In a frigid apocalypse, she fed her boyfriend until he became a zombie king.

"Hehe... Ahhh... Let me out, let me out..."

The sounds from the bottom of the pit were hoarse and desolate, sending shivers down one's spine.

The instructor pulled out a dagger and hurled it into the pit, the dull thud of flesh tearing echoing immediately: "What are you crying for? We've been feeding and caring for your brother, what more do you want! Besides, in your current state, even if we let you out, would you dare let your brother see you?"

"Heh heh... let my brother go..."

The instructor said gruffly, "You have no right to negotiate with the manor. Your brother either has to die, or he has to stay at the manor for life and serve it."

"You can't do this to him... He's a soldier, you can't use him to harm others..."

The instructor reached into the pit, pulled out the blood-soaked dagger, and threw it back in: "Harm people? It's an honor for 0001 and these people to contribute to the legion."

"Kong Wei'an, I advise you to stabilize those puppets as soon as possible. Otherwise, drag your brother into the workshop, brew him into wine, and use it to irrigate your birch forest."

A mournful cry echoed from the bottom of the pit again.

Wenren Lei nudged 0001 beside her: "Hey, your brother's in the pit, say something!"

With a thud, 0001 slowly collapsed to the ground.

"Who?!"

"Who's there?!"

Kong Weian and the human instructor spoke up together.

"You really know how to pick your moments to trick people," Wenren Lei retorted with a forced smile.

He slowly peeked out, raised his hand and waved: "Hi~ I was just passing by, do you believe me?"

There was a rustling sound in the pit, and Kong Wei'an stretched out his long neck. There were still two bloody marks on his cheeks from the dagger earlier, and his eyes stared straight at her. This sight made Wenren Lei feel terrible.

"Kong Wei'an! Are you blind?! You didn't even notice someone touching your face!" The instructor pointed his dagger at Wenren Lei. "Kill him right now!"

"Hehe—"

Kong Wei'an hissed with a contorted face, and the surrounding birch trees shook wildly in response, emitting a headache-inducing noise. Countless leaves transformed into sharp blades and flew towards Wenren Lei.

Wenren Lei immediately conjured a protective shield and casually covered 0001.

"Kong Weiyan is here," he said calmly.

The raging storm in the forest immediately ceased, and the surroundings instantly became so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Wenren Lei rubbed her ears, which had almost gone deaf from the noise, and dragged 0001 out from behind the tree, turning his face towards the bottom of the pit: "I wasn't lying to you, was I? Isn't this your brother?"

"Brother!" Kong Wei'an stretched his neck desperately to get closer, pressing a dent into the soil.

Wenren Lei seized the opportunity to complain, pointing at the instructor: "It was them who planned to kidnap your brother to brew wine, and they even gave him a good beating."

He half-supported 0001 and moved forward two steps: "Look, they've all been knocked unconscious."

Kong Wei'an suddenly turned to look at the instructors: "You guys!!"

The instructor was astonished by 1000's shamelessness and hurriedly defended himself: "He's lying! The head instructor originally planned to go to the underground workshop to rescue 0001! We didn't knock him out at all!"

"Listen to this, listen to this!" Wenren Lei pounded on the tree trunk in anguish. "If no one had plotted to capture your brother and bring him to the workshop, there would have been no need for the head instructor to personally rescue him."

As for who framed him, I'd rather not say.

Kong Wei'an was so angry that his eyes were about to burst. He manipulated several birch trees to surround the human instructor.

The instructor had no way to defend himself, so he could only lower his tone and say, "Kong Wei'an, we have always cooperated well, and the manor has no reason to harm your brother."

Kong Weiyan paused for a moment, then thought to himself, the manor would love for Kong Weiyan to live to be a hundred years old, so that Kong Weiyan could keep him in check and maintain the operation of the manor.

Thinking of this, most of his anger subsided.

"We're all in this together," the instructor said arrogantly again. "Kill this intruder, and we can continue our previous cooperation. The manor will definitely be safe for 0001."

Seeing this, Wenren Lei slowly spoke up, in a tone of mediator: "Brother Wei'an, I also think that what this instructor said makes sense."

Instructor: ? ?

"What exactly do you want to do??"

Wenren Lei weighed 0001 in her hand, trying to make her presence known to Kong Wei'an.

He shook his head and sighed, "This cooperation was hard-won. Brother Weiyan has been losing sleep day and night, afraid that he won't be able to do a good job for the manor."

His tone was so genuine that even the instructors were moved.

Wenren Lei continued to weep: "It's just that recently, Brother Weiyan has been talking about it often, as if he remembered that he lost a younger brother and went out to look for him, which is how he was tricked into coming to this manor by mistake."

Upon hearing this, Kong Wei'an's eyes instantly welled up with tears.

The instructor inwardly cried out in alarm and immediately interrupted loudly, "Stop twisting the truth! 0001 came to the manor to register on his own! There's absolutely no question of him lying!"

Wenren Lei feigned tears and said, "If you say so, then so be it."

"?" The instructor punched a cotton ball and suffered another silent loss.

Wenren looked at Kong Weian with teary eyes. He was already quite deceptive in appearance, and with his pitiful expression like a little white grass, he was even more convincing.

"But recently, Brother Weiyan seems to have remembered something from the past. He said that he may have been a soldier before and can't stand people trampling on human life at will."

"Someone reported this to the instructors, which is why someone arrested Brother Weiyan and is going to send him to that workshop."

Kong Wei'an gritted his teeth. No wonder the mind control in the manor always weakened at night; it turned out his brother was intermittently regaining his memories.

If his brother knew that he had unintentionally helped the manor harm so many people, I wonder what his reaction would be.

"You're talking nonsense!!" the instructor shouted, pointing at Wenren Lei. "Everything you've said is fabricated—"

Before the instructor could finish speaking, a tree branch pierced his chest, and he slowly collapsed, eyes wide open.

Wow, Vian, you're really skilled.

Wenren Lei, supporting 0001, walked towards the pit.

"Don't come any closer." Kong Wei'an manipulated several trees to block Wenren Lei's path. "Take my brother out of here and never come back."

Wenren asked tearfully, "Aren't you going with us?"

"He can't leave. Neither can you."

The head instructor emerged from the woods, slowly walked to the small pit, and half-squatted beside Kong Wei'an: "A person with only a head left, which way do you go?"

Wenren Lei was startled. No wonder he was buried in the ground and didn't dare let 0001 see him.

"Who injured your face?" the head instructor asked coldly.

Kong Wei'an slowly lay back down at the bottom of the pit, his voice tinged with despair: "You lied to me."

"Lying to you? When you joined, I told you that I would help you gain supreme power, but you would have to pay a price."

The instructor reached into the pit, seemingly stroking Kong Weian's face: "Everything you're going through now is your own fault for trying to take shortcuts."

Kong Wei'an started sobbing again: "You didn't say you would turn me into what I am now."