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

Wenren Lei finished eating a bag of sunflower seeds before the two zombies who had gone out hunting returned.

The dumpling was covered in blood and its belly was bulging. It barked excitedly the whole way.

Wenren Lei raised her hand to stop her: "Don't you dare pounce on me, or I'll beat you up."

Upon hearing this, Maruko obediently squatted down and whimpered softly, it was unclear whether she was feigning pitifulness or secretly cursing.

Fu Yan raised his hand and handed over a crumpled plastic bag containing a bloody crystal core. His gaze then fell on the corpse on the ground.

"Huh?"

Wenren Lei took the plastic bag, wiped the crystal nucleus with an alcohol wipe, and said casually, "They're asleep."

After a while, seeing that Fu Yan didn't move, Wenren Lei raised her head: "Brother Yan?"

Fu Yan stared intently at the corpse on the ground with his crimson eyes.

Wenren Lei suddenly had a bad feeling. Was Fu Yan going to eat these four lumps of meat on the ground?

As soon as he finished thinking that, Fu Yan really squatted down, and Wenren Lei's eyelids started twitching wildly.

Fortunately, Fu Yan simply extended a finger, dipped it in the blood that had frozen into ice crystals, and began to lick it with relish.

Wenren Lei asked cautiously, "You want to drink this?"

Fu Yan nodded vigorously.

Wenren Lei breathed a sigh of relief, thankfully it wasn't meat.

Because Fu Yan had always acted too humanely, he had indeed overlooked the zombies' bloodthirsty nature.

Wenren Lei brought her hand to Fu Yan's lips: "Drink some of mine first to satisfy your craving."

Fu Yan looked at his delicate wrist, as if he had made a great decision, and turned his head to the side.

"You're disgusted with me?"

Fu Yan panicked: "Awooo!"

Wenren Lei laughed out loud: "Alright, alright, I know you're reluctant to drink my blood."

Fu Yan finally calmed down, but his gaze involuntarily drifted to the corpse on the ground.

Wenren Lei turned his head back: "You're not allowed to drink theirs, it's unhygienic. Wash the dumplings clean, and we'll go find the blood bank to stock up on food for you."

Upon hearing this, Fu Yan's eyes lit up, and he immediately grabbed the meatballs and ran to the side to rinse them with water.

Maruko kicked her legs in protest: "Woof woof woof!"

"roar!"

"Ugh..." Maruko had given in.

Wenren Lei smiled and shook his head, continuing to clean the crystal cores. He had spent the whole morning killing a corpse and a dog and had dug up five crystal cores.

This is the amount that Yi Yang and his team had to work all day to find.

Wenren Lei knew in her heart that it wasn't a problem with Yi Yang and the others' abilities.

He designated a specific area for Fu Yan to roam, forbidding him from going too far, as the number of zombies he could kill was limited. This was only one week into the apocalypse, and the number of zombies that had grown crystal cores had increased.

"Hmm?" Wenren Lei pinched out a green crystal core through the alcohol wipe. It was a little larger than the transparent crystal core. He studied it for a while and finally concluded, "It's expired."

With a soft thud, the green crystal core was flung into the thick snow by Wenren Lei.

"Ouch!" Fu Yan threw away the foamy dumpling, pounced over, picked up the green crystal core, and swallowed it.

Wenren Lei quickly rushed over and pried open his mouth, saying, "That's spoiled! Don't eat it!"

Fu Yan kept his mouth tightly shut and looked down at Wenren Lei.

Wenren Lei searched for a long time, but the crystal core had already been absorbed by Fu Yan. He put his hand down and said, "You are not allowed to eat those bad crystal cores anymore."

Fu Yan slowly opened his mouth, uttering indistinct syllables: "h...h..."

Wenren Lei's eyes widened: "Are you talking?"

Fu Yan made a dozen or so "h" sounds before finally uttering a single word: "Okay..."

Now Wenren Lei could hear Fu Yan clearly. He excitedly cupped Fu Yan's face in his hands and asked, "Good? What's good about it? What's good about it?"

