Living Dead's

Chapter 71 - Suspicion

"There's something I want to say to all of you..."

The people who were still discussing about the chimpanzee zombies became speechless after hearing Xi Zihe's voice.

"What's up, Captain? You sound so serious it's scary now."

Xi Zihe ignored Yang Ruisi's nonsense and took out a piece of paper that started to seep out of his pants pocket.

"You should read this."

Xi Zihe pushed the thin paper forward so that Shen Yuan and the others could read it.

Reading the writing on the paper, Yang Ruisi had a confused expression on her face, she was like she had heard this name of Guo Bai. While he was still recalling, Yang Ruisi heard the low laughter of someone making her goosebumps. He then turned his head, only to see Shen Yuan raising one corner of his mouth, smiling yet not smiling.

Shen Yuan sneered, "Ha! That damn animal finally came out?"

As Shen Yuan's voice fell, the cabin became quiet. That was because, other than Xi Zihe, they had never heard Shen Yuan say something so rude with such a cold tone. Although he was very quiet, and only said a few words if he opened his mouth, yet all this time, Shen Yuan had always been very polite. So his current words left everyone stunned.

Yang Ruisi immediately recalled an information she had heard from Wen Fan's mouth. Guo Bai's. It was the name of the person who actually spread this zombie virus outbreak. It was also the person who made Shen Yuan's wife a guinea pig. Yang Ruisi involuntarily swallowed his saliva.

Seeing his father's unusual expression, Feifei looked doubtful and asked worriedly, "Dad? What's up?"

Feifei also read the paper, but he did not understand it at all. But his father seems to know something about him.

After hearing his daughter's voice, Shen Yuan readjusted his countenance and said softly, "Just calm down, there's nothing."

However after saying that, Shen Yuan looked speechless, his brows furrowing sharply like he was thinking of something.

He's right near here. He was just in town. If only I had been faster, then the chances of us meeting would have been greater...

Seeing his thoughts of Shen Yuan about to fly, Xi Zihe said something to all of them. "alright. I've shown you what I'm supposed to show you."

Xi Zihe glanced at Shen Yuan, the look on his face as if saying, 'I know what you're thinking, but save it for later.'

Shen Yuan could only sigh, and keep certain thoughts to herself.

"We've just been through a rough night, so it's better now you're all resting." After Xi Zihe said that, he turned to the pilot seat and said something to Yao Yue. "Yue'er, you'll take turns with me after an hour."

Yao Yue, "Understand."

Everyone started slumping in their seats. The roar of the propeller becomes their lullaby music.

Yang Ruisi, who was so tired that she wanted to faint, fell asleep just two minutes after Xi Zihe said they were allowed to rest.

He Zhao followed later after he finished lamenting for losing his precious drone. At that time they did not remember to take the drone because it was panicked.

As for Feifei, he tried to sleep but could not. He shrunk down next to Shen Yuan, like every time he had trouble sleeping.

"Can't sleep?" His father, who he thought was already asleep because he looked closed his eyes, was currently asking him.

"Sleep, or you'll be tired."

"But I can't." Feifei muttered, "Many things I don't understand..."

Who is Guo Bai? And why did his father react like that?

Shen Yuan's movement stopped. He seems to have trouble saying anything. Finally after a while he replied, "For now, the less you know, the better. But I promise I'll tell you in the future."

Feifei was a little less satisfied with his father's answer, yet he knew if he were to ask more now, his father would still not tell him. So he could only answer, "I understand..."

The two of them fell silent, and Feifei was still leaning on Shen Yuan. Suddenly, a memory appeared inside Shen Yuan's head. Carefully, he said to Feifei.

"Flame... I may have met your grandfather..."

A strange zombie he met in the military barracks of the city of H. After seeing the wedding ring on that zombie finger, he became convinced that it was his father-in-law, Jiang Qinian's father.

The wedding ring had been given by Jiang Qinian's parents. However, after his wife, Jiang Qinian died, Shen Yuan returned the ring. Since it was once his ring, naturally Shen Yuan was very familiar and could not possibly have mistaken him.

Especially after he heard Guo Bai was once in that barrack. Suspicion began to appear in his heart. Did his father-in-law who turned into a zombie have anything to do with Guo Bai? And what role did Guo Bai play to make the soldiers willing to protect him?

Shen Yuan waited for a while, yet he did not also hear Feifei's reply. This makes him anxious. He wondered if his daughter was sad.

After some time that he did not know, Feifei finally opened his mouth, "Does father mean the strange zombie that attacked father in that place?"

Shen Yuan's body stiffened, he immediately turned to look at Feifei. "Do you know?"

"Initially, I just felt like zombies were familiar..."

Shen Yuan looked at her daughter who was scratching her head, like she was remembering something. Then she heard her daughter say, "Then I remember! The clothes that the zombies wore were similar to the clothes that grandfather always wore..."

Initially Shen Yuan did not pay much attention to what the zombies were wearing. Because it was night time, the clothes worn by the zombies were not very clearly visible. But now that Feifei had said about the clothes, he slowly recalled what the zombies were wearing.

That's a floral, Hawaiian shirt.

Why didn't he realize it at the time? His father-in-law is an eccentric man. He always wears a floral shirt and flip-flops.

Shen Yuan exhaled slowly. Her father-in-law is now confirmed dead. But she had not seen her mother-in-law.

"Dad, does that mean grandma too..."

Feifei did not finish his sentence. Yet Shen Yuan knew what he wanted to ask. Shen Yuan hugged Feifei with his right hand, then gently patted Feifei on the back. "Dad doesn't know... But if Grandpa's there, then your grandmother should be with him."

It could only mean one thing.

Her grandmother had also died or been infected and mutated into a zombie.

Feifei gripped tightly onto his father's shirt. Now, there's only him and his father in this zombie-infested world. Feifei hoped that his father would never leave him as well.