LWDC Chapter 136

Chapter 136 – The Meaning of Saving

Chapter 136 – The Meaning of Saving

Chapter 136 – The Meaning of Saving

Duan Yunhong thought Ning Fei would use his injury as an excuse to throw a tantrum for a few days. He didn’t expect that the next day, Ning Fei’s attitude would return to normal.

Even on the night before their parting, Ning Fei wanted to use his mouth and hands to “play” with Duan Yunhong. Duan Yunhong felt that he was forcing himself again because of that 2 million worth of luck, and wasn’t too willing. He wanted to pull him away, but was afraid of hurting him if he forcibly dragged him. He could only half-heartedly refuse, “Get up. Don’t bother when you’re injured, or you’ll blame it on me again.”

“There are ways to play even when injured. It’s not like I’m paralyzed. I know what extent to play to,” Ning Fei replied nonchalantly, slightly increasing the strength of his fingers, “Don’t pretend, boss, aren’t you quite interested?”

“This is just a normal physiological reaction, but not continuing won’t kill me. Doing it or not doing it won’t kill me,” Duan Yunhong narrowed his eyes, “You wouldn’t equate me with those brainless idiots driven by lust, would you? The 2 million isn’t paid to you per time. There’s no need for this.”

“…Tch, I’m serving you, and you still have so much nonsense. Forget it then!” Ning Fei sneered, adjusted his posture to get up, then turned around and lay back down, “Take it or leave it. My skills aren’t bad. Don’t regret it if you miss out.”

Duan Yunhong had already reached out his hand to support him, but he ended up grabbing air. He withdrew his hand somewhat stiffly and said with a straight face, “You injured your back and you’re still showing off your bed skills? What’s going on in your head? ‘Just use your mouth and hands’? Do you think I’m an innocent virgin?”

Ning Fei closed his eyes and didn’t answer.

Duan Yunhong knew he was being deliberately ignored. He chuckled and turned off the bedside lamp. After a rustling sound, Duan Yunhong also lay down.

A few minutes, or a dozen minutes later—

Ning Fei suddenly spoke, “Asleep?”

Duan Yunhong opened his eyes in the darkness, “…What are you trying to do now?”

Ning Fei slowly turned over, lying on his side facing him, “Turn around.”

Duan Yunhong: “What?”

“I told you to turn around, with your back to me.” Ning Fei patted him, “Hurry up, give me some leverage.”

Duan Yunhong was even more baffled, but his body turned around before his mind could process it. The next moment, Ning Fei pressed up against him, chest to back, his hand even reaching around the man’s waist.

“!” Duan Yunhong was stunned by this sudden intimacy. It had been a long time since Ning Fei had been this close to him. Soon, he thought of something and asked, “You want to turn on your side but your back hurts, so you want to lean on my back… Where are you touching?!”

Ning Fei said from behind him, “Don’t move, my back hurts.”

“Are you using your back pain as a ‘get-out-of-jail-free card’? Let go!”

“No, if I don’t prove to you how good my handiwork is, I’ll have to sit up in the middle of the night thinking about it.” Ning Fei just stayed pressed against him like that, one hand reaching around to the man’s front, brazenly grabbing and holding, “You make it sound like my skills are only good enough for dealing with young boys.”

“Do I need you to prove it? Am I not clear enough about how superb you are?” Duan Yunhong was completely helpless by this “stroke of genius”. He couldn’t figure out what was going on in this person’s head, and he couldn’t care less about the slight depression in his heart. “Aren’t you finding it troublesome?”

“Not at all. Don’t move, let me lean on you for a while.” Ning Fei not only varied the pressure and speed of his hand, but also rubbed his head against the man’s back, “Just close your eyes and enjoy it, boss.”

How could Duan Yunhong close his eyes? Ning Fei was wrapping himself around him like a python, completely entangling him. Even though he wasn’t using much force, it felt as if he was stifling Duan Yunhong’s breathing. The man didn’t dare to struggle violently, for fear of accidentally hurting Ning Fei even more. Although it wouldn’t be life-threatening, Duan Yunhong couldn’t imagine how angry Ning Fei would be then.

