EOTWR Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Feeling that the mushroom and lean meat congee wasn’t filling enough, he also made several vegetable omelets.

Zheng Anhe was eating with them for the first time, and with no familiar faces around, he couldn’t help but feel a little scared. He kept glancing towards Lan Ting’s room, which made people feel sorry for him.

Everyone comforted and coaxed him for a long time before he gradually relaxed.

After Lan Ting woke up, he also ate something. He still looked full of hatred, wanting to take revenge on Wang Zhi, but whenever he got emotional, he couldn’t help but get a headache again. Han Lu, wearing a protective suit, comforted him for a long time before he calmed down.

Because of the slight concussion, he needed to rest in bed for a few days. These few days were a good opportunity for isolation.

After Ai Wei made dinner, he carried two bowls of congee and two omelets to eat with Xia Junchi.

Ai Wei had spent the whole day killing zombies, dragging the corpses out to burn, and cleaning the villa, leaving him very tired. But when he entered the room and saw Xia Junchi, it was as if a refreshing breeze swept through his heart, and most of the day’s fatigue dissipated.

He saw that Xia Junchi had taken off his short sleeves from the daytime and changed into a loose blue tank top. The tank top was soft and didn’t cover much, revealing his slender and toned arms, his alluring collarbones, and a small patch of his undulating chest muscles, making him look very cool. Combined with his handsome face, he looked truly sexy and pleasing to the eye.

Ai Wei’s eyes couldn’t help but drift towards Xia Junchi’s chest, and his heart couldn’t help but rise and fall with his chest muscles.

Xia Junchi saw him looking at his chest and smiled slightly, putting down his phone and saying, “Come here.”

Ai Wei’s eyes lit up, and he immediately ran over eagerly. He placed the tray on the bedside table and said, “I made congee and omelets, try them and see how they taste.”

Xia Junchi looked at the steaming food and said, “It’s too hot, let it cool down before eating.”

Ai Wei already knew that Xia Junchi didn’t like eating things that were too hot. He didn’t like eating things that were too hot either, so he planned to wait until it had cooled down a bit before eating with Xia Junchi.

He wanted to ask Xia Junchi if he was bored being alone in the room, but before he could open his mouth, Xia Junchi grabbed his hand and pulled him into his arms.

As a result, Ai Wei’s face was buried in his chest muscles. Ai Wei couldn’t help but gasp. Holy shit!

Wow… it felt amazing!! Ai Wei was about to cry from the sensation of the chest muscles.

At the same time, his brain, which was too tired to think clearly, was shocked. What, what’s wrong with Xia Junchi??!! Why is he suddenly like this??!!

Could he be hallucinating because he was too tired? But this feeling is so real…

“Are you tired?”

A gentle and magnetic voice sounded above his head.

A warm current surged in Ai Wei’s heart. Was Xia Junchi trying to comfort him because he saw how hard he had worked?

Sob sob~ Xia Junchi is so good…

Xia Junchi looked at his small face full of emotion and intoxication and found it very cute, so he couldn’t help but pinch it, saying, “Once my leg is healed, you won’t have to work so hard.”

“I’m not working hard,” Ai Wei said with teary eyes.

Remembering that his claws were still gripping Xia Junchi’s chest muscles, he didn’t know whether to continue touching them or pull his hand back.

He didn’t know what happened just now, his hand just went up on its own. But thinking that Xia Junchi had taken the initiative to let him bury his face in his chest, grabbing his chest muscles once shouldn’t be too much, right?

Thinking of this, Ai Wei couldn’t help but feel his face heat up.

Xia Junchi saw the determined look on his face and couldn’t help but feel sorry for him. Thinking about how, over the past period, he had risked himself for him several times and had been diligently taking care of him, not even Xia Junchi’s parents had been this good to him.

Xia Junchi was a person who was used to giving in relationships. Seeing how good Ai Wei was to him, he always wanted to repay Ai Wei. However, now that he was unable to move due to the fracture, he could do almost nothing. After thinking it over, he could only comfort Ai Wei when he was tired and give him some sweetness.

