Chapter 24 Exchanging Secrets
Duan Xue is so smart, how could she have a stupid brother?
Tian Yao could figure out the answer even if she used her toes. She said it in one breath, but when she heard Duan Lei's answer, all she could think of was MMP!
It also caused a surge of grief and indignation in her heart!
"Stop pretending! Are you going to treat me like a fool just like your sister Duan Xue?" Tian Yao looked straight at Duan Lei. She knew what kind of person Lin He would become in the end times, but Duan Lei didn't know. He had never heard of Lin He, yet he was able to find him. "You think you are the cats, and I, a fool, am the mouse in your claws?"
She thought of the countless zombies' teeth and claws biting and grabbing her, as if she were experiencing it again. She trembled all over and her eyes filled with tears.
"You think you're proud of yourself for playing dumb in front of me, don't you?"
"Yes or no?"
Duan Lei stared at Tian Yao blankly, his voice slowly filled with grievance: "I didn't, I didn't, Sister Tian Yao, don't be like this! I didn't lie to you, never!"
He wanted to grab Tian Yao's hand, but he didn't dare.
Although he is smart, there are times when he is helpless. For example, when a girl goes from angry to aggrieved and finally bursts into tears in front of him, he is completely helpless.
Duan Lei just stared at Tian Yao crying until she stopped crying!
Tian Yao cried so hard that her head felt dizzy. This crying was like venting all the depression and grievances she had experienced since her death and rebirth. After she finished crying, she saw Duan Lei's stunned look.
Shouldn't he have come to comfort me after seeing me cry? What's that expression? Tian Yao took out a handkerchief and wiped her face: "Hey, have you never seen a girl cry?"
"You're not playing dumb anymore?"
"Um?"
"Let me tell you, people like you can't act stupid even if they pretend to be stupid. I'm not really stupid at all. I don't even need to pretend."
Duan Lei glanced at Tian Yao cautiously, then looked at her again: "You, you won't cry again, will you?"
Tian Yao never thought that she would scare Duan Lei. She shook her head and said, "Don't cry anymore!"
"Oh, oh, that's good," Duan Lei swallowed and pointed to the kitchen: "The food is burnt!"
The kitchen was filled with smoke, almost turning into thick smoke. Tian Yao rushed in and turned off the fire: "Are you a pig? Why did you tell me so late?"
"If it causes a fire, what will you do?!"
"Sister Tian Yao, can you please forgive me?" Duan Lei followed Tian Yao with a look of grievance: "I didn't mean to lie to you, I didn't trick you, can I still accept it?"
"Let's talk about Lin He first. How did you find him?" Tian Yao asked bluntly. Since Duan Lei was willing to recruit himself, she couldn't ask for more.
"My uncle is a traffic policeman, so it's not difficult to find Lin He," Duan Lei answered truthfully. For him, the most difficult thing was that Tian Yao didn't believe him.
So that's how it is? As long as you have an uncle who's a traffic policeman, many things will be simple. Tian Yao suddenly realized: "You have an uncle who's a traffic policeman!?"
"Sister Tian Yao, what else do you want to ask?" Duan Lei tilted his head and looked at Tian Yao, his eyes clear: "I will definitely tell you everything I know! I will never hide anything from you, and I will never lie to you!"
"Are you smarter than Duan Xue?" Tian Yao looked at Duan Lei steadily. The smarter Duan Lei was, the more dangerous he was to her. But she had to stand on the same front with Duan Lei for now. Only in this way could she save Duan Lei's life at the beginning of the end of the world.
"That's a difficult question to answer," Duan Lei rubbed the tip of his nose with his fingers. "That should be it! Otherwise, I wouldn't have discovered that she put rat poison in my food."
"Since you were able to discover that she had planted rat poison, you can let her succeed?" Tian Yao curled her lips. Thinking carefully, Duan Lei's words were full of loopholes, and she had never noticed them. "That shouldn't be the case, right?"
"Theoretically, no, but I'm still afraid! Fear is a normal human emotion. No matter how smart I am, I'm only sixteen," Duan Lei said aggrievedly, "Smart people will also be afraid of death! Besides, besides, she killed me once!"
"Sister Tian Yao, this is my biggest secret, look—"
Duan Lei stretched out his hand, and a piece of ice slowly condensed in his palm.
Tian Yao quickly clasped Duan Lei's hands together: "Since it's a secret, the fewer people who know about it, the better!"
"I want you to know," Duan Lei stubbornly stretched out his palm, "I was really killed by Duan Xue once. I don't know what happened. I died, but I came back to life before your college entrance examination!"
"Okay, okay, I believe you," Tian Yao put Duan Lei's palms together and said, "Don't let anyone else know about this. It would be terrible if someone took you away for experiments."
Duan Lei gave a silly smile that suited his age: "Hehe, no, don't worry, I'm not that stupid!"
"Besides, I've only told you my secret. If even you betray me, then if I die again, it will be my own bad luck!"
The last sentence hit Tian Yao's heart like a heavy hammer. She moved closer to Duan Lei and said in a voice that only Duan Lei could hear, "I know that she killed you on the third day of your fever!"
Duan Lei slowly widened his eyes, his eyes filled with disbelief and shock, then he gradually calmed down: "No wonder you weren't surprised at all when you saw the ice in my hand!"
"When did you die?"
"A few months later than you, Duan Xue pushed me into the zombie horde," Tian Yao said in a light tone. Knowing Duan Lei's secret, she also revealed her own secret: "I'm afraid she was also reborn."
Hearing Tian Yao's words, Duan Lei's eyes flashed with disbelief, and then his eyes flashed with heartache, but it disappeared too quickly for Tian Yao to notice: "Don't worry, I have tested her, she is not reborn."
"Sister Tian Yao, thank you for trusting me!"
"What are you thanking me for? We're just two poor souls in the same boat," Tian Yao said with a self-deprecating smile. "In a few months, the apocalypse will begin. By then, there will be zombies everywhere. That's when you can show off your ice."
"On the third day of your fever, come to my house and wait for me!"
"Okay!" Duan Lei nodded honestly. He looked at the wall clock and said, "You burned the food. What will happen when uncle and aunt come back later?"
"Isn't it your fault that I burned the food?" Tian Yao finally believed Duan Lei at this time, but it was just belief, not trust!
Duan Lei volunteered to go buy groceries, but Tian Yao refused: "I'll just order some takeout! It would be bad if Duan Xue saw you go out! Just bear with it for a few more months."
"Oh! A few months, I can endure it." Duan Lei spread his hands and looked at Tian Yao's face: "Sister Tian Yao, whatever you want to do, I will help you!"
"Don't worry."
I wish I could be at ease, Tian Yao said in her heart. Even if they exchanged their secrets, she still couldn't be at ease. The most difficult and cruel end of the world has not yet arrived. It would be in vain to say anything now.
Although she is not smart, she never has unrealistic dreams.
(End of this chapter)
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