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Without anyone watching, they all concealed daggers on their bodies.

After contracting the disease, patients with the Living Dead undergo varying degrees of physical mutations. Their deformed bodies become incredibly strong and immune to heat weapons, only effective against physical attacks. The Special Affairs Office, being frontline personnel who need to deal with the Living Dead, has trained in combat skills for some time, and all four of them unanimously chose easily portable daggers as their weapons.

After drawing their daggers, Ye Yanran two companions divided their tasks: two lay in ambush to the side, while one opened the door. Bang! The door was flung open, and the three pointed their blades at the inside...

The room was quiet, and a deformed child lay in a specially made steel stroller.

The three of them settled down.

The child in the stroller was highly mutated; his entire body was covered in scales, and a dangerous aura emanated from him. The three members of the Special Affairs Office, based on their experience, immediately determined that the child was very ill, more so than the other Living Dead.

Based on experience, the more seriously ill Living Dead is, the more aggressive they are. However, this patient was still an infant. Due to the limitations of his own body, he seemed unable to get out of the stroller at all. He kept trying to climb over the stroller. His hard fingernails scratched at the stroller blocking his way again and again in a fit of rage, but he could not climb over it.

The three stared at the scene for a long time before Ye Yanran, her voice hoarse. "Let's go, take him away."

A broken baby bottle lay overturned on the ground next to the stroller, milk spilled everywhere. There was only milk, no blood, so--

"The child's parents have probably gone out to buy baby bottles. We need to take the child away before they return," Ye Yanran said.

Take them away first; the government will handle any subsequent disputes.

And that person outside the door—who is that baby's relative? What if they suddenly barge in?

The fake homeowner Ye Jiang, squatted in the villa's garden. In front of her grew a flowering plant that was about to wither. Ye Jiang stared at the plant, then slowly looked up at the young man beside her. The young man stood beside her, silently keeping her company. She stared intently at him.

Rong Yin understood Ye Jiang well, but this time he didn't quite grasp it. She turned her head slightly away from his gaze. "If you want to go in..."

He thought Ye Jiang was angry because she was refused entry by the humans, but in fact Ye Jiang had no desire to enter the villa. She had come to see these humans to discuss something with them, but she wasn't in a hurry and would just wait here.

So she immediately interrupted him, "I don't want to."

Rong Yin: "..."

Then why are you looking at me like that?

Ye Jiang stared at him for a long time, then lowered her head and reached out to brush her hand across the flower in front of her that was about to wither and die. In an instant, the leaves unfurled and the flower regained its vitality.

Ye Jiang stared at the flower she didn't recognize.

Ye Jiang once received a bouquet of flowers.

The monster who delivered the flowers later took them back.

Ye Jiang: "."

Is this a unique way monsters deliver flowers?

I'm a little depressed.

It's kind of annoying.

Ye Jiang pursed her lips and poked at the flower in front of her. A voice, tinged with amusement, sounded from behind her, "Little sister, looking at the flowers?"

The person who had locked Ye Jiang out opened the door and came out; he was alone, the other two were not there.

Hearing the sound, Ye Jiang turned around, looked at Ye Yanran, and then looked behind her. Ye Yanran knew what she was looking at and explained, "My two companions left through the back door of your house. Sister, did you know? A popular online store opened over there! They went to check it out happily."

Ye Jiang: "."

The lies this human tells are getting more and more outrageous.

Ye Yanran is clearly a capable person; she can tell such an outrageous lie without batting an eye.

Oh, she can say even more outrageous things.

"Sister, thank you so much for saving us from almost dying of thirst." Ye Yanran said as she walked out of the garden. She had to hurry. Sister Xiu Uncle Wen had indeed gone to the back door. They were going to take away the patient who Living Dead. The homeowner's sister was ahead. This road was difficult to walk on, so they chose to go through the back door. They were now waiting for her to drive over and pick her up.

As Ye Yanran spoke, she moved with lightning speed, reaching the outside in just a few steps, opening the car door, and getting into the driver's seat.

Just as they were about to start the car and leave, the passenger seat was suddenly pulled open from the outside, and someone got in. It was the homeowner's sister, who wasn't very bright and was easily fooled.

Ye Yanran: "?"

Ye Jiang fastened her seatbelt and looked up at her. "Aren't you leaving?"

Ye Yanran forced a smile, "It's you who's leaving, little sister...?"

Ye Jiang said, "I want to go with you too."

Ye Yanran's hand tightened on the steering wheel. Had they been discovered? Had they taken the baby from the house, and the homeowner's sister had found out? What was her attitude now?

Ye Yanran's mind raced, but her face remained impassive as she organized her thoughts. The next second, she heard the person in the passenger seat say, "You're from the Special Affairs Office; your unit is short-staffed."

Then, a job application came crashing down on Ye Yanran.

