“Fuck!”
Even if the car had been reinforced, everyone couldn’t help feeling terrified when they saw those zombies chasing after them. Zombies weren’t difficult, but their speed made it difficult to lose them. In such a situation, they could only open the window to help.
There weren’t many ability users in the team. Seeing that the zombies still held on after so long, Xu Yan Ze suddenly concentrated his attention on them, freezing the zombie that was on the car.
Xiang Han watched as the zombie dogs outside their window were frozen alive. No matter how many times he saw it, he felt strange.
“Help the car behind us,” Xu Yan Ze said as he drove.
Xiang Han quickly wound down the window and used his elbow to knock one away before aiming his gun at the car behind them. With every shot hitting its target, he dealt with nearly half of them.
Once the danger was completely over, the two cars pulled up and Xu Lele stared at Xiang Han dumbstruck. “I couldn’t tell your shooting skills are really good.”
Xiang Han replied bashfully, “I played a little back at home.”
Once she thought about the Wu family in the city, she understood and changed to ask, “How did you know it was zombie dogs?”
“Because… I saw it. I saw them and woke up in fright.” Xiang Han replied innocently.
Everyone: “…”
After cleaning away the frozen water on the car’s roof, Xu Yan Ze glanced at him and said, “Go drive.”
“Oh.” Xiang Han quickly escaped to the driver’s side.
With narrowed eyes, Xu Yan Ze silently thought to himself, it looks like apart from driving, he still had some other use. Except, he wasn’t sure if it was a coincidence, or had he been deliberately hiding it, acting as if he couldn’t do anything?
If he was deliberate, Xu Yan Ze could understand since the world had changed and who wouldn’t hide such a life-saving ability to themself? He could accept it if the lad was hiding it, but he hoped that he wasn’t scheming something against him.
After settling the zombie dogs, their luck seemed to have gotten better, for they didn’t run into anything problematic along the way.
But apart from driving, it was just eating. They couldn’t speak loudly and Xiang Han felt extremely bored. Every day consisted of eating biscuits and drinking ice water only, Xiang Han was afraid he’d get constipated.
“Are we eating this every day?” Having biscuits for lunch once again, Xiang Han finally turned to ask Xu Lele.
Xu Lele chewed and replied, “There’s no choice. These biscuits have only expired not too long ago, it’s a waste to not eat them.”
Aye, the apocalypse…understandable. Xiang Han touched his stomach bitterly, thinking about how he hadn’t *cough cough* for three days. If he still didn’t *cough*, his ass might tear. He had to eat some fruits!
Touching the seeds at his waist, he gritted his teeth and asked Big A, [Can I secretly use my ability if I don’t get discovered?”
Big A: [Of course you can. This was originally meant for you, but you must be careful. Before your life is ensured, you must make sure no one discovers it.]
[Alright.] Xiang Han grew elated and told Xu Lele, “I need to leave for a bit.”
Xu Lele saw him touching his stomach and understood. “Do you need someone to help you keep watch?”
“No need.” Xiang Han leaned over and crossed over the banister before walking towards an overgrown plot of land.
Xu Yan Ze heard their conversation and turned towards them. When he saw Xiang Han walk far, he couldn’t help but frown.
After finding a secretive spot, Xiang Han took out the seeds and chose a watermelon packet before tearing it open. He took out one seed and kept the rest away.
But after planting it, he opened the ability panel and was instantly dumbstruck.
The plant ability Big A gave him had three main functions, namely sprouting, plant manipulation, and purification. When using, he simply needed to select the option from the panel interface.
But now, all three abilities were at zero and the icon was also grey. How should he use it?
[Didn’t I say you need to learn and level up? You didn’t learn so you can’t use it.] Big A reminded.
[Little Nine, why didn’t you learn it?]
Didn’t they say he could share the system’s ability? So it’s enough for the system to learn it.
[Ah?] System was baffled. [You didn’t tell me to learn it.]
