After Transmigrating as the Vicious Female Supporting Character, I Ran Away While Pregnant - Chapter 29.2

Having a car made travel much more convenient. There was even a radio in the car they could listen to. Very soon, they heard something about a base taking in survivors.

Li Sheng asked, “Does that mean living people?”

“Probably. Let’s go.”

The car was pretty good and even came with voice navigation. Although monsters were rampant now and many roads were blocked, Di Xue charged forward with unstoppable momentum, crushing her way through.

When they reached some research institute, Li Sheng’s exhausted mood finally eased a little.

The pretty older sister at the entrance handed them number tags. “Go inside and undergo group closed observation. After three days, if there are no abnormalities, you will receive identity proof and enter the base.”

“Hurry up. Everyone move faster.”

They lined up and waited at the base entrance. Li Sheng stood behind Di Xue. Di Xue turned around and talked to her. “Don’t be afraid. Once we get inside, we’ll be safe.”

Di Xue saw the people ahead demonstrate their abilities, then receive different tags. When it was her turn, she demonstrated too.

Those people were clearly very shocked. They reported it level by level, and in the end, a leader came down.

“This is the youngest ability user, and she’s even a dual-system ability user of fire and strength. Arrange her properly, quickly.”

And so, when Di Xue entered the observation room, she got a single room. Li Sheng had nothing. Holding an ordinary tag, she stayed with many other people while waiting for the three-day observation period.

The first time she went in, a woman turned into a monster on the second night and bit other people. It was discovered in time, and Li Sheng was saved.

Then she was sent into a second observation room.

This time, on the evening of the third day, she would have successfully left if she survived one more night. But an old woman suddenly turned into a monster.

Li Sheng unfortunately entered an observation room for the third time. This time, she was the only one inside. Li Sheng thought there would definitely be no problem this time. After staying for three days, she would be able to leave.

In the end, on the third night, she developed a fever and lost consciousness.

When she woke up, she was already lying on an operating table in this base’s laboratory.

Li Sheng was afraid. Apart from cold, silent researchers in white coats, only lifeless machines remained here.

“What is this place? Why did you tie me up?”

No one answered her. Only a female researcher came over and drew a tube of blood from her arm.

Li Sheng struggled and resisted, then was drugged and lost consciousness again. This happened repeatedly.

Later, she was sent into a resting room. There were several other white-mouse people wearing white clothes like hers. They all looked dazed and foolish, as if they had gone stupid.

There were old people and children, men and women, and even a large snake.

Li Sheng was brought to the research room again. “Where is the person who came to the base with me?”

No one spoke to her. Li Sheng felt she was about to go insane.

Every few days, she was taken to have her blood drawn. She lay on the operating table in the research room, and someone even wanted to cut open her stomach. However, because of some consideration regarding her survival rate, an old man vetoed it.

She stayed like this for half a year. The people at the research institute gave her an ordinary set of clothes, no longer the white lab-rat gown.

“According to our research, the reason you have no signs of life may come from your mutated healing ability. Through many experiments, we have already proven that you are not an infected mutant zombie. You may leave now.”

It had taken half a year to confirm that she was human. Li Sheng held the clothes and felt momentarily lost. She did not know whether she should cry or laugh. Should she relax a little?

Only after she went outside did she discover that this world had completely changed.

Because Li Sheng had a healing ability, she received an ability user identity tag. She did not need to crowd together with ordinary people. However, her ability level was too low, so she was assigned to the logistics department and shared one room with three other ability users.

The other three ability users were two water-system ability users and one wood-system ability user. They were responsible for logistics for the ordinary people at the bottom of the base. Now that Li Sheng had arrived, she received attention.

“You’re healing-system?”

A woman in her thirties sat on the bed, crossing her legs and staring at Li Sheng, who stood at the door holding a towel, a basin, and a bowl.

Li Sheng nodded. “Healing-system, rank-one ability.”

“Can you heal the scar on my face?” The woman pointed to the scar on her face that ran from her forehead to her chin. It looked like an ugly centipede lying on her face. Li Sheng took a step back and shook her head repeatedly. “No, I can’t.”

This was a water-system ability user. Hearing Li Sheng say she could not, she felt somewhat regretful, but ultimately did not say anything more.

“All right, tidy up your own spot. Someone will come to check the room at night. You’d better come back early. We rank-one ability users sound nice when called ability users, but in reality, we aren’t much different from ordinary people. It’s just that our work is a little easier and our living place is a little better. I’ll take you to see tomorrow, and you’ll know.”

Li Sheng settled down here. At first, she did not dare speak or move casually. She followed the water-system ability woman and briefly learned about the base.

