Chapter 113 - Leave
Edited by Meri
The big screen at the canteen entrance that would broadcast shows no longer broadcasted the livestream of the secure base capturing Nie Yi and the others. Instead, it began to rerun the New Year’s Gala.
Liu Haishan had been a little moved when he saw them singing ‘Happy New Year’, but now that he heard ‘Happy New Year ah’ again, he felt a burst of impatience.
What’s going on there now? What the heck is up with Qi Jingchen’s ability? Suddenly disappearing right when the situation was at the critical moment; what’s up with that?
The leaders of B City secure base had always been very reasonable. Although not every survivor of the secure base was satisfied with the current situation, they still trusted the leaders, and also believed that they could act impartially to a certain degree, but what was going on now? Why would they solemnly vow that the other was a dark ability user when that person hadn’t even awakened yet, then go capture them?
Liu Haishan honestly wasn’t someone particularly concerned with the major events of the country. Before the apocalypse, he rarely watched the news; after all, most major political events had nothing to do with him, a normal person.
But now that the apocalypse was here, these matters were closely bound to their future! They all wanted to survive, and live for just a little longer!
“What’s going on with that Qi Jingchen?”
“What about Nie Yi and his people?”
“Just now, was that a light-related ability? Isn’t this ability the bane of zombies?”
…
Just as the people around Liu Haishan were discussing amongst themselves, suddenly, a group of people appeared among them without any signs. Astonishingly, it was Nie Yi and his men who they had just seen being hunted on television! These people previously looked very haggard with wounds all over. Now, they still looked very sorry, with tattered clothing, but there were no longer any wounds on them. They had all fallen to the ground.
They truly did fall. Of the seven or eight of them, none were standing upright. However, Qi Jingchen was being tightly held by Nie Yi and his whole body was neat and tidy. Not only were his clothes perfectly intact, there wasn’t even the slightest speck of dust.
“This place is…” Nie Yi looked around him and couldn’t help being a little speechless— This was truly too close to where they had been ambushed.
“I used up my ability,” Qi An said with a bitter face. Previously, that light from Qi Jingchen allowed him to gain no small amount of benefits. For a time, his ability was greatly increased. He pondered about how, in any case, he still hadn’t reached level four, so simply using it up was fine, which was why he gave Nie Yi a look intending to escape with everyone…
In reality, he didn’t have the skill to teleport with this many people. Not only this, when his ability was used up, they were forced to ‘land’ halfway.
Nie Yi tugged his somewhat revealing clothes, giving Qi An a dissatisfied look.
Qi An immediately exploded. “I took this many people; being able to teleport so far is already really amazing! Did you guys hope that I’d be able to teleport us all out of the secure base?!”
“Luckily, we didn’t fall into a latrine pit,” Zhang Zihai said, then got up, on guard. There were many people around them, and he was worried that they would attack them. Fortunately, these people didn’t do anything at all and just stared at them in astonishment… What’s up with that?
Nie Yi glanced at the television screen nearby and guessed the whole matter— Perhaps they had to thank Yu Shuo for creating a livestream.
Qi Jingchen was a dark ability user; this was something he and Qi Jingchen had never doubted.
Although Qi Jingchen’s flesh was a little magical, he had personally seen the people who had eaten the ‘panacea’ being controlled by Qi Jingchen in his last life. As long as Qi Jingchen had the intent to, he was able to corrode them with dark energy. The states of their deaths were extremely tragic. Under such a situation, he genuinely had no choice but to have too many guesses about Qi Jingchen’s ability.
They assumed that Qi Jingchen would definitely awaken to a dark ability, so for Yu Xuguang and the others it didn’t need to be said… At the start when Yu Shuo ordered people to livestream everything, it was absolutely to make things difficult for them.
A dark ability was bound to rouse hatred during the apocalypse. If the people of B City secure base knew that he was with a dark ability user, they would absolutely hate him. When that time came, even if he surrendered, he would still be a detested existence here.
But what Qi Jingchen awakened to at that time was a light ability…
Nie Yi inevitably felt a little amused, but he couldn’t laugh it out.
Although it was fine now, he couldn’t possibly disregard that hunting situation as nothing. Moreover, Liu Sao was dead. Nie Yi was already used to seeing life and death, but Liu Sao dying before him still made him feel very pained.
Nie Yi blinked, looking at Qi Jingchen. “Let’s leave this place?”
Qi Jingchen nodded, looking at the still-astonished survivors around them. “May everyone please take a step back.”