Ai Wei… this kind of benefit is really too good!

Ai Wei’s heart, which had become numb and exhausted from killing zombies, had now thrown all the zombies out of the universe.

His heart was now full of romance and tenderness, wishing that time would stop at this moment and never change.

The two of them were affectionate for a while before they started eating. He didn’t know if it was because Xia Junchi was too gentle today, or because Ai Wei was too tired, but as soon as he finished eating, he fell asleep on the bed.

He slept all the way until dawn the next day before waking up. Ai Wei opened his eyes groggily and saw Xia Junchi nearby.

Xia Junchi was sleeping peacefully, a true sleeping beauty.

Ai Wei wasn’t in a hurry to get up, so he lay on the bed, looking at Xia Junchi’s sleeping face.

Remembering that Xia Junchi had actually let him touch his chest muscles to comfort him last night, Ai Wei couldn’t help but smile.

He didn’t expect Xia Junchi to do this. If he got this kind of benefit every time after working hard, then it would be worth it no matter how hard he worked.

After looking at the sleeping beauty for a while, Ai Wei got up to make breakfast.

He used the meat from that ability wolf to make a pot of lean meat congee, prepared a few side dishes, and fried a few egg pancakes, busying himself in the kitchen.

When Doctor Li got up to wash up, he was a little surprised to see him busily working with a cheerful expression.

He had killed so many zombies during the day yesterday, and then suffered from neurasthenia at night, not falling asleep until the second half of the night. Even after he fell asleep, his dreams were full of zombies. He thought that Ai Wei, who had killed even more zombies than him, wouldn’t be in a good mental state this morning either, but he didn’t expect Ai Wei to not only not be listless, but also look energetic.

Doctor Li couldn’t help but wonder, did Ai Wei really go to kill zombies with him yesterday? Or was Ai Wei’s mind particularly strong, so he could maintain such a full spirit even after experiencing so much slaughter yesterday?

But remembering how Ai Wei looked emotionally numb while killing zombies yesterday, he didn’t think it was like that.

“Old Li, I’ve made breakfast, go call everyone to come eat,” Ai Wei said when he saw Doctor Li.

“Oh, oh,” Doctor Li responded twice and went to wake everyone up.

Ai Wei finished the last dish, put the marinated chicken pieces in the refrigerator, planning to make fried chicken for everyone for dinner, and then took the tray to the room to eat with Xia Junchi.

Xia Junchi used to basically eat in the company cafeteria, but now he had been nourished by Ai Wei’s cooking every day for this period, he gradually had a feeling of home.

If he had to go back to eating in the cafeteria every day in the future, he was afraid he would be unaccustomed to it.

“We’re temporarily living here, what do you think of this place?” Ai Wei said.

“Not bad,” Xia Junchi said, “The environment here is very good, and no zombies will come over here.”

Ai Wei said, “My sister’s family is still in A City, I don’t know how they are doing now, I wish they could come over too.”

Xia Junchi asked, “What about your family? Do you only have this one sister?”

After the apocalypse, many people’s families turned into zombies. Han Lu had been silent and occasionally cried these days. But Ai Wei didn’t have this kind of grief of his family dying or turning into zombies.

Hearing him ask about his family, Ai Wei was a little embarrassed and said, “I’m my parents’ child in their old age. My parents didn’t originally want a second child, but who knew they would have me when they were almost 50 years old. My mom couldn’t bear to have an abortion, so she gave birth to me.”

If their family’s financial conditions were average, his parents probably wouldn’t have wanted a second child. After all, the two elderly people were old and unable to raise another child. But at that time, his second sister, Ai Mei, had just passed away, and the old couple was immersed in the pain of losing their daughter. When they suddenly had this child, they couldn’t bear to abort it.

Moreover, their family was local to A City, and they had several houses at home. Even if they only relied on collecting rent, they could live very comfortably. What’s more, Ai’s father and mother had pension insurance and pension savings, and they didn’t lack money to raise a child.

