Zombie Queen has the Biggest Thigh of All (3)

Whenever Yin Mei had any time, she would secretly teach Qin Shuang useful knowledge for surviving and many things about zombies that had only been found out in the future. Because of secretly consuming energy cores from the dead zombie corpses, Yin Mei and Qin Shuang's constitutions slowly but surely grew stronger, and due to the energy cores stimulating their unawakened abilities, they were even able to awaken the abilities earlier than in the original storyline.

Because of this, Yin Mei would constantly take Qin Shuang to go hunting for supplies and zombies alone, much to the dissatisfaction of the group. That being said, because she was truly taking care of Qin Shuang without their help, they couldn't complain.

On the other hand, Qin Shuang practically started worshipping Yin Mei. He already admired her when he had saw her fight the zombie in order to save him, but she was also extremely wise and knowledgeable, seeming to know everything there was in this world. Of course, this was an exaggeration, but it was truly the case in the eyes of a young child like Qin Shuang.

Whenever Lei Han saw the eyes of glittering admiration that Qin Shuang held for Yin Mei, he couldn't help but feel green with envy while also cursing himself for not being the one to rescue Qin Shuang. With such a powerful ally, killing Yin Mei in the future would be much harder. He could only move his plans up and kill her as early as possible, before Qin Shuang was able to mature. He also had to do it in such a way that wouldn't be found out by Qin Shuang, so that he could later pull the boy to his side.

But, although Yin Mei didn't predict this thought process of his, she did slowly brainwash Qin Shuang into hating Lei Han by telling him all sorts of things about how horrible he was. When they were alone, she would constantly tell him that Lei Han would in the future destroy the only hope humans had of a zombie cure, or that he would kill her in the future. Although logically Qin Shuang should think that Yin Mei should have no way of knowing this, he believed her unconditionally due to her vast knowledge that had all proven true so far.

As a result, Qin Shuang would constantly look at Lei Han with a hostile expression, making him unsure exactly what Yin Mei was telling him for Qin Shuang to look at him like that. Because he had yet to do anything to Yin Mei in this world, Lei Han felt even more sure that she must have time traveled like him, only further raising his guard against her.

But, Yin Mei had no time for Lei Han (or rather, she just was too busy to realize his change of mindset). She was trying to teach Qin Shuang how to handle his newly awakened powers. Because Yin Mei herself had awakened her own powers, their hunts grew even more efficient, which resulted in more energy cores, further powering them up. The one problem was that these small rank 1 energy cores could only enhance their constitution and abilities by so much. At one point in time they would need to battle rank 2 zombies (zombies that have evolved to a higher level) in order to continue evolving their own abilities. Yin Mei was worried whether they would be able to hold out against a rank 2 zombie. Although by physical prowess alone it may be possible now, but Yin Mei's ability was solely support related. As for Qin Shuang, Yin Mei wanted to teach him how to manipulate his ability into threads like he had used in the original storyline, but such fine control was still too hard for the current him.

In the end, they had reached their limitations in hunting alone. But it was just perfect as they finally arrived at B City at this time. They stayed outside the city for three days before being inspected and let in. Yin Mei cleanly made a cut with the group at this time to go on her own with Qin Shuang, but unexpectedly An Yu also came with them.

Yin Mei didn't recall being too close with this headstrong blonde-beauty, but she seemed to have taken a liking the the independent Yin Mei and cute doll-like Qin Shuang.

Seeing as that An Yu would be sticking with them, Yin Mei thought that she would have her take an abilities test and see what ability she had later. The way to awaken abilities during the apocalypse were three - a near death experience, consuming enough energy cores, or time. Although at first appearances, not all humans would awaken an ability, this was completely untrue. For those who had yet to awaken an ability, it was because they hadn't met one of the three requirements, or their ability was so rare and unique that they simply didn't know how to use it and so by all appearances it was as if they didn't have an ability.

