The Mad Scientist’s Domesticated Little Zombie 34

Chapter 34: Did You Kiss Me Last Night?!…

…But if Shi Changyuan became a zombie.

His body would no longer be so warm, he wouldn’t talk to him every day, and he wouldn’t be there to build a snow rabbit with him in the first snow of every year.

At this thought, Lin Ling snuggled deeper into Shi Changyuan’s embrace.

He was very satisfied with the current Shi Changyuan. He couldn’t be greedy for more. As long as he was a little more careful, a little more attentive.

Shi Changyuan could be with him for a long time.

Perhaps it was because he had rested all day, but the little zombie couldn’t fall asleep at first. He closed his eyes and counted sheep for a long time before he finally felt a little sleepy. Not long after, he was woken up by an abnormal body temperature.

“Shi Changyuan?”

Lin Ling’s eyes snapped open. He struggled to get out of Shi Changyuan’s embrace and reached out to touch the human’s forehead.

“You have a fever?!”

Hearing the movement, Shi Changyuan opened his eyes. Without needing to confirm, he said to Lin Ling with certainty, “It’s okay. It’s a side effect of the serum.”

With that, he tried to pull Lin Ling back into his arms to comfort him. “It’ll be fine after a night. Don’t worry about it.”

“No.”

The little zombie forcefully pushed Shi Changyuan down, found a towel, wet it with water, and placed it on his forehead for physical cooling. Then he sat cross-legged beside him.

“Auntie Man said that if you don’t treat a fever, it might damage your brain.”

“If your brain gets damaged, you can’t be Professor Shi anymore.”

As he spoke, the little zombie lifted the wet towel again and pressed his own forehead against it, trying to accurately feel Shi Changyuan’s body temperature.

A human’s body temperature was different from a zombie’s. Although it was naturally much higher, Lin Ling had gotten used to snuggling in Shi Changyuan’s embrace, and he could tell at once whether his body temperature was normal or not.

Whether it was because the area of the cold compress was limited, Lin Ling felt that it had little effect, and the body temperature even seemed to be rising.

“What are you laughing at?”

The little zombie was anxiously pacing around, wanting to give Shi Changyuan fever-reducing medicine but afraid of it conflicting with the drugs in the serum. He could only keep changing the wet towel, but the patient himself was still laughing.

“If my brain gets damaged, will Lingling…”

“Talk less, sleep more!”

Before Shi Changyuan could finish, Lin Ling covered his mouth, taking advantage of his weakness from being sick to domineeringly deprive him of the right to ask such strange questions.

“Then Lingling can sleep with me.”

Shi Changyuan, who had not gained the upper hand verbally, changed his tactic, taking advantage of being a patient to push his luck.

“Lingling’s body temperature is low, which is perfect for cooling me down.”

That seemed to make some sense.

The little zombie hesitated for a moment, touched his own forehead, then Shi Changyuan’s.

Seeing that Shi Changyuan was indeed a bit weak, his eyes only half-open, he finally crawled into his embrace and nestled his face in the crook of his neck to maximize skin-to-skin contact.

Holding the cool young man in his arms, the difference might not be noticeable at ordinary times, but at this moment, it felt incredibly comforting to both his body and mind.

Lin Ling even patted the human’s back. “You sleep. I’ll watch over you. We can rest for another day tomorrow.”

“…Alright.”

After getting a reply, the little zombie fell silent, trying to create a comfortable sleeping environment for Shi Changyuan. But he counted his breaths, and they remained unchanged from beginning to end, proving that a certain person was not asleep either.

In the quiet night, the little zombie suddenly spoke softly.

“Why don’t you… not go to City B after all?”

Shi Changyuan’s eyes snapped open, but his tone didn’t change. He also asked in a very soft voice, “Are you trying to abandon me?”

“…No.”

The two of them were embracing each other, unable to see each other’s expressions. Hearing this, the little zombie quickly explained, “I’m not trying to abandon you.”

“I was just thinking, could I go into City B to check on Auntie Man’s situation, and you wait for me at the base or somewhere else? When she wakes up, I’ll come and find you.”

“I will definitely come and find you. You believe me.”

“I believe Lingling, but I don’t want to be separated from you.” Shi Changyuan listened to the young man in his arms and, without seeming to think, rejected the idea.

“Can Lingling believe me too?”

Hearing Shi Changyuan use the same words to question him, the little zombie was at a loss for words. After a long while, he slowly said, “I just feel that… you followed me, a zombie, with just a gun.”

“An ordinary person, leaving a human base, to go to City B, a place full of zombies and a completely mutated environment.”

“You’re just—”

Lin Ling paused, not knowing what word to use to describe Shi Changyuan’s behavior more accurately.

“Just what?”

Shi Changyuan lowered his gaze and chuckled softly. “I told you I was eloping with Lingling.”

“Among humans, they might call me a love-struck fool.”

The little zombie hadn’t yet figured out the connection between Shi Changyuan and a love-struck fool, or how he had become one, when he heard the other continue in a hoarse voice, “We love-struck fools are like this. Give us a little sweetness, and we’ll be devoted. When we hear we’re going to be abandoned, our hearts will break.”

