In a frigid apocalypse, she fed her boyfriend until he became a zombie king.

Huang Yijie stood frozen in place, and after a long while, he exclaimed in surprise, "What?!"

Wenren Lei looked at him calmly: "Don't panic. Now that I'm here, let's get to the bottom of this."

"Okay, okay," Huang Yijie was in a state of shock and confusion for a long time before he remembered to entertain everyone.

Ten minutes later, everyone sat around in the living room, each holding a cup of hot water, their expressions solemn.

Huang Yijie sat in the middle of the sofa, knees touching knees, toes pointing to toes, and said hastily, "The number I dialed was really yours, and it was definitely your voice on the other end. What's going on?"

Wenren Lei leaned back on the sofa: "I was about to ask you the same thing. What were you and that fake Fu Yunyi talking about?"

Huang Yijie felt a tickle in his throat and tilted his head back to drink most of a glass of warm water: "When we talk about crystal core generators, I often share with you... and him the technical details of the iterative improvement of generators."

Wenren Lei raised an eyebrow: "You're so stupid to just blurt out your exclusive technology like that."

Huang Yijie, head bowed, said aggrievedly, "I thought it was you back then."

He suddenly looked up, a wise expression on his face: "Oh, no wonder! That fake Fu Yunyi kept advising me not to connect with the official crystal core generator technology yet. He said he was too busy lately and would personally help me contact the official base once he was done!"

Wenren Lei felt a headache coming on. No wonder the authorities hadn't responded. It turned out that his good friend was too kind and righteous, and that "Fu Yunyi" was practically scolding him like a dog.

Wenren Lei, spreading alarmist rumors, said, "You know about the newly born Corpse King a few days ago, right? Let me tell you the truth, I led the team out to find it, and now I suspect... the one who's been talking to you on the phone..." He leaned closer to Huang Yijie, his voice chilling, "...it's the Corpse King!"

"Aaaaaah! Holy crap!" Huang Yijie jumped up from the sofa in shock. "Help!"

Wenren Lei smiled with satisfaction, looking extremely wicked.

Wen Chi, with a stern face, stopped him, saying, "Little one, don't tease people like that."

Wenren Lei glanced at him and scoffed disdainfully.

Wen Chi stood up, reached out to support the still-shaken Huang Yijie, and comforted him, "Little Pot Lid, don't be afraid, he's just teasing you, he was talking to you on the phone..." He suddenly glared at Huang Yijie and raised his voice, "It really is the Corpse King!!!"

"Aaaaaah!!" Huang Yijie jumped up again, "You're scarier than the Zombie King!"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The uncle and nephew laughed inhumanely.

Once Wenren had finished crying, Fu Yan feigned concern and stopped him, saying, "Alright, stop scaring him."

Wenren Lei let out a long breath and patted Huang Yijie on the shoulder: "Don't be afraid, I'm here. I'll protect you."

Huang Yijie finished the rest of the water in his glass and said with lingering fear, "Honestly, you don't look like a good person."

Wenren Lei chuckled and said, "I'll take that as a compliment."

Han Mingjie scratched her head and asked, "Could it really be the Corpse King imitating the boss's voice?"

Huang Yijie, his face contorted in despair, asked, "Again?"

Han Mingjie chuckled sheepishly, "No, I really can't figure it out. Is the one impersonating the boss the Corpse King, or some unknown bad guy?"

Wenren Lei dropped her joking tone and said, "Not necessarily. Anything is possible."

Meng Fan pondered for a moment and said, "Judging from the description, it seems more like the work of someone inside the base."

Yi Yang nodded and said, "That makes sense. To imitate the boss's voice, you first have to meet him in person. The boss and Brother Yan left the Cloud Map Base more than three months ago, and that new zombie king was only born a few days ago. It shouldn't be it, right?"

Cheng Nianli held his empty water glass, turned his head, and listened to them finish speaking one by one. He then asked, "What does the young master mean by saying 'anything is possible'?"

Wenren Lei raised her hand to support her head: "It's also possible that the human who originally imitated me mutated into a zombie king."

Huang Yijie trembled, his bowl-cut hair shaking so much it looked like a fluffy mushroom: "I really don't want to live anymore."

"Take out your satellite phone and call me," Wenren Lei said.

"Okay." Huang Yijie swallowed hard, took out his satellite phone, found Wenren Lei's number, and dialed it.

He turned on speakerphone, and after the beeping sound finished, no one answered.

Huang Yijie said, "This is not right. He always answered my calls very quickly before."

"The biggest problem now isn't whether the other party answers the phone or not." Wenren Lei waved his satellite phone. "It's not ringing here."

Wenren Lei dialed Huang Yijie's number with her own phone, and the call went through, but Huang Yijie's phone remained silent.

Huang Yijie gripped the phone and muttered, "Could it be that I'm being targeted by a ghost?"

Wenren Lei looked at Fu Yan: "Is it related to psychic abilities?"

Fu Yan shook his head: "The ability shielding has been on the whole time."

Han Mingjie said, "I'm driving it too."

"Then this person is in the base." Wenren Lei looked at Huang Yijie and said casually, "Your house was broken into. That person knows that Fu Yunyi is really here, so he doesn't dare to answer your calls now."

Huang Yijie slid down the back of the sofa little by little: "It's extremely eerie, I really want to scream for help."

Wenren Lei grabbed him, who was limp all over, and said, "Your most important task right now is to seal off the base immediately and prevent that person from escaping quietly so we can catch him like a turtle in a jar."

"Okay." Huang Yijie stood up and walked to the window to make a phone call to Huang Yiyun.

Taking advantage of this moment, Wenren Lei asked Fu Yan, "Brother Yan, do you think it was the wild zombie king who did it?"

Fu Yan slowly shook his head: "The possibility is slim."

Wenren Lei also leaned towards the possibility that the person on the other side was more likely the research institute, or the Corpse King who was cooperating with the research institute.

This person went to great lengths and risked cutting off his call with Huang Yijie; he must have something to gain.

Wenrenlei looked at Huang Yijie's back. The most attractive thing about this kid was his crystal core generator technology.

However, this technology has probably been almost completely copied by that imposter Fu Yunyi.

Among the known hostile forces, Wenren Lei's first suspicion could only be the Cataclysmic Research Institute.

Research Institute Zero is elusive and acts unpredictably; they probably wouldn't do something so easily exposed.

A splashing sound of water pulled Wenren Lei back to reality. He looked over and saw Cheng Nianli pouring himself a full glass of water from a kettle.

Seeing Wenren Lei looking at him, Cheng Nianli asked, "Do you want some?"

Wenren Lei shook the glass in her hand: "I have more."

After finishing his call, Huang Yijie walked back to the living room looking dejected.

"Alright." Wenren Lei chuckled. "Don't look so miserable. I'll definitely help you sort this out."

Huang Yijie was still not happy: "But I told him a lot... about my crush on the girl at the base."

Wenren Lei paused for a moment, then said, "You're chatting with me like a close friend."

The next second, he raised the corners of his mouth with a gossipy look: "Tell me about your crush."