Defeat the system! Kiss my little monster!

This zombie horde wiped out both the east and west districts.

Due to the excessive number of zombies and their extreme difficulty in control, the uncontrolled horde turned the central defense line of the east and west districts into a pile of mud.

Everything fell with the eternal night at that moment, until the energy core was completely shattered inside the mechanical building, and then everything suddenly came to a standstill.

Shen Yisui stood at the edge of the window. The air conditioner in the room was turned up, filling the room with warmth and insulating it from the cold outside. The frost flowers on the windowpane cracked slightly, turning into clear water droplets that dripped down.

Shen Yisui felt a slight chill on his fingertips. He touched his chest and looked down to hear the smug voice of someone clinging to life beside him.

"How is it? Isn't the body I've restored for you amazing, Little Gou Gou!"

Shen Yisui: "..."

Gouqie Toushi originally wanted to create a completely new body for Shen Yisui, which would be a simpler process. However, Shen Yisui refused to discard his current body, so Gouqie Toushi could only repair it little by little along the edges of the wound.

Shen Yisui couldn't find anything wrong with it; all four limbs were intact, the heart was beating, and the appearance remained the same.

well.

Shen Yi nodded and said, "Thank you, I like it very much."

After spinning around twice, it patted Shen Yisui's slightly curly hair and said smugly, "I'm not bragging, but my sewing skills are top-notch! There's nothing I can't do!"

Shen Yisui smiled and said, "You're really amazing."

The creature, eager to survive, was pleased with the praise. It landed in front of Shen Yisui and placed a fluorescent energy ball in Shen Yisui's hand.

Shen Yisui felt the warmth in his palm, suspended in the center, faintly radiating warmth.

"what is this?"

"These colorful balls are for you, they say they're for your welfare benefits," he said earnestly. "There's a lot of energy inside!"

Shen Yisui: "..."

"I don't want it." Shen Yisui threw the energy ball back to Gouqie Tiaosheng. "Don't give me its things."

Sighing at its precarious existence, it had long anticipated Shen Yisui's response, yet still spoke up, "This energy can heal your eyes."

Shen Yi lowered his eyelids: "...I don't want to."

"Hmm..." Ku Qiechi pondered, pacing around, "What if I treat you? I have some skills too!"

Silence fell over the air. After a moment, Shen Yisui finally replied, "No need, I'm used to it."

He used to regret not being able to see so many things—mountains, rivers, people, events…so many things. But now… he doesn’t seem to have so much resentment and bitterness anymore.

The things he can perceive with his hands are slower and take longer than those he can perceive with his eyes, but they also require more care and purity.

The past ten years or so have passed, and they have shaped his temperament and habits, which will be difficult to change in the future, and he doesn't want to change them now.

"Alright, I'll take this energy." Gouche Tiao Sheng was quite regretful. As he spoke, he went back into his database and pulled out a tape recorder from his spatial storage.

Hearing the crackling sounds around him, Shen Yisui couldn't understand what Gouqie Tiaosheng was trying to do: "Gouqie Tiaosheng, you..."

"Also follow."

A magnetic male voice emanated from inside, subtly revealing a warmth that didn't belong here, flowing slowly from the tape recorder, carried on the breeze.

Shen Yisui's eyes trembled, his lips parted, and his eyes visibly became dry and red: "...Brother Yu?"

The words on the recorder had already been pre-recorded. Kuqi, holding the recorder, turned up Shen Yu's volume upon seeing this.

Shen Yu seemed to chuckle inside.

"I'm moving too fast, and I'm always a little worried about you."

"I don't know how you are now, but I'm here to make a living, so I don't think it's too difficult for you. At least for now... you've come back to life."

Shen Yisui's eyes reddened slightly, and he pursed his lips tightly, remaining silent.

“We used to say that once the world was at peace, we would build a garden and grow some specially cultivated flowers and plants, just like before. Now I can’t go back, but you can.”

"With your new friends, or...with your loved one."

"In short, don't be alone. That's lonely and difficult."

"Beep—Time's up! Time's up! You've exceeded the time limit!"

"Okay, okay—I won't say anymore, that's enough for now, that's all for recording..."

With a click of the button, Shen Yu's voice trailed off into the air.

The creature, barely managing to stay afloat, discreetly put away the tape recorder. Looking down at Shen Yisui, it said, "This is something Shen Yu asked me to bring to you. How about it? Pretty good to you, right, little Gou Gou?"

Shen Yisui was still in a daze. After a while, he realized what had just happened: "He... my brother also..."

"Yes, your brother is living a good life in another world." The phrase "living a life of ignominy" landed on Shen Yisui's head. "You have to live a good life from now on, you know? Even in the apocalypse, Earth didn't explode. Living a life of ignominy is the best policy!"

