Monster Girlfriend(Apocalypse) 27

Chapter 27

Xia Weishuang and the others were leaving. The small car was packed with five people.

Xia Weishuang was still driving, with Sang Lu in the passenger seat. In the back seat, from left to right, were Xia Qingxue, Mi Lele, and Ke Xiaoxiao. Besides the people, there wasn’t much else. Most of the supplies had been put away by Xia Qingxue, with only a few left out for show.

Because she and Ke Xiaoxiao were good roommates, Xia Qingxue had told Ke Xiaoxiao about her ability without any reservations.

As they were leaving, Sister Liu and the others waved from the window. “Little Xia, if you come to visit in the future, I’ll give you a free room!”

She seemed to be incredibly confident that the future would get better, that the world would eventually return to the way it was, and that they would continue to live their ordinary lives.

Xia Weishuang also waved back. “Okay, definitely!” Then she stepped on the gas and ran over a zombie.

So they continued forward, towards their destination… As they were driving, Xia Weishuang did some calculations. “Oh no.”

“What’s wrong?”

They were speeding down the highway. Of course, because there would be an abandoned car blocking the road from time to time, their actual speed wasn’t too fast.

Because she knew about Xia Weishuang’s ability, when Xia Qingxue heard her say this, her intuition told her that something bad was about to happen: Please, please don’t let there be any more trouble!

Xia Weishuang: “We’re almost out of gas. I don’t think we can make it to Green Mountain Village.”

Xia Qingxue subconsciously became anxious. “Then what do we do?”

Xia Weishuang: “It seems we can only take the gas from the abandoned cars on the side of the road.”

Xia Qingxue breathed a sigh of relief. “There are so many cars on the side of the road. There must be enough gas.”

Xia Weishuang said faintly, “Then do you know how to get the gas out?”

Xia Qingxue looked shocked. It was clear that she had not learned this kind of knowledge. After all, most people wouldn’t know how to steal gas from a car.

Xia Weishuang: “Using the siphon principle.”

Xia Qingxue immediately became happy again. “Then let’s get started right away!”

Xia Weishuang: “We don’t have a clean tube.”

Xia Qingxue: “…”

Xia Weishuang smiled. “But it’s okay. There’s a gas station not far ahead. We can also take two barrels of gas with us.”

Xia Qingxue looked at her warily and remained silent.

Xia Weishuang blinked. “What’s wrong? You don’t think this is a good suggestion?”

Xia Qingxue: “What’s the catch? Where’s the catch this time?”

Xia Weishuang smiled faintly. “The catch this time is that there is no catch.”

Xia Qingxue: “…”

Ke Xiaoxiao and Mi Lele immediately started to laugh softly. It was clear that Xia Qingxue’s wonderful expression was hilarious.

And Xia Weishuang glanced at Sang Lu beside her. Noticing that the person next to her was looking at her, Sang Lu turned her head and smiled at her, but this smile was no different from her usual one.

Xia Weishuang was slightly disappointed, not with Sang Lu, but with herself. But she hid it well and just said gently to her, “You once told me that I can show it when I’m happy or unhappy. If I don’t want to show it to others, then I can show it to you. No matter how boring the joy, how small the pain, you won’t laugh at me. You will feel it with me.”

On this devastated road, Xia Weishuang violated the traffic laws and held Sang Lu’s hand with her right hand.

No one would come to stop them, no one would come to scold them.

Xia Weishuang looked at the seemingly endless road ahead, suddenly grabbed Sang Lu’s hand, gently kissed the back of it, and said, “I think the same way now, Sang Lu. This time, it’s my turn to feel you.”

A long time ago, Xia Weishuang was also a reclusive and introverted person. She was not good at socializing, was cautious, and protected herself from harm.

Sang Lu was the complete opposite of her. She was one year older than her, but they were worlds apart. Sang Lu was like the sun in the sky, shining brightly. Her smile could conquer anyone. She had a lot of trust and admiration, but suddenly, she took her hand.

And so Xia Weishuang was pulled into her world, and began to gradually change herself, and was even spoiled by her to the point of having a bigger and bigger temper, until she lost Sang Lu and slid into a darker abyss.

Now that Sang Lu was back, Xia Weishuang had been reinjected with vitality. She felt herself warming up bit by bit, like spring returning to the earth, and all things reviving.

She didn’t mind telling bad jokes to make Sang Lu happy, nor did she mind saying cheesy things with a thick skin. She tried to awaken the emotions in Sang Lu’s heart.

She wanted to pull her back, from the cold bottom of the sea.

