Apocalypse: My Companions Are From The 3D District

CHAPTER 27: NADING

Li Pu stood outside the weed-choked window, peering inside. The glass was already shattered, ribbons hanging from the frame swaying in the wind, and the air was thick with the stench of rotting corpses.

The smell came from the hospital room Li Pu had pointed to.

Inside, a disheveled, pretty nurse was embracing a little girl. The child's body was already riddled with decay and stench. The nurse ignored the hungry, frenzied gaze of the zombie child, lost in her own madness as she held this terrifying "child."

The little zombie's mouth was fitted with a bite guard, staring longingly at the food before it but unable to eat. It wore a straitjacket meant for psychiatric patients, its sharp teeth and claws all restrained.

She hugged the child in her arms tightly, unconcerned with the vast difference between the one she held and what it used to be.

Li Pu crouched behind the windowsill, scanning the room.

The empty ward reeked of death, with leftover medical equipment and toys abandoned by patients scattered about.

It wasn't just the nurse's arms—the hospital beds were full of restrained child zombies, their hands and feet bound tightly with rope, their helpless, twisted bodies stirring a sense of sorrow.

Their faces still bore traces of innocent, childish expressions, but those had been replaced by the hungry, distorted eyes of zombies. Their limbs struggled pleadingly, trying to break free, but they were powerless, letting the rampant virus ravage their small bodies.

"It's okay now, I'll definitely save you." The nurse's eyes were filled with both madness and maternal love.

She pulled out an unknown syringe and injected it into the little zombie's body, a smile curling at her lips.

The little zombie let out a pained scream.

"See, the medicine is working. It'll be over soon. Just bear with it." She stroked the little zombie's head and hummed a lullaby.

Li Pu didn't sense the stench or the madness; instead, he felt the nurse exuding a glow of motherhood.

"Still, being able to control these little zombies in such a dangerous place—this woman isn't simple either." He kept a Mind's Eye open, ready to observe further.

Behind Li Pu, the doctor Liang Mei, who had witnessed everything, sighed. She opened the broken window, lifted her long leg in its gartered stockings over the sill, and stepped into the room.

Seeing Liang Mei enter, Li Pu quickly followed, afraid this unfamiliar woman might pull something. Chun Li followed as well.

As Liang Mei landed, the flesh squeezed by her garters gave a slight jiggle.

"Whoa~ nice~" Li Pu muttered under his breath, only for a sharp pain to shoot through his ear, as if it were being twisted.

Chun Li grabbed her rebellious disciple's ear without mercy and yanked him into her embrace.

She glanced at her own proudly thick thighs and, for the first time in her life, felt a hint of inferiority.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got. Her jade-like fingers twisted and pinched at her disciple's body relentlessly, as if it cost nothing.

Taking advantage of Doctor Liang Mei's focus on her sister, Li Pu directly kissed Chun Li. After kissing and caressing her thick thighs for a bit, he finally managed to soothe his master enough to stop her pinching.

Chun Li puffed out her cheeks, still acting like she was fuming.

"Women are really hard to appease," Li Pu thought helplessly. He reached his hand toward Chun Li's Big Peach and began massaging his master.

The soft blue jelly was squeezed into various shapes by his hands. Chun Li shot him a glare, found a seat by a hospital bed, and sat down, depriving Li Pu of his right to get intimate with the jelly.

Li Pu chuckled shamelessly and plopped down onto Chun Li's lap.

After confirming she still held appeal for her beloved rebellious disciple, Chun Li's inferiority faded, but a sense of insecurity lingered. She pulled her little apprentice Li Pu into her arms.

Her suspicion of Doctor Liang Mei, in line with her instincts, only grew stronger.

Li Pu felt the same. He remained wary of the beautiful doctor Liang Mei.

"If that ghoul plate has been holed up in the hospital all this time, then the hospital's higher-ups are all in on it," he whispered to Chun Li.

Chun Li nodded, her hands wandering not-so-innocently across Li Pu's chest and abs.

Her professional vigilance kept her silently observing Liang Mei's every move, and so far, she'd found nothing unusual.

Liang Mei didn't notice the pair behind her, reeking of love's sourness. Her eyes were fixed solely on her sister.

"Let it go, Nading. It's useless. It's already a zombie, already dead. Stop wasting antibiotics." The female doctor Liang Mei stepped forward, trying to separate her sister from the little zombie.

