As Wei Xuan watched Cheng Ma approaching, Bai Guangnan shrugged in response to Wei Xuan’s words, saying, “Sometimes when I leave this room and come back after a while, she also sways toward the door, just like now… Maybe she can recognize me too?” With that, he cast a resentful glance at his zombie girlfriend, who was showing no signs of swaying towards the door.
Wei Xuan quickly scanned Bai Guangnan and then turned his attention back to Cheng Ma. It seemed that Bai Guangnan couldn’t “hear” the brainwaves of the zombies.
Wei Xuan recalled that he, too, couldn’t initially “hear” the voices of the zombies. He suspected that the current situation might be related to the encounters he had with the little zombie girl in the past, which triggered this result.
However, when he had asked Bai Guangnan and Cheng Ma about it earlier, they had not sensed anything special from the zombie girl, except that she was being protected by other zombies.
Putting aside Bai Guangnan’s situation for now, Wei Xuan looked at Cheng Ma who was still holding her son’s hand and swaying by his side. She kept repeating, “Potato, Potato,” and he couldn’t help but feel a bit touched.
So he smiled and greeted her with a nod, “Long time no see.” Yes, he had never expected that the farewell at the end of last year would lead to this current situation.
Seemingly in response to Wei Xuan’s acknowledgment, Cheng Ma stopped saying “Potato” and instead held her son’s hand proudly, radiating the message, “Son, son, son, won’t bite me, won’t bite me, won’t bite me.”
This time, Wei Xuan couldn’t help but almost burst into laughter. Well, after she had turned into a zombie, her son wouldn’t bite her anymore, of course. And now, they weren’t even biting Bai Guangnan. Thinking about it, Wei Xuan’s expression suddenly changed for a moment, and he couldn’t help but look at Bai Guangnan.
Bai Guangnan noticed that Wei Xuan and Cheng Ma seemed to be communicating their feelings quite well. So, after entering the room, he went straight to his zombie girlfriend and didn’t pay any attention to the two of them.
Bai Guangnan was also no longer being attacked by the zombies…
Initially, Wei Xuan thought that he had encountered a situation similar to his own, assuming that he had also triggered the same “ability” as himself. But now, thinking back… What exactly was his “ability” in the first place? Was Bai Guangnan’s current situation really the same as his own?
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Wei Xuan quickly walked over to Bai Guangnan and his zombie girlfriend while holding the thermometer. He measured both of them—twenty-two degrees and just over nine degrees.
“Twenty-two degrees and just over nine degrees…” Wei Xuan raised an eyebrow and looked at the two who were still acting strangely.
Bai Guangnan’s body temperature was now close to Wei Xuan’s own body temperature, and it would probably continue to decrease in the future. However, Wei Xuan remembered that his body temperature should have been around thirty degrees or more originally. In less than a year, why had his body temperature suddenly dropped so much and so quickly?
He also thought about how Cheng Ma had suddenly turned into a zombie. What had happened during this time?
“By the way, what did you eat later on?” Wei Xuan asked Bai Guangnan, while reaching for a snowflake that he had brought with him.
“Huh?” Bai Guangnan turned his head to look at Wei Xuan in confusion. Then he scratched his cheek and thought for a moment before responding, “Oh, I almost forgot! I haven’t eaten anything for a long time!”
“Usually, it was her who cooked, but when she suddenly became like this, I… Oh, I remember now! I used to cook every day at first, but cooking was too troublesome, so I started cooking only when I got hungry. But then, I started to feel less hungry over longer periods of time, and I just put this matter aside.”
Seeing him become more and more confident in his explanations, Wei Xuan was at a loss for words and could only think, “This guy is really insane. He even ‘forgot’ to eat!” How unlike himself. Even after becoming a zombie, he still had a strong desire for food.
“What about them? Have they not eaten snowflakes for this whole year?” Wei Xuan pointed to the three zombies in the room.
Bai Guangnan blushed and looked down, scratching his cheek. He hesitated before saying, “I… I forgot…”
He then quickly pointed at Cheng Ma and explained, as if afraid of being blamed, “I used to eat together with her, and she would feed her son during meals. I would feed Ruoxin at the same time. But if it was late at night, Ruoxin would have a midnight snack!”
The way he said “midnight snack” so confidently left Wei Xuan rolling his eyes inwardly. So he could only twist his lips and ask, “So, you haven’t gone downstairs for a long time, right?”
Bai Guangnan pondered for a moment and then nodded, saying, “Yeah! Now that you mention it, I just realized it! The last time I went out was because I had a bunch of filled diaries that I wanted to deliver to you!”
