“Oops! I Prepped for the Apocalypse and Became a Zombie”

Chapter 22: The Drenched Little Zombie



 

Just as Qin Luo was thinking how cute the pouty little zombie was, wanting to poke her, he saw the post Bai Shu showed him and immediately frowned.

"That looks disgusting."

Suddenly, Xu Duoduo raised her hand and patted Qin Luo's head. Qin Luo thought she was angry and deliberately teasing him, so he grabbed her hand from his head and held it, "Don't mess around, I'm reading a post. Tch, this thing can actually level up by devouring?"

However, looking at the distant forest through the right side window, a huge snake body stood up. Xu Duoduo then realized this creature didn't lack a face; rather, its human face and snake head were mixed together, making it as repulsive as possible.

Her sanity points were plummeting.

She reached for her whistle and blew a short sound, then patted Qin Luo again, finally attracting both their attention. Seeing them look over in unison, Xu Duoduo pointed out the window, her body almost rigid with fear.

This world was too fantastical.

Qin Luo and Bai Shu turned their heads to look, successfully spotting a mutant snake-man writhing like an earthworm in the forest not far from their lane. Occasionally, it would raise its snake head to look forward, then continue squirming. The important thing was that when it squirmed, its tail tip raised up was actually two legs...

Both of them fell silent.

Finally, Bai Shu exclaimed, "Damn, how is it so big?!"

Qin Luo said with a frown, "It's really disgusting."

He was genuinely repulsed.

Xu Duoduo struggled to record a video clip on her tablet, then forwarded it to Bai Shu, asking him to post it. She really didn't want to look at this thing for another second.

Wang Weihu and Chen Xiaofei hadn't even noticed this creature, showing how stealthy its movements were. It was only when Chen Xiaofei heard the commotion in the back and asked about it that they learned a mutant snake-man had appeared at their 3 o'clock position moments ago.

Both of them got goosebumps; these soft, slithering reptiles were the most repulsive.

But disgust aside, they weren't afraid.

The mutant snake-man seemed to be on its own journey and didn't come to bother them.

Both parties just passed each other from a distance.

"It's heading towards C City, and so are we. The chances of encountering it are higher. According to the official post, the snake's weak point is at its seventh vertebra, and this creature's weak point is the same, plus its head," Bai Shu said.

After he finished, the others acknowledged, but no one was in a good mood.

As the car drove a bit further, it entered a curtain of rain. That side was so gloomy it seemed like another world. While this side had no sun, at least it was clear, but the opposite side looked like hell, giving a sense of eternal darkness.

But they still had to go.

Almost instantly upon entering this area, the rain came down in sheets.

Wang Weihu frowned, "Visibility is less than half a meter!"

He turned on the hazard lights.

Qin Luo could only tell him to drive slower, "The cloud mass here isn't dispersing. We have no choice but to drive slowly and see how it goes. If it's not possible, we'll find a place to stop for a while."

Wang Weihu replied, "Understood."

Chen Xiaofei also became fully alert, helping to monitor the road conditions around the vehicle.

The rain was so loud it could be heard clearly inside the car. If the off-road vehicle wasn't so heavy, it probably would have been shaken by the rain.

Xu Duoduo looked up at the car roof, then pressed against the window to look outside. Even with her eyes wide open, she couldn't see clearly. Suddenly, something went "splat" against the window, startling her and making her shrink back.

It turned out to be a mutant frog, as big as a human head, clinging tightly to the window. Its tongue was covered in spines, stabbing at the glass, making a screeching sound.

The little zombie got angry. She wanted to kill this thing that had scared her. After becoming a zombie, Xu Duoduo could be a bit childish, and she wanted revenge.

But with the rain so heavy outside, the window couldn't be opened. She could only glare at it angrily.

Chen Xiaofei also complained that it was blocking the view, "How is this frog so big too? Even with such heavy rain, it hasn't been washed away!"

Bai Shu checked some information and said, "This thing is afraid of fire. It's a low-level mutant frog, brainless, with no mutation core. It's non-poisonous but eats meat and will use its tongue to peck at people! Those spines can scrape off a lot of flesh."

Chen Xiaofei made a disgusted sound, his face full of revulsion, "Just hearing about it makes me feel the pain."

Xu Duoduo stared at it for a while, her mind full of thoughts about how it feared fire and would peck at people. If they let it cling on, it might ambush them when they got out of the car later.

So, before anyone could react, she used insecticide and a lighter. She quickly opened the window, and in the second the mutant frog tried to jump in, she swiftly pressed the flame, directly "whoosh" burning the frog black all over. It fell "splat" under the car and was finally crushed by the rear tire, splattering everywhere...

Xu Duoduo took less than three seconds from opening the window to spraying fire and closing the window again.

The mutant frog was indeed knocked off by the fire, but the back seat area was also soaked by the rain.

Xu Duoduo was especially drenched, her hair wet, clothes soaked, becoming a drenched little zombie. She stood there dumbfounded for a moment.

The three in the front were also stunned.

Wang Weihu quickly glanced in the rearview mirror, seeing the situation and was shocked to the point of gaping.

Xu Duoduo looked at everyone's silence, then at the wet back seat, and suddenly felt like a child who had done something wrong. Her mouth puckered, and she was about to cry.

But zombies don't have tears.

However, they didn't let her cry. Just as her mouth started to pucker, Qin Luo already called out, "Hey, don't cry! Why are you crying? You did well, really!"

He immediately turned and went to the back seat, hugging Xu Duoduo to the cleaner left side, then took the half-wet blanket to wipe the seat.

Bai Shu and Chen Xiaofei also immediately reacted, opening their mouths to praise her.

"That's right! Little Squad Leader, you did great! I couldn't even see the road conditions on the rear side because of that thing! You eliminated it well! Excellent job!"

"Exactly, your skills are impressive! As expected of a little zombie with 1.5x speed boost!"

"Isn't that right? Whose teammate reacts so quickly? Said eliminate and it's done. It's just this rain that's not good, the rain is too heavy!"

As the two of them sang each other's praises, Wang Weihu couldn't help but speak up, "Actually, we could have..."

Chen Xiaofei immediately interrupted, "Haha, children need encouragement! Old Wang, what are you doing? Really, Little Squad Leader did very well!"

He winked and made faces at Wang Weihu. Last night's report on Xu Duoduo had come out, showing her intelligence was unstable, sometimes at 18-19 years old, sometimes regressing to 7-8 years old. Why bully a child?

Besides, it wasn't a big deal.

It was indeed better to deal with this mutant frog sooner rather than later. Who knows if it might suddenly mutate again in the next second?

Xu Duoduo, seeing them frantically trying to comfort her, suddenly froze again, unable to cry.

Qin Luo, after bustling about for a while, finally managed to wipe the seat clean, but it was still damp. So he turned around and fished out a towel from the back, putting it on her head, "Quick, dry yourself off. After that, change into some dry clothes. Do you have any curtains in your space? Take one out, and we'll help you cover up a bit."

Bai Shu then took out a piece of green cloth from his storage space card, "This can cover it. We can each hold one side."


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