Eavesdropping

Healing abilities are highly sought after by all teams in the apocalypse.

In the apocalypse, medicine is in short supply, making healing abilities incredibly useful.

Not only can they treat injuries without medicine, but who wouldn't want a powerful healer as a solid backup when facing danger, allowing them to fight without restraint?

As the team leader, Qin Feng has a bit of cleverness, but not much.

After Qi Xing demonstrated his ability and they learned he was a harmless Wood Healing Ability User, Qin Feng's attitude towards him immediately changed.

Qi Xing possessed the skill of saying whatever suited the situation, and under the alias Li Ronghua, he quickly befriended the three of them. He even proactively shared the food Jiang Zhaosu had collected during the day.

In exchange, Qin Feng had Cao Yuan give Qi Xing some clean water.

After the group had eaten and drunk their fill in the small room, Qin Feng asked Duan Yuanyuan to clean up the trash. Then, in a heartfelt and earnest tone, he said to Qi Xing, "Brother Li, our team is in dire need of a healing ability user. I see you're an honest person, so why don't you join our team?"

Qin Feng's tone was firm: "I promise, as long as you work hard, you'll never lack food or drink in this team."

Qi Xing, just as Qin Feng had expected, played the role of an innocent and trusting honest person perfectly. He smiled and said, "Of course, that sounds great. I was worried my ability has no offensive power, and I can't protect my sister when danger arises."

He didn't forget to flatter Qin Feng: "Brother Qin, you look like a Lightning Ability User, you must be very strong!"

Qi Xing's appearance was incredibly deceptive.

Anyone who met him for the first time would generally mistake him for a proud, aloof, and distinguished young master from a noble family.

Men are often concerned with appearances. A wealthy young master like Qi Xing, who might have previously looked down on factory workers like them, was now looking at them with envy and admiration.

Qin Feng couldn't help but feel a surge of pride, his expression showing a hint of smugness, though he said modestly, "I'm alright, I'm a Rank A Ability User."

"Wow~ A Rank A Ability User!"

Qi Xing's eyes sparkled, and he exclaimed dramatically, "I've never met a Rank A Ability User before, Brother Qin, you're truly amazing!"

Jiang Zhaosu, who was squatting in a corner playing with pebbles, heard this and thought: "..."

That familiar, exaggerated tone.

The last person Qi Xing had praised like that had been torn apart and eaten alive by their own kind.

According to Qi Xing's introduction, Jiang Zhaosu had fallen ill as a child, and ever since then, her mind hadn't been quite right. She had trouble speaking clearly, and despite being a teenager, her intelligence was still like that of a child.

Knowing she was intellectually disabled and had no abilities, the newcomers didn't pay much attention to her.

Except for Duan Yuanyuan.

Duan Yuanyuan also had no abilities.

When the other two members of the team discussed matters previously, she had no say.

If she spoke a little too much, Qin Feng and Cao Yuan would find her annoying.

After finishing her chores, Duan Yuanyuan, with nothing else to do, came over to the corner to chat with Jiang Zhaosu.

Jiang Zhaosu was playing a stone-catching game.

She stiffly tossed a small stone up and then tried to catch the one below with her hand. After catching it, she would immediately flip her wrist to catch the rising stone, training her reaction time.

She was engrossed in her game when she suddenly heard Duan Yuanyuan say to her, "Your name is Fugui, right?"

Initially, Jiang Zhaosu was afraid of Duan Yuanyuan, fearing she would suddenly appear like Xiao Chuxi and kick her to the ground, breaking her neck.

However, after witnessing Qi Xing's ability attack on Duan Yuanyuan and seeing Duan Yuanyuan's reaction, along with the indifferent attitude of the others, Jiang Zhaosu relaxed.

This woman probably had no abilities and wasn't well-liked by the team.

When Qi Xing had attacked her, even the man she instinctively turned to for help had remained indifferent.

After the crisis passed, Jiang Zhaosu stopped paying attention to Duan Yuanyuan.

The woman was scrawny, wouldn't even yield a few pounds of meat as rations, and was unqualified.

Jiang Zhaosu was more interested in Qin Feng.

While they were eating, she had been secretly glancing at Qin Feng.

Qin Feng was tall, muscular, and an ability user; his meat would surely be tastier than that of the slender Duan Yuanyuan and Cao Yuan.

Although Jiang Zhaosu could speak now, her pronunciation was very strange, making it obvious to any normal person that something was wrong.

Therefore, Jiang Zhaosu couldn't be bothered to respond to Duan Yuanyuan's attempt at conversation and continued playing with her pebbles without any reaction.

