Yin Han looked at Yang Fei as though he was looking at a corpse. He turned to Shao Ci, his voice warm. “Xiao Ci, you don’t need to mind these people. Don’t worry about what they said. Let’s leave the city first.”
Yin Han’s subordinates imitated him, giving the person in charge laying on the ground a pitying look. The rest of them didn’t know, but the people who had followed Yin Han for a long time knew his schemes as clear as day.
That heart-rending pain would never end. This was merely the beginning. When the pain subsided, he would have no strength to move. He could only lay recovering in bed, and as time passed he would discover that his ability was slipping away. There was no way to retrieve his disappearing ability. When he could stand again, he would find that his ability was already completely gone. From then on, he would be useless.
To the people who were proud because of their ability, taking away their prized ability was their worst nightmare. Most ability users couldn’t stand their abilities slowly disappearing, and they had practically gone insane.
It was because the people in S City weren’t clear about Yin Han’s tricks that they were brave enough to act so arrogant in front of him. When everything ended, they would probably understood who they could offend and who they couldn’t.
If S City’s people were upset, Yin Han had ways to make them accept it. The higher your ability’s level, the harder it was to advance, but power levels weren’t a simple additional bonus. It was an exponential growth.
At Yin Han’s level, even the power of all of S City’s ability users combined couldn’t compare to him. Even Chu Jin only had the smallest capability to resist him.
The other workers had wanted to say something, but when they saw Yang Fei laying miserably on the ground, they were too scared to say even half a word. They watched the group leave with wide eyes.
Yang Fei was still cursing when the workers lifted him onto a bed to rest. He swore he would teach Shao Ci a lesson, completely unaware of the calamity happening in his own body.
Not long after Yin Han left, Chu Jin finally arrived belatedly. Although he had suffered a strong attack yesterday, he quickly recovered, and his expression looked no different from normal. Today, he went directly to do his assignment.
When he saw Chu Jin, Yang Fei endured his pain, itching to report how rude Yin Han and his group had been and how they didn’t pay the slightest respect to S City, especially that traitor Shao Ci who was living off of their base but helping someone else. Because of his tremendous fury, Yang Fei even stubbornly repeated the message that Shao Ci had wanted him to pass on.
The other workers lowered their heads in shame. Although they didn’t agree with Yang Fei at all, they didn’t say a word. In fact, most of the ability users at the base were from other places. They weren’t bound to S City at all. If the base didn’t treat them well and they left, it was perfectly normal, but coming from Yang Fei’s mouth, it sounded like a crime on par with treason.
“Oh?” Chu Jin looked down at Yang Fei, who cut a sorry figure. He hid his disdain with difficulty and put on a warm expression. “It’s fine, Xiao Yang, I’ll get even for you. Just rest now.”
After getting Chu Jin’s guarantee, Yang Fei finally relaxed. Another wave of pain rushed over him, and he couldn’t stop himself from twisting in pain.
Out of his line of vision, Chu Jin’s eyes flashed coldly. He sneered coldly, “Since you’ve done this, don’t say I’m heartless.”
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When Yin Han’s group passed through the inspection, they got into a modified vehicle and left the base.
Shao Ci had left the base on missions countless times before, but he was unusually nervous this time. Even sitting in the vehicle didn’t calm him down.
After all, now he was going out on a mission with the original protagonist, Yin Han!!
Everyone knew that the protagonist halo attracted trouble. It was impossible for nothing to happen when the protagonist left their home. This mission wouldn’t be calm like his previous ones.
Shao Ci had to keep himself on the alert if he wanted to keep his little life. Otherwise, he wouldn’t even know how he died.
At first, it was normal. The zombies by the base were mostly dead. When they occasionally met with zombies, Yin Han’s subordinates dealt with them easily.
The day passed normally until the sky got dark. They originally planned to find a space to put up their tents and rest for the night when someone with a vision strengthening ability fixed their sight in the distance. Their expression changed. “Crap, there’s a zombie wave coming, there’s at least a couple thousand… no, there’s even more! I can’t tell where they end!”
