Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 257 The Bold Dr. Zeng
Xi Yu looked in the direction Qi Qi was pointing, and suddenly his pupils contracted. This...
Zeng Mei leaned against him, her eyes tightly closed, her face deathly pale, her charred arm exposed, the bone even visible at her wrist. Xi Yu had only glanced at her briefly before not daring to look again, thinking he should quickly take her back to Tie Dan for treatment.

But now, he saw that the wound, which had been so deep that the bone was visible just moments before, was now covered by a layer of pink flesh with faint traces of blood. On the entire dark arm, this pink spot was the most conspicuous, and it was slowly growing back the missing flesh at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Even as it grows, it squeezes out the black impurities and dirty blood inside.

Jiang Qi's eyes widened in surprise.

Fortunately, they had a dog named Tie Dan at home that could heal wounds, so they weren't shocked for long.

Xi Yu breathed a slight sigh of relief, but at the same time, his heart sank. He finally understood why someone would come to arrest Zeng Mei in such a grand manner.

The commotion here is quite significant, but in the apocalypse, a loud noise means greater danger. If there are survivors nearby, they will try to hide as well as possible. If they are animals, perhaps stimulated by the blood, a few heads are peeking out in this direction.

They only glanced at it a few times and didn't pay any attention.

"Let's go back first."

Lao Sheng and Zhang Shaoda searched the area and found two backpacks filled with food in the back of the van. They then ransacked the van, threw the bodies into the vehicle, poured the gasoline out, and set it on fire.

They returned to the forest with Zeng Bei and another injured, unconscious companion.

Zeng Bei saw Xi Yu holding his sister and breathed a long sigh of relief. Then he let himself faint without worry.

Just as Lao Sheng was about to help him up and let him walk on his own:
You're such a big guy, how dare you make me carry you?

When Zeng Bei regained consciousness and woke up, it was already evening.

The clinic has two wards, each with two beds.

At this moment, the lights in Zeng Bei's ward were off, with only a faint yellow light from the streetlights shining through the glass windows.

He blinked blankly at first, then turned his head to look out the window, following the light.

Just then, a voice suddenly rang out in the room, "Awake?"

Acting faster than thinking, Zeng Bei reached for his waist with his right hand, raised his left hand, and conjured a fireball in his palm, instantly illuminating the dim room.

"laugh!"

A sneer rang out, allowing Zeng Bei to see the other person's face clearly.

It's Xi Yu!
He breathed a sigh of relief and forgot that he had come to Shenzhen.

"You only realized there was someone in the house after they spoke? Aren't you a little too slow to be alert?"

As Xi Yu spoke, he turned on the small lamp by his bedside, "The first thing you should have noticed when you opened your eyes was that you weren't the only one in the room."

No wonder that even with a team of fifty men escorting Zeng Mei, she was still kidnapped just before reaching Ancheng.

Zeng Bei awkwardly extinguished the fireball in his palm, then, remembering something, hurriedly asked, "Brother Xi, what about our other brothers?"

"Twenty were rescued."

Only twenty.
Zeng Bei's eyes darkened, and an indescribable grief welled up in his heart.

He then turned to look at another hospital bed, where his sister Zeng Mei was lying with her eyes closed, still asleep.

"My sister."

"Your sister hasn't woken up yet. Eat first, and I have something to ask you after you've finished eating."

Xi Yu stepped forward and opened the small table on his hospital bed, then opened the two insulated lunch boxes next to it, and there was also an insulated pot of sweet potato porridge.

Zeng Bei had little appetite and could only drink one bowl of porridge before he couldn't eat anymore.

Xi Yu didn't try to persuade him. He packed his things aside, pulled up a chair, and sat down on the edge of his bed.

He looked at Zeng Bei with a serious expression, "Who knows that your sister has a self-healing ability?"

Zeng Bei sighed, "Only my eldest brother, my sister, and I know about this. We didn't even tell my second and third brothers."

The three of them are siblings, with the second and third brothers being cousins. It's not that he doesn't trust them, but rather that his sister's special ability is so rare that he's afraid it will attract attention from all sides and thus endanger her.

Even so, danger still arose.

Zeng Bei was very puzzled. Where exactly did things go wrong, and how did others know?
He himself definitely didn't reveal a single word to anyone, and it's impossible for his older brother to either, since he loves his sister more than anyone else.

So where did the problem lie?
Xi Yu was quick-witted, and after hearing Zeng Bei's explanation, he roughly guessed where the problem lay.

