LWDC Chapter 95

Chapter 95: White Hair and His Lover

Chapter 95: White Hair and His Lover

Chapter 95: White Hair and His Lover

Three years after the first zombie outbreak, Tian Yue Base.

Ning Fei followed a young man who was leading the way, weaving through the corridors of the building. The building’s decor was simple, but there were many people active, and security was tight. Many manned checkpoints would question who the young man was leading, and what they were there for, but as long as the young man showed a letter, the two would be allowed to pass smoothly.

Finally, after layers of checks, Ning Fei was led to a door.

“Mr. Ning, Minister Yu is waiting for you inside,” the young man said, knocking on the door. A voice inside said, “Come in,” and the young man opened the door, letting Ning Fei in. “Please.”

Ning Fei walked into the room, and the door slowly closed behind him.

Standing before him was a man. Tall, well-built, with a face that was rather delicate, his smile made people feel gentle and kind. Most striking was his head of silver-white long hair, smooth and gleaming. Even tied simply behind his head, it was very eye-catching.

This person was, in himself, extremely attention-grabbing.

Seeing Ning Fei enter, the silver-haired man smiled at him first. “You’re here.”

“Hold it,” Ning Fei raised a hand. “You first tell me, what ability did you choose?”

The man smiled, his tone gentle, but the content of his words was quite explosive: “Mind reading, which can be advanced to control.”

“I knew it, you wouldn’t be willing to let go of control,” Ning Fei narrowed his eyes slightly. “I don’t like that, you better not try that on me.”

“Don’t worry, little Ning Fei,” the man chuckled. “It’s hard for me to read people with high ability levels, let alone control them. Aren’t you a wind-type level three? It takes too much effort to read you. I can’t read you without you noticing.”

“Don’t call me ‘little Ning Fei’.”

“Why not? I used to call you that.”

“How ‘used to’ is that? You don’t think you’re still my teacher, do you?”

“Why wouldn’t I be? ‘Once a teacher, always a father.'” The silver-haired man blinked lightly. “By that logic, I’m also your ‘elder’.”

“Yu Zhou, did you call me here to exude ‘dad vibes’ in front of me?” Ning Fei didn’t want to dwell on such nonsense anymore, he turned around and found a chair to sit down, directly changing the topic, “Get straight to the point about your mission situation.”

“As expected of you, still so ambitious, I knew it was right to call you here.” Yu Zhou walked to the side, poured a glass of water, and handed it to Ning Fei in front of him. “There’s nothing good to offer here, have some water first, and I’ll share half of my private stash of coffee with you later.”

“Give me all your private stash of coffee, what exactly do you need me to help you with?” Ning Fei really did take a sip of water, then continued, “I’ve seen the original owner’s wishes, just a scientist without abilities, who wants to save his parents and adopted daughter that he failed to save in his previous life, and wants the girlfriend who betrayed him in his previous life to receive her due punishment. Then he wants his family to live well in the base, and for his research to contribute to the base.

“Aren’t these all simple things for you? Compared to the difficult missions you’ve experienced before, this mission is simply insignificant. Is there some hidden difficulty in it?”

“That part is indeed not difficult.” Yu Zhou also pulled a chair and sat down opposite him. “Chen Yikun is now working at the research center in Tian Yue Base, his parents are also in the base, usually helping with cleaning the community. I also found the orphan who originally died young due to malnutrition, and I went through the adoption procedures for them. Now, they also live with Chen Yikun’s family.”

“Then what’s missing? Haven’t you done it all?” Ning Fei was puzzled. “You couldn’t find his ex-girlfriend?”

“Found her, dealt with her.” Yu Zhou said those ruthless words, his tone as calm as if he were chatting casually. “Now that woman is also in the base, I don’t know what she’s living off of, probably selling herself.”

Ning Fei wasn’t surprised at all, he knew very well that this was Yu Zhou’s style. If Ning Fei was often ruthless in missions, then this style to a certain extent originated from Yu Zhou.

“She’s also been dealt with, isn’t the mission already completed?” Ning Fei was even more puzzled. “What are you still doing here? Even calling me here?”

Yu Zhou smiled slightly: “I want you to help me with a small favor.”

Ning Fei: “Just say what it is.”

Yu Zhou: “I want to completely end this zombie crisis.”

Ning Fei: “…”

Ning Fei: “Huh?!”

*

Only making one person and their families better, and their enemies worse, and forcibly affecting the current state of development of the entire world, are tasks of completely different magnitudes.

The time, energy, and even luck spent on them are vastly different. Of course, the more you put in, the greater the rewards after success. It’s just that Ning Fei disliked such troublesome tasks, and the cost-effectiveness was not necessarily high, so he rarely chose such tasks. Not to mention that Yu Zhou himself had only taken on a task of general difficulty, and the rewards after completion were completely mismatched with the request Yu Zhou made.

To this, Yu Zhou said: “As long as you succeed, I’ll personally give you 3 million points when we return.”

Ning Fei: “Huh?”

Yu Zhou: “4 million, I can’t add any more.”

“No, wait a minute.” Ning Fei stopped the bargaining process. “Why are you going to such lengths to do this thankless task? You would never suddenly realize that you want to save the world, and suddenly become kind-hearted, so, tell me the reason. I need to know the truth.”