Fu Yan was in a hurry to express himself, and his throat made a series of "hoarse" sounds.

Wenren Lei comforted him, "Tell me slowly, I'm listening."

Fu Yan struggled for a full minute before finally saying, "Eat...okay..."

"You mean, the crystal core you ate was good."

"Aww!"

"So, the green crystal nucleus isn't bad at all; in fact, it's better than the transparent one, right?"

"right…"

Wenren Lei was overjoyed, not only because she had discovered a more advanced crystal core, but also because Fu Yan could speak in simple terms, which meant he could think about more things.

Wenren Lei's eyes welled up with tears.

This greatly alarmed Fu Yan, who reached out to wipe Wenren Lei's eyes, saying, "No..."

Wenren Lei grasped his hand: "I'm not crying, I'm just happy. Brother Yan, you're getting better and better!"

Fu Yan was overjoyed to hear this, so he was happy too: "Aww!"

"Take me to see the zombie that dug out the green crystal core." Wenren Lei guessed that some zombies had begun to evolve, just like human superhumans become stronger with training, zombies are also getting stronger.

After rinsing the meatballs clean, Fu Yan carried Wenren Lei across two blocks and finally stopped in front of a clothing store.

The glass door of the clothing store was intact but closed, and the interior was dark, so nothing could be seen.

Wenren Lei asked the dumpling above her head, "Are there any living zombies or people inside? If so, jump down."

Maruko raised her head, sniffed a few times, then lazily lay back down on his head and fell fast asleep.

Wenrenlei then grabbed a flashlight and pushed open the door.

As soon as the door was pushed open, a strong, putrid stench hit them, and Wenrenlei immediately covered her nose.

The beam of the flashlight swept across the store, the floor and walls were splattered with blood, the clothes racks were overturned, and most of the clothes had been taken by the survivors, many of them scattered on the ground, crumpled and trampled.

"Brother Yan, take me to see the body."

Fu Yan led Wenren Lei by the hand to the fitting room. The door to the fitting room was open, and a headless zombie was lying inside, with its upper body protruding outside the fitting room.

Where is its head?

Fu Yan pointed at the meatballs and complained, "Eat..."

Maruko lay on Wenren Lei's head, wagging its tail proudly and barking a few times.

Damn... that guy knows how to eat.

Wenren Lei took the meatball off and placed it on Fu Yan's shoulder.

He crouched down to examine the zombie corpse. Judging from its clothing and physique, it must have been a strong, fit young man in life.

Suddenly, something pinched her buttocks. Wenren Lei glanced helplessly at Fu Yan: "You can't pinch like that outside."

Fu Yan scratched again: "Yes..."

Wenren Lei conceded: "Fine, fine, go ahead and pinch it, but you can't pinch it when there are people around."

"Aww."

Wenren Lei conjured a dagger in his hand and stabbed it into the zombie's waist and abdomen. The tip of the dagger only sank into the flesh a little, and he had to put in some force to make it go in.

Wenren Lei picked off a piece of meat to examine: "It's tougher than the previous zombies, its defenses have improved, but I can't judge its speed and strength."

Wenren Lei stood up, and Fu Yan's hand followed suit.

Fu Yan was so pleased with Wenren Lei's appearance that he grabbed her pants and tried to tear them open.

Wenren Lei warned, "Do you want to get slapped again?"

Fu Yan immediately withdrew his hand. The slap didn't hurt, but he couldn't anger Lei Lei.

Wenren Lei raised the corners of her mouth and said, "I never expected that Brother Yan, who used to be so restrained, refusing to go to a hotel with me or kiss me because he thought I was too young, is actually a big pervert."

Fu Yan pretended not to hear, but his hands started to wander again.

"Pretentious."

Suddenly, a scream came from outside the store.

Wenren Lei slapped Fu Yan's messy hand away, peeked through the crack in the door, and then exclaimed in surprise, "Brother Yan, those look like your parents!"