"I am a non-marriage advocate."
Considering the other person's young age, Xie Chiyuan, unusually, did a good deed. He patiently advised the young man to see the error of his ways: "Don't focus your attention on me. Not only am I not getting married, but I also have no intention of dating."
Those outsiders who call him a killing machine are right.
He only wanted to kill all the mutants and aliens; he had no interest in anything else.
Yu An secretly opened his eyes a crack; he was already dizzy from listening.
He just wanted a little bit of blood, so why was Big Head talking to him about love?
After Xie Chiyuan finished his persuasion, he began to assess the results: "I know you're not asleep, answer me a question."
Yu An placed both hands on the blanket; there was no way to avoid it, only to face it.
Xie Chiyuan stared at the boy who had opened his eyes, his voice deep and resonant like shattered jade: "Will you still like me in the future?"
Yu An honestly shook his head.
dislike.
He never liked her.
Xie Chiyuan felt he had saved a boy who almost went astray, so he let him go to sleep with satisfaction and no longer pursued the matter of his previous sneak attack.
Yu An saw him lie down, and then lay down flat as well.
The night flowed quietly, and the room returned to deathly silence.
It took Yu An a while to calm down after being caught red-handed.
He patted his chest, comforting himself, and then savored the taste in his mouth.
It's sweet!
Even though he only licked it once, Yu An felt his hunger instantly relieved.
The feeling was so wonderful, like walking on soft clouds.
Xie Chiyuan, with his keen hearing, naturally noticed Yu An's subtle movements.
Neither of them spoke to the other again.
A night is neither long nor short.
Xie Chiyuan slept for a while and woke up early the next morning.
Unexpectedly, Yu An sat up right after he woke up.
"Big Head, good morning."
Yu An sat on the bed, her eyes darting around, and slowly greeted Xie Chiyuan.
Seeing that he was still sleepy, Xie Chiyuan said calmly, "You can continue sleeping. I'll go outside and take a look."
"Take me with you."
Yu An remained slow and deliberate. He usually had a bit of a temper when he woke up, but the circumstances didn't allow it, so he suppressed it.
Xie Chiyuan didn't plan to bring him along.
"Could you stew some potatoes for me for breakfast? I'll be right back."
Xie Chiyuan assigned him a task, and Yu An hesitated before agreeing.
Go outside the house.
Xie Chiyuan began to investigate the situation in the village. Apart from Yu An, only four people remained alive.
Three men and one woman.
The village chief lived in the best location, so Xie Chiyuan easily went in to investigate.
He found a list at the village chief's house, a list of the villagers' households.
"28 households."
Xie Chiyuan murmured, "28 households, dozens of people, now only 4 people are left dead."
This rate of death is not normal.
There are zombies, and they feed on the villagers.
If that's the case, why don't the zombies eat their fill all at once?
Why do they choose to slowly, day by day, eat the villagers?
Xie Chiyuan thought that everything that was illogical must be related to the mutant.
Xie Chiyuan's mind worked extremely fast; he quickly deduced the answer from the illogical phenomena.
It is variant A09 that is controlling everything.
It's playing a game, a cruel feeding game: preventing the zombies from eating everyone at once, and letting the villagers decide who to feed the zombies each day.
Xie Chiyuan stayed outside all morning and solved the problem directly.
Meanwhile, the academically challenged little zombie was still squatting in front of the pot, intently watching his stewed potatoes.
There's no salt left.
He frowned and sprinkled the candy he found into the mixture.
Sweet stewed potatoes should also be edible.
After the potatoes were finally stewed, Xie Chiyuan, who hadn't found the mutant, returned.
"Big Head, you're back."
Yu An handed him a handful of potatoes, her eyes sparkling: "I've made breakfast."
Xie Chiyuan brushed it off as usual: "Let it sit for a while, I'll eat it later."
"Um!"
The two sat in the room, while Yu An rummaged through the cabinet looking for needles and thread.
His sweater got ripped when he was beaten yesterday.
Taking advantage of this brief respite, he wanted to mend the sweater.
Seeing him looking for needle and thread, Xie Chiyuan took the pot outside and poured out the potatoes again.
Yu An found a needle and thread, cut a piece of cloth, and began clumsily sewing.
The sweater fit him perfectly; he didn't have any extra clothes.
"Have you never done needlework before?"
Seeing that he had pricked his finger three times in just a few minutes, Xie Chiyuan couldn't help but ask a question.
Yu An felt even more embarrassed after being asked that question.
He kept a straight face and remained silent.
Xie Chiyuan watched as he finally patched up his sweater before asking, "Want to come out with me?"
He has surveyed the village and can now basically confirm the variant.
So, he's leaving today.
Yu An wasn't from the village, so he had to take the person away.
A while ago, Pei Si and Lu Chao thought the child was dead, and they were genuinely heartbroken.
"We need to go out."
Without hesitation, Yu An replied, "I don't want to be their reserve food. I don't taste good."
Xie Chiyuan glanced at him, looking him over a few times: "He looks fair and tender, he looks delicious."
Yu An: "..."
Yu An earnestly corrected: "I don't taste good!"
Even zombies would vomit if they ate it!
Even if Xie Chiyuan had nothing better to do, he wouldn't actually argue with him about such a pointless topic.
The two tidied up quickly and prepared to leave.
Before leaving, Xie Chiyuan inspected the entire house.
Yu An followed behind him, watching him cleanly cut up all the mushrooms in the house.
In the pigsty behind.
When Xie Chiyuan arrived, the giant umbrella mushrooms inside were gone.
But the blood left on the ground and the girl's torn clothes had not disappeared.
Xie Chiyuan used his military knife to pick up a piece of cloth, then looked up at Yu An: "Yu An, have mushrooms ever grown here?"
Yu An nodded.
"What kind of mushroom?" Xie Chiyuan's cold eyes revealed no emotion.
Yu An hesitated before saying, "It's huge, bigger than all the mushrooms here."
Xie Chiyuan glanced at the clothes on the ground and understood.
The recently emerged mutants all feed on humans, but have failed to digest all of them.
The two are combined, retaining both human thought and the instinct to cannibalize.
Furthermore, mutants are a bit more advanced than zombies; most mutants are quite intelligent.
However, this does not include the one in the village.
"Let's go."
Xie Chiyuan stood up, casually rinsed his military knife in the water, and then pushed open the door with Yu An.
There are small umbrella mushrooms everywhere outside.
Yu An watched him chop mushrooms, and when he got to the end, he lost patience and lit a fire.
"You can't light it."