When Qin Luo was halfway through his shower, he noticed the little zombie scratching at the door. He was injured and finding it difficult to wash properly. How could a little zombie be so fast at scrubbing away?

“Hey, hey, hey, I’ll be right there, don’t scratch it anymore, the door’s gonna break!”

Qin Luo couldn’t understand why Duoduo was clinging to him. Her thoughts now couldn’t be understood as a normal person’s would. Zombies don’t follow logic, after all.

When he opened the door, he saw Duoduo wearing soft, fluffy pajamas. She wasn’t even wearing her combat suit anymore, and she looked just like when he first reunited with her.

Looking at her almond eyes blinking, she seemed so pure and foolish.

Before, she was always scheming, but now she seemed even worse off than when they first met.

Qin Luo leaned against the doorframe, studying Duoduo. The little zombie seemed embarrassed and reached out to tug at his fitness clothes.

He wasn’t wearing his outer gear, just a dark green fitness suit that showed off his figure, and Duoduo stared at his chest and abs.

“Oops, Duoduo, it looks like you’ve become even dumber than before. What if someone kidnaps you one day?”

Qin Luo sighed and reached out to comb her damp bangs, styling them into a back-swept look. Luckily, Duoduo had a small face with delicate features, and showing her forehead gave off a different vibe, which Qin Luo found quite intriguing.

He kept messing with her hair, switching between lifting it up and letting it fall, “Hey, I can’t believe how different it looks like this, it’s almost like two different feelings.”

Just then, a few younger members from another team passed by and caught sight of Qin Luo “flirting,” making them blush. They gave him a look as if they had seen something perverted.

Qin Luo froze, and when he met Duoduo’s gaze, he noticed her eyes, which had been stained with blood, had turned red. He wiped her eye with his finger, but it wasn’t cleaned off.

He sighed and, without thinking, picked her up under his arm and started walking away, “Tsk, we need to take care of your eyes. I’ll ask them how to fix it.”

Three minutes later…

Duoduo was sitting on the ground with a blanket spread beneath her, while Qin Luo was behind her drying her hair. In front of them sat Bai Shu, Chen Xiaofei, and Wang Weihu.

The four of them were seriously discussing her contact lenses.

“Should we take them off?”

“Qin Ge, this is up to you. You put them on, you take them off. Feels like it’s harder to take them off than put them on.”

“What happened to the little squad leader? She seems… dumber.”

They had felt embarrassed after their defeat by the mutated snake people, but what could they do? It was over now. Soon, they found their rhythm again and stopped feeling uncomfortable.

Qin Luo moved Duoduo’s head, holding her chin and making her tilt her head back, so he could examine her eyes. “I’m not sure about handling this. Let someone who knows what they’re doing deal with it. I’m afraid I’ll poke her eye.”

He looked up and noticed the others hadn’t moved.

When he looked at them, they all had speechless expressions. Wang Weihu even rubbed his arm.

Chen Xiaofei, sitting cross-legged, exclaimed, “Wow, Qin Ge, are you about to kiss the little squad leader?”

Bai Shu immediately covered his mouth, “Sorry, my son doesn’t know better.”

Chen Xiaofei exploded, wriggling out of his grip, “What do you mean, ‘your son’?!”

Wang Weihu sighed and got back to the important matter, “Let’s find a girl who knows how to take out contact lenses? But the premise is that the little squad leader agrees to let them take it out. Also, don’t you think something’s wrong with her? She’s been like this since using that killing move.”

He brought it up several times, but no one responded. This was definitely abnormal.

After discussing the ‘who’s the dad’ issue and getting Bai Shu’s glasses straight, he seriously said, “I think it’s probably a side effect? Her move is kind of like compressing space, which exploded the snake man.”

But that was just a guess.

The logic was not wrong. The last few times she hadn’t used it, and when Bai Shu and Chen Xiaofei arrived after the mutated monkey incident, they found a battlefield full of severed limbs. Duoduo had been holding a chainsaw that was still buzzing, but they didn’t see what had happened at the scene.

They couldn’t speculate whether she had used her abilities or the chainsaw during that fight.

That time, she hadn’t fainted, but the mutated monkeys, though numerous, were more of a nuisance. Apart from the monkey king, none of them even reached one star in strength.

They were just infected animals in the early stages of the virus, so killing them wasn’t difficult.

But this time, the snake man was a three-star level. They had all struggled to fight, and Duoduo, as a little zombie, was at an even bigger disadvantage. It was a miracle that she didn’t hurt herself.

Chen Xiaofei, with his messed-up short hair, sat up and thought, “So, this killing move of the little squad leader is really powerful! But if overused, it causes a backlash that leads to a decline in intelligence?”

Wang Weihu also thought the theory sounded plausible, “But how long will it take for her to recover? Or can she even recover at all?”

The question was serious.

The three of them looked over at Qin Luo, curious to see his reaction. Though sometimes Qin Luo was a bit off, he was still their captain, and when things got serious, they could count on him. Plus, the little squad leader was his first love.

But when they looked, they found Qin Luo bent down, prying open Duoduo’s mouth to examine her teeth. He was even sticking his fingers into her mouth.

Bai Shu couldn’t stand it anymore. He grabbed a wet wipe and threw it at Qin Luo, “No! Have you washed your hands? Why are you sticking your fingers in her mouth?”

Chen Xiaofei, with an OMG expression, covered his face but left his eyes peeking through. He pointed at Qin Luo and said, “Qin Ge, how come I never realized you were this perverted?”

Wang Weihu was also stunned.

Qin Luo caught the wet wipe Bai Shu threw and quickly explained, “Hey, I just showered! My hands are clean. Wait, I’m just checking her teeth. Did you know she’s got little sharp teeth now? It’s amazing!”

This shocked the three of them. Was the little squad leader turning into a full zombie?

Then, Qin Luo added, “It’s really amazing, so cute.”

Bai Shu and the others dropped their jaws, wondering if Qin Luo had gone crazy. Had the battle earlier messed with his head?

But when they looked at Duoduo’s white, tender face, her big eyes, her small, perky nose, and the way she revealed her little sharp teeth…

Well, actually, it was kinda cute.

But that wasn’t the point!

Wang Weihu noticed the healing on Qin Luo’s face and was shocked, “Qin Ge, how did your wounds heal so quickly? Speaking of which, that last move you used seemed stronger than usual. Are you okay?”

His words caught the attention of the others. Bai Shu and Chen Xiaofei both turned to look at him.

Qin Luo stopped joking and began to think seriously, “At first, I really did feel a bit weak. My brain just went blank for a moment…”

But all his thoughts were on Duoduo. When he saw her sitting in the bloodstained area, looking so pitiful, he forced himself to go find her, ignoring everything else.

Bai Shu calmly analyzed, “Actually, I thought Qin Luo was just too stubborn. With such severe injuries, he still managed to get up without anyone helping him and even carried the little squad leader. Thinking about it now, it’s unbelievable.”

He then pointed out to Chen Xiaofei and Wang Weihu, “Don’t you guys think that, even though you were heavily injured, your recovery speed is much faster than before?”

Bai Shu pondered for a moment, then pushed up his glasses, and finally came to a conclusion, “Maybe, just maybe, this overloaded state might allow for self-enhancement?”