She didn’t want that! She wanted to be an innocent little flirt who merely teased people.
Jiang Ran had originally only wanted her to leave so he could use cold water to deal with the effects of the drug.
But when he saw the panic in her eyes, a mischievous thought suddenly crossed his mind.
He leaned down, bringing his lips close to her ear, and spoke in a low, husky voice, “Weren’t you the one who said you love me so much that you can’t help yourself? That whatever I want, you’ll give me? I want you…”
He deliberately stopped there, leaving the rest to her imagination.
Lin Buyu panicked.
Although she was certain that the great villain had no feelings for her and wouldn’t actually do anything to her, that was the villain under normal circumstances.
Right now, he was a villain who had been drugged.
What was she supposed to do?
She had already said all those flirtatious things. If she backed down now, wouldn’t she lose face?
She should ask the system for help.
Yes, that was it. Just when he was about to get intimate with her, she could have the system knock him unconscious and give him a wonderful erotic dream.
“Okay, okay…” Her smile stiffened as she raised her foam-covered arms and wrapped them around his slender neck.
Even at a time like this, she couldn’t resist running her mouth. She gave him a shamelessly flirtatious line:
“Then, Team Leader, be gentle, okay?”
Her reaction was completely beyond Jiang Ran’s expectations.
Everything she did seemed to exceed his expectations.
Jiang Ran froze for a moment.
In the end, he was the first to back down. He grabbed her slippery arms, pushed her back into the bucket, and turned around with his back facing her.
“Put your clothes on and get out. I’m going to take a shower.”
He could endure this little bit of medicine.
It wasn’t enough to make him lose control and actually sleep with her.
A pleasant surprise suddenly came her way.
Lin Buyu let out a tiny, delighted “Oh-ho!” and happily climbed out of the bucket, quickly wrapping herself in a bath towel.
There was no better time to leave than now.
When she escaped past him, she didn’t even look back.
She slammed the bathroom door so hard that it made a tremendous noise.
It was obvious just how eager she was to leave.
For once, Jiang Ran was in a good mood.
At least she knew when to stop and hadn’t continued making trouble.
The foam on Lin Buyu’s body hadn’t even been completely rinsed off when she lay down on the bed and wrapped herself tightly in the blanket, nearly suffocating herself.
“Phew.”
She suddenly threw the blanket off.
Jiang Ran was showering with cold water in the bathroom. She had no idea how long he had been in there.
Lin Buyu felt as though even after closing her eyes, she could still hear the sound of water rushing.
Before she knew it, her eyelids grew heavy.
She was actually sleepy enough to fall asleep?
That was the last thought she had before losing consciousness.
Time seemed to pass for a very, very long time.
Long enough for the system to emerge and call out to her.
“Host, you need to wake up. If you don’t wake up soon, people are going to get suspicious.”
“Huh?”
Lin Buyu looked around. “What did I do?”
The system replied, “You’re still inside a dream. You ate too many zombie cores earlier, and a new zombie core is currently growing inside your brain. But you’ve already been asleep for an entire day and night. If you don’t wake up and take control of it, the moment that zombie core finishes forming, it will trigger a terrifying zombie horde.”
“A zombie horde?”
Lin Buyu instantly woke up.
The moment she opened her eyes, she was met with an enlarged handsome face.
She instinctively reached out to attack.
But when she realized it was Jiang Ran, she changed her movement midway, curving her arm around his neck instead.
Her mouth immediately filled with sweet talk, and her eyes became alluring.
“Waking up to see the Team Leader is wonderful. Want to do it, Team Leader?”
Jiang Ran pressed his lips together.
“Looks like you’re fine.”
He pulled her arm down, then turned around and said to the group of healing-type ability users behind him,
“You can all go back.”
Huh?
Who was leaving?
Lin Buyu slowly turned her head.
Only then did she notice a row of women in white coats standing opposite her.
Besides them, Suya was there with a worried expression, Xiao Jingcheng wore a knowing smile, and Nie Fei was desperately covering his mouth, looking as though he had just witnessed the juiciest gossip of his life.
Lin Buyu: “…”
This stupid mouth of hers.
She really couldn’t stop spouting flirtatious nonsense, even without checking who was around first.
Just as she was about to get up and put on her clothes, Nie Fei, who had already gone outside, suddenly rushed back in.
He shoved the door open and shouted at Jiang Ran,
“Brother Ran, this is bad! There are a lot of zombies outside the base!”
Zombies?
Jiang Ran frowned and immediately followed Nie Fei outside.
Lin Buyu quickly got dressed as well. While putting on her clothes, she asked the system what was going on.
The system explained, “The reason zombies appeared in this world is because a meteorite fell to Earth and brought a virus with it. Your body was completely struck by the meteorite at the time, but for some unknown reason, you were completely unharmed. Your body wasn’t crushed either. Instead, you absorbed most of the virus contained in that meteorite.”
“That’s why you have absolute control and attraction over zombies.”
“But because your original zombie core was taken away, your mental strength was insufficient, so you couldn’t control that many zombies.”
“However, you’ve started growing a new zombie core now.”
“It’s still very small, but it’s already enough to attract a large number of zombies.”
“Almost all the zombies within a certain radius are rushing toward this place.”
Lin Buyu pressed a hand against her throbbing head.
“Then can I control all of them now?”
The system replied, “Yes. The zombies naturally attracted by your power are all lower-level than you. They’re all low-level zombies—the most ordinary kind. But there are a lot of them, and zombies never get tired. The ability users here can deal with them, but many people will probably still get injured and infected.”