[Hurry and learn it. Help me to level up whenever you can.] Xiang Han urged him. Being able to cheat felt super great.
When the icon finally lit up, Xiang Han quickly used the sprouting ability on the watermelon but a level 1 skill was limited. What’s worse was that this skill had a cooldown period so only three watermelons appeared after persisting for some time.
Xiang Han quickly harvested one and happily thought, if only Xu Yan Ze knew, he’d be so shocked.
And so, his wish came true.
He didn’t know when Xu Yan Ze appeared. There was a small distance between them when he suddenly spoke. “We’re moving soon, why are you still squatting there?”
Xiang Han froze. His first thoughts were that he was finished. He had been discovered.
Big A helplessly told him, [He just arrived, he didn’t notice.]
When he saw Xiang Han sneakily head towards the fields, Xu Yan Ze had already grown suspicious since this lad had hidden many things from him. So once he began to act dubiously, it was difficult to not overthink. At the same time, he was also afraid that he was thinking too much. What if this person was really… doing that, so he decided to wait some time before coming over.
Xiang Han heaved a sigh of relief when he heard Big A’s words.
Logically speaking, he should just appease this person and perfunctorily return with him. But when it comes to feelings, whether it was his mouth or his stomach, neither could bear to leave the three round and fat watermelons.
Wastefulness was a sin. Especially so on such a hot day, coupled with his greediness, and the cuteness of those watermelons.
With hesitation, he finally gnashed his teeth and feigned joy. “You came just in time, look, there are watermelons here!”
Xu Yan Ze’s lips twitched. This was his first time seeing such a forced smile.
When he heard there were watermelons, he walked forward but held little expectations in the apocalypse. Apart from humans and animals, plants also evolved or else they wouldn’t be so lacking in food. A watermelon in the wild like this was most likely mutated and inedible…
The moment he saw the melon, Xu Yan Ze’s expression warped into astonishment. It had been so long since he saw such a normal-looking melon.
He immediately materialised an ice knife and took the melon from Xiang Han. Cutting out a small triangle, he saw the colour seemed normal but even so, he didn’t dare eat it. Instead, he let Xiang Han harvest the other two and bring them back.
When the others saw him holding three watermelons, their faces were full of curiosity. There was a doctor in the team who immediately took out an apparatus to analyse it before he excitedly told them, “It’s edible. There are no problems.”
Everyone was overjoyed, even the most solemn-looking baby-faced couple’s expression changed. It was clear to see how terrible the food they usually ate was.
After nibbling on biscuits for three days, Xiang Han could finally eat a watermelon and an icy-cold one at that. More importantly, because of the three melons, everyone’s attitude towards him grew better.
Xiang Han couldn’t help tearing up. Previously, none of them thanked him for the zombie dog’s matter, it seems that everyone was just food-brained.
After distributing a watermelon, there were two left. No one could bear to eat it so they decided to keep it. Unfortunately, they met the female lead’s team the very next day.
Everyone was wringing their hands. If they’d known, they would have eaten it yesterday.
When afternoon came, Xiang Han and the others had just distributed the rations and were sitting under a tree, waiting to eat the melon. Two cars sped along and finally stopped in front of them.
Everyone froze. They prepared to take out their weapons to protect the watermelon… no, it’s to protect themselves.
The mercenaries who’d seen much of the world knew that in times like this, meeting other humans was sometimes worse than meeting zombies. After all, villains plotting against other villains was too common; if they were not careful, they would be eaten until no bones were left.
Thus, even when a beauty alighted from the car without any weapons, no one dared to let down their guards.
When Xiang Han saw her appearance, he didn’t know how to react. Wasn’t this the female lead, Gu Ming?
‘He’ was a scum man while the other party was the female lead. In ‘his’ last life, ‘he’ cheated and seduced the female lead’s sister and even caused her death. After rebirth, it was natural for the female lead to seek revenge on ‘him’.
