Chapter 6 Pei Yan Wakes Up

“My advice to you is that it’s best to take your brother somewhere safe and stay there. Wait until he wakes up before talking about anything else.”

Pei Linlang blinked, exclaiming in shock: “You mean… my brother will definitely wake up? He won’t turn into a zombie?!”

If it had been anyone else bitten by a zombie, Lin Yu would never have been so sure he could wake up. But the man in front of her was the leader of the Dawn Base in her previous life.

Lin Yu not only knew he would wake up, but also that he would awaken a powerful lightning ability.

Hearing her, Lin Yu couldn’t help but smile. “Don’t you want your brother to wake up?”

Pei Linlang’s smile instantly froze. Only then did she realize her brother wasn’t one hundred percent guaranteed to wake up. Sister Lin Yu was just trying to comfort her.

Her brows drooped, and her voice dropped several tones. “Of course I hope my brother wakes up…”

She stayed gloomy for a while, but quickly adjusted herself. Remembering Lin Yu’s words, she sank into deep thought.

For a moment, only the sound of the wind filled the car.

After about ten seconds, Pei Linlang slowly asked, “Sister Lin Yu, do you know what’s really going on with those zombies… and my ability?”

Her tone was full of doubt and confusion. She looked at Lin Yu very seriously and naturally didn’t notice that at this very moment, her brother Pei Yan, who was tied to the seat, had opened his eyes.

Pei Yan had just woken up when he heard his sister’s voice.

He didn’t rush to speak. His gaze shifted to Lin Yu sitting in the driver’s seat.

From his angle, he could see the girl’s short, neat hair tucked behind her ear. A tiny mole sat at the base of her earlobe. Her skin was fair, and under the glow of the setting sun, the outline of her profile looked cool and distant.

Pei Yan raised his head and glanced at the rearview mirror.

In the reflection, the girl’s brows were faint like distant hills, her nose tall and delicate, lips naturally rosy as if touched with vermilion, like peach blossoms in March, tempting to pluck. Her eyes shimmered like autumn water, bright as stars when they moved.

This girl was surprisingly beautiful.

That was Pei Yan’s very first impression of Lin Yu.

Lin Yu’s senses were sharp. The instant Pei Yan woke up, she noticed. She lifted her head, glanced at the rearview mirror, and happened to meet Pei Yan’s eyes as he studied her.

She arched a brow at him.

Pei Yan’s gaze paused. Instead of showing embarrassment at being caught, he curved his lips and smiled at her.

With that smile, his cold and stern aura softened considerably.

Lin Yu, however, wasn’t swayed by it. She calmly withdrew her gaze and continued speaking:

“At 12:48, did you see that sudden red moon in the sky? The zombie virus came with that red moon. The first wave of people infected with the virus would fall into a coma within one minute. When they woke again, they became the zombies we saw at the gas station.”

“Half an hour after the red moon appeared, the second wave of infected people would fall into a half-hour coma. Some of them would turn into zombies, while others would awaken abilities. Fortunately, we awakened abilities. We’re among the lucky ones.”

Lin Yu briefly explained zombies’ weaknesses, then went on to explain abilities to Pei Linlang.

Her voice was especially clear, like spring water striking jade. But against the whistling wind outside the window, it sounded slightly unreal.

Pei Yan didn’t miss a single word.

“It sounds like Miss Lin understands these zombies very thoroughly?”

Perhaps because of the fever earlier, his voice was a bit hoarse.

Hearing him, Pei Linlang was overjoyed. She checked his condition and found his complexion had returned to normal, though still pale, like someone who had just recovered from a serious illness.

She touched his forehead; the fever was gone. After confirming with Lin Yu that everything was fine, she finally dared to untie him.

Thank goodness, her brother hadn’t turned into a zombie!

Pei Linlang burst into tears of joy. “Brother, you scared me to death! Thank goodness you didn’t turn into a zombie. Do you feel unwell anywhere? Did you awaken an ability? But how could you doubt Sister Lin Yu? She saved us!”

A barrage of questions came crashing down, leaving Pei Yan both helpless and amused. Still, he answered one by one: “I don’t feel unwell anywhere. Ability? Do you mean this?”

He extended his hand, and a cluster of silvery-white lightning appeared in his palm. Tiny arcs of electricity crackled around it, making sharp “zzt zzt” sounds.

Pei Linlang’s eyes widened. “This is…?”

Lin Yu glanced through the rearview mirror, her tone calm: “Lightning ability.”

As expected, exactly the same as the information she had heard in her previous life—Pei Yan had awakened lightning powers.

But back then, at this time, Lin Yu had been with Bai Yanyan in Yun Province. She hadn’t saved Pei Yan and his sister. Would things still follow the same path as her previous life? She wasn’t sure.

Perhaps the moment she was reborn, the butterfly had already flapped its wings, straying from the set track into an unpredictable future.

“Wow, lightning powers! That sounds amazing!” Pei Linlang exclaimed, staring curiously at the lightning in his hand.

Perhaps because her brother had woken, Pei Linlang was clearly much livelier than before, chattier too.

Pei Yan closed his hand, putting away the power, and looked at Lin Yu with a smile.

“Thank you very much for saving me and my sister. I’m just curious—how do you know so much about zombies and abilities? I don’t mean any harm.”

Lin Yu truly didn’t sense any malice from him. If she were in his shoes, she too would be curious.

But since she dared to say what she had, she naturally wasn’t afraid of being questioned.

Her expression unchanged, she feigned surprise. “You mean you don’t know?”

Pei Linlang: “???”

Pei Yan: “???”

The siblings in the back seat looked at each other, sharing the same thought: Were we supposed to know something?

“On July 5th, an anonymous netizen posted online, claiming that on July 7th—today—the apocalypse would come. They predicted the outbreak time precisely, explained what we should do after it began, and everything I just told you, I learned online.”

Pei Linlang was dumbstruck, unable to close her mouth for a long time, as if in a dream.

In just one day, everything had overturned their understanding of the world.

They had already thought zombies and abilities were fantastical enough. But now someone was telling them all of this was revealed by a person who had returned from the apocalypse through rebirth!

Wasn’t this way too fantastical?!

Honestly, if not for everything that happened today at the gas station, the two of them would never have believed in something like reincarnation, which only existed in novels.

The siblings, still trying to rebuild their worldview, could never imagine that the “reborn netizen” Lin Yu mentioned… was actually herself.

And the very instigator sat there without a blush or a heartbeat, even reminding them: “Communications shouldn’t be down yet. You can check online yourselves.”