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

Over the next few days, everyone was on the move. After leaving City B, Mu Qingfeng's convoy encountered many zombie attacks, fighting off wave after wave, and his superpowers were upgraded to level five.

He and Wang Gang didn't get along and often disagreed. He also noticed that Pei Sinian's car was not keeping up with the convoy.

No one paid any attention to him. After all, it didn't matter whether he was there or not. Meng Xiaoyou wasn't by his side, and Mu Qingfeng, who disliked him, wouldn't bother making a fool of himself.

Little did they know that without Pei Sinian, their path would have been destined to be arduous, while the other side was clearly much smoother, stopping and starting as needed along the way. Since the apocalypse, aside from the female zombie, Zhou Ziming had never been so fortunate.

"Did you handle it?" Zhou Ziming assumed that the presence of the female zombie was the reason why the zombies dared not intercept their convoy.

The female zombie rolled her eyes at him elegantly. "Do you think I'm bored?"

Zhou Ziming was taken aback, scratched his head silently, and remained silent.

Instead of wasting time thinking about trivial things, why not distract Pei Sinian and let me see what treasures are in his car?

Over the course of several days, the female zombie had no chance to get close to Pei Sinian's car. Despite the strong, sweet scent inside, she dared not make any moves because a ferocious beast was guarding the entrance.

"No matter how many times I say it, Meng Xiaoyou has disappeared..."

"I don't care, if you don't do something..." the woman said with a meaningful smirk, "I'll rape you and then kill you."

Zhou Ziming felt a chill in his groin. Taking advantage of Pei Sinian's car stopping, he quickly got out and went to find Pei Sinian.

Pei Sinian would stop in the car for every meal, and no one knew what he was doing inside. Zhou Ziming circled the car, nervously rubbing his hands together, and did a lot of mental preparation before knocking on the window to leave.

As soon as the car window rolled down, he saw Pei Sinian stuffing a small piece of bread into the mouth of a mushroom.

The patterns on the purple mushroom caps shimmered silver in the sunlight. The beautiful stems resembled exquisite white jade, complete with eyebrows, eyes, and a mouth, their "blood-red mouths" wide open, waiting for a man to feed them.

If someone dares to eat mushrooms, someone will dare to feed them to others. Zhou Ziming, who had lived for eight hundred years and never knew mushrooms could be eaten, exclaimed in surprise, "Isn't this the mushroom you buried last time?"

Meng Xiaoyou went missing, and Pei Sinian was acting strangely, constantly bothered by mushrooms. Unexpectedly, he even brought this mutated mushroom with him.

Upon hearing that it was going to be buried, Mushroom immediately became unhappy, tilting its head back and looking at Pei Sinian with a mournful little gaze.

Pei Sinian curled his lips into a smile. "Those who bury others will always be buried in return." Besides, shouldn't mushrooms be grown?

The illiterate mushroom couldn't understand, but it had grown bold and had a terrible temper. It angrily jumped onto his chest, buried itself in his breast pocket, and ignored him.

Pei Sinian wiped his hands clean, patted her little head, and then turned his gaze to Zhou Ziming.

"I kept a mutant plant because it looked nice."

"Oh, then Meng Xiaoyou?"

Pei Sinian lowered his eyes. "She's not dead."

Actually, he didn't need to explain anything, but... the zombie following Zhou Ziming was the same one he had seen in Pingyang County last time.

He had clearly killed the zombie before leaving, but he never expected to see her again.

This time, Pei Sinian did not rashly deal with the female zombie. He killed her again before figuring out her situation, because it was very likely that the zombie would come back in a different guise soon.

"Find out the truth before you kill," a cold glint flashed in Pei Sinian's eyes. He looked up again, his expression calm. "What do you want with me?"

"It's like this, something seems wrong with that county town ahead. There's a big bridge next to it that has collapsed, so we can't go around it. We can only enter through Zhuan County... But look."

Pei Sinian looked in the direction he was pointing and saw zombies surging inside and out, but for some unknown reason, these zombies were killing each other.

He frowned, pondered for a moment, put on his coat, and got out of the car. Meng Xiaoyou was tightly protected by him against his chest, which was the warmest part of his body. She barely felt cold. She pressed against his chest and could feel the firm, tight muscle contours and the slow beating of his heart.

The mushroom, which had been puffing up its cap, drooped down, contentedly listening to the heartbeat.

This heartbeat is something I worked really hard to cultivate in mushrooms; it's very rewarding.

Her eyes darted around, and the thought of the man planting mushrooms while she slept gave her a wicked idea.

The mushroom's dark eyes lit up, and it sneakily opened its little mouth, biting into the fabric.

Zhou Ziming was talking to Pei Sinian when, for some reason, the man in front of him trembled, and a strange panting sound came from his throat, as if he was in pain, or something else.

Zhou Ziming: "What's wrong with you?"

As a man himself, he vaguely sensed that something was amiss, but he couldn't quite put his imagination into account for Pei Sinian.

After all... this man looks like an unapproachable, sexually apathetic person, completely unrelated to that kind of thing.

Pei Sinian clutched his chest, forcefully gripping the small object in his pocket, his voice returning to normal, "It's nothing. There are powerful zombies in Zhuan County, and more than one."

Zhou Ziming: "What level?"

Level 6.

Zhou Ziming's heart sank. One female zombie was already bad enough, but there was also a level 6 zombie inside. Unfortunately, this was a path he had to take.

"Should we wait for the others to arrive so we can figure out a solution together?"

They encountered few zombies along the way, while another group lagged behind.

"Need not."

Pei Sinian got into the car without hesitation and drove straight in.

Zhou Ziming quickly followed.

"Pop—" Meng Xiaoyou struggled restlessly in his hands. Pei Sinian drove with one hand and pressed the fingertip of the other hand against her mouth, holding her firmly down. His cold voice carried a strong warning, "If you don't behave, you know the consequences."

Mushroom was fearless, believing that Pei Sinian was just a paper tiger who wouldn't do anything on his own. However, she was stunned when she saw Pei Sinian's eyes.

Beneath the gold-rimmed glasses, a pair of narrow, world-weary eyes drooped slightly, the corners of their eyes curving upwards in a sharp arc. The gray, cloudy eyes seemed to contain an abyss, bottomless at first glance, as if... they were about to suck the mushroom in.

Meng Xiaoyou shrank back, instantly cowering.

"I don't dare anymore."

The little zombie has devoured the crystal core and is now sleeping in the back row. The little vine and two foxtail grasses are in the space, seemingly no match for Pei Sinian.

Pei Sinian's gaze made Mushroom a little scared, as if he wanted to devour her.

Unable to confront them, she decided to play the ostrich, curling up in the passenger seat, silently digging a hole in the seat, and crawling inside.

Pei Sinian's eyelids twitched. He silently lifted his coat and looked closely. His shirt also had a hole in it, and there was a round red mark on his chest from being bitten.

The mushroom may be small, but it has an inexhaustible amount of energy.