Transmigrated as the Villainous Love Rival of the Abusive Novel's Heroine [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 44

Chapter 44: The Big Rabbit

“Go get some rest; you haven’t slept all day.” Yun Qianxue stood on tiptoe and patted Yin Shaoqing’s shoulder.

This person not only had to drive but also go hunting, keeping busy from morning till night. If she hadn’t been here on this journey, Yun Qianxue feared she would have struggled immensely. Perhaps she would have fallen back into the same dire straits as her previous life.

“I’m going hunting.” Unlike those people whose trucks could hold many things, their car was packed with not just food, but many daily necessities and firearms. Previously, they had one car each, but later Yin Shaoqing complained that with two separate cars, Yun Qianxue didn’t have enough time to rest, so they switched to sharing one vehicle.

As a result, the firearms squeezed the space originally meant for food. They had no choice but to finish off their stockpiled rations first to make room. If it were the old Yun Qianxue, she definitely wouldn’t have agreed to eat through their food reserves just to make space for weapons. She would have preferred to endure the exhaustion of driving alone all the way to N8 City.

But that woman was too persistent. Yun Qianxue couldn’t win the argument and didn’t want to see her disappointed. Yin Shaoqing rarely made requests; even when she did, it was usually about what to have for dinner. Every other aspect of her effort was spent on Yun Qianxue.

Telling her not to take risks, telling her not to overwork herself. Such demands… she really… well, she quite shamelessly accepted them. Who doesn’t want to be pampered?

When that thought crossed her mind again, Yun Qianxue felt something was a bit off with herself.

“Sigh…” She covered her face with one hand, shielding the cheek that had flushed bright red. The other side was wrapped in bandages anyway, so no one could see. She had truly been “conquered” by this woman.

However, she wouldn’t make a move until she was sure the other person felt the same way. After all, she once heard a friend say: Never make a move on a straight girl. It hurts both parties.

Well, she would never admit that she was just being a coward.

“I’m leaving. If they send people to check the surroundings again, remember to hide yourself well,” Yin Shaoqing instructed.

“Don’t worry, I’ll be careful,” Yun Qianxue waved her hand.

Truth be told, they nearly got caught on the first day. That day, they were following the convoy at a moderate pace, making sure they remained out of sight. Out of nowhere, Yin Shaoqing, who was taking a pot out of the car, suddenly changed her expression. She packed everything up and drove the car straight up a mountain. They nearly flipped the car, but fortunately, they weren’t spotted by the scouts on motorcycles.

Later, Yin Shaoqing and the others figured out the enemy’s patrol patterns. They sent scouts out before and after every meal to check the situation within a three-kilometer radius. That time they avoided detection was thanks to the Fat Calico Cat’s warning.

“The Young Mistress is really something else, always acting on a whim. There are plenty of large workshops and factories in N8 City; why the hell did she have to come all the way to this godforsaken A6 City?” The men sitting together eating grumbled dissatisfactorily.

“Tell me about it.” One man looked at the canned food in his hand with disgust. “D*mmit, eating this stuff every day, I’m about to puke.”

“Hmph, what choice do we have?” The person beside him frowned and stuffed a mouthful of canned meat into his mouth, saying nauseatedly, “Who would’ve thought the animals on the mountain would mutate these past two days? D*mn, even a rabbit is as long as my leg!”

“Exactly.” The man who had gone up the mountain hunting with him shuddered. Heaven knows he was terrified of fluffy things. When he saw that rabbit, he immediately aimed his machine gun and turned it into a sieve.

But who would have known that by killing one, he’d disturbed a whole nest! One of their brothers was accidentally bitten; he developed a high fever upon returning, and no medicine worked. Eventually, red lumps appeared all over his body and he festered into something barely human. Their leader couldn’t bear to watch and gave him a quick death with a bullet.

“Keep it down, all of you.” The second-in-command of the convoy spoke up to suppress their complaints. He was an ordinary-looking man who pushed up his glasses and said flatly, “Is the Young Mistress’s business something we can criticize?”

