Chapter 30.1 - The Flowers Under The Human Skins (1/3)

After eliminating the evolved people in the supermarket, most of the imprisoned girls left with their families. As they walked outside, they fell into silence looking at the extremely tall trees and the buildings in the distance that had been overrun by plants. 

There were human-eating mutated animals everywhere. Perhaps they would even encounter such dangers if they stayed within the city, but they were even more afraid of the unknown world outside. They’d rather hide in the city.

The atmosphere in the car was a little depressing, but Yin Yiliu quickly adjusted her emotions after being continuously stroked on the head by Jin Yang. She began to feel sleepy and rubbed her furry little head against his fingers.

Zhao Qiyang, who had always been very lively and capable of enlivening the atmosphere, looked gloomy. There were two shallow cuts on his face. After Yin Yiliu took out the alcohol and gauze from her space to disinfect and bandage his wound, it had prevented his wound from being infected by bacteria and microorganisms in time.

When Yin Yiliu had scavenged for supplies, she packed a lot of clothes and shoes in her space. There were winter clothes, summer clothes, clothes for adult men, and clothing for the Zhao siblings. In addition, she thought about her human form and secretly packed some four or five-year-old girl’s clothes.

She didn’t know if she would grow up, or if she would stay that way forever, but she took some clothes for every age range just in case. Her space was big enough to fit it all anyway.

The electricity in the freezer area in Carrefour had long since gone out. The stench of the rotten food was so bad that their heads were spinning. The black and rotten meat on the shelves was covered in finger-sized maggots with fat and transparent bodies that were surrounded by flies.

Yin Yiliu didn’t dare to let Jin Yang enter the area. She was a rabbit who wasn’t afraid of bites, but it wasn’t the same for Jin Yang.

She quickly threw all the vacuum-packed food into her space and bolted from the supermarket, away from the scalp-tingling buzzing sounds.

Evolved people, such as the Zhao siblings, who had major changes in body shapes when they transformed into their mutated form would waste a lot of clothes. Especially Zhao Qiyang, every time he turned into a lizard, his clothes would be torn to shreds. When he returned to human form, he could only run around naked.

He had been wearing Jin Yang’s clothes, whose shirt and pants were slightly too big for him. When his thin wrists and ankles were exposed when the clothes were rolled up, he looked like a child who secretly wore his father’s clothes. It was a funny look.

Yin Yiliu’s impression of Jin Yang seemed to be stuck in the same way she saw him when she first opened her eyes, handsome and frail, sitting in a wheelchair with no expression on his face and a depressing aura around him.

So even though Jin Yang’s legs had gradually recovered, she still thought of her Big Golden Thigh as thin and fragile.

It wasn’t until the presence of Zhao Qiyang worked as a comparison that she realized that her Big Golden Thigh wasn’t weak, or rather he became increasingly stronger during the apocalypse.

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It wasn’t visible when Jin Yang was in a wheelchair, but when he stood up, he was at least 185 centimeters tall, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. His legs, which had some muscle atrophy, also slowly became stronger after he deliberately exercised every day.

At some point, her Big Golden Thigh began to have the aura of the ultimate villain who would later destroy the world.

He still remained cold and detached, only showing his soft side when facing his savior-rabbit.

At this time, Zhao Qiyang was wearing the clothes Yin Yiliu got from Carrefour. It fit him well, and he was finally able to transition from looking like a kid pretending to be a working adult to dressing more like his age.

He was nestled in the front passenger seat, covering his face with a cap. Zhao Sihui frowned and looked at her abnormal brother as she stopped the car.

After turning off the engine, she yanked off the cap on Zhao Qiyang’s face, her tone was somewhat displeased.

“You have been putting on this sullen face since just now. Who are you mad at?”

Zhao Qiyang was just feeling a little depressed. He didn’t intend to be angry at Jin Yang and his sister. He narrowed his eyes from the sudden dazzling sunlight, pursed his lips, and said dully, “Sis, I just think that…”

He glanced at his sister who was a little angry and mustered the courage to say, “I just think that woman is quite pitiful.”

When Zhao Qiyang entered the supermarket, the first thing he saw was the trembling girl in the crowd. The tragic experience of her and the other women around her hit his heart.

After all, he was only a sixteen-year-old teenager. He wasn’t able to remain indifferent. When he saw that everyone else had their family members with them, but the woman was all alone begging at the back of their car, he felt sorry for her. He even thought of asking Big Bro Jin and his sister to let her join them.

