Song Kerou slowly left the Song family home, dragging her heavy suitcase. Her face was filled with melancholy, and she looked pitiful.

Even after leaving the Song family, Song Kerou didn't want to live in an apartment building. To her, it was a collective "slum," and living there made her feel very inferior.

"Ke Rou, don't be too sad. Song Ning has a bad temper. Why don't we wait for Uncle Song to come back and I'll have a good talk with him? After all, we're all family, and he can't really kick you out."

Zhu Cheng jogged up to Song Kerou, comforting her with a smile, displaying a remarkable masculine spirit.

Unfortunately, he was the one who was just intimidated by Song Ning's intimidating aura, so it would be pointless for him to pretend to be a manly man now.

“Mom and Dad will probably listen to my brother too.” Song Kerou lowered her eyes slightly and said sadly, “It’s not that I’m greedy for the family’s good conditions, it’s just that I’m reluctant to leave my family. If I’m far away from them, I… am scared.”

Sunlight shone on Song Kerou's face, radiating an indescribable fragility and sadness.

At that moment, Zhu Cheng, a young man, felt his heart pounding.

Nowadays, pretty girls almost never go out dressed up in a flashy way, and they will deliberately make themselves look ugly. Even though Song Kerou had a layer of black stuff on her face, in Zhu Cheng's eyes, she was still as beautiful as an angel.

At that moment, he was moved.

"It's alright! We're all in a safe base anyway, you can see me whenever you want, I can bring you in anytime."

Zhu Cheng's ears turned red, and he stammered a little when he spoke.

"Your affairs are my affairs from now on. I can protect you forever."

His fingers were constantly intertwined, and he looked somewhat nervous.

This was probably the only "sweet talk" this young man could think of.

Song Kerou lowered her eyes, a fleeting look of disgust in them, but a faint smile remained on her face.

"Thank you so much, Brother Zhu, but..." Song Kerou glanced back at the Song family villa, her eyes filled with reluctance, "I really don't want to be too far away from my family."

"It's alright, there's an empty villa next door, I can help you stay there for now."

Zhu Cheng pointed to the villa closest to the Song family, feeling a sharp pang of heartache. But to win a smile from the beauty, this was the only way.

The villa requires a lot of crystal cores to be paid each month, which could probably deplete all the crystal cores he has saved.

It's okay, I'll just try harder next time.

Moreover, he felt that the Song family wouldn't be so heartless as to let the injured Song Kerou stay outside indefinitely.

"Really? Thank you, Brother Zhu!"

Song Kerou, with a bright smile on her face, grabbed Zhu Cheng's arm, her face full of gratitude.

Seeing Song Kerou smiling so happily, Zhu Cheng suddenly realized that spending all his savings was a good choice.

He didn't know that this was just the beginning of his misfortune.

――

"roar--"

A zombie with a face full of rotting flesh was chasing a bicycle, on which sat Bai Xizhu and her brother.

Bai Yifan kicked the pedals wildly, a faint smile on his face, though the smile looked somewhat twitchy, clearly indicating fear.

But with my older sister sitting behind me, I couldn't let my newly established image be erased, so I had to pretend to be very reliable.

Bai Xizhu was very scared when she first came into close contact with a zombie with a face full of rotting flesh.

But seeing how it moved awkwardly, its limbs stiff as it chased after me, looking completely unresponsive, I wasn't so afraid anymore.

They even examined it closely.

He was probably a respectable old man in life, wearing decent clothes, although they were stained black with blood and became tattered, clearly showing that he was different from the other old men in the village.

Its facial features were terribly distorted; it was not a kind-looking old man.

Bai Xizhu watched for a while, then started to get bored.

All the monsters seemed to be the same type, with faces covered in rotting flesh and roaring sounds coming from their throats. The more she looked at them, the less afraid she became. Bai Xizhu even wondered if they had any beautiful crystal cores in their brains.

"Xiao Fan, aren't you very powerful? Why don't we stop the car and see what color crystal core is inside its head!"

Bai Xizhu patted Bai Yifan on the back, her voice firm and strong, showing no sign of fear.

Upon hearing Bai Xizhu's words, Bai Yifan instinctively shuddered.

I was speechless for a moment.

Didn't his older sister suffer a temporary concussion and lose her recent memory?

How can you be so bold?

Could it be hereditary?

He inherited his genes from his father and grandfather.

My older sister inherited traits from my grandmother and mother.

Thinking about this, Bai Yifan felt a surge of hatred for God.

If we had known the world was going to end, why couldn't we have let him inherit his grandma and mom's daring genes?

Just because he's male, he doesn't inherit it? That's not fair!

For a fleeting moment, Bai Yifan wished he were a girl, at least then he wouldn't be afraid of this damned apocalypse.

"Sis, stop messing around! What if we mess it up? We'll all be screaming in pain! Let's wait until we get back and are with Grandma and Mom before we do this kind of experiment!"

Bai Yifan decisively rejected Bai Xizhu's offer.

It used to be much easier; my older sister could kill zombies with a flick of her finger.

Now, if you want to see the crystal core inside a zombie's head, you'll need Bai Yifan, who isn't a girl, to personally cut open the zombie's skull with a knife.

This is too difficult!

"It's just a regular zombie. Are you afraid of regular zombies?" Bai Xizhu waved the dagger in her hand and said calmly, "I think I've gotten used to it now. I'm not afraid of regular zombies anymore."

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