《After Brushing Face At The Apocalypse's Boss For 363 Days》


 Chapter 1 - Transmigration

    <strong>Chapter 1 : Transmigration</strong>


    <Tomorrow> was another fantasy/sci-fi/thriller 3D masterpiece game of Qinng Inte Entertainment. With its top technical team, magnificent and realistic world settings, it swept the online game world in an instant.


    At the start of the game, yers could choose a basic identity, such as students, white-cor workers, athletes, and so on. The basic attributes of different professions were various, but whoever you were, after entering the game, you would appear in an ordinary residential building toplete the novice task of killing two zombies that broke into your home. Then you would work with your NPC neighbors to get to the real ¡°novice vige¡± ¡ª arge shopping mall that was used as a temporary stronghold. There, you would realize that you had awakened an ability that was randomly assigned to you. It could be upgraded under the same conditions as the settings in many novels ¡ª by acquiring and absorbing the nucleus of high-level zombies.


    But this was an online game, everyone knew that the purpose of this sort of free game was to earn money from the rich and spend the leisure time of idlers. As long as you have enough money, you could just open the Item Store and having two full-level mutation abilities instantly was no longer a dream ¡ª of course, considering the possibility of ability upgrade and its chances of a failure, most people still could not afford this expense.


    Zhang Zhiyin was an ordinary yer of <Tomorrow> who had some money and some leisure time. He had little hope in curing his middle school grade two illness ¡ª he had a hopeless bossplex. He was clearly a good young man who helped grandmothers cross the street and gave up his seat on the bus. However, in the world of fiction, manga, novel, he would always like the viin boss so much.


    All of the NPCs in the game <Tomorrow> were not drawn out but carefully calcted.


    They had a set of NPC generating program, as long as a set of random numbers were inputted, the corresponding NPC image would be generated. Because of the huge NPC base needed in <Tomorrow>¡¯s world settings, it not only saved the game illustrators¡¯ time, it also guaranteed the diversity and authenticity of the game to the greatest extent.


    But when creating the boss, they typed in a set of perfect numbers rather than some random numerical.


    <Tomorrow> ¡®s boss was called Dr. Y. He was not only the so-called ¡°Father of the Zombies¡±, the culprit that caused the end of the world, he was also the one who had awaken all abilities and evolved to the top through his own technical means after the end of the world. He was nicknamed ¡°The man standing at the top of the end of the food chain¡± by the yers.


    At that time, the technical team had written a post on the game forum. ording to data analysis, the only way to sessfully kill Dr. Y was to have at least 50 yers with seamless coordination of ability level and role to work together without error. Later, it was added that the equipment of these people had to be top-notch. Then someone added that XXXX qualifications were needed... Anyway, the update of <Tomorrow>¡¯s game plot was still far from overthrowing the big Boss, so none of these could be verified.


    In the current game¡¯s timeline, there was only one ce that allowed yers to see Dr. Y; the main plot instance dungeon, ¡°Abandoned Laboratory¡± at Tianshui City. yers and teammates would have to go there to help an old professor obtain important information. After clearing the instance, yers could see the sudden appearance of Dr. Y. In the game scenario at this time, the yer and his friends did not know the identity of Dr. Y and would chat with him ording to the task requirements. Dr. Y would only silently nce at them before the yers could take the ¡°important information¡± and left the ce toplete the task. So this task was nicknamed ¡°I came to do the task, met the boss releasing his coolness¡±.


    Tianshui City was not a very important ce in the game. It only got involved in the main task and had no important resources or functional NPC. yers basically came here to do the tasks, get them done, and then leave. There was no one that came here often.


    But there was one exception, Zhang Zhiyin.


    ¡°Abandoned Laboratory¡± was a difficult instance in the early stage of the game, but fortunately it was an instance of the main plot so it would not be refreshed after it waspleted. The monsters inside would not be refreshed, likewise, the ultimate boss that appeared as a character in the plot would not refresh.


    Zhang Zhiyin and his teammates worked desperately to get through that instance when they were in the Level 20 range. Since then, he had been reporting here every day.


    From Level 20 to Level 50, he used to fight those monsters along the way from the transfer point to the instance¡¯s gate, but now he only needed to throw two ¡°freeze¡± and the route would be smooth for him.


    All the way to the familiar third floor of the undergroundboratory, the gloomy and terrible atmosphere could not frighten Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s heart. Pushing open the door of the innermost room, he saw the familiar figure standing quietly in front of the information cab as usual.


    Just like he was waiting for him.


    The sudden thought made his heart move slightly. Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t helpughing at theputer screen, knowing that it was just an NPC made out of a bunch of data. Of course he would be standing there all the time.


    He went over and spoke on the channel¡ª


    ¡°Hey, here I am again!¡± A dialog box popped up from the top of his character. He was being foolish, but there wouldn¡¯t be any other person here, so it didn¡¯t matter to be foolish.


    This was Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s most important daily routine when he yed <Tomorrow> ¡ª to brush up the boss. At first, it was justing to see him, but then his boss brushing operation began to reach no limit.


    ¡°Do you miss me? Are you bored? Let me dance for you.¡± Zhang Zhiyin clicked on the ¡°Dance¡± option in ¡°Daily Actions¡±. He then watched the little character twist and wriggle in theputer screen. He startedughing and scolding himself for being so bored he had be a lunatic. Here he was flirting with virtual data.


    ¡°Daily Actions¡± page had a messy row of buttons, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s evil intentions surfaced, he pressed ¡°Kiss¡±.


    However, the angle was not adjusted, so he kissed the information cab behind Dr. Y.


    This was uneptable! Dr. Y didn¡¯t allow him to kiss him. Zhang Zhiyin curled his mouth and suddenly remembered something. He typed, ¡°Y, can I hug you?¡±


    Then he quickly added, ¡°Today is the 100th day anniversary of our acquaintanceship.¡± To be exact, it was the 100-day anniversary of Zhang Zhiyin brushing the boss.


    Inexplicably, he restrained all his indecent jokes and smiles. When he typed this sentence, his expression was extremely serious. His lips were tucked slightly as he quietly looked at the doctor reclining on the screen, as if he was an innocent teenager asking his beloved girl out for the first time.


    Naturally, the boss in the game could not respond to him.


    Zhang Zhiyin just took it that he had epted and adjusted the angle. With a click of the mouse, the character with the name ¡°Zhiyin¡± on top of his head leaned forward with his hands opened. He buried himself in Dr. Y¡¯s chest, making an embracing gesture.


    The scene was particrly warmth. Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s mouth involuntarily curled into a slight smile.


    Although it was because of the 3D game pictures, ¡°Zhiyin¡± hands did not enter the informational cab.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the doctor who had a cold face andughed. He thought that Dr. Y would probably want to kill him if he was alive at this time.


    Although he knew that when he opened the dialog box, it would be the story dialog he had read hundreds of times ¡ª ¡°... (He gave you a cold look), ¡°Zhang Zhiyin still couldn¡¯t help moving the mouse to the doctor and pressing the left key.


    There was only one sentence on the dialog box¡ª


    ¡°My name is Yin Nian.¡±


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    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s friends all thought that he was just too bored. They could understand the joy of brushing the boss and trying to defeat him. But it was really uninteresting to go to boss and talk to yourself when brushing him every day. They were deeply unable to understand how a man like Zhang Zhiyin could have such a girl hobby.


    Friend A: ¡°There¡¯s only Zhang Zhiyin who can y <Tomorrow> as if it was a love-nurturing game.¡±


    Friend B: ¡°If it¡¯s really a dating game, then it must be a really big loss. The target has no response at all. In the end, you wouldn¡¯t even get an overthrow achievement. Which fool can be so stubbornly infatuated like Zhang Zhiyin?¡±


    Regardless of what they said, Zhang Zhiyin still continued to brush the boss every day. The sentence ¡°My name is Yin Nian.¡± that he finally brushed out gave him great encouragement. Although his friends all said that it was the result of the programmers debugging a ce that no yers visit. Whether Yin Nian was the boss¡¯s name had to be confirmed. Zhang Zhiyin thought so too intellectually, but emotionally, he could hardly restrain the joy of an iron tree blooming.


    The game had activities during the Qixi Festival. Through a series of extremelyplex tasks of the Qixi Festival, you could get arge bouquet of roses, which could be given to other yers to increase affection and intimacy.


    ncing at the task site, it was all army of couples, Other than Zhang Zhiyin the bachelor, it was all game merchants who took this opportunity to seek private gains.


    A friend in the game came up and said, ¡°Zhiyin, you are single right? Did youe here alone to earn money? Everyone¡¯s selling too, just sell it to your brother.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin turned his hand and put arge bunch of roses in his backpack. ¡°No, I¡¯m keeping it to give it to someone.¡±


    The man looked at Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s back and touched his chi. There must be something going on with him.


    Zhang Zhiyin flew directly to the underground third floor of theboratory with a flying g. The higher level you were, the more advanced items you had in hand. It was more convenient to see Lord Boss.


    In the dark information room, Yin Nian stood there.


    Zhang Zhiyin directed his character to go up to him, opened the ¡°Daily Actions¡± and made a flower-giving pose. Then he opened his backpack, took out the beautiful dewy roses. He clicked on the ground, and [Qixi Festive¡¯s Special Love for the Special You: <Tomorrow>¡¯s Exclusive Most Beloved Rose]y quietly on the floor of dark information room.


    Other than this method, Zhang Zhiyin did not know how else to give him the flowers.


    ¡°Happy holidays,¡± he said. Then he stood quietly and looked at Yin Nian.


    Five minutester, the roses on the ground flickered a few times, then they were recycled by the system and disappeared. ¡°Zhiyin¡± stepped forward and gently embraced Boss Yin.


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    In real life, many people met Zhang Zhiyin and asked him half-jokingly, ¡°Xiao Zhang, are you in love?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was shocked to realize that his feelings towards Boss Yin were out of control, which was different from the viin bosses he had liked before. Those bosses were liked by many people, and they were a character symbol belonging to the public. But Yin Nian was not. This perfect boss, who was always standing quietly in the dark information room waiting for him, was not. Although he could not move, speak or react, in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s mind, this person belonged to him, only to him.


    These two days were the anniversary of <Tomorrow>¡¯s first year of service. There were countless publicity activities in the game. Zhang Zhiyin pinched his fingers and counted. In two days, it would be the first anniversary of his acquaintance with boss. That¡¯s good, he was preparing to see him for thest time before he deleted <Tomorrow> and stopped ying.


    He thought that he must kiss him onest time. After a year, he only dared to embrace him. This was too much of failure even if this was a doomed rtionship in the first ce.


    It¡¯s only a few seconds before the green light arrived. On the electronic screen of the building opposite him, advertisements began to appear again, which happened to be the first anniversary of <Tomorrow>. In the film, Dr. Y stood tall in a researcher¡¯s standard white coat, surrounded by ice, fire, thunder, wind, and other abilities. Behind him were countless rows of ss pirs with horrible faces of zombies. He had a dark face and a grim expression. Although the illustrator could not draw out his perfect face, his face still did not show any human-like feelings.


    Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t move his sight at once. When he saw those people surrounded him moving forward, he also moved forward unconsciously. The only eyes in his mind were those that were so familiar to him.


    Until a ¡®Bang¡¯ sound came and a dull pain surfaced. He lost his consciousness, and in hisst awareness, it was still those dark eyes without any emotion.


    <strong>Footnote</strong> :

 Chapter 2 - Farming

    <strong>Chapter 2: Farming</strong>


    The era was always developing, technology was always advancing, and the enterprise of transmigrating was also advancing with time. But ording to iplete statistics, seventy to eighty percent of them crossing over was because they were hit by a car. Most of them woke up and found themselves in an unfamiliar room.


    Zhang Zhiyin woke up after being hit by a car and found himself in an unfamiliar room.


    It¡¯s not entirely correct to say that it was unfamiliar. Theyout of the room also revealed a sense of familiarity ¨C the messy desk, the stool with one leg missing, the shelf full of CDs, the blinding non-mainstream poster...


    After looking around for a few seconds, he suddenly realized that this was not in the room where the plot began.


    yers will appear in a small apartment as soon as they entered the game in, where they needed toplete a series of novice tasks such as ¡°putting on the equipment¡± and ¡°adding your skills¡±, and finally defeating two zombies who broke into their homes.


    Zhang Zhiyin had established three side ounts and was more than familiar with this scene.


    Zhang Zhiyin touched the wooden desk. He still felt an unrealistic sense of reality ¨C what was happening... To him?


    The game had fivemon upations for yers to choose: Students, White-Cor Workers, Athletes, Doctors, Teachers, and two fee-paying upations; Special Forces and Researchers, which yers needed to pay a fee if they want to y them.


    In addition, there were Killers, Thieves, Monks, Taoists, Actors, Singers, Chefs, and other special upations. When yers entered the game, they had a certain probability of triggering them. They could also be obtained when special conditions in the game were fulfilled and be acquired as a side upation.


    Each upation had its own advantages and disadvantages in line with its own upation characteristics. The five basic upations were generally bnced, and the attribute advantages of the fee-paying upations were more outstanding.


    The upation Zhang Zhiyin chose in the game was student, with average attributes in all aspects but the advantage was that it had great potential for growth. At this time, theyout of his apartment was exactly the same as that of the apartment were those who chose student as their upation. If the basic routine here was based on the game, then it was very likely that his upation was still a student.


    It¡¯s just... He lowered his head, lifted his broad T-shirt and looked at his t upper body without any muscle ¨C it was the body he knew very well, not the character with eight abdominal muscles in the game. In front of the dressing mirror, it also reflected his own face. Gentle and calm, with a hint of panic and bewilderment, which was totally different from the sunny and energetic student set in the game.


    There were no other clues that could be found in the room. Zhang Zhiyin stumbled to the window and looked down. In the game, he could not actively perform actions such as looking down through the window.


    But now he could actually see as if the world in this game had beenpletely mended ¨C theing of the end of the world, the silence surrounding everywhere, the zombies lurking in the city, and the screams of sorrowing from somewhere else.


    The game began from the tenth day of the end of the world. The surviving yer had finished his food reserve at home and finally realized the reality. He decided that he could not passively wait for his end. He needed to go out and find a way to survive.


    The next second, there was a familiar sound at the door. A piercing sound of scratching that seemed particrly depressing and urgent at this moment. Five secondster, there was a chewing noise.


    It was the zombies outside gnawing at the door.


    Zhang Zhiyin cursed inwardly and if he was not wrong, the two zombies outside the door would break into the house in less than half a minute.


    He ran back from the balcony to the bedroom, skillfully opened the bottom drawer of the wooden desk, and took out a steel pipe. This was the initial weapon given by the system to the student upation at Level 1 ¨C 5.


    Zhang Zhiyin weighed the pole and murmured, ¡°All depend on you, dear old brother.¡± Once yers went past Level 5, they will have to throw this steel pipe away. As this was the first weapon obtained in the game, Zhang Zhiyin was full of emotion.


    Although he still had not gotten a clear picture of his current situation, even if he was dreaming, he could not let the zombies gnaw him to death! And it was still a Level 0 zombie for the novices to practice! It¡¯s an insult to a veteran yer of who had took countless lives of zombies in his hands.


    Although he used to deal with them using the mouse and keyboard.


    Zhang Zhiyin walked confidently behind the refrigerator andy in ambush, waiting for the zombies to pounce in ¨C the best spot to kill them was here, where the two zombies would not touch him but only to be beaten by him.


    With a loud bang, the door burst open and the two zombies swayed in. The initial Level 0 zombies were not prominent in all aspects. They were slow in response, and they were almost as fast as the old man walking on the street.


    Zhang Zhiyin watched them move forward slowly and he calcted silently. The first step, second step, third step... Soon, when they got closer to the refrigerator, they would freeze and their movement would stop.


    The two corpses smelled flesh meat and approached Zhang Zhiyin step by step. After hitting the refrigerator, they changed direction and continued to pounce on Zhang Zhiyin who was behind the refrigerator.


    What was this situation?! The script was wrong!


    Zhang Zhiyin did not expect that the zombies would go around the refrigerator, and he acted with confusion. He attacked the one in front with the pipe, and narrowly avoided the other zombie¡¯s w while kicking it away at the same time.


    That foot nted right on the throat of the zombie and kicked it to the ground. This gave Zhang Zhiyin time to concentrate on the other one. By the time this one got up, Zhang Zhiyin hadpletely settled the first one.


    After the death g was erected on the zombies, Zhang Zhiyin recalled carefully before he realized something was wrong. He was a standard weak chicken undergraduate waste who would barely pass the physical examination every year because he was pitted by the current education system in effect.


    He had just graduated and found a civilian job. He had never really fought with steel pipes in the street since he was young. The most skilled martial arts he knew was Taiji, which was taught by the enthusiastic grandfather from the park. So it was impossible for him to handle these two zombies so neatly.


    Looking back at his action just now, he waved the steel pipe like a basic physical attack skill in the game, and that kick was like the basic skill; a circr foot sweep. So to say, he should have mastered several basic skills automatically, just like in the game?


    It¡¯s no use thinking about it now, whether it was a dream or the trending transmigration or something else, he just had to take one step at a time.


    The person next door looked at peephole for a long time, he finally opened a small crack while trembling. He softly shouted, ¡°Zhiyin, Zhiyin, are you all right?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin walked to the door of his destroyed home with aplicated mood. He knew the story. The Uncle next door was called Pang Guang. There were variations in his strength. His character was not bad and he was as timid as a mouse. After this incident, he would ask the yers to flee together. Then they would go all the way to Lihua Shopping Mall as a temporary stronghold together with several other neighbors.


    He thought about it and answered in the same way as the protagonist of the game: ¡°Uncle Pang, I¡¯m all right.¡±


    Pang Guang frowned and grieved: ¡°Now there are all kinds of monsters everywhere. After waiting for so many days and there is still no news of helping. I think it¡¯s better to depend on oneself than from help from others. Zhiyin, why don¡¯t we team up and kill a way out? Sooner orter, we¡¯ll die if it goes on like this.¡±


    Hearing the familiar game lines spoken by the alive NPC, Zhang Zhiyin tucked his lips and paused for a moment before he said, ¡°Okay.¡±


    Pang Guang came out with a butcher knife: ¡°Uncle is long prepared. Be careful, let¡¯s go!¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin and Uncle Pang¡¯s route was going downward. They lived on the twelfth floor. On their way out, they integrated a series of familiar NPCs, such as Grandma Xu, Qingqing, the little girl in kindergarten, the big brother that was a baseball yer and so on. There were a total of eight people. After all, there was only the lowest level 0 zombies along the way, and it was also daytime. It was threatening but not dangerous in their route to Lihua Shopping Mall.


    Arge number of people had gathered here. Former employees of the public sector had organized themselves to distribute food while waiting for rescue. This was not an unfamiliar scene for Zhang Zhiyin. After all, this was equivalent to the existence of the novice vige in the game.


    Arriving at Lihua Shopping Mall also had a special meaning ¨C yers could only know what ability they have awoken when they arrived here.


    The ability settings in were one of the most popr moneymaking settings. The game had five kinds of ordinary enhancement abilities ¨C physical ability, strength, defense, speed and precision; five kinds of ordinary element abilities ¨C gold, wood, water, fire, earth; two kinds of variant element abilities ¨C ice and thunder; three kinds of special abilities ¨C space, mind and healing. Those with good luck might even trigger anybination of these abilities and formed a dual ability.


    Of course, the better and more precious ability, the lower the probability of triggering it. The vast majority of yers triggered the ordinary enhancement ability. But in a props purchasing game, this was not an issue. The prop store informed you: Ordinary enhancement ability for fifty yuans, ordinary element ability for sixty-six yuan, variant element ability for three hundred yuan, special ability for six hundred and six yuan. You would need at least fifty yuans to gain a second ability.


    But! The second ability that cost five hundred yuan was obtained at random! It was probably the least valued ability in the world!


    The prop store informed you: This was not a problem, as long as you spent another five hundred yuan, you would have a chance to refresh the second ability. Of course, what new ability you would get was not guarantee by the store. However, as long as you had the money, you can willfully continue to spend until you get your dream dual powers.


    In addition, there were hidden abilities that could not be purchased in the store, and that was all reliance on luck. As money could not buy it, it was even more valuable.


    Like in the game, a responsible aunt appeared to exin to them that ordinary people might be able to trigger abilities and so on. She taught them how to see if they had triggered any abilities and what abilities they had triggered.


    In the game, it¡¯s natural to click on the newly activated ability page to view, but now Zhang Zhiyin had no choice but to press onto his chest hard and looked at his left wrist at the same time, as ording to what the aunt had taught him.


    A pale grey mark appeared there.


    Grey... If he remembered correctly, it should represent a normal enhancement ability? No, Zhang Zhiyin was stunned. What about his cool ice ability? Or did the world really had nothing to do with his own games?


    The next second, Zhang Zhiyin remembered one thing, and immediately his whole person when Spartan.


    His cool ice ability was bought by him for three hundred yuan, and his first side ount was indeed a precision ability! Later, he was unwilling, so he opened another three side ount and went through the plot three times, but they all awakened ordinary enhancement ability. It was well known that abilities were very important in this game, ordinary enhanced ability would not do well in theter part of the game, so Zhang Zhiyin bit his teeth, topped up five hundred, and exchanged three hundred for an ice ability...


    Zhang Zhiyin gloomy squatted at one corner drawing circles. He suddenly saw a familiar but never should appear icon in the gray light lines ¨C two gold ingots stacked together, with two letters below ¨C prop store.


    What the fuck, Qinng Company must be crazy about money, even when he was dreaming or transmigrated, they won¡¯t let him off!

 Chapter 3 - Item Store

    <strong>Chapter 3: Item Store</strong>


    Despite his surprise, Zhang Zhiyin still held on to the thought of finding out what exactly was this icon ¨C familiar goods shelves, all kinds of different items, and a list of special offers for the current update.


    It was exactly like what he yed in <Tomorrow>.


    The Item Store was divided into two parts, the ¡°Hypermarket¡± and the ¡°Trading House¡±. The Hypermarket was a page for selling Cash Items to the yers. The Trading House was a page for yers to exchange precious items with each other in yuan. yers could offer the precious items they did not need in the game and sell them directly in yuan.


    Zhang Zhiyin first looked at the Trading House. Thetest items update was on 13:24 on April 1, XX. It was the day he got hit by a car. He remembered that he seemed to have been hit at about 12:30 at noon.


    Zhang Zhiyin touched his chin and fell into deep thought. A momentter, he tapped on the ¡°I want to trade¡± button and aimed the ¡°Steam Bun¡± he just acquired at the pop-up trading item box. There was no other problem except that the ¡°Steam Bun¡± was too big and the item box was too small.


    The store system actually recognized it, and it also popped up a dialog box ¡ª ¡°An item bound by the system, it could not be traded.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin squinted and pulled out the Level 1 nucleus which he¡¯d just dug out after killing the zombies. Most of the Level 0 zombies hadn¡¯t yet developed any nucleus, only a few of them had the Level 1 nucleus in their bodies. On the way, Zhang Zhiyin only got this one. When he was digging, Grandma Xu had even advised him not to dig all these unclean and unknown stuff.


    This time it was a sess. However, no one would buy the lowest level crystal nucleus on the Hypermarket. But Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s intention was not to make money. He thought for a while before setting the price at ten yuan ¨C this was the minimum price set by the Trade House and the price would increase by five percent after the transaction was sessful.


    Refreshing the page, thetest item had be the crystal nucleus of Zhang Zhiyin, avable for sale at 13:28 on April 1, XX year.


    To further ascertain the connection with the real world, he would need to have something really valuable to sell. Zhang Zhiyin decided to put this matter aside for the time being and turn to the study of ¡°Hypermarket¡±.


    As long as the Qinng Company¡¯s pit of wanting money remained unchanged, no matter was it fantasy or reality, the Hypermarket would always be that Hypermarket. Seeing it, Zhang Zhiyin was somewhat moved to see his old acquaintance.


    He tapped the ¡°ability¡± tab shelf he had been longing for in his mind. The most popr items in front of him were ice power and thunder power. The red HOT hung in the upper right corner and the price of 300.00 yuan was listed below.


    Zhang Zhiyin pressed purchase.


    The dialog box popped up ¡ª ¡°Sorry, your bnce is insufficient, will you recharge it immediately?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked to the upper right corner of the mall. [User: 130****** 1472 Bnce: 19.87 yuan].


    That¡¯s right, there was his user information. At theter stage of the game, Zhang Zhiyin mainly went to visit the BOSS. He didn¡¯t care much about equipment, ability level, pets, home, and so on. Naturally, he didn¡¯t need to recharge much money. Most of the remaining 200 yuan were spent on items which were purchased by other yers to brush affection, such as ¡°Love Chocte¡± and ¡°Crystal Flower Language¡±. The difference was that he bought them as a gift for the BOSS Lord ¡ª which was putting them on the ground in front of the BOSS and wait for the system to recycle them.


    Zhang Zhiyin chose to recharge immediately.


    Then there was no response.


    Zhang Zhiyin thought about it and his memory went back to how this operated on hisputer. His default browser would automatically pop up to the recharge interface at this stage and then proceeded on to the web. But where was he going to find a damn browser here!?


    Firefox, IE, Tencent, 360, Google, UC... Usually, they all jumped out in joy with each trying to outdo the other. Why didn¡¯t theye out this time? If any of them could appear now... He would be a loyal user all his life. When he returned to reality, he would send a golden banner three meters long to thepany!


    After waiting for a minute, Zhang Zhiyin finally closed the Item Store¡¯s page in dismay. There were items within his budget of 19.87 yuan in the store, but they were of no use to him now.


    In the original <Tomorrow>, Lihua Shopping Mall was the symbol of the novice vige. It had NPC functions such as warehouse, store, ability rted NPC, task-rted NPC, and passer-by NPC. The majority were, of course, the yers that came and went. But now those yers were all gone, instead, there were many more people whom he had never seen before in the game ¡ª those who survived the unexpected apocalypse and fled in a hurry ¨C or those with their families and those who were alone.


    It was like the world had been supplemented by unknown forces.


    One of the NPC in-charge, Uncle Yun, saw Zhang Zhiyin staying silent for a long time. He came over and patted him on the shoulder. ¡°Young man, you¡¯re the only one left in your family?¡±


    This set of taboo words normally left unspoken seemed to be somonly heard in this world.


    Zhang Zhiyin quickly answered, ¡°No, I go to school at this side by myself. I don¡¯t know how my family is doing.¡±


    Uncle Yun nodded. ¡°It will be all right, they will be all right.¡±


    Then he said to Zhang Zhiyin, ¡°What about your ability? It doesn¡¯t matter if you don¡¯t awaken any. Only one-tenth of the people here could awake an ability.¡±


    Sure enough, this was different from the game. As a yer, it was guaranteed to wake up an ability, even if it¡¯s the least powerful ability.


    Zhang Zhiyinughed and said, ¡°As the sister said just now, I should have awakened. There¡¯s something here.¡± He stretched out his left wrist and showed Uncle Yun the pale grey mark on his hand.


    When Uncle Yun saw it, he was happy. ¡°This is good. Go to Ah Lan and find out what the enhancement is.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin went to Ah Lan. She was the one who told them at the beginning about the method of checking out their abilities. The result showed that it was indeed a precision enhancement. Ah Lan asked him to find Brother Fei to join the Convey Team and told him that he would get extra rewards for killing the zombies nearby.


    This segment of development was simr to the game, where Uncle Yun had a water ability and was simr to the existence of vige leader. Ah Lan was an ability-rted NPC, Brother Fei was the captain of the Convey Team and was also the game¡¯s reward task publisher ¡ª like those ¡°Eliminate a number of XX level XX zombies or other monsters and be rewarded XX¡± tasks. Previously, in the game, many yers who didn¡¯t like to run the main quest and branch task only took the task here from Brother Fei. After receiving the task, they farmed the zombies, took the reward, and immediately left after they reached Level 10.


    The difference was that in the past, no matter what thoughts you held when you open the dialog box with Ah Lan, you would always see this one sentence: ¡°Is there anything else that you don¡¯t understand? Everybody must work harder!¡±


    But now ¡ª


    Zhang Zhiyin tentatively said, ¡°Sister Lan, you are beautiful.¡±


    Ah Lan immediately returned, ¡°You dead brat shouldn¡¯t pay lip-service and go work now!¡±


    It was the reaction of a real, straightforward, and hot-blooded beauty.


    Leaving Sister Lan, Zhang Zhiyin was perplexed and wondered what would happen if he really met the BOSS Lord.


    If he said it like in the game, ¡°Give me a kiss, okay?¡±


    The result was probably direct strangtion.


    What if he went up and hug him directly?


    He would probably be kicked to death.


    It was very likely that the BOSS wouldn¡¯t care about meeting him at all. He would instead order a zombie to directly tear him apart.


    Zhang Zhiyin felt that this was not feasible. He had to n how to behave when he saw the BOSS starting from today. He needed to at least hear the BOSS say a word before he died.


    Zhang Zhiyin touched his chin and pondered over whether it was feasible to say ¡°I love you¡± immediately when they meet.

 Chapter 4 - First Drop of Blood

    <strong>Chapter 4: First Drop of Blood</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin went to see Brother Fei as ording to the instructions. Brother Fei was as busy as he was in the game. He immediately ced Zhang Zhiyin into the team that was preparing to depart.


    Zhang Zhiyin set out with the team before he was even clear about the situation.


    Halfway down the road, he felt the route was not right, so he tapped the captain¡¯s shoulder and asked, ¡°Big Brother, where are we going?¡±


    ¡°Runfa Supermarket!¡± The captain answered straightforwardly.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    In the game, in M City, which was where he was at now, Runfa Supermarket was the only location with a high-level boss. Inside it was the only level 20 boss in the whole city. yers who had just entered the game would not be able to cope with it at all. It was only after the yers left M City and level-up several times could theye back and group up to annihte the boss.


    Although this world looked real andplete now, Zhang Zhiyin felt that many of the world settings still followed the game.


    He felt very worried.


    But Zhang Zhiyin obviously thought too much. Before they reached Runfa Supermarket, they found that there were more and more zombies around them. Then their car was surrounded.


    Zhang Zhiyin, who had only awakened the precision enhancement ability was still very weak (heck the strength to even truss up a chicken). Without a doubt, he died under the siege of the zombies.


    At the moment of losing consciousness, Zhang Zhiyinst thought was...


    Actually, he died too fast so he had no thoughts.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    When Zhang Zhiyin woke up, he found himself in the hospital with a big fruit basket on the bedside table.


    His friend Dajia cried terribly at his bedside, ¡°Zhang Zhiyin, you don¡¯t do good deeds. Why didn¡¯t you see the traffic lights when you go out and got hit by a car? In order to apany you, I¡¯ve been here for the whole month, what do I do...¡±


    Dajia raised his head after crying and his eyes meet Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s. He was stunned. ¡°You are awake?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded.


    ¡°Doctor¡ªhe¡¯s awake, he¡¯s awake¡ªthe guy who was hit by a car¡ª¡±


    Soon, a group of doctors and nurses came around, they pushed Zhang Zhiyin to do a lot of tests, and then imed that it was a medical miracle. It was clear that his brain activity was so weak when he was first sent here, and then it grew stronger and stronger, and now it hadpletely returned to normal.


    Just to be safe, they let Zhang Zhiyin stay in the hospital for a few days.


    Zhang Zhiyin felt that besides the slight abrasion, he had no other problems at all. He and Dajia finished eating the fruit basket. They looked and observed each other with dull interest.


    Dajia said, ¡°Brother, this is Guangming Hospital. It¡¯s one of the best in the city. Have you heard about it?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t understand what Dajia was saying.


    Dajia continued, ¡°At that time, you were almost not breathing. As Guangming Hospital was close to you and the conditions here were good, so you were sent here. Guangming Hospital¡¯s intensive care unit, 2,888 yuan a night. I mean, if you¡¯re okay, just go home and recuperate, it¡¯ll be the same.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin immediately jumped out of bed without regard to the doctors and nurses repeated persuasion. He carried Dajia, the bags, and ran away.


    The rest of his spare money left every month was based on a bachelor¡¯s self-sufficiency. That Zhang someone was still trying to save up for down payment, he could not afford to burn money like this.


    Back in his small apartment, Zhang Zhiyin finally felt at ease. He first turned on theputer like a conditioned reflex, his body was faster than his brain. He opened thending interface of and entered the game.


    When Zhang Zhiyin finally reacted, he was already standing in the abandonedboratory.


    He was here when he went offline yesterday.


    He was still thinking of deleting the game and never ying it again, but now that he was here, it¡¯s better to say hello to the Boss Lord.


    Zhang Zhiyin recalled the very real world he¡¯d experienced in hisa and the tragic situation of him being wed to death by those monsters. At once, because of the injustice he went through, he felt an anger he normally didn¡¯t feel towards the boss who was just standing obediently in front of him.


    ¡°All because of you,¡± he typed, ¡°Why do you have to release a bunch of monsters out of your experimentations just because you have nothing to do.¡± Incidentally, there was an eye-rolling expression.


    But when all the tone came together, unlike the words of righteous men who fight against evil, it was more like a girl who¡¯s being coquettish towards her lover.


    Yin Nian still stood silently with his head bowed, and there was no response.


    Through the screen, Zhang Zhiyin stared at him nkly. He suddenly felt frustrated and turned off the game and theptop. He went to the bathroom to wash and go to bed.


    It was gettingte.


    Until now, he regarded what happened in hisa as an ordinary imaginary dream, but if he opened the Item Store in the game and looked at it, he would find that there was a crystal nucleus in the Trading House with a price of ten yuan and its seller who went by the name ¡°Zhiyin¡±.


    A lot of things happened today. Hey down in bed and it didn¡¯t take long for Zhang Zhiyin to fall asleep.


    He woke up feeling sore and opened his eyes to see Uncle Yun¡¯s orange-skinned face.


    Uncle Yun wiped his eyes and said, ¡°Thank goodness, he¡¯s okay.¡±


    Only then Zhang Zhiyin knew that none of his team had returned. Later, two teams were sent to look for them but only the wreckage of the car was found. On the way back, they picked up aatose Zhang Zhiyin in the alley opposite Lihua Shopping Mall Street.


    Zhang Zhiyin thought for a moment. In the alley across the street? Wasn¡¯t that the revival point of M City! It looked like the immortality of the yer was still working?


    His brain circuitry became more exotic. Now that he was back to the absurd reality version of <Tomorrow>. Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t think much about what exactly happened to him and what strange things he encountered, but he was at ease with the situation. The first thought after he waspletely awake was that, if he knew he woulde back, he would have recharged his remaining 2,888 yuan into the game, bought magic weapons, awaken abilities, and thus reach the peak of his life! It was terrible to be bitten and scratched by the zombies!


    In the evening, Zhang Zhiyin silently opened the Item Store and retrieved the crystal nucleus from his consignment. The deal was unsessful, and the money-hungry mall still deducted his handling fee of 5 cents. Fortunately, he still had more than 19 yuan in his ount, which was enough for the deduction.


    Curling up on the floor of the mall and listening to the breathing of the disced people around him, the crying of children, Zhang Zhiyin tossed and turned. He opened the Trading House to window-shop for a while. Looking at the first-ss magic weapons priced for tens of thousands, he slowly fell asleep while admiring them.


    When he woke up the next day, the Item Store was still open. Zhang Zhiyin looked at the time of thetest items update and slowly squinted ¡ª the time flow was wrong. He spent a night here but only half an hour had passed in the Trading House.


    Brother Fei saw through the weak essence of Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s precision enhancement ability and kicked him out of the Convey Team. Uncle Yun arranged for him to prepare food.


    Zhang Zhiyin also looked distracted when he was distributing food with Ah Lan. He was thinking of his own way back to reality¡ªshould he gnash his teeth and try rushing into a pile of zombies tomit suicide?


    The result of his absent-mindedness was that he identally spilled porridge on the person in front of him.


    The man was instantly agitated. He grabbed Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s cor and said, ¡°Do you know how precious clothes and food are now?¡±


    When Zhang Zhiyin was shocked, he looked up and became even more shocked. The person in front of him looked white and clean, and his facial features were normal. But this face, Zhang Zhiyin, would not mistake it. This man was not an ordinary passer-by NPC.


    As the plot unfolded, a group of people who pursue power or status abandoned humanity and turned to Dr. Y as his underling. Most of the time in the game was spent by yers and other forces of justice to fight against these underlings.


    The man in front of him was one of his underlings. He was called Yu Huo. He had a fire ability. Later, he built up a viin force under the name Yu Huo. He was one of the most powerful bosses in the game. Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t expect to meet him here.


    Considering Yu Huo¡¯s narrow-mindedness and bad temper, how he fought over the smallest trifles, and his character setting of being a person with a strong sense of revenge, Zhang Zhiyin felt that he could experiment with the proposition that ¡°death is the only way to return to the real world¡±.


    <strong>Footnotes:</strong>


    Yu Huo (depressed fire), the viin underling, and Yu Huo (bathing fire), the viin group name is different!

 Chapter 5 - Charging Cash

    <strong>Chapter 5: Charging Cash</strong>


    But things did not happen as Zhang Zhiyin had expected.


    Hearing the uproar, Ah Lan came over. She asked with a pair of raised eyebrows, ¡°What happened?¡±


    You Huo who was originally behaving with an unbearable insolence towards Zhang Zhiyin immediately assumed an obedient attitude: ¡°No, Sister Lan, nothing happened.¡±


    This was a totally different impression of Boss Yu Huo in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s mind. Zhang Zhiyin looked at You Huo hesitantly and briefly told Ah Lan what happened.


    This was not any big issue and Ah Lan quickly ordered Zhang Zhiyin to give Yu Huo another bowl of porridge. Now it was still in the earlier stage of the apocalypse, so food was not as scarce as in theter stage. Ordinary people could rely on the relief to fill up their stomachs at this time.


    After distributing the food, Zhang Zhiyin said casually, ¡°That man just now was so fierce. I thought he would hit me.¡±


    Sister Lan smiled and shook her head. ¡°He dared not.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was a little puzzled. In the current development of the game scenario, Boss You Huo was powerful, aggressive and was courting hatred in all ways. However, because of the indistinct support from Dr. Y behind this powerful fire ability, many people were made helpless. What was there he didn¡¯t dare to do?


    The next few days he was so bored that he began to observe Yu Huo secretly. He soon discovered that the crux of the problem was that ¨C the current Yu Huo was just an ordinary person who had not awaken any powers. In contrast, Sister Lan was a well-known water ability powerhouse in Lihua Shopping Mall.


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t know what Yu Huo did before the apocalypse, but now the current him knew how to set his dish based on the person. He treated the ability users honestly and respectfully. When he learned that Zhang Zhiyin also had an ability, his attitude towards him grew respectful.


    It was a world of difference from his image of a public enemy that was the Boss¡¯s underling.


    Zhang Zhiyin was faintly appalled.


    When ying the game, everything was set; the identity background of all the characters was set, and the plot progression schedule and time nodes were controlled by the gamepany.


    Even in the game world, time and space inverted and ovepped ¡ª ording to the game plot, in the eyes of the yers who left M City afterpleting the novice task, the city should have been a dead city captured by zombies; but for the newer yers who just entered the game, their time was still set at the beginning of the apocalypse where M City had not yet been captured, and they still have toplete a series of tasks in the Lihua Shopping Mall. All yers were in the same game, but the information conveyed by the game plot was quite different.


    But now, he was in aplete and integrated world, set at the beginning of the apocalypse. Mini Boss Yu Huo hadn¡¯t awakened his ability yet and was ridiculed and getting eye rolls from the people here. The survivors of Lihua District in M City were seeking temporary shelter and waiting for further rescue in the small safe area centered on Lihua Mall. They werepletely unaware that this area would be a forbidden zone in a month time.


    It also meant that he was now living in a single linear timeline reality. Destruction was really destruction; it wouldn¡¯t just be words and pictures conveyed by the game plot. Death and destruction would bepletely irreversible.


    This was not a game. Zhang Zhiyin watched Brother Fei and his team cremate the bodies of theirpanions who were attacked outside and looked up at the gray sky. For the first time, he realized that these people weren¡¯t dead data that could be backed up. Everyone would die, other than his inexplicable existence, and death could not be reversed.


    Zhang Zhiyin was a very easy-going person. His parents divorced when he was very young. He followed his mother andter had little contact with his father. His mother married again and went abroad, leaving himself to his Grandma and Grandpa. She would only send money back every year.


    He¡¯d never seen his own parents ever since primary school, but his grandparents spoiled him so much they always said to him, ¡°Zhiyin only need to live healthily and happily. Don¡¯t worry about anything else. They do what they want and we do what we want.¡±


    For so many years, no matter what happened to Zhang Zhiyin, the first thing was to ensure that his health was in good condition and would have no issues, followed by trying to make his life asfortable as possible. He had not much ambition, nor had he ever put too much pressure on himself to start a family and a career. He was living at ease and he did not think about having a house or girlfriend.


    Dajia and Dayi often looked at him and sighed, ¡°Zhiyin, you should grow some awareness. If you go on like this, your little sister Yin Lin will run away.¡±


    Three years ago, when he graduated from university, both of his grandparents left him. For the first time in more than ten years, his mother returned home and stuffed him with a bankbook of more than 100,000 yuan inside and then she left. Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t look at the specific number, nor did he refuse. All he did was put it together with what remained from his grandparents and silently kept it away. It was never touched since then.


    Apart from some of his caring friends, Zhang Zhiyin wasn¡¯t particrly anxious to go back to the real world, nor was he anxious about his strange situation.


    Just like that, he spent nearly a month here. He helped out by doing some chores every day, and when he was free, he stood on the roof overlooking the zombies in the distance, honing his chicken rib precision ability, or brushing the Item Store. From the store, he learned that the ratio of the time flow velocity here to that in the real world was unpredictable and impossible to grasp.


    On this day, Uncle Yun gathered together the backbone of the ability users and ordinary people and announced a piece of news¡ªthey were evacuating M City.


    ording to the observation that urred in the course of nearly ten days, they realized there were more and more zombies outside the safety zone, and their strength was gradually increasing. Brother Fei¡¯s team was often exhausted from dealing with them. Looking at their present strength, it was just a matter of time until the fall of the safety zone. The reason for not releasing this news previously in fear of causing panic. Now that the arrow was fitted to the string, they must prepare immediately.


    When Zhang Zhiyin heard the news, his body immediately stiffened. He recalled the pain of those zombies scratching him to death from that time. The supermarket guarded by the mini Boss was the only way avable for their evacuation route. And the road there was full of zombies!


    In the evening, the worried Zhang Zhiyin kept brushing the store, trying to buy some life-saving things with his remaining neen dors and thirty-seven cents. After viewing everything, he found that only fireworks and affection-gaining items could be bought.


    Would buying a box of love chocte to brush the zombie mini boss make him leave one side of the open and have his little brothers let him pass?


    It was no big deal to die again. In the end, Zhang Zhiyin gave up treatment and went to sleep. Before falling asleep, thest thought he had was ¡°The resurrection point better not be bound to M City because I didn¡¯t open a new map¡±.


    As a result, Zhang Zhiyin was happy when he opened his eyes the next day. Hey on his big bed, not on the floor of Lihua Shopping Mall.


    He grinned andughed, then rushed out of bed at the first chance he got. He pounced into the study and turned on theputer. He quickly logged in to and charged his ount with one thousand yuan.


    Looking at the prompt, Zhang Zhiyin was satisfied.


    Because he was still at the abandonedboratory, the Boss was still standing sideways in front of him without expression.


    Zhang Zhiyin thought that since he had so much money in his ount now, how could he not express it to the boss? He opened the Item Store quickly and looked at the rows of affection gaining items, but then he hesitated.


    What should he give?


    <strong>Footnotes:</strong>

 Chapter 6 - Eat

    <strong>Chapter 6: Eat


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin harped on the same string of that short page of affection items for thirteen times. In the end, he gnashed his teeth and bought the items he often bought, ¡°Of the Mutual Love/Love You Sweet to the Heart/Let Love Melt in Your Fingertips/Let Me Melt in Your Mouth¡±.


    For certain stuff, if the opportunity was missed, you might never have another chance to do it.


    Zhang Zhiyin knew that he probably could not quit Boss Yin.


    If it weren¡¯t for the shock of the dream-like but as real as the reality world <Tomorrow>, he might¡¯ve really made up his mind to delete the game and never see Boss Lord again. But due to a strangebination of circumstances, because of the ¡°dream¡± with a real touch of reality, he logged into the game for two consecutive days and also saw Dr. Y for two consecutive days. In this case, it seemed difficult to make up his mind to say goodbye again.


    Zhang Zhiyin shook his head andughed. He directed the little person on the screen to go forward, put the sweet chocte he had just bought on the ground, typed and sent¡ª


    ¡°Today I am also equally loving you : )¡±


    Naturally, Dr. Y did not respond.


    Zhang Zhiyin scratched his head and stood up, preparing to take a shower. Today was still the weekend, so he did not have to go work.


    It was actually a good thing that the boss would never respond back. In the good sense, it meant that the boss would never give him a card, never reject him, never would wrong him.


    Always waiting there, silently epting all his feelings.


    ¡°Yin Nian.¡± Zhang Zhiyin washed his face as he mulled over this name in his heart. Whether this was a system test or a bug, he subconsciously believed in his heart that this was the name of Y, the name Y told him.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Zhang Zhiyin called Dajia and Dayi after he was done tidying up his home. He wanted to thank them for taking care of himself and invite them for dinner in the evening. Dajia and Dayi were happy to attend.


    Dajia: ¡°Why did you shift the dining table to the bedroom when you can eat in the living room?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin rented a small suite with only one bedroom, one living room, one kitchen, and one bathroom. The bedroom also functioned as a study room, and the living room was both a dining room and a living room.


    Zhang Zhiyin was very agreeable, and he immediately moved the small table suitable for four people to the living room: ¡°It¡¯s fine, it¡¯s fine to eat here too.¡±


    Dajia: ¡°...But why did you bring out yourptop?¡±


    ¡°Let Boss have dinner with us.¡± Zhang Zhiyin said naturally.


    Dajia and Dayi simultaneously shot a look at theptop screen, only to see the familiar <Tomorrow>¡¯s game interface ¡ª ¡°The Abandoned Laboratory¡±.


    ¡°If we have dinner, how bad would be it to leave Boss alone in the bedroom.¡± Zhang Zhiyin added, looking at his two friends.


    Dayi looked at Dajia and thought over, ¡°Zhiyin, you see, Boss won¡¯t even be able to eat, he can only look at us eat. Isn¡¯t that more pitiful? You¡¯d better invite Boss Lord back.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin thought that this was true, so he stood up and took hisptop back to his bedroom desk, and manipted the game character to buy some ¡°dishes¡± items with the effect of supplementing physical strength and blood to Dr. Y before leaving.


    Dajia and Dayi looked at each other, somewhat distressed, and they both saw the same opinion from each other¡¯s eyes: Zhiyin¡¯s addiction to love nurturing game was getting more serious...


    However, they knew that Zhang Zhiyin was very disciplined, and wouldn¡¯t let this impact his work, so although they felt that some of his behavior at home when ying online games was not normal, neither was it good to excessively dissuade their friend.


    After dinner, Zhang Zhiyin sent Dajia and Dayi to leave and washed as usual, while preparing for his next day¡¯s work. His life was regr. If it wasn¡¯t for work, his bedtime would never go past 10 p.m.


    ¡°Good night.¡± Zhang Zhiyin tapped on the keyboard and said goodbye to Dr. Y in the game.


    Suddenly, he had a sudden whim and added, ¡°Very strangely, I¡¯m currently in a world that is very simr to your world, I don¡¯t know if you¡¯re here or not. It will be good if youe and see me if you are.¡±


    Then he logged out of the game, shut down theputer and went to bed.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    When he opened his eyes again, he saw the dusty ¡°Festival Special Sales¡± billboard hanging from the ceiling of Lihua Shopping Mall.


    Zhang Zhiyin sat up. The first thing he did was to look at the bnce of his ount in the Item Store.


    Only to see that it did not disappoint him and lived up to his expectations, disying ¡°User 120******1472, Bnce: 1013.27 yuan¡±.


    Zhang Zhiyin involuntarily revealed a big foolish smile¡ªsure enough, only Yuan was the hard currency!


    <strong>Footnotes:</strong>

 Chapter 7 - Evacuate

    <strong>Chapter 7: Evacuate


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin made a prompt decision and opened the Item Store and purchased the ice ability he was most familiar with.


    His body had a peal of numbness and limpness, and the grey mark on the wrist representing the precision ability gradually disappeared. A shallow, nearly grey, ice-blue sign emerged.


    Zhang Zhiyin recalled the ability in the game. Unconsciously, a transparent ice ball encircled with faint fog appeared on his fingertips.


    It¡¯s small; grasping it in his palm would make it melt, a gentle tap at it might break it into pieces. Yet it would grow to be his greatest dependence in this strange world.


    Sister Lan officially notified them of the decision to evacuate and counted the list of people willing to evacuate with them.


    City M could not be said to big or small. There were threerge safety zones for the survivors, such as Lihua Shopping Mall. There were seventeen or eighteen small ones and were in touch among themselves.


    The evacuation was decided by the threerge safety zones, and it would be divided into three batches, and the order of evacuation would be decided by lots. Lihua Shopping Mall was picked to be thest to evacuate. More than 10,000 people had decided to evacuate this time and there were 4,500 people who would be following Lihua Shopping Mall. It was not easy to organize and coordinate the work. However, Zhang Zhiyin did not need to worry about these.


    Brother Fei and Uncle Yun gathered together the ability users and the backbones and assigned them tasks.


    ¡°Li Bo, Liu Yuan, and Zhang Zhiyin!¡± Brother Fei called, ¡°All three of you are a precision ability user. You are responsible for the guard work in Group E No. 12, and each of you take one gun.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin followed the other two and took a gun. He weighed the heavy fellow he had never touched before and was in a dilemma.


    He had no precision ability now. Should he try to fish his way through or talk to Brother Fei? How do you exin that your precision ability suddenly turned into an ice ability? In fact, at this point in time, everyone didn¡¯t have a deep understanding of abilities mutation. He would be fine as long as he evade everything and said that he didn¡¯t know anything. However, Zhang Zhiyin still felt this was trouble and there might be hidden dangers. As the result, after the meeting, ncing at Brother Fei, he had a desire to speak but ended up stopping several times, and finally watched Brother Fei leave helplessly.


    At night, Zhang Zhiyiny on the ground and felt apologetic. Group E No. 12 was the closest to the rear, they should be on the alert and held the responsibility in paying attention to the situation happening behind the convoy and give timely reminders in advance. Having three people was a good precaution. If one of them failed to do his duty, it might lead to danger.


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t want to implicate everyone because of him. He decided to go to Brother Fei early in the morning to confess.


    But before that, he wanted to try.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at his remaining bnce of more than 700 and bit his teeth. He wanted to buy a good weapon and some other equipment. ording to his game experience, the second ability was actually a chicken rib, because the second ability he activated under normal circumstances was still the ordinary enhancement ability.


    Three secondster, a smaller mark appeared above the original one. It¡¯s grey, same as the one he used to have.


    Looking at the restoration of the clear and delicate vision of the precision ability, Zhang Zhiyin breathed a sigh of relief. For the first time, he felt that uracy skills came so timely.


    These two days when Zhang Zhiyin had nothing to do, he would be practicing the use of his ice ability, slowly reaching the level of his game¡¯s initial usage of his small ice dagger and ice ball. However, he did not have the opportunity to engage in a real battle, hence he did not know what the effect would be.


    On the morning of the third day, Zhang Zhiyin and his colleagues Liu Yuan and Li Fei went into the car and took charge of the warning work in the southeast, east and southwest directions respectively.


    They noticed that a lot of cars were following behind them even after the numbered A- E fleets.


    ¡°Uncle Yun said to let them follow, those who could not join the army to evacuate together but wanted to follow.¡± Liu Yuan looked at the convoy and looked slightly dissatisfied. Indeed, these unnned, uncontrolled ¡°tails¡± may cause them a lot of inconveniences or even danger.


    ¡°Why are there so much!¡± Li Bo was surprised.


    ¡°There were people who said they would not evacuate and change their minds at that time, and there were people who followed the evacuation but were not epted at that time.¡± Liu Yuan exined.


    There were more than 4,000 people in this safety area of Lihua Shopping Mall. There were many different reasons as to why many people failed evacuate even if they wanted to do so at that time. Zhang Zhiyin was absorbed in the newly awakened ice ability these two days, so he did not know much about these issues. At this time, listening to Liu Yuan, he thought about the oue of M City and his heart could note up with any feeling.


    As they reached Runfa Supermarket where the high-end mini zombie boss was located, the zombie crowd grew dense. What made Zhang Zhiyin thought that it was unbearable was that they were mostly passive when they were in the game at below Level 30, but now all the zombies in this real world had turned into active zombies.


    It¡¯s worrying to think about how they would be besieged and beaten without even starting one group attack.


    Those in charge of the fire raid at the front had begun to open a way. Themander ordered the convoy to elerate uniformly.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s car speed was also obviously elerating.


    It was unknown whomanded those who followed up behind. Thepletely unprepared cars appeared to be a little behind the rhythm. It was just a gap and it was almost impossible to move forward as it was surrounded by zombies.


    Zhang Zhiyin watched them anxiously, not knowing how they could get out of this trouble. Most of the ability users were persuaded to leave the city, leaving behind a small number of ability users, the firepower could not bepared to therger forces.


    The rear convoy was clearly under themand of someone. Without knowing what orders were given, Zhang Zhiyin suddenly saw the roof of the car next to them open ¡ª a man was thrown out.


    Then there¡¯s another one.


    Four people were thrown in four directions.


    The zombies around went to surround the person who had been thrown out, and the cars behind him got a chance to breathe and immediately increased their horsepower to follow up.


    Obviously, Li Bo also saw that he knocked the gun in his hand hard, there were even vague tears bursting out at the corners of his eyes and he shouted, ¡°Scum!¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin waspletely stunned.


    And if he didn¡¯t see wrong, the fourth one being thrown out was Yu Huo.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Yu Huoy quietly on the ground, and the pain of being tore and broke apart seemed to have got away from him.


    He could not even tell whether he was alive or dead.


    He should be dead.


    Right, he should be dead. That was what he thought.


    It was unknown when the sky started raining. Dripping and dropping, it was icy cold as itnded on his face.


    Yu Huo felt the coolness on his face and barely opened his eyes. The guys who had been tearing and gnawing around him were gone some time.


    At the end of the long street stood a man.


    The man was wearing a in white shirt and ck trousers, with a windbreaker outside and a ck umbre in his hand.


