TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 71

Chapter 71: The Jinx

In the evening, after coaxing Luo Shuyou to sleep, Xie YunChuan ruthlessly woke up the little White Tiger, who was also sleeping soundly beside him.

He told it not to sleep, to keep a good eye on Luo Shuyou, and threatened, “If I come back and find you asleep, you can forget about eating anything good in the future. You’ll be eating chaff and wild herbs every day.”

If he threatened the White Tiger with anything else, it would definitely scoff and go back to sleep. Hmph! You don’t want me to sleep? I insist on sleeping! It weighed less than ten pounds, but nine pounds of that was rebellious spirit.

But threatening it with good food was like striking a snake at its seven inches, a precise grasp of its weakness.

It really didn’t dare to be careless. If Xie YunChuan found out, nothing could stop that devil king from abusing small animals.

These two were classic examples of double standards. The little master needed to sleep, but it was even smaller than the little master! Didn’t it need to sleep?

Ahem! Okay, it seemed it really didn’t need to. It was so used to pretending to be a living being that it almost forgot it wasn’t just mortal flesh.

It was a Wood Spirit Jīngpò symbiotic beast, awe-inspiring in all directions, and divinely inviolable. It didn’t need to do something weaklings did to restore their energy, like sleep!

With the little White Tiger watching over Luo Shuyou, Xie YunChuan felt much more at ease. He hadn’t let Luo Shuyou absorb any crystal cores, but that little guy had absorbed quite a few low-level ones.

He had tested the White Tiger’s abilities. Dealing with a Level 1 zombie was no problem. Except for that place specifically raising zombies, with so many living people in the base, it was impossible for Level 1 and Level 2 zombies to exist in such quiet harmony.

As for those rats hiding in the dark, they wouldn’t think Luo Shuyou had any abilities, so there was no need to attack him. Besides, the White Tiger was enough to deal with those ability users who spent their days loafing around the base.

However, to avoid any unforeseen problems, Xie YunChuan still needed to go and return quickly.

Low-level zombies, no matter how many, wouldn’t take much time.

He easily took down the two small guards at the gate. How could they send just these two shrimps to guard such an important place? Weren’t they afraid that the zombies would break out of their cages and turn this place into a hunting ground?

Inside the underground arena, Xie YunChuan looked at the blood-stained, dirty pit in front of him and wondered if those people were feeding live people to the zombies to stimulate their ability awakenings. Hadn’t even one of them succeeded?

Xie YunChuan didn’t care how many people had died here. He was concerned about the success rate of this endeavor. Out of how many people could a successfully awakened ability user emerge?

The rumors from the outside were that there hadn’t been any. Was that really the case?

Following the edge to the other side, he saw a small section wrapped in square black iron sheeting… a room?

It was hard to describe. It didn’t look like a normal room, more like a cell.

Xie YunChuan could clearly sense that the other end of this small room held zombies. He could even hear their roars.

He found a button like a switch and gently pressed it. A clanging sound rang out, and the iron sheet slowly rose, revealing the scene inside as Xie YunChuan had guessed.

The only surprise was that the person imprisoned in the cell was Lu Yunzhou!

At this moment, Lu Yunzhou was barely clinging to life. He was a little surprised to hear the sound of the iron sheet rising. Every night here, apart from the sounds of the zombies, it was as solemn and quiet as hell. Had the sun risen in the west today?

Was it Lin Yan, worried that he hadn’t controlled the degree well enough and that he might die, coming back to check and rescue him in time?

Heh, whether it was instructed by that old fellow Cheng Xie or Lin Yan hated him himself, Lin Yan’s treatment of his injuries was more perfunctory each time.

Logically speaking, he had no grudges against Lin Yan. He could even say they had some friendship. He had even unrealistically hoped that Lin Yan could save him.

But… heh!

Who knew? In his opinion, he and Lin Yi had a life-or-death friendship!

He no longer hoped that Lin Yi could save him, but he didn’t expect Lin Yi to be the one to strangle his only hope of escape.

