Chapter Forty-Six: Childhood Sweetheart Fu Jinxing

On the second-floor balcony, Josie's fingers unconsciously clenched.

Fu Jinxing was sitting in the military jeep that was surrounded by hordes of zombies.

It's been three years.

To be precise, it was six years from her previous life plus three years from this one. She never imagined that she would see her childhood sweetheart, who was three years older than her, again in this ravaged world.

"Damn it..."

Josie instinctively shrank back, as if that would allow her to escape that gaze.

Her back quickly bumped into Feng Ye's chest, the hard muscles sending a warm sensation through her.

Feng Ye keenly noticed her unusual behavior: "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Her voice was a little strained.

"Wait here for me, I'll go down and check the situation."

"Are you going down?"

“They’re from the military.” A dark light flashed in Feng Ye’s eyes. “Perhaps we can travel with them.”

Josie raised her hand, as if to call out to him.

But then again, if they could travel with soldiers, Grandma Chen and Wenjing would be safer.

Besides... she and Fu Jinxing had no past grievances, and it should be a good thing for old friends to reunite.

At this moment, Feng Ye had already darted into the horde of zombies like a cheetah, using his dagger to harvest nearby zombies while simultaneously launching a group attack with his supernatural abilities.

Feng Ye's movements were clean and swift, each slash precisely piercing the zombie's eye socket.

The rotting bodies fell one after another, making dull thuds.

The soldiers in the military vehicle clearly noticed this sudden and powerful assistance.

They who had originally planned to run the zombies over with their cars got out one after another and began fighting them.

Ten minutes later, the nearby zombies were cleared out.

Feng Ye turned to look at the group of soldiers.

"Are you from the military?"

Feng Ye's voice was deep and powerful. He casually touched the inside pocket of his shirt, where a metal container about the size of a thumb was hidden.

It was this thing that made him rush back from abroad before the apocalypse broke out, only to find himself trapped in this catastrophe by some twist of fate.

"We are the Third Task Force of the Eastern Security Zone."

The officer's gaze lingered for a moment on Feng Ye's blood-stained military knife. This man was not only highly skilled, but also a mutated superhuman.

If he had accompanied him, the mission to safely deliver Professor Fu to the military region would have been much smoother.

"There is an important person in the car who needs to be escorted. If you are willing to help, the military will give you a satisfactory reward after you safely deliver her to the safe zone."

Feng Ye happened to turn his head and glance in Qiao Xi's direction.

Josie, hiding behind the window, instinctively turned her body away.

Just a moment ago, she thought she saw Fu Jinxing in the car glance in her direction. She wondered if... he had seen her.

Feng Ye didn't see Qiao Xi, so he looked away.

Traveling with the military is indeed a good choice, at least it's safer for Grandma Chen and Wenjing.

You could also weigh the pros and cons and decide whether or not to hand over what you have to the leaders of China.

“Sure,” Feng Ye nodded readily, “but I have family members traveling with me. If you agree to bring them along, I can travel with you.”

The military commander hesitated for a moment, then asked, "How many of you are there?"

"Three women."

The other party didn't hesitate for long. "Okay, call them and come with us."

Feng Ye borrowed two soldiers from the other party to accompany him, and then strode over to where Qiao Xi was.

“The people down there are military personnel. I plan to go to the safe zone with them, so that you and your mother-in-law will be safer together.”

Even though Feng Ye had already made his decision, Qiao Xi still felt a little nervous thinking about the person in the car.

But it seems... this is a meeting we have to make.

"good."

Feng Ye's gaze swept across her face. "You don't want to?"

“No, it’s definitely safer to go with them.” Josie immediately gave him a reassuring smile.

The suspicion in Feng Ye's eyes lessened slightly. "I'm going to pick up Grandma and Wenjing now. You wait for me here."

"Okay, go ahead."

Feng Ye lowered his voice and said, "Although they have the military's name, don't trust them completely. If anything happens, use your superpower to protect yourself immediately and wait for me to come back."

"Okay, I understand. Go and come back quickly. We haven't been back all night, and I'm sure Grandma Chen and Wenjing are worried."

"Okay, I'll go right now, wait for me."

After Qiao Xi responded, Feng Ye led two soldiers to avoid the horde of corpses and head out of the city.

Josie didn't go downstairs; she remained standing on the second-floor balcony.

I didn't look any further.

Long-forgotten memories surged forth like a tide.

She remembered the last time she saw Fu Jinxing was on her university campus. He was walking side by side with an elegant girl, and sunlight filtered through the sycamore leaves, casting dappled shadows on them.

At that moment, having just been kicked out of her home by her stepmother, she felt as if the whole world had abandoned her.

She was acutely aware that she had always been the one chasing after Fu Jinxing, while he was gentle to her but restrained and distant.

She never imagined that he might have a girlfriend at school.

That day, she returned to her rented room in the rain and had a high fever for two days.

She felt that her ardent pursuit might be bothering Fu Jinxing, so she decided to reduce contact with him in the future.

Two weeks later, Fu Jinxing called her, "Xixi, what happened?"

Joe, pretending nothing had happened, replied, "Nothing!"

Fu Jinxing sighed on the other end of the line, "Really not? Then why haven't you contacted me?"

He is nearing graduation and is participating in the selection process for an important biological experiment project.

When he came to his senses, he realized that Xixi hadn't contacted him for half a month, something that had never happened before.

"No, really! I've just been a bit busy lately."

Fu Jinxing's soft laughter came from the other end of the phone.

Josie still remembers the contents of that phone call.

"Okay, I'll come see you at your school after I'm done with this. I might be involved in a classified research project soon, so I won't be able to contact you for a while. But if you encounter any problems you can't solve, you can call me at this number..."

What happened next?

It seems that because her stepmother and Qiao Yue always used the kindness her father showed them to provoke her, she simply changed her phone number.

Then, the zombie virus broke out, and three years passed in the blink of an eye. Until the moment she was torn apart by the zombies, she didn't know if Fu Jinxing from her previous life was still alive.

As Josie was lost in her memories, the door of the military vehicle below was pushed open from the inside.

The soldier standing nearby immediately said nervously, "Professor Fu, it's dangerous outside. It's safer for you to stay in the car."

"It doesn't matter."

Did he just see Xixi?

Regardless of whether it is true or not, he needs to confirm it.

The girl hadn't contacted him for several months and had even changed her phone number.

He wasn't sure if he had done anything to upset her.

The little girl has a bad temper.

But as long as everyone is alright, that's all that matters!