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

Watching his rough movements as he smashed the zombie's head, Meng Xiaoyou couldn't help but touch her own head. It turned out he hadn't been so ruthless before.

The little mushroom shuddered and took tiny steps to move closer to Tang Shengnan's back.

Tang Shengnan: "?"

Tang Shengnan was overjoyed. The little beauty was actually clinging to her?!

Ahhh, the way she hides behind me is so cute, I want to pinch her cheeks.

Before Tang Shengnan could make a move, Meng Xiaoyou noticed that Tang Shengnan's hands weren't completely clean after fighting the zombies, so she quietly moved away from Tang Shengnan and returned to Pei Sinian's side, asking, "What are you doing?"

The blue crystal core didn't look good when it was first dug out. It was mixed with the rotting brains and blood of zombies, and it smelled pungent. In the past, people would have avoided it even if they were just passing by, let alone wearing gloves.

However, he still has a use.

Pei Sinian pursed his lips, enduring the filthy zombie crystal core, and took off his gloves.

In front of Meng Xiaoyou and the others, the crystal core merged into his palm.

Meng Xiaoyou knew nothing, but Tang Shengnan was knowledgeable. While guarding against the zombies, she exclaimed, "Are you crazy? Don't be so aggressive if you want to awaken your superpowers. You can live even without superpowers. If you fail to awaken them, you're doomed."

Zombie crystals can level people up and awaken superpowers, but the probability is extremely low. It is rumored that since the apocalypse, only one person in the B City base has successfully awakened superpowers through zombie crystals.

Pei Sinian's actions were tantamount to courting death.

Meng Xiaoyou was stunned after hearing Tang Shengnan's explanation. She quickly squatted down in front of Pei Sinian, grabbed his hand, and anxiously urged, "Can you still throw up now?"

"..." The man's hand was like ice, smooth and white, with slightly faint fingerprints. The crystal fell into his palm and melted upon contact. She rubbed her small hands together, trying to find the crystal and dig it out of the zombie.

Desperate for a cure, she was surrounded by a pale purple light, followed by a series of bubbles covering the man's body.

Pei Sinian: "..."

His thin lips moved slightly, but he refrained from making any zombie sounds.

In just a few seconds, the spoiled little darling's eyes welled up with tears. I reckon in a few more seconds, he'll grab a shovel and bury him, then sit on his grave and grow mushrooms.

This strange thought lingered in his mind, but because of someone's past record, Pei Sinian pinched the soft flesh between her fingers to signal her not to panic.

Almost transparent water droplets spread from his fingertips, like water snakes, crawling from Pei Sinian's fingertips to Meng Xiaoyou's body, climbing up her fair arms little by little, and finally reaching her face, wiping away the mist of tears that were about to fall from her eyes.

Finally, the water burst, dripping away from the girl's soft face, returning to Pei Sinian's hand, washing his hands clean, and disappearing.

Meng Xiaoyou was completely stunned. She only felt like she had just washed her face when she heard a surprised voice behind her: "You actually succeeded?"

Succeeded?

Meng Xiaoyou blinked, staring at Pei Sinian with some uncertainty.

After confirming repeatedly that Pei Sinian was fine and had even easily overcome the difficulties, it seemed that Tang Shengnan's claim of having little hope was just an illusion.

Pei Sinian remained calm, rubbed Meng Xiaoyou's head, and stood up to pull her up as well.

Of course he's fine; how could human limitations possibly be effective against him?

Humans can enhance their strength by mining zombie crystal cores; since he is a zombie, the crystal cores of zombies are even more effective.

He just wasn't too lazy to advance this way before, but now that he's out and about, this germaphobic zombie can't stand even a little bit of dirt.

Meng Xiaoyou stole a glance at his hand with trembling eyelashes. It was as white and smooth as jade, as if it were carved and polished. It didn't look like the kind of hand that could blow someone's head off with a single blow.

