“What?!!” The shapeshifter directly jumped up from his seat in fright, looking back and forth between Xiao Yi and Xu Yun Cheng. “You must be joking!”
He restlessly waited for a while but didn’t obtain the answer he wanted: the black-haired youth simply sat in the back seat and gave him a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, while sitting on the shapeshifter’s left, Xu Yun Cheng didn’t say a word, having no intention of denying what had just been said.
1 second, 2 seconds. As time passed, dread overcame the shapeshifter who was standing between the two rows of seats. Huge beads of sweat accumulated on his forehead and slid down his face.
At this moment, Xu Yun Cheng finally spoke, solemnly correcting the shapeshifter: “I did make 123 publish a recruitment post yesterday, but the last section of the post clearly displays the selection criteria: S rank or above, 500 years old or younger. You don’t meet the conditions.”
Hearing this, the black-haired youth stifled a laugh! This unpretentious Xu Yun Cheng seemed to have the special ability to thoroughly discredit his subordinates every time.
This earth ability user who always hid inside his ‘tortoise shell’ was actually an SSS rank saviour?! He was actually the city lord of Yun Cheng base?! The other 8 ability users in the car were all terrified. Recalling how they had all looked down on him before, they couldn’t help but feel a sense of danger. But at the same time, they also felt fortunate that they hadn’t directly said unpleasant things in front of his face unlike that shapeshifter……
Having always been impartial, Xu Yun Cheng didn’t really care about what they had thought of him. Without any apprehension against the saviours who were all breaking out into cold sweat, he directly took advantage of this moment to explain the plan for the mission:
“Through the work of Xiao Yi and I during this time, we have already found that the source of the zombie apocalypse came from a scientific research base in the north. Today, we will launch an attack! After 10 minutes, I will teleport everyone to the core region of the experimental base. Your mission is to use everything you have to kill all the zombies you encounter. If this mission is successful, we will reverse the situation of the entire zombie world! Whether or not this apocalypse can be saved depends on this moment!”
It must be said the Xu Yun Cheng really was very talented at leading people. His speech caused everyone on the minibus to forget their previous nervousness and become fired up!
After a few minutes, the minibus drove into Qingyuan town and stopped by the side of a street. Xu Yun Cheng and the black-haired youth along with his little alien took the lead in getting off the car after seeing the other saviours tacitly give way to them. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the black-haired youth walked to Xu Yun Cheng’s side and whispered:
“There’s more than 6000 hectares of land and 200,000 zombies. You’re asking 8 saviours to kill them one by one. Only you can come up with such a refreshing plan and make them believe it.”
Xu Yun Cheng didn’t feel that there was anything wrong with this: “Since you more or less know my real plan, then just act accordingly when the time comes! My ability is limited, I can’t waste it on chatting with you.”
Seeing that the conversation had ended, the black-haired youth also didn’t say any more. He turned around and left Xu Yun Cheng’s side.
At this moment however, 2d14 was foolishly asking in his mind: [Lord Host! Why can’t Xu Yun Cheng chat with you? What is he going to do with his ability?]
Naturally, he is going to block you and System 123! Don’t you know that your data is now completely public? The black-haired youth thought in his heart but didn’t answer 2d14. Hence, System 2d14 simply entertained itself by thinking of the expressions those saviours had in the car.
At this moment, the other 8 saviours had also gotten off the car and assembled together. Fired up by Xu Yun Cheng’s speech, they all enthusiastically test run their abilities to prepare to fight against the zombies! That shapeshifter was even more outrageous as he repeatedly transformed between a 4 metre long black panther and a 5 metre tall brown bear, unsure of which one to use.
Xu Yun Cheng then called Liu Ran and the black-haired youth to his side, and the little black cub tacitly jumped into the youth’s arms. Reaching out and grabbing their shoulders, the 3 of them instantly vanished. A few seconds later, they suddenly appeared outside the primary engine room building of the experimental base.
The surroundings were wrapped in silver; cold air attacked them from all directions; the temperature instantly plummeted to -40°C! The three of them had landed knee deep in the snow. Afterwards, Xu Yun Cheng once again disappeared to pick up the remaining saviours. And at this moment, the zombies that were scattered across the base like ice sculptures were also roused by their movements, stiffly moving their joints and shaking off the snow accumulated on their bodies. Exposing their grey half-rotted skin, they then rushed towards the two people.
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The black-haired youth directly let the little alien loose to violently ram into the surrounding zombies. It knocked a row of zombies into the abandoned vehicles and other debris in the courtyard, creating loud banging sounds that successfully attracted more zombies over!
At this moment, more saviours have arrived through Xu Yun Cheng’s teleport and passionately joined in fighting the zombie waves! With the suddenly appearance of a huge black panther, the 10 of them were finally assembled. When the short-haired black panther had just been preparing to slaughter in all directions, the sudden drop in air temperature caused him to freeze and uncontrollably shake. He could only give up his assault on the zombies and turn himself back into a brown bear, using his paws to swipe at two or three zombies that were about to pounce onto him!
