Yun Qingyue’s communication with this new colleague didn’t go smoothly. She felt he was very insincere. For questions he didn’t want to answer, he either changed the subject or stayed silent.
Sometimes, colleagues just don’t click. Yun Qingyue didn’t force it. After all, they were just colleagues; they didn’t need to be close.
Once Yun Qingyue realized the other party wasn’t willing to communicate sincerely, she went back to doing her own things.
Today was a big day, and she had quite a few things to do.
Outside, zombies roamed sporadically. The zombies at this stage were still in their initial phase, just wandering, not yet aware that there were people inside the RV.
Yun Qingyue went back to the front of the RV. Behind the driver’s seat was a small study, really just a desk and a chair.
She began writing today’s work report.
Department: Post-Apocalyptic Cannon Fodder Squad
This was the name she had given her own department.
Reporter: Yun Qingyue
Reporting Period: April 3, 2026 – April 5, 2026
Today’s Key Points and Review
1. Completion of Key Tasks – Project [Rescue Zhong Xianming] Progress: Zhong Xianming’s rescue has been completed. Completion rate: 98%.
Yun Qingyue didn’t choose 100% because of his leg.
Acquisition of Key Prop RV: Obtained one RV, equipped with supplies sufficient for two people to survive for one month.
Team Formation: Led cross-species communication with the Zombie Dog and Zombie Human departments, resolving the issue of Zhong Xianming’s affiliation.
2. Problems Encountered, Analysis, and Requests for Assistance.
Problem: [The villain was not thrown out of the house but disposed of in the wilderness.] Marked in red and bold.
Analysis: Possibly because I wasn’t present to mediate, leading to an escalation of malice. [Regarding the matter of my absence, an application was made on March 25th last year.]
Request for Support: Hope the System can check if there are any other unexpected events.
Problem: [Besides the coma, the villain also has a severe leg injury.] Marked in red.
Analysis: The leg injury is very likely serious, with a high risk of disability.
Request for Support: If you don’t want the Zombie King to be half-paralyzed, please find a way to handle it.
Problem: [The villain’s personality does not match the personality provided by the System.] Marked in red and bold.
Analysis: Possible transmigration or regression.
Request for Support: Please use your methods to rule out the above two possibilities.
Finally, Yun Qingyue guessed that the other side might have forgotten her previous application details and might blame the villain’s abnormal state on her, saying it was because she didn’t appear in the villa according to the original plot. So, she added a note below:
“In the original plot, I should have entered the villain’s home with the event organizers, witnessing the villain being thrown out by his friends when the apocalypse arrived. However, because I couldn’t adapt to club life, unable to attend weekly meetings and monthly events, my mental state was poor. So, I wrote a report applying to refuse entry into the club (and received a permit). Therefore, I went to the parking lot of the villain’s house before the apocalypse arrived and waited for the villain to be thrown out.”
Yun Qingyue then highlighted the subsequent anomaly in red and bold again: [At 2:00 AM on April 5th, a car came out of the villain’s garage. I followed the car to a country road in the suburbs. Someone got out of the car, threw a person down, and left. I rescued the person and brought him back to the RV.]
Based on her past experience as a low-level employee, bosses generally only skimmed reports, sometimes not reading them at all. So, she marked the important things in red and bold.
Yun Qingyue also included that video clip, this time adding the videos of the zombie dog and zombie humans.
Yun Qingyue checked her work report to confirm there were no problems. Actually, the System didn’t like her writing work reports, but she had sent one weekly for the past two years.
Finally, she sent the work report to the System and added one extra line this time.
“This report is very important. There are questions inside. After receiving it, please reply to me so I can proceed with the next steps of work.”
Yun Qingyue wasn’t sure if her work partner had problems, but she was inclined to believe he did. It was mainly because of that beautiful face paired with a rich-second-generation background. All his current behaviors didn’t match the character profile.
Yun Qingyue somewhat suspected transmigration or regression. After all, this was a fictional world. Transmigration and regression were also quite reasonable.
Yun Qingyue wasn’t prepared to shoulder everything alone.
The System was high-tech, after all. If there was a problem, it should be able to detect it. If it didn’t detect one, and problems arose with this project in the future, she had her work report here. The other party couldn’t just dump the blame on her.
After the message was sent, the System didn’t reply immediately. That was normal. It had always been slow to reply to her work reports.
She didn’t leave her study either. Today’s work summary was finished, and she was ready to start calculating tomorrow’s work.
For the entire project, she was really just a bottom-level employee. Her tasks were only two: one, rescue the villain and enter the base with him; two, get kicked out of the base when news of the villain’s death during a mission comes out.
