Edited by Ruru

According to Nie Yi’s idea, he absolutely would want to kill off Feng Qinyun. Eliminating problems at the root was a matter that must be mastered in the apocalyptic life.

To him, casually letting off someone who hated him was just asking for death. Of course with the exception of that person unable to be acted against for the time being or that person’s strength being meagre.

No matter how much those ordinary people hated him, they weren’t able to bring about any waves. Thus, Nie Yi was relatively tolerant towards them. For example, he ultimately let Xu Yehui’s family off but killed the ability user who helped them out before he got stronger.

But Li Shu’s current circumstances truly wasn’t suitable for killing off Feng Qinyun. Li Shu’s past relationship with Feng Qinyun was too good, to the extent that he had handed over a lot of power to Feng Qinyun. Wanting to suddenly kill Feng Qinyun at this time might cause some chaos.

Moreover, Li Shu still had some feelings for Feng Qinyun.

When Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen moved into Li Shu’s house, they lived in Li Shu’s study. The two had very powerful spiritual strength, and they naturally ‘saw’ Li Shu crying heavily after it became night.

Eight years of feelings absolutely couldn’t be discarded so easily. Qi Jingchen imagined the situation of Nie Yi betraying him and felt that it was unbearable.

If it truly was him in Li Shu’s place, aside from castrating Nie Yi, he definitely would also kill himself along with Nie Yi.

Nie Yi also thought of this. He didn’t think about what he would do if Qi Jingchen betrayed him, and merely made a secret resolution that he must treat Qi Jingchen even better and watch him closely, lest Qi Jingchen took a liking to someone else.

The next day, Li Shu conscientiously handled the secure base affairs as usual. His whole being wasn’t any different from before at all. At the same time, he also interviewed many people, and among them were several of Feng Qinyun’s subordinates.

“Li Shu! Feng ge had done so many things for you, and now you want to get rid of him after he stopped being useful? You want Feng ge to clear his position for your nephew?” A man covered in facial hair stared at Li Shu angrily.

“Do you think that’s possible?” Li Shu asked in return.

“Isn’t this the truth?” That man fiercely glared at Nie Yi who was playing with a fireball and waterball.

“There are so many positions in the secure base; do I need to make someone vacate their position for Nie Yi? Moreover, this nephew of mine is the son of B City’s secure base chief. Even if I want to give him the secure base, it’s possible that he doesn’t want it.” Li Shu sneered. “Clearly it’s Feng Qinyun who wants to kill me and seize my power.”

“This is impossible!” that person said unhesitantly.

“You probably know about me and Feng Qinyun ba? I don’t know if you know about Feng Qinyun also having a wife and son,” Li Shu said.

After that person learnt of Feng Qinyun and Li Shu’s relationship, he had always been very dissatisfied, even reprimanding Li Shu before. He thought that Li Shu had pressured him with his power and led Feng Qinyun astray.

Li Shu used to never understand why other people would view him like this, and now he understood. It was possible that Feng Qinyun acted uncaring of him when he was outside.

If it was Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen, who would think Qi Jingchen was forcing Nie Yi or clinging to him? Which of Nie Yi’s subordinates didn’t know that their Nie shao’s love for Qi Jingchen was engraved in his bones?

Li Shu looked at this person calmly. That person was stunned and took a moment before saying, “How could this be possible?!”

“This is that woman and that child’s photo.” Li Shu tossed over the thing in his hand.

That person looked for a while and finally said, “I don’t care about this, but Feng ge definitely won’t harm anyone!”

“You’re certain?” Li Shu looked at him.

“I will investigate!” That person opened his mouth, then said through gritted teeth. Although he thought that two men being together was wrong, Feng Qinyun already dating Li Shu yet having a child with someone else wasn’t right either.

After this person left, another person soon arrived. This time, Li Shu didn’t tell the other about the matter with him and Feng Qinyun. Instead, he bluntly stated on the spot, “Do you think there are prospects if you follow me, or Feng Qinyun?”

That person defected without even hesitating, and Li Shu didn’t make things difficult either, soon arranging a position for him.

Like this, a large batch of Feng Qinyun’s people were quickly dealt with by Li Shu.

Nie Yi had always been watching Li Shu’s work method and had learnt a lot. But after a careful thought, he felt that learning these wasn’t necessary at all.