Ning Fei also noticed Duan Yunhong’s slightly stiff body and chuckled, “Relax, Director Duan, it’s not like you’re a virgin.”

“How am I supposed to relax in this position… Hiss, don’t bite…! ”

*

After a few days together, the two returned to their respective homes (bases).

On this trip to Jinghui, the Jinghui base got to share the results, the Tianyue base got “Powerful Ability User” certification, and the Huichuan base got a “Good Reputation for Open Source.” Everyone had a bright future.

After returning to the Tianyue base, Ning Fei gained the position of “Special Instructor for Ability Users,” while everything else remained the same. With his support, the overall level of ability users in Tianyue gradually improved. In less than a year, Tianyue’s battle record for ability users had become firmly established as one of the best in the country.

At the same time, as Ning Fei expected, with the addition of Jinghui scientists, the research and development progress of Wang Haiyang’s proposed project was greatly accelerated. By the end of the year, Huichuan and Jinghui jointly announced that the animal testing phase of the “Mutant Vaccine” had been initially successful, with an immunization rate of 90%.

The following year—that is, the third year Ning Fei came to this world—the “Mutant Vaccine” began to recruit volunteers for small-scale clinical trials. Ning Fei signed up for this time and got the vaccine when he met with Duan Yunhong. Duan Yunhong was even there to watch him get the injection. After returning home, Ning Fei jokingly said that he couldn’t do it for the next few days, in case there were any abnormal reactions that could be transmitted to Duan Yunhong. Director Duan said “nonsense” and then pinned him down on the water bed.

Also in this year, Ning Fei and some of the ability users he personally trained became national-level ability experts. From time to time, they had to go to other bases to provide special training, and even directly participate in missions.

In the fourth year, Chen Yikun, the transmigrator, and his research team released a major research conclusion: after the team did a bunch of sequencing and comparisons, they believed that the overall degree of mutation in wild mammals had decreased.

The team believed that the reason was that individuals with a high degree of mutation actually had low fertility. Therefore, after several years of renewal, the mutation level of wild mammals tended to stabilize and was generally low. At the same time, because the “degree of mutation is directly proportional to aggressiveness” in this world, the safety factor outside the base was also gradually increasing.

Entering the fifth year when Ning Fei and Duan Yunhong came to this world, two good news spread from the Jinghui base throughout the country:

First, the “Mutant Vaccine” entered the national voluntary vaccination mode, and vaccination is currently free for three years;

Second, the national emergency state will be gradually lifted, and the original “urban” ecology of each base will be restored; the original town production and life outside the base will be restored, and people can freely move to the towns on the “open list,” and the planned economic model will also be gradually abolished according to plan within three years.

With the lifting of the emergency state, Yue Fengping, the “wartime commander,” will naturally be transferred from his current position as the head of the Tianyue base.

“Old Yue feels that the ‘zombie crisis’ is basically over, and he is preparing to retreat to the second line with peace of mind.”

Yu Zhou said to Ning Fei like this, “In that case, I can also determine that your ‘savior mission’ is basically complete. You can fall in love wherever you want. When I finish this debt collection mission, I will give you a good review by the way.”

Ning Fei spread his hands towards him, “Thank you, boss, that will be 4 million, oh no, 3.8 million.”

“Are you sure you want me to give it to you now?” Yu Zhou raised an eyebrow, “So much luck, I’m afraid you’ll get so excited after receiving it that you won’t have anywhere to vent it. Aren’t you going to call your lover to wait?”

“Calling him here would be the last meeting.” Ning Fei said calmly, “I still have to argue with him about who won and who lost, so I can’t be too excited. And I can’t let him know that I actually came for this 3.8 million worth of luck, so I can’t let him see me after my luck is full.”

“What kind of rhetoric are you going to use? You must have a preset result, right?”

“I’m prepared to reluctantly admit that he won after arguing reasonably, but only a small win.”

“Reasonable and well-founded, in line with your style, as expected of you.” Yu Zhou Tsk tsk sighed, “But these are all routines you prepared in advance. Has he really not seen through it at all after being with you for so long?”