**

Ideals are plump, but reality is skinny. The speed of their advance was much slower than Xia Weishuang had imagined.

The road was too difficult to travel. Broken-down cars blocking the road, crazy zombies, terrifying mutated geese… it was a colorful and varied experience, especially that mutated goose. It chased the car’s rear and pecked at it, leaving the back of the car full of dents.

Fortunately, it didn’t attack the tires and stopped after it got tired of chasing. Xia Qingxue was so angry that she opened the car window, rolled up her sleeves, and gave the slowly shrinking goose the middle finger. “Just you wait! I’ll stew you sooner or later!”

“Why weren’t you so fierce just now?” Xia Weishuang said, “Alright, be quiet.”

She glanced at Sang Lu. Sang Lu was leaning against the car window, her eyes narrowed, like a lazy cat dozing off. The sunlight at this time was as beautiful as a piece of gold, falling on her fair face, covering her with an oil-painting-like luster.

Xia Qingxue withdrew her hand resentfully, rolled up the window, and although she was angry in her heart, she didn’t dare to be too loud, so she could only whisper, “Choosing her lover over her sister…”

Ke Xiaoxiao reached out her hand from behind, grabbed Xia Qingxue’s hand, and shook it, as if comforting her.

Xia Qingxue said in a low, moved voice, “Xiaoxiao, you’re still the best.”

Ke Xiaoxiao smiled sweetly. “Don’t disturb Sister Shuangshuang while she’s driving.”

Xia Qingxue: “…”

In the end, she could only look at Mi Lele and say pitifully, “Lele, they’re all bullying me.”

Mi Lele sighed like a little adult and took out an orange jelly from the pink backpack she was holding in front of her and stuffed it into Xia Qingxue’s hands.

Xia Qingxue finally quieted down.

At this time, they had finally, slowly, arrived at the gas station.

Before entering the gas station, Xia Weishuang began to slow down the car and observe from a distance. As she looked, the relaxed expression on her face disappeared.

“What’s wrong here?”

Xia Qingxue leaned over and looked out of Ke Xiaoxiao’s window. Besides the fact that the station was a bit quiet and there were seven or eight cars parked messily outside, there seemed to be nothing unusual. There weren’t even many zombies.

“There’s a shop in the gas station!” Xia Qingxue was very happy. Now that her leg was healed, she could also help find supplies, which meant that she would no longer be constrained by Mi Lele’s small backpack!

Ke Xiaoxiao raised her hand and covered her mouth, signaling her not to be too happy. “Something’s not right here.”

“Is it because there’s no one?” Xia Qingxue stroked her chin and said, “If there are no staff, it’s indeed not very convenient.”

“It’s not because of the staff,” Ke Xiaoxiao said in a low voice. “So many cars, and they don’t look like they’ve been parked for a long time. This is very strange. It can’t be such a coincidence that all the car owners have turned into zombies and gone for a walk.”

Xia Weishuang said faintly, “Forget it. We have enough supplies now. Let’s just use the gas from the cars on the side of the road.”

After Ke Xiaoxiao’s explanation, Xia Qingxue also understood that there was something strange here. In this dangerous world, safety was of course the top priority.

“But don’t we not have a tube?”

“We just don’t have a clean one,” Xia Weishuang was a little depressed. “And the main reason for coming to the gas station was to take two more barrels of gas with us.”

There was nothing more to say. Xia Weishuang was about to skip the gas station, but unexpectedly, Sang Lu, who had been dozing off, suddenly raised her head, turned, and looked at the gas station with an interested expression—to say she was interested was not accurate. She just showed a little interest, and Xia Weishuang automatically added a filter for her.

“You want to go?” Xia Weishuang asked her.

Sang Lu nodded.

So Xia Weishuang began to brake.

Xia Qingxue: “…Ha, ha, ha.” It was so ridiculous.

Xia Weishuang: “Ahem, I’ll just get some gas while I’m at it.”

Xia Qingxue: “Hmph.”

Xia Weishuang didn’t drive the car into the gas station, but parked it on the side of the road. Sang Lu pushed open the car door and started to walk towards the gas station.

Xia Weishuang quickly took her weapon and chased after her, turning back to say to Xia Qingxue, “Little Xue, you get in the driver’s seat. If anything’s wrong, be ready to leave at any time.”

Xia Qingxue said helplessly, “Sis, I think if something’s wrong, it’s safer to meet up with you.”

This was not wrong. Xia Weishuang said, “Then you act according to the situation. Safety first. Don’t worry about me. With Sang Lu around, I won’t be in trouble.”