Shen Yisui: "..."

"I will." Shen Yisui's answer was still impeccable. His pupils rolled twice, and he asked again, "Little Gou Gou, can you give me this recording? I'll keep it as a souvenir."

“No way.” He resolutely refused, “That’s against the rules, I can’t give it to you.”

After saying that, seeing Shen Yisui looking down and silent with a slightly lonely expression, it said again, "But I can give you something else. Let me look for it."

He continued searching through his system database for a while, and then placed a black object in Shen Yisui's palm.

Shen Yi clenched his fist. Having some background in biology, he quickly realized: "Seed?"

"Yes, from the pear tree." The man, barely surviving, put the remaining seeds into his sachet and then back into the system database.

"These are seeds of flowering trees from another world, very rare." Gouqiechoing lowered his voice, "I'll give you one; whether you can grow it or not depends entirely on your skill."

Shen Yi asked suspiciously, "Where did it come from? Did Brother Yu plant it?"

He raised his body, barely clinging to life: "Of course."

This is a tree that Wen Yu planted in the mountains years ago, and now it has grown lush and verdant.

*

After the zombie outbreak ended, both the East and West districts were severely damaged. Cheng Jingyi assigned high-level zombies who still retained consciousness to oversee the restoration work in the West district. Due to a lack of certain raw materials, they also had some exchanges with the East district.

Upon learning of Cheng Jingyi's reinstatement, the military in the Eastern District immediately reversed its attitude and dispatched teams to him several times to discuss various matters.

Shen Heng remained among them.

Shen Yisui received the news in advance, so he stayed inside and did not go out to eavesdrop on related matters as he had done before.

All the entanglements between him and Shen Heng were illusory. The moment the bubble burst, all that was reflected was their powerlessness towards each other, and their faces appeared distorted.

Now, they should all look forward.

"Sir, there is a military officer outside looking for you."

There was a knock on the door twice. Shen Yisui stood up when he heard the sound and asked, "Who is it?"

"The officer said his surname was Shen."

Shen Yisui immediately understood. He lowered his eyes and pondered for a moment before asking, "Where is he?"

"The stairwell on the first floor, near the window."

Shen Yisui hummed in agreement, picked up the black down jacket hanging beside him, put on his cotton hat, and went outside.

It was rare for Shen Heng to take the initiative to contact him, and since Shen Yi had nothing to do at the moment, he was willing to listen to what Shen Heng had to say.

"This way." Shen Yisui walked down the stairs, and as soon as he stepped into the corner, he heard Shen Heng's voice.

"Wearing so much, are you that cold? You're so good at enjoying yourself." Shen Heng's tone was still unfriendly. He had disliked Shen Yisui for over a decade, and now that he understood, he couldn't change his ways overnight.

Shen Yisui naturally didn't give him a friendly look either, and said bluntly, "Speak your nonsense."

"You!" Shen Heng choked for a moment. He was silent for a moment, then turned around and leaned on the windowsill. "I have something to tell you."

Shen Yisui kept his hands in his pockets, his face still expressionless.

"He's dead." Shen Heng sneered. "He was blown up along with the zombies."

Shen Yi lowered his eyelashes: "I know."

“My brother really tells you everything.” Shen Heng was quite annoyed. He sighed after speaking and said in a low voice, “I just feel… it’s a little unreal.”

“He’s been blown to bits, there’s nothing unreal about it.” Shen Yisui said calmly. “You just didn’t recognize him and mistook him for someone else, that’s why you’re like this now.”

Shen Heng's eyelashes trembled: "I found a diary in Lu Ran's room. There was a lot written on it, and it was very messy."

“He wanted to start a new life, and he changed his identity… All these years, he's been lurking right under my nose. He…”

Shen Yisui sensed the emotion in Shen Heng's tone. He didn't know what was written in the diary, nor did he want to find out. He simply smiled silently and said, "Shen Heng, are you trying to say that he has been by your side for so many years because he feels guilty and wants to atone for his sins?"

Shen Heng clenched his fists and remained silent.

“But the shot he fired on the plane was definitely meant to kill you.” Shen Yi turned around, his expression cold, and said slowly, “He’s just a selfish person. No matter how much he pretends to regret it, he’s still just a selfish person.”

After Shen Yi finished speaking, he didn't want to stay there any longer. Shen Heng was indeed talking to him about some useless nonsense.

Shen Yisui wanted to start a new life, but he didn't want anyone who knew about his shameful past to live. Unwilling to face his own unbearable past, he uneasyly shifted the blame onto others.

He knew everything, but he didn't say a word.

His new life requires Shen Cheng to shoulder the burden for him.

As long as Shen Cheng doesn't reveal that the vice president is dead and Lu Yu'an, who performed the surgery, is dead, no one will know his identity.

