Recap
Li Jin had once come to World 5627, disguising himself as the zombified destiny child and fooling the military. This butterfly effect caused the destiny child’s fate to turn tragic, ultimately dooming World 5627 and creating countless time-space rifts.
The apocalyptic red rain had even leaked through one of these rifts into World 999, plunging it into chaos. Li Jin then took advantage of the disorder, attempting to steal the divine essences of that world’s two guardian deities.
After dealing with the fallen deity in World 999, Yan Zhao had only then arrived in World 5627 to clean up the mess.
To him, zombies weren’t his fear.
Rong Yu was.
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Rong Yu’s eyes deepened.
So sure, it seemed that this sun knew the inside story.
“Then I’ll listen to you.” Rong Yu withdrew his gaze, not intending to get to the bottom of it.
Yan Zhao was slightly relieved. After his mental ability was used, everyone in the conference room was startled and suddenly came back to their senses, only feeling that they had been in a trance for a moment. Where were they just now?
Oh, they didn’t expect that Mr. Xi was actually Dr. Xi. He was both a level seven fire ability user and a zombie vaccine researcher, both his strength and intelligence were at the peak of humanity, simply a myth…
It was a pity that the army missed Dr. Xi at that time and failed to escort Dr. Xi back to the base immediately. But it didn’t matter, as long as he was here now.
The military department and the research department regained their composure and were eager to start a battle to snatch him.
The military department believed that a strong person like Rong Yu should join them. The current military department, in addition to the regular army, also incorporated countless ability user teams. Ability users fought with zombies every day, their level up was slow, casualties were heavy, and efficiency was low. There were even several level six zombies in City A, each occupying an area, not seeing each other. If Rong Yu was responsible for the base defense and zombie clearing work, he could quickly improve the base’s safety in a short period of time, obtain a large number of crystal nuclei to improve the army’s armed forces, and reduce countless casualties.
The research department was determined to have Rong Yu join the laboratory. The research report on the zombie vaccine was written by him, and his joining could make the vaccine development twice as effective. Going to the military department was only a temporary solution, not the root cause, it only protected City A base, the vaccine was the real hope of all mankind.
Which was more important was clear at a glance.
The chief was inclined to let Rong Yu join the research department, and the military also became silent in the end. They had countless comrades dying every day, of course they longed for Rong Yu to join them. But they were definitely not disregarding the overall situation, they privately hoped that their comrades would be safer, and rationally understood that the doctor should contribute to all mankind.
But the final choice was still in Rong Yu’s hands, no one could decide where he went.
Under the eager gaze of the two groups of people, Rong Yu calmly said: “I’ll join the military department.”
The research materials left by the original owner had already been handed over to the research department, and the rest was up to these scientists. If it was Xi Wang, he would definitely join the laboratory without hesitation. But Rong Yu? He was a Demon King, he didn’t understand science, he couldn’t do anything except burn down the laboratory.
As soon as these words were spoken, the military department was both surprised and happy, while the research department was gloomy and unwillingly asked: “Would you please reconsider?”
Rong Yu’s attitude was firm, him not joining the research department was the greatest help to them.
The people in the research department looked disappointed, one of them said: “If we have questions during the research process, can we ask you for advice?”
Rong Yu’s answer was ambiguous: “We’ll talk about it when it happens.”
He didn’t give a definite answer. He joined the military department to find an opportunity to deal with Chen Ruifeng’s team, otherwise he didn’t actually want to join either.
The sun seemed to know what was going on with the zombie disguised as the original owner and clearly stated that humans couldn’t find out about this. This meant that it was most likely caused by external forces. The sun could solve it without him taking action.
Then Chen Ruifeng’s convoy was the original owner’s only enemy. After taking revenge, the original owner would return, and the soul lamp should be able to light up. The subsequent development of the vaccine should be left to the original owner himself.
It was the same in every world, the most important things had to be done by the protagonist himself.
The research department took this answer as his agreement. After all, it was a matter of all mankind, how could Dr. Xi really ignore it? As the chief announced the end of the meeting, everyone stood up and bowed. The researchers immediately went back to continue their research, and the military personnel continued to patrol and defend the base.
Only a man in military uniform, Rong Yu, and Yan Zhao were left in the conference room.
The man was a colonel, the highest-ranking officer in the military department at present. He took off his gloves and extended his hand to Rong Yu, wanting to shake hands to welcome him to join. However, Yan Zhao held Rong Yu’s hand and looked at the man in military uniform with a slightly scrutinizing gaze.
High-ranking, powerful, and handsome… Yan Zhao was now extremely wary of men who met these conditions, preventing them from joining Rong Yu’s harem. He would never let Rong Yu realize that they were big, skilled, and had great bodies!
Physical contact like shaking hands must be nipped in the bud.
Rong Yu saw that Yan Zhao was holding his hand tightly and extended his other hand to shake hands with the colonel without changing his expression.
Yan Zhao stared at the two clasped hands, his eyes almost spitting fire, burning through the man’s hand.
The colonel was unaware. As a straight man, he couldn’t sense Yan Zhao’s jealousy.
“I have a request.” Rong Yu could feel the sun’s jealousy, but still pretended to be ignorant and talked to the colonel, “Our names are currently still confidential, only the base’s senior management and core personnel know that the two level seven ability users are us. I hope that after joining the military department, we can hide our level, not disclose our identity, and treat us as ordinary ability users.”
The colonel was puzzled: “Do you want to keep a low profile?”
“If other ability users know that there are level seven ability users in the team, they may become slack and rely on us. In the long run, it will reduce their own combat effectiveness. We will take action at critical moments, but we don’t want to always be saving people.”
That made sense, one thrives in adversity and perishes in comfort. The colonel nodded: “Okay.”
