Zhao Xing was stunned for a moment, not expecting Li Yanting to ask this. Ji Hui didn’t tell him that Li Yanting would ask questions when he called him over.
So he scratched his head and said uncertainly, “I don’t think so…”
Li Yanting slammed the door shut and changed the subject: “When are we leaving?”
Zhao Xing was happy, he knew this question: “Everything is ready, we can leave when Brother Da Kun comes back!”
Li Yanting nodded and sent Zhao Xing back to report the news.
When Da Kun came back, the convoy quickly moved. Their car followed at the back, driven by Da Kun. Taking advantage of the road cleared last night still being clean, they sped towards the town.
The road ahead was stirred up by the vehicles, raising dust. Da Kun cursed, but his eyes occasionally glanced at the person in Li Yanting’s arms.
After Li Yanting caught Da Kun for the third time, he wrapped Hesheng tightly in his coat and coldly choked out, “If you have something to say, say it.”
“Hehe… Brother.”
Da Kun felt relieved after being scolded. He was afraid that Li Yanting wouldn’t scold him. If he scolded him, it meant he wasn’t angry.
Da Kun took out the crystal core he had dug out of the zombie’s head yesterday and handed it to Li Yanting: “Brother, from now on, what you say goes! If you tell me to go east, I will never go west!”
“Don’t give me that crap.” Li Yanting hesitated for a moment, but still took the crystal core, then raised his eyes and looked at Lan Duo reflected in the rearview mirror. “This should belong to Hesheng. When she wakes up, she will decide how to use it.”
Lan Duo’s emotions visibly dropped. After thinking for a while, she asked, “Brother Ting, what ability did Hesheng awaken? Is it also space-type?”
The ability awakened by being injured by a mutated zombie is very likely to be the same. Although this statement has no reliable basis, it has become a fixed impression in some people’s minds.
“I don’t know, she hasn’t woken up since the fever broke.”
Li Yanting stroked Hesheng’s injured shoulder yesterday through his coat. The bandage that wrapped the wound had already fallen off during last night’s struggle. The bloody hole under the bandage was repaired by an unknown force, and even the old scar on Hesheng’s arm that had already scabbed over became smooth as before.
This was completely different from the state of previous awakeners. No awakener had ever had their pain completely disappear upon waking up, because awakening an ability did not conflict with being seriously injured.
Hesheng slept very deeply. When she woke up, she felt like she had soaked in hot spring water, feeling light and relaxed, dispelling the fatigue and weariness from her whole body.
She still woke up in Li Yanting’s arms, wrapped up like a burrito as before. When she woke up and shook gently, Li Yanting dug her out of his arms.
“Awake?” Li Yanting tidied her hair, his palm naturally covering her forehead, feeling her temperature, then nodded in satisfaction. “The fever’s gone.”
After Li Yanting finished speaking, he asked Lan Duo in the back for purified water and prepared food, and gave it to Hesheng to fill her stomach.
Hesheng thanked him. She was indeed hungry and ate heartily, regardless of her image.
The atmosphere in the car was a little different from before. Although Da Kun and Lan Duo didn’t speak like before, they no longer had the obvious hostility they had before.
What replaced it wasn’t particularly kindness, but they didn’t reject her joining. It’s just that they looked at her from time to time, making her a little confused.
“Hesheng, what exactly is the ability you awakened?”
Before Hesheng could ask her doubts, Lan Duo in the back seat couldn’t hold back her temper and asked first.
Hesheng was stumped. She looked at Li Yanting hesitantly, then at her own hands, then closed her eyes and tried to feel it for a long time. As expected, nothing happened.
She had already awakened the ability of a reliever. Even if she was injured by a zombie, it would be a blessing if she didn’t mutate into a zombie. The possibility of awakening a second ability because of this was very small.
Hesheng didn’t feel disappointed. She was already satisfied to have the ability of a reliever and be able to help Li Yanting.
“It seems like I didn’t awaken an ability.” Hesheng spread her hands and blinked at Li Yanting, a little innocent.
“How is that possible!” It was Da Kun who was shocked this time. He almost drove the car into the back of the bus in front of him. “You weren’t mutated after being bitten, it’s impossible not to have awakened an ability! You must not know how to use it. Try to find the feeling again, you…”
“I wasn’t bitten, just scratched.”
Hesheng explained, and Li Yanting held her outstretched hand. She knew that Li Yanting understood her thoughts.
Da Kun dodged a stone with a flash and threw Hesheng back into Li Yanting’s arms: “That’s also impossible. Zombies are poisonous all over their bodies. You’ll be infected if you get touched. Try again, I don’t believe there’s anyone who’s injured by a zombie and is still an ordinary person.”
“Not exactly an ordinary person.” Li Yanting received Hesheng’s pleading gaze and pulled open a corner of her clothes on her shoulder, revealing the intact shoulder inside.
“Hesheng’s injuries have all healed, including the bloody hole that was so badly injured yesterday. After a night of high fever, there’s no trace of it left.” Li Yanting didn’t give Da Kun a chance to peek and wrapped Hesheng up again after showing it.
Hesheng herself was also stunned. She had forgotten that she was injured when she just woke up. Had it completely healed?
“Hmm? I haven’t heard of this kind of ability.” Da Kun’s attention was quickly diverted, and he went to ponder this new type of ability that he had never seen before.
Hesheng touched her shoulder suspiciously and closed her eyes again to feel whether she had awakened a second ability, but this time, there was still nothing to be found.
Humans still have many shortcomings in their research on abilities, and Hesheng didn’t dwell too much on her own ability. In comparison, she was more concerned about her clothes.
She pulled her clothes tight and buried her head in Li Yanting’s neck, her voice small and a little embarrassed: “Where did my clothes go?”
Her clothes were gone, leaving only a small vest inside.
“They were all bloody. It’s hard to explain if people saw them. So I threw them away.” Hesheng’s cheeks climbed with blush, looking soft and cute. Li Yanting raised his hand and rubbed it, his throat moved.
“If you threw them away, what am I going to wear…” Hesheng complained softly, her slightly pouted lips seemed to be deliberately inviting someone.
“…” Li Yanting stiffly turned his gaze away, endured and endured, and finally only used his calloused fingers to rub her lips twice.
Hesheng covered her whole body in Li Yanting’s coat, leaning against Li Yanting’s hard chest, and cursed herself as a “coward” in her heart.
And just at this moment, the car body suddenly jolted, and Da Kun slammed on the brakes, immediately making a long, harsh friction sound.
“Damn it! What the hell is the car in front driving? Luckily I was following far away, otherwise I would have drilled into the back of the bus. Damn it, I’m going to go and greet his whole family!”
After Da Kun finished speaking, he got out of the car angrily, but Li Yanting didn’t seem surprised. He told him to be careful and sat peacefully without any intention of getting out of the car.
“What happened?” Hesheng heard some arguing.
“Nothing,” Li Yanting said, “Someone couldn’t hold back.”