(Third update is here. That's all for today. See you tomorrow.)

Zhou Liang looked surprised, or rather, slightly flustered. Then, his eyes filled with confusion, and he asked me, "No, well, didn't I just say my name is Zhou Liang? Is there a problem?"

I gave an awkward laugh. "Why are you panicking?"

Zhou Liang's eyes hardened as he stared at me, then he laughed: "I just don't understand what you mean by that question."

I smiled and said, "I'm not asking for your name, I'm asking, who are you?"

Zhou Liang still looked at me with confusion, and finally blurted out, "I am who I am."

I raised an eyebrow, no longer dwelling on the issue, and changed the subject, saying, "Can you tell me about your past? Let's start from the zombie outbreak. I want to know what happened to you during that time."

"Huh?" Zhou Liang asked me, puzzled. "Why?"

I explained, “Because this isn’t a shelter, and we’re complete strangers. If you want to stay here, tell me about your experiences. If you don’t want to, that’s fine too. You can stay here tonight, and I’ll take you away tomorrow morning.”

Hearing this, Zhou Liang became anxious. "No, brother, you're being too hasty. I... I don't know what to say either."

I said, "Let's start from the beginning."

Zhou Liang smiled bitterly and finally began to recount what had happened to him.

The story is simple: he was playing games in his school dormitory when a catastrophe occurred outside, and many of his classmates turned into monsters. He then mustered up the courage to go find his girlfriend. At first, he was lucky and ran into her as soon as he went out.

But later, when they were fleeing for their lives, his girlfriend shielded him from the monster in order to save him, and ended up being bitten.

Although he killed the monster, his girlfriend did not escape the fate and died.

Later, he escaped from school, encountered soldiers, and was taken to a safe zone.

When I heard this, I was a little surprised. I didn't expect that he had been to the safe zone.

He stayed in the safe zone for about a month and a half. Then something happened in the safe zone. The epidemic began to spread in the safe zone, and the army began to kill people everywhere. He then decisively escaped from the safe zone with others.

After that, he went with the tide to Wutong City.

“Originally, I planned to stay in Wutong City, but I’m not from Wutong City, so I planned to go back to Jiajiang to find my parents. But at first I was afraid, and I even planned to find someone to come with me, but later I found that no one was willing to come with me, so I secretly ran away by myself.”

"I was originally planning to go check out the safe zone, but then I saw an explosion there at night, so I didn't go and came straight to Jiajiang. What happened next was pretty much what you saw: I was chased by zombies, twisted my ankle, and then you guys saved me, that's all."

When Zhou Liang said these words, he was basically looking at me.

I couldn't tell if he was lying, but I felt there was something he was hiding in his words, like the suspicious nature of his girlfriend's death. When he talked about his girlfriend, his emotions were clearly off, and his tone was hesitant, unlike when he spoke fluently about other things.

"Is that all?" I asked.

"Well, I have nothing else to say."

I squinted and chuckled, saying, "Do you think lying like this is interesting?"

"What?" Zhou Liang looked at me in surprise. "What do you mean?"

I said, "I already said that if you want to stay, we can talk, but what do you mean by giving me this evasive answer? You don't have to talk, but don't make up nonsense."

Zhou Liang glared at him, "Where did I talk nonsense?"

I frowned and said angrily, "Do you think I can't tell you're emotionally unstable when you're talking about your girlfriend? If you really want to stay, don't give me that crap, understand?"

Zhou Liang initially glared at me, but eventually deflated and admitted, "Yes, I lied, so what? Can't I have some privacy?"

I said, "You want privacy? Sure, leave here, and we'll pretend we never met. You go find your parents, and I'll stay here and continue living my life, how about that?"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Liang became anxious and said, "Then I'll tell you, okay? But you have to promise me one thing: you can't tell anyone about this!"

I mocked the doctor, saying, "You have no right to make demands."

"You..." Zhou Liang said with a frustrated expression, "Fine, I'll talk, okay?"

"Okay, go ahead, I'm listening."

Zhou Liang took a deep breath and said, "Yes, I did lie about my girlfriend. That's because... because I was very unhappy."

I didn't interrupt.

He continued, "When I ran away from school, it wasn't just my girlfriend with me, but also my three roommates. They came out with me. Later, we got trapped in a small shop's warehouse. At first, my three roommates said they would work together to get out."

"Then two days later, those bastards went crazy. They thought they were doomed, so, so, so they..."

Bang!

At this point, Zhou Liang slammed his fist on the bed beside him, his face full of anger, his eyes even turning red.

"So what?" I asked.

He looked up at me, tears streaming down his face. “So, these bastards raped my girlfriend! And then they even used her as bait to lure away the zombies outside! I was knocked unconscious by them, and when I woke up and saw that scene, I didn’t know what to do, so… I killed them all, and then threw them into the horde of zombies.”

"And then you escaped?" I asked.

"Yes!" Zhou Liang looked at me with bloodshot eyes. "I escaped, but my girlfriend is dead!"

Two minutes later, his mood returned to normal.

I haven't said a word for the past two minutes.

Zhou Liang said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hide it, but I was afraid that if you knew I had killed someone, you wouldn't let me stay here, so I didn't say anything before."

I nodded. "I understand. Is there anything else you'd like to say?"

Zhou Liang looked dejected, staring at the ground, and shook his head, saying, "That's all. I've told the truth about everything else."

I didn't continue asking. Actually, besides the first question, there were two more questions, but I felt that asking them now would be ineffective, so let's leave it at that for now.

Just then, I heard someone come back downstairs.

I got out of bed and said, "You rest first, I'll come over later."

(End of this chapter)