Chapter 51 Home

"It wasn't just weird when those three met, it was the same when we met them... *chuckle*."

Mu Chen couldn't help but chuckle again.

That day, when Mu Chen and his colleagues were leading the rescued people back, one of his colleagues with a visual mutation suddenly cried out, startling everyone.

Normally, that colleague wouldn't have lost his composure so suddenly. After all, as an enhanced vision ability user, his job was reconnaissance and alert, and he'd seen plenty of shocking scenes.

He quickly told everyone the reason for his outburst.

Two headless zombies were approaching them.

Mu Chen and the others: ???

You have to understand, by then they had confirmed that headshots were the best way to eliminate zombies, and now, you're telling us there are headless zombies?

Can headless zombies even move?

"Headless..." Ming Mei's eyes twitched, and her voice was almost inaudible as she thought of the scene Mu Chen had described earlier. "It's not what I think it is, is it?"

"Yeah."

Seeing Mu Chen nod, Ming Mei couldn't help but imagine the terrifying scene of two people carrying a "coffin."

"Li Yuan's personality… even if he thought about resisting those two, he probably wouldn't succeed."

Ming Mei: "..."

Good grief!

Is this the legendary "taking care of the head but not the tail"?

Lu Gui actually agreed to mess around with Qi Hai Kui?

Ming Mei hadn't expected such a dramatic reunion, and she couldn't help but laugh.

"Oh, right, the Zhen brothers have also entered the city. Zhen Hu and I are colleagues now~"

Ming Mei remembered the Zhen Hu's situation and said that they should get together when they have time.

"Okay, we can ask them about forming a team."

"Huh?"

Ming Mei looked at Mu Chen curiously when she heard about forming a team. He explained, "The search and rescue team will only continue searching for two months at most.

"After that, teams of ability users will go outside the city to search for supplies and cultivate land inside the base to prepare for winter."

"I know there may be ability user teams… but… are you saying you don't want to accept the higher-ups' invitation?"

Mu Chen smiled without saying anything, but Ming Mei saw the dissatisfaction in his eyes. She then told him the news she had heard from Zhen Hu.

As if expecting this, Mu Chen wasn't particularly surprised. After Ming Mei finished speaking, the two were silent for a while.

After a long while, bathed in the moonlight, Mu Chen suddenly said, "Do you remember the boxed lunch you gave me?"

"Yes." Ming Mei nodded, she remembered that.

A boxed lunch with a 30% enhanced recovery effect. Since Mu Chen had been doing rescue work outside, Ming Mei was worried about him getting injured in battles with zombies.

"I gave the boxed lunch to someone. It was a player who was on the rescue team with me and was almost eliminated because of an injury."

"Ah, that situation really needed a boxed lunch."

Without blaming Mu Chen for giving the boxed lunch to someone else, Ming Mei listened to him say that the other person might have gone offline without the boxed lunch, and since they were both players and had done rescue work, they must have been of good character to risk their lives to save people.

Mu Chen's actions meant that the other person owed him a favor, and they should have a life-or-death friendship after that, right?

Ming Mei thought about it and looked at Mu Chen again, seeing a flash of astonishment in his eyes before he gently covered the corners of his lips with his hand. "Mei Mei is so good~"

"Of course, I am~" Ming Mei gently snorted, feeling a little angry at Mu Chen's surprise. "Although that boxed lunch was for you in case something happened, it's not like you can't use it to save people. I can make more boxed lunches, but once life is gone, it's gone."

As Ming Mei spoke, a trace of bewilderment flashed across Mu Chen's expression. Then Ming Mei added, "However, if you choose to use the boxed lunch to save someone, you have to protect yourself well and not get caught in a dilemma."

"Okay, I know~" A smile flashed across Mu Chen's face, but then he thought of something unpleasant and said to Ming Mei, "Mei Mei, I've inquired about the boxed lunches you made."

"What?"

"None of the boxed lunches you made have ever appeared in the hands of the search and rescue team members..."

…

"What? Can't I keep a boxed lunch for myself if I made them myself?"

