What's wrong with being a little arrogant in the apocalypse just to support my wife?

Before they could figure out what to say, the short-haired girl next to Lu Yize, who had been facing away from them, turned around.

With his slightly messy, upturned short hair framing his face, revealing his familiar and delicate features, Xian Wenrui and Fan Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Jiang Yue, it's you. I thought..." Fan Jian started to say, but then swallowed the words back down his throat.

"Ahem, the new hairstyle looks pretty good. It's messy yet orderly, chewed yet structured, uneven yet neat."

Xian Wenrui looked at Fan Jian, who had a hoarse voice, with surprise, "Brother, you're so good at praising people?"

"Keep it low-key, keep it low-key." Fan Jian reached out and pressed down on the air, not wanting to make a fuss.

However, neither of them dared to linger their gazes on Jiang Yue for too long, because Jiang Yue was wearing a round-neck short-sleeved shirt, and without any hair to cover her neck, the area around her neck was simply... unbearable to look at.

To be honest, Jiang Yue looks quite good with this bob hairstyle. She looks both cute and sexy, and ultimately, her good looks are what make her stand out.

"Brother Lu, cough cough, please restrain yourself, don't bully the young girl like this." Xian Wenrui kindly reminded him.

Fan Jian clicked his tongue in amazement. He was about to drag out all those people from high school who said Lu Yize had no feelings for love, and see what the situation was like now.

If this is called being heartless in love, then this pure and innocent virgin could become a monk on the spot.

"You beast, Lu Yize, you're a real beast!" Fan Jian said, pressing his face against Lu Yize's.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Yue looked up at Fan Jian, assuming he was talking about her.

She turned to look at Lu Yize; he hadn't lost a single piece of flesh.

In Jiang Yue's zombie mindset, Lu Yize was her reserve food that she couldn't bear to eat, so everything was hers. She could just take a bite and not eat it, of course.

Lu Yize ignored their teasing because he noticed a powerful and vibrant energy surging within the base.

Jiang Yue's gaze instantly shifted from Lu Yize to the room where Sheng Xue was.

A powerful surge of supernatural energy made her swallow hard, her desire to devour people reaching its peak.

"This... Sheng Xue has advanced?!"

Fan Jian stopped laughing, his expression tense as he frowned and looked towards Sheng Xue's location.

"Ah."

Lu Yize had never encountered a healing-type ability user in his previous life, but he had heard that healing-type ability users could use their abilities to purify and clear the zombie virus after entering the second stage.

The zombie virus serum that appeared a few years later also seems to have been created in cooperation with healing-type ability users.

Unfortunately, no healing ability user in the post-apocalyptic world has surpassed the third tier, so it's unclear whether high-tier ability users can heal zombies and turn them back into humans.

"How long will this advancement take?" Fan Jian paced back and forth, asking Lu Yize with concern.

"At least one night."

"It's been so long. Has your superpower been greatly depleted? Will you run out of crystal cores?"

Fan Jian kept muttering to himself, worried.

Xian Wenrui felt like there was a mosquito constantly buzzing in his ear, "Can you please shut up for a minute? You've practically trampled this land flat."

“Sheng Xue has dozens of Tier 1 zombie crystal cores, which should be enough. Don’t worry about it. Besides, Zhang Wenjing is with you too. She’s obviously more reliable than you.”

"The way you're so nervous right now, anyone who didn't know better would think your wife is about to give birth in the delivery room."

Upon hearing this, Fan Jian calmed down, found a chair and sat down. "What nonsense are you talking about? First of all, I need a wife."

"Sheng Xue is already calling you brother, but she's still not your wife?" Xian Wenrui's gossipy mind couldn't stop.

Fan Jian rolled his eyes at him on the spot, "I've been calling you son, but I've never heard you call me dad."

Xian Wenrui laughed and told him to get lost after being scolded, "But I really don't understand how you two get along. It seems like there's nothing between you, but how come a man and a woman alone together haven't developed anything..."

"Who says that a man and a woman alone together will develop something? I feel that the relationships between men and women in our base can be described as completely innocent."

As soon as Fan Jian finished speaking, he saw Jiang Yue looking listless beside him. "Okay, let's leave aside that couple who aren't exactly normal."

When the word "husband and wife" was mentioned, Fan Jian suddenly thought of his parents in Beicheng. After a moment's thought, he perked up!

"Fatty, didn't you say your parents were in Beicheng? Isn't the Donggu Base located in Beicheng?! Do you think Chen Mingzhang might have any news about them?"

Upon hearing Fan Jian's words, Xian Wenrui was stunned. "Shouldn't...shouldn't they be able to find out?"

When he spoke again, his hands were trembling, and he was also touched by a feeling of trepidation as he approached home.

"I'm a little nervous right now, you go ahead..."

While looking forward to the future, Fan Jian also made the worst-case scenario plan, just like Green Hair and Purple Hair did back then, staying at the central base for the sake of his family.

As a result, Green Hair's family had long since died in the mouths of zombies, and not all of Lei Yangyu's family members survived either. Such separations were already commonplace in the apocalypse.

Fan Jian understood what he hadn't finished saying and immediately retorted, "No, don't worry."

Lu Yize glanced at them; he didn't know whether Xian Wenrui's family was still alive.

However, according to the course of his previous life, Fan Jian's family is still alive at the Donggu Base.

"I'll contact Chen Mingzhang later and ask them to help me check if any of your family members are among the survivors of the Donggu Base," Lu Yize said calmly.

As an orphan, he didn't have many ties, but he didn't mind helping them out.

"Brother Lu!" The two voices, though overlapping, both held a hint of surprise.

With his worries beginning to clear, Fan Jian took a deep breath and slowly exhaled.

His racing mind, seemingly caught on to something else, suddenly asked, "By the way, Brother Lu, are your parents-in-law still alive?"

Fan Jian and Lu Yize have known each other since high school. Fan Jian knew that Lu Yize had no family, but now he has a wife, right? It's not like Jiang Yue can just pop out of a rock too.

Jiang Yue noticed Lu Yize's gaze fixed on her, and her hand, which was secretly taking the crystal core from Lu Yize's pocket, paused.

Thinking she had been discovered, Jiang Yue guiltily lowered her head and glanced around, trying to cover her ears while continuing to furtively move the crystal core out of her pocket.

"I don't know, but he's probably still alive."

Lu Yize stuffed the two crystal cores from his pocket into Jiang Yue's hand and replied to Fan Jian's words.

"have no idea?"

Fan Jian was shocked. How come they're married but haven't met each other's parents yet? Or are they in a long-distance relationship like them?

Lu Yize had investigated Jiang Yue's information before, but it had all been dealt with, and even her parents' information was unknown.

Jiang Yue herself knew how to deal with zombies from the beginning. Lu Yize tapped Jiang Yue's palm with his fingers, staring at her as if trying to understand her.

At this moment, in a cold laboratory in the northern part of the city, a couple is having a fierce argument.

The picture frame on the table was thrown to the ground, the glass outside the frame was broken, and cracks appeared on the family photo.