T City was Huo Yiming’s hometown, where his grandparents used to live.

However, Huo Yiming’s grandparents had passed away before the apocalypse. He had good relationships with people in the village when he was young, so he wanted to see if there were any familiar faces left.

After breakfast, Huo Yiming originally intended to have the team wait at the villa while he tried to return before dark, but everyone was willing to leave with him.

On one hand, they were afraid of losing contact, and on the other hand, they felt that their safety would be guaranteed with their leader around.

At noon, the team finally arrived at Houwu Village.

His home was located at the entrance of the village, a two-story small flat with a large courtyard. However, after the apocalypse, all the fruits and vegetables had withered, making it look particularly desolate.

The wooden fence had been mostly destroyed, and the front door of the flat was wide open. The things inside were scattered all over the place, and anything edible had been taken away.

But this was understandable.

Wan Tong picked up a photo frame from the ground, wiped off the dust on top, and saw a picture of a young Huo Yiming with an elderly couple.

“Hey, he looks quite similar to me,” Mo Xing said, tiptoeing to get a better look and then reaching out to take the photo.

“Xingxing is more handsome,” Wan Tong said, patting his head.

In the photo, Huo Yiming was wearing a plain cotton coat, with a shaved head and missing front teeth, of course, not as good-looking as the present Mo Xing who followed the Korean-style handsome little boy route.

After hearing this, Huo Yiming snorted and took the photo frame back, storing it in his space.

Wan Tong met his resentful gaze and awkwardly rubbed her nose.

Mo Xing thought for a moment and then solemnly said, “Then wait for me. If I grow up and still like you, I will marry you and promise you a flower road for ten miles.”

Wan Tong : “…” What to do, I’m feeling a little moved.

Yuan Xiaobai : “Hahaha, Xingxing is quite impressive.”

Liu Ting held back his laughter and approached Huo Yiming, who was in exuding a pressuring aura, and whispered, “Boss, you can learn from Xingxing, he’s really good at flirting with girls.”

“Who are you people?” Suddenly, a strange man’s voice came from the courtyard.

Huo Yiming listened and quickly walked out.

Next door was a three-story luxurious garden house, and on the balcony of the second floor stood a slim young man who had just asked the question.

The moment the young man saw Huo Yiming, he exclaimed with joy, “Huo Yiming, is it really you, Ah Ming?”

Huo Yiming nodded, seemed to recall for a moment, and remembered this person.

Soon, five or six people entered from the neighboring building, both male and female, all quite young, and they crowded around Huo Yiming when they saw him.

The tall and slim man among them was called Huo Ren, who was Huo Yiming’s neighbor and childhood playmate.

When Qiu Jiji heard the name “Huo Ren”, her eyes lit up.

Wan Tong couldn’t help but glance over as well.

Huo Ren, there was also such a character in the plot, someone who appeared outwardly passionate but was extremely sinister on the inside.

However, in the plot, Huo Yiming didn’t encounter Huo Ren and his group when he returned to Houwu Village alone at night. He only met them later at the B City base.

In the original owner’s memories, this person had brought her a lot of trauma as well.

Huo Yiming helped Huo Ren by letting him become a minor official in the military, but Huo Ren became fixated on the original owner, wanting to control Huo Yiming through her and even take away all his achievements.

His acting skills were very good. Sometimes when she was overwhelmed with pressure, she would talk to him a bit more due to his gentle words.

Until one time, she almost ended up in bed with Huo Ren, and only then did she realize he was not a good person.

But she didn’t dare to tell Huo Yiming. At that time, she was afraid of causing trouble for him. The more glorious he became, the more insignificant she felt. Despite his doting on her, she could only see her own worthlessness. She seemed to have become a mere accessory to Huo Yiming, pointed and laughed at by everyone, who said that she had nothing to offer except her looks and was not worthy of Huo Yiming.

Seeing the original owner’s cowardice, Huo Ren became bolder and took the opportunity to provoke her with words, attempting to sow discord between her and Huo Yiming and stand on his side.

Later, the original owner couldn’t bear it anymore. Instead of quarreling with Huo Yiming, she hid it from him and secretly joined a high-difficulty mission, ending up dying on the way.

At the moment of her death, she felt relieved, but also very sad, because she left Huo Yiming, who loved her so much, alone in this world.

In the meantime while Wan Tong was distracted, Huo Ren had already explained the situation in the village.

Now there were only 23 people left in the village, living scattered in the sturdiest garden buildings. Among them, there were six people with supernatural abilities, including a girl who had wood-type ability. The village had plenty of seeds and unpolluted well water, so they weren’t lacking in food and drink for now.

Huo Ren warmly invited everyone to stay in the village, but was refused by Huo Yiming, who returned to the city on the same day.

In the world’s storyline, there was a psychic zombie who had telekinesis abilty in the Baijia Shopping Mall in the city center of T City. It was ultimately resolved by Huo Yiming, and he unexpectedly gained the telekinesis ability of the zombie through its crystal nucleus.

However, the storyline was now messed up, as Huo Yiming arrived late by nearly half a month, and it was unknown whether the zombie was still there.

The group of people settled in a large hotel in the city center and couldn’t stay idle. They formed pairs and left to explore the surrounding situation.

Wan Tong saw Qiu Jiji and Xiao Liu teaming up and heading in that direction, so she pulled Huo Yiming along and said, “Let’s go to the nearby mall and see if we can find some supplies.”

On one hand, she was worried about Xiao Liu’s safety, and on the other hand, she felt that Qiu Jiji had her eye on the crystal nucleus.

Huo Yiming lowered his head and glanced at the hand she was holding, then nodded. “Hmm.”

Wan Tong had originally wanted to catch up with the two in front, but in the end, she only saw Xiao Liu.