That’s why they say they’re brothers! This thing called blood ties is truly wonderful, with one being more vicious than the other.

“Lu Yunzhou?” Xie YunChuan’s uncertain voice rang out. The person in front of him, dressed in rags and covered in blood, was really hard to recognize.

But for Lu Yunzhou at this moment, Xie YunChuan’s voice was like heavenly music striking his soul directly.

He suddenly burst into loud laughter, not stopping even as tears of blood flowed and his wounds were pulled open, causing threads of blood to appear.

He had said that he was lucky! “Hahaha! Woo… bleh…!” He vomited another mouthful of blood while laughing.

He had become accustomed to these pains. People often say that habit becomes nature, and he deeply felt that at this moment. After hurting for so long, he no longer cared.

It wasn’t that the pain had lessened, but that he had become more able to endure it.

Xie YunChuan looked at his frenzied state. Great, another one had gone crazy.

He found the lock on the iron railing and tried to twist it off, but found that he couldn’t. With his Level 2 ability-enhanced body, he should be able to twist off an ordinary iron lock.

No wonder they only sent two people to guard it. It seemed the person who made this iron gate was very confident!

“Stop laughing, quickly tell me how to open this iron gate.”

Lu Yunzhou hoarsely spat out three words with difficulty, “I… don’t… know!”

What a load of bull. If he could open it, would he still be trapped here?

“Then how do they usually open it?”

Lu Yunzhou: “… I don’t know!”

He was dragged in and out half-dead every time. How would he know?

“You don’t know anything? Then die in there!” After saying that, Xie YunChuan retreated.

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Lu Yunzhou was so frightened that he made whimpering noises, “You… wait… wait, don’t… go!” He wanted to say something but couldn’t make it clear, so anxious that he wanted to get up, but he was too badly injured and couldn’t move no matter how hard he struggled.

As he struggled to get up, Xie YunChuan had already opened the iron gate and walked to the top of his head, “How did you get like this?”

Lu Yunzhou breathed a sigh of relief. His throat was sore from talking now, and he didn’t want to say much, “You… first… get… me… take me back!”

How could he explain it to Xie YunChuan in detail like this? What a waste that he asked that question so coldly and ruthlessly.

Xie YunChuan helped him up and leaned him against the iron railing in a semi-seated position, spreading his palm and releasing a frost mist of cold air around him.

Wrapped in the coolness, Lu Yunzhou immediately felt much lighter all over, his pain lessened, and he felt much more comfortable.

No wonder ice packs are used for injuries a lot of the time, it’s really useful.

“What did you come here to do?” After the ice pack, he spoke much more smoothly.

Xie YunChuan raised a cold eyebrow and pointed to the noisy group of zombies behind him, “To deal with them.”

Lu Yunzhou sneered, “Heh, you’re so kind, actually taking the initiative to solve this hidden danger for them.”

It was a hidden danger, that’s right. After a while, these iron gates would definitely not be able to trap these zombies.

Not long, at most a month. Lu Yunzhou dealt with them every day and knew best how astonishingly fast these zombies evolved.

He had managed to hold on until now by holding his breath, thinking that even if he couldn’t escape, he would hold on until he saw the base fall with his own eyes.

Xie YunChuan sneered, “Not as great as you, using your flesh and blood to fight zombies here every day. What’s wrong? Had enough of being a saint and changed to being a prisoner?”

This was simply rubbing salt into Lu Yunzhou’s wounds. His heart was icy cold. “Just watch, when I get out, I’ll throw those people in here and let them personally experience what it means to beg for life but not be able to get it, and to beg for death but not be able to get it!”

Xie YunChuan said indifferently, “You won’t have that chance.”

“Huh~!?”

Before Lu Yunzhou could ask why, he saw Xie YunChuan spread his palm and gather a ball of green leaves, then wave it towards the zombie crowd. Countless leaves scattered and attacked the zombies, each one precisely slicing across their necks, leaving a thin, seam-like line.

Then he saw the heads of the zombies fall neatly in unison, the cut surface smooth and even, showing excellent knife skills.