TSIAGBICATMWI Chapter 81

Chapter 81: A Bolt from the Blue

The coward’s impotent rage was something Jiang Shanhao and Lei Hu could only endure and humor.

Jiang Long was even more infuriated by Jiang Shanhao’s words. He ran to Su Genglie’s door and banged on it violently.

“Su Genglie! Su Genglie! Open the door for me! Don’t play dead! If you don’t get up, I’ll come in and kill you!”

The violent banging echoed loudly. No matter how much Jiang Long threatened and enticed from the outside, the room remained as silent as a grave, without even the slightest sound of movement, as if he really had died inside.

Jiang Shanhao, listening from the kitchen to Jiang Long’s relentless pounding, also found it strange.

When did Su Genglie become so brave as to stand up to Dragon? Wasn’t he afraid that Dragon would break down the door and make his death extremely unpleasant? A mere metal door couldn’t stop anyone in this end of the world.

As if on cue, a loud crash echoed as Jiang Long kicked the iron door open with a force and it slammed against the wall.

Jiang Long charged into the room, intending to grab Su Genglie and slap him a few times to teach him a lesson.

Unexpectedly, he found the room empty. Furious, Jiang Long searched every nook and cranny, but the room was completely empty.

Helpless, with his anger nowhere to vent, Jiang Long had no choice but to suppress his rage and ask Jiang Shanhao, “Didn’t he come back last night?”

Jiang Shanhao was dumbfounded. “Huh? Didn’t he come back? I don’t know.” He was even ready to put down what he was doing to watch them fight, but how could the main character be missing?

Jiang Long roared, “Don’t know, don’t know, you know nothing! What use are you? All you do is waste my food!?”

Jiang Shanhao knew he was being made a scapegoat. He dared not be angry, dared not even show the slightest hint of resentment on his face. He merely shrank his neck and silently scooped a bowl of porridge, offering it to Jiang Long.

“Here, Dragon, calm down. Geng must have just had a momentary lapse of judgment and is hiding in some corner nearby. Nothing will happen to him.”

Jiang Long snatched the bowl and slammed it on the table, raging, “Am I worried about something happening to him? He better die outside today and not come back, or I’ll skin him alive.”

Even in his extreme anger, not a single grain of porridge spilled from the bowl, showing how hard-won the food was, and no one would waste it easily.

His words were prophetic. They would never have imagined that Su Genglie, whom they were cursing, was already dead, body and soul destroyed, without even a complete corpse left behind.

But they wouldn’t find out. Su Genglie had been secretly planning to cause trouble for Luo Shuyou, intentionally avoiding people. No one would know that he went to Xie YunChuan’s house last night, and no one would know that he went without return, his body and bones gone.

……

Lu Yunzhou endured for several hours, painfully counting the seconds, hoping time would pass faster.

That’s how people are. When in pain, they always think it would be better to die, but when they’re really about to die, they’re unwilling a thousand times over.

Lu Yunzhou was like that. During the time he was enduring the excruciating pain and waiting for dawn, he thought countless times: It really would be better to die. Why did I beg Xie YunChuan to save me just now?

But when he saw dawn breaking, he’d have to beg Xie YunChuan to save him again.

He finally waited until seven o’clock, when the sky was completely bright and the sun had risen. But Lu Yunzhou, with his eyes searching so hard they could have bored a hole through the door to Xie YunChuan’s bedroom, didn’t see the doorknob turn even slightly.

“Huff…!” He exhaled desperately, the body that had been lying down all night was now in excruciating pain even with the slightest movement.

He laboriously twisted his neck, shifting his gaze away from the doorknob and lying back to look at the roof in a daze. He was wondering how he would answer Xie YunChuan’s question from last night.

He really hadn’t leveled up. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to, but that he didn’t dare to!

The reason why Cheng Xie kept putting him in zombie hordes to fight desperately was firstly to test his tolerance to the zombie virus and to test drugs, and secondly to make him level up.

No one had ever told him how to level up. His words were really just made up to fool Xie YunChuan.

But it wasn’t entirely without basis, because Cheng Xie had told him to absorb all the crystal cores he obtained, and when he felt his power overflowing, he should empty his body and have a big fight, and then he would have a different surprise.

Besides the ability to level up, Lu Yunzhou couldn’t think of any other surprise. It couldn’t be a surprise that he finally died and was freed, Cheng Xie wouldn’t let him die so easily.

How to put it, tell the truth?

No, no, no, that wouldn’t work. Xie YunChuan would definitely use vines to pierce him without hesitation, take his crystal core, and let him die thoroughly.

Push everything to Cheng Xie?

Say that Cheng Xie wanted him to level up as soon as possible and told him the method on purpose? But Xie YunChuan would definitely visit Cheng Xie, and then wouldn’t he be exposed?

Ah! Never mind, he’d just survive for the moment. When he recovered, he would immediately escape, and when his wings were full, he would come back for revenge.

As for why he didn’t absorb crystal cores to level up, it was because he overheard Lin Yi and Cheng Xie’s conversation and didn’t dare to absorb too many crystal cores.

At that time, they both thought he had fainted, and also partly because Lin Yi was too anxious and impulsive.

The two, who usually avoided him when talking, argued in the laboratory that day.

It sounded like Lin Yi had contracted the zombie virus and was about to lose control, and he was angrily asking if Cheng Xie’s medicine was effective.

In short, the two argued back and forth for a long time, and after a long time, Lin Yi was barely persuaded to leave in a hurry.

From their conversation, Lu Yunzhou extracted two important pieces of information: first, that ability users can also be infected with the virus and mutate, well, he already knew this, so it didn’t count;

Second, that zombie crystal cores contain viruses. If ordinary ability users absorb crystal cores for a long time, when the virus accumulates to a certain amount, they will also zombify.

This was a bolt from the blue. Lu Yunzhou was stunned at the time, because in those few days, he had absorbed all the crystal cores he obtained without restraint.

This was the reason why Lu Yunzhou later didn’t want to absorb more zombie crystal cores to level up. Maybe Cheng Xie was still considering that he was on the experimental table, or maybe he himself didn’t want to say too much to Lin Yi. Except for some necessary answers that Lin Yi forced him to give, Cheng Xie didn’t say much.

Therefore, Lu Yunzhou only heard vaguely, and many words were half-understood. He didn’t know the principle, didn’t understand the process, and didn’t know the solution.

So he didn’t know how many zombie crystal cores an ability user would have to absorb before becoming uncontrollably aberrant. He could only try to reduce absorption as much as possible. Except for the crystal cores that had to be used to restore energy and resist zombies, he crushed all the extra crystal cores without leaving a trace, so that Cheng Xie would think he had absorbed them all, but he was still far from reaching the amount needed to level up.