    The man approached slowly, step by step, and finally stopped in front of him.


    From the perspective of Yu Huo, only his ck upper and trousers feet can be seen.


    ¡°Do you want power?¡± The man asked indifferently, with a calm and undting tone.


    If someone had asked him before the end of the world, he would have responded with, ¡°Crazy.¡±


    But now it was different. He struggled to raise his head to see the ck eyes without emotion, and said in a hoarse voice, ¡°Yes.¡± The voice was so hoarse that it hardly resembled a human voice.


    ¡°Come with me then.¡± The man turned and left without saying another word.


    He was anxious to catch him but strangely found himself standing up. Only the dismembering pain on his body reminded him that everything before him was not a dream.


    ¡°What do I call you?¡± He took two quick steps and asked.


    ¡°Call me Y.¡±


    Y. Yu Huo was stunned. Is that the person? The devil who was identified as the cause of all this.


    He tried to see the man¡¯s face, but suddenly he noticed that his left hand, which had been hidden in his windbreaker pocket. He seemed to be protecting something.


    Pink, heart-shaped box... Choctes?

 Chapter 8 - Fireworks

    <strong>Chapter 8: Fireworks</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin followed the army all the way to Base No. 1 in Mulin City.


    Mulin City could be regarded as the first main city in <Tomorrow>. By the middle andter stages of the game, the Cloud Sky Alliance forces belonging to the yers and the Justice Force NPC would grow stronger, and the justice forces devoted to human renaissances, such as Base No. 1, would unite under the banner of the Cloud Sky Alliance to fight the evil organization where Dr. Y was located.


    However, the plot was still early from the establishment of the Cloud Sky Alliance. The main task of Base No. 1 was just to appease panicked people and try to make more people survive.


    Zhang Zhiyin was tired and fell asleep by the time all the troops in Lihua Shopping Mall and the ¡°individual travelers¡± who survived with them had undergone security checks and settled down.


    Maybe it was due to him experiencing an important plot, this time his stay in the world took a rtively short time.


    Zhang Zhiyin was woken up by the rm clock. When he sat at his desk, he realized that he hade back to reality.


    He forgot to say good morning to boss.


    When he got home from work and finished the rest of his work, Zhang Zhiyin went in the game while opening the official website of the game.


    Previously, he only paid attention to Dr. Y. He didn¡¯t care much about the background stories of other characters, but after experiencing that ¡°dream¡±, he began to wonder about the stories behind Yu Huo in the early days of the apocalypse. When he fled the city, he watched the people in the car throw Yu Huo out as bait to keep their lives. What kind of experience made him turn to Dr. Y? That he became the aggressive boss in theter stage?


    He opened the introduction of the characters, only to see this was written in the column of Yu Huo¡ª¡ª


    Y?


    Zhang Zhiyin was stunned for a moment. If what he saw was the so-called ¡°cause¡± of his ckening, then it meant... Y might have been very close to him at that time...


    Unfortunately, he didn¡¯t meet him.


    Strangely, Zhang Zhiyin did not feel much regret. On the contrary, it was apanied by a slightly unrealistic dreamlike feeling that he really coexisted with Y in a world and had the chance to be close to him.


    After entering the game, Zhang Zhiyin bought a gift for Boss as usual. This time it was a firework.


    Such was the exotic world of keyboard and online games. Clearly, it was an indoor scene but fireworks could still be set off in it.


    The abandonedboratory environment was set to be dark. Zhang Zhiyin sat quietly at Y¡¯s feet, opened the package and lit props and fireworks one after another.


    The room was full of splendor.


    ¡°Do you like it? If you like it, I¡¯ll put more for you next time.¡± Zhang Zhiyin typed.


    Then hemanded the little man to stand up, close his eyes, and gently gave Boss a hug.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the little man with the word ¡°Zhiyin¡± on his head and quietly embraced the virtual character half a head taller than himself. He smiled and struck out the remaining words¡ª¡ª


    ¡°Y, we are in the same world.¡±


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Before going to bed, Zhang Zhiyin was prepared to appear in the world of and things were not what he expected.


    Base No. 1 amodated nearly 100,000 people, and this number was still continuously increasing. One month after the apocalypse, Base No. 1 recovered some of its production capacity and was thergest and safest base in the Northeast at the starting phase of the apocalypse.


    A kind ofmunal-like organization form was implemented here. Both the ordinary people and the ability users could get contribution points by contributing to the construction of the base, and the contribution points were exchanged for living necessities. Different jobs get different contribution points. The contribution points of working in the base¡¯s factories were far lower than those of hunting zombies or defending the bases. At the same time, the zombie nuclei obtained by the hunting team could also be divided within the team. In Base No. 1, the role of zombie nuclei in ability upgrading had been recognized.


    As those ability users who participate in the hunting team faced more dangers, they rtively obtained more generous rewards.


    At the same time, there was a free market for free trade within the base, where people could exchange what they needed, where people with the skills of forging weapons, making clothes, refining drugs and so on could sell their items. This equipment or drugs often had better attributes than those exchanged from base supply points.


    These situations might seem strange in reality, but looking at how this world¡¯s settings were born out of a game, all of this could be convincing ¨C yers had life skills, could forge, or obtain equipment and weapons dropped by zombies and monsters that were often better than those purchased in the system store.


    But no matter in the world of or in the game of , ordinary zombies would not drop equipment. The only objects that they drop were the crystal nucleus, while boss-level monsters often had advanced equipment or items. In this world, humans had an understanding that the locations where high-level zombies were located had a rtively denser elements mutation, resulting in the emergence of special forces contained within ordinary objects.


    People in the former Lihua Shopping Mall had been separated. Zhang Zhiyin had been assigned to the seventh team of District F. The captain was a middle-aged uncle with mutated strength. Although the uncle only had amon mutation, he had a rtively deep experience and belonged to the first group of beneficiaries of nucleus upgrading. Moreover, the initial upgrade of themon mutation was rtively easy. Therefore, he was now a rare third-level mutator, while most people such as Zhang Zhiyin are only primary or first-level mutators.


    This was the first time Zhang Zhiyin entered a team. After sweeping his eyes around, he met a familiar person. It was inappropriate to say that he was familiar; he knew the person but the person didn¡¯t know him.


    The man was the leader of the famous captain of the Cloud Mist Team of Cloud Sky Alliance in the future, Li Shuifeng. Because he was young and handsome, holding the dual abilities of water and precision. Together with his gentle personality and great abilities, he was the backbone of the righteous camp. He was a rather popr NPC in the game. At this point, however, it seemed that he only had one ordinary enhancement ability.


    This time, the team had joined many new people. Some of the experienced old people in the original team had also been arranged to lead the newly-formed team. It could be said that the team had been reshuffled. The captain uncle first introduced himself and arranged for the members to introduce themselves to each other.


    ¡°My name is Zhang Zhiyin, from M City, first level of precision mutation.¡± Zhang Zhiyin said this because when he entered the base to register his ability, Brother Fei and Uncle Yun registered the precision mutation to him. The base No. 1 was of a mix of dragon and snake and at this time exposing himself was to grow a new branch out of a knot. In order to hide his ice ability, Zhang Zhiyin went to the mall and bought an item to conceal his ability attributes. This item was only useful in several specific dungeon instances and tasks of the game, so the price was cheaper, but now it helped Zhang Zhiyin a lot. After using the item, no one would find out that he had dual abilities unless he actively used his ice skills.


    Li Shuifeng gave him a silent nce when he heard about his precision mutation.


    When it was Li Shuifeng¡¯s turn, he said, ¡°Li Shuifeng of City N, first-level precision mutation.¡±


    Was he hiding? Or was it like himself?


    Out of curiosity, Zhang Zhiyin bought an ability identifier from the mall for 50 cents. This identifier in the game was used to identify boss or the ability of the yers so that yers could develop appropriate tactical strategies. He thought that it could now also be used to identify the real ability of Li Shuifeng.


    The result showed that Li Shuifeng was telling the truth. He really had only level one of precision ability.


    For no reason, this realistic version of Li Shuifeng made him feel ufortable.


    Was it because Brother Shuifeng¡¯s sense of justice was too strong that he, as a boss lover, could not stand it? Zhang Zhiyin teased himself secretly in his heart but didn¡¯t put much thought into it.


    <strong>Footnotes:</strong>


    Other than Dead People(Zombies), there is also Monsters = Mutated Animals and nts

 Chapter 9 - Treasure

    <strong>Chapter 9: Treasure


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    After several missions, the team members could coordinate well with one another. It¡¯s just that Zhang Zhiyin had no opportunity to practice his ice ability, as the three nuclei he obtained through the missions being was used to upgrade the precision mutation in order to cover it up from outsiders¡¯ eyes and ears. Now that his precision ability was at Level 1, and his ice ability was still at the primary level. His ice balls could only be melted into water for consumption. It had no actual attack power.


    About ten dayster, they were given another mission. There was a riot of zombies in the southwestern part of the base, and they needed to find out the cause.


    Several people boarded a special patrol car and drove to their destination. As the site of the incident was rtively close to the base, it was often cleaned up, so there weren¡¯t many zombies there. However, asionally, there would be encounters with some zombies that were very manic, like they were injected with chicken blood as they rushed at them. Their strength and speed would often be greatly improved more than usual.


    Zhang Zhiyin and Li Shuifeng handled left and right respectively, They were responsible for searching abnormal conditions along the way.


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly remembered that he had also done an important branch task in the vicinity of the game. The task publisher was one of the people in charge of the West District of Base No. 1 at that time. The main idea of the task was that his elder brother was a small team leader in the early stages of the apocalypse and in one mission, they lost their whole team and unfortunately, his brother died. For so many years, he found difficulties in letting go of this knot in his heart, hoping that the yer could help him to look for clues of that year at the ident site.


    Zhang Zhiyin remembered that thest clue of the task was not found. He only found a unique metal hawk ne and took it back with him. The person in charge was very excited to say that it was his brother¡¯s personal ne and gave a lot of rewards to the yers.


    Thinking until here, Zhang Zhiyin casually looked to the left and nced at the scene reflected in the rearview mirror ¨C sitting in the co-pilot¡¯s seat, captain uncle smartly unfastened the two buttons near the neckline, revealing knots of muscles and a unique, hawk-shaped metal ne on his chest.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    Captain... To the southwest of the base to do the task... The whole team vanished... Hawk ne... Wouldn¡¯t it be so coincidental?


    ¡°Captain,¡± Zhang Zhiyin looked at the uncle, ¡°I don¡¯t think the situation is right. Shall we go back today ande back when we have enough equipment with other teams as a backup?¡±


    Uncle captain hesitated. As someone who experienced the severe hardship of manyrge and small tasks and a Level 3 ability user, he could also sense a hint of danger, but he could not tell the source of this feeling, and it was not good to go back without anything.


    ¡°Let¡¯s assess the situation more first.¡±


    As soon as the uncle captain uttered his words, he no longer waited for Zhang Zhiyin to continue but listened to Li Shuifeng saying, ¡°Look, that¡¯s probably what we¡¯re looking for.¡±


    Only to see a nt as tall as half a human with a light blue fruit as big as a fist on it. All the zombies were ten meters away from the nt and did not dare to approach it.


    With the arrival of the end of the world, animals and nts and even somemon objects were affected and developed a mutation. Some became very aggressive, while others could be used by people, and had wonderful effects.


    ¡°I, Lao Ma and Da Hu will see what it is. You all stay in the car, evacuate immediately if anything goes wrong.¡±


    In the world of <Tomorrow>, it was like the game. Everyone might master several special ¡°life skills¡± and improve their proficiency through constant use. The life skills of Lao Ma were very special. They were appraisal techniques, currently, he could see the attributes or effects of some low-level items.


    Lao Ma suddenly burst out a cry of surprise: ¡°Able to grant an ordinary enhancement ability user with a water ability as their second ability! Goddess!¡±


    The uncle captain suddenly changed his expression when he heard the words. He took out the storage box and put the blue fruit into it. This thing was too magical and important. Even if there were difficulties, he must now take the risk of bringing it back to base.


    The moment he picked the fruit, the zombies that originally had been wandering around, not daring toe near, were suddenly surrounding him.


    His sixth sense made the captain turn around quickly to avoid green and sharp dried w. Behind him, was a tall blue-green zombie about two meters in height that emerged out of nowhere.


    The captain felt weak after only exchanging blows for three rounds. He spat and hatefully said, ¡°It¡¯s a poisonous zombie, watch out for his ws. Damn it, it might even have a speed mutation.¡±


    Hu Zi and Lao Ma were cleaning up the zombies around them, and they came back to the captain who was entangled with the poisonous zombie. The other two ability users left behind also rushed out of the car, trying to help the captain and the two open up an escape route.


    ¡°Its level is much higher than us! We can¡¯t hurt it at all!¡± Cried Hu Zi in despair.


    As someone with a strength mutation, the captain chopped the poisonous zombie with his special steel knife. But it was just like chopping on an iron te, it only left a pale white scratch on the zombie.


    ¡°Run to the car and try to get rid of it,¡± the captain roared. But in fact, in his mind, he knew that the chances of sess were very small, because the speed of this poisonous zombie was too fast, far exceeding theirs.


    There were only seven members in the team. Among them, Zhang Zhiyin and Li Shuifeng, who were precision ability users, only have the fighting power of ordinary people, so they could only exert their ability advantage and shoot with guns while hiding in the car.


    But it didn¡¯t work at all. The removal of the blue fruit was like lifting some kind of ban on the zombies here, and there was a flood of zombies that the team didn¡¯t know where they were hiding previously as if there were something that attracted them.


    The two rescuers who had just gotten out of the car were quickly separated by the zombies. The captain and the two tried to get closer to the car, but their efforts did not seem to have any effect.


    Zhang Zhiyin ran to the driver¡¯s seat with a gun and drove to the direction of the captain. The car was specially modified and hit many low-level zombies along the way.


    After a lot of fighting, the number of low-level zombies had been reduced, but the price was also huge ¨C the two rescuers team members had long disappeared, Hu Zi¡¯s arms were severed by the poisonous zombie. Lao Ma and the captain were also injured. Fortunately, they were only three steps away from the door.


    ¡°Go down to fetch them. We couldn¡¯t shoot at that angle.¡± Zhang Zhiyin jumped out of the car with a gun and said to Li Shuifeng in a hurry.


    ¡°Go ahead, I¡¯ll stay in the car.¡± Li Shuifeng responded. His expression was calm. It was calm from the beginning to the end.


    Zhang Zhiyin took a gun to clean up the low-level zombies near the car door while standing at the car door to release a sniper¡¯s shot at the poisonous zombie. During the cleaning, his right arm and right leg were bitten, but the pain and wound were within his tolerance.


    When Lao Ma saw an opportunity arose, he rushed towards the car. Hu Zi and the captain moved to this side as they fought with the poisonous zombie.


    Suddenly, Lao Ma stopped.


    A green, dry, sharp hand pierced his chest from behind him. Red blood sshed out.


    Lao Ma¡¯ss body slowly fell down and his eyes were still looking at the opened door.


    Hu Zi let out a hoarse howl. He shouted, ¡°Captain, go! I¡¯ll dy this monster!¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly realized what Da Hu was going to do.


    Da Hu was a wood ability user. The wood ability had a skill of controlling enemies. It could churn out life vines by burning his own life force. It could entangle opponents much higher in level than himself. In the game, the so-called burning of ¡°life¡± was just to reduce the amount of blood (HP); in this world, burning of life might really reduce your life.


    For the first time, Zhang Zhiyin hated that he was useless, hated his shorings. He watched his teammates fall in front of him, but there was nothing he could do.


    Green, vibrant vines sprouted from the Da Hu¡¯s chest, it sprouted rapidly and twined around the poisonous zombie. The poisonous zombie was tearing away with its sharp ws, but it could not break away for a moment. It struggled and roared angrily at the spot.


    The uncle captain did not hesitate anymore and rushed to Zhang Zhiyin.


    During this period, a group of zombies surrounded the door of the car, Zhang Zhiyin had to shoot with his best effort to clear the zombies, while holding out his hand to grab the uncle.


    With only one step to go, the captain suddenly froze, just like Lao Ma.


    His face was green and pale, and his hands and feet quickly became stiff. The zombie was poisonous and the captain had long been poisoned by it.


    The uncle saw himself in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s eyes. Little by little, he painstakingly pulled out the box containing the blue fruit and handed it to Zhang Zhiyin, his ck eyes were full of trust and faith. Slowly and arduously, he said, ¡°Give it to the base... If the secret of this fruit could be discovered and mass produced, all ordinary ability users can have a second power... Resistance to the end of the world, humanity¡¯s renaissance... There will be more hope...¡±


    After entrusting it to Zhang Zhiyin, the captain uncle fell back slowly as if all of his wishes had been fulfilled.


    When the vines disappeared, the poisonous zombie rushed to the direction of the car. The zombies nearby also came, surrounding them.


    Zhang Zhiyin finally took a look at the unique hawk ne and jumped into the car without hesitation. The body of the modified car was very high. He stepped on the car with his left leg, and his right leg was still outside. Suddenly he was unable to exert his strength due to the wound in his leg.


    Then Li Shuifeng appeared at the door.


    ¡°Pull me up.¡± Zhang Zhiyin quickly reached out to him and looked at him.


    Sure enough, Li Shuifeng also extended his hand to him.


    But he grabbed the small box with the blue fruit that the captain had so desperately entrusted to him.


    Then he raised his right leg, very calmly, and kicked Zhang Zhiyin out of the car without hesitation.


    Outside the car, there was a group of zombies that were coveting him like tigers.


    As he fell to the ground, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s eyes were still full of disbelief.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Li Shuifeng drove away and saw in the rearview mirror that hisst teammate was surrounded by the zombies, and gradually disappeared into the field of vision. Finally, very slowly, he revealed a smile.


    On his left hand, there was a small, inconspicuous box.

 Chapter 10 - Revenge

    <strong>Chapter 10: Revenge</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin fell heavily to the ground.


    His headnded first, and thest sight he saw was the grim shapes of the zombies crowding around him. Darkness soon followed and he lost his consciousness.


    This was also thest sight Li Shuifeng saw.


    He never would have expected that at the moment of his departure, ck raging me emerged suddenly, encasing the fainted youth in a protecting gesture.


    The next second, the mes rocketed into the sky and exploded, turning all the contaminated zombies into ashes in an instant.


    In the opennd, only the sleeping youth was left.


    And the one who was watching him silently.


    It seemed like the person just abruptly appeared here. His dark eyes looked at the fallen man with unrecognizable joy or anger.


    He walked forward quietly, step by step with apparent caution until he stood in front of the young man. He looked at him with arrogance. After a long time, he stopped, extended his fingertips and tentatively touched the young man¡¯s right cheek, then recoiled as quickly as if he had been shocked by electricity.


    He raised the fingertips that touched the young person in front of him and looked at them carefully. Then, as if he had made up his mind, he gently knelt down in front of the youth as if he was afraid he would disturb him, opened his arms, and held the person in his embrace.


    Yin Nian looked at the man in his arms quietly, his gaze was so gentle as if he was some kind of supple little animal.


    Nobody at this moment would believe that this handsome and peaceful man was the one that made this extremely cruel doomsday catastrophe.


    He used the wing of his nose to gently make contact with the young man¡¯s cheeks and then proceeded to try to use his lips to close the distance between him and the young man¡¯s soft lips. In a split second, his sight grew blurry and distant.


    Somewhat in a trance, he raised his head and took a small bite on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s neck.


    The two snuggled for a long time, maybe the Boss finally felt satisfied and felt that this was not a good ce to stay any longer, so he directly picked up the person in his arms and strolled forward. After three steps, the two disappeared simultaneously out of thisnd, as if they had never appeared here before.


    In the game of <Tomorrow>, it was set up to say that Dr. Y transformed himself after the start of the apocalypse, thereby he possessed a full-scale ability.


    Spatial ability was no exception.


    Yin Nian came to a verdant valley as he carried Zhang Zhiyin in his arms. Before the end of the world, this was probably a tourist attraction.


    If Zhang Zhiyin were awake, he would recognize that this was the famous grinding spot, Valley of the Extinct Dragon, in the game. It was always famous for its numerous variety of monsters, huge density, quick spawn rate, and the rich drop of crystal nucleus. In the game, it was always reserved by all of the major guilds. But in the initial stage of the apocalypse, there were few people here, because the monsters were too powerful for the present ability users, and the deeper they went, the stronger the monster would be.


    He strolled through the valley and advance unopposed, and all living creatures spontaneously retreated after perceiving his breath.


    Yin Nian ced Zhang Zhiyin in the most intact, which also meant the safest cave in the valley. There were few zombies and mutant animals near the cave, and they never once entered the cave. This was not at all surprising, because in the game, this cave was the resurrection point in the Valley of the Extinct Dragon. Fifty meters around it belonged to the safety zone, evidently, it waspletely retained in this world.


    He lowered his head and quietly scanned theatose man inch by inch until he noticed the injuries on Zhiyin¡¯s upper arm and thigh.


    He had never been hurt and was very insusceptible to injury. Furthermore, he could not understand what these sorts of wounds would mean to human beings. There was only a stereotypical knowledge in his mind pertaining to this. The only impression he had came from the observation of that person he saved the other day. That man seemed to be in pain.


    Then would his Zhiyin also be in pain? With this in mind, his deep eyes without any human feelings showed a trace of faint depression.


    A pearl-colored white light emerged on Yin Nian¡¯s hand. He ced his hand on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s thigh wound. The wound that had been torn open greatly healed quickly in a speed visible to the naked eye and the skin there became as bright and smooth as before.


    He then moved his hand to the wound on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s upper arm and suddenly hesitated when he was about to put it down. The white light in his hand disappeared in an instant.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s clothes had long been torn to pieces, revealing the slightly reddish wound that was seeping blood, together with the flesh-colored skin on the upper side of his arm.


    This injury was actually much lighter whenpared to that on the thigh.


    Yin Nian showed that startled expression once again. He blinked, bowed his head and licked the wound gently ¡ª his heterogeneous andplex knowledge database told him that intimate human beings seemed to help and treat each other this way.


    Regardless of whether this licking therapy worked among most humans or not, it did work for the Boss¡ªwhere the tip of the tongue went, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s wounds healed as quickly as possible. It was also not difficult for Yin Nian to adjust his body fluidposition freely to make sure it had healing properties.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s eyshes quivered slightly in hisa.


    Yin Nian looked at him and once again bent down and kissed him on the corner of his mouth.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    When Zhang Zhiyin woke up, he found himself in an empty and unfamiliar cave.


    Just now, it seemed that he had a strange dream... he dreamed of Boss, that he was kissing himself?


    Zhang Zhiyin stood up, still feeling sore and weak. However, the wounds on his body had already healed, but the clothes he wore were extremely worn out that it was beyond recognition. This equipment was indeed badly damaged.


    It seemed that he died once again and was now resurrected at the point of resurrection.


    But where was this resurrection point?


    Zhang Zhiyin circled the cave twice and felt that something was wrong. He went out, stood at the cave entrance and surveyed the beautiful, bright, and verdant scenery, filled with mutant animals shining with different halos that represent their own respective mutated abilities, grinding their teeth at him. His heart was full of tears; This, this is the Valley of the Extinct Dragon? This was the leveling zone for Level 50 to Level 70 in the game and his current body now was only at most Level 11/12. Wasn¡¯t he going to experience a minute-by-minute rhythm of continuous death here?


    And Li Shuifeng...


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s eyes were rarely stained with a dark light.


    In more than 20 years of his life, Zhang Zhiyin seldom took anything seriously, but this time, he would never just let it be. Someday, he would make the responsible person pay the price.


    Having not yet figured out what he should do, a sudden sense of drowsiness hit Zhang Zhiyin and he fell asleep again.


    Waking up and seeing the familiar bed, Zhang Zhiyin knew that the time was up and he came back to his own world again.


    At noon break, Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t help going into the official website of <Tomorrow> to find out more about the game¡¯s information.


    Now he was still in the early stages of the game plot. Half a yearter, all the major base forces belonging to the human side would gradually establish and head towards the preparation of theter stage of the apocalypse. Next, after umting a certain amount of power, the major forces within the human race began to dispute and annex each other, resulting in serious internal friction and declining strength. In this case, ultimately a reconciliation within humankind had been reached and a unified Cloud Sky Alliance would be established. But the coalition was still loose and full of friction. It was not until the third evolution of the zombies and their power-up that Dr. Y¡¯s strength was further strengthened. Under the enormous pressure, the Cloud Sky Alliance gradually united and yed the role of humanity¡¯s pir.


    There was currently a poprity contest on the official website.


    Zhang Zhiyin conveniently voted for Dr. Y. while checking the results, he found that Li Shuifeng ranking was not low, he actually ranked at eighth ce.


    Instantly, he became angry and opened a document file and wrote an article as fast as he could, then posted it on the game forum.


    The title is <Revealing the Hypocritical Face of the NPC Li Shuifeng>. It talked about how the poster received a hidden task and discovered the truth about Li Shuifeng. The older brother of the person in charge of West District No. 1 Base¡¯s team waspletely wiped out, he was greedy for a second ability, harmed his teammates, and exploited important items.


    There were many replies below the post. At first, they all said that the stories of the poster were well told, they wondered what job he held, why not consider doing game nning? Others did not think it was a fabrication. They went on to find out how to take this task and what was the reward.


    The people in the nning group of <Tomorrow> had a face of disbelief when they saw this post.


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong with the data? How did this taske out ahead of schedule?¡± Faced with this heavy bug, the team leader felt an abnormal congestion in his heart. ¡°Go to the technical department to find out about the situation!¡±


    They did design a hidden series of plot tasks. After the yerspleted the full set of tasks to reveal the true face of Li Shuifeng, the league leader would say that the league was in need of such a righteous and promising member, and would ask the yers whether they would want to stay in the league. This opened the position system in the game. yers could hold different positions in the alliance ording to their contributions, and even be the ultimate leader of the alliance, leading all mankind to overthrow Dr. Y and achieve human renaissance.


    Of course, the technical department said there was no problem, and the hypocrite task had never been triggered by anyone.


    Zhang Zhiyin knew nothing about this and he still logged in to the game as the first thing he did after returning home.


    In the game, Dr. Y was still standing in front of the experimental cab indifferently.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s mind went back to his pink-colored dream again.


    Heughed and directed the little character to go forward until he almost coincided with the boss; he operated the mouse and used the daily movements of ¡°Hug¡± and ¡°Kiss¡±.


    This time the angle was adjusted very well, and he actually kissed Y¡¯s face.


    Zhang Zhiyin smiled and hit the keyboard, ¡°Do you know? I had a dream of you kissing me.¡±


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 Chapter 11 - Ring

    <strong>Chapter 11: Ring</strong>


    ¡°Today, I met a bad person and he caused my death. But that¡¯s okay. I¡¯ll make him pay the price myself.¡±


    ¡°We had fried noodles for lunch today. I wonder if you would like it...¡±


    As usual, Zhang Zhiyin began to talk to himself endlessly about his life to Y. He then began to think about the ns to survive in another world.


    In the Valley of the Extinct Dragon, it was only possible to go out if you have risen to at least Level 50. At his current level, it was not easy for him to grind the monsters and raise his level there.


    However, even if your level was inadequate, the game would exploit the opportunity with equipment. Zhang Zhiyin felt that if he wore divine equipment, he would then be able to fight.


    In , there really was a full-featured divine suit without hierarchical requirements, called ¡°Redemption of the Last Age¡±.


    The most amazing thing about this set of equipment was that it could be upgraded and modified ording to the yer¡¯s own attributes at will. Now the highest yer in the game was Level 80. It was said that it would at least require 30,000 yuan to upgrade the suit to Level 80, and this did not include the loss from the various kinds of failure rates, but at that time its attributes were the strongest among all the equipment. And to collect a clean set of ¡°Redemption of the Last Age¡±, would also need nearly 2,000 yuan, and the market price for the whole set of the equipment from special resellers was 1,888 yuan.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at his bank bnce and charged 3,000 yuan into his game ount.


    Anyway, he was single; a bachelor would never starve his family. and he had no ns to buy a car or a house in the short term, let alone finding a girlfriend.


    In fact, spending money on games was the same as spending money on girlfriends. Looking at the boss on the screen, Zhang Zhiyin thought silently.


    Before going to bed at night, he bought another box of choctes for Y. He did not forget to type and warned him, ¡°Don¡¯t eat at night, it¡¯s easy to have bad teeth. My grandmother said that.¡±


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    The first thing Zhang Zhiyin did after waking up from ¡®s world was to open the Item Store and Trading House and searched for the ¡°Redemption of the Last Age¡± set. Sure enough, there were several sellers that sold the whole clean set of the suit at a uniform price of 1,888 yuan.


    The 1888 ¡°Redemption of the Last Age¡± set consisted of nine pieces; the headpiece, facial decoration, top, bottom, shoes, cape, ne, ring, and bracelet. Each of them had a unique name. This suit was not only famous because of its unique growth nature, but also because of its delicate, smooth and simple shape design.


    For example, its facial decoration was a silver half-face mask with 13 essential features. Its name was ¡°The False Face of the Last Age¡±. The male headdress was called ¡°Guardian of the Last Age¡±, which was abination of ck leather and mithril. The cape was a long ck cape with a silver guard, which was called ¡°Glory of the Last Age¡±.


    The whole set had silver and ck as the main color, and after theplete set was assembled in the game, it would have a silver halo light effect.


    The seller acted quickly and sent the things through the game trading system as soon as he saw the buyer made payment.


    Zhang Zhiyin saw pieces of equipment emerge from the air and fall to the ground.


    In the equipment introduction section of the game materials, it was said that the ¡®Redemption of the Last Age¡¯ was all made of special and unique magical silver. There were metal pieces everywhere in the equipment. If you take them to smash people, they could be smashed half to death. He quickly hid aside and confirmed the receipt of the goods.


    When the seller received the money, he was very enthusiastic. He even gave him a special message: ¡°If this boss needs to upgrade materials for equipment, he can also find us~ will give you a discount of 8.50%.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the equipment which seemed to be full of Sha Ma Te and effeminate aura. After a minute¡¯s silence, he finally began to put them on his body one by one. Now he was d that there was no ¡°earring¡± in the ¡°Redemption of Last Age¡± set.


    In fact, he was biased in his remarks. The ne and earrings* in the suit were all made of ck leather rope and silver chain design which was not of over the top. However, for Zhang Zhiyin, who had never worn anything but a watch or a talisman from his grandmother since he was a child, these were enough to challenge his endurance ¨C especially the knee-length boots, which Zhang Zhiyin swore he had never worn or intended to wear in his lifetime!


    He was d that he was not able to purchase that ¡°Freedom of the Last Age¡±. There was also a special essory for the whole set of ¡°Redemption of the Last Age¡±, which was a pair of big silver wings full of metal texture. Its existence was very popr in the game.


    But its drop rate was very low, almost one-thousandth of other essories, so it had been in a state of no market. Later, because it was impossible to assemble aplete set, the yers protested. Qinng then changed it into a special essory. Without it, it would not affect the full set of attributes to y, but after possession, it could make the set attributes go up by two steps.


    After wearingplete equipment, Zhang Zhiyin found that the ring of ¡°The Glory of the Last Age¡± was dropped to some unknown spot and he did not know where it was.


    He bowed his head and circled in the dark cave for a while. Finally, he found the bright silver circle and happily put it in his hand.


    As a careless man, Zhang Zhiyin never carefully paid attention to what the ring of the Redemption set looked like, he only roughly knew it was silver in color and very delicate. So he did not realize that the ring was not the one in the suit, but it was a simple yet extremely exquisite ring with small characters inscribed on its inside.¡ª¡ª


    ¡°With my true love, Y¡±


    And one of the special attributes of this ring was ¨C.

 Chapter 12 - Help

    <strong>Chapter 12: Help


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    Zhang Zhiyin put on the ring in satisfaction and felt that his innate physical quality was improving. He could not helpmenting that the game equipment was really amazing. After wearing it, he became Superman in the next second.


    The only drawback was that... would it too frightening for him to be glittering with this silver holy light effect? It¡¯s fine in this ce where birds didn¡¯t even shit, but what about when he returned to human society? It couldn¡¯t be that this body of 1888 yuan would never see the light?


    As if acting in cooperation with his thinking, Zhang Zhiyin saw the Item Store leap. Then it hopped again to the left and right, somersaulted, jumped a number eight...


    Zhang Zhiyin immediately opened it with a cold sweat.


    The store was selling [SEASON¡¯S HOT SALES] a column of twinkling Fashion of all kinds and sorts.


    People who have yed online games before would not be unfamiliar with such things as ¡°fashion items¡±. If they wear fashion items, they would be able to show the appearance of the item and hide the original appearance of the equipment.


    Zhang Zhiyin did not hesitate to choose the mostmon pair of white T-shirt, jeans, and casual shoes. Only when he got the clothes on his hands that he found out that this magical fashion item could be very huge so that it could fit himpletely, and then return to normal size when it was worn on his body. After that, the original effect of the cool dazzling ¡°Redemption of the Last Age¡± suit with the air of a king waspletely concealed.


    Zhang Zhiyin, who had restored his image of an ordinary youth, breathed a sigh of relief, only to discover another tragic fact when he saw the reflection of the pool in the cave¡ª


    Who could exin to him the meaning of ¡°I Love Dr. Y for 10,000 Years¡± slogan and the corresponding two heart eyes expression on the white T-shirt?! And what was with the ¡°Captain of Dr. Y¡¯s Assistance Corps¡± that had a fluorescent effect at the back?!


    Clearly, the Item Store was an orthodox store, why did it have such a wicked item...


    The reason why these gamepanies introduced this kind of fashion was of course, due to those middle school teenagers that simply love to look at appearances and so on. There were also many yers that loved viins.


    Zhang Zhiyin felt that he preferred to wear the redemption suit and frighten people to death rather than to wear such clothing and be beaten by people.


    However, anyway, there was no one around at this moment and Zhang Zhiyin was toozy to buy another fashion item. This item had an expiration date of one month. He might not be able to go out of the Valley of the Extinct Dragon within one month.


    Zhang Zhiyin officially began his journey of grinding the monsters and leveling.


    Now that he was in this real world, one of the conveniences was that he could aggro monsters and attack them from safe spots and set traps; the inconvenience was that all kinds of monsters had be much smarter...


    With the support of the attributes from the suit, Zhang Zhiyin was now able to liftrge stones effortlessly, almost as if he has acquired the primary mutation of the strength. His speed and other basic qualities had also improved a lot. He hid on the edge of the safety zone and used his little ice ball and little ice arrows to sneak long-range attacks on the monsters that seemed easy to deal with. He flew kites and fought guerris with them. If he found that other monsters or targeted monsters were not easy to deal with, he would quickly hide inside the safe zone.


    Relying on the support of high-grade potions and other buff medicines bought from the Item Stores, Zhang Zhiyin also killed two higher-level monsters, a rabbit and a rat.


    But the rat belonged to amunity of animals, killing one led to a nest attacking him. Zhang Zhiyin was so frightened that he quickly hid inside the safety zone.


    Metal collects water, water extinguishes fire. With a mutated ice ability, in the world of <Tomorrow>, metal ability would be an increased aid to the ice ability in extinguishes the fire ability.


    The rabbits and rats that Zhang Zhiyin had selected as his opponents were all the fire elementals. They belonged to the lowest sses of monsters in the Valley of Extinct Dragon. The redemption suit had the function of lucky blessing, and the drop probability of objects would increase. Therefore, the rabbit and rat each devoted a second-level fire-ss crystal nucleus to Zhang Zhiyin.


    Absorbing the fire crystal nuclei was the least helpful to the growth of the ice ability, but it was better than nothing. Zhang Zhiyin who was driven back to the safe zone by those rats directly used both the crystal nucleus to upgrade his ice ability. He urgently needed to improve his offensive power at present. By contrast, his precise ability was too chicken rib, so he ignored it for the time being.


    He sat at the entrance of the cave to rest. Conveniently, he grabbed the grass beside his feet and picked it up to find that it was an Extinct Dragon Herb, a precious herb in the game. Valley of the Extinct Dragon was a treasure house of herbal resources in the world of <Tomorrow>, but in the game, this ce has been monopolized by those big guilds for a long time, so Zhang Zhiyin had no chance to grind or pick medicine here.


    Now that the opportunity was so good, the idle Zhang Zhiyin simply just bought a set of ¡°Pharmaceutical Collection¡± skill book from the Item Store. He also bought a pompous stove and a cubic meter space backpack and started learning life skills.


    On the morning of the third day, Zhang Zhiyin ate a bowl of bean paste noodles from the Item Store that added speed properties, When he filled his stomach, he went out and began hunting.


    His ice ability had been upgraded to Level 1, with a primary speed deceleration skill in addition to the ice ball and ice arrow, he decided to challenge arger monster, the mutant smander.


    The smander¡¯s attack and speed were average. You only need to be careful in not being hit by the fireball it would spat out. However, it was extremely defensive. Zhang Zhiyin and the smander hit each other with ice and fireballs all morning before the monster was finally beaten half dead. Seeing that victory was in sight, Zhang Zhiyin was happy and stepped up his offensive quickly.


    Just then, a white light shed in front of him, the smander suddenly flopped to the ground without warning.


    A man in cknded in front of the lizard. With one move of his hand, the lizard disappeared and seemed to have been taken into space.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s first thought was ¡°kill steal!¡± With this thought, he also shouted it out.


    The man heard this and looked back at him coldly.


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly froze ¨C this man, he knew him, ah!


    But the other party should not know him.


    Dr. Y had three big underlings under his seat. Yu Huo, with fire ability, Lei Dun, with lightning ability, and an anonymous with an unknown ability.


    In the real game scenario, the righteous forces of the Cloud Sky Alliance where the yers belonged to were fighting with Yu Huo¡¯s forces. Every time the yers made relentless efforts to gain a slight advantage and felt that they could finally strike down Yu Huo, Lei Dun woulde out, silently cracking a thunderbolt, helping to fight back the forces of the Cloud Sky Alliance.


    The man in front of him was Lei Dun. He was famous for his passerby face, his reserved personality, not listening to any exnations and unreasonableness. No opposition force of his own had been formed, but he alone made the Cloud Sky Alliance even more fearful than the whole Yu Huo force.


    Looking at Zhang Zhiyin, Lei Dun¡¯s eyes shed a chill. Just when he was about to raise his hand to summon a lightning de and finish the human being in front of him, his line of sight shifted downward suddenly, and saw the clothes he was wearing¡ª¡ª


    [I love Dr. Y for 10,000 years]


    It turned out he was a friend.


    Lei Dun immediately curbed his killing intent.


    Zhang Zhiyin watched Lei Dun raise his hands helplessly, knowing in his heart that he was going to make a big move with that gesture.


    While he was extending his neck in preparation for execution, he suddenly saw the man put down his hand, stride towards himself, seized his hand and shook it vigorously with a serious face said: ¡°Hello, I am Lei Dun, what can I do to help you?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was frightened and hurriedly shook his head.


    Lei Dun frowned slightly.


    Looking at how this big brother in front of him was going to get angry and change his mind. Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s brain stopped at once and shouted out without hesitation: ¡°Yes, yes, yes, please tell Dr. Y that I love him!¡±


    Lei Dun nced at Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s T-shirt in a meaningful way, and he really agreed, ¡°Alright. What¡¯s your name?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin felt that he could no longer live. If Lei Dun did not kill him, he would end himself.


    With unknown tears in his heart, Zhang Zhiyin forced out each word said, ¡°My name is Zhang Zhiyin.¡±


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    Flew Kites: hitting opponent through long-range skills, so they can¡¯t hit you


    Chicken Rib: Things of little Value


    The metal collect water, water extinguish fire >>>> legit from google not anyhow de~

 Chapter 13 - Another Kind of Complaint

    <strong>Chapter 13: Another Kind of Comint


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    Lei Dun nodded his head and soon disappeared in front of Zhang Zhiyin.


    It seemed like Dr. Y had equipped all of his underlings with some kind of teleportation item that allowed them to move quickly from one ce to another.


    As long as he thought about how he was just a grass root unknown to Dr. Y, who was a real living person at the top of chain, someone that was beyond the sky, instead of being a 3D virtual image in the game that he could tease casually in theboratory, Zhang Zhiyin wanted to bang his head on the wall and die.


    He felt that he couldn¡¯t mingle in this world anymore.


    Zhang Zhiyin with a muddled head went back to the cave. He huddled and sat down facing the cave wall as he silently reflected. As soon as he arrived at this new world where he was just a war dreg, he confessed to this world¡¯s top viin boss, wasn¡¯t this... not very good?


    Zhang Zhiyin, who had yet to reflect on an oue, returned back to the real world. He still ate breakfast, went to work, ate lunch, continued his work, knock off from work, and then went home.


    During that time, he received a call from Dajia.


    ¡°Hello, Zhiyin, I¡¯m having dinner with several colleagues in the evening. Would you like toe? My colleagues are said to be bringing some of their ssmates. They are female.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin paused for a second and thought about his words for a moment. He immediately refused, ¡°No, I¡¯m busytely.¡±


    If he went out for dinner, he would only be able to reach home at around ten o¡¯clock. He would have to sleep after doing some tidying. There would be no time to apany the Boss.


    ¡°What could you be doing?!¡± Dajia choked and shouted, ¡°How busy could your work be? I¡¯m telling you, Zhang Zhiyin, you should stop being a kind old man helping others to make their wedding clothes. Nobody in the world will miss your kindness. Are you still going to find a girlfriend and get married if you don¡¯te out?! You think that you¡¯re still a fresh and tender grass at this age?!¡±


    Dajia had a violent temper and a vicious mouth. Although Zhang Zhiyin knew he was worried about himself, he could not help taking the phone 30 centimeters away from himself. After five seconds, he took it back and calmly said, ¡°No, I want to go home and apany Y.¡±


    His reason was very adequate and his tone was extremely sensible.


    Dajia¡¯s breath choked in his chest. He coughed out blood and died.


    When Zhang Zhiyin came home, he bought a basket of steamed buns downstairs and served them as his dinner. He took a bowl, a pair of chopsticks and started eating at theputer.


    In the darkboratory, the legendary man who created the whole of the catastrophe was as quiet and beautiful as ever in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s eyes.


    He ate a steamed bun and began typing.


    ¡°Your subordinate is so fierce, I almost thought he was going to kill me. He also robbed me of my lizard. En, that¡¯s what Lei Dun did.¡±


    ¡°I was careless for a moment and requested Lei Dun to convey that I like you... Don¡¯t be angry, don¡¯t hit me when you¡¯re angry.¡±


    ¡°I can give you gifts aspensation. What do you want?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin opened the gift column of the Item Store. As it was usually the male characters that give gifts to the female characters in the game, the design of the gift in the Item Store also tended to appeal to the females, such as the magnificent bouquet of roses, pink heart-shaped chocte, crystal rings, and so on.


    In fact, there was no difference between Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s kindness to Yin Nian and an innocent teenager who clumsily pursued his goddess. He only knew how to send flowers and choctes. He dared to show love, hugs, and even kisses to the person in front of him without fear, just because he knew that no matter what he did, the other party would not know. But just thinking about how his feelings would be discovered by a living Y with thoughts and reactions in that world, he was so afraid that he wanted to die. He couldn¡¯t sleep and eat well. He could only continue to seek for this Y in the real game, who would always silently tolerate all his actions without difort.


    He gave flowers and choctes every day. This time if he still gave the same items, it would be too insincere.


    Finally, Zhang Zhiyin picked a plush bear with exquisite workmanship.


    He didn¡¯t know what Y actually liked, as a tough and domineering viin boss, Y should not like anything that looked sweet and beautiful.


    But Zhang Zhiyin felt that the bear¡¯s expression was simr to himself. Giving himself to the boss, this should be a sincere gift? xd


    Harboring this not so good thought, Zhang Zhiyin fell asleep. Before going to bed, he also thought that, ording to the actual progress of <Tomorrow>¡¯s game, before he had the strength equated to being a Level 100, the plot would not easily let him see Y. In this way, for at least a long time, he did not have to consider the consequences of his confession.


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    In the real world of <Tomorrow>, Yin Nian caressed the soft warm fluff of the bear on his hand. Then, gently and carefully, he put the bear close to his cheek, closed his eyes slowly, and showed a faint smile.


    No one could see his eyes, just before it closed, it became as dark as the abyss of hell.


    His Zhiyin, he really wanted to, like this¡ª


    Hold tightly in his hand and embrace him in his arms.


    As one of the strongest figures in the opposition, Lei Dun was naturally more busy. He would not have the leisure to go see Dr. Y in order to say that someone called Zhang Zhiyin asked him to convey to Dr. Y that he liked Dr. Y.


    Two dayster, he was summoned by Dr. Y.


    Y arranged some work and tasks for him as usual, and after a long time, he still had no intention to let him go.


    Lei Dun could only stand aside and wait. Looking at the doctor¡¯s expression, which seemed to be in thought, he dared not disturb him.


    Finally, Yin Nian took the lead in breaking the silence.


    He said lightly and seemingly carelessly, ¡°Don¡¯t you have anything to say to me?¡±


    Lei Dun: ¡°...¡± He did seem to have nothing to say to the doctor... right?


    Yin Nian nced at him and said more thoroughly, ¡°Has anyone asked you to pass me a message?¡±


    Lei Dun recalled quickly, and finally remembered that there seemed to have a strange friend from the other day that asked him to help confess to Dr. Y.


    How to convey this kind of words...


    With a nk face, Lei Dun suddenly realized that he had agreed to a difficult job.


    He thought about it and said, ¡°A man who ims to be Zhang Zhiyin told me that he loves you.¡±


    ¡°Tell me more about it.¡± Yin Nian seamlessly lifted the corner of his mouth.


    Lei Dun stilled and he had to recall carefully:


    ¡°I said, ¡®Hello, I¡¯m Lei Dun. Can I help you?¡¯ ;


    He said, ¡°Yes, please help me tell Dr. Y. that I love him.¡±


    ¡°No,¡± Yin Nian asked again, ¡°Start from when you first meet him. Be more specific.¡±


    Forcing the untalkative Lei Dun to speak was just seeking death. But now the one doing the forcing was Dr. Y, Lei Dun could not help but start talking bit by bit.


    ¡°I went to the Valley of the Extinct Dragon to fight a smander for Yu Huo¡¯s treatment. After killing a smander, I kept it in the space pocket. I found that someone was already there, that is, Zhang Zhiyin.¡±


    ¡°I wanted to kill him straight away, but I found that his clothes were printed with ¡®I love Dr. Y for 10,000 years¡¯...¡±


    Y seemed to have smiled, but thatugh soon disappeared that it even made Lei Dun doubted his sight.


    Yin Nian said with a straight face, ¡°Don¡¯t hurt him, don¡¯t rob him of anything.¡±


    The doctor¡¯s orders needed not to be ascertained but remembered.


    Lei Dun knew this very well, and he hadn¡¯t raised any objection this time, let alone asked who was Zhang Zhiyin.


    He¡¯d at most be nosy about it in secret, he wouldn¡¯t spread the gossip that he was thinking about around.


    Yin Nian looked at him, indicating him to continue.


    ¡°I judged him to be a friend by his clothes, so I went up and shook hands with him...¡±


    ¡°Don¡¯t touch him.¡± Yin Nian interrupted immediately and added this sentence.


    Lei Dun: ¡°...¡±


    <strong>¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin, who woke up in the real world of <Tomorrow>, found three more smander corpses in his cave the next morning.


    Was it because the smanders felt hopeless and wanted to make some contribution to society by donating their remains for the benefit of mankind? Such that they collectivelymitted suicide at his door?


    Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t understand, but that didn¡¯t prevent him from happily taking out the materials avable on the nucleus and the body of the smander.


    You know, smanders made good medicines. ??


    <strong>Footnotes:</strong>

 Chapter 14 - Naming

    <strong>Chapter 14: Naming</strong>


    <Tomorrow>¡¯s Item Store had a weekly lottery draw. As long as the customer¡¯s weekly consumption quota reached 100 yuan in the store, the customer would be able to participate in the draw. Naturally, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s consumption for this week had exceeded 100 yuan.


    He had just disposed of the three smanders¡¯ corpses. He was refining primary pills with the small fancy stove.


    Zhang Zhiyin was idle so he simply opened the store¡¯s lottery.


    He had participated in this lottery in the game before. He knew that although the game¡¯s official publicity said that there was a chance to draw the high-grade magical pet, equipment, abilities and skill books, the vast majority of people drew things such as small items and medicines.


    This time he also did not strike any luck. He drew an elementary beast trapping mp.


    The game of <Tomorrow> had a pet system, and the way to catch pets was amazing¡ª


    There were five levels of pet trapping props, [Elementary Trap], [Intermediate Trap], [Advanced trap], [Super trap] and [Divine trap]. The difference was that it could capture different levels of pets. Zombies and monsters could not be captured as pets. Some high-level pets not only have a strong fighting ability, but they could also activate riding skills to be a mount. Even if the race of the pet was in defiance of the natural order, they could still turn into eye-catching flying pets. However, elementary traps could only catch pets like elementary mutant rabbits.


    The use of pet trapping items was very simple. yers only needed to use the item somewhere and do nothing else. Within five minutes, they could receive the prompt of ¡°catching sess¡± or ¡°catching failure¡±. They could also see what pets they have caught. Basically, the pets they caught were dependent on where the yer¡¯s location was at.


    If a trap was used in the Valley of the Extinct Dragon, it would generally capture monsters from the Valley of the Extinct Dragon. Zhang Zhiyin understood that this elementary trap could not be sessful in capturing in such a high-level monstrous area, and he held little hope too. He took the mp to his hand and studied it for half a day¡ª He was not in the game, using the mp was not as simple as clicking the right button.


    As a result, he didn¡¯t know what he touched, the mp suddenly whistled and flew out of his hand.


    Flew out...


    Zhang Zhiyin gawked as the beast trapping mp flew out of the cave. He thought that it was indeed a product of the Item Store; it was not ordinary.


    Five minutester, the mp came back bravely with a kitten in it.


    Although it was a ¡°mp¡±, it seemed that the kitten was not in pain, as if it was being picked up and carried away by a mother cat. Its big wide eyes looked around everywhere excitedly and restlessly, and it kept on calling out. It should be very young because it didn¡¯t even know how to purr like a cat, it could only dully emit some kind of ¡®aowuaowu¡¯ kitten-like sound.


    The elementary beast trapping mp put the kitten on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s leg, wobbled, and disappeared as if it had done meritorious service. The kitten left behind stood on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s leg with its thin and short legs. It walked restlessly and continued to whine. Not longter, it went crawling towards Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s clothes, ¡°I love Dr. Y for 10,000 years¡±.


    Zhang Zhiyin quickly stretched out two fingers to pick it up and looked at its small ice-blue eyes.


    ¡°Aowu.¡± The kitten was carried ufortably and opened its mouth discontentedly. It did not have any teeth, so it wouldn¡¯t intimidate anyone at all.


    Zhang Zhiyin put it in his palm, feeling helpless at this little fellow that was not any bigger than his palm.


    He couldn¡¯t be considered to be a man who had too muchpassion for small animals, but his grandparents always took good care of all kinds of stray cats and dogs in front of their house. It could be said that he was deeply influenced by his surroundings, to the point that he would love one thing on the ount of another. As long as he thought of the two old elderly in his memory, he could not ignore the kitten which looked so weak, pitiful, and ipetent.


    The kitten looked quite beautiful. It was white, with only a cluster of ice-blue hair on its forehead that was the same color as its eyes. It nested in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s hands and fell asleep happily.


    It¡¯s just that this kind of fellow who had nothing but good looks and selling meng would not live long in the apocalypse.


    Dr. Y looked good, but he also had the ability to crush everyone.


    Zhang Zhiyin sighed and decided to keep it. First of all, give it a good name that could keep it alive.


    Nowadays, there was no such thing as having a cheap name to keep it alive. Zhang Zhiyin decided that from a scientific point of view, giving the kitten a name that could frighten the enemy away was a correct decision.


    ¡°Yun Lietian?¡± Zhang Zhiyin shook his head. Yun Lietian was the first leader of the Cloud Sky Alliance. Later, he took the lunchbox, his son Yun Chu seeded him as the second leader. Yu Lietian had a very powerful lightning ability, but with the speed at which he took the lunchbox, this name probably was not good.


    Zhang Zhiyin was not satisfied. Atst, he patted his thigh and said, ¡°Your name is Dr. Y¡¯s son. How nice! Neither zombies nor human beings would dare to provoke!¡±


    The kitten awoke from the sound and turned its head to stare at him. ¡°Aowu?¡±


    As a result, right after he said this, Zhang Zhiyin woke up in his bed.


    The phone next to the pillow was flickering, and the rough voice of a popr female singer filled the entire room.


    He must have been woken up by the phone. Zhang Zhiyin scratched his hair and picked it up. Conveniently, he also took a look at the time; It was only 11:30, he estimated that he had just fallen asleep for less than half an hour.


    It was his leader who called to exin that some changes were made at thest minute for tomorrow¡¯s meeting.


    Nowadays, entertainment activities were abundant at night, Inte, TV, games, and so on could easily arouse people to be willing night owls; besides, there were arge number of hard-pressed people who have to stay upte to study and work. It was indeed rare for young people like Zhang Zhiyin to automatically and consciously work and sleep in a regr pattern.


    Zhang Zhiyin hung up the phone and he couldn¡¯t sleep for a while, so he simply logged in to the game.


    The moment he saw the face of Yin Nian, the enthusiasm and the blood rush he had when he named the kitten disappeared immediately. He began to reflect; what he did didn¡¯t seem quite right?


    So Zhang Zhiyin immediately typed and confessed, ¡°Y, I¡¯m sorry, I imed (???) A son for you without asking for your permission. Correction, it¡¯s that I named my pet cat ¡®Dr. Y¡¯s son¡¯.


    ¡°You may not like it, but I don¡¯t really mean to say that you are the little kitten¡¯s dad. If you are unwilling, I can rename it to ¡®Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s son¡¯. Anyway, it¡¯s just a name. I don¡¯t mind.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin pondered and felt that this would lose the original intention of ¡°no one would dare to provoke when the name is reported out¡±. After all, he himself was just an unimportant person who had no reputation. Let alone ¡°Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s son¡±. Even if Zhang Zhiyin himself appeared, it was also useless.


    Hence, he relied on the fact that the other side did not respond and embarrassingly discussed: ¡°How about this, I¡¯ll still have to borrow your name to use, but in order to show that I really have no malice, it will be called ¡®Dr. Y and Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s son¡¯?¡±


    ¡°You are not objecting, I take it that you¡¯ve consented?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was a man who was inwardly vicious, and his friends and colleagues all thought that he was a down-to-earth honest man. He murmured the newly made name and realized that there was another meaning. He giggled at theputer twice and somehow bought two boxes of choctes, which he ced lightly on the ground in front of Dr. Y.


