Dr. Ling looked at the girl before him. "Do you know what we brought you here to do?"
Yueyue nodded obediently.
"Because I can help Uncle and Auntie defeat the big bad guys, right? Uncle Qin Chuan told me, he said I'm a little hero."
Looking at Yueyue's innocent and pure smiling face, Dr. Ling forced a bitter smile.
If there were any other options, who would be willing to subject such a young child to such suffering?
However, he hadn't expected that Qin Chuan, such a seemingly aloof person, would actually tell stories to a child.
A night passed.
Early the next morning, Xu An opened her eyes. Gou Dan was squatting beside her, guarding her obediently.
"Xu An, long time no see."
A voice, slightly familiar yet completely strange, echoed in her mind.
Xu An was shocked. She asked hesitantly, "Are you Ze Yuan?"
The voice on the other end seemed almost tangible, whispering in Xu An's ear with an indescribable sexiness and huskiness.
Xu An's old face flushed, and the tips of her ears quietly turned red.
"What, have you forgotten me after only a few months of my absence, you fickle woman?"
"It really is you!" Xu An's face lit up with joy, and she was about to enter the space to find Ze Yuan.
During Ze Yuan's absence, she had felt as if she had lost her backbone.
She was extremely passive.
She had to admit that although Ze Yuan had no physical form, he had provided Xu An with considerable help in certain aspects.
"It's okay, you don't need to come in. I can now manifest a simple physical form."
As he spoke, a small blue dot of light flew out from Xu An's body. The blue dot of light gradually enlarged before Xu An.
It gradually took on the shape of a little person.
However, the little person was only the size of a palm, like a Q-version doll.
It was exceptionally cute.
"How did you become like this? So cute!" Xu An exclaimed in surprise.
Gou Dan, standing beside her, seemed to recognize Ze Yuan as well, constantly jumping and trying to chase the ball of light.
Before Xu An could speak, the little person made of glowing blue light let out an exasperated voice, then said, "Damn it! Why is it only this small?"
He then met Xu An's excited gaze.
"Stupid woman! Don't look at me like that. I could have been much bigger."
Xu An didn't care. Seeing Ze Yuan immediately improved her gloomy mood.
"So what's with your voice?"
Ze Yuan shrugged helplessly. "This is my original voice. I was in my juvenile phase before, and now that I've reached maturity, of course, it's changed. It's just that I don't know why my body still can't manifest the complete adult form."
This point troubled Ze Yuan greatly.
Xu An heard this and a strange smile appeared on her face. Before Ze Yuan could react, she grabbed him, who was floating in mid-air.
She placed him in her palm and began to rub him.
"Ah, you really have a physical form."
"It feels so good, so soft and squishy. Ze Yuan, what is your body made of?"
"Ahhhhhhh!"
"Xu An, you crazy woman, let me go!!!"
Ze Yuan stretched out his small, chubby hands and slapped Xu An's face, escaping her devilish grip.
"Don't touch me, ahhhhhhh..."
Xu An froze for a moment, unable to react, allowing the little Ze Yuan to slip out of her hands.
She felt a little regretful, but she guessed that Ze Yuan would be wary this time and wouldn't let her catch him again.
"But, why did you disappear for so long? Do you know how worried I was about you?"
Ze Yuan, flying in mid-air, crossed his little chubby arms and looked at her disbelievingly. "Worried about me? I think you've been getting into a lot of trouble these past few months. Tell me, what kind of heinous acts have you committed now?"
For some reason, Xu An found Ze Yuan's expression extremely irritating.
"What could I have done? You haven't even told me what happened to you these past few months? Why did you disappear all of a sudden?"
"I went to upgrade when I had enough energy stored."
Xu An was confused. "Upgrade?"
Ze Yuan nodded. "The consciousness sources you accumulated before were enough for me to condense a physical form. I suddenly fell into a deep sleep, and I took the opportunity to upgrade."
"It's just that there was some miscalculation. I thought I would manifest an adult form, but I didn't expect it to be a juvenile form! How unlucky!"
"No, I think you look very cute like this. I think it would be quite nice if you stayed like this." Xu An smiled kindly, wanting nothing more than to grab Ze Yuan from mid-air and rub him in her hands.
"Alright, alright, you strange woman. Tell me, what has happened in the past few months? Why did you look so worried just now?"
"Go ahead, brother will help you solve it."
Xu An looked at the Q-version little person in front of her, hands on his hips, telling her he would solve it. She couldn't help but cover her stomach and collapse onto the bed, laughing uncontrollably.
"Hahahahahaha......"
No, Xu An felt like her stomach was going to hurt from laughing.
"Ze Yuan, really, with your body and your voice, it's like a child trying to wear an adult's suit. Can't your voice change back?"
"I still think the previous shota voice suited you better, or could you change to other voice tones?"
Ze Yuan rolled his eyes in mid-air. He didn't need to guess to know what kind of inappropriate thoughts were going through Xu An's mind.
"Stop it! Xu An, if you keep being so indecent, I'm going to get angry."
Xu An looked at Ze Yuan pouting his little lips. She thought about all the sad things that had happened to her in her past and present lives combined, and she barely managed to suppress her laughter.
"However, there is actually something I need to ask you." Xu An composed herself and started discussing serious matters with Ze Yuan.
Then, Xu An briefly explained what had happened in Zone B to Ze Yuan.
Ze Yuan listened, speechless for a long time.
"So what do you want to do now? Rescue that little girl named Yueyue?"
Xu An shook her head. "Actually, I don't know myself, but Yueyue is so young. I feel like she shouldn't be living like this."
"I still can't figure out why Yueyue became that vaccine. Xu An lowered her head. "Isn't there any way to transfer the antibodies from Yueyue?"
"Like after others inject Yueyue's blood and also develop antibodies, Yueyue could then be freed?"
Ze Yuan, however, was very calm. He neither mocked Xu An's wild ideas nor agreed with her.
"It's not that simple. In the situation you described, the little girl named Yueyue must have the original antibodies. You can use her serum to research a vaccine to resist the zombie virus, but to purify the original antibodies, there's simply no way."