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

Before Liang Tan finished speaking, Cui Ling slammed on the brakes. The tires rubbed against the road with a harsh sound, and Liang Tan fell forward due to inertia, and was finally pulled back by the seat belt.

She quickly became alert: "What's wrong? What's in front?"

"You gave the blood to Han Bowen?" Cui Ling asked through gritted teeth.

Liang Tan looked up blankly: "Yeah, what's wrong?"

"Aren't you afraid that he will use your blood to do something he shouldn't do? Do you trust him so much?" Cui Ling still had one hand on the steering wheel, and veins on his arm were bulging.

Liang Tan realized that he was angry and couldn't help shrinking his neck: "He is not that kind of person. Besides, didn't you just say that you want to ask Academician Li to help me check my body? It's the same..."

"Stop changing the concept, Liang Tan. How old are you and still so naive?" Cui Ling said, turning around with a dark face.

Liang Tan was startled: "What are you doing?"

"Go back," Cui Ling said with a sullen face, "First they asked for your blood, and then they specifically asked you to go with me to deliver the information. It's obvious that they have a conspiracy. I can't just send you over like this."

"No, Han Bowen is really not that kind of person. He called me over this time probably to tell me about the research results. Captain, just believe me. Without my permission, he won't tell anyone even if he figures out something," Liang Tan persuaded him hastily. Seeing that he was still walking back, he couldn't help but get anxious, "Captain!"

Cui Ling braked suddenly again. Liang Tan had experience this time and immediately held on to the seat, thus avoiding being strangled.

"Why do you believe him?" Cui Ling thought of how she resolutely saved people and looked at her with heavy eyes.

Liang Tan's lips moved, and after a long while he said seriously: "Captain, in my heart, he is like Academician Li."

And Academician Li represents hope.

Upon hearing this, Cui Ling fell silent.

As a tasker, Liang Tan’s first rule is not to reveal the plot, so that’s all I have to say. We can only hope that he will figure it out himself.

There was complete silence in the carriage, and no one spoke.

After an unknown amount of time, Liang Tan cautiously poked him and said, "If we find something wrong, we will run away immediately."

Cui Ling looked at her.

Liang Tan smiled: "With you here, nothing will happen."

Cui Ling ignored her compliment, turned the car around again and headed towards the original destination.

Liang Tan pursed his dry lips and was about to relax when he heard him say indifferently: "If you act on your own again, I will deduct all your credit limit."

He didn't chase her out, so she didn't seem angry. Liang Tan suppressed his laughter and nodded seriously.

The jeep continued to drive on the deserted road. Directly in front of them was a blurry horizon and a sky full of stars. They chased towards the horizon as if they were on an unknown journey.

Cui Ling drove for another four hours and stopped by the roadside because he felt tired.

At this moment they were still on the national highway, surrounded by farmland and forests, and only in the distance were there faint traces of villages and cities.

"Sleep here?" Liang Tan was curious.

Cui Ling responded, got out of the car, opened the back door, and laid the modified seat flat, turning it into a not-so-wide bed. He knelt on one knee on the seat, reached out to grab a bag, and pulled out a quilt to spread on the back seat.

While he was busy, Liang Tan sat in the passenger seat and looked back. When he saw his tall body curled up in the back seat and making the quilt, he couldn't help but say, "Why don't I do it?"

"It's ready." Cui Ling said, and reached for the trunk again. However, after searching around, he didn't find what he wanted, and immediately frowned.

"What's wrong?" Liang Tan couldn't help but ask when he saw this.

Cui Ling pursed her lips and looked at her: "Aili packed the luggage."

"So what?" Liang Tan was puzzled.

"There is only one quilt." Cui Ling replied.

Liang Tan: "..." Ai Li is really worried about them.

After a brief silence, Cui Ling said, "Come here and sleep."

"Then what will you do?" Liang Tan frowned.

"I'm fine." After Cui Ling said that, he went back to the driver's seat and lay down with the seat flat.

Liang Tan looked at him disapprovingly: "Go to the back and sleep. You've been driving all day, how can you not have a good rest?"

"Stop talking nonsense and go quickly." Cui Ling closed his eyes.

Liang Tan tried to persuade him a few more times, but seeing that he ignored her, she had no choice but to go to the back seat.

However, the next second, the only quilt was stuffed from the front to the driver's seat.

Cui Ling was forced to open her eyes. Before she could say anything, she heard Liang Tan speaking confidently from behind: "I sleep in the big bed and you cover me with the quilt. This is fair."

"It will be cold." Cui Ling reminded.

"I won't," Liang Tan is very confident in his body, "This temperature is just right for me."

