When Xiaoyun knocked on the door of Leyan''s house, Nami answered it.

    "Brother, you are finally back." Nami rushed to hug Xiaoyun.

    Xiaoyun patted Nami''s head as he dragged the suitcase inside the house.

    "Excuse me, Miss Leyan, I don''t have a place to live right now... All the hotels and dorms are closed.

    Can I stay here for a few days? I''ll pay the rent." Xiaoyun asked as he saw Leyan and Yueyue both sitting on the sofa.

    "You can live in the office room any time you want, and you don''t have to pay the rent."

    Leyan''s face blushed as she realized she had just told a man she met for less than a day to live in their house.

    But for some reason, she couldn''t bring herself to refuse Xiaoyun''s wish to stay.

    "Nami, when did you know Xiaoyun so well? You even call him brother."

    Leyan noticed how close the two were to the doorway as Xiaoyun went upstairs with his suitcase to the office room.

    "He''s older than me, so I should call him brother, right?" Nami looked at Leyan with an innocent face.

    "Hmm... sure." Leyan felt Nami was hiding something but couldn''t put her finger on it.

    "Ah!" Yueyue suddenly screamed out as she dropped her phone onto the sofa.

    "Yueyue, why are you screaming?" Nami asked out of curiosity as she walked over to the sofa.

    After looking at Yueyue''s phone, Nami also abruptly screamed and dropped the phone onto the floor.

    "What the hell is going on?" Leyan finally got sick of their scream and decided to walk over to the two.

    As Leyan picked up the phone from the floor, it showed a video of several people dismembered by hundreds of ''people.''

    Leyan immediately closed the video and turned off Yueyue''s phone.

    "Don''t look at these things. You will only scare yourself."

    Leyan handed the phone back to Yueyue as she sat down on the sofa.

    "It''s like the zombie in those movies," Nami whispered.

    "Yeah, are they even people? Their bodies look so rotten, and their eyes are all bloody red. " Yueyue replied in a low voice.

    "What are you talking about?" Xiaoyun asked as he heard the two talking while walking downstairs to the sofa.

    "Mom, you show it to him," Yueyue said, handing the phone over to Leyan.

    Leyan hesitated for a second but turned the phone back on and opened the video.

    After watching the whole video, Xiaoyun wasn''t really too shocked as he had already seen a video from his roommate earlier.

    "From the background, is that Hong Kong?" Xiaoyun asked as he noticed the signature building in the distance.

    As soon as Xiaoyun mentioned it, everyone in the living room immediately got terrified.

    "It might just be a building in America or something. There are so many skyscrapers out there." Leyan tried to calm the two down, but it barely did anything.

    "Where''s Yuqi?" Xiaoyun asked as he noticed she was missing.

    "Yuqi? She went to work and usually comes back home by now... Oh shit! I''ll call her now."

    Leyan immediately pulled out her phone and called Yuqi.

    "Hey Yuqi, are you off work?"

    "Yeah, I''m off work. I''m on the road now... There''s a mile-long traffic jam and a car accident ahead, though.

    It looks like several police officers are standing there investigating. Wow, what the hell? Someone in the car just jumped the police!

    That can''t be right... What the hell is happening?"

    Yuqi''s voice sounded extremely confused at the situation unfolding in front of her eyes.

    "Get out of the car! Don''t wait inside the car! That person must be a zombie." Leyan yelled.

    "Zombie? What are you talking about?" Yuqi asked calmly, not realizing Leyan''s urgent tone.

    "Just get out of the car now! Run to a nearby place to hide!" Nami yelled out this time.

    "Okay, okay, I''m running now." Yuqi finally realized something was going wrong horribly.

    Suddenly, a gunshot sound came out from the phone.

    "The police fired! Holy shit! Why are there so many people on the street? They are all rushing towards the police."

    "Ignore them. Just keep running," Yueyue yelled out this time.

    "Okay, I am running as fast as——"

    The call ended abruptly as Yuqi hung up the call from her side.

    "Yuqi is in trouble... What can I do...."