Although Qi Jingchen previously gave people a clean and beautiful feeling, it was just a little better than an ordinary person’s. But it wasn’t the same now.
Now, he was merely standing there, but he made people unable to help wanting to get closer, subconsciously trusting him, and being willing to listen to him.
The surrounding people unexpectedly did back away, leaving a very large empty space. It was at least enough to place a small-scale helicopter.
“Thank you,” Qi Jingchen said, then used the group attack skill he previously liked.
The light energy spilled out of his body and spread towards the people around them. Once they were touched by this energy, their spirits couldn’t help rising, and their eyes towards Qi Jingchen became even more worshipful.
“It truly is a light ability!”
“Can it be like the stories, where he can cleanse all dark creatures?”
“My teeth don’t hurt anymore!”
All the people who felt the light energy felt extremely excited. At this time, Xiaomao took out the helicopter from her space according to Qi An’s request.
This helicopter was very small but extremely beautiful. It appeared in the empty space out of nowhere and attracted another burst of surprised cries. “A separate space?”
The people of B City secure base had already come over. Nie Yi didn’t want to entangle with them any more and swiftly entered the plane, then started the heli.
After the heli left the ground, those chasing them finally hurried over. Among them, a soldier in his twenties couldn’t help wanting to open fire at the helicopter that hadn’t flown that high yet, but was stopped by the people beside him.
“What are you guys stopping me for? Do you guys want to let him go?” The person attempting to shoot said angrily. He had a good friend who died in the fight just now.
“What are you doing? The higher ups said that we can’t attack,” the person next to him said.
“Nie Yi killed lao san!”
“It was us who attacked him first,” someone quietly said. “Moreover, Qi Jingchen is a light ability user. We can’t hurt them anymore.”
“Why didn’t he say? If he didn’t resist, it wouldn’t have been like this!” The person holding the guns shouted, then finally couldn’t help bursting into tears.
The person beside him also felt a little sad when seeing his appearance, but in this situation, they didn’t know how they should respond. Capturing Nie Yi and his men was an order from the above, but why were they ordered to do this?
The lower soldiers all had different thoughts, and the B City secure base leaders were also currently in a dispute.
Just as the helicopter flew up from within the secure base, they didn’t think that it was Nie Yi and the rest. After all, Nie Yi and the others simply didn’t have a plane. However, they soon obtained definite information— the aircraft was produced by Nie Yi and his men out of nowhere.
Could that Qi An who could teleport also have a space?
“Our secure base has missiles; we can shoot down that helicopter,” A forty-something man said, “Nie Yi and the others definitely hate us now. We absolutely cannot allow them to escape. They’re too strong!”
“You cannot attack,” Zhao Chengqi refuted, and straight rejected that person’s proposal.
“Old Zhao, I know you care about that Nie Yi, but we cannot release the tiger in this situation!” the person who suggested shooting the helicopter said. They had nearly killed Nie Yi and the rest; would they return for revenge? Ignoring everything else, that space ability user was someone they couldn’t stop!
“Is he a tiger?” Zhao Chengqi asked, then laughed bitterly. “Don’t forget why we wanted to first act to forcibly kill Qi Jingchen.”
“Isn’t it because of Yu Xuguang? I didn’t think we trusted the wrong person!” The middle-aged man said. Yu Xuguang had done many deeds for the secure base and was inherently a little simple. They all trusted him very much, but unexpectedly, he created such a mess this time and caused the secure base a misfortune.
“No. Why we wanted to kill Qi Jingchen and remove a dark ability user is because the earth’s environment truly has always been worsening like what Yu Xuguang said. If it continues like this, the entire earth will sooner or later be contaminated by the zombies’ dark matter. When that time comes, humanity will undoubtedly become extinct,” Zhao Chengqi said.
Hearing Zhao Chengqi’s words, everyone’s expression became extremely grave. They all already knew this matter, but had hidden it from their subordinates.
“If Qi Jingchen was a dark ability user, his ability would make matters worse for the environment. At the same time, a reborn person who once wantonly slaughtered people is too dangerous for us. But now…” Zhao Chengqi sighed. “Perhaps he will be our hope. We nevertheless have to leave a strand of reprieve.”
“What should we do now?” someone asked.
“Call Yu Xuguang over to ask,” Zhao Chengqi said, then suddenly thought of something. “Invite Feng lao over too ba.”
Yu Xuguang himself wasn’t a bad person. Zhao Chengqi still trusted his judgement of people. To him, Yu Xuguang saying he was reborn probably wasn’t a lie either.
