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One by one, Gong Lixin fed Jin Shanghui crystal nuclei as he secretly counted up until fifteen, which was equivalent of eating fifteen people. Was the energy in them enough? Thinking of that, he patted Jin Shanghui's claws in front of him and shook his head. "That's enough for now, I'll let you eat more tomorrow."

Jin Shanghui didn't understand and tried again and again to get more. After trying several times, he finally showed his fangs at Gong Lixin and roared, dissatisfied, before moving next to Jin Shangyu and squatting down. But his earlier irritability caused by hunger had disappeared and he could be considered as full.

Right then, Gong Lixin's ears heard something and he stood up and walked outside the Botanical Garden. Jin Shanghui immediately followed, but was stopped by Gong Lixin.

"Good boy. Stay with your sister. Brother Lin and Brother Song have found me. I'll pick them up and come back soon." He whispered and caressed Jin Shanghui's head before pointing at Jin Shangyu who was sitting on the ground, meditating.

Jin Shanghui understood his gesture, squatted back down and roared as if he agreed to his instruction. Gong Lixin chuckled before leaving. When he walked away, Jin Shangyu, who came out of meditation, slowly opened her eyes and looked at her brother who was still staring in the direction the youth left and sourly said, "Brother, I've raised you for two and a half years and yet he just gave you a few crystal nuclei and you were taken by him in less then ten minutes! Your sister's sad!"

Jin Shanghui retracted his gaze. His golden pupil now stared at Jin Shangyu innocently.

With a sigh, Jin Shangyu looked away from his eyes and sighed in defeat. "Forget it. You like him. He has copper skin and iron bones and his strength is far above you. He doesn't have to worry about getting bitten or scratched when getting along with you since his body is special and won't be infected by zombie poison. He can force you to eat, play with you and make you live like an ordinary person. This is good. I heard that sufficient physical contact is good for developing a child's IQ, so I won't worry about him."

As if making an excuse for her incompetence, Jin Shangyu continued to whisper, "Let's follow him. I can study his blood that way. Maybe I can extract an anti-zombie serum from his blood! With a smirk, Jin Shangyu began to look forward to a new life in the near future. Right then, she didn't know how this decision would change her life and benefit the entire human race.

After waiting for about ten minutes, there was the sound of footsteps coming from the footpath covered by dense trees. Jin Shanghui stood up in alert and stood in front of Jin Shangyu, his pair of golden, vertical eyes exuding a fierce light unique to beasts.

With a bang, a tree branch was pushed aside and Jin Shanghui's widened as he rushed to attack, but then he saw a golden light draw a long arc above him and stretched further away. Jin Shanghui immediately reversed direction and followed the golden light away.

"That's really useful." Lin Wenbo chuckled as he said so to Song Haoran. Song Haoran's, Liu Qing's and the others' mouths twitched and they all felt speechless. It turned out that the golden light just now was a third-level high-grade gold crystal nucleus, which was one from Lin Wenbo's loot from Fenghuang. In order to dispel Jin Shanghui's attack, he threw the crystal nucleus and, like a dog. Jin Shanghui went to pick it up.

Jin Shangyu was also there, lying on the floor with the corner of her mouth twitching.

Hey, Brother, these people are so unscrupulous! And you are too greedy!

The little voice in her heart was already lamenting to the skies, but she didn't show anything on her face. She sat up slowly and asked, "Where did Gong Lixin go?" She was a little uncomfortable when the teenager wasn't there. After having lived alone for so long, she had gradually forgotten the skills required to socialize with others. Of course, it was just enough to entice others to come to their deaths.

"He said he was going to kill two zombies and will be back soon." Song Haoran said as he took his bag off from his back and sat next to Jin Shangyu with his legs crossed. The deep, red eyes looked up and down Jin Shangyu and he asked, "Are you Little Demon?"

"Why, you don't believe it?" Jin Shangyu frowned, feeling a little bad.

"Believe it." Lin Wenbo also sat down and crossed his legs. He raised his brows and smiled. "In fact, we doubted it long ago. We just didn't expect you to be a little different from the rumors. Your character was not gloomy nor lonely at all."

"Rumors will always be wrong." Jin Shangyu waved her hand, "But can you tell me who betrayed me? In my memory, those who know my ability and my nicknames are my enemies and have all died. Ha, and since then, I've been very low-key and never told anyone about my origin."

"We naturally have our source and we're not obliged to tell you." Lin Wenbo waved his hand and saw Jin Shanghui had finished eating the crystal nucleus and swooped in again. Lin Wenbo quickly took another one and threw it away in the other direction and Jin Shanghui once again reversed his direction to chase after it.

