"Are you hurt?"

"No, I'm fine."

I was still waiting for Fu Yue to say something to Xiao Xian, but the next second, I heard him ask with a hint of concern. I instinctively thought he was asking me, but to my surprise, Xiao Xian responded, and Fu Yue nodded with a smile.

Me: "?"

"I told you to stay in the dormitory and not wander around. If I hadn't bumped into you today, would you have been fooling around here?"

"Didn't I hear the broadcast? And several dormitories went out. It would have been embarrassing if I didn't go out."

"Is face more important or life more important? If you got bitten or died more seriously, when Auntie asks me for someone, what can I say?"

"But I wouldn't be dead yet."

From Fu Yue saying that he wanted to talk to Xiao Xian to Xiao Xian's calm face as if he had expected it long ago, there was a big question mark hovering over my small head. Gradually, I widened my big Carthusian eyes and finally realized:

"Wait! You guys know each other?"

Fu Yue and Xiao Xian looked at me speechlessly, and Xiao Xian's gaze carried a kind of condemnation that I couldn't understand.

"Of course, we know each other. He's my brother, and I'm his cousin."

"What the heck, why didn't you make it clear earlier? You wanted to fight and dig into my brain as soon as we met, scared me to death."

I pouted unhappily, but Xiao Xian showed me his teeth and unabashedly claimed that he did it on purpose.

"My brother showed me your photo, so I recognized you at the school gate with just one glance. I just wanted to scare you. Who told you to play with my brother's feelings?"

"What do you mean, play? You make it sound so bad... Aren't you afraid of scaring me to death?"

"You're already a zombie. Only a headshot can kill you, right?"

He made some sense, and I was speechless. I decided to interrogate Fu Yue again: "What about you? You knew I couldn't be with your brother, yet you pretended to be jealous and scared me, forcing me to make up stories."

Fu Yue seemed to recall my awkwardness and couldn't help but smile, his lips curling up like thunder in spring and glaciers melting, and ripples appeared in his cold eyes.

"Because you broke up with me without any reason and blocked all means of contact with me."

"Um..." I carefully recalled that there had been no response after Fu Yue sent a message saying we could talk when he came back. I thought he considered taking a flight more important than comforting me, so I got angrier and deleted all his contact information. Later, when the apocalypse came, I had no idea where my phone had ended up.

As I reminisced, I decided to act coquettishly and tugged at Fu Yue's clothes. Fu Yue looked at me helplessly and indulgently, except for Xiao Xian, whose eyes were about to pop out into outer space. The atmosphere was quite pleasant.

"What do we do now? Do we go back to City A or stay in City D?"

Xiao Xian couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted us, but the question he raised was indeed the most pressing issue at the moment.

"We'll go back to City A. The military will arrive in City D in three days, and the people who will pick us up will be waiting at the east gate."

Fu Yue made a decisive decision, arousing curiosity from both me and Xiao Xian: "Why do we have to go back to City A?"

"The research institute in City A has been working on developing a cure for the zombie virus. They have the most advanced equipment and pharmaceutical materials in the country." Fu Yue held my hand, looking serious. "I suspect that Sweet's zombie virus hasn't invaded her brain cells, so she still retains human consciousness, which means there might be a chance for a cure."

"Damn, that's intense." Xiao Xian suddenly appeared in front of me. "What the hell are you?"

There was too much information, and I was about to say that I didn't know either when Xiao Xian was slapped in the face by Fu Yue and pushed away.

"Watch your words. Whyare you being so rude? She's still the same person, just with some changes."

I touched my cheek, feeling a little sorry for Xiao Xian, but at the same time, I appreciated Fu Yue's protection.

"It's okay, Fu Yue. Xiao Xian is just surprised. It's normal."

Xiao Xian rubbed his cheek and glared at Fu Yue, but he didn't say anything more. Instead, he turned to me with a serious expression.

"Sweet, you have to be careful. If there's really a chance for a cure, we can't let anything happen to you. We'll protect you no matter what."

I was touched by Xiao Xian's words, and I nodded with gratitude.

"Thank you, Xiao Xian. I trust both of you, and I know you'll keep me safe."

Fu Yue also looked at me with a gentle gaze, his thumb gently rubbing the back of my hand.

"I promise, Sweet. We'll do everything we can to find a cure and bring you back to normal."

I smiled at both of them, feeling a sense of warmth and security enveloping me. No matter what challenges lay ahead, I knew I had two important people by my side.