Just as they were entering, he finally ‘connected’ to this shadow guard and immediately withdrew his spiritual strength and terminated his control of this person.
This bodyguard that appeared before everyone was blank all over, his eyes open, jet-black, but unfocused eyes, looking just like a puppet’s. PEb47a
Although Qi Jingchen previously controlled them, he simply did not have time to observe their conditions, and now was a chance to take a good look.
These bodyguards were not quite zombies; the dark energy on their bodies was a little purer than that of zombies, which also decreased the erosion of their bodies. But even so, their minds were corroded by dark energy, so much so that they were mentally confused and prone to being controlled.
Seeing this situation, Qi Jingchen couldn’t help admiring the mastermind slightly. Forget everything else, even he, a dark ability user, was completely unable to use his dark ability to create puppets for himself.
Who told him to be uncultured and not know research methods? sUNlKQ
But, who in the world was that mysterious reborn person? In his last life, those that lived to the end had all been powerful people with strong abilities, but he had never heard of anyone among them skilled in conducting research.
Qi Jingchen looked at the shadow guard again. The other’s scent seemed to be a grade higher than the zombies’ scent, and made him even more nauseous than the zombies’. After experiencing that person’s energy, he felt his stomach flip, and immediately backed up and walked to a corner.
“Jingchen, are you okay?” Nie Yi followed after him, his face filled with concern.
“I’m fine, just a little nauseous,” Qi Jingchen said. dVcqAU
Jiang Pingshi was mainly focused on the shadow guard but still paid attention to Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen. Seeing that Qi Jingchen unexpectedly was disgusted by even a half-zombified person and a few corpses, he couldn’t help being speechless.
Nie Yi was a very capable person, and he hadn’t hidden in a secure base when the apocalypse came, instead travelling everywhere to save people and sending many supplies back to B City secure base. But his lover…
Nie Yi clearly had a sense of sobriety, so why was he muddled when it came to this person? Jiang Pingshi sighed, then went to study that unmoving shadow guard.
Qi Jingchen could see that the so-called shadow guard’s energy was different from a zombie’s, but other people couldn’t. What they discussed were things merely surface deep, such as how these shadow guards had no surgery wounds, or how these people did not conceal bombs. ChFPc
“I want to take this person back to B City secure base,” Jiang Pingshi said. Yuncheng did not have many researchers, so they could not make out how this shadow guard was made. But if this person were brought to B City secure base, they would definitely be able to discover many things.
Yu Xuguang said previously that there would be a dark ability user who would oppose them. Although this person here didn’t resemble one, these shadow guards might have been created by the dark ability user and dispatched as an advance party!
Thinking of this, Jiang Pingshi simply had his heart set on rushing home, and hated that he couldn’t immediately bring this person back to B City secure base.
Li Shu readily agreed to Jiang Pingshi’s request, since he had planned to send this shadow guard to B City secure base in the first place. HdFsW5
The person able to create this shadow guard was extremely dangerous, and this person also clearly had enmity towards Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen… Now, Li Shu couldn’t wait for B City secure base’s people to figure out everything about the shadow guard’s origins!
Because they had such an idea, Li Shu not only agreed to Jiang Pingshi taking away the shadow guard, but also handed over all the information he got from the interrogation. Of course, some things were altered by him, such as the goal of those people being capturing Qi Jingchen; he had changed it so that those people bargained with Feng Qinyun and wanted to kill both Qi Jingchen and Nie Yi.
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Jiang Pingshi completely had no doubts about Li Shu’s version. After he learned of this matter, he felt that it was probably Feng Qinyun and the mastermind colluding with the intent to harm Li Shu. As for why Nie Yi was attacked… Nie Yi was Li Shu’s nephew, was Nie Boyuan’s son, and was also genuinely strong. If those people wanted to control Yuncheng secure base, they naturally had to kill him.
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Qi Jingchen watched this and suddenly had an urge to throw up.
“Oh right, Nie Yi, do you want to return to B City secure base with me? You’ve fought with these shadow guards, so it’s best if you can return and explain in detail.” Jiang Pingshi said to Nie Yi, “And General Zhao and Chief Nie are both very worried about you. They’ve always been asking about you these days.”
Return to B City secure base? Nie Yi frowned slightly, and immediately refused. u3n09y
“Why?” Jiang Pingshi looked at Nie Yi in confusion.
“These shadow guards came from the coastal area. I want to go take a look there,” Nie Yi invented a reason. In reality, he intended to bring Qi Jingchen back to Chenguang secure base.
Jiang Pingshi did not doubt him when he heard this, and naturally did not insist either, even telling Nie Yi some matters of B City secure base.
