"Let go!"
An Nuan was annoyed by Fu Yunting's presumptuousness.
Fu Yunting wasn't angry.
He owed An Nuan too much. No matter what happened in this life, he would protect An Nuan and would never argue with her.
"The first two beads on the necklace are useful. The third one must be something extraordinary. Think about it."
Think? An Nuan didn't know where to start.
In her previous life, she had been torn apart and eaten by a zombie horde. After waking up, she found the first bead had lost its luster.
Later, she discovered the second bead created a space.
Before the space appeared...
"Blood? You've drawn blood?"
An Nuan cut her finger and dripped blood onto the jade bead.
A soft glow flashed, and An Nuan entered the space within the jade bead.
Blue sky, white clouds, grass, trees, and a lake. An area of about ten thousand square meters, as beautiful as paradise.
Beyond ten thousand square meters, it was pitch black as if it ended.
An Nuan could feel the warmth of the sun and the freshness of the wind. The water was cool, and An Nuan took a sip, which had a sweet aftertaste, as clean and clear as spring water.
An Nuan plucked a handful of grass from the ground and took it out to show them.
Everyone was stunned.
Hai Changfeng was the first to react.
"If there's a space suitable for life, can we all live in it?"
An Nuan eagerly pulled them to experiment.
But in the end, they discovered that only An Nuan and Shi Huai could enter, but animals could.
Hai Changfeng cursed, "Is this bead a compressed version of Noah's Ark?"
"Fu Yunting, you know more about it than I do. Do you know anything else?"
"My grandfather told me the legend of the bead, and I've seen a bit of its miracle."
He looked at An Nuan with pity and heartache, which made her uncomfortable.
It was like an old man reminiscing about the past.
Fu Yunting composed himself. "This is all I know. Your grandmother might have said more, and it might be in your family's genealogy."
An Nuan didn't remember her grandmother saying anything.
If she had, it would have been before An Nuan was kidnapped.
The genealogy was also in the old house.
When she went to rescue Hai Changfeng last time, she hadn't thought about the genealogy.
After all, it was the apocalypse, who cared about family trees?
It seemed she still needed to make time to visit the old house.
An Nuan rotated the bead, and the entrance opened. Shi Huai held a small red flag and directed traffic at the entrance.
"Everyone line up and go in. Don't rush. The space inside isn't as big as a zoo, but it's enough for you to live. Don't fight inside! Be thrifty, especially you, Da Zhuangzhuang, eat less meat! Be careful you don't get fat and get eaten!"
The big tiger wagged its tail and carried two silly-looking owls inside.
After the two young elephants went in, the adult elephant got stuck at the entrance.
Shi Huai patted its butt.
"Xiao Xiao, you've gotten too big! I'll tolerate it. I'll push you in."
Shi Huai pressed against the elephant's butt, grunted, and shoved the elephant in with a push.
Xiao Yu refused to go in and rubbed against Shi Huai's neck.
An Nuan: "It's an異種 (yì zhǒng - unusual species/mutant). It's very safe to stay outside. Now that all the animals are inside, you can leave with us."
"Wait, there are still things to take."
Shi Huai first led them to the medical equipment room.
Most of the small animals at the zoo were protected species, and there was a panda research base here. The equipment and medicine were first-class.
The medicine storage room, over two hundred square meters, was stacked full of shelves.
Nebulizers, surgical instruments, everything was there.
An Nuan excitedly collected all the equipment and medicine into the space.
Shi Huai then took them to the food storage.
The three food storage rooms were connected to the management office. Walking through the passage led them there.
One was filled with fruits and vegetables. Although some had rotten, there was central air conditioning, and after locking the doors, the temperature could be kept constant. Most of it was still edible.
There were fifty kilograms of tender bamboo shoots and carrots, enough for a meal.
The second warehouse was filled with fodder and other things. An Nuan didn't know what they were, but she collected them all.
Another one was filled with various types of meat.
Luo Luo was stunned when he entered.
"The zoo's food is really good! There's even beef tenderloin!"
"In the past, live poultry was regularly delivered for Zhuangzhuang and the others to hunt. But after the disaster, no one delivered anymore. What was transported in before was either eaten or ran away. Now there's none left."
Shi Huai also found several boxes of nutritional supplements, which An Nuan also stored in the space.
There was nothing else worth taking from the management office, so An Nuan asked him to come out.
Shi Huai returned to his office and took a group photo from the wall, handing it to An Nuan.
"Can I take this? They are all my colleagues. Some were eaten outside, and some are missing. This is the only keepsake I have."
"Okay."
It was a small favor, how could An Nuan refuse?
When everyone walked out of the management office, it was already four in the morning.
The bridge had been blown up. Fu Yunting said there were things in the water that had been disturbed, so they were definitely not good. Returning the way they came was impossible.
Shi Huai knew another route, which would pass through the tourist reception center and an amusement park within the garden.
There were many visitors there before, so there were also many zombies now.
The red dots were dense, which was terrifying.
Everyone had been through a long night and was exhausted. Dealing with so many zombies was still very dangerous.
But with Fu Yunting, they weren't afraid.
An Nuan narrowed her eyes with a smile. "Young Master Fu, thank you for driving."
She was polite when she needed something and turned her back on people when she didn't. Fu Yunting admired her personality.
She was different from those coy and disingenuous women!
The electric cart from the management office was still usable and could carry twenty people.
Now, carrying their small group, plus two cats and a giant panda, was no problem.
Fu Yunting was used to driving luxury cars and flying planes. This was his first time driving an electric cart.
An Nuan found a small yellow hat with red characters that read "Welcome to Donghua Wildlife Park."
She placed it on Fu Yunting's head, feeling a sense of vengeful pleasure.
"It suits you very well, Young Master Fu."
Luo Luo and Hai Changfeng were terrified.
They knew Fu Yunting's temper. They heard that someone had once dirtied his shoes and had a leg broken.
An Nuan, you little ancestor, why provoke him!
Fu Yunting took off the hat, shook it, and put it back on his head.
"Does it look good?"
"Yes, it looks good. Wearing a baseball cap makes your face look good, especially good-looking."
"If you think it looks good, I'll wear it."
Luo Luo and Hai Changfeng exchanged glances.
He's not angry? Could this be a fake Fu Yunting?
Fu Yunting wasn't angry. He would do anything his little fool liked.
As the car passed the small amusement park, the zombies just tilted their heads and looked at them, automatically making way.
An Nuan had an idea, and Fu Yunting immediately said.
"Don't think about it. They don't have crystals. I can't sense them."
"I was wondering why every place you chose could produce a large number of crystal cores. Now I know. The black smoke, you're amazing!"