It's likely that Zeng Mei was discovered during work or while with colleagues and friends.

For example, she might have a cut on her hand that heals quickly. She might try to hide it, but a perceptive person will notice no matter how well she tries to conceal it.

However, this also suggests that the person who leaked the information was someone close to her.

He shared his guess with Zeng Bei, and the first name that popped into Zeng Bei's mind was: Li Jiao!

This person is Zeng Mei's good friend. They have been together since college and into their working lives. Has their friendship of more than ten years changed?

But if it wasn't her, Zeng Bei couldn't think of anyone else. After all, Zeng Mei wasn't careless; she knew how much trouble this ability would cause her if outsiders knew about it. So he believed that even in front of Li Jiao, she would be very cautious.

Needless to say, it goes without saying how it would be done in front of others.

Therefore, if Xi Yu's speculation is correct, then the only one who would have the opportunity to discover the clues is Li Jiao.

Xi Yu made a quick decision: "Go call your third brother and tell him to quietly take control of Li Jiao first. Then you can notify your eldest brother and have him tell Zeng Xi."

At this point, it was clear that they could no longer keep it a secret, because only Zeng Xilai, and only he, was best suited to interrogate and uncover the mastermind behind this group.

Zeng Bei understood this as well and did not object at the time.

As for waiting for his sister to wake up and asking her for confirmation, Zeng Bei didn't think it was necessary.

Yunxi Village has been connected to the outside world by a landline, just like going back to the 1970s and 80s before the advent of mobile phones.

The phone wasn't placed in the Bai family villa, but in the first house in the southeast corner of Yunxi Village, in the courtyard where Lao Sheng and Ren Bin lived. However, now it wasn't just the two of them; Shi Jiashu and Kang Erbao had also moved in.

Zeng Bei made two phone calls. The first was to Zeng Xi, asking him to quietly detain Li Jiao and investigate whether she had been acting strangely lately and who she had been associating with.

He then called his older brother, Zeng Dong, and said a few words that only the two of them could understand. After that, Zeng Bei stayed in the same building as Lao Sheng and his family. As for the few remaining faint marks on his wounds, he stared at them blankly for a while, then smiled and asked nothing.

After Zeng Bei left, only Zeng Mei remained in the ward.

Xi Yu sat by her bedside and stayed with her until she woke up in the middle of the night.

"Xi Yu?"

Xi Yu suddenly opened his eyes and met Zeng Mei's clear and surprised gaze.

She smiled and reached out from under the covers to touch him. "I knew you could save me."

Xi Yu stared at her intently, then suddenly smiled.

He grabbed her outstretched hand; it was cool and soft, and he couldn't help but squeeze it.

This girl is still the same as before; no matter what happens, she always thinks of the best-case scenario first, instead of worrying about what might have happened—what if he hadn't arrived in time, what if she had been kidnapped, what if she had been seriously injured and wouldn't survive.
I remember a comrade-in-arms who injured his leg. He asked Dr. Zeng, "What if it doesn't heal? Will I become a cripple?"

She said very seriously, "There's no chance of anything going wrong. We'll do our best to treat you, and if you cooperate as much as you can, your leg will get better, and you won't become a cripple."

At the time, only she said this to her comrades; other doctors would always mention the worst-case scenario first, which inadvertently increased the patients' fear.

Dr. Zeng said she disliked this method very much, so she never did it.

"It's been over two years since we last met. Have you switched from medicine to metaphysics and now you can predict the future?"

Zeng Mei laughed, "Yes, just like I said before, one day you will like me as much as I like you. See, I was right now, wasn't I?"

Although it wasn't the first time she had confessed her feelings to him like this, Xi Yu's ears still turned red.

He didn't know what this girl was made of. She looked aloof and didn't seem like a very bold person, yet she always said some daring and flirtatious things.

He initially thought her interest was just a passing fancy and wouldn't last long. After all, in terms of family background, education, and other aspects, the two seemed completely mismatched before the apocalypse.

At that time, his younger sister had not yet graduated from university, and he had no interest in dating, so he resolutely suppressed the slight attraction in his heart and rejected her without hesitation.

When the apocalypse first came, he did think about her, but the Zeng family was not an ordinary family. From her father's generation to her brothers' generation, most of them were in the military.

Therefore, she must be safe.

Later, I was busy with my own life and rarely thought of her anymore, until Zeng Xi came from Kyoto with her letter.
Xi Yu coughed lightly, changing the subject, "Does your body still hurt? I see that the surface of your wound has almost healed. Do you feel any discomfort anywhere?"

