Chapter 165 New Plans

Mu Qingyu's thoughts had been racing, but Qian Zhong was dejected. Since Mu Qingyu remained silent, he assumed she was rejecting him.

That's true, who would bring two burdens into the apocalypse for no reason? He and Old Ma are indeed useless, yet they still have to ask for food.

And to be honest, if he and Lao Ma can't find a group to rely on, they won't be able to kill zombies, and they can't win fights either. Once they run out of food, they will still die.

Qian Zhong never imagined that he would die alongside a sleazy old man named Ma.

As Qian Zhong was feeling dejected, he heard Mu Qingyu say, "I don't support people for nothing. They have to work. They work to earn points, and then use those points to exchange for supplies. I don't support idlers or useless people."

Qian Zhong's eyes lit up instantly upon hearing this, and he was so excited he almost jumped up: "Great! Lao Ma and I can both work! We can do anything except kill people and zombies!"

It wasn't that he didn't want to kill zombies, but he simply couldn't handle them. A few scattered ones were fine, but he didn't have the stamina or the reaction time to kill more than that.

Moreover, the zombies of today are not the same as those of the early post-apocalyptic world. Modern zombies are faster, stronger, and have more resilient necks and heads, making them much harder to kill.

Ordinary people like Qian Zhong felt this change in the zombies very strongly. But Mu Qingyu couldn't sense it. She always found it strange that the evolution of zombies in this life was so much slower than in the previous life.

It's not that the evolution of zombies has slowed down! It's that her own physical abilities have evolved too fast!

Her current abilities far surpass those of others, and even more so those of zombies. Even though zombies have evolved, they are still easy prey for her.

She certainly didn't think the zombies had evolved.

Mu Qingyu nodded. Since Qian Zhong was going to be brought along, Old Ma would definitely have to be included as well. Tong Yin's special ability was quite interesting, and Mu Qingyu was very interested in it. However, Tong Yin seemed to have different feelings for Xiao Shiyang, so if she invited her, she probably wouldn't go.

As for Xiao Shiyang, Mu Qingyu felt she couldn't afford to invite such a powerful figure. Undoubtedly, Xiao Shiyang was a good person and a capable one. However, taking her along would cause the team to fall into the same division it was in today.

This is Xiao Shiyang's territory, so Mu Qingyu can disregard whatever decisions he makes, including his willingness to support a bunch of parasites. But Mu Qingyu is unwilling.

If you go to Mu Qingyu's place, she will absolutely not tolerate the existence of idle people, no matter if you are old, pregnant or child.

You should at least create some value, right? Even if you can't do heavy work, you can clean up for others every day or something.

A person's nature is hard to change. To put it nicely, Xiao Shiyang is a great guy; to put it bluntly, he's a male saint. He certainly has his bottom line, but the idea that his malice level shouldn't exceed 50... to Mu Qingyu, that bottom line is practically nonexistent.

In her opinion, if the malice level exceeds 10, the person should be thrown outside.

If she takes Xiao Shiyang away, the disagreements alone will cause a lot of trouble. Mu Qingyu won't tolerate this powerful figure!

Huang Jie and Mu Song are acceptable. After several encounters, Huang Jie is different from Xiao Shiyang; he simply has no way to deal with Xiao Shiyang and can only risk his life to accompany him.

Shepherds don't have many fairy tales, but they are very honest in their work.

However, Mu Qingyu felt that these two probably still wanted to hang themselves on Xiao Shiyang's tree, so asking them would be pointless.

Just as she was pondering this, Chen Zhuzhu ran towards Mu Qingyu.

After Mu Qingyu brought her here, Tongyin-jie (a nickname) took care of her. But since yesterday, it seems that all the adults here are arguing, and Tongyin-jie has been busy and hasn't had time to look after her.

Shen Zhuzhu found the adults here a bit scary; they would yell and shout at the drop of a hat, and even hit people. Her father never raised his voice, let alone hit anyone.

She missed her father a little, but she remembered his words: to stay with her sister and live on strongly, because her mother was watching over her from heaven.

The theater has been in chaos these past two days, and Shen Zhuzhu has been obediently squatting in the corner.

She was so small that no one noticed her existence. Even Tongyin forgot about her, busy taking care of Huang Jie and Mu Song all day, and also keeping an eye on Xiao Shiyang's mood.

Today, Shen Zhuzhu finally spotted a familiar figure in the crowd—the older sister who had brought her here. So Shen Zhuzhu ran over and grabbed Mu Qingyu's hand.

To be honest, she was a little scared; the adults here all seemed very fierce.

"Sister..." Shen Zhuzhu called out in a soft voice.

Mu Qingyu looked around and found that no one had noticed Chen Zhuzhu's presence, which meant that no one had been taking care of Chen Zhuzhu for the past two days.

Mu Qingyu sighed. It was fortunate that she came back; otherwise, with the chaos here, even a little girl like Shen Zhuzhu wouldn't have lived long.

She reached out and patted Chen Zhuzhu's head, then squatted down and handed Chen Zhuzhu a box of heart-shaped candies.

Chen Zhuzhu opened it, and inside were colorful candies. She was pleasantly surprised, but she still held up the candies with her little hands: "Sister, have some candy."

Mu Qingyu poured out the candies and stuffed them all into Chen Zhuzhu's mouth. Then she took out another heart-shaped box and held it in her palm: "Zhuzhu, Daddy's in the box..."

She didn't know how to explain death to a five- or six-year-old child.

Chen Zhuzhu blinked her innocent big eyes, trying hard to put the candy Mu Qingyu gave her into her mouth. After a while, a thin mist welled up in her big eyes: "Daddy...Did Daddy go to heaven too?"

Before she and her sister left, her father said that he was going to heaven soon and would be reunited with her mother there, but Zhuzhu was too young to go...

Mu Qingyu nodded; she didn't want to lie to the child. "Daddy went to heaven. This box contains Daddy too. Take it with you, and it'll be like Daddy is still with you."

She didn't know if the little girl could understand what she was saying.

The tiny heart-shaped box was placed in her small hand, and Chen Zhuzhu clutched it tightly: "Daddy, just like Mommy, will be watching over Zhuzhu from heaven, right?"

Mu Qingyu remained silent and could only nod.

Chen Zhuzhu laughed and wiped her eyes with her dirty sleeve: "Then Zhuzhu will listen to Daddy, try hard to eat, and try hard to survive..."

Mu Qingyu patted Zhuzhu's head again. Originally, she was going to ask Zhuzhu if she wanted to come with her, but now there was no need to ask. There was no one here to take care of her, so why bother asking? She could just take her away.