“Thank goodness, you’re finally back.”
Seeing Lu Chen and Hehua enter the room, the black-haired girl sitting by the bed let out a sigh of relief, her heart finally at ease.
“What was that screaming about?”
“A mutated zombie… you’ve seen something similar before.”
Lu Chen casually explained, believing that Mayi would understand what he meant.
“Mutated? So that’s how it is.”
As expected, Mayi nodded without any doubt. After all, she had witnessed the awakening of zombies with abilities, and not just once.
“Are you two injured?”
“No, Hehua and I are both safe and sound… just a little tired.”
Lu Chen patted his wristwatch, announcing the harvest of this trip out to explore.
“There are more supplies in the basement than last time. I found two boxes of canned food, enough to last us a few more days.”
“Also… there’s a surprise, I’ll tell you when we get back to the safe house.”
Surprise?
Mayi looked at Lu Chen with some confusion, finding that he had no intention of revealing more.
Hehua, who seemed to know something, also avoided her gaze…
The two of them were like they had made an agreement, intending to give her a big “surprise”!
Seeing this, Mayi was actually a little comforted.
“Hehua and Lu Chen seem to be getting along better, at least they can interact normally.”
What she didn't know was that just now, Hehua had already launched a challenge to her in her heart.
“How is Teacher Tōsu doing?”
Changing the topic, Lu Chen looked at Tōsu Machiyo on the bed.
She was still asleep, but her expression seemed to have eased a lot.
“Teacher Tōsu’s condition should be stabilizing.”
As if reminded of something, Mayi turned around and lifted the white sheet covering her teacher.
After fumbling around for a moment, she took out an electronic thermometer.
This thermometer was also a medical supply that Lu Chen brought back from the clinic, and it came in handy.
“She still has a slight fever.”
Mayi stared intently at the number on the thermometer, suggesting.
“To be safe, I think it’s best for Teacher Tōsu to evacuate as soon as possible.”
“As long as we stay in the danger zone, enemies will keep respawning and she won’t be able to rest properly.”
“Besides…”
Although Mayi didn’t continue, Lu Chen, as intelligent as he was, had already understood the meaning in her eyes.
As time passed, the number of zombies respawning increased.
In the 4th hour, the number of zombies respawning near the four survivors had reached a terrifying number.
If they didn’t evacuate soon, they would have a hard time cleaning up such a huge horde, even for them.
“That’s a real problem.”
Lu Chen nodded in agreement.
While he was no longer afraid of small-scale encounters, he still lacked truly effective area-of-effect killing techniques.
Facing hundreds of zombies, besides shooting them one by one with his pistol, there wasn’t a more efficient way to kill them.
In the end, they could only shake off these zombies and evacuate to the safe house before they caught up with the team.
This was undoubtedly a very wasteful practice for Lu Chen.
In his eyes… these zombies were all walking wallets!
Although his ability could achieve area suppression, if he wanted to directly kill the zombies, the amount of mental energy consumed would increase exponentially!
In other words, his ability could be used for emergencies or to assist in combat, but it couldn’t be used as the main attack method for now.
“So that’s settled then. We’ve already gained a lot today, let’s prepare to evacuate early.”
Lu Chen glanced at his wristwatch. It was currently 10:15, the 4th hour and 1 minute of staying in the danger zone.
Compared to the length of time they stayed the past two days, this could indeed be considered “early” evacuation.
“Let Teacher Tōsu rest for a while, and call her up at 11 o’clock…”
“No need, I’m already awake.”
Suddenly, a slightly weak voice came from the direction of the bed, belonging to Tōsu Machiyo.
She had somehow sat up, leaning against the wall.
Compared to how she was when they first encountered her, she clearly looked much better now, and her voice was also calmer.
“I’m ashamed to have made you all tied up because of me, I’m truly failing as an adult…”
“Just proceed with your plan from now on. My condition should have recovered enough for me to cooperate with you.”
After saying this, Tōsu Machiyo gasped slightly, and after a moment, she found the other three in the room looking at her with strange expressions.
She followed their gaze and looked down, realizing that her upper body was exposed, completely bare, shamelessly displaying her “adult bosom.”
“Shocked! How could this be?!”
Just as the pink-haired female teacher panicked and pulled the blanket to cover herself.
Mayi also grabbed Lu Chen’s waist, pulling him out of the guest room.
“You’re still looking, your eyes were almost popping out of your head.”
The black-haired girl’s seemingly calm voice held a very dangerous killing intent.
“So you were the one who took off her clothes?”
Lu Chen coughed lightly, trying to shift the topic.
“What else? Teacher Tōsu’s clothes were all wet.”
Mayi rolled her eyes and started twisting her fingers, as if they were the dial for Lu Chen’s facial expressions.
“She can’t rest wearing wet clothes, it would only worsen her condition.”
“You have a point…”
Lu Chen gritted his teeth, pretending to be nonchalant and continued to ask.
“But we’re going to evacuate soon, Teacher Tōsu probably doesn’t have any clean clothes to change into, what do we do?”
“Did you forget what my ability is?”
Mayi glared at Lu Chen, finally withdrawing her hand.
“I extracted the water from Teacher’s clothes, they should be dry now.”
“But…”
“But?”
The girl glanced at him, a chilling murderous intent flashing across her delicate face.
“Men are not allowed during the clothes change.”
“…Understood, Miss Mayi.”
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【Congratulations, you have successfully evacuated to the safe house】
【You are now safe… although it’s only temporary】
With a flash of white light, Lu Chen was back in his safe house.
This was his third successful evacuation from the danger zone.
At this moment, compared to before, he was calm…
No, maybe not entirely.
“Teacher Tōsu used to be a professional figure skater… even after retiring, her figure is still so perfect.”
Compared to the youthful charm of Mayi and Hehua.
As a grown-up who had already entered society, Tōsu Machiyo possessed a mature and innocent allure.
“Is this the ‘welfare body’ distributing welfare? This way, Teacher Tōsu’s body should recover faster.”
Unfortunately, if Mayi hadn’t stopped him… he could have enjoyed it a little longer.
Shaking his head with a hint of regret, Lu Chen began to tidy up the supplies he brought back to the safe house.
After arranging the canned food and several bottles of red wine neatly, he took out the surprise he prepared for Mayi—
“Let me see, what exactly is this vending machine of yours up to!”
After returning to the safe house, the card could finally be used. Lu Chen immediately saw an information prompt.
【Would you like to place the “Hope” card automatic vending machine in the current safe house?】
“Yes.”
After selecting a location, Lu Chen used the card directly.
A rectangular outline was quickly projected, rapidly filling in details with the naked eye.
In less than ten seconds, a vending machine appeared out of thin air in the safe house!