Damn.
So this zombie horde had been summoned by her.
If even one person got hurt, she would feel guilty.
Lin Buyu didn’t dare to be careless. She quickly put on her clothes and pants, then jumped straight out of the window.
Wait.
She had forgotten.
This was the third floor.
Fortunately, no one was nearby.
“Thud!”
She landed on the ground.
Both of Lin Buyu’s legs were broken.
Her legs were just too fragile.
Fortunately, it didn’t hurt at all.
She was about to call the system to help set her bones when she suddenly felt the broken bones healing on their own.
How miraculous.
So this was the power of a zombie core?
Lin Buyu climbed to her feet and ran toward the outside, tears of joy welling up in her eyes.
She was so moved.
If she had this kind of healing ability in the real world, she wouldn’t have to worry about dying during a mission and leaving no one to take care of her younger brother.
Jiang Ran’s residence was quite far from the outer perimeter of the base.
It took Lin Buyu seven or eight minutes of running before she reached the vicinity of the outer wall.
Countless ability users rose into the sky.
They were attacking the zombies that were frantically climbing over the walls.
But the zombies kept coming endlessly.
One group would fall, only for another to immediately take its place.
They were frenzied and twisted, seemingly desperate for something.
Ordinary people inside the base trembled in fear, and panic spread through the crowd.
Many guards who should have been stationed along the outer wall were so frightened that they began retreating.
They were afraid of being injured by the zombies and turning into zombies themselves.
High above, Nie Fei threw a fireball at a zombie that was about to climb over the wall. He then raised his hand and wiped away the sweat that was about to run into his eyes.
“What do we do, Brother Ran? These zombies are low-level, but there are just too many of them. And there are even more zombies coming this way from farther away. If this keeps going, they’ll drain all our abilities.”
Jiang Ran’s expression was cold and emotionless as he casually sent several bolts of lightning crashing down.
“If our abilities run out, use your knives.”
That was how he had survived when he had no abilities.
He had fought his way through hordes of zombies with nothing but a blade.
Xiao Jingcheng moved closer to Jiang Ran in midair.
Overusing his ability had left his eyes painfully dry.
“This place is so far from any cities or towns. How could so many zombies suddenly come rushing here?”
Jiang Ran’s cold gaze swept across the scene outside the wall.
“When something abnormal happens, there’s always a reason. Either they’re being controlled by a psychic-type zombie and have been sent here to attack us, or there’s something here attracting them.”
He was more inclined to believe the latter.
But what kind of thing could possibly be so attractive?
These zombies clearly seemed to have traveled from very far away.
Almost every ability user in the entire base had been mobilized.
Lin Buyu was directly below Jiang Ran, Nie Fei, and the others.
She didn’t know if it was just her imagination, but she could feel that Jiang Ran’s killing intent was incredibly strong.
His ability even seemed to be on the verge of running wild.
Everywhere he attacked, the zombies were blasted apart so completely that not even their corpses could be found.
After confirming with the system that no one would discover her ability to control zombies, Lin Buyu finally tried sending a command through her mind.
“Go back. Leave this place. Go as far away as possible.”
This was her first time trying to control so many zombies at once.
She had thought it would be difficult.
But it wasn’t.
The moment she issued the command, the zombies frantically rushing toward the base suddenly froze.
Then, something bizarre happened.
The zombies that had been desperately trying to climb inside suddenly stopped.
Their ferocious expressions disappeared.
Looking bewildered, they turned around and began walking in another direction.
If only one zombie had behaved this way, no one would have suspected anything.
But when every single zombie did the same thing, the ability users at the Lan Base couldn’t help but become suspicious.
The sight left them stunned.
And after the shock came an uncontrollable sense of fear.
It seemed that this zombie horde had erupted because the zombies were being controlled.
What did that mean?
It meant that these mindless zombies were gradually mutating and had evolved to the point where they could think.
It was almost as though the zombies were conducting an initial test against humanity.
Perhaps the zombies already had a leader.
Just like the leader of a human base.
No matter how terrifying mindless zombies were, humans wouldn’t feel truly desperate in the face of them.
But once zombies gained the ability to think, humanity would be in serious danger.
After all, zombies had to be shot in the head to completely lose their combat ability, whereas humans only needed to be scratched by one of them to become one of their kind.
If the zombies planned to destroy humanity, then in a war between the two sides, the human population would only grow smaller while the number of zombies would continue increasing.
But for now, the zombies were finally leaving.
The zombie horde that everyone had thought would continue for a long time suddenly disappeared.
All everyone could feel was relief.
The others stopped attacking.
Only Jiang Ran continued.
He was still frantically attacking the retreating zombies, his ability seemingly endless as bolts of lightning tore through the fleeing horde.
His cold, stern face showed no emotion.
Only an invisible killing intent remained.
Lin Buyu clicked her tongue in amazement.
Tsk.
Looks like what the book said was true.
Jiang Ran, the great villain, really did hate zombies to the core.
She absolutely could not let him discover that she was a zombie.
She quickly grabbed her head with both hands.
Only then did Nie Fei notice Lin Buyu.
He immediately withdrew his ability and descended from the sky.
“Buyu, why did you come here?”
“Hehe… I-I came to see what was happening. I was worried Jiang Ran might get hurt.”
Her lighthearted words were carried by the wind straight into Jiang Ran’s ears.
The icy indifference in the man’s eyes seemed to waver, as though the wind had gently scattered it.
He lowered his head and looked at Lin Buyu below.