Volu 2, Prologue: Behind the Door 2
Translator: Elkin (proofread by EvlNabiki & Arcedemius; C/E edited by lucathia)
Dog-shaped aberrants like those five that had transmuted from humans had actually been quite common. Of course, that was in reference to my previous life. The reason so many people turned into dog-type aberrants was probably because the animal many people were most familiar with was the dostic dog.
Later, those aberrants would evolve into a tribe known as the Dog People. They were widely feared, not for their strength, but for their tendency to move in packs. Whenever you encountered them, there was never just one or two, nor was it even a matter of one or two dozen. There would be at least one or two hundred!
But I only knew about the Dog People from hearsay. If I’d encountered them back then, I would probably have beco Jiang Shuyu much earlier. Then again, if this world’s Jiang Shuyu hadn’t been hit on the head by a tile, would he still have woken up one day as Guan Weijun?
If there was a Jiang Shuyu in my original world, did he ever wake up from his head injury…?
“Shuyu!”
I snapped out of my reverie at Dàgē’s furious shout. Before I had the chance to turn and apologize, five shadows had already leapt right at .
I blanched and slamd the ice staff to the floor. With a twist and sorsault through the air, I dodged past the five streaks pouncing at . I even managed to kick one of the aberrants, eliciting a sharp yelp.
Just when I was about to counterattack, gunshots suddenly rang out. I only had ti to kick down one aberrant before the others slumped to the ground by themselves. Upon closer inspection, the aberrants either had spattered brains or knives stuck deep in the back of their skulls.
“Ngh!”
I turned around. Lily was looking embarrassed, still in firing position. She quickly hid the gun behind her, as if that would help hide the fact that she’d been the shooter.
To one side was the silent Xiao Sha. In contrast to Lily, he was extrely calm and had no intention whatsoever to try and cover up. Besides, there weren’t any excuses he could have made—the knives were already embedded in the aberrants’ heads, conclusive evidence of the culprit, so there was no point in arguing otherwise.
Dàgē glared daggers at the two.
“All right, I’m guilty.” Lily raised her hands helplessly in surrender. “I thought Shuyu was in danger. I never expected him to dodge so easily.”
“I owe him one,” Xiao Sha said simply.
After Dàgē finished glaring at those two, he narrowed his eyes even more dangerously as he turned them on .
I stabbed the ice staff downward, busting open the head of the still-quivering aberrant, then mimicked Lily in raising my hands in surrender. “I was thinking about ‘the dream,’ so I spaced out accidentally.”
Dàgē growled, “You dare to space out when confronting aberrants? You’re never going out by yourself in the future! If you ever dare sneak out, then you can expect to be chained up for the rest of your life!”
I lowered my head in apology. Even without Dàgē’s scolding, I felt I’d been too careless. If Guan Weijun had dared to space out like that back then, forget surviving ten years, she’d have died a thousand tis in just one!
“Do you hear ?”
“Yes!” I replied quickly. I’d nearly forgotten that the Dàgē right now wouldn’t be appeased by playing coy.
Dàgē’s expression was dark and stormy and unbearable to look at. My gaze darted around in every direction, and I almost didn’t dare to look him in the eye anymore. I had no idea how to apologize to make his expression look less intimidating. Dàgē, you’re scaring your dìdi to death!
Zheng Xing tried to smooth things over as he said, “Shuyu’s not a rc. He’s just eighteen, and he’s done well as it is. Boss, don’t be too hard on him.”
At that, Dàgē’s expression clouded up. Although he still looked extrely discontent, at least it wasn’t as terrifying as before.
“Although you’re not a rc, Xiao Yu, you don’t move like a normal civ either.” Cain asked in puzzlent, “Boss never ntioned you having any training, but I think even within our troop, only Xiao Sha can pull off those kinds of moves.”
I picked the first piece of bullshit I could think of and said, “I lived for ten years in the apocalypse in my dreams, so I have a lot of battle experience. I just have to train up my body again. Before, when I was out hunting by myself, I was already slowly training myself.”
