Chapter 1181: Harmonious

Have to say, sometimes Lin Yi's reactions really are absurdly slow.

Facing Huo Jinglin had already hinted this far, yet Lin Yi still looked at him with a not-very-bright gaze.

"Sigh, I think his imitating you isn't without reason — you two do share one common trait."

Lin Yi frowned slightly, not knowing why, but he always felt that whatever Facing Huo Jinglin was about to say next probably wasn't anything good.

"You two are equally stupid."

Before Lin Yi could even get angry, Facing Huo Jinglin added: "Oh, not quite — after all, I think he might be a bit smarter than you. At least he knows how to borrow power to get rid of others."

Lin Yi bristled like an angry golden retriever: "I — how am I stupid? And how could I possibly be worse than him?! Stop joking!"

Sitting on the sofa, leaning against Gu Yanqi, Xuyue blinked, then quietly leaned close to Gu Yanqi's ear and asked softly: "Sister Yanqi, do you know what they're talking about?"

Gu Yanqi glanced at Lin Yi, who looked like his own nest had been blown up, a little helpless, and in a voice neither too loud nor too soft — just loud enough for Lin Yi to hear — 'whispered': "Mm, just now Brother Ning figured out from that person's words that the other two high-level infected actually don't take him seriously. That means the lie Brother Ning mentioned earlier — that the other side reached a cooperation with us — would be very easy to expose."

Xuyue's face lit up with sudden understanding: "Oh! I get it now. Even though it was a lie, Xu Chenchen didn't expose it either, but actually went along with Brother Ning Chen and the others and wiped out those two high-level infected!"

"That's right, exactly like that. Yueyue is really smart."

"Ah? So that means that Xu Chenchen is one of us? No wonder Brother Ning Chen let him stay. Sister Yanqi, you're so smart — you actually understood Brother Ning Chen's meaning. As expected of a couple!"

Being said that by Xuyue, Gu Yanqi instead felt a little embarrassed.

Lin Yi, who had overheard Gu Yanqi's words off to the side, twitched the corner of his mouth — so something this simple, he hadn't figured it out?

Facing Huo Jinglin patted Lin Yi's shoulder meaningfully: "It's fine, you're the team's mascot. Not being smart doesn't matter, you don't need to use your brain either."

Lin Yi was on the verge of tears — what kind of situation is this?!

The very person they were discussing sat in the corner of the sofa, silently listening to them discuss the matter.

Suddenly he also felt a little sorry for Lin Yi. Looks like his status was just as low as his own. Xu Chenchen thought that perhaps he and Lin Yi could get along very well in the future — after all, in certain aspects, they did have something to talk about.

Lin Yi, who had suddenly been pitied — thanks, but this pity he probably didn't need. After all, he was the team's mascot.

Sensing Xu Chenchen's gaze drifting over intermittently, Lin Yi couldn't help but look over.

Honestly, being made to get along with someone who had once impersonated him — Lin Yi said, this really feels weird, hey.

"Do you — normally eat things?" Lin Yi suddenly blurted out such a question out of nowhere.

Xu Chenchen didn't catch it. He blinked, then scooted slightly toward the other end of the sofa, a little closer to Lin Yi.

Watching Xu Chenchen tilt his head in confusion, Lin Yi repeated what he'd just said.

"Do you — do you normally eat things? In other words, do you — do you eat human flesh?"

Once this question was asked, everyone present — except Ning Chen in the driver's seat and Xiao Han in the passenger seat — stared fixedly at Xu Chenchen, waiting for his answer.

It wasn't that everyone was too nervous, but the things those infected had done all along were really just too… making one have to suspect whether they really did eat people.

Xu Chenchen twitched the corner of his mouth. The gazes around him were too intense — even if he wanted to ignore them, he couldn't.

"You — you guys can rest assured, I won't be like that. Actually, those low-level ones wanting to bite humans isn't because they want to eat — it's a kind of attraction."

"Attraction?" Hearing it wasn't that, Lin Yi grew bolder. This time he directly got up and sat down beside Xu Chenchen.

Someone being able to sit calmly by his side, looking all curious and eager to learn — Xu Chenchen felt a sense of being flattered, like déjà vu.

He swallowed, then nodded and said: "Right, it's just — how to put it — like, in their eyes, you guys are a very fragrant bone, and they've been hungry for a very, very long time. In that situation, what would they do?"

"Pounce on it and eat it."

After saying that, Lin Yi's eyes went wide — isn't that still eating people?!

Seeing Lin Yi's expression, Xu Chenchen knew he'd misunderstood, so he hurriedly explained: "No, no, it's just a metaphor. For them, there's a slight difference — they just want to bite, but not eat."

Now Lin Yi was somewhat relieved and nodded. Then he looked at Xu Chenchen with an indescribable expression: "In your eyes, we're not also… very fragrant bones, are we."

"Of course not! I'm different from them. We have our own consciousness, our own thoughts, and you guys hold no attraction for us. Actually, if it weren't for the fact that we have no heartbeat and other infected won't attack us, we're pretty much the same as humans."

No sooner had the words fallen than Lin Yi suddenly reached out and poked Xu Chenchen's cheek.

"It's cool. Well, makes sense — no heartbeat. But is this face your own?"

"Mm, this is my face from before the apocalypse."

Lin Yi looked Xu Chenchen up and down, then asked doubtfully: "What's the principle behind you imitating others? It's amazing. By the way, can you imitate a girl?"

Xu Chenchen pressed his lips together, then his face began to shift. In no time, his face showed obvious changes, and finally, he turned into Gu Yanqi.

"So amazing!" Lin Yi was closest to Xu Chenchen — he could say he could sense every one of his changes the instant they happened.

The change really happened in the blink of an eye, and it gave the viewer the illusion that he'd always looked like that.

Gu Yanqi also curiously looked at this face identical to her own — even the hair was strikingly similar.

"Ahem, um, what — you're too close."

It turned out that, out of curiosity, Lin Yi had kept leaning closer and closer to Xu Chenchen's face. At this moment, the distance between them was very small — even Lin Yi's breath was landing on Xu Chenchen's cheek.

"What are you two… doing?" Ning Chen wanted a drink of water, so he set the car to autopilot.

He had just come out and seen this scene. In Ning Chen's line of sight, Lin Yi was kissing Xu Chenchen — and what's more, Xu Chenchen… who had Gu Yanqi's face.