Halfway through his shower, Qin Luo noticed the little zombie scratching at the door. With all his injuries, washing was particularly inconvenient for him. How could the little zombie finish so quickly, just by soaking and scrubbing?

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm coming, I'm coming. Stop scratching, ancestor, the door's about to break."

Qin Luo had no idea why Xu Duoduo was clinging to him now. Her thoughts couldn't be understood by normal human logic. What reason could a zombie have?

When he opened the door, he saw Xu Duoduo in soft pajamas, no longer wearing her combat suit. She looked very similar to when he first reunited with her.

Looking at those apricot eyes, blinking innocently, they seemed clear yet foolish.

Before, they used to dart around, full of little schemes. Now she looked even more pitiful than when they first met.

Qin Luo leaned against the doorframe, examining Xu Duoduo in front of him. The little zombie seemed embarrassed and reached out to tug at his fitness suit.

He was only wearing a dark green fitness suit now, which really showed off his physique. A certain little zombie was staring at his chest and abs.

"Oh no, Xu Duoduo, you seem to have gotten even dumber than before. What if someone kidnaps you one day?"

Qin Luo sighed, reaching out to ruffle her wet bangs, styling them into a slicked-back look. Fortunately, Xu Duoduo had a small face with delicate features, so exposing her forehead gave her a different look, which even surprised Qin Luo.

He alternated between combing her bangs down and pushing them back up. "Hey, you know what, it's amazing how different she looks."

Just as he was playing with her hair, some young members from another team passed by. They caught a glimpse of Captain Qin "flirting" and immediately blushed, looking at him as if he were a pervert.

Qin Luo froze, just as he met Xu Duoduo's eyes. Her contact lenses had been splattered with blood, turning them red. He tried to wipe her eyes with his finger but couldn't clean them properly.

He simply scooped her up under his arm again and carried her away. "Tch, we need to do something about your eyes. I'll ask them how to fix this."

Three minutes later.

Xu Duoduo was sitting on a blanket-covered floor, with Qin Luo sitting behind her, drying her hair. Facing them were Bai Shu, Chen Xiaofei, and Wang Weihu.

The four men were seriously discussing her contact lenses.

"We should take them out, right?"

"Bro Qin, you'll have to do it. You put them in, so you take them out. It seems even harder to remove than to put in."

"What's wrong with Little Team Leader? Why does she seem so dazed?"

They were a bit embarrassed about losing to the mutant snake-man, but what doesn't pass with time?

Soon they found their rhythm and didn't feel awkward anymore.

Qin Luo tilted Xu Duoduo's head back, holding her chin and leaning down to look at her eyes. "Tch, I'm just afraid to touch them. Should we find someone who knows how to do this? I'm worried I'll poke her eye."

He looked up when he realized the three opposite him were silent.

Well, well.

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The three had indescribable expressions, with Wang Weihu even rubbing his arm.

Chen Xiaofei, sitting cross-legged, let out a "Wow" and said, "Bro Qin, are you going to kiss Little Team Leader in that position?"

Bai Shu immediately covered his mouth, "Excuse us, my son doesn't know any better."

Chen Xiaofei exploded, struggling in his grip, "Mmph! Who's your son?!"

Wang Weihu helplessly brought up the main issue, "Should we find a girl who knows how to wear contact lenses? Provided Little Team Leader allows her to remove them. Also, don't you think Little Team Leader's condition is off? It's been strange since she used that killing move."

He had mentioned it several times, but no one responded. It was indeed very unusual.

After Bai Shu finished "tormenting" Chen Xiaofei's head while discussing who was the father and who was the son, he straightened his crooked glasses and said seriously, "It's probably an after-effect. Her move seemed similar to compressing space, directly crushing the snake-man."

But it was just a guess.

However, the line of thought wasn't wrong. Xu Duoduo hadn't used this ability before. During the mutant monkey incident, when Bai Shu and Chen Xiaofei arrived, there were already dismembered limbs everywhere, and she was holding a buzzing chainsaw. But they hadn't witnessed the initial scene.

Therefore, they couldn't deduce whether she had used her ability or the chainsaw that time.

She hadn't fainted then, but although there were many mutant monkeys, they were just annoying. Except for the Monkey King, which was a bit tougher, the other monkeys weren't even one-star level.

At most, they were animals in the early stages of virus infection, frenzied but not too difficult to kill.

But this snake-man was three-star. They all struggled to fight it, let alone a little zombie like Xu Duoduo. It would be strange if there wasn't a backlash.

Chen Xiaofei, with his short hair messed up, sat up and pondered, crossing his arms, "Tsk tsk tsk, that means Little Team Leader's killing move is really powerful! But overusing it leads to intelligence regression?"

Wang Weihu also thought this reasoning made sense, "We just don't know how long it will take her to recover. Or if she can recover at all?"

This statement was a bit heavy.

The three of them turned to see Qin Luo's reaction. Although Qin Luo could be unreliable at times, he was still the team leader and dependable when it really mattered. Moreover, Little Team Leader was his first love.

But what they saw left them speechless. Qin Luo was prying open the little zombie's mouth to look at her teeth and even sticking his finger inside.

Bai Shu couldn't take it anymore and threw a wet wipe at him, "Hey! Did you wash your hands before sticking your finger in her mouth?"

Chen Xiaofei had an OMG expression, covering his face but peeking through his fingers, pointing at Qin Luo and saying, "Bro Qin, how come I never noticed you were such a pervert before?"

Wang Weihu was also dumbfounded.

Qin Luo caught the wet wipe Bai Shu threw and quickly explained, "Hey, I just showered, how could my hands be dirty? No, wait, I'm checking her teeth. Did you know she's grown little fangs? It's amazing, really!"

This statement scared the three of them. Was Little Team Leader turning completely into a zombie?

But Qin Luo's next sentence was: "It's really amazing, super cute."

Bai Shu and the others' expressions fell. They thought he had a problem. Had the intense battle affected his brain too?

But then they glanced at Xu Duoduo's fair and delicate face, her big eyes, her pert little nose, and the way her little fangs peeked out...

Well, okay.

Maybe it was kind of cute?

But that wasn't the point!

Wang Weihu looked at the wounds on Qin Luo's face and was shocked to find they had healed a lot. He exclaimed, "Bro Qin, how did your facial wounds heal so quickly? Come to think of it, your final move today was more powerful than usual, right? Are you okay?"

His words drew the attention of the others. Bai Shu and Chen Xiaofei both looked over.

Qin Luo stopped joking and thought seriously, "At first, I did feel a kind of exhaustion, like my brain went blank for a moment..."

But at that time, all his attention was on Xu Duoduo. Seeing her sitting in the blood and gore, looking so pitiful, he still forced himself to go to her.

He couldn't think about anything else.

Bai Shu calmly analyzed, "It's true. I thought Qin Luo was just being tough, getting up with such severe injuries, not needing help, and even carrying Little Team Leader. Thinking about it now, it is quite incredible."

He then pointed out to Chen Xiaofei and Wang Weihu, "Don't you think that although your injuries looked severe this time, your recovery is much faster than before?"

Bai Shu pondered for a while, suddenly pushed up his glasses, and finally concluded, "Maybe, perhaps, this overloaded state can lead to self-improvement?"