Zombie Queen has the Biggest Thigh of All (17)

"U-um, sir, is the food to your liking?" Yin Mei said nervously, fidgeting as she forced a smile, watching Ming Wei eat her food with relish. Andrei had already been sent back with his payment, though he was a little reluctant, the amount of energy stones he received immediately had him walking away without a second thought. Yin Mei had felt betrayed, but after all, the two had no relationship with each other so if it came between Yin Mei and the energy stones, of course Andrei would choose the latter.

Ming Wei glared at her coldly, and she immediately shut her mouth as invisible tears streamed down from her eyes. Yin Mei had to repeatedly comfort herself that she owed this to Ming Wei, and only then was she able to calm down a little.

It was only after Ming Wei finished his food and was contently wiping his mouth with a napkin that he spoke. "So, what are you doing back here again? I didn't think you'd have the guts to come back after stealing my research sample."

Yin Mei quickly replied, "Like I said before, I kinda need some ability enhancing drugs..." Yin Mei took a nervous glance at Ming Wei, who returned her gaze with a piercing glare.

"Oho, so after stealing my research sample, you have the nerve to come back here and demand drugs...?" He said, his voice slow and icy, sending shivers down Yin Mei's spine.

"Waaahhhh, doctor, please, you gotta help me!" Yin Mei, with no concern for her face, shamelessly flung herself to her knees to shamelessly hug his leg. Though she was wailing, no tears were streaming down her face, so it only looked fake.

Ming Wei flung Yin Mei off of his leg in disgust. "Doctorrrrr!! If you don't then I'll surely die..." Yin Mei sniffled and wailed, alternating between the two, practically a new type of annoying.

The doctor snorted, unamused. But in the end, he still ended up saying, "I'll consider it if you cook for me for the rest of your life."

Yin Mei was stunned into silence. Holy sh*t did the doctor actually just propose to her? She took a look at his emotionless face. Nah, it was definitely cuz he just liked her food too much.

Hmm... she could use this...

"Doctor, I don't mind cooking for you, but you'll have to come back with me to H City then." Yin Mei said. "We have a lab as well that you can continue your research at." She added on when she saw Ming Wei's brow furrow a bit. "Our head researcher is currently looking into substitute ingredients to use in the cure."

"That's right," Ming Wei suddenly said, her words making him recall the message that Andrei had relayed to him. "What exactly did you mean by that stupid message? And the information on the card too. The f*ck was that?"

Huh? Doctor, why do I feel like your language is more vulgar than before? Your image is being destroyed!

But Yin Mei still faithfully answered his question. "Exactly what I mean! The Dark Saint is too important for us to let him die... I felt bad, so I gave you some good information about what will happen soon."

"Ignoring how you know about the future, you should just hand over the Dark Saint. What use do you have with all these zombies you're gathering up anyways?" Ming Wei growled, grabbing her by the arm. "They clearly have a better use under my hands, being researched for the sake of humanity."

"Noooooo, he's out H City's only healer, you can't take him!" Yin Mei pushed his chest away as he leaned in, the two of them struggling in this position for a moment when suddenly the door opened and a research assistant walked in, holding a clipboard.

"Doctor, can you check-" He looked up, immediately stopping in his tracks as his mouth dropped to the ground. "S-s-sorry for bothering you!" He yelped in a high pitched voice, turning on his heel as fast as humanly possible as he practically ran out, shutting the door behind him.

"..." There was complete silence between the two.

Ming Wei calmly released Yin Mei's arm and the girl stood up, dusting off her clothes, both acting like nothing had happened. "What do you mean by your H City's healer?" He said, the interruption not enough to make him forget Yin Mei's spur of the moment words.

"Well..." Yin Mei looked away with an odd expression. She coughed slightly before continuing, "You know the zombie that I took away from the lab..."

"Research Experiment #7," Ming Wei supplied.

"Uh... right, experiment number 7, he obtained intelligence after evolving to rank 5. So it wasn't hard to have him help us, after I saved him. And because he was much more powerful than the other zombies at H City, we went to H City and basically subdued all the zombies there and established something like a zombie city...?" She glanced at Ming Wei, trying to gauge his reaction. She had always wanted to bring him over to their side, but she had also thought that with his personality, it would be impossible. But, she thought there was no harm in trying to check his reaction and see if it would be possible now, with this bait known as good food dangling in front of him.

