"Slap!"
For the first time in her life, being slapped, Zhuo Nian instinctively raised her hand and sent out a palm, directly sending the person flying. Her body shot forward like a phantom, grabbed the person's neck, and squeezed hard.
[Host! Let go! It's the mission target!]
Zhuo Nian steadied herself, looked at the familiar incomplete soul within the person before her, and slowly loosened her grip. Her tone, however, did not waver. "Are you looking for death?"
Xiao Chongyan was caught off guard by her sudden counterattack. The physical pain had not yet subsided when he clutched his neck and coughed incessantly.
He was already frail. The force of her palm had sent him flying, and he felt pain in every bone. Then, she had choked him for a long time. Now, all he could do was weakly cough.
[Host, he's the mission target. Be a little gentler with him.]
"So you're not sticking to the character persona anymore?" Then she wouldn't mind "retaliating" against him in another way.
[Stick, stick, stick.] The system sighed helplessly: [But you be gentle too. The mission target holds grudges the most. He probably hates you now.]
Zhuo Nian did not respond.
Let him hate me. It was going to happen anyway.
He wouldn't hate me later.
Seeing her Zen-like attitude, the system knew she wasn't taking it seriously. It was true, with the host's overwhelming affection strategy, even the most resolute heart would eventually melt like soft silk.
[Host, find a place to receive the plot first.]
"Mm." Zhuo Nian didn't even glance at the person still clutching his neck and gasping for air. She turned and was about to push the door open when a sense of crisis washed over her. The moment she opened the door, she stepped back and kicked.
The thing that was neither human nor ghost was kicked flying by her. Immediately after, more zombie-like figures, like walking corpses, lunged at her with outstretched claws.
"What is this thing?"
[Zombies. This is a doomsday world. Host, be careful. Getting bitten by them will turn you into one of them.]
Zhuo Nian certainly wouldn't get bitten.
She took down one with each kick. The recently turned zombies' bodies were still stiff and their movements very slow, making them easy to deal with. They were quickly "killed" by her a second time.
She had originally intended to go out for a stroll while receiving the plot. Now, it seemed the outside was not a good place for a stroll. She looked around.
It was just a house situated between a residential area and a small rural courtyard. It was a standalone building with a small yard. Beyond the yard was the road. She had come out from the living room.
After some thought, Zhuo Nian turned back into the house. The person she had hit was now sitting on the sofa, his face pale and his eyes阴鸷ly watching her. Sudan Fiction Network
Zhuo Nian turned her head silently, observed for a moment, and entered the bathroom.
"Plot."
The next second, the plot flooded into her mind.
This was a doomsday world, and it was the very beginning of the apocalypse.
The person outside, the mission target of this world, was named Xiao Chongyan. He was 18 years old, and he was her... brother.
Zhuo Nian's expression changed.
Fortunately, it was only nominal.
Years ago, the original host's parents had brought him back from somewhere. The original host, an only child, suddenly had a brother. Naturally, she was unhappy and treated him as an enemy who was stealing her parents' affection, constantly targeting him.
Mr. and Mrs. Xiao didn't intervene, allowing their daughter to bully him. Growing up in an environment where he was not loved by his parents and was bullied by his sister, Xiao Chongyan remained kind.
When he was 18, the apocalypse descended. Overnight, his usually kind friends and neighbors turned into hideous, mindless zombies, eating and biting people like walking corpses.
Those who were caught or bitten by them would also turn into zombies.
Mr. and Mrs. Xiao also became part of the horde of zombies. To protect his sister, Xiao Chongyan had to kill his parents, who had already turned into zombies. However, this earned him the original host's hatred.
During their escape, the original host pushed him into the zombie horde.
He miraculously survived and became a zombie with no heartbeat or pulse. But he was special. He hadn't lost his memory, nor did he eat people, and he possessed the ability to control zombies.
He secretly infiltrated the human world, planning to seek revenge on the original host.
After the original host caused his death, she was adopted in his name by the leader of a large base and lived a life of arrogant indulgence for a long time.
Then, her scheme was exposed by the true heroine. She was retaliated against by the base leader, had her legs broken, and was thrown out of the base, eventually being eaten by zombies.
However, the heroine was not a good person either. She helped Xiao Chongyan reunite with his biological father. After the base leader publicly announced that Xiao Chongyan was his son, she exposed Xiao Chongyan's zombie identity at a base meeting.
Xiao Chongyan was sent to the operating table, dissected, and subjected to repeated inhuman torture. During a moment of lax supervision, he used all his strength to summon a zombie horde to attack the base.
The result was as expected. They all perished together.
And now, Xiao Chongyan had been reborn.
Seeing this, Zhuo Nian finally understood why he had hit her earlier and even tried to kill her.
In the previous life, the beginning of all Xiao Chongyan's tragedies was the original host.
Therefore, the first thing he did upon rebirth was, naturally, to kill her.
Her palm strike earlier had been too brutal.
Zhuo Nian stood up, walked out of the bathroom, and returned to the living room. Xiao Chongyan was now lying on the sofa, his face a little flushed, with beads of sweat on his forehead.
It was over!