After her luck was taken away, she fell in love with the woman who traveled through time.

"Okay." Liang Tan tied it up quickly.

Cui Ling stepped on the accelerator and the jeep rushed out.

The car drove out of the base and headed forward along the deserted road.

This was the first time that Liang Tan left the base during the day. Under the sunlight, she could clearly see the abandoned farmland on both sides of the road. With the arrival of spring, the fields were overgrown with weeds. Birds were foraging in the weeds, and the dead trees on the side of the road fell down, suddenly causing a sound of flapping wings.

Liang Tan looked at the scene in front of him, and his heart was suddenly filled with a desire to return to normal.

"If there hadn't been this virus, wheat would have been planted in the fields now," Cui Ling said slowly, as if she had guessed what she was thinking. "We have a saying here, 'auspicious snow heralds a good harvest.' It snowed so heavily this year. In a few months, the harvest will definitely be good. By then, those who work away from home will ask for leave and come back to reunite with their families during the wheat harvest."

It was almost dusk at this moment. The afterglow of the setting sun fell on his face, casting a layer of golden light on his superior features. Liang Tan stared at his face, his heart beating uncontrollably faster.

Good looks are really a gift from God. Even just talking about things in the farmland can make people's hearts palpitate. Liang Tan forced himself to turn his head and look forward, secretly warning himself not to be deceived by appearance.

The hint worked, and she soon began to appreciate the scenery ahead.

At this moment, they were walking westward along the road. The sun was just on the horizon in front of them. There were no humans or vehicles in the outdoor environment. The animals became unbridled. Wild rabbits were chasing each other in the fields. A few roosters were standing on the trees and crowing loudly. Everything was peaceful and beautiful.

Liang Tan lazily leaned on the chair, watching the sun slowly slide down. For a moment, he almost forgot that he was in the end of the world. He sighed from the bottom of his heart: "It's so beautiful."

A slight curve appeared at the corner of Cui Ling's lips.

Liang Tan was still not satisfied, and after expressing his feelings, he pulled Cui Ling to chat: "Little animals are so cute, look at that chicken, although it is fat, it looks very young. Does it know that it is the end of the world now? Has it ever experienced life before the end of the world? Is it also troubled by zombies in normal times?"

"With the zombies' speed, we can't pose a threat to them." Cui Ling replied.

Liang Tan suddenly realized: "What if someone of the same kind is also infected with the virus?"

"The virus only targets human genes. If other animals are bitten or scratched, the only outcome is death." Cui Ling answered again.

Liang Tan nodded and opened his mouth to ask again, but Cui Ling interrupted him directly: "Do you want to eat?"

"……Um."

An hour later, it was completely dark and the jeep stopped near a village.

Next to the campfire, Cui Ling was dealing with the chicken he had just shot with an expressionless face. Liang Tan leaned over to him and whispered, "How cruel."

Cui Ling stopped and looked at her speechlessly.

"...Go on, go on." Liang Tan laughed dryly.

Cui Ling continued to clean up.

Liang Tan licked his lips, staring at the almost finished chicken and muttering: "Don't blame us, we don't want to do this either. We are going to a very far place this time, and I can't drive. It's all up to the captain. It will take at least five days on the road. We can't just eat compressed biscuits all the time. Alas, I really can't bear it. If I had any choice..."

"Do you like spicy food?" Cui Ling interrupted.

Liang Tan's eyes lit up: "Are there any more peppers?"

After saying that, he met Cui Ling's half-smile gaze.

She coughed and pretended that she wasn't the one who was mumbling just now: "I'm fine with anything. It depends on what the captain likes."

After saying that, he did not forget to emphasize, "This chicken is for the captain to replenish his body."

Cui Ling snorted, poked the chicken up with a stick, and quickly put it on the fire to roast it.

Liang Tan's face immediately became full of anticipation. Seeing that there was not much firewood left, he raised his hand and offered to collect some.

"There are many villages nearby, and there must be a lot of zombies hiding there. You'd better be careful." Cui Ling reminded.

Liang Tan nodded: "Don't worry, Captain, no one will be more careful than me."

Cui Ling thought of her courage and did not refute her words.

Sure enough, although Liang Tan stood up, he only wandered around within his sight. After searching around and around, he only found a few dry branches. Cui Ling couldn't stand it anymore, so he called her back to look after the chickens, and went to the village himself.

Liang Tan saw him walking over there and quickly reminded him: "There are zombies hiding over there!"

"Quiet." Cui Ling only left two words.