    Leyan rubbed her temple from stress as she looked a little lost on what to do.

    "Why don''t I go outside and look for her?" Xiaoyun suggested.

    "No, we don''t even know where Yuqi is. How can you find her in such a big city?" Nami immediately argued.

    "How about we drive around to find her?" Yueyue suggested.

    "It''s a traffic jam out there, and a car is way too loud." Leyan rejected the proposal.

    "We can only wait until then..." Yueyue sat back down on the sofa, and everyone looked just as lost as Leyan.

    A few minutes later, Leyan''s phone rang suddenly.

    "Hey Yuqi, are you okay?"

    "I''m fine. I''m at the clothing store in Ping''an Mall... I''m hiding in the changing room right now.

    There seem to be a few security guards with red eyes outside. Mom, what should I do?"

    The three could hear the fear in Yuqi''s voice as a quiet growling sound came out of the phone.

    "Just wait there, okay Qiqi? Mom is going to save you." Leyan replied without a second thought to calm Yuqi down.

    "Okay... I''m safe here, for now. Oh, something is walking past."

    The phone call once again ended abruptly as Yuqi hung up.

    "Miss Leyan, give me Yuqi''s phone number. I will go to the mall and save her," Xiaoyun asked in a determined tone.

    Leyan hesitated for a second, but she had no other way to save her daughter, so she gave Xiaoyun Yuqi''s phone number.

    "I am going with you." Yueyue chimed in.

    "No, you should stay with Mo——Miss Leyan. They need your protection." Xiaoyun refused her suggestion.

    "He is right. He should go alone. We two can''t do anything if a single zombie came here." Nami added.

    Yueyue looked a little disappointed but accepted the decision in the end.

    ---

    When Xiaoyun was just about to leave, Leyan suddenly pulled Xiaoyun into the garage.

    Inside the garage, there are a lot of household tools and an SUV inside it.

    "Take this baseball bat. My husband left it behind when he played baseball one time."

    Xiaoyun accepted the baseball bat, and to his surprise, it had a perfect grip on his hand.

    "I will get going now, thanks Mo——Miss Leyan."

    As Xiaoyun turned around and got ready to leave, Leyan suddenly pulled his sleeve.

    "Wait, can you help me find some... morning-after pills? Yueyue has been following me all morning..."

    Leyan''s face turned blushing red as she made her request.

    "Um, I will get it." Xiaoyun lowered his head out of shame as he still couldn''t process Leyan as his mother.

    After a short, awkward silence, Leyan decided to change the mood.

    "Okay, let me open the door for you."

    Leyan moved in front of Xiaoyun to open the garage''s side door.

    As Xiaoyun walked past Leyan, she suddenly lightly kissed Xiaoyun on the lips.

    "I don''t know how our family can repay you... If you want, you can use my body as much as you want."

    Leyan''s face was blushed red as she looked down in embarrassment at what she had just said out loud.

    "Miss Leyan, you don''t need to do that... I''m saving Miss Yuqi because she''s my sis——she doesn''t deserve to die at such a young age."

    Seeing Leyan''s admiring face toward him, Xiaoyun quickly walks out of the door and realizes he might have made the misunderstanding even worse.

    "Be careful!" Leyan waved as Xiaoyun disappeared into the horizon.

    "Why is my heart beating faster and faster? Am I in love with him... I''m sorry, honey, but my body is the only payment I have for him."

    Leyan muttered to herself as she closed the door back up.

    ---

    There were no zombies on the road as Xiaoyun walked toward the city center.

    Instead, the zombies were locked inside their car and couldn''t escape. But hearing zombies banging on car doors made Xiaoyun a little nervous.

    So the two rushed upstairs to the second floor and saw a suite with the door still open.

    Xiaoyun pushed Yuqi inside, then closed the door and pulled the lock all within seconds.

    "I think we are safe..." Xiaoyun commented as they both fell to the floor from exhaustion.

    After catching their breath for a minute, the two stood back up.

    "Let''s check out the window first." Yuqi nodded in agreement to Xiaoyun''s suggestion.