"A zombie city? You're actually cooperating with zombies?" Ming Wei was shocked. He knew that rank 5 zombies were much more intelligent than their lower ranked counterparts, but he would never imagine that they could actually be so intelligent to be capable of working together with humans. In the first place, even if they were intelligent, it wouldn't change the fact that the two were simply incompatible. Not mentioning the fact that they had to kill each other to evolve, but zombies would have also eaten an untold number of humans in order to get to rank 5.

"Well, it wasn't as hard as you would think," Yin Mei mused, though it was mostly because she had the zombie emperor backing her. It was good that he didn't have an unreasonable personality, or Yin Mei really would have probably long ended up in his stomach. Actually, she wasn't sure why he was so fine with going along with all her decisions and never ate her or the rest of their group...

Yin Mei had always wondered this, but because she could never come up with an answer, she would always just leave the question to gather dust in the back of her mind.

"Anyways, in the future, you theorize that the cure won't be able to change back any zombie rank 5 or higher anyways, so it isn't such a terrible thing that we're getting along, right? Plus, after zombies pass rank 5, the chance of infection becomes practically miniscule." Yin Mei said.

Ming Wei's brows practically became a V-shape as he went deep into thought. "Even if you say that..."

"There's no way that humans and zombies would be able to get along anyways, as it would be impossible for humans to trust zombies, right?" Yin Mei interjected, finishing what he wanted to say for him. "You're right. Most humans wouldn't be able to. But the same can't be said for children."

Ming Wei widened his eyes ever so slightly. "So those children that you..."

"Well, it was mostly because children tend to have rather powerful abilities and evolve quickly, but also yes... they've all adapted quite nicely. They don't even think of them as much different from humans anymore, even knowing their special dietary needs doesn't change their thoughts. For the children living in the apocalypse, as long as the ones being eaten aren't them, they are quite unconcerned." Yin Mei said as she sat down.

Ming Wei fell silent, as if considering what she had said. He then spoke, "It might work now, but there's no guarantee that such a balance can continue long term. The moment one person breaks the status quo..."

Yin Mei shrugged. "You're right... but I don't really care about what happens after I'm dead." Yin Mei's voice was gloomy as she said this, her expression turning dark as she thought of... no, she wouldn't let herself think of it. It was already done and over with, and there was nothing she could do about it. That's right. She shouldn't be concerned what had happened after she had died. It no longer had anything to do with her... She clenched her hand into a fist, trying to calm herself down.

After a few moments, she quickly brightened up. "Anyways, it's not like there's much else that we can do, right? I mean, I guess exterminating all zombies could be an option... but..." Yin Mei trailed off. Perhaps it was possible, but it wasn't like these were low rank zombies that could just be shot in the head and be done with it. They were all intelligent with powerful abilities.

If Ming Wei did create the cure, it would certainly become much easier. For one, the cure could eliminate all low level zombies, which were the main source of the virus. In other words, the main way that zombies could increase their numbers. Though infection was not impossible after zombies reached rank 5, the rate was much lower, and only decreased the more they evolved. As for making zombie babies... Yin Mei didn't know if it was impossible, but she certainly never read about such a thing in the information. So for now, she could only say that while humans would be able to increase their numbers, and the babies born would be even more powerful than each generation before them, the population of zombies would stagnate and only continue to decrease.

But... Yin Mei couldn't accept such an outcome, not when she was on the side of the zombies.

She herself had grown attached to the zombies they lived with everyday. She liked Amon's helplessness in dealing with Maria. She liked the Dark Saint's mad scientist like personality. She enjoyed how diligent Alex was in learning how to cook for the kids, even though he couldn't eat the food himself.

"Is there no way that humans and zombies can live together...?" Yin Mei murmured, her face showing a bitter expression.

"Well... it might be possible to create a 'substitute evolution material'." Ming Wei said carelessly, causing Yin Mei to look at him in surprise. "But, that's just a possibility. There was no cause to research such a thing before, but I guess if we did there's a chance that it could produce results."

Yin Mei grabbed Ming Wei's hand. "Doctor, after all, you must come to our H City and work with us!"

Ming Wei clearly appeared uncomfortable, shaking off her hands as he put on a cold expression. "... I'll consider it." In the end, he really wanted her food, okay? These past two years, seven months, one week, and four going on five days, he had been unable to eat a single good meal, always making him unbelievably irritated all the time.

