The man had a broad build and a superior demeanor, almost blocking out all the light outside the tent.
In his hand, he was holding a paper report on the source of zombies.
The joints are slender and the paper has almost no wrinkles.
His indifferent gaze slowly shifted from the neatly organized data above to Pei Xiqing.
Pei Xiqing subconsciously avoided his gaze. Ling Lang behind him spoke first, "Brother, you're here. Her hand just touched some strange energy. I was just about to take her to get some medicine."
She looked at what he was holding and asked, "What's the latest?"
"Yes." Duan Xiaolin handed him the paper and said, "The latest situation of the zombie source detection, take your people over to check it out first."
"Okay!" Ling Lang looked at Pei Xiqing, "Your injury... "
Pei Xiqing immediately said: "I'm not injured, don't worry, just tell me where the medicine is and I'll get it myself."
"It's in the trunk of the car, but I need to..."
"Leave it to me," Duan Xiaolin took over. "I've already sent the specific location and data to the recorder. Hurry! If we can't control the source of the zombies in time, the zombie population will increase significantly."
Ling Lang nodded and immediately checked the data in the recorder. He nodded solemnly, "Collect, and try to complete the mission as quickly as possible and blow up the explosion point of this zombie source."
The man watched Ling Lang lead the team away.
Pei Xiqing was still thinking about the thing they had talked about at the beginning a few days ago, and the source of the zombies that Ling Lang had just been asked to find...it didn't seem to be mentioned in the book, and she didn't have a deep impression of it.
The source of zombies... is the center of the zombie virus outbreak in the book. It usually regenerates continuously due to the gathering of zombies. That thing is dozens or even hundreds of times more terrifying than the zombie virus. It is full of highly infectious viruses that pollute the surrounding ecological environment and animals and plants at all times. However, she is not very clear about the targeted methods and other specific circumstances.
When she came to her senses, the man was staring at her seriously.
Pei Xiqing was about to speak when his gaze had already left her. He said calmly, "Come with me."
"Here I come."
She followed immediately.
Duan Xiaolin opened the trunk of the car and took out a medicine box. The medicine box contained various medicines that she had never seen before. Before she had time to take a few more glances, the medicine box was closed by the man and his wrist was held by the man and lifted up.
Looking at the wound that had been burned, he frowned slightly and squeezed some ointment on it.
Pei Xiqing was stimulated by the sudden coldness and subconsciously retracted her hand, but was held tightly by his irresistible force, unable to be shaken at all.
The ointment spread all over the wound, bringing a hint of coolness. Pei Xiqing looked down at the wound on her fingertips, which seemed to be healing at a very slow pace. Her hand had recovered and turned back into the "Hulk" again and again because of the zombie virus, and now it was a little red because she had just taken a shower. The man's broad palm circled the softest part, leaving marks on it again.
She stared at the skin and protruding veins on the other person's hand and swallowed subconsciously.
Duan Xiaolin rubbed her fingertips, allowing the ointment to fully dissolve the cell tissue burned by the strange energy. When he lowered his eyes, Pei Xiqing's gaze made him stunned.
"Pei Xiqing." The man called in a low voice.
…
"Ah? I'm here." Pei Xiqing quickly raised his head, "...What's wrong?"
Blinking, his vision cleared in an instant, "Is it okay already?"
The man didn't say anything, just stared at her. After a long silence, he said, "Do you know why zombies are being exterminated?"
"Because they can no longer be called 'human', having long since lost their sanity and all human thinking, they have begun indiscriminate attacks?" she asked.
Duan Xiaolin released her hand and returned the medicine to its original location. "Research shows that within 72 hours of becoming a zombie, a person's consciousness will gradually erode. This doesn't mean they've completely lost consciousness. During this time, the desires and greed hidden within are constantly amplified by the negative energy transmitted through their senses."
"So, Brother Duan, what do you mean?"
"As long as there is desire, it's only a matter of time before those infected become zombies."
Pei Xiqing was a little amused. He moved closer to him, practically staring into his eyes and asking, "Then... Brother Duan, if you were bitten by a zombie, would you be able to see clearly within 72 hours what your inner desires are?"
The man's gaze fell on her. Although it was cold, it seemed to have an unusual warmth, and his stare was a little unbearable.
Pei Xiqing subconsciously turned his head, but heard him say: "What do you mean?"
She said: "Of course it's money and wealth, or power and status..."
"I already have all of these," he said calmly. "Do I still have the desire to pursue things I already have?"
"That's right." Pei Xiqing leaned against the car, thinking lazily, "That's what you haven't got yet."
Duan Xiaolin looked at her calmly, examining her thin clothes.
Pei Xiqing uncomfortably pulled the hem of her dress to cover her thighs, and explained awkwardly, "This is the dress Sister Long Yan gave me."
"It's pretty good, wear it." Duan Xiaolin said.
"Wait until my clothes are dry, then I'll wash this and return it."
“I guess no one will want it anymore.”
"Ah? I will really wash it clean..." Pei Xiqing hurriedly explained, and smelled herself again. There was no zombie stench at all. She had been worried about this these days and paid great attention to personal hygiene, for fear that the corpse stench on her body would make people recognize her as a zombie at a glance.
She had also checked with Long Yan these days to confirm that there was no other strange smell on her body, not to mention that she had just taken a shower.
Duan Xiaolin glanced at her, his gaze moving from her exposed calves all the way up: "I didn't say you were dirty, it's just that no one dared to wear it anymore."
Pei Xiqing's cheeks flushed, and she probably guessed what he meant, so she turned away and kept silent.
Everyone in Ling Lang's team had left the camp, leaving only her and Duan Xiaolin. She took out the half-dried clothes and hung them outside to hang. She couldn't help but look at the man sitting next to her reading documents with a calm expression.
It’s the end of the world, why are there still so many things to see?
Pei Xiqing curiously glanced at what was in his hand.
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