Shao Ci had stayed in S City’s base for a few months, but it was his first time seeing so many zombies. He was stunned into silence… As expected of the protagonist halo’s treatment. It was already extreme to encounter a few hundred zombies, but as soon as Yin Han came out he would meet this many.
It was really hard to believe that any of his subordinates could hang on and continue to live until now.
“Damn it, we’re so far from central S City, how would there be so many zombies? Let’s get away quickly! If we’re trapped, it’ll be a pain!” one of Yin Han’s subordinates, Xiao Zheng, said anxiously.
Shao Ci: “!” Hey, don’t plant a flag, okay!
Almost just as Xiao Zheng finished speaking, zombies began to appear from another direction.
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The atmosphere turned anxious, but for the most part everyone was still calm. After all, their pillar of strength, Yin Han, was still on the vehicle. They didn’t need to worry about being completely destroyed.
Shao Ci rallied himself up. If the zombies increased in number again, the super strong mutant zombies would appear as well. When someone was injured in the fight, he would be sent out.
Out of everyone on the vehicle, only Yin Han was still relaxed. He didn’t seem like someone who was facing a dangerous zombie tide, but rather like he was at home as usual. He couldn’t be more at ease if he tried. He was slowly, methodically cutting the cake he had brought out from the base.
Shao Ci stared blankly at Yin Han. “…There are so many zombies.” Why did he suddenly feel like his earnest preparation to save lives was a little dumb.
Yin Han picked up a cake fork, handing it to Shao Ci. He said affectionately, “If you don’t eat properly now, you won’t be able to heal well later on an empty stomach. Here, have some. Ahhhh.”
Why did this sound so reasonable! He was so befuddled that he didn’t even remember how to ridicule him!
Shao Ci unconsciously opened his mouth. At that moment, the modified vehicle rolled over a zombie’s corpse, jolting slightly and causing some of the cream to rub onto his mouth.
The cake tasted incredibly good. Shao Ci couldn’t remember when he last ate cake. He felt a little emotional. He moved to wipe away the cream, but Yin Han pressed down his wrist.
“It’s not good to waste food.” As he spoke, he leaned closer, using his tongue to gently lick the cream into his own mouth, as though he was cleaning something off, then kissing the corner of his mouth several times.
Shao Ci was completely frozen in shock. “????”
Wait a second, how did this happen?!
In the midst of a crisis with zombies attacking on all sides, he was a male protagonist from an Xdian novel actually kissed him… To Shao Ci, the second part was a hundred times more shocking than the first part!
“Xiao Ci is a lot like the rabbit I raised before.” Yin Han sent the rest of the cake into Shao Ci’s mouth, but he didn’t eat much himself.
Shao Ci relaxed as he ate.
…The system had said it before too, Yin Han thought of him as a pet. Kissing a pet wasn’t a big deal, and in the apocalypse cream was a precious commodity.
Shao Ci found an excuse as though he was trying to escape reality.
“There should be no problem like this, but it’s just some normal zombies. We can shake them off in a little while.” Xiao Zheng, who had planted a flag earlier, wiped the sweat off his forehead. “As long as nothing happens…”
Immediately, four or five modified vehicles drove out from the fork ahead. In the blink of an eye, they squeezed into the middle of the road.
Shao Ci: “…” Hey, in fact Xiao Zheng seemed to be the protagonist, huh?
The ability users on the vehicles were fighting the surrounding zombies. They flung the brilliant colors of their abilities all over the place, but many of them didn’t even go towards a zombie. It was obvious that they were already completely exhausted.
Ability users didn’t have infinite strength, after all. If they used their ability for too long, their energy would be depleted, and they could faint. If they didn’t recuperate for four to five days, there was no way they could use their ability. Normal ability users did their best to avoid using all of their ability, or they would absorb crystals for energy.
