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

"I...I didn't see it..."

Caught off guard, Meng Xiaoyou lowered her eyelashes guiltily, her eyelashes trembling, and her ears were faintly flushed pink.

No one understands Mushroom's little thoughts better than Mr. Zombie; he saw through Mushroom's lie at a glance.

So, you read the book, what was the reason...?

In a flash, he suddenly gripped her chin tightly. "Didn't you understand?"

Pei Sinian looked for many books, including illustrated ones, but he felt that the illustrations were messy and did not meet his aesthetic standards. He also did not want to offend Meng Xiaoyou's eyes, so he only took a text-based introductory book.

He was so engrossed in reading it that he forgot he was illiterate...

Meng Xiaoyou immediately became unhappy, glaring at him with her big, watery eyes and giving him a disapproving look.

Why don't I understand?

She understands it very well, even better than the books. What's in the books is just on paper... what was on paper again? Anyway, it's not as good as her.

Planting is a very simple thing, but why make it so complicated, with all the flower arranging, soaking, and rubbing?

For her, none of those methods are needed. She just scatters the seeds in the soil, doesn't even need to water them, and they can grow strong and healthy simply by using her bubble ability.

Therefore, Meng Xiaoyou stretched out her index finger and pointed at the man's chest, saying, "I understand without even looking."

Her slender, pale fingers poked at his chest intermittently, the feather-like touch sending a shiver down his spine. His Adam's apple bobbed as he took her hand, pulling her to his collar and looking down at her. "Alright, then you may begin."

The man was above her, with a refined and elegant appearance. His light gray eyes were devoid of joy or sorrow, like a jade statue. He looked down at her with an indescribable aloofness and restraint, but Meng Xiaoyou always felt that something was off.

Before people even understood what was going on, they were already excited. They didn't know what they were excited about, but they just felt it was interesting to bring down such an aloof and unattainable figure.

Of course, Mushroom was naive and didn't understand human desires, so she couldn't grasp the essentials or seize the opportunity. She just lay there, her eyes darting around, plotting some wicked scheme.

Pei Sinian waited for a long time, but she didn't make a move. His indifferent eyes flashed, he sighed silently, lowered his head and kissed her lips, and with his other hand he guided her to unbutton his collar.

One after another.

He guided her through the smooth, powerful yet beautiful muscles.

"Hey?"

Meng Xiaoyou's ahoge (cowlick) stood up, as if she had discovered a new continent, and she touched it like a curious child.

"Buzzing—"

With her lips and teeth entangled, she could only make a buzzing sound like a little bee, trying to say something.

The atmosphere was just right, but Pei Sinian didn't want to hear Little Mushroom speak, so he gently bit her lower lip with his sharp fangs.

The startled mushroom trembled and opened its mouth as if to complain, but the zombie got away with it. His jade-like eyebrows drooped slightly, and his handsome features were tinged with some color. Even in this situation, his expression remained calm, and he controlled the situation based on his experience from many days of learning.

Suddenly, Meng Xiaoyou's body trembled, her round eyes were surrounded by water mist, and she struggled and whimpered, all of which entered the zombie's mouth and were devoured.

His usually cold lips were burning hot at this moment, and Meng Xiaoyou felt like she was being burned to death, unable to muster any strength at all.

Her lips were nibbled and numb. When had the delicate mushroom ever suffered such grievances? Large tears fell in a patter, sliding down the corners of her eyes. Before they could even reach her hairline, the man sucked them away.

Meng Xiaoyou finally had a moment to herself and complained with a pout, "That's not how you plant them. I haven't even taken out the seeds yet."

The zombies were like demons, making her mushroom brain less intelligent. She couldn't understand why they were biting her randomly when she was supposed to be planting plants.

And his hands weren't behaving properly either...

Timid Mushroom's love for clothes is simply for pretty things. It's not that she can't not wear them, it's just... so strange.

She couldn't understand it; everything seemed strange. Finally, sensing danger approaching, her hair stood on end.

Is it...is it a fake mushroom?!

Are you going to hit her again?

Last time they hit my hand, this time they're going to spank me?

Perhaps because of the indelible shadow cast by the previous incident, Meng Xiaoyou couldn't help but chicken out and burst into tears.

"Pei Sinian, I didn't cause any trouble, you're abusing me!"

The deafening roar of the mushroom from Hedong sent a shiver down Pei Sinian's spine. His arms suddenly felt empty; his beloved, who had been so large, had shrunk many times over in the blink of an eye, replaced by a tiny purple mushroom, no bigger than the palm of his hand, curled up with its cap bubbling away.

Pei Sinian: "..."

An emotional breakdown occurred, body temperature rose, and the zombie's heart grew cold.

He numbly pulled the blanket over his body, numbly listened to the little mushroom cursing him in an incomprehensible plant language, numbly... wanting to do something beastly to her true form.

Ultimately, the conditions became unbearable, and the little mushroom couldn't withstand the torture. Mr. Zombie froze himself into an ice sculpture, lying peacefully on the bed, not wanting to speak.

"Pop pop?" The mushroom chattered for a while, looked at the ice horse terracotta warrior lying next to it, stretched out its stalk and kicked it, dug a hole in the ice sculpture, and crawled in without a care in the world, comfortably squinting its eyes.

Well, considering Pei Sinian turned into an ice sculpture to coax her, I won't scold him anymore.

I need to talk to Pei Sinian another day. Domestic violence is unacceptable. If he threatens her with fake mushrooms again, she will run away from home.

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Recently, the "Zombie Kingdom" in Gong County was established. The zombies discovered that their king was in a bad mood, always radiating pressure with a cold face, and their crystal cores were buzzing uneasily in their heads every day.

The zombies lived in constant fear, and their methods of capturing humans were somewhat influenced by their own mortal instincts. If they found a human trying to escape from the base, they would put them in a sack, load them onto a vehicle, and haul them away.

One by one, humans, clinging to a sliver of hope, thought they could evade the zombies and break through to find outside help, but in the end, none of them escaped, and they were all locked up in the zombie stronghold, trembling with fear.

Tang Shengnan, being one of the few humans, could put people at ease, so Pei Sinian allowed her to talk to humans.

They provided plenty of food and drink, randomly selected two humans to return, and then relayed a message to the human base.

"The zombie said that as long as we show sincerity and hand over Academician Rong and the others, he... the zombie will no longer restrict our movements, and... he also said that as long as we don't attack the zombies, the zombies won't attack humans."

The messenger returned and stammered through his account, not daring to look at the reactions of the bigwigs in the meeting room.

"What do you think?"

Zhu Heping sat in the main seat, his brows furrowed.

The top leaders of Zhongyu Base are all here. After what happened before, the three major families have become weak, and the second-in-command of the mercenary group is dead. They have also been keeping a low profile these days.

The only group that suffered no losses was the military.

At the research institute, Lu Beichuan smiled and said, "You all don't actually believe what the zombies say, do you?"