Xu Yun Cheng saw the black filament that looked like a strand of hair wriggling about and felt his scalp go numb. For the first time in his life, he couldn’t control himself and let out a shriek:
“God! What the heck is that thing?! When did you put it on my body?!”
The black-haired youth: “Well, the specific attributes of this ‘thing’ is related to my ability. I can’t tell you what it is. As for when…… it was the moment I arrived at Chang Feng base.”
“You!” Xu Yun Cheng was shocked and angry.
“Hah! Sorry ah. At that time, I thought you were just an ordinary C planet resident. In fact, in order to ensure everyone’s safety, I had put a few strands on each member’s body…… That’s how I was able to save Li Ze and Zhao Shu Xuan.
Later on when you used your ability to stop time, you naturally also pulled the black strand into your space-time domain.
In fact, when I was saving those young lovers, you froze time just when I had snapped the zombie’s head. While you were carefully observing me, my black strand was also observing with you……”
Xu Yun Cheng didn’t expect that he had already been exposed at that time, and in order to lure the suspicious Xiao Yi back to Yun Cheng, he had foolishly gotten up in the middle of the night to steal the electrical generator! Suddenly thinking of another matter, he turned his head and roared at the black-haired youth:
“Then during this period, you could see everything that I did?! Don’t you know what’s called personal privacy?!” Having always been calm, Xu Yun Cheng was fired up for the first time.
“No! I didn’t see everything.” The youth promptly explained. “For instance, when you take a shower or use the toilet and so on, those are all automatically blocked. Ai? Do you still remember when you rushed out in only long johns at the Riverside base? I was surprised when I saw the love pendant around your neck. This proves that the black strand was shielded at the time. I didn’t see anything.”
“Oh.” Xu Yun Cheng let out a sigh of relief, but when the youth mentioned the love pendant, he suddenly blushed.
“Ai? Why were you so nervous just now? It can’t just be because you thought that I had peeked at your showering, right? Could it being that during that time, you also did something shameful?”
Xu Yun Cheng’s face turned dark red and he didn’t say anything.
The black-haired youth had a bold guess in his mind! Could it be that this had something to do with ‘mao‘? However, he still restrained his gossipy heart. Deciding not to dig further into this matter, he very conscientiously changed the topic. Looking around at the tens of thousands of zombies that were already being absorbed by the black strands, he said:
“There’s still 2 minutes and 30 seconds.”
“I still have something I need to do. You can continue to absorb.” Xu Yun Cheng disappeared after saying this.
Afterwards, the black-haired youth continued to use the black strands already hiding in the engine room to watch Xu Yun Cheng’s every move. He saw Xu Yun Cheng suddenly appear in the hall of that 8000 square metre engine room, which was filled with large sets of electrical equipment. Gently touching one of them with his hand, the surroundings then became just like a holographic film with the rewind button pressed. In an instant, countless images regarding this machine’s past flashed through the room:
The first few seconds were that of the machine just quietly running in the engine room. Then, time arrived at when the apocalypse had broken out: within a few seconds, hundreds of researchers were induced by electromagnetic radiation and turned into lab coat wearing zombies.
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Time went further back to before the apocalypse, when everything was peaceful. The staff members walking here and there were working on developing a supercomputer. However, what they didn’t notice was that in the dead of the night, this machine was still quietly flashing the indicator light and running on its own……
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Xu Yun Cheng took a deep breath and slightly relaxed, his face showing the joy of success. Following the trajectory of time, he walked up to a cabinet in the engine room and took out the hard disk from an obscure corner shown in the holographic image. He then directly said into the empty hall:
“Xiao Yi, I’m done. You can start!”
The black strands army that had just digested several hundred thousand zombies grew like never before. Under the black-haired youth’s command, they directly turned into thick black vines and soared into the sky! They broke through the windows of the engine room building and spread across every floor. Wrapping around the electrical equipment, they worked hard to digest the plastic and erode the metal.
But after all, the electronic equipment wasn’t pure organic matter and needed a lot more effort to absorb than zombies. Half an hour later, about 10,000 tonnes of black strands finally destroyed the main engine until there was nothing left, leaving behind only an empty laboratory building.
The culprit that had brought about the deaths of hundreds of billions of people and caused the world to be on the verge of extinction was finally eradicated!