    This kind of feeling was really hard to exin, even a little connection with that person was enough to make him happy.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s consciousness reached an understanding with Yin Nian, he satisfactorily shut down hisputer and went to sleep.


    When he opened his eyes, the kitten was still obediently lying on his hands.


    Zhang Zhiyin solemnly told it, ¡°Your name has been changed, your formal personal name will be ¡®Dr. Y and Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s son.¡¯¡±


    However, concerning this long name, Zhang Zhiyin also gave the kitten a soft-sounding nickname¡ª¡ªYin Xiaoxiang. For short, it would be Xiaoxiang


    Because there was a word in the world, called ¡°Xiang Nian¡±.


    <strong>Footnotes:</strong>


    Xiang: This word by itself means <strong>to miss/to think</strong>


    Nian: This word is the same word as Yin<strong> Nian</strong>(ML).


    therefore, Xiang Nian can have two meanings, To miss/to yearn <i>OR</i> to miss NIAN(ML)/ To yearn for NIAN(ML)

 Chapter 15 - Stealing the Cat

    <strong>Chapter 15: Stealing the Cat


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin continued to go out the next day to grind levels. He dared not put Yin Xiaoxiang in the cave alone in fearing that it would run out by itself, so he took it in his trousers pocket and walked around the safety zone. He repeatedly warned it, ¡®You cannot go out of this range, understand?¡¯


    Who knew whether or not this kitten took it to heart. It sat in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s pocket and snored happily. Its small ice-blue eyes narrowed into an invisible crack with it¡¯s two small ws hooked around the edge of his trousers. It swayed along with Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s walking pace.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at his fluffy little head in a defeated manner. Feeling that he was stupid and baffled enough to treat this cat like it was his son.


    He could not help murmuring: ¡°Even if it was really my son, in any case, you still have another father that is so powerful...¡±


    Then he dejectedly thought about how the real Dr. Y in this world did not know himself, and even more so this kitten.


    Recently, Zhang Zhiyin was more powerful than when he first came here. He now dared to challenge animals such as cattle, goats, and deers. He beat a goat and was done for the day. The goats were ice elementals and they were good for him to upgrade his ability. Zhang Zhiyin bought a fish-vored eggnt covered in rice from the Item Store and began to eat while leaning on the wall. He totally forgot he had a cat in his pocket.


    Yin Xiaoxiang climbed out of his trousers pocket instantly. It stopped at Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s hand and began to look at the rice in his hand.


    Zhang Zhiyin was stunned and patted it. ¡°You are a cat. You can¡¯t eat eggnt and rice.¡± In fact, he didn¡¯t know whether the cat could eat these or not.


    Yin Xiaoxiang whined. It gnawed at the pinkie finger of Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s outstretched hand and began to suck at it.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s face turned ck: Would it be that this little fellow just weaned?


    He quickly pulled out his finger and turned to the all-powerful Item Store.


    Sure enough, the Item Store sold high-grade pet feed. The products produced in the store would certainly be of high-quality. Pets who grew up eating these foods tend to get better attributes growth and had a greater chance to awaken advanced ability skills. The food for a newly born kitten was cod soup and milk.


    Zhang Zhiyin was not bothered if this was scientific or not. In any case, In the entire world of <Tomorrow>, the Item Store represented the highest judgement.


    He quickly bought them and Yin Xiaoxiang rushed to eat them at first sight.


    As a result, after eating it, it kept saying ¡°Auwo and auwo¡± constantly. Zhang Zhiyin held it in his hand and examined it carefully, feeling worried and apprehensive. Sure enough, he shouldn¡¯t have believed the store and give the kitten too much milk.


    Yin Xiaoxiang cried out, seemingly like it was feelingfortable all over. It stood up spiritedly in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s hands. Suddenly, it opened its mouth and spit out ice shards on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s hands.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    The kitten, like him, had ice as its ability. When the owner and the pet had the same abilities, it could bring forth a buff.


    Zhang Zhiyin opened his eyes in surprise and touched its head with a smile.


    Just like that, one month had almost passed, Zhang Zhiyin was now able to knock down a mutant sheep without any effort. The ice ball he produced was also the size of an average te. His icicles were nearly half a meter long and extremely sharp.


    Every time the kitten would crouch on his shoes and spit ice shard. The vast majority of the attacks were unleashed onto his shoes.


    He could clearly sense his growing strength as his whole person looked more energetic and lively. As a result, every time he woke up from the real game world, everyone would ask him with a smile if something good had happened to him. Unfortunately, these things couldn¡¯t be shared with them. If he talked to Dajia and Dayi about these things, it¡¯s 100% certain that he would be further suspected of being addicted to the online game.


    But there was another person who could listen to him with infinite tolerance about his strange experiences in <Tomorrow>¡¯s world.


    Dr. Y.


    Zhang Zhiyin almost couldn¡¯t wait to log in to the game and begin to ¡°talk¡± to Y¡ª


    ¡°Our Xiaoxiang is sure obedient. It even has an ice element.¡±


    ¡°But it¡¯s also very sticky. It doesn¡¯t act like a cat. It will always want me to hold it and rubs itself on my chest. It follows me everywhere. Sometimes it has to be fed and it will lick my fingers randomly. It is just like a child...¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ve been able to kill mutants easily. I¡¯m going back this time to challenge the mutant goat leader. Yesterday I found his nest. Legend has it that it¡¯s the weakest little boss in the Valley of the Extinct Dragon, but ultimately, it¡¯s still a boss and was an ice elemental. If I get its nucleus, it should be able to help me upgrade my ability by a lot...¡±


    During his sleep, Zhang Zhiyin felt an unprecedented expectation and excitement. For the first time, in this real desperate struggle to survive, he realized the pleasure of ordinary boys ying online games. Originally, he just followed the trend. At first, he yed <Tomorrow> with Dajia. Later, Dajia found <Tomorrow> to be boring by selling dog meat by hanging sheep¡¯s head. The game draped out the skin of the apocalypse genre but its basic content was just like any other traditional online games. Zhang Zhiyin, because of Dr. Y, had continued to y it until he went into the mysterious real world of <Tomorrow>.


    Zhang Zhiyin gradually fell asleep in the dark and quiet cabin.


    Almost at the same time, Lei Dun was given an indescribable task.¡ª¡ª


    Dr. Y asked him to steal the cat kept by Zhang Zhiyin whom he sawst time, take it back to the base, take good care of it for a day, and then send it back.


    Lei Dun: ¡°...¡± He couldn¡¯t keep up with the doctor¡¯s ideas at all.


    <strong>Footnotes:</strong>


    Selling dog meat by hanging sheep¡¯s head: False advertisment

 Chapter 16 - Cat

    <strong>Chapter 16: Cat</strong>


    Lei Dun received thetest special secret mission ordered by D. Y¡ªthat was to catch the cat beside Zhang Zhiyin, take good care of it for a day, and then quietly send it back in the evening...


    And the key point was to not let that little furry guy get hurt.


    Lei Dun was at a loss as he looked at the soft white cat in his hand. He simply did not know what to do.


    The kitten was unwilling and it stared at him with resentment while spitting ice shards at him.


    He did not know when Meng Kali had appeared and he was now looking at the cat in his hand in surprise. He gestured as he asked: Can I touch it? Meng Kali was emitting an air of surprise with the aura of a maiden and adding on to his ghostlike posture hidden under the shadow of his huge hoods, Lei Dun could hardly look at him straight in the face.


    Meng Kali was a very mysterious figure in Dr. Y¡¯s camp. His mystery mainly came from the way he dressed.


    His height was less than 1.6 meters. He wore a long ck robe covering until his feet and outside of his the ck robe was a ck hood that covered most of his face, revealing only a chin. He was aware that his space ability was good, so he never walked with his feet on the ground, but instead, he floated in the air. From time to time, he would suddenly appear, and then suddenly disappeared again. He was just like a ghost, floating in Dr. Y¡¯s experimental base.


    He never spoke, nor could he see the outside world with his eyes. This kind of blindness and dumbness could not be cured even by Dr. Y, because they arose from his ability, and if they were to be cured, his abilities must be removed.


    Lei Dun dared not underestimate him.


    Meng Kali had both space and psychic abilities at the peak level simultaneously. Through his psychic ability, he could see everything within a hundred miles clearly. He could also use his psychic ability tomunicate with all conscious creatures. But Meng Kali stubbornlymunicated with them in signnguage.


    The doctor himself had no time to deal with their affairs. Those space items that Lei Dun and the rest used daily were all made by Meng Kali.


    Lei Dun reached out and said, ¡°Touch it.¡±


    As soon as Meng Kali touched Yin Xiaoxiang, Yin Xiaoxiang vomited a handful of ice shards on him.


    However, Meng Kali was still very happy and he gestured excitedly, ¡°Does it have a name? What do you think of calling him Xiaobai?¡±


    Lei Dun looked at him with a nk face and he had yet to speak when a cool, and slightly low voice suddenly came from behind them.


    ¡°It has a name.¡±


    Dr. Y leaned at the door in his simple research jacket, looking intently at the cat in Lei Dun¡¯s hand.


    Lei Dun and Yu Huo were immediately stunned.


    After a minute, Meng Kali could not help but boldly raise his hand and gestured, ¡°What¡¯s its name?¡±


    ¡°The name is ¡®Dr. Y and Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s son¡¯, and the nickname is Yin Xiaoxiang. If you call it Xiaoxiang, it will know you are calling it.¡± Dr. Y seldom spoke such a long sentence in one breath, however, his expression was still faint.


    Yin Xiaoxiang, who had been called so many times, ¡°Aowu, aowu¡± a few times in the direction of Y.


    Meng Kali immediately took back the hand he had ced on the kitten and never dared to be rash again.


    Lei Dun¡¯s hands that were holding onto Yin Xiaoxiang trembled.


    For the first time, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s great name had exerted its anticipated power.


    Dr. Y continued, ¡°Take good care of it. I¡¯m going out. It drinks milk every day and eats only cod. It also has no teeth. The cod must be spooned and it has to be bathed in the evening.¡± After that, he left without paying attention to their reactions.


    Lei Dun and Meng Kali stared at the little fellow. They really suspected that it was the doctor¡¯s real son.


    Yin Xiaoxiang continued to spit out ice shards.


    Meng Kali stood in front of him in a daze, and after a long time, he dared to put his hand on it again.


    Yin Xiaoxiang showed him its pink toothless gums.


    Meng Kali was scared off.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Zhang Zhiyin woke up to realize that Yin Xiaoxiang was not beside him.


    Instantly, his mind became clear as he was woken up from fright.


    Yin Xiaoxiang usually nested around his neck and slept obediently. It loved to sleep inte. It would not get up early every morning and when it was put in his pocket, it would still continue to sleep with its eyes closed. This was the first time that it suddenly disappeared.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked around the cave and rushed out. He found the little fellow squatting in front of the stream at the entrance of the cave. It looked very vexed. Its whole body emitted a ¡®do not get close¡¯ aura.


    My family¡¯s Xiaoxiang might be a little bit small, but it still had some momentum- was what Zhang Zhiyin thought of.


    He approached only to find that a tuft of hair on its buttock was wet.


    And Zhang Zhiyin bizarrely read a sorrowful message from the cat¡¯s expression such as ¡°My fur is wet, I can¡¯t meet Zhiying handsomely now¡±.


    Heughed secretly at his nonsense and thought that he was rather imaginative.


    Then he strode forward and took the kitten into his arms. He touched its little head and said, ¡°Okay, don¡¯t make a fuss, I¡¯ll love you no matter what happens.¡±


    The moment Zhang Zhiyin embraced the kitten, it became frozen. After hearing what he said, it blinked its ice-blue eyes and then rubbed its face on his arm. After a while, like it was dissatisfied, it began to roll around its whole little body in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s arms. After rolling for a while, it then stopped and was rubbing it soft fur on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s chest instead. It lifted its head up and looked at him carefully, and seeing that Zhang Zhiyin did not respond, it rxed and continued to rub itself on Zhang Zhiyin. This ball of fur, was just like it was particrly dependent on him.


    Zhang Zhiyin noticed its abnormality and patted it: ¡°What¡¯s wrong with you?¡± He touched the fur on his ass indifferently andughed, ¡°It¡¯s just a piece of fur. It¡¯ll be dry soon.¡±


    Suddenly the kitten turned its head and stared at him with two ice-blue eyes; A sudden imposing and domineering aura.


    Zhang Zhiyin lost hisughter and struck its head with his hand. ¡°Pretentious.¡±


    Suddenly the kitten withered and obediently retreated into Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s arms. It peeked out a pair of small eyes that blinked at him.


    It looked like it staring at some rare treasure.


    Zhang Zhiyin took it back to the cave and put it at his feet. He began to pack up what he needed to beat the goat boss forter on. Efficient HP potions were essential, in addition to a pair of ice gloves he had just bought from the Item Store for 50 yuan.


    Although it was just a glove, it yed the role of a weapon. It could help enhance the effect of the ice ability and was also able to bring out an ice defense skill, Ice Wall. It could be said to be the better equipment among low-level equipment. <Tomorrow>¡¯s world¡¯s weapon system had always been a marvel. All sorts of things could be used as weapons. There were magical swords, cold weapons, hot weapons... It had everything that one would expect to find.


    Zhang Zhiyin was about to put on his gloves. Suddenly, the kitten staggered over, put out its tongue and tentatively licked his index finger.


    Zhang Zhiyin ignored it. Anyway, it wasn¡¯t just recently that Yin Xiaoxiaong liked to y with his hands.


    Seeing that he did not respond, the kitten licked his middle finger and then his ring finger. Finally, it turned back and held half of Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s index finger and bit it gently.


    Zhang Zhiyin had no choice but to hold it up with his other hand.


    Xiao Xiang was not like this before. At most, it liked to suck on his little finger, but now it had developed to the point of attacking his whole hand.


    Zhang Zhiyin gently reprimanded, ¡°Xiaoxiang, don¡¯t make a fuss.¡±


    The kitten took his hand in its gums and looked at him in grievances. At least in the eyes of Zhang Zhiyin, that look was a grievance.


    ¡°Be good, we¡¯re going to fight the bosster on. Be good and don¡¯t move around.¡± Zhang Zhiyin put him in his pocket and turned to leave.


    As a result, the kitten struggled to climb out of his trousers pocket, and then it climbed on his shoulder with great agility and dexterity before jumping into Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s T-shirt in an instant. Its two small ws wed oh his cors and poked out its head. It even deliberately stretched its neck to look at Zhang Zhiyin.


    As soon as Zhang Zhiyin bowed his head, he could see its plush little head.


    He quickly pulled out the kitten and put it back in his pocket before patting its head. ¡°This is your ce. Be obedient.¡±


    The result after three secondster was that the kitten upied the front of the T-shirt again.


    This was a rebellion!


    Zhang Zhiyin took two deep breaths. In the end, he could only express his powerlessness and let the cat upy his t-shirt.


    The ice-blue pupils quickly revealed a smile, and the kitten in the T-shirt stretched its body and reached up to lick Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s neck.


    Zhang Zhiyin could only surrender and allow it to lick him and he helplessly said, ¡°You can lick to your heart¡¯s content, but you have to be obedient when we fight the monsterter on.¡±


    The kitten whined, as if frightened by its own voice, it then hurriedly shut its mouth, cleverly lifting up a paw.


    Zhang Zhiyin kneaded its little meat andughed, ¡°The contract has been set.¡±


    <strong>Footnotes</strong>:


    Xiaobai: Little White

 Chapter 17 - Returning the Cat

    <strong>Chapter 17: Returning the Cat</strong>


    The mutant goat boss grazed on the northern slopes every afternoon.


    Zhang Zhiyin had long checked out the area and was lying in ambush. The kitten nested in his T-shirt and was rubbing around, but it was very obedient and did not make any sound.


    Zhang Zhiyin touched the soft hairs on its back neck to soothe it.


    The goat boss appeared as usual. It ate with care but it was also very alert. There seemed to be ayer of blue frost on its two tall erected horns¡ªthat was the manifestation of its ability.


    Taking advantage when it was off guard, Zhang Zhiyin secretly gathered up his power. His eyes narrowed and a half-meter-long icicle shot out of his hand and went straight to the goat¡¯s abdomen.


    The goat boss was alert to danger, and a cold gust poured out of his nose, naturally giving birth to ayer of ice shield in his abdomen. The shield and the icicle collided and both of them broke apart at the same time, but in the next second, the crushed ice suddenly re-condensed, forming a smaller but harder icicle that went straight into the goat¡¯s unprotected soft abdomen.


    This was Zhang Zhiyin¡¯stest awakened skills¡ªice control, he could manipte ice.


    When the goat boss was injured, he immediately became manic. He gave a long angry cry. The temperature around him suddenly dropped, and there seemed to be ayer of white frost on the dark green grass. Zhang Zhiyin also felt his movements getting slower and the speed of his ice ball coagtion had slowed down.


    He frowned and took out a medicine that could eliminate negative effects and drank it. A burst of warmth covered him before he felt much better.


    This little movement rmed the goat boss.


    Its ears moved, and those shing eyes, shining with a magical blue light instantly looked at Zhang Zhiyin.


    Suddenly, its two cold iron hooves were high above Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s head. He was about to be stepped by it in a blink of an eye.


    Zhang Zhiyin rushed to send out an ice ball in time to win himself a moment of time to escape.


    But that was not enough. He underestimated the speed of the goat boss.


    Both of them were ice elementals and they were also long-range attackers. The goat boss speed was much faster than Zhang Zhiyin. As a boss, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s attack damage was notparable to it. The most frightening thing was that he was now in reality, the fight against the boss was not in the viewpoint of an omnipotent perspective where he was able to oversee the overall situation and manipte the character, but a face to face fight with his life and death on the table. And all these monsters were not dataposition but they were all real, with unpredictable intuition and reaction that Zhang Zhiyin could not match.


    Zhang Zhiyin was only able to circumnavigate the goat boss because he had been taking the medicine that could heal his HP. His strength had fallen so fast that he didn¡¯t want to kill the goat boss anymore. He hoped he could run back to the safety zone smoothly.


    He turned around to shoot three icicles. One hit and two missed. But at this moment, the speed of the goat boss doubled and it sprinted. Two sharp horns shing blue, and a cold light went straight to Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s chest!


    Zhang Zhiyin put his hands on his chest and a thin transparent ice barrier appeared in an instant ¨C that was the gloves that had its own set of skill, the Ice Wall.


    But it was only for a second.


    On the Ice Wall, spider-like cracks appeared before they shattered. Then the strong and sharp goat horns coated with a cold re went straight into Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s left shoulder.


    Blood sshed out, and then the wound was quickly covered with ice. The skin was blue and purple like frostbite¡ªthe goat boss caused double damage.


    Zhang Zhiyin also fell and sat on the ground.


    There was an irrepressible tinge of pain in his eyes.


    A breathtaking sense of oppression suddenly filled the whole space.


    The dizzy Zhang Zhiyin turned his head doubtfully and looked around, but found nothing unusual. The goat boss in front of him also felt something. It quietly retreated and uneasily shuffled its hooves, forming a thick armor around it.


    The kitten that had been nestling in the T-shirt seemed to be unable to bear any more and suddenly leaped out. The ice-blue eyes were full of devouring coldness. With its bright red mouth opened, it spat out a small ice ball, which expanded rapidly and soon became the size of an ordinary football. It struck the goat boss with the momentum of a thunderstorm.


    The goat boss had no time to hide and was hit head-on by the ice ball.


    The ice ball had disappeared, but the damage did not stop there.


    From where it was attacked, its whole body quickly began to freeze. Within 30 seconds, there appeared a goat-shaped ice sculpture in front of Zhang Zhiyin. Then, from the inside, the ice sculpture broke into pieces of ice and fell to the ground one after another. It gradually melted.


    A dark blue transparent stone rolled down to Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s feet. It¡¯s the nucleus of the goat boss.


    Zhang Zhiyin bent over and picked up the crystal nucleus in one hand and the kitten with the other hand. He lifted the little fellow in front of his eyes and looked at it in the eye.


    The kitten stared at him with a seemingly discontented look.


    Zhang Zhiyin put him back in his T-shirt, and the kitten took the initiative to put itself on the cor. It continued to rub his neck with his small head as if the person who made great contributions was not itself.


    Back in the cave, it was dark. The fierce battle consumed too much of Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s energy. After eating a simple meal, he saw the cat staring at the cod soup and milk in front of him without any initiative of eating it.


    Don¡¯t want to eat? Lose one¡¯s appetite? Being picky?


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s eyebrows rose and he went over, squat down and said, ¡°You need to eat. Only this way can you grow up faster.¡±


    The kitten looked at him, and it still did not move at all.


    Zhang Zhiyin had no other choice. He poured some milk from the milk bowl into his hand and offered it in a seductive way. ¡°Have some? En?¡±


    The kitten looked up at his face and then looked askew at the milk in his hand. It seemed to be thinking about something. After a moment, it no longer resisted and walked to Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s hand with four short legs. With graceful steps, it then stretched out its tongue and licked.


    In the evening, Zhang Zhiyinyzily on the ground counting his supplies. The kitten rolled up and down on him, desperately trying to grab his attention and attacked his face from time to time. Following along the movement of time, more and more attachment foolishly began to coil around.


    Zhang Zhiyin had no time to deal with it and he asionally stroked its fur.


    The kitten looked at him with a grieving sob and rubbed its neck against his chin.


    ¡°All right.¡± Zhang Zhiyin took the little animal and it caressed on its back. ¡°You are the best. I like you the most. Don¡¯t make any fuss anymore.¡±


    The kittenid down obediently.


    Looking at the item store, Zhang Zhiyin found that his bnce was only over 300 yuan. He was spending money like running water; he wasn¡¯t getting anything in and was spending too fast. He could not go on like this in the long term. He had to find ways to make use of the existing conditions to open sources.


    But getting the sources still needed to be nned.


    Thinking about it, Zhang Zhiyin, who was unable to form any ideas, gradually fell into a slumber.


    The kitten also calmed down. It gently jumped off him and walked next to his face andid on his stomach. Two cat eyes were staring at the man with great concentration.


    It was getting dark.


    A gust of wind blew, and suddenly a man appeared in the cave, holding a sleeping white kitten in his hand.


    He was stunned when he saw the cat next to Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s face was exactly the same as the one he was holding.


    The cat had just licked Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s lips contentedly, and there was a trace of satisfaction in its ice-blue eyes. When it felt the invasion of another breath, it quickly became alert and looked at the visitor with a pair of hostile cat¡¯s eyes. However, it rxed when it saw the sudden appearance of a man and reverted back to its usualzy and arrogant appearance.


    Lei Dun, who was stared at by the cat, turned around and whispered, ¡°I didn¡¯t see anything.¡±


    The cat ignored him and jumped smartly from Zhang Zhiyin. It stepped and left the cave like a king. Under the vast moonlight and endless night, his body gradually changed. It elongated, and finally, returned to the handsome and untouchable man. The white, dusty corner of his clothes fluttered along with the night breeze, and his face was calm without any ripples as if it was not him who had be a pet cat.


    Cold-hearted and calm.


    He looked back at the young man who was still sleeping. He raised his hand slightly, regardless of his subordinates, and then disappeared from this space, without any trace, as if he had never appeared.


    After he left, Lei Dun resumed his movements and gently ced the real kitten snoring in his hand on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s neck.


    The next day, the sky was bright.


    Zhang Zhiyin put Yin Xiaoxiang in his T-shirt like yesterday. As a result, Yin Xiaoxiang was very uncooperative. It struggled with its four legs and threw itself to the ground. It struggled to get up again and climbed back to Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s trousers pocket.


    Zhang Zhiyin helplessly touched its silly face: ¡°Every day there are new patterns.¡±


    Yin Xiaoxiang, ¡°Auwo?¡±

 Chapter 18 - Opening the Shop

    <strong>Chapter 18: Opening the Shop</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin absorbed the crystal nucleus of the goat boss and the effect was remarkable. His ice elemental ability was raised to Level 2 and nearly to Level 3; he just needed a little more before he could break through into the third level. He breathed out a sigh and assumed that he would be able to exit the Valley of the Extinct Dragon by the time his ice ability reached Level 5.


    The sun was shining outside and the sky was bright. But Zhang Zhiyin belonged to the ice elemental. The more it rained and snowed, the better it was for him. Sunshine would only weaken his ability.


    He looked at the weather and decided to take a day off and stay in the cave to refine medicine.


    <Tomorrow>¡¯s medical system was extremely innovative, but it was also the very opposite of one¡¯s expectation. In the game, item dealers could only buy ¡°penicillin¡± and ¡°adhesive bandage¡± which weremon medicines. They could only treat trauma and heal up a small amount of HP, and the effect was also very slow, so it was not reliable to use them when going out for grinding. Some yers hadined, and this was the official reply they had gotten, ¡°Dear, this is why the casualty rate in the apocalypse will be so high. Be a little more realistic, will you?¡±


    But if all the yers were pitted like this, then the game would not be able to go on.


    Therefore, first of all, in the item store, yers would be able to purchase quick and effective blood tonic drugs with yuan. The item store uniformly ssified them as ¡°panacea¡±. Secondly, yers could also learn ¡®pharmaceutical skills¡¯. Pharmaceutical skills were also divided into two kinds, one was ¡°scientific pharmacy¡± which could be acquired in the game, but the yers who studied scientific pharmacy could only produce ordinary chicken rib drugs such as bandages in the early stage, and only when the pharmaceutical level was higher in theter stage could they develop or produce top-grade drugs by themselves or through prescriptions. The other was ¡°Xuanmen Pharmacy¡±, all medicines produced by this method would be a ¡°panacea¡±. Although the initial effect was not as good as that bought directly from the item stores, it was still much better than making an adhesive bandage.


    When Dajia was still in University, he was studying medicine refining. He was so angry at this setting in that he finally ran away and did not y it anymore. He felt that the setting of <Tomorrow> was an insult to science and a serious vition of the scientific outlook on development. However,ter on, he found out that the first tag given to when the game was released was actually ¡°fantasy¡±.


    Zhang Zhiyin bought the ¡°Pharmaceutical Complete Comprehensive of Drug Collection¡± from the store, which would give the yers an understanding of ¡°Xuanmen Pharmacy¡±. He was not very interested in this in the past. He had only casually refined some of the lowest HP potions for the novices and his refining skills had actually been upgraded to Level 2.


    He took out the materials he umted these days from his space and ced them in different categories. He went through the <Comprehension Guide> to find out what medicine he could refine now, and realized that a lot of his materials could not be used to refine drugs, such as the skin of the smanders. But in fact, the skin of the smander was the best material to make fire armor. This was because smanders only existed in the Valley of the Extinct Dragon, and the location was often reserved by those with a dominant position in the game, so the price of smander skin was very high.


    Zhang Zhiyin just wanted to throw these things into the trading house directly at the price of its value. But, suddenly, he thought of a better idea.


    Why not open a shop directly at the trading house?


    In the trading house, you could rent a shop at a rate of 50 yuan per month, and it included 50 item space boxes. If you want to expand your scale, you would need to increase the rent payment. Afterward, the mall would not charge any procedure fees to the yers, but it would only charge 1%mission after every sessful transaction. This was a desirable choice for yers who needed to sell their items frequently.


    Zhang Zhiyin immediately went to work and painfully paid the rent of 50 yuan. He set up a small shop and named it Zhang Zhiyin and put all the unused materials, together with those unused low-grade medicines and threw them all it. Although those medicines would not be purchased by anyone, the empty fifty boxes would just be empty, so it¡¯s better to save his space by putting those unused things inside.


    Afterward, he continued to turn over the recipes. The medicines that he could refine at his current level were basically useless to him and refining them was just going to take up his space. But soon, Zhang Zhiyin found a useful form. There was only one sentence in the article introduction: help the healthy growth of pets in their infancy.


    Zhang Zhiyin remembered his kitten¡¯s fierce ice ball that day and felt his heart itch. Unfortunately, after that, Yin Xiaoxiang would only spit out ice shards, and it could no longer make such a powerful move.


    A strange glint emerged in his eyes and he looked sideways at Yin Xiaoxiang, ¡°Would you give it a try?¡±


    Yin Xiaoxiang took a step backward following its instincts: ¡°Au...wo?¡±


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Meanwhile, in base Y.


    Meng Kali floated aimlessly in wonder: ¡°...¡±


    He wanted to see the lovely kitten from that day, but the doctor only allowed the kitten to stay at the base for one day before asking Lei Dun to send the cat back...


    His grievances were so strong that Lei Dun, who was walking toward him, received them through his psychic ability.


    Lei Dun patted him on the shoulder that was on the same height after he floated up. ¡°You should be able to see the cat when the doctor wants to see his lover again.¡±


    Meng Kali: ¡°...¡± I hate it. Why doesn¡¯t the doctor just fetch his lover directly here?


    The next second, they both found that their surroundings wereid with a seal; sound, breath, and even psychic ability could no longer be conveyed outside.


    They could only give each other a helpless look ¡ª it seemed that the doctor was angry.


    It was really annoying to have an omniscient boss.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly realized a real problem. In the game, it took no more than five minutes to run from one end of the map to the other, but this was obviously not the case in the game¡¯s real world.


    The Valley of the Extinct Dragon was set to stretch 500 kilometers from east to west. If one did not stop every day, it would take ten days and a half to travel from one end to the other. And between the distance, there was a distribution of monster species within a wide range. The eastern side where Zhang Zhiyin was at had a rtively lower monster level. In the game, the level was around Level 30. Going towards the westward hintend, the monster level was higher, reaching up to Level 80, which was the highest level yers could currently achieve in the game. Deep in the west, there were countless instance dungeons of Level 90 that yers were looking forward to but it had not been opened up yet.


    Thest time he came back to reality, he consulted the game map of and found that the west of the Valley of the Extinct Dragon was connected to the Level 60-100 ¡°Death Valley¡±, which was densely packed with high-level zombies. This was difficult for yers to survive with their current level. The map to the West had not yet been opened, but it was rumored that Dr. Y¡¯s secret baseid at the west of Death Valley.


    To the east of the Valley of the Extinct Dragon was a Level 20 strange area called ¡°Isted Fishing Vige¡±. The people in the fishing vige had all turned into zombies. Though the level was not high, as its name showed, the fishing vige was really isted from the world. In this world where there was no teleportation array, there¡¯s no benefit in going there anyway.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the breach to the north of the Valley, which was connected to the normal wilderness. He should be able to find the base for human settlement.


    If so, he would have to abandon the safe zone and move a little bit north toward the breach from now on.


    Zhang Zhiyin rubbed Yin Xiaoxiang¡¯s head: ¡°Xiaoxiang, will you be afraid?¡±


    The kitten was not fully awake from its sleep, and it ¡°Ao¡± lowly without even opening its eyes.


    Zhang Zhiyinughed and began to congratte himself on receiving the kitten. Humans were a social animal by nature. A man would suffer if he was alone for a long time.


    As a result, Zhang Zhiyin, with his silly kitten, embarked on the days of leveling, collecting herbs and refining medicine, and also conveniently making the sale of his materials.


    Ten dayster, when he was woken up by the rm again, he went on with his real life and work. Currently, he was at Level 3 for his ice ability and Level 2 for his precision ability.


    When the ability had reached its third level, it would allow the yer to awaken a big move. This time, Zhang Zhiyin had good luck, he awakened the ¡°freeze-break¡± which was ssified as a ¡°king¡¯s skill¡±, it was the skill the kitten had used on the goat boss that day. However, he was still at a rtively low level and could only freeze and dissolve a small part of his opponent¡¯s body.


    What made him more excited was that he had finally seen his moneying back for the first time after ying for more than a year.


    He had sold more than 80 things and almost all his materials had been sold empty. Well, at least the rental fee had been earned back.


    Then he found a piece of new news in the forum.


    <Tomorrow>¡¯s instance dungeon was divided into three levels: ordinary, elite, and epic. Recently, a new medium-sized instance dungeon of an elite level was said to be released. It would not only release miniature suits of different powers, but also a series of popr items such as fashion, affection gaining items and special pet fragments. As a result, onceunched, the instance dungeon would be brushed regrly by many teams every day.


    The second boss in the instance dungeon was a fire element, but his fire ability wasced with poison, which could cause a series of negative injuries, such as dizziness, sluggishness, continuous blood loss, and so on. However, it waster discovered that a secondary pill called ¡°Bai Huo Pill¡± which had not been noticed before could remove fire poison, and the Bai Huo Pill became popr instantly. However, its raw material was the nails of the snow leopard cat in Valley of the Extinct Dragon, which had been monopolized for a long time. As a result, its supply was insufficient and the price was too high. Common yers¡¯ints about map monopolizing broke out again in the forum. There was a war full of abuse.


    In this age, information seemed to represent business opportunities.


    As soon as Zhang Zhiyin came home to the game that night, he rushed to Dr. Y and hugged him excitedly. He used three kisses in a row to calm his excitement and bought him two boxes of choctes.


    He looked at the item store, cracked augh as he typed, ¡°When my store earns a thousand dors, I¡¯ll buy you a crystal ring. ¡°


    In the gift column of the item mall, the crystal rings were rotating and shining.


    This was designed for the male and female yers who held virtual weddings in the game, but in the game, even if they were ¡°married¡±, there were not many people who would actually buy the rings.


    Zhang Zhiyin thought he was really going crazy.


    He could no longer quit.


    As long as he saw his face, he wouldugh from his heart. When he had good news to share with him, he would give him everything he had without reservation.


    Even though he knew that the person in front of him was just a virtual 3D image and a mass of data, he still could not help thinking of him as a true lover, bit by bit.


    But Yin Nian, do you know about this?


    Zhang Zhiyin watched theputer shut down in front of him, plunging into a ck screen. He closed his eyes slowly, a smile overflowing with gentleness and sorrow formed on his mouth.


    He was afraid to see the real version of Dr. Y in the real world of <Tomorrow>.


    He was afraid the Yin Nian he would see was not the Yin Nian that belonged to him.


    <strong>Footnotes:


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>Xuanmen: is tranted as Taoism. Hahahhahha


    Bai Huo: to relieve inmmation or internal heat

 Chapter 19 - The King of Cats

    <strong>Chapter 19: The King of Cats</strong>


    The snow leopard cat¡¯s habitat was not far from Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s chosen resting ce before he went offline. Thus, as soon as he went back to the game¡¯s real-world, he packed up his things and put Yin Xiaoxiang in his pocket before heading straight towards it.


    The snow leopard cat was set to be a meek and shy animal. It was a massive monster. But they were extreme pack monsters, attacking one would lead to a group of them attacking back.


    Zhang Zhiyin was stunned when he reached the nest of the snow leopard cat.


    As a passive monster, not even one in a pack of more than 20 leopard cats took the initiative to pay attention to him. They all rolled around and yed with each other. Sometimes one or two little snow leopard cats looked at him curiously. They were all snow-white, with shining blue light on their ears. They were bigger than ordinary domestic cats and looked very beautiful.


    Unlike in the game, Zhang Zhiyin could not make himself to harm them when he really faced these small animals that held no hostility towards him.


    Probably because they looked so much like his family¡¯s own silly Xiaoxiang.


    He stood for nearly two minutes, thinking of the forum posts, thinking of the rings in the mall, thinking of Y. In the end, he sighed and turned to go.


    He took five steps before he felt a pull on his left leg.


    He looked down only to see Yin Xiaoxiang hanging onto his trousers with its two small ws and biting them. Its whole body was hung up in the air by these three points. It was supposed to be an act of holding his trousers pants to keep him from walking, but because it was too small and too light, Zhang Zhiyin felt little feeling of it hanging on him.


    ¡°...¡± Zhang Zhiyin looked at his silly cat. He stepped back five steps and went back to where he was. He squatted down and lifted Yin Xiaoxiang.


    ¡°What is going on?¡±


    Yin Xiaoxiang turned in his hand and face the crowd of snow leopard cats.


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly felt a slight spiritual fluctuationing from his cat.


    Before he had time to wonder, he saw the snow leopard cat, which had been ying, suddenly all quieted down. They crouched on all fours in his direction and looking up at him... the Yin Xiaoxiang in his hand.


    Yin Xiaoxiang licked Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s palm and raised its silly face to make acent ¡°Ao¡± to Zhang Zhiyin.


    Perhaps it¡¯s a dual ability? Zhang Zhiyin poked at it and thought to himself. But its psychic powers should not be strong. Although it did belong to the same race as the snow leopard cat, it was probably superior to the snow leopard cat in terms of bloodlines, therefore it could easily suppress them.


    <Tomorrow>¡¯s game-nning team was probably reading too much on a fantasy novel. Only when you read more, could you imnt the idea of bloodline suppression in the monster system. Before, Zhang Zhiyin attacked a mutant ape while doing a mission and he identally hit a high-level psychic golden ape. As a result, the monkey directed more than 20 ordinary grey apes at him and sent him back to the resurrection point directly.


    Being surrounded by a group of monkeys had always been a pain in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s heart. He didn¡¯t expect the same settings to help him today.


    Looking at a group of cats sitting like students in ss listening, Zhang Zhiyin was plotting.


    He only wanted to make some money, not take some lives.


    Zhang Zhiyin took out a sharp knife and walked forward quickly. He began to cut the nails of the nearest snow leopard cat.


    The snow leopard cat uttered a cry of terror as if this was more terrible than having its life taken away. But it remained dazed and did not hide anywhere.


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly reacted, these nails were the weapon of the snow leopard cats, without its nails, they were not much different from killing them.


    Then a snow leopard cat with a shiny coat and a size bigger than themon snow leopard cat moved suddenly. It let out a cat¡¯s cry and slowly came to Zhang Zhiyin, but it still did not pose an attack.


    It swept Zhang Zhiyin with its tail, then turned around, pointed its buttocks at him, and began to move forward. It took two steps before it looked back at him again.


    Zhang Zhiyin understood what it wanted and kept up with it.


    The big cat led Zhang Zhiyin to the dry ce of their nest. There were only two hills there. One was a big pile of snow leopard cats¡¯ hair. It also emitted a faint fluorescent light, which was very beautiful. The other pile was the nails that fell naturally from snow leopard cats.


    The big cat looked at Zhang Zhiyin and cried ¡°meow meow¡± twice, showing a smart expression of ¡°Take it, don¡¯t mention it. Thank you foring to collect garbage¡±.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Zhang Zhiyin would not be able to make so many Bai Huo Pill by himself. So he left a part of the nails, and then the rest of them were put into his shop as raw materials in a group of 99. Fifty boxes were ced in a row, but he predicted that only 1/10 of his goods would be sold.


    Fortunately, ¡®s trading house could be essed by the whole game, it was not limited to a single server, therefore, his number would not seem too terrible.


    As a result, as soon as he put the goods on the shelf, he was bombarded with a lot of information. Some asked if they could be able to buy more goods and get discounted, some asked how many goods he had, and some asked how many discounts could he gave. One of the most simple messages came from the head of arge congress¡ª


    ¡°10 yuan per piece, I will buy how much you have, sell or not?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s first thought was that getting the ring was possible now.

 Chapter 20 - The Road to Become a God

    <strong>Chapter 20: The Road to Be a God


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    The other party was a very well-known guild, not only had they stationed themselves on different major servers in <Tomorrow>, they were also quite influential in other games. They purchased wantonly and treated the transactions as nothing. They immediately made payment and Zhang Zhiyin handed his goods over to them. They also made an agreement with Zhang Zhiyin to sell his materials to their guild first when he had more.


    Zhang Zhiyin was so thrilled to see the freshly-earned 5,000 yuan, his hands were trembling.


    Because of this business transaction, all of his previous investments in the game had been repaid.


    Zhang Zhiyin hung the fur of the snow leopard cat in his shop after finishing the transaction. While snow leopard¡¯s hair was not as popr as snow leopard¡¯s nails, it could make delicate and beautiful ice or water elemental armor, thus, female tailors were in favor of it. It wouldn¡¯t be long before they could earn him a small sum of money.


    Afterward, he took out the stove to refine medicines. Through refining infancy pets advancement pills, his pharmaceutical skills had upgraded to Level 3, now his sess rate of refining the Level 2 Bai Huo Pill had reached 70% to 80%. After filling up twenty bottles, he put them all in the shop, rested for a while, and went on his way.


    He calcted that although time, in reality, had not passed much, in fact, he had been in this valley for more than half a year. He would be able to catch up with the major forces civil war plot that happened before the establishment of the Cloud Sky Alliance if he left the Valley of the Extinct Dragon now. He didn¡¯t know how long he would stay in this strange reality world of <Tomorrow>, but if he wanted to continue to mingle in this world, he shouldn¡¯t separate himself from human society. If he wanted to mix well, it would be better to join a base that would be the foundation of the alliance in the future. Thus, when the alliance was founded, he just needed to perform well enough, then he would naturally be the backbone of the alliance. After that... he should be able to go and live the time of his life like those NPCs in the game?


    Moving from the safety point to the north breach of the Valley of the Extinct Dragon, he fought and absorbed the crystal nucleus all the way. Currently, his ability was at Level 3, and it was close to Level 4. Perhaps, two more monsters to defeat and he would finally advance to the next level. Adding the stats from the ¡°Redemption of the Last Age¡±, by then, his strength could actually reach close to Level 5.


    This time, when Zhang Zhiyin went back to reality, he specifically checked the game¡¯s information. When Cloud Sky Alliance was founded, their leader, Yun Lietian, just broke through Level 7, and he was considered as one of Humanity¡¯s top two masters. Thus, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s strength could at least be ranked in the middle and upper ss.


    At that moment, Zhang Zhiyin, who was so enthusiastic about nning his life, hepletely forgot that the person he loved was the legendary ultimate viin boss.


    Ten dayster, looking at the nearing exit, Zhang Zhiyin, who had sessfully ascended his ice elemental ability to Level 4 and his precision ability to Level 2, touched the little boy who kept calling out in his trousers pocket and said, ¡°Rest assured, I will try my best to earn money to support you and not let anyone eat you.¡±


    Yin Xiaoxiang, ¡°Auwo.¡±


    ¡°And cat meat is said to be terrible?¡± Zhang Zhiyin pinched the soft flesh on the back of its neck and continued to travel down the route.


    Yin Xiaoxiang hid in his pocket.


    Strangely, half a year had already passed in this world, but it still hadn¡¯t grown up. Its appearance was still the lost little kitten he had first seen.


    Zhang Zhiyin sighed, pulled it out and seriously educated it: ¡°If you don¡¯t breathe, you will suffocate.¡±


    The Yulin Base built in the abandoned city covered only a small area and had a poption of no more than 1,000. Their defense was average and the buildings gave the viewers a feeling of fragility and dpidation, such that even a wave of slightly more advanced zombies could destroy itpletely.


    Fortunately, the base was surrounded by arge expanse of wilderness. The density of zombies wasn¡¯t very high, so was their levels. Therefore, the base was able to hold onto itself until now.


    Presently, allrge-scale base forces were fighting amongst themselves, trying to swallow each other and strengthen their own forces. Only the leader of the Yulin Base was nning to find a good opportunity every day to surrender to a reliable base.


    Suddenly, a solitary young man appeared at the gate of the base.


    It was dusk, and the orange sunshine dragged the long shadow of his figure.


    The young man¡¯s face was a little tired, but his eyes were mild and amiable. He was wearing a simple white shirt and jeans and there was nothing fancy about his attire. In his right pocket, a kitten was looking left and right curiously.


    He smiled at the man that was guarding the gate, ¡°May I join you?¡±


    Neither of the two people and one cat at that time would have thought that in a very long timeter, this scene would be recorded, reproduced, and passed around in a groundbreaking manner.


    Under the painter¡¯s brush, the indistinct young man carried a holy light that sliced through the endless darkness and the cat in his pocket had sacredpassion for heaven and man. In the legend, the young person, as the source of light, lifted his right hand lightly in front of Yulin Base¡¯s gate and silently announced the arrival of a bright era.


    They called this incident ¡°Genesis ¡¤ The Advent of the Savior Z.


    The doorkeeper of Yulin Base was called the first person to witness to this oracle. Among the sculptures that recorded this event, there was nock of the figure of an elder uncle who bowed and looked up to the young man as piously as if he could see the light of a new life.


    However, at that time, the gatekeeper did not foresee his future legendary image at all. He just yawned casually and responded as per the rules: ¡°Yes, you just need to do the examination.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin received routine virus screening and functional tests and was assigned to a single room, but the conditions of the were much worse than the dormitory where he used to live in university. And it was still said that the rooms assigned to the ability users were better.


    He simply shook the sheets and copsed on it. Originally, ording to the game map, he should see arge human base soon after he got out of the Valley of the Extinct Dragon¡¯s breach. As a result, he neglected the fact that the timeline was different from that in the game. The ces where the base should have been built were still deserted. It took him a long time before he found this dpidated small base.


    Fortunately, he was a man who had an item store with him, so he would not fall halfway in his journey.


    Before long, Zhang Zhiyin heard a knock at the door. He opened the door and the tall and thin man who had examined him before was waiting there. When he saw hime out, he said directly, ¡°The leader wants to talk to you.¡± Under the in expression, those eyes implied deep awe.


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t think much about it and went directly with him.


    As soon as he entered the leader¡¯s office, he was held by a pair of warm hands. Then the leader patted him on the shoulder excitedly and said, ¡°You are very wee to join us! We need people like you right now!¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    He had not fully reacted to the situation, and there was only one idea in his head; that this leader must be a powerful mutant, then he heard the leader urgently saying:


    ¡°I¡¯ve decided to appoint you as the captain of the first team of Yulin Base.¡±


    After all, Zhang Zhuyin had worked for three years, so he self-consciously said, ¡°I¡¯ve juste here and I am appointed as the captain of the first team? Isn¡¯t that not good?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s fine.¡± The leader patted him on the shoulder again. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, we only have one team.¡±


    ¡°What about the former captain?¡± Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t help asking another question.


    ¡°Me¡ª¡± the leader took pride in pping his chest.

 Chapter 21 - Strategy

    <strong>Chapter 21: Strategy</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin gradually realized that the remaining poption of the Yulin Base was only around 700 people, over 70% of them were ability users, and there were only twenty elemental abilities users with strong fighting capacity, their levels were also at Level 2 or 3. The first leader was the only fire ability user in the base who was about to break through the fifth level. He had been working diligently on the front lines of the base.


    It was said that the leader wasn¡¯t the strongest person here before. There used to be a well-rounded team passing through the newly built Yulin Base. When they left, they announced that they could take all the people above Level 4 with them. At that time, all the strong people above Level 4 in Yulin Base chose to leave, only the leader who had just risen to Level 4 remained. Afterward, he naturally became the leader.


    Since then, two or three more people in the base had broken through Level 4, but they had left also due to different circumstances. All that remained was the leader.


    The current ability detection technology could not detect dual powers. It could only detect the highest level of an ability, so the leader regarded Zhang Zhiyin as a Level 4 ice ability user.


    Zhang Zhiyin was unanimously weed by the people at the base.


    For the people in Yulin Base, living was their biggest goal now. To have a stronger person here meant to have more hope for their life.


    On the third day, Zhang Zhiyin received his first assignment.


    The leader asked him with a bitter face, ¡°Zhiyin, can you take someone to look at the ruins in the northeast? There should be a high-level psychic zombie inside because it affects many ordinary people in our base, making them unable to sleep well. During the day there will be hallucinations and even mental disorders. Xiao Jin has explored that area with his psychic ability, but his level is so low that he can only judge that there is a zombie with a higher level than him.¡± Xiao Jin was the only psychic ability user in the base and he was at Level 2.


    Zhang Zhiyin agreed.


    The leader was so excited, he patted him on the shoulder and encouraged him, ¡°Okay! I¡¯ve not mistaken you! Twenty people in our team are under yourmand! You go back and have a rest first. I¡¯ll see you formally in the evening.¡±


    At night, when Zhang Zhiyin finished his dinner, he heard a knock at the door and he didn¡¯t put any thought into it. He went and opened the door. He saw a crowd of men and women standing in the corridor; there were fat, thin, old and young people. He saw their eyes glittering before they all stopped and shouted, ¡°Greeting captain, listening to themand of the captain!¡±


    The leader stood at the front of the line simply and said with a triumphant smile, ¡°What¡¯s the matter? Are the people in our team good?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin felt only the darkness in front of his eyes and fainted directly.


    You needed to know that when Zhang Zhiyin was growing up, the only biggest leadership role he had taken before was to collect his ssmate¡¯s and his homework. To suddenly let himmand twenty people to fight the zombies with their lives on the line; heter responded to this task and felt that... It¡¯s a little difficult.


    Fortunately, as soon as he opened his eyes, he returned to the real world, which was in line with his thought that it was time for him to go back. At least he did not have to face that arduous task right away.


    It was the weekend again. Zhang Zhiyin opened the game after washing and rinsing. During this period, his snow leopard¡¯s hair and Bai Huo Pills also sold a lot. He looked at his bnce of more than 5300 yuan and hesitated for a moment. Instead of turning it over to his bank ount, he opened the gift area of the market and moved the mouse pointer to the shining crystal ring.


    ¡°Have you decided to buy it?¡±


    A dialogue box popped up, Zhang Zhiyin did not hesitate to click ¡®OK¡¯.


    There was a pair of rings in his backpack.


    Zhang Zhiyin, who got his hands on the ring, did not fly straight to the Abandoned Laboratory for the first time. Instead, he opened the world map built in the game and began searching for the approximate location of Yulin Base based on the Valley of the Extinct Dragon.


    Then he did find that there was an instance dungeon showing that it was in a closed state, and it basically coincided with the coordinates of the Yulin Base.


    Zhang Zhiyin still vaguely remembered the instance dungeon, the name was ¡®Ge Lou Ge Sheng¡¯, It was said that the yers passed near the instance dungeon, where survivors told them that they had not been sleeping well recently, and they had hallucinations during the daytime. They hoped that the yer could help with identifying the situation. Entering the instance dungeon was basically to beat all the monsters. There were three small bosses, which had strength, wood, and special poison mutation. Finally, the boss would be a psychic mutant. This instance dungeon was an early medium-sized version, limited to ten to twenty-five people. Later, as the game was updated, the instance dungeon was closed.


    The more he looked at it, the more he felt that the instance dungeon looked like the ce the leader had asked him to explore.


    So... not knowing how tomand was nothing. He had a strategy!


    Zhang Zhiyin immediately opened the game forum and searched for various leadership strategy for the instance dungeon.


    Not only did he learn about the relevant technical guidance posts and battle videos, but he also learned about simr strategies that he felt were valuable for reference. After all, he was not certain if that the ce was that exact instance dungeon.


    Zhang Zhiyin never led when he was ying games. He spent most of his time and energy on brushing Yin Nian. asionally, if he were to participate in instance dungeon, it was usually in a team of random people. It wasmon to meet unprofessional teams and die seven or eight times. It was alsomon for professional teams to abandon and kick people out. He didn¡¯t know much about these professional strategies. At first, he had a hard time remembering them. Then he slowly gradually understood the technique needed and how to execute them ording to the boss¡¯s attacks and skills. In the days of fighting in the Valley of the Extinct Dragon, he had also mastered a lot ofbat skills subtly. Now what he needed most was to exercise the ability to master overall control over the battlefield.


    He studied until ¡õ¡õ o¡¯clock in the afternoon. Both of his meals were takeouts. His hard work and temporary cramming at this moment were just the same as that year when he took his examination.


    When it was time to go to bed, Zhang Zhiyin hesitated to run to the abandonedboratory.


    Looking at the ring in his bag, and looking at the expressionless boss. Zhang Zhiyin finally clenched his teeth and smiled. He bought two boxes of choctes and carefully put them on the ground. He ran to him and hugged him. ¡°Today¡¯s choctes, don¡¯t eat too much. Be careful not to be heaty.¡±


    There was no mention of the ring until theputer turned off.


    Laying in bed, Zhang Zhiyin deeply resented himself. He bought a ring for 1,000 yuan, and he didn¡¯t even dare to give it to a virtual character.


    In fact, the worst result would be boss Yin getting angry and ignoring him, which was no different from the current situation¡ª


    Anyway, he just did not pay any attention to him before.


    Thinking of this, Zhang Zhiyin was slightly depressed. He stuffed himself into the quilt as his heart kept thinking about it, waiting to return to the game world to desperately give out the ring.


    When he woke up again, the leader and the tall, thin man who had initially tested him were watching him around the bed.


    The thin and tall man was known as Lao Zhu. He was a Level 2 speed ability user. He could not fight, but he was quick and orderly and was responsible for all logistics affairs at the base.


    Zhang Zhiyin met his eyes, ¡°I have to go to bed at the correct timing, otherwise I¡¯ll fall asleep instantly. It¡¯s all fine.¡±


    The leader patted him with great understanding: ¡°Rest first and then explore in two days. Or you can stay in the base, I¡¯ll take someone to explore the ce.¡±


    At that moment, Zhang Zhiyin suddenly remembered the captain uncle that had entrusted him the blue fruit.


    He paused and reassured the leader. ¡°It¡¯s all right. Today, I am taking the team to check out the situation. If the opponent is not strong, we can get rid of them directly. If the other party is strong, we cane back and make arrangements.¡± Zhang Zhiyin was actually trying to make sure that this ce was really the instance dungeon of the singing voice attic while he was still able to recall the strategies he had remembered.


    The leader thought about it and nodded. When a group of people set out, they deliberately pulled Zhang Zhiyin aside and told him, ¡°Zhiyin, safety first. This... our base medical skills are not very good. We must try not to let everyone be too seriously injured.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin smiled and said, ¡°Certainly.¡±


    When he pushed open the door of the two-story abandoned building with his twenty members and saw the familiar setup, Zhang Zhiyin only wanted to sigh for a long time ¨C he had taken so many examinations, and he finally had gotten a question right.


    This ce was indeed the attic of the singing voice, an instance dungeon.


    In the remote secret base of Dr. Y, for the first time, when the legendary ultimate boss got the chocte, his dark ck eyes seemed to show a slightly disappointed and depressed look.

 Chapter 22 - The New Captain

    <strong>Chapter 22: The New Captain</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin who was leading for the first time did not have any experience at all. The example he thought of at the first moment was the head of his unit, Group Leader Uncle. Group Leader Uncle was a very good person. He had a standard Chuanpu. When they went out for dinner, he always stressed that ¡°We do not propose to drink, we only drink at will¡±, and then after a while, ¡°A cup of respect for a female colleague of mine¡±, ¡°A cup of respect for the male colleague of mine¡± ¡°Let¡¯s have a cup together¡±... Later, when Zhang Zhiyin saw him, he conditioned reflex was to receive a headache like he was drunk.