But the problem was, ‘he’ had become someone else. Xiang Han was anxious, just why did they have to run into the female lead? This was simply finding trouble.
Meeting the female lead was akin to dying. But he still had a mission, so he couldn’t die. Just how should he let the female lead give up on killing him?
More importantly, when the original host was schemed against and abandoned by the team, the two hadn’t yet broken up. Should he go up and greet her?
While he was still hesitating, the female lead had already seen him. Gu Ming’s expression changed and a flicker of hatred crossed her eyes but she quickly helped Xiang Han to make a choice.
She suddenly trembled and tears formed in her eyes. “Wu Han? Y-You’re still alive? T-This is really great…”
When she said this, she couldn’t help covering her mouth in agitation. She seemed to want to go up to acnowledge him but didn’t dare as if she might have mistaken him for someone else.
The team glanced at Xiang Han, with Xu Yan Ze’s gaze being the sharpest.
Xu Lele asked in anticipation, “Wu Han, is that your sister?”
Strangely, Xiang Han felt pressure on him but he hardened his scalp and replied, “This…Everyone, let me introduce you all. This is my girlfriend.”
Everyone was silent as they turned to look at Xu Lele with indignance: Didn’t you say he and Captain Xu were together? What childhood friend, amnesia, a sad and beautiful break-up…bullshit! His girlfriend has appeared, and who knows, they might even have had a child!
Xu Yan Ze felt inexplicably angry, thinking that this lad had come to seduce him even though he had a girlfriend was simply…immoral.
When seducing him, he would lift up his shirt and use his cup, acting like an idiotic fool. Thankfully he had self-control and didn’t fall for his tricks. But he was still furious.
He glared murderously at Xiang Han before retracting his gaze and prepared to adopt the saying ‘what remains unseen is deemed to be clean’.
Xiang Han only felt that if this continued, he would be poked into a sieve thus he stood up while enduring the pressure and mimicked the original host’s temperament. He curled his lips and said, “Xiao Ming? I never expected we’d meet again.”
“Fuck!”
Even if the car had been reinforced, everyone couldn’t help feeling terrified when they saw those zombies chasing after them. Zombies weren’t difficult, but their speed made it difficult to lose them. In such a situation, they could only open the window to help.
There weren’t many ability users in the team. Seeing that the zombies still held on after so long, Xu Yan Ze suddenly concentrated his attention on them, freezing the zombie that was on the car.
Xiang Han watched as the zombie dogs outside their window were frozen alive. No matter how many times he saw it, he felt strange.
“Help the car behind us,” Xu Yan Ze said as he drove.
Xiang Han quickly wound down the window and used his elbow to knock one away before aiming his gun at the car behind them. With every shot hitting its target, he dealt with nearly half of them.
Once the danger was completely over, the two cars pulled up and Xu Lele stared at Xiang Han dumbstruck. “I couldn’t tell your shooting skills are really good.”
Xiang Han replied bashfully, “I played a little back at home.”
Once she thought about the Wu family in the city, she understood and changed to ask, “How did you know it was zombie dogs?”
“Because… I saw it. I saw them and woke up in fright.” Xiang Han replied innocently.
Everyone: “…”
After cleaning away the frozen water on the car’s roof, Xu Yan Ze glanced at him and said, “Go drive.”
“Oh.” Xiang Han quickly escaped to the driver’s side.
With narrowed eyes, Xu Yan Ze silently thought to himself, it looks like apart from driving, he still had some other use. Except, he wasn’t sure if it was a coincidence, or had he been deliberately hiding it, acting as if he couldn’t do anything?
If he was deliberate, Xu Yan Ze could understand since the world had changed and who wouldn’t hide such a life-saving ability to themself? He could accept it if the lad was hiding it, but he hoped that he wasn’t scheming something against him.
After settling the zombie dogs, their luck seemed to have gotten better, for they didn’t run into anything problematic along the way.