In Meng Xiaoyou's memory, Pei Sinian was a sickly human. When she saw him step on the lame zombie, she thought he was blind and stepped on it by mistake.

He's not blind now; it couldn't have been a mistake from his hands.

It turned out that Pei Sinian was not as weak as she had imagined.

If he puts in the effort, he can easily pop ten mushrooms with one hand.

The timid mushroom clapped its paws and muttered, thanking the person for sparing its life before.

With Pei Sinian's help, the zombies at the gas station were quickly cleared out, and they went to the warehouse to get special spare oil drums to fill with oil.

Before entering Meng Xiaoyou's spatial bubble, Pei Sinian thoroughly cleaned the spare oil drum inside and out, rinsing it three or four times before reluctantly agreeing to let Meng Xiaoyou put such a dirty thing as an oil drum into her space.

Such a huge bucket disappeared right in front of Tang Shengnan. Her mouth formed an "O" shape, and she went up to hug Meng Xiaoyou.

A large hand reached out and grabbed the back of the neck of the timid mushroom, hiding behind it and looking down at Tang Shengnan dangerously.

Tang Shengnan: "..." Damn it, you stinking men! I'll never forgive you!

Although Pei Sinian didn't say anything, Tang Shengnan felt deeply threatened.

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. Of course, I have to keep my treasures to myself." Once you, you stinky man, are dumped by that pretty girl, I'll take her and run away with her, hoarding all the delicacies in the world and seducing all the handsome men in the world.

Perhaps Tang Shengnan's prayer was too fervent, causing the timid mushroom to sneeze. "Okay, where's your car? Let's go over there?"

Before Tang Shengnan could say anything, the sound of a car approached from afar, and after the car door opened, a group of people entered the gas station.

"Boss, these zombies look like they were just killed recently."

Through the warehouse window, a group of people could be clearly seen getting off the vehicle in a hurry, and the one called the boss started to loosen his belt as soon as he got off.

Meng Xiaoyou suddenly felt a darkness before her eyes, her eyelids feeling cold as they were covered by a familiar large hand. She blinked lightly and rubbed them against the hand without any hesitation.

The mushroom-shaped umbrella in her heart swayed happily, but before it could even brush against her twice, the man withdrew his hand.

The timid mushroom looked up in confusion: "Why aren't you touching it anymore?"

Tang Shengnan, who was standing nearby, exploded.

"Where did you touch, you pervert? Little beauty, let me see..."

She moved incredibly fast, and Meng Xiaoyou's head was caught off guard and patted hard twice. Her hair was statically heated and involuntarily stood up. When Tang Shengnan withdrew her hand, it lingered and clung to her.

So cute!

Tang Shengnan wanted to touch it again, but the little beauty was pulled into the man's arms. His slender hand possessively stroked the mushroom's head, and he glanced at Tang Shengnan with a cold threat in his eyes, like a wild beast marking its territory.

She withdrew her hand and coughed lightly: "Excuse me, your girlfriend is too adorable. I'm a woman, what are you afraid of? Don't be so petty."

Pei Sinian's expression remained unchanged, but the atmosphere became even more tense.

As the two sides were locked in a standoff, a sudden gasp reached their ears.

"Wow, are they kissing?"

The earth mushroom from Plants vs. Zombies let out an incredible exclamation in Pei Sinian's arms.

Pei Sinian frowned, subconsciously looked out the window, and his face immediately darkened.

Two people in the convoy were refueling their cars, while the so-called leader was embracing a woman and kissing her passionately against the hood of the car.

Their posture was unrestrained, their voices were extremely loud, and the two people cheering for their team were still joking around.

"Boss, you're in too much of a hurry. Let's talk about it tonight."

The timid little mushroom in Pei Sinian's arms let out another wail, its gossip spirit burning brightly, its eyes wide open, wishing it could immediately go out and lie on the car to see.

"What is it that we have to talk about tonight?"

Pei Sinian: "..."