    He shook his head and drove Group Leader Uncle out from his mind quickly. He then went through all the people he met from his childhood to adulthood in his mind. Atst, he silently felt that... In fact, maybe he could learn from Boss Yin?


    Standing in the doorway of the building, Zhang Zhiyin shook his fist and gave himself an inward cheering. At the same time, he recalled the person deeply imprinted in his mind and quickly adjusted his facial expression.


    The entire building looked exceedingly murky. Although it was only nine o¡¯clock in the morning with clear weather outside, the building seemed like it was light-tight, thereby bringing a gloomy atmosphere. Dust was everywhere and the wallpaper was peeling off, revealing old dark yellow walls within them. It seemed to be spattered with blood of unknown origins. This whole atmosphere was just like a scene from a 3D thriller game.


    However, did have a thriller element in it. Considering the market factors, it did not make some scenes or pictures too horrible.


    As nned, the two speed ability users went out first to explore the path, and then everyone would follow when they indicated that there was no problem.


    As it was in the game, there were only five or six loitering elite zombies on the first floor, which were soon wiped out by the team.


    The wooden stairs leading inside were rotten and many of them were missing wooden pieces. When the team stepped on them, they made a creaky and groaning noise.


    Halfway up, Zhang Zhiyin, who was walking in front, stopped and quietly raised his right hand to signal the people behind him to stop.


    If one did not go in ande out, the first small boss strength-type zombie would be lying in ambush at the stairway entrance. As long as someone showed his head, it would pounce and tear off the person¡¯s neck. It was written in the strategy that the skill of this little boss was to pounce and tear. Its defense was average but it was rtively fast. This was a boss with high speed, high attack, and low defense. The key to dealing with it was to restrict its movements.


    His expression was calm as he said, ¡°There¡¯s a strength-type zombie with a higher level than the zombies below. It has low defense but high speed. In a while, I¡¯ll attack and lead it down. The first battle team prepares your big moves to attack it directly; then Dadao and I will rush up from both sides and lure it to turn back and fight us... The second battle team will restrain its movements, and the first battle team will use their full strength at it! The assistant team on standby! Be careful not to let it touch your neck, otherwise, it may cause fatal injury.¡±


    After a long speech without breathing, Zhang Zhiyin secretly nced at the reaction of his team members at the corner of his eye. Zhang Zhiyin quietly breathed out a sigh¡ª the effect seemed to be quite well.


    Dadao who was standing at one side. He looked nkly at this powerful and mysterious captain that emerged suddenly. He couldn¡¯t help but whisper, ¡°Captain, how do you know all this so clearly?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡± At the moment of hearing this question, his heart almost copsed.


    How did he know so clearly? Of course, it was written in the strategy! But could he tell the truth? No...


    After two seconds, he resumed Dr. Y¡¯s cool and expressionless face, ¡°I heard it out.¡±


    After more than a year of getting along with each other and looking at the face of the ultimate boss every day, Zhang Zhiyin was more than familiar with him. He learned Yin Nian¡¯s expressions and manners through and through. If you take a look, he really resembled the unfathomable boss.


    Zhang Zhiyin himself suddenly thought this was how the legendary couple face came about.


    Dadao was still curious: ¡°How do you hear it?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°... Just randomly heard it.¡±


    Having heard that, everyone looked at Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s ¡°no big deal¡± expression again and had a face of awe: ¡°...¡±


    Sounds like... The new captain was really different...


    Unlike in the games, strategies might not always be effective, because the zombies and monsters were no longer a traceable data response, instead, they were more flexible and uncertain. Simrly, his teammates were no longer well-equipped yers with reasonable career build who could drink medicine and HP potions at will, but a group of real-life people with simple equipment and diverse abilities. There would definitely be differences between face-to-face fights and controlling virtual characters.


    Zhang Zhiyin said with a volume that could be heard by all his teammates, ¡°Get ready.¡± For the first time, he was leading so many people to fight bosses. His heart was actually so nervous to the point of crying. But his face was straightforward, his voice calm and his eyes focused. In everyone¡¯s eyes, he had the image of a calm and steadfast new captain.


    Everyone quieted down, and the noise of the zombies wandering upstairs became distinct. Xiao Jin, who was setting out with the team for the first time, turned white in an instant.


    The young man was only seventeen this year. On normal days, he should be at the age of studying. As a psychic ability user with low initialbat effectiveness, he had been doing logistical work with Lao Zhu before. Not long ago, his ability had just been upgraded to Level 2, and he awakened a new skill, ¡°Mind Interference¡±, so the leader let hime out to practice it.


    Zhang Zhiyin gave him a soothing look while secretly concentrating on gathering his ability. His hands condensed out an icicle and he quickly went forward to the ce where the sounds were emitting from.


    Generally, any Level 4 ability users would find it difficult to urately aim their ability at this kind of situation, but Zhang Zhiyin had a Level 2 precision ability, so it was different for him. Usually, under any normal circumstances, this ability was a chicken rib, but when used in conjunction with his ice ability at critical moments, it could have extraordinary effects.


    A low, hoarse roar reverberated and a ck silhouette rushed down rapidly with after images echoing behind it. Zhang Zhiyin spread both his hands. The ice wall that he had prepared was instantly broken by the zombie. But this moment had won them an opportunity, and the several ability users behind were prepared to attack it.


    At the same time, Zhang Zhiyin leaped behind the little boss along with Dadao, a metal ability user. The icicle and metal spike that had been long prepared by them instantly went into the zombie¡¯s chest.


    The injured zombie gave a snarl. It turned around and chased after Zhang Zhiyin upstairs.


    Battle Team 2¡¯s restricting skills and Battle Team 1¡¯s attacking skills consecutively kept pace with one another. Some of the members were unable to react in time or had problems coordinating, but this did not cause too many bugs.


    The first boss had few skills and it was more conventional in its attack. Over time, the team members gradually took control of the battle. Seeing the boss¡¯s attack and evasion getting more and more ineffective, the atmosphere in the team gradually became rxed.


    Some experienced veterans and Zhang Zhiyin were getting wary. Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s experience came from themon sense of ying games. A dying boss would always go on a rampage for a while.


    ¡°Watch out, all retreat!¡± Zhang Zhiyin took a step forward to the little boss while he warned the team.


    But after all, he was not certain. At the same time that he spoke out, the little boss had taken a swift leap and shed past two people. It approached Xiao Jin, who was standing at the outer side of the assistant team.


    There seemed to be a saying that psychic ability users would tend to attract zombies more so than the average person because their spiritual fluctuations were stronger and more easily perceived by these mutated creatures.


    Xiao Jin subconsciously used his only aggressive skill, which was to disrupt the mind, but it only stopped the zombie momentarily.


    His arms were tightly wrapped up by the zombies with its yellowish prominent eyes staring straight at him. Its two long, narrow, ck and rusty teeth were already touching his neck.


    But everything stopped suddenly.


    Zhang Zhiyin stood behind the zombie with a slight warp of his mouth. His face was calm and a drop of cold sweat slipped from his temple, undiscovered by anyone.


    The back of the zombies had melted into arge hemispherical hole. An icicle had prated it, thereby piercing its body.


    In that short time, he used his freeze-break and icicle to knock out thest bit of blood from the little zombie boss.


    The zombie boss fell to the ground and everyone looked at Zhang Zhiyin with more respect in their eyes.


    Zhang Zhiyin covered his mouth and coughed. He pretended to be calm and said, ¡°Take a rest and we¡¯ll move on in another fifteen minutes.¡±


    Then he looked for a corner expressionlessly. He leaned back and lowered his head slightly.


    His actions could not be more free-spirited.


    But if there was someone who had yed and entered the instance dungeon of the Abandoned Laboratory, he would find that his pose was almost identical to that of the Dr. Y inside.


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 Chapter 23 - Mind Disruption

    <strong>Chapter 23: Mind Disruption


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    These twenty ability users assigned to him by the leader were not evenly matched in terms of their strength, but they were particrly disciplined. They did not goof around and try to evade work by saying they were tired. Otherwise, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s shallow bluffing might not necessarily be able to control them.


    After the battle, the assistant group members came out to clean up the battlefield. After sorting and counting the spoils of war, they were taken back by the space ability user, Ah Kong, to be redistributed when they go back.


    When Zhang Zhiyin first came to Yulin Base, he had already made out the level of the monsters around the base. Generally speaking, with his Level 4 ability, the monsters were not a problem for him to deal with. So he felt that this was a suitable timing for him to hide his strength. In addition, the Redemption suit would be damaged if it was worn for a long time, and the cost of repairing was also very high. Earlier, he took off his Divine suit and reced it with an ordinary suit suitable for Level 4 to 5 ice ability users. On the outside, he was still wearing a set of ordinary fashion items from the Item Store. It was the cheapest and simplest kind of white shirt and jeans that could be worn forever for 10 yuan.


    After this battle, the people in the team gained more reverence for Zhang Zhiyin. Originally, it was just because of his outstanding and prominent ability. Later, his precise judgment andmand of the situation made them even more confident of his abilities.


    As the saying went, distance birthed beauty but that was all to it. If Dajia were here, he could surely see through the pretense: ¡°This kid is just acting.¡±


    The next two boss battles could be considered smooth. One of them broke his leg while another one broke his arms facing the wood mutant BOSS. In the battle against poison mutant BOSS, two members were poisoned.


    By this time they reached the third floor, there was only the fourth-floor attic left untouched.


    Cold wind blew down from above, making them feel cold. The intuition and six senses of the ability users were much stronger than those of ordinary people. At this time, the sense of danger and difort made them hold their weapons tighter. But no one moved and they all looked at Zhang Zhiyin.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the dark entrance of the attic and frowned. After considering the situation, he ordered, ¡°We¡¯ll stop here today. Go back to rest ande back tomorrow.¡± He knew that the psychic zombie was upstairs, but they had already fought three small BOSSES. The team members were physically and mentally exhausted. It would be unwise to challenge the big BOSS.


    When the team heard his words, they formed up and ced the injured and the members of the assistant group in the middle to protect them. Zhang Zhiyin and Dadao who had the strongest strength now followed at the back instead of leading the way.


    Zhang Zhiyin who was standing at the end felt a lingering sense of getting peeped. It was like a thorn stabbing at his back and it made him feel chilly. When he looked back, it was still the same dark entrance of the attic.


    ¡°Captain.¡± Walking on his right was Dadao and his face was ufortable. ¡°I feel flustered as if something is looking at me constantly.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s all right. I felt it too.¡± Zhang Zhiyin reassured him, ¡°It should be the ability of the psychic zombie. Go back and be cautious. Don¡¯t try to act alone in case of idents happening.¡±


    In the game, everyone would just fight when theye across a BOSS, and neither would they heard about any negative effects of retreating without finishing off the BOSS. But after all, this was the real-world¡ªmonsters that have been beaten would not refresh, the same situation would not happen again, and the dead would note back.


    The one in the attic was a real high-level psychic zombie. And for it, they were human beings that invaded its territory.


    Although thest main boss was not exterminated, Zhang Zhiyin still considered their first battle to be sessful. The leader deliberately made special treatments for them to celebrate their aplishments. The members of the team who went out to fight had steamed bread and potatoes to eat. Although there was no taste to them at all, the members all wolfed it down. They held the steamed bread and two potatoes that were given to them as if they were peaches of immortality that belonged to the Queen Mother.


    With the arrival of the end of the world, arablends had been cut down dramatically and food was scarce. In order to ovee the food shortage, human beings had quickly developed a nutrient medicine, which could meet the nutritional needs of the human body with only two packages a day, so that they would not feel hungry. This nutrient medicine was simple to make and save resources. Its invention enabled more people, especially ordinary ones, to survive the apocalypse. Now every base would at least had onerge or small nutrient medicine production nt. The only disadvantage it had was that it¡¯s extremely unptable.


    It was a great reward to be able to eat normal steamed bread and potatoes from before the apocalypse.


    Dadao ate and said, ¡°I heard that the leaders of the big bases ate the same food from before the apocalypse. They could eat any red-roasted ribs, sweet and sour fish, roasted duck, roasted goose, stewed chicken, instant-boiled mutton...¡±


    The more he talked about it, the more he felt covetous. Finally, he concluded by saying, ¡°When do you think we¡¯ll be able to live that kind of life?¡±


    When Xiao Jin heard him saying this, he looked like his thoughts had wandered away. The potatoes in his hands became not so attractive at once.


    Ah Kong, who could manipte space, was his sister, she rapped his younger brother quickly. ¡°Eat fast and don¡¯t fantasize, the food will be coldter.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin silently listened, and an idea he used to havee to his mind again.


    Like most online games on the market, <Tomorrow> also had a home system and a lot of life skills, among which was ¡°nting¡±. The lowest product it could produce was ¡°flour¡±, which could be used to prepare dishes for yers who had learned cooking skills. This kind of flour was also sold in the trading house. 10 yuan could get a group of ny-nine bags. In the introduction log, a bag was ten jin. The flour should be consumable in the world today.


    They went through life and death situation together and trusted one another other with their own lives. Although their contact time was not considered long, it was difficult for Zhang Zhiyin to regard these teammates as irrelevant people, especially when they called him ¡°Captain¡± with great confidence time after time. He intended to improve their lives, however, he did not know where to start. He worried that overdoing things would incite suspiciousness, and that would be self-defeating.


    While thinking, the leader came quietly, patted Zhang Zhiyin and called him away.


    The leader rubbed his hands, lowered his head, and said with embarrassment, ¡°Little Zhang ah... This is all thanks to you...


    ¡°On the distribution of the nuclei... I¡¯d like to discuss with you... can it be allocated 50% each? You take half and give the rest to the members? Recent times were not peaceful. There are signs of evolution in the northern zombies... Well, it¡¯s fine if you are not willing ¡õ¡õ...¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin did not expect the leader to say this to him. The education he received since childhood was ¡°Hardships before pleasure¡±, ¡°Don¡¯t y special¡±, and ¡°Do good without leaving a name¡±. He had never thought about exploiting his upper hand to reap special benefits and skillfully seize and plunder. But Zhang Zhiyin soon realized that he was now simr to a CEO of apany, and the leader was trying to retain him by offering him more sries than other ordinary employees.


    He felt relieved after thinking of this analogy. Zhang Zhiyin asked, ¡°How did you allocate when you were the captain before?¡±


    ¡°172.¡± The leader spoke softly. 10% was his share, 70% was the share of all the members who participated in the battle, and 20% was the share of the members who stayed behind to keep a watch on the base.


    ¡°Then let¡¯s allocate shares ording to this.¡± Zhang Zhiyin also took the initiative to pat the leader¡¯s... arms before he turned around and left. He wanted to p his shoulder, but the leader was taller, so he could not do so. Thepany was still in the early stages of its start-up and had a shortage of funds. He should grow along with thepany. Thinking about it like this, Zhang Zhiyin felt that this was rather good.


    He told Dadao to be careful, but after leaving the leader, he totally forgot about his own words and went straight back to his room.


    Yin Xiaoxiang, who had been confined in the room for a day, looked at him with grief. It rubbed at him while whining and it even spat ice shards on his face. Zhang Zhiyin who had been tired for the whole day lightly tugged its little buttocks with his index finger to make it behave.


    It sniffed at Zhang Zhiyin and revealed an unhappy expression. Its face wrinkled together and gave a small cry of protest. Zhang Zhiyin only thought that it was still angry about being confined in the house and ignored it. He lied down and slept.


    Yin Xiaowang nested around his neck, looking a little anxious. It arched its small head to the neck of Zhang Zhiyin. Zhang Zhiyin, who had fallen asleep quickly, paid no attention to it and went on to sleep after patting it.


    Zhang Zhiyin dreamed. This was a rare urrence because subconsciously, he intuitively realized that this world, though real, was just like a dream. Do people dream within their dreams? He didn¡¯t know, but he was now dreaming.


    The beginning of his dream started with the memory of his childhood. He finished school and had dinner with his grandparents. They watched TV and chatted.


    Then the scene changed rapidly. Grandfather and Grandmother disappeared. He appeared in an empty and simple room, looking around and finding no one else. He pushed open the door and went out. Standing in the corridor, he found a man downstairs.


    The man¡¯s back was facing him, he could only see a white background and the short ck hair.


    But Zhang Zhiyin instinctively knew who he was. A shallow smile appeared, he walked gently towards the man...


    Yin Xiaoxiang, who had been restless, suddenly stare vigntly. In the darkness, its ice-blue eyes were particrly bright.


    It saw Zhang Zhiyin suddenly sat up, get up from the bed and went down. It immediately rushed over to bite him to not let him move. But its strength was too small. Zhang Zhiyin went straight to the door as if he could not feel its existence at all.


    ¡°Aowu?¡± Yin Xiaoxiang, who was hanging on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s arm and was desperately biting him, suddenly felt a powerful and overwhelming psychic force. It was familiar and overbearing as if a king had descended. It was different from the disgusting psychic power attached to Zhang Zhiyin before; It was just iparable.


    Yin Xiaoxiang thought about it with its little head tilted aside. It loosened its mouth and ran back to the bed to sleep, leaving no regard to Zhang Zhiyin.


    At the same time, Xiao Jin, the only psychic ability user in the base, was awakened by this sudden force. He could not feel any difference, but he was shocked for no apparent reason. Looking at the bed next to him, he became even more frightened.


    ¡°Brother Dao!¡± Xiao Jin shouted, but no one answered.


    The room was dark and empty, he was all alone. He did not know when Dadao, who had especially moved here for fear of idents, had disappeared to.

 Chapter 24 - Dream

    <strong>Chapter 24: Dream</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin walked towards the man step by step.


    The surrounding was soundless as if there were only two of them left in the world.


    When he came behind him, the man still stood quietly. Wordless and silent, without saying anything; just like he had always been before.


    Zhang Zhiyin gently put his arms around his waist and leaned his head on his back. He murmured, ¡°Yin Nian...¡±


    The name that hovered thousands of times on the tip of his tongue was finally vocalized out.


    Yin Nian turned around quietly. He looked down at him with ck eyes that were still without waves.


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly panicked.


    This person in front of him... It was the real Yin Nian with a real presence, real breathing, and even had a heartbeat like any ordinary people.


    He panicked and wanted to let go, but he was held back by the other party.


    Yin Nian put his left hand behind him and held Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s hand to keep him from moving. He put his right hand in front of him and slowly touched his face.


    ¡°Zhiyin...¡± He said. His voice was low and there was something unreal in his eyes.


    Zhang Zhiyin lost control of his movements for a moment and looked at him in a daze. As if he suddenly did not know how to react to Dr. Y who could move and speak.


    ¡°Zhiyin.¡± Yin Nian called him again, and without waiting for his response, he lowered his head and kissed his lips. It was a gentle temptation with a hint of cautiousness¡ªidentical to what Zhang Zhiyin did to him countless times before in the dark abandonedboratory.


    Zhang Zhiyin did not move. With a trace of confusion, he quietly closed his eyes.


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    The next morning, Zhang Zhiyin woke up in the shabby little bed in the base bedroom. Yin Xiaoxiang was nested on his neck, sleeping.


    He turned around and examined himself. He found nothing unusual.


    It seemed thatst night was a dream, he dreamed of the real Dr. Y.


    Zhang Zhiyin pressed his forehead that was apanied by dizziness. He washed and went out for breakfast with a headache that seemed to arise from having insufficient rest.


    When Dadao saw him, he quickly reported, ¡°Captain, there is something wrong with the psychic zombie.¡±


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡± Breakfast was still the nutrient medicine. Zhang Zhiyin was not picky and ate together with everyone. He also casually asked this.


    ¡°I dreamed about my wifest night. It was very real, unlike a dream. I walked with her in the street. She tried on clothes and I carried her bag.¡± Speaking of this, his eyes went bitter and astringent. ¡°But that was not true at all. My wife has been gone for a long time. Later, Xiao Jin found out that I wasn¡¯t in the room. He asked the night watchers toe out and look for me before he found me sleepwalking on the way to that attic. They sent four people to restrain me and took me back.¡±


    Xiao Jin added, ¡°This should be a high-level mind interference that was attached to the body. It would wait until the person¡¯s mental strength gets weaker, such as when they fall asleep, before creating an illusion based on the weakness of the human heart. Usually, it will be things or people the person is extremely afraid or desires, to achieve the purpose of controlling them. I haven¡¯t gotten to that level yet. I heard it from the psychic ability users I¡¯ve met before.¡±


    And he looked at Zhang Zhiyin, ¡°Captain... are you okay? Brother Dao said that you walked a little behind him yesterday, and you felt like someone was peeping at you. It¡¯s reasonable to say that you have most likely been targeted.¡±


    Me? Zhang Zhiyin pursed his lips and thought back to his dream.


    In his dream, he held Y and was kissed by Y... More than once.


    Later when he felt tired and sleepy, Yin Nian sat on the ground, let himy on hisp and slept with him in his arms...


    No matter how he thought about it, it was absolutely impossible in reality. It fitted well with Xiao Jin¡¯s statement of ¡°it will be things or people the person is extremely afraid of or desires¡±.


    However, he woke up in his bed, so he should not have any problem. Or maybe because of his high ability level, his corresponding mental strength was rtively strong, the zombie could only let him have the dream, but it was unable to control him like Dadao.


    But his self-confidence was shattered with the arrival of the leader and Lao Zhu.


    The surveince in the base had clearly recorded that he left the base in the middle of the night and did not return until dawn. Under the camera, his posture was peaceful and calm.


    Everyone on dutyst night was busy with the missing Dadao. No one noticed Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s departure and it was not discovered until this morning.


    No one knew what he did during his absence, including Zhang Zhiyin himself. Watching the surveince video, he was stunned.


    He dared not even confess what he had dreamed like Dadao.


    He also could not keep saying that he did not know anything, but he had a dream that felt like reality. In the dream, he had been lovey-dovey with Dr. Y, because he had liked him for a long time.


    He could only vaguely say that, like Dadao, he dreamed of being with his lover.


    He was single when he appeared at the base, and no one at the base knew that he had a lover. But many people have noticed that on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s left ring finger was a simple and in tinum ring¡ªthe one that Zhang Zhiyin mistook as the suit¡¯s ring. After wearing the fashion items, the ring was not hidden like other parts of the suit, even after taking off other suits, the ring could not be taken off. Zhang Zhiyin himself has always regarded this as a system BUG, and he was not bothered about it.


    At the end of the world, people were more prone to experience separation. Life and death weremon. When they saw how Zhang Zhiyin did not want to say much, they all secretly guessed if he had some unforgettable sadness, so it was hard to question him more. But his disappearancest night without any of them knowing where he went was like ¡õ¡õ, it caused everyone, including Zhang Zhiyin himself, to feel uneasy.


    Anyway, the crux must be on the zombie itself. Finally, Zhang Zhiyin decided that it would be better to eliminate it as soon as possible today.


    The only one who knew the truth blearily woke up and found itself locked up in the room again. With a whine, it sat down on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s pillow in a grieving manner.


    The attic where the psychic zombie BOSS was located had a psychic field, in which within its boundary the effect of the BOSS¡¯s ability would be amplified, while the yers who were trapped in it would always be in a negative state of confusion.


    In reality, the situation was even worse.


    Zhang Zhiyin and Dadao still led the way. A bare, broken woodendder was connected to the entrance of the dark attic and a cold wind blew out from it as if it was some kind of foreboding indication of a bad omen.


    Zhang Zhiyin stood at the entrance and looked at it for a long while. He restrained his anxiety and took the lead in climbing up.


    However, as soon as he stepped on the old stairs leading to the narrow attic, it seemed as if he had stepped into deep darkness.


    It was a long, dark corridor, with a faint lighting from the far end. He stood in the middle of the corridor, and darkness was on both sides of him. Looking around, he finally summoned the courage to go to one of the sides.


    A figure appeared ahead. He stood against the light with his tall and slender figure. As his head was slightly lowered, his features were blurred.


    It¡¯s Yin Nian.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s eyes brightened. He began to run to him quickly and bumped straight into his arms, hugging him face to face like in that dream.


    Looking up, he was about to say something, but he was horrified to find that the face was not Yin Nian¡¯s face at all, but a decaying and fragmented corpse.


    Subconsciously, he released his hand and waved an ice de forward.


    There was a shout in his ear, ¡°Captain, wake up!¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly opened his eyes and saw Dadao, Xiaojin, and the others surrounding him. The vines summoned by a wood ability user in the team were winding around the ice de he had gathered to prevent him from releasing it.


    It was mind interference. Once you step into the ability field of the zombie, it was hard not to be controlled by him. It was only when the members who stayed at the bottom saw the situation did they make the wood user summon vines to pull Zhang Zhiyin down from the top.


    Zhang Zhiyin wiped the sweat on his forehead. In the game, as long as you step into the attic to fight the final BOSS, you would be forced to enter a negative state of ¡°confusion¡± regardless of your level. Thus, you could see how strong this mental field was. But the yers were always sober, they could make their characters replenish their HP, consume mind-clearing pills, and manipte the characters rationally. They could calmly control the situation without experiencing the panic of being in a fantasy or having to face their peers¡¯ swords. But the situation right now was much worse.


    Their mood was also a bit heavy, they viewed Zhang Zhiyin as the strongest person among them, but now even the captain had difficulties oveing this mind interference.


    This was not a game, Zhang Zhiyin thought sadly. The big ck hole in the attic was like a big mouth, silently mocking him.


    Suddenly, there was a sh of inspiration. Since this was no longer a game, he would not have to confine himself to the rules of the game.


    Could you tear an instance dungeon apart in the game? No. But now he could.


    Since they could not ovee the interference of this field, it was better to tear it apart directly.

 Chapter 25 - Battle

    <strong>Chapter 25: Battle


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Everyone in the team noticed that the sobered up captain was pondering on something while maintaining a calm face.


    Suddenly, he stood up and waved his hand: ¡°Follow me out.¡±


    Looking from the outside, the whole building¡¯s dpidation was even more obvious. The walls had lost their original color and some ces were exposing the brick foundation. The windows were broken and were hanging half askew outside.


    Some people said that architecture had life and humanity was like the soul of the architecture. Different people lived in it and they gave different souls to the architecture. Those buildings that had experienced many masters always appeared to be in vicissitudes and held wisdom. With the advent of the end of the world, buildings had lost their original owners. Just like zombies without souls and flesh, they became ruins little by little.


    This ce was not far from the base. Soon, the assistant team brought back what they needed from the base. Zhang Zhiyin checked it once, nodded, raised his left hand high and waved it down.


    The demolition campaign officially began.


    What was brought from the base was something like adder and a slinger. Every base prepared simr equipment to prevent zombie sieges and protect the base. This was now put into use at this moment.


    First of all, three fire elemental ability users in the team would stand on the highdder and work together to release fire dragons and fireballs in the direction of the fourth level attic. Fires produced by the elemental ability were more aggressive than ordinary fires ¨C they were hotter and harder to extinguish once ignited.


    The fire burned quickly, and the whole attic was plunged into a sea of fire in an instant.


    They heard a scream and everyone felt a shock and a splitting headache. They thought that the zombie of this attic realized what was happening and had became angry.


    About ten minutester, it seemed that the strength was insufficient and the fires gradually died down, and atst, little by little, they extinguished and went outpletely. Within the smoke, the burnt ck walls were still visible. But the whole attic was still intact and undamaged by the fire.


    Zhang Zhiyin had predicted this when the fire powers withdrew, he and two water ability users climbed thedder and quickly cooled the wall with ice and cold water. The attic had cold air wafting up.


    The assistant team operated theuncher and began tounch stones into the attic.


    After the end of the world, this kind ofuncher was specially designed to guard the base had been greatly developed. Advancedunchers were not only easy to operate, but they were also able tounch a kind of projectile-like light mass with great damage. Ordinaryunchers could alsounchbustible weapons such as artillery shells and explosives. Yulin Base¡¯sunchers were the lowest grade and could only throw rocks.


    But that was enough. As the boulders hit the walls, after two rounds of devastation it began to show its fragility by crumbling.


    The only wood ability user in the team, Ah Mu, came up to Zhang Zhiyin and gestured ¡°Everything is okay¡±. His head was sweaty and his lips were white, which showed that he had consumed a lot of energy. Zhang Zhiyin nodded, patted him on the shoulder and told him to have a good rest.


    Like thest straw that broke the camel¡¯s back, with three consecutive boulders thrown into the attic, the fragile attic ¡°roared¡± and a hole appeared. Almost at the same time, the earth shook, and a block of wood as thick as a group of people hugging together grew rapidly from the center of the house. It opened two floors of ceilings and finally broke through the floor of the attic. This was the power of life, the most difficult ability to resist.


    The field that dramatically elevated the zombie boss¡¯s power was eventually broken.


    All the yers present showed a sigh of relief, but then they instantly became alert again.


    With another scream, the zombie boss appeared in the holes created by the boulders. It looked coldly at the people on the ground, although it was also inappropriate to say ¡°look¡±. There were only two ck holes in its eyes, which revealed a ghostly cold aura. But it¡¯s psychic ability was so strong that it could reach anywhere. Everyone felt a sense of coldness and tremendous oppression.


    A wind ability user couldn¡¯t bear the tremendous pressure. With a cry of rm, he took the lead and aimed a wind de at the zombie boss.


    The zombie boss tilted his head and jumped from the hole, itunched a wide range of mental attacks.


    Xiao Jin, Ah Kong, and the rest could not handle it and squatted on the ground while clutching their heads. People like Dadao and Ah Mu, who had a slightly higher ability level, were also closing their eyes tightly.


    Zhang Zhiyin was in a slightly better state, but he was barely conscious. He saw the zombie boss jump toward the wind ability user and reached out to strangle his neck. An icicle flew past, blocking its movements.


    The zombie boss quickly moved to Zhang Zhiyin and attacked him. Dadao and the rest joined the battle to assist Zhang Zhiyin.


    Zhang Zhiyin sent out a frozen-break ice ball but it was evaded by the zombie boss. He also put up an ice wall to block the ws of the zombie and tried to take the opportunity to push the ice de back against the boss to distance it from him. He was not a rival of the zombie boss in hand-to-handbat.


    When he lifted his hand, he suddenly saw the ck hollow eyes of the zombie boss. He was stunned and stood there frozen.


    ¡°Be careful! Don¡¯t look at it in the eye!¡± Dadao roared at first sight and at the same time urgently responded, holding the boss back with two fire ability users.


    Zhang Zhiyin went into an illusion again.


    The second protagonist this time was still Yin Nian. But it was totally unlike him at all.


    There was a big ck snake in front of him. The big snake spat out its blood-red tongue and looked at him disdainfully. BOSS held his sleeve pitifully. ¡°Zhiyin, I¡¯m scared. Will you kill it?¡±


    The snake ran in the direction of Yin Nian, who hid behind Zhang Zhiyin in fear.


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly woke up and broke away from the illusion.


    Sure enough, what he originally thought as the direction of the big snake was actually the direction toward his own chest. This illusion utilized the protective desire of his heart for his lover.


    Unfortunately, when the other protagonist turned into Yin Nian, everything became like a bad prank.


    Zhang Zhiyin pouted his lips.


    This attempt to use his lover¡¯s illusion was bound to be unsessful because the one he loved was the ultimate boss.


    The interference field was destroyed, and the zombie boss, who had lost his home field advantage, fell into the final period of rage under the siege of the crowd. Dadao and other people were exhausted, they were temporarily unable to deal with it. They could only struggle alternately with it.


    At this time, an ice de prated the whole chest of the zombie boss.


    Zhang Zhiyin, who had just recovered, took over the position of the main force and began tounch more severe attacks.


    Five minutester, the body of the zombie boss fell onto the ground unwillingly, and there was no more movement.


    The battle group looked at each other with a wretched smile. The assistant group gave a cheer and went up to help the wounded and provide supplies.


    Zhang Zhiyin was so tired that he sat down on the ground and rested on the spot.


    In the distance at a ce that had not been discovered, a tall and vague figure watched the battle in silence.

 Chapter 26 - The False Third Drop of Blood

    <strong>Chapter 26: The False Third Drop of Blood</strong>


    Yin Nian looked at everything in front of him in silence. To be exact, he looked at the man and unconsciously touched his lips.


    He did not like Zhang Zhiyin being controlled by anything else.


    Sost night he simply took him under his control.


    A distinct image of that person gently closing his eyes emerged in his mind. He gasped as he grabbed his clothes, calling out ¡°Yin Nian.¡±.


    He probably could ponder on this for a long time.


    He closed his eyes and, like always, Dr. Y disappeared silently from thend again. His face was cold and his eyes were dark. Nobody knew what he was thinking.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s prestige in Yulin Base upgraded again after leading the team to clear up the entire senior burial grounds. For more than a month after that, He had been patrolling and guarding with his team members. He came to know each of them better and better, and his rtionship with them had be more and more harmonious.


    Halfway through, he went back to reality. Zhang Zhiyin gave Yin Nian chocte and told him what happened in the ¡°real world of <Tomorrow>¡ª


    ¡°We eradicated a very powerful psychic zombie. That zombie knew how to interfere with our minds.¡±


    ¡°... Then I dreamed of you. You kissed me several times... this time, I didn¡¯t force you!¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s just a dream, and you don¡¯t have to care too much. I know you¡¯re definitely not that kind of person. It¡¯s me being YY...¡± That was to say, how could a person like Boss Yin, with high-cold abstinence written all over his face, make such a reluctant act of kissing and holding in the first ce?


    ¡°There¡¯s another illusion. You were frightened by a snake, you hid behind me and even asked me to protect you!¡±


    Zhang Zhiyinughed and his fingers typed like they were flying: ¡°I thought about it afterward, and I think it was beautiful. I think it¡¯s good for you to be a little obedient boy. Zhiyin GeGe will protect you.¡± A grinning expression was added at the end.


    After sending it out, he felt that it was inappropriate. The message in the game had no withdrawal function. He could only add with a bitter face, ¡°Don¡¯t be angry, I just said it casually. Everyone knows you must be better than me... En? Yin Nian GeGe?¡±


    Atst, he was so happy that Zhang Zhiyin entered the dream with a smile and once again forgot what he had in his backpack.


    A crisis could also be hidden in a calm and orderly life. At the same time, the base¡¯s ability to detecting nearby zombies was also improving, and the speed of recent improvements was increasing. Not only that, but the density of zombies near the base was also increasing.


    Lao Zhu and Dadao were worried about it. They originally came from the same small base, which was smaller than Yulin Base. They relied on the power of the base to regrly clean up the surrounding zombies, but all of a sudden the zombie invasions became more severe, and they were led by several high-level zombies to gather around their base andunch a siege. In a hurry, fewer than five of them eventually escaped, and the original base became a dead city.


    Zhang Zhiyin did not know the background of the story of <Tomorrow> very deeply. He only knew that from the plot of the current timeline in the game, human forces should start to unite with each other. Therefore, he also supported the overall migration of the base to seek the protection of major forces while the situation could still be controlled.


    At this age, their strength was still too weak.


    The leader eventually agreed to move, but everyone knew that it was not a small project, they had to prepare well and start early.


    A few dayster, Zhang Zhiyin took Xiao Jin and a fire ability user to patrol the west of the base.


    Yulin Base personnel patrolled twice a day, each time with 12 people in three directions.


    Xiao Jin suddenly said, ¡°Captain, I think something is amiss. Go further.¡±


    Almost two kilometers further on, even Zhang Zhiyin felt something wrong.


    He turned around and said, ¡°You two go back and report the matter. I¡¯ll look ahead by myself.¡±


    ¡°Captain!¡± Xiao Jin and the ability user looked at him with unease.


    ¡°Rest assured,¡± Zhang Zhiyinughed, ¡°I can at least guarantee myself to run back safely.¡±


    Xiao Jin and Zhang Zhiyin both knew that Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s strength was higher than theirs and that he had rich experience of living alone. When something happened, they would be a burden, so they agreed and left Zhang Zhiyin to go on his own.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s precision abilities were already close to level three. So he stopped after walking a thousand meters on his own ¡ª arge number of zombies were gathering toward the base, and intuitively he could tell that the zombies leading them were high-leveled.


    He immediately opened the item store. At this time, there was no one around, so we might as well use some useful items, such as the flying g. He had bought two or three in the Valley before, and then he ran out on the way to Yulin Base. He forgot to buy them again, it¡¯ll be very convenient to have them now.


    As soon as he opened the store, he saw a line of red letters ¡°found¡±.


    What was this situation?!


    He had been ying <Tomorrow> for more than a year, and he had never seen such a situation where the game did not want money! Other parts of the game mightg and have bugs, but the item stores had always been the strongest. Unexpectedly, one day... Qinngpany did not like money anymore.


    Zhang Zhiyin closed the item store in hatred and began to sprint back. He was still a distance away from the zombies. Zombies were generally slow to move, so running was so issue


    As soon as he ran 500 meters away, he felt a burst of sleepiness and fell to the ground, he closed his eyes.


    Thest thought before he lost consciousness was that, fortunately, in order to avoid dying in vain because of this situation, he bought an automatic protective energy shield from the item store, which could automatically protect the owner when it judged that the owner was incapacitated to fight. That shield... hopefully had enough energy?


    At the same time, Xiao Jin, who first responded to the report from the base, also got thetest news ¨C the precision ability users responsible for investigating in the observation tform also found anomalies in all directions.


    ¡°The captain is still outside.¡± Xiao Jin cried anxiously.


    ¡°Rest assured, Zhiyin so fierce, he would definitely realize that something was wrong and rush back. Let¡¯s wait a while more.¡± The chief and Lao Zhu soothed, but they also had a worried face.


    However, the seven-member Zhang Zhiyin search and rescue team who arrived at the scene 20 minutester could only watch with open eyes. Five hundred meters away, Zhang Zhiyin, who was lying silently on the ground, was struck to ashes by seven or eight thunderbolts from two high-leveled thunder zombies nearby.


    There wasn¡¯t even a corpse left.


    All of them were in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s team. They were red-eyed when they witness this scene but they were more shocked then they were sad. They really didn¡¯t understand; in their eyes the very strong captain, how could he... die so easily.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Dr. Y¡¯s base.


    Lei Dun stretched out his hand and caught the sudden appearance of Meng Kali¡¯s pendulum, which was about to float away.


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡± Meng Kali asked him with a row.


    ¡°What has happened recently? The doctor seems to be in a good mood. Two days ago, Yu Huo, the fool, got into trouble again. For the third time this month, the doctor didn¡¯t punish him.¡± Lei Dun asked.


    ¡°I don¡¯t know. Boss¡¯s mind has always been elusive.¡± Meng Kali continued to gesture. ¡°I can¡¯t see what he¡¯s doing in the base. When will you steal the cat again? I¡¯m missing it.¡±


    ¡°That time I did that under the doctor¡¯smand.¡± Lei Dun raised his eyebrows and said, ¡°If you catch the kitten without permission, you¡¯ll get scolded.¡±


    The doctor would probably wonder how he could steal his son from his mother or something. Probably.


    Lei Dun¡¯s irresponsibly imagined. Of course, you couldn¡¯t tell what he was thinking about from his serious face. From this point of view, as a subordinate of Dr. Y, he was quite suitable.


    Suddenly, Meng Kali looked stern and made a messy gesture to Lei Dun.


    ¡°What did you say?¡± Lei Dun frowned. ¡°You said the doctor brought someone back?¡±


    He patted Meng Kali, ¡°What¡¯s so strange about this, you, me, Yu Huo, aren¡¯t we all brought back by the doctor? Maybe the doctor thought Yu Huo is too foolish and wishes to cultivate a new person.¡±


    Meng Kali thought about how he should exin that this person was different. Because he did note in by himself, nor was he dragged back by the doctor with the space rope like he was dragging a dead pig. He was embraced in his arms and very carefully brought back.


    <strong>Footnotes:</strong>


    YY: Fantasizing, sexual thoughts


    What does this title means?<i> Shrug</i>, maybe cause MC died for third time, or did he? Uh


    Okay it is because he died for the ¡°third time¡±


    Btw, is ML really a pervert? Wahhh

 Chapter 27 - Revive

    <strong>Chapter 27: Revive</strong>


    Yin Nian put Zhang Zhiyin on his bed and lightly tapped his nose.


    At the same time, he whispered, ¡°Zhiyin GeGe? And you said you want to protect me? I still have to save you in the end...¡±


    He was unable to resist being intimate with his movements. He caressed the exposed neck of the person with his palms and gently branded a shallow kiss on his face and neck.


    The contacts from just now were like a gate that unlocked a stream of fierce tigers, and it could never be closed again. He kissed the man gently and heavily over and over again, but he was still unable to restrain the tide that was about to spill over from his heart.


    Yin Nian held his head with his hands. He released Zhang Zhiyin and stood up in a hurry, covering his eyes with his hands in slight bewildered. He might be sick, just like those ordinary people, he had caught some kind of disease, hence he was like this, unable to control himself.


    Yin Nian did not seem to like having a very big space.


    His room was not big, it was even full of things such as notes, books,boratory equipment, desks, and so on. There was only a narrow single bed in the corner that was covered in white sheets. Even if it was without pillows, it still did not look like it was suitable for a living person to sleep on it.


    Now Zhang Zhiyin was lying on that bed.


    Yin Nian stood quietly beside him and looked at him. Eventually, he reached out and moved the man to the other side. Then, he squeezed himself on the bed gently and carefully.


    The two meny side by side with no distance in between them.


    Yin Nian experienced this kind of atmosphere for a while and closed his eyes in satisfaction, then he quickly opened his eyes again to confirm the person beside him before happily closing them again. The corners of his mouth turning up into a faint and seemingly radiant smile.


    After about three minutes, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s slightly anxious expression gradually disappeared, and his face became t and robotic.


    Yin Nian slowly opened his eyes.


    That person should have woken up.


    Sure enough, it was impossible to sleep with him the whole night just like that night.


    His eyelids quivered slightly, before slowly closing again.


    Zhang Zhiyin probably didn¡¯t know that there was a time difference of about 20 minutes while he slept in one world and woke up in the other.


    Zhang Zhiyin was absent-minded the whole day. He was constantly worrying about whether he died in the end or not. After so many times, he also realized the rules. If there were no special circumstances, he would sleep at night, and half of a month could have passed in the world of <Tomorrow>; However, only a few hours would pass in that world even when he spent the whole day working. Sometimes, it would only be around 40 to 50 minutes.


    In the evening, Dajia came to find him with a bottle of wine.


    Dayi had just gotten a girlfriend, she was his colleague from the samepany. So, he had not been hanging out with his two bachelor friends recently.


    First, Dajiained tearfully about his sad dating experience in the past two weeks. When he saw Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s indifference, he thenined tearfully about his heartlessness.


    Zhang Zhiyin was thinking about the other world with all his heart. In between, he helplessly asked, ¡°Then how?¡±


    Unexpectedly, Dajia¡¯s brain circuit was different from ordinary people. In this short second, he quickly jumped over the channel and changed the topic. He returned back to normal and said, ¡°Right, Zhiyin, did you know it (the game) has been bought over?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°I didn¡¯t know.¡±


    After thinking for a while, he asked in coordination, ¡°Who bought what? Isn¡¯t the business pretty good? Two days ago, I also read the official website that the number of yers has broken a big mark.¡±


    ¡°The former owner has made enough money and has withdrawn from the game industry in preparation to toss in the banking industry. However, the management has changed, but the rest of the game team should remain unchanged.¡± Dajia said, ¡°It seems that the newpany who took over is called ¡®123 Love Stories¡¯. They started in the inte novel industry. They even worked on novels that girls love to read and had been running for more than 10 years.¡±


    ¡°Do these novel makers have nothing to do? Why are they doing games...¡± Zhang Zhiyin inwardly thought. He could hardly hide his worries behind indifference ?¡ª he was really anxious that the business would fail quickly after the change of ownership ¡ª how would he meet Lord Boss in the future?


    ¡°It¡¯s the same thing as ¡®acting while excelling in singing¡¯ now. Isn¡¯t society now paying attention to the development of intellectual property in the whole industry? Online fiction counts as the upstream industry, while movies, TV, and games count as the downstream industry. Valuable novels are taken to make movies and games. It is normal to buy an existing well-done online game as a stepping stone to enter the online game world. Didn¡¯t Ah Li make some website, called Shuqi that contained stolen novels in order to enter the online literature world? This is then called no regard to the tactics. It¡¯s normal for online literaturepanies to make games. Last time, didn¡¯t Wanmei originally make games, butter it went on to making movies? By the way, Wangmei also made a vertical integration, andter itself sold to Baidu...¡±


    ¡°...¡± Zhang Zhiyin was enlightened and he could only say, ¡°... Oh.¡±


    Dajia looked at his expression and finally concluded: ¡°You are a native Chinese and you don¡¯t know all these.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: Why do I need to know this when I study Chinese?


    He only heard Dajia carelessly adding a sentence: ¡°I heard 123 love stories is not very good with their server. Enquires could not be submitted on their own website, I do not know if you willg when ying the game in the future... but Qinng should leave the server even if it withdraws its capital?¡±


    Somehow Zhang Zhiyin remembered before he woke up, the big blood-red ¡°found¡± that appeared on the Item Store¡¯s page.


    It was more than nine o¡¯clock when he sent Dajia away.


    Zhang Zhiyin was anxious to see if he was dead or not. He logged in to the game hurriedly and intended to give a box of choctes to Boss before he went offline. He found that even in reality, the game¡¯s Item Store could not be opened. The official announcement said that there were some regional system problems and it was being urgently repaired, and Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s region was shot with this unlucky piece.


    How much would this cost them? Zhang Zhiyin was distressed by the gamepany. But there was no way out. He said goodnight to Boss, got offline, and went to bed.


    At the same time, Yin Nian sat up sideways as if he had a premonition. He frowned slightly, touched Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s face, then picked him up and walked into the space portal.


    When Zhang Zhiyin woke up, he found himself in a ce not far from the base, which should be the resurrection point here.


    Sure enough, he was still dead. But it was a good death this time as there wasn¡¯t much pain.


    There were many zombies wandering around, which was several times more than usual. He did not know how much time had passed since he copsed. Seemed like the base must have been in an emergency.


    Zhang Zhiyin frowned and opened the Item Store. This time it went smoothly, and in case the server could not be connected again, he bought 10 gs and put them into his own small space. Now he used one of them to fly back to the base.


    Everyone in Yulin Base was fighting desperately.


    Half of Dadao¡¯s body was ckened but he was still standing on the front line. He summoned two metal thorn to attack the two lightning elemental zombie leaders.


    The assistant group stood on the defensive tower and threw stones downward.


    Their faces had been numb and there was no joy like the first time they hit the zombie from that attic.


    ¡°Team leader, the defense wall could no longer withstand.¡±


    ¡°We don¡¯t have much stone left.¡±


    ¡°Has the first and second batches retreated?¡±


    ¡°Retreated, the third batch is preparing.¡±


    ¡°Well, let¡¯s hold on a little longer.¡±


    The road to the north was clear. There were not many zombies. If they headed there, they should be able to find a big force that would be willing to take them in.


    Since the end of the world, ability users seemed to be one level higher than ordinary people, and bullying of the weak had be a matter of course. But this was not the case at Yulin Base. Here, those left behind believed that having greater ability meant having greater responsibility. Like their leader, and their captain, who clearly had assets to seek a better way out, but they still chose to stay.


    Everyone resisted almost mechanically just to endure for a few more moments so that there would be more time for the evacuees. And they themselves would be thest to evacuate and also bear the responsibility to be on the rear.


    The leader waved two fire dragons and attracted the overwhelming attacks of the zombie leaders. Just now a thunder struck through his chest, but he seemed to be all right and were still in high spirits.


    One of the assistant group¡¯s precision ability users suddenly shouted with a trembling voice, ¡°Look, isn¡¯t that the captain?¡±


    ¡°Li Zhun!¡± The group leader called to stop him immediately. Captain Zhang was no longer here. He looked with his own eyes at the youth that always seemed to have a cold face and have not many words struck to ashes by the rapid lightning attacks.


    But he soon lost his voice and could only repeat Li Zhun¡¯s words in amazement¡ª¡ª


    ¡°Captain, Captain is back!¡±

 Chapter 28 - That Person

    <strong>Chapter 28: That Person


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin did not expect this sort of situation¡ª


    The flying g would send the user to a designated location. It directly flew over thousands of zombies andnded on a high building of the base. By chance, this location happened to be next to the leader.


    The leader suddenly felt his pressure getting lighter. Turning his head slightly to the side, he saw Zhang Zhiyin standing beside him forming an ice wall.


    He gasped for breath as if he had unloaded something, and all of a sudden his movements slowed down.


    At this critical moment, he did not probe into just how exactly did Zhang Zhiyin survive. Instead, he took a big breath and said, ¡°Xiao Zhang, as soon as I saw you, I knew you were a goodrade.¡±


    Under any normal situation, it was almost an unwritten rule on the game, that an ordinary yer could never solo a boss. It would still be very difficult for yers to win even if they were at Level 80 and the boss was at Level 20, unless that boss was designed to be dealt with by a single yer. This rule was applicable at this moment.


    At this time, the opposite two bosses seemed to be at least Level 4 in terms of their appearance, they did not seem manageable even if there were several people fighting. Before, the leader and the rest were risking their lives to resist this siege, especially when the head leader was attacking as the main force, this was an arrow at the end of its flight.


    ¡°I¡¯m not as great as all of you think. What defending the base for the sake of all of you? I just have nowhere else to go. Yulin Base was the former Yulin City, I was born there, raised, worked, married, and had children... Then suddenly came the end of the world. My wife and daughters were all gone. I can¡¯t keep them safe. I don¡¯t want to leave this ce at all. I just want to stay here, apany them and protect anyone as long as I can...¡±


    At this time, more and more people discovered Zhang Zhiyin. Most of the fighters in the front line were members of the battle group. They rushed back and shouted, ¡°Captain¡ª¡± with surprise, incredulity, and excitement.


    Zhang Zhiyin turned around and waved at them.


    The leaderughed. ¡°Look, they all trust you, and I believe you can take everyone away safely...¡±


    ¡°So, little brother, don¡¯t let me down.¡± The leader patted Zhang Zhiyin on the shoulder the way he did when he first met him. He pushed him back and took two steps forward.


    All the TV drama he had apanied his grandmother to watch was not in vain! The leader was clearly setting up a death g for himself!


    Zhang Zhiyin shouted in a hurry: ¡°Whatever you want to do, don¡¯t do it! I still have a way!¡±


    The leader was stunned.


    Zhang Zhiyin quickly opened the Item Store and bought items.


    The function of ¡°Help the shoots grow by pulling them miracle fruit¡± was just like its name. The item¡¯s description was ¡°it can quickly stimte innate potential but at the cost of losing the consumer¡¯s strength for three days after usage¡±. In the game, the cost manifested in the form of three hours of weakness and 30 minutes of inability to use any skills, which was usually bought by the team members at critical moments when the opponent the team was fighting were the bosses. But in the real world of <Tomorrow>, Zhang Zhiyin guessed that he would really lose his strength for three days. But at this time, he could not care that much.


    Beforeing, Zhang Zhiyin anticipated that the situation was critical and had quickly changed into his redemption suit. At this time, with the addition of the suit, he had nearly reached the strength of the middle andter stages of Level 5. He tucked the magic fruit into his mouth and swallowed it. He went to the front and sent two ice spheres to the zombies below.


    One ice sphere hit the left shoulder of the body on the left, and the other hit the arm of the body on the right. However, from the ce where they were hit, the freezing effect spread rapidly. Soon, both bosses were frozen in ce. With the freezing effect was still spreading over their bodies, the zombies on both sides were soon frozen and unable to move.


    It was just two ice spheres, but the effect wasparable to the extreme ice elemental power ¡°Thousand Miles of Frost¡±.


    At the same time, Zhang Zhiyin was unable to support himself and copsed.


    He raised his head and tried vainly to lift his limp arm. Finally, he could onlyugh bitterly and said to the leader, ¡°Brother Long, you have to take me away now.¡±


    The leader had a name. He was called Wang Long.


    The leader nodded and began to organize the final withdrawal of the remaining troops with the assistant group¡¯s leader. Although they did not know exactly what method Zhang Zhiyin used, it could be judged from their experience that he would not be able to persist in this state for long.


    Dadao and Ah Mu, the wooden ability users in the team, took Zhang Zhiyin and left together.


    As soon as Zhang Zhiyin was lifted, he felt a soft mass rubbing against his chest, it then jumped into his trousers pocket.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked down powerlessly at the one with ¡°I was left out by a stupid Zhiyin for several days. He wanted to run away without thinking about taking me along with him. I hate him, I¡¯m going to ignore him... If youb my hair smooth, then I¡¯ll let you go this time¡± written all over its little expression and smiled gently.


    The little thing was so smart, and to think that he was worrying about how to find it and take it away, it had already found him by itself. It was a pity that he was weak all over. He could only wait for himself to recover before he couldb its hair.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s two ice spheres stopped the zombies for five minutes, and it was enough time for them to evacuate. As the car drove out of the North Gate, they could also hear the roar of the defense wall being knocked down by the zombies.


    Li Jun, the precision ability of the assistant team, leaned out to look in the direction of the base, murmured, ¡°They rushed in.¡±


    ¡°But we have already left.¡± The group leader continued.


    Looking at it, the expression of all the people in the car reflected ¡°Life after surviving a disaster¡±.


    The first and second batch of evacuees from the base had long been gone, but soon they caught up with the seventy-eighty evacuations from the third group. Most of the people from the third batch were rtives of the left-behind ability users, they were unwilling to leave in advance and originally wanted to stay until the end. As they were unwilling to leave, their speed of travel was also not fast. At this time, when the rtives of both sides met, they could hardly hide their excitement, some people even cried while hugging each other.


    After joining up, they became a team of 100 people, about 30 of whom were ability users and the rest were ordinary people. But after the test of life and death, almost all the remaining ability users here were fighters who supported each other.


    Zhang Zhiyin, who was totally exhausted, was sent to the special carriage intended for the protection of the elderly, the weak, the sick, and the young, however, every day the rest of the team woulde to chat with him. Their most curious question was: How did you survive, Captain? They all saw you dead.


    This was the advantage of being a yer! How would you, the NPCs understand that!