The 10 of them put in their all to tenaciously advance towards the primary engine room, forcibly killing a bloody path through the zombie tide! All the zombies blocking the way between them and the building were blasted to pieces!
40 metres, 30 metres! They should be able to reach the entrance of the engine room in another 15 minutes!
However, this scene was being silently recorded by the surrounding surveillance cameras……
Suddenly, a few of the broadcasting systems in the courtyard issued an extremely loud alarm without warning!
“BEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!”
The group of saviours were shocked stiff. It was just like there were 180 trucks honking into their ears at the same time. This loud noise persisted for more than 10 seconds before finally stopping.
However, what was even more horrifying was that following the alarm in the small courtyard, the countless of zombies in the base were all roused by the sound and rushed over towards the source! Within a few minutes, there were already several thousands of zombies climbing over the wall and rushing towards the saviours!
“Damn!” Xu Yun Cheng shouted: “The virus system is striking back! Everyone persist! We must break though the siege of zombies and enter the building!”
These words were also recorded by the various surveillance cameras in the courtyard and transmitted over to the virus system in the engine room……
Raising their spirits, the saviours strived hard to resist the flock of zombies! At this moment, Liu Ran’s long neatly combed hair had already scattered all over the place and was covered in the flesh and blood of zombies. A few of the zombies instantly combusted as they pounced towards her, the orange flames even singeing a few strands of her hair.
Shapeshifter who transformed into a tall brown bear was also deep in the group of zombies! He barely managed to throw off the majority of the zombies pouncing onto his body by swiping his paws, but there were still wave after waves of zombies rushing towards him!
At this moment, the thick white snow on the floor of the courtyard had already turned into a mixture of rotting flesh and black sludge. The little alien scuttled across it and knocked into the horde of zombies that were about to surround everyone, zipping passed and leaving behind a trail of splattered flesh. However, the encirclement of zombies was still closing in. The saviours felt that they couldn’t resist anymore!
“Everyone, persist a little longer! Finish killing these zombies! Victory is right in front of us! The lives of several billions of survivors in this zombie world rests on our shoulders! Raise your fighting spirits!” Xu Yun Cheng’s roar sounded in the battlefield.
Hearing this, the saviours that were already exhausted and on the verge of collapse suddenly soared with adrenaline! Feeling a huge sense of responsibility for the billions of people on this planet, their eyes turned red as they continued fighting the zombie horde!
On the wall of the courtyard, a single black strand that had already been lurking here for a dozen days quietly looked around. Maintaining its camouflage, it checked the number of zombies around the courtyard: 966 zombies have already been killed in the courtyard; there were still 13,000 remaining. There were 42,000 zombies within 100 metres of the courtyard. There were also 186,000 zombies in the entire base that were rushing over……
En, very good. If things continue on like this, ‘victory is in their sights’!
Hence, with Xu Yun Cheng’s encouragement, everyone once again struggled for another 7 or 8 minutes. Just when even the adrenaline of the other 8 saviours had been used up and their actions started to slow down under extreme fatigue, the black-haired youth also loudly shouted:
“Keep persevering for another 3 minutes! The zombie world’s mission can then be officially completed! 180, 179, 178……” The black-haired youth counted down at a speed of one every 3 seconds.
Since you want to act, then let’s act together! Who can’t do that ah?!
Those saviours, who were already about to pass out from dizziness and lack of oxygen, believed the youth’s words and regained their hope as thought they just saw the first rays of dawn piercing through the night! One after another, they squeezed out all they had to kill the zombies!
This time, even Xu Yun Cheng, who had been engrossed in his self-directed act, was also startled by the youth’s misleading countdown: If you count down like this, it’s clearly 9 minutes.
“91, 90, 89……”
Along with the youth’s countdown, more and more zombies gathered around the courtyard. A horde of nearly 100,000 zombies encircled them like dark densely packed clouds. Although the saviours were seeing black and their limbs felt like they were going to fall off, they still bravely fought on in this blood-soaked battlefield! However, the 10 of them had already been compressed into a small circle of just 10 square metres by the horde of zombies. They were practically relying on the little alien dashing left and right to barely resist being flooded by the zombies.
“10, 9, 8……”
Now, even the muddleheaded saviours gradually started to understand the situation. There was now less than 10 seconds. Being surrounded by more than 10,000 zombies in the middle, no matter how they looked at it, it didn’t look like a situation where they were about to complete the mission. Don’t tell them that the few of them could kill all the zombies in 10 seconds, charge into the building that was a few dozen metres away, and then find and completely destroy the source of the apocalypse? That was absolutely impossible!
