After quickly wearing the second male lead who was rejected

Chapter 111 Fate seems to love playing jokes (8)

When Du Wen returned to his room, he looked at the Miao Dao on the table and seemed to be in a happier mood.

He lay on the wooden bed, crossed his hands behind his head, closed his eyes and fell asleep.

He didn't know that the real Miao Dao had been taken away by Gu Chang long ago, and the one left here was a fake created by the system.

Ying Mingxi returned to her previous room. When she opened the door, she saw that Tang Shuyi was not asleep.

Tang Shuyi was sitting on the edge of the bed. When she heard the door open, she subconsciously turned around to look at the door. There was a hint of panic on her face, but she quickly concealed it.

"Mingxi." Tang Shuyi looked at Ying Mingxi, who looked unhappy, and couldn't help but ask.

A white candle was lit in the room, its flame flickering.

Ying Mingxi walked over to the bed with a candle and sat down, leaning slightly closer to Tang Shuyi. Tang Shuyi didn't know what Ying Mingxi was going to do. She blinked and forced a smile, "Mingxi, what are you doing with the candle? It would be terrible if sparks fell on the bed." Her tone was filled with subtle nervousness.

"Are you afraid of me?" Ying Mingxi suddenly asked, with only a little candlelight in her dark eyes.

"What are you talking about? Mingxi, I've been waiting for you to come back and I'm so sleepy." Tang Shuyi rubbed her eyes. She wanted to take the candle from Ying Mingxi's hand, "Give me the candle. Look, the wax is dripping onto your hand."

Ying Mingxi pursed her lips, placed the candle on the bedside table, and stared at Tang Shuyi with her dark eyes. "Why are you afraid of me? Is it because of Du Wen?"

What was Tang Shuyi afraid of? Ying Mingxi wouldn't let go of any slight movement on Tang Shuyi's face. When she returned, she noticed something strange about her reaction. When she left, Du Wen was still pretending to be asleep, and he told Tang Shuyi he was in the room. She also begged Tang Shuyi to keep the matter a secret.

Ying Mingxi roughly calculated the time and figured Du Wen must have come out shortly after she left. Otherwise, given the vastness of the forest, how could Du Wen have happened to appear near her and rescue her?

If Tang Shuyi really helped her stop Du Wen, then... Tang Shuyi would not have reacted like this.

Ying Mingxi felt that her brain was particularly clear today, so she said Du Wen's name.

Hearing this, Tang Shuyi met Ying Mingxi's gaze and said in a slightly hurried tone, "I'm not afraid of you. Du Wen is the team leader. Isn't it normal to be afraid of him?"

"Don't you know? Du Wen likes you, otherwise he wouldn't have kept me in this team." Tang Shuyi said, lowering her eyes sadly.

Ying Mingxi just thought that Tang Shu was trying to change the subject.

"But you were the first one to meet Du Wen, and you brought him to see me." Ying Mingxi frowned slightly.

At that time in S City, when she and Tang Shuyi were escaping, they were accidentally blocked by several zombies. In order to survive, she and Tang Shuyi fled separately.

Ying Mingxi thought he would die at the hands of a zombie, but Tang Shuyi came with Du Wen.

Du Wen rescued her and said that Tang Shuyi had joined his team and asked Ying Mingxi to join as well.

So Tang Shuyi was wrong to say that. She would stay in the team not because Du Wen was considering Ying Mingxi. It was because Du Wen agreed to Tang Shuyi joining the team from the beginning.

This team does things based on Du Wen's attitude. Only when Du Wen nods will the people in the team show goodwill.

If Du Wen had not accepted Tang Shuyi's joining, even if it was because of Ying Mingxi, Tang Shuyi would not always have such a good relationship with other people in the team.

Every time Tang Shuyi went on a mission with them, her face was filled with joy.

"Are you helping Du Wen to pursue me?" Ying Mingxi's expression became serious. She saw the panic in Tang Shuyi's eyes.

Tang Shuyi pursed her lips, her brown pupils shrank slightly, and she said: "Brother Du is a good person. You are my friend, and I hope you can be happy."

