Chapter 38: Lingling Quickly Kissed Him…
Lin Ling stared at the ceiling light for a while before he came to his senses and followed the sound of the generator downstairs.
“Shi Changyuan?”
The little zombie opened the main door and looked at the overly lively yard. Even Auntie Man was attracted and was standing on the balcony, watching the scene below. For a moment, he didn’t know what to say.
“Where did you get a generator?”
Lin Ling thought for a long time and finally thought of what he should ask first.
“There’s always one in a city.” Shi Changyuan didn’t answer directly, just smiled and said, “Especially in a place like City B, where humans can’t get in and many pre-apocalypse supplies haven’t been consumed.”
But the little zombie knew this human too well. If he didn’t say it directly, it must be that he had left the yard and gone to a dangerous place alone.
He ran up to Shi Changyuan, leaned in and sniffed. He didn’t smell any blood, but the little zombie still asked with concern, “You’re not hurt, are you?”
“No.”
“You weren’t bullied, were you?”
Shi Changyuan ruffled Lin Ling’s head and comforted him, “No.”
“Lingling, don’t underestimate me.”
The little zombie rubbed against Shi Changyuan’s warm palm and said obediently, “I’m not underestimating you. I just want to protect you. Call me next time.”
Looking at the young man in front of him, who was seriously saying he wanted to protect him, Shi Changyuan couldn’t describe his current mood. He could only pat the young man’s head again and say, “Alright.”
The following morning, Shi Changyuan not only solved the electricity problem, but also prepared to solve the water problem. He followed Lin Ling to the small pond in the backyard, wanting to connect the water pipes and a water pump to the house.
That way, the little zombie could use hot water again.
“Shi Changyuan, do you know that there’s a wild, mutated big goose near this pond?” The little zombie said mysteriously after Shi Changyuan had planned the route for the water pipes.
“That big goose lays an egg every day, and that egg is delicious when roasted.”
The little zombie’s intentions were clear in two sentences. He looked at Shi Changyuan with an expectant expression. “How about we go and steal a goose egg?”
Shi Changyuan looked at the little zombie in front of him, thought for a moment, and asked, “How big is that mutated big goose, exactly?”
“Well, about, as big as our off-road vehicle.”
After he finished speaking, the little zombie seemed to understand something. He looked at Shi Changyuan with some embarrassment and said in a small, weak voice, “But roasted goose eggs are really delicious…”
Hearing this, what reason could Shi Changyuan have not to satisfy the little zombie in front of him?
He thought for a moment and gave Lin Ling a few options. “Besides goose eggs, does Lingling also want to eat goose meat? Or do you want to take a sustainable development route?
“How about we get a cage and just keep the big goose?”
The dumbfounded little zombie: !!!
“No, no.”
Lin Ling quickly refused. “We’re just going to steal one goose egg, not catch the goose. That big goose is very fierce. It can even chase and bite high-tier zombies. The mutated plants that pass by all get pecked by it.”
“This egg is also the big goose’s reserve food. If it can’t find anything to eat, it will eat its own egg, so it’s okay if we occasionally steal one.”
Although the big goose was very fierce, Lin Ling always felt that the human in front of him was even more ferocious. The first thing he said was whether he wanted to eat goose meat or not.
“Anyway, you just have to follow me. I’ll do the work, and you can roast the egg.”
With that, Lin Ling pulled Shi Changyuan and, using the cover of the tall bushes, they sneakily walked to the other side of the pond.
“See? The bushes over there were crushed by the big goose. It’s probably not home right now. Good chance!”
There were five or six goose eggs in this nest, each the size of two or three basketballs.
The little zombie looked around and, seeing no sign of the big goose, rushed over, picked up one of the goose eggs, and quickly ran back.
“Let’s go, let’s go.”
The little zombie and Shi Changyuan had only taken a few steps when they saw the big goose leisurely returning. From a distance, it saw that one of its eggs was missing and immediately let out a deafening cry, looking around, trying to find the egg thief.
Lin Ling, holding the egg, was already prepared to be chased by this big goose for three streets, but Shi Changyuan pulled him and rolled into a patch of reeds in another direction, disappearing from the big goose’s sight.
“Don’t make a sound, Lingling.”
The big goose probably didn’t expect the egg thief to dare to lie down in the grass next to it and not move. It stretched its neck and looked around, then, as if it had discovered something, it rushed over at an extremely fast speed and disappeared in a few minutes.
“Is it gone?”
Lin Ling also lowered his voice and asked in Shi Changyuan’s ear.
“It’s gone.”
Shi Changyuan gave an answer but still maintained his original position, protecting the entire person tightly.
“Then hurry up and get up. Be careful the big goose doesn’t come back.” The little zombie was a bit anxious and pushed the human on top of him.
“I helped Lingling, and I have to roast an egg for Lingling later. Doesn’t Lingling have some reward for me?”
Shi Changyuan propped himself up halfway, looked at the young man in front of him, and smiled as he asked for a reward.
“Y-You get up first.”
Lin Ling reached out and pushed Shi Changyuan’s shoulder. The other person followed his force and sat up, but he still, as before, looked at him with a raised eyebrow and a smile.
“Mm, I’m up.”