An Yu wasn't an important character to the storyline, so Yin Mei didn't know what her ability would be, but she also didn't care that much. After interacting with the group for the past few days, Yin Mei could tell that An Yu could pull her own weight, at least in terms of her ability to handle weaponry and how athletic she was. Actually, as long as one had the experience, even without an ability they could still survive in the apocalypse. Many people would awaken abilities that would become useless with time as zombies continued to evolve, yet they were still able to survive due to their own skills and experience.

The usual first courses of action, securing food and shelter, had mostly been handled as currently B City was still handing out both of these things for free. The three of them would be sharing an apartment room with two other people, both girls.

Because of this, Yin Mei's first goal was to scout out Lei Han's allies in the original storyline, as well as B City's experimental lab.

Yin Mei, Qin Shuang, and An Yu were currently all in the small apartment room at this time.

The two other girls were doting on Qin Shuang. The first girl was a cool and mature looking girl wearing glasses known as Mu Shan. The other girl was a gentle girl with big boobs called Ruo Bi.

"An Yu, I'm going out," Yin Mei said to An Yu, relieved at seeing the reaction of the other two girls toward Qin Shuang. She felt that she could leave him here without too many worries until she got back.

"Huh? Where are you going?" An Yu asked, looking toward Yin Mei.

"Just around," Yin Mei replied vaguely, and An Yu raised an eyebrow.

"Hey, Qin Shuang, your precious big sister is about to leave without you!" An Yu suddenly called out as Yin Mei was walking toward the door, causing her to turn around and glare at the beautiful woman, who shrugged at her with a grin. Qin Shuang, hearing this, immediately broke free from the other two girls and ran up to Yin Mei, clutching her shirt. Yin Mei sighed, but looking at those puppy dog eyes, could only bring him with her in the end. Oh well, he was cute so she forgave him.

"We'll be back by dinner time," Yin Mei said, waving as she left with Qin Shuang.

Currently, Yin Mei felt that the most important contact she needed to make was the lab's head researcher, Ming Wei was Ming Yu's older brother, but the two were as different as night and day. Ming Yu was like a flower in a greenhouse, never exposed to the true horrors of living in the apocalypse, still remaining pure and compassionate even ten years into living during the end of the world. On the other hand, though it could be said that Ming Wei also never truly experienced the apocalypse, he was a cold genius type. After all, he was the one to ruthlessly experiment on zombies and humans alike in order to create the zombie cure.

Ming Wei was definitely cold hearted and calculating, but he also was truly working for the benefit of humanity. Because of this, no matter how evil the deeds he performed were, she at least felt he was more trustworthy than Lei Han.

The problem was getting into contact with him, especially without Yin Mei and Qin Shuang ending up as his lab rats. This was the one worry that Yin Mei had. Ming Wei was capable of anything for the sake of research. She didn't believe that she could totally bring him over to her side, nor was she going to attempt to. But, she definitely needed to form a relationship with him to gather information about the lab. She didn't mind feeding him some hints for important medicines and other inventions that were created in the later years of the apocalypse either, for the sake of humans.

But in the end, she wasn't working for the humans. She was working for the sake of the zombie emperor.

She kept on having to remind herself of this, but also felt it was too weird. What human worked with the zombies during the zombie apocalypse? She honestly felt that this was too twisted.

In the end, because she still couldn't think of a good way to make contact with him, she could only put this issue aside for later. She first checked the missions board that posted all the jobs available at the entrance of their apartment building.

There were missions for the expedition groups, and also missions volunteering as lab rats, along with general labor missions inside the city. Of course, the first two paid very well, while the third one was barely a living wage. It was proportional in how dangerous the job was. The common currency was still cash, though Yin Mei knew that it would slowly change to energy stones later on. Yin Mei knew that the lab had already researched the energy stones and they were already being used by B City's special expedition forces and security, but this information just hadn't been released yet.

For now, Yin Mei took a flier for an expedition job scheduled a week from now for later. She didn't want Qin Shuang to reveal his ability yet, lest he become an experiment, so she would be doing this alone.