    With this in mind, Zhang Zhiyin had topile and weaved out a story: ¡°There used to be a person who gave me a space talisman to protect my life, so in fact, I did not die, but in the moment of getting strike by the thunder, I used the space talisman to move myself to other ces.¡±


    Everyone suddenly understood, and then other questions followed¡ª


    ¡°Space talisman is a high-level space item. The person who can make space talisman must be very good, right? Was the person a high-leveled space ability user?¡±


    ¡°Where is that person now? Why didn¡¯t that person apany you, captain?¡±


    ¡°Did that person give you the same fruit you ate before that gave you an instant boost in your abilities but then made you lost your strength?¡±


    ¡°Who is that person? Captain, how did you know each other? Why does that person matter to you?¡±


    ¡°Ah? Captain, did that person give you the ring?¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    Although the team members did not ask so frankly, in these three dayster, they took an indirect approach and asked all these questions.


    Zhang Zhiyin finally understood why a lie required a hundred lies to be rounded up. At this time, he could only do what the inte said, ¡°Just giving a sight smile will do.¡±


    However, since he had been following the route of imitating the expressionless boss, Zhang Zhiyin also chose to remain silent with his head slightly lowered and remained expressionless in the face of these questions. But that was good too, as those people who didn¡¯t understand would just say that he was like that because of ¡°the unspoken person¡±. Zhang Zhiyin rxed a lot due to not having to continue lying.


    But people¡¯s brainpower was great and infinite. It seemed to everyone that his action had be¡ª


    ¡°Seeing how our captain said nothing but looked at the ring in his hand with a lonely face, it was as if he were looking at it silently in reminiscence.¡±


    So with the efforts of all the people, they finally put together the ¡°truth¡± of that year.


    Captain Zhang used to have a lover who was a high-level space ability, who was probably more powerful than Captain Zhang. They should have been married, or at least engaged, as evidenced by the ring. Then something unspeakable happened, and they separated again. One of the possible reasons for the separation was the death of the captain¡¯s lover while they were trying to save the captain¡ªof course, that would be an irreversible BE, but because of their love for their captain, they didn¡¯t want to believe that this reason was true. Another reason was that the captain and his lover did not share the same ideology so they went separate ways. This was better than being separated from each other by heaven and earth.


    However, it was clear to all of them, that in this eschatological environment, there was a good chance that the person whom the captain couldn¡¯t bear to mention was really gone forever. But no one spoke and no one asked Zhang Zhiyin again. They silently congratted the captain and his lover. They hoped that the captain¡¯s lover would still be there. They hoped that they would meet again soon.


    Zhang Zhiyin, who had no knowledge of this, felt that there were fewer people who came to him recently to ask questions about ¡°that person¡±.


    He tried to lift his arm that was slightly gaining back its strength and sighed in his heart. Yin Nian¡¯s expressionless trump-card was very useful. There wasn¡¯t really that many people that could put on a cold expression on their face every day.

 Chapter 29 - Hope

    <strong>Chapter 29: Hope</strong>


    They passed two medium-sized bases, but the forces all politely refused to ept them and hoped that they would go to therger bases.


    Indeed, time was approaching the formal establishment of the Cloud Sky Alliance. The leaders and the backbones of the major bases were basically at Level 6, and the lowest among them was at Level 5. Level 4 ability users could only be considered as the middle level, while Level 2 and Level 3 were not even worth mentioning at all. Among their group of people, only three-tenths of them were ability users and the highest level was only at Level 4, and basically all of them held injuries. The rest were all ordinary people, and they did not have sufficient materials. They would absolutely lower the average level of the base who would receive them. Those bases were naturally unwilling to ept them.


    On the tenth day, they finally arrived at a rtivelyrge base, called Hope Base. Looking at the scale alone, it could not bepared with the giants such as Yuntian Base, Base No. 1 and Renaissance Base, but it was indeed a first-ss base.


    But they were rejected again.


    A person in charge came out. He was apparently not surprised by this kind of thing, and said casually, ¡°The ability users can go in. Ordinary people each need to pay ten primary nuclei or three Level 1 nuclei.


    Old Zhu frowned at the words and looked at the leader. They have seventy ordinary people but they did not have that many nuclei. More importantly, their nutrition medicine and drinking water were almost used up, and they did not know when they would find the next base.


    The leader had been recovering for several days. Before the end of the world, he was just an ordinary man who rarely left Yulin City. Facing this sort of situation, he was also at a loss.


    At this time, Zhang Zhiyin went out and asked the person in charge, ¡°Do you collect food?¡±


    Before that, he just caught up with a shop in the exchange house that was having a clearance sale and was selling their flour at a 50% discount rate. He bought a group of 99 bags for 5 yuan. He also bought a storage space bag for 5 yuan to store the flour.


    The biggest difference in value between the world of <Tomorrow> and the game was there different sorts of space items. For example, storage space. In the game, each yer would have a backpack to put their items, whether it was a storage ring, storage bracelets, or storage bags, they were all actually a gimmick. The only use of buying it was to expand the yer¡¯s backpack, so the price wouldn¡¯t be too high either.


    But in the real world of <Tomorrow>, there would be a small number of space ability users with their own storage space and even fewer advanced space ability users that could make ** space items. These space items were very useful in daily life and on the battlefield. As a result, space items had very high value, and now almost only the high-level major bases had their own storage space items.


    The person in charge was stunned when he heard the words and nced at Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s five cars again. He wondered, ¡°How much food can you take out?¡±


    The flour in the game was a small bag of five kilograms, but the 99 bags added up to nearly 500 kilograms.


    Zhang Zhiyin took out a special storage bag for flour and put it in his hand: ¡°Not much, 500 kilograms.¡±


    Instead of paying attention to his words, the person in charge stared at the small bag in his hand like an eagle in an instant. For the first time, he looked up at Zhang Zhiyin and asked softly, ¡°Space bag?¡±


    ¡°En.¡± Zhang Zhiyin nodded. ¡°The space bag and the grains are all the things he left me. There¡¯s nothing else.¡± He knew the principle of ¡®an innocent man gets into trouble because of his wealth¡¯. Although to him, both the space bag and the grain inside were not very valuable, it would be better to hand it over as he might get targeted by others and incite trouble. It was better to dere his share in advance.


    The person in charge nodded, ignoring Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s ¡°he¡±: ¡°The food, adding this space bag together, give it all to us and off of you can go in.¡± By the time he said this, his tone was much better.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°Yes.¡±


    Then there was a cry of ¡°Captain¡± ¡ª whatever the value of the space bag and the food itself, they were what he left for the captain!


    Zhang Zhiyin waved his hand to the back calmly and expressionlessly. All of them were silent at once, but they still looked at Zhang Zhiyin with helpless, painful, and wronged eyes. Zhang Zhiyin himself had turned around again, once again missing the deeper meaning behind the eyes of the public.


    He also felt that the lie he had made up was very good. Whatever could not be exined, he could let ¡°that person¡±e to take the me.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    A group of people entered the base smoothly. Ordinary people were assigned to work after receiving medical examinations. After identifying their levels, the ability user was assigned to various teams to undertake the tasks of guarding and patrolling.


    The appraisal results show that the leader had already hurt his ability root in thest battle. Not only had he just broke through Level 5 only to fall back to Level 4, but there was no hope of upgrading his level. That was to say, all his life he could only be at Level 4. At present, there was no problem, but Zhang Zhiyin knew that with the development of the plot, everyone¡¯s abilities would have generally risen to more than Level 5. It¡¯s always a * level confrontation. Even in the current game scenario, Yunchu, the sessor of Cloud Sky Alliance, was just about to reach Level 10, and was likely to be the first ability user to break through Level 10 ¡ª Y had already breakthrough Level 10, but he was not a normal human being. In thetter period, leaders would have to do ordinary and trivial work just like any normal people. They could no longer stand on the front lines and protect everyone like before.


    But the leader himself was quite philosophical.


    The next day he came here to chat with Zhang Zhiyin, the no longer young man squinted at the sky. His voice was very low: ¡°I think we are still adapting to this world day by day and getting better day by day. Now I want to live a good life and watch the world be stable and beautiful again for them.¡±


    At this time, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s level of ability had reached Level 4, which was also considered a good level in Hope Base. Therefore, he, Dadao, Ah Mu, Xiao Jin, Ah Kong, Li Zhun, and Old Zhu were directly put into a seven-member team and was assigned to Squadron 4. Zhang Zhiyin was the captain of his team.


    Squadron 4 originally had two teams, one team was lead by the leader of Squadron 4 himself, most of them were the older people in Hope Base; the other team was also made out of the ability users who had recently sought shelter at Hope Base. The leader of the team was a Level 4 psychic ability user, called You Kun, and most of his team members were at Level 3 or 4. Their overall strength one step higher than Zhang Zhinyin¡¯s team and even in the entire Hope Base, they could be considered a very good team.


    ¡°Captain, I always feel that You Kun is not a good person. He seems to have an inexplicable hostility towards us.¡± Xiao Jin was particrly sensitive to You Kun, the captain of Team 2. Just now the leader of Squadron 4 had a meeting with the whole team to introduce each other and arrange their recent tasks. Xiao Jin keptining after they came out.


    ¡°But he¡¯s in a team with us now.¡± Zhang Zhiyin said, thinking of Li Shuifeng again, and added, ¡°But it¡¯s always right to be careful.¡±


    The next day, the two teams were assigned to patrol together and clear the zombies around the base. The team immediately proved that Xiao Jin was not too sensitive and suspicious.


    When attacking the zombies, they seemed veryzy. On the way, the members of the team wereughing at each other. The speed of marching and killing the zombies were only half of Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s team. But when the two teams returned to hand in the task and take the nucleus, they werezily holding their arms, leaning against one side of the wall, saying, ¡°We should get 70% of the share, after all... obviously, we are much better than them. They were just dragging us down when they went out with us.¡± Then they shrugged their shoulders, as if giving Zhang Zhiyin 30% of the nucleus was their grace.


    Dadao exploded at that time and wanted to jump out and argue with them, but Zhang Zhiyin held him down.


    ¡°I disagree.¡± He said and his face was still expressionless. Zhang Zhiyin found that ever since he began to imitate Yin Nian, he learned the skill of hiding his happiness and anger.


    It¡¯s not the first time that the person responsible for recording and distributing the crystal nucleus of the mission met this situation. He frowned and waved impatiently: ¡°Go to your squad leader and get his signature before finding me for the nucleus!¡±


    You Kun put his mouth aside and stood up indifferently. He swaggered away. His team members followed him with a flippant attitude. Thest bald-headed fire ability user turned around deliberately and blew a whistle to Zhang Zhiyin with contempt in his eyes.


    Even the mature Old Zhu¡¯s face was ck.


    Zhang Zhiyin paused and followed.

 Chapter 30 - Conjecture

    <strong>Chapter 30: Conjecture


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    The end of the world was a stimulus and had brought in a tremendous change. Some people became more cautious and were afraid of causing trouble; while some others became unscrupulous andwless, and they only regarded strength as the criterion.


    You Kun did not care at all that they had offended Zhang Zhiyin of the same squadron, even to the point of going out of their way to deliberately exclude this new group.


    Hope Base was arge base that had been stabilised. It had good protective measures, safe surroundings, and gathering morends for farming was not a frequent case. Normally, the patrol task was not serious and didn¡¯t hold too much danger. Instead of saying that different teams were clearing up potential dangers, it was more like they had divided the areas popted by the zombies into regions and assigned them to each team. Each would hunt the zombies that appeared in their own designated area to gain the crystal nucleus for their ability upgrade.


    The area Squadron 4 was responsible for was notrge in the first ce, and the area allocated to the two teams was even smaller. Even without Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s team, the two groups could finish the task by putting in more effort and time. The crystal nucleus obtained from the task would all belong to them except for those that needed to be handed in, but now the nuclei shares would have to be divided with Team 3. They were naturally not willing. If this was in the game, then towards them, Team 3 would be the people who suddenly appeared and kill-stealed


    <sup>1</sup> their monsters.


    Squadron 4 had just been set up. The squad leader was originally the captain for Team 1, a taciturn metal ability user. Rather than being an impartial judge and properly coordinating the rtionships between his different teams, he preferred to devote his time improving himself and his own team members.


    Neither of the two new teams meant much to him, nor did he want to make trouble for himself. Therefore, he only nced at the note You Kun had brought and signed his name, which read ¡°Squadron 4: Team 2 and Team 3 should be paid in the ratio of eight to two¡±.


    You Kun shook the note on his hand at Zhang Zhiyin, passing by him with a voice that was just audible to everyone: ¡°I didn¡¯t expect Captain Zhang to disagree with the seven-to-three distribution, so I fully considered your opinion and changed it to eight-to-two.¡± He showed a fake-to-the-extreme smile that everyone could see.


    ¡°It¡¯s not fair, captain!¡± To tell you the truth, Zhang Zhiyin had been working hard withoutining in his real-life work because of his undisciplined and apathy towards dispute nature, as a result, he had been suffering silently. So, he had never encountered this kind of ¡®obviously bullying you¡¯ situation. At that time, he had no idea how to deal with it effectively. He could only frown and protest to the leader of Squadron 4.


    ¡°Go out andter about itter. I¡¯m busy now.¡± The squad leader¡¯s response was to refuse to talk, raised the automatic door and shut them out.


    ¡°Captain, how could they do this!¡± Xiao Jin was in his adolescence period, his face was full of indignation, ¡°Let¡¯s leave, we have our abilities, why stay here to suffer this kind of anger!¡±


    ¡°We can go, but what about the people who came with us? It wasn¡¯t easy for us to settle down and we¡¯re moving out again? Don¡¯t forget how hard it was for us to get in here. The captain gave them what that person left him... Just for everyone to have a chance to live in peace...¡± Ah Kong preached to his younger brother and her eyes were getting red. ¡°Moreover, the world is like this, we are not strong enough to go anywhere without encountering a situation like this.¡±


    Old Zhu sighed and said nothing. He came up and patted Xiao Jin on the shoulder.


    Ah Mu also approached and whispered, ¡°Captain...¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin waved his hand: ¡°I¡¯m all right. We¡¯ll have to endure for the time being first. There¡¯s always a way.¡±


    Xiao Jin was still a teenager, his temper came and went quickly, but he found You Kun more and more as an eyesore.


    But he was young and lively, and he could talk to anyone. In a few days, he was familiar with many people in the base. He heard a lot of gossips, some of which were real and some were false.


    The other day, when several members of the team were eating together, he began to say with great enthusiasm: ¡°I heard one thing today. Dining hall Master Wang quietly told me that his great-nephew is in charge of logistics. What he said must be right. The source will be reliable.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m telling you that why that You Kun is so arrogant is because he¡¯s hugging someone¡¯s thighs. He is on intimate terms with the base¡¯s powerful Level 6 wind ability user. He himself is also a special ability user with a Level 4 psychic ability. Others are afraid of trouble. Naturally, they will not provoke him if possible.¡±


    The members who already had a lot of opinions about You Kun expectedly showed their disdainful eyes.


    Only Old Zhu hesitated and said, ¡°Isn¡¯t that wind ability user a man too?¡±


    Dadao immediately patted the table and said, ¡°I am right to say that the surname You is not acting like a man.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t help saying, ¡°In fact, this has nothing to do with that.¡±


    The members did not understand him for a moment and turned to look at him.


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t know how to exin it. After holding back for 20 seconds, he calmly said, ¡°The person I like isn¡¯t a girl either.¡±


    It was inappropriate to say that he liked men because Zhang Zhiyin himself was not sure whether the one he liked was really a human being or not.


    The team members¡¯ elbows slipped so much that they changed their expressions the moment they heard the words. Their faces were filled with sincere ¡°So what¡±, ¡°This is normal¡±, ¡°Our captain is the real man¡±, ¡°You Kun indeed had personality and character problem...¡±


    Hope Base was a big base, and information converging in here was even more abundant.


    Xiao Jin heard a lot of rumors like ¡°Yun Lietian, the leader of Yuntian Base, and his son Yunchu, are very strong, also, his son is very handsome¡±, ¡°The person in charge of the East Area of Base No. 1 is really as excellent as their male colleagues, too amazing¡¯, ¡°Renaissance Base Leader has so many girls quietly liking him, but why isn¡¯t he getting married¡±.


    The child was very curious, and had already held two main pieces of information: ¡°Captain¡¯s lover is a high-level space ability user who could make space items¡± and ¡°Captain¡¯s lover is a man¡±. One day, on a whim, he couldn¡¯t help but to quietly ask the uncle he was familiar with that had grasped all kinds of gossip: ¡°Uncle Zhang, I have something to ask you, you know. Do you know any powerful space ability users?¡±


    ¡°Why, finding a boyfriend for your sister, Ah Kong?¡± Uncle Zhangughed, ¡°Ah Kong herself is a space user, she should not look for space users, she should look for some other ability user to match her.¡±


    ¡°No, I¡¯m curious and just asking.¡±


    ¡°It depends on how you define ¡®powerful¡¯. The captain of the second team in Squadron 3 in our base is a space ability user and the captain is rather powerful.¡±


    ¡°Should have the ability to make space items, such as storage space, and space talisman that can transfer people away during critical moments.¡± Xiao Jin said.


    ¡°Then you asked the right person.¡± Uncle Zhang was proud to say, ¡°I just heard the space ability captain mentioned that space ability users above Level 6 can make space items, but they are rather energy-consuming, they will not do it for others easily. But I haven¡¯t heard of anyone who can do that sort of space talisman...¡±


    Uncle Zhang put on a thoughtful expression and suddenly brightened his eyes. ¡°To a man of that degree, there is someone in line with it! Yang Fu, the leader of the Renaissance Base, is the most powerful space user at present. If he can¡¯t, then nobody can.¡±


    Xiao Jin¡¯s face brightened as if he had realized something.


    The leader of the Renaissance Base; young, promising, handsome, advanced space ability, male... So far still single! The captain also often possessed good things of unknown origin, unlike what ordinary people could have.


    Needless to say, when they first came to their base, the captain wore a white shirt of good quality, a normal ability user would never choose white clothes at the end of the world where fighting was frequent. There was also the captain¡¯s cat, which was round and smooth, but how could ordinary people keep cats? All these details show that the captain was of a good origin.


    And the Renaissance Base was one of the five leading bases today, if the captain came from there... and his lover was also the leader of the base... all of this made sense.


    Xiao Jin told her sister Ah Kong about this. The girl¡¯s brain filling ability was even stronger. Soon, ording to Xiao Jin¡¯s information, she helped him to perfect several details, which greatly enhanced the credibility of this conjecture. Gradually, Dadao and Ah Mu also knew about it. No one can actually prove this, they just believed in it silently.


    Human beings were just so strange that double standards were everywhere.


    Xiao Jin was such a double-standard and defensive teenager. When he found that You Kun was a little pretty boy


    <sup>2</sup> clinging onto thighs


    <sup>3</sup>, Xiao Jin silently disdained him when he deduced the conclusion that ¡°the captain¡¯s lover is the leader of the Renaissance Base¡±. When he saw You Kun, he would continue his silent contempt and also added a sentence: ¡°Arrogant? Our captain¡¯s thigh is much thicker than yours!¡±

 Chapter 31 - Transform

    <strong>Chapter 31: Transform</strong>


    Despite this, Zhang Zhiyin and the rest, who had only just arrived here could only endure and continue their work with Team 2 until they could figure out a solution and find the right opportunity.


    Soon they were both assigned a joint task ¡ª exploring a newly-discovered underground abandonedboratory on the north side.


    Many monster and instance sites of the game just took form as different sorts of abandonedboratories. As the timeline was now different from that in the game, Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t be sure whether the ce was an instance that was also located in the game.


    The end of the world had brought many daily problems and new puzzles which need to be solved urgently. Everyone was eager to figure them out. Large bases such as Hope Base had their own research departments.


    Before that, Team 2 had been dispatched to clear most of the zombies in theboratory. Zhang Zhiyin was sent to further investigate hidden dangers, in case there were zombies that hadn¡¯t been eliminated yet so that the researchers would be able toe inter to search for valuable clues and information.


    Theboratory was built underground and the entrance was hidden in an ordinary administrative building, which was said to belong to a university.


    Zhang Zhiyin was vaguely familiar with this development. There seemed to be a simr animation scenario that would y before yers entered an instance; The yers would enter the abandoned administrative building and then to the undergroundboratory through a narrow entrance in a single line.


    This idea was confirmed after he went underground.


    The familiar fork, one left one right, divided the road into two, while the indicatormp in the middle emitted a ghostly green light.


    At this time, no one in the group of people standing underground knew that just after they came down, a figure appeared silently at the entrance. He looked silently at the winding stairs where they had just entered and disappeared after looking at it for a long while.


    The two teams werepletely in disharmony and Zhang Zhiyin wasn¡¯t courteous either. He directly led his people to the left side of the fork ¡ª this was based on his experience as a yer. The two roads would eventually meet, but the left road would have lesser traps and monsters. In the game, this instance had always been famous for its abundant traps and switches. There were many zombies in it. At the final meeting point, there would be arge room with all kinds of traps and the boss of this instance would be there; a Level 5 poisonous zombie.


    But since Team 2 had been here before, he thought that the zombies should have been eradicated.


    The seven members team marched along very smoothly. Some apparent and easily triggered traps had already been destroyed by the team that came in advance, and they only eliminated the two or three zombies hidden in the corner.


    Suddenly, Zhang Zhiyin was stunned; In front of them was a dead path.


    Dadao said, ¡°Captain, is this the end of the path? Can we go back and hand in the assignment?¡±


    Only then did Zhang Zhiyin recalled a neglected detail. The two forks in the road would be connected to form a ring shape. The point symmetric to the entrance was where the boss was located, but the two paths near to the entrance of the boss¡¯s room were hidden and a switch was needed to open them.


    <sup>1</sup> yers in the game couldn¡¯t be more familiar with these routines and they regarded the mentally retarded traps as nothing. Even Zhang Zhiyin had forgotten about them.


    Now the road was still impassable, proving that Team 2 did not find the switch here at all. That Level 5 zombie must also be waiting for them at the end of the road.


    Unless their equipment was against heaven, ordinary people should not be delusional enough to challenge the boss, which was themon knowledge of <Tomorrow>¡¯s yers.


    ¡°Go, let¡¯s go back.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin turned his head and heard Xiao Jin saying: ¡°Captain, what¡¯s this switch here for?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin and Ah Kong both shouted, ¡°Don¡¯t touch!¡±


    But it was toote, and the giant big bear


    <sup>2</sup> boy, who was nearly twenty years old, had already pressed his wretched hand down. Then he turned to look at his sister and the captain in a dazed way; he knew he was in trouble and was about to cry out: ¡°I don¡¯t know what¡¯s going on, I was just looking at it, then as if there was a voice urging me to press down...¡±


    As a low-level psychic ability user, Xiao Jin was indeed more susceptible to various mind and thoughts influences. Simrly, psychic ability users were more likely to find various secret traps and switches.


    In between the rumbling of the entrance opening came the roar of the zombie and the screams from the people from the newly opened road. It seemed that Team 2 were moving faster than they were, and not only had they found the switch, but they had also provoked the zombie.


    ¡°Run! Don¡¯t look back!¡± Zhang Zhiyin shouted to his team members and urged them to run to the exit.


    The team members experienced many battles and their adaptability was very strong. Although they were not clear on what exactly happened, they immediately listened to the captain¡¯s words and ran outward.


    Very soon, Team 2 was already pushed back to the vicinity by the zombie boss. When they saw that there was a new way out, their eyes brightened. They rushed to this side, and the boss also came after them.


    The two teams were about ten meters apart at this time, Zhang Zhiyin did not care about them, but also struggled to run out ¡ª that way, the reality <Tomorrow> was not good in this sense; as long as you provoke the monster, then no matter how far it was, it would still chase after you.


    ¡°Zhang Zhiyin.¡± A voice suddenly sounded in his mind. Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s footsteps paused. Immediately, he felt splitting headache and he could hardly endure it.


    In this ce, only You Kun would attack him with psychic ability!


    Zhang Zhiyin never imagined that You Kun would attack himself at this time. In his understanding, the two teams were in dispute, but not to the point of sending each other to death. When he found that the Level 5 poisonous zombie in theboratory had not been eliminated, Zhang Zhiyin subconsciously thought of reminding the other team to be careful. But the other party obviously had a different idea from him.


    In that instant, Team 2 had caught up and quickly surpassed Zhang Zhiyin. The fire ability user also knocked onto him. At the same time, Team 2¡¯s earth ability user and wood ability user simultaneously came up with a barrier. A thick earth wall and ovepping vines burst out in an instant, spanning between the zombie and Team 2.


    But they did not consider Zhang Zhiyin at all, so much that the wall was deliberately designed so that Zhang Zhiyin and the zombie would be locked on the same side.


    The zombie was blocked in its pursuit and it smashed the earth wall in indignation. Several cracks were opened in the wall. But instead of continuing to attack, it turned its attention to Zhang Zhiyin.


    Zhang Zhiyin certainly did not want to fight with the Level 5 poisonous zombie. In this instance, there was only one way to get out of the fight with the boss ¡ª although he was not willing to use this method, there was no other way.


    When the moment came to a decision, Zhang Zhiyin made a diversion by shooting out an icicle, while quickly turning the direction to the original big room where the Boss was located before.


    This poisonous zombie boss¡¯s attack and defense were very strong, moreover, it still had its poisonous damage. However, its speed was not fast.


    Zhang Zhiyin ran back to the room sessfully. In a nce, he saw something that looked like a transformation cabin in the left corner and jumped in without hesitation.


    It was a kind of gamey. A game should pay attention to all kinds of entertainment and design all kinds of ¡°fantastic¡± ying methods. Because the game settings in battling this boss were very hateable in this instance, the yers could escape from the battle by standing on top of this transformation cabin. They would be randomly transformed into one of the mostmon recent animals and usually, it would be one of the game¡¯s little monsters. The zombie boss would then no longer attack the yer that had be an animal. The gamepany might find it entertaining to watch yers that had no choice but to be all sorts of animals when ying this instance.


    This kind of animal shape effect would theoretically remain for three days, but there was a kind of restoration pill sold in the mall, which was very cheap. It was a dime per pill. It helped the yers to quickly restore their human shape. As such, Zhang Zhiyin dared to choose to be an animal to escape from the boss attack.


    The poisonous zombie followed him into the room but lost its target again. After circling around, it let out an angry roar.


    At the same time, a white plush little fellow crawled out of the transformation cabin, it ¡°auwo auwo¡±d at the edge of the transformation cabin, but failed to attract the slightest attention from the zombie boss.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°... Auwo?¡±


    He knew it, that the mostmon animal he saw was Yin Xiaoxiang!

 Chapter 32

    Chapter 32


    All of Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s equipment was acquired from the Item Store. At this time, it was still on him just like in the game, but it was hidden away as he had transformed into a cat. However, the clothes he was wearing now were from the base, and they were left in the transformation cabin along with hismunicator and the guns distributed by the base.


    Zhang Zhiyin thought that his team members should be anxious when they weren¡¯t able to find him. First, he painstakingly made a message with his cat¡¯s paw and sent it to the more stable Old Zhu and Ah Mu through the droppedmunicator.


    The message said, ¡°I¡¯m fine. I¡¯ve escaped. I¡¯m staying put. Be careful of You Kun.¡± Saying that he had escaped was to reassure his teammates, but he wasn¡¯t far away from escaping at this moment.


    After sending the message, he looked up at the zombie boss and made a childish grimace like how Yin Xiaoxiang would do. He swaggered as he jumped to the ground and went out.


    For a cat, it was undoubtedly a long way from this room to the door of thisboratory. Zhang Zhiyin even knelt twice because his legs were too weak. Fortunately, no one saw him so he did not care about his image. He rolled around before he got up and continued walking after two grieving ¡°auwo¡±s. In order not to stir unnecessary trouble, Zhang Zhiyin had been enduring himself not to transform back.


    So when he finally saw the exit, he jumped up with joy!


    Zhang Zhiyin tried to run up quickly with his short legs, but sadly he found that the steps were longer than his whole body. The dawn was right in front of him, and he thought that the boss would not be able to catch up with him no matter what, so Zhang Zhiyin no longer hesitated to open the Item Store for the first time¡ª


    ¡°Found¡±.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    He stayed here for half a month, however, In fact, only one night had passed in reality. Who knew if the item store could be repaired in these three days? Should he just be a cat for these three days? In this end of the world without human decency, how could a weak and fluffy kitten survive?!


    Zhang Zhiyin turned around angrily and kept saying ¡°auwo¡±.


    Just then, a shadow covered the top of his head, covered all of him.


    Zhang Zhiyin was stunned. He raised his little head doubtfully and dully looked up, but he could only see ck shoes and ck trousers.


    ...It¡¯s so tall.


    The man squatted down and stretched out his hand to him. ¡°Little thing, why are you here alone?¡±


    The voice sounded very nice, but it was without any ripple.


    He ced the kitten in the middle of his palms and held it in front of him as he tried to look down at its ck, round eyes.


    Zhang Zhiyin was suddenly raised so high that he felt like he was flying into the sky. He couldn¡¯t help but ¡°auwo¡±. At the same time, he pressed onto the man¡¯s hand with his four small ws and buried his head in the hands of the person.


    This was so embarrassing.


    When everything was stabilized, Zhang Zhiyin peeked in embarrassment and secretly deciding that no matter who he was, he would never see him again.


    Then he was stunned.


    The face was so beautiful that it had no ws, just like it was a fake face. In a sense, it was fake. It¡¯s the face he knew and had seen thousands of times.


    Y.


    So, I take back what was said in the previous second. This was the only thought left in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s mind at that time.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Dadao and other people obediently rushed out without turning back, but they were waiting for their captain instead of Team 2. Xiao Jin then decided that it must be You Kun that did something, and they almost fought with them.


    Team 2, however, ignored them. In You Kun¡¯s opinion, only Captain Zhang Zhiyin with his Level 4 special ability was powerful. Others were all average. As long as Zhang Zhiyin was absent, the rest of the people would grow afraid and soon disperse. At this time, having a conflict with them was just making trouble for themselves.


    So You Kun couldn¡¯t help but drop a sentence with his consistent disdain: ¡°As to where your captain is, how would I know?¡±


    Old Zhu and Ah Kong worked together to stop Xiao Jin, who was emotionally agitated. The most important thing now was to find Captain Zhang.


    However, they all thought that You Kun had problems, at least some of them knew. Li Zhun and Dadao were ready to go down again to find that person, while Ah Mu and Old Zhu were blocking You Kun and others from getting away.


    At the moment of the stalemate between the two sides, Old Zhu found hismunicator flickering twice.


    It¡¯s the captain¡¯s message¡ª


    ¡°I¡¯m all right. I¡¯ve escaped. I¡¯m staying put. Be careful of You Kun.¡± You Kun¡¯s name was also misspelled. It was strange as the captain was not one to misspell his words.


    Ah Mu looked up at the same time, and their gazes met. They knew that the other party had received the message.


    There were too many legendary things about Zhang Zhiyin. For example, when they first arrived, he led those weak in overall strength to eliminate a very powerful psychic zombie. For example, when he died and came back to life, and then he led everyone to evacuate safely at a critical moment... Nowadays, the team members all have a kind of blind belief in him. In their subconscious, their captain would be okay. Their captain would always have a way. Even if their captain died, he woulde back alive.


    With those two people no longer blocking them, Team 2 immediately left. Old Zhu didn¡¯t bother and took the opportunity to call Dadao and convey the meaning of Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s message. After some deliberation, they decided to follow the captain¡¯s instructions and stay put. They returned to the base worrying about where their captain was at.


    And they probably didn¡¯t know that not long after they left, a man appeared at the entrance to the undergroundboratory and walked down quietly. Five minutester, the man carried out a cat.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Yin Nian put Zhang Zhiyin inside his windbreaker pocket close to his left chest, closest to his heart. One of his hands reached in reassuringly to hold him across his pocket.


    Zhang Zhiyin only felt that his breathing was full of Yin Nian¡¯s scent. Then slowly, shyly, and obediently, he hid inside Yin Nian¡¯s pocket.


    He felt that he was not ready to face the world.


    Yin Nian took him back to the base directly by moving along the space. Then he pulled the kitten out and ced it on his bed. He patted him and said, ¡°Be obedient and stay here. I¡¯ll get you something to eat.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked around curiously and timidly. At this time, for Captain Zhang, he had long since thrown out the base, his team, and Yin Xiaoxiang to the back of his mind.


    Like this, following Y, might be the only chance in his life to be caught and brought back to his base.


    Who would have thought that Dr. Y, who was originally set as ¡°cold and heartless¡± and ¡°numb and cold-blooded¡±, would be so kind to a cat...


    Zhang Zhiyin took the opportunity to tread on the bed of the boss. When he reached the location of the pillow, he suddenly found that a small mirror on the table could be reflected from this angle.


    He observed carefully of what he was like now ?¡ª a white ball, a beautiful kitten, standing there obediently. Overall, Zhang Zhiyin looked the same as Yin Xiaoxiang, but he was bigger than Yin Xiaoxiang by a size. Yin Xiaoxiang was only as big as his palm, and he was as big as a mini iPad himself. His eyes were ck like his original eye color. The tuft of hair on his forehead was also a different color, simr to ice blue, but it was not quite the same as Yin Xiaoxiang¡¯s.


    Zhang Zhiyin tried to see the color of his hair on his head and moved slowly to the bedside, only to find that he could not see it clearly. He grabbed his paws by the bed and began to stretch forward.


    As a result, the overexertion had caused him to roll to the ground uncontrobly.


    Zhang Zhiyin covered his eyes with his ws in this crisis.


    This was too miserable. It was so miserable to be small. Even falling out of bed had be a major disaster. How did Yin Xiaoxiang survive this kind of life?


    No, Yin Xiaoxiang was very naughty. The windowsills that were over one meter high, it still dared to jump down. It¡¯s not as useless as he was!


    In the end, Zhang Zhiyin did not fall to the ground.


    Yin Nian who had juste in quickly reached out his right hand and cautiously embraced him. He also put the te of food in his left hand on the ground to free his hand and smooth his hair.


    Zhang Zhiyin was stunned, staring at the person who caught him with big round eyes. He looked like a lost child who had found an adult. He didn¡¯t care about his image at all. He wrinkled his cat¡¯s face and whimpered grievingly at Yin Nian. All he uttered was small ¡°auwo¡±.


    Why would he want his image? No one knew what he was right now. It¡¯s a little bit better to take advantage of this special treatment. Zhang Zhiyin thought and silently took the opportunity to cave into Yin Nian.


    Listening to his soft voice full of dependance, Yin Nian suddenly lowered his head and kissed the soft flesh on the back of his neck.


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly froze.


    But then he heard Yin Nian whispered: ¡°Mimi


    <sup>2</sup>, it¡¯s all right, didn¡¯t I tell you not to be naughty.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin had stiffened again.


    ¡°...¡± Who¡¯s going to tell him what a ¡®Mimi¡¯ was?! Only a girl under seven would give her cat this name, right? Who told Boss to name the cat ¡°Mimi¡±?


    See how powerful andpetent the name he gave his cat¡ª¡±Dr. Y and Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s son¡±!


    Why did boss, who clearly looked powerful and high-leveled, name a cat ¡®Mimi¡¯?


    Yin Nian looked at the sad cat face and frowned almost invisibly. After thinking about it, he touched Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s ear andforted him by saying, ¡°Mimi is good.¡±


    It took a while to think of what Zhang Zhiyin was trying to do just now. He thought about it in his mind, stood up, took the mirror and put it in front of Zhang Zhiyin. ¡°Do you want this?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin shook his tail in embarrassment. He nced at Yin Nian quickly and quietly and began to shine his forehead as he wished. There were two small clusters of hair, one ice-blue cluster, and one gray cluster, probably representing his own two abilities.


    Yin Nian quietly touched his hair behind him and whispered, ¡°Mimi looks the best.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin called out softly and unconsciously.


    One person and one cat were reflected in a small mirror, looking particrly harmonious.


    Does Boss Yin knows its his Zhiyin?

 Chapter 33

    <strong>Chapter 33</strong>


    But Zhang Zhiyin was hungry. He couldn¡¯t withstand the temptation to sniff at the things inside the dish, which was something simr to the soup and milk Yin Xiaoxiang ate daily. He then turned his head to the side in disdain.


    I give you chocte every day, but you give me fish paste... This is not fair!


    Sure enough, the person to fall in love first was doomed to be haggard in the heart and mind. Zhang Zhiyin crouched in Yin Nian¡¯s hand and hmphed twice, making a sound simr to a small wheezing. His expression was filled with resentment and wrongfulness as he looked carefully at Yin Nian with aggrievance, as if he had suffered mistreatment to his body and heart.


    After bing a cat, it seemed that Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s way of thinking had also begun to decline to a younger age.


    Looking at him being like that, Yin Nian instantly surrendered¡ª


    But at the same time, he finally found out that there was really something in the world that he did not know. He didn¡¯t know what should be given to the Zhang Zhiyin who had be a cat.


    But Zhiyin¡¯s eyes were so pitiful.


    Could it really be that he had no ability to raise him well?


    Yin Nian frowned and he thought about it for a while. He put the tip of his left index finger into Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s slightly opened mouth and touched his gums.


    Sure enough, he had not grown any teeth yet.


    ¡°So you can only eat this.¡± Yin Nian gently put Zhang Zhiyin on the ground. He followed how Zhang Zhiyin had poured milk into his hands that previous time before reaching out his hand to entice him, ¡°At least eat a little? En?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡± Although he was now a cat in the eyes of the boss, he was still unable to resist the temptation to be fed personally by Yin Nian.


    Zhang Zhiyin strode forward with his paws reservedly, but he identally stepped directly into the milk dish that had beenid aside by Yin Nian¡ªbecause he was too weak and feeble, the milk dish remained unmoved, but the milk spilled on his chest, and his right forepaw became sticky too.


    Zhang Zhiyin stood still and raised his right hand in front of his eyes, staring at it in resentment, ¡°Ao?¡±


    Yin Nian quickly pulled out a few paper towels from the side and held him in his arms to give him a brief wipe. Then he carried him, preparing to give him a bath.


    And he happened to bump into Meng Kali who appeared and disappeared as he wished.


    The moment Meng Kali saw the kitten, his whole person became excited. Unlike in the past where he would tremble in fear whenever he saw the doctor and dared not approach him, he seemed to want to go forward to Y¡¯s side instead.


    Yin Nian¡¯s hand that was hugging Zhang Zhiyin tightened. He warned with a cold face, ¡°If you dare touch him, go to Yu Huo there and nevere back.¡± The emotionless ck eyes were written with a bright ¡®I will do what I¡¯ve said¡¯ expression.


    Yu Huo¡¯s newly built base was full of vicious and wicked people. The atmosphere of the whole base was foul. Meng Kali was definitely not willing to go there, let alone staying there forever.


    He took a few more nces at the kitten that was nestled in Yin Nian¡¯s embrace before drifting away reluctantly.


    Before he disappeared, he heard Boss said, ¡°Go find some good shower gels for cats and bring them in within three minutes.¡±


    Yin Nian filled his bathroom sink to a shallow level with an appropriate temperature before sending the cat in his arms into it. The shower gel had not arrived yet, so Zhang Zhiyinid at the edge of the sink and looked at Yin Nian.


    When Meng Kali sent in the shower gel, he saw his boss looking at the cat. From inside and out, the aura he emitted was of aplete fondness even though there was no emotion expressed in his eyes or face.


    Yin Nian took the shower gel and made Zhang Zhiyin a body of white bubbles. He then washed him with clean water before drawing him out of the water.


    The hair sticking to his body was very ufortable, Zhang Zhiyin who was standing in Yin Nian¡¯s hand could not help shaking himself like a real small animal. The water beads sshed onto Yin Nian¡¯s face.


    Yin Boss was unexpectedly good-tempered, he only wiped himself casually and flicked his forehead lightly: ¡°Mimi, stop making a fuss.¡± Then he dried his fur bit by bit with a hairdryer he took out from nowhere.


    The newly washed Zhang Zhiyin was fluffy like a ball.


    Yin Nian fed him some milk and carried him to bed.


    Zhang Zhiyin felt nervous for some reason.


    As the ultimate viin of the world, the boss unexpectedly did not go to sleep but instead rubbed his hands on the cat.


    He sat on the bed and put Zhang Zhiyin on hisp. He exerted a little force on his hands and trailed his fingers over Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s fur again and again.


    Because of his animalistic instincts, Zhang Zhiyin felt veryfortable at first and he soon rxed. He nested in the legs of the boss and almost fell asleep. But soon something went wrong.


    Yin Nian seemed to think it was not enough, he turned him over and began to touch his soft stomach. Then he touched his limbs, legs, ws, tail, ears and all over his body. There was no spot left untouched.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s fur was standing up, but he dared not resist and didn¡¯t have the heart for it. He shivered all over his body as he let Boss Lord touch him, asionally letting out a few ¡°auwo, auwo¡±.


    He was still unable to respond due to disbelief¡ª the person in front of him was Yin Nian. A Yin Nian that was alive, could move, could talk, could feed him and bathe him.


    Although he was just a cat in his eyes.


    Zhang Zhiyin felt wrong again.


    Atst, Boss Yin felt satisfied with touching him, so he raised Zhang Zhiyin with both hands and kissed him gently on his forehead.


    Then he murmured in a low voice, ¡°Mimi is really good. I like you very much.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡± His feelings seemed to had ridden a roller coaster, feeling fire and ice at the same time


    <sup>1</sup>.


    Yin Nian leaned to the side, ced the small ball, Zhang Zhiyin, on his chest. He gently encircled his hands around him and then went to sleep.


    The next day, before Zhang Zhiyin woke up, he felt someone poking him in the belly.


    Yin Nian was clearly very happy poking him but his face still remained expressionless.


    Zhang Zhiyin snored and moved his paws. He couldn¡¯t resist and went on sleeping.


    In his imagination, Yin Nian should be the kind that ced themselves above themon popce, his existence was the male viin version of the Little Dragon Maiden


    <sup>2</sup> with unattainable power. But in fact, his room was rather messy. Thick notebook materials and unknown equipment were piling up all over the table, and all kinds of materials were also piling up in the corner beside the table. He waspletely unlike those people that were neat and tidy everywhere.


    However, Zhang Zhiyin sadly realized that Yin Nian who¡¯s actually like this was still cute in his eyes¡ª he was clearly sitting on the top of the world but he seemed unable to take care of himself at all. He had no quality of life to speak of, but he still desperately wanted to take care of a cat.


    The next day, Zhang Zhiyin tried fish chowder and found out that it was quite delicious. It was not like the kind of food that Yin Xiaoxiang ate that was especially for pets. But he¡¯s still too small. After two bites, he was full.


    Then he saw Yin Nian eating all the remaining fish chowder and milk without any hesitation or expression.


    Zhang Zhiyin was in a dilemma.


    Y, he... was too good to himself? There was literally no bottom line. There was nothing in line with his character design. Did the gamepany add the attributes of ¡°although anti-social and anti-human, he is unexpectedly good towards innocent animals¡± to increase the charm of the viins? Or did the 123 Love Storiespany that bought the game changed the game settings?


    But... Zhang Zhiyin silently covered his eyes with his paws.


    It seemed that he liked Yin Nian even more after this one day of interaction.


    He¡¯s hopeless.


    ¡°Mimi, you have to stay here and don¡¯t run around. Some parts of the base are dangerous.¡± Yin Nian squatted down, he took Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s words from before seriously. He saw the kitten staring at him nkly and covering his eyes with his paws. Obviously, he was not listening to what he had said at all.


    Nevermind, it¡¯s better to keep him in his own sight.


    Even if Yin Nian wasn¡¯t able to see what was happening, he was able to sense what Zhang Zhiyin was doing. However, he still had that habit of seeing that person to reassure himself.


    Otherwise, if he hadn¡¯t happened to see him, his Zhiyin might not be there anymore.


    He still had palpitations whenever he thought about it.


    Yin Nian¡¯s eyes darkened and he went into the bathroom with the kitten in his arms.


    Zhang Zhiyin did not react to what had happened. Hey on the curve of Yin Nian¡¯s arm, stretching out his paw and hitting him in the face: ¡°Ao?¡±


    As a result, the paw was grasped.


    Yin Nian shook his paw and said, ¡°Be good, don¡¯t make a fuss.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was put on the washstand, and then he saw Yin Nian begin... to remove his clothes.


    ¡°Ao...¡± Suddenly getting stimted, Zhang Zhiyin hurriedly lifted up hisid paws again and covered his face in silence.


    His eyes were still peeking at the side.

 Chapter 34

    <strong>Chapter 34


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Under this Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s three-day of observation, he had concluded that¡ª Boss Yin was not doing his job properly.


    First, Yin Nian did nothing for the whole day, the only second thing he did was to y the cat or y with the cat.


    And so Zhang Zhiyin was tossed and turned by Lord Boss for three days.


    Yin Nian was really patient towards him. At noon, when he was fed up with his paws getting pinched, he rushed up to bite Yin Nian¡¯s face with his gums. Yin Nian wasn¡¯t angry though. On the contrary, he was very happy? He calmly changed to the other paw to continue his pinching.


    By the third night, Zhang Zhiyin could no longer sit still.


    In theory, he should had transformed back in the day at thetest.


    Just because Yin Nian could tolerate a foolish cat who looked like it knew nothing, that did not mean that he would be able to tolerate Zhang Zhiyin. It would be terrible if he was caught.


    Thinking about this, Zhang Zhiyin felt depressed. At the same time, he was worried about how to escape this ce. In the end, he could onlyfort himself; at most he would just die once more and thene back to life again.


    Even so... he was still reluctant.


    By this time, it was already dark, and Yin Nian was hugging him in the bed, ready to sleep.


    Zhang Zhiyin restrained the faint mncholy in his heart. He crawled onto Yin Nian and quietly licked his exposed neck.


    ¡°Goodnight, Mimi.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin responded with a soft ¡°Ao¡±.


    The room suddenly darkened. There was only moonlight prating through the windowsttice and the whispers of gianturel trees as they swayed outside.


    A viin boss such as Yin Nian should be living in an underground base with iparable technology where no mosquito could even fly in. But in reality, Yin Nian lived in a two-story building inside the base. His bedroom was located on the second floor. It was just in the right position, where the sun¡¯s rays and moonlight were iparably caring.


    In this apocalypse, everyone lived in terror, even in those well-guarded base, every night before falling asleep, they would have to check their closed doors and windows again out of fear that there would be a zombie breaking in while they weren¡¯t aware. And it was unfair that the culprit of this apocalypse to live such a simple and unguarded life at the end of the world.


    This big bad wolf. Zhang Zhiyin muttered a sentence in his heart. How could he like such a person? But he just liked him, only liked him.


    Sometimes, Zhang Zhiyin felt that if Y was a real person that had turned their world into such an apocalypse, he would surely hate him with trepidation and held tremendous fear of him like everyone else. But from the beginning, what Y did was all false to him. It was all made up by the game nner in order to develop the plot. So he liked him, and he didn¡¯t care what he ¡®did¡¯. On the contrary, he found his character settings to be very attractive.


    Even now, when he arrived at this real-world and saw the living Yin Nian, his feelings and perceptions of him that had already formed in reality were still very difficult to change.


    Perhaps for him, the only real world was the one where he had to work from nine to seven, get out of the subway at eight o¡¯clock every day, be on guard against his boss at work, check his bank card on time for sry, worked for ten years and still could not afford a house; maybe he could afford a car but then he wouldn¡¯t be able to stand the traffic jam.


    After about two hours, Zhang Zhiyin thought that Yin Nian should have fallen asleep, so he quietly leaned out of the nket, moved out a little bit, and finally squatted beside the bed. He looked at Yin Nian again, boldly licked his hand, and then went to the bedside, ready to jump off.


    As a result, he found out¡ª he dared not jump.


    Yin Nian had been carrying him up and down for the past two days, so, for him, this bed was actually very high.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked gloomily at the ground and finally jumped down with his eyes closed.


    He knocked his nose and hummed out wrongfully.


    Yin Nian who had been persisting on pretending to be asleep felt his heart shook when he heard this sound.


    He really wanted to help him rub his nose.


    As for Zhang Zhiyin who knew nothing about all this, he touched his nose with his little paws. He couldn¡¯t help looking back to take ast look at the Yin Nian who seemed to be sleeping deeply under the moonlight. He sniffled and strode away with his short legs.


    He really couldn¡¯t walk more than ten steps without having his legs going soft and thus, causing him to fall. Recently, he had been carried around by the boss, so he didn¡¯t practice walking.


    Yin Nian followed him quietly behind, deeply worried.


    He really wanted to rush up and held him in his arms.


    But if he appeared now, Zhiyin would probably be afraid or feel uneasy.


    But he was still worried about him... He fell again... this is the seventh time already... look there¡¯s wall... don¡¯t hit the ss door in front of you, ah... sure enough, he knocked into it... it looks so hard for Zhiyin, trying to go down the stairs... but he looks so silly as he goes down with his butt twisting in the air... en, it¡¯s cute too. If you begged me, I¡¯ll carry you down...


    But of course, Zhang Zhiyin would never have the thought of asking Yin Nian for help.


    Yin Nian could only follow him in silence with dimmed eyes.


    It took Zhang Zhiyin more than half an hour to finally move to the first floor. Then he ran out of the gate happily and rushed out of the base smoothly. It was incredible how smooth it went¡ª it might not even be as smooth as this if he turned into a cat and tried to leave his house. It was impossible for him to open the anti-theft door in his current appearance now.


    Unexpectedly, the Item Store was still not working. Fortunately, he had prepared a lot of flying gs in his storage space in advance. At this time, he could just take them out and use them.


    Yin Nian silently watched the white lump of the kitten turning into a familiar young man. His eyes were full ofplexity and of indistinguishable emotions. He was indifferent and alienated from the whole world, but because of this person, he was able to taste the different vors of the world.


    He watched him leave quietly, just like how this had repeated thousands of times.


    Everything in the base remained the same, and there were no waves caused by the disappearance of Zhang Zhiyin.


    In a world like this, where people like him disappeared every day, it really did not matter to Hope Base. Only the leader of Squadron 4 was considering how to arrange and send the people of Team 3 away after Zhang Zhiyin was gone. But Team 3 had insisted that their captain would be back soon, so he didn¡¯t bother much.


    Squadron Leader 4 had admitted that he was a person who only paid attention to his own interests and was afraid of trouble, so he didn¡¯t want to exert even a little more effort for any others. He was totally self-centered and was willing to serve as a leader just because he would be able to get more convenient conditions and better resources. But in the apocalypse, he didn¡¯t think he was the worst ever.


    Therefore, as for Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s return, he did not have too many thoughts, nor did he bother to investigate what had happened to him.


    The attitudes of Team 2 were as bad as ever. They were slightly surprised to see Zhang Zhiyin reappear, and they intensified their efforts to continue seeing their faults and scorning them as ever. They did not seem to care at all that this man had almost lost his life when he was with the zombie boss because of their malicious intentions.


    Zhang Zhiyin was also nning, he was thinking about how to deal with them. He did hate them, when he was attacked by You Kun¡¯s psychic power and was being separated by the earth walls and vines on the same side of the zombie boss, he wanted them to die. But then he calmed down and felt terrible; because of hatred, because of revenge, because he wanted to easily deprive others of their lives since he wanted to safeguard his own security or interests. Even if the other party really deserved punishment.


    Perhaps in his subconscious mind, he still belonged to the rtively peaceful, stable, and orderly society. A person should ept a fair verdict and a trial if he was absolutely wicked; he hated this person, and he would like to send him to the verdict tform to receive a fair trial and be punished as he deserved, rather than arbitrarily execute the other party on his own will.


    So even when he saw You Kun and others, he was still indignant, but Zhang Zhiyin could not think about killing or retaliating cruelly. It¡¯s not about kindness, tolerance, or kindness. It¡¯s just that the thought itself that made him shudder in his heart.


    He was flipping through all kinds of goods in the repaired Item Store, and next to him, Xiao Jin was telling him what had happened these days.


    ¡°By the way, Captain, I heard that this afternoon there will be a group of very important guests. One of them is the most outstanding researcher of our younger generation. It is said that before the end of the world, he had been on a par with Y and was regarded as the hope of solving the problems of the apocalypse. And he himself is also a Level 6 psychic ability user, very strong. He has been running for the establishment of the Alliance for Human Renaissance and has a great influence on the side of justice. He has visited Cloud Sky Alliance, Base No.1, and other major bases one after another. Now he is on his way to Renaissance Base. He will visit our base in the middle of his journey. In the afternoon, the leaders will go to meet him.¡± Xiao Jin said.


    Zhang Zhiyin had been absent-minded and did not listen to this detail, so he sent them away to take a nap under the pretext of being tired.


    When he returned to the real world, he did not have the curiosity to go to the official website to check the information of the distinguished guest who was hardly heard of in the game but listening to Xiao Jin, he seemed to be very ¡°good¡±.


    He logged into the game right after his work had ended.


    After three days of interaction with each other, Zhang Zhiyin found himself yearning for Yin Nian evermore, and this short separation was simply unbearable.


    He did not know what the other person would think. Falling back in front of theputer chair and looking at thending interface of <Tomorrow>, Zhang Zhiyin thought with rapture.


    At this time, Yin Nian would soon see through his actions¡ª he had the same feelings as his own.

 Chapter 35

    <strong>Chapter 35


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    As usual, Zhang Zhiyin conversed endlessly with Yin Nian.


    ¡°You didn¡¯t expect me to be the cat you have raised those two days right?¡±


    He suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly typed: ¡°Nowadays, animals might be transformed from something else. Never mind about me, don¡¯t you pick up any small animals and bring them home! Not to mention sleeping with those little things of unknown origin and... taking a bath in front of them...¡±


    ¡°But I didn¡¯t expect you to like small animals... I have a cat. You can raise it with me if you like. Don¡¯t think of me as a cat anymore, or call me Mimi! The only real cat in our family is called ¡®Dr. Y and Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s son¡¯, and its nickname is Yin Xiaoxiang.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s so annoying. I still don¡¯t know how to deal with You Kun and the rest...¡±


    ¡°Today a client came, the boss wanted me to receive him instead of coting materials and copywriting all day, but Xiao Li took the client away in the end... but it doesn¡¯t matter, it doesn¡¯t matter...¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly stopped typing and opened his backpack in the game. He looked at the ring that had been ced in the first box of the backpack¡¯s storage and silently closed the backpack again.


    He saw the real Yin Nian. The real man did not seem that bad to approach and he was rather good to himself? Although he was probably only a cat in his eyes.


    With tightened lips, Zhang Zhiyin lowered his eyes and typed, ¡°When I¡¯m happy, I¡¯ll give you the ring.¡±


    If one day, we... I¡¯ll give you the ring.


    The originally lost heart that was astray of its path, as if suddenly, a sliver of hope that did not seem to be hope had emerged from nowhere.


    ¡°Y, I miss you so much...¡±


    He steered the character forward and gently gave the quiet little man a hug.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    When Zhang Zhiyin woke up, it was 5 p.m. at <Tomorrow>. Warm, orange sunlight nted into the room, quietly rendering a halo.


