"Huh?" Lu Xuexue was stunned for a moment, repeatedly confirming what Wang Peng had just said.
Should I sleep with him for a bit?
Wang Peng grinned, revealing his large, yellow teeth, and stared at Lu Xuexue, scanning her up and down. He rubbed his hands together and said:
"You don't really think you can bribe me with just a few crystal cores, do you?"
He took out a cigarette, lit it, took a drag, and blew a smoke ring into the sky.
Cigarettes are a very precious commodity in the apocalypse.
The cigarettes in Wang Peng's hand were the best brand, all gifts from others.
"Lu Xuexue, this is the end of the world. I advise you not to be so naive."
Lu Xuexue's face turned ashen; she never expected Wang Peng to be so audacious!
"What's wrong? If you don't sleep with me, I won't help you."
Lu Xuexue closed her eyes, suppressing the nausea in her heart, and then a twisted smile appeared on her face.
She pulled out a small bag from behind her back, containing three hundred crystal cores that she had secretly kept.
Lu Xuexue originally wanted to use these crystal cores to enhance her superpowers, but who would have thought that Wang Peng would be so disgusting!
"You actually kept it to yourself?"
Shi Peng raised an eyebrow slightly. He stopped smoking and stared at Lu Xuexue for a long time.
"As long as you agree to trip up Ruan Tian and not touch me, all the remaining crystal cores are yours."
Lu Xuexue's voice trembled as she said this, but she still tried to remain calm.
She only acted spoiled and capricious when she was in front of Ye Mofeng, taking advantage of his good temper.
Shi Peng bit the cigarette butt, his eyes looking somewhat fierce, but he ultimately agreed.
"Fine, I won't touch you, just give me all the crystal cores."
The two reached an agreement. Wang Peng wasn't a very good person, but he was at least a man of his word.
Once Lu Xuexue realized she had achieved her goal, she immediately ran away without daring to look back.
This perfectly embodies the principle of bullying the weak and fearing the strong.
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The remaining survivors began to draw lots one after another. Ruan Tian pulled Ye Mofeng along, and they lined up at the back of the crowd as if they were watching a spectacle.
"Ye Mofeng! This is my first time drawing lots, I'm so excited!"
Ye Mofeng looked down at Ruan Tian. When she got excited, her fair cheeks would blush and her eyes would sparkle.
Compared to the somber, mournful faces of everyone in the apocalypse, Ruan Tian stood out, radiating energy.
Aren't you afraid of being the one drawn?
Ruan Tianxin was carefree; she glanced around confidently and said:
"How is that possible! There are so many people here. I've always been incredibly unlucky; I've never won a 'buy one get one free' drink, let alone ten red tokens."
Upon hearing this, Ye Mofeng frowned slightly, and he subconsciously searched for Lu Xuexue's figure in the crowd.
Ruan Tian noticed his little action, raised her hand and tapped his chest, unable to help but mutter a complaint under her breath:
"You've come this far, and you're still looking for Lu Xuexue?"
Ye Mofeng sought out Lu Xuexue for two reasons: first, he was worried about her safety, and second, he was concerned that she might harm Ruan Tian.
"I guess I'm overthinking it."
Ye Mofeng rubbed his forehead, but the vague sense of unease in his heart was growing stronger.
Ruan Tian's turn is coming up soon, and she's still acting like a fool, pulling Ye Mofeng along to talk about everything from the origin of species in South America to the explosion of the Earth.
Ye Mofeng listened to Ruan Tian's chatter without finding it annoying.
"Your turn is coming soon."
He gently nudged Ruan Tian from behind, but she acted as if nothing had happened; she had already prepared herself for the fact that her signature was for nothing.
Sensing Ye Mofeng's unease, Ruan Tian comforted him, saying:
"Don't be so nervous."
Her hand was already inside the box, and she had drawn half of the lottery ticket. Before even seeing the color, Ruan Tian was still comforting Ye Mofeng:
"Don't worry, I'm such an unlucky person, how could I possibly get that..."
Ruan Tian pulled the stick out completely, glanced down at it, and her smile instantly froze. She then uttered the remaining two words.
"Red tag".
Ruan Tian rubbed her eyes, wondering if her eyes were playing tricks on her.
Like a top-tier unlucky person who has never won a "buy one get one free" prize in her entire life, she suddenly seemed to win a gold card in a ten-pull gacha game amidst the vast sea of people.
However, this isn't gold; it's red!
Ruan Tian's heart was in her throat. How was she supposed to fight the zombies?
Could it be that they used the cart to kill those zombies?
Or should we let the little white thing gnaw on the zombies and trim their toenails?
Ye Mofeng stared at the skewer in Ruan Tian's hand, his lips pressed tightly together. His bad premonition had come true.
He closed his eyes briefly, then opened them again, his eyes clear, and snatched the stick from Ruan Tian's hand.
"Hey! What are you doing?"
Ruan Tian was stunned for a moment, and after realizing what was happening, she tried to snatch the stick back.
