9.5

After a long time of slowing down, Zhou Yunsheng then half sat up and asked, “Who are you? Do we know each other?”

The man also sat up, padded two soft pillows behind the Doctor to let him lean more comfortably, and said with downcast eyes, “We don’t know each other.” Having followed Dr. Bai for five or six long years, he knew that the Doctor was an unforgettable genius, but anyone who had met him once would never forget, so he vaguely said, “You once helped my loved one with an operation that was very successful, and our family is very thankful to you.”

Zhou Yunsheng no longer asked in detail, Dr. Bai had a superb memory just like him, even if he had an operation ten years ago, he could still remember any detail even now, and this person would wear out his welcome if he asked more. He knows that this person has no relationship with Bai Mohan now, they should only know each other after two years, this person is the head of Bai Mohan’s escort, and it looks like it is also a reborn.

It was this man who held himself in his arms before his death, looking so grief-stricken that Zhou Yunsheng knew that he was absolutely loyal to himself.

“Doctor, my name is Zhao Lingfeng, if you trust me please let me follow you for protection.” The man slightly bent over in a respectful and submissive gesture. His heart had long been taken in by the selfless and fearless Dr. Bai, he had failed to protect him in his last life, he would never let anyone harm him in this life.

Zhou Yunsheng nodded his head after a moment of silence, “I believe you.”

Zhao Lingfeng didn’t expect to gain the Doctor’s trust so quickly and looked up in surprise.

Zhou Yunsheng pointed at his crystal clear pupils and spoke calmly, “There is no malice in your eyes. Although it’s the post-apocalyptic world, and there are man-eating zombies and humans with withered consciences everywhere, and the person who digs out his heart and lungs for you today will be able to dig out your heart and lungs tomorrow, I prefer to believe that this world still retains a piece of pure land, and that there is also a piece of pure land retained in everyone’s heart. Hello, I’m Bai Mohan, and I’m afraid we’re going to be dependent on each other from now on.” He held out his hand and smiled bitterly.

Zhao Lingfeng hurriedly took his hand and gently shook it a few times, two flushes of excitement appearing on his face. This person was indeed his Doctor, looking cold and detached, but actually softer than anyone else inside.

“Doctor, your face looks terrible, here are a few crystal cores, you should hurry up and absorb them.” Zhao Lingfeng pulled out a few transparent crystal cores from his personalized coat pocket.

The crystal cores of first level zombies were all transparent and could be absorbed by any attribute of an alien, although the energy was tiny, it could be used to quickly replenish physical strength when the body was extremely tired. At present, the secret of the crystal cores had already been publicized, and every aberrant would carry a few of them with them in case of emergency.

“How do you know I’m a Shifter?” Zhou Yunsheng didn’t bother to pick it up, but instead inquired in a low voice.

Zhao Lingfeng was stunned for a moment and smiled stiffly, “I guessed. Dr. Bai, you are so outstanding, you shouldn’t be an ordinary person.”

Zhou Yunsheng was more and more certain that he was a reborn person, so he stopped asking questions and held one of the crystal cores in his palm for absorption. Unfortunately, due to the trauma to his soul, the first time these energies entered his body, they brought him not a sense of comfort, but the pain of his meridians being impacted. He was already so wasted that he could hardly digest even a first level crystal core.

Returning the crystal cores to Zhao Lingfeng, he shook his head and said, “Keep them, I’m afraid I won’t be able to use these.”

“How?” Zhao Lingfeng’s heart clenched.

“Just now, when I forcefully used my spiritual power to force the Blood Silk Vine out of my body, the crystal core inside my brain has been shattered.” He calmly explained.

Unless one was a wood system psychic, most psychics parasitized by the Blood Vine could do nothing about the situation; some had tried running their psychic energy to force the Blood Vine out, but the active energy in their bodies instead stimulated the appetite of the Blood Vine, causing the psychic to be sucked dry even faster. In order to force out the Blood Vine before it sucked one’s body dry, the energy required had to be fast and explosive, and its impact was no less than a self-explosion.

No one would want to risk losing their powers or even their lives doing so unless they had to.