These vehicles had attracted many of the zombies at the fork in the road. There were even two mutant zombies!
Mutant zombies were zombies that were particularly fast or strong. They were many times stronger than normal zombies in every aspect. It was especially difficult to fight them.
Speed mutant zombies were even more fearsome than strength mutant zombies. They were faster than most ability users. When ability users who had slower response times were fighting them, many of them couldn’t react in time to realize what had happened before they were bitten to death by the mutant zombie.
As for the zombie king in the original novel, his strength was abnormally frightening. Even Yin Han had wasted a lot of resources before he was able to kill the zombie king in the finale, and he nearly lost his life.
“There are even mutant zombies, and both of them are speed mutants. What kind of luck is this?” Everyone’s faces turned ugly, staring at the people on the modified vehicle who had brought the mutant zombies with loathing. If it wasn’t for the fact that they had to worry about the situation, they would have rushed over to pick a fight.
The two mutant zombies followed after the fleet of vehicles from a slight distance. The ability users on the vehicle practically couldn’t hit them anymore. Every time they tried to attack, the zombies would dodge it.
Yin Han’s subordinates were still fine. They had fought their way back from the grasp of death many times before, and they had experience fighting mutant zombies. Although they couldn’t kill a mutant zombie immediately, they could still keep them at bay.
But the ability users at the vehicles weren’t doing so well. They hadn’t fought mutant zombies before. Facing normal zombies was as easy as cutting a watermelon, but when they met with mutant zombies they panicked and were completely unable to fight back.
The mutant zombies were intelligent. They obviously had the capability kill the group in a second, but they didn’t act, as though they were playing with their prey. They occasionally came closer, making them alarmed.
Just as the group let down their guards, one of the mutant zombies suddenly rushed forward. There was a mournful scream from the vehicle on the side. The zombie tore open an ability user’s throat, spraying a rain of blood across the ground.
When Shao Ci saw the blood, his face turned pale. It was his first time seeing an ability user die so miserably.
“What’s wrong, are you scared?” Yin Han had gotten closer to him at some point. He took Shao Ci’s hands, his inky black eyes looking towards him. He asked, “After all, those people are quite pitiful, and they’re from the same base as you. Would you want to save them?”
“No. I don’t want to.” Shao Ci didn’t know why Yin Han asked him that question. He just shook his head. He said, “I can’t even protect myself. How could I go and save someone? How long would I be able to survive?”
From the beginning, death was normal in the apocalypse. Although Yin Han had the capability to save someone, Shao Ci wasn’t a saint who would sacrifice himself for the sake of others, and he wasn’t bold enough to ask Yin Han to save others for him. After all, Yin Han even let his own subordinates roam free…
Besides, these strangers didn’t have anything to do with him. If by his side when they were injured, Shao Ci would still use his ability, but the situation was clear.
Yin Han held his hand, smiling slightly. “I’m here. You won’t die.”
His tone was different from usual. It was warm but steady, causing Shao Ci to fall into a daze.
The person at the side was unfocused, and the zombie grabbed onto their arm, taking a bite big enough to reveal bone. They pulled their arm back, their face twisted.
Shao Ci immediately threw the words Yin Han just said to the back of his mind. He rushed over to heal the injured person. The longer this kind of injury was left alone, the greater the burden on the ability user.
Yin Han gave the modified vehicle at the side a long, meaningful look. With his strength, he could easily tell that there was a strong ability user on site in vehicle furthest back. That person had to be Chu Jin, who was also coming out on an assignment today.
He didn’t know what had happened to Chu Jin that made him stay inside instead of coming out to fight the mutant zombies. Yin Han watched the show in enjoyment.
As for helping, it was good enough that he wasn’t actively hindering Chu Jin. If Chu Jin died like this, he wouldn’t care, but he was afraid Shao Ci would be sad…
Despite the fact that Shao Ci had already revealed his attitude towards Chu Jin, Yin Han couldn’t relax. He had a feeling that Shao Ci, though he was following after him affectionately, would leave at any time.
