A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

Following "King of Beasts" were the mission requirements. Bei Nuan carefully read them:

Listen to three flawlessly imitated animal sounds, collect the feathers of a flying bird, the skin of a running beast, and the roe of a swimming fish, and ignite them together. The King of Beasts will thus be born.

So, it seemed she needed to find someone to imitate animal sounds and then collect three materials.

There was a line of small print as a note after the mission requirements: The intimacy value between the target character imitating the beast's voice and the host must be less than five.

Bei Nuan: "…"

It wasn't clear enough. Was this intimacy value of "five" out of five, out of ten, or out of one hundred?

That made a huge difference.

"Xiao San," Bei Nuan summoned Xiao San, "What exactly does this intimacy value of 'five' mean?"

Xiao San earnestly asked, "Bei Nuan, do you have a lot of Saintly Points now, so you don't feel bad spending them? Are you just asking me for hints for no reason?"

Bei Nuan quickly said, "No, I do feel bad. Never mind, I won't ask you."

This was a simple matter; there was no need to spend precious Saintly Points to get a hint from Xiao San. She could just try it herself.

The rainbow disappeared again. Bei Nuan came out of Lu Xingchi's embrace, and the two of them returned to the tent together.

Regardless of what scale the intimacy was calculated on, the intimacy between her and Lu Xingchi couldn't be low. Bei Nuan didn't want to waste time, so she skipped him and went directly to Du Ruo.

Getting Du Ruo to do this kind of thing was a piece of cake.

"Du Ruo, challenge," Bei Nuan said. "What animal sound do you imitate the best?"

Du Ruo looked at the top of the tent for half a second, then grinned and made a series of realistic donkey noises.

"Hee-haw—hee-haw—hee-haw—hee-haw—"

Everyone in the tent: "…"

"Is it good?" Du Ruo asked.

"Good, absolutely good, excellent. You've won a box of chocolates in the Bei Family Animal Sound Imitation Challenge," Bei Nuan said, taking out a box of chocolates and handing it to him.

However, Bei Nuan glanced at the taskbar, and the animal sound was still (0/3).

Even if they invited the donkey himself to be the judge, he would turn around for his wonderful call.

Since the call didn't count, it was undoubtedly an intimacy issue.

Without thinking, that intimacy level of less than five was probably at least five out of ten.

However, there was someone else who was also very enthusiastic about the challenge. Tang Tang raised his hand, "Sister Nuannuan, I want to challenge too."

His call certainly wouldn't work, but she couldn't dampen the enthusiasm of the contestants who signed up so actively. What if she needed them for a mission in the future?

Bei Nuan, the sole member of the competition organizing committee, decided, "You're up."

"Okay," Tang Tang agreed.

Then there was no sound at all.

Everyone: ???

The current champion, Du Ruo, rushed to say, "Hurry up? We're all waiting."

Tang Tang replied, "I've already called. It was a bat."

"Bullshit," Du Ruo said. "I've heard bat calls. They're especially high-pitched and fast, like frantically hitting an ungreased metal button. How can you do that with your mouth closed?"

Tang Tang was very proud. "You can't hear it. I just used ultrasonic waves."

Bei Nuan: "…"

A contestant who could emit ultrasonic waves should of course also receive a box of chocolates, but even with ultrasonic waves, "animal sounds" was still (0/3).

Jiang Fei didn't plan to participate in the competition. He asked Bei Nuan for a portable stove and ingredients to prepare breakfast.

Bei Nuan absentmindedly helped him get flour and eggs, thinking that she still had to find unfamiliar people to call.

Bei Nuan suddenly remembered the solar charger she hadn't given away yesterday and quickly took it out of her space. She had known Anier for less than a day, so they were definitely not familiar. With a bribe in hand, she could try.

Lu Xingchi saw her take out the charger and immediately said, "I'll go with you."

The sun was warmer outside the tent, and only the puddles on the ground indicated that it had rained last night.

Everyone was getting up and going to breakfast, which was even more lively than when they were watching the rainbow.

