Ch 127: TGCIR

Shen Cheng had just left the research institute and was still pondering how to tell Li Weilan and the others about what happened there, when she switched to the main character page and immediately heard Li Weilan call out, “Cheng Cheng.”

The expression between his eyebrows was extremely serious, and on the screen was the potted plant Shen Cheng had rescued from the institute and placed in her room.

The poor plant gnashed its steel teeth, clicking and clacking to show off its sharp teeth. Li Weilan had sealed it in her room.

Li Weilan’s round face looked serious and annoyed. “Shen Cheng, what’s going on?”

Oh no! Caught red-handed!

Shen Cheng had been preoccupied with saving Dr. Wei’s research, and in her haste, she had brought the plant back to her room. Still reeling from Fu Yanzhou’s incident, she hadn’t had time to think of an excuse yet. Shen Cheng inwardly cursed and forced a smile, thinking of how to bluff her way through to make Lan Lan understand what had happened.

But Li Weilan’s expression turned gloomy.

He lowered her eyelids, showing a hint of sadness and resentment. Shen Cheng had to admit that such an expression on that cute, bouncy face made it impossible to continue with the prepared excuses. Li Weilan’s words hit hard, “Is Cheng Cheng unhappy with me interfering too much?”

“Huh?” Shen Cheng was stunned, hurriedly denying, “No, no, not at all!”

She wanted to explain that she was only concerned about his safety when she rushed to the research institute, naturally providing valid analysis and reasons for taking risks. But the pitiful look on Li Weilan’s face completely overturned her prepared excuses, leaving her speechless and trapped. She couldn’t get a word in edgewise.

Wanting to reason with him, but being met with accusations, was against the rules!

Shen Cheng hastily explained, “I really don’t mind you interfering at all, it’s just… just… I’m just worried …” Her voice trailed off weakly. She knew that she would worry about Li Weilan, and Li Weilan would naturally worry about her too!

“Cheng Cheng,” Li Weilan stood up, “I’m not angry with you today. It’s just difficult.”

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His voice lowered and became hoarse, “Keeping things from me, it’s because you thought it would be better to handle things quietly. As the beneficiary of your actions, perhaps I have no right to say anything, but my heart is filled with sharp self-blame at every risky moment. This is the war I was meant to fight.”

Self-deprecatingly, he chuckled, “In my heart, I’m still your cub, not your boyfriend.”

**

That day, after Li Weilan finished speaking, he unilaterally severed his connection with Shen Cheng.

Of course, the game provided him with privacy time, but for the next three days, Shen Cheng just couldn’t stay calm, whether it was during bathing or handling other issues.

Shen Cheng didn’t know how Li Weilan had managed it, but for these three days, the “Master” section was grayed out, and she couldn’t even click on Li Weilan’s profile picture. This separation initially made Shen Cheng extremely uneasy, but after three days, she gradually calmed down.

When Shen Cheng first heard Li Weilan’s words, she was naturally angry again.

She asked herself why she sometimes still called him “cub,” but that was because the screen on her phone was a game, and besides, she felt like “cub” was more of an endearing term between herself and Lan Lan. In her heart, there’s a strong desire to be with him.

But when Li Weilan mentioned “boyfriend,” Shen Cheng thought carefully and realized that she hadn’t actually ever had a real boyfriend?

Maybe it was because they were too far apart—separated by two different worlds and unable to be together all the time—that even if they wanted the intimacy of a couple, there were technical difficulties.

So the reliance on Lan Lan was like a veil.

On the other hand, Li Weilan almost always acquiesced to her, perhaps because he cherished the time with her so much. From their arguments to their reconciliation, Li Weilan almost always complied. He could be temperamental at times, and in that aspect, he seemed a bit like a fake boyfriend. Shen Cheng had seen her roommates cry, argue, laugh, and drink with their boyfriends, and although those scenes were slightly immature, they were also part of the reality of being in a relationship.

So she felt a bit masochistic, and when Li Weilan suddenly brought up “logical reasoning,” she found herself unexpectedly happy: Hey, does being angry with Lan Lan seem more like they’re in a real relationship now?

Three days were too long.

When the “Master” section was finally unlocked, Shen Cheng checked the game interface again: the incident at the research institute was over.

Dr. Wei had joined the team, and Fu Yanzhou had left the base completely.

