TL: Moonlit

Old Xue sighed, “Xiao Hen, take a look at your father, too.”

Xiao Jiang glared at him, warning Old Xue not to talk nonsense.

Xiao Hen paused as he stood up and glanced at his father’s broken leg. “I’m not a healer, I can’t fix his leg.”

Ignoring Xiao Jiang’s warning look, Old Xue said, “He was injured in the back, stabbed with a knife.”

Xiao Hen abruptly turned around and looked at Xiao Jiang, but Xiao Jiang didn’t look at him. “It’s just a minor injury, he won’t die.”

Ignoring him, Xiao Hen quickly circled around to Xiao Jiang’s back. The clothes on his back were already soaked, and the wound was still bleeding profusely, oozing black blood.

Xiao Hen knew exactly what this meant, and his entire body froze.

After a moment of shock, Xiao Hen immediately took out a medical kit and began bandaging Xiao Jiang, but Xiao Jiang pushed him away. “Don’t waste resources. If you have the time to bother me, think about how to organize the Third District. There may be ‘Undead’ infiltrating…”

Xiao Hen continued to bind the bandage tightly. “I’m no longer part of the Third District. You can organize it yourself…”

Xiao Jiang forcefully pushed Xiao Hen away and angrily said, “For the past three years, you’ve been going against me. Whenever I forbid you to do something, you go ahead and do it anyway. Now, in this critical moment, when the Central City’s survival is at stake, what are you still sulking about? Are you a child? After all these years of devotion to our country and cause, have you learned nothing about the duty of a soldier?!”

“Old Xiao!” Old Xue quickly interjected to try to calm the situation.

Xiao Hen clenched the bandage tightly in his hand and angrily said, “Is it me going against you, or are you just stubborn? You insist on things that can’t be questioned or refuted by anyone! Even if it’s wrong, you would never admit your mistake!”

“What have I done wrong?! I have been working hard for the country, for the people, for peace. Even in this apocalypse, humanity must leave something behind. We can’t truly be wiped out in this disaster!”

“Your persistence is what’s wrong!”

Xiao Hen exclaimed, “Look at these people, look at the bodies everywhere. Killing people to clean up the city, is that what you call peace?! You’re a general, their lives are in your hands. With a single command, you can make them charge forward fearlessly!”

“To succeed, sacrifices must be made! If we don’t clear the zombies, how can humanity survive?!”

“The zombies are not our enemies! They never were! They’re just infected, they can be restored to humans. Your cleanup is essentially a disguised massacre of humans!”

“Stop talking nonsense!”

“How can I believe your crazy words?!”

“Stop arguing!” Old Xue intervened, trying to mediate. “Xiao Hen, stop speaking!”

Xiao Jiang’s anger overwhelmed him, and he coughed up a mouthful of black blood. His face turned pale, but he continued to hold on. “I know you hate me. If you take over the Third District, I will solve the problem myself immediately and never bother you again!”

Xiao Hen’s eyes turned red with anger, and he threw the bandage in his hand. “Do whatever you want with the Third District. If no one wants it, then disband it. I don’t want it!”

“Xiao Hen!”

“Don’t mention the Third District. It’s uncertain if we can even protect the Central City! Weren’t you curious why I suddenly came back? I can tell you that the ‘Corpse Mother’ is now in the Central City. She has been here for quite some time. How many ‘Undead’ do you think are in the Central City right now?”

Everyone was shocked!

Xiao Hen pointed at each person who was still alive. “Among you, there are ‘Undead’. Don’t ask me how I know. When I have the chance, I will clean you all up one by one.”

Xiao Hen didn’t want to argue with Xiao Jiang anymore. He took out a pale red potion from his hand. “This is a zombie virus antidote. It can cure all common zombie viruses. I don’t know which type of zombie virus you’re infected with, so try this one first.”

Everyone: “?!?!?!”

An antidote for the zombie virus?!

Has the legendary antidote for the zombie virus been developed?!

Does that mean the brothers who were injured in battle before don’t have to die?!

Everyone present was on the verge of excitement, but for the sake of discipline, they held back their emotions, preventing themselves from jumping up and cheering out loud.

Lao Xue was ecstatic. “Quickly, quickly, try it on Old Xiao!”

Xiao Jiang appeared dazed and stunned, still unable to recover from the dual impact of the “Corpse Mother” and the “zombie virus antidote.”

Xiao Hen opened the lid and handed it over to Xiao Jiang.

Xiao Jiang stared at the pale red potion for a long time before taking it and drinking it in one gulp.Everyone was fixated on Xiao Jiang, eager to know if the zombie virus antidote was real or fake.

Xiao Hen was also watching closely. It wasn’t until the black blood turned bright red that he let out a sigh of relief. It seemed that the knife wound was caused by the common zombie virus. No one would have expected the difference between the common zombie virus and the evolved zombie virus, even though they were both the same kind of virus.

Xiao Jiang felt much better now. Without the invasion of the zombie virus, he only had to deal with the wound and blood loss, which couldn’t defeat him.

Xiao Jiang’s expression was complicated as he awkwardly said, “Look at your senior, Old Xue.”

Xiao Hen replied, “Looking won’t help. This antidote won’t work for him.”

Xiao Jiang said, “…”

Xiao Jiang said, “Are you going to watch him turn into a zombie?!”

Xiao Hen opened the car door and said, “If he becomes a zombie, wouldn’t that give you an opportunity?”