“By the way, have you heard of Chen Ruifeng?” Rong Yu said again.
The colonel was stunned, thought about it carefully: “He is a level four lightning ability user, why are you asking about him?”
“I need a copy of his information, specifically everything that happened after he joined the base, every operation he participated in, and the casualties of his team.”
The colonel didn’t understand the situation, but he naturally went to do it without a second thought at the request of the level seven ability user.
Half an hour later, a pile of investigation reports was placed in front of Rong Yu.
He casually flipped through it: “As expected.”
“As expected of what?” The colonel couldn’t help but ask. A level four lightning ability user was very powerful in the eyes of ordinary people, but the base also had many level five and six experts. The colonel had only heard of this name and didn’t really know him.
“He has a fixed team of four, he is the captain. Except for him being a level four ability user, the others are all level three ability users, their overall strength… is considered strong by the base’s standards.” Of course, it was not worth mentioning by the Demon King’s standards.
The colonel heard the reluctance in Rong Yu’s tone when he said the word “strong” and his mouth twitched. “When taking on large-scale zombie clearing or high-level zombie hunting missions, the four-man team is not enough, they often recruit new companions temporarily, or merge with other ability user teams.” Rong Yu pointed to the death data, “Haven’t you noticed? The mortality rate of ability users who go out with them is much higher than other teams, only the four of them are always safe and sound.”
The colonel’s expression turned serious, he had obviously also discovered it. The mortality rate of such high-difficulty missions was originally high, and it was impossible to detect any abnormalities if too many ability users were lost at once. But if it was so tragic every time, and these four were at most slightly injured, then it was very suspicious.
“Moreover, many of the new companions they temporarily recruited had conflicts with them in the base. They spread the word that any team that accepted those people was against them. No team dared to offend a strong team for one person, those people fought alone and couldn’t take on many missions. Then Chen Ruifeng’s team would show goodwill to turn enemies into friends, and those people could only be forced to join them.”
“None of them came back alive in the end.”
The colonel was startled and quickly looked through the information, the more he looked, the more incredulous he became: “Those people only had arguments with them… Just because of this, they wanted to kill them?”
“Those who died probably didn’t expect that someone would kill for such a small matter.” Rong Yu said, “Why is Chen Ruifeng’s team so strong overall? Because their fighting style has no bottom line, they always push their companions out to die, and they sit back and reap the benefits.”
The colonel frowned: “Are you sure…”
“I’m sure. I was pushed out of the car by this group of people to attract zombies on my way here.” Rong Yu said lightly.
Colonel: “…”
“We had another conflict with him in the base, he should be preparing to attack us.”
The colonel’s expression turned serious: “I’ll order their arrest right away!”
“No need.” Rong Yu curled his lips.
“Just don’t be surprised when they never come back, Colonel, that we didn’t protect him well enough.”
Colonel: “…I understand.”
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Chen Ruifeng was still planning to eliminate Yan Zhao and Rong Yu, unaware that Rong Yu had seen through him first and had arranged his entire team clearly.
The day Chen Ruifeng’s plan was implemented was their own death day.
After leaving the conference room with Rong Yu, Yan Zhao suddenly remembered something and said stiffly, “I have a question I’ve wanted to ask you for a long time.”
Rong Yu walked ahead: “Ask.”
“Didn’t you say your name was Rong Yu?” Yan Zhao asked knowingly, “Why did you tell them your name was Xi Wang? Which one is your real name?”
Of course, Yan Zhao knew the answer. But he was currently still playing a wise zombie emperor, it would be abnormal if he didn’t raise this question.
Rong Yu glanced at him with a half-smile.
Sun, you know your question is really deliberate, right?
Every time he tried to hide and pretend to be stupid, it would only make Rong Yu make another note in his heart.
“Whichever you like is my real name.” Rong Yu answered as he walked.
Yan Zhao paused and quickly followed.
Then he naturally liked Rong Yu.
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A week later, Chen Ruifeng finally decided to take action.
They had used similar tactics many times – using various methods to team up with people, and when they were outside the base, they would let those people be the vanguard. When those people were exhausted from fighting zombies, they would stab them in the back and take all the zombie crystal nuclei for themselves.
They quickly leveled up by relying on this despicable strategy. Those who knew about it didn’t dare to speak out, and those who dared to speak out wouldn’t have a chance to come back alive.
It wasn’t that no one noticed the abnormality, so their reputation wasn’t very good. But there was no proof, what could they do?
This time, it was just eliminating another space ability user, simply a piece of cake.
Moreover, that space ability user was also blinded by lust and actually brought the powerless pretty boy out, it was just the right time to solve them both at once.
They never expected that it would be them who were completely wiped out this time.
Chen Ruifeng’s face was full of disbelief. He clearly let that man and the pretty boy be the vanguard, the two of them went to attract zombies. The two also obediently went, probably knowing that they were no match for them outside and didn’t dare to resist.
But why did all the zombies ignore those two and surround the four of them who were watching from behind?
Now it was Rong Yu and Yan Zhao who were standing outside the encirclement and watching coldly.
Yan Zhao was the zombie emperor who could control zombies, Chen Ruifeng wanting to use zombies to kill people was simply wishful thinking.
After a burst of miserable howls and greedy swallowing, the world returned to silence. The vast horde of zombies lost their target and dispersed in confusion, four more muddle-headed zombies were added to them.
Rong Yu eliminated the roots, dug out the crystal nuclei as well, and threw them to Yan Zhao to absorb.
Yan Zhao didn’t want to touch this thing that came out of the zombie’s brain, but he was wearing a vest and didn’t dare to reveal his true identity.
The revenge was avenged, but Rong Yu frowned.
The protagonist’s soul lamp didn’t move at all.
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T/N: My dear sweet summer child….
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