In the cafeteria kitchen, Ming Mei stared at the person who came to collect the boxed lunches with a sullen face. She placed her hand directly on top of the ten boxed lunches beside her, looking completely resistant.

"Miss Ming, each of these boxed lunches is for saving people. If you keep this one..."

"Can't I keep one for my friends? They sometimes carry out missions outside the city too. I can't just eat it myself and waste it, can I?"

"But..."

"But what? They're all boxed lunches for saving people. Why can you give them out, but I can't?"

Ming Mei's tone was aggressive. Ming Mei had been acting like this many times this month.

"Then who did you give the boxed lunches to?"

"I have many friends. Of course, I'll give them to whoever needs them."

Everyone in the cafeteria knew that Ming Mei was well-liked and had many friends.

Many of the ability users who accepted missions from above and enjoyed free food here could say a few words to Ming Mei.

She said she was keeping the boxed lunches for acquaintances, and for a while, the other person really didn't know who she was talking about.

If it was Mu Chen, it didn't seem like it. After all, they had investigated Mu Chen for a while and knew that he had only received a boxed lunch from Ming Mei at the beginning and hadn't taken it out since. No one had seen Ming Mei give him a boxed lunch either.

"Eh? What's going on?"

Just as the atmosphere in the kitchen was tense, Zhen Hu appeared, covered in sweat, startling everyone.

"Um, I'm just here to take my breakfast back..."

Zhen Hu laughed awkwardly and walked straight to his stove, took out a bag of breakfast wrapped in kraft paper from under the stove, and left.

Before leaving, he couldn't help but look back and said with a simple and honest smile, "Miss Ming is a girl, you don't need to bully her..."

As he spoke, he noticed the glare he was receiving and quickly turned around and left in a hurry.

After leaving the cafeteria, Zhen Hu fiddled with the kraft paper bag in his arms, already knowing what the two boxed lunches inside, different from the breakfast he had packed in the morning, meant.

Ming Mei, on the other hand, had been arguing with the other person about keeping a boxed lunch almost every day for the past few days.

In the end, Ming Mei still kept one boxed lunch. At noon, she went to the leader of the cafeteria and said that she would no longer work here, startling him.

"Hey, you don't have to make things difficult for yourself because of the higher-ups. You don't have to quit your job."

Thinking that Ming Mei was angry with the higher-ups, the little leader wiped the sweat from his forehead and tried to persuade her.

"I know I'll keep providing the boxed lunches, but I don't want to stay in the cafeteria all day. It's stable, but I still want to join the ability user team."

Ming Mei sighed and added, "The rescue team has been reduced recently, so the work in the cafeteria is easier and there are more employees. Dealing with interpersonal relationships is… annoying."

Ming Mei's tone was soft, but her eyes glanced around, and the little leader couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

He understood what Ming Mei meant. The number of staff in the cafeteria had indeed been increasing recently. Some had come in through connections, while others had backing. As a small leader, he was sometimes caught in the middle, let alone those without a background. They were being bullied everywhere.

However, he was really trying to persuade Ming Mei to stay.

After all, although she had an ability, it wasn't the kind suitable for combat. If she left the cafeteria, where would she find such good treatment?

"Even if you still provide the boxed lunches that the higher-ups need every day, the rewards aren't much. If you lose your job..."

"Hmm, you reminded me. Such good boxed lunches, it would be a waste not to raise the price for those who treat my boxed lunches like treasures~"

The smile on the little leader's face froze, and he was speechless. She turned around, waved her hand, and left the cafeteria in a dashing manner.

As soon as she went out, Ming Mei saw Lu Xiaoyao and Bai Xiao standing under the shade of a tree not far away, smiling brightly at her.

Seeing her come out, Lu Xiaoyao couldn't wait to wave her hand and said excitedly, "Mei Mei, I've cleaned up the room for you. Mu Chen and Zhen Po just went to get your luggage. Let's go home~"

Hearing the word "home," Ming Mei's heart fluttered, and a faint smile appeared on her face.

More than a month had passed in the game, and she finally had a stable "home"…