A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse

Bei Nuan jumped back and forth on Lu Xingchi's body, played with him for a while, then flew up and circled once, standing on the highest branch to look at the scenery.

Standing so high, she felt refreshed.

While she was up there, Lu Xingchi leaned against the tree, quietly guarding her below. With him around, Bei Nuan wasn't afraid of anything and played freely.

An hour passed quickly, and her transformation time was about to end.

Before the countdown ended, Bei Nuan led Lu Xingchi back to the tent in the camp, and she flew out through the window opening.

"Lu Xingchi, your bird ran away," Du Ruo told him.

Lu Xingchi replied calmly, "It's okay, it will come back."

When Bei Nuan changed back into human form, as soon as she entered the tent, Du Ruo immediately snitched on her, still in front of Lu Xingchi.

"Bei Nuan, you don't know, when you weren't here just now, there was a bird that actually dared to burrow into Lu Xingchi's clothes," he thought for a moment and added, "Its feathers had a bit of pink on them, it looked like a female no matter how you looked at it."

Tang Tang wondered, "Brother Du Ruo, aren't those birds the same color whether they're male or female?"

Du Ruo argued, "Even if you don't look at the color, its behavior looked like a female. The most important thing is that Lu Xingchi even took it to play in the small woods alone just now."

Bei Nuan really wanted to laugh, but she was also a little touched. Du Ruo sold out his brother without any mercy.

Bei Nuan glanced at Lu Xingchi and asked, "What bird?"

Lu Xingchi thought about it seriously, "A small one, very beautiful, very cute, looks quite clever, but actually a bit silly. I think, if there really were to be a cross-species romance…"

He smiled slightly, "…actually, I could."

Bei Nuan: "…"

Du Ruo didn't expect Lu Xingchi to dare to say that to Bei Nuan at all. He looked at Lu Xingchi, then at Bei Nuan, his jaw almost dropping.

It took a while for Bei Nuan to say, "You're really…not picky."

Lunch was eaten early. After everyone in the camp had eaten, they packed their things, dismantled the tents, and prepared to set off.

The civilians in the camp also brought the old and the young, and got into various vehicles they had collected.

Lu Xingchi had Bei Nuan take their off-road vehicle out of the space and drove it over. After saying hello to Shao Bai, they no longer needed to ride in their vehicle, just follow their convoy.

The special operations team's vehicles drove in the front, followed by the civilians' vehicles. The entire convoy marched mightily towards the west.

Before long, they saw the first line of defense of the Human Alliance in the distance.

This was the legendary line of defense that Bei Nuan and the others had heard mentioned countless times on the road.

At that time, the zombie virus suddenly broke out, and the speed of infection was too fast, spreading like wildfire, quickly covering half the continent.

The area west of Mount Kalun had no natural barriers to defend at all, relying entirely on the sparse population to hold on. The Human Alliance established the first line of defense here.

Unfortunately, it had now been breached.

Everywhere they looked, they could see overturned barbed wire fences, dug-out giant trenches, and obvious signs of being covered by firepower, with large areas of shell craters, as well as traces of explosions and burning.

Bei Nuan was a little puzzled. This didn't look like an area isolated due to a virus outbreak, but more like a hard battle fought against alien invading creatures.

As soon as they entered the area of the old line of defense, Shao Bai got out and notified the entire convoy that the vehicles in the back must strictly follow the tracks of the vehicles in front, without deviating even a little.

Because humans had laid a ten-kilometer minefield near the old line of defense.

If they accidentally ran over one, they would be finished.

Even landmines, which were extremely harmful and rarely used in modern warfare, had been brought out, showing that humans had no other choice.

Bei Nuan couldn't help but ask Shao Bai, "How did it get to this point?"

Zombies had no weapons, relying entirely on their teeth and nails, not even as good as musketeers from four hundred years ago, yet they were able to force humans into this situation.

"There are too many of them, they're completely unafraid of death, and we've discovered that they've begun to concentrate their attacks in an organized manner," Shao Bai said, "Also, they're deliberately infecting our troops in a premeditated way."

"What do you mean?" Bei Nuan didn't understand.

"They deliberately use viruses with a long incubation period to secretly infect our soldiers. The wounds are usually very small and hidden, sometimes even the infected soldiers themselves don't notice them, and they only suddenly break out after retreating back to the defense line, breaking through our defenses from the inside."

Bei Nuan was silent. The zombies' IQ was advancing by leaps and bounds, had they become this smart?

"It's because there are some very special zombies leading them and controlling them," Shao Bai said, "We're worried that these special zombies will become more and more numerous. That's why the special operations team has been searching for these zombies everywhere in the occupied areas, carrying out decapitation operations."

Shao Bai readjusted the order of the entire convoy.

He drove the jeep at the very front to clear the mines.

He said that he was the captain of the special operations team, and the captain's vehicle should be in the first position.

The vice-captain's vehicle was in second place, followed closely by the special operations team members' vehicles, one after another.

Finally, there were the civilians' vehicles.

