CHAPTER 132: CHAPTER 4: THE DRAMA QUEEN SISTER REFUSES TO BE CANNON FODDER (PART 4)

The next second, the zombie suddenly opened its big mouth and impatiently lunged forward to bite. Just as it was about to bite, Jiang Lai suddenly retracted her hand, leaving the zombie’s teeth just grazing her fingertips, biting nothing but air.

"Death Value: +5."

The prompt sounded.

Little Buding couldn’t take it; its heart couldn’t bear it. It covered its eyes, watching Jiang Lai dicing with death, watching her repeatedly tempt fate by offering her finger near the zombie’s mouth, then pulling it back at the last moment, enraging the zombie into even more violent struggling.

The prompt sounds went "ding-dong," "ding-dong" in a relentless stream.

"Death Value: +2

Death Value +1

Death Value +1

Death Value +1

..."

Aside from the first time where the death value increased a little more, it didn’t go up much after that.

Jiang Lai grew tired of the game and checked her accumulated death value—thirteen.

Hearing voices outside, she figured it was almost time for departure, so Jiang Lai stood up, preparing to make a final big gain.

She walked behind the two zombies, used her knife to cut the ropes binding them, then turned and ran outside, with the two zombies, now unrestrained, howling as they chased after her.

At the door, Jiang Lai stopped, waited for them to get close, then sidestepped out, closed the door with both hands, reattached the chain from before, and finally locked it.

"Death Value: +3.

Accumulated Value: 16."

It took half a day of effort to accumulate just sixteen points.

"How many do I need to complete the task again? A thousand?"

"It’s ten thousand, big sis."

"A thousand, ten thousand, isn’t it about the same?"

"Then can I trade a thousand for ten thousand bucks with you?"

Little Buding was like a nagging older sister, while Jiang Lai, unable to win against it, simply ignored it.

"You’re so weak right now, you can only challenge these trashy, stupid zombies. Take it slow, ten thousand points isn’t much; summon your reckless spirit and courage!"

Jiang Lai earned sixteen points and used ten of them for a card drawing chance, ending up with a "One Finger Flick" skill.

She looked down at her fingers, then tentatively flicked the nearby wall.

With a "dong" sound, the cement wall had a hole punched in it, dust scattering everywhere.

Jiang Lai sighed; surely she couldn’t flick a zombie’s head with her finger, could she? Is she certain her finger won’t get bitten before she even flicks it?

Better than nothing, at least she wouldn’t have to exert so much effort to open canned food in the future.

Jiang Lai walked back near the car. Those who went inside to search for supplies had come out, and before getting in the car, Yang Jun couldn’t help but complain.

"Why were there just some expired cans inside? Totally wasted time there."

Jiang Chao was also a bit puzzled.

"Judging by it, someone should’ve lived there not long ago. Normally, they wouldn’t have had time to move supplies. If someone had already been there, then why are the zombies inside still intact?"

Jiang Lai silently glanced at Gu Han Yan.

The heroine often used this trick—pretending to be weak while hiding her space skills. She would secretly stash supplies away, and as no one knew about these special abilities yet, naturally they couldn’t figure out where the supplies went.

At dinner that night, Gu Han Yan took out some soon-to-expire food from space to share, earning a lot of gratitude and making everyone feel lucky to have such a formidable teammate.

The team had other superpower users too, who didn’t freeload off Gu Han Yan’s food. One water ability user voluntarily gifted her several bottles of refined pure water, and another speed ability user promised to help her deliver a message once they entered the human living zone.

Jiang Lai knew the plot: these two superpower users later regarded Gu Han Yan as their leader, becoming her loyal protectors as she became the queen of the base.

The original character always envied Gu Han Yan, always wanting to be like her, but Gu Han Yan had been aloof since their first meeting, until encountering that demon-like girl, Little Eight, turning that aloofness into a deadly weapon.

Little Eight relied on Gu Han Yan, willing to fulfill all her requests. Whatever Gu Han Yan liked, she liked doubly; whatever Gu Han Yan disliked, she hated twice as much.

Jiang Lai was someone she hated doubly, so in the end, the original character became a zombie shot in the head by her own brother, with Little Eight having played a role.

Jiang Lai could understand the despair and breakdown the original character felt before dying.

She even harbored a lingering dislike toward Gu Han Yan.

If it weren’t for her acquiescence, the unethical, morally void Little Eight couldn’t have wanted Jiang Lai dead.

As for Little Eight...

She seemed to coincidentally appear on tomorrow’s road.

In the original plot, Jiang Lai was always in the cabin, unaware of the situation up front. All she knew was that shortly after the vehicle stopped, her team grew by one little girl, nameless, not talkative, very appealing with her snow-white cleanliness, supposedly rescued by Gu Han Yan from a zombie’s clutches.

Everyone thought she was a burden at the time, very dissatisfied with Gu Han Yan’s actions. But Gu Han Yan insisted on taking the child, willing to leave the team rather than abandon her.

What the original character didn’t know, Jiang Lai surely did: Gu Han Yan was reincarnated, having died in the third year of the apocalypse, making her well aware of what would happen over those three years.

And she knew that during the apocalypse, there was a miraculous healing superpower girl, whose eventual male possessor became the apocalypse’s ruler.

When she saw a lone young girl clutching a rag doll by the roadside, Gu Han Yan immediately guessed it was the one she sought.

Gu Han Yan, the lead character, had extraordinary luck, effortlessly encountering a healing superpower that exclusively belonged to her.

Thus Jiang Lai was convinced the little girl would surely appear on tomorrow’s road.

The next morning, when reboarding the vehicle, Jiang Lai, in front of Gu Han Yan, took Jiang Chao’s arm and pulled him aside.

"Brother, I want to sit with you today."

"Why? You’re safer sitting in the back."

Jiang Lai silently glanced at Jiang Chao, her tone immediately dropping with a hint of sob.

"Brother, did you forget what day it is today?"

"What day... is it..."

Jiang Chao suddenly remembered something, a pang of guilt arising inside.

"I’m sorry, it’s my fault. I forgot today’s your birthday."

Jiang Lai clutched his sleeve, her large eyes full of sadness, nearly shedding tears as Jiang Chao immediately relented.

"Alright, alright, sit in the driver’s seat with me today, okay?"

Jiang Lai broke into a smile, hugging Jiang Chao’s arm sweetly.

"Brother’s the best. With you here, I fear nothing."

These words worked wonders on Jiang Chao, who was soft-hearted, as Jiang Lai, pampered at home, had never been so obedient.