    He pushed the door open. The base was quieter and more orderly than usual. Everyone rushed by and asionally talked in a low voice.


    Zhang Zhiyin went to look for Dadao and saw him, Old Zhu, and Xiao Jin drinking boiled water together.


    After the end of the world, instead of gathering to chat and drink tea or alcohol, it was changed to drinking boiled water together.


    Seeing himing in, Old Zhu poured him a cup and greeted him, ¡°Captain, let¡¯s drink together?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded and sat down, asking them, ¡°Why is it so quiet today?¡±


    Xiao Jin said, ¡°That¡¯s because of the important guests I¡¯ve told Captain before. The leaders and all those high ranks all went out to greet them, and so the small fry must all know one¡¯s ce so as to not offend any of them and cause bad luck to oneself.¡±


    ¡°Oh.¡± Zhang Zhiyin responded and heard that Li Zhun was injured.


    ¡°Today, Li Zhun and I were borrowed by another team and we came back at noon. Li Zhun was injured, but it isn¡¯t serious. He broke his arm. He is recovering in his room at the moment.¡± Dadao said.


    ¡°I¡¯ll go see him.¡± Zhang Zhiyin stood up.


    ¡°I¡¯ll follow too.¡± Xiao Jin and Old Zhu also wanted to go together. Dadao felt tired after half a day¡¯s work, so he did not go. He opened the door and sent them out.


    Li Zhun lived in another building on the other side of the public square. Zhang Zhiyin would have to walk through the public square if he wanted to visit him.


    Old Zhu who was walking in front stopped suddenly. He turned around and pointed to a group of people not far away: ¡°Those are the new guests, Captain, let¡¯s wait for them to pass before we go.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded.


    Compared to ordinary people, the five senses of the ability users were more improved. In particr, Zhang Zhiyin had a precision ability. His eyesight was excellent and he could see their faces clearly.


    The first one was the base leader. Before that, Zhang Zhiyin had only seen him once. There were other high ranking leaders in the base, including the leader of each squadron. The other group was all unfamiliar faces. Apparently, they were the so-called guests.


    A seemingly young man was talking to the base leader as he walked. He had a gentle face and was engaged in a pleasant conversation with the base leader. In front of them, there was another person who seemed to be walking at will under the guidance of another person. His face was like frost, and even more so, his ck eyes divulged a coldness that could repel anyone a thousand miles away. The person that was leading the way, the base leader that was in a conversation and the young man peeped at this man¡¯s face from time to time.


    Zhang Zhiyin was stunned and his mind was nk. At this moment, nothing was going through his mind.


    In extreme surprise, even the idea of ¡°how could he appear here so openly and freely¡± did not surface.


    They walked closer to Zhang Zhiyin. Zhang Zhiyin listened to the young man quietly reassuring the seemingly nervous base leader: ¡°Mr. Lian, Dr. Yin has always been like this. You don¡¯t have to... take offense.¡±


    Leader of Hope Base quickly and politely said, ¡°No, no, Dr. Yin has made great contributions to the renaissance of humanity, I have always extremely admired him. Today, I found out at first sight that he is still so young. He really is a talented person.¡±


    When Zhang Zhiyin heard that surname, he couldn¡¯t hold back anymore. Before they went far, he already asked Old Zhu with his head slightly sideways, ¡°Brother Zhu, what¡¯s the name of Dr. Yin?¡±


    Old Zhu shook his head and said, ¡°This, I don¡¯t know either.¡±


    Xiao Jin interposed: ¡°I know, I heard them say, it seemed to be Yin Nian.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    Boss, he really is capricious enough not to change his name or his surname ah!


    The setting of Yin Nian was a full-fledged ability user, so he should also have a special ability called ¡°heteromorphism¡±, which enabled him to assume the appearance of another thing, animal, or human for a period of time as ordance to his level with its own characteristics; for high-level heteromorphism, appearance change was extremely simple and it would not be easily seen through by others.


    But Yin Nian changed nothing at all! He still had his excessively perfect face, parading himself around ostentatiously throughout the base.


    Zhang Zhiyin thought it over carefully. Even in the current game scenario, no NPC on the side of justice knew what Dr. Y was called, what he looked like, how old he was, whether he was a man or a woman. The yers knew only because they read the game materials on the official website in advance, and Y was often pulled out in various game promotional films and game animations. So, in theory, even if Yin Nian appeared as he was, there would be no problem.


    But... ¡°Dr. Y infiltrating the justice side by disguising himself as the star of the future revered by all¡±...


    Zhang Zhiyin dared to bet with the ring that such a dramatic scene had never appeared in the game!


    Zhang Zhiyin was lost in his thoughts.


    Xiao Jin pushed him: ¡°Captain, Captain, what¡¯s wrong with you?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin shook his head. ¡°Nothing.¡±


    Xiao Jin nudged him, ¡°Captain, you don¡¯t know that man, do you? I mean, Dr. Yin.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin shook his head. He did not lie. Now, as Zhang Zhiyin, he really shouldn¡¯t know him, either as Dr. Yin or as Y.


    Xiao Jin spected: ¡°I knew it, the captain does not know him. But when you were in a daze just now, that person seemed to have looked back at us deliberately.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°... Oh.¡± It did not matter. He was staring at the boss and it was definitely not just one nce, he had nothing to lose.

 Chapter 36

    <strong>Chapter 36</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin was nervous for the whole time.


    Seeing how Yin Nian infiltrated into the justice faction with great fanfare was just like seeing himself entering the base; he was on tenterhooks. He did not know whether he was worried about Yin Nian or for the justice side.


    Out of nervousness, Zhang Zhiyin carefully inquired about all kinds of gossip from Xiao Jin.


    After visiting Li Zhun, he pretended to be casual and asked, ¡°Xiao Jin, how much do you know about this Dr. Yin?¡±


    Xiao Jin cooperated very well in telling him all the life stories of Dr. Yin that he knew.


    Something about being a prodigy since his childhood.


    Having numerous awards.


    When he was 14 years old, he entered the famous Laboratory W, which was the origin of the end of the world. Dr. Y was also from thatb.


    He performed exceptionally well in Laboratory W and was rumored to be equally matched to Y. However, their ideas had always been very different, so they did not get along with each other.


    Later, during the outbreak of the apocalypse, he became the only one to escape from theboratory, hence, bringing out a lot of technology and knowledge that yed a vital role in helping humans understand the power to fight against the zombies and the apocalypse¡¯s bacteria.


    He took in many surviving researchers, established the ¡®Bai Mang Association¡¯, and served as the honorary founder of it. He was neutral to all bases and wasmitted to promoting humanity cooperation and the revival of humanity.


    ¡°That young man is the president of Bai Mang Association, called Sang Le. He is also very talented. It is said that the end of the world broke out just before he was about to enter Laboratory W, so he escaped it.¡± Xiao Jin said.


    ¡°Oh,¡± Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t help asking, ¡°since all the people in Laboratory W have been killed, who was the one that said Yin Nian and Y is not on the same line as each other?¡±


    Xiao Jin: ¡°It should be Dr. Yin himself.¡± There was no doubt in his expression at all.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡± He believed that Yin Nian was not a person that would deliberately deceive, but he just had a deceitful face. If he hadn¡¯t known it beforehand, any normal person would definitely not suspect a person who barely spoke was actually making up a story.


    Maybe it was not all made up.


    In Y¡¯s game setting, it seemed that he was indeed a child prodigy. It was just that there was no exnation as to what had led him to create the end of the world. It was just as if he had suddenly fallen ill, but the majority of yers did not pursue it in details.


    The next day, the person in charge of the four squadrons called all the squad leaders and took them to the conference room of the base. He said that Dr. Yin and others who had just arrived were going to inspect the vicinity of the base and would be personally selecting abat team to protect them.


    This kind of task was easy and not dangerous, but the welfare was good. They could even get familiar with this group of guests that looked very powerful. Who knows, they might even get some benefits from them, so naturally, everyone was willing.


    Generally speaking, Squadron 1 and Squadron 2 would have a higher chance of getting selected, and the newly formed Squadron 4 with internal conflicts were basically not expected to be chosen at all¡ª There was still a probability of Squad Leader 4¡¯s own Team 1 getting chosen. Even so, they still had to go and gather numbers for Dr. Yin to choose instead of being uncooperative.


    The leader of Squadron 4 was notified at ater timing. It seemed that the top management of the base didn¡¯t want them to participate in the selection. But when Dr. Yin arrived, he took a look and said this one sentence, ¡°Just these people?¡±.


    Then the base leader called for Team 3 and Team 4 toe.


    So by the time they arrived, everyone had gathered.


    Yin Nian was seated in the middle of the main seat, while the base leader and Sang Le were sitting right and left of him respectively. It was said that a powerful dragon cannot crush a snake in its old haunts


    <sup>1</sup>, but Yin Nian seemed to have no sense of awareness and had grabbed the seating position for the base leader. The base leader also naturally reacted by sitting at his side.


    Yin Nian still had a cold and frosty look. He only lifted his eyelids lightly when he heard movement and looked at the new arrivals. He waspletely unbothered about them.


    They were only ten meters apart, just at the head and the end of the room. Looking at the man, Zhang Zhiyin felt a sudden rush of untimely sourness and an astringent feeling in his throat.


    Zhang Zhiyin dropped his head in silence.


    Yin Nian suddenly frowned.


    The base leader who had been silently observing his expression immediately asked upon seeing the situation. ¡°Is something the matter?¡±


    Yin Nian shook his head and asked, ¡°Have all the people arrived?¡±


    The base leader looked at the room once and nodded repeatedly: ¡°All here, all here. You can choose anyone to protect you.¡±


    Yin Nian nodded and suddenly stood up and went straight to Zhang Zhiyin.


    The leader of Squadron 4¡¯s heart was buzzing.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at his approaching figure and lost his thinking ability again.


    Finally, Yin Nian stopped in front of him and said lightly, ¡°This team.¡±


    You Kun and the Squad Leader were shocked.


    Sang Le frowned as he went over the data of this group at his hands: ¡°This team... Level 4 ice ability? It¡¯s not strong, is it?¡±


    ¡°En,¡± said Yin Nian, turning back to see him. ¡°So I¡¯ll go with them. You can find another team to protect you.¡±


    After a pause, he added, ¡°You are weak, you need to find the strong ones.¡±


    Sang Le: ¡°...¡±


    He came over and whispered to Yin Nian: ¡°... Doctor, why on earth did you pick this team?¡±


    ¡°Pleasing to the eyes.¡± Yin Nian dropped these four words and left the room.


    It¡¯s not pleasing to the eyes. Yin Nian looked up at the sky and felt proud of his blotched gimmick.


    I like him. Why should I tell you that?


    ...He could stay with Zhiyin for many days and also follow him every day. No, let him follow himself. He can¡¯t go anywhere else...


    He paced slowly back under the sun, but his face was still cold and indifferent.


    The poor chosen Zhang Zhiyin were lectured by the base leader and the rest of the people in the room. He only returned when it was dark.


    Dadao and the rest were very excited to hear this piece of news.


    The next day, Yin Nian wanted to visit the water source of the base. There was really no danger at all, so Zhang Zhiyin only took two men, Dadao and Xiao Jin.


    He did not know if it was an illusion, but Xiao Jin felt a deep dislikeing from Dr. Yin when he appeared behind the captain¡¯s back.


    The journey of these four was somewhat dull.


    However, Xiao Jin was a teenager who imed to be able to talk to stones and he could not stand loneliness the most. He soon began toin to Dadao about the Team 2 who often made trouble for them.


    ¡°You Kun has his eyes grew to the top of his head every day. He thinks that he has a great backer and treats nobody like a human being. Can our captain¡¯s lover not be so powerful?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin walked silently with Yin Nian in front of him. He did not pay attention to what thetter two people were talking about.


    Yin Nian quietly pricked up his ears.


    ¡ªCould it be that Zhiyin told others that he likes himself when he wasn¡¯t paying attention to him?


    ...So annoying. I missed another chance to listen to Zhiyin¡¯s confession...


    ...Then when I go back, I also want to tell everyone that I like Zhiyin...


    Dadao: ¡°Oh, the Yang Fu you¡¯ve saidst time?¡±


    Xiao Jin: ¡°Yes, it should be him.¡±


    This was a lot more eptable than the captain having his powerful space ability lover dead. You need to know that high-level space ability users were the hardest to die¡ª they could just escape if they could not win their battle.


    Only to see Dr. Yin, who had been walking in front of him in an aloof manner, suddenly turning around to ask, ¡°Whom are you talking about?¡±


    Shouldn¡¯t your captain¡¯s lover be the legendary Dr. Y? ¡ªThis was the Yin Nian¡¯s heartfelt thought at this moment.

 Chapter 37

    <strong>Chapter 37</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin was still walking alone at the front. He waspletely immersed in his ¡°I-am-finished-its-the-first-time-being-so-near-with-the-living-Yin-Nian-I-am-not-prepared-and-the-living-Yin-Nian-doesn¡¯t-seems-easy-to-approach-will-I-straightaway-get-a-gameover...¡± own world. He was utterly unaware that Yin Nian was slowly falling behind, and soon joined Xiao Jin and Dadao.


    Yin Nian, with a deadpan voice, asked, ¡°Be more specific, what happened to your captain and the man with the surname Yang?¡±


    Xiao Jin: Unexpectedly, such an impersonal-looking man is also keen on a nobody¡¯s gossip!


    Xiao Jin at once felt that the distance between Yin Nian and him was much shorter. He told Yin Nian about captain¡¯s heart-rending, heart-wrenching love story in detail without using any coercion or temptation.


    Although Xiao Jin did not know why he kept his voice down, his gossip¡¯s instinct told him that the protagonists of his gossip should not hear what was being talked about.


    Yin Nian: ¡°So... The man who gave your captain the ring was the one your captain had been thinking about all along?¡±


    ¡°Yes, yes.¡± Xiao Jin nodded. ¡°During the period when the captain was recuperating in the car, we went to see him. As long as we mentioned any relevant topics, the captain would look at the ring in his hand with a particrly mncholy look. He must be thinking about that man.¡±


    ...So, Zhiyin has been thinking about me and waiting for me to appear?


    ... But now I¡¯m in front of him and he still doesn¡¯t want toe and hug me...


    ... Sure enough, it¡¯s still not the right time, but that¡¯s fine...


    And more importantly¡ª


    Yin Nian lifted his eyes: ¡°Then how did your captain get involved with the man surnamed Yang?¡±


    Xiao Jin: ¡°He¡¯s a high-level space ability user. At this moment, only Yang Fu seems to be the most qualified for the captain!¡±


    Yin Nian¡¯s face instantly ckened: ¡°...¡±


    Xiao Jin closed his eyes unconsciously because his surrounding turned dark. When he opened them again, they had already appeared in the water source, which was the destination of their trip.


    Zhang Zhiyin had no idea what had happened so he looked at thetter three in puzzlement.


    Yin Nian raised his chin: ¡°So, I am also a high-level space ability user.¡±


    At this time Dadao became interested: ¡°Dr. Yin, are you a dual-ability user powerhouse?¡±


    Yin Nian raised his chin reservedly.


    Xiao Jin and Dadao immediately admired him more.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the two men¡¯s admiring expression: ¡°...¡±


    Actually he is not. He is a full-fledged ability user and he is also not a good person.


    Yin Nian looked at their admiring eyes: ¡°...¡±


    Don¡¯t you all have any additional thoughts? For example... ¡®You are the most worthy of our captain.¡¯


    The task of exploring the water source went smoothly, and the four men soon turned back. Neither of them said more than three sentences from the beginning to the end. Finally, Zhang Zhiyin and the two went to hand in their assignments, while Yin Nian paused before he went off alone with his usual stranger-do-not-approach face.


    Unfortunately, they saw You Kun again when they were collecting their crystal nucleus.


    You Kun nced at Zhang Zhiyin and sneered: ¡°My shit luck is good.¡±


    A nameless fire arose spontaneously. Zhang Zhiyin suddenly felt annoyed, and he seemed to have considered for a long time before frowning, ¡°You Kun, be like a man, let¡¯s fight fair and square. Of course, you may not necessarily understand the word ¡®fair and upright¡¯. The winner stays, the loser leaves here.¡±


    He carefully calcted before, the Item Store had many inconspicuous items that could alter one¡¯s stats and also many offensive items. If he used those items, he might not necessarily lose. In other words, there was a high chance of him winning; it was just a matter of spending money. Since <Tomorrow> had been taken over, there had been many new and powerful itemsing out, but they were all consumables and expensive.


    You Kun narrowed his eyes. At this time, he dared not readily agree.


    Previously, Team 3 had been swallowing their anger and avoiding the sharp edges. When Dr. Yin pointed out that his guard team would be them, they became unyielding. It was hard not to doubt whether they had gotten any secret weapons from Yin Nian.


    In the first ce, there were many peopleing in and out of the ce to collect the crystal nucleus. Now that the two team captain had written a war challenge at the doorstep, it soon aroused many people to watch.


    ¡°What are you doing? What happened?¡± A loud voice sounded, and then a big man broke through the crowd and squeezed in. He looked at the confrontation between the two people and his two thick eyebrows twisted together.


    Zhang Zhiyin recognized that this was the person in charge of all logistical works in the base. Maintaining the internal order of the base was certainly within his scope of work.


    The onlookers were also aware and had shuffled away and concede to both sides. As the crowds dispersed, you could see a group of people looking at this side not far away, including the high-ranking leaders of the base and Yin Nian¡¯s group who was visiting the base.


    No wonder the logistics officer was so angry. Even in the end of the world, people were still ustomed to maintaining a bright surface in front of their bosses and guests.


    Xiao Jin¡¯s eloquence yed a role at this time, and he soon talked about the series of incidents that arose due to You Kun¡¯s bullying to the captain¡¯s formal proposal of a fairpetition as the solution.


    ¡°You go back first and talk about itter.¡± The logistics officer waved with the intention of sending them away.


    The Level 6 wind ability user who was on intimate terms with You Kun was following behind the leader at this time. He hurriedly rushed up to ease the situation when he saw You Kun. ¡°You Kun, you take this Captain Zhang back first. If you remember correctly, Captain Zhang also took care of Dr. Yin these days, right? It¡¯s not good to fight with your own people at this time.¡± When he said thest two sentences, he looked at Zhang Zhiyin with a warning hidden in his eyes. Just now Xiao Jin was very fast, all the reasoning had went to Zhang Zhiyin and You Kun, they also did not refute in time. In the face of so many people, turning big problems into small ones, and small problems into no problem at all was the right choice. When things had settled down, naturally, there would be ways to settle Zhang Zhiyin and his people.


    ¡°There is no need to worry about me.¡± At this time, Yin Nian suddenly interrupted. The implication of his words was that if you want to fight, then solve it quickly.


    The logistic officer frowned again. He considered it for a moment, and then simply said, ¡°Then, Team 2 of You Kun and Team 3 of Zhang Zhiyin will battle. The loser will apologize.¡±


    You Kun had yet to speak when he heard Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s faint voice, but it wasn¡¯t very firm: ¡°No, the loser must leave the base.¡±


    The leader and the wind ability user frowned.


    Everyone was aware of that all kinds of underhand methods and dirty tricks could be yed when interest differs between teams. Even if You Kun bullied others severely, it was too excessive and ignorant to persist in expelling someone from the base under the mediation of a high-ranking leader.


    Zhang Zhiyin did not give anyone else to talk: ¡°Six days ago, You Kun¡¯s team and my team did the task of exploring an undergroundboratory together. Unfortunately, I ran into a Level 5 poisonous zombie. You Kun and his team did not save me. On the contrary, he attacked me using his psychic ability and set up a barrier to lock me up with the zombie... a mere offer of an apology is not enough for this hatred of murdering.¡±


    You Kun finally found his voice: ¡°You are spurting nonsense.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin stood there and looked at him coldly. He remained quiet.


    He remembered encountering such a person like this when he was in junior high school.


    After his parents divorced, his father had a new home and another son. Saying ¡°another¡± seemed inappropriate, because that child was only half a year younger than him. In junior high school, Zhang Zhiyin went to the best school in the city. The child happened to be in the next ss. At that time, Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t understand his inexplicable hostility¡ª He was brought up by his grandparents, while he had his father and mother. Why did he hate himself on the contrary?


    One day after school, the two people happened to meet. The boy suddenly came over and shouted to him in a loud and vicious voice, ¡°You useless thing will never do anything in your life! I¡¯m sick of your existence!¡±


    The man came to pick up his son and he was not far away. He heard all of his son¡¯s words, but he didn¡¯t say anything. Just as usual, he fetched his son away like any ordinary father.


    Zhang Zhiyin stood there and watched them leave.


    In the troubled years of youth, he tossed and turned, again and again, thinking that he must do something earth-shaking for them to see and retaliate severely against them. This idea once became the motivation to encourage him to study hard. But then he went to a famous university in the country and left the city where he lived as a child. He did not go back until he finished the funeral for his Grandparents. Little was known about the man and his new family, except by chance that his other son had dropped out of high school and was arranged to work in a factory in the city. The man himself was not a very capable man in the first ce.


    And he graduated, found a job that looked decent and wasn¡¯t too tiring, but it was rtively low in sry. He lived an ordinary life in a busy city and did not get any revenge like in the novel or movie.


    Life itself had already divided them into different worlds, there was no more meaning in going back.


    Zhang Zhiyin did not respond for a moment as he was thinking back to his past, but Dadao and Xiao Jin who followed him trembled with rage. When Zhang Zhiyin came back, he did not say anything to the team. They guessed what must have happened at that time, but they did not expect it to be like this.


    One of the most uneptable things for most of the people present here was probably betrayal by teammates and stabbing knives behind their backs. So many of the onlookers felt that Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s solution was simply too broad and pedantic.


    You Kun took a look at Wang Feng, the wind ability user who was close to him. He was afraid that Zhang Zhiyin had obtained some secret weapons. If such a weapon fell on Zhang Zhiyin, this fight between them might not be in his favor.


    Wang Feng understood what he meant at that time, and knew that he must have some worries. He protected him by telling the logistics officer, ¡°Isn¡¯t this not good? After all, the guests are still here.¡±


    Wang Feng, after all, had a lot of authority in the base, so the logistics officer hesitated at that time.


    Just that when he wanted to use Yin Nian to settle this situation, Yin Nian did not give him this face. He stood beside Zhang Zhiyin in two steps and said straightforwardly, ¡°You want to protect him? Well, you join him, two versus two.¡±


    Wang Feng himself was a powerful wind ability user, so no matter who came out from Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s team, their chances of winning were still much higher.


    You Kun could yet to be happy when he heard Yin Nian continued lightly, as if inadvertently:


    ¡°I will join Zhang Zhiyin.¡±

 Chapter 38

    <strong>Chapter 38</strong>


    Yin Nian stood there and asked the man opposite him calmly, ¡°Do you dare?¡± His tone was in, casual and not in the least undting. As if he were just asking whether you have eaten today.


    But in the eyes of others, this was an open provocation.


    Wang Feng was, after all, someone with fame and prestige in the base. His expression turned ugly when he heard this, seemingly unable to back down in good grace.


    Sang Le stood beside the base leader and wiped away his sweat awkwardly. ¡°Please do not take offense, Dr. Yin has always been like this.¡±


    That was what he said, yet he had no intention to pull the person back or was he going to ease the situation. He just looked at them with an awkward smile, onlycking a ¡®Doctor is just like that. It¡¯s not my business nor could I do anything. Please understand.¡¯ written on his face.


    For a moment, the base leader didn¡¯t know how to stop them. Currently, there weren¡¯t many Level 6 ability users around and Wang Feng was one of the generals under hismand. He was absolutely unwilling to expel Wang Feng for this small issue, so much that there was something suspicious brewing in his mind and a vague idea surfaced¡ª Hope Base¡¯s scale was big and it was getting safer. He was ted to be the local despot. He knew that he would no longer be number 1 if Hope Basebined strength with other bases, hence he was reluctant to join the alliance for the human renaissance. Dr. Yin, however, was a strong advocate for unity among humans. Could it be that he was taking this opportunity to deliberately weaken his power? Otherwise, why was there a need for him to stand up for a team leader? Was it just merely for justice? This reason was simply too weak.


    Thinking of this, he could no longer stand by calmly. He personally went to the front: ¡°Dr. Yin, I dare not let you demonstrate your strength. Our base always upholds the principle of justice. Those who betray and deliberately frame their teammates are punished ording to the rules. We will never be soft-handed! So...¡±


    Yin Nian looked at him.


    The base leader swallowed back whatever that wasing out after his ¡°So¡±.


    Sang Le covered his face. When he saw the base leadering back with a displeased face, he quickly soothed him by saying, ¡°Mr. Lian, please don¡¯t be offended. The issue of betraying teammates, Dr. Yin loathes it very much, its imcable hatred! He had to personally teach the offender a lesson every time he sees such a thing! No matter who tried to persuade him, it¡¯s useless!¡± He spoke as if this were true.


    The base leader nodded his head with a cold face¡ª This was the first time he was forced back by a single look. But since he had already backed down under the public¡¯s eyes, there was no more reason for him to stop this.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the unexpected scene in front of him, opened his mouth slightly and closed it again. Hepletely didn¡¯t have the slightest idea why Yin Nian was doing this; this had nothing to do with his disguise of ¡°Dr. Yin Nian, who was indifferent in appearance but highly endowed with good nature and selflessly contributed to the great cause of human renaissance¡±. But he knew instinctively that this situation was extremely advantageous for him ¡ª If Yin Nian stood on his side and sincerely wanted to help him win, then even if he had no Item Store, even if the opponent was humanity¡¯s number 1, Yun Lietian... He still wouldn¡¯t lose! At this time, he definitely would not have some hot-blooded youngster¡¯s thought about ¡°winning by his own strength¡± and so on. As long as he could make use of whatever resources and power, he would consider all of as his own strength.


    ...What¡¯s more, he had long since silently ssified Yin Nian as his. It was just that Yin Nian wasn¡¯t aware...


    He stared at Wang Feng in his opposite direction with great concentration for fear of any further issues arising. He kept chanting in his heart. ¡°Hurry agree, hurry agree, Boss is going to destroy you. You can¡¯t hide no matter what. Why not agree to this under the public¡¯s eyes, at least you would suffer less, hurry agree, hurry agree...¡± It never urred to him that the reason why Boss wanted to exterminate Wang Feng was all because of him. They stared at each other that sparks almost burst in his anxious eyes.


    Wang Feng was 1.9 meters tall and well-proportioned, and he could be considered to have a magnificent appearance. He had great momentum and bought an imposing manner wherever he went.


    Yin Nian took a quick nce at Zhang Zhiyin who was standing next to him. Seamlessly, a dark ray shed in his eyes, and he asked again, ¡°Do you dare?¡± His voice seemed to have dropped another octave and became even more apathetic.


    Yin Nian was a Level 6 psychic ability user, while he was a Level 6 wind ability user. Wind ability belonged to special mutated ability, its attack power was very strong and it had a speed bonus. His ability would be advantageous when fighting against psychic ability because it was more of a supporting role as itcked strong direct attacking skills; ording to You Kun¡¯s reaction, he should be stronger than that person called Zhang Zhiyin; Moreover, he was born to battle, while Dr. Yin was engaged in researching. Everywhere he went out, there were a lot of people to guard him. He hardly needed to engage in the fight himself. His actualbat ability was certainly not as good as himself. Don¡¯t mention about winning the battle, if he lost, he¡¯ll just be thrown out of the base. As a Level 6 ability user and together with the Level 4 You Kun, he would be honored as a guest of honor everywhere he went. Although Dr. Yin looked cold, his reputation for being a kind-hearted certainly wouldn¡¯te to naught. He shouldn¡¯t kill both of them. If he chose not to fight, he was afraid that even if he stayed at the base, there would be no face left for him.


    Wang Feng thought it through and took two steps forward. He gave a slight smile and arched his hand, saying, ¡°Please let me win.¡±


    Yin Nian ignored him and went back to Sang Le, ¡°Take out Dx320.¡±


    Dx320 was thetest development of Bai Mang Association. It could simte various scenes of the apocalypse and let the ability users fight and train themselves inside it. Basemanders could also use it to simte a scene of a zombie attack, so as to improve their leadership strategies. All in all, it was an eschatological virtual trainer. This time, when Yin Nian and his group of people visited the different major bases, they also promoted thetest products including Dx320.


    At this time, it was more than appropriate to use this product to simte the battle scene for the battle between the two sides.


    It was the first time Zhang Zhiyin and the other two came into contact with this device. The Bai Mang Association helped them wear a ck forehead protector.


    The girl in charge of Zhang Zhiyin said, ¡°Are you ready? It¡¯s starting.¡± Zhang Zhiyin felt his sight going dark and a sense of weightlessness came. The very next second, he had appeared in a vast desert.


    This was exactly like those legendary virtual reality online games, it was unexpected that the technology at the end of the world became more advanced than those of reality. Was it true that the Great Crisis had further stimted human creativity? For zombies to be created and hence causing widespread disasters, it really suggested that ¡®s world might be much more technologically advanced than it was of today¡¯s reality.


    There were thick, moving sand dunes beneath his feet, and every step was difficult to go through. Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s equipment and items were not reflected here. He felt a lot weaker, a little unable to adapt, and had difficulties trying to maintain his bnce.


    Suddenly a hand reached out and held his arm. ¡°Be careful.¡±


    Looking back, Zhang Zhiyin saw Yin Nian¡¯s cold face.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s face blushed involuntarily, and for a moment he didn¡¯t know how he should organize himself...


    What should I do? We touched, touched, touched... as a living person, I made contact with the living Yin Nian!


    He stabilized himself and tried to remain calm as he said ¡°Thank you¡± to the expressionless Yin Nian.


    Before he could open his mouth, the next second, he saw his right hand sliding down and it was holding his hand calmly: ¡°It¡¯s all right, go slowly.¡± His intonation was natural as if he hadn¡¯t noticed that he was holding the other party¡¯s hand.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s lips pursed, as if he was being hypnotized, he dared not move at all, for fear of breaking this hard-won dream. Really, he didn¡¯t want to think of anything but walk on the sand dune hand in hand with Yin Nian. He wouldn¡¯t feel tired even if they walked slowly for an hour.


    He lowered his head and unconsciously showed a smile on his lips. He felt warm in his heart¡ª from the hands that were sticking together to the breath of the person around him, it went all the way to his heart.


    He was immersed in this dreamlike atmosphere and could not extricate himself until he suddenly realized one hourter. He looked up at Yin Nian and said, ¡°Aren¡¯t we here to fight?¡±


    A trace of regret shed through the eyes of Yin Nian, and he continued to look coldly and calmly. ¡°It¡¯s all right, you don¡¯t have to worry about it.¡±


    In reality, Yin Nian, Zhang Zhiyin, You Kun, and Wang Feng all sit quietly in their chairs, connected by the device and the Dx320. In the virtual scene projection screen, ice des, wind arrows, and invisible mind attacks were fiercely performing. The vast sand dune desert ignited everyone¡¯s fighting enthusiasm! Everyone around was all nervous about the battle and continuously shouted it was satisfying. They all inwardly thought that the new product of Bai Mang Association was great. The yers could fight freely in the virtual scene without injuring themselves or wasting their energy. If they also had an opportunity, they would apply for this training.


    The base leader inwardly frowned and his mind buzzed with ideas. Could it be that Dr. Yin didn¡¯t have suchplicated ideas, but he just wanted to take this opportunity to promote their new products? No, it shouldn¡¯t... He shouldn¡¯t be so bored...


    In the same virtual setting, You Kun and Wang Feng were sweating heavily somewhere in the desert, making every effort to deal with ¡°Yin Nian¡± and ¡°Zhang Zhiyin¡± who were in front of them. They were feeling extreme fatigue and the sting from overusing their abilities, but they gritted their teeth and persisted because they firmly believed that their opponents were the same, even more so, unable to hold on than themselves!


    In the same virtual setting, the tired Zhang Zhiyin and Yin Nianid side by side on a dune. Both of them didn¡¯t talk just as if they were afraid of disturbing each other. Instead, they only silently felt for each other¡¯s breath and temperature.


    The breeze was blowing, time was still.


    Unknowingly, Yin Nian¡¯s mind illusion had already covered everyone.


    Only for him and the person next to him, he retained a piece of reality.

 Chapter 39

    <strong>Chapter 39</strong>


    You Kun himself was a psychic ability user, and he was more than familiar with any mind attack. So in that split second, he was sure that he had been attacked and entered the illusion created by the other party. However, he wasn¡¯t able to avoid it¡ª which was normal. After all, his opponent was a Level 6 psychic ability user, so long as he bore in mind that everything was fake and just ignore the content, everything would be fine.


    In this space, he once again underwent his childhood to his adulthood, and finally, to the end of the world... All kinds of emotions shed by in great vtile... pride, panic, arrogance, fear, grievance, joy... And finally, he was back to today¡¯s battle. Just when he was about to be happy that he finally broke free of the illusion, an ice arrow suddenly pierced his heart and froze all of his blood.


    They lost the battle and were expelled from the base. In the beginning, they went to a small base, and relying on their ability¡¯s levels, they became the most powerful people in the base. They led a life of riding roughshod over the people. But, under all sorts of sugar-coated attacks, Wang Feng soon fell in love with someone else. He personally killed him, dug out his crystal nucleus and gave it to his new lover. The crystal nucleus of a Level 4 psychic ability was considered a generous gift. He knew he was dead, but his consciousness seemed to be attached to his crystal nucleus and he looked at all this in cold eyes. So, it turned out that the people of this base hated how he and Wang Feng acted, however, they had a secret way to strip others off of their abilities and use them for their own use. They were willing to tolerate them all this time because they took a fancy to Wang Feng and his abilities. After getting him killed, they once again made an attempt to strip off Wang Feng¡¯s ability. Eventually, Wang Feng, who had be an ordinary man, ran out with his crystal nucleus that was extracted of its energy. He didn¡¯t run too far away before he was attacked and killed by a horde of zombies. He watched his former lover slowly dying off, and in his heart, there was only the pleasure of getting his revenge done.


    Yun Kun who was fully immersed in the illusion had lost senses of his surroundings. He had long forgotten his original advice to himself and was unable to differentiate whether this was reality or fantasy. It was not until he saw Wang Fengpletely cease his breathing that he became clear-headed. He lifted his eyes and it was still the barren piece ofnd. But before his consciousness returned to himself, he felt a coldness in his chest. An ice arrow pierced his heart and froze all of his blood.


    It was the exact same scenario he had seen in the illusion.


    The terrified You Kun did not notice that Wang Feng, who was fighting side by side with him, had the same exact expression as him, and there was an also an ice arrow in his chest.


    The oue of the battle had been decided and an electronic sound beeped, prompting that 30 secondster, yers would be disconnected from the virtual reality scenario.


    Zhang Zhiyin also heard the prompt, he turned to Yin Nian and asked him prudently, ¡°Yin... Dr. Yin, is the battle over?¡± He was trembling in fear and dared not look at him squarely in the eyes, instead, he stared at his chin.


    ¡°Yes.¡± Yin Nian briefly replied and stood up. He turned his back and looked into the distance, only leaving his back figure for Zhang Zhiyin to see.


    Zhang Zhiyin felt like Boss was throwing a tantrum... He knocked on his head and pursed his lips, peeking at the figure before pondering to himself quietly. When they were lying down just now, his temperament was clearly very gentle and good-spirited. It was just like every time he had yed with the cat, but it suddenly changed... The brain circuit of the boss was really quite unusual.


    But the boss that suddenly changed his mood was also very cute. With this in mind, Zhang Zhiyin, who felt that he waspletely hopeless, covered his face in silence. The next second the sky spun and the earth spiraled, and he was back in the real world. The Bai Mang Association¡¯s staff took the connecting devices off his body responsibly.


    They lost the game. You Kun and Wang Feng looked at each other, and neither of them spoke. At least, none of them had any stronger response to this result¡ª like they had already subconsciously epted it.


    They went back quietly to pack their things without saying a word. Nobody dared to stop them and nobody knew whether they should stop them or not. Everyone gave way to them.


    You Kun and Wang Feng did not mention to each other what they saw in their illusion during the battle. They don¡¯t say anything but just buried a deep suspicion and jealousy in their hearts.


    The base leader was unwilling, but there was nothing he could do. In the end, he went away unhappily. Although his base wasrge, he did not want to offend the Bai Mang Association, which was a unique force. Otherwise, if Bai Mang Association no longer provided them with thetest technology, their base¡¯s development would experience more challengespared to other bases. Sooner orter, they would just go into decline.


    His goal had been achieved, and it was easily won too. Zhang Zhiyin breathed a sigh of relief and turned to peep at Yin Nian.


    Yin Nian was still in a bad mood, he stood at the side with his straight face on. Sang Le and the people of Bai Mang Association dared not even breathe as they talked to him on the side.


    Seeing that the other party did not notice himself at all, Zhang Zhiyinughed and thought that Lord Boss just so happened to have some purpose and had helped him conveniently. He breathed slowly again like he had released something from his heart, conversely, it became even more deste.


    He organized his mood, stretched his body slightly, and greeted Dadao and Xiao Jin who had been waiting for him to leave.


    ¡°Doctor, doctor?¡± Sang Le bared his teeth and whispered awkwardly at their doctor who had been watching the young man leave. Undoubtedly, Doctor was someone with looks and power, yet he was so passionate and pure when it came to someone he liked. It was so much that Sang Le felt strenuous and embarrassed when he looked at him. He very much wanted to grab at his cor, shake him vigorously and shout, ¡°Doctor, why don¡¯t you swiftly, nimbly, straightforwardly, hurriedly go for it ah! As long as you express a normal love proposition, any normal person will not reject you!¡±


    But he dared not. He was scared. This was not just anybody else. This was Dr. Yin. So he could only shrink his head and continue to rub between his fingers anxiously until his hair fell off.


    Sang Le always had an inexplicable sixth sense that one day, if someone got together with their doctor, there would be hope for the end of the world.


    As a result, only when the person hadpletely disappeared from his sight did Yin Nian turned back. He pretended that nothing had happened and continued with a straight face, ¡°What¡¯s the matter?¡±


    Sang Le: ¡°... No, it¡¯s nothing. No, I mean, should we leave this ce and go to Renaissance Base?¡±


    He understood that Doctor¡¯s love affairs were very important, but Renaissance Base was still waiting for them ah!


    Seeing doctor¡¯s eyebrows scrunching, he added, ¡°Base Leader Yang Fu has urged us several times.¡±


    Hearing this name, Yin Nian was even more displeased. He threw out three cold words: ¡°Let him wait.¡±


    Wasn¡¯t that not good? After all, Base leader Yang Fu was also a formidable person in the apocalypse. Sang Le was still disagreeing in his heart when he looked up, only to see the doctor¡¯s unrelentless back drifting away. He immediately solidified his conviction¡ª he should listen to the doctor¡¯s words and let them wait! He firmly believed that only their doctor was the ultimate-ultimate boss that could defeat the ultimate boss! Throughout the end of the world, only their doctor was the most terrific and he should never be provoked!


    All the above conclusions came from Sang Le¡¯s daily observation and his inexplicable sixth sense.


    It was not until a very long timeter that Sang Le, an outstanding researcher, realized that he was not a weak chicken that only had a high-level speed ability. He also had a very rare second ability, which he called ¡°perception¡±. This power had no other practical use, but it could instinctively sense the true state of many things.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Ah Mu and Ah Kong stayed in Old Zhu¡¯s room and waited for Zhang Zhiyin and the rest to return.


    As soon as the door was closed, Ah Kong came up and asked what had happened. Xiao Jin felt unreconciled and shouted out unhappily, ¡°Captain! Why did you let them go like that? It¡¯s not fair at all. They have abilities, they could still live well even if they leave the base, but you¡¯re almost killed by them! You didn¡¯t even mention it to us at all.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t expect Xiao Jin to be so agitated. For a moment, he couldn¡¯t control the situation. He could only try to convey his thoughts to the other party. ¡°...I just don¡¯t think I can easily choose to let one person or some people die...¡±


    ¡°But Captain, if you don¡¯t do it, then no one else will punish them. They don¡¯t have to take responsibility for their mistakes. They are still atrge.¡± Xiao Jin stared at him with widened eyes. ¡°It¡¯s the end of the world now, Captain. There is no order.¡±


    There weren¡¯t any order or procedure to measure whether a person should die or not.


    Zhang Zhiyin did not know what to say for a moment.


    But he was their captain. He had grown ustomed to this role he had unconsciously taken on, to let himself be trusted and depended on by his teammates. From the beginning, he hardly let them down.


    He didn¡¯t know what kind of emotion was spurring him on. At that moment, he practically did not think about the consequences or the ways to achieve what he was about to say, so much that there was a certain kind of mood brewing: ¡°If there is no order, then we will create the order.¡±


    After imitating Yin Nian for a long time, no matter what thought was going through his mind, Zhang Zhiyin always disyed a terrifying calmness on the surface of his appearance.


    Dadao suddenly raised his head. ¡°Captain, I¡¯ll tell you something about my past.¡±


    ¡°I used to be awyer, but I was in the financial field. Suddenly, the apocalypse came. At that time, I was still working overtime and was trapped in my office. My wife was at home. For three days, mymunication was cut off and I didn¡¯t get to make any contact with her. At that time, I felt that something strange was happening within my body and I didn¡¯t know it was the awakening of my ability. I was afraid. Then on the third day, I couldn¡¯t wait any longer. The rescue team never came, so I rushed down and killed a lot of low-level zombies all the way. I drove home... In the end, I saw someone getting pushed out of a car... I felt something was amiss at that time. Later, I found out that the person was my wife... She had been waiting for me, and she was worried that something might have happened to me, so she came out to find me... As a result, the car she was on encountered a horde of zombies halfway through, and they pushed her down, trying to take this opportunity to escape...¡±


    ¡°I rushed down to save her, but it was toote... At that time, I fought with the zombies, I was wounded all over, there was blood everywhere... The two men who pushed my wife down were terrified... I killed them...¡±


    ¡°That was my first time killing someone. I don¡¯t know if I would have done this if it hadn¡¯t been the end of the world, but it was indeed the end of the world. No one sentenced them, neither did anyone came to arrest me.¡± Atst, his voice choked with sobs, but he gradually regained hisposure.


    ¡°Captain, you saved my life. In fact, I have always felt that you aren¡¯t like us. I can sense that you aren¡¯t one with such scars on your body. You¡¯re like someone who is still living before the end of the world... But I believe in you, so Captain, whatever you do, I will help you.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly realized that everyone was looking at him.


    He seemed to have done something unconsciously again.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...I will try my best.¡±


    The next day, Squad Leader 4 asked him to deliver a document to Yin Nian.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°... Why did you specifically ask me to deliver it?¡±


    Squad Leader 4 waved his hand impatiently: ¡°You ask me, I ask who? Why are you so meddlesome? Just sending it will do.¡±


    So Zhang Zhiyin silently went to Yin Nian¡¯s temporary office and knocked at the door.


    There was only Yin Nian inside the office. He was seated behind his desk, seemingly reading some documents.


    Zhang Zhiyin first inwardly calmed himself down before he spoke, ¡°The Squad Leader asked me to deliver the document to you.¡±


    ¡°Put it there.¡± Yin Nian continued to stare at the desktop in focus, he didn¡¯t even raise his head.


    Zhang Zhiyin put down the document silently and prepared to leave quietly, but he felt somewhat a little unwilling.


    So he asked carefully, ¡°You... Why on earth did youe here? No, I mean, you don¡¯t look like an ordinary person, why did you suddenly appear here...¡± He didn¡¯t even know what he was trying to ask. In fact, he wanted to ask why did he, as a viin Boss, suddenly became the Dr. Yin with greatpassion that saved those who are suffering? Nevertheless, he definitely mustn¡¯t let the other party know that he was aware of his real identity.


    Yin Nian raised his head and nced at him lightly.


    Zhang Zhiyin only felt numb all over, inwardly thinking that Boss, who was now acting as a person of the justice side, shouldn¡¯t unsheathe his sword and starts his killing spree


    <sup>1</sup> because of his nonsensical logic, right...?


    His feet were getting sweaty and he wanted to leave. He bid goodbye and wasn¡¯t even bothered about not getting any response from him.


    At that moment, the boss¡¯s light voice reverberated in this spacious room. Zhang Zhiyin turned around and saw a pair of dark ck eyes staring at him very seriously. The owner of these eyes seemed to hold a seam of grievance. He articted one by one:


    ¡°My Mimi is gone. I¡¯m here to find him


    <sup>2</sup>.¡±

 Chapter 40

    <strong>Chapter 40


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    ¡°I¡¯vee to look for him.¡±


    After saying this, Yin Nian still remained indifferent as he looked at him.


    Zhang Zhiyin practically felt a strike in his heart, to such an extent that he felt that the man in front of him had seen through himself and recognized him as his silly missing ¡°Mimi¡±.


    So guilty...


    Zhang Zhiyin shook his head, trying to drive away all those unrealistic ideas in his mind. He looked at Yin Nian very sincerely and said, ¡°Doctor, you are such a good person, you will definitely be able to find your cat. If there is nothing else, I will go back first. See you.¡±


    He said in one breath and then left swiftly.


    Looking at his departing back, Yin Nian pursed his lips.


    He ran away again. Unhappy.


    Zhang Zhiyin ran back to his room like a wisp of smoke. He covered his face with his hands and sat beside the bed spitefully.


    Yin Xiaoxiang came over and ¡°Auwo, auwo¡±d while sticking closer to him. It stared at him with its small ice-blue eyes.


    Zhang Zhiyin picked it up with one hand and put it on his leg. He poked it gently with his finger on its small nose.


    Yin Xiaoxiang turned its head unhappily.


    Zhang Zhiyin said to himself, ¡°Boss likes kittens so much. You basically look the same as me at that time. He would probably like you too... He should be very happy to see you...¡±


    ¡°What if he likes you and wants to take you with him? I am reluctant to part with you... Nevertheless, It¡¯s fine as long he is happy... You should have better days with him than with me. After all, he is a boss, and he likes kittens.¡±


    Yin Xiaoxiang did not understand what he was talking about at all. It looked at him sideways. ¡°Auwo?¡±


    The next day, Zhang Zhiyin ced the kitten in his pocket and brought it out.


    They were still following Yin Nian to do some research. There wasn¡¯t any danger.


    Zhang Zhiyin was especially convinced that the person beside him would never encounter anything that could be considered dangerous for him.


    Yin Nian silently looked at Zhang Zhiyin who had brought along with him a kitten in his pocket. His face was expressionless, but in his heart: Zhiyin is so cute...


    Zhang Zhiyin clearly felt that although boss¡¯s expression had not changed, his temperament had be very gentle. He inwardly thought that Yin Nian really liked kittens.


    But all along the way, Yin Nian did not show any interest or favor toward Yin Xiaoxiang.


    On the contrary, when Yin Xiaoxiang rubbed his thigh while staying put in his pocket, Boss frowned.


    Was it true that as a viin boss, he did not like kittens that were too soft and dependent? No... Xiaoxiang was a little bit small, but it¡¯s fighting ability was actually much better than his own when he was a cat! Speaking of dependence... he couldn¡¯t even walk properly if it weren¡¯t for Yin Nian who had carried him...


    Zhang Zhiyin had been thinking about it all the way that he didn¡¯t even pay the slightest attention to Yin Nian.


    Yin Nian: ¡°...¡± Yesterday¡¯s itinerary was all fixed. Zhiyin knew I would be leaving in two days, but he didn¡¯t care at all... it was him who said he missed me and that¡¯s why I came here!


    Today, it was Ah Mu and Ah Kong who were following them.


    Ah Kong who was walking behind suddenly quietly jabbed at Ah Mu beside him: ¡°Mu Ge, did you realize Captain¡¯s expression, mannerism and expression somehow resembles Dr. Yin¡¯s...?¡±


    Ah Mu: ¡°...Seems like it, what is it? Couple face?¡±


    Ah Kong turned to look at him.


    Ah Mu: ¡°I didn¡¯t say anything.¡±


    Ah Kong whispered, ¡°Actually, Xiao Jin told me that he thought Doctor likes the captain, or at least have good feelings for him. You know that kid is psychic, he is sensitive to emotions and everything. I heard what he said and I think it¡¯s reasonable. I heard that Dr. Yin went out with them on the first day and was unhappy to hear about Yang Fu. Later, he helped the captain won the battle against You Kun...¡±


    Ah Mu was more straightforward, and he did not think of anything else. He went on to say, ¡°I think Dr. Yin is quite good. He¡¯s powerful and attractive. Although he looks cold, the key factor is to treat Captain well. At least he won¡¯t make Captain starve in the apocalypse.¡±


    Ah Kong sighed sadly, ¡°But Captain seems to have no idea.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin had no idea that the gossip about him had escted again.


    So two dayster, everyone said goodbye. Zhang Zhiyin and his team just followed the Squad Leader 4 and stood silently at the back.


    The team membersmunicated by exchanging nces with one another.


    ¡°Dr. Yin seems to be in a bad mood.¡±


    ¡°The captain is not as lively as he is usually.¡±


    ¡°Look, he¡¯s looking here!¡±


    ¡°The captain is actually lowering his head, looking at Yin Xiaoxiang...¡±


    ¡°How disappointed must Dr. Yin be ah.¡±


    After hiding behind the crowd, Zhang Zhiyin kept his head down and pretended to y with Yin Xiaoxiang.


    There would be no one here more reluctant to ept the fact that that person was leaving.


    In his heart, Yin Nian was the only person in the world who would always wait for him and would never leave him.


    He never would have to worry about the day where his lover would disappear, never would have to worry about his lover betraying him.


    Watching his departing back, watching him leave himself; he couldn¡¯t do it.


    Even though they had nothing to do with each other.


    In order to dispel the sadness that couldn¡¯t be said in his heart, Zhang Zhiyin went back to the house and continued to open the Item Store¡¯s lottery. Previously, he drew a trap and caught Yin Xiaoxiang. He didn¡¯t draw any good items, and he had been busy with things recently, so Zhang Zhiyin had forgotten about the lottery and missed them.


    As a result, this time was no exception. He drew another entertainment item, a transformation talisman.


    Three days of usage, you will be one of the mostmon animals you¡¯ve seen recently. To remove the transformation effect, right-click and tear the talisman.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s face darkened, and he threw the transformation talisman into his own storage space.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    After the departure of Yin Nian, the base returned back to its usual trajectory.


    But the news about him and Bai Mang Association were still heard from time to time.


    For example, it was said that Dr. Yin¡¯s rtionship with Yang Fu, the leader of Renaissance Base, didn¡¯t seem to be very good.


    But the situation in which human bases were heading toward unity was indeed very good. A few days ago, Hope Base¡¯s leader also went to Renaissance Base to attend a discussion. Although he couldn¡¯t do much, he always felt morefortable there. He could gain some advantages and save himself from getting plotted in his base.


    But there was a big thing happening at this stage ¨C Dr. Yin was missing.


    Yang Fu had a lot of influence before the end of the world. Originally, the Renaissance Base was the host for this discussion. Although his ability was not as powerful as Yun Lietian, he still had held a dominant position in bing the leader of the new alliance. However, Dr. Yin, who had always been in a neutral position, disappeared from his territory for no reason. He was somewhat responsible for this and was put to a disadvantage.


    The team members all looked at Zhang Zhiyin silently when they heard about it.


    Zhang Zhiyin secretly sympathized with this Mr. Yang Fu. He knew the true identity of Yin Nian and naturally understood that Yang Fu was totally innocent in this regard about this incident.


    A monthter, the leader of Hope Base came back, and at the same time came the news that the Cloud Sky Alliance had been formally established. The Uncle Yun Lietian that many yers were familiar with had be the leader.


    During this period, Zhang Zhiyin returned to reality twice. Looking at Y in theboratory, he only feltplicated.


    He had seen the real, living, talking, responsive Yin Nian, but when he really stood in front of that person, he would never dare to hold him so unrestrainedly. He would not talk to him and tell him that he loved him. He only watched him leave without even taking a stand to say ¡°no¡± or to follow him.


    ¡°If only you would wait for me and apany me forever like this.¡±


    ¡°I don¡¯t have to be afraid that one day you will not want me and leave me.¡±


    ¡°The current you is the best.¡±


    ¡°I want to see you every day and apany you.¡±


    ¡°How I wish you were mine.¡±


    ¡°Yin Nian...¡±


    ... I like you.

 Chapter 41

    <strong>Chapter 41</strong>


    The newly established alliance hadid out several ¡°front lines¡± ording to the existing human survival forces. They would be cooperating with the neighboringrge, medium, and small bases to clean up the zombies from outside the base bit by bit in order to expand the scale of humanity¡¯s territory.


    At first, that idea was met with a lot of opposition. Many of them felt that they were barely able to defend their base with their present strength, let alone expanding outwards to clear the zombies.


    But many people who had been set to be ¡°more visionary¡± by the game official suggested that if they do not do so, humanity would never be able to get out of this apocalypse. Humanity¡¯s chances of survival would be reduced gradually eroded and ultimately head towards extinction.


    All the different kinds of tasks in the game would talk about this historical event, so even if Zhang Zhiyin did not hear this from someone else, he would still know most of it. He just did not expect himself to be involved in this ¡°legendary historical event¡± one day.


    ording to the regtions, each base should send a corresponding number of ability users to participate in the frontline clearance work as ording to the scale of their base¡¯.


    The dangers and uncertainty of the front line were enormous. Although the welfare benefits were good, no one was willing to go.


    The base leader bore grudges towards Zhang Zhiyin for forcing Wang Feng away, so he sent Squadron 4¡¯s Team 3 to the frontline immediately.


    Who knew what was going on with You Kun and Wang Feng. After leaving Hope Base, they tacitly did not find a new base for lodging at the first moment. On the third night after they left the base, You Kun woke up from his dream and suddenly found that his ability had disappeared. The most frightening thing had finally happened. He was so startled that his first reaction was to pull out his hidden weapon and thrust it into the chest of the person next to him. At the same time, a sharp de prated his chest.


    The illusion of that day had only erged the long-rooted suspicion they had for each other in their hearts.


    Zhang Zhiyin did notined much about this decision. Their team had the lowest qualifications and they also seemed to hold the least value in the base. It was normal for them to be dispatched to the front line. Soon, they set off for their journey.


    They were responsible for ¡®Baiyin Battlefront Station 7¡¯. Different battlefronts still existed in the game and they served as instance dungeons for yers to grind monsters and level up. The monsters inside all had passive attacks and a high spawn rate. There would be a boss in each area and it would also be refreshed every half hour. It was totally game-like element, which waspletely different from the ce Zhang Zhiyin was currently at.


