The heavy rain lasted for a long time, with dark clouds, lightning, and thunder. When the chaos reached its peak, it finally began to calm down, releasing all the built-up pressure and heaviness from the clouds, which eventually turned into a thin white paper like layer, easily pierced by the long-awaited morning sun, shedding a faint light.
The dead silent city was filled with floating dust particles, clearly visible in the sunlight. They drifted aimlessly, passing the walls overgrown with vines, passing the charred corpse with a split head on the dented car roof, and finally being blown by a breeze into the second-floor bedroom with a large hole, slowly floating past Chu Muge as she packed her things.
The girl put the necessary medical supplies into her backpack, turned her head to look through the hole at the sky clearing up outside, and her eyes brightened: "Sunlight."
She changed into a black Harajuku-style hoodie, sticking to her usual style.
After finishing her preparations, Chu Muge put the unwrapped white medicine bottle into her backpack, zipped it up, and looked at Gu Yao standing beside her, giving her a sweet smile: "Senior, you're able to get up and walk now."
What's with that tone, like praising a pet!
But it was indeed praiseworthy.
Because...
Good news! Great news!
After she confusedly used a temporary immobilization spell on the mutant yesterday, she felt like her body became more flexible.
Well, not exactly flexible, but she could control it more skillfully.
Specifically, she could now slowly get up and move by herself, earning praise from Chu Muge, who was secretly observing her every move.
Gu Yao: UvU
At this moment, Chu Muge added nonchalantly: "Senior is so smart, much smarter than other non-mutant zombies."
Smart enough that she suspected Gu Yao might have mutated.
Chu Muge was well aware that the big guy intended to slap her head off, but she wasn't afraid because she had a trump card.
But the unbelievable thing was... it stopped its action.
Gu Yao didn't want to look at her, her vacant pupils slowly moving towards the large hole made by the mutant.
…Wow, can we still live in this place?
Seeing no reaction from her, Chu Muge blinked, followed Gu Yao's gaze to the broken hole in the bedroom, then got up and ran a few steps to Gu Yao, wrapping her arms around her neck like an octopus due to her long sleeves.
Chu Muge whimpered, sounding as pitiful as a cat: "Senior, our home is gone! From now on, we'll have to wander the world with the sky as our blanket and the earth as our bed, just one person and one zombie, drifting around qwq"
Quite a rhyme there.
Her tone sounded sad, but Gu Yao inexplicably heard a hint of joy in it.
Gu Yao: ...You just keep pretending.
Chu Muge was a strange girl who liked to talk to a walking corpse, and Gu Yao felt that she was getting used to it.
"By the way, senior, shall we take a photo together?" Chu Muge suddenly thought of something fun, released her hold on Gu Yao's neck, took out a phone from her backpack, and muttered, "I've never taken a photo with you."
This tone was genuinely heart-wrenching.
Swiping the phone open, the battery showed 24% in the top right corner.
In the apocalypse, the signal had been lost weeks ago, turning the phone into a chargeable brick with little use beyond lighting.
"Come, come."
Chu Muge excitedly wrapped an arm around Gu Yao's neck, holding the phone with the other hand to use the selfie function.
"Senior, cheese~" Chu Muge paused, "Or I can say cheese."
Through the selfie function, Gu Yao finally saw her original face clearly.
How to describe it...
Gu Yao rummaged through her limited vocabulary and eventually concluded with a straightforward thought:
So beautiful.
It was the kind of beauty that was unforgettable at a glance. Gu Yao felt that she was much more beautiful than any female star she'd seen on TV before.
Especially those cherry lips, no wonder Chu Muge seemed to enjoy kissing her; they did look quite... tantalizing?
Gu Yao concluded: A human-shaped drug.
She figured that was why the school's beauty met an early end in the novel.
After all, in the apocalypse, good-looking people, regardless of gender, had a tragic fate if they lacked strength.
Chu Muge pressed the shutter button.
The scene was captured and frozen. She flipped through the album with satisfaction, then opened her offline social media circle and said to Gu Yao, "Damn, I really want others to know I'm with you."
Gu Yao: ?
Are we together already? ovo
Without saying much, Chu Muge began typing furiously on the edit page.
She attached their photo and then took another shot of their interlocked fingers.
【We're together!】
Send.
Unsurprisingly, it failed.
Chu Muge clicked her tongue lightly and turned off the phone screen: "No problem, I'll save it for now."
She said, puffing her cheeks, and put the phone back into her backpack: "I'll post it as soon as we get a signal, just to piss off those sycophants."
Gu Yao couldn't help but feel amused.
Chu Muge looked back at Gu Yao: "Senior, don't you agree?"
The fragrance approached as Chu Muge gently kissed Gu Yao's lips, with one hand climbing up to her chest.
Then, frowning slightly after the second kiss: "…Not soft enough."
Gu Yao: ...
It's already good enough that my skin isn't ashen and decayed! And you're complaining my chest isn't soft enough?!
"But it doesn't matter." Chu Muge squinted happily, "Even if the senior's skin turns ashen and her body decays, I won't mind."
Gu Yao: ...
You must be the worm in my stomach, aren't you?
Chu Muge didn't carry much, just one backpack with some food, medical supplies, a phone, and a bottle of unwrapped medicine.
Speaking of that medicine bottle, Gu Yao was scared.
In the novel, the female lead never had any mental illness that required medication for basic stability.
And there was no mention of a fat mutant zombie lurking around the school, preying on other zombies.
Novels are unreliable.
At this moment, she realized one thing clearly:
A novel is a novel, and reality is reality.
Just like how the novel briefly mentioned "Gu Yao being killed by Lou Yanan," after nearly becoming a plaything, Gu Yao knew it wasn't that simple.
"Senior, shall we depart?"
Chu Muge reached out to Gu Yao:
"Shall we go shopping for free?"
She said, taking Gu Yao's hand and muttering, "I remember there's a maid outfit on sale on the third floor of the mall..."
Seeing her silent, Gu Yao glanced at her out of the corner of her eye.
Chu Muge let go, hugged Gu Yao tightly, and took a deep breath at her neck, then looked up, eyes sparkling: "I've always wanted to see you wear it!"
Gu Yao: ...
I don't want to wear it:D
"Ah. I almost forgot."
Chu Muge paused, then took off her backpack and retrieved the white crystal block from it.
The crystal block was small, about the size of a bottle cap, opaque, and irregular.
Chu Muge had cleaned it thoroughly, waving it in front of Gu Yao like a prize: "Look, it's a gift from the roast pig!"
Oh...
Gu Yao looked at the crystal.
This should be the crystal core in the brain of a mutant zombie from the novel, right?
Like rock candy.
Wait...
Gu Yao looked warily at Chu Muge, meeting her smiling eyes.
Chu Muge said calmly, "Senior, come, eat it."
Gu Yao: ...
No!
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After the two left the small apartment and walked onto the street, a pair of hidden compound eyes turned, watching them from above. With a long, thin tail glinting coldly, it hung upside down from a height, adjusting its posture, then quietly followed their steps at a leisurely pace.