TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 192
by VolareLuo Shuyou rubbed the smooth, round iron ball in his pocket a couple of times, and asked Su Nanle beside him, “Is the coating on the surface of this iron ball made from that material?”
Su Nanle spread his hands and gestured, “Well! It’s obvious, isn’t it?”
“Have you been to the Lijiang Mountains they mentioned?” Luo Shuyou asked, somewhat curious. He had a feeling that that place was definitely not simple.
Su Nanle shook his head, looking regretful, “I haven’t.”
“They don’t let you go? Why?” Seeing his expression, it was clear that it couldn’t be that he didn’t want to go. With Su Nanle’s lively nature, how could he not rush to join in on the fun in a place like that?
Su Nanle replied listlessly, “What else could it be? It’s too dangerous, so they don’t want me to go, afraid I’ll die there.”
It was always like this. They wouldn’t let him go near an earthquake fissure, or a small zombie city, or even just go a little further to collect supplies. This was dangerous, that wasn’t allowed; if his dad wasn’t always restricting him, how could he still be just a level five ability user? Nan Xiao was only one step away from level seven, and Nan Zhi had already stepped into the ranks of level seven elite ability users. Only him…
Clearly, they had all awakened their abilities around the same time, and his earth-type ability wasn’t any worse than their thunder and water types. He had also worked very hard to train and improve his ability, but no matter how long or hard he practiced in the training ground, it wasn’t as effective as going out there and fighting for real.
His uncle was a ruthless man. Any dangerous mission, any strange place, as long as Nan Xiao and Nan Zhi wanted to go themselves, he would never stop them. Even many difficult and dangerous things, he, as the head of the family, would actively assign to Nan Zhi and the others.
His uncle always said that only real desperation, life-and-death tests, could stimulate a person’s infinite potential. They should let the children go out and venture, go out and fight. In the end of the world, no one could guarantee to provide them with a land of bliss to live in for a lifetime. Only by being strong themselves could they wade through thousands of corpses and carve out a path for themselves in the sea of corpses when dangers came.
Su Nanle felt that his uncle was right. He should go out and face life and death more often, so that he could improve himself more effectively. But his dad wouldn’t let him. Who could have imagined that? To be honest, before the end of the world, Su Nanle would never have thought that his dad was a doting and loving father. Back then, he would hit him when he deserved it and scold him when he deserved it. Every time he did something, it would cause chaos, and his dad would chase him all over the house, not indulging him at all. Now, on the contrary, he was clearly trying to do something important, but his dad would always stop him from going out.
It wasn’t like he hadn’t thought about sneaking out, but… although his uncle and Nan Xiao and Nan Zhi supported him in experiencing things, they respected his dad’s wishes even more and were unwilling to secretly take him out.
Su Nanle had thought about the reasons. Maybe it was because he lost his mother at a young age, and his dad lost his wife in middle age, maybe it was because his dad only had him as a son…, in short, his dad wouldn’t say it, and even if he racked his brains, it was just a maybe.
The reasons he was able to come out this time were firstly that this place was not far from Li City, secondly that his dad was personally leading the team, and most importantly, that the conflicts and dangers this time mainly came from within the four major families. Just like his dad insisted on letting go of those three members of the Wu family, with the status of Su Nanle and his dad, the people from the other three families would not easily go to extremes.
Luo Shuyou glanced lightly at Su Nanle, “Isn’t it just because you’re a weak chicken. Be content that someone is protecting you and providing you with food and clothing, don’t be ungrateful.”
Su Nanle was like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, but had no power to resist. He glared at him, embarrassed and annoyed, “You have the nerve to say me? You’re not even as good as me, aren’t you also relying on Xie YunChuan to walk through the end of the world?”
Luo Shuyou was the strongest person in the room. As long as he intentionally hid it, these people would not be able to detect his powerful abilities. Su Nanle naturally concluded that he was a low-level healing ability user based on the aura he deliberately revealed. This was a useless ability, worse than a strong attacking ability user, and ten thousand miles worse than a purification ability user. He was neither good at literary pursuits nor martial arts, and was only slightly better than ordinary people.
That was what Su Nanle thought, but he wouldn’t use that aspect to attack Luo Shuyou. Luo Shuyou, on the other hand, always poked at his sore spots, not holding back at all.
Luo Shuyou didn’t refute him, “Ahem, I’m not ungrateful. Look at me, I rely on Xie YunChuan for food, I listen to him very much. You won’t find a boyfriend as well-behaved, obedient, handsome, and cute as me.” Putting away his smile, Luo Shuyou turned to a look of disgust, and then said, “Unlike you? You’re purely a rebellious son.”
Su Nanle was disgusted by the way Luo Shuyou praised himself and also belittled him, “Ew~, you’re really shameless, you’re even proud of being a kept man.”
“I have someone to support me, so I’m proud. ChuanChuan is happy to support me, and I’m happy to be supported by him. You single dogs wouldn’t understand the happiness in that.”
Su Nanle felt a chill and couldn’t agree. After a long pause, he leaned forward and touched Luo Shuyou’s shoulder in a friendly manner, whispering in his ear, “Hey! Seriously, little brother-in-law, don’t you want to improve yourself and get rid of the current situation where you have to rely on others for everything? Don’t you have the heart of a strong person?”
Luo Shuyou tilted his head and dodged, pulling away the distance, looking at Su Nanle, who was sneaking around like a thief, with an ambiguous expression, “Who said I’m not improving myself? Who said I have to rely on others for everything? Who said I’m not strong?”
Su Nanle stared wide-eyed, watching the distance he had just approached being pulled even further away by Luo Shuyou. Ha, undisguised disgust. For a moment, Su Nanle even suspected that he was a zombie with a body full of stench, so disgusting?
He didn’t take Luo Shuyou’s words seriously, snorting with a smile, “You’re just putting on a brave face, you just have a good sense of yourself, you should open your eyes and look at the world.”
Su Nanle could be said to be standing at the top of the new forces that emerged after the end of the world. He believed that his knowledge was definitely more than Luo Shuyou’s. The reason why Luo Shuyou was so confident was entirely because he had not yet seen the so-called real strong, and had never experienced the oppressive feeling of a high-level zombie king.
Thinking of this, Su Nanle became discouraged again, and smiled self-deprecatingly, thinking what qualifications he had to say that Luo Shuyou was ignorant, wasn’t he himself a flower raised in a greenhouse by Su Qingshan?
Luo Shuyou was the one who hid his strength, he didn’t blame Su Nanle’s contempt. He could see that this child didn’t have any bad intentions, his personality was lively, he hadn’t experienced much hardship, and his words always carried a sense of youthful ignorance, and he didn’t really look down on anyone from the bottom of his heart.