Xu Duoduo silently touched her heart. There was no heartbeat. She couldn't help but cry, "Yiwuwu yi!"

No one could save her.

For other survivors, the arrival of the rescue team was a sign of hope.

But for Xu Duoduo, it meant she was approaching her end. She suddenly calmly accepted this fact, so she hugged her knees and hid on the bed, treating herself like a mushroom growing darkly in the corner.

Suddenly, the sound of artillery fire erupted from downstairs in the residential complex. Many survivors upstairs were cheering excitedly.

After an unknown amount of time passed.

They started clearing her floor. The sounds of combat could be heard from downstairs.

In a daze, she heard a familiar voice.

[Qingyuan Residential Complex, Building A, 7th floor cleared.]

Xu Duoduo shuddered when she heard the words "cleared". She was still afraid. It would soon be her floor's turn. Was she about to die?

Her whole person, no, her whole zombie self wasn't feeling good. She wanted to cry, but zombies have no tears.

Steady footsteps penetrated the walls and reached her ears. "Bang!" It was a gunshot! The growl of a zombie came from next door.

"Tch, this zombie is too ugly, howling so annoyingly. I blew its head off with one shot. Little Bai, how's the situation on your side? Hurry up and finish so we can go back. I'm hungry, I want to eat hot pot, the kind with scalded brain."

This voice was carefree, with a clear tone, and the muttering had a familiar feel to it.

Xu Duoduo, who had been burying her head and hugging her knees like an ostrich, raised her head in confusion.

"I'm almost done here, it'll take at most half an hour to finish. Old Wang, notify the vehicles to come and pick up the survivors. Tch, why is this door so hard to open?"

Hearing this, Xu Duoduo shuddered violently. Familiar or not, she was about to be gone, wuwu!! She was about to cry out "aba aba", but remembering that this man had complained about her neighbor's howling being annoying, she quickly covered her mouth, trembling as she sat on the bed waiting for him to end her.

Yes.

She didn't have the courage to end herself, so it was better to wait for someone else to do it, saving her from a more unsightly death later, because she was no longer human.

Xu Duoduo's heart died thinking about this, but when the door was kicked open with a "bang", her whole zombie self was still trembling. The next second, she was shocked by the person's strength. How could anyone kick open her front door?!

"Damn, this door was really hard to kick! Hm? Is this unit uninhabited? It's quite clean, like a model home."

However, the person didn't stop searching. Xu Duoduo had already started acting like an ostrich, continuing to bury her head and shiver, waiting for the final judgment.

She could hear that the person didn't go to the storage room or the kitchen, but walked directly towards her room. The footsteps seemed to be stepping on her nerves.

She was so nervous she was about to explode!

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"Bang."

The room door was opened...

The next second she heard the sound of a gun being cocked, "Click". The familiar voice sounded again, "Any wounds? Bitten by zombies? Any degree of mutation? Please answer these questions truthfully."

Xu Duoduo still kept her head down, pretending to be dead, even wanting to burrow into the nearby blanket.

Then she heard the person impatiently click their tongue, and their tone turned fierce, "Didn't you hear me asking you to answer? I'm the captain of the 3A Special Operations Team, an official special rescue team. Ma'am, if you don't answer, it might affect your rescue time. Do you understand... Hm??"

Xu Duoduo was just wondering why the person said "Hm?" when the next second, they quickly came over and grabbed her, scaring the little zombie into trembling. She closed her eyes pretending to be dead, then heard the person speak with interest: "Little Class Monitor?"

The familiar upward inflection, the carefree tone, with a hint of surprise at reunion after a long time.

Xu Duoduo finally opened her eyes to look at the person, who was also about to judge her. As soon as she opened her eyes, she met a magnified handsome face, and they stared at each other wide-eyed.

Before the person could speak, another voice came through his earpiece, "Who? Little Class Monitor? Qin-ge, have you finally gone crazy? Missing the little class monitor so much you've gone mad?"

Qin Luo impatiently turned off the earpiece and began to examine the little thing in front of him. He hesitantly asked, "Xu Duoduo? Damn, how come you haven't changed much after so many years? Still the same face."

Xu Duoduo was stunned. Her slow brain finally remembered who this person was. Meeting an old classmate, it was really hard to describe. He was still as silly as ever.

Looking at Qin Luo's combat uniform, this guy was still tall, his features had lost their childishness but looked more proper now, the kind of handsome that could make a group of girls swoon. Back then, he was both the school heartthrob and the school bully.

As the class monitor, Xu Duoduo had spent a lot of effort dealing with this issue for her deskmate.

She wanted to say expressionlessly: "Hello." However, when she opened her mouth, she could only say "aba aba".

So she chose to remain silent.

Qin Luo, like a big dog, curiously examined her. After so many years, the little class monitor from junior high was a bit different. Thinking about it, he noticed subtle differences in Xu Duoduo, such as her icy cold body.

He couldn't help but frown.

The next second, Qin Luo touched Xu Duoduo's neck, pressing to find no pulse.

Xu Duoduo almost thought he was going to strangle her, but later she understood he was checking for a pulse.

She felt a little sad and a little gratified in her heart. Her former underachieving deskmate was now eating the national grain and had even become part of a special operations team.

Really amazing.

Their junior high homeroom teacher, Old Li, would surely feel proud too.

"Tsk, weren't you quite clever? How did you not make it through the initial stage?"

Qin Luo felt greatly disappointed, but why did his expression and tone seem so annoying???

Xu Duoduo furrowed her brows and started to get angry, glaring at him with puffed cheeks, just like when she used to chase him to do his homework.

Qin Luo just laughed.

"Oh right, I almost forgot the main task." As he said this, he started looking around the room as if searching for something.

Xu Duoduo couldn't help but start trembling again, thinking he might be looking for a good place to dispose of her. So she closed her eyes again and pretended to be dead.

Qin Luo looked around but didn't find anything useful, so he simply picked up a small blanket. Turning his head, he found Xu Duoduo with her eyes closed, trembling. He sighed and directly tied her up.

Xu Duoduo realized she was being tied up even with her eyes closed. She thought he probably feared she would struggle and die in an unsightly manner, wanting to leave her some dignity. She opened her eyes and gave him a grateful look, thinking he was quite nice after all.

Qin Luo felt complicated, thinking the zombified Xu Duoduo was a bit weird. How could she look grateful for being tied up? It was puzzling.

He then picked her up horizontally, along with the blanket, and stuffed her into the closet to hide her. "Stay put for now, I'll come back for you later."

After muttering this, he took one last look at Xu Duoduo. Her little face was snow-white, and she was blinking her big eyes at him.

Qin Luo's ears suddenly turned red. He clicked his tongue: "What are you, a zombie, trying to act cute for?"

Xu Duoduo: ???