The "lick" in "lickdog" (or "licking dog")

Chen Jin realized what was happening, and a look of horror crossed his face. What was going on? The timing of these glasses breaking was too perfect. He really wanted to take a look too.

"Forget it, let him be." Xu Youjia turned around. "We can just go eat by ourselves."

Uncle Lin smiled and looked at Jiang Chuan with a look of satisfaction. "This child, he used to be too aloof. This is the first time I've seen him so happy."

Lin Xi can't even comment on this, it's outrageous! This guy must be schizophrenic!

"How old is Jiang Chuan again?"

"Twenty-one or twenty-two, I guess?" Yang Qiwen thought for a moment, then patted Xu Youjia on the shoulder. "Xiaojia, isn't Xiaochuan a year younger than you?"

"Yes, he's twenty-one."

Lin Xi whispered, "No wonder they get along so well; the four of them are about the same age."

Suddenly, the people in front of her stopped and turned around, looking at her strangely. "How did you know? When the group leaders introduced themselves, they didn't seem to tell us their ages."

Lin Xi was taken aback. "Really?"

Chen Jin also shook his head, "They really didn't say."

Lin Xi sighed, "Hey, don't even mention it. I've seen them before. The one inside who's throwing knives like crazy, he used to scare me."

Chen Jin asked curiously, "Why?"

"What else could it be? He probably thinks I'm not a good person."

No one expected that the answer would be so unusual.

How could a young girl, so young and short, possibly look like a bad person?

Chen Jin stood up for her, saying, "That kid looks so young, maybe he has presbyopia."

Lin Xi didn't want to bring up the topic further and casually brushed it off.

Over the next few days, Jiang Chuan's favorite thing to do was to find Lu Mingxing and the other two to take turns fighting.

He always seemed happy when he got beaten up.

Finally, one day, Lin Xi couldn't help but ask him, "Aren't you in pain?"

He shook his head. "It's a good thing to be able to spar with a master."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xi's heart skipped a beat. Oh no! This child might have gone mad.

Uncle Lin smiled and said, "He was like this from the first day we met. This kid admires strength. He gets excited when he sees someone strong."

Lin Xi thought to herself, "At this point, who can't see who's the fool?"

After hesitating for a long time, Lin Xi decided to take off her mask. It was actually quite inconvenient for her to keep seeing people with a mask on.

However, Chen Jin and Jiao Jiao had seen what she looked like after taking the disguise pill, so she had to give them a heads-up to prevent them from making too much noise and attracting attention.

Chen Jin was in a panic when he was pulled into a small cubicle right after dinner.

“Celine, even though we’re close, we can’t do anything reckless. As the old saying goes, men and women should keep to themselves. Let’s not get too close.”

Lin Xi's expression at that moment looked like someone who had just eaten a bite of canned herring. "What are you thinking about?"

Chen Jin was taken aback. His first thought was that Yang Qiwen might misunderstand their relationship!

Then he fell silent.

"I didn't mean to lay a hand on you." Lin Xi was speechless, never expecting that one day she would have to explain these things to someone else.

"I wanted to tell you that I will probably start taking off my mask gradually."

Chen Jin was stunned. "Go ahead and take it. It's not like I haven't seen what you look like before."

"It's because you've met him before that I came here specifically to explain things to you."

Chen Jin was even more confused. "What does that mean?"

"I took a special pill before, which I obtained by chance. This pill can change a person's appearance, so the me you saw before was not my real appearance."

"Wait a minute, let me sort this out. You mean the version of you I saw before wasn't your true appearance, but you've now reverted to your real self, is that what you mean?"

Chen Jin's mouth dropped open. "Why do I feel like this is getting more and more like science fiction?"

"Zombies are appearing, isn't that sci-fi enough?"

"Too."

"I'm telling you in advance so you can be mentally prepared and not be scared."

"Wait a minute!"

Lin Xi was getting impatient. "What is it now?"

"You wouldn't happen to be a spy sent from somewhere, would you? Trying to brainwash me, that you actually killed the real Celine and then took her place."

Lin Xi said resentfully, "If that were really the case, I could kill you right now."

Chen Jin's expression froze.

"Think carefully about it yourself. Has anything unusual happened since I came back? If you really were replaced, it's impossible for a person's demeanor and tone to be exactly the same as before. Have you noticed anything different?"

Chen Jin thought about it for a moment, then glanced at her height again. There was indeed no problem.

However, just to be on the safe side, he made a request.

"Why don't you take some medicine and transform into one right here and show me?"

"If I still had the medicine, I wouldn't have told you the truth."

Chen Jin: "That's true."

Why did you take the medicine in the first place?

Lin Xi's mind went blank at this thought, "To hide from the enemy."

They are the outsiders who are currently training with the Wind Eagle Regiment.

This time, Chen Jin finally realized something. "The enemy you're talking about isn't that guy who throws knives, is it?"

Lin Xi nodded, but still added, "He wasn't exactly an enemy, and he probably didn't intend to kill me afterward."

"What? He tried to kill you before?"

Sigh, what can I do when my status is special?

"So, are you willing to believe me?"

Chen Jin and Celine had spent more than half a month together. If she had really changed, he would have noticed it at all.

In the end, he chose to believe her.

So, Lin Xi started taking off her mask in her dorm room.

Yang Qiwen and Xu Youjia had never seen her face before. Even if they had seen her when they first entered the safe zone to register, their attention was not on them at the time, so they did not notice anything unusual.

However, both of them showed some degree of surprise.

"Hey, little sister, your acne's all cleared up?"

Lin Xi was also surprised. Sister Wen actually still remembered the lie she had casually made up back then?

So she nodded, "Yes, it's finally gone down."

Lin Xi has a naturally cute appearance that appeals to almost everyone, young and old.

When I went grocery shopping with her mother before, the aunties and uncles in the vegetable garden would always exclaim when they saw her, "This girl is so pretty, she must be very good at studying!"

Her mother was overjoyed every time she heard this.

Yang Qiwen said the same thing, "She's so cute, is she good at studying?"

Lin Xi smiled and said, "It's alright, but it's not of much use now. The zombie outbreak happened right after the college entrance exam. I don't even know how many points I got on the exam. I guess those teachers haven't even seen the exam paper yet."

"Sigh, who knew this would happen? This disaster just struck." Yang Qiwen propped her chin on her hand. "Life is so unpredictable."