But he didn’t dare to ask.

Zhao Sihui didn’t expect that her brother had such thoughts. She was stunned for a while before beginning to tremble with rage. She didn’t even dare to glance at Jin Yang’s expression at the back.

She suppressed her anger, looked into her younger brother’s eyes, and asked, “Let me ask you, whose car are you sitting in right now?”

“Bro Jin Yang’s.”

“The gun you’re holding in your hand, the clothes you’re wearing, the food you eat and the water you drink everyday, whose are they?!”

“…”

Zhao Qiyang sniffled, feeling a little embarrassed, but he still answered in a low voice, “Bro Jin Yang’s…”

Zhao Sihui slammed on the steering wheel, “You know this, but you still have such thoughts. Do you think you are a savior? Who do you think you are!”

Yin Yiliu worriedly sat upright, rubbing her claws looking at the arguing siblings in front, hesitating whether to jump into Zhao Sihui’s arms to brush her fur.1

But Jin Yang held her soft little body back to stop her from meddling.

When Zhao Qiyang said those words, he had the urge to throw him out. Being young was not an acceptable excuse in the apocalypse, nor was it an excuse to spread kindness. He didn’t need a teammate who decided to be the nice guy without discussing it with the team first.

What’s more, bringing that woman along with them meant that they had to protect her and provide her with food throughout the journey.

Why should he waste the food that his little rabbit had worked so hard to collect by sharing it with a useless person?

Zhao Sihui was clearly aware of this. She was annoyed that her brother had such a naive idea, and she knew that if she didn’t wake her stupid brother up, they would definitely have to part ways with Jin Yang in the future.

From getting along these few days, she had known that although the combination of Jin Yang and the mutated rabbit appeared weak, they were definitely an overpowering duo.

Jin Yang, in particular, exuded a natural aura of superiority. She believed that she would not regret following them. Hence, she took this opportunity to preach to her younger brother.

Zhao Qiyang was not a kid who didn’t know how to distinguish right from wrong. On the contrary, since his sister had good upbringing, he wasn’t too far off as well. He quickly realized that he had said something that he shouldn’t have.

His sister was right. They had received far too much from Big Bro Jin. These few days had been far easier than when the two of them were on their own.

He shouldn’t say such things, because he had no right to say so. None of these things belonged to him.

Zhao Qiyang lowered his head even more and apologized to the two adults in a muffled voice.

Although Jin Yang remained impassive and unmoved the entire time, and even considered throwing the teenager out of the car at one point, under the little rabbit’s frantic gestures, he frowned and said, “Never mind. Just don’t do it again.”

He would only say some things once. It would be challenging his patience if he had to say it again.

Seeing that Jin Yang didn’t rebuke her brother, Zhao Sihui breathed a soft sigh of relief and threw a fierce glare at her silly overly kind-hearted brother.

Yin Yiliu, who was leaning on Jin Yang’s big hand, could feel that the tension around Big Golden Thigh had loosened, but she knew that he was still unhappy. She was the one who insisted the Zhao siblings join them. Jin Yang had never welcomed them since the beginning.

Or perhaps, he was a person who had closed off his heart and didn’t want to have any ties with anyone. He could tolerate his so-called teammates around him, but he did not regard them as his friends.

Jin Yang had always been stubborn and reclusive. He didn’t believe in anyone, and his heart was a stagnant puddle of water.

Yin Yiliu just happened to barge into his secluded world, opening a small hole in his heart and warmed his heart with her soft, fluffy fur.

Yin Yiliu was glad that she had transmigrated to Big Golden Thigh’s side from the beginning. If she had met Jin Yang later, let alone warming his heart and rewriting his fate, or even hugging his thigh2, she might have been so afraid that her legs would go weak when approaching this man.

Thinking of this, Yin Yiliu couldn’t help but raise her head to look at Jin Yang.

He had a beautifully streamlined jawline, he was the kind of handsome man one couldn’t take their eyes off. His expression was cold, as was his gaze, which was hidden under the golden veins in his pupils.

But fortunately, everything was going in the right direction. This time, Jin Yang would never die as miserably as he did in the original storyline.

Yin Yiliu clenched her pinky paws tightly, and a determined look appeared on her furry rabbit face.

Footnotes

顺毛(Brush fur): Slang for appeasing one’s anger. Like how you would brush the fur of an angry kitty to calm it down.抱大腿 (Hug big thigh): Slang for clinging to someone powerful. That’s why she gave him the nickname Big Golden Thigh.

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