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    Chapter 171: This isn’t easy!

    Chapter 171: This isn’t easy!

    Li Shi, with a smile that didn’t quite reach his eyes, descended the stairs amidst the tense atmosphere and the gaze of the crowd. He leisurely opened his mouth and said, “I kindly helped you make a fire and warm the house, what is this? Returning kindness with enmity?”

    He opportunistically used his mind-reading ability to monitor everyone’s inner thoughts… except for Luo Shuyou. Who knew if his inexplicable ability would detect him using mind-reading on him? It’s best not to take the risk.

    Xu Yuzhe: [This guy looked suspicious from the start, exuding an aura of evil. Luo WuShang’s evilness was in his temperament and demeanor, but this person has a servile and respectful exterior, yet he always gives off a strange feeling. I don’t know what kind of person he is, and I can’t see his strength. Even Xie YunChuan is nervous and wary, so his level is probably not low.]

    Gu Tangxi: [Ugh, this creepy thing smiles so sinisterly, how dare he say he’s being kind?]

    Gu Tangyue: [Isn’t this the guy who was following Luo WuShang before? How come he suddenly looks like a dog that’s out of control after leaving its master? This condescending and arrogant appearance, anyone who didn’t know better would think he’s some big shot!]

    ……

    He didn’t hear a single word of Xie YunChuan’s thoughts, but he heard a bunch of useless chatter. Especially when he heard Gu Tangyue call him a dog, Li Shi’s descending foot momentarily froze in the air, his eyes narrowed slightly. Ignorance is truly bliss, this least capable one is the most disdainful… Oh, no… it’s disdainful of corpses.

    In short, they all look down on him, Li Shi… Want to kill him… Want to eat her, but obviously impossible. Although this little girl has no combat power, she is the one Xie YunChuan cares about the most in this group. Of course, excluding Luo Shuyou, they are not on the same level, there is no comparability. The care here has nothing to do with friendship, love, or kinship, it’s purely because she’s the most useful.

    Xie YunChuan knew that Li Shi could read minds, so he controlled himself, not only not showing anything outwardly, but also not thinking anything internally, just keeping his nerves tense and vigilant.

    After hearing Li Shi’s words, Xie YunChuan’s thoughts rang out: “You know best what you’re doing, what good intentions could a zombie lurking in our midst have?” Before, Li Shi was under Luo WuShang’s control, and Xie YunChuan didn’t ask Luo WuShang what he was keeping him around for. He didn’t expect Luo WuShang to continue to keep him by Luo Shuyou’s side.

    Luo WuShang initially planned to train a bodyguard for Luo Shuyou, but later felt that being strong himself was the only real solution. So, he spent ten days slaughtering cities, killing people, and killing zombies to maximize the improvement of this body’s ability level, and extracted many crystal cores of purification ability users and healing ability users to supplement and upgrade the Wood Spirit Crystal Core and healing ability.

    The reason he kept Li Shi was because Luo WuShang would fall asleep for several hours during the process of fading and replacing Luo Shuyou. Therefore, he needed Li Shi to guard him.

    During this sleep, Li Shi would not rashly attack him for no reason. With an eighty or ninety percent certainty, Luo WuShang predicted that after Luo Shuyou woke up from this sleep, he would regain his intelligence and be able to actively call upon and utilize the enormous energy contained in this body. At that time, Li Shi would not be his opponent, so keeping Li Shi was no big deal.

    It didn’t have to be so risky. Even if the probability was extremely small, there was still the possibility of accidents. Normally, Luo WuShang would never risk even one in ten thousand chances of placing Luo Shuyou in danger. He originally planned to wait for Xie YunChuan to come and guard him before replacing him.

    But… after that accident where he was forced into zombie form by the level seven zombie king and almost lost control, the power of the zombie blood crystal was itching to break the shackles and completely occupy this body and control Luo WuShang’s mind.

    Luo WuShang’s hostility was too heavy, especially recently, with so much killing in a short ten days, it was difficult to suppress the violent factors in his body, calm down, and guard his original heart. He knew that as long as he switched to Luo Luo’s carefree, pure, and hatred-free soul, those restless, tempting… all the bad things would not be able to erode him in the slightest. With the Wood Spirit Crystal Core’s powerful purification and the healing ability’s restorative power, plus a supremely pure and kind heart, it would be as difficult as ascending to heaven for the power of the zombie blood crystal to break free from its constraints again.

    ……

    Li Shi also communicated with Xie YunChuan through voice transmission, his tone sounding somewhat exasperated: “Zombie, zombie, always zombie, zombie, can’t you open your eyes and see what you’re holding in your arms? Just because I’m not as good-looking as him, you have to treat me differently, right?!”

    Li Shi admitted that Luo Shuyou was special. Even with his zombie’s sensitivity to human flesh, he could feel a bit of human aura on Luo Shuyou’s body. It was indeed strange. When he was Luo WuShang, he completely exuded a zombie aura. He even saw Luo WuShang’s zombified appearance. He was definitely one of them, he couldn’t be wrong. But so what? It didn’t stop him from using this to retort to Xie YunChuan.

    Xie YunChuan said coldly: “Enough nonsense, either leave the crystal core, or get the hell out, shell and all!”

    Li Shi: “……!” Unreasonable, so unreasonable, simply unreasonable, even more unreasonable than him, this zombie. He hasn’t hurt anyone, and he even helped them warm the house, how can they threaten, intimidate, and drive away a corpse like this?

    “Indeed, I don’t have good intentions, but I can’t do anything bad either. Don’t you think, if Luo WuShang is willing to let me stay by Luo Shuyou’s side, would he do nothing at all? You think you’re the only one who knows I’m a zombie?”

    Xie YunChuan was silent for a moment. He was recalling if there was any way in his knowledge to control a zombie from hurting people?… No!

    “What measures could he take?”

    Li Shi suddenly sneered, “Oh, he left you a super powerful backer, so powerful that I don’t dare to act rashly, I can only honestly be a coolie.”

    Xie YunChuan didn’t care about his mocking smile, he was just puzzled: “What backer?” Where is he taking this? Weren’t they talking about the measures to protect Luo Shuyou? How did it become his backer?

    Although Xie YunChuan didn’t say the last sentence through his thoughts, how could Li Shi, who could read people’s minds, not know? He wasn’t mocking Xie YunChuan, he was mocking himself. He had been picking up scraps that Luo WuShang left behind all along, and in the end, he was still destined to be a subordinate. Hmm… although being Luo WuShang and Luo Shuyou’s subordinate didn’t seem to have any disadvantages, but who can’t dream of a peasant turning over and singing? This beautiful dream was shattered as soon as it was said, not giving the corpse any room for reverie.

    Just imagine, if someone is pinned down by a powerful aura and can’t move an inch, how can they turn over? Carefully serving the big boss well is better than anything.

    But… it seems that Luo Shuyou, this big boss, doesn’t need him to serve! Damn it, Xie YunChuan, this bastard, is going to snatch the golden thigh from him!? The key is that he doesn’t have the slightest chance of winning!

    How to snatch it? He’s familiar with snatching business, but snatching someone else’s boyfriend to serve seems a bit difficult!

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