Good Man Operation Guide

Chapter 168: Apocalypse: Zombie Era (7)

In the second month of the apocalypse, on a highway filled with car wreckage, a car sped by.

The windows of this car were covered with layer after layer of wire mesh, ensuring that the approaching zombies wouldn’t be able to reach their claws inside. Above the car, there was a sunroof with a camera protruding from it. To ensure detection from all angles, four cameras were strategically placed.

Inside the car, Gu Chengbei faced four scenes from different directions. He had personally installed an alarm system, which would automatically warn him if a zombie approached too closely. However, he wasn’t focused on monitoring it and instead skillfully assembled an MP3 player.

His hands were fast. Although he had never dealt with this kind of thing before, he quickly deduced the general structure by dismantling the parts. Soon, the broken MP3 player that had been found was repaired by Gu Chengbei.

After testing it, he smiled with joy and handed it to the little girl sitting silently behind him. “Yue Yue, listen, there’s sound now.”

Yue Yue’s blood had been wiped off her face long ago, and Gu Chengbei had also tended to the wound on her forehead. Now, her delicate and lovely face, like pure snow, was revealed.

However, perhaps due to the trauma she had experienced, she rarely spoke and often had a lack of cheerfulness on her face. Her eyes were pitch-black, except when she looked at Ji Jiaqi, where a childlike dependence and obedience would show. Otherwise, she remained silent, sitting in the car and observing the outside world.

Gu Chengbei liked children and felt distressed by the incident where she had almost been abused by scum. Throughout the journey, he always tried various ways to make her happy.

When they were clearing the blocked road and came across this MP3 player, Gu Chengbei noticed that the little girl sitting in the car was staring unblinkingly at the MP3 player nearby. So, he deliberately picked it up for her.

Cheng Yue glanced at Gu Chengbei, who was smiling at her, and took the MP3 player he handed over, silently placing the earphones in her ears.

Its previous owner might have been a girl; the MP3 player was filled with sweet songs that effectively soothed Cheng Yue’s heart, which had been consumed by anger and hatred.

She sat in the back, glaring at Gu Chengbei with a sinister expression while Ji Jiaqi was distracted.

In her previous life, when that man barged in, she was too scared to make a sound and remained silent after he shouted at her. This time, when she woke up, she found herself being held by the hair and slammed into the wall. Cheng Yue, unaware of her own supernatural ability, immediately screamed.

She knew that her older sister would come to her rescue upon hearing the sound.

Sure enough, Sister came, just like before when I was rescued from that man ’s hands.

However, it seemed that my scream had attracted Sister’s attention, leading to me being saved earlier than expected. Heng Heng was the unexpected variable. Previously, Sister had indeed mentioned that she hod a Ragdoll cat before the apocalypse. Unfortunately when she was trapped at home, Heng Heng wasn’t neutered. One day, the sound of a female cat downstairs caused him to go into heat, and he scratched the window screen and jumped out.

This time, I was rescued by her Sister in advance, and we left the building earlier than planned. Heng Heng is, of course, safe and sound.

Her sister had often mentioned Heng Heng in the past, saying it was the only thing her good friend had left for her. Cheng Yue remembered it well and had even yearned to find another Ragdoll cat to give to her.

Unfortunately, after the apocalypse, delicate animals like Ragdoll cats were unlikely to survive. Even if they did, they would possess powerful supernatural abilities and couldn’t be kept as pets by humans.

Cheng Yue accepted the presence of the Ragdoll cat and silently made a decision to take good care of it, so as not to make her sister sad. However, she couldn’t understand why Gu Chengbei, a mechanical supernatural being who could be considered one of the top experts in the post-apocalyptic world, was traveling with them.

Shouldn’t he be holed up in a house researching his robots at this time?

As for those who had caused Sister’s death...

Cheng Yue’s eyes turned cold and merciless as she wrote down their names in her small notebook.

Lin Shiheng lay on his seat, squinting his eyes and enjoying Cheng Yue’s tender and earnest strokes. He could sense that this girl wasn’t very experienced in petting cats, but based on her attitude, he felt that he should indulge in her actions.

In Ji Jiaqi’s eyes, Cheng Yue was a bit too obedient.

She was such a young girl, she didn’t allow her to help them move heavy objects when they got off the car. Instead, she sat in the car taking care of Heng Heng. Sometimes she would groom Heng Heng’s fur, other times she would give him the jerky that Ji Jiaqi had given her, and occasionally they would share earphones and listen to music together.

Ji Jiaqi moved a stone and glanced at the car. Since awakening her spatial abilities, her vision had become much stronger than before. At this moment, she could clearly see through the iron wires to the back seat, where the girl was holding the big cat, listening to music together.

In the past, Ji Jiaqi would definitely have stopped her. A cat’s hearing was many times stronger than that of humans, so the volume that was just right for humans might be different for a cat. And the jerky, most of them contain salt, which cats couldn’t eat.

But ever since she had witnessed Heng Heng transform into a human and express disgust towards cat food, Ji Jiaqi no longer followed those rules when feeding him.

Since Heng Heng hadn’t shown any aversion or avoidance, it should be okay to let him listen and eat.

Gu Chengbei had always believed that he didn’t possess any special abilities, but his vision had indeed improved significantly. At this moment, he could clearly see the interior of the car. He saw Cheng Yue about to eat an apple, and the Ragdoll cat that was resting on her lap sat up and sniffed the apple. Cheng Yue obediently wiped the apple clean before offering it to the Ragdoll cat, serving it like a servant attending to a master.

Thinking back to how Ji Jiaqi had been carrying the cat the whole time, and how she had immediately prepared a sleeping spot for it once they got in the car, Gu Chengbei suddenly felt that being a cat was better than being a human.

Look at how well it’s being attended to.

Lin Shiheng was indeed being treated very well. Ever since the three of them formed a team, he went from being Ji Jiaqi’s precious pet to being taken care of by all three of them.

Cheng Yue, needless to say, was just a teenager before her suicide. She considered Ji Jiaqi her only older sister and liked everything that Ji Jiaqi liked. She took meticulous care of Lin Shiheng and would do anything to please him.

As for Gu Chengbei, he was more straightforward. It was the boss’s cat, so how could he not try to please it?

Thus, while many people in the apocalypse were engaged in battles, Lin Shiheng curled up in the arms of the young girl, peacefully sleeping and purring. He didn’t mind being pampered by Cheng Yue, even if it meant her gently wiping his soft paw pads. After she finished cleaning them, she continued to stroke his fur with great care and dedication.

The fur of the Ragdoll cat was quite long, and usually, cats groom themselves. But Lin Shiheng was different; he refused to groom himself, so Cheng Yue gladly took on the task. Her grooming movements were gentle and delicate, done with great attention to detail, giving him a massage-like sensation.

When Lin Shiheng woke up, with his fur perfectly smooth, he stretched lazily. Without needing to call, Cheng Yue immediately offered food to him when he opened his mouth. After he finished eating, with another yawn, the cool fresh water that she had prepared in advance was already by his side.

Lapping up the water contentedly, Lin Shiheng adjusted his position comfortably in Cheng Yue’s embrace and went back to sleep.

Watching the entire scene, Gu Chengbei murmured, “...Humans can’t compare to cats, huh? Humans can’t compare to cats...”