Liang Tan could only give up persuading him.

The night of the end of the world is always quiet. After Cui Ling left, Liang Tan sat by the campfire alone, facing the empty world and unknown dangers alone. The fear that had been forgotten came to her heart little by little. She sniffed lightly and moved closer to the fire. She stared at the chicken on the fire and was alert to the surrounding movements. Any slight movement would make her shudder.

The bonfire continued to burn, but the firewood around them was getting less and less, and Cui Ling never came out of the village. Liang Tan felt more and more uneasy, and wanted to look for him from time to time, but when he saw the dark village and thought of the hidden dangers inside, he began to get scared.

The long-lost crying habit seemed to have reappeared. Although she was just worried, her eyes were red uncontrollably. Liang Tan felt speechless. She was speechless while trying to hold back her tears. It took a lot of effort just to hold back her tears.

Finally, she couldn't help but stood up and walked in the direction Cui Ling had just left.

As she got further away from the campfire, her visibility became lower and lower. Although the weather was clear tonight, there was no moonlight. She could only rely on her relatively good eyesight to grope her way forward bit by bit.

She held her breath and carefully observed the road ahead. As soon as she reached the entrance of the village, she saw two zombies wandering not far away. She swallowed her saliva and subconsciously wanted to escape, but when she thought of Cui Ling still here, she couldn't turn around and leave.

After hesitating for a long time, she finally mustered up the courage to move forward, unable to hold back her tears as she walked. However, at the moment, she had no time to complain about her strange physique. She just blinked her eyes hard to squeeze out the tears to prevent them from affecting her vision.

After she came to this world, the first few times she encountered zombies were in high-tech research institutes and laboratories. As a person who has been exposed to horror stories with local elements since childhood, even though she is very timid, she is not particularly scared, because those horror elements are quite different from the stories she heard as a child, and there is a sense of disconnection.

Just like zombies and zombies, they sound similar, but to the locals, they are completely different.

But it's different here.

The quiet villages, country roads, millstones or basins placed in front of people's doors, and the architectural layout with very local characteristics all made her inevitably think of ghost stories and horror movies. When she saw these zombies, she thought of the monsters and demons in the stories, and then... she became even more scared.

The spring nights are also cold, but Liang Tan broke out in a layer of white sweat, and he felt like a cat with its fur standing on end, always on high alert.

She avoided the wandering zombies and made sure there was no danger around. She finally spoke tremblingly: "Cui Ling... Cui Ling..."

"Where's the soul?"

"Ah!" Liang Tan jumped away with horror and looked at him with a pale face.

Cui Ling: “…”

It has to be said that Liang Tan's voice was quite loud, just like the first crowing of a rooster before the sun rises, which immediately attracted the response of the chickens.

However, the 'chickens' here are zombies. They not only crow, but also roar as they rush towards them.

Cui Ling had no choice but to pull her hand and run. The two of them used their speed and strength to knock away a zombie and ran out of the village.

The sound of the wind whistled past her ears, the roaring sound was thrown farther and farther away, and Liang Tan's fear was also left behind. She followed Cui Ling in a daze, looking at his broad and firm back, she felt a sense of security.

The zombies in the village were very basic and they easily shook them off. By the time they got back to the car, both of them had unstable breathing.

"What did you shout just now?" Cui Ling frowned and turned back to teach her, but was caught off guard by a pair of tearful eyes.

"Why haven't you come back yet?!" Liang Tan meant to complain, but his voice was trembling, and tears fell as soon as he finished speaking.

Cui Ling stared at her, and his fingers couldn't help but tremble twice.

After a long time, he finally couldn't control himself anymore and opened his arms to embrace her.

"You're just picking up some firewood, why haven't you come back for so long? I'm almost scared to death, but I still have to go find you," Liang Tan complained, tears still falling. She was obviously angry, but because her voice was crying, she didn't sound powerful at all. In the end, she could only make up for it with words, "I don't want to cry at all. These are physiological tears, not caused by fear."

"I know." Cui Ling patted her back soothingly.

Liang Tan sniffed and wiped her tears on him. Cui Ling didn't find it annoying, but just patted her quietly.

In front of her was his hot body temperature, and on her back was a gentle pat. The sense of security that she had accidentally lost was finally found. After her tears dried up, her rationality returned. Liang Tan gradually felt embarrassed and didn't know how to end this hug.

Cui Ling noticed that she was gradually stiffening, and after a pause, he let her go.

Liang Tan felt a little embarrassed and could only pretend to be unhappy with a straight face: "So why did you take so long?"