After Nie Yi left B City secure base, there wasn’t too big a change in the base, but some things did happen. For example, Yu Shuo— who had always been the strongest ability user in the eyes of the secure base’s survivors— was defeated by Yu Xuguang. HCEoUx
“That Yu Shuo really overestimated himself. He went out and killed zombies less than a couple of times and he already believed himself to be so powerful.” Jiang Pingshi clearly had no goodwill for Yu Shuo; his words were filled with disdain, and on the other hand, he was very worshipful of Yu Xuguang.
Nie Yi wasn’t surprised by this. In his last life, the ability users from the military also despised Yu Shuo… But the Yu Shuo of that time was probably more powerful than the current one.
Back then, he had often left the base to kill zombies; Yu Shuo refused to be outdone and also followed along, so naturally he tempered his skills.
But in this life? Without himself as a source of motivation, perhaps Yu Shuo wouldn’t want to leave the base at all, much less go out and kill zombies. DiYmNI
Nie Yi felt that Yu Shuo not leaving the base had something to do with him, and in reality it was so, but the reason was a bit different from his imagination—the truth as to why Yu Shuo did not go out and kill zombies wasn’t because he was lacking a person for ‘motivation’, but because Nie Yi’s previous behaviour of killing off all his subordinates in the sofa factory had frightened him.
He was afraid of coming across an ambush when leaving the secure base, so he simply did not leave, and now he had unexpectedly lost to Yu Xuguang.
Nie Yi seized the chance to ask some things about Yu Xuguang, and Jiang Pingshi instantly began talking nonstop, even speaking of Yu Xuguang’s older sister. “Miss Yu may be a woman, but her strength isn’t weaker than a man’s at all!”
Nie Yi had also once heard someone speak of Yu Xuguang having an older sister when he was in B City secure base, but never heard of her in his last life. Perhaps she died later. Zlrx5a
But this girl’s luck in this life was pretty good. With Yu Xuguang protecting her, she probably could live for a very long time.
At the start when Nie Yi was at B City secure base, he was only acquaintances with Jiang Pingshi, because Jiang Pingshi did not like Qi Jingchen, and he wasn’t willing to sort out this person. But now that they chatted, he conversely felt that this person wasn’t so hateable.
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His opinion of Jiang Pingshi had changed a little, but unexpectedly, this person died that very night.
Jiang Pingshi and the others had ridden the helicopter for a long time before they could reach Yuncheng secure base. Although the shadow guard’s existence was very important and urgent, they still decided to sleep in Yuncheng secure base for one night and return to B City secure base tomorrow. Apm71P
This was an extremely normal matter, but unexpectedly, that night, the Yuncheng central restaurant that Li Shu used to welcome Jiang Pingshi and the others was bombed.
The flame soared into the sky, and the tremendous noise awoke everyone in the secure base.
Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen got out of bed the moment it occurred, then saw a bright expanse outside the window. Instantly, their faces sank.
Li Shu was living right next to them, and naturally also noticed this movement. Draping a coat over his shoulders, he came out of his room. “Let’s go see!” nTgEUp
Nie Yi nodded, and followed Li Shu over.
When they arrived, the central restaurant had been demolished to the point that only ruins remained. Many people were surrounding it, all members of Yuncheng secure base’s patrol; among them, there were also a few injured.
“What happened here?” Li Shu immediately asked. His eyes had deep bags and his wrinkles had become much more pronounced, yet his imposing manner did not falter and instead improved.
The patrolmen soon explained everything they knew. sHWmkZ
Because Nie Yi and the others had previously been ambushed on the night of New Year’s Eve, the patrols had increased to some extent in both numbers and shifts these past two days. This time, with Jiang Pingshi and the others coming to Yuncheng secure base, Li Shu even specially dispatched people to stand guard nearby.
The secure base had a night curfew, and everything was fine during the first half of the night. But ten minutes ago, four people ran out from some unknown place, rushing to the central restaurant without care…
The people standing guard nearby wanted to stop them; as a result, two among the four unexpectedly went all out to prevent them, even setting off bombs, and the remaining two managed to run into the restaurant.
After a loud explosion, the entire restaurant had been destroyed. SI2PhD
Li Shu then asked a few more questions, his expression becoming increasingly stern. By now, the fire at the restaurant had finally been put out.
Not a single person among Jiang Pingshi and the men he brought from B City secure base survived. Even the shadow guard they tied up and left here had exploded into scattered fragments!
“Those people are crazy! We’re all humans; what in the world are they thinking?!”
“They’re simply a group of beasts!” TeiLgO
“You have bombs yet you don’t go kill zombies, but go and kill people! Even beasts are better!”
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Everyone in Yuncheng secure base was outraged, and Li Shu was the same. Ever since he realised Feng Qinyun had betrayed him, he never could sleep well. These past two days, he had been so busy his feet practically weren’t touching the floor. Now, seeing this, everything before him went dark and he nearly passed out.
“Uncle!” Nie Yi supported Li Shu. l L9I1
“I’m fine,” Li Shu said, then immediately ordered men to search the entire base to find any fishes that potentially escaped the net.