“Didn’t you say you were an ordinary woman in your dreams?”
I snapped back indignantly, “An ordinary woman who’s lived for ten years in the apocalypse can flatten you with one hand tied behind her back.”
Cain started in surprise and exclaid in complete disbelief, “No way!”
“Yes way.” I nodded as I spoke, “Except those who were protected from beginning to end, every single person who survived the apocalypse is stronger than any of us now.”
Survival of the fittest. That was the only law in the apocalyptic world.
Cain grinned, showing off his white teeth, then declared, “Then, that’s easy. I’ll survive ten years as well, and by then, I’ll be able to beat everyone here with just one hand!”
Imdiately, he was almost knocked to the ground after getting whacked upside the head by Ceng Yunqian.
Just when I was about to shoot a few sarcastic barbs at Cain, I found I couldn’t think of anything at all. On the advice of a reincarnated person like , these guys had started eating evolution crystals soon after the apocalypse began. Adding on the fact that they were already rcenaries who excelled at combat, if they really did survive ten years, becoming strong was a given!
Don’t tell , I accidentally created a super team? That’s… the best thing in the world!
In the coming few years, the word “pitiful” wouldn’t be enough when describing the situation of us humans. In order to fight against the aberrants and even defend against the originally harmless plants and animals, it was best that everyone beco as strong as possible!
Speaking of which, should I tell more people about the evolution crystals? If I can make humans stronger earlier on, maybe things won’t get so tragic in the next few years.
“Xiao Yu! Why are you spacing out again?”
I lifted my head to see Dàgē’s terrifying look of doom and hastily told him everything that had just occurred to to divert his attention. Please don’t rember locking up for a lifeti, please?
Dàgē frowned a little, turned things over in his mind, then said, “Don’t worry about that right now. When you et the right people, you can bring it up. For anyone who’s not qualified…”
…I needn’t bother telling them. It was a pretty good way of doing things. As expected of Dàgē, he was much more decisive than I was.
“…depending on the situation, they might need to be eliminated.”
Wait, wait, wait! Dàgē, you’re moving too fast. Your dìdi can’t catch up!
I turned to look at the others. Amazingly, no one looked the slightest bit astonished. Now just who’s survived ten years in the apocalypse?
For the sake of humanity’s survival, I had no choice but to try to persuade him, “Dàgē, we’ve lost half of all humans in one go. And going forward, there’ll be fewer and fewer of us. Let’s try to avoid killing when we can.”
Even if extinction is inevitable, at least don’t make us guilty of that cri! I still want to go to heaven!
Dàgē clarified, “When I said anyone who was not qualified, I was referring to people like those rcenaries who strung you up.”
Then I’d imdiately kill them without a word! With those kinds of people, you’d save many lives just by killing one of them. You’d even be praised when facing judgnt before Yama, the King of Hell!
“Stop wasting ti. Pair up and search. If you see an aberrant by itself, kill it imdiately. If there are too many, co back and report it,” Dàgē ordered everyone.
Just when I was about to obey and start looking for soone to pair up with, he said coldly, “What’re you doing? Do you want to be chained up for the rest of your life? Stay here and dig out the evolution crystals.”
For the sake of my continued freedom, I had no choice but to crouch down and start searching in the corpses. By now, my autopsy skills were pretty good, and I could dig out the evolution crystals with two or three strokes without getting even a fleck of blood or flesh on . In ancient tis, Chef Pao Ding could butcher an ox easily because he knew its anatomy like the back of his hand. Well, now there was Xiao Yu who could dissect corpses easily too.
The problem with being skilled was that, after five minutes, I had nothing to do. I had a mont to think and ended up examining my ice staff—no wait, my ice spear—no, ice staff, after all. The temporary spearhead that I had tacked on had turned into a pile of shattered ice after the fight just then.