The nurse named Nading turned her body to shield the little zombie in her arms: "...It's not a zombie. It's a patient in my care. They're all children who call me Nurse Sister..."

"They've already lost their vital signs. They're not even human anymore," Liang Mei said, trying to persuade her stubborn sister.

Nading lowered her head silently, her hair covering her face: "They'll come back. I can hear them. The children say they don't want to die..."

"I promised I'd save them." She carefully picked up the little zombie and slowly stood.

Nading's curvaceous figure, clad in an old-fashioned pale pink nurse's uniform stained with old dirt and blood, gave Li Pu a strong impression of the nurse monsters from Silence, like Victoria's Secret supermodels playing the part.

Nading noticed Li Pu too. She stared at him sitting on Chun Li's lap, smiled, and said, "Did you come with Mother to see the doctor? Wait a moment, little one. Sister will take a look at you soon."

As Nurse Nading turned, her sister Liang Mei struck down with a knife-hand blow, knocking out the sister holding the little zombie.

The little zombie, bound hand and foot, fell to the floor. No one paid it any mind.

Liang Mei caught her sister as she was about to collapse. A few buttons on Nading's uniform popped open from the pull, and the big white rabbits that were already barely contained finally poked their heads out for some air.

Liang Mei's black U-neck low-cut top was already dangerously revealing, and now with her sister's open collar beside it, the fanservice was maxed out.

"Can you help me take my sister back? I can't carry her alone." She stated her request without a blush or a racing heart. Beyond the life-saving favor, she was well aware of her value in this apocalypse.

Medical staff were among the most precious talents in the end times. That was precisely why Chun Li had agreed to help him in the first place.

Chun Li didn't want to teach her disciple how to be a gentleman. She only wanted him to survive in this world.

She smiled and nodded: "Of course." The two women understood each other without another word.

The two women worked together to carry Nading out the window, preparing to climb the vertical ladder again.

Liang Mei pulled a bottle of medicine from her pocket, shook out a pill, broke it in half, and stuffed one piece into her sister Nading's mouth.

"Sleeping pills, to keep her from waking up and going berserk halfway." Liang Mei smiled bitterly.

"..." After a moment of silence, Li Pu and Chun Li helped settle Nading down.

That was safe enough—Li Pu was satisfied.

Chun Li crouched down to carry the unconscious Nading on her back, while Li Pu grabbed spare rope from the backpack and helped Chun Li tie Nading to her to prevent accidents.

Once everything was ready, the three began climbing the steep, crude steel vertical ladder.

This time, Chun Li made Li Pu take the safest position at the very bottom, so if anything went wrong in the attic, her little apprentice could escape first.

Li Pu looked up at Chun Li's swaying, jiggling mass as she climbed and gave a helpless smile—she always quietly looked out for him in these little details.

After watching for a while, Li Pu remembered what Liang Mei had been about to say about the virus before they entered the hospital room.

He called up to Miss Liang Mei, who was climbing at the top: "Sister Liang Mei, about that virus thing you mentioned earlier—can you tell us more?"

Liang Mei's voice came from above: "Mm."

Panting as she spoke, she said: "A month before the apocalypse broke out, a mysterious rift suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the sky above Tokyo."

After a few seconds of catching her breath: "From that rift flew out many angel-like, winged humanoid flying lifeforms."

"At first, the authorities called them angels."

Li Pu frowned: "No wonder that female ghoul said the mutants were angels."

"If they're angels, wouldn't pulling Bayonetta mean a slaughter?" He felt a flicker of anticipation for his next draw.

"These creatures couldn't be communicated with at all—they ate people on sight."

"Their wings release large amounts of Phosphorus Powder, and anyone who inhaled it turned into the zombies you see now." Liang Mei's voice trembled slightly as she sank into terrible memories.

After a few deep breaths, she continued: "They don't just eat people—they devour each other too, and the infected inherited that trait."

"The virus the angels spread is very strange, as if it comes from a higher existence. It can assimilate and absorb the cells of animals, plants, and insects to strengthen itself."

"After that, the same rifts appeared all over the world, and those angels turned Earth into hell."

Li Pu thought it over and asked: "Didn't the governments and militaries of various countries organize resistance?"

"There was resistance, but the higher-ups saw the virus's potential, and their interference made things worse."

"When it rains, it pours. After the rifts appeared, ghosts and monsters that had only existed in legends around the world began to show themselves in the darkness."

