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nEditor: Sahloknir

nShi Qing had been having a blast lately…

nAnd Song Xiabing thoroughly learned how a person could be invincible, if they were shameless enough.

nHe very shamelessly pretended to be sick after losing his powers. He moaned about how he ached all over, and only Boss kissing him would make it better.

nThe words ‘can I touch your tail’ were never far from his lips. He didn’t do anything else these days.

nAs for whether he actually got to touch it, well, the answer was apparent from the pleased expression that was always on his face.

nRecently, the people of Blazing Thunder have noticed that their Song-ge’s temper has improved quite a lot from before.

nHe might be more clingy now, insisting on draping himself over the Boss or leaning on him every chance he got…

nBut that was none of their business. The little brothers had no say in it.

nIn the end, people eventually found out since Song Xiabing wasn’t exactly hiding it. Those with bad intentions learned very quickly that the most powerful member of Blazing Thunder had lost his ability.

nThey were happy.

nThey were pleased.

nThey teamed up and stormed the Blazing Thunder headquarters with great fanfare. Then they were all beaten down by Song Xiabing.

nThat’s how Shi Qing was promoted to the position of base leader.

nThen, before Blazing Thunder’s people could rejoice, they saw their boss carry Song Xiabing to his room with an ugly expression.

nHe looked like he was going to teach the young man a lesson.

nPeipeipei, Song-ge’s gonna get it!

nA few days later, Shi Qing limped back into view.

nAfter he became the base leader, Song Xiabing didn’t do things so cavalierly anymore.

nWas this the base?

nNo, it’s his Shi Qing’s territory.

nHe had to make sure this place was well protected.

nSo Song Xiabing started to clear the surrounding area of zombies, mutated animals and plants. He was literally like a plague that left only death in his wake.

nNormal zombies didn’t notice the danger and continued to march forward to their deaths.

nThe mutated zombies and mutated plants, however, had the capacity for thought. The higher ranked ones with brains all ran away as fast as they could.

nBut no matter how far they ran, the plague known as Song Xiabing continued his relentless pursuit.

nHe was expanding his Shi Qing’s territory, after all.

nFinally, when everyone in the country knew of Song Xiabing’s name, a mutated plant he was about to kill struggled to draw a bunch of squiggles on the ground with one of its branches.

nAfter some team members tried their best to decipher them, they excitedly reported to Song Xiabing.

n“Song-ge, this mutated plant says it can secret a sap that can prevent the zombie infection when dissolved in water and drunk!”

nSong Xiabing furrowed his brows and looked disdainfully at those illegible scribbles. He commented to the team member, “Can you really understand these ugly scribbles?”

nThe team member snickered. “I only learned this year that mutated plants were sentient. However, they can only communicate through writing that no one else can understand because they have no mouths.”

n“Luckily, an ability user who arrived here not long ago knows the language of the mutated plants. After taking five level five crystal nuclei as payment, he taught me as well.”

nThat’s how he ran into Zhou Xuanxuan again.

nSong Xiabing: “…”

nHe recalled how Shi Qing muttered the words ‘I wonder where Zhou Xuanxuan went’ eight times over the past few years.

nSong Xiabing’s gaze towards Zhou Xuanxuan immediately became oppressive.

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nZhou Xuanxuan: “&#k2026;”

nOh my god. Why did this plague follow me here?

nBut he still tried his best to squeeze out a smile in front of Song Xiabing, whose eyes were basically saying &#k2018;how dare you still be alive’.

n“Ah, Song-ge. What a coincidence.”

nSong Xiabing nodded. “Indeed.”

nHe glanced at Zhou Xuanxuan with displeasure. “Here’s five level six crystal nuclei. Now come with us to talk with a mutated plant.”

nZhou Xuanxuan wiped a handful of sweat from his forehead.

nHe’s not planning to murder me, is he??

nZhou Xuanxuan glanced over warily and touched his hair.

nHis hair slowly crawled off and crept over to the mutated plant.

nThen it went back to Zhou Xuanxuan.

nZhou Xuanxuan seemed to be listening to something, then nodded and happily explained to Song Xiabing, “Song-ge, your team member was right. The sap from this mutated plant can be used as a vaccine. There was a bitten human who wandered into its forest. They got better after drinking the sap from its body.”

nIn other words, the apocalypse might soon come to an end.

nSong Xiabing wrinkled his brows. “You can hear this vine talk?”

n“Yep. It speaks like a child because it’s not used to talking, but I can hear it quite clearly.”

nZhou Xuanxuan stroked his hair and speculated, “I guess this could be telepathic communication between a phantom fox and their master? After all, I can’t hear any other mutated plants. Song-ge, don’t you have something similar with Boss?”

nHe wanted to say more, but he wisely shut his mouth after noticing the dark and gloomy look on Song Xiabing’s face.

n“W-well I’m just guessing here. It might not actually be the case.”

nSong Xiabing: “…”

nShi Qing had never told him that he could hear him before.

nWhy?

nCould it be that Shi Qing didn’t like him enough?

nThat wasn’t out of the question.

nHe gave that vine a dark and envious look. There was a sour feeling overwhelming his heart.

nEven a vine was able to be closer to a phantom fox than him…

nZhou Xuanxuan warily shielded his vine in case Song Xiabing did something. But in the end, the young man stormed away without another word.