I knew it. I really should’ve reinforced a dagger. A spear’s head had to be stronger than its shaft, since spears were often used for piercing attacks. There was no small number of aberrants with skulls as hard as rock, so if the spearhead kept shattering all the ti, it was useless.
“Boss.”
I looked up to see almost everyone had returned.
Zheng Xing was the first to report. “Boss, we’ve swept the entire first floor, but the firearms storage isn’t here. We think it’s in the basent.”
Dàgē didn’t look surprised in the slightest. He just nodded and asked, “Any movent in the basent?”
“The door is closed, and we can’t open it.”
With that, Dàgē and the others exchanged a few looks like they were all in the know. I looked on in utter confusion, with no clue what was going on, and instantly felt a little down as the outsider.
Xiao Sha explained quietly, “Yunqian can pick locks. The locks in this kind of police station aren’t a challenge for her. So if we still can’t open the door, it’s not a problem with the lock. It’s likely that there are heavy things being used to block off the door.”
I see. I glanced at Xiao Sha. The feeling of having him owe a favor was pretty good. In the future, I had to teach him how to use his powers more. I had to make sure that Xiao Sha could never fully repay the favors he owed !
“Is there anyone inside?” Cain asked with interest.
“Unlikely.” Lily shook her head as she responded, “It’s now three months into the apocalypse. How many supplies do you think there’d be in the basent of a police station? With so many aberrants wandering around on the first floor, it’s obvious that the people shut away inside didn’t make it out. So they’ve probably starved to death.”
Starved to death, they would’ve turned into aberrants.
Everyone lifted their guns into position, preparing for the next phase of attack.
We moved to the basent, where the door was. Given that we did not want to create too big a commotion, I had no choice but to push as hard as I could. I hadn’t realized just how many things might be piled behind the door. It was really heavy. After pushing at it for what felt like half a day, I only managed to open the door a crack. God, it’s so heavy I could die.
Yes, that was right, I was the one pushing at the door. Just now, when I had stepped up to help, Cain had given a look of disdain as he flexed his biceps. That got majorly pissed off. Don’t think Jiang Shuyu is a frail and delicate pretty boy just because he looks like one. With enough evolution crystals, even a pretty boy can turn into Superman!
I had imdiately sent Cain, who was showing off his abs, flying with a kick. Then, the task of opening the door fell squarely on my shoulders. Because the door was not wide, we could not squeeze in a lot of people to help push. So Dàgē had said, “Since you’re so strong, you push it open.”
Dàgē, actually, your dìdi really is just a frail and delicate pretty boy. I’ll never ruin my image again!
“Can’t push it open?” Dàgē shot a look. “Don’t pretend to be weak. This is serious work.”
“I really can’t get it to open,” I replied with a grimace. “It’s stuck.”
Dàgē marched forward, and with one shove, the door that had refused to budge opened by another five centiters. Dàgē, your power is healing, right? Right?
Dàgē observed through the crack for a while. It was only after he confird that there was no movent beyond the door that he looked over his shoulder and called out, “Lily, co take a look.”
Lily walked up and reported as she peered inside, “There are a few tal shelves. They’ve warped and gotten stuck together. We’ll need to dismantle the door fra if we want to open the door now. Aside from that, the tal shelves are full of boxes blocking the view, so I can’t see inside.”
Dàgē frowned as he stared at the door fra. It was a door in a police station, and was therefore pretty stern stuff. Dismantling it would be very troubleso, especially since we didn’t have the right equipnt on hand.
Cain said without much hope, “Boss, if there were guns inside, nobody would have starved to death in there. No matter what, they’d have rushed out with the guns for a fight. So it’s likely the guns were gone a long ti ago.”
“Even if there are no guns, there will still be ammo.”
That was true. It was a police station, so they should have no small supply of ammunition. It was unlikely that all the ammunition would have been taken away, and what the troop desperately needed was not guns, but ammunition.