After saying that, seeing Cui Ling still frowning, he hurriedly urged, "Hurry up, you have to get up early tomorrow."

Cui Ling had been driving for more than ten hours and was extremely tired. He would have to travel again tomorrow. After a moment of silence, he finally covered himself with the quilt.

Seeing that he didn't hesitate, Liang Tan breathed a sigh of relief, lay down in the back seat and closed his eyes.

It must be said that the space in their car is large enough. After the back seat is flattened, it is no different from a bed, enough for four of them to lie down. Liang Tan rolled around in the seat and began to feel sleepy.

The vehicle was parked beside the road, surrounded by open fields. There were no zombies anywhere in sight, and there were no living people passing by at this time. The only thing to worry about was the gradually dropping temperature.

In order to avoid suffocation, a small gap was left on all four car windows. The early spring wind blew in through the small gap, making people feel cool all over.

Liang Tan was indeed more resistant to cold than ordinary people, but she couldn't help curling up in an environment that was no different from the open air. She was small to begin with, and when she curled up, she had no sense of existence. She huddled in a corner and hugged herself, leaving a large space.

When Cui Ling opened her eyes, she saw such a pitiful scene. He was silent for a moment, got out of the car with the quilt in his arms, gently opened the back door, and covered her with the quilt.

Liang Tan snorted and opened her eyes as if she had realized something. Although her brain hadn't reacted yet, the moment she met Cui Ling's gaze, she subconsciously asked, "Captain, what's wrong?"

"It's okay, go to sleep." Cui Ling covered her with a blanket.

Liang Tan snorted and closed his eyes again. It took him a while to realize something was wrong: "...Captain, give me the quilt. What are you going to do?"

"I'm fine." Cui Ling returned to the driver's seat and lay down.

Liang Tan frowned and sat up: "No, your physique is not as good as mine. I feel cold, you must be colder. Here is the quilt for you."

“You are not allowed to come back.” Cui Ling seemed to know what she was going to do and immediately lowered his voice.

Liang Tan withdrew his hand silently, and the carriage suddenly became quiet.

"Go to sleep." Cui Ling's voice softened a little.

Liang Tan pursed his lips and suddenly said, "Why don't you come to the back row and we can sleep together."

Cui Ling said nothing.

The more Liang Tan thought about it, the more he felt it was feasible: "Come on, there's a lot of space here, and I don't take up any room, there's enough space for you to sleep."

Cui Ling still ignored her.

Liang Tan moved closer without giving up. His seat was flat, with the headrest just touching the edge of the back seat. As soon as Liang Tan stretched his head out, the view changed to someone staring at him from above.

Seeing that he wouldn't open his eyes, she could only reach out and pat his face: "Captain, come here, let's sleep together..."

When he clapped for the third time, Cui Ling suddenly grabbed her wrist. Liang Tan was stunned for a moment, and saw that there was no trace of sleepiness in his suddenly opened eyes.

"Liang Tan, don't overestimate my self-control. I'm not as calm as you think." He said in a deep voice.

Liang Tan: “…”

Cui Ling let go of her hand and closed his eyes again.

Liang Tan stared at him blankly for a long time. Her heartbeat suddenly accelerated and her cheeks flushed abnormally. At this moment, she was suddenly glad that she was in the dark and he would not discover her embarrassment at the moment.

She kept looking down at him for a long time without moving. Cui Ling did not open his eyes either. He just said helplessly, "Go to sleep."

Liang Tan licked his dry lips, and after a moment of silence, he said dryly: "No, come to the back."

Cui Ling paused and looked at her again: "Are you inviting me?"

"... Stop talking nonsense. I believe in your self-control today." Liang Tan said, and suddenly he became calmer. He grabbed his arm and pulled him to the back seat. "If you don't come today, no one will sleep."

Cui Ling was given a headache by her noise, and gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "If you make trouble again, I will not sleep."

Liang Tan heard the hidden meaning in his words, and her cheeks suddenly became redder, but she was also stubborn. Even though she was shy, she continued to be tough: "Come here quickly, or I will annoy you to death."

Cui Ling didn't expect that even after she had said this, she still had no intention of backing down. After a long stalemate, she could only move from the front seat to the back seat.

Liang Tan was satisfied, and after he sat down, he pulled the quilt over and covered half of it for each of them. Although Ai Li was unreliable and only prepared one quilt, this quilt was big and thick, more than enough for two people.

Liang Tan covered himself with the still-warm quilt and stretched contentedly, "Good night, Captain."

Cui Ling glanced at her and lay down as well.