But why was it that Qi Jingchen would possess a light ability? He couldn’t guess a reason, and simply decided to invite the very experienced and prestigious Feng lao.
When Yu Xuguang reached Zhao Chengqi, his entire person was a little muddleheaded. The previous situation had made him a little unable to return to himself. Nie Yi’s final words turned his heart into raging waves and unable to calm down.
Take away to create panaceas? If Qi Jingchen truly was related to the panacea in his last life, could Qi Jingchen be that panacea?
The panacea in his last life truly appeared strangely and disappeared just as strangely. The people of W County secure base said the so-called panacea was a mutated plant. But honestly, aside from their own, no one had ever seen that plant.
Moreover, he had been to W County secure base. According to what the survivors there had said, Su Haisheng and the others were just a group of villains with no understanding of research. Since it was like this, how could they create a panacea?
Yu Xuguang’s entire person was in a mess. He knew he wasn’t someone smart, and by relying on himself, perhaps he would never be able to understand some matters. After he was taken to Zhao Chengqi and the rest, he simply spoke of his doubts.
“You still want to fool us with this rebirth?” someone with a volatile temper said.
Nie Boyuan stood at one side, his complexion also extremely ugly. He glowered at Yu Xuguang. He had just wanted to ease his relationship with Qi Jingchen when such a pile of matters appeared… And Liu Sao. She had accompanied his parents for so many years, and he respected her very much. Now, she was also dead…
“Let him speak first.” Feng lao who was invited by Zhao Chengqi put down the teacup and spoke. His voice wasn’t loud, but everyone quieted down. Although this person no longer handled governmental affairs despite not becoming a zombie due to his old age, he was still respected.
Yu Xuguang finally explained slowly.
Feng lao listened and listened, then suddenly asked, “Where did Qi Jingchen live at the start of the apocalypse?”
“In J City,” someone said. Last night, they already ordered people to look into that Qi Jingchen.
“Where’s his hometown?” this elderly asked again.
“It should be X Province. At that time, the people who came from J City to B City secure base with Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen interacted with his sister before, and heard his sister mention their hometown.”
“If one wants to return to X Province from J City, there are several routes. Midway, it’s very possible that they’ll pass through W County,” Feng lao said. Then, he asked Yu Xuguang, “In your last life, did that dark ability user just order zombies to ambush W County secure base?”
“Yes. But although he no longer attacked other secure bases, he caused the deaths of all the powerful ability users of B City secure base and other secure bases of that time,” Yu Xuguang said.
“Do those ability users have anything in common?” Feng lao frowned slightly.
“There isn’t much, just that they’re all very powerful. They were the strongest of the secure bases of that time,” Yu Xuguang said.
“You said before that those people are very powerful, and also that the panacea can increase one’s strength. Did all these people eat the panacea?” Feng lao suddenly looked at Yu Xuguang. His eyes were a little muddy, but also seemed able to see through one’s heart.
Yu Xuguang’s complexion suddenly paled. “I don’t know, but there were some who ate the panacea and didn’t die.” Yao Mengzhi ate the panacea at the very beginning.
“You’re certain they ate it?”
“I don’t know…” Yu Xuguang repeated these three words and suddenly realised that he couldn’t ascertain whether Yao Mengzhi had genuinely eaten the panacea.
The person Yao Mengzhi liked exhausted their ability to save her and lost their ability nucleus. At that time, Yao Mengzhi once visited W County countless times just to obtain the panacea. She also obtained it several times.
She said she’d eaten it, and other people believed her, but wasn’t there a possibility that she actually never ate it and gave it to her lover? And that lover of hers; that person was just a common person after losing their ability, but they later died as well, at the same time Nie Yi killed all the high-levelled ability users.
His sister died very tragically; she had eaten the panacea…
Yu Xuguang had faintly guessed a possibility, but didn’t dare believe it— Could it be that they, who wanted to kill the dark lord and save the world, were truly no more than a joke?
“According to your words, this Qi Jingchen was extremely weak when he didn’t awaken to his ability. In this life, he had Nie Yi’s protection and lived pretty well, but he definitely wasn’t so comfortable in his last life. Could it be because of the differences here that allowed him to awaken to a different ability?” Feng lao’s voice was loud but exceptionally clear. “According to the current situation, the few who were the last to die in Yu Xuguang’s last life were all reborn. Then it’s very possible that Qi Jingchen was the dark ability user in their last life, but his ability may not actually be darkness.”
