Zombie Apocalypse: Don't be afraid, I'm not a good person.

Shenhe reached out and pinched Jiang Manluo's chin, feeling its smoothness. Jiang Manluo obediently raised her chin and placed it in his palm.

She looked at him with her deer-like eyes slightly narrowed, her face showing a mixture of shyness, obedience, and anticipation.

Shenhe turned her face towards him, leaned down slightly, and stared intently into her moist eyes.

Why do you have this idea?

Upon hearing this, Jiang Manluo tried to look at the ant queen, but her chin was held in Shenhe's hand and she couldn't turn her head. She could only glance sideways in that direction.

"It might be related to the queen ant. Before the apocalypse, she was my pet. Back then, I often fed her by holding her in my palm. After the apocalypse, she suddenly changed one day, but she became unusually affectionate towards me."

When we first arrived here, I almost starved to death because there was no food. It was the queen ant who laid nutritious eggs for the worker ants to feed me, which is how I survived.

From that time on, I gradually gained some new abilities, such as being able to communicate with her in my mind.

But I might have been influenced by the queen ant; I keep feeling that it's right to find someone with strong genes to pass on my bloodline. I know deep down there's something wrong with that, but I can't control these thoughts and the urge to do it.

As Jiang Manluo spoke, her gaze shifted from the queen ant back to Shenhe's face, filled with adoration. Her expression was shy, fiery, and filled with a happy smile that seemed to indicate she had finally found the right person, though her smile was a little crazy.

Shenhe shuddered at the sight of that expression.

Is Jiang Manluo beautiful? Yes! But she looks sick!

Forget it, whatever happens, upgrading is the priority!

Whether he does it or not, just agree first. Anyway, he won't lose out.

Shenhe extended his hand to her. "I agree. Get up!"

"Really? Thank you for your kindness, sir!"

Jiang Manluo spoke excitedly, her face flushed with an unusual blush. She placed her hand in Shenhe's palm, grasped his hand in return, stood up, and pulled him toward the stream.

"Sir, I'll take you to my place, and I'll cook you something delicious! I'll do whatever you want!"

Jiang Manluo spoke urgently, her eyes fixed on him, holding his hand tightly as if afraid he would run away.

Anyway, it's already noon, so it's not too late to have a meal before going out to grind monsters.

Shenhe was led by her through the tunnel. Stalactites cannot emit light, but this underground passage was unusually bright.

Shenhe checked the system panel and found that the glowing things were actually a group of ants, called light ants!

The two walked along the stream for more than a hundred meters when a unit door suddenly appeared in front of Shenhe!

"This is my old house. I don't like lying on the ground to rest, so I let them take down my old house. Sir, come on, I'll show you around my house."

Jiang Manluo was very excited, like a child showing off a treasure.

Once inside the building, she lived on the first floor. Before the apocalypse, the entire first and second floors had been combined into her home. The house was luxuriously decorated, like a presidential suite in a five-star hotel, but even more cozy.

The two floors together are only a little over 1,000 square meters. When her parents bought it for her, it cost tens of millions of yuan.

The living room was pitch black. Jiang Manluo called softly, "Turn on the lights."

Hey! The room is now lit up!

It's voice-activated!

Shenhe looked up and saw a light ant lying on the chandelier, its abdomen emitting a white light. When magnified by the chandelier's crystal, it looked just like a regular light bulb in the house!

"I'm afraid of the dark, so I had the queen ant research it for me. I named it the Light Ant, isn't that fun? Hehehe..."

Seeing him staring at the chandelier, Jiang Manlu proudly introduced it, her tone slightly boastful. She was deliberately showing off these things to make Shenhe feel that this place was safe and comfortable, and that he would be willing to stay and live with her.

"Please sit down and rest for a while. I'll go prepare something to eat. Do you have any dietary restrictions?"

Jiang Manluo pulled Shenhe to sit on the leather sofa, while she squatted down at his feet, looking up at him with her small face, making Shenhe look down at her from a superior position, adopting an extremely humble posture.

There was no way around it; the aura of Shenhe's bloodline was too captivating to her. All she wanted was to please him and possess him.

She is different from ordinary people. She can sense whether a person's genes are excellent and whether they are conducive to inheritance. Shenhe is the person with the best genes she has met in so many days. She doesn't even look at the others.

Her senses told her she had struck gold!

She absolutely cannot lose him! Absolutely not!

Shenhe looked around at the luxurious room and exclaimed in his heart, "This is too extravagant!"

Upon hearing Jiang Manluo's words, she said, "I only dislike bad food."

He just said it casually. After all, he was a poor kid who wasn't picky about food and was lucky to have enough to eat.

Jiang Manluo blushed upon hearing this and nervously pressed her delicate face against Shenhe's knee.

Mei Mu kept staring into Shen He's eyes, afraid that there might be a hint of dissatisfaction in them.

"Um... I'm sorry, I'm also just learning to cook, but don't worry, I will definitely study hard in the future and won't let you down."

Before the apocalypse, she never lifted a finger to cook, and these days she can barely manage to make something palatable by herself.

She herself thought it tasted bad.

Shenhe leaned back on the sofa, looking at her obedient yet anxious appearance beside him, and reached out to stroke her hair reassuringly, "It's okay, just do your best."

She's obviously a pampered young lady; it's good enough that she's willing to take action.

"Um!"

Jiang Manluo nodded gently, and couldn't help but rub her palm against his.

Then she suddenly tilted her head back, leaned close to his wrist and sniffed it gently, then squinted her eyes contentedly, like a kitten that had stolen a piece of candy.

Shenhe's expression changed, and he quickly withdrew his hand, clenching it into a fist.

Not only is he sick, but he's also like a pervert.

Actually, he misunderstood Jiang Manluo. Jiang Manluo was smelling the scent of his genes, not his body odor.

Jiang Manluo knew she had gone a bit overboard, but she just couldn't help it; she just liked it!

She quickly stood up and walked barefoot to the kitchen.

Shenhe watched her retreating figure and shook his head.

The kitchen lights came on, and there was a clattering sound for a while, followed by the sound of water being poured.

A moment later, Jiang Manluo came out with a basin of warm water and gently placed it at Shenhe's feet, then squatted down.

"I made a few tomahawk steaks. This is the simplest and the best I can make." As he spoke, he reached out to take off his shoes.

Shenhe instinctively shrank back a little.

Jiang Manluo looked up at him, her eyes soft and gentle.

"Your shoes are soaking wet, it must be uncomfortable to keep them covered up, so why don't you let me take care of you?"

"My surname is Shen, and my given name is Shenhe."

Shenhe gave her a deep look, then relaxed and leaned back on the sofa. With someone to serve him, why be coy?

He let Jiang Manluo take off her shoes and socks and put his feet into warm water.

Her hands were as soft as cotton, without any calluses, and her fingers felt warm to the touch.

She splashed water onto his insteps, her expression focused as if she were handling some rare treasure.

Seeing a pampered young lady willing to go to such lengths to produce a better bloodline, Shenhe couldn't help but marvel at the profound influence the Queen Ant had on her.

But then she thought, what if she meets a man stronger than herself in the future? Would she also fawn over him like she does now?

Shenhe, curious, simply asked, "If you encounter someone stronger than me in the future, what will you do?"