Xia Junchi couldn’t help but widen his eyes slightly when he heard him say this, not expecting Ai Wei’s parents to be so old when they gave birth to him.

“When I was born, my sister was already 28 years old, and my nephew was even a year older than me,” Ai Wei smiled and said, “My sister almost treated me like a son. She worried about everything for me, she’s practically my second mom.”

Speaking of this, the smile on his face gradually disappeared, and he said, “My dad died of cancer two years ago, and not long after, my mom also got sick and died. My sister is even more worried about me… She, she often urges me to find a girlfriend…”

Saying this, he couldn’t help but stutter.

Ai Yi didn’t know that he was gay. If she came here and found out that he was with a man, he didn’t know if she would be unhappy, or even want to break him and Xia Junchi up.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but frown slightly and said to Xia Junchi, “I haven’t come out to my family yet, but don’t worry, my sister is a reasonable person, she will accept us being together.”

Xia Junchi felt his nervousness, as if he was afraid that he would be unhappy because his family might object to them being together.

Although Ai Wei didn’t stick to him and act cute like Ye Cong did every day, saying “I love you” all the time, Ai Wei’s worried appearance made him feel more needed and cared for.

“Talk to your sister properly,” Xia Junchi said, feeling a little nervous at the thought of meeting Ai Wei’s family in the future.

He didn’t know if Ai Wei’s sister could accept him being with a man.

Although he hadn’t been with Ai Wei for a long time, the two of them had experienced several life-and-death situations during this time. And Ai Wei took care of him so well that his feelings were already deeper than those of ordinary couples who had been together for many years. In his heart, he had already determined that Ai Wei was his future partner.

He had already started planning what gift to give Ai Yi when his leg was healed.

“What does your sister like?” he asked.

Ai Wei’s eyes lit up, and his mind was racing. Why was Xia Junchi asking this? Could it be… that he wanted to give Ai Yi a gift?

He hadn’t even met the parents yet! But he had already thought about pleasing the parents, which meant that Xia Junchi valued their relationship very much and was planning for their future!

Ai Wei couldn’t help but smile more sweetly and said, “My sister likes a lot of things. Food, jewelry, bags, cosmetics, etc., she likes them all. Just give her something casually when the time comes.”

Saying this, he cautiously asked Xia Junchi, “By the way, have you contacted your family?”

After the apocalypse, too many people had turned into zombies, and he didn’t know if Xia Junchi’s family was still alive and well.

Mentioning his family, Xia Junchi’s expression couldn’t help but turn a little gloomy.

He was actually a little conflicted about whether to go find his parents. If he went to find them, his emotions wouldn’t allow it. If he didn’t go to find them, they were still his parents. Later, thinking that his leg was broken, even if he contacted his parents, he wouldn’t be able to help much, so he simply didn’t contact them.

Unlike Ai Wei, Xia Junchi’s family life wasn’t happy.

His father was a man with a relatively strong traditional concept. Here, the traditional concept meant that the man was the head of the household, and the wife should serve him like a master. The children were born to him, raised by him, so they were his private property, and he could treat them however he wanted. He was ordinary in ability, but he liked to act like a tyrant at home.

And his mother was a woman with high aspirations, hoping that a man would support her and cherish her. But the reality was that her husband’s income wasn’t high, and he didn’t do housework. So, she had to work to support the family, and when she returned home, she had to do all the housework. Not only that, but her chauvinistic husband would occasionally blurt out a few sentences, such as she was a woman and couldn’t enter the ancestral hall, couldn’t sit at the table when guests came, said she couldn’t even do housework well, and still needed him to help with the child, what use was there in marrying her, and so on.

However, when it came to nagging, men were always inferior to women.

His father only occasionally said a few unpleasant words, but when his mother started nagging, it was endless.

His mother, being unhappy, would keep nagging his father about how much money other people’s husbands earned, how much other people’s husbands loved their wives, how good other people’s husbands were at housework, and so on and so on and so on. Once she started nagging, it would last at least a few hours, and she often stabbed his father’s heart with her words.

