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There was a banquet being held for ability users in S City’s base.

It had already been three years since the end of the world. At first, it was chaotic, but under the watch of the ability users, each base had become peaceful. Whether it was the ability users or the normal people, as long as they were in the base, they lived a steady life. Of course, it was harder on the normal people. CQ3Hoe

The banquet room was decorated lavishly. There was even famous wine and a variety of luxurious foods, rare and extremely precious commodities after the apocalypse. It felt like they had gone back in time before the end of the world.

At the banquet, the person who received the most attention was S City’s first ability user, Chu Jin. He was extremely handsome and had a cultured, refined temperament, like an elegant, noble son who deserved to have crowds chasing after him.

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He was also a powerful sixth stage water ability user, and he had saved the base from fierce tides of zombies numerous times. Chu Jin could be considered one of the main figures of S City. He had countless frenzied fans. Even the people in charge of the base wanted to marry their beloved daughters off to him, though he declined tactfully, saying that he couldn’t settle down and have a family while the base was still in turmoil.

Only Shao Ci knew to look past his perfect surface. This guy was a complete scumbag! P1RcWd

In other people’s eyes, Shao Ci, a healing ability user, was Chu Jin’s devoted younger brother. He was indifferent and standoffish to other people, but incomparably passionate towards Chu Jin. His eagerness made others question whether or not he was gay.

Every time he heard these remarks, Shao Ci’s heart turned cold. If it wasn’t for the system forcing him to help Chu Jin at his own loss, why would he ever do something so humiliating!

A few months ago, Shao Ci was a homebody who could stay at home for months on end. But he was conned into bonding with Befriending the Most Powerful Person System who stuffed him right into a book called “The Most Powerful Person in the Apocalypse”.

“The Most Powerful Person in the Apocalypse” was a post-apocalyptic reader-abuse novel published by Xdian. Although the male lead had a common ability, he was destined to be alone. Wherever he went, someone would die. As soon as the girls who liked the male lead confessed to him, they were guaranteed to receive a lunchbox and get killed off. His subordinates, A-whatever, would also get their lunchboxes within the next ten thousand words. It was absolutely miserable.

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Chu Jin was the ultimate villain in the novel. He looked bright and just, but in fact he was calculating and conniving. He used everything he could use to achieve his goals. He was kind and warm to everyone, but it was all an act. In fact, he had never put anyone in his heart.

As for this broken Befriending the Most Powerful Person System, it was really just a system that would cling to the powerful without any regard to their own reputation. You could tell just from the name! This kind of system wouldn’t make you happy.

This system would automatically lock onto the most powerful person as the capture target. A daily task would be assigned based on the situation. If it wasn’t completed, there would be a terrible punishment.

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His favorability score was 0, but Chu Jin would act both hot and cold. Shao Ci went along with his acting. If he was actually gay, then he would be about to fall into the trap.

Thankfully the system didn’t force him to reach a certain favorability score, or Shao Ci would have to turn over his life.

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Shao Ci let out a sigh. Today’s task was pretty normal. A few days ago, the random task was to give a speech praising Chu Jin using at least 1000 words. After that… it was so horrible he didn’t want to think about it.

At the side, Chu Jin was conversing with everyone, smiling as always. No matter who it was, he wouldn’t overlook them. He took the perfect amount of care with everyone’s feelings. When he spotted Shao Ci walking over, Chu Jin immediately smiled warmly. “Xiao Ci, is there something up?

If it was anyone else facing Chu Jin’s smiling eyes, their faces would turn red and their hearts would skip a beat. They would feel that they were different from other people, that they were especially important.

“No-nothing… I just wanted to say hello to Chu-ge.” Shao Ci’s face was flushed in excitement, but his heart was steady. To an outsider, he looked ready to go to hell and back for his love—this wasn’t Shao Ci’s acting, but rather a special plug-in from the system to make the capture target feel that the host had a genuine desire to become friends with him… qJmSvr

Or that was how the system introduced the plug-in. To Shao Ci, other than making people think he was gay, it was absolutely useless.

At that moment, some ability users rushed over with anxious looks on their faces. They whispered something to Chu Jin, and his eyebrows furrowed. He turned to look at Shao Ci, reaching out to pat his head slightly. He said, “Xiao Ci, it looks like there’s something wrong with the ability users in B City. Could you go and heal them? Please?”

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Chu Jin’s voice was clear and melodious. It was practically impossible for anyone to turn him down after hearing his pleasant voice.

Chu Jin lowered his head to look at the other party. Shao Ci’s slim body was trembling in nervousness. He was doing his utmost to keep his beautiful face calm, but he didn’t notice his red cheeks and ears had already exposed his true feelings. HfEdsj

Shao Ci liked him.

It was an obvious deduction. As long as Shao Ci received a smile, he would blissfully wait for a chance to die for Chu Jin.

But so what? Chu Jin smiled slightly.

Everyone around him stared at Shao Ci, envious that he could get a pat on the head from Chu Jin. If it wasn’t for the fact that Shao Ci was the base’s only healing ability user, he might have been dragged into an alley and beaten up by Chu Jin’s crazy fans long ago. Bxt Kv

Shao Ci stammered through an agreement, tripping over his hands and feet as he followed the other ability users out of the banquet hall.

