Yu Qingxian knew that zombies couldn't appreciate beauty, so she didn't bother to argue with him.
But suddenly she remembered something.
She immediately took out the Level 3 Crystal Core from her backpack and gave it back to Shi Xingyu.
"I'm returning the Crystal Core to you. You didn't know that I was carrying this Crystal Core, which made me a target for those zombies. I had a really hard time," Yu Qingxian handed the Crystal Core to Shi Xingyu.
Finally, she could get rid of this hot potato.
Shi Xingyu looked at the intact Crystal Core being returned to his hands by Yu Qingxian, and he couldn't believe it.
She had been carrying this Crystal Core for two whole months.
And she hadn't taken a single bite out of it.
"Who are you kidding?" Shi Xingyu didn't believe that Yu Qingxian had a hard time.
As long as Yu Qingxian was on guard, he doubted any zombie in this world would dare try to take her belongings.
Yu Qingxian didn't care that Shi Xingyu had seen through her lie. Instead, she sat on her luggage cart.
She started up the cart, and Shi Xingyu consciously followed beside her.
As for the Crystal Core, Shi Xingyu didn't consume it either. Instead, he put it into a small pouch on his waist.
Yu Qingxian glanced over and noticed the new small pouch on Shi Xingyu's waist.
She didn't know what else was inside, but after putting the Crystal Core in, it was bulging.
But it didn't matter, as she had returned the Crystal Core to Shi Xingyu.
"You're about to level up, aren't you?" Yu Qingxian asked him.
"Yeah, soon," Shi Xingyu replied.
If it weren't for that little psycho chasing him around, he might have already leveled up.
But now he seemed to be stuck.
He didn't know what to do for the time being.
Upon hearing Shi Xingyu's words, Yu Qingxian suddenly thought of his one gold and one red eye, and she couldn't help but say, "It's the first time I've seen a Level 4.5 zombie."
"Likewise," Shi Xingyu wasn't fazed.
After all, he had never seen a zombie that didn't eat humans either.
"Originally, I planned to return the Crystal Core to you at Autumn Color Lake in September. I didn't expect to meet you here, so do we still need to go in September?" Yu Qingxian asked.
She wanted to go to too many places, and she was afraid she wouldn't be able to make it to Autumn Color Lake in September.
"Go ahead, like you said before," Shi Xingyu replied.
Yu Qingxian looked at Shi Xingyu, "It doesn't matter how good the scenery is, does it? You're a zombie, and you can't appreciate it anyway."
But Shi Xingyu didn't respond.
Although it was true.
It was true, but he still felt it wasn't quite right.
Anyway...
"Anyway, we'll go see it," Shi Xingyu said.
"Yeah, let's go see it," Yu Qingxian said, and then suddenly looked at Shi Xingyu again.
"I know another zombie who's already above Level 5. If you have any questions, I can take you to see him and have him teach you."
This surprised Shi Xingyu.
She actually knew other zombies.
And their levels were even higher than his.
Yu Qingxian must have experienced quite a lot in these past two months.
"I don't think that zombie would teach me. Instead, he would smash my brain," Shi Xingyu said honestly.
He didn't think that zombie would tolerate his existence.
Especially since he was halfway to Level 5.
The other zombie would definitely try every possible way to kill him.
How could they possibly get along?
"Why?" Yu Qingxian asked, a bit puzzled.
After all, she felt that besides his love for fantasizing, Ah Ye was quite gentle for a zombie.
Of course, like Shi Xingyu, he didn't appreciate beauty.
"Because I want to smash his head too," Shi Xingyu answered honestly.
If the other zombie was stronger than him, then he could only submit. Otherwise, he would be killed.
Zombies also had pride. Of course, they couldn't submit to other zombies.
That would only make the stronger zombie even stronger, while the weaker ones below wouldn't get any fresh meat and blood.
The only way was for him to be the king.
Upon hearing this, Yu Qingxian also realized this problem.
Zombies didn't have the concept of cooperation.
The only way to become stronger was to eat more flesh and blood.
Otherwise, if they grew Crystal Cores, other zombies would just smash their skulls in.
Thinking of this, Yu Qingxian fell silent.
Seeing that Yu Qingxian wasn't saying anything, Shi Xingyu reached out and stopped her luggage cart, then skillfully pulled out the handle bar from the back.
Yu Qingxian's direction was completely changed.
She didn't expect this old ox to be so self-aware.
"I can only escort you out of the city. I won't go with you," Shi Xingyu seemed to have started understanding Yu Qingxian, and he said this before she even asked.
Shi Xingyu didn't receive a response from Yu Qingxian, but he didn't care.
He had said before that he and Yu Qingxian were different.
He was a real zombie, and he couldn't stop eating humans just for Yu Qingxian.
And in his eyes, her act of saving people seemed inexplicable.
By her side, he would always be under her control.
Even if she didn't say anything.
Just her entire being exuded an aura of prohibition and disapproval.
At the city's edge, Shi Xingyu let go of Yu Qingxian's luggage cart.
Yu Qingxian also started up her cart.
"Then I'll see you again in September. Don't die, since I have no way to contact you," Yu Qingxian waved at Shi Xingyu's back, putting an end to their brief reunion.
No one knew if they could survive in this world tomorrow.
Neither humans nor zombies knew.
Yu Qingxian lowered her hand, opened the map, and continued westward.
Shi Xingyu watched as Yu Qingxian left without looking back, and he didn't mind.
He patted the pouch on his waist.
What an excessive demand.
There were plenty of formidable humans and zombies in this world.
Hopefully, his head would still be there in September.
Yu Qingxian seemed to have thought of something and looked back, but Shi Xingyu's figure was already gone from the city's edge.
She thought that perhaps she should have said, "Wishing you a safe journey."
But it didn't seem to matter when said to a zombie.
Yu Qingxian entered her destination, and the map displayed it.
It even planned a route for her.
And it told her which bases were more suitable for rest stops along the way.
Yu Qingxian looked at this route and felt it was totally wrong.
This route would make her barge right into populated areas!
Thinking of this, Yu Qingxian took out a photo from her backpack.
It was a picture of herself and her parents.
Her parents looked very happy, but she had no expression.
She really was a failure, wasn't she? Even when taking a photo with her parents, she couldn't muster a smile?
Yu Qingxian stared at the photo, but not a single tear fell.
She knew that in such a situation, others would probably be crying buckets.
But she didn't feel like crying at all.
Yet she understood that her parents were very important to her.
Since she was little, she had never been able to integrate into human social circles.
It was especially severe when she was around 15 or 16 years old, to the point where she felt physically ill when facing strangers or even acquaintances.
It was during that time that her condition progressed from being unable to communicate normally with others as a child to developing fever symptoms after forcing herself to interact with humans, even if it was just going out for a short while.
Even when seeing a doctor, she didn't really listen to what the doctor said.
But why?
Why did this symptom greatly reduce after she became a zombie?
Yu Qingxian didn't know, and she couldn't figure it out.