These two people, one wanting to be a master and be served by the other, and the other wanting to be a princess and be pampered by the other, happened to both be people with high aspirations who couldn’t stand the other person’s criticism. So, they often argued over a word or two, and then started fighting.

The mother was naturally no match for the father, but she was especially good at making a scene.

She would call all the relatives and friends, crying and saying that her husband had beaten her, asking everyone to uphold justice for her. So, the father who beat his wife would be surrounded by the whole family and criticized and educated. She would also go to her father’s workplace to make trouble, asking the leaders to uphold justice for her. After making trouble a few times like this, his father also cowered. But even though his father cowered, he never changed himself. He still acted like a master at home, doing nothing but earning money.

Gradually, his mother no longer had any expectations for his father, and instead placed all her hopes on him.

So, his mother, who already had high demands on him, became even more strict with him. She filled his time every day, not giving him any time to play except during class breaks. If she saw his grades drop, she would turn into a demonic spirit and constantly criticize him.

Not only that, but she and her husband had one thing in common, which was that they felt that the child was born to them, raised by them. They gave the child life and raised the child, so the child was their property, and they could treat it however they wanted. So, all the unhappiness in her life was vented on the child.

If her husband made her feel bad, she would scold the child. If she was tired from work and housework and felt that her life was miserable, she would complain to the child. In short, whenever she was unhappy, she would take it out on the child. Xia Junchi remembered one sentence very clearly, which was that his mother had once said to him as a matter of course, “Scolding the child when I’m in a bad mood makes me feel much better.”

When Xia Junchi was a child, he was a very well-behaved child. This was partly because of his nature, and partly because his father’s authority and his mother’s control made him more and more obedient.

This kind of living environment was very oppressive, so oppressive that he could hardly breathe. He almost numbly followed the path arranged by his parents, enduring the storms from his family. He even thought about suicide several times.

This oppressive life turned into a hellish mode after his mother discovered that he liked men.

His father, a traditional chauvinist, felt that this son was a disgrace and took a mop to beat him to death. And his mother, who had placed all her hopes on him, felt that her perfect son, whom she had painstakingly raised, was actually gay, and the world was about to collapse.

They were determined not to let him continue down the wrong path. After using countless methods to fail to make him change to liking women, they found a gay conversion center to send him to, to cure his gay illness.

Fortunately, at this juncture, Xia Junchi was admitted to a prestigious university.

Although it was a little sad, his mother’s almost perverted demand for his studies over the years had kept his grades at the top.

Even though his parents still wanted to send him to a gay conversion center, they gave up on this idea so as not to delay him from attending a prestigious university.

After Xia Junchi went to college and left his hometown, he gradually felt that he could breathe freely.

Many things in college were new. Through the introduction of classmates, he tutored a junior high school student and earned the first sum of money in his life. Then, he used this money to buy a mobile phone.

In the past, his mother controlled him strictly and didn’t allow him to touch things like mobile phones and computers. Now that he used his own mobile phone, he realized that the world was so rich and colorful.

Before, because he was busy with studying, he didn’t have much time to worry about his homosexuality. Now that he had a mobile phone, he began to search for information about homosexuality online.

Online, he saw some people fearing homosexuality like a tiger, some people slandering homosexuality to the extreme, and some women wanting to become men to engage in gay relationships.

And the gay community, some were licentious, some suppressed themselves and didn’t dare to come out to face the pressure of the world. Some hated women very much, some went to marry closeted women and harmed innocent women because of the pressure of the world, and so on.

Among them, there were also some gays with open minds and positive values who guided him to eliminate his inner anxiety. He realized that liking men was not a disease and found the path he wanted to take in the future.

He added some gay friends and went to gay bars. However, to his disappointment, most of the gays who added him were there for hookups. He was still a relatively conservative person at heart. After recognizing the purpose of these people, he stopped contacting them and focused on his career. He only kept in touch with a few people with compatible values, and Ye Cong was one of the people he met through those people.

