Well, it’s pretty much what I guessed.

I just don't know how they discovered this thing.

"As for the serum, can we ask you to process and use it when we get to the base?"

Ji Mengyao was delighted and said to herself, the fish has finally taken the bait.

"Yes, but you need to join our exploration team~"

She held the steering wheel and looked straight ahead, pretending to be indifferent, as if it didn't matter whether they joined or not.

"What does the exploration team need to do? Rescue people like you did today?"

Ning Yu was not surprised to hear this request. There is no free lunch in the world.

"Yes, we received a distress signal from a man two days ago, so we were sent to rescue him."

Ji Mengyao pointed back and gestured to Ning Yu.

"Aren't you afraid it's fake news?"

Ning Yu raised a very reasonable question.

"Hahaha, don't be afraid. There were some blind guys who tried to rob us before, but we ended up ransacking their houses."

"That's what I wanted."

Ji Mengyao held a cigarette in her mouth and smiled arrogantly, looking like she was fearless.

Ning Yu couldn't help but think of a line: It has always been us, the Axe Gang, who bully others, and no one dares to bully us.

"There is also a little girl inside, her name is Wang Yuan, she is the daughter of a guy in our exploration team, and I also learned about her by chance during the communication."

“So it’s basically confirmed to be true.”

She added a few more words.

"Well, you two seem pretty good at it. Do you want to join us?"

"We have plenty of food and clothing. There are rewards and salaries for exploring!"

"Now the exploration team is full of stinky men. I don't have any sisters. I'm so bored."

Ji Mengyao's tone sounded a little depressed, and she seemed to be particularly eager to have some female teammates.

"Follow me from now on, I'll take you dancing among the zombies!"

“Bang!”

She stepped on the accelerator and knocked two blind zombies away.

Black blood splattered on the windshield, and she casually touched the switch next to the steering wheel, turning on the wobbly wipers.

"Let us go to your place first and think about it."

Ning Yu looked indifferent and calm, thinking about something in her amber eyes.

"Okay! You guys take your time to think about it~"

Ji Mengyao was not in a hurry and reached out to open the music player on the old pickup truck.

A city pop song full of psychedelic feeling suddenly sounded from the pickup truck's speakers.

The electronic sound full of synthesizer flavor seemed to take everything away from this desolate doomsday. The sound quality of the pickup truck's audio was not very good.

But this actually adds a bit of lofi flavor to the music.

In this world where power has gone out, if you still want to enjoy music, using the car stereo is a good choice.

Ji Mengyao seemed to like this song very much, and even her body swayed to the drum beats and bass in the prelude.

He narrowed his eyes and took another sip of his cigarette.

In this space filled with blueberry mint smoke, she seemed to have returned to the colorful and bustling night of the big city.

"What's the name of this song?"

Ning Yu asked, feeling that this should be a song unique to Blue Star.

"Plastic Love"

Ji Mengyao's hand holding the cigarette was placed on the steering wheel, and she couldn't help tapping the buttons, enjoying this moment of entertainment very much.

Ning Yu looked at her profile and felt that it was clearly the face of a pure and pretty girl next door, about the same age as Shen Yiyue.

But she dressed in a perverse and rebellious way: a skull T-shirt, a baseball cap with a gilded pattern, and dyed blonde hair tied into pigtails.

Plus this unexpectedly tasteful musical preference.

There is an indescribable feeling of contrast. It doesn’t feel disconnected, but rather a kind of indescribable coolness.

“Isn’t this song pretty good?”

Ji Mengyao showed a cheerful and straightforward smile. It was hard to imagine that she also had the attribute of being tsundere.

“Why is love plastic?”

Ning Yu withdrew her gaze and calmly asked a nonsensical question, asking the name of the song.

"Huh? Who knows? I find it weird too."

Ji Mengyao put some cigarette ashes into the ashtray in the car and fiddled with the steering wheel nonchalantly.

“Maybe love takes 1,000 years to degrade.”

She also gave a ridiculous explanation.

There was a brief silence in the carriage.

"In fact, in addition to rescuing people, we also hunt some mutant zombies."

After a while, Ji Mengyao started the topic again, as if she had forgotten what she had just said, and let Ning Yu think about it slowly.

"Oh? Is it for the serum?"

Ning Yu made a reasonable guess.

"Yes, that's one thing. The serum can make us stronger."

"Also, we want to reduce the threats around the base. Most of the people there are still ordinary people."

After she answered, she suddenly turned around and looked at Ning Yu:

"It's very rare for two of you to travel together as Awakened Ones."

Ning Yu saw her turn her head and couldn't help but remind her: "Don't you need to look at the road when you drive?"

"Tsk, I've driven this broken road countless times!"

Ji Mengyao curled her lips and turned her head away in annoyance.

Ning Yu then continued, "It's just a coincidence. I can see the zombies' weaknesses, and her bullets can turn. We are a match made in heaven."

She concealed all her other fighting abilities and only exposed those that were seen by Ji Mengyao and Wu Di.

"Can you really see the mutant zombies' weaknesses?!"

Ji Mengyao exclaimed, even though she had vaguely guessed this.

"If you could join us, maybe we could save a lot of lives."

She seemed to be thinking of something, her eyes were a little dazed, and she recalled a lot of things.

"It's okay! You don't have to care about what I say. It's up to you whether to join or not."

Perhaps feeling that there was some kidnapping implication in her words, Ji Mengyao hurriedly explained.

"Inside the base, ordinary people can also have enough food and clothing as long as they work hard and contribute their strength."

“This is our common ideal and also the vision of Ark.”

After listening to Ji Mengyao's words, Ning Yu seemed to have a better impression of this gathering place for survivors.

It doesn't feel as dire as I imagined.

If the exploration team inside concentrated their efforts on killing the mutated zombies, perhaps I could use their hands to kill the mutated zombies to complete the mission.

She had some plans in mind.

"By the way, what would you have done if we hadn't come just now?"

Ning Yu wanted to test Ji Mengyao's ability of [Death Defying].

"Me? If I die ten more times, I should be able to wear that guy down to death."

Ji Mengyao said some very scary words, but her face showed no concern, as if she was used to it.

"Aren't you afraid of pain?"

Ning Yu pretended to empathize with the other person and expressed her own "concerns".

"No, I'm born without a sense of pain, and I've been bullied a lot since I was a kid."

When it comes to this, Ji Mengyao seems to be a little angry and hits the steering wheel:

"Hey, you're not trying to laugh at me, are you? Look how hard it takes me to kill it."

Seeing this blond tsundere being so strong-willed, Ning Yu probably understood:

Her rebellious and strong-willed character might have something to do with her childhood experiences.

"No, no, I'm just simply curious."

"oh"

Ji Mengyao responded embarrassedly, feeling that she was overthinking.

"Well, thank you so much for what I did. It would be really hard to die so many times."

Her face turned red and she said a word of thanks somewhat stubbornly, but her voice became smaller and smaller as she spoke.

Ning Yu was speechless. Why didn’t you say anything outside just now?