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

The bright summer sun could not dispel the world's coldness; the sparsely populated streets were desolate, filled only with blood and corpses, and zombies moving unconsciously by instinct.

The rotting flesh on the ground was surrounded by a layer of buzzing flies, the only sound besides the roars of zombies.

A cute and pretty young woman, as delicate as a porcelain doll, pushed open the door and entered the room. Her cheeks were flushed from the sun, and her full forehead was covered with sweat. She wiped it with the back of her hand, and her big eyes were still a little red and swollen, obviously she had just been crying.

The supermarket had long been looted by the fleeing humans. Meng Xiaoyou had searched many supermarkets, and this was not the first one. There was a zombie with its head blown off at the counter, its dried yellow brain matter mixed with brownish-red blood, and its protruding eyeballs were facing the door.

Meng Xiaoyou's heart stopped beating. She slammed the door shut and continued searching the next place.

Without exception, many supermarkets were out of food, and no one knew where that man had found food.

Several swaying zombies approached, seemingly searching for prey. Meng Xiaoyou bit her lip and hid in a nearby breakfast shop.

"who?"

A shout suddenly rang out in the room. A rough, large hand reached out and grabbed Meng Xiaoyou's slender shoulder with such force that it seemed as if he wanted to crush her bones.

She gasped.

The other person, not having clearly seen Meng Xiaoyou's appearance, suddenly scoffed, "So it's you! Still alive?"

Meng Xiaoyou's saline solution bubbled out, and a few small, pearl-like purple bubbles slid off, prompting the man to exclaim softly, "You good-for-nothing, you've awakened a superpower?"

He roughly grabbed the girl's chin with his large hand, looking her up and down with a greedy and malicious gaze.

Lü Qiang shouted to his companions inside, "Quick, look who's come back alive!"

A few more people came out of the breakfast shop one after another.

Three men and one woman. The woman, still dressed in a pink dress despite the apocalypse, had a captivating and graceful figure. When she saw Meng Xiaoyou, her expression changed. "Meng Xiaoyou, weren't you supposed to be luring zombies?"

Attract zombies?

Meng Xiaoyou tried her best to collect the few memories the original owner had, memories that were hidden deep inside and that she didn't want to recall.

It seems that the original owner had some kind of conflict with his family, which led him to leave his hometown to work and study at the same time.

The girl in the red dress is her senior, Liang Mengjiao, who often goes to the shop where the original owner worked. She has a boyfriend from outside the school, who is said to be a well-known figure in society, namely Lü Qiang, who is still clinging to her.

Lu Qiang is 1.8 meters tall, with a burly and imposing build. His right hand, which is exposed, is covered with a snake tattoo. He has a buzz cut and a centipede-shaped scar on his brow bone. He looks fierce and menacing.

When the end times came, the original owner was working part-time while studying and happened to be with them.

Meng Xiaoyou tried hard to recall that later, Lü Qiang awakened earth-type abilities, and her senior awakened fire-type abilities. The original owner was a useless person who was pushed out to lure zombies. The original owner managed to escape from the zombies, but died because of the previous fright. It was only by chance that the cowardly mushroom came to this world.

As for the three people behind him, the original owner had no memories of them; they must have been with Liang Mengjiao and the others later.

Upon closer examination, Lü Qiang and Liang Mengjiao were the original owner's enemies; neither of them were good people!

Meng Xiaoyou struggled against Lü Qiang, but her strength was no match for him. Lü Qiang laughed maliciously and lewdly, his scars on his face contorting into a terrifying grimace: "You've gotten quite the brat, haven't you? Awakened some pathetic superpower, can you even kill zombies?"

You can't kill zombies, but...

She took a deep breath and suddenly shouted, "Zombies, there are humans here!"

The zombies couldn't understand her words, of course, but they could determine the location of humans by sound and smell.

The zombies on the street, in twos and threes, swarmed forward like madmen, frantically digging at the door. As the zombies growled, the humans inside the breakfast shop looked grim.

Enraged, Lü Qiang was about to slap Meng Xiaoyou, but just as his hand was about to land on her delicate face, he suddenly stopped and sneered, "Little brat, don't even think about trying to take me down with you!"

"Lock the door, let's go through the back." There was a thick glass door at the back of the breakfast shop. The group retreated through the back door, where they encountered a zombie. A man swiftly and decisively chopped off the zombie's head with a knife. Meng Xiaoyou's neck ached just watching. Lü Qiang covered her mouth and forcefully took her away.

Unnoticed, a bubble the size of a pearl stubbornly floated in the air. Every time it was about to land or hit an obstacle, it would avoid it, drifting around until it finally found its target and covered it.

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When Lü Qiang and his team were looking for supplies, they couldn't find any in the surrounding supermarkets, so they decided to try their luck at the breakfast shop. Recently, the area has been experiencing intermittent power outages, and the food in the breakfast shop's refrigerator had spoiled and smelled foul when opened.

There were a few crumbs of pastry and half a moldy bun on the counter, indicating that other people had already been here and taken the food.

They came away empty-handed, and the only gain they didn't really get was that they had Meng Xiaoyou with them on their way back.

The car was full, and Meng Xiaoyou was ruthlessly thrown into the dirty trunk. Her wrists were tied with rope, and her mouth was taped shut. She was left helpless and unable to call for help.

The air was thin and there was a strong smell of gasoline. Occasionally, she would bump into a few zombies on the road, and her head would hit the side of the trunk. This hurt much more than the human man hitting her.

Looking back now, I realize that the human had held back.

No, no, no matter what, he not only didn't praise her, but he also hit her.

She decided to stop playing with him and return the food to him once she found it. From then on, they went their separate ways, and she went to live in a human base.

Let's find a few more pretty mushrooms like the Confusing Mushroom... no, I mean, pretty girls to play with.

Why isn't she better than that cold-faced, sullen man?

The immediate priority is to find a way to escape from these people.

Just then, the car jolted violently, the trunk was opened, and a ray of light shone down, illuminating Meng Xiaoyou's panicked face. Lü Qiang pulled her out.

Liang Mengjiao, standing to the side, twirled her hair with her fingertips, speaking casually with a hint of contempt: "Lu Qiang, don't forget that I'm your girlfriend. What's the point of you always clinging to this good-for-nothing girl?"

Lu Qiang glanced at her, unconcerned. "Are you afraid of being outshone by a little girl?"

"How could that be? Then why did you grab this girl?" Liang Mengjiao chuckled, her soft, boneless hands encircling his arm. Every move she made exuded a mature and sexy charm, captivating her teammates behind her, who couldn't help but steal glances at her.

But they didn't dare to act recklessly, after all, her boyfriend was Lü Qiang.

Lü Qiang: "Look at her carefully."

Liang Mengjiao glanced over with her charming eyes but didn't find any drawbacks.

"Look at her clothes, and then look at her face. Her clothes are new, and her face is fuller than when she was with us. How could a weakling with useless superpowers survive all this time?"

Liang Mengjiao finally realized that something was wrong.

"Does she have a lover?"

The timid mushroom looked completely bewildered, and a question mark slowly appeared in its head: ?

What does "拼头" mean, and how is it spelled?

Split your head in two, one half for each person – is that how you fight?

Seriously? Humans are this cruel? They want to chop her head off?