Chapter 185: Apocalypse: Saving the Cold Beauty Doctor 03

Take a break and rest for a while, eat something.

Jin Chen stretched, "Xu Yue will keep driving in a bit."

"Alright, Jin Team." Xu Yue and Zhao Rui swapped seats.

The RV is spacious enough that even with five people it doesn't feel cramped, but the apocalypse summer is scorching; to save fuel they didn't turn on the AC, so while driving the breeze makes it unnoticeable, but as soon as they stop it gets hot.

Yu Rongzhou sat quietly, as if thinking about something.

"Snap out of it, beauty, eat!"

Jin Chen snapped his fingers in front of him, opened the beef can and handed it over.

In the apocalypse food is scarce; a poison rain destroyed all crops on the land, yet Yu Rongzhou didn't expect them to be so generous to a stranger.

"Why aren't you taking it? Don't you like this?"

Jin Chen saw Yu Rongzhou hesitating, tilted his head and moved closer to read his expression, "Tell me, beauty, what do you like to eat?"

"None."

Yu Rongzhou took it, symbolically ate two bites, but the nausea still welled up.

He frowned, paused, shoved the can back into Jin Chen's hand, and pressed his stomach.

Jin Chen realized: in this world, the wife's palate is very picky, and eating raw or cold food upsets the stomach.

"If you'd said you wanted hot food earlier, why torture yourself?"

Jin Chen didn't mind either, finished his remaining can, took out a self-heating fried rice box from the supplies, carefully prepared it, covered it, and placed it on the small table beside.

"Alright, it'll be ready to eat soon."

Yu Rongzhou really couldn't understand this person, why they'd be so kind to a stranger with no relation.

The confusion in his eyes was obvious, Jin Chen tapped the table and said: "I've decided, I'll take the beauty into the Red Blood Squad as a member."

"Ah?!"

The three looked at each other, Zhao Huan had a guess.

"Could it be that Jin Team has taken a liking to this person, and is indirectly keeping him nearby?"

The more she thought, the more plausible it seemed; she met Xu Yue's gaze, their eyes exchanged a few times, and they both suddenly realized.

Only Zhao Rui, who couldn't follow the train of thought, remained puzzled: "Why, Jin Team, we don't even know his identity… mmph!"

Zhao Huan quickly covered her brother's mouth, smiled and said: "We have no objections, Jin Team, just go ahead with your decision."

Xu Yue also nodded: "Our lives were all saved by Jin Team, we won't object to your decision."

"No…… I…… ow!"

Zhao Rui still wanted to struggle, but a fierce twist of the flesh at his waist made him turn and meet Zhao Huan's threatening gaze, leaving him speechless.

Yu Rongzhou raised his eyebrows in surprise.

He originally just wanted to borrow this vehicle to rush to Long Jiang Base, but why are there so many complications?

"You don't even know who I am," Yu Rongzhou suddenly curled his lip, his eyes icy, "Aren't you afraid I'm here to kill you?"

"I employ people without suspicion; my intuition tells me you're a good person."

Jin Chen spoke nonsense with eyes wide open, reached out to touch Yu Rongzhou's soft hair, "If you don't want to laugh, don't; looking at you is creepy."

【Host, you really spout nonsense.】

【Thanks for the praise.】

【……】0731 admired how well the character setting fits Jin Chen.

This was the first time Yu Rongzhou heard someone call him a good person, which truly left him bewildered, momentarily unable to respond.

"Alright, let's eat."

Jin Chen opened the box and pushed it toward Yu Rongzhou.

This time he didn't refuse again, leisurely finished a box of fried rice; his starving stomach from days without food got relief, and Yu Rongzhou's mood improved considerably.

He glanced sideways at Jin Chen and suddenly found this person quite interesting.

"What's your definition of a good person?" Yu Rongzhou asked.

"Those who are good to me, in short, good people."

Jin Chen answered quickly.

"……"

Fine, Yu Rongzhou felt he could never be a good person.

"Roar……"

A faint zombie groan came from not far behind the RV.

Everyone immediately went on alert; Zhao Rui closed all windows, Xu Yue checked the rearview mirror and said: "Jin Team, a small wave of zombies is coming from behind, three with red eyes."

After the second evolution, zombies show different eye colors—red, green, and white—and these colors correspond to crystal core colors; red crystal cores are best absorbed by ability users, thus worth more.

"How many green-eyed?"

"Seven."

"Get out, everyone be careful."

Jin Chen roughly estimated, tossed a few magazines to Zhao Rui and Xu Yue, then told Yu Rongzhou: "You and Zhao Huan stay in the vehicle; don't run around down there, it's dangerous."

The three quickly got out, drawing that wave of zombies' attention away.

Zhao Huan scratched her head, turned over to try chatting with Yu Rongzhou.

"Um… Mr. Yu? May I call you that?"

"Hmm."

Yu Rongzhou glanced at Jin Chen's retreating back as he got out and left, then withdrew his gaze and continued to stare blankly.

"You don't need to worry about Jin Team; he's formidable, able to mentally control ability users and zombies!"

Zhao Huan thought he was worried, and explained enthusiastically.

Hmm.

…… Zhao Huan didn't speak.

Even felt the temperature inside the car had dropped a few degrees.

The Jin Team's interest wasn't just in a beautiful person, but a cold beauty.

—

After the three got out of the car, following the usual division of labor, they quickly spread out; Xu Yue took charge of strong assault and slaughter, Zhao Rui raised earth-escape protection on the side, and Jin Chen controlled the zombies to walk into the trap themselves.

But today's zombies seemed especially hard to kill.

Damn! I can't even chop off its head!

Zhao Rui cursed, switched to a short spear, and after three shots killed the red-eyed zombie that rushed over; he dug out the crystal core with a dagger and kicked it.

Holy crap! Normally one shot blows the head off!

Jin Chen frowned at Zhao Rui's complaint, feeling something was off; spiritual power seeped from his fingertips, killing the two zombies that rushed over.

Their bodies contained no dark power from the previous two worlds.

Could it be that I'm overthinking?

Although today's zombies had become more tenacious, the team's cooperation was seamless, and after all we finally killed them all and extracted the crystal cores.

Just as they were about to leave, walking up to the RV, they heard someone shouting.

Wait…… save me!

Jin Chen turned and saw a filthy man, his movements strange as he ran over, his right leg seemed unable to exert strength.

"Jin Team?" Xu Yue asked for his opinion.

"His right leg was bitten." Jin Chen made a snap decision: "Don't bother, get in the car."

The two weren't soft-hearted; in the apocalypse everyone looks out for themselves; if it were a normal person it'd be fine, but this guy was practically turning into a zombie, so they didn't dare to save him.

No!! Don't abandon me…… please!

The man shouted for them to get on the car, growing more desperate, crying and yelling for them to stop, but in the end he only watched the drive away.

He collapsed on the ground, weeping, unaware that his eyeballs were turning green.

Yu Rongzhou took in the whole scene.

He looked at Jin Chen sitting back beside him and said, "You're not saving people?"

What to save? Brother doesn't just save anyone he sees.

Jin Chen wiped his hand clean, then touched Yu Rongzhou's head, saying, "He's about to mutate; saving him would be useless."

The people in this team aren't stupid; they're much smarter than the crowd at Long Jiang Base.

Yu Rongzhou thought, then brushed off Jin Chen's hand, saying, "Don't touch me randomly, don't you have any hair?"