Everyone at the banquet looked on. Many ability users were envious of Chu Jin. After all, being able to have a healing ability user dead set on him was simply the same as saying that he had an extra life. How come they couldn’t have such good luck?

Nobody knew how much grief and indignation Shao Ci felt as he left the banquet hall. He sucked up to this scumbag all the time, but when would his days finally come to an end!

With the system tormenting him every day, he had no way to persuade himself that he wasn’t acting as a gay! E 7KhR

Still, it was lucky that Chu Jin was such trash. Otherwise, if the favorability really increased and he needed to really do things, Shao Ci would never be able to stand it.

Because S City predicted that there would be a zombie tide soon, they had specially asked B City’s ability users to come and help this time. Of course, they paid out a considerable sum in return.

This banquet had been held to welcome B City’s ability users. Otherwise, S City’s base would never spend so lavishly on so many rare, precious foods.

Shao Ci followed the ability users to the villas that had been prepared for the noble guests from B City. As soon as he entered the room, he could smell the thick, raw scent of blood. There were ten-odd people in the room, but his eyes unconsciously focused on one person in the group. dX4PoU

It was a youth with pale skin, an exquisite appearance, and slightly long black hair. His expression was indifferent, and he was sipping tea calmly. He didn’t even glance at the people entering the room.

Most of the powerful ability users surrounding him had injuries, but none of them even dared to sit. They could only stand respectfully at the youth’s side.

Shao Ci’s face turned white. Fuck, this—this was a familiar character! Wasn’t this guy the original protagonist Yin Han!

Right, Yin Han was the strongest ability user at B City’s base. It wasn’t weird for him to come over… Rn6mik

He was different from the useless good-for-nothings that often featured in Xdian’s novels. Yin Han was a protagonist with incredible power and incredible looks. He sought strength for his entire life. He was indifferent and cold, highly intelligent, and completely in control.

Although the people around him had gotten a miserable lunchbox because of various reasons, there were also countless people falling over each other to became his subordinate. They were willing to take his orders or die for him. They were so crazy they seemed just like a cult.

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In comparison, Chu Jin’s fanboys and fangirls were still a step behind.

Shao Ci felt like his luck was pretty good. Although Chu Jin was a bit more scummy, Shao Ci was still guaranteed to keep his life. He didn’t need to worry about a miserable lunchbox. JzqFMi

But in the next moment, the system made a noise.

[Beep beep beep… Detected a more powerful character… Beginning to change capture targets in accordance with the system’s regulations… Change complete. The current capture target is Yin Han.]

Shao Ci: “…” System, are you messing with me?

Although he already knew the Befriending the Most Powerful Person System didn’t have any integrity, it really changed capture targets as soon as a stronger person appeared, fuck! Was it okay to be so unfeeling! LA8i4u


T/N: Hi everyone (・∀・)ノ I’m a new translator picking up this novel! I’m translating from the beginning to have a consistent style, but I’m working on catching up to the most recent chapters as soon as possible. Thank you for reading, and if you’re enjoying the novel make sure to check the novel page for how you can support the author!

Translator's Note

虐主; face-slapping, drama, etc.; abuse on the character that abuses the reader’s heart

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Qidian

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Meaning the character is gone for some reason or another (death, disappearance, etc.). The term comes from films/television shows, where the actor will get paid and leave after lunch (the lunchbox) when they’re done filming for their role.

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小/xiao, which literally means “little”, is an affectionate prefix added to names, typically when people are close.

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哥/ge is a suffix that means “older brother”. It’s used for biological older brothers as well as close older males. It can also used to indicate respect for someone older. It also appears as “gege“, which means the same thing but is a little more intimate and/or childish.

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42 comments

  1. I have been dying to read this!!! Good to see you’re translating it!

    Shao Ci was the fanboy of that Chu Jin, and now he’s changing targets… What are the others gonna think about him changing hearts so easily? 😂

    Thanks for your hard work!!

    • Thank you for reading! I honestly just think it’s super funny that Shao Ci immediately goes “yolo” and ditches his old group… but also they treat him really poorly ):< so good on him

  2. Thanks for the chapter!

    It feels good to read this story again from the start, I kind of like the first arc better than the second one after all.

  3. Thank you for continuing this 🙂 Anyway may I know if the heart/like button is back? It’s been a few months since I last saw it and I rarely comment so I wanted to show my support by liking instead.

    • I don’t think it is, sorry 🙁 but I appreciate your support and I’m glad to have you reading even if you don’t comment! Thank you 😊

  4. System: ooooh shiny!!! yeets out old Capture Target for stonger one aaaa bigger golden thighhh =♡=

    MC: =□=

  5. I’ve been holding back all this month, I’ve always seen this but never actually thought of reading it till now hahahahhaha. The start is amazing, I already feel the immeasurable amount of suffering MC will get.

    Thank you for the chappie ( ˘ ³˘)♡

  6. Yosh i finally got the time to reread this XD

    Thanks for picking this up~!

    Also Typo:

    “why would he ever do something to humiliating!”

    I think it should be –> “so” and not “to”

  7. The second hand embarrassment is real bro lol imagine him following the protag to city B, the shamelessness of it all I CANT

    • 😂 I try to avoid thinking about it to avoid the embarrassment… Thanks for reading!