Chapter 19
Shi Buyi was happy to have a new driver and didn't take the audience's words to heart at all. He happily returned to the castle gate and found that his old driver was gone.
[Ah, there really is a thief. Check the car to see if anything is missing.]
[How could a thief steal a vampire? He must have been rescued by his companions.]
[There's no way there could be a thief. Everyone who enters Blue Star has to apply. I'm already very surprised that the "Survival" production team was able to apply to enter Blue Star to film the show.]
[I feel like both the vampire and the zombie have become conscious and rational. It's terrifying. Are we going to have two more species?]
"What you said is a bit scary. If they are truly conscious, then, would killing them be considered a crime?"
[I don't know. I only know that Blue Star is becoming more and more lively.]
Shi Buxi nodded upon hearing this. It was indeed quite lively. Vampires, zombies, and this currently unidentified species beside him. Their hair was silver-white, their mask was white, their clothes and shoes were white, and even their hands were wearing white gloves. It was completely white, like someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder. It was hilarious.
"You sit in the driver's seat and drive." Shi Buyi got into the car, his eyes fixed on the masked man. After he got in, he said, "Just follow the navigation. By the way, what's your name?"
Zong Zhengqing tightened his hands on the steering wheel slightly, pursed his lips, and said nothing.
[I still don't believe he's a zombie, absolutely not. As for why he has fangs, I don't understand!]
[Hahaha, zombies can’t talk! ]
【Pfft, how about you give him a name? 】
"Ya Ya?" Shi Buyi blurted out, and before he could react, he saw the masked man who was looking straight ahead suddenly turned his head and stared at him.
[Ahhh, he's lost his temper and is going to attack you?]
"That shouldn't be the case!" Shi Buyi didn't sense any aggression from him. Instead, for some reason, he felt that this zombie was a little excited.
[Pfft, hahaha, damn, Yaya, you're calling him like a kid, why are you calling him Yaya?]
Because he has fangs?
【Haha, then why not call him Mask? 】
【Bai Bai is more suitable! 】
Zong Zhengqing shook his head.
"You like Yaya, right?" Shi Buxi asked.
Zong Zhengqing nodded, gripping the steering wheel tightly, veins bulging on the back of his hands hidden in the white gloves.
"Okay, I'll call you Yaya from now on." Shi Buyi clenched his fists and made a charging gesture, "Yaya, let's go!"
The vehicles started to move. Since the main road was bombed 3,000 years ago, they had to take the side roads. Furthermore, over the past 3,000 years, various plants had grown wildly, and at a glance, all they saw were trees and shrubs, making it difficult to tell the direction. However, precisely because no one had been walking on it for so long, the places where the previous contestants had passed were very obvious. All the cars had to do was follow the tracks of the previous vehicles.
Shi Buxi was sitting there bored. Just as he was about to lean over the window, his collar slipped down, and he remembered that his clothes were torn. He took the bundle, took out the sandalwood box, opened it, and rummaged around until he pulled out a small sewing box. He opened it and found a spool of thread about the length and width of his index finger, with a needle pinned to it.
【what are you up to? 】
"Sew clothes." Shi Buyi said, and pulled the needle out of the thread. There was still a lot left from the last time.
After taking out the needle, Shi Buxi took off his upper robe and wore a white undershirt underneath, which made his fair skin look even more translucent.
[I'm envious. Is this the benefit of being young? ]
[Sewing clothes, these three words I have only heard of in TV dramas.]
Hey, kid, what's that red thing on your collarbone? A mole?
[A triangular red mole, haha, and a bit round in shape, like, ah, like the roundness of a fang.]
[Really, if you have two, I'd suspect you've been bitten by a zombie or a vampire.]
[It's more like a wound than a mole. ]
Upon hearing this, Shi Buyi raised his hand and touched it, saying, "It's a mole."
When he was a child, he asked his master, and the master said it was a mole.
[Impossible. Feel it again. Is there any bulge, like a scar?]
"Mole can also be raised." After Shi Buyi said this, he took the needle and thread, tied a knot, and started sewing clothes.
The audience still disagreed with Shi Buxi's statement. Some people threatened to ask his brother to see it. His brother is a doctor and can tell whether it is a mole or a wound at a glance.
Shi Buxi was bickering with the audience from time to time, and didn't notice that Zong Zhengqing beside him suddenly became tense.
The audience quickly found a doctor, who examined him remotely and finally concluded that the red mole on Shi Buxi's collarbone was a scar.
Shi Buxi: ...
"Impossible." Shi Buyi firmly denied it. If it was just a scar, why would his master lie to him?
【Stubborn! 】
"Hmph!" Shi Buyi snorted and ignored the audience. He sewed his clothes carefully. His clothes were only slightly torn at the collar, but he quickly sewed them and put them on.
The car didn't stop at all, and he ate bread in the car for lunch. Just when he was eating bread, a large wave of traffic poured into the live broadcast room.
[I heard that after capturing a new species called a vampire, you also captured a zombie.]
[Haha, even now those experts and professors haven't decided whether it's a vampire or an evolved zombie.]
