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

The older woman standing nearby chuckled, "Young man, you don't cook often, do you?"

Mr. Zombie, who has been raising humans and cooking for them every day, yet whose culinary skills haven't improved at all: "..."

He shifted his gaze, calmly nodded.

The old lady smiled kindly, "There aren't many men like you who want to learn to cook. It's good that you have this intention. A man should cherish his wife."

Mushroom & Zombie: "?"

Meng Xiaoyou explained softly, "Not my wife."

The old lady waved her hand: "Oh dear, little girl, you're shy. Alright, alright, I won't scold you two anymore. This stir-fry is very simple. As long as it's not meat, vegetables like this, just put them in the pan, add some seasoning, stir a couple of times, and they'll be cooked."

As she spoke, the old lady took over Pei Sinian's shift, tapped the bottom of the pot with her spoon, and said kindly to Meng Xiaoyou and the other woman, "We just picked some mushrooms this morning. They're all natural from our mountains, much better than what you buy in the market. They have a strong mushroom flavor and a great texture."

Meng Xiaoyou: "!!!"

Her eyes widened instantly, and she stood frozen in terror, too terrified to move.

Pei Sinian frowned slightly, and seeing that the old woman was about to dispose of the small pot of mushrooms, he suddenly spoke up: "I... will trade with you."

He poked Meng Xiaoyou, "Meat."

The timid mushroom blinked its teary eyes, secretly pulled out the frozen meat it had been saving, and slurped, "Stir-fried mushrooms with meat?"

Pei Sinian: "..."

He lowered his eyes, his gaze falling on the corner of someone's mouth, and began to wonder if he had just imagined something, as if he had seen something crystalline.

However, with the mushrooms in imminent danger, Pei Sinian didn't have time to figure out what the little fool was thinking. He put the meat on the stove and said to the old woman, "Meat for meat."

The old woman hadn't seen meat in a long time, and she rubbed her eyes in disbelief. "This?"

Although the village kitchen regularly provides meals for everyone, meat is a scarce resource in the apocalypse. With the small supermarket without water and electricity, the meat would have rotted long ago.

They dare not go to large supermarkets, and even if there is backup power, it is probably almost used up.

"This..." The old woman was about to ask where the meat came from, but she felt it was presumptuous to ask, and she touched her apron awkwardly. "This is... I just picked these mushrooms randomly. They're not worth exchanging for meat. You two can't eat much anyway, so consider it my treat."

Anyway, as long as they worked in the village, they wouldn't starve, and their lives were pretty good.

Pei Sinian insisted: "There are zombies on the mountain..."

"Mushrooms...I don't eat them."

Mr. Zombie is unable to empathize with humans, but he is learning little by little.

Zombies are everywhere now, and humans risk their lives to go out and forage for food.

In the end, the old woman couldn't persuade the two men otherwise, so she accepted the meat and returned the mushrooms to them.

She carefully cut off a piece of meat, taught Pei Sinian how to cook, cooked a large pot, left a plate for Meng Xiaoyou and Pei Sinian, and distributed the rest to the people at the base.

Meng Xiaoyou was holding a pot of nearly dead mushrooms when she secretly glanced at the person next to her. The man caught her red-handed; he was looking at her.

She coughed lightly, a little embarrassed, and asked, "Why did you save the mushrooms?"

Pei Sinian handed her chopsticks, "If you want to, then save her."

Meng Xiaoyou held her chopsticks with her slender white hands, silently eating her rice. After taking just two bites, a fragrant aroma wafted into her nose, revealing two pieces of meat in the white, sticky rice.

This was a large pot of rice, with only two pieces of meat and the rest was all vegetables. Pei Sinian put the remaining meat in her bowl and then withdrew his hand.

"Go tomorrow and gather supplies."

Meng Xiaoyou nodded haphazardly, her thoughts racing, and she couldn't help but think of Liang Mengjiao's hysterical roar just now.