"You've changed. In the past, because of Xiao Chen's death, you told me that love in the apocalypse is always painful, because you never know when your lover will turn into a zombie." Ying Mingxi sighed, lowered her eyelids, and continued, "You also advised me that women in the apocalypse must be self-reliant and independent, and can't rely solely on men."

Tang Shuyi clenched her hands into fists on her thighs. Indeed, she had said such words.

If she hadn't met Du Wen, she would still think so.

But she didn't expect that Ying Mingxi still remembered these words.

"I don't know what's going on between you and Du Wen, but I hope we can still be friends who trust each other the most." Ying Mingxi looked at Tang Shuyi deeply. Perhaps the other party had some unspeakable secrets, but Ying Mingxi hated deception.

Even white lies are not allowed.

She has the right to know the truth.

Ying Mingxi blew out the candle, lifted the quilt and lay on her side on the bed. She slowly closed her eyes and breathed evenly.

Tang Shuyi fell asleep on the double sofa with a thin blanket, her mind full of thoughts.

Ying Mingxi is a very kind person, she will do her best to save more people. If Ying Mingxi is the kind of saint who has no ability but still insists on protecting others, Tang Shuyi will only think that Ying Mingxi is pretentious.

But Ying Mingxi wasn't like that. She was capable. She knew to carry weapons for self-defense even at night and not to sleep too soundly. She knew not to take everything while searching for supplies, so that those who came later would have food to eat. She knew to step forward and protect others when faced with danger.

If they hadn't encountered the zombie wave in City S, Lin Yueting and the others would still have traveled together. Ying Mingxi originally wanted to sacrifice herself, but Lin Yueting rushed out first.

When they separated, it was Ying Mingxi who led the zombies away, allowing her to escape.

But why would Du Wen appear in City S and happen to appear in front of her?

Tang Shuyi knew Du Wen. She had known Du Wen before the zombie crisis broke out.

Du Wen is a terrible person.

Tang Shuyi originally thought that she would never meet Du Wen in this life. But fate seemed to love playing jokes on her. The person she once feared to the core unexpectedly became her savior.

A night passed, and around eight o'clock in the morning, the sky began to turn pale.

Because it had rained, a gorgeous rainbow appeared in the sky.

Du Wen's good mood after getting up early disappeared completely when he learned that the person on guard last night had lost two pistols.

He strode up to the two men who were on guard last night and slapped them loudly.

The two men were each slapped in the face and fell to their knees on the ground, not daring to look up.

"Go and receive your punishment yourself." Du Wen said coldly, his brows furrowed in displeasure, then he turned and walked towards the room where he slept.

"Yes! Boss!" The two men stood up and stood in the yard, punching each other.

The muffled groans of fists hitting flesh continued to ring out. Ying Mingxi came out of the room wearing a black and white long-sleeved shirt. She walked to the left of Deputy Captain He Lei and asked, "What happened?"

He Lei has a shaved head, he has no right ear and cannot hear with it.

"They made a mistake and are being punished. This is the rule of the team. If someone loses his gun, he will be beaten. Since both of them lost their guns, they will be beaten by each other." He Lei said in a calm voice. He took out a crumpled cigarette and a matchbox from his trouser pocket, then struck a match, lit the cigarette, and took a puff of it.

This was the first time Ying Mingxi had seen such a form of punishment. Looking at the two men who were being beaten until blood was spitting out of their mouths, she couldn't help but frown, "Are they going to keep beating me like this?"

He Lei blew out a smoke ring and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Alright, stop it, go and clean up yourselves."

The two men stopped, their faces covered in blood.

After watching the two men leave, Ying Mingxi left.

He Lei stared at Ying Mingxi's back thoughtfully. This punishment would usually last for half an hour, and he would not stop until the person was half crippled.

The purpose of this punishment is to make them remember their mistakes. Only pain can deepen their memory and ensure that they will not make such mistakes again.

It’s just that Ying Mingxi is the one Du Wen likes, and she might become his sister-in-law in the future.

Because of the relationship, He Lei asked the two men to stop.

But it’s okay even if you are beaten and can’t move, the team leader will not let anyone die.