The beautiful mage was kidnapped by the contracted beast again

Jiang Liujing snorted, facing the gazes of everyone below, and finally gave Chi some face and said nothing more.

He raised his chin and said to the zombie children:

"I heard what you just said, so this is why you arrested me?"

Some of the children shook their heads and some nodded.

They were stunned again when they saw each other's reactions, as if they were shocked that the other person's reactions were different from their own.

Xiaoliu shook his head and raised his hand: "Brother, we just want to see you."

She said aggrievedly, "We haven't seen you for many years."

The other children who raised their hands nodded frantically beside her.

Although they were not conscious and active during the years frozen after death, time objectively passed, so the time they were separated was real.

The remaining children also hurried to explain: "And us, brother, we knew you were in Y City and planned to build Haicheng before taking you away, but..."

But later they lost control so badly that there was no guarantee that the situation would not deteriorate completely one day.

Having tasted the feeling of death and regaining consciousness, no one wanted to fall back into that numb madness and chaos. Taking Jiang Liujing away was a last resort and a necessary move.

Jiang Liujing faced the timid and pleading gazes of a group of children. It was impossible for him not to be moved.

Even though the other party was a zombie, their thinking and behavior were too much like those of humans, as if Jiang Liujing really had a group of brothers and sisters out of thin air.

But the identity gap between humans and zombies stands in the way, just like the natural racial gap between wolves and sheep.

Not to mention getting close to them, if their conversation was overheard by other humans, Jiang Liujing would be detained as a potential danger.

"Chi." Jiang Liujing's lips moved.

Almost subconsciously, when he felt uncertain, he sought help from the people he trusted most.

"what should I do?"

He didn't say this out loud, but Chi read it in his dark eyes.

Jiang Liujing was much more reserved in his human form than in his cat form. Chi looked at him and this thought suddenly popped up in his mind.

This wasn't the first time he had this thought.

Chi had clearly sensed since the first day Jiang Liujing turned back into a human that the things that cats did just now, Jiang Liujing in human form would be done cautiously and hesitantly.

When he was a cat, he would snatch the bottle and show off when he was hungry. On the first day that Chi picked him up, he would jump on his face and yell for him to wake up. But Jiang Liujing in human form would not do these things.

He became quieter, more silent, and more restrained.

It's like some kind of change to cater to the rules of human society.

Chi would not compare which Jiang Liujing was better. For him, he would unconditionally support whatever choice Jiang Liujing made.

His only preference was Jiang Liujing's mood. He hoped Jiang Liujing was happy.

"You know my answer." The man responded in a low and magnetic voice.

Jiang Liujing moved his head back and lowered his eyes.

Indeed, he had known for a long time before asking that Chi would never interfere with his decisions except when it was dangerous.

But I still feel a little lost.

Jiang Liujing didn't know where this feeling of loss came from. He was used to making independent judgments before, and this was just one of the ordinary times.

But he just felt stuffy and a little breathless.

This feeling didn't last for a few seconds, and he quickly realized that something was wrong. Why did he become so hypocritical? No matter what Chi said, this was ultimately his decision to make.

Jiang Liujing pursed his lips, took a deep breath, and just as he was about to look up and speak to the waiting zombie children, he heard a voice coming from above his head again, "However, if it were me, I would make a deal with them."

Jiang Liujing was stunned.

Before he could even turn around, he felt Chi's fingers rise and scratch his cheek.

The force was very light, like an adult comforting a grumpy child, with a hint of indulgence and helplessness.

"After all, we are being held captive here by them. Whether we want to leave or find the other people in the city, we need their help."

This statement is actually a bit far-fetched, after all, Jiang Liujing doesn't know, but Chi Xin knows very well that even if Jiang Liujing does nothing, these children will eagerly work for Jiang Liujing.

But he saw that Jiang Liujing needed a reason to help them, a reason that could convince the new moral part of him that had been reborn after receiving human education.

After hearing Chi's words, Jiang Liujing felt relieved.

He raised his lips, a smile returned to his face, and nodded, "That's what I thought, too."

He turned to look at the zombie children, "What about you? Can you accept this proposal? Besides, I'm not sure if my singing will really work on you. I've never seen such an effect before."

After Jiang Liujing finished speaking, he thought that no matter whether these children accepted it or not, their focus would always be on the second half of the sentence. After all, this was a big matter concerning their brains.

Unexpectedly, the reality surprised him for a second, and all the zombie children showed expressions as if they were struck by lightning.

Xiaoliu complained, "Brother, you still want to leave?"

"Why don't you just stay here?"

Jiang Liujing: "But I am a human..."

Xiao Liu interrupted him and said angrily, "But humans are not nice to you at all."

"We went to the Y City base to look for you, but everyone there said you had defected. They even sent people to hunt you down. We tried to rescue you, but we only managed to save the doctor. Brother, they've been saying bad things about you the whole time."

Xiaoliu became more and more angry as he spoke. Although they had never learned to write, they could still understand what he said.

The zombie children who went to pick him up were furious when they found out that the brother they had been looking for had become a "shameless traitor" in the mouths of those people, and was also charged with a bunch of crimes such as destroying the base and causing a civil war.

If they hadn't found any trace of Jiang Liujing, they would have wanted to turn back and raze the base first.

Jiang Liujing didn't know about this, but it was not much different from what he thought.

He had openly escaped, and Cyrus had to find a reason to avoid suspicion at the base. As for what it was, it didn't matter; it was just a matter of severity.

Thinking of Cyrus, he suddenly remembered the people who were captured mentioned by the survivors he met on the road.

Taking Xiaoliu's anger into consideration, he asked, "So, you were the ones who attacked the Y City base convoy yesterday?"

The zombie children all froze for a moment.

Having just been threatened by Chi, they still didn't quite understand Jiang Liujing's attitude towards their attack on humans. None of them dared to speak, for fear that Jiang Liujing would hate them.

Little did they know that Jiang Liujing could see through their appearance at a glance.

He thought with a smile that he seemed to be too wary of them.

These children obviously have a good impression of him, and they do not have the desire that ordinary zombies have to bite living people. In a sense, they are even more similar to humans than many humans, and there is no need to pretend to conform to the world when getting along with them.

"Don't worry, I don't like the people there either. I won't care if you attack them. I just want to ask, did you take anyone away?"

This time the children looked at each other and nodded.

Number Five stepped forward and said, "That man is in the basement of the institute. Brother, do you want to see him?"