In exchange for the plasma weapon, she had spent a lot of money on various weapons, completely updating the entire base’s arsenal. With Noah’s base expanding, the construction of the entire base was expanding at an astonishing rate.

The plant that she brought had begun to absorb the zombie blood and was becoming increasingly ferocious in appearance, and the rate of absorption was also significantly increasing. This plant was said to have been grafted with genes from scavengers, naturally preying on the living, making it the natural enemy of zombies. It turned the zombie blood it absorbed into energy pellets, similar to the solidified form Shen Cheng had seen in the J City Institute.

According to Li Weilan, the taste was quite good, but some murmured that it felt like ashes or relics. Considering that the zombies were originally… well, they were survivors of the apocalypse who had endured the lack of food and drink until now. Although life in Noah’s base had improved, the habit of extravagance had not yet taken root.

Moreover, even if they didn’t eat it themselves, they could use it to feed the fish.

Noah’s base began to plant these plants around the perimeter of the entire base to establish an outer defense line.

Outside, it was said that the zombie groups were restless, and there were several fights.

The eventual leader chosen seemed to resemble Fu Yanzhou’s appearance based on the description.

The zombies under the command of the new Zombie Emperor, contrary to their usual behavior, also couldn’t have expected that there would be a zombie king among the zombies?

It’s said that this newly appointed Zombie Emperor is very strict in his management. Anyone who disobeys his orders will have their heads chopped off directly. Under his command, the zombie horde has successively subdued a lower level of alien beings, and the number of individual zombies wandering in the wasteland has decreased. Some of the lower level zombies have joined the zombie horde under the command of the Zombie Emperor.

In the base, Xi Bei heard this news and was troubled for several days. But after hearing about their research plans and Fu Yanzhou’s own choice, she only cried quietly by herself. By the second day, she had completely returned to normal.

Xi Nan cautiously smiled and said to Xi Bei, “This was Fu Yanzhou’s own choice. The benevolent receive benevolence. He must have often felt like his guilt is crushing him, but now this is a kind of relief.”

Xi Bei looked at things as very normal and let go of this matter.

Noah’s base was developing steadily and steadily, but if you really wanted to talk about rapid development, you had to mention the J City base.

Perhaps due to the cooperation of the zombie horde, the number of zombies around the J City base decreased with each successive siege. Each time, Xia Jinshi seemed to be able to clearly see the direction and hiding places of the zombie horde. They covered the military routes of the zombies from both the air and the ground, and the zombies that had originally dominated the battle with their supernatural abilities were gradually weakened in each successive battle, until there were fewer and fewer of them, gradually disappearing near the J City base.

But the corpses they left behind became a huge problem.

Burial was possible, but it consumed a lot of the abilities of the ability users, and often, after lower-level ability users cremated the corpses—referring to the kind of cremation where bones were reduced to ashes—their abilities would be depleted for the rest of the day.

Plus, the thick smoke from the burial, for a considerable period of time, made the area around the J City base a huge smoky area, and the thick smoke that drifted from it was simply a hundred times more polluting than the factory chimneys in the apocalypse.

The air and land during the apocalypse were fragile, and with such disturbance, some people who were less resistant to this kind of air would get sick. The food production in the J City base also decreased because of this, and the ability users were exhausted. Talking about cremation, they felt like they had become incinerators.

In this regard, there was no environmental protection like Noah’s base.

But regardless of which method was used, the number of zombies in the wasteland decreased more and more. Apart from the group united around the Zombie king, the zombies in other places were cleared away by the survivors. If it was because the soil in the wasteland still contained extreme toxicity, it was estimated that they would all return to living on the surface not too long later.

But in the end, the J City base sent a message to all its survivor bases.

Noah’s base also received it.

The meaning of this message was direct and simple: the J City base was preparing a huge nuclear bomb to eliminate all the zombies in one fell swoop.

When Shen Cheng heard this news, her face looked very ugly, and she immediately thought of a question: “What about Fu Yanzhou?”

With the expansion of the J City base and the smooth progress, who would believe that Fu Yanzhou was the zombie king?

Would this nuclear bomb be used directly to sacrifice Fu Yanzhou in exchange for the possible extermination of all the zombies?

“Can nuclear bombs really be effective?” Shen Cheng’s first thought was about this question.

“Sure,” Li Weilan frowned for a moment and finally said, “But I think it may cause many other problems.”

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