But Ye Mofeng didn't give her that chance at all, holding the stick very high.
"Ye Mofeng!"
Ruan Tian was like a 1.5-meter-tall child who could jump up and press the button for the 18th floor of an elevator, jumping around in place, trying to snatch the red token from Ye Mofeng's hand.
Ye Mofeng raised his hand very high. He himself was 1.87 meters tall, while Ruan Tian's body was only 1.6 meters tall.
Ruan Tian jumped for a while, but finally couldn't jump anymore and lay on the ground like a salted fish.
"Ye Mofeng, don't be so smug. Next time, I'll jump in 20-meter high heels!"
Upon hearing this, Ye Mofeng acted as if nothing had happened, squatting down in front of Ruan Tian and quietly watching her.
"Give me the skewer quickly."
Ruan Tian held out her hand to him, saying expressionlessly, "I drew this myself."
Ye Mofeng rested his chin on one hand, his voice cold and clear, uttering cruel words in the calmest tone:
"So how do you fight zombies? Do you use a wheelbarrow to kill them?"
Ruan Tian instinctively wanted to retort, but Ye Mofeng said something even more hurtful:
"Or are you going to take a steamed bun and slap it all over a zombie's face?"
Ruan Tian fell silent, "..."
Ye Mofeng said softly, "I'll go for you. There's no rule against exchanging tickets with others."
“But I drew this myself,” Ruan Tian said, snatching the stick away when he wasn’t looking.
Ye Mofeng's answer was even more straightforward, "But I don't want you to die, Ruan Tian. I want you to live well."
Ruan Tian naturally understood Ye Mofeng's meaning. She looked down at the bamboo skewer in her hand and suddenly smiled with relief.
"This is my fate, and I accept it."
Ye Mofeng didn't accept it. He subconsciously wanted to say something, but Ruan Tian reached out and gently tugged at his sleeve.
Ye Mofeng looked down and met Ruan Tian's gaze, clearly seeing the expression on her face.
Ruan Tian gave a frank smile, revealing a small tiger tooth at the corner of her lips, and if you looked closely, you could also see a dimple.
"It's okay, I'm not scared."
She gripped the bamboo skewer tightly in her hand. "You're my friend, so I won't use you as a shield."
"Ye Mofeng," Ruan Tian said softly, her eyes sparkling, her voice carrying a barely perceptible warmth.
“I will not become like Lu Xuexue, because you are not a tool, you are a real person.”
"I also hope you live a good life."
Ye Mofeng fell silent, his gaze fixed on Ruan Tian with a hint of darkness.
"Believe me, I can survive."
Ruan Tian threw a punch at Ye Mofeng, raising both hands in a strong stance.
"Look at my amazing muscle definition."
Ye Mofeng was amused by her words; he couldn't see any muscle definition at all.
"With your skinny arms and legs, you'd probably be too small for even a zombie to gnaw on."
"Ye Mofeng!" Ruan Tian's expression turned serious, sensing that something was terribly wrong. "We've become familiar with each other now."
Upon hearing this, Ye Mofeng nodded in agreement, "Yes, indeed."
"I've noticed that you've been treating me very badly lately!"
She feigned distress, sobbing softly. Ye Mofeng stared at her for a few seconds, then said expressionlessly:
"Can you close your fingers tightly when you cry? I can see your eyes smirking."
"..." Ruan Tian put her hand down speechlessly. "Tsk, can't you cooperate with my performance for once? You're so heartless."
"I'm even prepared to lead the army in your stead, and you still say I'm heartless?"
"Ha, a man's mouth is a lying devil."
Ruan Tian and Ye Mofeng were joking around, and Lu Xuexue, who was in the corner, saw this scene.
Her heart instantly ached, feeling that Ye Mofeng had betrayed her.
Adding to the lingering feeling of disgust from Wang Peng not long ago, Lu Xuexue felt extremely aggrieved.
Ye Mofeng also drew a lot, and it was a blank lot.
Lu Xuexue strode up to him and snatched the white slip from Ye Mofeng's hand.
"Hey, what are you doing!"
Ye Mofeng was used to it, but Ruan Tian was not happy. What kind of trouble was Lu Xuexue trying to cause this time?
"What am I supposed to do? What's between me and Ye Mofeng is none of your business."
She rolled her eyes at Ruan Tian, then said arrogantly to Ye Mofeng:
"You have to participate in this zombie horde, no objections?"
Ruan Tian stared at Lu Xuexue incredulously, her gaze as if she were looking at a shameless paramecium.
"Ye Mofeng drew a blank lot, what are you pointing fingers at for?"
Lu Xuexue gave all her crystal cores to Wang Peng.
She is currently penniless and needs to hand in crystal cores every day to stay in the survivor base.
Lu Xuexue didn't want to go out and show her face in the sun and wind to fight zombies.
"If Ye Mofeng has no objections, why are you calling him that here?"