Dàgē had brought a number of guns to begin with, and we had also wiped out a rcenary troop recently as well. We were not short on guns, and we didn’t have that many people who could shoot anyway. But every bullet we fired was a bullet that was not coming back. If we didn’t stock up, it was likely our guns could only be used as tal sticks very soon.
“Take it apart!” Dàgē made a prompt decision and ordered, “Now that we’ve swept the first floor clean, we have plenty of spare ti.”
This ti, I was definitely the frail, delicate pretty boy. I sat in the corner, pretending to be exhausted from pushing at the door and being completely useless when it ca to dismantling it.
In the apocalypse, dismantling things was a skill needed in everyday life. Dismantling doors, windows, and lockers was beginner’s stuff, dismantling cars and fridges for spare parts was advanced, and combining the various spare parts into all sorts of weaponry was the ultimate skill.
But now, I had decided that my job was being a frail, delicate pretty boy. My role was the deadweight dìdi in the rcenary troop, so forget about beginners’ skills, I couldn’t even push open the door!
“Don’t take it apart. We’re coming out.”
Everyone imdiately raised their guns and pointed them at the door, their expressions like they’d seen ghosts.
From behind the door ca the eerie question, “Are you humans?”
We’re the ones who want to ask if you are humans!
Everyone exchanged looks, then turned their gazes to Dàgē. The troop leader said calmly, “Aberrants can’t talk.”
Dàgē was right. Aberrants couldn’t talk. Yet.
There was a mont of silence before the sa voice from behind the door said submissively, “I-if we co out, you won’t hurt us, right?”
Seriously, are you guys idiots?! You think anyone out there will answer, “No, we’re gonna hurt you. Co out quickly to get hurt”?
Evidently, I wasn’t the only one who thought so. Everyone else looked like they didn’t know whether they wanted to laugh or cry, though they didn’t look as tense as before. It was better to have idiots than rcenaries inside.
“As long as you people don’t attack us, we won’t hurt you.”
As Dàgē said “you people,” he gave the others a aningful look. True, they did in fact say “us” just now, so there was more than one of them.
There was a mont of silence behind the door, then so hushed chatter, so quiet that we couldn’t hear what they were saying. But they spoke very quickly, a sign that soone was very agitated. Soon after ca the banging and crashing of moving objects.
So it seems they’ve decided to co out. I glanced at Dàgē. Is he planning to leave once he’s got the ammo, or is he going to take these people in?
Soon enough, the door was pulled open slowly. Out ca two guys and three girls—they all looked around the sa age, twenty or so, and every one of them looked like they were university students. The mont we saw how young they were and their general appearance, we imdiately relaxed.
Initially, I was still quite alert. After all, ten years into the apocalypse, you couldn’t afford to ignore even a young boy standing by the roadside. He might not be human at all!
Then again, given that this was still the first year of the apocalypse, forget little boys, even big muscle n weren’t anything to be afraid of. Aberrants still looked like mutants, and there was still quite so way to go before they would evolve into human forms. So these university students were definitely just university students.
What was more, the mont they saw how decked out we were, their faces turned as white as sheets and they looked like they wanted to leg it and hide again. There was just no way anyone could take them seriously as a threat.
“Eh? Jiang Shuyu?” One of the girls suddenly shrieked. Is it just , or did she sound a little happy?
Everyone looked toward .
I stared at the girl. She looked quite pretty, and although the filth and dirt deducted a fair number of points from her appearance, all she needed to do was tidy up a little, and she’d turn into a beauty.
The girl asked in confusion, “W-why are you staring at like that?”
I had no choice but to confess, “Sorry, I lost my mories after getting hit on the head by a tile. I don’t rember who you are.”
Please please please don’t be Jiang Shuyu’s girlfriend. Dàgē already said I didn’t have one. I trust him more than I trust you. And even if we were a thing, we’re breaking up right now!
The girl started and asked in disbelief, “You lost your mories? I’m your classmate from high school! I’m Chen Qianru! When everyone found out you got into an accident, we even got together to fold a thousand origami cranes.”