Jin Shangyu couldn't help but ma.s.sage her temple. She couldn't bear to see her dear, beautiful, stylish and G.o.dlike brother like this, even if he had become a zombie.

"Although they have some wisdom, in the mind of a zombie, I'm afraid that there's nothing to think about other than eating." As if to make Jin Shangyu feel uncomfortable, Lin Wenbo opened his mouth to say.

"Hehe~" Jin Shangyu wiped her face and let out an awkward laugh.

Lin Wenbo's face softened and his golden eyes overflowed with joy as he whispered, "Xiaoxin also said before that, even if I became a zombie, he would support me. With a sister such as you, your brother is lucky. Of course, I'm also lucky."

"When did Lixin say such a thing?" Song Haoran asked calmly, but his voice dripped with a strong smell of vinegar.

"A long time ago. At the beginning of the apocalyptic days." Lin Wenbo reached out and stroked his neck as he fell in to remembrance. His brows were raised and his lips curved slightly, all of which telling his joy and his happiness at the thought.

Song Haoran pursed his lips and stared at Lin Wenbo coldly as his dark, red eyes became dim. The matter of keeping a zombie broke his moral bottom line, but if you thought about it carefully, if there was a person who would never give up on him to such a degree, he would feel no other emotion but be extremely moved. Suddenly, he felt very jealous of his friend who got this promise from Lixin. His jealous heart hurts!

Lin Wenbo met Song Haoran's hostile eyes and smiled frankly, as if provoking him and at the same time, as if he didn't care.

The battle of jealousy between the two men raged on. Jin Shangyu was really embarra.s.sed to witness it. She could only awkwardly laugh while frequently stretch out her neck to look at the footpath, hoping that Gong Lixin would come back soon.

After throwing three crystal nuclei in succession to distract Jin Shanghui, who was full of momentum, Gong Lxiin finally returned while still holding two heads in his hands. He threw the heads to the ground and beckoned Jin Shanghui, who had just picked up the crystal nucleus that was just thrown.

The two heads belonged to two three-level high-grade metal zombies. Their vertical pupils had disappeared leaving only cloudy eyes. Their mouths remained open and their distorted and rotten face showed a terrifying image.

"What are you going by bringing these two heads back?" Jin Shangyu asked curiously. Although she guessed that Gong Lixin was looking for food for his brother, she didn't expect that he would bring their heads back directly.

Just moments ago, two third-level high-grade metal zombies were hunted. Liu Qing and his group had grown numb to the youth's toughness. They felt that the eyes of the two heads looked very ordinary, like two black orbs.

"Training Jin Shanghui." Gong Lixin replied briefly. Seeing Jin Shanghui approaching him, he kicked one head into his arms and picked the other one up.

Jin Shanghui held the head, sniffed it an inch away from his nose and then growled, showing a disgusted expression on his face. Gong Lixin glanced at him and ordered, "Look!"

After that, he drew his fingers together to form a knife and pierced the zombie's skull, pulling out the hidden crystal nucleus from in brain before spreading his palm and showing the dazzling crystal nucleus under Jin Shanghui's eyes. Jin Shanghui opened his mouth to bite it.

Gong Lixin quickly closed his fingers and said in a teasing tone, "Do you want to eat it? You have to get it yourself." He pointed to the head in Jin Shanghui's arms and gestured with his chin.

Jin Shanghui looked at him ignorantly, then looked at the zombie head in his arms. After a long time, he dug open the skull amongst the stunned crowd and found the crystal nucleus before stuffing it into his mouth.

"Ha~" Lin Wenbo and Song Haoran both chuckled, proud of their teenager's whimsical and intelligent wit. In this way, this zombie was now accustomed to digging the brain of zombies to eat crystal nuclei and thus, would become a zombie killer in the future. He was not only harmless, but also beneficial now.

"Really good!" Gong Lixin narrowed his eyes and smiled. He took the nucleus in his hand and, as a reward, fed it to Jin Shanghui gently, wiping the contaminated brain matter from his mouth.

Lin Wenbo and Song Haoran narrowed their eyes. It took a long them to suppress the discomfort at the bottom of their hearts. This was a zombie, there was no need to compare themselves to a zombie! They comforted themselves in their hearts.

