TDRA Chapter 29

That scene was unnatural and mind-blowing, but in reality, everything happened in silence. The shocking scene couldn’t be seen with the naked eye, so no one knew what exactly happened.

It just looked like Gu Ning inexplicably fainted and then woke up naturally.

Gu Ning was a little bewildered as she sat up from the bed, she couldn’t even remember how she had fainted. Those green dots of light that were invisible to the naked eye, entered her body and converged into an ocean, yet it seemed like there weren’t any visible changes made on her.

Right now she only feels the hunger that’s burning in her belly now, she swears she could eat a whole cow.

“Gu Ning is awake!” Cheng Ming, who happened to glance into the dormitory room, called out in surprise.

The five people in the corridor all crowded into the dormitory room at all once and surrounded Gu Ning, asking:

“Gu Ning, do you feel sick?”

“Are you in any pain or discomfort anywhere?”

“Why did you faint?”

Although it was a bit noisy, those few pairs of concerned eyes made Gu Ning, who had just woken up and was still a bit confused, feel a long-lost warmth soothing her heart.

“Eh?! Gu Ning’s eyes aren’t green anymore!” Zhang Yang exclaimed in surprise as he stared at Gu Ning’s eyes.

The few of them gathered their heads in unison and after staring for a while, they all spoke together at once: “Hey, really!” “It doesn’t seem to be green anymore.”

On the contrary, Gu Ning had no idea what they were saying: “What are you guys talking about?”

With the demeanour of an adult person, Jia DaoZhang muffled their voices before explaining to Gu Ning: “You suddenly fainted. Gao Yue examined you and found nothing wrong with you physically. But then, as soon as we lifted your eyelids, we saw something like a shiny emerald ring on your eyes. But now it’s gone.”

Gu Ning rightly associated it with the green bead that she had swallowed, and her heart just tightened as she asked: “Is there a mirror?”

Zhang Yang took the small round mirror off the bed frame and handed it to Gu Ning.

Gu Ning took the mirror then first peeled down her lower eyelid a little, no bulging blood vessels were seen, which proved that she had no signs of zombification, which made half of her worries be put aside before she started to thoroughly observe her eyes.

If she hadn’t examined her pupils as closely as she’s doing right now, it would have been difficult to see the extremely pale green ring around the edges of her pale pupils. Gu Ning did not feel too alarmed by this, since she already knew that the green colour on both of her eyes was directly connected to the green bead she swallowed. However, less than a week had passed since she was bitten by the zombie, and within this week, she had enough mutations occurring in her body.

Gu Ning now has a bit of a problem *that when one is covered in lice, they don’t feel the itch and when one has too much debt, they stop worrying.

(T/N: 蝨多了不咬，債多了不愁 shī duō le bù yǎo zài duō le bù chóu. Literally, translate means when you’re covered with lice, you don’t itch and when you’re up to your ears in debt, you stop worrying. This means that when you have too many problems and it became a norm that you will stop worrying about it. )

Since she couldn’t do anything about it and didn’t know exactly what the changes in her body were, there was also no clear answer no matter how much she pondered about it. Thus, she simply put it aside and considered the immediate reality of the more pressing matters to her.

She calmly handed the mirror back to Zhang Yang then asked: “How is my father?”

Cheng Ming spoke: “The operation was a success, Uncle Gu is asleep right now.”

“Luckily, he was asleep and we didn’t wake him up, otherwise he would’ve had a bad scare if he knew you suddenly passed out.” Jia DaoZhang said, abruptly turning his words around and said: “But there’s another problem, Gu Ning. It’s fine for us to eat biscuits, ham, and sausages every day, but the two patients can’t always follow us in eating like this, can they?”

He raised a very practical question.

In the current situation, the food supplies they have could last them for a while as they relied on the two big bags of food which Gu Ning brought from the supermarket. Also, Gu Ning was eating almost every day in the other world which saved up a lot of supplies as well. However, Jia DaoZhang was right, they could all deal with it just fine, but Father Gu and Mother Gu were not in good health after all these three months of living in constant fear, chronic sleep deprivation, and malnutrition. Previously Gu Ning was with them daily and didn’t feel anything in particular about it, but the contrast with their other selves in the peaceful world and this world was enough to make Gu Ning’s heartache.

She really couldn’t let her parents follow them anymore and only had bread and ham as their daily meals.

Gu Ning suddenly asked: “Zhang Yang, what does Brother San eat for every meal?”

Zhang Yang replied: “Brother San’s just like us, he eats what we eat. He also often takes care of the little children in the colony who have nothing to eat.” He rolled his eyes when he realized why Gu Ning asked this suddenly and spoke again: “Our food was bad. But Bai Lang and Mr. Wang’s food were quite good. Mr. Wang has a big fenced-in yard over the family building where he lives and he has dozens of chickens in it! There are also various vegetables growing in the back of the mountain. More than ten people are assigned to guard it day and night. They are afraid that someone might rob them.” He said halfway and looked at the door, making sure that no one was there before lowering his voice and continuing in a sneaky voice: “Our Brother San already said that we should find a good opportunity to get the chickens and add it to our meal.”

As soon as Gu Ning heard the title Mr. Wang, a look of coldness sank beneath her eyes.

She killed his nephew as well as some of the underlings which he had sent over.

This was the same as Gu Ning slapping Mr. Wang hard in front of the whole colony, and slapping both sides of his face with loud smacks!

