Fortune, Do You Think She'll Regret It?

"Heh heh..."

Jiang Zhaosu's eyes were bloodshot, and a threatening growl came from her throat. She sprang forward and knocked Qi Xing to the ground.

A wave of heat swept through her. Jiang Zhaosu's palms were scorching hot, and she was far stronger than before.

Qi Xing was pinned beneath her, his arms pressed beside his head. For the moment, he had completely lost the ability to move, exposing all his most vulnerable spots before her.

Despite being in such a dangerous position, Qi Xing seemed completely unbothered. He even smiled at her and asked gently, "Fortune, do you want to eat me?"

She did.

She really did.

Jiang Zhaosu was practically drooling, but when she looked at Qi Xing's handsome, striking face, she forcefully suppressed her desire.

No. She couldn't eat this person.

From a human perspective, Qi Xing had just saved her.

If she ate Qi Xing, she would completely lose her humanity.

From a zombie's perspective, she couldn't beat Qi Xing right now either.

Even though she seemed to have the upper hand, Qi Xing could summon vines at any moment and cut her down in an instant, just as he had sliced apart the Mutated Species earlier.

Whether as a human or a zombie, she couldn't eat Qi Xing.

"Ahhh!"

A delicious feast was right before her, yet Jiang Zhaosu couldn't take a bite. She let out a pained, irritated howl, released Qi Xing, and settled for the next best thing by pouncing on the Mutated Species beside them.

Jiang Zhaosu cried until her face was covered in tears, lamenting how miserable her life was.

The taste in her mouth was sour and bitter, even worse than the spoiled food she had eaten as a child, but she was simply too hungry.

If she didn't eat soon, she really wouldn't be able to stop herself from attacking Qi Xing. Then she would die. She might as well eat shit.

Qi Xing got to his feet and watched Jiang Zhaosu kneeling on the ground, crying herself hoarse without forgetting to eat. His expression twisted.

The sight was far too horrifying.

But because Jiang Zhaosu was crying so miserably, doing something exceptionally terrifying while tears as wide as noodles streamed from the corners of her eyes, it also seemed oddly comical.

"I'll look somewhere else and find you some more."

Qi Xing spoke, then headed toward the residential area.

Without a second thought, Jiang Zhaosu grabbed the Mutated Species and trotted after him.

As if.

If Qi Xing left and another Mutated Species came along, what was she supposed to do?

That Mutated Species earlier had smelled like a human because it was covered in human blood.

There had to be people nearby.

The two of them searched two homes and found two corpses in the storage room of a self-built house.

Though the bodies had not been dead long, they appeared to have starved to death, emaciated down to skin and bones.

Afterward, Qi Xing brought back a mangled corpse from outside.

It was a pregnant woman.

There was a huge hole in the pregnant woman's belly, as though something had burst out from within.

Jiang Zhaosu immediately thought of the Mutated Species from earlier, the small lump of flesh that had not been particularly strong.

"This should be that Mutated Species' mother," Qi Xing said as well.

"Her internal organs are all gone. The Mutated Species probably ate them."

Qi Xing lowered his eyes at the terror frozen on the woman's face before death, a rare trace of genuine emotion slipping through.

"I saw syringes in the room where she died. She was drawing blood to feed a zombie. Doing something so stupid, she was unsurprisingly eaten by the child she raised in the end."

"Fortune, do you think she regretted it before she died?"

The apocalypse was like this: dangerous and cruel, complicated and chaotic, with love and hatred intertwined.

There were comrades who had fought beside you countless times, yet could still betray you at any moment. There were also mothers who refused to give up on their children even after they became zombies.

Jiang Zhaosu was an orphan and had never experienced a mother's or father's love.

She had struggled through society alone since childhood, seeking only to survive. She had never cared much about such feelings, and becoming a zombie made even less difference to her.

But no matter what, Qi Xing was still human. Seeing this probably stirred up some feelings in him.

Jiang Zhaosu thought he was saddened and was just about to howl a few times to comfort him when Qi Xing said, "Since things have already come to this, Fortune, do one more good deed and let them reunite. Kill two birds with one stone!"

Jiang Zhaosu: "..."

That made sense. Discharge approved!

Once the burning sensation in her stomach finally eased, Jiang Zhaosu felt a strange change taking place in her body.

An indescribable energy slid from her throat into her body, merging with the heat within her and spreading through every limb and bone.

The warm current circulated through Jiang Zhaosu's blood again and again, washing over her.

At some point, the rotted parts of Jiang Zhaosu's face and body had been restored, returning to the fair, supple state they had been before her death.

Ignoring the filth covering her face and the fangs in her mouth.

Jiang Zhaosu now looked very much like a normal person.

While these changes were taking place, restless Qi Xing had gone treasure hunting through the rooms.

When he returned and saw Jiang Zhaosu's transformation, Qi Xing was startled.

"Who are you? Where's my Fortune?"

Jiang Zhaosu: "..."

"Roar roar!"

Unable to see what she looked like now, Jiang Zhaosu let out a confused roar at Qi Xing.

I'm Fortune!

Qi Xing peered into her mouth. "Kid, you have cavities."

Bullshit. You're the one with cavities!

Mocked again, Jiang Zhaosu's little face flushed red with anger. She howled at Qi Xing, "Roar roar!"

Seeing how furious she was, Qi Xing laughed. "Hahaha, I know it's you. Fortune, I'm just joking with you."

Qi Xing pinched her chin with one hand and took out a handkerchief with the other, wiping the blood off her face. "Fortune, so this is what you looked like before you died."

Because she had taken rather long to eat, the blood on Jiang Zhaosu's face had already dried. Qi Xing wiped a little forcefully.

Jiang Zhaosu couldn't even open her eyes from his wiping. She shook her head, then tilted it and looked at Qi Xing in confusion.

Qi Xing said, "I didn't expect you to be quite pretty."

That was already a fairly good evaluation.

Jiang Zhaosu had always been malnourished before her death. She was skinny and small, and her looks could not be called glamorous or seductive. She had single eyelids, round eyes, a small nose, and a small mouth. At most, she could only be called delicate-looking.

Her only outstanding feature was probably her fair skin. But she was anemic, and her lips were pale too, making her look especially lifeless, like a ghost.

When she was in school, some bored boys had nicknamed her Ghost, crowding around her to make ghost noises and jeer.

Back then, she had been busy studying and working every day, with no time to pay attention to the ridiculous antics of those childish peers.

Come to think of it, Qi Xing was actually the first member of the opposite sex she had ever had close contact with.

This was also the first time Jiang Zhaosu had been praised as cute by a man.

But Jiang Zhaosu did not feel happy in the slightest.

She only thought Qi Xing was acting crazy again.

Whatever Qi Xing looked like, she looked like now. Did he really think she had no idea? Was it fun to mock her?

Qi Xing really had not been mocking her this time.

His disobedient younger sister was far too rebellious. Qi Xing had always wanted a younger sister like Jiang Zhaosu—timid and silly. How cute.

"Looks like the evolution was successful."

Qi Xing examined the completely renewed Jiang Zhaosu and asked, "Fortune, haven't you felt any changes in your body? Like being able to summon a storage space or something?"

As an avid hoarder, Qi Xing dreamed of having a spatial ability. That way, he could toss all his junk inside instead of carrying it in a bag all day and exhausting himself.

Jiang Zhaosu looked utterly confused. "Roar?"

Other than her leg being reattached and her stomach no longer feeling so hungry, she had not noticed any changes at all.