"I want to work for your company," the person in the passenger seat said earnestly.

Director Ye paused, his carefully prepared words falling apart.

"Ah?"

Ye Jiang stared at her, repeating herself without hesitation, "I want to go into the Special Affairs Office."

Ye Jiang wanted to discuss something with Ye Yanran and a few others, and that was the matter they wanted to discuss.

Although this statement has little to do with discussion.

This was Ye Jiang's second job search. The last time she applied so diligently was when she was still a human being, and she successfully landed a job Waiter. Having learned from that experience, now... she applied for a job without being obsequious, just like before.

Director Ye heard it clearly this time, and understood it perfectly.

She looked at Ye Jiang, her expression complex, hesitant to speak, and after a long while finally said, "Sister, you know about the Special Affairs Office..."

Judging from her attitude towards them, she probably thought the girl didn't know.

Ye Jiang knew that after leaving the alley, she went to inquire about the company, which had only been established for half a month.

The sudden appearance of the Living Dead led to the establishment of the Special Affairs Office. This unit's creation was anything but low-key; it was announced through a press conference, and all Special Affairs Office staff made public appearances at the event. It was one of the biggest news stories recently, although not everyone paid attention to it.

Although it was a fact, most people knew about it, so Ye Jiang just randomly grabbed someone and quickly asked them. She also learned that the company was short-staffed, very short-staffed.

Ye Jiang remembered that the Ability Control Bureau had said that the Special Events Office was the predecessor of the Ability Control Bureau. She didn't expect it to be established at this time, and specifically for the "Living Dead".

So what exactly is Living Dead?

Ye Jiang was puzzled, so she asked the citizen she had stopped. But the usually outspoken and helpful citizen became hesitant and unwilling to talk, as if he wanted to keep something to himself.

It's alright. Ye Jiang doesn't necessarily need to know. Her desire to join this official human organization isn't for serving the people; she just... can't let go of Ye Yanran, this human, and wants to observe her more closely.

Before Ye Jiang came to the villa to find Ye Yanran and the others, she was actually found by Wang Zhiqiang first. Wang Zhiqiang found Ye Jiang in an alley. By then, all the people who had gathered in the alley had left, and Ye Jiang was still thinking about where to go next.

Wang Zhiqiang, unaware that Cao An was dead, assumed Ye Jiang was still tracking Cao An and boldly suggested to her that she stop pursuing Cao An.

"Cao An is unimportant. What's so important about a nobody like him? Big boss, the most urgent thing is for us to find a way to escape this time and space. That's more pressing."

That's what Wang Zhiqiang said, and he was very sincere.

He said, "The spacetime we're in is unstable. Every now and then, it flows back and forth again. That's not all; it keeps jumping to other spacetimes. Cao An and I have been caught in this time travel for a month now. I've traveled through seven or eight spacetimes on my own, one after another, and I can't find a way out at all. I've become a veritable time-traveling vagabond!"

Speaking of this, Wang Zhiqiang showed a fearful expression. Time travel is not a strange encounter; constantly traveling through time and not being able to settle down is an extremely painful thing.

Cao An, that kid, was quite adaptable and didn't seem afraid at all. He even wanted to play the Savior game before this special time-space ended.

Wang Zhiqiang is not Cao An; he just wants to go back.

After hearing Wang Zhiqiang's explanation of the time travel, Ye Jiang also felt that going back was better, and she didn't want to be a time-traveling vagabond.

But she didn't want to leave now.

She felt it was also important to stay in this time and space.

She felt that her memories had fallen into this time and space, into... that human woman named Yan Ran.

After being drawn to this human more than once, Ye Jiang finally understood what was going on.

Therefore, Ye Jiang rejected Wang Zhiqiang's suggestion and asked a citizen about Yan Ran's identity, who was working in the central square. She learned about the Special Affairs Office and that Yan Ran was the director of the Special Affairs Office.

She found Yan Ran and threw her a job application.

Inside the car.

Ye Yanran's feelings were complicated. "Little sister, your ambition is admirable."

Director Ye was pleased but declined, saying, "It's a pity, our unit has specific requirements for hiring."

"Sister, tell me honestly, is it because a relative is sick...?" She looked at Ye Jiang, then turned her head to look at the villa. In her view, the villa garden was dilapidated, with only a single white rose blooming purely. Hmm, was there such a flower in the garden before?

Ye Jiang: "?"

"There's something I want to tell you," Ye Jiang said.

Ye Yanran out of her reverie. "Go ahead."

After regaining her composure, she started the car and drove away. Although they had only exchanged a few words, she estimated that she had lingered at the front door for almost a minute, and Sister Xiu was bound to scold her. As for the person next to her, Ye Yanran pondered the possibility of abandoning her halfway through the journey. Where would be a good place to leave her?

Ye Jiang said, "I'm not going to the police station."