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

Chen Junlin suddenly pulled out a kitchen knife from under the table and charged at Wenren Lei like a madman: "Now that you know my secret, you have to die too!"

"Pfft—"

An ice bullet pierced through Chen Junlin's forehead. Before the smile on his face could fade, he fell straight to the ground, his eyes wide open.

Wenren Lei sheathed her gun and glanced at the corpse on the ground: "Idiot."

He walked out of the YaYa class classroom and closed the door behind him.

Fu Yan was holding a peach and rummaging through the storage room at the end of the corridor.

When Wenren Lei went in, there was a large cardboard box half a meter high in front of Fu Yan, filled with self-heating rice, compressed biscuits, instant noodles, chocolate and other similar foods.

"This must be the food that the headmaster and the others found."

Fu Yan nodded.

Wenren Lei sighed, raised her hand to put the entire box of supplies into her spatial ring, and said, "Let's go."

Fu Yan followed Wenren Lei, carrying Taozi in his arms.

Wenren Lei asked, "Am I amazing? I can tell what you're going to say with just one look."

Fu Yan smiled and said, "Thank you for bringing me here, Leilei."

"Tch." Wenren Lei walked out with a smug look on her face.

As they went downstairs, Peach asked, "Brother, aren't Potato and Teacher Chen leaving?"

Wenren Lei composed herself and said, "They're waiting here for their families. Isn't Taozi also going to find her mother?"

Peach clapped her hands happily: "I miss my mom so much!"

Wenren Lei said, "You'll see her soon."

As the three were about to leave the teaching building, Fu Yan gently patted Taozi's head: "Lie down properly, it's very cold outside. If you expose your face, you'll get frostbite and won't be pretty."

Peach was so frightened that she buried her face in Fu Yan's clothes.

As they entered the courtyard, the five human faces on the flesh wall began to stir restlessly, causing the flesh wall itself to churn violently.

Principal Chen's distorted head lunged forward.

Wenren Lei and Fu Yan exchanged a glance, nodded in acknowledgment, and stood apart in a tacit manner.

Fu Yan, carrying peaches, rushed forward and delivered a swift flying kick, sending Director Chen crashing back into the zombie wall.

He then approached the wall of zombies and, like kicking a ball, gathered five screaming and struggling faces into a ball.

"Get out of the way!" Wenren Lei shouted from a distance, a streamlined RPG rocket launcher slung over his shoulder.

Upon hearing the sound, Fu Yan immediately used the zombie's face for leverage and leaped to an open area some distance away: "Tears!"

"Here it comes!" Wenren Lei smiled, aimed at the five faces huddled together, and launched the grenade.

A muffled bang rang out, and the zombie faces didn't even have time to scream before they were all blown into pieces.

The flesh wall instantly lost its vitality, shriveling and shrinking at a visible speed, eventually turning into a large patch of wrinkled, dry skin stuck to the wall.

Wenren Lei put away the rocket launcher and stared blankly at the wall.

Chen Junlin was right about one thing: the people on the wall are heroes, but they shouldn't be trapped in this courtyard in this form.

Wenrenlei walked to the base of the wall and squatted down, looking at the severed limbs that she hadn't had time to examine closely when she came in.

This is a woman's arm; the ring finger of her right hand has been deliberately cut off.

Afraid of her face getting cold and ugly, Taozi didn't dare to look up, and nestled in Fu Yan's arms, asking, "Brother, what happened?"

"It's alright, don't look up." Fu Yan, carrying Taozi, walked to Wenren Lei's side. "Let's go."

"Okay." Wenren Lei stood up, jumped over the wall, and returned to the parking spot.

Maruko excitedly pawed at the window inside the car, wagging her tail to welcome them back.

Wenren Lei opened the car door and plopped down in the passenger seat, hugging Wanzi tightly and staring blankly into space.

Fu Yan carried Taozi into the car, settled her in the back seat, bent down to fasten Wenren Lei's seatbelt, and started the car to leave.

Seeing that Wenren was lost in thought, Fu Yan asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Wenren tearfully asked, "They are clearly father and son, so why are their characters so different?"

Fu Yan gazed at the road ahead, shrouded in wind and snow: "Good and evil are not inherited through genes."

Wenren Lei turned back to look at the kindergarten that was gradually receding into the distance: "What color was the crystal core?"

"The five crystal cores have been fused together; they contain white, green, and yellow."

"How did they turn into a wall of flesh?"

Fu Yan said, "One of them has awakened a fusion-type ability."

Without lingering, the two drove Taozi straight to Xinghuahu Residential Area to find Bai Yao.

When Wenren Lei knocked on Bai Yao's door, he coughed twice from the smell of burning wood.

Bai Yao said, "Are you bothered by the smell? This is the only way we can keep warm, I'm sorry."

Wenren Lei shook her head, gesturing for Fu Yan to step forward.

Fu Yan handed over the peaches that were wrapped up tightly in his arms.

Peach poked her head out from under her thick down jacket, opened her little arms, and said, "Mommy~"

"peach!"

Bai Yao immediately took Taozi into her arms and kissed her daughter's forehead again and again with tears in her eyes.

The other two mothers also stepped forward, looking expectantly at Wenren Lei and Fu Yan.

Fu Yan said, "Only Taozi is left in the kindergarten; I haven't seen the other children."

Wenrenlei sighed inwardly. Potato was already dead; there was no need to tell his mother about the child's death again.

The despair of being just a day or two away from saving a child is enough to destroy a mother's will.

The two were stunned for a moment, then with red eyes, they hid back by the fire in the living room, huddled in a corner, hugged their knees, and cried.

Bai Yao then took the peach to another room.

Knowing that Bai Yao wanted to cry with her daughter for a while, Wenren Lei pulled Fu Yan to the balcony for some fresh air.

He leaned against the railing and looked inside. The floor was piled with supplies and drinking water that they had collected, and the garbage was put in bags in a corner.

Bai Yao dismantled all the furniture and stacked the planks next to the fire to serve as fuel.

Mattresses and blankets were laid out around the fire, indicating that they were huddled together for warmth.

"Brother Yan."

"Um?"

Wenren Lei leaned on Fu Yan's shoulder: "Living must be really hard."

Fu Yan put his arm around Wenren Lei and asked, "Are you tired?"

Wenren Lei gestured with her chin toward the house and said, "I feel like they're very tired."

Fu Yan said, "Only those who want to live are tired." He pinched Wenren Lei's earlobe, "But you don't need to be tired."

Wenren Lei glanced at him sideways: "So cheesy."

The two waited on the balcony for twenty minutes.

Bai Yao came out of the bedroom with red eyes and walked up to the two of them: "Thank you."

Wenren Lei leaned against Fu Yan, half asleep: "Just keep your promise."

Bai Yao took out a cell phone from her pocket: "Wenren has gone to Qinggang City. There are flight purchase records on the phone, but the battery is dead."

Fu Yan took the phone, a surge of electricity shooting through his palm, instantly charging the phone to full power. He then handed it back to Bai Yao.

Bai Yao took the phone, unlocked it, and showed Wenren Lei the purchase history. The ID card and name displayed were indeed Wenren Yu's. On the day the zombie virus broke out, he took an early morning flight to Qinggang City.

Wenren Lei remembered that the man surnamed Gu had indeed mentioned that they were in some port.

Bai Yao was not lying.

Wenren Lei's gaze was fixed on the plane ticket: "What's he going to Qinggang City for?"