    They were now on the edge of the security zone alienated by several bases. The zombie¡¯s density was rtively low, and the periphery of the zone was the ce they needed to capture. It was a deserted city that arge number of humans had fled from.


    The person in charge of Baiyin Battlefront Station 7 was sent by Yuntian Base, who was an ability user who had just risen to level 6. He also had three supervisors under him. The person supervising Zhang Zhiyin and his team was surnamed Mi. He was a Level 5 water ability user. Currently, Zhang Zhiyin was about to break through Level 5, with the addition of the Redemption Suit, he should have the strength of a Level 6.


    But soon they found that the person surnamed Mi who was in charge of them had a dishonorable moral conduct. He often embezzled the crystal nuclei and other materials that were to be given to the teams. The captain of one of the three teams he was responsible for had disagreements with him and argued with him twice. Then he deliberately arranged him to do the most dangerous work.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s team was now Team 2. He still imitated Yin Nian¡¯s facial paralysis face, and nobody could guess what was going through his mind. Team 3 looked dissatisfied, but they didn¡¯t vent out their anger.


    After more than ten days here, Zhang Zhiyin returned to the real world again.


    In the game, he still told Yin Nian his work and all kinds of problems he had encountered in <Tomorrow>¡¯s world. Naturally, he also told Yin Nian of that person in charge of them.


    Finally, he typed, ¡°Y, I don¡¯t want to go to that world. It takes me too long to see you every day.¡±


    ¡°I miss you so much.¡±


    He hadpletely forgotten that thest time he said he missed him, the result was Yin Nian appearing in front of him without any disguise.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    The supervisor surnamed Mi was dismissed because someone had lodged an usation of him. Facts proved that the Captain of Team 3 knew a Captain of a battle unit in Cloud Sky Alliance. Through that man, he made aint about the corruption of Supervisor Mi.


    The twelve core battle units newly formed by Cloud Sky Alliance were all elites among the elites, and the positions their captains held was naturally higher than that of a frontline supervisor.


    When Zhang Zhiyin heard of this matter, he subconsciously thought of a person; Li Shuifeng. In the game, he was one of the captains among the twelve battle units of the Cloud Sky Alliance, but he did not know if he had be a captain now.


    The new person in charge was surnamed Shang, who introduced himself as Shang Si, He was a Level 5 thunder ability user that looked very young, perhaps less than 30 years old. He had a passers-by looks but his figure was good. Not only was he tall, but he was also well proportioned as a whole. It was said that he when he had just joined the Cloud Sky Alliance, due to his high-level ability, strong fighting strength, and the shortage of people in Baiyin Battlefront Station 7, he was thus sent here.


    He looked a little gloomy and seemed to be difficult to deal with. He cherished his words like they were gold. No matter what others said, he often only used the word ¡°En¡± to deal with it.


    And he was not very good-tempered.


    Reportedly, when another supervisor saw that he a neer with no background, he intentionally showed his might up in front of him. As a result, Comrade Shang Si directly bombarded him with a thunderbolt without saying anything.


    That supervisor was terribly angry, he only calmed down after the general supervisor came out to mediate their affair.


    From the beginning to the end, that man didn¡¯t say a word.


    Zhang Zhiyin, however, did not give much thought to the new supervisor. Recently, he was working on something¡ªthe upgrading of his suit. At present, the Baiyi frontline was more dangerous, and having strength was the most solid guarantee for him. Upgrading the Redemption Suit from Level 1 to Level 2 was rtively simple, although many materials were needed, they were allmon varieties. Zhang Zhiyin registered the items he wanted to buy at his small store in the Exchange House. While the prices he quoted were not too high, he still managed to get the items he wanted in less than a week.


    However, a special set of materials, called Wuxing Tianhu stones, were needed for his suit to be upgraded to Level 3. This material could be divided into five types: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. The drop rates for these five kinds of material were also different. The drop rate of the fire and earth stone in the game were rtively high and they were also rtively cheap, Zhang Zhiyin had already collected them; the gold and water stone were somewhat rare, but that did not mean they were unavable. However, the wood stone was rare and only the final boss of an instance dungeon could drop it, and the drop rate for it was very low. It was basically in a state of no market. Zhang Zhiyin once contacted a man who was selling the wood stone. The man asked for 1,000 yuan while the friendship price was 800 yuan. Zhang Zhiyin was still hesitating to bargain for it when that man sold the stone out for 900 yuan.


    Most people who dare to upgrade their Redemption Suit did not care about money. It was different for a yer like Zhang Zhuyin who also spent money on games. He was a yer that loaded 1000 yuan into in his ount and still had excess even after ying the game for a year.


    It happened that the instance dungeon with the wood stone was in Baiyi Battlefront Station 7. In the game, it was a normal instance where only yers above Level 30 could ess, and it¡¯s not very difficult. Zhang Zhiyin had been trying to figure out how to get rid of the boss.


    ording to his observations, the bosses and monsters all had a high drop rate in this world. For example, when he first arrived at Yulin Base, it turned out that the arms of the psychic zombie that his team fought arm were the ¡°Withered w¡±, a rare material used to refine high-level weapons for poison ability and psychic ability users. Usually, the drop rate in the game was very low. But in this world, as long as he had the courage to close his eyes and saw off the two seemingly useless arms and put it in his store, he would be able to earn some money- that was to say, if he found the right ce and use the proper method to obtain the material, it would be a 100% drop rate. But in this world, those bosses and monsters would never be refreshed, so he only had one chance.


    But very soon, a chance came. His team and Team 3 were sent to join forces to clean up that instance dungeon.


    After eliminating the wood elemental zombie boss, Zhang Zhiyan studied it for a long while before he realized that the wood stone was hidden in his mouth.


    Zhang Zhiyin hesitated for a long time, looking at the sinister face of the zombie. Sometimes, he was actually a superficial person who could be easily captivated by appearance. Otherwise, he would not have fallen for Yin Nian at that time.


    Eventually, the desire for the wood stone overcame the pressure in his heart, so he formed an ice de and began to pry open the mouth of the zombie.


    Dadao, who was resting, saw him and went up to him, ¡°Captain, what are you doing?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...It¡¯s okay. There¡¯s something in its mouth. It¡¯s some kind of medicine. It¡¯s useful for my treatment. While I was cultivating my ability, it backfired on me and I was affected with cold poison. I had to use that thing to suppress it.¡±


    Dadao was frightened, but he did not question his words. Instead, he went forward and helped him dig.


    Zhang Zhiyin thought proudly that although his mother named him Zhiyin, he grew up watching Jin Gu Wen Liang,piling such a reason could hardly be any easier for him


    <sup>1</sup>.


    Team 3 rested as they watched them prying open the zombie, and they all showed an expression of impatience.


    Old Zhu, who also came to help, saying, ¡°There is a feeling of raiding a grave. Digging from the mouths of the dead, but s.¡±


    The wood stone that was dug out was beautiful after it was washed clean with ice water. It¡¯s wood color gave off a soft light that wasn¡¯t blinding. It was not deceptive to say that it could restrain the so-called ¡°cold poison¡±.


    Team 3 knew that it was a good thing, but they didn¡¯t know what it was, so taking it was useless to them, then they suggested that they should take more nuclei instead. Zhang Zhiyin agreed with them happily because they thought that the suggestion was reasonable.


    But the fact that Team 3 did not know the stone did not mean that no one knew about it at all. Wuxing Tianhu Stones were also popr in the game because it could be used not only to upgrade the Redemption Suit, but it could also be used to refine drugs, cast equipment, and enhance abilities. However, the people who were upgrading the Redemption Suit were most willing to pay the highest for this stone, so wood stones were generally bought by these people. Over time, everyone subconsciously thought that wood stones were only used to upgrade the Redemption Suit.


    There was also a trait set up for Wuxing Stones. One of the stones could sense the existence of the other stones associated with its attributes, such as water which birthed wood. The person who owned the stone would be able to sense where the other stone was located at. In the game, these settings were very chicken rib. yers who obtained the water stone would be able to get a clue if they right-click on the stone, which would say, ¡°A smell of wood could be detected on the boss of Baiyi Battlefront¡¯s instance dungeon.¡± Because this sort of information was public, in the real game, this ¡°mutual detection¡± setting had no use at all.


    But in <Tomorrow>¡¯s world, it was different. The one who obtained the water stone would really be able to sense the location of the wood stone.


    The owner of the water stone was the Captain of the Cloud Sky Alliance battle unit that was rted to the Captain of Team 3.


    The Captain of Team 3 had always regarded him as his backer, so, naturally, he would try his best to do what he was asked for. When he heard the instructions of ¡°Find a wood-colored stone that looks very shiny near you,¡± the Captain of Team 3 immediately reacted¡ªit should be the stone that Zhang Zhiyin had gotten the other day!


    He felt somewhat regretful that he had so delightfully proposed to receive more nuclei and let the other party took the stone.

 Chapter 42

    <strong>Chapter 42</strong>


    But there was no point feeling regretful now. The Captain of Team 3 immediately took action and went to find Zhang Zhiyin to propose the exchange of the stone with more crystal nucleus.


    Naturally, Zhang Zhiyin disagreed. For those ability users above Level 5, the effect of using any grade of crystal nucleus below Level 5 was no longer significant to them, besides, the crystal nucleus graded above Level 5 was expensive. In order to raise a level, many crystal nuclei were needed. It was a quality-price ratio that wasn¡¯t suitable for many. This was also one of the reasons why Zhang Zhiyin chose to spend his money on buying the Divine Suit at the start to improve his overall attributes instead of using the crystal nucleus to raise his ability¡¯s level.


    There wasn¡¯t any choice. The Captain of Team 3 did not want to disappoint that person, so he could only look for the new supervisor, Shang Si.


    ¡°Is that the case?¡± In this rare asion, Shang Si articted a few more words, but he immediately frowned, ¡°Shouldn¡¯t all items or materials of unknown origins be handed in as ording to the regtions?¡±


    He immediately summoned Zhang Zhiyin and confiscated the wood stone directly.


    The rules of the front lines were slightly different from those in the base. The danger factor was greater here, so everyone had to fight together. The front line was mostly made up of different ability users sent from a different base. They were not in agreement with each other and many serious idents urred in the beginning. Gradually, ¡°disobedience¡± had been listed as a major taboo in the front line. Each troops must ensure absolute obedience to the orders of their supervisor. They must continue to obey even if they held resentment. They must not cease work at random or provoke trouble, otherwise, the offender would be standing against everyone stationed at the front line. Like the former supervisor Mi, his issues were serious, so only the Cloud Sky Alliance could enact the punishment on him.


    Moreover, the original regtions had already stated so, so Zhang Zhiyin could only obediently hand over the crystal nucleus. Furthermore, following the standard distribution, as someone who participated in the battle, he, Team 3¡¯s Captain and their teams all had the priority to obtain the materials first. There was a possibility for him to exchange the stone back with more crystal nucleus.


    But after Shang Si confiscated the wood stone, there was no further notice.


    With the predecessor of the incident of Supervisor Mi, The Captain of Team 3¡¯s first reaction was: Shang Si did not have the intention to report this matter and the wood stone to the top. He knew that Zhang Zhiyin and himself both wanted the wood stone... this behaviour was just asking for bribes. After putting on a sufficient stance, he would let Zhang Zhiyin and himself bribe him. Whoever could satisfy him more would be the one to get the wood stone.


    Damn it, the Captain of Team 3 cursed. However, in order toplete the task of that man by obtaining the wood stone, he had no choice but topromise. He chose the items he thought were valuable enough to impress the other party, and then sent it over.


    But there wasn¡¯t a wall in the world which didn¡¯t have a crack, let alone the front lines where everyone was sure to see much of each other.


    When Li Zhun and Old Zhu came back from dinner, they just happened to see the Captain of Team 3 slipping out of Shang Si¡¯s office with a devious smile before stealthily shutting the door.


    This kid must have done nothing bad, trying to sneak bribes! Li Zhun was anxious and angry. He and Old Zhu ran back to Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s room to report to their Captain.


    ¡°Captain, that¡¯s the stone you need to use to suppress your cold toxin! The Captain of Team 3 must have went to the back door of Shang Si beforehand. You cannot fall behind him. We also must think of a way to make Shang Si distribute the wood stone to you no matter what tactics we use.¡±


    These few supervisors on the front lines weren¡¯t able to control these few people, but they had a very prestigious title. The overall person overall in charge was surnamed Fan, so everyone called him Chief Manager Fan, the remaining supervisors were all called Deputy Manager by their team members.


    ¡°Okay, I¡¯ll try my luck.¡± Looking at the anxious look of the team members, Zhang Zhiyin could only say this with a straight face.


    But he wasn¡¯t good at this at all. In his neenth year of school experience, he never gave his teacher anything ¡ª handing in his homework and exam papers didn¡¯t count; in his three years of work, he also had not walked the back door of any big leaders or some small chief leaders. This matter of finding Shang Si to talk about this really made him felt uncertain.


    However, he could only brace himself to do it, fortunately, he had his own item store, so he should be able to pick out some good unique gifts.


    Finally, he picked a thunder elemental pistol that was having a discount. From a price of 500 yuan, it was reduced to 50 yuan. Its attributes were quite good and because it was a holiday promotion, it was quite affordable.


    When Zhang Zhiyin was preparing to pay, he saw the interface of the Item Store going ck¡ª


    ¡°Found¡±.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    Time and tide waited for no man. After waiting for a day, the item store was still not fixed, Zhang Zhiyin could only brace himself and go in. In fact, his storage space had many wonderful items, but its value was not attractive enough and it might cause trouble if he were to take them out casually. A sophisticated pistol weapon was very orthodox and would not make the people in this world felt that it was beyond the scope of their current science.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    ¡°Knock, knock, knock.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin stood at the entrance of Shang Si¡¯s office and knocked gently at the door. He was unable to suppress the hesitation in his heart.


    Although he really wanted to get the wood stone, ...What on earth should he say?... If this matter was really not possible, then forget it. As long as he scooped out some money from his pocket and waited for a while, he could always buy it from the item store.


    ¡°Come in.¡± A cold voice came from inside.


    Zhang Zhiyin trembled for no reason. The tone of Shang Si¡¯s voice sounded very simr to that of Yin Nian, but it was a little lower than his.


    Zhang Zhiyin pushed open the door and went in. Shang Si was sitting behind the desk with a profound expression as he turned the wood stone in his hand. The glittering light reflected onto his slender fingers and alternated between several magical rich colors.


    Hearing the voice, he looked up at Zhang Zhiyin with some yfulness in his eyes, ¡°Do you want it?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded and swallowed his saliva nervously and involuntarily.


    Shang Si smiled and squinted at him. ¡°Liu Zhu sent me 10 Level 5 grade thunder nuclei, a kilogram of thunderstorm sand, and a thunder elemental armor... What can you give me?¡±


    Liu Zhu was the Captain of Team 3. Don¡¯t talk about the Level 5 crystal nucleus and the armor, thunderstorm sand was an important material for forging thunder elemental weapons. It was really generous for him to give out a kilogram at one go.


    Zhang Zhiyin was even more nervous. The nervousness filled his round ck eyes and it could not be concealed.


    That someone was who teasing Zhiyin was going to melt. He wouldn¡¯t be able to continue his act, so he better cut straight to the point.


    <i>#Zhiyin looks cute no matter how I see him</i>


    He heard Zhang Zhiyin talking softly ¡°I didn¡¯t bring anything with me... But I had picked a thunder elemental weapon for you, Deputy Manager. You¡¯ll love it! Just wait... You can get it in a while. ¡± As long as 123 Love Stories did not mess up again, you will be able to get them.


    ¡°Oh?¡± Shang Si responded lightly, it was not visible on his face, but he was irrepressibly happy in his heart ¡ª Zhiyin deliberately picked up a weapon for him... Then he became extremely angry. Who is this Shang Si? Why did Zhiyin pick a weapon for him? He never even gifted him with a weapon before!


    He hadpletely forgotten that Shang Si was himself.


    Zhang Zhiyin only felt that the uncertain man in front of him suddenly raised his head and stared at him like a snake; as if he had locked onto his prey and swore on his life to get it.


    He yed with the wood stone in his hand and looked at him with a slight tilt of his head. His eyes were deep and his voice was low, bringing along some temptation and hint: ¡°Want this? Beg me.¡±


    ¡°Beg... beg what?¡± Zhang Zhiyin has never experienced such a situation and intuitively felt that something was wrong.


    ¡°What a fool.¡± Shang Siined a little and waved to him, ¡°Come here.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin slowly approached him suspiciously.


    When he approached, Shang Si suddenly stood up from the chair, stretched out his arms and pulled him over. He held him firmly in his arms and whispered in his ear, ¡°Didn¡¯t you brought nothing with you? How about giving yourself to me?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was instantly frightened that his smalemma wall separated


    <sup>1</sup> from this antinomy.


    An unknown strength leashed out from him and he pushed away Shang Si¡¯s hands. He ran for the door and dashed out.


    He didn¡¯t expect to meet this kind of situation in the world of zombies!


    Shang Si stood at his spot and looked down ¨C he didn¡¯t expect Zhiyin¡¯s reaction would be so big. Shouldn¡¯t he be shy, timid and unwilling but nevertheless, still copse in his arms and ¿Ú¿Ú¿Ú¿Ú? The book he read the other day was wrong. Human beings were the hardest to understand. You wouldn¡¯t know how to get close to them properly.


    But... It was still a sess. He crooked his mouth quietly.


    Zhiyin is so soft, I like it very much.

 Chapter 43

    <strong>Chapter 43</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin ran all the way back to the room and closed the door. He felt that life was a mystery. He would never have imagined that a 1.79 meters man such as him would encounter this sort of thing.


    Old Zhu and Dadao had been waiting for the oue of his conversation with Shang Si. They sighed in their hearts when they saw heing in silently with a face as ck as the bottom of a pan. Although Captain¡¯s fighting abilities were good and was cool-headed when he led the team, he was still young and inexperienced. To rely on connections, this sort of matter was not something he could handle well.


    Zhang Zhiyin thought for a moment and asked Old Zhu and the rest, ¡°How about we apply to other frontline stations?¡±


    Old Zhu did not know what had happened. He could only specte that the Captain¡¯s request for the wood stone was unsessful and he ended up having a dispute with Shang Si, therefore, he was no longer willing to work here.


    Old Zhu had always been steady person. He knew that it was not easy to apply for a change of frontline stations, he tried to appease Zhang Zhiyin and said, ¡°Contradictions are inevitable wherever we go. Captain, you may want to calm down first and remain here to observe the situation. As for the wood stone, we should try our best. It¡¯s not certain that we won¡¯t be able to get the stone.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin, seeing that most of the other people¡¯s opinions were also inclined to this, was embarrassed to tell them what happened to him, so he could only suffer in silence. He swallowed the bitterness into his stomach, sent the people away, tidied up a little, and then went to bed frustrated.


    Somehow, he dreamed that he was embraced by Shang Si again. He was in a hurry to break free and wanted to hit him. The man who hugged him then turned into Yin Nian unknowingly.


    Zhang Zhiyin instantly became weak and lost all his strength. He hugged back the man obediently and gently rubbed against his chest. ¡°Yin Nian, I miss you so much.¡±


    The man held him in his arms, and his gentle breathnding on his ear. A low and deep voice coiled around: ¡°I miss you too.¡±


    Then Yin Nian lowered his head and kissed him gently.


    Zhang Zhiyin woke up with a smile, he felt that all the traumatic experience he received from Shang Si had been smoothed away by Lord Boss. His hands casually touched his side and he felt a cool piece of hard object. He brought it up and put it in front of his eyes ¡ª the wood stone.


    The dream turned into a nightmare in an instant. When he thought about how this stone appeared at his side, Zhang Zhiyin was stupefied.


    He hurriedly created an ice mirror and shattered it in anger when he looked at it. There was a wound in the corner of his mouth, which was obviously bitten.


    At this moment, a knock sounded on the door. Zhang Zhiyin absent-mindedly opened the door in a hurry. Fortunately, it wasn¡¯t an outsider at the door but Old Zhu.


    Zhang Zhiyin senses came back and his first reaction was not to let him see his mouth. Otherwise, wouldn¡¯t his lifetime reputation be destroyed? So he deliberately pursed his lips, nodded and let him in without speaking a word.


    Old Zhu saw his expression and mistook that the Captain was in a bad mood because of the wood stone.


    Zhang Zhiyin ended up covering his mouth that he forgot to hide the wood stone. A lustrous piece of wood stone on the bed glowed faintly, which attracted great attention.


    Old Zhu used to be a university faculty member, who was in charge of logistics work in the psychological counseling center. He did not know what happened but gradually, those students who had worries weighing in their heart all went to him instead of finding the special psychological teacher of the center. He had both undergraduate and doctoral studentsing to see him. Later, he became so famous that even some of the teachers in the school went to see him to vent their hearts out. Old Zhu thought that he understood the psychology of young people of Captain¡¯s age the best. When he saw that the Captain was still being difficult aftering back with the wood stone, he consoled him with his heart and soul.


    ¡°Captain, I know you may not get along well with the Deputy Manager Shang. You are young, talented and have a great ambition. You want topete in every aspect. All these are normal. Old Zhu understands. But Captain, you see that Deputy Manager has already taken the initiative to deliver the wood stone to you, which clearly reveals that he wants to show his good intentions to you even if he offends Team 3. If you continue to be difficult, Captain, I¡¯m afraid it¡¯s not appropriate...¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡± This was clearly not the problem ofpeting in every aspect. This was clearly the problem of whether he will be able to wait until the day he met Lord Boss with his body still intact!


    Old Zhu looked at him kindly.


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t know what to say. In order to hide the wound on the corner of his lips, he dared not say too much. He sighed and said with a shriveled mouth: ¡°... Well, you can rest assured that I won¡¯t lose my temper anymore.¡± All these were said in a low and muffled voice.


    Old Zhu didn¡¯t pay attention, and he left satisfied.


    What a wonderful thing was to see the Captain grow up little by little, gradually bing a more perfect, generous, courageous and skillful leader who looked at the bigger picture. Although there was still a gap between Captain and <Founding Leader xxx>, <Generation Legend xxx> and <xxxx ¨C the Leader of the Times>, which he often watched, Old Zhu believed that their Captain would surely achieve something in the apocalypse, and he would be the witness of all this. When that dayes, he could also write a book. He even thought of the name, called <The Legend of Zhang Zhiyin of the End of the World ¨C Captain Zhang in the Eyes of an Old Team Member>. Yes, today¡¯s incident must be noted down. This was a typical example of the Captain¡¯s constant cultivation of his mind, taking into ount the overall situation and not being influenced by personal grievances and the romantic feeling between boys and girls.


    Zhang Zhiyin pondered in the room by himself. His current ability was only a step away from reaching Level 5, in addition to the attributes of Redemption of the Last Age, he might not necessarily lose if he fought with Shang Si. Speaking of Shang Si, he was just an ordinary Level 5 thunder ability user, although he heard that his thunder was very ferocious, he did have the Item Store to back him up in his fight, he wasn¡¯t any small shrimp. In any case, the most important thing was to improve his strength.


    Thinking of this Zhang Zhiyin was no longer conflicted. He directly opened the Item Store and bought all the other material hecked all at once. He then began to upgrade his Redemption Suit.


    The captain of the third team also got the news that Shang Si had given the wood stone to Zhang Zhiyin. He rushed to the office of Shang Si in a hurry and frowned anxiously. ¡°Deputy Manager, this is not fair... are you not satisfied with the items? What do you need, you can tell me? Old Liu will try his best to find it for you, but for the wood stone I have to ask Deputy Manager...¡±


    In the end, he could not help keeping silence when he saw Shang Si¡¯sughing eyes.


    Shang Si took out a space storage bag and threw it at Liu Zhu. Liu Zhu opened it and saw the crystal nuclei, armor, thunderstorm sand just as they were. He immediately felt embarrassed. But his experience was much richer than that of Zhang Zhiyin. At this time, his displeasure did not show at all. He only looked at Shang Si imploringly: ¡°Deputy Manager, can¡¯t you get around the rules a little more...¡±


    Shang Si lightly tapped on the table: ¡°To tell you the truth, I don¡¯tck all the things you sent me, I justck one thing...¡±


    When Liu Zhu heard this, he knew things were going his way, he deliberately straightened himself, pricked up his ears and patted his chest. He assured him, ¡°Bossom friend


    <sup>1</sup>, Old Liu will definitely get what the Deputy Manager wants if he is within his means.¡±


    ¡°Oh. I just want Zhang Zhiyin,¡± Shang Si said lightly.


    Liu Zhu¡¯s expression instantly changed. He was so angry that his hands were shaking. He swore that for the many years he had lived, he had never seen anyone reaching this level!

 Chapter 44

    <strong>Chapter 44


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Since then, whenever Comrade Liu Zhu, the Captain of the Team 3, saw Shang Si and Zhang Zhiyin these two disgusting people, he would find them unpleasing to his eyes, believing that they had colluded with each other and framed him, this toiling masses.


    He could not say that he was unable to get the wood stone to the person above him. It would show he seemingly have no ability and could not do anything well. So he reasoned that the information was insufficient and that he could not find the whereabouts of the wood stone for a while. Then somehow that man suddenly lost his sense of the wood stone, he didn¡¯t me him or say that he must get it. He only told him to keep paying attention, this matter was then left unsettled. As if the man had always been generous in his way of doing things.


    <i>Look at others, look at yourself.</i> Liu Zhu looked askance at Shang Si and ndered inwardly.


    Every time Shang Si took charge of a task, he would give the best task to the second team on the pretext of public welfare, and he would follow in person to take a look. He would also give part of his welfare to the second team, and followed the second team when they went out to eat. At first he still bothered to do some cover-up, but afterward, he simply didn¡¯t care and didn¡¯t hide.


    This was really! There weren¡¯t anything more for him to say, even if he did, it would be endless.


    Fortunately, with the exception of the wood stone matters, Shang Si handled all other things fairly, at least better than Supervisor Mi. He was alsozy to be a bother about it, he just waited for his shift to be over so that he can leave the front line and return back to the base.


    On that day, they received another task, which was to clean up a factory, and it required all the three teams under Shang Si to act together.


    The factory workshop was full of cold and heavy metal machines. They stood there silently, as if dead, as if alive, watching them one by one. No one could guess what kind of monster was hidden behind the machines.


    It was often required for those fighting on the front line to enter into the deepest part of those long-abandoned cities. In the depths of human civilization long upied by the dead, they found something more difficult to deal with than a zombie, it was called a mutant. Although the zombies were ugly, they still retained a human form, but no definite shapes could be identified in a mutant at all; they often just had several limbs or none at all. They sometimes had more than one head or just had no head. Their facial features were messy and unclear. Their existence was the same as that of a nightmare.


    There were many grotesquely shaped monsters in all kinds of online games. In the game, mutants were just some kind of monster which were difficult to beat amidst the zombie¡¯s horde. Although they were ugly, yers could just zoom out their camera and they wouldn¡¯t be able to see them. They were all small lumps, just as big as they(the lump) were. It wasn¡¯t until Zhang Zhiyin saw the mutant in the world that he realized how inhuman the existence of this kind of thing was, and even zombies looked much more friendly to him.


    Zhang Zhiyin once witnessed the birth of a mutant. Five or six zombies, for some unknown reason, tore and swallowed each other, and thest surviving one ate the other, twitching and growing like an insect and turning into a terrible mutant¡ª it was totally against the normal evolutionary mechanism of the zombies, but like the legendary Gu, they fought each other, and what survived became a more bothersome existence.


    Mutants were harder to deal with, but fortunately, they did not seem to be able to evolve like ordinary zombies.


    Liu Zhu took two of his team members to push forward into the factory. This ce was too big, but the zombies weren¡¯t densely distributed so they had to divide into several routes of action.


    It was so quiet that they could only hear each other¡¯s footsteps and breathing sounds. Themunicator was pinned to the waist of the battle suit. The light green light on it was shining quietly¡ª everything was normal.


    A machine as tall as half a human on the left suddenly let out a sound as if something was moving.


    Liu Zhu raised his hand and all three of them stopped and waited quietly in ce.


    The voice could still be heard, but it didn¡¯t seem to be moving to their side.


    Liu Zhu furrowed his eyebrows. Something seemed wrong. If there was a zombie behind it, by nature, it should be going closer to where the living was.


    He looked at the two team members and nodded.


    Long-term cooperation had made them form a tacit understanding, three people instantly understood each other¡¯s meaning. Liu Zhu was to stay put here for support, and the remaining two went carefully to the ce where the voice was emitted.


    ¡°There¡¯s a zombie! Wood Elemental, it is at least Level 3!¡± One of the members shouted.


    Another added: ¡°Captain! It¡¯s Level Four!¡±


    The sound of gunfire and their ability manifesting echoed. Judging from their chaotic footsteps, they seemed to be running towards this side. It could be imagined that they were running towards this side while sending out their ability at the same time.


    Liu Zhu was waiting to give them support. Suddenly, he felt a bad premonition¡ª This was a battle instinct formed after a long time in the front line.


    He felt as if he had been stared at by something dangerous and his back became chilled.


    A very weak and harsh scratching sounded behind him like dry branches gliding across the ground.


    Something was crawling?


    Liu Zhu immediately looked back and met directly with a face that had no facial features looking at him from the ground.


    It was a mutant.


    Before they split, the captain of Team 1, a Level 5 psychic ability user had already made a wide range of psychic scan to this area. The strongest zombie he sensed with his psychic ability was no more than Level 4. It was unexpected that there was a mutant lurking here.


    This guy might be harder to deal with than he thought.


    It had no legs, and its torso seemed to have lost its ability to stand upright, but it had six shriveled and deformed arms of varying length. There were also bloodstains on some of its arms. It wiggled forward against the ground like somerge spider.


    But spiders were cuter inparison.


    Liu Zhu exhaled. He now understood why didn¡¯t the Level 4 wood elemental zombie approach them. It instinctively feared this fellow.


    Liu Zhu did not shoot in haste. His right hand was prepared with his ability was focused on the mutant, while his left hand was calm enough to pull out the walkie-talkie and send out a message of seeking help.


    ¡°Pa.¡± On the ground, the mutant sent out a gust of wind, knocking off the walkie-talkie. The ck device flew far on the ground, giving a clear echo.


    The two team members also realized Liu Zhu¡¯s situation. They looked at each other, bit their teeth, and began to circle with the wooden zombie as much as possible. Fortunately, the zombie had strong defense and control, but its attack was normal, they should be able to hang on for a while if they cooperated well enough.


    Liu Zhu aimed at the abdomen of the mutant, the mutant also had something simr to evolution, they would instinctively evolve themselves to hide their vulnerable areas. He judged that the mutant¡¯s weakness was hidden at the bottom of the abdomen that was close to the ground.


    Liu Zhu raised his hand and shot with his left hand. It went straight toward the door; Almost at the same time, it dodged sideways, the fireball that had already been prepared under it exploded with a brilliant spark!


    The mutant did not have much intelligence. It was totally angry and no longer hid itself. It was surrounded by vigor and its six limbs erected at the same time. Countless wind des formed a sharp and rushed toward Liu Zhu.


    Liu Zhu could not escape and was scratched by three of them. ck blood instantaneously flowed out of the wound on the arm.


    Damn it! There¡¯s poison!


    Mutants were a bit difficult to deal with. They often had two or three abilities, one of which was dominant and the other was auxiliary.


    Without hesitation, Liu Zhu set up a fire shield and began to fight guerris with the mutant.


    ...


    The fire elemental posses the strongest attack power among themon elemental powers, but its defense was rather weak. It also followed the basic settings of game professional bnce. The mutant was very aggressive, almost three times as fast as ordinary zombies of the same rank, but it was not fast enough to chase Liu Zhu all the way to a corridor in the factory.


    It was a dead end.


    Under the threat of death, Liu Zhu burst out with great potential, but at the same time, his physical strength was consumed very quickly.


    Looking at the wall in front of him, he could not help but fear that he might die. He turned his head, lowered his eyes, folded his hands, and prepared to send another big fireball to fight for the chance to overthrow the mutant and run away again¡ª if not, just let it be.


    Just then, an ice de flew through the mutant¡¯s neck.


    Mutants were smart in battle, or they had a strong survival instinct. Knowing that there were enemies behind it, it did not give them a chance to take advantage of the battle, instead, it abandoned the original prey Liu Zhu. It quickly moved its six limbs to face the new enemy, from the beginning to the end, it did not reveal its weaknesses.


    But it was no use.


    A thin line of thunder slips through the gap between its limbs and buried itself quietly inside it, and then there was a sudden st! Purple light flickered through the dark corridor, lighting it up as if illuminated by daylight. Liu Zhu looked at the scene before him and felt only a tingling pain in his eyes.


    Even if he held a lot of disdain for him, at this time the heart would inevitably produce some admiration ¡ª Shang Si¡¯s level of power, although not the top, his control over his ability was extraordinary. To turn a thunderbolt power into a soft, stretchable line just like a fine thread, what was needed was a very precise control.


    The mutant was blown up, and his abdomen was ckened.


    Without waiting for it to react, an ice sphere hit the wound on its abdomen, the area of impact was freezing rapidly and dissolved consequently.


    Shang Si and Zhang Zhiyin stood on the other side of the corridor, their hands just lowered down.


    Perfect cooperation.


    Liu Zhu¡¯s breathing gradually calmed down. At this time, he took the initiative to dig out the crystal nucleus. As a result, he unexpectedly dug out three nuclei; one Level 1 wind nuclei, one Level 4 poisonous nuclei, and one Level 4 psychic nuclei. No wonder the Captain of Team 1 could not find it. Presumably, this psychic nucleus was used to provide a psychic camouge.


    Shang Si¡¯s actions had aroused Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s male fighting spirit in an all-round way. In order to guard against Shang Si, he hastily upgraded the Redemption suit, now with the suit¡¯s support, he had reached Level 6. However, the original Level 5 Shang Si also raised his ability a few days ago, stepping into the ranks of Level 6. Every time he had a task, he would intentionally ask to be grouped with himself. His team members would all silently support his request in order to make him had a good rtionship with him.


    However, after several tasks, Zhang Zhiyin had made some slight improvement on his views regarding Shang Si. Although this guy seemed to be hard to talk to, self-centered, ignorant to other people¡¯s feelings and had bad intentions, Zhang Zhiyin found that Shang Si was sometimes absent-minded and he was not that annoying.


    However, this still did not erase thebel of the bad intentions he had. After sorting out the mutant, Zhang Zhiyin went straight away. Shang Si gave Liu Zhu a hint and hurried to keep up with him.


    Liu Zhu looked at the two men, touching his chin and pondered¡ª Could it be that he assumed wrongly, and it was not the case of Zhang Zhiyin coborating with Shang Si, and then Shang Si offering private benefits to him; instead, the Deputy Manager really liked Zhang Zhiyin, and it seemed that Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t ept him? So the wood stone was just used by the Deputy Manager to show his intention?


    To pursue what one loved, it was inevitable that one¡¯s mind became feverish. No matter how big the world was, it was still less important than their wife. Liu Zhu felt that although he was a little older, he still understood the younger people. When he was young, the world had not ended, and his sry was low. He pestered and fought with his colleagues for any task. After saving for half a month, he followed the majority and bought a bouquet for his wife who was not yet his wife at that time. As to why he was fighting so hard on the frontlines, it was all because he wanted his wife that apanied him throughout the apocalypse and his children to live a better life.


    Considering this, and coupled with the handsome explosion from just now, Liu Zhu¡¯s affection for this young man staggered upward until it was a positive value. He silently became a member of the support group ¡°Supporting Shang Si in pursuit of his beloved¡±.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Zhang Zhiyin put up with it, but in the end, he could not. Turning to Shang Si that was following him, he said what he thought was the most drama-like line: ¡°I have someone I like.¡±


    Shang Si stayed for a while and then asked him as if expecting it, ¡°Whom do you like?¡± Like he knew that the answer would be him.


    Zhang Zhiyin really didn¡¯t know where his confidence came from.


    He said, ¡°A great man.¡± Although everyone knew Dr. Y, he couldn¡¯t say his identity. It seemed a little inappropriate to say ¡°Yin Nian¡±. After all, Dr. Yin was also a public figure.


    ¡°Oh?¡± Shang Si tried to keep his eyes from shining. ¡°What does he look like to you?¡±


    ¡°Strong, handsome, steady and self-sustaining, smart, the world¡¯s first... he¡¯s a little cold, but he is cool and handsome.¡± Zhang Zhiyin himself bowed his head after listing them. He looked up and found that Shang Si was looking at him. His face, which was always gloomy and alienated had a faint smile, which filled his ordinary passers-by face with a different glory. He seemed to be very happy.


    The most unbearable thing was his rippling eyes.


    Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t help adding, ¡°I didn¡¯t say it¡¯s you.¡±


    Shang Si opened its mouth only to close them in frustration.


    Since then, however, Zhang Zhiyin had discovered that Deputy Manager had a new hobby¡ªlistening to himself praise the person he liked.

 Chapter 45

    <strong>Chapter 45


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin went to find Shang Si to report on the progress of Team 2¡¯s work in the past week.


    ¡°Street 7 to 11 has been cleaned up, for the next phase, we will focus on checking the interior of the buildings on both sides of Street 7... At the junction of Street 7 and Street 10, there is argemercial area with a high density of zombies. It is necessary to seek for support...¡±


    Shang Si had been staring at him all the time, who knew whether he had heard anything or not.


    Zhang Zhiyin said, ¡°Do you still have anything, Deputy Manager? If there is nothing, I¡¯m leaving.¡±


    Shang Si: ¡°... Tell me about the person you like.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡± A horrible idea popped up in his mind ¡ª this person couldn¡¯t have fallen in love with boss because of his description, would he? That¡¯s why he had been constantly asking him to tell him.


    Seeing that he wasn¡¯t talking, Shang Si asked in more detail: ¡°For example, if you were with him in the future, what color pajamas would you prepare for him?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at him doubtfully. ¡°Are you all right, Deputy Manager?¡±


    Shang Si: ¡°Fine.¡± He was just curious, so he was asking in advance.


    When Zhang Zhiyin left for dinner, Shang Si quickly took off the coat and hung them on the hanger before following after him. He continued to persevere in his inquiries, ¡°Zhiyin... Will you cook for him?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin really thought about it this time: ¡°I can¡¯t cook, but if he wants to eat, I can learn.¡± He ate his own lunch in thepany every day, and for dinner, he would just buy some food to eat. At most, he knew how to cook instant noodles, scrambled eggs and porridge.


    Shang Si stopped talking.


    When Zhang Zhiyin turned his head over, he saw his strange and secretly happy expression¡ª his whole face still looked nk, but his head was quietly raised, the corner of his mouth also arched a little upward, looking like he was very proud.


    As he approached the canteen, Shang Si said, ¡°If he goes to see you... Would you let him sleep in bed with you...?¡±


    For some reason, Zhang Zhiyin heard a faint inquiry and nervousness in his t and calm voice.


    But how did this had anything to do with Shang Si?!


    He couldn¡¯t help it any longer. He wasn¡¯t even going to eat anymore. He turned to Shang Si and said, ¡°Come with me, Deputy Manager Shang.¡±


    Shang Si didn¡¯t ask anything, he just followed.


    Baiyi Battlefront Station 7 was built on the outskirts of the city. They were small in scale but highly mobile. All the personnel could be transferred quickly at any time. Baiyin Station 5, 6, and 8 could also provide support when necessary.


    At present, the task of Station 7 was to gradually clean up the long-abandoned Muwo City from the south while Baiyin Station 3 would clear up from the north until both of them met. Station 7 was now stationed closely to Muwo City, if you walked along the highway for ten minutes you could see the ruined toll station.


    The interior of the city was a restricted zone.


    But Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t care about this. Recently, he had brought his team here many times. The area near the toll station had long been cleaned up by the ability users from Station 7 who repeatedly came and go to this area.


    If he were to fight with Shang Si, he should certainly choose a ce far from the base.


    Following along the main road after entering the toll booth and then turning right would be Street 7, which was the area Zhang Zhiying and his team was in charge of. With the shelter of the buildings here, he did not think anyone would discover their fight.


    Zhang Zhiyin threw two ice sphere directly at him: ¡°This is to return you for that first time.¡±


    ¡°Also, I hope you can make it clear what you really want to do, and I, I will not let you y with me as you wish.¡±


    Shang Si stood there not knowing what was happening, he just let him throw the ice spheres at him. He replied, ¡°Oh.¡±


    Zhi Yin got angry... How cute...


    He looks so cute even when he is throwing ice spheres around.


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t know what the other party was thinking. He said straightforwardly, ¡°Let¡¯s have a fight. If I win, Shang Si, please listen to me in the future.¡±


    <i>I¡¯ll listen to you even if you lose. </i>Shang Si nodded and he did not fight back, he just continued to be beaten.


    Zhang Zhiyin frowned: ¡°fight back.¡±


    Shang Si shook its head and tried to put on what it thought was the most sincere expression: ¡°I can¡¯t beat you.¡±


    In the face of such a stubborn opponent, there was nothing Zhang Zhiyin could do. So, he abandoned the usage of his ability and directly lifted his fist. After all, abilities were powerful. If Shang Si insisted on not fighting back, he could get seriously injured if they were careless.


    If he knew that they wouldn¡¯t be using their abilities to fight, he wouldn¡¯t havee so far in order to conceal the effect of their abilities.


    Shang Si was happy to receive his punch and fell to the ground. He even pulled Zhang Zhiyin along with him to his embrace.


    He looked at Zhang Zhiyin in silence with those ck eyes that looked very pure. His gaze met his and he asked, ¡°Zhiyin, don¡¯t you all have a sentence called ¡®Hitting is spoiling, scolding is love¡¯?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin waspletely discouraged. He got up by pressing his hands on Shang Si¡¯s chest, turned around, and then left.


    In fact, after so long, he realized that Shang Si was not bad, in fact, he was simply excessively innocent and he gave a sense of ignorance of the society ?¡ª whoever made him unhappy; he would send a Thunderball, whomever he liked; he would obediently let them hit him.


    But some of his actions really upset Zhang Zhiyin ?¡ª he thought he was Yin Nian ah?


    Suddenly he felt rmed, and a vague idea flew into his heart.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked back unconsciously, and the man had already stood up. He stood behind him with his head down slightly. His figure was tall and slender, his facial features remained unclear.


    It seemed like he had been waiting there for a long time.


    Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t help but voluntarily walk back to him.


    Shang Si looked up. Their eyes collided.


    Zhang Zhiyin awkwardly shifted his eyes and scolded himself for thinking nonsensically. How could he suddenly feel that Shang Si was Boss? Besides, Yin Nian himself probably didn¡¯t know that he likes him, let aloneing here to amuse him so idly.


    ¡°Let¡¯s go back and eat.¡± When Shang Si remembered that time where Zhang Zhiyin was a cat at his base, because he disliked the fish soup, he didn¡¯t have anything else to eat. He was so hungry until he cried bitterly. His heart immediately went soft that he quickly reminded him to go back to eat.


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded and was turning around when he suddenly felt something was wrong.


    Shang Si instinctively protected him.


    In the shadows of the streets, ten mutants showed their deformed and ugly shapes.


    Just from their breathing alone, he could sense that one was Level 7, one Level 6, one Level 5.


    Don¡¯t mention about him and Shang Si, even if all the ability users of Baiyin Station 7 came, they still might not be able to deal with so many high-leveled zombies.


    Hierarchical repression was evident. Maybe it was still easy for them to deal with a Level 5 mutant. But it¡¯s hard to deal with a Level 6, and let¡¯s not even mention about Level 7. Now, on the human side, only Yun Lietian, Yang Fu, and several other top figures had risen to Level 7. Majority of the people were still stuck at the edge of Level 6.


    Something was wrong. When they cleared up this area in the morning, everything was all right. How did so many high-level mutants suddenly appear here?


    Zhang Zhiyin had already prepared the flying g. He hadn¡¯t tried whether this item could carry another person, but even if he was exposed, he had to try it.


    He must take Shang Si with him ?¡ª he couldn¡¯t let this person die here. If there was a problem, just push it to ¡®that person¡¯.


    Shang Si¡¯s face sank.


    He even wanted to walk back sweetly, lovingly, stickily with Zhiyin, although the three adjectives were what his brain imagined. His Zhiyin would not agree to carry out the aforementioned acts with his current disguise.


    So Lord Boss could only give up on his strolling n and bowed his head at Zhang Zhiyin. ¡°I¡¯ll blow up a gap in a moment and you¡¯ll leave. Don¡¯t worry about me. I have a way to deal with them.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°?!¡±


    Shang Si enjoyed the feeling of being stared wholeheartedly by Zhang Zhiyin. He couldn¡¯t help touching his head and said, ¡°I am telling the truth. Remember to ask the canteen master to leave me a bowl of spare ribs soup.¡±


    The Item Store had not been fixed since thest time Zhang Zhiyin tried to buy a thunder pistol. Zhang Zhiyin also returned to reality twice in the middle of the journey and checked the situation of the Item Store. As a result, he saw that thepany¡¯s President issued a statement saying that thepany had just discovered a bug that had beentent for eight years and was in the process of repairing it. It was expected that it would be repaired in three days. They believed that the game and reading experience would be better after the repairs. Everyone, please take it easy.


    Zhang Zhiyin did not give up and tried, he indeed saw the familiar ¡°found¡±.


    Seeing that he wasn¡¯t moving, Shang Si thought that he was distressed and reluctant to leave him, his heart felt sour and sweet at the same time. Two purple lightning pythons tied Zhang Zhiyin and dragged him away quickly.


    If Zhiyin stayed here any longer, he would be exposed.


    The lightning python was so fast that Zhang Zhiyin was dragged to the toll station before he could even respond.


    When the lightning python disappeared, the Item Store opened.


    Zhang Zhiyin held the flying g in one hand and hesitated for a moment. He did not go back immediately, but quickly bought an item called ¡°Thousand Miles Eye¡±. He thought about Shang Si and Street 7 before opening it.


    The sight reflected in the Thousand Miles Eye was far beyond his imagination.


    Shang Si floated calmly in mid-air, the mutants that were originally baring their fangs, brandishing their ws shivered on the ground.


    His hands turned upward and his palms were filled with purple light. The purple sparks gradually converged and overflowed the whole area. Then he buckled his hands at will, and instantly, the purple light poured down¡ª


    Those mutants could only struggle in this flickering electric sparks, without the slightest ability to fight back.


    The in-looking man was above everything, he looked down slightly at everything under his feet with indifference eyes. The purple light shone on his face like he were the God who created everything.


    Zhang Zhiyin waspletely stunned.


    Shang Si... What on earth was his origin?


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 Chapter 46

    <strong>Chapter 46</strong>


    That vague conjecture gradually surfaced again, but he didn¡¯t dare to think too deeply about it.


    Zhang Zhiyin secretly ran back to the base and told the canteen¡¯s Master Wang to leave a bowl of spare ribs soup for Shang Si.


    They sessfully cleared up that factory a few days ago and it was considered a small feat. The General Manager had specially allowed them to enjoy a bowl of spare ribs soup today.


    Zhang Zhiyin went back to his room to rest. When he woke up again, he was back to the real world.


    It was the off-season recently, so there weren¡¯t many things to do in thepany and he could knock off work on time. Zhang Zhiyin reached home at 6 pm. He opened the game out of habit and ended up realizing there was a new update.


    He then went to the forum and checked out the new content.


    As everyone knew, if a show or animation wanted to be lengthened, give them more viins; if a game wanted to lengthen its life cycle, they could also add rely on adding more viin characters.


    The final boss was Dr. Y, if Dr. Y was easily defeated, then this game would lose the majority of its interest; now, it was still very popr in the market, 123 Love Stories had just got its hands on this game, naturally, they would want to prolong its life cycle by creating more selling points.


    So, taking advantage of the summer vacation, theyunched a new information clip.


    This time, the main opponent was a person with sinister intention lurking in the dark. Watching the struggle between Cloud Sky Alliance and Yu Huo Forces, they wanted to seize Dr. Y¡¯s powers, be the supreme leader of the new world and transform the surviving humans into their ves. Mutants were their masterpiece.


    However, in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s current timeline, the Cloud Sky Alliance had yet to officiallypete with the Yu Huo Forces, so it was still far away from those secret lurkers appearing. However, the mutants had already emerged and were spreading, presumably, these people had already begun lurking in the dark.


    When Zhang Zhiyin finished his meal, the game had finished updating.


    Facing the person silently waiting for him and looking at this familiar face, Zhang Zhiyin hesitated for a moment before he typed:


    ¡°Y, are you aware that I like you? Are you trying to deceive me by pretending to be Shang Si?¡±


    After some pondering, he felt that it was just too ridiculous. Yin Nian was a person from that world, how could he know what had happened in the game; furthermore, guessing that the boss also liked you because you liked him and that he even specifically used a fake identity to apany him was too narcissistic.


    At the end of the world, having some secret rare manual book or power was a possibility, it¡¯s not like every person that had extraordinary powers was Yin Nian.


    Zhang Zhiyin frowned, pressed ¡®enter¡¯ and those words were deleted away one by one.


    The Zhang Zhiyin who returned to <Tomorrow> was still absent-minded.


    The incident of Shang Si and him sneaking to the city and encountering mutants had been discovered by the General Manager.


    The entire street was almost blown away by Shang Si, so there was no way it wasn¡¯t discovered. When he was questioned as to how he escaped, Shang Si perfunctorily said that it was his secret method and it couldn¡¯t be used frequently.


    The General Manager was a little afraid of Shang Si, so he didn¡¯t dare to directly reprimand him. By chance, he ran into Zhang Zhiyin and called him to his office to criticize him, ¡°Did you know you entering the restricted zone outside of work is viting the rules? Did you know? If you know, why did you still go there? Deliberate vition of crime is also a crime.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t refute, he stood there and listened with his head down. He seemed very dispirited, looking like he wasn¡¯t giving a damn to the person.


    The General Manager was even more angry.


    A hand suddenly fell onto Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s shoulder.


    Who knew when Shang Si had walked in and was standing behind him, he lightly said: ¡°I brought him there, don¡¯t me him.¡±


    Then he exerted strength on his hands and used his eyes to tell Zhang Zhiyin to leave.


    Zhang Zhiyin obediently left¡ª both of them had a higher position, so being obedient and leaving during this sort of situation was the correct choice.


    When he was at the doorstep, he looked back and saw how Shang Si was lowering his head and getting reprimanded by the General Manager without saying anything.


    How could Shang Si be Boss? The arrogance Yin Nian had was enough to suppress the whole world, how could he obediently let someone else reprimand him.


    However, as soon as he left, the room changed to a new sight.


    General Manager: ¡°Why did you bring him there for!¡±


    Shang Si lightly and calmly said: ¡°A ndestine affair.¡±


    General Manager: ¡°....¡±


    Their work of cleaning up Muwo City was also proceeding in an orderly manner. There were no more advanced mutants in the city. The most troubling issue at hand was the two Level 6 fire elementals zombies in the office building on Street 13. Baiyin Station 7 had already entered into Muwo City, and they were on Street 7. It was blown up by Shang Si once, so their field of vision had widened and it was a pretty decent site.


    Since then, the rtionship between Zhang Zhiyin and Shang Si had also became normal. They had a more and more tacit understanding of each other. They often ate together when they came back from their tasks and sometimes they would also y cards at night.


    In the monotone nights of these ability users who risked their lives to clean up the zombies every day, the only thing that they would not get tired of was ying cards.


    Originally, Zhang Zhiyin yed with Dadao and the rest. Afterward, when they got familiar with each other, no matter which team, everyone yed together and were able to gather several tables. Even the General Manager yed with them every day.


    But no one dared to pull Deputy Manager Shang into the gang.


    So when Shang Si followed Zhang Zhiyin into the canteen, everyone was stunned.


    Li Zhun took the initiative to stand up and ask him ¡°Do you want to y together, Deputy Manager Shang?¡±


    Shang Si looked at Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°Okay, I had never yed this before.¡±


    Everyone was red up. They yed with chips, and the loser would give the winner crystal nucleis. Shang Si was the famous good fighter of the whole Baiyin Station 7, he was certain to get the most crystal nucleus each time. Moreover, he had never yed before, wasn¡¯t this telling them¡ª they are going to earn a huge profit?!


    They certainly wouldn¡¯t feel guilty bullying Shang Si this novice!


    But soon they found themselves wrong. Shang Si took a seat and sat next to Zhang Zhiyin. He began to y with them. Liu Zhu exined the rules of the game to him. Shang Si nodded his head to show that he understood.


    Then he had been winning since the first round.


    Not only did he won for himself, but he also helped Zhang Zhiyin to win.


    In the end, all the crystal nucleus on the table went to him and Zhang Zhiyin.


    Zhang Zhiyin was very happy. He felt that it was a wise choice to bring a teammate such as Shang Si.


    Others expressed that he was bluffing them. Shang Si was someone pretending to be a pig to prey on the tiger


    <sup>1</sup>!


    After that, nobody was willing to y with Shang si.


    Shang Si grievingly poked Zhang Zhiyin and said with full of hope: ¡°Zhiyin, let¡¯s y?¡±


    What so fun about ying cards when there were only two people?


    Zhang Zhiyin rejected and randomly joined another table.


    As a result, the whole table united to pit him.


    The idea of the people was like this: those who have lost money from Deputy Manager Shang could be able to recover from Captain Zhang here.


    After ying three games, Zhang Zhiyin left with his face drooping. He and Shang Si upied a small table and a deck of ying cards and began to y pull the train


    <sup>2</sup>.


    Zhang Zhiyin, who had been ying pull the train for the whole night, was bored. He looked at Shang Si with grief and began to regret bringing such a big killer to y cards. Now everyone¡¯s hatred value had shifted to himself, he couldn¡¯t y anymore in the future.


    Shang Si looked at them dispirited Zhang Zhiyin going back to the room, he frowned and began to make a n.


    The next day, Shang Si still took Zhang Zhiyin to the canteen to y cards.


    Zhang Zhiyin refused: ¡°I don¡¯t want to y pull the train!¡±


    Deputy Manager Shang promised, ¡°Somebody will y with us this time!¡±


    Sure enough, as soon as they entered the dining hall, a table of people shouted, ¡°Captain Zhang, Deputy Manager Shang,e here!¡±


    Dadao and Liu Zhu were all there, Liu Zhu was grinning and that expression made Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s spine cold.


    He had to say that it really felt very good to win the game while teaming up with Shang Si. Morevoer, the rest of the people ying with them wasn¡¯t throwing that game. They were all losing badly but they still smiled bitterly and was willing to y with them.