These days, the special forces team had been tirelessly running around, going in and out of zombie piles seven times, just to find Li Rui, who could control zombies, in order to carry out a beheading operation.

Now that Bei Nuan and the others had suddenly completed the mission, the whole team was relaxed today and didn't seem to be in a hurry to go anywhere.

Bei Nuan asked someone about the location of Anier's tent. Before she even arrived, she saw Shao Bai passing by.

Shao Bai came from the large tent, probably after just finishing breakfast. He greeted Bei Nuan and the others from afar.

Bei Nuan immediately stopped him.

"Shao Bai, we're making a bet. Can you help me imitate an animal sound?"

Shao Bai's serious face immediately turned red.

Although he was shy, he still didn't refuse Bei Nuan's request. He thought for a moment and cleared his throat, "I can meow like a cat."

This special forces captain, who was over 1.8 meters tall with sword-like eyebrows, gently "meowed."

"I don't meow very well, do I?" Shao Bai's face was almost bleeding red.

"Good, absolutely good!" Bei Nuan said affirmatively. This "good" was certified by the system, because "animal sounds" had become (1/3).

It seemed that she really had to find people who weren't very familiar.

Bei Nuan's confidence increased greatly, and she quickly went to find Anier. After all, she was even less familiar with Anier than with Shao Bai.

Anier looked normal and healthy, smiling, not at all like he had been lying in the woods covered in blood last night.

He saw Bei Nuan bringing another charger, and it was even a solar-powered one that never ran out of power. He was so grateful that he didn't know what to say.

Bei Nuan quickly said, "Can you please do me a favor?"

After gesturing for a long time, she finally explained to him that she wanted to ask him to imitate an animal sound.

Anier made an okay gesture, thought for a moment, and then began to lengthen his voice, powerfully, "Aang—"

Too obvious. He imitated it very well. It was an elephant.

After calling, Anier said, "I can do others."

"Goo-goo-goo-goo-goo—"

"Quack-quack-quack-quack-quack—"

"Cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck-cluck—"

Buy one get three free.

He called so vividly, but unfortunately, it only counted once, and the animal sounds became (2/3).

Anier enthusiastically invited the special forces members in the same tent to come and call together, but unlike Anier and their cheerful and outgoing ethnicity, the special forces members were introverted and shy, and none of them were willing.

Anier could see at a glance that Bei Nuan's little face was full of anticipation at first, but then showed a little disappointment after they all refused.

Anier stood up and told Bei Nuan and the others to wait a moment. He specially ran to the next tent and brought back a member with small tiger teeth.

Without saying a word, Xiao Hu Ya directly performed a long section of bird calls whistled for Bei Nuan.

It was so lifelike that it was as if she had fallen into the bird garden of a zoo, with a large group of birds chirping and gossiping.

"Animal sounds" successfully jumped to (3/3), completing the task perfectly.

Leaving Anier's place, Bei Nuan took another look at the task list.

Below were the three things that needed to be collected - bird feathers, animal skin, and fish roe.

Bei Nuan pondered that if she searched carefully in the small forest, she might be able to find a bird feather, but the other two would not be easy to obtain.

Did she have to go hunting to get animal skin? She didn't know if there were any animals in the forest.

As for fish roe, it was quite close to the sea, but unfortunately, she didn't have a fishing rod. How could she catch fish, and it had to be fish with roe? The difficulty coefficient was a bit high.

Bei Nuan followed Lu Xingchi back absentmindedly, her mind full of how to do the task.

When they reached the outside of their tent, before they went in, Lu Xingchi, who had been staring at her all the way, suddenly pulled her aside.

He looked around to make sure it was quiet here and no one was nearby, then gently pursed his lips.

"Bei Nuan."

"Actually, I can also… imitate animal sounds."

His face was calm, but Bei Nuan was too familiar with him and could see at a glance the little bit of shyness he was trying to hide.

He knew she was strange and must be doing a mission again and wanted to help her.