They hadn’t caught all of the people who had tried to kill Nie Yi during New Year’s Eve. Later, although the entire secure base had been imposed with emergency measures, they still couldn’t find any traces of those few people.
Li Shu felt that they had probably escaped, yet unexpectedly, instead of running, they set off suicidal bombings to kill the B City secure base people who had visited!
Now, humanity’s enemies were zombies, and everyone was battling against zombies. Although there were people who would kill their own species for supplies, there truly wasn’t this type of wanting to kill the same race without fearing death! C1bGUc
With the mishap at the central restaurant, Li Shu could not conceal the matter of the B City secure base visitors having been killed by a bomb from the Yuncheng secure base survivors, so he simply explained this matter in the Yuncheng secure base broadcast.
Yuncheng secure base never had much electricity, but on this night, it was brightly lit.
Li Shu issued a speech in the broadcast, reprimanding those psychopaths, and ultimately caused the rage of the entire Yuncheng secure base’s common people to arise.
Many people reported some suspicious matters; they even found two corpses. One was the corpse of a person who had been watching the shadow guards in the confinement room, and the other belonged to someone who attempted to kill Nie Yi. These people probably were killed by their own men, as their faces were filled with shock. 4rOT1b
The men who had ambushed Nie Yi probably weren’t just the ones in the open. Otherwise, there wouldn’t have been five people popping out, even wielding explosives…
All the attackers were dead, but some things could still be inferred—the reason they would bomb the central restaurant should be to destroy the shadow guard.
When the sun rose from the east and the sky started lighting up, Nie Yi made porridge for Qi Jingchen and also sent a portion to Li Shu.
“No need.” Li Shu waved his hand in refusal; he had no interest in eating at all. mzJln
Li Shu’s complexion right now was extremely haggard; his entire person no longer had the gentle and cultivated elegant appearance from when he first appeared before Nie Yi. His brows were tightly furrowed, and it was like he had aged a decade in a few short days.
“These matters have already happened and there’s no use for us to be upset about it. We should eat and drink our fill first before trying to resolve them,” Nie Yi said, then placed the lunchbox in Li Shu’s hands.
In this lunchbox was brown sugar porridge that he had cooked. Without mentioning its other benefits, brown sugar was able to restore physical strength quickly. After Nie Yi finished cooking the porridge, he simply added three big spoonfuls.
Li Shu slowly sipped his porridge. The porridge was clearly very sweet, but it tasted a little bitter to him. The arrivals from B City secure base met with an accident here, and the shadow guard research sample was also lost. This was his dereliction of duty. 1a7V65
“Are there any matters that are relatively harder to deal with?” Nie Yi asked.
“There are some. Xiao Yi, give me a hand.” Li Shu looked at Nie Yi. “Send me to K City secure base.”
Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.
“Why are you going to K City?” Nie Yi was a little confused.
“K City probably has a helicopter and a pilot. I’ll go there to ask them to take us to B City secure base,” Li Shu said, then laughed bitterly. “Although Yuncheng secure base has two helicopters kept outside and the helicopter Jiang Pingshi used to come here, no one knows how to pilot them. However, with this sort of thing happening now, I have to go to B City to explain to the higher-ups. H0VwL3
How many prefecture-level cities were there in the nation? Their Yuncheng secure base was no more than a small secure base. There may be more than a hundred thousand survivors, but there wasn’t anyone among them who knew how to pilot a helicopter!
Now, B City secure base needed to be informed about the shadow guards. He could only go to the nearby provincial capital, K City’s secure base to ask for help, so they could send him to B City secure base.
At the start, Nie Yi didn’t know why Li Shu would feel anxious, but now finally understood the whole story.
Qi Jingchen suddenly said, “We’ll go to B City.” 78wMXR
“Jingchen?” Nie Yi looked at Qi Jingchen.
“This matter is also related to us. We can take a trip to explain the situation here,” Qi Jingchen said.
Those shadow guards truly made him nauseated, and he uncontrollably wanted to resolve this organisation as soon as possible. Otherwise…
He didn’t know long it would take before his ability would awaken; who knew whether this world would already be occupied by those shadow guards by the time it did? Would the plants and animals become zombified under those catalysts? Dm48iu
If that was really the case, what was the point of him being alive now?
“Then you guys come with me,” Li Shu said. “I’ll go pack up, and we’ll head for K City right away.”
“Uncle, no need to go to K City secure base anymore, and you can also stay behind. Jingchen and I will head straight to B City,” Nie Yi said. B City secure base was still worthy of trust. That reborn person probably wouldn’t dare look for trouble in B City secure base, so taking a trip there was fine.
“You guys are directly going?” Li Shu was a little astonished. dqSk9N
“I know how to pilot a helicopter,” Nie Yi said. In his last life, he had once stolen someone else’s helicopter, then learnt how to fly it. But later the skies were covered with zombie birds and helicopters became useless…