He could live a glamorous life in public as Lu Ran, and he could also rekindle his supposed friendship with Shen Heng.

Shen Yisui found it amusing. Perhaps the Shen Yisui of the past had some regrets, but those regrets were utterly insignificant in the face of his selfish desires.

His final act of letting go could be considered a change of heart, a way of letting Shen Heng off the hook.

To Shen Yisui, this kind of person was too abnormal. He had no gratitude, was extremely hypocritical and cold-blooded, and should have been shot long ago.

As for Shen Heng... it may take a long time before he sees everything clearly.

Shen Yisui walked upstairs with large, quick strides, stirring up a gust of cold wind as he passed Shen Heng.

"Shen Cheng—"

Shen Yisui stopped walking.

Shen Heng's voice sounded behind him, carrying a somewhat indescribable meaning.

"I'm already a deputy army commander, and I still came in first place in this assessment. In the future... I'll be even better than you."

Shen Yisui didn't expect Shen Heng to say that. He thought that in Shen Heng's eyes, he was just a slut who used his good looks to seduce Cheng Jingyi.

It turns out that Shen Heng's assessment of him went far beyond this.

"Whatever you want." Shen Heng didn't linger any longer. He stepped onto the stairs, and his figure quickly disappeared above.

*

Shen Yisui walked down the corridor. He didn't care much about Shen Heng or "Shen Yisui". He said a few words to Shen Heng and then walked back.

The temperature outside had dropped considerably, and his hands and feet were already freezing cold after only a dozen minutes outside.

Shen Yi returned to the room he had been in before. He stood in front of the door looking for his key, but he could feel warm air coming out from the crack in the door, as if it wasn't closed properly.

Shen Yisui frowned slightly. He had locked the door before leaving, but when he came back, the door was ajar.

Shen Yisui guessed what was going on, put the key back in his pocket, pushed open the door with his palm, and went inside.

The warm air hitting him made Shen Yisui's cheeks almost numb from the cold outside. When he went inside, the combination of the warmth and the cold air made his face go numb.

The lean body pressed Shen Yisui against the wall, hunching over and occasionally emitting the low growls and threatening sounds unique to zombies.

"I'll eat you—"

Shen Yisui was speechless. He pressed Cheng Jingyi's head and whispered, "You've been exposed. Why don't you bite me?"

Cheng Jingyi froze instantly. He lifted his eyelids and glanced up, asking in an unpleasant tone, "What were you doing out there?"

He felt no discomfort or shame at being exposed. He thought he had learned the low-level zombie's posture quite well, but the actual effect was far from ideal.

Surprisingly, it didn't frighten Shen Yisui at all.

"I went out to see Shen Heng, said a few words, and came back." Shen Yisui put his arm around Cheng Jingyi's neck and asked, "Is the meeting over?"

“It’s over already. It’s the same old stuff over and over again. Going there would be a waste of time.” Cheng Jingyi said a few words. He was particularly unhappy about Shen Yisui going out on his own, and he brought the topic back.

Didn't you say you were going to see a doctor today?

That was just a lie used to fool Cheng Jingyi.

Shen Yisui's body suddenly recovered overnight, which Cheng Jingyi found strange. She took him to have more than ten physical examinations and made another appointment for him today.

Shen Yisui could only agree casually. Now, standing in front of Cheng Jingyi, he paused for a moment and said slowly, "I have already checked, and there are no problems anywhere."

"You still need to get checked several times, this is very..."

He fell silent as he spoke, and Shen Yi kissed his lips, licking them with the tip of his tongue: "I know, I'll be there in a bit."

Cheng Jingyi snorted; Shen Yisui was used to this kind of trick.

But that's not so bad. Cheng Jingyi gently pinched Shen Yisui's chin with his fingertips, kissed Shen Yisui's thin lips in return, and breathed on him: "Are you really better? Want to try with me?"

Shen Yisui raised his eyes, hooked his hand on Cheng Jingyi's belt, and said with a smile, "Then you have to be gentle."

Cheng Jingyi immediately felt a burning sensation on his face. He intensified their kiss and gripped Shen Yisui's waist tightly with his hands.

Shen Yisui showed no restraint, rubbing his skin against Cheng Jingyi's, exchanging breaths and body temperature with her.

"Shen Yisui... Hello..."

Shen Yi paused, hearing a faint call beside his ear, and his mind cleared a bit: "...To eke out a living?"

"I'm leaving now, and I'd like to say goodbye before I go!"

Shen Yisui, having been bitten on some spot, found his clothes half-undone, revealing a large expanse of his fair chest. He let out a muffled groan, tilting his head back to catch his breath, and said, "Fine, see you out."

To live a life of ignominy: "..."

It withdrew its light, removed the mosaic, and flew out of the window.