What Feng lao said gave everyone a flash of insight, and also made Yu Xuguang’s limbs weaken.
Just now, he had personally experienced the usage of the light ability. If Qi Jingchen had awakened to the light ability in their last life as well and slowly grew stronger, perhaps humanity wouldn’t have become extinct at all… So, in his last life, it was humanity themselves who destroyed their own hope?
And in this life… regardless of whether it was Nie Yi or Qi Jingchen, they honestly hadn’t done anything despicable… But him? He nearly killed Qi Jingchen again.
Yu Xuguang suddenly said, “I previously assumed that those shadow guards were created by Nie Yi to divert attention and protect Nie Yi, but now it looks to be false, which also means that the shadow guards Nie Yi said should truly exist. Also, I forgot to mention one person… that person is Yao Mengzhi.”
Yao Mengzhi was someone Yu Xuguang had once deeply loved. Yao Mengzhi was older than him, and took care of him a lot at the end of the apocalypse, which was why he had such deep feelings for her.
Now that he said Yao Mengzhi’s name, it made his heart sting— He didn’t want to admit that Yao Mengzhi fooled him, much less that Yao Mengzhi might be the creator of the shadow guards.
But he couldn’t stay silent.
On the secure base’s side, they were listening to Yu Xuguang tell them everything he knew. On the other side, the helicopter Nie Yi was piloting had flown out of B City secure base’s attack range.
Nie Yi had stayed at a low altitude, constantly focusing on the situation at the back with his spiritual strength, and even ordered Qi An and the others to stay together. Honestly, it was in preparation to abandon the helicopter and run away once there was danger. But unexpectedly, they weren’t attacked.
“Those leaders will consider matters by standing on the point of view of all of humanity; keeping me is overall more useful than killing me,” Qi Jingchen said, then let go of Qi An from his embrace.
Qi An, however, was a little unwilling to leave Qi Jingchen’s embrace, feeling that being held by Qi Jingchen was very comfortable. He also couldn’t help asking, “Boss, why did your ability turn into light-related?”
“Yes ah! Light ah! Too amazing!” Zhang Zihai also said.
Shao Zhenglan was looking at Qi Jingchen with a pair of glowing eyes. Although her ability didn’t rise to level four in a burst of energy, it still got much stronger. Now, she felt that Qi Jingchen was a treasure!
No wonder Nie Yi protected him this much!
No wonder Qi Jingchen was picky with his food all day. Things that contained dark energy shouldn’t be given to him to eat in the first place ah!
Amazing? Qi Jingchen, however, was a little at a loss. He already tested it just now; he couldn’t hurt anyone at all now!
If his past killing move’s present version struck others, it would instead heal their wounds!
However, he honestly liked his current ability better. Ignoring everything else, this colour was much better-looking.
“Qi shao, can you keep using the ability just now?” Ping Shengchao could be considered deferential to Qi Jingchen now. If Qi Jingchen were able to always use his ability like this… the strength of their Chenguang team could simply shoot up like they were sitting on a rocket!
“I only had that light when I awakened. I definitely won’t be able to do this in the future.” Qi Jingchen said, “My ability amount now is equal to a level three ability user.”
The scene of his ability awakening was truly too grand…
“You all, don’t surround Jingchen! Sit properly!” Nie Yi became angry. He was piloting the plane in front, while his own liver was being questioned closely and worshipped in the back. This was just too depressing!
Everyone obediently sat in their respective seats, afraid of speaking too much. This plane had few seats, so Zhang Zihai and Ping Shengchao had to hold Xiaomao and Qi An in their lap.
There was nothing to be done. Who told Nie Yi to have such strong jealousy, and for them to simply not dare to offend him?
The helicopter continued for a long time. Mid way, they found somewhere to rest for a while, changed their clothes, ate, and slept. Then, the following noon, they finally reached the vicinity of Dabie mountain.
Circling in the air and unable to see any signs of people living here, Nie Yi parked the helicopter at an empty space at the top of the cliff with great satisfaction before getting out.
Right at this time, someone rushed out from nearby. “Nie shao! It’s Nie shao returning!”
“We were about to beat the airplane! We didn’t think it was actually Nie shao!”
“What beat the airplaneah! This phrase is too vulgar!”
“It’s great that Nie shao is back! We finally don’t have to worry!”
“Yes ah! It’ll be fine since Nie shao is back!”
…
“What’s wrong?” Nie Yi asked. Could something have happened here?
“Nie shao! The lettuce Qi shao left behind is glowing!” someone shouted.