Move…? Not move?
What did he mean?
Shu Ran’s eyelashes trembled, but her groggy mind couldn’t process anything.
She felt someone pinch her cheek, and then something soft and cool pressed against the corner of her lips.
That something treated her lips like a piece of cotton candy, savoring them again and again.
Through the hazy mist clouding her vision, Shu Ran fluttered her eyelashes and cracked her eyes open, gazing dazedly and unfocused at the blurry world beyond the mist.
…
When she woke up again, the convoy had already set off once more.
Shu Ran sleepily crawled out of her blanket. She first looked around to see what was going on, then reached up and touched her lips.
【System, why do my lips feel kind of numb…】
She clearly remembered that she had only gone to sleep. So how had her lips ended up feeling like this when she woke up?
System nervously kneaded its little paws,【Uh…】
It actually had no idea what had happened either. The moment Yu Yan leaned in, it had been sent into the privacy room.
It had absolutely no idea what happened afterward.
So it couldn’t just make something up, right?
【I don’t know either. I was sent into the privacy room just now…】
【The privacy room? What kind of place is that?】
System flew over to Shu Ran’s shoulder and quietly explained,【The privacy room is a function added by the Main System so that systems can’t see their hosts’ private matters. When the main system determines that the host needs some space, I’ll be sent into the privacy room. But even while I’m in there, I can still monitor your safety, so Ranran, you don’t have to worry about anything happening to you.】
The privacy room was a little boring, but at least System could still eat its little fish-shaped biscuits and watch its melodramatic TV dramas, so it was fairly satisfied.
Shu Ran nodded, but she was still a little puzzled. She hadn’t done anything at all, so why had System been sent into the little black room?
Her fingertips rubbed over her lips as the little zombie fell into deep thought.
Through the rearview mirror, Yu Yan watched Shu Ran, who had already woken up. When he saw the girl continuously rubbing her lips the moment she woke up, even someone as thick-skinned as Yu Yan couldn’t help looking away guiltily.
He cleared his throat.
“You’re awake?”
Hearing Yu Yan’s voice, Shu Ran stopped rubbing her lips. She quickly crawled into the middle of the seats and beamed at Yu Yan.
“Mm, I’m awake!”
At first, Yu Yan thought he was merely hearing her thoughts. But a few seconds later, he finally realized what had happened.
He froze for a moment, then the corners of his eyes and brows lifted.
“Little thing, you can talk now?”
“Yeah! I just fell asleep. It was because of this…”
After saying just two sentences, Shu Ran realized how awkward speaking still felt. She simply stopped using her mouth and reached out to touch the man’s shoulder instead.
【I fell asleep because my body was recovering some of its functions. I can talk now…】
After saying that, she hesitated again,【System, can I tell Yu Yan about my space and the spiritual spring?】
If this had been before, System might have hesitated for a moment. But now…
It glanced at the favorability meter, which had somehow climbed all the way to eighty percent,【You can.】
As long as she could tell him, that was good.
Shu Ran really wasn’t used to lying to people.
She especially didn’t want to deceive Yu Yan just to keep her space a secret.
She was just thinking about how to tell Yu Yan about the existence of those two things when the walkie-talkie beside them suddenly crackled to life.
“Bzzz—”
“Boss, I just checked with the binoculars. This road has been destroyed too. Looks like Jiaoyang is determined to take over the entire H City.”
Hearing the conversation through the walkie-talkie, Shu Ran finally realized that they had already reached H City. They simply hadn’t been able to enter because the road had been destroyed.
She looked out the window. Deep among the mountains and dense forest, she could barely make out a road leading into the city.
They had already chosen a sufficiently hidden route into the city, yet someone had still destroyed it.
Yu Yan narrowed his long eyes, his brows furrowing.
He followed the vehicle ahead to a stop, then stood at a high point and looked down through his binoculars.
After spotting several people clearly watching them from buildings in the distance, he calmly shifted his gaze away.
It was obvious that the people watching them weren’t all from the same group. Apparently, Jiaoyang Base hadn’t managed to keep the weapons arsenal a secret, and now others wanted a share of the spoils.
A trace of wickedness flashed through Yu Yan’s eyes.
If that was the case…
“Everyone, set up camp here.”
Old Zhang, Old Four, and the others exchanged glances. Without asking a single question, they immediately began setting up camp where they stood.
Night arrived as expected, and the roars of zombies gradually approached from the distance.
After dinner, Yu Yan pretended to be tired and returned to the vehicle. But the next moment, he took out the walkie-talkie and contacted the three squad leaders under his command.
“In a while, Shu Ran and I will enter H City through a side road. Find someone to disguise themselves as me, then act like nothing happened and stay here.”
Old Four and the others immediately assured him that they were familiar with this kind of thing and that he could leave it to them.
After giving his men their instructions, Yu Yan looked at Shu Ran again.
“Did you leave everything behind?”
Shu Ran had already changed into a black tracksuit. She patted the cardboard box beside her and slowly replied, “Instant food, weapons… Is this enough?”
Perhaps she had been holding everything in for too long while she was a zombie, because even after several hours, Shu Ran still spoke with a slight stumble.
But Yu Yan found her like this incredibly amusing. He couldn’t resist pinching her little nose.
“That’s enough. If half a month’s worth of rations still isn’t enough for them, then they really are a bunch of pigs.”
Shu Ran wrinkled the nose he was pinching but didn’t say anything, merely giving a little huff before jumping out of the vehicle first.