He didn't know that she had already completed the "animal sounds" part and was thinking about other things, thinking that she still needed to find someone to continue imitating animal sounds.

Just as Bei Nuan was about to refuse, she suddenly realized that it was a rare opportunity for Lu Boss to take the initiative to imitate animal sounds. Once this opportunity was gone, it would never come again.

There was no reason not to take advantage of this.

Bei Nuan licked her lips, "What can you imitate?"

Lu Xingchi didn't answer and cleared his throat.

"Woof, woof woof, woof woof woof."

Bei Nuan desperately controlled her facial expressions, quietly lowered her hand, and pinched the flesh on her thigh.

"You call very well," Bei Nuan calmly commented, then asked, "Can you do anything else?"

Lu Xingchi thought for a moment.

"Moo—moo—"

That was a cow.

"That's really good, anything else?" It was rare for Boss Lu to call so nicely, and Bei Nuan hadn't heard enough.

"Gaa-gaa-gaa—"

Bei Nuan's mind was filled with a barrage of crazy comments: Lu Boss is actually imitating a duck! Lu Boss is actually imitating a duck! A duck!

But she said, "Is that a little duck? You imitate it so well! Anything else?"

Lu Xingchi glanced at the corner of her mouth, which was twitching madly as she tried to suppress her laughter.

"Awoo—awoo—awoo—"

Bei Nuan couldn't tell what it was this time, "What is that call? Is it a wolf?"

Lu Xingchi calmly replied, "It's a cat."

"Nonsense," Bei Nuan retorted, "That's not how cats call! Shao Bai's meow meow meow was a cat call, okay?"

"Oh, his was a normal cat," Lu Xingchi said with a straight face, his voice clear and calm. "Mine is how a male cat calls to a female cat he likes when he's in heat. Haven't you heard it?"

Bei Nuan's face flushed red.

Lu Xingchi had a calm expression as if he had just given a little science lesson, and asked Bei Nuan, "Do you need to find someone else to call?"

"Not for now," Bei Nuan hadn't recovered from Lu Xingchi's "male cat in heat" call.

The two of them returned to the tent together.

Jiang Fei and the others were enthusiastically making egg pancakes with a portable stove and a frying pan.

Jiang Fei was pouring the mixed flour liquid onto the frying pan. When he saw Bei Nuan coming back, he smiled at her, "How was your challenge?"

Bei Nuan glanced at Du Ruo, "Currently, Du Ruo and someone who can whistle bird calls are tied."

Du Ruo snorted severely, not believing that anyone could tie his donkey call.

Jiang Fei cracked an egg on the soft pancake, spread it out, waited for the egg to solidify, and when the aroma came out, sprinkled black sesame seeds and chopped green onions on it. After taking it out of the pot, he spread sweet sauce and chili sauce on it, wrapped it with fried dough sticks, and handed it to Bei Nuan first.

Bei Nuan ate one, still feeling unsatisfied, and ate another before exclaiming, "Jiang Fei, if you set up a breakfast stall, you would definitely make a fortune."

Jiang Fei smiled gently and asked, "Want another one?"

"I definitely can't eat any more, or I'll get fat and die."

Bei Nuan wiped her hands. She had other things to do.

When she was eating the egg pancake, Bei Nuan suddenly remembered that there was something in her space that might meet the task requirements.

Bei Nuan rummaged through her space for a long time and found a shuttlecock made of chicken feathers.

This was made by Xiao Ji's mother back in Yao City. Du Ruo and the others had been kicking shuttlecock with Xiao Ji in the yard at that time. When they left, Xiao Ji gave everyone a shuttlecock.

The head of the chicken feather shuttlecock was a few copper coins, and about six or seven feathers were tied to the copper coins. They looked like they were from the tail of the yellow fat hen's husband.

Bei Nuan pinched the smallest one and pulled it out.

Du Ruo saw it at a glance, "Bei Nuan, why are you plucking its feathers?"

"It's just one," Bei Nuan pulled out the feather and tried kicking it. The shuttlecock still flew well and wasn't affected at all.