“What about the zombies downstairs? Did they still chase after you?” Wei Xuan inquired.
“They’re not chasing anymore! They’re not chasing anymore!” Bai Guangnan jumped up and looked at Wei Xuan with shining eyes.
“That’s why I said those zombies have all gone crazy! They don’t eat people anymore!”
Wei Xuan nodded deeply, not because the zombies had gone crazy but because this guy had also turned into something that was not human, which was why the zombies didn’t chase him anymore.
Setting aside this peculiar train of thought, Wei Xuan continued to ask about Bai Guangnan’s experiences during this time. His questions didn’t raise any suspicion from Bai Guangnan. First, because this guy genuinely lacked that kind of thinking, and second, because they hadn’t seen each other for a year, it was quite normal to inquire about each other’s experiences during that time.
Bai Guangnan, too, had a curiosity about Wei Xuan’s experiences, but his attention was constantly diverted by his girlfriend, who kept moving around. Plus, his thought process was… quite unique. So it was easy for Wei Xuan to steer the conversation away from topics he didn’t want to discuss.
After asking if he was interested in moving to Wei Xuan’s residential area, Bai Guangnan fell silent for a moment. He looked at his girlfriend and then at Cheng Ma, then said, “I think we won’t move. I’m afraid that Ruoxin will get scared if we suddenly change places. She used to be quite timid. When she heard ghost stories from her dormmates, she couldn’t sleep at night…”
Listening to Bai Guangnan start to ramble about his girlfriend again, Wei Xuan also looked at the girl. At the beginning, when he didn’t have the ability to hear the thoughts of zombies, he didn’t know the true nature of the relationship between this zombie girl and Bai Guangnan. Later, when he acquired this ability and came here, he couldn’t see this zombie girl for various reasons. But now…
Listening to Bai Guangnan ramble on about how great his girlfriend was and hearing the incessant “annoying, annoying, annoying…” from the zombie girl, coupled with her irritable yet unshakeable grip on Bai Guangnan’s hand, Wei Xuan sincerely hoped – hoped that Bai Guangnan would never learn the skill of “hearing” zombie talk, and also hoped that this zombie girl would learn to speak like a human at a later time.
Wei Xuan remembered that when he first entered the room, before Bai Guangnan had reached the zombie girl, she emitted the same vacant aura as the zombies on the street.
Suddenly, Wei Xuan thought of something and couldn’t help but interrupt Bai Guangnan, “By the way, how many years have you been dating her? When did you start dating?”
Bai Guangnan paused, tilted his head in thought, and then smiled somewhat shyly, “It’s been a few years, I think? Recently, my life has been a bit chaotic, and I haven’t looked at the calendar for a long time.”
“Speaking of it, the day we started dating was the day I returned to school… When I just returned to school, I spotted her among that group of zombies! I took her with me, and we escaped from the school together…”
He said, gazing at the girl next to him with deep affection, gently tucking her hair behind her ear, “Don’t worry, Ruoxin, as long as I’m here, no one can hurt you.”
“Don’t touch me, don’t touch me, don’t touch me…”
Wei Xuan’s mouth twitched again, and he awkwardly turned his head to look at Cheng Ma and her son. Cheng Ma was still emitting the message “son, don’t bite me” while her son dutifully broadcasted “mom, mom, mom.”
It seemed that even though the zombies had forgotten most things from the past, certain deep-seated memories remained, like the strong bond between Cheng Ma and her son.
As for Bai Guangnan’s girlfriend… Wei Xuan couldn’t help but deeply suspect whether she even recognized this guy before the apocalypse. Perhaps she secretly admired him and only confessed her feelings during the apocalypse? Regardless, as a friend of Bai Guangnan, Wei Xuan wouldn’t pry into these painful matters.
…If I don’t feel hungry, I also forget to eat. I’m also bad with dates and time keeping. That doesn’t make me crazy, though. It’s more like the consequences of being somewhat traumatized and incredibly stressed.
Thnx for the update!
Wait, did they just meet during the apocalypse?🤔
I think he is an admirer of hers, and became a self-appointed boyfriend at the start of the apocolypse? I Don’t remember
She’s not even his girlfriend
Did he just snag a zombie girl as his girlfriend? Wha…
Thanks for the chapter! Dude is really special…
face palm
This dude….
Now that they’re not attracting hordes of zombies I want them to live in Wei Xuan’s neighborhood
Wei Xuan should tell him that if they move his girlfriend will heal faster.
girl.