"You like her that much, and you don't care about her past?"

like……?

She's probably overthinking it; she always feels her heart races when she hears that word.

As she ate her rice, she suddenly felt a cold touch on her forehead. The man pressed his fingertips against her forehead. "Your face is practically falling into the rice."

Pei Sinian spoke much more fluently today.

Meng Xiaoyou's eyes darted around. "What do you think of Liang Mengjiao's words?"

Pei Sinian lifted his eyelids: "Who?"

"...the one who insulted me today."

"Oh."

The man's attitude was indifferent, as if he didn't care. Meng Xiaoyou hesitated for a moment, then asked, "She said I seduced her boyfriend..."

Mushroom knew that in the human world, seducing someone else's boyfriend was improper behavior. Normally, the original owner's memories would be recalled if someone pointed them out or if she encountered a certain event.

In the original owner's memory, there was no such thing. So, Pei Sinian didn't care when he heard about it?

Meng Xiaoyou was a little conflicted: "You blockhead, how come you don't react at all?"

The man opposite him fell silent. Stray hair fell across his full forehead, below which was a high, straight nose. He wore glasses, and when he lowered his eyelashes to think, a shadow would be cast below his eyes. Combined with his cold face, it made people feel uneasy.

After an unknown amount of time, the other side finally made a move.

The man's pursed lips curled slightly, as if he was suppressing something.

Confused Mushroom: "???"

What does "stinky man" mean? Is he mocking her?

She immediately burst out of her umbrella, only to be pressed down by the man's outstretched hand. His palm wasn't as warm as other humans', but it gave the mushroom a sense of safe comfort.

The next second, I was flicked on the forehead.

"stupid!"

Meng Xiaoyou, who was waiting for news, was caught off guard and burst into tears. She glared at the stinky man and said, "Why are you still cursing... Where's Mushroom?"

Mushroom dared not speak out in anger, and with a wronged expression, she lowered her head and huffed and puffed as she finished the rice in her bowl.

She instinctively wanted to put the mushrooms in the pot back into her spatial storage, but after using her superpower this time, she clearly felt the strain.

This situation...

Holding the empty basin, Meng Xiaoyou belatedly realized and exclaimed in astonishment, "Pei Sinian? You drained me dry last night?"

At the same time, a voice came from the doorway, overlapping with what she said.

"Little beauty! I've been looking for you for ages... um?"

Tang Shengnan stepped into the kitchen and heard these words. Shocked, she scratched her ear and withdrew one foot.

She must have entered the room the wrong way, otherwise why would she have heard the words "heart is yellow"?

Pei Sinian was washing the dishes, the cool water flowing smoothly. His expression was normal. "You've been bothering me all night. It's not too much to squeeze a little out of me."

Yes, the drunken mushroom arrogantly bullied the zombie, but Mr. Zombie had his own clever plan. He squeezed out most of the mushroom's superpowers, and after one night, the effect was obvious. The mushroom's speech became much more fluent.

Meng Xiaoyou angrily argued with the man, "I've squeezed you dry, and you still say it's not excessive."

She can't even cry out bubbles now.

Pei Sinian calmly said, "You went even further last night."

"I..." Mushroom knew he was in the wrong and couldn't argue with the zombie, so his eyes turned red with anxiety.

Pei Sinian added insult to injury: "You were still holding me back, not letting me go back. I didn't sleep all night."

"..."

"Last night, you promised... that I can use Bubbles as I please from now on."

Did I agree to those unfair terms while drunk last night?

Unfortunately, Meng Xiaoyou had no memory of last night and had no idea if it was true.

Meng Xiaoyou was on the verge of tears. She turned to look at Tang Shengnan, who was still frozen in place at the door, and pouted aggrievedly, "Sister Tang, what should we do? He took advantage of me."

Tang Shengnan, leaning against the doorframe, wiped away her sweat. "What stage have we reached? Are there any measures in place? Is everything done?"