Upon hearing Mu Wenxi's words, Qin Lun's body went limp, and he quietly nestled in Mu Wenxi's arms.
Mu Wenxi gazed at the setting sun in the sky. The world had changed, people had changed, but the sun hadn't changed. Even if its light had temporarily disappeared, it had simply risen again in another place.
“You are you. Even if you are a monster, you are the most unique monster. Even if you can’t go back to your original form, you are still Qin Lun in my eyes.”
"Who hasn't been a monster at some point? I come from another world, and I know everything that originally happened in this world. I said I came to save you because you believed me, but if others told them, I'd probably be seen as a monster too, a delusional monster, a monster who can foresee the future..."
Qin Lun no longer buried his head in his chest. He raised his head high. He was no longer a monster with the hardest thorns forever. In Mu Wenxi's eyes, he was himself, and even as a monster, he was unique.
They slowly walked forward, approaching this unknown world, their shadows on the ground appearing exceptionally harmonious.
Back at the base, Yuan Jin, dressed in yellow, immediately got up from the sofa, his tone somewhat anxious: "Where did you go? You disappeared this morning. Your friend said you might have gone out to kill zombies. It scared me to death."
Mu Wenxi: "That's right, we're going to kill zombies."
Yuan Jin gasped.
She tossed a bag to Yuan Jin: "Spoils of war."
Yuan Jin opened the bag with a puzzled look, but his expression immediately turned to shock when he saw what was inside: "Wow, so many! Did you kill them all by yourself?"
Mu Wenxi patted Qin Lun in his arms: "And my partner Qin Lun."
Yuan Jin looked at the animal in her arms that resembled a cat but wasn't quite a cat, with a shape somewhat like a leopard and eyes somewhat like a fox: "Huh? It?"
Mu Wenxi: "That's right, it's him."
Qin Lun looked up at Yuan Jin and deliberately opened his mouth wide, letting out a roar. There was some zombie slime around his mouth.
Yuan Jin was startled by Qin Lun's imposing manner and quickly took two steps back: "Your partner is very powerful."
Qin Lun turned his head away, no longer trying to scare him.
Mu Wenxi counted the crystal cores. This time the harvest was good. He had killed about five fourth-level zombies and dozens of second- and third-level zombies.
"By the way, do you have any water?"
Yuan Jin: "Yes, we have soldiers with water-based superpowers."
Mu Wenxi took out a red crystal and handed it to him: "I want to exchange a bucket of water with him."
Yuan Jin: "No need, it's the right thing to do."
Mu Wenxi took out a few more red crystal cores: "These are the rent for our stay during this period of time."
Yuan Jin was taken aback by her generosity: "Really, it's not necessary. Protecting you is my duty, I wouldn't dare accept it."
Mu Wenxi stuffed the crystal core into his hand: "There's no such thing as 'should' or 'shouldn't.' In this apocalypse, everyone is equal. Even if you are soldiers, your lives matter. I believe your captain will accept it. You really need it, don't you?"
Yuan Jin's eyes seemed slightly red. He gripped the crystal core in his hand tightly, turned and left without saying a word. After a while, he and one of his brothers filled a tank with water for Mu Wenxi and the others.
Yuan Jin: "You can call us anytime if you need anything."
Mu Wenxi: "Thank you."
Yu Chaoyang was looking at the crystal cores in his hand, considering how to allocate them, when he saw Yuan Jin return and asked, "How did it go?"
Yuan Jin: "She's very strong. Today she killed at least three level four zombies, and the rest were level three. She also had a bag of crystal cores, and the pet in her arms, which I suspect is some kind of mutated animal. She's very strong."
Yu Chaoyang: "You were right. She might be our savior. I also have a level 5 ability, but I couldn't kill so many zombies by myself and still come back unharmed."
Yuan Jin: "I suspect she has other superpowers."
Yu Chaoyang: "Distribute these crystal cores to the brothers with special abilities to absorb first. I'll go talk to her."
Yuan Jin: "Captain, don't you need it?"
Yu Chaoyang: "I want everyone to live, not just me."
Yuan Jin was deeply moved as he watched his departing captain. He distributed the remaining crystal cores to his brothers, keeping none for himself, dreaming that one day they could leave this place together.
Mu Wenxi was preparing to give Qin Lun a good bath in the room when she heard a knock on the door. When she opened it, Yu Chaoyang asked, "What's the matter?"
Yu Chaoyang: "Excuse me for bothering you, but did you kill all the zombies today?"
Mu Wenxi: "No, there are also my partners."
She stepped aside to let Yu Chaoyang see Qin Lun inside, and gestured for Yu Chaoyang to come in: "Come in."
Yu Chaoyang entered the room and asked in a low voice, "Is it a mutated animal?"
Mu Wenxi: "No, he is my partner, he is a person."
Yu Chaoyang looked puzzled, seemingly not understanding how the animal in front of him could be a person: "How could it be?"
Mu Wenxi recalled that in the original owner's life, there was a military unit where no one survived. Looking at the soldiers standing alive in front of him now, he realized that they were people he could trust.
She looked at Yu Chaoyang seriously: "He was originally a human being, but he was captured by an inhumane laboratory and experimented on. He was injected with many kinds of genes. He was the only one who survived out of thousands of people in those experiments that were worse than death, but he turned into this."
Yu Chaoyang looked horrified: "How could this be?"
Mu Wenxi's expression was mocking: "What? Can't imagine? I just rescued him not long ago, in the city before I came here. You should have expected what would have happened if I hadn't come to this city."
Yu Chaoyang swayed and looked at her in disbelief: "Are we all going to die here?"
Mu Wenxi did not answer.
Yu Chaoyang already knew the answer: the zombies were getting stronger and stronger, and they were losing more and more people. Although they could also evolve, their food was becoming less and less, and the risks of going out to find food were increasing, making their chances of survival smaller and smaller.
Mu Wenxi: "Don't you have any doubts? Inhumane experiments, zombies that evolve so quickly, two adjacent cities, and an army that is about to be wiped out."
Yu Chaoyang, true to his captain status, was quick-witted: "What secret are they covering up?"
Mu Wenxi: "I don't know."
Yu Chaoyang's expression was solemn. He needed to think things through carefully. After saying goodbye to Mu Wenxi, he pondered quietly for a long time.
Mu Wenxi carefully bathed Qin Lun.
Qin Lun started to act awkwardly again: "Actually, I can wash it myself."
Mu Wenxi: "But I want to wash you."
If Qin Lun were in human form now, he would definitely be blushing.
Mu Wenxi: "Alright, let's try out today's results."
Mu Wenxi placed five green crystal cores in front of Qin Lun, gesturing for him to absorb them. Qin Lun reached out his little paws, grabbed three crystal cores, and pushed them in front of Mu Wenxi: "Half for each of us."
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