A cute, timid mushroom mistakenly takes the zombie king for her boyfriend and sticks close to him.

Chapter 223 Meng Xiaoyou's Boyfriend

The spring rain outside had stopped sometime earlier, the curtains were tightly closed, and although there was power available inside the facility, the bright crystal chandelier overhead did not dispel the gloom filling the room. Suppressed sobs could be heard softly at the doorway.

Healing-type ability users have come and gone in waves.

"Where is Miss Luo? Call her teacher over; perhaps she can hold on a little longer."

Su Ji strode forward and grasped Su Yue's hand.

She was emaciated, her face as pale as paper, her lips trembling dryly. "No...don't bother."

His listless eyes looked behind Su Ji, but instead of a familiar figure, there was a tall man.

The man was tall and slender, wearing an open black cotton coat over a white shirt with bulging pockets, as if he were hiding something.

Looking further up, there was a face as white as snow, exquisitely sculpted like jade, with handsome features, a masterpiece of craftsmanship. Gold-rimmed glasses perched on his high nose bridge added to his refined and scholarly air.

She was having trouble breathing, clinging to life only with the help of healing spells; her throat was so dry and hoarse it felt like it had been sanded. "Who is he?"

Not seeing Meng Xiaoyou, Su Yue's pupils dimmed as she stared fixedly at Su Ji.

How could Su Ji know who Pei Sinian was?

Instead of calling her daughter back, she shamelessly followed a man back with her.

For some reason, Su Ji just couldn't stand Pei Sinian.

Pei Sinian calmly glanced at the woman who was on the verge of death. Despite being uninvited, he exuded composure and uttered two words: "Son-in-law."

The crying in the room stopped for a moment, and everyone's eyes were focused on him.

The man stood ramrod straight, calmly repeating under the scrutiny of the crowd, "Meng Xiaoyou's boyfriend."

Kiss kiss? Who asked you that?

Meng Xiaoyou couldn't help but jump three feet high, but he expressionlessly pressed her back into his pocket.

She angrily blew bubbles, and that jerk didn't even consider the occasion when he spoke.

The room was silent for a long time, then suddenly burst into loud, undulating laughter: "Cough cough ha ha, good... good."

This was the first time Su's mother had seen the blond-haired man Su Ji had mentioned. She had initially thought that Meng Xiaoyou had been deceived by him and had just picked up some random friends, but Su Yue knew it wasn't him the moment she saw him.

"Okay... Xiaoyou... You have to be good to Xiaoyou..."

She didn't ask why Meng Xiaoyou hadn't come. As she approached death, her mind cleared, and she realized that the child probably resented her.

She was content to see her daughter find a boyfriend before she died.

The only thing she was worried about was... Su Yue turned her cloudy gaze back to Su Ji, her lips moved as if she wanted to say something, but she slowly closed her eyes.

In the last second before her consciousness faded, she seemed to see a small mushroom peeking out of her "son-in-law's" pocket, its watery eyes looking at her...

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"Sad?"

That night, the Su family was destined to have no sleep. Pei Sinian had already brought Meng Xiaoyou home, removed the bow from the mushroom, wrapped her in a towel after her bath, and gently dried her body drop by drop with his palms.

They could have used their powers to drain the water.

However, he unexpectedly enjoyed the process.

Meng Xiaoyou nestled in his palm and shook the umbrella. She felt a little down, but not too sad.

Su's mother will only remain in the original owner's memories, and she has only met that woman once.

Their adopted daughter wants to harm her, so she won't waste her emotions on other people.

Thinking of this, the mushroom perked up and was no longer as sullen as before.

Pei Sinian's massage technique was very comfortable; even through a towel, I wasn't chilled by the temperature of his fingers.

The mushroom enjoyed the moment of tenderness, wishing it could transform into a kitten, rolling around and purring on the spot.

"Kiss?" You, when did you become my boyfriend? Did you confess your feelings? Everyone else has confessed their feelings, I want to have one too.

Pei Sinian didn't understand, so he clasped his hands together and squeezed her soft body. "You've been up all night, go to sleep first."

Mushroom: "Kiss! Kiss! Hugging and kissing without confessing your feelings is just being a jerk!"

Pei Sinian: "Don't worry, I don't sleep like you, I won't flatten you."

Mr. Zombie doesn't need sleep except for advancing to a state of deep sleep. But he enjoys sleeping with Meng Xiaoyou. He turns off the lights, lies on the bed, and places the restless little mushroom on his chest. He presses a finger against her small body, making the mushroom struggle for a long time without getting up. She puffs up and lies sprawled on his chest, muttering in dissatisfaction, "Smack!!"

hard!!

Delicate behavior was ineffective; the mushroom was manually covered up and put to sleep.

So much so that the next morning, she listlessly dozed off in Pei Sinian's arms on the way to the research institute.

She hadn't eaten breakfast, so Pei Sinian gave her a small cookie to nibble on in her pocket.

In the past, the germaphobic Zombie would never have dreamed that one day he would put cookies in his pocket. But now, Meng Xiaoyou can't show her face, so she has to carry them in her pocket wherever she goes.

Today, we received an urgent message from the research institute, asking anyone who has been poisoned by the mutated plant to come over.

Pei Sinian thought the antidote had been developed, but those useless humans said apologetically, "I'm sorry, everyone, we are already working on the samples of the mutated plants. However, due to the urgency of the apocalypse, some research data was lost in T City. To develop the antidote, we need to bring that research data back. That data represents the results of hundreds of years of research in our country. Without it, developing the antidote will be very difficult..."

Lu Beichuan pushed up his glasses to conceal the light in his eyes. "I'm sorry, but don't worry, everyone. This time we will send a healing-type ability user to accompany us and suppress the toxins along the way so that they will not spread further."

Only a few were poisoned. Xiao Yuan and Su Lanyue died. The remaining victims were Meng Xiaoyou, Mu Qingfeng, Wang Gang, and his mercenary group.

In T City, a city further north, most special experiments are conducted far from human populations; the more remote the location, the better, so that even if there are accidents, they will not affect humans.

It's quite close to City Y.

Wang Gang was furious: "You bunch of good-for-nothings! It's just a matter of cracking the virus in a mutant plant, and you've been fussing over this and that. I've been waiting for days, and this is all you get? Are the researchers just sitting around doing nothing? What, you can't do anything without the work of predecessors? Besides, why don't you memorize all that data? Is it that you don't want to, or that you don't have it?"

He speaks rather bluntly, saying what others haven't said.

Lu Beichuan smiled slightly at this, "Our main research is on how to neutralize the zombie virus. Other things are not within our consideration. If you can't do it, then there's nothing we can do."

Although the toxins can be suppressed indefinitely, there is always a day when they will erupt.

Pei Sinian stood at the back of the crowd, one hand in his pocket, rubbing it. There was a black spot at the very bottom of the mushroom stem, which would be a problem sooner or later.

"go."

He was the first to speak, his light gray pupils meeting Lu Beichuan's gaze, both of them concealing unreadable emotions.