“If Lingling pushes me away, I’ll be very hurt, but it’s okay. As long as Lingling still needs me, I can coax myself back to happiness.”

The hot breath brushed past his ear. Lin Ling could feel Shi Changyuan’s soft lips almost touching his earlobe as he spoke, a distance like a kiss, as he said this long string of words with a smile.

A tingling sensation crawled from the tip of his ear to the back of his head. But there was also a mischievous hand on his back and waist, fanning the flames everywhere. Lin Ling felt the cells in his body tremble and burn, making his mind go dizzy.

“You… you…”

Lin Ling’s breath was chaotic, and he couldn’t even speak.

Sensing the young man’s reaction, Shi Changyuan’s smile deepened. His fingertips gently pressed and kneaded the back of the little zombie’s neck.

“So, will the great Zombie Emperor give this poor love-struck fool a little sweetness?”

“For example, a kiss.”

“Maybe I’ll get better right away…”

Hearing this familiar, unreasonable request, the little zombie was stunned. He looked up at Shi Changyuan in disbelief.

This time, Shi Changyuan didn’t wait for the young man’s initiative. He lowered his head and kissed him, accurately landing on the lips he had coveted for so long.

A brief touch would have been enough to comfort him, but when they separated, the young man in his arms let out a soft hum, his waist trembling, and it was as if something had been ignited. He followed his instincts and chased after him.

A gentle nibble, a suck.

Several times, the tip of his tongue brushed past, touching his teeth, and he had to use all his strength to control himself from directly plundering inside.

“…Lingling.”

Shi Changyuan called out in a hoarse voice, his kisses wandering between his lips and teeth.

“Open your mouth, give me a little sweetness to taste, okay?”

Perhaps it was because his mind was already in chaos, or perhaps it was because the human’s voice was weak and pitiful, or perhaps it was the intimacy he was already used to, but the young man, trembling, really did part his lips a little, as if waiting to be kissed.

Shi Changyuan’s eyes darkened, and he kissed him again, very heavily, with a fierceness that seemed to want to devour him.

The tip of his tongue swept across his upper palate, swallowing both his breath and his sobs.

He didn’t know what he had touched, but the young man under him instantly stiffened, desperately trying to pull back.

He wanted to hide his fangs, but he didn’t dare to push him away with too much force, afraid that the sharp fangs would hurt him. In the end, he could only go along with the movement, proactively tilting his neck up, his mouth open, and letting those fangs be licked carefully, until tears and saliva slid down together.

Before he completely passed out, the little zombie, feeling hot and weak all over, was still thinking, did this Shi Changyuan infect me with his fever?

What a cunning human.

**

By the time Lin Ling woke up again, the sky was bright. Shi Changyuan was no longer beside him. The only trace of last night was the lingering numbness in his mouth.

The little zombie reached up and touched it, and the tips of his ears began to burn again.

“Lingling, it’s time for lunch.”

Shi Changyuan opened the car door and saw a little zombie sitting there in a daze.

“Did you kiss me last night?!”

The little zombie seemed to have a delayed reaction. After he realized, he glared at the human in front of him and accused him loudly.

“You’re a hooligan!!!”

“Mm, I am a hooligan.”

Shi Changyuan reached out and scooped the young man out of the car, diligently helping him put on his clothes and shoes, his tone slightly resentful.

“After all, I’ve already eloped with Lingling, and I still have no status.”

At the mention of this, even someone like Shi Changyuan’s tone carried a hint of discouragement and helplessness.

“Am I really not being obvious enough?”

“Obvious about what?”

The little zombie, while enjoying the human’s service, still had to keep a wary eye on his every move.

“I like Lingling.”

“I know.”

The little zombie answered in a second, very righteously.

That was the problem.

Shi Changyuan sighed again, reached out and pressed on Lin Ling’s lips, gradually applying pressure. The familiar numbness instantly brought back the memories of last night.

He stared into the young man’s eyes and slowly rubbed, “Does Lingling really know?”

“This kind of like.”

The little zombie’s mind went “boom” and shut down. He turned around and burrowed back into the blanket, moving so fast that he didn’t even eat.

Something’s not right. It must be the way I woke up that’s wrong.

Lin Ling hid his entire body under the blanket, isolating himself from Shi Changyuan’s gaze, but he couldn’t block Shi Changyuan’s gaze on him. This realization made the little zombie feel even more on edge.

With his heart pounding, his thoughts were in chaos again. Lin Ling took a deep breath, pressed on his heart, and tried to suppress it forcefully.

Shi Changyuan likes him.

This kind of like.

Not the like between a pet and its owner, nor the like between friends, but the like between partners.

Lin Ling tried to understand, but he couldn’t.

Because his genes didn’t tell him how the zombie race reproduced, nor did they tell him if the zombie race needed partners.

He had never thought in this direction before.

But… Shi Changyuan likes him?

Just thinking about this sentence, the corners of Lin Ling’s mouth curved up, and he himself didn’t even know.