Jin Shangyu looked back and forth from shock. She wore a complex expression while looking at the smiling young man. It was her luck to meet him. From now one, she could live more freely and safely without standing on the opposite side of the entire human race. Although she persisted in raising her brother for two and a half years, Jin Shangyu also felt guiltier and became more depressed day by day. She often would dream that her brother had been killed by human beings and his bones were missing, making her wake up in alarm in the middle of the night and remain sleepless for the remainder of the night. Now, that nightmare was finally over and, in such a satisfactory way that she couldn't believe it herself.

Jin Shangyu gave herself a hard pinch and almost burst into tears from the pain, but her mouth cracked with a big smile instead. Jin Shanghui didn't realize his sister's complicated mood in the slightest but was feeling rather energetic. He was agitated as well. While looking at Gong Lixin repeatedly, he tried to move towards the footpath and, seeing that Gong Lixin didn't step forward to stop him, he quickly accelerated his pace, disappearing at the end of the trail.

"He went hunting! He learned fast!" Song Haoran was surprised. Liu Qing and the others sat with dumbfounded expression on their faces. Zombies eating zombies! Following Young Master Gong has opened their eyes once again!

Jin Shangyu smiled at Song Haoran, feeling more comfortable than ever before. There were only two fourth-level zombies in Fenghuang. One was now dead. His elder brother was the true king in this city, so he would be safe while hunting. She doesn't need to worry about him. As for AhJian's group, she didn't care. If they didn't meet her brother, they were lucky.

"Ah~ Did you have dinner? I invite you to dinner!" Feeling good, Jin Shangyu felt generous for once and pointed to a bush not far away and said, "I put my backpack there. There are a lot of delicious food in it. Take some and eat it."

"Thank you, Miss Jin." Seeing Xiaoxin's sudden bright eyes, Lin Wenbo was also not polite as he smiled and thanked her before pulling her back out.

"Don't call me Miss Jin, call me Little Demon. I'll follow Gong Lixin in the future and will be one of his people." Jin Shangyu's looked embarra.s.sed and her eyes avoided looking into Lin Wenbo's intoxicating golden eyes. That little devil was really good, snaring two high-quality handsome men in one net! She envied him in her heart.

"What's this?" Gong Lixin asked after taking one of the long, brown objects in the bag held in Lin Wenbo's hands and sniffing it. There was the smell of earth and a scorching scent, but aside from that, it didn't smell like anything.

"That's dried earthworms," Jin Shangyu explained cheerfully. "Although the earthworms have changed after being exposed to radiation, they only grew bigger, but are non-toxic and edible. I cut them into pieces, washed them and marinated them with salt. They can be eaten dried or else cut into pieces and cooked with rice."

"Ah, that's a slug, also know as 'snot bug' in common Chinese slang. It's very chewy, tastes even better than earthworms! I don't know why, probably because of their small sizes, but most insects, small animals and mollusks now have larger bodies, but not much variation." Jin Shangyu explained after seeing Gong Lixin took out a dried, oval shaped, brown piece.

The people around her showed a disgusted expression after hearing her comment. Lin Wenbo's face was almost green after picking up the bag, because he saw gra.s.shoppers, worms and even dried worms and c.o.c.kroaches inside.

Gong Lixin's expression remained unchanged. After Jin Shangyu finished her explanation, he took a bite of it and chewed it carefully. He then narrowed his eyes and smiled, "It's delicious." He had eaten poisonous insects or weeds in the palace. These things weren't disgusting at all, but rather rare and delicious.

Jin Shangyu also laughed. She liked Gong Lixin more and more. She reached out and said, "Give me one, I'm hungry."

Seeing that the two were eating with great relish, Lin Wenbo and Song Haoran looked at each other, feeling both distressed and ashamed. Distressed, because their teenager had to suffer like this and eat food that are not food and ashamed of themselves. It was still food. It was safe to eat. How can they be so critical?

The two picked up some insects and stuffed them into their mouths. Liu Qing and the others also obediently ate. Their expression that showed their difficulty in swallowing the content soon turned to that of gobbling their food. Mosquitoes have very little meat. At this moment, they deeply understood the true meaning of that sentence.

"Can we tell the people at the base when we go back? Right now, food is scarce." After eating a piece of cricket, Gong Lixin whispered as he asked for Jin Shangyu's opinion.

Although the boy was evil, he was not sinister. It could be even said that he was very sincere and she couldn't help but like him. Jin Shangyu nodded without thinking, "Of course. Even if I don't say anything, you can explore it for a few days. When people are hungry, they'll eat anything."

Isn't that the truth! Even human fles.h.!.+ At the thought of Bao Long and Kang Zhengyuan, Gong Lixin's, Lin Wenbo's and Song Haoran's expression all turned black.