Zhao Lingfeng simply couldn’t accept this bad news, his face was pale and his eyes were red, he shook his head while shedding tears, gritting his teeth, “It shouldn’t be like this. Doctor, you are supposed to be the strongest person in the world, stronger than anyone else, it shouldn’t be like this! You are a good person, why can’t they leave a good person alone?”

At this moment, he simply hated Lei Chuan and Guo Zerui into his bones. But they had been reborn earlier than him and had already grasped a huge advantage, and he could do nothing with them.

Seeing a bullish man crying like a child in front of him, Zhou Yunsheng really didn’t know how to react. He hesitantly reached out his hand and rubbed the top of the man’s head and sighed, “It’s okay, don’t feel sorry for me because I personally don’t feel sorry at all. My most important treasure is not this crystal core, but my brain and hands. As long as those two things are still there, I won’t regret losing anything else. Don’t cry, it will get better. Zombies aren’t monsters, they’re just infected with a virus, as long as a vaccine is found to attack this virus, the end times will pass sooner or later.”

Zhao Lingfeng remembered the tragic death of the Doctor and all the criticism and torture he had endured in order to save mankind, and not only did he not stop crying, but he became more and more grief-stricken.

Zhou Yunsheng had no choice but to force himself up and go to the restroom to get a towel to wipe the tears of this large and loyal dog.

In the next room, Lei Chuan covered his face and leaned against the back of the chair in a disheveled posture, constantly berating himself for coming so late; if only he had been a quarter of an hour earlier, his doctor would not have had to suffer such pain. His weak appearance, the appearance of vomiting blood, the appearance of pale and thin cheeks was simply unbearable to him.

Every time I look at it I feel like a small knife is cutting into my heart.

The door was suddenly opened, and Guo Zerui, who had just left not long ago, asked with a curious look on his face, “Boss, I almost forgot just now, how did you get over here?”

“None of your business!” Lei Chuan kicked away the desk and walked over to punch him hard in the belly. If he didn’t owe this kid his life, he definitely wouldn’t let him off easily.

Guo Zerui was almost beaten and spat out blood, but he didn’t have the heart to care about himself, covering his stomach with one hand and pointing at his boss’s crimson eyes and tear-filled face with the other, he asked in surprise, “Boss, why are you crying? Who made you sad?”

“Said it’s none of your business, get out!” Lei Chuan flung the door of his room shut and raised his hand to touch it before realizing that he had already burst into tears. His memory was still stuck on the moment when the Doctor died, and he was filled with grief that he had nowhere to vent, but then he suddenly realized that he had once again made the Doctor’s body full of holes and was almost on the verge of death.

The feeling of almost destroying his own world with his own hands scared him, terrified him, suffocated him. He wanted to go to the Doctor at once and tell him that he had been wrong, that he would save him from any harm in the future, but he also knew that, with his cleverness and alertness, he would never trust himself again.

He and Guo Zerui successively eliminated the people around the doctor, and even did not deliberately suppress the killing intent in his heart on the day he finally did it, it is impossible for the doctor to be unaware of it, which is why he would be the first to suspect them when he was parasitized by the Blood Silk Vine.

This is the so-called self-inflicted evil. Lei Chuan covered his face and let out a low roar like a trapped animal.

At the same time, Zhao Lingfeng had cried enough and said with a red face, “Doctor, Lei Chuan and Guo Zerui wanted to kill you, the army that escorted you said that they were surrounded by zombies, and eight-nine out of ten – they were the ones who made the move. We can’t stay with them any longer, we have to find a way to leave quickly.”

“I know. It’s just that I’m curious as to what kind of grudge I have against them to murder me in such a deliberate manner.” Zhou Yunsheng pressed and rubbed his vaguely aching temples, portraying the image of a clueless and ignorant nerd to the fullest.

Zhao Lingfeng grew more and more compassionate towards him and whispered, “There are those heartless people in the world who specialize in killing for fun. Doctor, you don’t need to look deeply into it, so as not to bother.” When he took the Doctor away safely, sooner or later he would have to come back and kidnap Lei Chuan to use as an experiment for the Doctor.

Zhou Yunsheng nodded his head and sort of accepted this.