The progress of the apocalypse was already quickening. It couldn’t be confirmed when humanity would become extinct, and he was also too lazy to rope in such a crowd.

Now, Qi Jingchen still hadn’t awakened yet. If Qi Jingchen had, they didn’t need to care about anyone at all.

Nie Yi was a little happy when thinking of this, but then sighed, suddenly feeling that he should take more advantage while Qi Jingchen hadn’t awakened yet.

Li Shu usually was someone who wasn’t very hot-tempered and was very gentle, but this definitely did not mean that he was willing to suffer losses, nor did it mean that he wasn’t capable.

Before New Year, Li Shu sorted out the Yuncheng situation. After driving Feng Qinyun away, the entire of Yuncheng was finally in his grasp.

Both Nie Yi and Li Shu had thought that Feng Qinyun would do something at this time, but didn’t think that Feng Qinyun would unexpectedly be so content with his lot, staying at home and never leaving.

Li Shu didn’t want to kill Feng Qinyun in the first place; after all, this was someone he had loved. After knowing of this situation, he just sighed and ordered his men to continue keeping an eye on Feng Qinyun, then said to Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen, “It’s New Year today; you guys go and take a nice stroll ba.”

Nie Yi nodded, and then went to the streets with Qi Jingchen.

The Yuncheng secure base was very large, and because its construction wasn’t completed yet, there were many open spaces left. Now, stages were erected on those empty spaces, then people would go up and put on performances.

Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen had seen the program list and determined a route. The first program they watched was a stage play with singing and dancing.

This stage play was organised during these few months and narrated a pair of lovers in the apocalypse. The man died to save the woman, then the woman stood up and began killing zombies, becoming stronger. In the end, several maps lit up the stage created by earth ability users, and a group of people were even singing a song. “The apocalypse over, yet you’re not here. You’re not here, yet hope is still here…”

The lyrics were very simple, and the song was a little sorrowful at the start. After that, the song became louder and higher, while also filled with hope.

This stage play wasn’t comparable to the ones pre-apocalypse, so much that the dancers didn’t have a uniform and could only wear similar clothes, but most of the audience were crying, and even sang along, optimistic the apocalypse would truly come to pass.

“The script is pretty good, and so is the song,” Qi Jingchen said.

Nie Yi nodded. A song and dance like this even moved Nie Yi to some extent, much less other people.

They continued along and saw many programs. Most were filled with hope, and the people of the base also had faces brimming with smiles.

Nie Yi held Qi Jingchen and the two slowly walked forward, also a little infected by the emotions of the people around them.

It would be great if the apocalypse truly could end… their spiritual strength intertwined and they always felt that the person beside them shared a lot of similarities with themselves.

Someone was selling snacks from before the apocalypse on the roadside. The ingredients now were lacking and many things couldn’t be made, but there were some that could be made. For example, some people were selling jellied tofu, and some were selling barbecue, roasted vegetables and meat. The scent of cumin drew in many people.

“Jingchen, do you want to eat?” Nie Yi asked.

“No interest.” Qi Jingchen shook his head. He was excellently cared for by Nie Yi during these months, supplied with good food and drinks every day, so he naturally had no interest in these at all.

“I seem to smell the scent of stinky tofu,” Nie Yi said, a little pleasantly surprised. It truly had been a long, long time since he ate something like stinky tofu.

“Stinks!” Qi Jingchen suddenly said.

“You don’t like the smell of stinky tofu?” Nie Yi was just thinking about enduring when Qi Jingchen suddenly jumped on him, then rested against his back. “Danger!”

Qi Jingchen’s entire body was pressed against Nie Yi’s back and did his best not to inconvenience Nie Yi. At the same time, he dispersed his spiritual strength, blanketing their surroundings.

“Eight o’clock, there’s a zombie!” Qi Jingchen said. Him suddenly saying ‘stinks’ just now was because he sensed a zombie’s presence!

But that zombie gave him a slightly strange feeling— With so many people here, it unexpectedly did not attack anyone!

“Two o’ clock, another zombie!” Qi Jingchen said.

“Wait, we’re being surrounded by zombies!” Qi Jingchen’s face turned cold.

Nie Yi suddenly shouted, “Everyone, run! There’s danger here!”