Suddenly, a mutant zombie leapt onto the vehicle, using its sharp, hard nails to scratch across the roof. A piercing shriek rang in the air. If it was a normal car, the zombie might have pierced straight through the roof.
After the vehicle’s modifications, it was built more solidly than normal cars. It was the only way for them to stay intact.
“What do we do?” Shao Ci’s heart tightened in anxiety. He looked towards the rest of the people in the vehicle, but he discovered that nobody was alarmed. Instead, they looked as though they had let out a sigh of relief, and they continued what they were doing.
Immediately, Shao Ci understood why they hadn’t reacted.
Yin Han, who had been leaning against his seat lazily, had his eyebrows furrowed. He said lowly, “How noisy.”
Almost immediately after he spoke, a wave of cold swept through the vehicle, then a loud noise came from the top of the vehicle. It was as though something was struggling. Then, with a rumble, there was a loud sound.
Shao Ci could see ice crumbling down from the top of the vehicle from the window. There were some pieces of flesh scattered in the ice.
Without a doubt, the mutant zombie that had everyone struggling in fear had been killed by Yin Han with a single move. It was even split up in pieces, completely lacking in dignity.
Despite the fact that he had read the original novel before, Shao Ci couldn’t restrain his shock. “!” Fuck, Yin Han’s power was simply against the laws of nature. He didn’t know how terrifying the zombie king said to be even more powerful than Yin Han would be.
The other mutant zombie was nearly scared stiff by the scene. It turned to attack the other vehicles, not daring to touch their vehicle. Only a few mindless zombies continued to surround them.
The people from the car at the side saw everything. When they saw Yin Han’s strength, they were stunned silent.
It was lucky there was only one mutant zombie left, and there was less pressure on them now, but their ability users were much weaker. In the end, they still weren’t able to fight back against the mutant zombie.
The mutant zombie was finally done playing around. It looked as though it was about to rush into the car and kill the every one of the ability users. Immediately, mournful cries for help came from inside.
Before the people at the side could react, a strong ability suddenly erupted from the modified vehicle at the side. A huge orb of water formed in the air, entrapping the mutant zombie perfectly in its center.
The mutant zombie was shocked. It struggled furiously, but the orb of water trapped it tightly inside. No matter what it did, it didn’t change at all.
“Wait, a water ability?” Shao Ci stared in shock. From what he remembered, the only water ability user who was this strong in all the surrounding bases was Chu Jin… No, this ability was a little stronger than Chu Jin’s. Such a strong person must have appeared in the original novel. Or could it be that Chu Jin had just advanced?
Shao Ci’s guess was correct. Today, when Chu Jin led the squad out, they had met with a zombie tide.
At first, Chu Jin hadn’t thought of it as a big deal. Anyway, as long as his ability was enough, these normal zombies couldn’t affect him. As long as he had a crystal in his hand, his ability would never be used up.
Then there was an accident. Chu Jin reached for a crystal after killing a wave of zombies and frantically absorbed the power in it to restore his power. He was caught off-guard when he realized his ability was beginning to advance a stage.
Advancing a stage was a good thing, but they would lose consciousness until they finished. Many ability users died because they were in the middle of fighting zombies when they advanced.
When Chu Jin passed out, the rest of them ran around like headless chickens, not knowing what to do. They originally planned to bring Chu Jin back to the base. They didn’t expect that they would be unlucky enough to run into two mutant zombies.
Normally, Chu Jin would deal with mutant zombies in the blink of an eye. They had never needed to fight. These people, too afraid to fight mutant zombies on their own, could only flee in the opposite direction, and happened to meet up with Yin Han.
In some ways, they were extremely lucky. If they didn’t meet Yin Han, they would have all been killed off by the mutant zombies before Chu Jin woke up.
When Chu Jin succeeded in advancing and felt that his power had grown exponentially, he became excited. With a thought, the water in the air swirled the mutant zombie into shreds.