“Alright, we have finally completed the most difficult step of saving this zombie world. Next, the combined efforts of the ability users and the saviours should be able to successfully eliminate the remaining zombies in the world within 20 years.” Xu Yun Cheng said to the black-haired youth who had rush over to the main engine room with his black strands: “We should go back to the positions we had before I stopped time. I’ll then remove my ability.”
“Wait!” The black-haired youth quickly avoided Xu Yun Cheng who had teleported to his side to grab his shoulder. “Did you forget what I said to everyone when I did the 3 minute count down? When the countdown ends, the mission will be completed. I have already counted to 0, but now you’re telling me the mission will take another 20 years to complete?”
“What of it?” Xu Yun Cheng was unconcerned. “At that time, our purpose was to put on an act under the surveillance of the virus system. It wasn’t to deliberately deceive them.”
“No! That won’t do!” The black-haired youth said: “I am a person who keeps my word. Those 8 ability users have already put in so much effort. You’re wanting me to tell them that everything we did was just to put on a show and fool the virus system, as well as draw over more zombies? I can’t tell them that.”
“Then I’ll tell them.” Xu Yun Cheng completely missed the point.
“No! What I mean is, since I said that the mission would be completed after 3 minutes, then I must keep my word!”
“What?! Are you crazy?!”
The black-haired youth didn’t bother with Xu Yun Cheng’s disbelief and instead carefully observed his expression. “You also had a part in putting on a show just then. How much time do you still have? 10 hours? 20 hours? 30 hours?”
For the first time in thousands of years, Xu Yun Cheng really wanted to curse out loud! However, he still remained silent and didn’t say anything.
But the youth had already figured it out from his expression. “Then there’s still more than 20 hours left? That’s good. Now we just have to think of a way to eliminate several hundred billion zombies within 20 hours.”
“Are you out of your mind?! It’s currently winter. It would take months for your black strands to spread across the entire globe! Even if I can take your black strands and teleport tens of thousands of times within 20 hours to scatter them across the world, it would be useless! Did you forget that as soon as time starts flowing again, the black strands mustn’t move about in the open in order to avoid being discovered by humans and the systems?” Xu Yun Cheng simply felt that there was a pit in Huo Li’s little boyfriend’s brain! But for the sake of his good friend, he had no choice but to look after him……
“Oh, so you can teleport tens of thousands of times in 20 hours!” The black-haired youth was amazed.
Xu Yun Cheng: “……” He had strictly kept how long he could freeze time and the number of times he could teleport a secret to this day. But within a day, they were both exposed by a child.
“It doesn’t matter. I only need you to teleport 3 times.” The youth said this as he grabbed a handful of the fine grey powder from the several hundred tonnes of black strands that had been silently serving as a small scale biochemical laboratory beside them. He then solemnly handed it over to Xu Yun Cheng.
Xu Yun Cheng didn’t understand what was going on but he still cupped his hands to receive it.
The black-haired youth then dusted off his hands and said to Xu Yun Cheng who was holding the grey powder:
“This is a deadly virus that I just bred. Ai! Be careful, don’t spill it.” The black-haired youth looked at Xu Yun Cheng who had almost jumped in fright and quickly said: “This only affects zombies. It’s harmless against humans. You can just teleport to the other two continents and scatter them in the air.”
Xu Yun Cheng felt quite doubtful but he still disappeared with the powder. Half a minute later, he reappeared in front of the youth: “Just this is enough?”
“Yes, what else do you want to do? Inject the virus one by one into over a hundred billion zombies? If you don’t believe me, just submit the mission and see if the host system accepts that the mission has been completed.”
“The systems are suspended. They can’t send out any signal while time is frozen.” Xu Yun Cheng calmly said.
“Okay, what did I shout before you stopped time? I think it was ‘now’! So, when we returned to our positions before everything froze, you can count 3, 2, 1 before restoring time and I’ll immediately submit the mission. I’ll say ‘now, submit the mission’!”
“And if the mission completion request is rejected? All the saviours who heard you shout ‘4, 3, 2, 1! Now, submit the mission!’ would then hear the same thing ringing in their minds: Ding! The mission completion request has been rejected!”
Xu Yun Cheng, who had held in a bellyful of fire today, finally found the chance to retort:
“Is this very honourable? The SS ranked saviour who never goes back on his words and would rather die than be a coward? Are you certain you want to do this?”
Xiao Yi was a little shocked as he looked at Xu Yun Cheng. He can’t have caused this seven thousand year old antique to turn into a poison tongued uncle within a day, right?