This was a road of death, full of landmines. In the inconspicuous wilderness and weeds, danger was hidden somewhere.

If they accidentally ran over one and it exploded, if the captain was gone, the vice-captain would take over, if the team members were gone, the next vehicle would take over.

Bei Nuan realized at this moment that those special operations team members who joked with her, caught birds with guns, and imitated animal calls were all soldiers, protecting and leading a convoy of civilians forward.

Among the ashes and burnt grass leaves, on the uneven ground, were faint traces left by previous vehicle tires.

The tire tracks meant safety, and everyone carefully followed the tracks forward.

The convoy moved forward slowly for a while, then suddenly stopped.

The message was passed from the front that because it had rained, they couldn't see the previous tire tracks clearly, so they had to proceed cautiously, with the vehicles keeping their distance.

After listening, Lu Xingchi turned the steering wheel, pulled out of the convoy, drove the off-road vehicle directly past the entire convoy, and drove to the very front.

When Shao Bai saw Lu Xingchi's vehicle suddenly come up, he immediately jumped out of his vehicle and walked over, wanting him to move back.

Lu Xingchi also got out of the vehicle and went over to say a few words to him.

Bei Nuan vaguely heard Lu Xingchi say that he had participated in some organization's mine clearance operations and had been a volunteer.

It sounded like nonsense.

Shao Bai didn't quite believe it either.

Without saying anything, Lu Xingchi asked Shao Bai for a dagger, walked directly into the nearby open field, and squatted down after a while, not knowing what he was fiddling with.

When he came back, he was holding a small thing in his hand.

It was round and flat, about the size of his palm, like a large iron mooncake.

"This is an anti-personnel mine."

Bei Nuan heard Jiang Fei say softly to Du Ruo in the back seat.

Even if he had really been a mine clearance volunteer, even for ten or eight years, it would be impossible for him to find mines with his bare eyes and dismantle them by hand like Lu Xingchi.

Lu Xingchi relied on his perception and control of metal.

Finding and dismantling these things was easy for him.

Du Ruo asked curiously, "I heard that some landmines now are made of plastic, and metal detectors can't detect them at all. Lu Xingchi can't do anything about that, right?"

Jiang Fei smiled slightly, "Even if they're made of plastic, the springs and firing pins are still metal. With his current abilities, he should be able to handle it. Besides, the Alliance army is dealing with zombies, and zombies don't clear mines. Using plastic landmines is deliberately making it difficult for their own people to clear mines after reclaiming the land, right?"

What he said made a lot of sense.

Lu Xingchi had already finished talking with Shao Bai and came back, opening the car door and getting into the vehicle.

She didn't know how he had made up stories to Shao Bai, but Shao Bai finally agreed to let his off-road vehicle drive in the front to lead the way for everyone.

Landmines buried in the ground were like being placed clearly on the ground for Lu Xingchi.

With him around, they weren't afraid of any number of landmines.

Lu Xingchi's off-road vehicle took the lead, leading the entire convoy safely through this large minefield.

After passing the old line of defense, Shao Bai drove his vehicle over, intending to return to the front to lead the way, and also to tell Bei Nuan and the others that the convoy could no longer continue westward, but had to go north first, and then turn west after entering the mountains.

Shao Bai explained that because going west all the way was the closest route to the line of defense, it was also the direction the zombies were marching, and it would be a big trouble if they encountered them, so it was best to avoid them in advance.

Bei Nuan was confused, "Zombies marching?"

"Recently, a large number of zombies seem to be summoned and are gathering near the line of defense, attacking the new line of defense," Shao Bai said.

It was probably the mutated zombies playing tricks again.

The convoy headed north, finally saw the towering mountains, and then continued westward along the winding mountain road.

They drove from noon until dusk.

Because nighttime was a good time for zombies to be active, and the new line of defense was not far ahead, there was no need to rush, so the convoy found a place to camp and rest early, preparing to set off again at dawn tomorrow.

Bei Nuan had been in the vehicle for half a day and had no chance to use her abilities. As soon as the tents were set up and everyone settled down, she slipped away like a bird out of a cage.

The campsite was in a mountain depression, very different from the small woods of the previous two days.

The small woods could only be considered a suburb, not far from the city, while this was a real deep mountain forest, with no traces of human life except for the road extending forward.

Bei Nuan had only flown for a short while after transforming into a bird today, and she hadn't flown enough at all.

It was rare to be able to fly into the sky, and while the "King of Beasts" ability was still active, she could play again.

Bei Nuan thought that finding a bird in this wilderness should be an easy task, right?

Bei Nuan left the camp and quietly walked into the mountain depression.

The sky had already darkened, and the last ray of sunlight gradually disappeared among the branches and leaves of the forest. The birds in the forest seemed to be asleep, with only one or two long chirps very occasionally.

Shao Bai had not taken back the equipment he had given to Bei Nuan, so Bei Nuan simply took out the night vision helmet and put it on, searching for traces of birds among the branches.

Suddenly, Bei Nuan saw something else.