A few days later, that woman went to deliver water at the construction site. Because her water ability was exhausted, she was beaten by rioting workers. It was said that she was rescued at the hospital for a long time, while those workers were directly sent by the base to the underground trading market because they caused trouble.

Li Sheng lived in fear. She controlled her ability and never dared let it be exhausted. Fortunately, there were many healing ability users in the base. Although she was identified as a mutated healing ability user, this mutation was not even as good as other people’s non-mutated abilities. Li Sheng barely managed to live there.

After everything calmed down, she began asking about Di Xue. After going back and forth, she found several people named Di Xue.

One was Di Xue, a strong lightning-system ability user. Another was Di Xue, a cafeteria helper. Another was Di Xue, an ordinary person who sorted goods. There was even a Di Xue in the trading market waiting for a buyer.

When Li Sheng heard this news, she quickly went back and looked over all her possessions. Her entire fortune was five rank-one crystal cores.

Buying a slave required ten rank-six crystal cores. Li Sheng thought that if that Di Xue was the Di Xue she knew, even if she wanted to save the other person, she had the heart but not the strength.

Li Sheng anxiously waited for news. Once the trading market opened, she would use the five crystal cores to buy an entrance ticket and go in to take a look. She had to personally confirm whether that person was someone she knew.

After buying a ticket and going in, she did not recognize the Di Xue on the trading market stage. On the second floor, there was a woman who looked somewhat like the Di Xue she knew, but the second floor was a VIP area, and she could not go up.

Standing underground, she waved her hand, but the other party could not see her. Just as she was preparing to shout loudly, she was dragged out on the grounds of causing trouble.

Outside, Li Sheng stamped her feet in anger. Five crystal cores had only gotten her inside to see a crowd of people. That was a whole month’s worth of food rations, all gone.

Li Sheng went around trying to check things out again. Because she had no food tickets, she could only go in and look. Fortunately, the big sister from her dormitory was on duty. Li Sheng went over and got free water to drink.

Li Sheng then asked her if there was any way to get some crystal cores. She had nothing left now.

The older sister said there were tasks in the mission hall. If she accepted and completed tasks, she could receive the corresponding reward. However, they only accepted ability users.

Li Sheng, this weak chicken ability user, also went to try. She chose a simple one: battlefield return inspection.

That is, she had to go back to a place where fighting had taken place a few days earlier and check whether there were any special abnormalities. Whether there were any or not, she only had to go there, look, and return to report truthfully.

This task paid three rank-one crystal cores. If she obtained crystal cores outside and brought them back, she was not allowed to hide any privately. After handing them all in, she would receive the corresponding reward. If she hid them privately, that would be a serious crime.

For her first mission, Li Sheng chose to team up with someone. The person with her seemed to be from the former rich district, a refined young man. She heard he was a rank-one wind-system ability user. When everyone was rank one, his ability, aside from blowing wind and making people feel a little cooler, had no other use. He was not even as useful as Li Sheng, who could treat colds and coughs.

That young man told Li Sheng that back then, because the research institute in the middle of the big river had an accident while conducting experiments, part of the rich district’s injected genes had gone wrong and spread throughout the rich district. Most people had no immunity to this gene, so very few people developed antibodies.

People bit people, and just like that, everything broke out.

Some corpses flowed down the river, and the downstream suffered disaster too.

But the situation downstream was better than upstream. They had never accepted this kind of gene before, so when they suddenly encountered it, some people’s bodies had antibodies. Some people even gained abilities on the day of that abnormal heavenly phenomenon.

The young man told her that being alive now truly was not easy. The order before the apocalypse had long since disappeared. Now, it was a world of the strong. The strongest ability user in the entire base was actually a child.

Unfortunately, that little girl was only twelve years old, and she had been trained into a biochemical weapon. She was a blade in the hands of the base’s upper levels, killing wherever they pointed.

Li Sheng wanted to ask who that person was, but before she could ask, something unusual happened on the battlefield.

There was a fresh corpse here. The young man hesitated, then said to Li Sheng, “Go back and report. I’ll stay and continue tracking and investigating.”

Li Sheng remembered that there was a special note at the end of the mission. If someone stayed behind and obtained important clues, they would receive more crystal cores as reward.

Li Sheng felt the young man was not afraid of death. But if he wanted to stay, that was his own business. Li Sheng would not interfere and could not control him.

“Then you stay. I’m leaving.”

As long as she came out once and safely returned to report, she would get three crystal cores. Li Sheng was already satisfied. She was not greedy.

One crystal core could provide a week of meals. Although there were only two meals a day, that was still food.

Li Sheng walked back, but an accident happened halfway.

She really was not greedy, but on the road, she encountered a girl a little older than herself. The girl’s eyes were empty, and there was a wound on her neck. She had fallen to the ground, and her pretty white dress was stained with mud.