Lei Chuan was so angry that his teeth were itching. To lose one’s heart? Taking pleasure in killing people? Zhao Lingfeng really dared to say that in order to discredit him! Why were they both reborn, why did he accompany the Doctor through his last years together, and he became a murderer, while Zhao Lingfeng could protect the Doctor at all times?

Lei Chuan’s eyes were red with jealousy, but he didn’t realize that his possessiveness was gradually overstepping a certain dangerous line. He wanted to immediately walk over and beat Zhao Lingfeng up severely, but he also knew that he couldn’t do anything at the moment, or else he would make the Doctor misunderstand him even more.

He deployed additional manpower to guard the door of the house, fearing that Zhao Lingfeng would escape with the doctor in the night.

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The following morning, the special forces soldiers in the same house woke up one after another, ready to go out to kill zombies and gather supplies after breakfast. The survivors took over all the housework in order not to be left behind. They boiled water, cooked food, cleaned the house, and were all very busy.

Lei Chuan saved them, but will not be like the last life as everything for them, to eat, go out and kill zombies to find food, kill more can also save up the crystal core and exchange daily necessities with him. This approach has forced away a large group of people who want to eat white rice, but also left many pragmatic people.

Because Lei Chuan was well prepared and had hoarded a large amount of resources beforehand, these special forces were well fed, not only did they have white rice to eat, but also canned meat and pickles.

The rest of the survivors were left with one packet of instant noodles per person, which was considered extremely good treatment even half a year after the end of the world, so no one felt it was unfair.

Zhou Yunsheng walked out of his room and sat at the dining table in a daze. The aroma of the meal lingered at the end of his nose, causing his stomach and intestines to twist after days of starvation, but with a know-it-all reborn person following him around, it was impossible for him to ask the person in charge of logistics for food on his own. Because his previous meals had been taken care of by a personal assistant allocated to him by the government, Bai Mohan himself was an oddball who couldn’t even make instant noodles, and his ability to take care of himself was basically zero except for bathing and dressing.

That personal assistant was killed by Guo Zerui yesterday, no one will care about Bai Mohan’s death at this moment, if Zhou Yunsheng is cold and hungry, he can only hope that the loyal dog beside him is attentive enough.

After all, Zhao Lingfeng was an old man who had followed him for five or six years, and he didn’t let him down, immediately going to find someone to ask for food.

“Is your body better?” A hoarse voice suddenly came from behind him, and Zhou Yunsheng didn’t need to turn around to know that the visitor was Lei Chuan. He immediately pulled out his pistol and tensed his spine.

“Don’t be afraid, I won’t hurt you.” Lei Chuan raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, then slowly, carefully sat down beside him.

Guo Zerui followed suit and took his seat, sizing up Bai Mohan with an odd gaze. Before he was reborn, he had asked people about the situation in the lab, and those people had described Bai Mohan as a complete Frankenstein, saying that his experiments were horrible, and that he was able to turn good people into monsters, and also speculated that it was possible that the zombies were created by Bai Mohan.

This kind of rumor heard a lot, Guo Zerui also convinced, which expected that this person really anti-zombie virus vaccine to come out, then he is not the savior?

Frankenstein’s monster turned into the savior in an instant, and even the boss, the victim, admired him, telling Guo Zerui to not be able to accept this huge discrepancy for a while. And last night he almost killed the savior, that feeling is really ……

He patted and stroked his chest, gasping for air, still feeling fearful when he thought about it.

“Have you eaten?” Lei Chuan softly inquired, and suddenly laughed lowly at the end. He almost forgot that the man was a life idiot, and when he was mesmerized by experiments, he even had to ask his assistant to feed him rice in his mouth, otherwise he had to starve himself to death. He also remembered that once, a new researcher gave the doctor an unopened packet of instant noodles, he picked it up and pinched it, asking curiously, “Is this instant noodles? How come it’s different from the ones I eat? Isn’t it soft?”

Everyone in the lab laughed at that time, and he was even more out of breath with laughter. Who would have thought that the brilliant Dr. White would be so ignorant in private.

Now that I think about it, those times of following him around have actually become one of the few good memories of the end times.

