Then, with tears in her eyes, she gripped Shen Jie's hand tightly.
"W-why... why is that taste back..."
Shen Jie's heart shuddered, and he pulled her into a tight embrace.
"It's okay. It's okay now. Everything is over."
After soothing Zhang Liying's turbulent emotions and letting her vent, she fell into a deep sleep, utterly exhausted in both body and mind.
The sounds of a noisy crowd drifted in from outside. Shen Jie tucked a blanket around Zhang Liying, then turned and stepped out.
Walking alone down the corridor, his thoughts drifted back to the day the apocalypse began, echoing with his footsteps.
The reason the two of them had managed to survive in the school's sports equipment room back then wasn't because they had directly consumed the flesh of the Zerg Race. It was because of a companion who had been poisoned to death by zerg blood.
