He endured the immense pain and forced himself to fall off the bed.
Using his only movable left arm as a support, he slowly dragged himself across the floor toward the door.
Calling it crawling was a bit of a stretch. He was really just using his left arm to drag his entire body forward.
His mind was filled with all the dangers she might encounter. The veins at his temples bulged as his teeth chattered from fear.
The door was clearly right in front of him, yet he had spent so long without managing to shorten the distance at all.
Useless!
Lu Ming, you’re nothing but a useless good-for-nothing!
She was in danger because of you. It was all your fault!
No!
He had to go find her. Find her, then turn himself over.
Even if it meant licking the soles of Li Chuan’s shoes and kowtowing to him, he would do anything. As long as she was safe, as long as she could escape, that was all that mattered!
“Ugh… ugh… ah…”
Hurry up and crawl, Lu Ming!
Hurry up and get over there, you useless idiot!
Click.
Knock, knock, knock.
“Lu Ming? How did you fall onto the floor?”
The man slowly raised his head.
Bai Yan did not have time to worry about anything else. She immediately pulled a bedsheet over him, wrapped him up, and lifted him into her arms in a bridal carry.
With a wave of her hand, she stored all the furniture and belongings they had used inside the room into her storage.
Then she carried him and instantly teleported toward the south.
They were five kilometers away from Li Chuan’s camp. This was already the limit of her teleportation.
She summoned the off-road vehicle she had used earlier.
Lu Ming was placed into the front passenger seat, which was still reclined halfway.
Once everything was ready, she floored the accelerator and sped forward.
Lu Ming obediently kept his eyes on her without making a single sound or movement.
His gaze swept over the girl, wanting to see whether she had suffered any injuries.
Thankfully, she was completely clean.
Bai Yan kept glancing at the rearview mirror from time to time. She had escaped while Li Chuan’s team was out searching.
Because she had been interrogated the entire previous night, the five women and Bai Yan had all been assigned to rest inside the camp today.
She had not been willing to waste her Supernatural Abilities, so she had only teleported half of the distance back home. She had covered the other half by sprinting.
There were still many zombies along the southern route, but the situation was urgent. She avoided whatever she could. When there was no way around them, she could only crash straight through.
Every time the vehicle jolted, she would glance at Lu Ming.
The man knew that the girl was worried about him, but he could not speak. So whenever Bai Yan looked back, he would smile at her.
After driving at high speed for two hours, she finally relaxed a little.
Bai Yan slowed down slightly. First, she used her water-type Supernatural Ability to clean Lu Ming’s body. Then she kept one hand on the steering wheel while using the other to channel her healing ability into him.
“I’m sorry. You must be hungry, right? And you even fell off the bed…”
As Bai Yan spoke, she frowned in frustration and sighed.
“Ugh… ugh… ah, ah, ah.”
“I ran into Li Chuan.”
“Hah! Hahah!”
When Bai Yan saw Lu Ming becoming agitated, she hurriedly comforted him.
“Don’t be afraid. It’s okay. Good boy, we’re already out.”
“Ah, ah, ugh… ugh…”
(I’m not afraid of him. I’m just afraid you’ll get hurt because of me.)
Although they had already escaped quite a distance, once Li Chuan discovered that she was missing, it was only a matter of time before he caught up with them.
They could not rest anymore. From now on, they had to keep heading deeper south without stopping.
At one in the morning, Bai Yan found a secluded, uninhabited forest and stopped the vehicle.
She carried Lu Ming out and changed the off-road vehicle into an RV.
Lu Ming was still awake. He had remained highly focused the entire time, forcing himself not to fall asleep.
Bai Yan got into the RV, closed the door, and placed the man in her arms onto the bed.
She first took out a cup of well water and fed it to him. Then she sat beside the bed and patiently fed him spoonful by spoonful until he was full.
“Go to sleep, good boy.”
She covered the man’s beautiful, alluring eyes with her hand and coaxed him to sleep.
Bai Yan was also hungry and thirsty. She sat in the driver’s seat of the RV, took out a few rice balls and some well water, and quickly ate and drank enough to get by.
This forest was filled with not only mutated plants but also many Mutated Animals.
Even through the windows, they could see pairs of eyes lurking in the grass like light bulbs.
Bai Yan brought up the system map, zoomed it out, and placed it in front of her as a makeshift navigation system.
The moment she started the vehicle, the animals began to move.
After mutating, the animals had grown to more than twice their original size. The RV could not withstand being rammed by them.
There was no choice. She could only get out of the vehicle and clear them out first.
The moment Bai Yan stepped out, a pack of mutated hyenas charged at her.
She coated her long knife in flames. Every one that came at her was burned and slashed down.
The Mutated Animals were very intelligent. They stopped charging at her one after another from the front. Instead, they circled around her and surrounded her.
Bai Yan gave a cold snort. She raised her hand and erected a blazing wall of fire around herself and the RV.
Seeing this, the hyenas became hesitant to attack.
The other Mutated Animals lurking nearby also began retreating one after another. Some had already run away.
The hyenas tried to flee as well, but they were all swept into the flames released by Bai Yan and burned to ashes.
She returned to the vehicle and started it again, preparing to leave.
After this display of power, the road became much smoother during the rest of her drive. Many mutated plants even moved themselves out of the way to avoid being touched.
If not for 0315’s warning, the power she currently possessed could be said to make her practically invincible.
Damn that protagonist halo!
Once Lu Ming recovered, she had to find a way to remove the protagonist halos and luck from Li Chuan and Xu Ke’er.
Right!
If the utterly insane and vile things these two had done in the original novel could be exposed publicly…
The five women around Li Chuan were all his confidantes. They not only loved him to the point of being willing to die for him, but like the male protagonist, they were also thoroughly evil people.
Whenever they did those disgusting things, they always acted together. That was why every incident was handled so cleanly that not even a trace was left behind.
On top of that, the male protagonist was the leader of the First Base and one of the people with the highest-level Supernatural Abilities.
He was the one who had provided the survivors outside with a safe shelter. Because of this, the people under him both respected and trusted him. They would never associate any dirty deeds with Li Chuan.
What a terrible story.
The NPCs acted as though they had been brainwashed.
Thinking about it this way was honestly quite frightening.
It gave her the feeling that she and Lu Ming had been isolated by the original story.
Hmph.
So what?
The original story was the original story.
Now that she was here, Lu Ming was her male lead!
Bai Yan drank coffee and sports drinks to stay awake while searching for a safe place to rest.
She really could not hold on much longer. Her eyelids were fighting to stay open, and her head felt unbearably heavy. She needed to catch up on sleep as soon as possible.
She drove the RV into a clothing store and parked it inside.
By this point, Lu Ming had already woken up. It was eight in the morning of the second day.
After Bai Yan cleaned his body and fed him until he was full, she told him to lie down obediently and wait for a while.
She picked up her knife, got out of the vehicle, and began clearing the zombies inside the clothing store.
The store was quite large, although its doors and windows had all been shattered.
After dealing with the zombies inside, Bai Yan used the system to install sturdy bulletproof glass doors and windows again.
She even smeared some blood and mud over them to make sure that, from the outside, they blended into the surroundings and did not look new. Only then did she stop.