So they split up. Xia Weishuang followed behind Sang Lu and walked into the gas station.

She had thought that the situation here was similar to the willow monster’s, but suddenly a zombie appeared around the corner. Before she could see its rotten face clearly, the zombie fell to the ground with a thud.

If there were zombies, then it probably wasn’t something like the willow monster. Xia Weishuang was deep in thought. After the zombie virus outbreak, there were too many strange things. No one could say for sure what they would encounter next.

Sang Lu seemed to be looking for something, but she also seemed very leisurely and not in a hurry. She walked around the several pumps at the gas station, then walked to an empty space and suddenly stopped.

Sang Lu bent down slightly, her head tilted down, and her eyes began to stare at the ground without blinking.

Seeing that she seemed to be in a daze, Xia Weishuang decided not to look at her for now and do her own thing.

No matter what, Sang Lu’s strength was still very reassuring.

Xia Weishuang was about to find two oil barrels. When she reached the door of the small supermarket, she observed through the window for a while and found that there was a zombie wandering inside. Xia Weishuang pushed the door open, and the sound attracted the zombie. Then she used the crack of the door to kill it.

She entered the supermarket and found that half of the things inside were empty, probably taken by the people who had come before.

Xia Weishuang continued to walk in. With “getting oil” as her primary goal, she first looked for oil barrels and any tools she might need.

And just at that moment, Xia Weishuang suddenly heard a soft gasp, full of pain and suppression.

She was stunned for a moment, then tiptoed towards the place where the sound was coming from. There was a small, tightly closed door, which looked like a duty room.

Another gasp, full of pain and suppression. The person inside was trying to restrain themselves, very cautious, as if they were afraid that the person outside would hurt them.

“Is someone there?” Xia Weishuang turned to the side, her hand on the doorknob, and knocked on the door twice. This would prevent the person inside from suddenly pushing the door open.

“Are you, are you a living person?” It was a weak female voice.

Xia Weishuang nodded. “Yes. Are you injured?”

“Yes, I’m injured, so you should leave quickly, or I’ll turn into a zombie and attack you in a while!”

Xia Weishuang replied calmly, “It’s okay. After you turn into a zombie, I can kill you, so you won’t accidentally hurt anyone who comes later.”

Inside the door: “…”

Xia Weishuang said, “Then you can get busy. I’ll continue to look for things.”

Inside the door: “…” Busy? Busy with what? Busy turning into a zombie?

Xia Weishuang let go of her hand and moved a little further away, holding a basket and continuing to look for the tools she needed. Of course, she was still paying attention to the situation at the door.

Creak—

The door was pushed open a crack. It was so dark that she couldn’t see clearly. She could only see a woman’s messy long hair.

“Can you help me boil some water?” the woman pleaded weakly. “I need hot water.”

“It’s not good to start a fire at a gas station.”

The woman said, “There’s electricity here. The gas station has a backup generator. You can use the water dispenser over there to boil water. I really can’t walk.”

It was not so much that she couldn’t walk, but that she didn’t dare to walk out.

Xia Weishuang stood where she was and asked, “Are you really injured?”

After the door was opened, a strange, unpleasant smell came out. Xia Weishuang couldn’t describe it, but she felt that this smell was related to flesh and blood.

The woman said, “I wasn’t injured by a zombie. I won’t turn into a zombie. I won’t fight with you for the things outside. You can take whatever you want, as long as you leave a little for me.”

Xia Weishuang thought for a moment and didn’t refuse. There was indeed electricity here, and the water dispenser boiled water quickly.

An unexpected surprise was that the shelves next to the water dispenser had exactly the oil barrels Xia Weishuang wanted. She took four of them down directly.

Then she used a paper cup to get some hot water and sent it to the woman. The woman reached out her skinny hand from the crack of the door and took the paper cup, saying, “Thank you.”

Xia Weishuang’s finger casually slid across the back of her hand, and her ability was activated.

This time, she had consciously and actively controlled her ability, or rather, it was the first time she had successfully used her ability on her own initiative.

The scene in front of her suddenly became darker. She saw the woman lying naked in a narrow space, screaming in pain. Her limbs were as thin as firewood, and her abdomen was bulging high, stretching her belly so that it turned blue, as if the skin and flesh had been stretched into an extremely thin sheet of skin that would break with a poke.

This room was pitch-black, with no doors or windows. The floor, walls, and ceiling were all the same deep red, made of special bricks, with mucus, and seemed to have some fluff. And the woman’s eyes were red, her face twisted in the pain of childbirth.