In the end, Ming Wei gave Yin Mei a few vials of the ability enhancing drug after she cooked some more for him, and afterwards, she asked to see Ming Yu.

Ming Yu was, by appearances, in good health. But her expression was dull and when she saw her older brother, a flicker of fear passed through it. She didn't even have the mental will to force a smile onto her face anymore.

Yin Mei blinked her eyes at her. Hmm... this could be a bit bad... She didn't want to leave Ming Yu alone, in case things ended up like in her last world. She still hadn't figured out just why she had died so easily to that b*tch of a female lead - she couldn't decide if it was because the Jade Emperor had sealed her way too thoroughly, or if there was something wrong with the female lead or her sword?

Well, what was done was done, so now all she could do was plan in advance and get rid of any potential dangers first.

"What is it?" Ming Yu asked, her voice slightly trembling as she looked away.

Ming Wei didn't answer, instead looking at Yin Mei. Yin Mei seemed to be in thought, tapping her chin with her finger for a moment before speaking. "Do you know where Lei Han is?" She asked, and Ming Yu shook her head. Well, Yin Mei guessed she didn't, considering the two didn't even meet that often thanks to Ming Wei's interference.

She glanced at Ming Wei, who also shrugged. He didn't have the time to keep track of something insignificant like that. She nodded, then leaned in closer to Ming Yu... before leaning away again and furiously trying to rub clean her face and then leaning in again. She smiled like nothing had happened, her face now semi-clean and pretty again. "How would you feel if I told you that I can make all~ this go away?" She asked, her voice sweet.

Ming Wei shot her a questioning glare, while Ming Yu was confused.

"Don't look at me like that, I have a reason for saying all this." Yin Mei said, putting her hands up in mock surrender. "I'll talk about the details for the reasons why with the doctor later, but let's just say that I have a way that will make it so that you don't have to undergo any of this suffering anymore. How about it? If you cooperate with me, I don't mind helping you out."

Ming Yu seemed to struggle with herself, as if she wanted to have hope, but also didn't dare to let herself to. In the end, she felt she had nothing to lose, so nodded her head.

Yin Mei smiled. "That's a good girl," she said in a low and almost seductive voice. She pat Ming Yu's head happily, shocking the other girl, but before Ming Yu could say anything, Yin Mei had already stopped and left with Ming Wei to talk more about it.

Since torture hadn't worked in the last world, she was trying something new.

Well, she was still planning on getting rid of Ming Yu. Just in a way that she would gratefully, or probably not so gratefully, die for her.

"So, why did you say that? You aren't planning on stealing another research subject of mine are you?" Ming Wei said with a chilly face, but Yin Mei shook her head.

"No way~ You and I both know that in the first place, those excessive experiments of yours are pretty useless at this point, right? The key to the cure lies in a special antibody that she can produce, which is specifically able to combat the zombie virus and reverse any DNA alterations that it had made." Yin Mei then shrugged. She was actually reading straight from the information, though.

"You're right," Ming Wei easily admitted. But, he hadn't wanted to leave any stone unturned, which was why he continued to persist with those inhumane experiments.

"There's nothing else to it, so you can already stop with those experiments. Once we get back to H City, it'll be easy for us to replicate the antibodies and use those to create the cure... well, as soon as we have a substitute for the Dark Saint's energy core. It's a pity that zombies with healing abilities are even more rare than humans with healing abilities. Is there even another zombie who can heal aside from the Dark Saint?" Yin Mei inwardly groaned. If there was, she wouldn't be having this much trouble. But, for zombies, who were practically semi-immortal and only died after being bashed in the head, healing really wasn't something necessary. After all, they had two options of being dead or actually dead, with no in between, and healing didn't work on the actually dead (more accurately, the ones that stopped moving?). Even the Dark Saint didn't have a real healing ability, though it could be used as one.

Anyways, this can all be put off for later. For now, she wanted to quickly go kill off the male lead.

A/N: Oh f*ck, Ming Wei, why are you making things so hard on me. Don't make me do this.

Ming Wei: You're the one writing me, what are you complaining about?

Zombie Emperor, quickly get Yin Mei back before she gets together with another man!

Zombie Emperor: *stares*

Zombie Emperor will be back next chapter! Probably.