After working, every time he went home, his parents would arrange blind dates for him, urging him to get married. If he didn’t listen and refused to go on blind dates, or broke up with the blind date partner, his mother would cry and scream, beating and scolding him. Gradually, he didn’t go home much except for the New Year.

His parents had tried for many years and failed to bring their son back from the path of homosexuality, and finally gave up on this son one day.

In order to pass on the family line, his father divorced his mother and married a divorced woman with a child, and then had a daughter and a son in succession after marriage. Because he felt that this son was a disgrace, he basically didn’t contact him. Occasionally, when he contacted him, it was to ask him for money. After all, in middle age, he still had to support his two young children, and the current wife and her ex-husband’s child, so the pressure was great. This promising son who had been painstakingly raised should naturally be filial to his father and pay for his younger siblings.

Over these years, he had given his father several hundred thousand. Because of this money, his father finally had a good attitude towards him, but he felt that even the last bit of affection between them had been worn away. Now giving money was only to repay the debt of raising him.

And his mother, after the divorce, had been committed to finding him a partner, urging him to get married quickly and change his bad habit of being gay. Compared to his father, who could be dealt with with money, he was more afraid of his mother, who wanted to control him at all times and urge him to get married quickly.

Later, being annoyed by his mother, he simply quit his original job and changed his mobile phone number. He came to A City, which was also a first-tier city, from B City, and never contacted his family again. He only sent some money to his parents’ bank cards on a regular basis.

After the zombie outbreak, he had also thought about contacting his parents, but on the one hand, his leg was broken at that time, and even if he contacted his parents, he couldn’t help much. On the other hand, those two family members made him too depressed and uncomfortable. He really didn’t want to contact them, so he simply didn’t contact them.

Until now, he didn’t know if his family was still alive and well. Now that Ai Wei asked, it reminded him of that family, and he immediately felt a little depressed.

Seeing that his face turned a little bad when he mentioned his family, Ai Wei thought that he hadn’t contacted his family, and that his family was probably in mortal danger.

Ai Wei couldn’t help but feel sorry for him, took his hand and said, “I will be your family from now on.”

Xia Junchi smiled slightly, knowing that he had misunderstood, but he didn’t explain and said, “Okay, we will be each other’s family from now on.”

After eating breakfast, Ai Wei brought toiletries and helped Xia Junchi wash up.

Xia Junchi felt very uncomfortable when he was first taken care of by him. Especially when it came to using the toilet, it was simply too embarrassing. But his current situation did require the care of others, so he could only bite the bullet and accept Ai Wei’s meticulous care. Now that a period of time had passed, he had gotten used to it a lot.

Although being taken care of like this felt a little indescribable, it also quickly brought him and Ai Wei closer.

He had lived for 27 years and had never been taken care of with such meticulous gentleness, and he was a little addicted to such gentleness.

“Have you taken care of patients before?” Xia Junchi asked.

Hearing this, Ai Wei smiled slightly and said, “When my parents were sick and hospitalized, I took care of them by the side.”

Ai Wei didn’t feel too sad when he mentioned his deceased parents. His face showed more remembrance.

“First taking care of my mom, and then taking care of my dad, I have several years of experience in taking care of patients,” Ai Wei said, “Actually, I learned everything from my sister. My sister is much better at taking care of people than me. But she is also the best at telling me to do work.”

Ai Yi was almost 30 years older than him, and it was difficult for the two to get along like ordinary siblings. Rather than saying that Ai Yi was his sister, it was better to say that Ai Yi was his second mom.

The two families lived very close, and the relationship was close, so they spent a lot of time together when they were young.

When Ai Wei talked about his family, his eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles, obviously his family life was very happy.

Xia Junchi couldn’t help but envy him. However, thinking that he would be his person in the future, and he could also have this kind of family atmosphere, he couldn’t help but feel warm and sweet in his heart.

After eating breakfast, everyone began to clean and disinfect.

Ai Wei asked Wang Zhi if there were high-temperature disinfection sprayers in this villa. As a result, there really were, and not just one.

So, the group took turns wearing protective suits, just like yesterday, and carried out a high-temperature disinfection of the entire villa, up and down, inside and out.

