What?! I Became the Zombie Beauty in the Villain’s Arms – CH75

Chapter 75: Pei Xiqing, the Witch

Gu He was still speaking with several base officials. Hearing the sudden disruption, he knit his brows smoothly. “We will finalize those logs later. Now… what did your sensors just broadcast? The target has been located?”

The subordinate nodded frantically, his voice thick with excitement. “We found her! Master Gu, we have successfully located your sweetheart!”

Upon hearing the report, the surrounding officials playfully patted Gu He’s shoulders, laughing out loud. “You rascal, the exact second your boots clear the border, your mind initializes a search for women, eh? Hahaha! Fine, we won’t delay your romantic schedule for another microsecond. We’ll clear the room first and synchronize on the files later. Or better yet, escort your little lover to the grand hotel tomorrow so we uncles can finally audit her profile.”

Gu He offered a modest, perfectly rehearsed smile. “The honor is far too high.”

“Her file doesn’t command immediate priority on my desk,” he added smoothly. “If anything, she functions precisely like a pet that slipped its leash. I refrain from dragging an undisciplined asset into family meetings to disturb my uncles.”

“Then we shall hold our congratulations until the wedding registry clears! Just ensure your division conceals her coordinates thoroughly when the shift arrives. You monitored the chaotic scene down on the avenue just now. Refrain from letting your little lover be stripped bare and abandoned on the asphalt.” They had easily intercepted the public beating below the balcony, their expressions carrying a dark, shared understanding.

“Master Gu, your trajectory marks you as the future pillar of this stronghold. Your intellect comprehension tracks far better than ours regarding what files should be securely hidden and what parameters must never clear the light.”

Gu He maintained his pristine smile, completely masking the deep, venomous gloom swirling in his eyes. “Uncle speaks the absolute truth. Once my units lock her down this time, I shall bury her file so deep she will never possess the operational capacity to escape my perimeter again.”

His promotion to the rank of Major General had finalized just last month, and his desk was flooded with too many critical administrative tasks to manage. He absolutely could not tolerate a volatile woman disrupting his career trajectory.

Yet, if his division declined to hunt her down, a massive wave of dissatisfaction would permanently corrupt his ego. The sheer thought of her betrayal made his teeth ache in the middle of the night.

The moment the officials cleared the suite, the subordinate closed the distance, lowering his vocal frequency. “Miss Pei is currently anchoring the adjacent balcony. My own eyes just verified her geometry. It is undeniably the exact same Miss Pei who executed an unauthorized escape from Master Gu’s quarters a few months back.”

“Maintain a flat profile; refrain from alerting the target,” Gu He ordered, his voice dropping into a dangerous whisper. “Since her mind harbored the audacity to run from my shadow, I shall ensure her processors fully comprehend the penalty of an unauthorized exit. Detail an asset to trail her boots and isolate her residential coordinates. My own boots will march to her location to execute a confrontation tonight.”

“Understood, sir.”

Gu He let out a cold, sharp sneer.

Half a winter ago, that beautiful witch Pei Xiqing had navigated straight to his compound, weeping pitifully as she begged his station for sanctuary, vowing her life would remain anchored to his flank forever. To accommodate her presence, he had systematically purged every single mistress from his residential logs. He had funneled the highest-grade resources and luxury items directly into her hands; the exact millisecond her lips vocalized a desire, his logistics team mapped a trajectory to harvest the asset.

Yet, less than a month into the arrangement—right when he was preparing to physically claim his investment—the woman had vaporized without a single trace into the wasteland.

He had burned through massive reconnaissance files searching across the strongholds, assuming she had been deleted by the wilderness multiple times. Only a few shifts ago did an intelligence report indicate a civilian matching her description had crossed the gates of Base Three. He had explicitly routed his division here under the guise of an administrative border audit just to track her down. After days of coming up dry, he hadn’t calculated running head-on into her profile at a common teahouse.

Gu He finalized the deployment, stepped over to the window, and audited the adjacent balcony.

The carved wooden railing was entirely vacant; the targets had already cleared the sector.

Pei Xiqing held zero data regarding the trap incubating next door. Her focus was still mildly disrupted by the grim casualty she had monitored down on the street.

Clearing the private room alongside Long Yan, she lightly rubbed her aching abdomen, her voice weak. “Sister Long Yan, does your laboratory inventory contain any specialized medication for menstrual cramps? My lower abdominal vitals are registering a highly uncomfortable pressure.”

“Affirmative. Hold your position here; I’ll pull the transport around to ferry your line,” Long Yan said, her eyes narrowing with professional curiosity. “Your biology ran zero reports of this specific pain parameter back when we were navigating the frontier trail.”

“True,” she mumbled, adjusting her hat. “The mutation probably remained highly volatile because we were constantly driving our boots. Now that my coordinates are permanently static inside the base, the regular human cycle is normalizing.”

“My division will need to run a full metabolic diagnostic on your cells at some point.”

“Understood.”

Long Yan fired up the ignition, her eyes habitually checking the rearview mirror as she cleared the curb. Her lashes narrowed into a sharp slit.

Pei Xiqing clicked her seatbelt into place, noticing the shift. “Is there an anomaly in our tracking arrays?”

“Negative.”