But seeing the zombies that were already pouncing onto them, they still mechanically continued to slaughter them. Perhaps the countdown wasn’t for the completion of the mission, but instead for the end of their lives?
“3, 2, 1, now!” The black-haired youth shouted.
Receiving the signal, Xu Yun Cheng instantly launched his ability!
The entire world stood still.
Tens of thousand of zombies maintained various kinds of running postures; some were even hovering in midair! There were even some zombies frozen in the moment of biting into that shapeshifting brown bear, their teeth still embedded deeply into the brown bear’s skin.
Even the flames that were burning on the zombies in front of Liu Ran were motionless, maintaining a strange shape and emitting a soft orange glow from the scorched zombies.
But at this moment, the black-haired youth had no time to admire this ‘rare and beautiful scenery’. Instead, he quickly took out lumps of black strands from his space and threw them towards the surrounding zombies. After throwing out everything in his inventory, he then watched as the black strands spread out into the dense mass of zombies. Finally turning to Xu Yun Cheng, he asked:
“There’s 150,000 zombies around here. I have enough black strands to absorb them. How much time do you have?”
After waiting for a while, the youth looked in frustration at the silent Xu Yun Cheng and said: “Is there any need to keep this a secret?! Fine, I’ll change the question. I still need 10 minutes and 40 seconds to absorb everything, do you have enough time?”
This time, Xu Yun Cheng actually didn’t hesitate to answer: “Enough, there’s even enough time to destroy the virus system.”
Obtaining this information, the youth finally relaxed. He started to looked around and appreciate the spectacle of time standing still.
But at this moment, Xu Yun Cheng asked: “What exactly is your ability? How do you know my real ability? I have now pulled you into my realm, so both 2d14 and 123 are frozen like the others. You can just say it.”
“You still don’t know my ‘ability’?! When Huo Li altered the memories of the entire planet and told you to help keep me a secret, he actually didn’t tell you anything?” The black-haired youth was quite surprised.
“No, he only told me that your ability is quite special; it can’t be known by anyone, including the system.” Xu Yun Cheng looked at the youth’s doubtful expression and added: “After all, I have a space-time ability, not mental powers. It’s justifiable if he doesn’t trust my brain’s ability to keep secrets.”
“You really are good buddies……” Without knowing the inside story, you’re willing to sacrifice yourself for your friend!
“But how did you find out the root cause of the problem in this world and also discover the attributes of my ability?” Xu Yun Cheng asked.
“The first question related to my ‘special ability’ that I need to keep secret. Since you don’t trust your own brain, then I won’t tell you.” The black-haired youth said.
Xu Yun Cheng choked.
“Okay, actually, I only deduced that the zombification of humanity has nothing to do with viruses. Instead, it’s related to a system’s computer program using the electrical network to spread across the entire globe. It seems to be conducting some sort of experiment, like it wants to know how different frequencies and strengths of electromagnetic waves can induced changes in human DNA. The Riverside base we passed should be one of its experiments. This experiment proves that when a certain kind of electromagnetic frequency is increased to a certain strength, even ability users can directly turn into zombies in the process of advancing their level.
After realising that, I used my ‘ability’ to cut off all the electrical cables and wires in the world to ensure the safety of the other survivors. However, I didn’t actually know the location of the virus system’s main engine. I only knew where it was after you found it.”
Xu Yun Cheng: “What did you say?”
“Since we can now be considered as friends, then I shouldn’t keep monitoring you.” The black-haired youth apologised as he walked over to Xu Yun Cheng.
Looking as though he had seen a ghost, Xu Yun Cheng watched as the youth reached over to his shoulder and picked up a black strand that was still wriggling about……
The author has something to say:
Xu Yun Cheng: This son of a……
Thanks for the chapter!
Wow, he just realized something was looking over his shoulder. How terrifying.
Xu Yun Cheng sure got a scare 🤣 He’ll probably keep questioning his friend’s type and sanity. It is pretty creepy to have a wriggling part of Xiao Yi on your body imo
But he is still so cute~ 🤩
Thank you for translating 🙏💕💕💕
Sorry, it was meant as a comment but i accidentally put it as a reply 😖
These two make a good team.
Thanks for the great translation ♥️
So MC pretty much trolled and punk’d Xu Yun Cheng this chapter as well like Hu Chen! 😂
Trolls love trolls.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!!!!!
i love our cutie alien so much uwu he is so amazing and lovely
Thanks for the chapter!!! Man, I wanna be just like our resident black haired alien when I grow up 🤩
Ahahh Xiao Yi is just too badass!
Thank you for the chapter~
For the sake of Xu Yun Cheng dignity I must continue his line.
” This spoiled son of a b*tch…..Huo Li you must top him”
The great gods are falling off their pedestals one by one 😂🤣😂
Xu Yun Cheng started to remind me of a certain sasageyo enthusiast with his speech 😂