4:30 p.m.
Yu Jing and Zombie Girl safely returned to the castle.
This time, Wendy had managed to obtain the important quest item—the urn—from Nanlaka's Secret Room entirely thanks to Yu Jing's help.
Otherwise, Wendy might very well have met the same fate as the boy they had seen in the courtyard.
Wendy lowered her head and said sincerely, "Thank you... If you hadn't been there, I definitely couldn't have completed such a difficult task."
Yu Jing commented in the tone of a senior, "With your abilities, you could have easily avoided the strange women in Nanlaka's household on your own. I also have some understanding of the field of 'viruses.' The Zombie Virus in your body is completely different from any I've seen before. It seems to possess an independent consciousness as well."
"Wow, Yu Jing, you're amazing... Yes, Little Ke helps me most of the time."
Wendy von Harperfina took out a knife and cut open her wrist. No blood flowed out. Instead, a mass of black, virus-contaminated blood spilled from the wound and congealed into a snarling human face.
"Little Ke?"
Yu Jing stared at the condensed mass of viral blood. Judging from Little Ke's rather fierce and stern expression, he still wouldn't allow anyone to get too close to Wendy.
"Yes. I was born in a plague zone of the Marei Empire. Little Ke was originally my younger brother. Our parents both died a few months after he was born, so I took Little Ke and began wandering outside... Later, we gradually became what we are now."
"Hmm..."
Yu Jing could roughly guess the gist of the story. He hadn't expected this little girl before him to be so tough. He had a certain fondness for disciples who had risen through their own efforts rather than