Long Yan slammed her boot onto the accelerator, rapidly charting a path toward the central research facility. After extracting a specialized pharmaceutical packet from her lab locker, she enclosed the vials inside a plastic bag and handed it over. “The dosage metrics and time parameters are clearly logged on the interior label. The text is basic enough for your system to process easily.”

“Thank you, sister.”

Long Yan spun the steering wheel to guide the car back onto the residential loop. Suddenly, she asked, “Xiqing, did your recent movements violently offend a high-clearance asset inside these walls?”

Pei Xiqing was still analyzing the prescription script. “Negative, my logs return a blank. If anything counts as an offense, I merely launched a physical kick against a target yesterday.”

“Identify the target.”

“Xiao Yue.”

“?” Long Yan tilted her head, her jaw dropping. “What? Your civilian baseline executed a physical strike against the S1 captain?”

Pei Xiqing blinked innocently. “His tracking arrays intercepted my coordinates at the cathedral, and his vocal transcripts turned completely invasive. It was thoroughly annoying…” She quickly detailed the entire encounter to the doctor.

Hearing the summary, Long Yan violently slammed her palm against the steering wheel, letting out a harsh laugh. “What a pathetic coward. I shall personally authorize his transfer to my primary examination table for a specialized diagnostic shift later. Rest easy, girl; my needles will ensure his muscle integrity lacks the capacity to crawl out of the ward to breach your perimeter again.”

Pei Xiqing smiled, her shoulders relaxing. “Excellent. His presence was genuinely compromising my focus.”

“Leave his file to my division.” Long Yan accelerated the engine. “Form up, I am dropping your line back at the courtyard.”

“Thank you.”

Long Yan watched with her own eyes as Pei Xiqing walked up the villa steps, closed the secure blast door behind her, and locked it from the inside. Only then did the doctor kill the car’s engine, parking the vehicle in the shadow of the adjacent driveway.

She remained motionless behind the wheel, monitoring the lane.

Ten minutes later, her radar flagged a cloaked silhouette moving stealthily toward the villa gate, its movements carrying the distinct profile of an espionage tracker.

Long Yan rolled down her window, her lethal gaze instantly pinning the intruder. “An S1 scout? The main caravan units are strictly quarantined outside the secondary outer walls. What authorized pass cleared your boots into the high-command residential tier?”

The scout froze, his pupils expanding in panic. Turning on his heel, he executed a high-velocity retreat down the alley.

But before his boots could clear three paces, a sudden arc of high-voltage lightning energy violently erupted from the car door, snaking across the pavement to securely entangle his ankles. The kinetic discharge violently yanked his frame backward across the asphalt, slamming him flat in front of her front bumper.

Long Yan kicked her door open, stepping down to tower over his groveling frame with absolute leisure. She lowered her cold eyes. “Your biology doesn’t align with Xiao Yue’s unit signature, let alone the S1 caravan metrics. Which specific internal base faction owns your tracking line? Do your processors even comprehend what high-tier target your boots were deployed to spy on?”

An hour later.

Gu He was currently anchoring a strategic map room with his staff, finalizing the coordination files for the border defense lines, when the intelligence update dropped.

Dismissing the staff, he hoisted the security report, his eyes scanning the text before looking up at his returned operative. “Detail the failure.”

The subordinate covered his severely swollen, bruised face, his uniform torn and blackened by intense thermal electrical burns. He practically wept as he delivered the transcript. “My cloaking vector was utterly compromised, sir. A rogue female vanguard unit intercepted my line… and her vocal processors continuously unleashed a sequence of severe threats…”

Gu He’s eyes narrowed. “Detail her exact words.”

“She stated… ‘Pei Xiqing’s coordinates are permanently disconnected from your operational reach. If your division deploys another tracking asset along this avenue, I shall personally fracture every bone in your legs, General Gu!'”

Gu He’s brow pulled into a tight, hard knot. He let out a dark, dangerous chuckle. “Is that the baseline truth?”

“She further broadcasted… ‘If your commander desires to settle a financial or personal debt, instruct his boots to march directly to the central base tower to hunt down a Vanguard Captain named Ling Lang. If Ling Lang’s radar is offline, tell him to breach Room A on the 30th floor to barter with a director named Duan. Instruct General Gu to resolve his business with their heavy hardware first. Otherwise, if his spies compromise this avenue a second time, I shall violently disconnect his head from his neck and hurl his skull across his compound like a soccer ball! Then my lightning field will clear his remaining assets!'”

“Did those exact syllables escape the woman’s lips?”

“Affirmative, sir! That is the precise transcript the unit delivered before releasing my frame. Her internal elemental core commands an immense kinetic output—a lightning-type manipulation running at the absolute maximum tier! My own combat metrics failed to register a single countermeasure against her field!”

Gu He was not an impulsive combatant. He was an administrative strategist.

A maximum-tier lightning manipulation asset. The database of Base Three contained remarkably few profiles matching that specific signature. It had only been a handful of months since the witch had vanished from his compound; had her system already secured the permanent protection of a completely new, top-tier alpha faction?

He methodically gathered the maps covering his desk, slotting them into a secure briefcase. “It appears my boots must chart an immediate trajectory to the central tower to audit these specific names she broadcasted. If these high-command directors are merely running a bluff, their timelines will be exceptionally simple to clear.”

Furthermore, his curiosity demanded a visual audit to see exactly what kind of powerful men Pei Xiqing had embedded her timeline with this time.

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