The orb of water, tainted red by the fresh blood, split open like a bomb. The numerous zombies around it were exploded into pieces.
The space around them was cleared off. There were only a few zombies staggering away in escape. The danger was gone.
Everyone stared in shock. They finally came back to their senses. Another seventh stage ability user had been born.
When Chu Jin heard his subordinates’ report, he also understood what had happened. He adjusted his clothes, pushed the door open, and looked at the other modified vehicle with high spirits. Smiling, he said, “Yin Han, I’ve heard I was able to advance thanks to your help. Many thanks.”
His voice wasn’t too loud, but everyone could hear it clearly.
Chu Jin looked at the other vehicle, his eyes glinting with pride. The only place he was lacking compared to Yin Han had been his ability. Now, his ability was also at the seventh stage. There was no difference between the two of them. He would never need to pay attention to Yin Han’s face, and he wouldn’t need to hold his tongue.
And there was Shao Ci, who had abandoned him and chosen Yin Han. When Shao Ci saw him again, he would regret it until he didn’t know what to do. He would probably cry, begging to be allowed to return to Chu Jin’s side.
When he thought of Shao Ci hugging his thigh and crying, Chu Jin’s smile became even deeper. Take a look, the heavens were still on his side.
It was about as Chu Jin expected. Shao Ci really didn’t know what to do. He shrank in his seat, his expression ugly and feeling like he had really bad luck.
Now that Chu Jin advanced, his ability was on the same level as Yin Han’s… then if he was a tiny bit stronger than Yin Han, this unscrupulous Befriending the Powerful Person system would definitely have him go back and suck up to Chu Jin!!
And he had just kicked Chu Jin in the place below the neck that couldn’t be described yesterday. If he had to change capture targets today… Shao Ci felt like he might as well go die.
T/N: This chapter and the next chapter are both pretty long, so I’m only going to post twice this week 🙂
Yay, 2 updates this week! Also, SC tryna delude himself into thinking that its not reality… boo, it currently is for u 😂
😂😂 Yin Han is so obvious too… ty for reading <3
yep xdd also, no worries yanyan!~
I really doubt that Chu Jin is stronger than our boy Yin Han. I don’t want his grubby hands on Shao Ci.
Thanks for the chapter ❤
+1, Chu Jin’s so scummy 😛 Thank you for reading!
+2 Not surprised if Yin Han is stronger than what he shows to others
Poor Shao Ci!! He can’t go back to Chu Jin!
Thanks for the chapter!
I don’t like Chu Jin so I’m happy about this development (:< Thanks for reading!
The only person who likes Chu Jin is himself 😂
Yin Han must work hard to be the best. Only that way Shao Ci wouldn’t have to return to the trash’ side.
thank you for the chapter! pff the protag’s halo XD
Thank you for reading!
Shao Ci’s dilemmas are endlessly funny lmao
Thanks for the chapter! 😂😘
yes I agree!! Shao Ci’s internal monologues always make me laugh. Thank you for reading!
If Chu Jin became obsessed with shao ci and rushed to become stronger so he can have him. He might become the Zombie King! And hes the ML. That would be fun! Hahahahha
oooo that’s a concept 😮 Thank you for reading!
Thank you for the chapter!
Typo:
“It was (the) only way for them to stay intact.”
— missing word, “the”
Thanks for the chapter! ^^
This is damn funny-
” Despite the fact that Shao Ci had already revealed his attitude towards Chu Jin, Yin Han couldn’t relax. He had a feeling that Shao Ci, though he was following after him affectionately, would leave at any time. ” when the protagonist said that… I was like ME: u a fortune teller? 😅😅
Oh gosh I would go die to if I had to go back lmao poor mc😅🤣
Lol,poor mc, his inner monologue just too funny.Aiyoh the system also said he will push him to the zombie king if it’s the strongest. Lol how our mc fates hang on the big thighs. Thank you