"In the end, even UFOs and aliens showed up, and the whole world fell into complete chaos."

"Now, only the religious force called the 'Holy See' barely maintains some order."

Liang Mei suddenly said lightly: "We're here."

Li Pu looked up and realized Chun Li's rear was gone.

The steel bars and wall of the vertical ladder had vanished, replaced by a blue sky and the hospital's rooftop...

Author's Note:

Chapter 28: The Rooftop and Chun Li's Special Training

"All clear, come on up." Chun Li's voice came through.

To be fair, when she wasn't in her lewd woman mode, she was still a pretty reliable adult woman.

Li Pu silently complained in his mind as he hooked his leg over the rooftop's edge and climbed up clumsily.

Though his body had been strengthened, his mind was still the same as before.

Chun Li watched his clumsy, bear-cub-like movements, brushed a strand of hair aside, and smiled faintly, her eyes full of affection and indulgence.

"Time to train Little Pu's footwork—being good only at that time won't do." Thinking of "that time," Chun Li, whose mind was bouncing between lewd woman and loving mother, curled her lips in an ambiguous smile.

Rooftop, breeze, the supporting doctor sisters, Chun Li's gentle smile.

Li Pu, who had just climbed up to this paradise, was a little dazed.

The hospital was only three stories, but it covered a large area.

Thanks to the hospital's size, its old rooftop felt spacious and silent.

A few drying racks held white sheets fluttering in the wind, probably hung there before the crisis broke out.

Half the open space had the word SOS written in large letters on the ground.

The other half was cluttered with various pipes and water heaters.

Feeling the rooftop breeze brush his face, Li Pu snapped back to reality and sighed: No wonder this was where the guy from School Days fought—if the apocalypse hadn't broken out, it really would be a good place to clear one's mind.

Stepping onto the weed-covered tiles, Li Pu walked toward Chun Li while carefully observing the rooftop's details.

On the other half of the cluttered ground, two rusted water towers stood on the broad rooftop, with rows of old-fashioned solar water heaters below them connected by pipes and wires to the wards on each floor.

Large, twisted central air-conditioning stainless steel pipes wound through the space, maximizing the usable area—a uniquely Japanese feature.

These old solar water heaters were of different models, with obvious signs of aging.

Li Pu shuddered as he looked at this style of water heater—it had tormented him his entire life.

He couldn't help recalling the excruciating feeling of taking a winter shower when this old solar water heater suddenly ran out of hot water.

His father, who had struck it rich running a slaughterhouse, spent every night carousing and never stayed home. Every time Li Pu brought it up, he got a lecture, so he eventually stopped mentioning it.

Except in winter, he took cold showers year-round. Day after day, it tempered his body and spirit somewhat.

"The person in charge of this hospital is way too stingy. Everything's falling apart from age." A crude steel ladder, a rusted water tank, secondhand solar water heaters—if not for the gleaming stainless steel pipes of the central air conditioning, Li Pu would have almost thought this was a slightly oversized, soon-to-be-scrapped old rundown residential building.

But then he remembered the news about how some country only changed their hot spring water once every few decades, and he figured this was normal enough.

Li Pu felt that being abroad right now made his mental endurance and adaptability unusually strong...

Beside the central air conditioning pipes and water heater was a small room about twenty or thirty square meters.

Li Pu guessed it was the central air conditioning machine room or some other utility room. Back when his father's slaughterhouse was being renovated, he'd learned about the layout of these large facilities.

Liang Mei, supporting her younger sister Nading, walked toward that small room in her high heels, with Li Pu and Chun Li silently following behind.

The door directly opposite, leading from the hospital interior to the rooftop, was completely blocked by a mess of clutter.

"This isn't bad either. The machine room blocks wind and rain, and there's water and electricity. If we could modify these twenty-hand solar water heaters to generate power, that would be even better."

Liang Mei helped her sister up the short flight of stairs in front of the room, then freed a hand to knock on the door. "Mother, I've brought my sister back."

After a few knocks, the door creaked open. A hideous old woman cracked it just enough to reveal half her aged face to the group.

Through the gap, Li Pu could see some electrical boxes, switches, and many hardware tools.

"Why aren't you dead out there! Where's the food?" She glared, her expression one of deep enmity toward her own daughter.

Liang Mei started to speak but stopped. Finally, she just took a deep breath and said calmly, "All the rice and flour from the hospital cafeteria are with you... I only brought my sister back..."