“I was supposed to keep an eye on her, but just now we encountered a few zombies, and in the blink of an eye, she disappeared,” Xiao Liu pouted.

He looked at the one-meter gap between Huo Yiming and Wan Tong and thought, “Boss doesn’t know how to seize opportunities.“

“Boss, why are you so far away from Wantong? How can you protect her like this?” He could only help the Boss up to this point.

As Xiao Liu’s voice fell, a faint voice of a child suddenly came from directly in front.

“I’m here.” Mo Xing slowly revealed his figure.

He was holding Wan Tong’s hand and leaning against her, like a barrier separating Wan Tong and Huo Yiming.

“Hehehe…” Xiao Liu laughed awkwardly. No wonder the Boss’s face was so gloomy.

“Xiao Liu, take Mo Xing back to the hotel first.” Huo Yiming spoke in a deep voice.

Mo Xing heard this and tightened his grip on Wan Tong even more. “Don’t even think about separating me from Sister.”

Xiao Liu said hesitantly, “Boss, maybe I should just go back by myself and not disturb you guys, hehehe.”

The hotel is relatively safe, and Xu Qing and Hu Yun are there. Xiao Liu could stay with them.

Wan Tong raised her hand in agreement. “Xiao Liu, why don’t we take you back first?”

“!!!”, Xiao Liu didn’t dare to accept such treatment and quickly shook his head, stepping back. “No, no, I’ll go first!”

With that, he quickly ran away.

Wan Tong thought, “…” Among these people, Xiao Liu is the best at running away. She couldn’t understand how he ended up dead in T City.

In a high-rise building next to Baijia Shopping Mall, a small team of operatives dressed in dark green combat uniforms were observing the situation around the mall through a window.

Suddenly, several figures appeared in the telescope. The scout immediately spoke up, “Captain, we’ve spotted individuals approaching the mall, a man, a woman, and a child. They seem to be looking for supplies.”

Captain Cai Lin took the telescope and glanced at it before saying, “Send nearby personnel to intercept them and prevent them from losing their lives in vain.”

After saying that, he seemed to remember something and picked up the telescope again.

The three people in his line of sight seemed to be a family of three. The man was young, tall and straight, with a domineering presence, likely a powerful ability user. The woman unusually had long hair that reached her waist, wearing a white baseball cap with a ponytail hanging behind her. Her royal blue sportswear couldn’t hide her attractive figure, and she wore combat boots on her feet, looking quite pleasing to the eye.

As for the child, he couldn’t be seen as he was blocked.

However, they looked too clean and relaxed, obviously they weren’t ordinary people.

On the square, Wan Tong and the others were stopped by three men wearing combat uniforms, who looked like genuine soldiers with their upright and righteous appearance.

They held guns in their hands, and Huo Yiming frowned and stood in front of Wan Tong.

Mo Xing looked up, snorted, and squeezed in behind Wan Tong.

The middle soldier put away his gun and swept his gaze over Huo Yiming, saying, “We have no ill intentions, we just want you to leave the area around the mall as soon as possible. It’s dangerous inside, it’s best not to approach.”

He was also an ability user and could sense that the man opposite him was definitely not weak, otherwise he wouldn’t have felt such pressure.

“Why can’t we go to the mall?” Wan Tong walked out and asked softly.

So the zombie in the mall is still there, and it has become even stronger, which caught the attention of the military?

“Do you not know? There’s a high-level mutant zombie in the mall. Two teams sent from the base were wiped out completely. We were sent by the military to deal with it,” the young soldier replied.

Upon hearing this, Wan Tong understood and asked, “Okay, then how many of you are there? Can you kill this zombie?”

“That’s not something you need to worry about. Just leave quickly,” the young soldier said in a gentle tone despite urging them to leave.

It had been a long time since he had seen such… normal human.

In the base, he had seen too many people who were numb, desperate, selfish, and ugly, or indulging in pleasures. But this family of three in front of him made him feel a desire to shed tears.

Wan Tong looked up at Huo Yiming and asked, “Should we still go to collect supplies?”

“If you want to go, I’ll take you,” Huo Yiming said, his gaze fixed on the direction of the mall, but he suddenly glanced at a tall building to the side.

“Let’s go, let’s go. The crystal nuclei we collected recently are no longer of much use,” Mo Xing’s eyes glittered.

At this moment, the three soldiers on the opposite side finally noticed the ten-year-old boy. Seeing his fair and tender appearance, speaking and behaving like a child going to an amusement park with his parents, without any trace of the hardships of the apocalypse, they couldn’t help but have mixed feelings.

“So you better leave quickly. That zombie has reached level six and is a psychic control type, able to control all dead objects, including zombies,” the young soldier spoke up, hoping to dissuade the three from going and getting themselves killed.

“Level six?” Mo Xing clenched his teeth. “I’ve worked so hard to reach level six, and the zombie caught up so quickly?”

The three soldiers on the opposite side were shocked to hear this. A child reaching level six? The highest level in the base seemed to be level seven wind-type ability user…

Who were these three people in front of them?

Wan Tong smiled. “Don’t worry, I’m only level three.”

She then looked at Huo Yiming. “Can you handle it?”

The sun was setting, and if they could deal with the zombie today, they could continue on their way as usual and reach the base in B City before nightfall.

The psychic control type zombies had a weakness: it was afraid of the dark. Once it was night, it would indiscriminately attack humans, but it would be completely disoriented. Although it had the ability to control objects, it had no combat ability themselves. As long as they could locate its position, even an ordinary person could kill it.

Wan Tong knew this, and Qiu Jiji knew it too.

However, Qiu Jiji alone might have some difficulty dealing with the zombie. She might be waiting nearby to take advantage of the situation.

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