“Even if he sees something wrong, what can he do? I’m just deliberately admitting defeat. The game will still end, and he will have to disable my positioning marker.” Ning Fei said indifferently, “By the way, I still have to ask him for the remaining 1 million worth of luck. There’s still a chance for a ‘farewell bang’.”

“I have 3.8 million here, and he has 3 million there. This is much easier to earn than your usual missions, right?” Yu Zhou sighed, “Speaking of which, you should have saved a lot of luck points. Isn’t it enough for you to save the world?”

“Save the world? Save which world?”

“Your original world.”

“…You’re thinking too much. Why save that rotten place?” Ning Fei sneered, with a mocking tone, “That place is beyond saving.”

“Is that so? I thought you were desperately earning luck for this reason.” Yu Zhou’s fingers tapped back and forth on the table, “After all, if there is no ‘savior’ wish from the original owner from that world, if you want to forcibly change the overall situation of that world, it will cost a huge amount of luck.”

“And the bigger the change, the more luck is consumed, which will increase exponentially.” Ning Fei ridiculed, “That world, even if I go bankrupt, I can’t save it. Why would I be so crazy as to be a savior?”

“If you calculate it this way, the foundation for saving the world in this world is pretty good. I just accelerated the process, so the luck consumed is relatively small.” Yu Zhou said happily, “What a cost-effective love affair.”

Talking about cost-effectiveness in a love affair, Yu Zhou is now such a person. Ning Fei is too lazy to complain.

“Unfortunately, the last time I went to your original world to collect debts, the original owner just wanted to redress his fate and avenge his family.” Yu Zhou continued, “He didn’t mention any ideas about changing that country or that world at all.”

“The obsession he left behind is not strong enough to exchange for the wish to save the world.” Ning Fei looked indifferent, without a trace of regret, “Sometimes I think, if our meeting was not because you thought I had potential and brought me into the Management Bureau to become a debt collector; but because I died, and my obsession became the bargaining chip exchanged with the Management Bureau… How big of a wish could I fulfill?”

“I remember, you said ‘I wish I was the one who died, and I was the one who exchanged the wish’, so I thought you wanted to save the world.” Yu Zhou asked, “Assuming that your obsession can exchange for any wish, you don’t want to save the world either?”

“I might have thought about it before, but I don’t want to now.” Ning Fei raised his eyes and looked into the void, slowly saying, “Having experienced so many worlds and seen so many people, I have completely understood. In that world, there is no one who truly wants to change the world, and acts or even sacrifices everything for it. The people at the bottom are like livestock, like insects, forever struggling to survive until the next day.

“They will occasionally think ‘if the world could change for the better’ ‘if only I could live a life with enough to eat and wear’, but that’s all they do. The nobles are decadent and depraved, and the lower classes are numb and indifferent. If someone occasionally stands up to resist, the nobles only need to leak a little bit of favor from their fingers, and there will be lower-class people who will sell their lives for the nobles. What’s the point of saving such a world? Even if the world is overturned one day, those people will only passively accept it, indulging in the illusory beauty, never waking up. If this continues, it won’t be long before the castle in the air will decay again, and everything will return to the original state.”

Yu Zhou listened quietly, without commenting on whether his thoughts were right or wrong, nor agreeing or disagreeing, only saying, “Your statement sounds like you’re scolding yourself as well.”

“I’m scolding myself as well. I used to think that I was different from those people, but later I understood that we’re not much different.” Ning Fei mocked himself, “So, what’s the point of saving it? Even if it’s saved successfully, it won’t heal me, but will only make me feel more empty. It’s just such a world, and there are thousands of other worlds like it. What’s worth saving about it?”

“Don’t think about it.” Yu Zhou patted him on the shoulder, “My mistake, I shouldn’t have made you recall these things. Think about something happy, like, let me ‘pay’ you now.”

Ning Fei smiled, “Okay, thank you, boss.”

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This volume is coming to an end soon! But there are still a few chapters to wrap up! Ning Fei’s background is about to become clear!

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