Fortune Wants to Eat, Fortune Fights!

Crystal Cores really were powerful supplements in the apocalypse.

She could speak!

While Jiang Zhaosu was stunned by her sudden recovery of the ability to communicate, Qi Xing's expression also turned a little strange.

Although he had always taken the initiative to talk to Jiang Zhaosu, he had never truly regarded her as a person.

Now that he suddenly heard Jiang Zhaosu speak human words, Qi Xing had the bizarre feeling that the kitten or puppy he had raised had become a spirit.

And Jiang Zhaosu's first words were not "Daddy" or "Brother," but "Hungry."

As expected, a zombie's mind was simple. Its only desire was the simple urge to fill its stomach.

Jiang Zhaosu was only dazed for a moment before her shock was quickly replaced by an even more urgent desire to eat.

An eerie, terrifying red light flashed in the little zombie's eyes. Like a baby who had just learned to speak, she looked at him eagerly and kept calling out, "Hungry..."

Her stomach was so hungry. She wanted meat.

Clearly, one was a zombie and one was a human, a predator and prey, yet because of the difference in their strength, Jiang Zhaosu and Qi Xing's positions had completely reversed.

There was a juicy piece of meat right in front of her, but Jiang Zhaosu did not dare pounce on him. She could only pitifully say she was hungry, begging him to grant her food.

Qi Xing was not afraid at all of Jiang Zhaosu, whose eyes were glowing red from hunger. Calmly, he took a fish down from the branch and handed it to her. "Here, eat."

Jiang Zhaosu took the fish and swallowed it down in two or three bites.

After eating the Mutated Giant Rat's Crystal Core, her teeth had become even sharper. The hard fish bones were like solid chewing gum, crunching loudly between her teeth.

"Hungry..."

Jiang Zhaosu kept calling out after finishing the fish.

Qi Xing silently watched her, then took another fish from the branch and gave it to her.

Jiang Zhaosu ate like Zhu Bajie swallowing ginseng fruit, finishing one fish in a few bites. Before long, she had nearly eaten all of Qi Xing's fish.

When she saw that there was still one last fish on the grill and asked Qi Xing for more food again, a black line appeared on his forehead. Rarely showing a hint of temper, he coldly told her, "If you're hungry, go slap your own mouth."

"Wuwu..."

Jiang Zhaosu's stomach still felt terribly empty, but since Qi Xing had said that, she did not dare ask him for more food. She pouted aggrievedly, hugged her knees with both arms, and curled up beside the fire.

Qi Xing took the charred fish down from the branch and began to enjoy it at an unhurried pace.

This fish was the one Jiang Zhaosu had initially offered him of her own accord.

Qi Xing had indeed been a little touched at the time. A sense of comfort had naturally risen in his heart, as though his own child had grown up and learned to honor her parents.

Yet this unreliable girl had already given it to him, only to try asking for it back afterward.

At noon, they had still been a well-off household with half a van full of food. Qi Xing had eaten a lot then, so he was not very hungry even now.

After slowly eating half the fish, Qi Xing ultimately could not withstand Jiang Zhaosu squatting beside him, staring at him eagerly with an aggrieved expression as though drool was about to drip from her mouth. He gave her the remaining half.

Jiang Zhaosu did not mind in the slightest that it was food Qi Xing had already eaten. She immediately swallowed the half fish into her stomach.

Qi Xing stood up from the ground, put his clothes back on, smothered the fire with dirt, and left only a burning stick for light. He told her, "We can't stay here. We need to find somewhere we can rest."

Qi Xing was human, after all. He needed rest and sleep to restore his strength.

The forest at night was dark and gloomy, teeming with danger. There was no cover where they were now, and letting down their guard here was no different from courting death.

Nor could he expect Jiang Zhaosu, his little zombie who was constantly thinking about eating him, to stand watch for him. They still had to find somewhere he could sleep with peace of mind first.

Jiang Zhaosu followed close behind him, reason and desire tearing frantically at each other in her mind.

Those few fish were not enough to ease the hunger in her stomach. She was starving badly enough to go mad, but her will kept warning her not to do something as foolish as attack Qi Xing.

After walking for a while, Jiang Zhaosu suddenly caught a strange, rank smell in the air and hurriedly tugged at the corner of Qi Xing's clothes.

"What is it?"

Qi Xing turned to look at her.

"There... there..."

Although Jiang Zhaosu could speak now, her words were still very slurred, and she could only force out one word at a time.

She pointed toward the source of the scent, trying her best to convey what she meant to Qi Xing.

Qi Xing quickly understood. "There's something ahead?"

"Mhm... there..."

Jiang Zhaosu's vision was better than Qi Xing's in the dark.

Not long after smelling the strange odor, she saw a vague human figure in the distance swaying toward them. It even seemed to be waving at them.

"A... person..."

Jiang Zhaosu widened her eyes and said in surprise as she looked at the broad, burly silhouette.

"A person? Is it Xiao Yi and the others?"

"No..."

This person was already over two meters tall, clearly much taller and sturdier than Sister Xiao.

Qi Xing used the torch to light the way ahead, but even after squinting and looking for a while, he still could not see the person Jiang Zhaosu had mentioned.

Qi Xing reached out and touched the trunk of a nearby tree, closing his eyes to sense.

The tree's roots spread rapidly through the earth, extending several kilometers away.

After sensing the person Jiang Zhaosu was pointing at, Qi Xing's expression changed.

Qi Xing abruptly opened his dark eyes, his gaze complicated. "Fortune, that isn't a person. It's a bear."

There really were wild bears in some mountain forests in the north.

Bears were cruel and cunning by nature. Some even stood upright and imitated humans waving, luring people over to kill and eat them.

Qi Xing was not afraid of bears, but he was already very tired and did not want to waste his strength on a pointless fight.

He took Jiang Zhaosu's hand and said, "Fortune, let's go another way."

"No..."

Jiang Zhaosu held back his hand and stubbornly stayed where she was. Stammering, she said, "I... hungry... eat..."

She was very hungry.

If she did not eat her fill, she might lose her mind at any moment and attack Qi Xing.

"You want to eat it?"

"Roar..."

Seeing Jiang Zhaosu's anxious face, Qi Xing deliberately said, "But Brother is sleepy and hungry now too. I don't have any strength left. I might not be able to beat a bear."

Jiang Zhaosu currently had two choices.

First: follow Qi Xing, lose her reason along the way, attack Qi Xing, and die.

Second: fight this bear, either kill it or be killed by it.

Choosing the first meant certain death.

Choosing the second still left a sliver of hope for survival.

Jiang Zhaosu resolutely said, "We..."

She pointed at Qi Xing, then herself, raised her other hand, and made a punching motion. "Roar roar!"

The two of them would fight together. Surely they could beat this stupid bear!

Qi Xing laughed at her. "Fortune got stronger after evolving, huh? You even dare fight a bear now."

After eating so many Crystal Cores without dying, even an ordinary person should have awakened an ability. Qi Xing did not believe Jiang Zhaosu had undergone no changes at all.

He released Jiang Zhaosu's hand and snapped his fingers.

A vine suddenly burst from the ground, wrapped around his waist, and carried him onto the high branch of a nearby tree.

Qi Xing sat on the thick, sturdy branch and leisurely swung his legs. Looking down at Jiang Zhaosu, who had suddenly been left alone with a bewildered expression, he called, "If Fortune wants to eat, then Fortune can fight. Brother has no strength left, so I'll cheer Fortune on from the tree!"