A cute, timid mushroom mistakenly takes the zombie king for her boyfriend and sticks close to him.

Pei Sinian merely glanced at him indifferently and remained silent.

Meng Xiaoyou spoke up: "It's alright, he won't starve, he'll find food himself."

Meng Xiaoyou always thought that Pei Sinian had a special constitution and ate differently from ordinary people like them.

Xiao Moqiong muttered to himself, "What's wrong with him? He's a good person, but he won't eat. He insists on going out to find food himself."

However, Pei Sinian was different from these "ordinary people" in both appearance and personality, so Xiao Moqiong did not say anything more.

After a hearty meal and drinks, it was almost dark when someone in the villa asked, "Zhang Pangzi and the others went out today, but we haven't seen them come back."

Those who knew the truth paused, and finally Xiao Moqiong said, "When we came back, we saw Zhang Pangzi and the others' bodies. It wasn't the work of zombies."

Everyone fell silent for a moment. Having lived together for so long, they would be saddened if anyone in the village died, but Zhang the Fat Man was entirely his own doing.

Unlike others who went out to collect supplies, Fatty Zhang was determined to take shortcuts and always went down the mountain to rob people. Xiao Moqiong once punished Fatty Zhang for this.

However, some people are stubborn and won't turn back until they hit a wall. They secretly go down to kidnap people every now and then, but this time they've run into a brick wall.

Their mountain villa has always been secluded. It's likely that Dongfang Lie and his group found out about this place because of the information provided by Fatty Zhang, which almost led to everyone's deaths.

Not worthy of sympathy.

Having known each other for a while, one of the men asked, "Where is the body?"

Mentioning this, Meng Xiaoyou was no longer sleepy. She immediately straightened her back and said with great pride, "I buried it as soon as my body hardened."

man:"……"

You are quite good!

After two tiring days, everyone was finally able to get a good night's sleep. After cleaning up the pots and pans, they went back to their rooms. The only difference was that Meng Xiaoyou had a big tail following her.

Meng Xiaoyou wished she could turn the mushroom into a spider web, shut the door, and shove the man, "What are you doing? Don't you have your own room?"

These past few days, due to the emergency, they've been sleeping in the same room. But now that things are calm and they have the means, it would be inappropriate for a man and a woman to sleep in the same room again.

Instead of answering, Pei Sinian asked, "Do you still see me as a white mushroom?"

"No!" Meng Xiaoyou said irritably, her eyelashes drooping and her face full of displeasure. She had already returned to normal when Dongfang Lie's zombie crystal core was dug out.

Pei Sinian even saw a hint of disdain in her expression.

They disliked him because he was a person, not a mushroom...

He pursed his lips and handed over the headband he had stolen earlier that day, saying, "Keep this."

Meng Xiaoyou blinked: "Tomorrow..."

"Don't give it to Tang Shengnan."

"All right!"

The moon was hidden behind thick clouds tonight, and the light was not enough. Meng Xiaoyou nodded obediently, but her dark eyes were restless, constantly glancing at the man, as if wondering why he hadn't left yet.

Pei Sinian felt a sense of helplessness. He reached out and patted her head, saying, "Goodnight!"

"Good night~"

This was the first time the cowardly mushroom had truly slept alone since entering the apocalypse, and unsurprisingly, she suffered from insomnia.

Not only that, the temperature plummeted in the latter half of the night. Mushroom, who usually prefers cold and damp conditions, experienced the harshness of the weather for the first time. Outside the window, snowflakes, like goose feathers, fell silently, covering the land, trees, and houses.

Meng Xiaoyou shivered all night, and when she opened the door the next day, the cold wind rushed in, and she shivered violently again.

"woke up?"

Suddenly, a sound came from beside her. Meng Xiaoyou turned her head and saw Pei Sinian, who had been waiting outside for an unknown amount of time. His hair was streaked with white snowflakes, which seemed to match his pale skin. He stood quietly by the door, holding a hot water bottle in his hand, and casually handed it to her.

She accidentally touched his fingers, which were as cold as ever.

Meng Xiaoyou hugged the hot water bottle, and her whole body warmed up, but her mind was still a little sluggish. She was a beat slow to grab the man's hand back.

"I think you need to keep warm more."

She handed the man all the clothes she had hidden in her storage space and told him to change. Pei Sinian took the coat and nodded slightly.

Whether it was her imagination or not, Meng Xiaoyou noticed that his movements were slower than usual.

Breakfast was hastily eaten. A massive snowfall covered almost the entire globe, and the apocalyptic winter arrived earlier than ever before, greatly slowing down humanity's escape speed.

However, it was soon discovered that the zombies' movement speed had slowed down, and even the movements of the third-tier zombies were similar to those of the first-tier zombies.

Xiao Moqiong quickly gathered everyone and arranged for the heating in the manor to be turned on. He had previously sent people to prepare this, just in case he didn't die from the zombies in winter but died from the cold.

With the heating on, every household finally felt warm, which made Meng Xiaoyou reluctant to go out and wished she could hibernate indoors.

In early winter, when the outside temperature drops to below minus ten degrees Celsius, no plant likes it.

Gradually, the timid mushroom even lost its appetite.

From three meals a day, it was reduced to two, and then the last meal was barely edible.

In just one week, Mushroom lost a lot of weight; her face became less chubby, making her eyes appear larger.

This couldn't go on. Tang Shengnan thought she was sick, so he inquired everywhere and finally found an old folk doctor in the village.

They rushed to Meng Xiaoyou's room to treat her illness.

Meng Xiaoyou was lying flat under the covers when she heard this. She lazily lifted her eyelids and yawned, saying, "It's okay... I don't need to see a doctor."

What could possibly happen to a mushroom? It just seems like... it wants to hibernate.

Tang Shengnan was frantic, "How can you say she's fine? You can't avoid seeing a doctor, Dr. Guo, please take a look at her quickly."

Dr. Guo quickly calculated with his fingers, "Have you experienced dizziness, abdominal pain, vomiting, or other symptoms recently?"

Mushroom looked blank: "No..."

"There's nothing wrong with her, so why is she so sleepy? Just like when I was pregnant..."

Just then, Mr. Zombie walked in carrying his newly learned dose of pure chicken soup and heard those words.

He went in expressionlessly, placed the insulated food container on the bedside table, and reached out: "Give me a pair of gloves."

Mushroom, unaware of the purpose, obediently handed over a pair of new gloves from its spatial storage upon hearing this.

The man put on gloves, grabbed Dr. Guo by the back of the neck, opened the door, threw him out, and then his cold gaze fell on Tang Shengnan.

Tang Shengnan was embarrassed, knowing she was in the wrong: "...I didn't expect this doctor to be so unreliable, spreading rumors right away. Don't throw me away...I'll walk away myself."