As for the lab rat job, she felt this could actually be a good chance to infiltrate the lab and potentially meet Ming Wei. But she was reluctant to take this job, due to the dangers that could arise from consuming the drugs that they would be giving them. In the end, she also took this flier as well, just in case.

She took Qin Shuang and together their toured the inside of B City. Because B City had been quickly organized and taken over by the military, so far, it didn't look so different from just a normal city in the usual days, save for the wall they were building, the refugees outside it, and the zombies further outside that.

Yin Mei reviewed several important people that would make an appearance in B City. The first would probably be the Fire Emperor. He was an elite power user that had come to B City several years later searching for his family. He had actually traveled here all the way from another country across the ocean. Most people couldn't even handle traveling from one city to the next, let alone from two different countries. It was too bad that his relatives had already died in the early days of the apocalypse. His sickly younger brother had been abandoned and eaten by zombies during an expedition, while his younger sister had been killed and raped.

In the end, he had almost destroyed B City in his rage but was killed by B City's resident power house, the Ice Emperor.

Both of these people would be useful. Although the Fire Emperor was still probably in F Country, if Yin Mei protected his younger brother and sister, he would definitely be grateful to her later on. Although that guy was known for his hot headed personality and unscrupulous means, he was someone who placed his family above all else.

As for the Ice Emperor, this person was truly too mysterious. He only briefly made a few appearances in the former timeline, but never even made one appearance in the current timeline. Yin Mei could only guess that he had died or something else had happened due to some sort of butterfly effect that Lei Han set up, but she couldn't say for sure.

"Alright, then let's first find those two," Yin Mei murmured, and Qin Shuang didn't say anything. He was already used to this big sister of his spacing out and saying things that he couldn't quite understand. He only guessed that this must be the style of geniuses.

Yin Mei didn't know much about the Fire Emperor's family, because it was only mentioned briefly in the information. After all, the Fire Emperor wasn't a particularly major character (for some reason, aside from Qin Shuang, most of humanity's former powerhouses seemed to take a back seat in the storyline), so it was to be expected that the information Yin Mei had of him wasn't too detailed. But, there was one thing that Yin Mei did know, and it was the vague time that the Fire Emperor's younger brother had died, along with the members of the expedition group he had been with. With such information, Yin Mei thought that it wouldn't be too hard to save him and thus gain his gratitude, while also locating his younger sister to protect the both of them.

In the end, Yin Mei grasped Qin Shuang's hand and they went to the city's East gate, where a schedule of the expeditions for the next week were posted. Although there was still a few months before the Fire Emperor's brother would die, expedition groups tended to have a few set members, while they filled out the rest of the numbers with randoms.

They didn't post the names of the members, so Yin Mei guessed that she would have to join all the groups to check them out.

For now, she signed up for an expedition group tomorrow before leading Qin Shuang back to their apartment. Qin Shuang was a little upset when he noticed that she didn't sign him up as well, so she had to once more hammer into him the importance of keeping his ability secret. The fact that children had more powerful abilities wasn't discovered until several years into the apocalypse, since children just became more and more scarce as time went by. Yin Mei couldn't let this fact become discovered just yet, if she wanted to take use of the people's ignorance to gather up the children for her own uses. In addition, the children wouldn't be able to protect themselves from adults wishing to exploit them, so Yin Mei could only continuously tell Qin Shuang to not reveal his powers, patiently explaining to him all the consequences that could happen if he did.

Although Qin Shuang still wanted to come along with Yin Mei, he understood that it would be bad if he did. So he could only reluctantly agree to stay at home. Yin Mei felt relieved that Qin Shuang was such an obedient and understanding child, but also knew that this was probably the result of the circumstances. The children in the apocalypse quickly realized that acting spoiled was not an option and any children who could survive did so due to their own wit and ability.

Yin Mei felt a little pity, but during the end of the world, if one had time to pity others, it was better spent doing more useful things.