Knowing that the girl would not leave, the man finally quieted down.
Bai Yan threw all the old furniture from every room into the system’s storage. She put on a mask and carefully cleaned the floors and walls.
So that she could keep an eye on Lu Ming at all times, she positioned her bed facing the door and planned to sleep directly in the living room.
Lu Ming was still far too weak. He had wanted to stay awake and listen to all the sounds the girl was making outside, but unfortunately, he eventually lost control and slowly fell asleep.
「You not only need to increase your Supernatural Ability level, but you also need to become proficient with them.」
Bai Yan: Of course I know that. Tomorrow, I’ll go out and hunt the zombies myself.
「But I don’t want you to use crystal cores to level up your Supernatural Abilities.」
Bai Yan: Obviously. There are impurities inside crystal cores. Why would I use that disgusting stuff when I have peaches?
She lay on the bed with her eyes open, thinking about what she needed to do next.
First, she definitely still needed to dig out the crystal cores and keep them. After all, apart from supplies, they were currently the most popular items used for trading.
Then there was Lu Ming…
She suddenly sat up, got out of bed, and walked into the room.
It was already seven in the evening. She had originally planned to wake the man up for dinner, but the moment she approached the bed, she smelled something.
Bai Yan knew that he had wet the bed.
She first took a new single bed out of the system and placed it against the wall. Then she gently lifted the blanket covering Lu Ming and carefully picked him up.
The movement startled the man awake from a nightmare. He suddenly opened his eyes and breathed heavily. Then he realized that he was surrounded by the familiar, refreshing scent of lemons.
He looked up and saw that it was the girl who had saved him.
She was carrying him in a princess carry.
Bai Yan gently placed him on the new bed and made sure he was lying comfortably.
The man watched as she walked over to the other bed and began cleaning it.
Only after he finally saw the puddle of liquid on the bed did he realize that he had lost control of his bladder.
Embarrassment, shame, and self-loathing over being useless caused him to completely break down.
“Ha! Ha!”
Bai Yan gathered up all the dirty bedsheets and tossed them into the system’s storage in one go. Within moments, she had put clean sheets on the bed.
The man watched the girl approach him again. He bit his lip tightly, completely at a loss for what to do.
Bai Yan took out a basin and a towel and placed them on the floor.
The water in the basin was also well water. She used it directly to wipe his body.
When Lu Ming saw that the girl was about to remove the only thing covering him, his underwear, he became frantic and repeatedly made sounds in an attempt to stop her.
“Oh, come on, be good! I’m just going to clean your body.”
This time, the man did not obey as readily as before. He kept making hoarse sounds and struggled to move his left hand.
“If I don’t clean you, bacteria will definitely grow. Then you’ll get an infection, and I’ll have to spend more of my ability treating you.”
The man immediately became obedient after hearing this.
Seeing that his entire face looked like a ripe red apple, Bai Yan could not help laughing.
Her laughter made Lu Ming even more embarrassed and ashamed. He lowered his head and simply closed his eyes, turning his face away as if he could pretend he was dead.
After a while, Lu Ming secretly glanced at the girl as she cleaned his lower body. Seeing how gentle and efficient her movements were, without a single unnecessary expression on her face, he could not help letting his thoughts run wild.
Had she taken care of other men like this before?
Was she treating him this way because she…
He quickly stopped his filthy thoughts.
His previous embarrassment and shame turned into an inexplicable tightness in his chest.
When Lu Ming thought about how he was now nothing more than a useless, ugly freak, he felt utterly disgusted with himself for daring to hope for even the slightest bit of affection from the girl.
Bai Yan had finished cleaning his body and was just about to ask whether he was hungry when she looked up and saw that the man’s tightly bitten lips were bleeding.
She hurried over, pinched his cheek with one hand, and used the other to pry his mouth open.
“Hey! Don’t bite your lips! They’re bleeding! Seriously, are you really that unwilling to let me clean you?”
Lu Ming hurriedly shook his head while she held his face.
“Oh, so shaking your head means you don’t want me to? You hate me, huh?”
“Ugh, ha!”
He shook his head even harder.
“I don’t understand what you mean. Forget it… No matter what, I’m going to heal you. Let’s feed you first.”
Lu Ming watched as the girl got up to move the chair. He lowered his eyes in disappointment, his lips pursing as the tightness in his chest grew even worse.
At the moment, the man could only eat light porridge. Bai Yan searched through the system’s food menu and found a nutritious porridge. She patiently fed him one spoonful at a time. After he finished eating, she gave him a cup of well water.
The dishes she had used and the dirty well water from cleaning his body were all dumped into the recycling bin in the system’s storage.
The recycling bin could only recycle things from the small world and the system. Anything thrown inside would completely disappear within three seconds.
Seeing that Lu Ming’s lower body had already dried, Bai Yan took out an adult diaper and put it on him before covering him with the blanket again.
She put her hands on her hips and admired her perfect handiwork for a moment before leaving the room and going into the living room to eat dinner.
The man watched her with flushed cheeks, his gaze following her the entire time.
As Lu Ming watched her eat, he gradually fell asleep again.
Meanwhile, Bai Yan found her dinner completely tasteless. Lu Ming’s body kept popping into her mind.
Bai Yan’s inner thoughts: Ahhhhhhh! Oh my god!
This was the first time this beauty had ever seen a real, living, breathing human male body.
She had seen plenty of male bodies in manga, but seeing a real person still made it difficult for her to keep her composure.
She had to admit, he really was worthy of being the Crazy Villain, worthy of being the person the male protagonist would become jealous of and scheme against.
He was outstanding in every possible way.
Fortunately, she possessed the professional discipline of a top assassin.
That was to remain calm and handle everything rationally no matter what happened.
She must have performed extremely well just now!
After finishing dinner and cleaning up, Bai Yan saw that Lu Ming was asleep and slipped into the small world.
She first took a shower in the villa. Then she soaked in the hot spring for an hour, picked all the peaches that had ripened that day, and finally returned to the living room outside.
Bai Yan leaned against the bed and ate peaches while drinking well water. After finishing one, she would open her status panel and take a look.
It was not until she finished three peaches that her level finally changed.
Unfortunately, only her Fire ability had reached Level 2. Her Healing ability had not changed at all.
Bai Yan rolled her eyes internally.
It was already dark outside, but she still gritted her teeth, picked up her weapons, and left the apartment.
Her body had been tempered, making her eyes exceptionally sharp. Even in the darkest places, she could see everything as clearly as if it were daytime.
With her Light ability as well, her eyesight was enhanced even further.
She hunted zombies along the way and dug out their crystal cores one after another.
She discovered that these crystal cores varied in both size and color.
According to the plot of the book, the size of a crystal core should be related to the zombie’s level.
As for the color, she guessed that each color represented the crystal core exclusive to a particular Supernatural Ability.
For example, the red one she had just dug out was most likely a crystal core specifically for the Fire ability.
However, colored crystal cores were rare. Most of them were transparent and could be used by anyone.
As for the rules regarding mutation, infection could only occur if someone was bitten by a zombie’s venomous teeth. Being scratched by its fingernails or injured in any other way would not cause infection.
Even so, fewer than twenty percent of humanity had survived so far.