Nie Yi’s sudden shout stupefied everyone around them. Ping Shengchao and Zhang Zihai, who were following them, suddenly arrived at his side, while Qi An instantly disappeared with a teleportation. Right at this time, Qi Jingchen sensed those zombies rushing towards him.

These ‘zombies’ were wearing scarves and caps to conceal their appearance, and there were around seven to eight of them. After approaching Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen, they attacked at almost the same time.

Zombies had no intelligence. In their last life, no matter how strong those high-levelled zombies were, they didn’t know how to cooperate and also couldn’t control their urge to eat human meat. These… weren’t zombies!

Qi Jingchen rested against Nie Yi’s back and examined the people around him with his spiritual strength. At this time, Nie Yi unleashed an attack, while Ping Shengchao and Zhang Zihai were back to back, protecting Nie Yi’s back while also using their abilities.

No one around them understood what was going on at first, but now they did. They instantly scattered to escape. Qi Jingchen originally thought these ‘zombies’ wouldn’t attack other people at this time, but he thought wrong.

These zombies abruptly sprayed out some black water, and they also spurted out black fog from their mouth. They wanted to infect those who wanted to escape, and some people even turned straight into zombies.

The zombified people began tearing at the people around them. After they were bitten, they normally needed some time before they became zombies, but the speed of the pervasion accelerated their turning.

Those ordinary people without abilities became zombies in an extremely short time. Some of them began pursuing those running off, and many turned around and attacked Nie Yi and his men.

Nie Yi had already made several attacks, but they were all avoided by those ‘zombies’. At this time, his water and fire dual ability ‘bomb’ shattered off one of their arms.

That person seemed unable to feel it; even if it lost its arm, it still attacked Nie Yi without fear of death. This was already bad enough, but some people from the stage began throwing abilities at Nie Yi!

That stage was very high in the first place, but one of them used their earth ability to raise the height, so although some zombies ran to the bottom of the stage, they couldn’t hurt them at all because they were the lowest level zombies.

Nie Yi’s eyes flashed and he directly tossed a bomb over. Several of them used their abilities, and instantly blocked the bomb! At the same time, several attacks had already approached Nie Yi.

Nie Yi immediately defended with his ability. Like this, he lost the decisive opportunity and had no time to attack at all, and he could only defend nonstop.

If it was just this it would have been fine, yet a helicopter suddenly flew over, then began hovering above them. If it was deliberate, this chopper should belong to the people wanting to kill them.

When these people came to ambush him, they had even thought up their escape route already!

Nie Yi knew Qi An had already gone to move the rescue military and began focusing on dealing with the people before him. At this time, one of the ‘zombies’’s hat was beaten away, and he finally saw this ‘zombie’’s appearance .

They weren’t zombies at all. Their skin colour clearly belonged to a living person at first glance, but their eyes were especially, especially black, making people who saw it feel weak.

The eyes didn’t have any emotions at all, and were like the eyes of a feral beast.

That person meeting Nie Yi’s gaze raised their hand and began casting black fog on Nie Yi again. He wasn’t a zombie, but his fighting style was very similar to a zombie. Of course, there were some aspects that weren’t alike at all. For instance, when these people attacked, it was a little like using abilities.

If these people weren’t zombies, then could they be… dark ability users?

However, it was clear that Qi Jingchen was the only dark ability user in their last life. Even though some people wanted to turn into dark ability users because they thought that being one was most suitable during the apocalypse, they all failed.

“The energy on them is about the same as zombies; they should be monsters that came from laboratories,” Qi Jingchen said, looking at those fighting with Nie Yi with a cold face.

About the researchers under General Sun, he had simply thought that it was probably done by that mysterious reborn person and left, but he genuinely didn’t expect that person to be so strong. It was just a short two months and he unexpectedly created a group of zombie-like, half-zombified ‘dark ability users’ already!

Perhaps that person had already begun this research since their last life? It was rumoured that at that time when the secure base wanted to oppose him, they once wanted to cultivate a dark ability user…

Nie Yi did not respond to Qi Jingchen’s words. He was now concentrating all his attention on perceiving their surrounding environment. Blocks of ice were being used as shields by him.

Qi Jingchen no longer disturbed Nie Yi so as not to distract him. At the same time, he began observing the surrounding situation.

Right at this time, his heart suddenly leapt. Upon raising his head, he saw a rock about a square metre falling down from above them about to crash on Ping Shengchao and Zhang Zihai.