“Give me a box of lunch with an extra can of meat.” Lei Chuan said at the passing survivor.

The man didn’t dare to be slow, and immediately filled a box of rice and covered it with two canned meats that had been soaked in boiling water. The aroma of the food hit his face, causing Zhou Yunsheng to restrain himself from swallowing his saliva.

But as the old saying goes – to be ungrateful is to be a thief. He didn’t believe that the two people who were intent on throwing him to the ground yesterday would be able to break off their enmity with him today, and that the reason for their goodwill was just to cover up their sinister intentions.

He reached out with his left hand and pushed the lunchbox away from him, keeping the gun in his right hand.

“I’m afraid to use your food.”

A simple statement caused Lei Chuan’s gentle expression to turn into hidden pain as he glared fiercely at Guo Zerui. Guo Zerui immediately raised his hands innocently and said, “It wasn’t me. Dr. Bai you misunderstood, we really didn’t want to harm you. If you don’t believe me, I’ll take two bites of this rice?” As he said this, he was about to dig into the rice, but Lei Chuan snatched it away and ate two bites each of the white rice and canned meat, then steadily pushed it under Dr. Bai’s eyes.

Zhou Yunsheng was still holding his pistol up, not even glancing at the fragrant food.

Lei Chuan really can’t do anything about Dr. Bai. He knows too well how stubborn this person’s character is, but where he determines something, he will go forward, no matter how much it costs him, he will not change his mind. Because of this stubbornness, he did not care to wear out his life, because of this stubbornness, he used the king’s realm of the crystal core to exchange for the justice he determined, because of this stubbornness, he was killed in the laboratory.

He hated his stubbornness, but cherished it even more, picking up the lunch box, wanting to feed the rice into his mouth one by one like those fellows once did, but Zhao Lingfeng, who hurried back, gripped his wrist hard and questioned in a stern voice, “What do you want to do? What did you add to the food this time?”

You’re fucking done! Lei Chuan could not wait to snap the lunch box into his face, but he held back hard for fear of rippling the Doctor.

“Where have you been? Causing the Doctor to wait for you early in the morning with a hungry stomach?” Lei Chuan knew that this person was also reborn and was loyal to the Doctor, so he was able to tolerate his presence for the time being.

“I don’t know who explained that the people below were not allowed to distribute food to the Doctor, so I had to go back and get my own.” Zhao Lingfeng sneered. Since he had already torn his face yesterday, there was no need for him to be vain with these people. There were people from other bases in this room, so it was just the right time to show them that Dr. Bai wasn’t voluntarily following Lei Chuan.

So much for getting a few helpers to get the Doctor out.

Lei Chuan’s face immediately darkened at his words, and Guo Zerui covered his face while groaning. Yesterday, when he thought that Dr. Bai was bound to die, he instructed the people below him not to distribute food to him to save it from going to waste.

“Hey I said these little rednecks, how dare they privately embezzle military supplies, I’m going to teach them a lesson!” Catching up with the boss before he got mad, he ran away like a flaming ass.

“I’m sorry, the team has just been formed and the people are a bit unbalanced, I assure you that these situations will never happen again. Dr. Bai, you are the best scientist in China, the hope for the future of mankind is in your hands, it’s too late for me to protect you, how could I hurt you? Please believe me and give me another chance.” Lei Chuan spoke bitterly.

Zhou Yunsheng inwardly laughed coldly, secretly Lei Chuan really blackened powerfully, talking about these crowning words than the B base those fools are even more slippery. If he had followed the original path of fate, Bai Mohan would have died a very miserable death last night. In his last life, Lei Chuan never killed civilians, but in this life, he kills without blinking an eye, but anyone who stands in his way will be ruthlessly eradicated by him.

But Zhou Yunsheng could understand his transformation. In his place, the degree of blackening would only be greater than Lei Chuan’s.

Understanding was one thing, believing was another, and he would never be compelled by a word or two from this man, so he pretended to turn a deaf ear.

Zhao Lingfeng road is very rushed, did not have time to collect substances, mixed into the neighborhood when also shed a lot of good things to use to inquire about the news, and now only bring a packet of soda crackers and a bottle of mineral water, eat this meal also do not know where the next meal.

