Chapter 095: Dead Body Mutation? Evolution?

In the blink of an eye, the twin sisters were watching a departing figure until it disappeared like a meteor.

This wasn't a figure of speech—it really disappeared into the night sky like a meteor.

"Stop staring, he's already gone."

"I-I wasn't staring. It's just that the night is nice today, and the starry sky is quite beautiful."

"The starry sky is beautiful?"

Nashida Oriha looked up at the night sky, then looked at the older sister of the twin pair—Mikazuki Helen—with a half-smile.

This girl was quite intriguing.

Although that sudden gunshot had saved her, given this girl's somewhat arrogant personality in the past, she would usually make a fuss and act indignant in a very tsundere way.

However, it seemed that after that gunshot, she had been scared silly and didn't dare show any angry or dissatisfied expressions toward him. She even seemed afraid of him, not daring to make eye contact at all.

"Is-isn't that allowed? I just like the night sky in this kind of weather."

Mikazuki Helen was still being stubborn.

Actually, from the moment he fired the gun, she had indeed been severely startled.

But when she learned that what was shot was the dead body behind her, this feeling of terror and anger inexplicably changed drastically, and her heartbeat became so fast.

Just recalling that scene of him drawing and firing without hesitation made her feel it was so cool.

Clearly he had been so rude and discourteous—she should have been angry—but she couldn't get angry at all anymore.

She had thought about trying to act mildly angry, but when she saw him frown slightly, she panicked.

That wasn't because she was actually afraid he would shoot her too, but because she was worried he would really find her annoying and completely dislike her.

So Mikazuki Helen understood—she had fallen in love at first sight from that moment.

"Fine, fine, fine."

Originally Nashida Oriha wanted to tease this girl more and play with her, but the radio was reminding her to come over, so she gave up.

The dead body problem from earlier had been checked thoroughly, confirming that it was someone who had been infected from outside, not a problem with the base.

Now, to avoid real food contamination infections, they were urging her to help with inspections.

They wanted her to use computer technology to carefully analyze all surveillance footage and watch for any bad actors mixed among the citizens who might be trying to poison people.

That guy had left because the so-called Panacea had successfully begun production.

Although production had started, it didn't mean they could immediately satisfy everyone in the entire shelter. They needed to be even more vigilant about virus infections getting in.

Currently, there were sixteen hours left until return time.

When he had arrived in this world, the time had been exactly midnight in this world.

The time he could stay in this world was one hundred hours—four days and four hours.

That is to say, the current time was noon, and after twelve more hours, it would be exactly four days since coming to this world.

Then after four more hours, it would be 4 AM the next day—time to leave this world.

So Ejie was currently engaged in zero-cost shopping, selecting food in a large supermarket.

After all, he had one cubic meter of space—might as well use it.

Because space was limited, with some Panacea, D99 virus, and thermal bullets already stored, he had two-thirds of the space left to utilize efficiently and couldn't pack foods that wasted too much space.

As for the power armor that could arm his body or transform into an unmanned combat aircraft, Ejie didn't plan to take it back. He would leave it in this world.

After all, the "Syringe" organization hadn't been completely eradicated, so having this would greatly improve the safety of Saeko Busujima and others.

Suddenly, a clear and elegant fragrance drifted over to him on the air current. Looking over, it was the deep purple-haired girl.

That beautiful face showed emotions that seemed somewhat excited.

"It's full now. I recalculated."

These seemingly random words left Ejie stunned for a moment before he understood.

"Then you keep it for now. I don't need to use it right now."

Obviously, the energy bar was full and she had obtained energy coins.

He hadn't asked about progress these past two days, but from Saeko Busujima's behavior, he could roughly guess that she had been so actively clearing dead bodies to accelerate the energy bar, and there had probably been considerable progress.

It seemed possible she might successfully get one before he left.

Now it seemed the timing had been moved up considerably.

"By the way, I encountered a special dead body."

"Special dead body?"

Following Saeko Busujima's explanation, he understood what kind of special dead body it was.

It was a dead body that could run—ordinary people might not even be able to outrun this one—and its strength was three times greater than ordinary dead bodies.

Besides that, this dead body also seemed a bit smarter.

Initially, Saeko Busujima thought its brain might have regained some consciousness, but the consciousness was too weak, like a wild beast.

But through her testing, she discovered this should be a kind of bodily memory instinct response.

For example, since dead bodies had no consciousness, they shouldn't know what walking was and shouldn't be able to walk.

But in fact, dead bodies could walk, which was clearly a kind of bodily memory instinct response.

Long-term walking had formed this kind of muscle memory instinct response.

"If this is an isolated case, that's fine, but if this is the dead bodies themselves changing and evolving, that would be terrible."

Saya Takagi, who had appeared beside them at some point, said this in a very grave tone.

If the situation was the latter, with such dead bodies appearing in just a few days, what about after a few more days?

With such a massive base number of dead bodies, there would definitely be quite a few of these special dead bodies, making them more troublesome to deal with and more likely to threaten the lives of personnel going outside.

"Hey, do you really have to leave?"

Saya Takagi suddenly asked the person before her in a somewhat awkward and uneasy tone.

He had already told them that tomorrow he would be leaving here.

As for specifically when he would return, he said it was uncertain.

"Yes. Will you miss me?"

"Yes, I will miss you!"

Saya Takagi directly admitted it and even directly hugged him.

However, this behavior that was almost like a confession wasn't accompanied by a blushing face. Instead, her face showed more bewilderment and unease.

"Dad is gone, and Mom is like that, so she'll probably also..."

The somewhat choked voice stopped there and turned into trembling.

"Also?"

Yuriko Takagi should be fine, so Ejie didn't understand what the sadness in this glasses girl's eyes meant.

"She'll... go accompany Dad."

"Commit suicide for love?"

At this speculation, Ejie saw the glasses girl nod.

That shouldn't be right—she'd just abandon Saya Takagi like that?

"If you stay, Mom will still be somewhat wary of you to determine my situation. Until she confirms I can stand on my own, until she can feel at ease about me, she'll stay with me."

This was actually half an excuse from Saya Takagi.

The other half was her personal selfishness not wanting him to leave.

However, what she said about her mother committing suicide for love wasn't fake.

After all, she was her mother's daughter and naturally the person most familiar with her mother. Combined with accidentally hearing her mother's drunken voice last night, she was even more certain her mother had such thoughts, which left her at a complete loss.

The two people she could rely on would both leave one after another, and she was very afraid.

Of course, it didn't mean that after he left, her mother would immediately go accompany her father.

After all, he might come back, so her mother wouldn't immediately abandon her. She would also need to organize the Takagi family for her daughter and leave her with certain power.

But if he left for too long without returning, it would mean the time her mother stayed with her would also shorten.

So Saya Takagi very much hoped he wouldn't leave.

Witnessing this scene, Saeko Busujima felt she couldn't delay any longer.

So an idea formed in her mind—a special candlelight farewell dinner for him.

She would also continue what hadn't been completed in the bathroom that day.

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