Her abdomen trembled softly like a wave of water. The thing in her stomach seemed to be moving around, so the protruding limbs formed an oval shape. Further down, a tube like an umbilical cord extended from between the woman’s legs, forward, forward, and into the wall.

This premonition ended abruptly. Xia Weishuang’s brain throbbed with a sharp pain, shattering the image in front of her.

This overly strong side effect and extremely short premonition, she didn’t know if it was because she had used her ability on her own initiative this time.

Xia Weishuang’s expression didn’t change, but her eyes blinked dryly. She felt that she should be afraid of this strange woman, but now, this pregnant woman seemed to be even more afraid than her.

The pregnant woman gave a fawning smile. “Is there anything else? Thank you?”

“You’re welcome,” Xia Weishuang replied slowly, then took a step back.

The door in front of her was slammed shut with a bang.

Xia Weishuang immediately turned around, picked up her things, and walked out at an accelerated pace.

However, tragically, just as she was about to walk out of the supermarket, Xia Qingxue, holding Mi Lele, and Ke Xiaoxiao rushed over, screaming.

“Honk, honk honk! Honk—”

A huge mutated goose, the size of half a small car, flapped its snow-white wings and, with its long neck held high, rushed into the gas station.

“Sis, help!” Xia Qingxue directly knocked Xia Weishuang back. “This goose is too vengeful!”

Wasn’t it just that when she was driving, she thought the goose lying on the road was a dead goose, so she accidentally ran over its wing? It had chased them all the way, and after resting, it had actually chased them again.

Xia Qingxue was originally sitting in the car waiting for people, bored. Suddenly, she heard a familiar honking sound from a distance. She turned her head and was almost scared out of her wits.

So she quickly drove towards the gas station. Halfway there, the advancing goose flapped its wings and flew up, rushing over and pecking a hole in their newly changed tire.

Xia Qingxue had no choice but to run for her life, holding Mi Lele.

Fortunately, the goose was initially taking its anger out on the car and didn’t have time for the three girls, giving them a chance to run.

But now, the goose thought the car was “dead,” so it turned its head and chased after them, honking wildly.

The goose rushed towards the gas station. At the very front of the gas station was Sang Lu, who was looking down at the ground, deep in thought.

The goose honked and spread its wings. Sang Lu was still staring at the ground. A shadow flashed, and the goose was sent flying.

Snow-white goose feathers flew everywhere. The goose spun three and a half times in the air and landed, then fled without looking back.

“Come over here if you have the guts!” Xia Qingxue, holding onto the door of the small supermarket, gave the goose’s fleeing back the middle finger. “Be careful, my sister’s sister will stew you!”

Xia Weishuang: “…”

She had just been knocked back, and the barrels and tools in her hands had fallen. She had also bumped into the snack shelf, and the snacks had also fallen all over the floor.

Xia Weishuang rubbed her temples and was about to bend down to pick up the tools, but Ke Xiaoxiao had already picked them up.

“Sister Shuangshuang, I’ll help you.”

Xia Weishuang smiled. “Thank you.”

“Sister Shuangshuang, you’re too polite,” Ke Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and smiled. “This is what I should do.”

Xia Weishuang was inexplicably embarrassed. “You don’t have to be so polite. Just be like Little Xue.”

Xia Qingxue, who was on the ground picking up her favorite snacks: “???”

Xia Qingxue wanted to continue to take more. Her space was not yet full, and she could still continue to pack. Xia Weishuang pushed her out of the small supermarket. “Alright, stop messing around. Your space still needs to be saved for oil.”

There was no choice but for them to all leave the small supermarket.

“Sis, what is Sister Sang Lu doing?” Xia Qingxue was a little puzzled.

Xia Weishuang’s face was a little strange. “There might be something hidden underground. Her like this… I’m not sure either.”

Sang Lu had come here, probably wanting something. From the experience of the past few days, it was very likely that she was looking for a similarly mutated creature.

But now, preparing to hunt like this, and looking a little puzzled, was really the first time.

Xia Weishuang didn’t disturb her thinking and instead started to think of a way to get gas.

“Sis, since we’re already here, why don’t we pick a new car!”

“Okay, you and Xiaoxiao can go and pick one.” There were not many zombies here, and it was temporarily safe, so Xia Weishuang let Xia Qingxue pick one.

“What about Sister Shuangshuang?” Ke Xiaoxiao asked.

“Although there’s electricity here, there’s no card. I need to find the location of the oil storage tank.”

The oil storage tank was not hard to find. Xia Weishuang looked around and found the manhole cover, which was two meters away from where Sang Lu was standing.