This time, the two of them finally fell asleep. The breeze that originally made them feel cold now became warm and gentle under the protection of the quilt. Liang Tan turned over and felt warm even in his dreams.

Because it was too comfortable, she slept very deeply and for a long time. When she woke up, it was already bright daylight. The person next to her had already returned to the driver's seat and started a new journey.

Liang Tan sat up and stared at the rapidly receding street scene for a moment before he looked up blankly and asked, "Captain, when did you wake up?"

"Two hours ago." Cui Ling said without turning his head.

Two hours was enough to get to the nearby town. No wonder the surrounding scenery changed from fields to cities. Liang Tan sniffed and looked out the window again.

There were bloodstains everywhere outside, some fresh, some black, some whose color could no longer be seen, gathered on the ground, on the walls, and on objects scattered on the ground.

There were cars parked crookedly on both sides of the road, many of whose windows were smashed, and all the shops with their doors wide open had been looted. It was hard to tell what business had been run here many years ago. Unlike the peace and tranquility of the fields, zombies were everywhere here. When they heard the sound of cars driving, they instinctively rushed over here. Cui Ling ran over them without changing his expression and continued walking forward.

These zombies were much lower level than those in Academician Li's institute, but Liang Tan felt a sharp pain in her heart and her eyes gradually became hot. Especially when she saw a child zombie about three or five years old, holding a doll tightly in his hand and struggling to walk towards them with his feet rotten to the point of exposing the bones, she couldn't help choking up.

Cui Ling's full attention was on the road ahead, but he still heard her slight sobs. He didn't say anything and continued to drive in silence until he drove out of the town and stopped near a gas station that was already empty. He then looked back at her.

"Don't look at me, it's embarrassing." Liang Tan wiped his red eyes and refused to look at him.

Cui Ling leaned back and reached out to touch her head.

Liang Tan adjusted her mood and sighed sadly: "When will this kind of life end?" Unconsciously, she has regarded herself as a part of this world. It has nothing to do with the mission and the male protagonist. She only sincerely hopes that the world will become a better place.

Cui Ling's eyes flashed with tenderness: "It will definitely be over soon."

"Well, it will definitely be over soon." Liang Tan repeated Cui Ling's words, determined to go over Han Bowen's fragment in the original text in his mind several times to see if he could find some fragments of the research three years later to guide him to make the vaccine in advance.

Seeing that she was in a low mood, Cui Ling calmly changed the subject: "When the virus is cured, is there anything you want to do?"

"I don't know, maybe I'll have to lie in bed for a week." Liang Tan thought seriously.

Cui Ling let out a light laugh: "Didn't you just lie down?"

"How are they the same?" Liang Tan muttered softly.

Cui Ling nodded slightly.

Seeing that he was silent, Liang Tan couldn't help but ask, "What about you? Is there anything you want to do?"

"Me?" Cui Ling looked at her. "How about taking care of you who is paralyzed in bed at such a young age?"

Liang Tan was speechless: "You are taking advantage of me, right?!"

"I didn't take advantage of you," Cui Ling looked forward with a relaxed look, "I really don't know what to do."

Liang Tan paused, thinking about all his relatives who died from the virus, and didn't know what to say for a moment.

The atmosphere became heavy again. She took a deep breath and tried to speak in a relaxed way: "Then you come to take care of me, cook for me and wash clothes every day. If you dare to be lazy, I will fire you."

Cui Ling's lips curled up a little: "Don't worry, I will work hard."

After hearing Cui Ling's assurance, Liang Tan snorted, "That's about right."

The two of them simply ate some compressed biscuits with yesterday's duck eggs, and then continued on their way. Liang Tan couldn't bear to let Cui Ling drive the whole way, and after hesitating for a while, he took the initiative to offer to try it himself.

Cui Ling patiently taught her several times, and then she drove on the road.

At first, she was a little afraid to drive, but later she realized that as long as she controlled the steering wheel, she didn't have to worry about anything else. Seeing that she had become proficient, Cui Ling relaxed.

Two people taking turns driving is much more efficient than one person. During the day, they took turns resting and kept the car on the road until nightfall, when they stopped at an abandoned gas station.

"There's not even a single car here." Liang Tan was a little surprised when he looked at the empty gas station. They had come across countless gas stations along the way, and each gas station had a few cars parked there, either abandoned by someone or left there after the owner died. But this gas station was empty, not even a trace of blood on the ground.

"It's a bit strange," Cui Ling frowned, "Is there someone living here?"

Liang Tan focused his attention and scanned the surrounding area, then said with a smile, "It would be great if someone were really living here. We could even borrow a fire to cook something."