That's because Lu Xuexue never gave Ye Mofeng a chance to refuse.
"Have some shame! Treating Ye Mofeng like a tool, he'll abandon you sooner or later!"
Upon hearing this, Lu Xuexue said with absolute confidence, "That's impossible. Ye Mofeng likes me so much, how could he leave me?"
Seeing that the argument between the two was getting more and more serious, Ye Mofeng reached out and gently patted Ruan Tian's shoulder.
"It's okay, I'll go."
"Ye Mofeng!" Ruan Tian turned around, looking at him in disbelief. "You're not going to be a simp for the rest of your life, are you?!"
Lu Xuexue snorted coldly, proudly raising her head, feeling as if she had won.
"See? I already told you Ye Mofeng wouldn't refuse me, so why are you yelling here?"
Ruan Tian turned around and stared intently at Ye Mofeng, her small chest heaving with anger.
Lu Xuexue hadn't finished speaking; she continued arrogantly:
"Also, all the crystal cores you dug out during the zombie horde are for me."
"Huh?" When Ruan Tian heard this, she couldn't help but wonder if there was something wrong with her ears.
What a terrible traitor Ye Mofeng is!
Ye Mofeng seemed to be used to it all along, and quietly nodded, agreeing to all of Lu Xuexue's outrageous demands.
Lu Xuexue took Ye Mofeng's white bamboo stick to auction, and ultimately sold it for a mere thousand low-grade crystal cores.
They exchanged bamboo sticks with one of the red-spotted individuals.
In Lu Xuexue's eyes, Ye Mofeng's life was only worth a thousand low-level crystal cores.
When Ruan Tian found out about this, she almost laughed out of anger. She was so angry that she would explode if she looked at Ye Mofeng again.
She squatted under the stroller, hugged Little White tightly, buried her face in its soft belly, and took two deep breaths.
Not long after, two soft tapping sounds came from above the cart.
Without even looking up, Ruan Tian knew who was looking for her. She said sarcastically:
"Oh, isn't this our super simp? Why aren't you by Princess Lu's side? Why are you coming to find me instead?"
"Don't be angry," Ye Mofeng said gently. He walked up to Ruan Tian and squatted down as well.
"Ha," how could Ruan Tian not be angry?
She now considers Ye Mofeng a good friend.
Seeing her best friend suffer such unfair treatment and injustice, how could Ruan Tian not be angry?
She frowned, covered her face with Xiaobai, and said in a muffled voice:
I hate you.
Ye Mofeng's pupils trembled for two seconds. He lowered his eyes uncomfortably and remained silent for a few minutes.
The atmosphere between the two of them instantly became a little awkward.
After an unknown amount of time, Ye Mofeng reached out and grasped Xiaobai's paw, speaking softly:
"Little White, your master says he hates me, please help me, okay?"
Upon hearing this, Ruan Tian, feigning ignorance, mumbled in a low voice:
"The master said that unless you kick Lu Xuexue out, she will barely forgive you."
Ye Mofeng sighed softly. He knew that Lu Xuexue was using him as a tool, but her educational philosophy from childhood was also binding him.
This is also his most contradictory and fatal flaw: instead of helping Lu Xuexue, he selfishly throws her into the zombie abyss.
Ye Mofeng was no longer the Ye Mofeng that Ruan Tian knew.
"Look at you! You're even sighing now. Don't you feel angry?"
Ruan Tian was too lazy to pay attention to Ye Mofeng. She simply shoved Xiaobai into Ye Mofeng's arms and coldly said:
"We're in a cold war! No! We've broken off all ties!"
Ye Mofeng, still bewildered, held Xiaobai and looked down to meet the puppy's watery eyes.
"Ruan Tian, can we talk this over again?"
Upon hearing this, Ruan Tian stubbornly refused, "No! I want to sleep now!"
Ye Mofeng: "But it's only nine o'clock in the morning."
"I just want to go to bed at nine in the morning! You agreed to let Lu Xuexue change the slips, but you complain about me going to bed at nine in the morning!"
Ye Mofeng stopped talking and kept his mouth shut.
Don't be fooled by Ruan Tian's peaceful sleeping face in the stroller; she's actually very attentive.
After a while, she heard no sound behind her, so she cautiously turned around and found that Ye Mofeng had left at some point.
Ruan Tian: "You're just leaving like that? Fine! Ye Mofeng, I'll never forgive you in this lifetime!"
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Wang Peng hummed a song as he emerged from the makeshift toilet.
The thought of the hundreds of crystal cores Lu Xuexue had given him instantly made him feel very happy.
He hadn't taken two steps when suddenly something sharp grazed past his ear!
After a few strands of Wang Peng's hair were cut off, his legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground.
Ye Mofeng, who had been waiting there for a long time, emerged from the shadows.
He looked down at Wang Peng, his eyes seemingly indifferent, and said softly:
"It was you, wasn't it? Trying to trip up Ruan Tian behind her back."
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