For some reason, Li Sheng’s gaze fell on her and did not move away for a long time.

Thanks to her mutated ability, monsters did not think she was a living person. Instead, they thought she was one of their kind. So while this girl was about to become a monster but had not yet fully become one, she did not have much reaction to Li Sheng.

Li Sheng slowly walked up to her, poked her shoulder with her small hand, and said, “Hey, are you okay?”

The girl did not answer her. Li Sheng felt this was within reason.

Li Sheng placed her hand on the girl’s forehead and tried to use her ability to save her.

Although her rank-one healing was not very useful, Li Sheng did not want this girl to become a monster just like this.

Li Sheng felt regret and pity. Looking at her like this made Li Sheng feel uncomfortable.

Her ability soothed the girl who was about to become a monster. Li Sheng watched the wound on her neck slowly heal, but the expression in her eyes was still scattered.

Li Sheng’s ability was almost at its bottom. She did not dare risk everything and pour all of it in. Li Sheng wanted to stop, but when she looked at the person beside her, she felt unwilling. Gritting her teeth, she finally still transferred the last bit of ability she had into the girl.

Her ability bottomed out. The other party was very calm, but still dazed.

Li Sheng searched around and found her identity proof. Judging from the tag, it was proof for an ordinary person. The other party was not an ability user. If she was not an ability user, how had she taken a base identity proof tag and run outside?

Li Sheng thought she should be the child of some important person in the base. Otherwise, she would not still be this clean in the apocalypse. Compared to before, she was probably also someone from upstream.

Li Sheng held the identity tag and looked at it again and again. This young lady’s name had three characters. Unfortunately, she only recognized the middle character. That character was read as “Yue,” the “moon” in moon and stars.

Li Sheng sat beside her and sighed. She turned her head and said to her, “It would be good if you were called Yue Xingxing. Then I’d recognize all of it.”

Li Sheng felt as if the other party smiled slightly. But when she looked carefully, the girl still had that expressionless face. Li Sheng leaned against her, like how she had leaned against Di Xue back in the little wooden house.

“I’m sorry,” Li Sheng said. “I can’t save you.”

The other party had no reaction. Li Sheng felt a little wronged and rubbed her nose. “Actually, I was bitten by a monster before too. But later, for some reason, I was fine again.”

Li Sheng scratched her head and deeply sighed. Very quickly, she thought of something. She suddenly stretched her hand to “Yue Xingxing’s” mouth. “How about… you bite me and drink some blood? Those old researchers said there’s a certain probability that my blood can be used for treatment. But this probability is too low, so they can’t bleed me to try it, because there’s only one of me. If I die, I’m gone.”

“Bite then. I’m not afraid. Living like this, I might as well be gone.” Li Sheng said this in despair, but deep in her heart, she was still somewhat afraid and reluctant. So she carefully said, “You should drink only a little first. If it doesn’t work, I can’t just be gone for nothing.”

The young lady suddenly moved. She held Li Sheng’s wrist and lowered her mouth over it, but did not directly bite.

Li Sheng closed her eyes and waited for a long time, but the expected pain did not come. Instead, she felt the other party’s teeth gently scrape over her skin. Li Sheng waited nervously. It felt a little itchy, and she wanted to pull back, but she was afraid that suddenly withdrawing would scare this young lady, so she kept holding her hand up and waited. Only when a soft, wet, slippery tongue licked her skin did Li Sheng startle and try to pull back, but her arm was restrained.

She giggled. “Are you reluctant to bite?”

As soon as she finished speaking, the young lady suddenly released her arm and quickly stood up. Before Li Sheng could return to herself, the other party leapt into the forest. Very quickly, even her shadow vanished.

Half a minute later, that young man from before limped over.

“It’s mutated vines. Save me, hurry and save me.” He limped to Li Sheng’s side. Li Sheng crouched down and examined him, but regretfully said, “I’m sorry. My ability has been used up. I can’t save you.”

“Where is your ability?!” The other party flew into a rage.

Li Sheng did not speak. She could not exactly tell him, I just saved a zombie.

“Did you do it on purpose? Are you still hating the rich? Fucking save me!”

Li Sheng was cursed at for no reason. Looking at the young man, she said angrily, “I really don’t have any ability left. I can’t save you. It’s useless even if you curse me.”

“Did I offend you somehow? I’ll give you crystal cores. Ten crystal cores. Save me, save me!”

The young man knew very well that if this leg was not saved soon, it would be ruined.

Li Sheng was very tempted by ten crystal cores, but she really had no ability left.

In the end, the young man’s leg was still ruined. Yet somehow, his ability happened to rise one rank. A rank-two wind-system ability user received better treatment and more authority.

Li Sheng’s days in the base became even harder.