Ohhhh, so we were high school classmates? Okay, that’s still acceptable. So what about the others?
I looked at the two guys and the other two girls. Chen Qianru imdiately explained, “These are so friends who got into the sa university as . They were in different classes from us during high school, so you wouldn’t know them.”
The others looked a little panicked and started stuttering one after the other.
“I-I know Jiang Shuyu too. Even though we weren’t in the sa class, we still went to the sa school!”
One of the guys said, “No shit, he was the Prince Charming at our high school, and he even got the top grades of our entire year! Everyone knows Jiang Shuyu!”
Well, with Jiang Shuyu’s face, being crowned Prince Charming wasn’t unusual. But the top grades of the entire year? Jiang Shuyu, could you not be so aweso? I suddenly felt under a lot of pressure—I can’t take up your mantle!
Dàgē suddenly interjected, “Shuyu, do you rember anything?”
“Nothing,” I replied honestly. I an, even mories of my blood siblings were things I only saw in dreams, so there simply wasn’t a trace of anything like high school classmates.
“I really am your classmate!” Chen Qianru beca desperate.
Before I could answer, Dàgē waved to stop her. “I’ve seen the origami cranes, so you don’t need to explain. Is there any ammunition inside?”
The university students exchanged looks, then they all turned to look at Chen Qianru. The girl had no choice but to speak up. “I saw so boxes of what looked like bullets, but there aren’t any guns.”
Dàgē nodded and imdiately ordered the others to go search inside. He headed inside as well—except, before stepping through the door, his eyes drifted past Xiao Sha. Xiao Sha imdiately ca to a halt beside and stopped following the group. Then, Dàgē glanced at , then at that Chen Qianru, before he finally disappeared inside to join the search.
Dàgē, your eyes sure are expressive. I understood everything! Don’t worry, I’ll definitely use this high school classmate of mine to find out how on earth these people managed to survive three months inside.
The mont the rcenaries left, the two guys and three girls all dashed at and started chattering like magpies.
“Jiang Shuyu, how’d you end up with those people?” The guy who had spoken beforehand asked in deep suspicion, “Don’t tell you got captured by them?”
I shot him a look and snapped, “Do I look like I’m captured?”
What idiots! Even though I don’t have as many weapons as the rcenaries, I’m still holding onto a staff and wandering around freely. So just how exactly do I look like I’m under capture? Besides, shouldn’t you guys be asking about what the hell is with this ice staff in my hand? Do you guys even know what the key topics are in an exam? No wonder you couldn’t get better grades than Jiang Shuyu!
“Nah,” he replied honestly, then even gave a self-introduction. “Oh yeah, I’m Lu Renjie, the vice-captain of the basketball team. Have you heard of before?”
I lost my mories, idiot!
When they heard him introducing himself, the others quickly told their nas as well.
The tall girl said, “I’m called Li Yarong, Ya from youya—elegance—and rong, written like a lotus.”
“Su Ying.” The girl was so scared, her voice ca out tinny like a mosquito’s. If not for the fact that I had eaten a lot of evolution crystals and developed very acute hearing, I wouldn’t have been able to catch her na.
The last guy seed to be a man of few words, simply reporting, “I am Ding Jun.”
Then, as one, the five of them looked at the last fellow who hadn’t introduced himself—Xiao Sha.
Xiao Sha was silent for a mont before he said, “Shangguan Chensha.”
I was bamboozled for a mont, before realizing that this was Xiao Sha’s real na. How unusual, his surna was made up of two words. It even sounded like sothing out of a Wuxia novel. Almost every Wuxia novel had so kind of Shangguan character, and more often than not, they were elegant nobles. I looked hard at Xiao Sha to check that he really was a rcenary, and concluded that calling him Xiao Sha was way better.
The five seed very curious about Xiao Sha. Probably because he was closer to them in age, they didn’t seem to hold the sa fear toward him as compared to the other rcenaries. But now wasn’t the ti for them to dig up Xiao Sha’s secrets. Dàgē had given a mission, so I couldn’t co out empty-handed.
