Chapter 181: Feeling the Pressure
Xia Chenge stared at him intently.
As if sensing a gaze upon him, at a distance of 5 meters from Xia Chenge, he looked up at her.
Xia Chenge was unhurried, a slight smile playing on her lips as she waited for him to recognize her.
However, after a flash of admiration in the man’s eyes, he lowered his head to continue looking at his mobile phone, bypassing Xia Chenge.
Xia Chenge frowned and turned back to stare at him.
“What’s wrong?” Ling Hanmu and Ning Xia noticed Xia Chenge’s unusual behavior. They exchanged a look, and Ning Xia asked.
“Nothing.” Watching his receding figure, Xia Chenge returned to her usual self.
“Do you know him?” Ling Hanmu, having never seen Xia Chenge pay so much attention to a man, felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.
Xia Chenge shook her head and brushed it off: “No, I just feel like I’ve seen him somewhere before. Let’s go home.”
Hearing this, Ling Hanmu had no choice but to stop questioning.
Upon returning home, Xia Chenge received the loving concern from her elders.
She repeatedly stated she wasn’t injured, but it was no use. The Old Master insisted she go to the hospital for a check-up before letting her go.
By the time they were done, it was already one in the afternoon. After lunch, Xia Chenge could finally return to her room to rest.
She vowed that next time something like this happened, she would never be so high-profile again!
Xia Chenge soaked in the bathtub, habitually starting to think.
The person she saw at the airport today brought back many memories of the Apocalypse. She would recognize that face even if it turned to ash.
When the Apocalypse first began, zombies were like walking corpses, without consciousness or thought, driven by instinct to feed on human flesh and blood. Unable to exterminate the zombies, humans tried to modify them, which inadvertently led to the zombies’ evolution, restoring their human appearance and granting them intelligence.
Two zombies successfully evolved, their combat power far exceeding that of ordinary Evolved Humans. However, they still lacked humanity, akin to beasts. Yet, they could command other zombies, gathering them into zombie armies to attack humans.
But these two zombies were one, the Zombie King. The Zombie King never showed its face. It was always recorded in history, and its appearance led to humans being infected with the zombie virus. However, the Zombie King’s human identity was completely erased.
The other one led the zombie army in battle, known by humans as the Zombie General. No one knew the general’s name before he became a zombie, but that face was exactly the one she saw at the airport today.
Xia Chenge sank into distant memories, as if standing again on the devastated land of the Apocalypse, witnessing the carnage and the desperate battles between humans and zombies.
So many humans who desperately tried to survive ultimately could not escape the fate of being completely annihilated by zombies.
How good it would be if there were no Apocalypse, then humanity wouldn’t have gone extinct.
Xia Chenge’s mood was heavy.
“Could it be that the Zombie General has also returned?” Xia Chenge murmured to herself, unwilling to face such a possibility.
Evolved zombies no longer experienced aging or death. Unless the Earth exploded, their lifespans were infinite. Although they lost their humanity, standing at the pinnacle of power and ruling the entire world, even if given a second chance, no one could refuse such temptation!
Therefore, even if the Zombie General had regained his humanity, he would still have walked that path.
Humanity would still face the Apocalypse; the only difference would be whether it came sooner or later.
“Sigh, so annoying. Who is the Zombie King? Who erased all information about his human identity?”
“Alas, for all my supposed intelligence, I still have no clue.”
Xia Chenge, distressed, covered her face with a towel and sighed deeply.
No one could understand her feelings. As a human, she absolutely did not want to see her own species disappear from the world.
The water in the bathtub gradually cooled, yet she still hadn’t thought of a better solution.
She decided to cast those thoughts aside and get a good night’s sleep.
When she woke up, the afterglow of the setting sun was casting a golden hue across the room through the window.
Xia Chenge turned over and got up, stretching refreshingly by the window.
“Look how good human society is now. Unlike the Apocalypse, where the sky was always a dull gray, and the air was filled with the smell of rotting flesh. Humans, why do you court disaster? You had a good ecological environment, but you had to push yourselves to the brink of extinction.” Xia Chenge sighed.
She casually picked up her mobile phone, and the screen was full of WeChat message notifications.
Upon opening it, most of the messages were from people in her film crew, checking on her.
And among them, naturally, were messages from Ling Hanmu, who informed her that the matter had been suppressed and there wouldn’t be any online reports about it.
After replying to them one by one, Xia Chenge was about to put down her phone to wash up when Ning Xia’s messages started flooding in.
Ning Xia: The person you saw at the airport today is named Grub. His grandparents were from Country A but immigrated to the United States long ago. He is a Biotechnology Engineer, thirty-seven years old, engaged in drug research, unmarried, and has always been single.
Ning Xia: Chenge, you’re not falling for this baby-faced older man, are you? Your reaction at the airport this morning was very unusual. Xiao Mu was quite worried.
Ning Xia: I’m not saying this to be mean, but no matter how baby-faced he is, he’s old enough to be your father.
Ning Xia: Although Ling Hanmu is usually quite shameless, I still ship him for you!
After reading the messages, Xia Chenge’s only expression was o(╯□╰)o.
Her fingers flew across the screen as she replied: Don’t talk nonsense. I just thought he looked familiar, like I’d seen him somewhere! But why did you investigate this person?
Ning Xia: Helping you, isn’t it obvious? You’re welcome, I have more resources than you anyway.
Xia Chenge: …
Xia Chenge: Thank you!
Ning Xia didn’t reply further.
Xia Chenge deleted the chat window.
Grub, a Biotechnology Engineer… Xia Chenge thought about this person’s information while washing up. The creation of the zombie virus was researched by a group of overconfident biological scientists who established Laboratory 748.
So, could this Grub be one of them?
Xia Chenge was so preoccupied that she didn’t even notice toothpaste foam falling onto her clothes.
By the time she came to her senses, the clothes she had just put on were ruined.
Xia Chenge looked down, her mouth twitching, and changed into another set of clothes before going downstairs.
Upon reaching the first floor, Xia Chenge realized Ling Hanmu was also there. Her mind had been so immersed in Grub and the Apocalypse that she hadn’t even heard Ling Hanmu talking to the Old Master.
“Lazy girl, finally decided to get up?” Old Master Xia said with a scolding laugh. “Xiao Mu has been waiting for you for two hours, and we weren’t allowed to wake you up.”
“Grandpa Xia, Xiao Ge was tired, I don’t mind waiting,” Ling Hanmu immediately spoke up for Xia Chenge.
Old Master Xia saw this and beamed: “You, you always spoil her like this. She’ll have you wrapped around her finger sooner or later.”
Ling Hanmu smiled tenderly at Xia Chenge: “That would be my honor.”
