Apocalypse: Launching a Counterattack Against the Villainess

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【Primordial Crystal】, as a special currency in the apocalypse, is inherently very hard. Combined with its powerful kinetic energy, it flew out and pierced directly through the head of a zombie.

This action clearly "enraged" all the zombies nearby.

Once someone attacks first and enters combat, the invisible suppression emanating from Lingyuan Ellie will lose its effect.

The zombies then pounced on Nie Qingyun, but he made no attempt to fight back.

Upon seeing this, Cheng Yuqiu immediately picked up her shield and short sword. Although she knew that these zombies would not pose any threat to Nie Qingyun, she still instinctively wanted to help.

However, this time, someone did indeed make a move before her.

An invisible wind blade flashed by, and the zombie's head was completely sliced ​​off and sent flying into the air, before rolling back to the ground a few seconds later.

"Aww!"

Lingyuan Ellie let out a cry and confronted the zombie in front of Nie Qingyun.

At this moment, Nie Qingyun finally made a move.

He raised his hand and pressed on Cheng Yuqiu's arm, signaling the other to put away his weapon, before turning his gaze back to the small figure in front of him.

"This is the meaning of everything we've done..."

There was no command... nor any connection created by [resonance].

"The senior student acted solely on her own willpower..."

"Clumsily using the moves I just learned from you..."

"They protected us."

"If, before, Your Highness, you only taught my senior how to attack the enemy..."

"So, the reason for using one's own power is the meaning that senior sister has given to this matter..."

Nie Qingyun's voice was calm, but it couldn't hide the excitement in his heart.

He should be just as excited.

Because this represents a qualitative change in the relationship with the senior student.

Suddenly, he remembered an exact same afternoon.

At that time, my senior sister couldn't respond to more complex commands.

She sat alone in the empty room, with Faye Wong's "The Edge of Love and Pain" playing on a loop from an old gramophone.

The items placed around her were things she had casually thrown away but had picked up again.

I felt both wronged and confused.

Because she simply didn't understand why she was placed there.

But I was so caught up in all sorts of trivial matters that I had almost forgotten the details of that day.

But maybe…

My senior remembers.

What you do unintentionally, or what you say casually, may stay in her heart forever.

It probably didn't occupy a particularly important position.

But when many coincidences came together, she suddenly understood what you meant.

It's like traveling through time and space to complete a mission that was left unfinished, which is why he led a few zombies along, his steps faltering, to the stadium.

Imagine one afternoon, your kitten keeps meowing, but you can't understand it and you feel confused. Then, an hour later, you see the can of food next to its bowl that you were going to feed but were interrupted by a phone call and didn't get to.

You suddenly realize that, just when you attributed everything to tacit understanding and assumed that you had always been this in sync.

When you look back at that once bewildered figure, you realize that she may have also had a sudden realization on some ordinary afternoon.

Then she went to do that for you, the thing she felt she should have done.

Nie Qingyun eagerly awaited... hoping that one day her senior would suddenly remember everything and then smile and say that long-overdue "Long time no see".

……

Perhaps, perhaps everything that happened to my senior is still just a coincidence.

But Nie Qingyun couldn't resist this romantic conjecture.

Chapter 228: He...tui!

Cheng Yuqiu stood there somewhat bewildered, holding her shield and short sword. She had initially intended to help when she saw the zombies approaching, but before she could even make a move, Ling Yuan Ellie had already dispatched them all in a few moves.

Unlike her previous clumsy appearance, Lingyuan Ellie became quite fierce in both speed and attack movements after showing hostility and entering battle mode.

The once menacing zombies were instantly reduced to scattered limbs and broken bodies.

"Wow, I never would have guessed before, Senior Lingyuan, you're quite something!"

Cheng Yuqiu was both surprised and excited. Seeing that there was no danger around, he immediately put away his weapon, ran to Lingyuan Ellie, picked her up, and spun her around in circles.

Perhaps in her eyes, the only change in her senior was an improvement in her combat power.

As for what constitutes "action of one's own will" and "passive drive," she sees no difference.

It's enough if the three of them can stay close together like this forever.

But Nie Qingyun wanted more than that. Regardless of whether Lingyuan Ellie could regain her original memories in the end, he hoped that his senior could become a complete person with "free will".

Instead of being a puppet controlled by others, a body that must be driven by others.

Clearly, the current situation is far better than he had expected.

Even without the [Resonance] connection, the senior student still recognized him and knew how to distinguish between friendly units and enemies.

Given this situation, it's not impossible that in the future, things could completely break free from control and act entirely independently.

Maybe I can even make some friends... Thinking about it this way, it seems like everything is moving in a positive direction.

Thinking of this, Nie Qingyun couldn't help but feel happy, so he walked over to Cheng Yuqiu and planned to take his senior sister over and give her a hug as a reward.

As soon as he approached, Lingyuan Ellie struggled and jumped out of Cheng Yuqiu's arms, grabbing Nie Qingyun's leg as soon as she landed.

It looked roughly like a koala clinging to a tree trunk, and refused to come down no matter what Nie Qingyun said.

Perhaps it is precisely because the spiritual connection has been severed that she places greater emphasis on physical touch in order to seek this vague sense of belonging.

Actually, it didn't matter to Nie Qingyun being held by his senior like this. With his current physical attributes, the extra weight wouldn't affect his movements.

However, given that her senior's performance was much better than expected, Nie Qingyun wanted to conduct some further tests.

Then he turned to Cheng Yuqiu, who was watching the commotion with a charming smile, and instructed her:

"Next, Your Highness, please step back a little further away. There are still some tests to be conducted with your senior..."

"Huh? Anything else?" Cheng Yuqiu replied, taking a few meters back.