"There's a river behind the village with a lot of wild ducks. I thought one chicken wouldn't be enough for you, so I went to get some duck eggs." After Cui Ling finished speaking, he saw the burnt chicken and added after a moment of silence, "Even if we had duck eggs now, they wouldn't be enough for you."

Liang Tan followed his gaze and immediately felt embarrassed: "I was in a hurry to find you, so..."

"Duck eggs and compressed biscuits." Cui Ling sighed and took out more than ten duck eggs from his pocket. He ran in such a hurry just now that not a single one of them was rotten.

Liang Tan opened his eyes wide in shock: "You actually found so many."

"I could have found more, but I was afraid you would get impatient waiting," Cui Ling said as he lit the fire again to roast the duck eggs. "I didn't expect you would still get impatient."

"How can I not be anxious when you suddenly disappeared?" Liang Tan muttered.

Cui Ling put the duck eggs away and looked up: "Are you so worried about me?"

"Who's worried..." Liang Tan subconsciously wanted to refute, but when he met his smiling eyes, he suddenly couldn't say anything.

Cui Ling looked at her quietly, and the smile in his eyes was gradually replaced by something deeper. Liang Tan couldn't understand it, but his face turned red, his heart beat fast, and his throat became dry.

After a while, Cui Ling let out a light laugh of pleasure: "Don't look at me like that, or I'll suspect you're attracted to me."

"I didn't..." Liang Tan lowered his head hurriedly.

Cui Ling looked at her who was running away, and the curve of his lips deepened.

Liang Tan continued to avoid his sight until the duck eggs were baked, then he started to interact with him. However, his first words were particularly unfriendly: "You made me burn the chicken, these are mine."

"Well, they're all yours." Cui Ling had no interest in snatching the food.

Liang Tan felt relieved after hearing this.

The taste of roasted duck eggs is different from that of boiled ones. The egg white is firmer and the yolk is fragrant. Liang Tan couldn't help eating a few more. When he reached out again, Cui Ling stopped him: "If you eat any more, your stomach won't be able to handle it."

Liang Tan withdrew his hand awkwardly.

"They are all yours," Cui Ling glanced at her, "and the rest can be kept for breakfast. Although they are not pickled, this kind of cooked food can be stored for a few days without any problem."

Liang Tan was immediately interested when he heard this: "Then let's go find some more."

"Not afraid anymore?" Cui Ling raised his eyebrows.

Liang Tan blurted out: "I have you."

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly felt a little embarrassed——

If Li Shengjun said this to anyone else, it would be a compliment to Cui Ling, but as someone Cui Ling had loved, she felt a little bit jealous when she said this... It's really hard to keep a proper distance between men and women. Liang Tan stole a glance at Cui Ling and saw him calmly stirring the fire, so she didn't explain too much.

The captain is indeed a good person. After knowing that she was not interested in him, he completely treated her as a teammate and did not even think twice about her unintentional words. Liang Tan was grateful and took out a duck egg for Cui Ling: "Captain, have one."

Cui Ling glanced at her and knew what she was thinking. He took the duck egg and put it in his pocket: "Let's go."

"Don't you want to touch some duck eggs again?" Liang Tan was unwilling to give up.

Cui Ling got into the car without looking back: "Those zombies are all frantic. It will take at least a few hours for them to calm down. Are you willing to wait?"

Liang Tan thought about it and got in the car decisively.

Cui Ling stepped on the accelerator and the jeep rushed out.

Although Liang Tan was wearing a seat belt, he was still shaken a bit. He looked at someone speechlessly and said, "Isn't it great not to have to follow traffic rules?"

"Do you want to try it?" Cui Ling asked back.

Liang Tan snorted: "I don't have a driver's license."

"Do you think anyone will check your driver's license?" Cui Ling sneered.

Liang Tan was silent for three seconds, but still refused: "Forget it, safety first."

"You are so capable, but why are you so timid?" Cui Ling laughed at her.

Liang Tan snorted: "Courage is innate, ability is acquired, and the two are not contradictory."

Cui Ling suddenly thought of the first time he met her. She was wearing a hospital gown that was so dirty that the color couldn’t be seen, and there was a needle hole from the infusion on her hand.

His eyes dimmed, and after a moment of silence, he slowly spoke: "When we get to the Canglong Base, ask Academician Li to check your body to see if the medicine you used before will have any effect on your body."

"No need. I've already given Han Bowen three tubes of blood. I think everything that needs to be checked has been done..."