“How did you guys end up here?” This should be a pretty good conversation starter. It was really weird that five university students would get locked up in the basent of a police station in the apocalypse.
Unexpectedly, the girls seed reluctant to talk as they nudged at each other to speak. In the end, Lu Renjie spoke up as he rubbed his head in embarrassnt. “We ca here to et up. We figured, since we got into the sa uni and all, we might as well co out and get to know each other better.”
eting up in a police station? Isn’t this place a little too unique? I stared at them dubiously.
Chen Qianru sighed. “We originally weren’t just five people, but one of the boys got hit by a car when we were crossing the road. He got sent to the hospital, and we were dragged in for questioning. Originally, we were supposed to be able to go ho after the questioning was over, but by then, it was very dark outside. We couldn’t go out and the police were so busy, they didn’t have ti to care about us. So…”
So they ended up passing the apocalypse in a police station. That sounded as tragic as Jiang Shuyu’s story.
“So you’ve been hiding here like this for three months?” I asked with deep suspicion, showing my incredulity for the world to see.
What was even more unbelievable for was that not a single one of them had turned into an aberrant. Even in Dàgē’s almighty troop, they had lost two people out of a group of eight. So how could a group of five not have a single person missing?
“Three months?” Chen Qianru looked at strangely. “It’s not been that long. Jiang Shuyu, when did you wake up? Did you mix up the dates or sothing?”
What? Xiao Sha and I exchanged looks. I could tell from his expression that I definitely hadn’t mixed up any dates. There was sothing deeply wrong with these people. The timing of their appearance, the location they were in, and even their emotions were all wrong!
They were far too calm.
After being locked up in a place full of aberrants for three months, these people could still introduce themselves in such a calm fashion. If nothing was wrong with them, then they were even ntally stronger than Dàgē’s rcenary troop, and I didn’t believe that any university students in this world were that much stronger than my previous world’s!
“Xiao Yu!”
Suddenly, we heard Dàgē’s loud roar from behind the door.
Then, the door slamd shut.
I imdiately dashed forward and kicked hard at the door. But the damned door refused to budge, so it was obvious there was more going on than just the door being shut.
I looked behind , to see Xiao Sha holding onto Chen Qianru and threatening them with a knife at her neck.
Chen Qianru scread, “I don’t know why it did that! I don’t know anything—“
I swung hard with my staff, but my opponent dodged past it. That agility of yours is downright ridiculous; are you sure you’re just the vice-captain of the basketball team…? Bah! Then is Michael Jordan the captain?
Lu Renjie was holding onto the steel fra of a window single-handedly and dangling easily in mid-air. He smiled as he asked, “How’d you find out it was ?”
“I could feel the energy waves coming from you just now!” If I hadn’t left my original position to kick the door, what he would have grabbed was probably not the window fra but .
“Is this guy an aberrant?” Xiao Sha asked as he pulled Chen Qianru with him, creating so distance from Lu Renjie.
“No, he’s human. He’s a person who’s got evolved powers like us.”
My expression was grim. Tis of disaster, like the apocalypse, really did forge n of strong will. Seriously, what the hell’s with this guy? Just three months into the apocalypse, and he can already use his powers this well? This is still a ti when fire powers are used as lighters, you know?
“Aberrant? That’s a pretty interesting way of calling them.” Lu Renjie asked with curiosity, “So your power is ice? Looks pretty useful. Why don’t you join us?”
I glanced at the door. Unbelievably, I couldn’t hear anything at all. Don’t tell Dàgē and the others were neutralized in an instant? Impossible! I desperately wanted to do sothing, but I was tied up here, so I had no choice but to grit my teeth and bear with it. I calmly spoke to the enemy to find out more, “So what’s going on in there?”
Lu Renjie made a six with his hand. “He’s in there.”