    The two unconsciously held hands as they walked to the window.

    Outside the window, the whole street was full of zombies walking on the road.

    "We can only wait for tomorrow. Maybe the zombies will be gone." XIaoyun murmured as they sat down on the sofa.

    Yuqi suddenly turned red as she got back up from the sofa, which confused Xiaoyun until she spoke up.

    "Uh, I need to go to the restroom... Can you let go for a second?"

    Xiaoyun immediately let go of Yuqi''s hand, apologizing as he had forgotten about holding onto Yuqi''s hand the whole time.

    "Sorry about that. I didn''t mean to——"

    "It''s fine... It was an emergency."

    As Yuqi got up from the sofa and walked toward the restroom, she stood still at the restroom door.

    "This door is broken?" Yuqi murmured as she tried to turn the doorknob, only for it to be jammed.

    Suddenly, the restroom door was slammed from the inside as if the noise from the doorknob had triggered something.

    "Wait, it might be the original owner that mutated into a zombie. I''ll take care of it."

    Xiaoyun picked up the bat and walked over to the bathroom, where Yuqi hid behind the sofa.

    "It''s definitely a zombie."

    Xiaoyun immediately recognized the growling sound from the inside as he tried to turn the jammed doorknob.

    With the loud noise coming from the restroom, Xiaoyun decided to kick the door open to end the growling.

    To Xiaoyun''s surprise, the kick went right through the door and popped right in, with his leg getting stuck inside as he tried to pull it back.

    "Fuck, this door is so rubbish! Shit!"

    Xiaoyun was finally able to pull his leg back, but it was already bleeding from a bite mark.

    "Fuck! You fucking zombie!" Xiaoyun yelled in anger as he realized he had been bitten.

    Out of pure rage, Xiaoyun slammed his entire body onto the door.

    The door hinges instantly popped, forcing the door to collapse on top of the zombie.

    With a hard stomp on the door, the zombie''s head was squeezed into mush.

    "Shit... what a fucking garbage door," Xiaoyun muttered as he stepped back outside the hallway.

    As his leg became harder and harder to stand still, Xiaoyun laid down on the floor and rolled up his pants.

    The bite mark was deep into his flesh, with blood rapidly flowing out of the wound.

    Seeing Xiaoyun was sitting on the floor, Yuqi rushed over to Xiaoyun.

    "I''ll find something to bandage you."

    Yuqi went to search for clothes to be ripped into bandages. But she came back empty-handed.

    With no other options, Yuqi had to make a decision.

    "Don''t look okay?" Yuqi nervously asked as she began taking off her slim suit.

    Xiaoyun was stunned by Yuqi''s beauty as she took off her shirt next, revealing her voluptuous chest, which was held together by her black bra.

    "I''ll bandage it... If I remember correctly, Mom said to bandage someone, you should wrap twice around the injury to hold the end in place.

    Then work from the inside to the outside of the limb, winding the bandage in spiraling turns."

    As Yuqi began bandaging the wound, Xiaoyun couldn''t help but stare at the cleavage that Yuqi showed every time her arm moved to wrap the bandage.

    "What the hell am I doing looking at my sister like this... but I am fucking dead anyway. Why do I care?"

    It didn''t take much convincing for Xiaoyun to keep staring at Yuqi''s cleavage.

    After finishing bandaging Xiaoyun, Yuqi finally got back up with her slim suit in hand.

    "It''s white..." Xiaoyun accidentally spoke his mind out loud as he looked under Yuqi''s hip skirt.

    Yuqi''s face was blushing red as she noticed Xiaoyun was staring at her panties, but she stood still and didn''t stop him.

    But Xiaoyun finally snapped back to reality and looked the other way.

    "Sorry, I didn''t mean to look——"

    "It''s okay, I don''t mind it... You can turn around now."

    As Xiaoyun turned back around, Yuqi was now wearing her slim black coat without a shirt inside, with her black bra being fully visible.

    "Let me help you to the sofa..." Yuqi said softly as she bent down and supported Xiaoyun back up.

