Bai Yan was currently resting inside a pharmacy.
After hunting all night, it was already dawn.
She had to hurry back. Lu Ming was still at home, and she needed to take care of him.
Lu Ming was already awake.
After waking up, he remained dazed for a while. When he saw the familiar layout of the room, he realized that this beautiful dream had not ended yet.
Lu Ming struggled to shift his head and looked toward the girl’s bed outside his room.
However, all he saw was the neatly folded blanket on the bed. The familiar figure was nowhere to be seen.
“Ugh! Ha! Ha!”
He repeatedly swallowed and endured the pain as he forced sounds out of his throat to call for her.
Time passed second by second, but the only response was the quiet, empty room.
No one?
Why?
Where had she gone?
Did she not want him anymore?
Ah…
That was right…
This was the correct thing to do.
He was a useless, ugly freak. Keeping him around would only hold her back.
That girl seemed a little younger than him. Her entire body seemed to radiate dazzling light. She was beautiful, brilliant, confident, and powerful.
Lu Ming did not know why she had saved him, but he understood that someone as wonderful as her could never stay by his side forever.
He just had not expected that day to come so soon.
Even though he understood everything, tears still flowed endlessly from his eyes like pearls falling from a broken string.
The tightness in his chest, sadness, and despair completely overwhelmed him.
Click.
“Oh my god, seriously? Why did I only awaken Water?”
Bai Yan closed the door, put down her weapons, and irritably ran a hand through her hair.
She let out a heavy sigh before walking straight into Lu Ming’s room.
The man had never expected the girl to come back. He had originally planned to wait alone in the room until he died.
“Hmm? Why… why are you crying?”
Lu Ming met the eyes of the girl who had leaned down toward him.
He immediately turned his flushed ears away and buried his face as deeply as possible into the pillow, trying to hide like an ostrich.
Bai Yan gave him an amused look and teased him.
“Oh~ Let me guess. You woke up and didn’t see me, so you thought I had run away, didn’t you?”
Lu Ming bit his lip and said nothing.
When he heard her unrestrained laughter, he became even more embarrassed and wished he could disappear.
Bai Yan pulled over a chair and sat beside the bed to comfort him.
“Hmm… I guess this is partly my fault. I should have told you before I went out. Alright, alright, don’t be upset~”
Before he even had time to react, she lifted the blanket and reached for the adult diaper Lu Ming was wearing.
When the man realized what she was about to do, he hurriedly raised his head with great difficulty and made muffled sounds.
“Be good. Let me clean you up first.”
This time, Bai Yan used the newly unlocked Water ability to clean his entire body.
It really was useful.
She had been wondering how she was going to bathe Lu Ming, and this solved the problem perfectly.
After changing his adult diaper, she took out a bowl of porridge, raised the head of the bed, and was about to feed him when she saw the astonished look on his face.
“Hehe, what do you think? Am I amazing? That was the new ability I obtained today.”
Lu Ming stared at her face and gave a slight nod before obediently eating the porridge Bai Yan fed him.
Just like before, after breakfast came the time for treatment.
The injuries on Lu Ming’s body were easy to heal. The difficult part was the various toxins that had accumulated inside his body.
These miscellaneous toxins had long since spread throughout his entire body and had practically become one with him.
Bai Yan struggled greatly while using her Level 1 Healing ability on him.
Today, she could only last for an hour again.
She angrily bit her lower lip. The taste of iron spread through her mouth.
Seeing her like this, Lu Ming was heartbroken. Enduring the pain, he trembled as he tried to move his left arm toward Bai Yan’s lower lip, which had already begun to bleed.
Just as his hand was about to reach her, he saw his own left arm and hand.
They were covered in horrifying wounds, rotting flesh, and an ugly, disgusting appearance.
He immediately shrank back beneath the blanket.
Seeing him like this, Bai Yan felt deeply saddened. She gently rubbed his head and said,
“If you wake up and don’t see me in the future, don’t be scared. I just went outside to kill zombies and train my ability. I’ll usually come back around mealtime, so don’t worry. I will absolutely never abandon you. I definitely, definitely have to cure you, Lu Ming.”
The man looked at the girl in surprise when he heard his own name.
Bai Yan knew what he was wondering about. She simply stood up, put her hands on her hips, gave him a mischievous smile, and went into the living room.
After eating, she slept for a while before heading out again.
After hearing the girl’s explanation, Lu Ming was no longer afraid that he would wake up and find her gone. He obediently lay in bed and waited for her to come home.
Bai Yan was having a great time slaughtering zombies outside by herself. There were not enough zombies in the area for her to practice on.
Looking at the long knife she had already chopped dull, she felt indescribably frustrated.
Why wouldn’t her Healing ability level up?
Her Fire ability had already reached Level 3!
It really seemed that the more desperately she wanted something, the less it would cooperate.
When she took out a new knife, she also dumped the large pile of trash she had accumulated in the storage over the past few days.
After searching the surrounding area, she had not found any other humans nearby.
She had to admit that the route 0315 had given her really was excellent.
「Don’t get too pleased with yourself. The male protagonist is already conducting a large-scale search for the two of you. It’s only a matter of time before he finds this place.」
Bai Yan asked while continuing to kill zombies, “Where is he now?”
「In Z City to the west.」
Bai Yan: Z City? It’s actually right next to us. That’s pretty dangerous.
「You can stay here for at most another week before you have to leave.」
Bai Yan: Damn it. Can’t I just deal with him directly? Didn’t you say my Level 1 is equivalent to someone else’s Level 10?
「You still can’t deal with a large group of people right now. What’s more, the people coming will also bring mutated animals. The best option is to run.」
Bai Yan clicked her tongue and angrily burned the last zombie on the school playground to death.
She wiped the blood splattered onto her wristwatch.
Seven in the evening. It was time to go home.
Inside the apartment, Lu Ming had been staring blankly at the ceiling.
When he heard the sound of the door opening, he smiled.
His heart began pounding rapidly.
The little girl who had saved him had finally come home.
Bai Yan briefly cleaned herself with her Water ability before going through her usual routine at Lu Ming’s bedside, skillfully taking care of him.
Lu Ming noticed that the girl was frowning.
He did not know what had happened. He only knew that she was in a bad mood.
If she was unhappy, then he was unhappy too.
But he could not speak. He had no way to ask her what was wrong, much less comfort her.
Bai Yan mechanically fed him the porridge in the bowl while her mind was filled with plans for what they should do next.
The more she thought about it, the more she clicked her tongue in frustration.
Lu Ming shrank slightly when he heard the sound.
His instinctive thought was that perhaps taking care of him had made her unhappy.
Bai Yan noticed his cautious expression and finally told him that Li Chuan was about to come after them.
The moment Lu Ming heard that name, his brows furrowed.
He clenched his back teeth tightly, and his expression instantly became terrifying.