The steam sprayed by this high-temperature sprayer was as high as 700 degrees, which could completely kill the zombie virus.

After the group disinfected the entire villa, they closed all the doors and windows tightly, leaving only a few commonly used doors and windows, and installed multiple layers of anti-mosquito curtains. They felt safe enough only after protecting the entire villa tightly.

There were many high-priced mineral waters, juices, and sodas in the villa. But they couldn’t use mineral water for cooking every day. Fortunately, the zombie virus was not resistant to high temperatures, and boiling tap water was just as edible.

The natural gas hadn’t stopped yet, and the villa also had solar power generation equipment. As long as the villa’s induction cooker, pressure cooker, rice cooker, steamer, oven, etc. could be used, they wouldn’t have to worry about the problem of boiling water and cooking rice.

It had to be said that the various supplies in Youran Mountain Villa were really very complete, beyond imagination.

Was this the affluence of the rich?

The group temporarily settled in the villa like this. Ai Wei only needed to cook, and Han Lu and Doctor Li did the other housework. Of course, this wasn’t fixed. Han Lu occasionally wanted to show off her cooking skills, and Ai Wei would occasionally wash the dishes, clean the living room and kitchen, or take care of the children.

If it was just like this, life would be quite comfortable.

But Ai Wei was always worried that the escaped ability wolf would come back to take revenge on them. He still remembered the hateful look in the ability wolf’s eyes.

The ability wolf was many times stronger and faster than them. The walls of the villa and the doors and windows of the villa couldn’t stop it. However, the wolf’s leg was broken and it had been hit hard by a car, so maybe it was already dead.

Ai Wei had been working very hard to cultivate his ability during this period. He tried to absorb the energy in the crystal core of that pitcher plant. He really felt those energies flowing into his body like thin threads, slowly wandering in his body. Finally, they turned into energy and merged with him.

As more and more energy was absorbed, he could feel that his ability seemed to be slowly increasing. After absorbing all the energy in the crystal core, he tried to release his mental power, and sure enough, the range covered by his mental power had widened by two or three meters compared to before.

Feeling the increase in his ability, Ai Wei was both surprised and delighted.

He took out the body of the ability wolf that had been placed in the refrigerator.

If it had been before, he had never even killed a fish, and he would definitely not have processed animal carcasses himself. But now that he had killed so many zombies, he didn’t find it so bloody and unbearable to deal with the corpses.

Moreover, he wanted to see if there was a crystal core in that wolf carcass.

After carefully exploring with his mental power, he did find weak crystal core energy fluctuations in the wolf’s head.

He dug out the crystal core, only to see that the crystal core was shaped like a small bean, with a slight red color inside. It was different from the completely transparent crystal core of the pitcher plant.

Ai Wei put the crystal core in his palm and tried to absorb the energy in the crystal core. However, after absorbing for a long time, he couldn’t absorb any energy at all.

He couldn’t help but increase his mental power to absorb the energy in the crystal core. However, even after trying his best, he couldn’t absorb the energy in the crystal core.

He looked at the crystal core and couldn’t help but frown.

Thinking of what he had read online that ability users could only absorb crystal cores of the same attribute, Ai Wei felt that it should be because the crystal core of this mutated wolf had a different attribute from his ability, so he couldn’t absorb it.

His mental power release ability should belong to the mental power ability, which should be the same ability system as that pitcher plant that could confuse people’s minds, so he could absorb the energy in the crystal core of the pitcher plant. And the ability energy in this ability wolf crystal core should be the physical ability to strengthen physical fitness.

Ai Wei regretfully put away the crystal core of this ability wolf. Although he couldn’t absorb the energy in the crystal core, he could exchange it for other crystal cores with others when he went to the safe zone in the future.

There were many active ability users online. Nowadays, humans could be said to be united and united to overcome the difficulties of the apocalypse. Many people were not stingy in sharing their cultivation methods. As the saying goes, many hands make light work. With so many ability users exploring ability cultivation methods together, humans would soon find many ways to cultivate.