"Hot..." Han Yang, with his beautiful yet indifferent face, approached Guo Xiaobei and frowned in surprise. "You're not a zombie?"

  Guo Xiaobei's heart almost stopped beating. He just felt cold sweat starting to break out all over his body. However, he still forced a smile and said, "Do I look like a zombie... Would a zombie escape and fight with you together?"

  Han Yang nodded upon hearing this, which was considered an admission. Then he touched a few more times and withdrew his hand. "Then... Are you a supernatural being?"

  "No," Guo Xiaobei shook his head directly. What a joke! How could he be a supernatural being? He was the one that supernatural beings wanted to eliminate!

  Han Yang didn't say anything more. It seemed that since Guo Xiaobei was neither a supernatural being nor a zombie, he was useless to Han Yang. So Han Yang directly ignored him and turned around to leave.

  Guo Xiaobei watched the other person leave and quickly put on his clothes. Even so, he still sneezed three times in a row.

  By the time he came out holding the coat, Han Yang had already disappeared without a trace. Guo Xiaobei sighed silently. Was that just a free grope?

  Guo Xiaobei threw the coat to Xing Fang and asked him to give it to Tian Tian. Actually, he could also give it directly to Tian Tian, but he always felt that since her brother was right there, it wouldn't be good if he was too eager to please and got misunderstood.

  After about a quarter of an hour, the queue moved forward a bit. It seemed that the efficiency was quite good. Guo Xiaobei left the queue and slowly backed to the opposite wall. He was just waiting for Xing Fang today. Anyway, with his strength, he wouldn't go hungry even if he took a day off.

  By the wall, there were also other people waiting. It seemed that there were quite a few people with the same thought as Xing Fang. Guo Xiaobei found a place sheltered from the wind at the corner of the wall and sat down. Although he was wearing several layers of thick clothes, it was still cold just sitting there. Soon his feet became numb from the cold, so he had to stand up and stamp his feet from time to time.

  When Jin Feichen saw Guo Xiaobei coming back, her eyes lit up and she trotted over.

  "You're back."

  "Yeah." Guo Xiaobei didn't say much when facing Jin Feichen. For one thing, he was rather introverted. Through the Internet, he could chat with girls animatedly, but when facing them in person, he couldn't say anything.

  Especially when Jin Feichen wasn't his type, this situation became even more obvious. What he liked were those very petite and cute girls. Simply put, the cute ones. And secondly, those very mature and sexy ones, beautiful and with good figures. Unfortunately, neither of these two types of women would be interested in a man like Guo Xiaobei who wasn't tall, didn't have a good figure, was skinny without any muscles, and didn't earn much money...

  All along, Guo Xiaobei had been living in fantasies. After a long time, he felt that this kind of life was actually not bad.

  Jin Feichen said a few words to Guo Xiaobei. Seeing that he didn't seem to want to talk much with her, she stopped talking.

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  Suddenly, Guo Xiaobei looked at Jin Feichen and asked, "Why don't you go and queue up?"

  Jin Feichen had brain nuclei on her. They were originally a small team, so when Xing Fang and Guo Xiaobei went out to kill zombies and got brain nuclei, they would also share some with the two girls when they came back. Although it wasn't much, they had been in City L for some days, and Jin Feichen should have twenty or thirty brain nuclei on her.

  Although they were all first-level brain nuclei, Xing Fang had long intended to send his sister into the base, so he had inquired about the prices very carefully. If it was materials, it would require the staff of the base to make an assessment, which was rather troublesome. But if it was brain nuclei, it was very easy to calculate.

  The entry fee for an adult was one hundred brain nuclei, and this fee also included free housing, food and drinking water for a month. Although the food and drinking water were rationed, taking advantage of this time to start working, one could still earn the rent for the next month. This was also the reason why Xing Fang was relieved. The brain nuclei in his hand could send his sister in, and he could also leave some in her hand for backup. And the rent for a house without food and drinking water was only twenty brain nuclei per month. In this way, as long as Tian Tian did what she could in the base and relied on the existing brain nuclei in her hand, she could live for a long time, not to mention that she still had her brother to support her.

  Guo Xiaobei thought for a while, then reached into his pocket and took out a small bag. Inside were some ordinary-quality primary white brain nuclei. These were also what he deliberately put outside for people to see. Otherwise, it would be too strange that he had killed so many zombies but didn't have any on him.

  Guo Xiaobei grabbed out a few, and there were probably about a hundred left by visual estimation. He threw them all to Jin Feichen.

  "This... This..." Jin Feichen held the bag and looked at Guo Xiaobei stupidly.

  "You can also go into the base. These are for you as we've been traveling together for so long," Guo Xiaobei thought that it was really not easy for a girl to stay outside, and it would be nice if she went in and stayed with Tian Tian as a companion.

  "But, but these are what you've accumulated for a long time. How can I take them?" Jin Feichen clenched the bag tightly, and her fingers turned white because she was using too much force. "I also want to stay and fight with you guys. I know martial arts too..."

  "Don't be silly," Guo Xiaobei waved his hand with a smile. "Even if you know martial arts, this is still a broken world after all. There are zombies and corpses everywhere, and we face death every day. As a girl, you'd better not try to be brave. You stay inside and help Xing Fang take care of Tian Tian. Then my brain nuclei won't be wasted."

  Jin Feichen bit her lip and lowered her head.

  "Alright, let me take you there," Guo Xiaobei stood up, took the somewhat reluctant Jin Feichen to Xing Fang's side, and briefly explained his intention. As a result, Xing Fang slapped his forehead and repeatedly said that he had forgotten. This made Jin Feichen feel extremely embarrassed, and she couldn't say what she originally wanted to say.

  "Hey, hey! Don't cut in line!" The people queuing behind were not happy. In this apocalyptic period, who didn't want to enter the base earlier?

  "Don't shout! Don't shout! I'm not going in, just two people!" Xing Fang turned around and shouted. Maybe because the explanation was clear, or maybe because of his tough appearance, in short, the people who had been shouting before stopped making noise.

  After sending Jin Feichen to Xing Fang's side, Guo Xiaobei quietly went back to the corner where he had been sitting just now. Actually, he wasn't just being kind-hearted for a moment. It was just that Jin Feichen gave him a really strange feeling. But when he thought about it carefully, he didn't know where this sense of incongruity came from.

  "Unexpectedly, you're quite a gentleman," a strange tone rang in Guo Xiaobei's ear, accompanied by a puff of hot air blowing over at the same time.

  "Han... Lord Han..." What should have been a warm breath made Guo Xiaobei tremble all over. He remembered the feeling just now in the alley when Han Yang blocked him in the corner, with his fingers reaching inside his clothes and stroking his chest at will. His cheeks instantly turned red and he lowered his head, while scolding himself crazily in his heart: What on earth are you shy about!