Shi Changyuan was not afraid that the young man would go back on his word. After all, what was owed would have to be paid sooner or later.
Sure enough, once he was free, the little zombie’s beautiful eyes blinked, and he tried to play dumb.
“Oh my, you’ve worked so hard today. How about I give you a bite later?”
“What, you think it’s too little? Then I’ll reluctantly give you half, sob.”
“You said you can’t eat mutated things? Alright, then there’s no other way. I’ll have to solve it myself. I wanted to share it with you.”
Three sentences, a perfect beginning, middle, and end. Without even needing Shi Changyuan to say a word, he vividly performed a small skit.
After the little zombie finished his performance, he even blinked at Shi Changyuan, as if asking if he was satisfied with this “reward.”
“You’ve learned to be bad.”
Shi Changyuan was at a loss with Lin Ling. He reached out and pinched his cheek, then stood up and pulled Lin Ling up as well.
“Let’s go, before the mutated goose really comes back.”
Seeing that he had gotten away with it, Lin Ling was very happy. He confidently handed the egg to Shi Changyuan and chatted as he skipped along.
“Before, I asked another zombie to steal an egg, and he was immediately discovered by the big goose. With one peck, that high-tier zombie was sent flying several hundred meters.”
“That high-tier zombie and the big goose fought for two or three days without a winner. After that, he never came to steal eggs with me again.”
These words were very vivid and lively, because this was indeed something Lin Ling would do.
“How does Lingling want to eat this egg?”
Shi Changyuan took the giant egg and weighed it in his hand. It was about thirty jin (approx. 15 kilograms). Whether it was roasted directly or fried or boiled, it would be enough for the young man to eat for a long time.
“Before, I would take the egg to a fire-type high-tier zombie and ask him to help me cook it.”
“But his flame was too small, and it would take two or three hours to cook, and it wouldn’t be cooked evenly, so I just picked up firewood myself and threw the egg in to roast.”
The little zombie blinked and said picky, “But it’s not delicious like that.”
Shi Changyuan understood at once. He probably thought it was tasteless. So he used all his cooking skills to make this giant egg in six different flavors, which made Lin Ling’s eyes light up just by looking at it.
With electricity, the entire house was warm. After Lin Ling finished lunch, he even did a big cleaning of the house, washing and drying all the bedding.
“I’ve tidied up the guest room. Do you want to move in?”
With Auntie Man still unconscious, Lin Ling consciously became the master of the house and, mimicking Auntie Man’s manner, “hosted the guest.”
“No trouble. I’ll just sleep with Lingling.”
Shi Changyuan stood by the door, smiling as he watched the little zombie, who was struggling with the duvet cover and was almost about to crawl inside.
“Really?”
Lin Ling poked his head out, as if he had let out a huge sigh of relief.
At night, the city outside was dark, but when they pulled the curtains, turned on the projector or TV, and played the sound, it was as if they had instantly returned to the time when they would secretly stay up late behind Auntie Man’s back.
“Alright, I’m going to take a good shower.”
The cleanest little zombie in City B had endured five or six days in the wild without a hot shower, only wiping his body with warm water.
At times like this, the little zombie felt that having a fire-type and a water-type teammate was really convenient.
After he finished his shower, changed into his familiar pajamas, and came out of the steamy bathroom, he flopped onto the bed and happily rolled around.
Before he could roll a few times, a certain cunning human turned the prone little zombie over.
“What are you doing?”
The little zombie was too relaxed and for a moment didn’t even remember what he had done wrong. He just stared blankly at the other person.
Until he was pushed down on the bed by Shi Changyuan in the same position as during the day, and he asked with a smile, “Now does Lingling remember?”
Lin Ling: !!!
He remembered, but wasn’t this matter over?
“I-I never said I wouldn’t give it to you!”
An animal-like intuition made Lin Ling immediately choose to follow his heart. He hurriedly said, “Wait a minute!”
He looked at the human in front of him, not knowing what he was thinking. His eyelashes fluttered rapidly, as if he were constantly giving himself a pep talk.
Shi Changyuan heard this and naturally waited for a while. But as he waited, the originally chattering little zombie went silent, the tips of his ears bright red.
“Lingling, even a photo…”
“Peck.”
Almost at the same time, just as Shi Changyuan opened his mouth, the little zombie lifted his head and quickly kissed Shi Changyuan’s lips.
A light touch.
But it also lit up a certain person.
Shi Changyuan’s voice was instantly cut off, his eyes dark.
The little zombie belatedly realized that he had misunderstood. He was so ashamed that his whole body turned red, and he struggled to get away, preferably to hide in the wardrobe.
But the moment he moved in Shi Changyuan’s embrace, he heard a muffled groan from him, and then he was held firmly in place.
The little zombie was puzzled, the little zombie noticed, the little zombie was shocked.
Th-Th-This!!!
Is this a human’s physiological reaction?
Do all humans have this kind of physiological reaction? Do zombies have it too? Do zombies also reproduce like this? He-He doesn’t know!!!! He doesn’t understand!!!!
Seeing the little zombie in front of him about to faint from embarrassment, Shi Changyuan took a few breaths to adjust and, almost as if he were fleeing in defeat, said, “…I’ll go and sleep in the guest room.”
