Chapter 73 - Heartbeat in a Flash

　'This was originally a human area.' Qu Yao Yao craned her neck and wiped the wind and sand on her face, coughing twice, 'However, half a year after the end of the world, a large number of infectious disease patients appeared in the south, and the top management of the south sent all these people here and turned this place into a quarantine area.'

　　Inside the end of the world, in addition to the human beings who were bitten to death by zombies, and those who competed for supplies and were killed by each other, there were also many who were infected with all kinds of viruses that had no medicine and could not be cured and could only end up waiting for their deaths.

　　'So although this is a human area but there is no difference with the deserted area, except for the dead except for us, there is nothing.' Said this when the air really gradually filled up the increasingly unpleasant stench, Zhang Xin one-handed grip on the handlebars, one hand some difficult to rub his nose.

　　'But ah what no one knows is that our Lust Alliance was established in this isolated area.' Qu Yao Yao had long been familiar with the smell of this area, she stroked her hair and smiled happily, only the despondency in the bottom of her eyes poured out when no one was looking, 'Maybe it's said that everyone who knows about it except for our Lust Alliance is dead.'

　　'I remember others saying that the Lust Alliance doesn't have a fixed headquarters, it's a scattered but mysterious organisation.' Zhang Xin whispered, slowing down to spare his speed when he noticed a rotting corpse lying across the road, 'I don't know who organised it, I don't know how many people there are, the only thing I know is that there isn't a single good person in the Lust Alliance.'

　　From the time the stench appeared, many rotting corpses gradually appeared on both sides of the road, falling on the ground unattended to clean up.

　　Insects and flies flew about, and their buzzing cries made people unable to hold back their nasty chills.

　　'Isn't that because we are too mysterious.' Qu Yao Yao let out a light laugh, 'For us the more ferocious the rumours spread outside the more easily we can hide in the crowd.'

　　Zhang Xin nodded his head, having nothing to say.

　　He was just an ordinary businessman, he tried to ignore these things as much as possible when he could care less about them.

　　The two of them were silent for a while, only listening to the motorbike's sound out of breath.

　　'Right.' Waving his hand to block away a few flies chasing after them, Qu Yao Yao sighed with some disgust, 'You have to pay some attention not to be bitten by the mosquitoes here, these mosquitoes can all carry deadly epidemic viruses, although we psychics won't necessarily die if we catch the disease, I think you shouldn't be willing to be tormented by the disease either, right?'

　　'... I will be careful.' Thinking about those Alterans who had been infected by those messy diseases, Zhang Xin was still really a bit scared.

　　The moment he first became an itinerant merchant, he and a few of his mates went to the northern four districts, and the slums there were filled with people who had contracted diseases. Ordinary people who contracted the disease in the current era of no medication and no vaccine would die for sure, but the physical quality of aberrants was higher, not necessarily dying, but the pain was much stronger than that of ordinary people.

　　He also remembers a contracted the disease of the alien skin are ulcerated clean, but the person is still alive, at that time he could not stand to want to commit suicide on the wheels of a few of them jumped down to be alive crushed neck.

　　The sound of bones cracking at that time he still seems to be able to hear even now.

　　'You are so good.' Hearing Zhang Xin respond so obediently, Qu Yao Yao couldn't help but smile and said, also reaching out to rub his hair.

　　Because he hadn't washed his hair for a long time, Zhang Xin's hair was already 'shiny', but Qu Yao Yao didn't mind.

　　Zhang Xin, however, felt a little uncomfortable and shrank his neck, smiling sarcastically.

　　Most of the people who were mavericks in these two years are dead.

　　'Put this on.' When the putrid smell was getting heavier and heavier Qu Yao Yao pulled out a mask and gave it to Zhang Xin to put on his face, the mask had a faint fragrance attached to it, which instantly lifted people's spirits.

　　'I sewed it myself oh.' Putting on the mask herself, Qu Yao Yao said with a sweet smile.

　　Zhang Xin's face under the mask, however, was suddenly a little hot.

　　Inside the buggy where the windows were barred there was no stench to be smelled, Drunken Nightless took out the air freshener behind the back of the seat to cover the stench that wasn't too heavy in the first place.

　　Yu Lan was scented with a small sneeze, twisted his body and buried his head in Mo Wen's chest.

　　Stench and fragrance, both so annoying!

　　After about half an hour or so, a few people successfully passed through this 'sea of corpses' to a quiet four lakes.

　　Carrying Yu Lan out of the car, Mo Wen looked at the shimmering surface of the lake under the sunlight and narrowed his eyes slightly.

　　'Why is there a lake here?' The stench was no longer as strong as it was just now, Zhang Xin took off his mask and looked at the lake in front of him in surprise.

　　The water source in the end times was very precious, although there was no way to drink it directly, but the water source would not be a problem if there was a Water Alien.

　　So the southern part of the country should no longer give the place with this lake to be used for isolating patients.

　　'You can walk towards the lake.' Hearing this Drunken Night couldn't help but walk over to him with a smirk, 'Soon you'll be able to see why.'

　　'Go away Drunken Emperor, don't bully the newcomer!' Qu Yao Yao very righteously blocked in front of Zhang Xin, thrusting her waist and righteously said, 'You go and wreak havoc on my sister, don't come and wreak havoc on my newly found little friend!'

　　'... 'The corner of Qu Miaomiao's mouth, who was getting off her bike, twitched.

　　This damaging sister!

　　'Yo, Yao Yao I haven't seen you for a long time, do you even miss me?' Looking at this face in front of him that was exactly the same as Qu Miaomiao's, Drunken Night couldn't help but reach out to pinch Qu Yao Yao's face.

　　Twins and whatnot are too much fun ah.

　　'Go away, nuisance!' After mercilessly pushing Drunken Wuyi away, Qu Yao Yao then turned to Zhang Xin and explained, 'There is a kind of foreign plant that grows inside this lake, and they emit a kind of poisonous mist that will confuse people who get too close to this lake and drag them down to eat them. Because this foreign plant grows in the lake, not a single person dared to tackle it, so when countless people died in this lake, the south simply sealed the lake.'

　　Except for the water alien who would be fine if they drank the water from the lake, all other humans would mutate if they drank it, and the water alien ability was just an auxiliary ability without any offensive power, so no one was even willing to take the risk.

　　'Drunken Nightless don't you fool around.' Xiu Qi stepped down from the car and opened the boot and said indifferently, 'Quickly carry your gold master away, I see he's almost out of breath.'

　　Seriously Xu Yu shirt's life can be really big, so tossed surprisingly can still hang a breath, if other people may have already ascended to heaven.

　　'Okay, okay.' In front of people drunken night will always maintain his good cultivation, to put it plainly is to pretend B, at the moment he has no objections to walk up to carry Xu Yushiang on his body, at the same time secretly use supernatural energy to protect his dying heart and lungs, this gold master is still useful, can't die it.

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