But apart from driving, it was just eating. They couldn’t speak loudly and Xiang Han felt extremely bored. Every day consisted of eating biscuits and drinking ice water only, Xiang Han was afraid he’d get constipated.
“Are we eating this every day?” Having biscuits for lunch once again, Xiang Han finally turned to ask Xu Lele.
Xu Lele chewed and replied, “There’s no choice. These biscuits have only expired not too long ago, it’s a waste to not eat them.”
Aye, the apocalypse…understandable. Xiang Han touched his stomach bitterly, thinking about how he hadn’t *cough cough* for three days. If he still didn’t *cough*, his ass might tear. He had to eat some fruits!
Touching the seeds at his waist, he gritted his teeth and asked Big A, [Can I secretly use my ability if I don’t get discovered?”
Big A: [Of course you can. This was originally meant for you, but you must be careful. Before your life is ensured, you must make sure no one discovers it.]
[Alright.] Xiang Han grew elated and told Xu Lele, “I need to leave for a bit.”
Xu Lele saw him touching his stomach and understood. “Do you need someone to help you keep watch?”
“No need.” Xiang Han leaned over and crossed over the banister before walking towards an overgrown plot of land.
Xu Yan Ze heard their conversation and turned towards them. When he saw Xiang Han walk far, he couldn’t help but frown.
After finding a secretive spot, Xiang Han took out the seeds and chose a watermelon packet before tearing it open. He took out one seed and kept the rest away.
But after planting it, he opened the ability panel and was instantly dumbstruck.
The plant ability Big A gave him had three main functions, namely sprouting, plant manipulation, and purification. When using, he simply needed to select the option from the panel interface.
But now, all three abilities were at zero and the icon was also grey. How should he use it?
[Didn’t I say you need to learn and level up? You didn’t learn so you can’t use it.] Big A reminded.
[Little Nine, why didn’t you learn it?]
Didn’t they say he could share the system’s ability? So it’s enough for the system to learn it.
[Ah?] System was baffled. [You didn’t tell me to learn it.]
[Hurry and learn it. Help me to level up whenever you can.] Xiang Han urged him. Being able to cheat felt super great.
When the icon finally lit up, Xiang Han quickly used the sprouting ability on the watermelon but a level 1 skill was limited. What’s worse was that this skill had a cooldown period so only three watermelons appeared after persisting for some time.
Xiang Han quickly harvested one and happily thought, if only Xu Yan Ze knew, he’d be so shocked.
And so, his wish came true.
He didn’t know when Xu Yan Ze appeared. There was a small distance between them when he suddenly spoke. “We’re moving soon, why are you still squatting there?”
Xiang Han froze. His first thoughts were that he was finished. He had been discovered.
Big A helplessly told him, [He just arrived, he didn’t notice.]
When he saw Xiang Han sneakily head towards the fields, Xu Yan Ze had already grown suspicious since this lad had hidden many things from him. So once he began to act dubiously, it was difficult to not overthink. At the same time, he was also afraid that he was thinking too much. What if this person was really… doing that, so he decided to wait some time before coming over.
Xiang Han heaved a sigh of relief when he heard Big A’s words.
Logically speaking, he should just appease this person and perfunctorily return with him. But when it comes to feelings, whether it was his mouth or his stomach, neither could bear to leave the three round and fat watermelons.
Wastefulness was a sin. Especially so on such a hot day, coupled with his greediness, and the cuteness of those watermelons.
With hesitation, he finally gnashed his teeth and feigned joy. “You came just in time, look, there are watermelons here!”
Xu Yan Ze’s lips twitched. This was his first time seeing such a forced smile.
When he heard there were watermelons, he walked forward but held little expectations in the apocalypse. Apart from humans and animals, plants also evolved or else they wouldn’t be so lacking in food. A watermelon in the wild like this was most likely mutated and inedible…
The moment he saw the melon, Xu Yan Ze’s expression warped into astonishment. It had been so long since he saw such a normal-looking melon.