Zeng Mei blinked, answering a completely different question, "You've seen all the injuries on my body?"

Her point was, "You've seen my whole body?"
Xi Yu's lips twitched. He had only just woken up, and two out of his three sentences contained something unusual.

Before he could answer, Zeng Mei looked down at her clothes and exclaimed, "Oh! You even took off my underwear!"

Xi Yu's face flushed red instantly. He reached out and covered her mouth with his other hand, saying helplessly, "Can't you just speak properly?"

Zeng Mei blinked innocently, her big eyes wide open. It was as if she were saying, "You've stripped me naked, and I can't even say anything?"
"It was my sister, Xi Shuang, who helped you change your clothes."

Zeng Mei pulled his hand away, her face full of disappointment. "How could you let your sister do this kind of work? Xi Yu, I have to criticize you. Being honest with each other is a right between husband and wife. When your own partner is present, you can't entrust the work to someone else, not even someone of the same sex. Do you understand? It's okay this time it's our sister, but what if the other person is a lesbian? Wouldn't my innocence be ruined?"

What the hell?
Xi Yu's eyelids twitched. Really, what he was saying was getting more and more absurd.

He changed the subject again, "You've slept all day, are you hungry?"

"I'm hungry, but eating you is enough."

Xi Yu:
He lost to her.

He turned around, poured a glass of warm water and placed it on the bedside table, then got up, bent down and picked her up, intending to let her lean against the headboard to drink a glass of water.

But as soon as I picked her up, she hugged me back, tilted her head back, and asked with a grin, "Do you want to kiss me? But I haven't brushed my teeth yet."

Before she could finish speaking, she was lifted up and sat against the headboard, one arm was released, and a water glass was held to her lips.

He didn't know much about healing abilities, but although her wounds had healed on their own after she had been unconscious for so long, her lips were so dry they were peeling.

Is it because the body's self-healing ability was used on the wound, while the body was somewhat dehydrated?
Zeng Mei was indeed very thirsty, but the surprise of seeing Xi Yu when she woke up made her forget her thirst.

She didn't take the cup; instead, she opened her mouth and took Xi Yu's hand, letting him feed her.

Looking down at the girl drinking water in large gulps, Xi Yu inadvertently noticed her reddened ears.

kindness?
Was it because he picked her up earlier and she got shy?

Xi Yu wanted to laugh. He spoke so boldly, but in reality, he was just a paper tiger.

After Zeng Mei finished her glass of water, Xi Yu didn't ask her if she wanted anything to eat, and directly served her half a bowl of millet porridge.

My sister-in-law gave me this thermos; it keeps things warm exceptionally well. Even after leaving it out for half the night, the porridge was still hot.

The food in the lunchbox was a little cold, but it doesn't matter in this weather.

I didn't give her the steamed buns; it's not good to eat them cold.

After she had eaten and drunk her fill, and then went out to use the restroom and wash up, when she returned to bed, Zeng Mei patted the spot next to her and said very seriously, "Come on up, let's sleep together."

Xi Yu's eyelids twitched, and he quickly said, "Let's get down to business first."

"I'm being very serious."

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"We'll be husband and wife soon, what's there to be embarrassed about?"

Looking at her slightly flushed cheeks, Xi Yu found it amusing and changed the subject again, "Do you think Li Jiao has anything to do with this robbery?"

Upon hearing the name Li Jiao, Zeng Mei was taken aback at first, then her eyes darkened. She finally stopped joking and nodded, saying, "It's her! You know, sometimes I don't like the way doctors work in hospitals, so I don't have many close friends. But Li Jiao is different. We've been roommates since university, and then we joined the army together and went to the military hospital. We survived the great upheaval at the beginning of the apocalypse. So our relationship is even better than before the apocalypse. But even so, I haven't told her about my special ability."

Did Xiao Bei tell you? My second and third brothers don't know, not even our parents or uncles. I was planning to tell you privately after we got here, but I never expected Li Jiao to betray me.
Once, I was stitching up someone's wound when I accidentally cut my hand with the scalpel. Li Jiao was assisting me; she helped disinfect and bandage it. The next day, when we were eating together, she accidentally knocked over her water glass, spilling it on my injured hand. She wanted to remove the gauze and re-bandage it, but I refused. I think she must have already suspected something before that. After all, we're often together, and minor scrapes and cuts are inevitable; most people wouldn't pay much attention to them. But she must have noticed. So, she spilled the water intentionally that day; she wanted to confirm it.

good night!