Although chickens and "flying birds" were slightly different in terms of flying, "feathers of a flying bird" still showed (1/1).

Bei Nuan also came up with an idea for "roe of a swimming fish."

It seemed that there was a box of capelin roe that Du Ruo had bought in Ning City to make sushi.

Bei Nuan frantically searched through the ingredients on the upper level of her space and finally found a full box of small particles dyed bright orange. She opened it, took a small pinch, and put it in a paper towel with the feathers.

"Roe of a swimming fish" also became (1/1).

Next, only "skin of a running beast" remained.

This was the most difficult part. Bei Nuan was a little distressed. Where could she peel off some animal skin?

Bei Nuan raised her hands and looked at them.

Humans were two-legged beasts, so did human skin count? Unfortunately, she applied hand cream too diligently, and her hands weren't peeling.

Moreover, Bei Nuan looked at her hands back and forth.

She felt like they weren't "beastly" enough.

Bei Nuan's gaze swept over the boys in the tent, and finally settled on Lu Xingchi.

She looked him up and down carefully.

Lu Xingchi let her look at him casually and asked, "What do you want me to do… or what do you want?"

Bei Nuan's gaze fell from his face, all the way down, and stopped at his lower body.

"Really? I can have anything I want?"

Bei Nuan took out a pair of scissors from her space, held them in her hand, and felt a little embarrassed.

She secretly glanced at Du Ruo and the others, who were still enthusiastically eating egg pancakes, and pulled Lu Xingchi, "Lu Xingchi, come out with me for a moment."

The two of them quietly left through the back door of the tent.

The back door of the tent faced the forest outside the camp, which was quiet and deserted. With the tent blocking the view, no one could see.

Bei Nuan asked him again, "I can have anything I want?"

Lu Xingchi nodded without hesitation.

Seeing him nod, Bei Nuan took a step forward and held his waist.

Lu Xingchi watched as she lowered her head and started to undo his belt.

Lu Xingchi completely froze.

It was one thing for him to take it off for her to see, but it was another thing entirely for her to take the initiative.

Even Lu Xingchi, who had a thick skin, couldn't handle it. His voice suddenly became much lower and hoarse, "What do you want to do?"

"I just need to cut a little bit, just a little bit the size of a grain of rice," Bei Nuan said sincerely. "I promise you won't be able to tell at all, and it won't have any impact."

Cut?

A little bit?

Lu Xingchi quickly pressed down on Bei Nuan's hand holding the scissors, "Cut what? Cut a little bit of what?"

"Don't be so stingy."

Bei Nuan shook off him while holding the scissors, pulled one end of his belt out of the belt loop, and held it in her hand.

With a "snip," she carefully cut off a piece the size of a grain of rice from the very tip of his belt.

Bei Nuan didn't have a belt herself, but the boys all had them, but she was too embarrassed to cut anyone else's, so of course, she could only find Lu Xingchi.

Lu Xingchi had piles of clothes, all stored in his space, but he had never collected extra belts, only the one he was wearing.

It was a pure black needle buckle style, without any decorations, logos, or patterns, smooth and simple.

You couldn't tell what brand it was at all, but just by looking at the material and workmanship, you could tell that it definitely wasn't cheap.

Bei Nuan examined it and felt that cutting off a small piece wouldn't have much of an impact, and you could hardly see it. She helped him put the belt back into the belt loop, smoothed it out, and patted it casually, "Okay."

Lu Xingchi looked at her, unable to speak for a long time.

Bei Nuan carefully collected the small piece of leather she had cut off with the chicken feathers and fish roe before raising her head.

Seeing Lu Xingchi's expression, Bei Nuan asked seriously, "What did you think I wanted to cut?"

Bei Nuan saw that Lu Xingchi's ears were burning red.

Lu Boss never suffered a loss in words and dared to say anything. This time, he couldn't say anything for a long time.

Bei Nuan thought: Can't take it anymore? Weren't you pretty calm just now when you were talking about cats in heat?

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