Chapter 151: Your Doom Has Arrived (34)

"Miaoru... Miaoru, wake up, Miaoru..."

"Ah!"

Lin Miaoru shrieked, sitting straight up in bed, looking at the person in front of her with terror in her eyes.

"Miaoru, you had a nightmare," the man comforted her tenderly. "Once you wake up, it's fine. It's okay now."

Lin Miaoru: "..."

Was that just a dream too?

Lin Miaoru looked around neurotically and pinched the man hard, causing him to gasp in pain.

Convinced that this was not a dream, Lin Miaoru suddenly broke down and wept bitterly.

The man was left completely at a loss by her sudden burst of tears.

...

Lin Miaoru had been having nightmares every single day.

Her dreams were filled with scenes of Feng Ying coming back to claim her life.

Startled awake the moment she drifted off to sleep, Lin Miaoru had not slept soundly in days.

The torment made every day feel worse than death.

She had experienced nightmares during the days following Feng Ying's death as well.

Yet none of them had been this terrifying, this realistic.

It felt as though Feng Ying truly existed, lingering right beside her, watching her, speaking to her...

Lin Miaoru was now easily startled by the slightest rustle.

She tried hard to overcome it, but the psychological defense lines she managed to build up would be shattered into panic the very next second.

Lin Miaoru felt that one day she would fail to wake up from her nightmares and perish entirely within them.

She was now terrified even to sleep.

"Brother Chen, Brother Chen..."

Mu Chen was in the middle of a meeting with his subordinates when he suddenly heard someone shouting outside.

He had listened to that voice for so many years that it was etched into his heart.

Therefore, Mu Chen chose to completely ignore the commotion outside and pressed on with the meeting.

"Alright, that's it for today. Pay attention to what we discussed during the next operation; you're responsible for your own lives."

"Understood, Brother Mu."

"Dismissed."

As everyone packed up and left, someone glanced out the window and reminded Mu Chen.

"Brother Mu, that... person is still outside."

Lin Miaoru had stopped shouting, but she hadn't left either, keeping watch downstairs.

Mu Chen fell silent for a moment, then stood up and headed down.

"Brother Chen."

Lin Miaoru immediately rushed forward to meet him.

Having not seen her for a few days, Lin Miaoru looked not only a size thinner but also thoroughly exhausted.

Mu Chen said with a cold face, "Didn't I tell you not to come looking for me anymore?"

"Brother Chen, I know I was wrong, I truly know I was wrong." Lin Miaoru grabbed Mu Chen's arm. "I know I was wrong, I know I was wrong."

She repeated those words over and over again.

Mu Chen frowned. Why was Lin Miaoru acting so strangely?

Tears streaming down her face, Lin Miaoru sobbed, "I really didn't mean to. I just wanted to teach her a lesson back then, I didn't want her to die, who could have known there would be zombies there? I really know I was wrong, I didn't mean it, Brother Chen, please save me, save me."

Hearing these words spoken directly by Lin Miaoru, Mu Chen still felt a chill run through his entire body.

In the apocalypse, the slightest carelessness could cost lives.

Didn't she know that?

How many times had he emphasized this along the way!

"Brother Chen, I really can't take it anymore. She comes to look for me every single day, save me, please save me, I know I was wrong."

Lin Miaoru was incoherent, her explanation far from clear.

Mu Chen could hardly understand what she was talking about.

Right now, he only wanted some peace and quiet; he didn't want to hear another word from Lin Miaoru.

"From now on, take care of yourself."

Fearing that if he listened any longer, he might do something drastic, Mu Chen dropped those words and walked away directly.

Lin Miaoru screamed like a madwoman, but nothing could make Mu Chen stop.

...

Ling Qiong happened to witness Lin Miaoru's performance. Waiting for Lin Miaoru to finish venting, she called out to her from above.

Lin Miaoru looked up at her, her eyes bloodshot, resembling an evil ghost.

Pretending not to notice, Ling Qiong curved the corners of her lips and said softly, "I wish you a pleasant future."

Since Lin Miaoru hadn't come to torment her after entering this place, she didn't care to bother with her either.

After all, she only needed to change the ending of this character; she had no obligation to avenge her.

Yet Lin Miaoru refused to behave.

Insisting on coming over to seek her favor.

In that case, she couldn't be blamed.

Ling Qiong turned and walked away, and someone hurried over to meet her. "Ms. Xu, I am very sorry, I have already asked, and Mr. Jiang has not been here today."

"Is that so?"

"Yes," the man replied. "Perhaps you could look elsewhere; Mr. Jiang might have gone somewhere else."

On the virtual screen before Ling Qiong, a card was enlarged.

It was the one she had just been forced to top-up and draw by Shanshan.

The card was named [Peeping].

The moment it was drawn, a red stamp had been marked upon it.

When Jiang Xunchu went out, he had explicitly said he was coming here.

And now this person was telling her that Jiang Xunchu had never been here...

"Mr. Jiang is a grown man, nothing should go wrong. Please don't be overly anxious; perhaps he will be back shortly."

The man made a gesture of invitation, clearly intending to usher Ling Qiong away.

"May I make a request?"

The man smiled and nodded. "Go ahead. As long as it is a reasonable request, we will do our best to help you."

Ling Qiong smiled back, meeting the other person's gaze as she slowly said, "I want to see him right now. Will you help me, please?"

...

The Laboratory.

The laboratory's smoke alarm blared incessantly, and people bustled back and forth in a busy rush, though no one found it strange.

The alarm stopped abruptly, and everyone returned to their respective tasks.

A man in a white coat and several others emerged from a room, wearing heavy protective suits.

"Still no good..."

"How many times have we experimented? Every single time it's a failure. Is this direction even..." someone questioned.

Convinced that his direction was correct, the man in the white coat insisted, "It's definitely right. You guys proceed with the next experiment, I have to go handle something."

Taking off his protective suit, the man in a white coat hurried off in a certain direction.

"What are you people doing down here?"

"You are not allowed to enter this area casually, stop right now!!"

Hearing commotion from ahead, the man in a white coat instinctively looked over.

The guards who should have been stationed upstairs had descended fully armed, and walking right in their midst was a young girl, curiously looking around her surroundings.

Frowning, the man in a white coat wondered why she had been brought down here.

Had something happened?

"I told you to stop, didn't you hear?"

"What are you doing?!"

"Hey!!"

The group of guards ignored the warnings and continued forward.

Armed with weapons, the other personnel instinctively retreated.

Realizing something was amiss, the man in a white coat changed direction and hurried over.

"Professor."

The man in a white coat held a high status in the laboratory; the moment he appeared, the rest cleared a path for him.

The man in a white coat asked, "Why did you bring her down here?"

Ling Qiong paused slightly in her steps, and the surrounding guards halted in unison, yet no one answered the professor's question.

The atmosphere was indescribably bizarre.

"Hello there, Professor." The young girl standing in the middle of the guards waved at him. "I'm here to pick up my darling pet, is this convenient?"

With her sweet voice, polite phrasing, and meek, obedient appearance, it was impossible for anyone to raise their guard against her.

"..." Suspicion lingering in his heart, the man in a white coat asked with a darkened expression, "Ms. Xu, what are you talking about? Whose darling pet?"