Duan Yuanyuan was used to being ignored and didn't mind Jiang Zhaosu's coldness. She spoke to Jiang Zhaosu as if talking to herself.

Afraid Qin Feng might hear, she lowered her voice and said very quietly to Jiang Zhaosu:

"Fugui, I envy you so much. You don't have any abilities, yet your brother is willing to take you around and protect you. He's so gentle and handsome. I wish I had a brother like that."

Jiang Zhaosu silently continued playing with her pebbles, thinking: You won't think that way when you see his true colors.

Even now, Jiang Zhaosu shuddered recalling the interest in Qi Xing's dark eyes as he watched the fire ability user being torn apart and devoured by a crowd in the basement, screaming in agony.

Even she, a zombie, didn't have such perverse, cruel amusement when feeding.

However, Duan Yuanyuan was right about one thing.

To this day, Qi Xing had indeed taken her around and protected her, and he hadn't shown any inappropriate intentions towards her.

Perhaps Qi Xing played the role of a villain in this novel, but to her, Qi Xing was a good person with only minor moral flaws.

In this regard, she was lucky.

As for the woman in front of her, her luck was a little worse.

This bungalow had three bedrooms.

At night, Jiang Zhaosu naturally shared a room with Qi Xing, Qin Feng and Duan Yuanyuan took another, and Cao Yuan lived alone in a room.

Qin Feng and Duan Yuanyuan's room was in the middle.

There was no door, and the thin walls of the bungalow were not soundproof enough.

Not long after they each entered their own rooms, some unbearable muffled roars and groans suddenly erupted from the middle of the house, clearly transmitted through the thin walls.

Jiang Zhaosu didn't need to sleep, and Qi Xing had slept enough during the day and wasn't sleepy yet.

The two of them, one zombie and one human, were unusually alert and listened to the ambiguous sounds that made one's face flush and heart race. They sat on the bed, staring at each other: "..."

Although Jiang Zhaosu was an adult, she had no experience in this area.

In her previous life, she was so busy studying and working that she had no energy to think about such things.

Now that she had become a zombie, she probably wouldn't find a partner in this lifetime and would never experience it.

Thinking of this, Jiang Zhaosu suddenly became curious.

Since she had no chance in this life anyway, couldn't she at least listen and learn about it?

Jiang Zhaosu, who had been sitting on the bed, pressed her hands on the bed surface and crawled forward a bit, lowering her cheek and ear to the wall in a lewd manner, trying to hear more clearly.

Qi Xing had originally been sitting at the head of the bed, closer to the wall of Qin Feng and Duan Yuanyuan's room.

As Jiang Zhaosu crawled over, Qi Xing suddenly moved.

A strange expression appeared on Qi Xing's handsome and beautiful face. He dodged Jiang Zhaosu and got off the bed with an unnatural expression.

This was not because he had developed lustful thoughts towards Jiang Zhaosu's unappealing child-zombie body after hearing a few moans that were clearly mixed with performance, but rather because Qi Xing felt very awkward.

Qi Xing also had no experience in this area.

Although he was twenty-six years old, Qi Xing had never had romantic feelings for any woman and had always remained uninterested in such matters.

Before the apocalypse, Qi Xing's days were also very busy.

He was a project manager at a well-known company, with many tasks waiting for him every day. After his sister went missing, he was busy searching for her all over the country.

Despite having many suitors due to his outstanding appearance and well-paying job, Qi Xing exuded a faint aura of being "difficult to approach" back then, never accepting any confessions.

Over time, everyone thought he might have some embarrassing condition in this regard.

Qi Xing himself had heard these rumors. But he couldn't possibly grab everyone by the collar and tell them he wasn't difficult to approach, just simply uninterested in such base desires, and that there was something wrong with that?

Listening to the commotion on the other side of the wall now, Qi Xing couldn't help but recall these boring and laughable past events.

Life in the apocalypse had changed his personality a lot, but one thing remained the same: he still found such things boring, even less enjoyable and stimulating than killing zombies.

He didn't expect that a little zombie like Jiang Zhaosu, who was so young, would be so interested in such things, with her little backside sticking out as she listened intently to the wall.

Standing on the ground, feeling extremely noisy and bored, Qi Xing looked at Jiang Zhaosu, who was sneakily eavesdropping on the bed. He felt that as the guardian of this little zombie, it was necessary to stop her immoral eavesdropping behavior in time.

Qi Xing rolled his eyes, a mischievous idea suddenly struck him, and he said loudly, "Fugui, you're not sleeping, what are you doing crawling on the wall?"