Yu Zhou was silent for a while.

Then suddenly smiled.

“Okay, I have to tell you eventually.” Yu Zhou had a relaxed expression, and was a bit relieved. “The truth is, this is actually one person’s wish, and I want to help him fulfill this wish. I’ll take you to see him later, but he doesn’t know my true identity, let alone know that I called you here to help him ‘make his dream come true’. Your current identity is a student I used to mentor, who came to join me, preparing to work with me. Follow the identity you set in the other details, don’t slip up.”

Ning Fei wanted to frown, but he held back. He maintained a mostly expressionless look.

He already understood Yu Zhou’s implication, but he still asked that question: “What is this person to you?”

“My… partner?” Yu Zhou smiled lightly.

“I fell in love with someone.”

*

The person Yu Zhou introduced was named Yue Fengping, and he was the commander-in-chief of Tian Yue Base.

Thirty-five years old, from a special operations team, his skin tanned to a bronze color. His body was strong and sturdy, and standing there, he radiated an oppressive feeling of licking blood from a knife’s edge.

But such a person also had a very meticulous mind. In the ten or so minutes that Ning Fei saw him, several groups of people came to ask him questions, and he quickly reacted and gave decisive answers. Ning Fei listened in, and although he didn’t yet know whether those decisions were correct, he could be sure that Yue Fengping’s instructions were very clear, allowing the people who heard them to execute them without any doubt.

There was no doubt that Yue Fengping was indeed very suitable to be a leader in such a critical period.

In addition, Yue Fengping could quickly return to the previous topic after interspersing with other events. For example, as soon as the person asking the question left, he could turn back and continue talking to Ning Fei: “You just said that you have a lot of combat experience, and can also train other ability users, is that right? What is the highest level of infected you’ve fought?”

“Level four mutated wolf, with two level two or three sidekick mutated wolves, plus a few fragile low-level mutated wolves. But it wasn’t just me fighting, there were three teammates.” Ning Fei had actually never fought in this world, he was at Tian Yue Base as soon as he came in. These were all his past achievements in other similar worlds, and not even his best achievements, he didn’t want to exaggerate himself too much. What Yu Zhou wanted him to do wasn’t just going out and fighting, he had to lean towards a management position.

After all, Ning Fei really had experience in saving the world.

As long as there wasn’t a super strong person whose individual abilities surpassed others by tens of thousands of times, who could single-handedly determine the outcome, saving the world ultimately relied on management and organization. No matter how many powerful weapons, strong ability users, or formidable scientific research capabilities there were… so many good cards had to rely on superb management skills to make them “better and better”.

“Sounds very impressive, maybe I’m ignorant, but I’ve never heard of such an amazing battle.” Yue Fengping smiled. “Sorry, I don’t mean to doubt your ability. Wind-type level three is a very rare ability user in our base, I will definitely welcome you. But can I ask? You said you fought with ‘three teammates’, did those three teammates also come to Tian Yue Base…?”

“Don’t know.” Ning Fei replied decisively. “Wild team, wild people, occasional cooperation feels good, long-term we have different paths and can’t work together, Commander Yue understands, right?”

His tone was too frank, and Yue Fengping couldn’t raise any suspicion: “Haha, I understand. Then you can follow Yu Zhou and familiarize yourself with our base, and see what you’re suitable for after a while. I will definitely arrange the best position for you to perform, and then Yu Zhou and you can come and discuss it with me. If there’s anything you need, tell Yu Zhou, we’ll try our best to arrange it. But after all, Tian Yue is not as good as Jing Hui and Hui Chuan, if there’s anything not well taken care of, please bear with us.”

He was being so polite, Ning Fei certainly wouldn’t have any objections. They chatted casually for a few more sentences, then said goodbye. Before leaving, Yu Zhou also said to him: “Don’t stay up too late tonight, Ning Fei, come and have a simple welcome dinner with us.”

Yue Fengping readily agreed with a “sure,” and Yu Zhou left with Ning Fei.

The two returned to Yu Zhou’s office, Yu Zhou casually closed the door, turned around and asked Ning Fei for his thoughts: “How was it?”

“Not much.” Ning Fei replied. “It’s the style you like.”

“Ha, that obvious?” Yu Zhou chuckled. “Then you guessed his mind quite accurately, he likes the kind of person who is brave in combat, dares to fight, and has a straightforward personality. If he knew that you chose wind-type just to run fast and protect yourself, I’m afraid your impression points would be greatly reduced.”

“It doesn’t matter what impression he has of me. Anyway, if he doesn’t agree with my future suggestions, you’re responsible for persuading him, and forcibly pushing them through.” Ning Fei’s tone was casual, and then he blurted out, “By the way, you introduced someone to me, then I have to introduce someone to you too.”

“That’s rare.” Yu Zhou raised an eyebrow slightly. “Who are you going to introduce?”

Ning Fei: “A… ‘luck bandit’ who is very likely to completely ruin your mission.”

This time it was Yu Zhou’s turn to frown: “…Huh?”

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A new volume! New important characters! Thinking about it carefully, is this actually the first time I’ve written about white hair…?

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