Seeing his embarrassment, Zhou Yunsheng put the pistol away, finished the small half of the packet and pushed the rest of the large half to him, saying, “You eat it, you’re a Shifter, you need to conserve more stamina.”

“I’m not hungry, Dr. You’re not in good health, eat more.” Zhao Lingfeng took out a piece of cookie and shoved it hard into the doctor’s mouth. In his last life, this was how he and a few assistants took turns feeding him when the doctor refused to stop doing experiments for days on end. This man could do anything, but he just couldn’t take care of himself.

Zhou Yunsheng was unable to do so and chewed the piece of cookie, then took out a large stack and shoved it into Zhao Lingfeng’s mouth as he had done. He was not a cold-blooded animal, whoever treated him well, he would double back.

“Doctor, you are a good man.” Zhao Lingfeng was moved to tears, trying to chew his cookies while glaring at Lei Chuan with a murderous gaze.

How is it possible to know that Raichuan wants to kill him just as much. Isn’t it enough that this man has accompanied the Doctor for five or six years? Why is he still trying to steal from him after being reborn? Before he was reborn, when he saw that this person could touch the doctor with impunity, while he could only hold a ball of air, a seed called jealousy has been quietly buried.

How dare he presume to take the Doctor and run away from him?

Lei Chuan hid the hint of killing intent under his eyes and said, “You’re a gold system psychic, come out with us later to gather supplies. My army only provides protection, not food, so you’ll have to contribute if you want to be fed.”

Before Zhao Lingfeng could reply, Zhou Yunsheng shook his head in the negative first, “No, he won’t go out with you guys.”

“Why?” When speaking with the Doctor, Raikawa’s tone was unconsciously much softer.

“As long as they are my people, they will not come back after a trip out with you, escorts, researchers, personal assistants, all of them.” Zhou Yunsheng said in a calm tone.

Lei Chuan was dumbfounded, his cheeks burning like he had been slapped hard a few times. If he had come back earlier, why would he and the Doctor have gotten to this irreparable point. Killing the escort was fine, the researcher and personal assistant he would never touch. He knew that these people were the Doctor’s carefully cultivated talents, providing great support for his research, and in retrospect, there seemed to be several extremely familiar faces among those killed, who should have accompanied the Doctor to the end.

Why did you have to be reborn at such a time, God is playing with me! Lei Chuan couldn’t wait to invoke a thunderbolt to split himself. He spoke stiffly, “I didn’t kill those people, they were surrounded by zombies and I brought too few people to save them. Doctor, I ……”

Without waiting for Lei Chuan to finish, Zhou Yunsheng stood up and walked towards the room, Zhao Lingfeng hurriedly unlocked the door of the room in order to eliminate any idle people.

Fuck, what’s all this about! Raikawa raked his hair in annoyance and prowled around the door of his room like a trapped animal, being prodded by his brother several times before he reluctantly left. Before, he had to follow the Doctor without moving an inch, but now that he was violently free to move around, he was so uncomfortable that he really wanted to put the Doctor in a place where he could touch him at all times.

Of course, before he left, he didn’t forget to send additional manpower to watch the door of the house, fearing that Zhao Lingfeng would run away with the doctor.

Zhou Yunsheng made sure that there was no one outside the door before he instructed the chief of the escort in a low voice, “We must escape, but it is not okay to leave with several other groups of people without knowing the situation. We’ll act alone, I’ll think of a way, you don’t contact anyone yet. Later on, you go out with the alien squad formed by the survivors, avoid Lei Chuan’s people and help me find a few broken circuit boards and magnets back, I need to assemble something.”

Zhao Lingfeng’s admiration for the Doctor had reached a blind level, even if the Doctor was now an ordinary person, he would trust him without reservation.

“Don’t worry, Dr., I will get back what you want. If Leichuan’s people give you food you must not take it, I still have a ham sausage and a piece of chocolate in my bag, you can just eat it when you’re hungry, you don’t have to leave it to me. The door of the room is locked, don’t open it even if anyone comes to find it ……”

After explaining some more, Zhao Lingfeng then went to find the other Exalted.