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

"Lu Shen," pinned against the wall, scoffed impatiently, "Stop flirting in front of me. Damn it, I'm surrounded by gays every day. Enough already."

"Oh."

Wenren Lei swung her fist and slammed it into Lu Shen's face with a loud bang, the sound of bones shattering echoing out.

Wenren Lei withdrew her hand, rotated her wrist, and said with a sneer, "Who was flirting with this scoundrel?"

Fu Yan's hand joints started to hurt like real pain for Wenren Lei.

He looked at "Lu Shen" with sympathy; Wenren Lei had really used all the strength he used to eat spicy strips in that punch.

"Hehehe..."

Lu Shen laughed eerily, sticking out a long, thin tongue and gently licking the cheek that Wenren Lei had just hit with the tip of her tongue.

"Huh?" Wenren Lei was so disgusted by the scene that she almost vomited. "What the hell kind of creature is this?"

Lu Shen slurped and withdrew his tongue, tilting his head to one side and darting his eyes around as he sized up Wenren Lei: "Little beauty, you're really hot."

Fu Yan, who had been smiling, frowned so deeply upon hearing this that his eyebrows resembled plastic bags stuffed in his pocket: "You want to die?"

Wenren Lei raised her hand and placed it on Fu Yan's wrist, staring at "Lu Shen" and asking, "When did you get involved with the research institute?"

Lu Shen was genuinely surprised this time: "You knew that?"

"Damn it." Wenren Lei laughed. "I have no grudge against you, but you specially disguised yourself as Lu Shen and accurately found my location to try to kidnap me. There must be a reason."

Lu Shen still tilted his head: "You humans are really smart."

Wenren Lei ground down her sharp tiger teeth: "What? You thought you were a dog before you became a zombie?"

"Um?"

"Ugh, what the hell?" Wenren Lei waved his hand. "You old bastard, kill him for me."

The old bastard suddenly exerted force with his palm, and with a crisp crack, "Lu Shen's" neck broke. He withdrew his hand, took out an alcohol wipe from his spatial storage, and slowly wiped his hands.

Lu Shen's body lay limp and sprawled in the snow.

Wenren Lei squatted down, picked up a small twig, and poked him: "Did he die so easily?"

Fu Yan slowly squatted down: "This is not his true form."

Wenren Lei adopted a haughty demeanor and asked coldly, "How did you know?"

Fu Yan glanced at him and couldn't help but laugh: "He has no will to live."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Shen's body deflated like a punctured balloon, slowly disappearing into a pile of clothes.

Wenren Lei used a twig to pry open the clothes: "How perverted, not wearing underwear at all."

Fu Yanquan affirmed: "It is indeed perverted."

Wenren Lei continued shoveling, and a fist-sized, grayish-pink lump of flesh appeared before her: "This is zombie meat, isn't it?"

"Um."

Wenren Lei skewered the zombie meat on a tree branch, intending to take it back for Wanzi to eat: "He had scales on his face, and that tongue of his, I thought he would eventually turn into a lizard."

Fu Yan pondered for a moment before speaking, "It's a fusion of a lizard suborder mutant and a human zombie."

Wenren Lei pursed his lips, suppressing his nausea: "Can anything be fused?" He suddenly realized, "So the reason he woke up early during the day is because he accidentally fused with a lizard mutant during the evolution process."

Fu Yan nodded: "This lizard mutant is probably of a fairly high level."

"Yes, Brother Yan..."

Wenren Lei felt a little sleepy and subconsciously wanted to lean on Fu Yan, but then she remembered that she was angry with Fu Yan. As soon as she touched Fu Yan's body, she pushed him away and turned away angrily, saying, "Go away, I don't need you to remind me."

From Fu Yan's perspective, it looked like Wenren Lei playfully bumped his head against him, and before he could even savor the moment, Wenren Lei had already walked a long way away, crunching through the snow.

"Lei Lei, where are you going?" Fu Yanning activated his protective shield to protect the two of them.

Wenren Lei rolled her eyes at him, then lifted her leg, bent her knee, and showed him her torn pants: "I'll change my pants."

Fu Yan took out a new pair of pants from his spatial storage, spread them out with both hands, and followed Wenren Lei like a salesman: "These look good."

Wenren Lei stopped in her tracks: "Huh? This outfit I'm wearing doesn't look good?"

Fu Yan replied without hesitation, "You look good. Any clothes look good on you."

Wenren Lei inadvertently raised the corners of her mouth: "Don't think that saying that will make me forgive you."

Fu Yan smiled and filled the protective shield with fire element for insulation. The snowflakes were blocked outside the shield and slid down the outer wall, blocking the view from the outside and creating a natural changing room.

"Let's change it," Fu Yan said.

Wenren Lei, still holding a branch skewered with zombie meat, looked up slightly at Fu Yan: "Close your eyes. Our relationship has been downgraded to that of strangers. You can't watch me change clothes."

Fu Yan simply turned around, his back to Wenren Lei, and said, "You can lean on the back of a stranger for a moment."

"whispering sound."

Wenren Lei stuffed the zombie flesh and tree branches into Fu Yan's coat pocket, quickly changed out of his tattered pants, and relied entirely on himself, without relying on strangers.

After changing, he casually draped his tattered pants over Fu Yan's shoulder and took back his zombie flesh branch: "I'm going to check on Lu Shen's house."

Fu Yan, overjoyed, put the pants back into his spatial storage and asked, "You suspect Lu Shen was murdered?"

Wenren Lei glanced at him sideways; even with such an obvious question, he shamelessly asked it.

"Don't try to make conversation." Wenren Lei said coldly.

The two walked one after the other, with Wenren Lei bowing her head as she sorted through the clues.

What was the research institute's purpose in sending the Corpse King to infiltrate the Cloud Map Base? If it was for the crystal core power generation technology, they could have simply stolen it. The Cloud Map Base's overall combat strength is not strong.

A thought immediately popped into Wenren Lei's mind.

The research institute also needs a stable power supply. They probably don't have the noble qualities of coexistence and progress among all mankind in their minds, so they want to monopolize the crystal core power generation technology.

It's not just humans who can say things like "giving the entire universe new life." The research institute is eager to trample the whole world under its feet.

There is still room for improvement in the current crystalline nuclear power generation technology, and Huang Yijie has been working on iterative upgrades.

The research institute needs Huang Yijie to live peacefully and serve the institute without his knowledge.

As for the Corpse King...

Perhaps it was after the Red Sun that the Corpse King connected with the research institute.

It's also possible that they colluded before the Zombie King evolved, since the probability of a zombie encountering a high-level lizard mutant during its evolution is not very high.

The research institute can offer a newborn zombie king a multitude of benefits.

But how did this Corpse King know that he was squatting in the snow, feeling melancholy?

"Cough cough." Wenren Lei covered her throat and coughed heavily a few times.

"Lei Lei, are you alright?" Fu Yan activated his healing ability and pressed his hand to Lei Lei's throat.

Wenren Lei's Adam's apple bobbed slightly as she raised her hand to brush Fu Yan's hand away: "It's no use, don't bother treating it. This is all the work of that Corpse King."

He looked up and surveyed the entire base: "What's causing so many people to cough at Cloud Atlas Base is probably not the flu."