“Wasn’t he hit by a car?” I gave a derisive look at Chen Qianru. Contrary to my expectations, however, her eyes were full of fear. She didn’t look like she knew what was going on at all. Don’t tell , she really has nothing to do with this?
When he noticed looking at Chen Qianru, Lu Renjie started chuckling. “Actually, strictly speaking, it’s not wrong to say he was hit by a car. Aw, don’t glare at them like that. These people are just rations. If they can’t catch anyone else, then they’d have to offer up themselves.”
Rations? My expression grew colder. Three months in and they’ve already resorted to cannibalism? But right now, the one thing we have too much of is food, so no one should need to fall to cannibalism. What’s going on with this guy?
“All right, I’ll join you guys,” I said simply, then jabbed a thumb at Xiao Sha. “His ability is speed, so he should just about make the cut. He can join you guys too.” Actually, Xiao Sha’s ability was wind, but at tis like this, the less you revealed about your strength, the better.
Xiao Sha glanced at and released Chen Qianru. But she was so terrified that she had no power in her legs. The mont she was let go, she just dropped to the floor, unable to get up. In the end, the scaredy-cat Su Ying dragged her into the corner, and the three girls huddled together. Ding Jun also stood in the corner in utter silence. They didn’t seem like they were on the sa side as Lu Renjie, so they probably really were just “rations.”
Lu Renjie shrugged and said, “Be my guest. You can go in together.”
I gave Xiao Sha a look, and he gave a small nod. Actually, it was better to leave soone on guard outside. But we didn’t know what the situation was like inside, so one person wouldn’t be enough if we got into a situation where we had to fight and rescue people at the sa ti.
I walked up to the door, and this ti, the door opened with a twist of the handle and a gentle push.
“Don’t go in!”
A sudden shout rang out from behind—the first ti that voice had ever spoken so loudly.
I turned to look at Su Ying. She scread at the top of her voice like there was no tomorrow, “Idiot! If you can win against this guy, then don’t go in! It’ll be all over once you’re inside!”
It’ll be all over? Then Dàgē—No! Never. If my guess is right, the thing behind the door is probably…
That kind of thing will never win against my dàgē!
“Stop!” I shouted at Lu Renjie. He was just about to stomp hard on Su Ying, and given the extent of his powers, one stomp and Su Ying would likely bid this apocalyptic world farewell.
I glanced at Su Ying. She was incredibly agitated, her cheeks flushed red and her eyes brimming with tears, looking much livelier than when she was a scaredy-cat. But more importantly, I could feel energy waves coming from her.
I really couldn’t leave Xiao Sha outside. Perhaps one Lu Renjie wouldn’t pose much danger to him—I suspected his power to be an increase in his physical abilities—but I had no idea what this Su Ying’s powers were, or whether she was friend or foe. It was too risky, so I might as well bring Xiao Sha along. I’d feel better.
I threw Xiao Sha a look, asking him to follow .
Xiao Sha nodded, then suddenly, the corner of his mouth quirked up. I blinked. What’s so funny in this situation? Don’t tell you have anti-social tendencies where you get more excited the more danger you’re in?
Then again, in the apocalyptic world, those who were more cold-hearted were the craziest. I better have a word with Dàgē to always keep an eye on Xiao Sha, to prevent him from turning from a cool-faced guy into a pervert.
He walked over, and as he passed by , he murmured, “You really are like our boss.”
“…Wait!”
I didn’t have ti to worry about how on earth the almighty Dàgē and the pretty Xiaodi were similar in the slightest. Xiao Sha, where the hell do you think you’re going, walking ahead of ? We don’t even know what’s going on behind that door, so stop running around so disobediently!
Xiao Sha shrugged off my hand and reached out to grab the door handle, speaking firmly, “I’m the one in charge of scouting in the troop.”
I batted away his hand and dashed forward first, tossing behind , “I’m the new generation of scouts. You’re old now, so just take it easy in your retirent at the back!”
“…”
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