But at the same time, the black-haired youth hesitated after hearing Xu Yun Cheng’s words that didn’t contain any confidence. If the mission wasn’t considered a success, then that really would be humiliating. Well, whatever, the result would be the same either way. Let’s just do this!
“I’m certain.” The black-haired youth said.
Hearing this, Xu Yun Cheng didn’t say anything else and teleported downstairs with the black-haired youth. Xiao Yi was just about to walk to his original position and strike a pose when Xu Yun Cheng said from behind him:
“I have scattered the virus and also helped you keep your face. Shouldn’t you also make a contribution to help keep my ability a secret?”
The black-haired youth had an ominous premonition but he still replied: “I guess so?”
“In a moment, when time is restored and those 8 ability users see that hundreds of thousands of zombies had suddenly disappeared into thin air, it’s very likely that they’ll suspect my ability is related to time. After all, even if I have the ability to teleport, I also can’t move so many zombies in an instant. So, in order to keep my ability a secret, shouldn’t you used your ability to restore the positions and actions of those several hundred thousand zombies at that time?”
“Are you playing with me?!” The black-haired youth didn’t dare to believe what he had just heard.
“Why? You don’t have the ability to do this?” Xu Yun Cheng asked in reply.
The black-haired youth: “……” Fuck! I really did cause this serious and honourable big shot to blacken!
“Hurry up, if my time is used up when you’ve only restore half the scene, then you really won’t be able to keep your word and shout ‘now, submit the mission’.” Xu Yun Cheng threatened.
“Just you wait!” The black-haired youth angrily glared at Xu Yun Cheng and painstakingly started the task of restoring the scene. Xu Yun Cheng stood to the side with his arms cross, waiting to watching a good show.
Over ten thousand tonnes of black strands poured out into the courtyard and over the walls. Within half a minute, they had already covered the entire floor.
“Wait a minute. I’ll look back in time. You should arrange them one by one according to the holographic image.” Xu Yun Cheng’s voice actually sounded like he was delighting in the youth’s misfortune.
“There’s no need.” The youth smiled and said.
At the same time, hundreds of thousands of black statues rose up from the ground and after several seconds, they morphed into all kinds of zombies. They formed the setting of the blood-soaked battle between the two sides, looking like an exact copy of the moment time had stopped!
Even the zombies that were frozen in midair were supported by a few strands in disguise. The zombies on the big brown bear had their mouths wide open, their teeth fitting seamlessly into the shapeshifter’s wounds……
“Done.” The black-haired youth smiled at Xu Yun Cheng who was completely stunned: “Great God, do you still have any other requests? Liu Ran’s flame really isn’t easy to restore. Do you need me to take a lighter and ignite the zombies one by one?”
At this moment, Xu Yun Cheng still hadn’t recovered from his shock and could only stammer:
“H-how did you remember the appearance and position of all several hundred thousand zombies? Even the teeth fit seamlessly! How is this possible?!”
“Actually, I’m not this smart all the time. It’s just that my brain capacity is quite big right now. Ah, no, I should say that it’s the weight.” The black-haired youth smiled modestly.
“How heavy is your brain now?” Xu Yun Cheng subconsciously asked.
“About 280,000 tonnes.”
The black-haired youth said this number after calculating for half a second.
Imagining the brain size if the biggest whale is about 160 tonnes… What a big brain!!!
It’s big brain time.🧠
So Xiao Yi going punk again Xu Yun Cheng and the other ability users by making the zombies go back to walking around and then dancing and falling down into the ocean by the female fire ability user hole?
Wow, what a smart baby!
Actually… If he’s not a good baby, the system would be right to try to eradicate him…. That’s a ******* terrifying OP power…
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Thanks for the chapter!!!
I laughed so many times.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!!!
200 IQ can suck it
Thank you for the chapter~♡
These big heroes can’t match our XY.
Thanks for the great translation ♥️
Previously I asked myself how a three year old alien can take the power of an old 3000 year old man,,, but now I see that even his head can support such a big brain, what was there to worry about?
Thank you for translating 💕🙏💕
280,000 tonnes?! 😲🤯
If only our little alien can spare some for the rest of humanity so brainless idiots would cease to exist…
I need some as well, a little booster brain shots 😂
Hahahaha Xiao Yi has the largest brain in the world~ so smart!
Thank you for the chapter~
Hahahah I know he isnt the ML but their interaction is just too cute 😂
Literally a “big-brain move” XD