"We've been killing zombies for half a day, and we still haven't collected any Primal Crystals. How about we collect them first, then find a place to rest before continuing?"

As he spoke, he patted the dust off his clothes, his expression somewhat resentful.

"Ugh... Killing zombies is so dirty... We're all filthy. Shall we find a place to take a shower and rest first?"

"Your Highness, please bear with it for a little while..." Nie Qingyun couldn't help but twitch his lips.

If you take these two beautiful girls, one big and one small, to the bathroom, it can't just be a bath...

If I really go, I'll probably come out the next morning.

Nie Qingyun quickly shook his head, banishing the distracting thoughts in his mind, and then took out a dagger from the [Data Space].

With a slightly uneasy feeling, I made a small cut on the tip of my index finger.

"Aww!!"

Lingyuan Ellie's reaction was quite strong. In an instant, as if she had received some kind of signal, even the ahoge on her head stood up. Then she raised her head and stared straight at Nie Qingyun's finger, and a bright red luster spread across the iris of her light blue eyes at a visible speed.

Then, the girl released Nie Qingyun's thigh and eagerly raised her small hand.

However, due to the significant height difference between the two, Lingyuan Ellie could only barely reach the other's waist even when she stood on tiptoe.

So all he could do was jump on tiptoe while anxiously shouting, wishing he could turn his ahoge into a propeller and take off on the spot.

"What good thing are you going to give my senior? Let me see!"

Cheng Yuqiu was standing at the back. Due to the angle, she didn't see Nie Qingyun cutting his finger at all. Seeing Ling Yuan and Ellie's strong reaction, she couldn't suppress her curiosity. She looked around and saw that Nie Qingyun didn't seem to be doing anything dangerous, so she went closer.

Feeling someone put their arm around his shoulder, Nie Qingyun turned his head back and found that Cheng Yuqiu was not standing obediently behind him. After thinking for a moment, he did not continue to stop him.

Lingyuan Ellie's sensitivity to blood was something he only mentioned to the young lady once, when the two girls first met. This was a good opportunity to test whether the senior was also sensitive to other people's blood.

"Let me show you, let me show you," Nie Qingyun teased, holding his finger in front of Cheng Yuqiu, pretending to smear the drop of blood on the other's face.

To everyone's surprise, Cheng Yuqiu didn't even try to dodge. It seemed that because she had been intimate with Nie Qingyun for so many days, she had become bolder and actually opened her mouth and put the other person's finger in her mouth.

The warm, soft touch made Nie Qingyun's hand tremble involuntarily.

The girl's rosy lips just covered the middle of her knuckles, and the sensitive nerves there seemed to be activated at that moment, constantly sending some kind of suggestive signal to her brain.

He never expected that the young lady would make such provocative gestures in her daily life.

Well... maybe the other person didn't have that intention at all, and was just playing around.

However, this action greatly worried Lingyuan Ellie.

Seeing that his senior was about to pull his pants down if he didn't remove his fingers soon, Nie Qingyun quickly withdrew his hand and tried to tone down his joking tone as he said:

"Stop fooling around, we still have important things to do," he said, grabbing the other's hand that was on his shoulder and gesturing with his chin towards Ling Yuan Ellie.

"You saw it, my senior is very sensitive to my blood..."

"I'm just not sure if this applies to others as well, so I'd like to ask Your Highness to try it as well."

"Oh? Okay!" Cheng Yuqiu agreed readily, extending both hands generously in front of Nie Qingyun, a sly look on her face.

"However... who knows, maybe my senior will only like me in the future."

"Don't be jealous then, hehe."

In response to such teasing, Nie Qingyun slightly curled the corners of his lips, adopting a look of anticipation.

To ensure safety, he didn't let his senior suck Cheng Yuqiu's finger directly. Instead, he held Lingyuan Ellie and let her drip a drop from above first to test it.

Lingyuan Ellie was also very well-behaved. Although she didn't act as impatiently as before, she still tilted her head back and opened her mouth.

As the blood dripped down, Lingyuan Ellie closed her cherry-like lips and then pursed them.

Nie Qingyun and Cheng Yuqiu both looked quite nervous, seemingly anticipating their senior's reaction.

However, the next second, Lingyuan Ellie suddenly tilted her head to one side.

"He...tui!"

Chapter 229: First, let's get the size of our breasts back!

Every part of a beautiful girl smells sweet, so according to this common sense, her blood should taste better than Nie Qingyun's.

Even if it's not better, it should at least be at the same level!

Cheng Yuqiu was so convinced of this, but Lingyuan Ellie's reaction was a huge blow to her, and she immediately showed a resentful look.

"Senior, did you even try to taste it properly?!"

"Hey, hey, hey, don't make that disgusted face."

"No, no, let's start over!"

Seeing Nie Qingyun's ambiguous smile, Cheng Yuqiu felt her cheeks burning. As she spoke, she handed her hand back to her senior.

"Well, there are other things to do next, and we need to proceed according to plan. Your Highness, please rest for a while..."

Nie Qingyun tried his best to give the girl a way out.

Based on the senior's reaction, he was almost certain that she wasn't interested in other people's blood; otherwise, she would have already run over and sucked their blood instead of spitting it out.

Thanks to this, Nie Qingyun breathed a slight sigh of relief, at least his senior sister had clear distinguishable characteristics from monsters in terms of habits.

Although she still harbors hostility towards other humans, it is likely a behavioral trait stemming from vigilance, rather than a desire to satisfy hunger like that of zombies.

The senior student doesn't eat people.

It's wonderful that we were able to come to this conclusion.

On the other side, Cheng Yuqiu was clearly still recovering from the blow she had just suffered.