Chapter 44 - Young Man, You’ve Cracked!
By the time night fell, the three of them returned to the villa.
After a long day of exhaustion, as soon as they touched the bed, they didn’t want to get up again.
Bai Qi took the first shower, and today he didn’t plan to sleep in separate rooms.
Using the excuse of someone rolling around in bed, he had a perfectly legitimate reason to lie in the master bedroom, which was a great excuse.
Bai Qi certainly wouldn’t pass up this opportunity.
When he came out and saw Tang Ruo lying there like a corpse, he walked over and patted her face, saying, “Go take a shower before sleeping.”
Tang Ruo rolled over and mumbled, “Let me lie here a little longer, just a bit.”
She had exhausted her mental energy all day, which drained her physically more than using ordinary abilities.
Bai Qi didn’t say anything else. He directly turned Tang Ruo over and started to unbutton her clothes.
As he undid the first button, Tang Ruo suddenly covered her collar and sat up, asking, “What are you doing?”
Bai Qi replied, “Helping you take a shower.”
Tang Ruo: “…”
When being mischievous, could you please not use such a justified expression and tone?
The young man’s face and the information conveyed by his words don’t match at all.
Bai Qi looked at her embarrassed expression and smiled. Then he slowly leaned in closer, saying, “What’s wrong? It’s not like you haven’t been seen without clothes before…”
His face got closer, and Tang Ruo immediately jumped off the bed, stammering, “I—I’m going to take a shower…” As she fled, she quickly added, “Bad person.”
Watching her flee in a panic, a slight smile crept onto Bai Qi’s lips.
It really was a pity that they hadn’t done anything earlier.
After soaking in a hot bath, Tang Ruo felt much more awake, but the thought of ‘I want to sleep’ just wouldn’t go away.
She walked straight to the corner where she usually slept, groggily pulled out the mattress and blankets, and directly lay down to sleep!
Bai Qi, who was on the bed with a book, silently watched everything unfold before him, feeling like he wanted to gouge her eyes out.
Facing such a big bed and such a sexy self, what on earth was she doing making a bed on the floor?
He angrily marched over, only to find that the girl was already asleep under the covers.
She was slightly curled up, sleeping soundly, her expression relaxed, and there seemed to be a faint smile on her face.
In the dim light, he looked at this familiar face, with delicate features, her snowy white complexion buried in the pillow, her dark hair spread out, revealing her rounded earlobes, slender neck, and soft petal-like lips.
Unaware of her own actions, she slept very soundly.
She truly was a beautiful and well-behaved child.
Bai Qi reached out and picked her up, lying down on the bed with her.
Tang Ruo rolled over and nestled into Bai Qi’s arms.
Bai Qi was quite satisfied with her automatic rolling position. He cupped her face with one hand and gently rubbed his other hand against her delicate, fair cheek.
However, just that alone felt insufficient.
Last time, the touch of his fingers grazing her lips had felt as warm as a rose, and it seemed quite nice.
Finally, he couldn’t help but lean down to kiss her lips.
It truly felt as wonderful as he had imagined, with a deadly allure.
However, this was as far as it could go.
Bai Qi felt a bit deflated.
He couldn’t tell whether it was better to be unsatisfied or to simply avoid it altogether and not indulge at all.
After quenching his thirst with the thought of her, he had no choice but to hold her close and nuzzle against her snow-white neck, slowly drifting off to sleep.
What does a man feel for a woman? Even in the most torturous times, it can brew a sense of longing.
Bai Qi felt he was beginning to understand this meaning.
Once asleep, Bai Qi started dreaming. In his dream, the tender and delicate girl beside him pressed herself against his chest, her smooth skin rubbing against him, creating an incredibly pleasant sensation, which naturally led him to impulsively press back against her…
At dawn, Bai Qi woke up.
Thinking back on the dream from the previous night and glancing at the sleeping girl beside him, he felt a bit disheartened.
Quenching his thirst with thoughts alone couldn’t solve the fundamental problem. Today, he decided to get a bed with a fence on all four sides and sleep in a separate room from her!
Originally, he had planned to go out in a few days, but now he had to change his plans just to find a bed for Tang Ruo.
Previously, he had bought a national map in H City, and he opened it to locate a nearby large furniture market. After planning the route, the three of them drove straight in that direction.
Outside, the sun was bright, but too bright turned into scorching heat.
This heat made the three of them a bit silent in the car.
Outside were the wandering zombies.
Once, they were all the same kind.
Now, they had transformed into terrifying monsters.
Seeing that Tang Ruo didn’t seem to be in the mood to practice her abilities against the zombies outside, Bai Qi took a bottle of water from his bag and handed it to her.
When Tang Ruo received it, she realized the water was cold.
“So, the ice ability can also work as a refrigerator.” She pressed the bottle against her face to cool off a bit, and the heaviness in her heart dissipated significantly. “Will there be a large four-sided fenced bed at the furniture market over there?”
In those sparkling eyes, only he seemed to exist. Bai Qi struggled internally for a moment before silently choosing to ignore it.
Forget it, such innocent eyes…
He decided to wait a little longer.
The journey turned out to be both smooth and rough.
The smooth part was that they didn’t encounter any zombie hordes along the way. The fierce sunlight forced the zombies to hide in dark corners, so they didn’t directly come out.
The rough part was that they didn’t find a four-sided fenced bed at the furniture market.
Let alone a four-sided one, they didn’t even have a three-sided bed. Unless it was a crib.
Bai Qi looked around helplessly and pointed to the crib, saying, “Let’s take it.”
Tang Ruo jumped in surprise. “That bed is way too small for me!”
Bai Qi glanced at her and said nonchalantly, “When you have a baby, it’ll be just right for them.”
Tang Ruo: “……”
Young man, your image has completely collapsed, do you know that!
Although they didn’t find a bed, fortunately, there was a type of netted guardrail to prevent babies from crawling out of bed. It could serve as a makeshift barrier.
Since their task was complete, the three of them had no intention of staying any longer.
Upon returning to the villa area, they naturally resumed their monster-hunting and ability-training routine.
From then on, their daily life consisted of eating, sleeping, killing zombies, and absorbing crystal cores.
After three days, the trio had eliminated about one-third of the zombies in the area, gathering over five hundred crystal cores in total.
The bodies of the zombies behind the iron rail and the bloodstains on the ground all recorded the results of this battle.
The stench began to spread, and the flies started to increase.
This scene was filled with a nauseating smell.
The three of them were no longer feeling the joy and excitement that came with increasing their abilities.
They simply poured the gasoline they had previously collected over the bodies, letting them turn to ashes.
With the midday sun blazing down, Tang Ruo wrapped the three of them in her mental energy, allowing them to delve deeper into the community. Her mental strength had grown so powerful that she could shield them from the zombies.
Moreover, she noticed that her mental energy also blocked some of the sun’s ultraviolet rays.
Having dealt with most of the zombies that had wandered out, they now planned to clear the zombies in the corridors and hallways.
Life must go on. Although there are times when feelings of confusion and helplessness arise, there are no other choices.
Just as they were thinking, the three of them heard numerous vehicles approaching on the main road outside the wall.
The army is here?
However, from the sound, it seemed that there weren’t many vehicles.
Exchanging glances, Bai Qi said, “I’ll go take a look.”
The other two, definitely lacking the motivation to continue fighting, followed Bai Qi out of their location and headed towards the main road to investigate.