He immediately materialised an ice knife and took the melon from Xiang Han. Cutting out a small triangle, he saw the colour seemed normal but even so, he didn’t dare eat it. Instead, he let Xiang Han harvest the other two and bring them back.
When the others saw him holding three watermelons, their faces were full of curiosity. There was a doctor in the team who immediately took out an apparatus to analyse it before he excitedly told them, “It’s edible. There are no problems.”
Everyone was overjoyed, even the most solemn-looking baby-faced couple’s expression changed. It was clear to see how terrible the food they usually ate was.
After nibbling on biscuits for three days, Xiang Han could finally eat a watermelon and an icy-cold one at that. More importantly, because of the three melons, everyone’s attitude towards him grew better.
Xiang Han couldn’t help tearing up. Previously, none of them thanked him for the zombie dog’s matter, it seems that everyone was just food-brained.
After distributing a watermelon, there were two left. No one could bear to eat it so they decided to keep it. Unfortunately, they met the female lead’s team the very next day.
Everyone was wringing their hands. If they’d known, they would have eaten it yesterday.
When afternoon came, Xiang Han and the others had just distributed the rations and were sitting under a tree, waiting to eat the melon. Two cars sped along and finally stopped in front of them.
Everyone froze. They prepared to take out their weapons to protect the watermelon… no, it’s to protect themselves.
The mercenaries who’d seen much of the world knew that in times like this, meeting other humans was sometimes worse than meeting zombies. After all, villains plotting against other villains was too common; if they were not careful, they would be eaten until no bones were left.
Thus, even when a beauty alighted from the car without any weapons, no one dared to let down their guards.
When Xiang Han saw her appearance, he didn’t know how to react. Wasn’t this the female lead, Gu Ming?
‘He’ was a scum man while the other party was the female lead. In ‘his’ last life, ‘he’ cheated and seduced the female lead’s sister and even caused her death. After rebirth, it was natural for the female lead to seek revenge on ‘him’.
But the problem was, ‘he’ had become someone else. Xiang Han was anxious, just why did they have to run into the female lead? This was simply finding trouble.
Meeting the female lead was akin to dying. But he still had a mission, so he couldn’t die. Just how should he let the female lead give up on killing him?
More importantly, when the original host was schemed against and abandoned by the team, the two hadn’t yet broken up. Should he go up and greet her?
While he was still hesitating, the female lead had already seen him. Gu Ming’s expression changed and a flicker of hatred crossed her eyes but she quickly helped Xiang Han to make a choice.
She suddenly trembled and tears formed in her eyes. “Wu Han? Y-You’re still alive? T-This is really great…”
When she said this, she couldn’t help covering her mouth in agitation. She seemed to want to go up to acnowledge him but didn’t dare as if she might have mistaken him for someone else.
The team glanced at Xiang Han, with Xu Yan Ze’s gaze being the sharpest.
Xu Lele asked in anticipation, “Wu Han, is that your sister?”
Strangely, Xiang Han felt pressure on him but he hardened his scalp and replied, “This…Everyone, let me introduce you all. This is my girlfriend.”
Everyone was silent as they turned to look at Xu Lele with indignance: Didn’t you say he and Captain Xu were together? What childhood friend, amnesia, a sad and beautiful break-up…bullshit! His girlfriend has appeared, and who knows, they might even have had a child!
Xu Yan Ze felt inexplicably angry, thinking that this lad had come to seduce him even though he had a girlfriend was simply…immoral.
When seducing him, he would lift up his shirt and use his cup, acting like an idiotic fool. Thankfully he had self-control and didn’t fall for his tricks. But he was still furious.
He glared murderously at Xiang Han before retracting his gaze and prepared to adopt the saying ‘what remains unseen is deemed to be clean’.
Xiang Han only felt that if this continued, he would be poked into a sieve thus he stood up while enduring the pressure and mimicked the original host’s temperament. He curled his lips and said, “Xiao Ming? I never expected we’d meet again.”
