"You're professionals?"
Amid her pain, the little girl showed a trace of confusion. Perhaps the pain was too intense; she nodded blankly.
"Tell me... how you became a zombie."
The little girl nodded again.
Mei was very surprised. Someone who had endured such prolonged pain should not have trusted others so easily, yet under Zhao Bai's guidance, the little girl was vaguely recounting everything.
This was... far too abnormal.
And Zhao Bai's words were completely unlike his usual self.
"At an age as lovely as a flower, you should smile like one. A life burdened by hatred and suffering doesn't suit you."
Why did that sound a little sentimental??
The little girl spoke in fits and starts, her voice as faint as a mosquito's buzz, yet she insisted on finishing her story.
"My name is... Ke Mengdie."
Miss Ke was an ordinary girl from an ordinary family. She was fourteen this year, and before this disaster, she had never imagined there was anything extraordinary about her.
Honkai energy resistance—exceptional.
But this exceptional Honkai energy resistance brought Miss Ke nothing but a month of agony.
After the great disaster in Changkong City, she returned here as an orphan of the disaster.
One ordinary afternoon, a vine wrapped around her and dragged her all the way to some kind of greenhouse. There, a big sister who looked like a flower thoroughly licked Miss Ke.
She had been planted with a seed of Honkai.
Her exceptional Honkai energy resistance allowed Miss Ke to gradually adapt to it all.
Miss Ke's skin turned deathly pale, and her hair became a dull grayish white, but she had never given up hope. At some point, she escaped from there.
Zhao Bai comforted her. "You discovered that you could control zombies, so you took on a responsibility