“Don’t forget how she subdued you.”

Fear flashed in his narrow eyes behind the glasses. He still remembered when N8 City, which had already been established as a semi-survivor base, was swallowed by a zombie tide led by that woman. The soldiers guarding the city were all killed, and the high-ranking generals who refused to surrender were thrown to the zombies as food. Only cowards like them, who feared death, were spared.

And, and those ability users with rare powers were captured to be used as experimental subjects. This experimental equipment was intended for them. Wails, curses, pleas… those sounds echoed in that laboratory for a long time.

Everyone thought of that scene—flesh and blood flying everywhere. Bodies dissected until they were fragmented; subjects so pained they were numb, their faces distorted and twisted in agony. They shuddered and lowered their heads to eat the food they had long grown sick of in silence.

That woman was a demon. They couldn’t talk about her, because idle comments might be heard by the demon.

“…” The second-in-command was satisfied with the silence. He turned to look at their leader, only to find the man with the scarred face staring coldly at one of the men. Following his gaze, it was the man who had started the conversation.

The second-in-command sighed inwardly. That man probably wouldn’t last long. Their leader was a loyal servant and a fanatic fan of that woman; whoever defied the Young Mistress, he would see them dead.

“Roar!!” Yin Shaoqing kicked away a man-sized lone wolf that lunged at her with a roar.

She had discovered two days ago that animals had mutated, but she hadn’t told Yun Qianxue. Likewise, she didn’t allow Yun Qianxue into the forest, nor did she let her hunt. These mutated animals were not something Yun Qianxue’s longbow could handle; their mutation didn’t just increase their size, but they had also evolved supernatural abilities.

The lone wolf that ran into her today had a wind-attribute ability. It was incredibly fast, comparable to a Grade 2 wind user. Moreover, its innate wild nature and survival instincts allowed it to adapt to its ability more quickly, mastering the power to unleash wind blades.

Those invisible sharp blades sliced through the air, slashing at her fiercely, only to be blocked by a wind shield Yin Shaoqing gathered. She looked coldly at the giant wolf before her, gripping her wind blade tightly. If possible, she didn’t want to fight these beasts with abilities. After all, she was afraid of disturbing their nests and having them come after her in waves. That would affect Yun Qianxue.

The reason she hadn’t killed the wolf in one strike was that she had spotted a rabbit hiding not far away. A one-meter-long big rabbit with crimson eyes flickering with violence and restraint; it was hiding in the shadows waiting for something.

Yin Shaoqing was simply waiting to see if the rabbit would help the wolf. She wanted to test if these mutated animals formed groups or alliances. But, unfortunately, after she heavily wounded the lone wolf and pretended to fall to the ground in a serious injury…

The rabbit popped out unexpectedly. The lone wolf’s attention was caught by its sudden attack. As the wolf turned to bite it, it was pierced through the heart by a wooden spike. This rabbit actually had a wood-attribute ability?

Yin Shaoqing narrowed her eyes, watching the rabbit hop all over the lone wolf. Only after confirming it was completely dead did the rabbit turn and cautiously walk toward her. Yin Shaoqing had closed her eyes long ago, waiting for it to approach to see if it intended to take advantage of the situation.

She waited for a while. First came the rustling of grass, then the sound stopped. She felt something cool touch her hand. It was hard and somewhat smooth, like some kind of fruit?

Yin Shaoqing opened her eyes. The big rabbit was holding an apple tree branch in its mouth, adorned with seven or eight large, round apples, bright red. Seeing her open her eyes, the big rabbit squinted its red eyes, its mouth curving in a weird way. It looked both cheeky and… well, mostly cheeky. A very punchable, cheeky grin.

Seeing she wasn’t moving, the rabbit poked her with the apples in a “cheeky-cute” manner, signaling for her to take them. Yin Shaoqing was forced to accept an armful of apples, her mind a bit dazed.

This development… was something wrong?

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