The moment she was kicked out of the base and bitten to death by zombies, her mission would officially be complete. Any problems with the project afterward wouldn’t be her concern.
But the apocalypse had just started; there was no shadow of this base yet.
Her current job was to survive, wait for the base to be established, and then go to the base.
Yun Qingyue lowered her head and began making survival plans for tomorrow.
On the other side, Experiment Subject No. 59 was experiencing such a life for the first time. The woman had said a few words to him, then went to the other side.
Two people, one on the RV’s sofa, the other on the other side of the RV. The other party seemed to be diligently doing something.
The other party wasn’t paying attention to him, as if he didn’t exist. He waited for a while, but she still didn’t come over.
This was a situation he had never experienced before. In the past, in the laboratory, having three or more researchers monitoring him was the norm.
Now, he didn’t want to kill the other person in the room, and the other person in the room didn’t want to cut open his brain for research. It was a very novel experience.
He sensed the flow of air here. When the air quieted down, there was the heartbeat of the other person in the room. He noticed her heartbeat was very steady.
Being with him, at this distance, her heartbeat was so steady.
He was completely certain now that the other party had really mistaken him for someone else.
In the past, those experimenters didn’t dare to be in the same room with him without protective measures.
He waited for a while longer. The person on the other side was still busy.
Perhaps sensing the unusualness of the environment, he began to observe this RV.
He sat on the sofa. Opposite him was a sink, with a green cloth hanging above it.
On the left side was a pot, probably for cooking. His eyes scanned around, not even missing a scratch beneath the sink.
He watched for a while. The person on the other side was still writing something over there.
Yun Qingyue was working and naturally didn’t care what her colleague was doing.
In her old company, colleagues interacted the same way. Everyone did their own things and communicated when cooperation was needed.
She finished writing her work plan, then packed up and went to sleep.
As for the new colleague.
She had already fished him back. That was already an enormous kindness.
As for his injured leg, Yun Qingyue believed he could handle it himself.
If he couldn’t handle it, he could seek her help. Asking for help, this act of asking was very important. As long as he didn’t ask for help, she wasn’t going to proactively assist.
Her experience was that you absolutely couldn’t be too nice to new colleagues, especially good-looking ones.
Once you were too nice to a new colleague, by the time you came to your senses, you’d find you were already starting to clean up all sorts of messes for them, and they wouldn’t even be grateful.
When Yun Qingyue went to sleep, the System on the other side finally saw the work log she had sent.
It was overwhelmed at this moment because its department discovered that this time, the problem was even bigger.
“Why did the Male Lead suddenly disappear? Shouldn’t he still be locked in the laboratory at this point?”
Red alert. The Male Lead had suddenly vanished.
In a novel about an Apocalyptic Overlord, the most important character, the Male Lead, had disappeared right when the apocalypse arrived.
“No. 568 went to check. It was a low-probability event. The janitor at the Male Lead’s lab had her dog stolen, and she went to look for it. But she couldn’t bear to give up such a high salary, so she thought of having someone cover for her for a couple of days. After all, the janitors wear masks, so they wouldn’t be discovered.”
This was truly a chain of coincidences.
This janitor was a relative of one of the researchers, hired through connections. She didn’t know what these people were researching, nor the ability of the young man locked up.
“She had her younger sister come to help. Her sister hadn’t taken the drugs. When she went in to clean, she was directly mind-controlled by the Male Lead. She turned off the lab’s shielding equipment. After the other personnel discovered the incident, they remotely triggered the serum release in his body, directly suppressing him to an ordinary person level. But he still escaped…”
On the large screen before them, it was densely packed with green dots, mixed with a few yellow dots.
The green dots were ordinary people in this world. The yellow dots were people with a plot role.
“Perhaps because he was suppressed to an ordinary person level, his energy couldn’t be detected.”
The screen display showed the search was still ongoing.
It was at this moment that the System received a work report from one of its employees.
The other party said a bunch of things. The System directly looked at the content marked in red and bold.
The other party was worried that the villain had a problem.
It was quite normal for things not to follow the plot exactly. Mistakes happened sometimes.
The System still clicked on a yellow dot on the screen, representing the villain Zhong Xianming.
It could see that his status was alive, and his esper power was in the process of activating.
Furthermore, it could see that the plot line of the Male Lead killing the villain still existed.
Right now, the Male Lead’s disappearance was the big problem. It didn’t have the time right now to go into that world and check the specifics.
It thought, anyway, the line of the Male Lead killing the villain hadn’t collapsed, meaning there was no major problem with the villain’s plot line.
So, it replied to Yun Qingyue.
“No problem. Just follow the plot well.”
Since the System said so, Yun Qingyue, having received the message, turned over and continued sleeping.