The addition of the new members didn’t affect their current lives much. Everyone continued doing their own thing until three days later, when a message came through via satellite broadcast. It announced that a new base had been established in H City, which was closer than the G City base they had previously planned to go to.
Luo Beiyao studied the map for a long time before finally lifting his gaze to the others, who were busy dividing crystal cores.
“How about we go to the H City base instead?”
History books never recorded much about Luo Beiyao’s early experiences. Su Mu knew nothing about that period, so he quietly sat on the sofa, chewing on dry rations as he listened to everyone discuss.
In the early days of the apocalypse, Luo Beiyao hadn’t made a name for himself, and very few people paid attention to him.
Moreover, in her previous life, Wu Keke had only been an extremely ordinary ability user with some flaws. Aside from a few major events, she didn’t know much either. Thinking this, Wu Keke curled her lips into a smile and said, “I’m fine with anything. I’ll just follow the team.”
After hearing Wu Keke’s stance, Luo Beiyao turned his gaze to the others.
“We’ll follow Brother Luo,” Su Yang said after exchanging a glance with Xu Qingru. The two reached a tacit agreement and spoke almost simultaneously.
The vote passed unanimously. Luo Beiyao then looked at Su Mu, who was still chewing on his rations without expressing an opinion. “And you?”
With his mouth full, Su Mu couldn’t respond verbally. He frowned slightly and nodded at him. Wasn’t it obvious? Everyone had already agreed—was he supposed to go to G City by himself? Not to mention that Su Wanmei was heading to H City. There was no way he could just abandon her.
Luo Beiyao seemed to deliberately make things difficult for him and asked again, “What does nodding mean?”
Su Wanmei coughed a few times lightly. “Ah Yao, Mu Mu is coming with me.”
Luo Beiyao nodded and folded up the map. “Then we’ll prepare for a few days and head to the H City base.”
“Alright.” Everyone echoed in agreement.
Su Mu didn’t know whether Su Yang’s healing ability or Xu Qingru’s fire-type ability had already awakened, since the two of them hadn’t revealed it to the team. But if they had awakened, Luo Beiyao would definitely know.
After all, Luo Beiyao was their lifesaver—along with Wu Keke.
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After cultivating crystal cores in his room for an entire afternoon, Su Mu belatedly felt hungry. He glanced at the wall clock—it was already past nine in the evening. He put on his slippers and went downstairs, boiled some water, and cooked instant noodles for himself.
There were no fresh ingredients left at home. Most of the fruits and vegetables in the supermarket counters had already been taken by survivors. The little that remained was stained with zombie blood.
No one dared to eat food contaminated by zombie blood. Who knew how many viruses it might contain?
Just as the water was about to boil, Su Mu heard footsteps coming down the stairs. Seeing the kitchen light on, Lu Shuangshuang peeked inside curiously. When she saw it was Su Mu, her pretty eyes curved into a bright smile.
“You’re making instant noodles too? Perfect, I’m hungry as well. Boil a bit more water—I’ll make a cup too.”
Hearing this, Su Mu added more water to the pot. Lu Shuangshuang, meanwhile, trotted over to the cabinet and took out the instant noodles they had stored there earlier.
With the high energy consumption in the apocalypse, one cup of instant noodles wasn’t enough to fill a person up. Lu Shuangshuang could manage with one and a half cups, but Su Mu was a man and ate more. The extra portion she added could be left for him.
With nothing better to do, Lu Shuangshuang started chatting with him. She was very outgoing and had a good impression of Su Mu. Once she started talking, she couldn’t stop.
Before long, the way she addressed him changed to “Mu Tou.”
Truthfully, Su Mu didn’t want to answer most of her questions. But considering she was a girl, he couldn’t exactly give her the cold shoulder. Every time she asked something, he racked his brain to squeeze out a few words to brush her off.
The more she talked, the brighter Lu Shuangshuang’s eyes became. She blinked her large eyes and asked, “Mu Tou, you talk so little—have you ever had a girlfriend before?”
Before Su Mu could reply, she suddenly spat a few times. “Although you don’t talk much, you’re so good-looking. There must have been plenty of girls who took the initiative to flirt with you.”
For example, herself. Lu Shuangshuang was eager to flirt with Su Mu.
That moment when the iceberg melted—wasn’t it ridiculously romantic?!
“Of course, he’s never had a girlfriend.”
Just as Lu Shuangshuang finished speaking, a low voice responded, carrying a faint chill.
The two of them turned toward the sound and saw a man standing at the doorway. Su Mu’s expression changed slightly—he hadn’t heard the other’s footsteps at all from start to finish.
This was the sheer difference in strength.
Lu Shuangshuang didn’t notice the strange atmosphere between Su Mu and Luo Beiyao. Hearing that, she immediately widened her eyes in shock. “Mu Tou, you’ve really never dated a girl before? Wow, you’re way too pure!”
Su Mu turned his head and met Luo Beiyao’s gaze at the doorway. Obsession, gloom, disgust, and madness—various negative emotions were tangled together within Luo Beiyao’s eyes.
Su Mu suddenly worried that one day, if Luo Beiyao truly lost control, he might actually kill him. They had clearly broken up already. What was the point of clinging to it every day?
Su Mu had never dated anyone, nor had he ever liked anyone. He genuinely couldn’t understand Luo Beiyao’s way of thinking.
He pressed his thin lips together. Suddenly, he realised that Luo Beiyao had answered Lu Shuangshuang’s question just now, and a bad feeling surged up in his chest.
However, Luo Beiyao didn’t continue speaking. He simply stepped forward, added more water to the pot, and took out a cup of instant noodles from the cabinet, preparing it as his dinner.