Lin Mo glanced at Diona, his eyes full of suspicion and surprise.

He wondered if he’d misheard—but no. As a highly trained assassin, his hearing was always sharp.

“Ahhh, honestly! This is unbearable!”

Grumbling under her breath, Diona left him for the moment and walked over to the two women leaning against each other as they walked.

Clang—! Clang—!

She gave each of the girls a punch with her iron fists.

“You’re both women, so have some shame! Don’t go cuddling up to each other in public! What will people think if they see you?!”

Oh—

So she was just scolding a lesbian couple.

Lin Mo shrugged. Just a moment ago, he’d nearly mistaken this blonde young lady for another one of the perverted women he’d met before.

……

After stomping back over, Diona gave Lin Mo an apologetic smile:

“Sigh, I’m really sorry. You know how it is—there are very few men anywhere…”

“Yeah, I understand.” Lin Mo nodded.

“I already taught them a lesson.” Diona nervously clasped and unclasped her hands.

The two she’d just punched were actually close friends of hers, too. So there was absolutely no problem!

“That’s what I mean. Um, I… well.”

Diona blinked rapidly. “Oh! Speaking of which, Xiao Mo, are you hungry?”

“Right now? Not really…”

Lin Mo rummaged in his pocket and took out a compressed ration bar.

“If you want it, Big Sis Diona, you can have it.”

“W-whaaat?! I-I’d better not… This is pretty precious food. You should save it for yourself.”

“It’s fine. I have two more.” Lin Mo gave her a sweet smile.

After all, until he knew for sure whether eating one of these ration bars would give him diarrhea, he wasn’t about to test it on himself.

“I-is that so…? All right, then.”

Diona nervously accepted the ration bar Lin Mo held out to her.

It was a tiny little thing, not even as long as her thumb. Yet Lin Mo’s body heat had clearly seeped through his pants and into the wrapper. In other words, Diona was now indirectly touching Lin Mo’s thigh.

She couldn’t help swallowing. Quickly gripping the ration bar in her palm, she said:

“I-I’ll eat it when I get a little free time later.”

“Okay! Be sure to tell me if it tastes good!” Lin Mo put on a bright, sunny smile.

“I only found it recently, so I have no idea what it tastes like…”

“I’ll tell you! I promise!”

The more Diona talked with Lin Mo, the more unsettled she felt, her emotions growing increasingly tangled.

After bringing the boy back to her home, Diona watched his thin back and fragile frame from behind. She nearly lost control completely, turned into a big bad wolf, scooped Lin Mo up, and carried him straight to her room.

But at the crucial moment, she forced herself to hold back.

After all, though Diona had a perverted heart, she desperately wanted to be like those true ladies who only turned into devils after winning a boy’s affection.

“For now, let’s leave things there. I’ll tell everyone that I’m looking out for you. Xiao Mo, just stay here for a while. Soon you’ll be free to move around the camp.”

“Okay!”

After they’d talked, Diona hurried away, her heart in turmoil.

Lin Mo kept his warm smile on until he was sure the girl had gone far away.

“Phew…”

“That was rough.”

He raised a hand and gently wiped his cheeks a few times.

After everything he’d been through that day, he was exhausted and his face felt greasy.

“They’re all dead…”

“I’ve seen so much death before.”

“But they were my friends.”

Muttering to himself, Lin Mo rummaged in his pocket again. Between the two ration bars he had left, he found the necklace Diona had taken off him.

“Is this… Bai Xiaomei’s keepsake?”

He gave it a quick wipe.

“Now that she’s dead, this thing’s useless, isn’t it?”

“But at least for now, it can stay with me as a reminder that they existed.”

As he spoke, Lin Mo put the necklace around his neck. “Until I forget about you all.”

Before, Bai Xiaomei and the others—the ones with systems—had told him that all you had to do was rub an item with your finger, and it would automatically show your level and stat allocations.

Lin Mo tried rubbing the necklace.

Nothing happened.

“They were all murdered by the Black Rabbit God.”

“They thought they’d received a powerful system or ability. In reality, the system’s missions just gave them a little taste of success before sending them all at once into an inescapable death trap to be slaughtered.”

As he went over everything again, Lin Mo felt the heart-piercing despair in what his companions had gone through.

Even he, humanity’s greatest assassin, hadn’t been a match for those female bandits.

His companions had it even worse. They were either ugly, simple-minded, or women. They had no chance of even keeping the enemy occupied. It was a dead end from the start.

“Diona said that once she’s talked to the others, I’ll be able to wander around here…”

“She also said she’s the leader’s daughter and their best fighter.”

It seemed Lin Mo’s initial judgment had been right after all.

After all, by any measure, Diona was a rare talent, a cut above the rest.

(I need to make her my meal ticket here!)

(From the way she acts… she’s definitely into me.)

As an assassin, Lin Mo wasn’t swayed by ordinary emotions.

That didn’t mean he was some loveless, desireless loner.

Lin Mo waited alone in the room for nearly an hour. At last, Diona came back, biting her lip as she nervously pushed open the door.

“I-I…”

Diona’s eyes widened. The moment she poked her head inside, she couldn’t stop searching for Lin Mo.

Lin Mo was sitting upright on a peeling old sofa.

He was hard to miss, and Diona spotted him at once.

“I-I’m back.” Diona’s voice trembled.

“…” Lin Mo lifted his head and looked at the beautiful young woman, her figure graceful and her whole body radiating a strong, taut feminine allure. He gave a small nod and a gentle, obedient smile.

“Thanks for all your hard work, Big Sis Diona.”

He pressed his hands together, then deliberately pretended not to notice as he shifted to sit sideways on the sofa, moving his butt just a little.

Diona kept her eyes fixed on him as he moved. She was practically staring.

Now that it was just the two of them, with no one else around to interrupt, Diona’s will was slipping closer and closer to that of a rutting beast than a human being.

Lin Mo kept watching her.

He guessed she’d probably take his virginity right there on the sofa.

It was something Lin Mo had been looking forward to for a long time. And since Diona really was attractive to him, it wouldn’t be strange if they went ahead and did everything that was supposed to happen.

So he deliberately leaned into the sofa and let out a soft whimper:

“Ah… ah…”

“Now I can finally relax a little…”

“Lately, I’ve been constantly on the move, scavenging, and running from zombies with my companions.”

“When we found the supermarket, I thought we’d finally get a chance to catch our breath…”

His voice caught. “But who could’ve known… sob… who could’ve known…”

“Big Sis Diona, thank goodness you came. Even though… everyone… they’re all dead, and the dead can’t come back. At least I got to meet you again. I thought my life was about to end, but thanks to you, I can lie somewhere soft again and find a little comfort.”