In fact, Luo Yan only found out later that the place was not far from City E. It was just that she woke up in an unknown village. She was surrounded by fear and anger at the time and thought that she had been sold to a faraway place.

The man who bought her was an old bachelor named Zhang Shengcai. She had tried to escape many times, but was caught every time. Later, the place where she was staying was exposed. When she thought she could finally see the light of day again, Zhang Shengcai tied her up in a deserted cave nearby to prevent her from being discovered.

Zhang Shengcai would deliver two meals to her on time every day. At that time, she was completely desperate, but she still lived on bravely because Han Wan would sometimes ask someone to check on her living conditions.

It was from that person that she learned that her son was still living well in Han Wan and Lian Zongren's home as the second son.

The man told her that as long as she stayed here obediently for the rest of her life, Han Wan would treat her son as her own. If she ever ran away or found a way to appear in front of Lian Zongren, they would definitely use the Han family's methods to retaliate against her young child.

So she didn't dare to die. She would rather let Han Wan see her miserable state and feel proud, rather than let Han Wan vent her unnecessary anger on her own child...

Han Wan was so cruel. Looking at her condition, even if she wanted to go back, she would not be able to face her previous life and the person she was before. Wanting to live for the son she had only met once might be the only spiritual support that kept her alive.

Later, the two meals Zhang Shengcai delivered to her became just one meal a day, and gradually Zhang Shengcai stopped going to the cave to see her. Just when she thought Zhang Shengcai was tired of her, the outside world suddenly changed.

There was no one living around the cave where she was. In the past, only the occasional person going up the mountain to chop wood would pass by on the distant road. But even she, who was already in a trance, slowly realized that something was wrong. There was no one, no one around.

She finally used a stone to rub the rope on her ankle and slowly walked towards the village. From afar, what she saw were indeed broken limbs all over the ground and several evil-looking people rushing towards her, including Zhang Shengcai.

She ran towards the cave in a panic. Although the evil spirits were chasing her, she led them into a deep ditch and they fell into it. She didn't know what was happening, so she could only continue to hide in the cave.

Fortunately, Zhang Shengcai had placed some pots and pans and a small tank of gas in the cave for convenience. She survived in the cave by relying on the wild fruits and vegetables around her every day.

In the process of searching for wild fruits and vegetables, she suffered many injuries, but she was surprised to find that her wounds slowly healed on their own. This discovery made her happy for a long time, but her intuition told her that she still did not dare to go into the village.

Just a few days after she ran out of food and ammunition and the gas in her gas tank was used up, many people who were not from the village seemed to have fled to that village to escape. She was also discovered in the cave. She learned from those people that the outside world had been invaded by the zombie virus and the original human world had become a world of zombies.

Those evil spirits are not ghosts, but zombies.

She remembered that those who found her said she was lucky. Although she was sold here, she unexpectedly survived. They also told her that all the cities outside had become like hell, with almost no survivors.

But she was imprisoned there for 19 years. She thought that those 19 years had exhausted all her misfortunes, but she didn't expect that even greater misfortunes were waiting for her.

With her healing abilities, she was quickly valued by those people. However, after a red rain, the plants in the village began to mutate one after another, so she followed those people to find a base to survive.

Although people died every day, that period was also the happiest time she could recall. She had companions, a goal, the excitement of killing zombies, and the sense of accomplishment after healing others' injuries...

It wasn't until she and her companions encountered a horde of zombies on the road and everyone died, except for her who was lucky enough to escape to the E City base with another passing group, that she learned that there were still survivors in E City. Just when she began to hold out a glimmer of hope that she could see her child, she was immediately captured upon entering the base. Then she saw the woman who had haunted her for 19 years...

The basement was extremely quiet in the middle of the night, with only Luo Yan's gentle voice slowly telling her story. After so many years, someone finally heard what she had experienced, and that person was her own child.

"Yue'er, I have thought about you every day these years, but now I have implicated you. I wish I were dead."

Luo Yan shed two lines of tears. She thought she had shed all her tears, but it turned out that she was just numb before.

Lian Jiyue, who was tied to a wooden pillar, clenched his fists. He had thought of countless possibilities, but he had never thought it would be like this. Luo Yan only described her experience in a light-hearted manner, but never mentioned any of her suffering. Now he would rather Luo Yan was a heartless mother, as long as she lived well.

But the answer he heard was the most painful. He hadn't even known that when he was still the head of the E City base, his biological mother had been in the same base with him. He didn't dare to think about the torture Luo Yan had endured at that time...

Seeing that Lian Jiyue didn't say anything, Luo Yan felt uncomfortable again. It would be great if she was really crazy.

"Han Wan...has never treated me well."

In the shadows, Lian Jiyue suddenly said.

"What?"

Luo Yan was stunned, but then she understood. How could Han Wan, the woman who still refused to let go even after knowing how much she had suffered, be kind to her and Lian Zongren's child?

"I'll find a way to take you away."

Lian Jiyue opened his eyes and looked at Luo Yan. The mother and son looked at each other. Luo Yan also saw her child's appearance clearly for the first time. There seemed to be... no contempt or disgust in his eyes.

At that moment, Luo Yan suddenly felt relieved and smiled. She even felt that she was the happiest mother in the world, although that moment was extremely short.

"Your father... raised you very well."

Luo Yan said with a smile.

Lian Jiyue didn't know why she was laughing, but then he laughed too, because he felt that the smile of his mother was so beautiful.