu Xingchi distributed a solar power bank to Du Ruo and a few others, and gave Bei Nuan an extra one, "I'll go with you."

The special forces lived separately from the refugees, with team members patrolling.

The patrolling team members had fought zombies with Bei Nuan and the others during the day. Hearing that the two of them were looking for A'Nier, they smiled and said, "A'Nier seems to have gone out."

It was a little strange. It was the middle of the night, everyone was asleep, what was he doing out?

"Shall we go for a walk too?" Lu Xingchi asked Bei Nuan.

Bei Nuan nodded in agreement, and the two also left the camp.

The woods outside the camp were very dark. Bright moonlight shone through the branches, but it was mottled and didn't form a complete patch.

Bei Nuan obediently let Lu Xingchi hold her hand, looking around.

"He might not necessarily have come to the woods. Maybe he drove to some other place."

Lu Xingchi chuckled softly, "Who said I came out to find him?"

Bei Nuan: ?

Lu Xingchi's hand slid to her waist, and he whispered in her ear, "You're really brave, daring to run to such a dark place alone with a man in the middle of the night."

Bei Nuan didn't care at all and was still looking around, "What man or not, it's you."

Lu Xingchi choked.

He pursed his lips and reluctantly let go of her waist, holding her hand again.

"I felt something metal moving in the woods just now. Maybe it's him." Lu Xingchi lowered his voice.

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