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

The monster's cries gradually subsided. The woman's hands were trembling, but she still reached out, closed her eyes, and ruthlessly dug out the crystal core from the monster's brain.

She held the crystal core tightly in her hand, watching helplessly as the monster gradually lost its vitality, slowly stopped crying, and died.

The woman looked at the motionless monster, used her last bit of strength to laugh out loud, a maniacal laugh, until finally a sense of relief appeared in her eyes, along with a barely perceptible trace of pity.

I don't know if it's for myself, or for that monster that was strangled to death as soon as it was born.

She seemed to know that Jiang Yue had just spied on her memories, and she also sensed Jiang Yue's emotions.

With all her might, she said in a hoarse, unpleasant voice, "Don't... make me a zombie."

If a person is infected with the zombie virus, they may become a zombie even after death. She hates zombies the most and does not want to become an accomplice in cannibalism.

The woman's eyes were open, but she showed no signs of life, and there seemed to be tears in the corners of her eyes.

Jiang Yue reached out and touched the already dead woman, her eyes filled with confusion.

She couldn't even understand the dying woman's words; she didn't understand, but a sense of sorrow still arose within her.

Lu Yize noticed Jiang Yue's disappointment and took out a set of clothes from his spatial storage.

Sheng Xue was still somewhat incredulous after receiving it, unsure whether Lu Yize had made a rare decision to act out of kindness.

"Put it on her." Lu Yize said to Sheng Xue, then glanced at the woman on the ground. She had died a tragic death, but there were countless people like her in the apocalypse.

In these last days, there is no such thing as burial or not burial.

However, he didn't mind doing a good deed for Jiang Yue's sake, at least letting her leave with dignity, which was a rare act of sympathy from Lu Yize.

Seeing the woman's ruthlessness in killing the monster without hesitation, Lu Yize felt admiration for her.

Only after Sheng Xue changed the woman's clothes and closed her eyes did Fan Jian and Xian Wenrui remove the cardboard, allowing light to shine into the dark corridor.

"What... what should we do with the little monster's corpse?" Xian Wenrui looked up at his brother Lu and asked uncertainly.

"Throw it here."

Lu Yize had no extra sympathy, so he buried such a monster, and he didn't even take the crystal core that the woman was clutching tightly in her hand.

No one present dared to touch the corpse of the half-human, half-zombie cub; even a glance at it sent shivers down their spines.

Sheng Xue looked at the dead woman with a heavy heart but no power to do anything about it. She sighed softly, looked uncertainly at Lu Yize, and said, "Could you... bury her?"

Jiang Yue kept looking at the woman who had already covered herself with clothes, and inexplicably felt a tiny bit of sympathy.

My emotions seemed to be influenced by the lingering memories of the woman who had just died, giving rise to a tiny bit of sympathy.

Lu Yize looked at Jiang Yue in silence.

Under the oppressive gloom, a crack finally appeared, and the dead heart felt pain, just as a decaying soul was finally breaking free from its confinement.

Seeing her slight change in expression, Lu Yize suppressed his complicated emotions and said, "Then bury it properly."

The zombie, having received permission, immediately raised her head. Although she didn't understand what it meant, she felt it shouldn't be a bad thing for the woman.

In the apocalypse, even if you want to bury someone, you can't find a good place, and the dead may even mutate into zombies.

They followed the woman's instructions and chose to cremate her to prevent her from turning into a zombie.

The cremation took shorter than they had expected, probably because there was hardly any flesh left on the woman's body; the fire was fierce and burned away all the traces of her abuse.

Lu Yize looked at the woman in the firelight who wanted to die as a human.

The pain she had endured reminded Lu Yize of his past life, when he had his liver and heart removed and was used as an experimental subject.

In an instant, Lu Yize was filled with murderous intent, his supernatural abilities surged, and he intensified the burning of the fire. Flesh and hair creaked and popped in the flames.

That probably wasn't enough, so Lu Yize set fire to the dilapidated basement, burning it to the ground.

Jiang Yue, affected by Lu Yize's emotions, looked at the superpower surging within him with red eyes.

The next instant, disregarding the still-burning flames, the temptation of food had already devoured her reason, and Jiang Yue pounced on him with lightning speed.

The sharp teeth bit into Lu Yize's arm, but failed to draw any blood. However, the pain pulled Lu Yize away from his past memories.

He looked down at Jiang Yue, who was biting him, his eyes reflecting the firelight. He reached out and grasped the back of her neck, saying nothing.

The others watched this sudden change without daring to utter a sound.

In the flames, the dilapidated laboratory was burned down, the numbered experimental subjects died one by one, and the woman finally lost her eerie appearance and became a skeleton.

One, a human skeleton.

Looking at the human skeletons scattered in the fire, Lu Yize finally calmed down, withdrew his superpower, grabbed Jiang Yue's chin, and forced her to let go.

Lu Yize tossed a wooden box out of his spatial storage. "Put the bones in here, and then... bury them."

Xian Wenrui took the box and, together with Fan Jian, went to collect the woman's remains. Fan Jian, a young master from a pre-apocalyptic family, didn't utter a single sentimental word.

The two men didn't miss a single detail; they collected the woman's remains one by one and put them into a box.

Lu Yize used his supernatural ability to crush all the bones into ashes, which happened to fit into this box.

Sheng Xue put away the box, hesitating whether or not to bury her here.

Seeing that Lu Yize remained silent, Sheng Xue tentatively said, "I think... she definitely doesn't want to stay here. Maybe, maybe we should bury her outside."

If it were anyone else, Lu Yize wouldn't have had such kindness, but as a fellow test subject, Lu Yize knew all too well how much people wanted to escape this place.

"Ah."

Lu Yize did not refuse; bringing a box of ashes was not a big deal.

The group walked out of the residential area and, in an open space in the park outside the area, Xian Wenrui and Fan Jian worked together to dig a hole, buried the box in it, and then put a stone up in front of it.

There was no name on the stone, but it at least meant that someone was buried here.

This woman, whose identity and name were unknown, was ultimately buried as a human being.

She was never a monster from the beginning, nor was she a vessel to breed monsters.

She is a living, breathing human being, with flesh and blood, who would personally strangle even a monster she conceived.

This is what she, as a human being, could not give up in the end—dignity.