[I watched the video, and the zombies are really obedient.]
If we say that both the vampires of the past and the zombies of today are evolved zombies, doesn't that explain it?
[The kids made me feel like zombies aren't scary anymore.]
I heard that the national research team is about to leave and will arrive soon.
“Beep, beep, beep!”
Just as the audience was guessing, Shi Buxi's terminal rang. It was a private message.
Professor Terrence: [You released the vampire?]
Shi Buxi: ...
Dr. Cang Qingfeng: [How could you let the vampire go? It will take us another week to arrive. Hurry and capture him.]
Shi Buxi: ...
"What do you want vampires to do?" Shi Buyi asked the camera.
Professor Terrence/Dr. Cang Qingfeng: ...
Main Star
"Why is this kid so stupid? Let's add him to the group!" Dr. Cang Qingfeng looked at Professor Terrence. Ever since the old man told him about the discovery of a new species on Blue Planet, he had been studying the video of this kid interacting with vampires. The more he watched, the more frightened he became. Now, it seemed that this kid didn't take it seriously!
"Alright, we're going to ask him for help when we get to Blue Star anyway," Professor Terrence said. He then looked at the white thing in the holographic projection, pointed at it, and asked, "Do you see clearly? Is this a zombie?"
"I'm not sure. It doesn't match the information at all. If he hadn't shown his fangs, I would have thought he was a human." Dr. Cang Qingfeng was almost going insane and had to accept the possibility that something might have happened on Blue Star without their knowledge.
"Could it be a human pretending to be him?" a young man suggested. If it was a human pretending to be him, everything would make sense.
"No, I asked the TV station director, and the producer there has also guaranteed that there is no fraud," Professor Terrence replied. This matter is of great importance, and given his status, the TV station dare not lie.
"Maybe Shi Buxi did this himself in order to become famous." The young man felt that this was a possibility.
"Impossible. We've checked the records. So far this year, besides this program group, the only other applicants for entry to Blue Planet are graduates of the Military Academy. Those students won't be leaving for another two weeks," Dr. Cang Qingfeng said. Due to Blue Planet's unique nature, the surrounding star regions are monitored and maintained at a level two military alert. Not everyone can freely visit. He was extremely cautious in his investigation, checking everything he could.
"It's unusual in itself that a TV station can come to Blue Star to shoot a program, isn't it?" the young man said again.
Everyone in the conference room fell silent. Blue Star meant different things to the empire and to humans. In addition, the corpse poison issue had not been resolved, and zombies were still rampant, so only military personnel and research teams had been allowed in. It was indeed strange that a TV program crew was suddenly allowed in this time.
"Your Majesty is not on the main planet. I'm afraid the consent document was signed by someone who was crazy." The young man curled his lips and said sarcastically.
"That's not true. Some people have been calling for opening up Blue Planet for a few years now. This might just be a test," Professor Terrence said. While the corpse poison issue couldn't be resolved, humans were no longer afraid of infection. Opening up certain areas as tourist destinations might even enrich the national treasury.
“Beep, beep, beep!”
Shi Buxi was almost falling asleep waiting when his terminal rang again. He looked and saw it was a message to invite him to join a group. He reached out and clicked to confirm, entering a group of ten people, three of whom he had seen in the live broadcast room barrage before.
Professor Terrence: [Kid, can you still catch the vampire?]
Shi Buxi: [Are you official?]
Dr. Cang Qingfeng: [Of course, our research team has been studying zombies for hundreds of years, but this is the first time we've discovered the existence of vampires. For the sake of humanity, we must find out.]
Shi Buxi: [If I meet him again, I will catch him. But you have to come quickly. I don't want to stay with vampires for too long.]
Academician Liang: [Of course, we will go there as soon as possible.]
Shi Buxi: [Well, if I see one, I'll catch one for you.]
Dr. Cang Qingfeng: [Also, help stabilize the zombie next to you. This is the first time I've seen a zombie dress up!]
Zong Zhengqing, who happened to turn around and see the holographic screen message: ...
Shi Buxi: [Yeah, I also think it’s different from the zombie information I saw before I came here.]
In fact, Shi Buxi was more curious about the face under his mask.
Professor Terrence: [It's a deal then. We want this zombie too.]
Shi Buxi turned around and looked at the Yaya zombie who was staring intently at the front. He was a little hesitant. A zombie dressed so well must have a love of cleanliness, or even a mysophobia. If he was caught and taken to the laboratory...
[Ahhh, kid, what are you daydreaming about? Who are you chatting with again?]
"Good man." Shi Buxi said casually, and then found that it was a little dark outside, "It's going to rain."
As soon as Shi Buxi finished speaking, heavy rain came pouring down, and now he couldn't move. He had just parked the car in a relatively open area when it suddenly became dark all around, forcing him to turn on the lights inside the car.
[It's over, it's over. You're going to sleep with the zombies tonight.]
[Just like before, just put him outside the car.]
Shi Buxi looked at the zombie sitting next to him. This might be the best way, but looking at the pouring rain outside and his white clothes, he couldn't bear it.
Forget it, just make do with it for one night!
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