Two animals quickly flashed through Bei Nuan's vision, disappearing into the dense forest ahead.

Bei Nuan was stunned and quickly chased after them.

Lu Xingchi had set up the tent, but he had only gone to Shao Bai to talk about the driving route for tomorrow for a few words. When he came back, he found that Bei Nuan was gone again.

She was always restless every day, so he knew it was impossible for her to stay put.

After all, it was dark, and this place was too desolate. Lu Xingchi was a little worried and searched around nearby, but couldn't find her.

She had been busy all day, looking for people to imitate animal calls, pulling out the chicken feathers from the shuttlecock, finding some fish roe, and cutting off a small piece of his belt. Lu Xingchi knew that the new trick she had come up with this time must be related to animals.

As expected, she had turned into a small bird.

Although this time was different from when she was invisible last time, he couldn't feel the small navel ring on her body at all, but when she fluttered her wings and plunged into his arms, asking him to save her life, he knew it must be her.

Lu Xingchi looked up at the sky. It was dark, and there were no birds at all now.

Lu Xingchi stood outside the tent for a while.

A small bug flew over, buzzing and circling around Lu Xingchi's ear. Lu Xingchi waved his hand casually, then suddenly realized he couldn't do that and quickly looked.

Fortunately, the little bug was clever and wasn't hit by him. It buzzed and circled once before flying away.

The little bug never came back after it left.

Lu Xingchi stood for a while, but no birds came.

Only two bats with thin wings flew over the tent.

Could she have turned into a bat?

Just as Lu Xingchi was thinking, he suddenly felt a little movement at his feet. Something was coming over.

Lu Xingchi squatted down and saw a very small lizard that was almost the same color as the ground.

The lizard seemed to be a baby, not even as long as one of Lu Xingchi's fingers without its tail.

The little lizard didn't seem to be afraid of Lu Xingchi at all.

It familiarly crawled directly towards him, treating him like a big rock, struggling to climb onto his shoe, and then wanted to climb up his leg along his pants.

Lu Xingchi didn't let it bother itself, smiled, bent down, picked up the little lizard, and placed it on his hand.

The little lizard was light brown from head to toe, with a body covered in hard shells with spikes, and a pair of small, bright black eyes looking at Lu Xingchi. Its movements were funny, and every movement seemed to be frozen.

Then it blinked at Lu Xingchi.

Lu Xingchi thought: Turning into this, her preferences are really strange.

Just as he was thinking, he saw the little lizard suddenly stick out its pink little tongue, the tip of its tongue flashing past.

Lu Xingchi immediately felt that it was actually quite cute.

He carefully held the little lizard and returned to the tent.

The little lizard lay quietly on Lu Xingchi's palm, motionless except for its rolling eyes.

Du Ruo immediately came over to look.

"Lu Xingchi, what's going on today? Why are all kinds of small animals coming to find you?"

Lu Xingchi smiled and didn't answer, reaching out to touch the little lizard's rough, spiky forehead, "It's really cute."

Du Ruo: ???

"It's so ugly, Lu Xingchi, which eye of yours sees it as cute?"

Lu Xingchi's eyes didn't leave the lizard, "Both of my eyes think it's very cute."

Tang Tang also came over and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Your Brother Lu is possessed," Du Ruo said, "His cross-species romance has crossed over to the reptile class."

Jiang Fei was sitting on his bunk, peeling garlic cloves one by one.

He looked at Lu Xingchi and his lizard from afar, then looked at the outside of the tent, as if he wanted to say something, but he only raised his eyebrows and continued to peel his garlic leisurely, saying nothing.

The little lizard was quiet on Lu Xingchi's palm for a while, then suddenly moved.

With a whoosh, it quickly climbed up Lu Xingchi's arm in one breath.

Lu Xingchi let it run around on him without moving.

The little lizard stopped on his shoulder, looking around warily, then suddenly jumped forward, wanting to burrow directly into his collar.

Just then, a shadow suddenly flashed.

A furry thing rushed in from under the tent curtain, pouncing on Lu Xingchi.

It was a light brown animal with spots, looking very much like a cat, but its fur was thicker and denser than a cat's, its tail was much shorter, and its body was a circle larger.

Most special of all, tufts of fur stood upright on the tips of its ears, very beautiful.

This was a young lynx, also called a bobcat.

It rushed up like a small arrow, pouncing on Lu Xingchi with a whoosh, and stretched out a pair of paws, slapping the little lizard all over the place.

The little lizard was completely frightened by the enemy that had descended from the sky. After reacting for a long time, it climbed down from Lu Xingchi and fled frantically in the tent.

The little lynx had no intention of letting it go, chasing after it, slapping and hitting it.

The two small animals jumped up and down in the tent, chasing each other, making a complete mess.

Du Ruo and Tang Tang were completely dumbfounded.

Tang Tang asked, speechless, "What's going on?"

Du Ruo's mind turned and suddenly came up with the explanation that best fit the current scene, "Fighting…fighting off a mistress?"

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