Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

Zhou Yang felt like he was doomed the moment he heard Shen Zechuan's voice.

Oh no, my attempt to sneak away failed, I was caught!

How do you explain this?

He inexplicably decided to kill someone...

Just as he was wondering how to start the conversation, Shen Zechuan walked up to him, looked at him, and said, "Among the people who escaped today, is there one of your enemies? Are you determined to kill him?"

He thought and thought, and it seemed that only after seeing those gangsters today had the young man been so unsettled. Now that he was going out without telling anyone, he must be looking for one of those people.

Young people are not impulsive, nor would they be friends with such people. The only explanation is that one of those people is his enemy, and a rather serious one at that, otherwise he wouldn't have risked chasing after them.

Zhou Yang paused for a moment, then nodded, but still didn't explain.

Seeing that Zhou Yang still had no intention of explaining, Shen Zechuan sighed: "If you want revenge, no one will stop you. If you don't want others to know the details, that's fine too, but you should at least include me... You already have a boyfriend, why don't you take advantage of him?"

"Well, I don't know how to explain it to you, I..."

Zhou Yang touched his nose, trying to figure out how to phrase his words, when Shen Zechuan interrupted him.

"If you don't know how to say it or don't want to say it, then don't say it. But next time something like this happens, you must take me with you, otherwise I'll be very worried waiting at home. You have to remember, you're not alone now, you have a boyfriend and reliable teammates."

"Let's go. Aren't you in a hurry to catch up? If you dawdle any longer, they'll get even further away."

Hearing Shen Zechuan's words, Zhou Yang felt a surge of warmth from the bottom of her heart.

He had been alone for too long in both his lives, and he mostly thought about solving things on his own. He never thought that someone would help him unconditionally and without asking why.

Perhaps in the future, he could try relying on someone else, like... his boyfriend?

Thinking this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but smile, then he raised his eyebrows and made the pea grow bigger, carrying him and Shen Zechuan as they set off.

Following the direction pointed out by its owner, and then sensing a faint human scent amidst the previous stench, Pea immediately sprinted away.

At a speed of over 300 kilometers per hour, a gust of wind immediately hit Zhou Yang's face, making his face sting and causing him to fall backward. Fortunately, Shen Zechuan was there to support him.

Seeing that he was uncomfortable from the wind, Shen Zechuan quickly picked him up and crawled onto Pea's back. This would reduce the wind resistance for Pea and make the person sitting on it much more comfortable.

After lying down, Zhou Yang did feel much better, but sitting on it bent over was still quite uncomfortable, mainly because he didn't have a center of gravity to lean on and kept feeling like he was going to fall off.

No, when we get back, I'll have Yan Fei make a dog saddle in various sizes so that next time Pea wants to sit on it, we can put it on.

After running for more than ten minutes, Pea suddenly slowed down and finally stopped outside a small town, carefully sniffing the air to determine the direction.

Zhou Yang stroked the fuzz on Pea's neck and asked, "Pea, is it nearby? Can you smell it?"

Pea sniffed around, finally pinpointing a direction, and then called out to Zhou Yang.

Seeing this, Zhou Yang patted Wandou's neck: "Great, let's go, after we beat up the bad guys, we'll go home and give you a treat!"

Upon hearing this, the pea chirped happily twice more, and then continued on its way.

This time, because the target was located somewhere in the town and not far away, the pea didn't run very fast.

Within minutes, they arrived near the building.

However, Zhou Yang and his group did not approach immediately. Instead, they shrunk the pea and hid in a nearby shop to observe first.

The zombies inside and outside the town government's walls had been completely cleared out, lying scattered all over the ground, their heads all smashed open. A bombed military vehicle was parked downstairs in the office building—the very one the gang leader and his men had driven away in.

After confirming the target, Zhou Yang began using binoculars to search for the group's hiding place.

Then, they successfully spotted a man smoking opium at a window on the second floor; it was the escaped gang leader.

At this moment, the gang members were resting in the three-story office building of the town government on the east side of the town.

Although they escaped and evaded the base's pursuit, they suffered some casualties.

One of his capable subordinates lost an arm in an explosion while trying to escape and died from blood loss on the way. Scarface was also shot in the leg, and the second-in-command was exhausted from overusing his mental energy.

There was no other way but to stop here for now, at least until the second son recovered, otherwise they might not be able to handle any tricky situations that might arise later.

Since midnight, no one has had a drop of water. The gang leader ordered his men to prepare a fire and cook, while he went to the window to smoke a cigarette to calm down and think about what to do next.

As luck would have it, Zhou Yang witnessed it all.

"I saw the leader, on the second floor of the town government office building across the street, on the south side," Zhou Yang said to Shen Zechuan as he put down his binoculars.

"You want to kill them like this? You must have had this plan all along. Tell me about it, and I'll help you carry it out."

"I...actually brought a friend with me..."

"Hmm? Besides Pea and the three weasels in your backpack, who else did you bring? Wasn't it just me who was there?"

Shen Zechuan looked around and didn't see anything else. Finally, he turned his head and pointed to himself.

The only one who exceeds the youth program here is probably him.

"Pfft, no. It's this!"

Seeing that Shen Zechuan thought he was referring to himself, Zhou Yang couldn't help but laugh out loud, and then stretched out his right hand between the two of them.

A small vine slowly grew out of Zhou Yang's palm. The vine swayed without wind, and the tender buds at the top looked rather cute.

This was something Zhou Yang had secretly practiced for a long time after asking Ah Hu and learning that the small branches could survive in his palm by relying on the core, so that if he needed to use the mutated ivy in the future, he could pretend that he had gained the ability to control mutated plants.

Upon seeing this, Shen Zechuan was stunned and instinctively grabbed the vine to prevent it from getting close to Zhou Yang.

"This isn't a mutated plant? How did it get on you? Is it dangerous to you?!"

Seeing Shen Zechuan's nervous expression, Zhou Yang quickly reassured him, "It's alright, it's alright, I've already tamed it. Look, it's very obedient, and it doesn't eat people."

"That's good."

After hearing Zhou Yang's words, Shen Zechuan released the vines, but after turning his head to look at the vines again, he suddenly felt that they looked a little familiar.

"Why does it look so familiar?"

"Oh, it's that mutated ivy we encountered when we went to rescue Yan Fei last time. When I was captured, I accidentally dug out a piece of its core and subdued a small branch that had just sprouted."

"I'll call it Little Tiger." The main body in the space is called Tiger, so let's call this branch outside Little Tiger.

Zhou Yang was very satisfied with the name he had given to the branch.

The little branch, now with a name, happily wiggled around.