    ---

    The two sat on the sofa silently as neither of them had anything to say. But Xiaoyun decided to end the awkward silence as he could feel his time was limited.

    "Yuqi, I need to tell you something."

    "What is it?" Yuqi nervously asked.

    "Here''s the gun I found. I need you to use it on me."

    Xiaoyun pulled the safety off and handed the gun over to Yuqi earlier.

    "What? I-I can''t do this. I don''t know how to use a gun."

    Yuqi tried to return the gun, but Xiaoyun insisted that she hold onto it.

    "I need you, okay? Please," Xiaoyun pleaded as his voice became increasingly weaker.

    "Please stay with me! It''s all my fault! I should have been the one that deserved to die..." Yuqi began to break down as tears began falling down her face.

    "All this would have never happened if I hadn''t gone to the restroom. I''m so sorry."

    Xiaoyun held Yuqi in his arms, not knowing what to do to comfort her, but time was beginning to run out.

    "Please don''t cry... Listen to me. If I *cough* turn into a zombie, I need you to shoot me."

    Yuqi started crying even harder as soon as Xiaoyun mentioned it again.

    "Okay, okay, you don''t need to shoot me. Just tie me to a chair, at the very least. I don''t want to hurt you, okay?"

    Yuqi nodded in agreement this time.

    "Come on, sis, you are older than me. Why are you crying like a baby? Remember your stone-cold face?"

    Yuqi''s sobbing stopped a little as Xiaoyun commented on her face.

    "It''s not your fault, please don''t blame yourself. *cough* I was careless and don''t regret coming here, okay?

    There are zombies outside *cough* I need you to stop crying."

    As he gently patted Yuqi''s head, her sobbing finally stopped. But Xiaoyun didn''t look at her as he was too focused on reflecting on his life.

    "You know, I''m still kind of sad that I didn''t even have a girlfriend before I died. It is a pity, isn''t it? And If it weren''t for my mom, I wouldn''t even have my first *Cough Cough*."

    Xiaoyun''s cough became increasingly severe, to the point that he couldn''t even finish speaking.

    "No, No, No, don''t leave me! Y-You are my boyfriend now!" Yuqi yelled out loud.

    Seeing his face beginning to turn pale, Yuqi made up her mind and suddenly kissed him on the lips.

    After a few minutes, Yuqi finally let go.

    "Thank you, *Cough* sis. Before I *Cough* go, can you call me brother?" Xiaoyun''s asked softly as his breathing became increasingly difficult.

    "Brother?" Yuqi said out loud as she looked confused at Xiaoyun''s request.

    But before she could ask why, Xiaoyun finally lost consciousness as his eyes slowly closed on itself.

    "No! No, I don''t want to be alone again! Please come back!"

    Yuqi collapsed into Xiaoyun''s arms and started crying again. After crying for a bit, she finally stopped as she thought back to what Xiaoyun had told her earlier.

    After wiping her tears off and dragging Xiaoyun''s body to a chair, she found some zip ties inside the kitchen cabinet.

    Yuqi first tied his hand, then his arm, then his legs and neck. She then went to the window and ripped the curtain to secure the tie further.

    With everything done, Yuqi''s phone suddenly rang before she could sit back down.

    "Hey Yuqi, did Xiaoyun find you? His phone isn''t picking up." Leyan''s worried voice came out of Yuqi''s phone.

    "Yeah, we are both currently in a hotel for the night. Xiaoyun was a little tired, so he fell asleep." Yuqi calmly replied as she tried her best to hold in the sobbing sound.

    "Okay then... Well, good night, Qiqi."

    "Goodnight, Mom——" Unable to bear it, Yuqi immediately hung up and started crying again.

    "Why am I crying so hard for a stranger? I met him today and even gave him my first kiss. Why does my heart hurt so much?"

    Yuqi couldn''t understand the emotion inside her heart as she looked towards the Xiaoyun covered in a curtain.

    "Is it because he saved me?" Yuqi thought more and more but couldn''t come up with a conclusion by the time she fell asleep on the sofa.