At ten years old, she struggled back and forth between living and giving up. Finally, after another year passed, her ability also upgraded.

Although everyone was generally upgrading, a rank-two healing ability still came with some pretty good benefits. The crystal core subsidy each month also increased. Unfortunately, there was still no news of Di Xue.

She asked many people. Dual-system ability users with both fire and strength were very rare, and there was no teenage girl with those abilities.

Li Sheng also did not dare rashly investigate, afraid that she might bring some trouble to Di Xue. She could only test little by little.

On her twelfth birthday, there was a base exchange meeting. Other bases also came over. For the sake of appearances, the base celebrated for several days, but she was taken away by researchers from another base.

On the road, she was being escorted in the rear car, while the people in front acted as if she did not exist and began chatting.

“Blood Wolf Base is just a gathering place for trash. Even good seedlings can’t bloom in their hands. This time, we’re taking the person away. Within less than a year, we’ll definitely develop a vaccine.”

“Don’t say that. Although Blood Wolf Base is unreliable, that ability kid is really powerful. Last time, she repelled a zombie tide by herself.”

“She almost got destroyed. Blood Wolf Base is full of idiots. So many people relied on one child to save them.”

“I heard that child was injured? Can she still recover?”

“She was forcibly sent to the battlefield. Who knows how many drugs they fed her. Those idiots in Blood Wolf Base. Such an ability user should have been properly cultivated, but all they think about is tormenting her! Fuck, when I found out about this, I nearly died of anger.”

“Blood Wolf Base won’t last much longer. Their trump card is crippled. Let’s see whether that child can still be nursed back. If she can be nursed back, we’ll bring her back. If she can’t, then let her be destroyed together with Blood Wolf Base.”

…

Inside Blood Wolf Base’s upper ranks, Di Xue smashed things all over the floor in fury.

The base leader was a man in his forties. He stood in front of her, full of anger, but kept suppressing it.

“I told you to help me find my sister, and now you’re telling me she was taken away by Junguang Base? Actually, you always knew where she was, didn’t you? To control me, you deliberately hid it from me. If Junguang Base hadn’t forced you to hand her over this time, how long were you planning to hide it from me?”

She was a fourteen-year-old child, but her imposing aura had already formed. It was a murderous aura soaked through with blood on the battlefield.

The base leader still hoped she could recover and return to her peak. After all, aside from her, Blood Wolf Base currently could not find a presentable trump card.

Di Xue held back her anger and did not completely fall out with them. “Get out. I need to rest properly.”

She had to rest properly, then return to her peak and go to Junguang Base to bring that person back.

Di Xue angrily smashed the wall. A fist print was branded onto it, and her hand trembled slightly.

Both bases wanted to use Li Sheng for research, because they suspected Li Sheng’s mutated ability could be refined into antibodies and could end this zombie-rampant apocalypse.

But after researching for so long, there had been no progress. Blood Wolf Base also knew she had always been looking for Li Sheng, so no matter how they tormented Li Sheng, they did not dare research her to death. But this time, she had been taken away by Junguang. That side had no such concerns.

As long as she did not die, Li Sheng, in their hands, would become a true lab rat.

Di Xue clenched her fists tightly. One day, she would destroy these so-called bases. What bullshit about benefiting the world? They were all greedy monsters more terrifying than monsters.

…

The car traveling from Blood Wolf to Junguang drove quickly. Li Sheng in the car did not feel anything special. In any case, it was not as if she had never been a lab rat before. This time, she was only changing to another research institute. Maybe at Junguang, she could even find Di Xue.

As she thought about this, she grew a little sleepy.

But the people in the car suddenly became alert. The person in the passenger seat carefully paid attention to the outside.

“Be careful. I think I sensed a powerful zombie ability. There might be a high-level zombie nearby.”

They had only come to Blood Wolf Base for an exchange and to take someone away. The people who came were all sharp-minded, but in terms of actual strength, there were only two who were truly excellent. If there really was a high-level zombie, they were afraid they would not win.

The high-level zombie stared at the car. More specifically, she stared at Li Sheng inside the car. The person in the car was sleeping very soundly. In her dream, she was in a peaceful little mountain village. The older sister next door was called Yueshuang. That sister even came over and touched her head, then gave her a cabbage pancake. It was really delicious.

That sister was also very beautiful, like the “Yue Xingxing” she had once seen. Both of them were very beautiful.

As Li Sheng thought this, she suddenly felt a violent jolt. Immediately after, the sky and earth spun. She abruptly woke and opened her eyes, only to discover that she was upside down inside the car.

Looking carefully, she found that the car had overturned, and all the ability users in the car were being attacked by zombies.

“Oh-ho! It’s over!” This was Li Sheng’s final thought before the sharp pain in her head overwhelmed her and her consciousness began to blur.