Sister, do you love me so much?

The forest ranger’s small wooden cabin.

Ping Chengcheng was thoroughly bound, her hands tied behind her back, unable to move.

‘Damn it! Damn it… I can’t, I can’t break free!’

Out of nowhere, an inexplicable surge of dread hit her. Ping Chengcheng’s breathing suddenly constricted, and her heart stopped beating for a moment.

‘Why, why is it suddenly so agonizing?’

‘Song Ning… Song Ning!’

‘No!’

The girl’s crimson eyes flared, filled with a wild intensity.

She would absolutely not let that happen again, never!

“Ugh!—”

Blood spurted from her mouth. The girl collapsed onto the bed, panting heavily, but she didn’t give up. She used all her strength to try and rip apart the cloth strips binding her. But she was too weak, so weak that her strength was even less than a child’s.

She tried to have her body re-decompose into the tentacle monster, but she couldn’t. Her body, from the inside out, exuded a feeling of powerlessness.

‘Tentacles… my tentacles, come out!’

Her small face turned beet red, and the girl’s vision blurred. But thinking of the situation Song Ning might be facing, she desperately urged the tentacles within her body. An immense, piercing pain shot through the nerves in her spine, making her want to die!

“Ugh—ah!”

The pain made her wail. The girl’s soft, delicate voice sounded so tragic.

Several tiny blood holes ‘thumped, thumped’ open on her pitted back, and several withered, floppy tentacles emerged weakly.

They moved extremely slowly, coiling up and climbing onto the cloth strips binding the girl’s wrists, hooking onto the strips and tearing with force.

‘Damn it! Damn it!’

‘Untie me! Untie me!’

That soul-shattering pain spread throughout her body, along her spine, reaching her limbs, her brain!

Her entire body ached as if in a lightning pool!

“It hurts so much… it hurts so much! It hurts! It hurts!”

“Song Ning…” Ping Chengcheng’s eyes brimmed with tears. The bone-deep, marrow-excavating pain brought her to the brink of unconsciousness. The only thing keeping her going were those two words, “Song Ning,” almost etched into her soul!

‘Absolutely not, absolutely not to repeat the mistakes of the previous life!’

“Ugh… ah!”

The cloth strips were shakily unbound by the tentacles. The girl’s freed hands trembled as she weakly pulled off the strips from her body.

About ten minutes later, she had untied herself and found that the entire bed was covered in viscous sweat.

The girl put on the ill-fitting military greatcoat, propped herself against the wall, and stumbled step by step towards the decaying wooden door.

‘Song Ning… Song Ning!’

Creak~

The wooden door let out a broken, mournful groan as the girl, stumbling, shuffled out. The cold wind howled, and behind her, with a loud “Bang!”, the wooden door slammed shut.

She faced the cold wind, step by step, treading with difficulty on the slippery ground. The air was filled with the smell of damp earth.

Ping Chengcheng took a deep breath and saw a clear set of footprints not far away.

Composing herself, she slightly hastened her strained pace.

Stepping on a patch of congealed blood melted by the rain, her foot slipped. The girl had no strength to maintain balance and fell face-down onto the ground.

‘Ugh… it hurts…’

Her fair, small hands and adorable face were stained with black dirt, but the girl paid no mind. She picked up a decent stick from the roadside to use as a crutch and continued forward.

In her previous life, she hadn’t gone out to find Song Ning, so going out this time was a difference.

‘Song Ning… she should be fine, right?’

Hope flickered in her heart. ‘Yes… and there are hardly any zombies nearby, the possibility of anything happening is too small. Nothing will happen, that’s right.’

During this time, the girl slipped several more times. She walked for over an hour and was lucky enough not to encounter any zombies.
‘A village?’

Not far ahead, several wooden houses appeared, connected by muddy paths. There were very clear footprints on them, about size 36, the tracks of a young girl.

Ping Chengcheng slightly perked up. Logically, given how slowly she walked, it had only been a little over an hour to reach this place.

Song Ning should have arrived long ago, so why hadn’t she seen her yet…

The girl grew increasingly puzzled, a bad premonition in her heart.

Following the muddy footprints, Ping Chengcheng arrived at a wooden house surrounded by a fence.

Stepping through the fence gate, the first thing she saw was the corpse of a zombie with a smashed head, lying directly in front of the wooden house door.

‘There were zombies here? Where is Song Ning?’

Song Ning was nowhere to be seen.

“Sister!” the girl shouted towards the wooden house.

“Roar…” The only reply was a low zombie growl, coming from an unknown direction.

‘A zombie? Where?’

The girl’s nerves tensed. She held the wooden stick she used as a crutch with both hands, ready to face any potential danger.

She observed her surroundings but saw no zombies. A trail of muddy footprints led to the backyard. The zombie’s growl seemed to have come from there, but it also didn’t quite sound like it…

She cautiously skirted the wooden house and went to the backyard.

In the center, there was an open cellar, from which a zombie’s low moan emanated, and the footprints on the ground ultimately led there…

‘This!’

‘No… that, that absolutely isn’t Song Ning!’

‘Absolutely not!’

The girl didn’t dare to look, but the zombie’s intermittent moans almost drove her to despair.

‘No… no… I’ve been reborn, I’ve been… why!?’

“Sis… Sister…” She bit her lower lip hard, blood oozing from the corner of her mouth, her eyes blurry with tears as she looked towards the cellar entrance.

Leaning on her crutch, she walked to the edge of the cellar, her body collapsing weakly, falling heavily onto the ground.

‘Inside, it’s definitely not Song Ning, right?’

“Roar!”

As if sensing someone’s presence, an exquisitely beautiful zombie girl suddenly appeared directly beneath the cellar entrance.

The dim sunlight illuminated her face. She opened her small mouth, revealing fangs, and roared at the desperate girl looking down at her.

“Roar!”

Her skin was a celadon green, like beautiful jade, yet everywhere there were black, crack-like veins.

‘She… she’s Song Ning…’

‘No, she’s not!’

‘Wuwu…’

‘She, she is…’

“Song Ning!!!”

The girl broke down, sobbing uncontrollably.

‘Why, why?! Why?!’ She was no longer cowardly, she had emerged from the wooden cabin to find Song Ning.

But why, why was the ending exactly the same as in her previous life?!

‘Why?!’

‘No… no, all of this, all of this is fake, right?! Actually… Song Ning didn’t turn into a zombie, right… Haha!’

‘She definitely didn’t turn into a zombie! Look! Look! She’s looking at me! Her eyes, how passionate they are!’

‘Those are eyes that like me, eyes that love me! It must be!’

Song Ning said it, she said it! They…

‘Wuwu… They were supposed to always be together!’

‘Song Ning… Song Ning… you said it yourself… we’ll always be together, right?! Always, always!’

‘Forever together!’

The girl stood up, a morbid smile on her face, her eyes filled with madness, her mind consumed by savage emotions.

Complex, chaotic, tyrannical, driving one… into the deepest levels of insanity!

“Here, Sister, we’ll be together forever, okay~”

As if breaking through some threshold, countless tentacles erupted from the girl’s back like vines in a forest!

They were incredibly thick, twisting without any discernible pattern, like a bizarre dance from hell!

The tentacles entered the cellar, bound Song Ning’s limbs, and brought her before the girl.

Song Ning, like she smelled her loved one, her eyes filled with longing! She uncontrollably lunged towards the girl!

“Sister~ Here, Sister~ You, love me this much~”

“Hahahahahahahaha~”

The ethereal and terrifying laughter echoed in the deep mountains.