nZhou Xuanxuan: “…”

nHe was very curious, but not enough to risk his life. He waited until others confirmed Song Xiabing’s departure before running over to that team member.

nHe was equally puzzled. Scratching his head, he said, “Our Song-ge did say something earlier…”

nZhou Xuanxuan: “What did he say, what did he say? Tell me already!”

n“He said, ‘love is a reaction to experiences’ before leaving without even fighting the mutated animals. I have no idea what that was all about. Zhou-ge, do you have any ideas?”

nZhou Xuanxuan: “…”

nSorry Shi Qing…

nIn the base, Shi Qing greeted the enthusiastic Song Xiabing.

nHe was cursing on the surface, but his heart was very content.

nThat kid Zhou Xuanxuan shows so much promise. Kudos to him.

nIn Shi Qing’s third year in charge of the base, a zombie vaccine was made.

nIn the fifth year, zombies were declared extinct and humans signed a peace pact with mutated animals and plants.

nNone of the parties involved could refuse to sign with Song Xiabing around. Between life and death, the choice was obvious.

nAt this very moment, Song Xiabing, who’d latched onto the excuse ‘you don’t have a telepathic connection with me’ to engage Shi Qing in exercise several times, received a letter from Zhou Xuanxuan.

nThe gist was that he figured out the telepathic connection between him and the vine had nothing to do with him being a phantom fox. It was his master’s second ability that it didn’t know it had until later.

nSong Xiabing was happy to learn of this.

nThen he made sure no one was around (especially Shi Qing) before destroying the letter with his ability.

nHe then ran to the man, who was in a meeting, and waited patiently for Shi Qing to come out, before leaning on Shi Qing’s shoulder with a dejected expression.

n“Boss, you still don’t have a telepathic connection with me… I’m so, so sad. Why don’t you comfort me in the hot springs?”

nHis lie wasn’t exposed until Zhou Xuanxuan returned to the base for supplies and casually chatted with Shi Qing.

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nBut Song Xiabing was so thick-skinned that he didn’t mind, ah.

nHe enjoyed himself in the meantime anyways.

nIn the sixth year, the apocalypse was officially declared over.

nShi Qing didn’t become the new president because he had no interest in those things. Song Xiabing felt the same way. He was only interested in Shi Qing.

nAfter the apocalypse, the two happily skipped off to play wherever they wished.

nThey lived out the rest of their lives together and passed away beside the person they loved.

nBut because no one knew where they went, no one knew where their bodies were either.

nZhou Xuanxuan cried a lot when he heard the news.

nHe didn’t know whether these were tears of joy or sadness.

nProbably both.

nHe was happy that the only two people who ever saw his bald head were dead.

nNever will anyone know that he, the great beauty Zhou Xuanxuan, was bald!

nAs he cried, his master climbed down from the top of his head and stuck to his skin like glue.

nZhou Xuanxuan: “Can you not?”

nThe vine silently played dumb.

nZhou Xuanxuan: “Fine. But just one vine, okay? You can’t use all of them.”

nThe vine continued to play dumb.

nZhou Xuanxuan: “…Fine.”

nSigh. He did owe his master a lot.

nWhat was once a towering mutated plant was now just hair that laid on his head everyday. It was so pitiful to even think about.

nSigh. Shi Qing, ah. How come you left so soon, ah…

nOh wait, this guy lived for more than a century. ‘Soon’ isn’t the word to describe it, ah. ;(

nShi Qing ah, Song Xiabing ah…

nPei. No way he was going to cry for that old bat Song Xiabing.

nExtra: The Vine

nI’m a vine.

nObviously.

nAlthough I grew a little taller and stronger, my life still consisted of just sunbathing and taking in the scenery.

nThat was, until a human burst into my world.

nI don’t know what he looks like, aside from that he has two arms and two legs. Oh, and he likes to talk a lot. I tried to get rid of him, but for some reason my ability doesn’t work on him.

nSo I could only fume silently as this human started living on my body.

nHe ate my leaves and used parts of me to make clothes.

nWhat a nuisance.

nOne day, the human was about to die.

nI was so happy that I would’ve set off fireworks—if I had any. Then I had a sudden thought: since the human was dying, would my ability work on him now?

nSo I used my ability.

nThen my ability was siphoned into his body for some reason.

nAfter that, the human was fine again.

nI was soo mad.

nThen the human took me with him. He put me on his head and talked to me everyday. At first, I resented him and thought he was annoying.

nThen I got used to it.

nI think at some point I even started to like him a bit.

nEven when my ability came back eventually, I didn’t want to get off his head.

nI started to like playing games with him.

nHe always says he doesn’t like it at first but starts shouting that he does later.

nSigh. Humans are so hard to understand.

nDing! Task complete. Please choose either 1. Continue to the next task, or 2. Vacation

nShi Qing: 11111

nHe opened his eyes and looked at his surroundings.

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nAuthor’s Corner

nEn…what could the next world be?

nI don’t know either.

nIt’s too hard to write an outline… I’ll do it tomorrow wuwuwuwu

nRandomly sending out red pockets~

nNight night~

nRain

nI had a blast working on the part from the vine’s PoV. That vine is definitely the MVP of this arc lol. Moving on…

nArc 11 complete! Next up is the devious xianxia sect master and his cold, reserved daozhang!

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