This was a deadly feud that could not be resolved.

Unless one of the two dies, or if one of them escapes.

In her current situation, Gu Ning couldn’t escape, Father Gu and Mother Gu weren’t in any suitable state to be on the road. Also with Brother San looking after her here and with the fence keeping the zombies away, she wasn’t prepared to leave even if she had to unless this place fell.

Since she couldn’t leave, Wang JiZhong was even less likely to go.

If she didn’t want to die, then Wang JiZhong has to die.

Thinking of this, Gu Ning’s eyes flashed with a hint of murderous intent.

Gu Ning did not hide her killing intent, and those few people standing around her inexplicably felt the temperature in the dorm drop sharply, with chills going all over their bodies.

The murderous intent in Gu Ning’s eyes only lingered for a very brief moment before returning to normal.

She suddenly remembered something and jerked up her watch to look at it then got startled to see that the time on it read just after four o’clock. She jumped out of the bed and said as she headed out: “I’m going to use the toilet.”

She hurriedly headed out, causing the dormitory full of people to freeze for a moment.

“She didn’t just fall asleep, did she? That is not the state of someone who had just recovered from a fainting spell.” Xie YuHong whispered from the corner.

Everyone silently but wholeheartedly agreed.

Gu Ning was in such a hurry because she had actually passed out for three hours, and it was already 7:30 pm on the other side!

Her family would have dinner at six o’clock on point every day without fail.

If Mother Gu called her for dinner and she didn’t get any responses even though she kept knocking, she might panic and slam open the door. Only to find out that Gu Ning, who was supposed to be in her bedroom revising had disappeared into thin air. Again. Gu Ning doesn’t dare to imagine that.

Running to the women’s toilets on this floor, it turned out that the toilets were all without doors and just partitioned concrete.

She could only run straight out of the dormitory building, and by this time, it was already getting very late. Gu Ning thought of the small woods in the backfield and without thinking too much, hurriedly ran in that direction.

Knowing that she was now “infamous” in the colony, Gu Ning pulled her hoody up to cover her trademark blonde hair to avoid attention, and instead of her usual long knife, she only carried two short knives at her waist.

Since Brother San already made himself clear that he’ll protect Gu Ning, Wang JiZhong would never dare to touch her, at least, on the surface anyway.

Gu Ning headed up the slope.

Only to come face to face with a person walking down the slope from the backfield.

The person brushed past her, glanced at the few strands of blonde hair peeking out of the side of the hoody, then suddenly stopped in their tracks and asked in a voice vaguely tinged with contempt: “Are you that Gu Ning?”

Gu Ning’s footsteps gave a slight pause and calmly turned her head to look. Then a trace of surprise emerged in her eyes, she did not expect to meet this person here, she couldn’t help but blurt out: “Yin Sang?”

The owner of that contemptuous voice was none other than Yin Sang, who had given Gu Ning a great shock and inspiration after seeing her on the television. It was so memorable that Gu Ning was able to remember her name at this moment.

Dressed in a white practice outfit, her long black hair still tied up in a high ponytail, she looked more flamboyant in person than on television.

Gu Ning looked at her and couldn’t help but think of another person, Zhuang Chen, who was also this gorgeous looking. If they were compared side by side, Zhuang Chen’s appearance was more exceptional than Yin Sang, but it could just be Gu Ning subconsciously favoring Yin Sang more than Zhuang Chen.

Hearing Gu Ning called out her name, Yin Sang raised her eyebrows slightly in surprise: “You recognize me?”

“I’ve seen the video of your participation in the National Martial Arts Competition.” Gu Ning said from the bottom of her heart: “You are very impressive.”

Yin Sang snorted, although she was a little upset with Gu Ning for some reason, it was always bad to make things difficult when people give their heartfelt praises.

Gu Ning suddenly asked sincerely: “Can I ask you a question?”

Yin Sang raised her eyebrows and replied: “What?”

Gu Ning eagerly asked: “Where did you learn all those fighting skills?”

“……” The look on Gu Ning’s face was so sincere that Yin Sang couldn’t even put on a sneering expression, so she could only say this with a straight face: “I have been training martial arts since I was a child, and have defeated those who have taught me them since the past ten years. If you think that by killing a few people you can be as good as I am, then you are too far out of your mind.”

After saying those, she gave Gu Ning a cold stare and went straight down the slope in the direction of the teacher’s building.

Gu Ning looked at Yin Sang’s back and was puzzled by those words.

However, since she hadn’t received any useful information, it seemed that the only solution was to find a way to get into the army. Thinking of this, Gu Ning continued up towards the backfield.

In the past, during this time of the day the backfield was a popular place for students, but now it was deserted. The large open space was empty and only Gu Ning stood there alone.

Gu Ning stood in the backfield, looking up at the west side of the sky.

Unsure if it was because of the apocalypse, but the sun seems to be setting down earlier as the days go by. It’s only four o’clock right now and at this hour the sun was already showing signs of setting in the west.

In her heart, Gu Ning had a vague sense of trepidation.

The feeling that maybe one day, the sun will not rise again after setting down.

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(T/N: A cool down chapter… hehehe oh well XD. Thank you so much for reading and commenting!
Spoiler Alert: Next chapter will be more about the new changes in Gu Ning… So stay tuned! )

(Editor: De Vile)