Old Xue remained silent.

Xiao Jiang was furious. If his leg hadn’t been broken, he would have pounced on his son and started a fight.

Xiao Hen and another soldier lifted Old Xue into the car, leaving his own father to be carried by someone else. He didn’t want to do it himself.

Xiao Hen sat in the passenger seat and said, “Go to the First District.”

The soldier driving the car looked confused, suspecting that the Colonel had entered the wrong destination.

Xiao Jiang sarcastically said, “Do you not even know where your own home is?”

Xiao Hen ignored Xiao Jiang and said to the soldier, “You heard right, go to the First District. If you go fast enough, Old Xue might have a chance at survival. If you’re too slow, he might turn into a zombie… Oh, by the way, it’s better to bring the infected soldiers back. With the antidote, there’s nothing to fear. As long as the Third District can provide compensation, they can be saved.”

The soldier: “…”

The soldier didn’t dare to delay and drove at full speed!

Xiao Jiang was about to explode with anger. “I’m still the top authority in the Third District! You’re working for the Third District and you still want compensation?!”

Xiao Hen said calmly, “Sorry, but I’m no longer a part of the Third District. In our family, my wife has the final say.”

Xiao Jiang: “???”

Old Xue: “???”

Both of them had the same perplexed expression.

Xiao Jiang took a moment to react before angrily asking, “When did you get married? Who is it?!”

Xiao Hen clicked his tongue and said, “General Xiao Jiang, I must remind you that with your temper and tone, if you speak to my wife like this, you might have to watch your soldiers turn into zombies because he’s likely to let them die without saving them.”

Xiao Jiang: “…”

Xiao Jiang: “…”

Xiao Jiang: “…”

Damn it, he was infuriated!

Old Xue was already very weak, and now he had to mediate between the father and son. “Do I also have to go to your wife for help with my old life?”

Xiao Hen appeared quite proud. “Yes.”

Old Xue said, “Does your wife have the antidote?”

Xiao Hen replied, “Yes.”

Old Xue fell silent for a moment and then said, “I suddenly thought of someone.”

Xiao Hen said, “Yes, that’s right, the person you’re thinking of.”

Old Xue: “…”

Old Xue: “…”

Old Xue: “Let me process this slowly.”

Xiao Jiang looked blank, clearly not having thought of anyone either.Xiao Jiang exclaimed, “Who is it, after all?”

Old Xue weakly said, “You wouldn’t want to know.”

Xiao Jiang replied, “Whether I want to know or not, I have to know!”

Xiao Hen interjected, “Wen Qingling.”

Old Xue closed his eyes, unable to bear looking directly at Xiao Jiang’s reaction.

Xiao Jiang: “???”

Xiao Jiang couldn’t comprehend the situation at all.

Xiao Hen clarified, “My wife, Wen Qingling.”

Xiao Jiang: “…”

Xiao Jiang: “???”

Xiao Jiang: “!!!!”

Xiao Jiang turned his head and asked the seemingly lifeless Old Xue, “I remember Wen Qingling is a man, right?”

Old Xue nodded.

Xiao Jiang fell silent.

Xiao Jiang remained silent for a long time.

Xiao Jiang asked, “Wen Qingling has come to the Central Mega City?”

Old Xue: “…”

Xiao Hen: “…”

Wait, isn’t your focus a bit off? Or is Wen Qingling’s importance so great that you can overlook their gender?

Xiao Hen decided to remind him, “Wen Qingling, male, my wife.”

Xiao Jiang exclaimed, “Has he developed the antidote? Is he in the Central Mega City now?”

Xiao Hen confirmed, “Wen Qingling is my wife, and yes, he has developed the antidote. He is currently in the Central Mega City.”

Xiao Jiang suddenly felt like he had overlooked something and carefully thought it through, only to be astonished!

“Wen Qingling is in the First District?!”

Xiao Hen: “Yes.”

…Unaware that Wen Qingling and Lu Tianjin had already left the Central Mega City.

Xiao Jiang was furious, “He’s walking into a trap! The First District has repeatedly proposed sending troops to Ling City, but I’ve always stopped them. Now, the main character himself has walked right into it. No wonder you two make a perfect match, equally brainless in your actions!”

Xiao Hen: “…”

Well said. Saying that in front of Wen Qingling would be the end of the Third District.

Lu Tianjin was crawling in the grass by the roadside, monitoring the enemy situation. A stray zombie kept passing by and stepping on it multiple times. If it weren’t afraid of revealing itself, Lu Tianjin would have kicked it to death.

Can’t the wandering zombie stay further away and stop stepping on it repeatedly?!

The zombie clearly couldn’t understand Lu Tianjin’s frustration and stood still next to Lu Tianjin.

Lu Tianjin belatedly looked up and met the zombie’s grayish-white eyes.

Lu Tianjin: “…”

It felt like this zombie was looking at it. Is it just an illusion?

Lu Tianjin doubted if it was overthinking. If zombies had brains and consciousness, they wouldn’t be called zombies.

Then, Lu Tianjin got surrounded.

A group of people carrying wooden clubs surrounded it tightly, saying, “Don’t move! Crouch down and cover your head!”

Lu Tianjin: “…”

Should I move or not?

Lu Tianjin had its arms restrained and was forcefully lifted up and escorted away.

As Lu Tianjin left, it glanced back at the zombie, the traitor among the zombies, a disgrace who harmed its own kind!