    After the end of the game, Zhang Zhiyin happily went back to his room and slept. Shang Si said to Liu Zhu, ¡°Well done, go to my ce to get the crystal nucleus tomorrow.¡±


    Shang Si fulfilled his promises, he would return all the crystal nucleus and also gave an extra 20% as a reward. Liu Zhu then followed as he said and found a table of people to y with them.


    When other people heard this, they though Shang Si couldn¡¯t be this idly? Afterward, someone finally understood¡ª nothing was important except for ying with Captain Zhang.


    Afterward, Dadao, Xiao Jin, and Ah Kong all looked at Zhang Zhiyin with this ¡°The whole station know that Deputy Manager is chasing after our Captain except for our Captain himself¡± expression.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°Are there any problems?¡±


    Xiao Jin: ¡°... No, well, Captain, I didn¡¯t notice your ability had gone up to Level 5! ¡°


    Zhang Zhiyin casually said, ¡°The day before yesterday, Shang Si gave me a Level 5 ice crystal nucleus .¡±


    The team members felt that the Captain had golden thighs everywhere. Last time, it was Dr. Yin, now, it was Deputy Manager Shang. If Captain and Dr. Y get together one day, they wouldn¡¯t be surprised.


    Level 5 crystal nuclei was rare, let alone the nuclei of this variant which basically had no market value. Zhang Zhiyin was in a good rtionship with Shang Si recently, and he finally got to enter the Item Store when it was not broken, so he bought him the discounted gun that he had had been eyeing and gave it to him. As a result, Shang Si gave a crystal nuclei back.


    But in fact, the crystal nuclei was just a gift from ¡°Shang Si¡±. Lord Boss, who got the gift, was ecstatic and he, of course, prepared something better.


    But then Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s attitude toward Shang Si had improved, and he began to eat vinegar from his own disguise even more. He felt that he didn¡¯t n thisprehensively in the first ce, and he did not take this into ount.


    Sure enough, as long as it was rted to human emotions, he would still be unable to predict the deviation.


    Let¡¯s find a chance to kill Shang Si. Yin Nian sat in the office and thought with a straight face. It was still better if Zhiyin only liked and treated Yin Nian good. In any case, there wasn¡¯t any Shang Si this person in the first ce, it was just an identity he had created.


    So now he refused to brush Shang Si¡¯s good feeling too high!


    About half a monthter, Zhang Zhiyin came back to reality. It was the weekend and he didn¡¯t have to go to work.


    A game friend suddenly called him, ¡°Brother Zhiyin, do me a favor, let¡¯s do the next instance together?¡±


    When Zhang Zhiyin entered the game, he also joined a small guild. The guild organization was rtively loose and there was no requirement. The people in the guild were very good. At first, they often brought Zhang Zhiyin along to raise their levels. Later, however, Zhang Zhiyin devoted himself to Boss, so, he did not y much with them.


    He hadn¡¯t responded yet when another piece of news came. ¡°The new information came with a new instance. We need an ice ability user to restrain the monster. We¡¯ve been waiting for a long time and there¡¯s really no one else suitable. We kneel down and ask for the help of our Elder Brother, Zhiyin.¡±


    Although Zhang Zhiyin had not fought the boss for a long time, his equipment was still good. Last time, in order to make gifts for boss, he frequently begged his game friends to help him fight other bosses, so, his basic controlling skills didn¡¯t go too out of practice.


    He looked at the time and didn¡¯t hesitate. He swiftly typed: ¡°All right, where do we meet?¡±

 Chapter 47

    <strong>Chapter 47</strong>


    That brother who had asked Zhang Zhiyin to help him out with the instance had a domineering name, called Fenghuo Gucheng


    <sup>1</sup>. In the game, he had fire-based abilities and for his ID to also be ¡°Fenghuo Gucheng¡±, it could be seen that he had registered in this game quite early on in order to get this ID, which was a much sought after ID among the male yers in this game for some reason.


    Zhang Zhiyin was pulled into the party right after he promised him. There were 20 people in the team. In addition to Fenghuo Gucheng, many of them were familiar faces. This party was probably made up of his friends and rtives.


    Within two minutes, Fenghuo Gucheng opened the instance. Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t give it much a look and directly clicked yes in the ¡°Whether to transfer into the instance¡± dialog box.


    After a short while, Zhang Zhiyin appeared in the instance space.


    The original colors of the railing had dulled down. The dpidated high-speed toll station, the spacious and empty road ¡ª even if converted into a 3D game screen ¡ª the familiarity of it all still hit him in the face.


    Zhang Zhiyin turned to his side and faced Fenghuo Gucheng who was wearing a high-grade fire armor and wielding a mountain axe. He looked like he was dressed in an outfit from a fantasy game of thest century and asked, ¡°Fenghuo, what¡¯s this instance about?¡±


    ¡°Muwo City¡¯s instance, which is also called the forbidden instance.¡± Fenghuo Gucheng was typing very fast and he quickly replied in the message box. ¡°Do you know what you should do since this is the first time you¡¯re here? Go outside and ept the task, and I will take you to clear the task. They¡¯ll buy medicine and repair their equipment. I will be backter.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin went out of the instance and epted the task. He came back five minutester.


    Fenghuo Gucheng: ¡°Why did you take so long?¡±


    Zhiyin: ¡°There was a bit of ag.¡±


    He was embarrassed to tell him that he was actually carefully reading the story of the task.


    ording to the plot, two years ago, due to inexplicable reasons, Baiyin Battlefront Station 7 and Station 3 that were sent to clear out the zombies in Muwo City werepletely annihted all of a sudden. The alliance sent out many teams to investigate this, but couldn¡¯t find any exnation behind it. The work of cleaning up Muwo City had been put on hold, and Muwo City had be a forbidden ce since then.


    With the update of the new expansion packs, the ¡°lurkers¡± who developed the mutants gradually surfaced, and the alliance began to suspect that the events that urred in Muwo City were also rted to them, so they asked the yers to go to the mysterious Muwo City to figure out what was happening.


    The mainline task of the instance was to ¡°Explore Muwo City¡± and ¡°Find the Hidden Truth¡±. In addition, there were many rted branch tasks, one of which was ¡°To Pay Homage to the Lost Spirits¡±, which was released by Master Wang, who was said to have worked in the Station 7¡¯s canteen.


    ¡°The General Manager likes to y cards with the people in the canteen, even if he always loses; Captain Liu Zhu likes to quietly exchange the crystal nuclei for white noodles to eat; Deputy Manager Qin saved my little grandson¡¯s life... ai, but they are not here anymore. This is a basket of white steamed bread that I want to offer to them. Can you help me pay homage to them?¡±


    In the eyes of other yers, this was a part of the entertaining gamey, but to Zhang Zhiyin this was a very riveting nugget of information. Old Wang recounted all the members of Station 7 and everyone had distinct characteristics. It was a long list but he didn¡¯t forget anyone. Any normal yers were probably not interested in reading this, but Zhang Zhiyin read through them carefully. It was just that there was no mention of him and his second team, nor was there any mention of Shang Si.


    It needn¡¯t be mentioned that Zhang Zhiyin wasn¡¯t normal. He was not a person from the game world. When the nning team created the story, he definitely wouldn¡¯t have been included in the list. But what about Shang Si? Obviously, this was very unusual. Was he really a person who was a part of this world? Or was there some kind of hidden information?


    Moreover, he still remembered what happened to the Captain of No. 1 Base he was in. The world of <Tomorrow> from Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s dreams was set before the timeline of this instance, so the ¡°past¡± mentioned in the game mission was very likely, or almost 100% sure to be the reality of the world.


    This time, they must find a way to stop the so-called annihtion of the whole army.


    Fenghuo Gucheng¡¯s team was very familiar with this instance. They didn¡¯t stop to dawdle about along the way. Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t have to do anything, he just had to follow them.


    The final boss of the instance was a Level 8 mutant with fire abilities as its primary attack, but at present, the high-leveled yers in the game also had the strength of ¡õ level ability, along with the blessing of extra equipment and items, so ying against such a tough boss with long HP and MP bar wouldn¡¯t be too hard. The difficulty of this boss was that it was fast and had a high probability ofnding a critical strike. This was a standard problem when dealing with high-leveled opponents in traditional online games. It could teleport to someone and gave them a fatal blow. The yer would basically die, and taking medicine or healing them with abilities wouldn¡¯t help them after that. So the mostmon tactic in the forum was to find yers with restrictive abilities to control the boss and not let it move.


    The best of crowd control skills


    <sup>2</sup> were possessed by those with ice and wood abilities, water and fire sh against each other, and ice was a variation of water ability, they were better than water at dealing with this boss; but in the same case, the wood ability need to be at least one level higher than it to control this boss.


    In the boss battle, Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t need to do anything as long as he stood in a position where he could keep using his ice skills; in addition to him, there was also another ice elemental ability user and a wood elemental ability user working together with him.


    Zhang Zhiyin apanied them for three rounds. In the end, Fenghuo Gucheng gave him the things the mutant dropped and thanked him for his help. He said that he¡¯d let Zhang Zhiyin know as soon as he found any new information in the future.


    Zhang Zhiyin was depressed that they had finished the game without being able to figure out what happened to the Battle Station 7 and 3 that caused them to get wiped out in such a mysterious fashion. The only clue he had to go on was the mutant.


    Zhang Zhiyin was not very concerned about the equipment and items materials in the game anymore. Fenghuo Gucheng gave him what he roughly looked at and he received it. He returned to his stronghold, the darkroom of Dr. Y in the abandoned instance of the Tianshui Laboratory. He finally took a closer look at his loot from the instance. The medicines that wouldn¡¯t be used could be directly thrown into his cheap shop. This store was based on the item store, so it existed even in reality.


    One of the little things he¡¯d received caught the attention of Zhang Zhiyin. It was a ceramic kitten, and the article was said to be [An article of home decor, which can be used to beautify your house]. There would be a housing system in the future. yers would get a deed through a mission, and then they could purchase a house after paying a fee at the Housing Union Management Office. The prices of different sizes of houses in different locations were varied. After you own a house, you could buy furniture and other furnishings to decorate your own virtual home.


    This kind of small disy that could be obtained after fighting bosses was very popr among the family-oriented yers, especially the female yers, and the price was not low in the market. Zhang Zhiyin wasn¡¯t very attached to the concept of family in the game and in reality, so it was useless for him to take this item.


    He looked at it and decided to put the ceramic kitten in the store and sell it off. Then he looked at it some more and thought that the cat looked kind of simr to Yin Xiaoxiang. It was white all over and was chasing its tail.


    Yin Nian might like it. He still remembered when his expression when he said, ¡°My Mimi is missing.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin zoomed in on the character of the game. Facing the cold and faint face, he directed his character to gently hug him, and then lightly put the kitten on the ground near him.


    ¡°I probably can¡¯t be a kitten to apany you anymore, so can I give this to you?¡±


    ¡°Y, bless the Battlefront Station 7 so it would remain all right, and that everything goes well, so that no matter what issue is it, I can sessfully resolve it.¡±

 Chapter 48

    <strong>Chapter 48</strong>


    Walking along the road toward Dr. Yb, Yu Huo quietly enquired Lei Dun: ¡°Brother Lei, what order does the doctor have again?¡±


    Lei Dun: ¡°I don¡¯t know either.¡±


    Yu Huo was aware that the way he handled things never matched with Dr. Y¡¯s objectives, hence he was repeatedly summoned and he felt extremely nervous.


    Pushing over the door, they saw Dr. Y standing behind the ss of the experimental tform staring coldly at them.


    ¡°What¡¯s happening to the group of people at Lab E?¡± Y directly asked.


    That group of people that created the mutant belonged to Lab E. The Cloud Sky Alliance wasn¡¯t aware of their existence at that moment.


    Yu Huo pondered over and over again before he cautiously replied: ¡°As ording to your instructions, we pretended that we don¡¯t know their existence and let them be.¡±


    Yin Nian closed his eyes and thought, ¡°They have a stronghold near Muwo City. If you have nothing to do, get someone to stir some troubles for them. You don¡¯t have to destroy everything. You can leave some alive.¡±


    It was rare to hear Doctor giving such detailed instructions that Yu Huo didn¡¯t understand the reasoning behind it. He took an opportunity and asked one more question: ¡°This.... why?¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s ugly, The city¡¯s appearance will be affected.¡± Leaving these eight words behind, the door of theboratory was shut in front of them.


    Yu Huo who had been chased out of the door touched his nose; Dr. Y looked very annoyed.


    Inside the door, Yin Nian who looked very annoyed felt for a white ceramic kitten in his broad white robe pocket. He rubbed it on his nose and the temperament surrounding him became infinitely gentle in an instant.


    ¡°Zhiyin...¡±


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Zhang Zhiyin who had returned to the real-life bought ten sets of [Enhanced Angelic irvoyance Eyes] from the Item Store at the first moment.


    The introduction of this item was very domineering. It was said to be something about crossing hundreds of miles to survey, like it was simr to the Beidou Navigation System


    <sup>1</sup>. It could monitor every detail and report any anomaly at the first moment. However, in the game, its only use was to track a yer on the map, which was normally used because the user wanted to kill another yer out of hatred.


    Zhang Zhiyin set the downtown business district of Muwo city as the base point and set all of the Enhanced Angelic irvoyance to patrol the area.


    As zombies did not breathe, they were considered a dead matter. So, ording to logic, Muwo City was a dead city, if there was any abnormality, it would probably have something to do with the ¡°lurkers¡±.


    At the same time, he also reported this matter quickly, hoping that they would attach equal importance to this matter.


    He found Shang Si first.


    ¡°Deputy Manager Shang, that time when we went out... to fight, coincidentally, we encountered so many high-level mutants. Don¡¯t you think something is wrong?¡±


    ¡°En.¡±


    ¡°And how did all the mutants came about? This itself is very suspicious...¡±


    ¡°En.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin listed a lot of doubts. Unfortunately, Shang Si only went along with him and did not state any opinions. He looked at him with one hand on the table, like he was staring at a piece of cheesecake.


    Zhang Zhiyin went out of Shang Si¡¯s office in a negative mood. He thought that he could make friends with him normally. It seemed that he was too simple-minded about this matter.


    Boss, who stayed in the office, sneaked out the ceramic kitten that Zhiyin had given to him and touched it a little.


    With a lesson from the past, even if Zhiyin was in front of him, he dared not embrace him. This was just a human tragedy.


    Yin Nian had begun to seriously consider the feasibility of sneaking into Zhiyin¡¯s room in the middle of the night to hug him for a while.


    Zhang Zhiyin finally found the General Manager and conveyed the same doubts he had to him. The General Manager took it seriously and reported it to the alliance quickly.


    It was not long before the Cloud Sky Alliance sent people to explore Muwo City, but they found nothing. Finally, they allocated a batch of weapons and equipment to Station 7 and Station 3 and reminded them to be careful before they left.


    Just like in the game, it took more than two years after the copse of the Station 7 and Station 3 for them to uncover parts of the truth.


    In fact, the [Enhanced Angelic irvoyance] was more reliable. It could not only explore the surface of the ground, but also go deep into every detail of the interior of the building; go deep underground, go deep into all aspects of space, ande back with the ¡°records¡± without being noticed.


    After watching five recordings straight, Zhang Zhiyin gradually understood the inside story.


    Muwo City was a very important experimental site chosen by those lurkers to create mutants.


    He also knew that those lurkers called themselves the Lab E.


    Theirboratory in the city was just below an office building with an industrial building sign on Street 24. Muwo City was only their test site. Their stronghold was somewhere else, but it shouldn¡¯t be far away.


    The cleaning operations of Station 7 and Station 3 must have interfered with their experiments, or even inadvertently discovered their secrets, leading to those murders.


    Now it seemed that if Station 7 and Station 3 didn¡¯t take the initiative to give up the task of cleaning up Muwo City, this encounter would be unavoidable. Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s goal was to preserve his side as much as possible, attack his opponents, and rewrite the plot in the game.


    At the same time, Yin Nian probably knew what Zhang Zhiyin wanted to do, but his goal was different. His short-term goal was to ¡°let Shang Si die at the right time in an appropriate way, without causing nostalgia, and disappear¡±. His ultimate goal was to ¡°strive to learn to correctly brush the good feelings of Zhiyin, promote the development of the plot so that he could dally with Zhiyin as soon as possible and adequately.¡±


    If Zhang Zhiyin, the one with the viinplex, now changed to Yin Nianplex, know this, he would surely sigh. His family Lord Boss Yin Nian was probably the first person with such an ultimate goal that was so superficial and unproductive.


    Unfortunately, Zhang Zhiyin did not know this, so in his eyes, Dr. Y was still the cold, noble, apathetic to worldly affairs, eminent, and the unapproachable big viin who somehow created the apocalypse.


    Although many acts of Yin Nian had partly refreshed his understanding of him.


    But!


    In Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s heart, his boss was lovely in any sense of the word, and this kind of Yin Nian was even more lovely and totally beyond control...


    He clearly knew he wasn¡¯t a good person from the beginning when he liked him, but after two contacts with him¡ª His family¡¯s Boss looked so pure that he didn¡¯t look like the legendary destroyer who wanted to destroy the world at all!


    At an unknown ce, Yu Huo who always did the opposite of what Doctor wanted inadvertently pped the butterfly¡¯s wings.


    The people at Lab E in Muwo City had fallen into chaos.


    ¡°I don¡¯t understand why You Huo Forces suddenlye to us for trouble!¡±


    ¡°It seems that Yu Huo has identified us as the people from Renaissance Base.¡±


    ¡°But it¡¯s hard for us to continue our experiment if they harass us so much. Now it¡¯s at its critical stage!¡±


    ¡°Then, speed up the progress.¡± The leader with the code name, Second Monarch, interrupted the public¡¯sments andints.


    ¡°But...¡±


    Suddenly that voice fell silent, and everyone under the cold eyes of the leader understood.


    There was no objection nor suggestions.


    They stillcked the experimental materials, but weren¡¯t there many people in Baiyin Station 7 and Station 3?


    Wouldn¡¯t it be a great honor for the annoying little mice that ran around every day to dedicate their lives to the establishment of their great new country?


    The Second Monarch pushed the iron mask on his face: ¡°Oumi, lure them here.¡±


    The man, known as Oumi, nodded his head and quickly sank into the darkness.


    He was a speed ability user and was generally regarded as a useless speed ability user.

 Chapter 49

    <strong>Chapter 49</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin bought ten invisibility talismans from the Item Store, and after putting them on, he was going to explore the way to the secretboratory of Muwo City, where Eb was located, in the evening.


    This was the benefit of the Item Store. Most of the stuff in the Item Store were things that this world did not have or was rare. Its application rules were beyond the scope of this world, so the utility of it was excellent, and there was no hidden danger of getting found out.


    Zhang Zhiyin went for two days in a row and used up all the invisibility talismans. He found that the undergroundboratory was very close and there weren¡¯t many people. There were only thirteen people who had been here. Generally, there were only seven or eight people who would stay here. Their overall level was much higher than that of the Baiyin Station 7 and 3. Most of them were Level 5 or 6. The leader who seemed to be in charge had reached level 7. But Station 7 and 3 had many people, totaling nearly a hundred.


    The other side¡¯s use of powers was bizarre, and they had home advantage in their ownb. Zhang Zhiyin went down quietly once, but only in front of their ck metal door, which had a very sensitive detection system that could sense body temperatures and mental fluctuations of any living people, even if there were invisibility talismans, it would still be effective.


    The Enhanced Angelic irvoyance could sense the general structure of the base and the existence of an underground space, but it could not urately explore in detail as to what was in it.


    However, the n could not keep up with the change.


    Zhang Zhiyin had not yet came up with aprehensive n to deal with them when Station 7 had already received the news; there were strange disappearances happening in Station 3.


    When the Station 3¡¯s team members were out on duty, four people in a small team suddenly disappeared, and then Station 3 sentrge forces to find the four people, not only did they not find any clues, on the contrary, there were three fewer people returning. After that, at least 10 teams were formed to act collectively in Station 3, but even so, some of those that went alone disappeared inexplicably. Other teammates saw the man following, but in the next second, the man disappeared. So far, the total number of missing ability users at Station 3 had reached 11.


    Station 3 could not sit still. They remembered the siege of high-level mutants mentioned previously in Station 7 and decided to exin the matter to Station 7 and seek assistance.


    ¡°We have preliminary judgement that the perpetrators of the disappearance are hiding in this area.¡± The people of Station 3 took out marker pens and marked a red circle on the map of Muwo City. Street 14, Street 15 and Street 16 were all enclosed in the circle. ¡°And we think they should be underground and have good psychic devices to block our psychic scan.¡±


    That was all correct. Looking at Station 3 in front of the map and analysing a little, a sense of unpleasant premonition bloomed inside Zhang Zhiyin for no reason. That was too urate. Like... they were deliberately induced to think so.


    He remembered the ck door again, and though he didn¡¯t know what it was, he thought it would be much more difficult for them to move when they go underground ¡ª the other side was their home territory and it was full of uncertainties. If possible, they should try to avoid confronting them underground.


    Standing behind the crowd, the boss under the disguise of Shang Si raised his eyebrows.


    Although Zhiyin looked very cute when he was begging him at the... but it had to be said objectively that those guys in Lab 3 were not what Zhiyin could deal with right now. Even if Zhiyin had his item store with him, his winning rate was still not high, strength was a fundamental factor... And his family¡¯s Zhiyin intelligence quotient was not high ¡ª in his eyes, his was too low, although Zhiyin was stupid, but he was also so cute that one would have the impulse to hide him in their hands and not let him out for fear of his own foolish death...


    Although he was created by human beings, it seemed to him that human beings were really weak. Even if Zhiyin became stronger one day, he would not be that much stronger. There might be a qualitative gap between 60 and 100, but they were nothing in front of hundreds of millions.


    Yin Boss had the idea of putting Zhiyin in captive, their daily life would not be his bbl, super weak little Zhiyin being like this, disobediently running out everyday, meeting some other people for no reason. Then, he would run back hugging him,ining that ¡°Wuwuwu, XXX bullied me¡±; or he would excitedly tell him ¡°Today I XXX¡±, as he was being happy over some small issues. He would be responsible forforting and encouraging Zhiyin. He would hug him and sleep with him, making Zhiyin happy every day and satisfying all his wishes.


    Of course, many of the above parts were still in the stage of imagination and brain filling inside his head.


    He would absolutely help Zhiyin. But it did not hinder him at all. By the way, he should let Shang Si take advantage of this opportunity and die normally.


    In the future, he could hold Zhiyin without any hesitation...


    Liu Zhu touched him and said, ¡°Deputy Manager, what are you thinking?¡±


    Yin Nian said solemnly, ¡°I¡¯m thinking about how to save therades of Station 3.¡±


    The General Manager gave a nce of approval.


    Liu Zhu: ¡°...¡± Like hell you are! You must be thinking of Captain Zhang. Only when you think of the Zhang Team would the normally calm and cold Shang Si had the damn appearance of a flower blossoming!


    So, face was really important. If Yin Nian used his Dr. Y¡¯s face, whatever he does, whatever he thinks, it would not seem strange. That face had its own cold, facial paralysis, noble, stranger-do-not-approach effect. Ever since many events, such as ying cards, Shang Si has been able to maintain his image without onlookers pointing at him saying that he was silly was all because of Yin Nian¡¯s natural temperament and aura.


    The other side acted faster than they thought they would. The two people from Station 3 had yet to left when new information came. The ability user from Station 3 who was on duty today found a strange entrance under the Industrial Building on Street 14. It seemed that there were still peopleing and going out frequently.


    It was certain that that was a trap.


    Not only Zhang Zhiyin, but the General Manager who also knew nothing about the situation frowned.


    ¡°Something¡¯s wrong,¡± the General Manager warned.


    Station 3 remained silent. They were watching a messageing from Station 3, which was less than three hours apart.


    The General Manager also looked over and his face gradually turned pale.


    ¡°It¡¯s no use.¡± The youths from the Station 3 muttered bitterly, ¡°They have captured our teammates and we have to save them as they want to transform them into new mutants... even if we don¡¯t care about them, unless we evacuate, we will die here once new mutants developed.¡±


    Station 3, after the discovery of the anomaly on Street 14, quickly formed a death squad to enter the scene. None of them were able to leave, but they returned the news about their missing teammates and the inhumane underground mutant experiment, which looked more as if the other party had deliberately sent them back.


    The atmosphere in the Station 7¡¯s conference room had also became somber.


    Zhang Zhiyin bowed his head. He predicted a bad ending from the game, but he knew this toote and did not know enough information. As a result, when the other side came to this point, they had no other way to solve it except to evacuate. However, there was still something dubious: although themunications system had been seriously damaged, themunication between major bases, adjacent frontier sites, various other frontier sites and alliances had been given priority and was it was basically still smooth, but in the game, the alliance seemed to have received no news until the copse of Station 7 and Station 3, right? What happened here was unknown.


    ¡°Send a message to the alliance, we¡¯re leaving.¡± After weighing things over, the General Manager decisively ordered at once. ording to the news, the new mutant was not something they could cope with, the enemy was in the dark, while they were in the light, the strength of the other side was mysterious and unknown. Even if they somehow won, they would still suffer heavy casualties. In the end, the most precious resources were those who were willing to join the alliance to work together for human revival, and could not withstand such expenditure. The best way was to evacuate temporarily to Station 5 or 6 and wait for further instructions and support from the coalition.


    Another person in charge, Deputy Manager Qin, quickly tried to contact the alliance.


    ¡°No, I can¡¯t contact you... ourmunications were cut off... There is no connection beyond a certain range, only the nearest station 3 can be contacted at present!¡±


    Newsletter, he forgot that. The inertness of living in modern society for a long time made him forget the importance and fragility ofmunication in the end of the world. Zhang Zhiyin clenched his fist hatefully.


    However, the situation was obviously different from that in the game. They had enough time to prepare for evacuation to other sites, and it was not so important whether they could contact the Alliance Headquarters in the first ce.


    Because of the interference of Yu Huo Force, the inadvertent discovery, and elimination of many E Lab¡¯s mutants by Zhang Zhiyin and Shang Si, E Lab¡¯s actions were much more impatient than it were in the game scenario, and it was no longerpletely undetectable. Naturally, it was difficult to unexpectedly wipe out the two sites as in the game.


    As long as they simply withdraw, they would not be able to exterminate each other and the missing people at Station 3 would not be able toe back, but at least it would not be the end of the whole army¡¯s annihtion.


    Station 3 sent back the news quickly, their situation was identical.


    ¡°Nevertheless, we are going to evacuate to Station 6 before we make ns!¡± The General Manager quickly ordered.


    The characteristics of the front-line stations was their high mobility they could set off in half an hour.


    Everyone at the Station 7 followed themander-in-chief¡¯s instructions for a quick evacuation, but two people from the Station 3 stopped and looked at each other, they made a noise to stop the people who were leaving the meeting room to pack up.


    ¡°Sorry, I know it¡¯s very presumptuous to say this, and I shouldn¡¯t make such a request... However, we must go back and have a look. The strength of station 3 has been perpetually damaged. Are there any friends who are willing to go back with us and help us?¡± They looked back at their station 7, their eyes full of anxiety.


    The General Manager frowned: ¡°You leaders should understand that withdrawal is the best choice at this time.¡±


    Station 3 did not speak, but instead shook their heads. They suddenly fell on their knees and choked, ¡°Please help our brothers. If they are still alive, our brothers¡¯ lives will be yours.¡±


    The situation of Station 3 was quite special. For example, Station 7 were randomlyposed of teams sent from each base, and there was no connection between them. However, two-thirds of Station 3 came from the same vige near Muwo City. The proportion of the vige¡¯s ability users was rtively high. Even in the end of the world, their ties and rtionship were still strong. After joining the alliance, the volunteered to support the alliance by helping out with the cleaning work near Muwo City.


    But as the two of them from Station 3 also knew, ten that went, * woulde back. Any normal person would probably not help them, and they wouldn¡¯tin either. They shouldn¡¯t have dragged other people into their mess, but at this point they were really desperate to think that they could have one more chance.


    There was a moment of silence in the conference room.


    A man suddenly said, ¡°I¡¯ll go with you.¡±


    It¡¯s Shang Si.


    There was a cry of ¡°Deputy Manager¡±.


    The General Manager said in a stern voice without hesitation: ¡°Shang Si, you stay, and the people under your hands still need you.¡±


    But the wayward Deputy Manager simply ignored him.


    Then everyone looked at Zhang Zhiyin.


    In their opinion, if someone could persuade Deputy Manager not to go, it must be him.


    Zhang Zhiyin was immersed in the disappointment that he clearly had the legendary golden finger but still failed to save all the people Station 3 and 7. Suddenly, he found that everyone was watching him.


    Just now... It was like Station 3 was asking for support, and then Shang Si agreed to go with them? Why did everyone look at me?


    Under the pressure of eyes, Zhang Zhiyin, who had not yet figured out the causes and consequences, quickly said, ¡°I¡¯ll go with him.¡±


    His face was calm and serious.


    He had items such as a transmitter flying g and had the greatest chance of escape. And even if he died, he would not really die. If he went as a support, Zhang Zhiyin still felt that he was the most suitable candidate.


    Everyone who expected Captain Zhang to persuade Deputy Manager Shang: ¡°...¡±


    That¡¯s not true, Captain! Life and death, this kind of thing should not be yed casually and for fun!

 Chapter 50

    <strong>Chapter 50</strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin and Shang Si got in the car and went with the brothers of Station 3 to the Industrial Building on Street 14. Station 3 still had a team of eight people guarding it while the rest should have evacuated like Station 7.


    Hearing that Shang Si and Zhang Zhiyin would being to help them, they all showed expressions of gratitude.


    The ck metal door to the undergroundboratory was wide open. It was quiet, just as if there wasn¡¯t anyone in there, but the detectors that were still functioning responsibly and diligently at the door clearly told the visitors that all this was not that simple¡ª not to mention that more than an hour ago, they had sent a death squad in but they had note out ever since they transmitted the information.


    Shang Si and Zhang Zhiyin were arranged to be the rear.


    Shang Si walked a little slower behind Zhang Zhiyin and took his hand.


    ¡°Follow me, don¡¯t get lost.¡± He said softly.


    Under any special circumstances, Zhang Zhiyin knew that Shang Si might not be normal. Although he felt a bit awkward, he did not break free from the hand that was holding onto his hand.


    When the brothers from Station 3 who asked for help looked back, they immediately understood why Station 7 all looked towards Captain Zhang when Deputy Manager Shang proposed to go with them¡ª so, it turned out that they were a couple.


    The tall man walked behind with his body slightly askewed. He held the person infront very gently and carefully, with a very distinct attitude to protect the person wholeheartedly.


    Seeing how affectionate they were, the brothers of Station 3 were even more apologetic about pulling them into this mess. They thought inwardly that if they were able to walk out of here alive, they would let themselves be ordered around by them.


    Along the way, they found that there were many partitions that were filled with unused medicines and equipment. However, they did not encounter anyone, nor did they run across any barriers.


    It seemed that the other side had opened up their vacant city just to invite them to get a taste of their own medicine.


    Everyone grew nervous, and the only guy who could not be called a human was obviously feeling the opposite.


    Yin Nian who was disguised as Shang Si was holding his family¡¯s Zhiyin¡¯s hand. It was rare that Zhiyin didn¡¯t reject him in this aspect. He couldn¡¯t help being capricious and indulged in his fantasy. He hoped that the road would be longer and no one woulde out to disturb them. He didn¡¯t care where he was or what he was doing. For him, the life and death of these people had nothing to do with him.


    Thest time he walked hand in hand with Zhiyin was during his simted illusion.


    He didn¡¯t know how long he had to wait for the next opportunity.


    It¡¯s a pity that somebody would always jump out and disturb Boss¡¯s dating mood.


    The leader of Station 3 suddenly shouted, ¡°Not good, something amiss is here...¡±


    In fact, the whole underground had never felt right. Since they came down, they had been in the other party¡¯s control, it was just a matter of waiting for the other party toy their hands down.


    The open roads on both sides were quickly blocked by the sudden drop of iron doors. They were shut up in a square room and pale pink gas gradually filled the whole space¡ª The room was closed, and there was no other way to avoid inhtion of the gas except by not breathing.


    Zhang Zhiyin quickly dug out two Jade Sea Shengjin Pills from his storage space. He swallowed one by himself, and stuffed one to Shang Si who was sticking close to him¡ª This medicine was made by himself when he was bored in order to improve his level of medicine refinery. It was unexpected that this woulde into use at this critical moment. As he did not have enough relevant materials, so he only made two. In the game, being submerged in water for a long time would reduce the yer¡¯s HP, so when doing underwater tasks, yer would have to consume the Jade Sea Shengjin Pill in advance, so they would not have to rely on external air and could allow the yers to hold their air for a long time.


    Zhang Zhiyin opened the Item Store and tried to buy eight more pills from the Trading House for the people of Station 3 to consume. However, he was once again greeted by the familiar ¡°found¡±.


    123 Love Stories, can we still be good friends? What about the true love you talked about?


    When he saw the familiarbination of numbers and letters, Zhang Zhiyin felt that his personality was getting messed up.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    At the moment of sudden change, Zhang Zhiyin quickly broke away from Shang Si¡¯s hands.


    This made Boss Yin feel extremely unhappy for a moment. The next second, however, that hand pushed something into his mouth.


    Yin Nian: ¡°...¡±


    He seemed to have kissed Zhiyin¡¯s hand! Not only did he kiss it, he even licked it...


    Yin Nian felt himself getting chaotic.


    The people of Station 3 over there was gradually unable to hold on, they leaned against the wall and fell into a semi-conscious state.


    He didn¡¯t know what could the pink gas do. Zhang Zhiyin took out his own Mind Clearing Pill and Antidote, and stuffed the two pills into everyone¡¯s mouth¡ª This kind of pills were moremonly used, and the materials were alsomonly seen. Zhang Zhiyin saved a lot of them when he was at the Valley of the Extinct Dragon. He didn¡¯t know if the pills would be able to help them, but in any case, it was better than nothing.


    Yin Nian just got rid of the beautiful pink bubbles in his head and sobered up a little. When he saw the scene before him, his dark eyes darkened for no reason. Zhiyin fed everyone medicine; he fed two pills, one more than what he had gotten.


    He really wanted them to spit those pills out.


    Zhang Zhiyin was ignorant of the few remaining great thoughts of hispanion next to him as he began to search for the hidden switch with him. However, it was clear that the mechanism of the door was not in this room.


    Yin Nian thought about it and gathered his thunder power on his palm before cing his hand on the iron door on one side. After all, he still remembered that his identity was Shang Si now; he must stand on hisst guard and let Shang Si die. He could not let Zhiyin be suspicious of anything, so he couldn¡¯t use any method that exceeded the scope of Shang Si¡¯s ability.


    The iron door gradually melted, and a hole that was suitable for one person to enter and exit appeared silently.


    Shang Si took the lead in going out first. He looked vigntly around before helping Zhang Zhiyin out.


    However, only half of Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s body was stretched out when a concentrated amount of bullets immediately shot towards their direction.


    Shang Si set up a thunder shield to block the attack, and then he pulled Zhang Zhiyin to run in another direction.


    Three ability users were chasing behind them¡ª They were very frivolous in their chasing and did not use all their strength in this pursuit. Instead, they acted like a cat chasing after the mice, with a bearing like they were in control of the situation.


    Zhang Zhiyin and Shang Si held each other and speedily went into theplex underground¡¯s corridor.


    Yin Nian liked this feeling. He knew that human beings had a word to describe the scene at this time, which was called ¡°suffering together¡±.


    He could hear Zhiyin¡¯s heart beating from running rapidly and from being under extreme pressure. He could feel the sweat slightly trickling from his hand that he was holding onto, and he could feel a connection of wholehearted trust and reliance between the other party and himself... This feeling was wonderful and very soothing. For a moment, it made him feel like a person, like an ordinary human.


    The wind de swept past their backs and flew over. Shang Si took Zhang Zhiyin and hid in a room.


    Instead of continuing to pursue them, the other party quickly lowered the door outside the room.


    This door was four times thicker than the one Shang Si had melted down previously, so it was unlikely that this trap would be the same as the first.


    They soon understood why the other party no longer chased them further and why the door was so thick.


    This room was full of advanced level mutants.


    Those guys were bound up in cream coloured sealed ss container and were in a state of slumber. They were all above Level 5 and it was not hard to imagine how difficult of an opponent they would be if they woke up. Looking at the whole room, there were no less than 30 of them, and at least 6 to 7 of them had reached Level 7.


    The most frightening thing was that there was a mutant faintly emitted a pressure that indicated that they were above Level 7¡ª It might have reached Level 8, a level that had not been broken through by the whole of Cloud Sky Alliance.


    This situation was much harder to deal with the previous predicament he and Shang Si had encountered.


    He didn¡¯t know if the method used to Shang Si dealt with themst time would work this time.


    The room seemed to have been given some sort of instructions and came to life in an instant. The ss covers were all raised, and theatose monsters who had been trapped in them stood up, wriggling their limbs as they made contact with the air.


    Zhang Zhiyin was discussing with Shang Si about the countermeasures of this situation, but he found that he could not make a sound nor could he move¡ª his body was covered with a bright silver bell-shaped cloak, with faint electric currents swimming around it.


    This was the thunder bell of the thunder elemental ability, a kind of protection skill possessed by thunder ability users. The person covered by the thunder bell would not able to talk or move. In contrast, as long as the person that cast the spell remained alive, any external attack would not be able to hurt the person protected by the bell. There were only three ways to break the thunder bell. The first method was the removal of the skill from the caster themselves. The second method was that it could be broken by force, provided that the ability of the protected person was stronger than that of the caster. However, this would cause the castor to receive serious damage. The third option would be the death of the caster, which would trigger the automatic release of the protection bell.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the tall figure of the man outside in a daze, and a bad feeling was brewing in his heart¡ª and what was this supposed to be?! Him standing outside and facing so many high level mutants while protecting himself; what was this supposed to be!


    He tried his best to shoot warning nces at Shang Si, but Shang Si¡¯s back was facing him and he didn¡¯t turn back to look at him at all.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s anger, anxiety, and worry mingled together in a ball, but there was nothing he could do. He could only watch Shang Si like how he had quietly seen him with the Angelic irvoyance. Shang Si¡¯s body gradually suspended in the air and his eyes were closed as his turned over his hands that held that silver, purple, and tinum sparks. It was so beautiful that he dared not look directly at them.


    The mutants that had fully awaken from their sleep had seized the ground, however, they dared not approach Shang Si.


    This time, Shang Si took more time to gather his ability. It took around 7 minutes for him before he suddenly opened his eyes and poured down the thunder power umted in his hands. The running electric dragon rushed through the room, the mutants roared painfully, and white light burst in front of Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s eyes. He hurriedly closed his eyes but there was still a bright white halo in front of him.


    He couldn¡¯t see anything. He could only hear a huge explosion lingering incessantly in his ears as if heaven and earth had split apart.


    It seemed like a long time had passed, but it also felt like only a few minutes had gone by, before everything around him gradually became calm.


    Zhang Zhiyin opened his eyes and saw a lot of devastation. On each of the four thick iron doors appeared a big hole enough for a person to enter and exit. The originally spacious and empty room with the orderly and spread out containers that held the mutants had became charred debris. It was not clear whether they belonged to the mutants or the ss container.


    He was able to speak again. The thunder bell was no longer there, but the owner who had casted the thunder bell on him copsed weakly on the ground beside him. His eyes slowly closed.


    Zhang Zhiyin ran over and squatted beside him. His voice was shaking as he shouted, ¡°Bastard...¡±


    To let him watch this helplessly...


    He still had a lot of of space teleportation talisman in his hands. They needn¡¯t have been so miserable.


    Tiny beads of blood constantly seeped out from the person, they gradually joined together, forming a pool of blood and it frightened Zhang Zhiyin until he was unable to say anything. He reached his hands into the space bag and took out a medicine¡ª He still had a miracle medicine obtained from the Item Store at the price of 100 yuan. It was said to be able to revive even the rotting corpse, and in the game, it allowed yers to be immediately revived with full HP without any negative side effects arising. In this world, it might really have a miraculous effect.


    Facing Shang Si, he no longer cared whether his secret would be exposed or not.


    Although it was not easily and somewhat far-fetched, Yin Nian still managed to get to this point smoothly. Seeing how he was about to achieve his goal, of course, he would not have him save himself. He decided that he needed to die as soon as possible without leaving even any dregs behind.


    But he had one more thing to say.


    Zhang Zhiyin saw the person in front of him showed a weak and helpless smile before asking lightly, ¡°Zhiyin, if the person you like is actually like me and not what you think he is, will you still continue to like him?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin did not know what to say at this time. He chose to tell the truth.


    ¡°Yes. Whatever he is like, I will still like him. He has infiltrated my heart and cannot be pulled out.¡± If he had to be pulled out one day, he would hurt.


    Yin Nian showed a relieved smile. Shang Si¡¯s body seemed to be overloaded and he suddenly turned into fine powder, loudly scattering away.


    ¡°Shang Si... Hey! Shang Si!¡±


    Zhang Zhiyiny on the ground where Shang Si still existed in the previous second. His hand was still holding onto the miracle pill.


    But the space beneath his body was empty. Other than the white powder that was smaller than dust, there was nothing left.


    ¡°Shang Si...¡±


    It was strange that so much noise was made here but there was no movement outside.


    It was only until when Zhang Zhiyin, who still immersed in grief and shock, heard a cold and low voice from outside.


    ¡°Destroy everything here.¡±


    That¡¯s the voice he would never forget!


    Zhang Zhiyin turned back and nced through the hole in the door. He saw the handsome and indifferent final boss standing outside in a white research gown. He was tall and slender, carrying an aura of disdain.


    It was Yin Nian.

 Chapter 51

    <strong>Chapter 51


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    Yin Nian was followed by Yu Huo and some other people that looked a little familiar to him. Zhang Zhiyin thought carefully and found that he had seen them in the game. They were all the small bosses in You Huo Bases. At this time, they followed behind Y trembling in a panicked manner. They dared not even raise their heads nor even take a look at the man in the clean white research clothes in front of them.


    Zhang Zhiyin held his breath.


    Although he was infatuated with Yin Nian until he was obsessed with him, he still held some rationality. He did not think Dr. Y and the people of the You Huo Base would be easy to deal with, or that they would mercifully let him go. He wasn¡¯t also hoping that Yin Nian would look at their few days of friendship in Hope Base and spare him.


    These people were the ultimate viins the world had always recognized.


    He was still aware what viins would do when they were in action.


    A bitter smile covered Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s lips. He looked at the ce where Shang Si once existed, and quietly move to a corner when those people outside weren¡¯t paying attention. He dared not look out.


    For the sake of those many given choctes, he prayed that Lord Boss would protect him from being discovered and that they wouldn¡¯t have a sudden impulse to check this ruined room. He would offer more choctes when he was back.


    Zhang Zhiyin heard someone reporting that the person in charge of thisb and another ability user had escaped. Yu Huo immediately asked Boss for instructions.


    Yin Nian replied coldly: ¡°Let them go, there¡¯s no need to bother.¡±


    He could hear the slight sound of leather shoes stepping on the ground, and subconsciously, he knew that that was the footsteps of Yin Nian.


    Calm,posed, everything was within his grasp.


    It seemed that the mantis caught the cicada while the yellow sparrow was behind it. The people in Laboratory E intended to attract Station 3 and 7 and make them as their test experiments, but they did not know when they provoked Dr. Y, causing You Huo Base topletely eliminate them. Now it looked as if the ability users who were stationed in Lab E were either dead or had escaped, but Yin Nian still wanted his people to destroy theb.


    But that was good, at least he wouldn¡¯t have to face Lab E¡¯s ability users anymore and as long as he was not discovered by the people from You Huo Base.


    The people in You Huo Base were very efficient. They listened to the sound of abilities manifesting and of weapons ringing before Yu Huo lowered his voice and spoke to Yin Nian. Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t hear the conversation.


    Then there was the familiar voice of Boss: ¡°Okay, don¡¯t bother, let¡¯s go.¡±


    As the footsteps of a group of people faded away, Zhang Zhiyin waited another twenty minutes before he was brave enough to move.


    He emptied a small medicine bottle filled with that could recover the HP in the space bag before moving to the ce where Shang Si had disappeared. He gathered up the dust on the ground bit by bit into the bottle and ced it close to him.


    Then he went out through broken iron door vigntly.


    Sure enough, everything outside of theboratory had been destroyed, and its original appearance could not be recognized anymore. The destroyed instruments had toppled and scattered on the ground, leaving people with nowhere to step on.


    Zhang Zhiyin walked over carefully and suddenly sawpletely undamaged shelf at a conspicuous location at a conspicuous location. There was a pistol in it while its surrounding was empty.


    The pistol was a subdued silver color with smooth lines and no embellishments, but it was exquisite and perfect as a work of art. Under the white light of the undergroundboratory, it emitted a cold light.


    Zhang Zhiyin was fascinated by it and took it down for a closer examination.


    This was an ice elemental weapon and the level of it wasn¡¯t clear, but the size of it fitted his hands as if it were tailor-made for him.


    As an ice and precision dual ability user, an ice elemental pistol was actually the most suitable weapon for him. But the thing itself was very popr in the game and pistols with better attributes in the Trading House cost more than 500 yuan. Zhang Zhiyin weighed the quality-price ratio and couldn¡¯t bear to get one for himself.


    After You Huo Base had swept and destroyed the ce, Zhang Zhiyin felt that he was really lucky to be able to obtain this. However, he did not want to give it up due to his unexpected luck and the intrinsic possessive nature of human beings.


    With the pistol in hand, Zhang Zhiyin speeded up to the house where he and Shang Si had escaped before¡ª wondering whether the people from Station 3 had survived.


    The Mind Clearing Pills and Antidotes should have yed a certain role in helping them recover. The pink gas in that room had all dispersed. When Zhang Zhiyin arrived, the people were gradually regaining back their consciousness.


    Afterward, they searched the entireboratory, all the data, and instruments rted to the mutants experiment had been destroyed, which seemed to be the work of the people from You Huo Base, thus, leaving them with no valuable information. In another simr chamber, they found members of the death squad in aa, but the first 11 people who disappeared were never found, they most likely had been killed.


    When they left theb and walked to the surface, everyone looked a little solemn. The elder brother of the two brothers who brought Zhang Zhiyin and Shang Si there hesitantly asked, ¡°Captain Zhang, Shang Si, he...¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin pointed to his chest and said, ¡°Here he is.¡±


    The pocket there held the bottle that contained the powder Shang Si had turned into.


    Both of them were stunned and did not speak. After a long time, the elder brother said, ¡°My name is Qixing and my brother is Qilong. In the future, if Captain Zhang need anything, we will be ready to risk our lives to help you.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded and sat in a car by himself. He contacted Station 7 and through themunicator to meet up with them.


    The small porcin bottle in front of his chest was gradually getting warm from his body temperature. Zhang Zhiyin dropped his eyes, put down the steering wheel with his left hand, and gently touched the bottle through his clothes.


    He was still not strong enough.


    He thought that with an Item Store to help him, there would be no danger in this world; he thought that the world was just a dream for him, and the greatest advantage was that it could help him reach his long-cherished wish of getting closer to Yin Nian.


    But here, he had people he cared about, the people he hated and the goals he wanted to achieve. Dadao, Xiao Jin, Old Zhu, You Kun, Li Shuifeng... Also, Shang Si...


    He wanted to cry but he couldn¡¯t. He was willing to spare no effort to let that persone back alive. Unfortunately, this world was the same as that one. The dead could not be revived, with the exception of himself.


    He would carry their lives, hopes, and live on forever.


    After returning to the new stationing point of Station 7, Zhang Zhiyin only said a few words before he fell asleep due to exhaustion.


    Zhang Zhiyin opened <Tomorrow>¡¯s official website. He paused for a while before entering the word ¡°Shang Si¡± in the search bar.


    No relevant results were found.


    Zhang Zhiyin also tried to search for Li Shuifeng. As a result, two pages of relevant information, task information, and even activity information appeared.


    What he wanted to see could not be seen, Zhang Zhiyin silently closed the web page and logged in to the game.


    In the end, he decided not to give up. He reopened the official website, picked up the mobile phone on the desk, dialed the manual service to the customer service on the official website.


    ¡°Hello, is there an NPC called ¡°Shang Si¡± in the game? May I ask if it is possible to design a plot to revive him?¡±


    While saying these unrealistic words, Zhang Zhiyin thought in his heart that he would probably be regarded as a crazy person.


    The customer servicedy did not show any emotion, and she continued to politely answer in a sweet voice: ¡°Hello, sir, I checked for you, there is no such NPC in the game. Thank you for your support and I wish you a smooth gamey.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin then hung up the call.


    The game had begun smoothly. As usual, Y stood silently in front of him with his usual cold face.


    Zhang Zhiyin bought three choctes and put them on the floor. He stepped forward and typed, ¡°Y, thank you for helping to clean up Lab E and not exposing my location.¡±


    ¡°But one of my friends died... You are so good, if you can, help me bless him...¡±


    Later, Zhang Zhiyin contacted Fenghuo Gucheng.


    Before returning to the real world, he had put the ice elemental pistol he had just obtained into his shop in the Item Store, and now he could get it in the game. Sure enough, in the game, the pistol¡¯s attributes showed an [undetermined state] and were grayed out.


    The ordinary appraiser in the Item Store couldn¡¯t identify this pistol. It was obvious that its grade was different.


    Some yers had item appraisal as their life skills. High-level appraisers could not only help others to identify high-level items, but it also circted in forums and other ces that the attributes of equipped weapons or devices identified by high-leveled appraisers with good personality would have better quality.


    People were more or less superstitious, and Zhang Zhiyin was no exception to this. He contacted Fenghuo Gucheng, hoping that he would be able to help him find a high-level appraiser with a good personality.


    Fenghuo Gucheng agreed immediately.


    Fenghuo Gucheng was considered a part-time game yer. He spent at least 10 hours a day in games and had a wide range of friends. He really found Zhang Zhiyin an appraiser that was famous from all over the region.


    Zhang Zhiyin chose ¡°show this item¡± to the appraiser.


    After half a minute, the attributes of the pistol became [identified], and arge number of colorful attributes were introduced below.


    Looking at the number of entries, he knew he must have found a treasure this time!


    Zhang Zhiyin was very happy and didn¡¯t look at it carefully. He asked, ¡°How much is the appraisal fee?¡±


    The appraiser insisted that they were all friends of Fenghuo Gucheng. He was just doing a small favor. He wasn¡¯t going to charge any fee.


    The appraiser could also see the attributes of the objects identified by himself. He just identified a bunch of attributes and knew it was another divine artifact. He then began to persuade Zhang Zhiyin not to pay any money and to consider this favour as a result of their brotherhood. After Zhang Zhiyin left, he began to look at the newly-identified pistol carefully¡ª


    What the hell?! This was a bug! As a well-known appraiser, he had seen a lot of superb artifacts, but he had never seen such a weapon that defied the natural order!


    If you sell this on the Trading House, somebody would probably buy it at 100,000 yuan?


    The most important thing was that this weapon was still forged because yers would be able to choose to engrave a sentence on it when they made high-level items in the game, which would be disyed in the property bar, and this sentence was engraved on the handle of the pistol¡ª


    ¡°With my sincere love


    <sup>1</sup>, Y¡±


    However, this powerful weapon forger was most likely a girl. He had never heard of her before...

 Chapter 52

    <strong>Chapter 52


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Meng Kali approached boss cautiously, wondering what had happened to the doctor again, as the dark air around him was dense enough to be substantiated.


    He was about to exit quietly when Boss said:


    ¡°He asked me to bless a man who was not me.¡±


    Meng Kali actually understood. For so long, he and Lei Dun knew that Doctor had a lover, and Doctor loved him very much, but the doctor insisted that he would not kidnap the person directly into the base.


    Hearing this, he couldn¡¯t help but mourn for the doctor¡¯s lover. Did he not know who the doctor was? Saying these kind of words was just seeking death.


    But what was there to worry about? Why not create an opportunity for that man to die identally?


    Meng Kali was sent to the You Huo Base by Y for a month previously. At this time, his actions and line of thoughts were all leaning towards that side.


    Then he listened to his slightly gloomy boss used his usual cold, elegant, and indifferent voice: ¡°That man is also me.¡±


    This was annoying. Meng Kali felt that he even heard a sighing from the doctor¡¯s heart.


    ¡°I don¡¯t think it¡¯s right for you to meet him with any identity at the moment.¡± Meng Kali suggested sincerely.


    Stalking would be better for you. Really.


    ¡°Go out, Meng Kali, find Yu Huo, and don¡¯te back until I told you to.¡±


    Then, Meng Kali who floated around every day with this height of 1.5 meters tall and wearing a robe of 1.7 meters long, heard his boss said icily.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    The appraiser sent a message to Fenghuo Gucheng, ¡°Fenghuo, do you know the person who forged the weapon for ¡°Zhiyin¡±? I happen to want a weapon, I can provide the materials.¡±


    Fenghuo Gucheng touched his chin and sure enough, he realized that something was going on. When he was on the Qixi Festival mission, he saw Zhiyin that boy taking a big bouquet of roses to give it away to someone, and now it seemed that something was really going on.


    He said, ¡°Okay, I¡¯ll ask you when he gets online next time.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was already offline and had returned to the world of <Tomorrow>.


    The most important attribute of a weapon was its attack power. Not only did the pistol had a long-range and strong attack power, but it also added 70% possibility of a critical strike if a precision ability user uses it. There were many additional effects such as continuous bleeding,a, freezing, and so on. After identification, a line of small seals would appear at the bottom of the gun¡ª


    ¡°With my sincere love, Y¡±


    If Zhang Zhiyin had ever noticed the inside of his ring, which he thought was part of the Redemption Suit, he would have found that the two lines were identical, but just of different sizes.


    When Y was mentioned, the first thing he thought of was the person he liked, especially when Yin Nian had appeared on the site before. But in any case, the word ¡°love¡± seemed to be uncharacteristic with Dr. Y¡¯s cold-hearted nature. What¡¯s more, even if Y really had this so-called lover, he would never throw the weapons he wanted to give his lover and had himself pick it up.


    It was probably a weapon made by someone with the letter Y in their name. He just didn¡¯t know where the original owner was at, in fact, the original owner might even have been murdered under the poisonous hands of Laboratory E.


    He actually felt embarrassed when he picked this item up.


    The General Manager had already known about Shang Si. Everyone looked at him and dared not ask what happened nor do they dare to mention his name.


    Station 3 returned to the alliance and sent a detailed exnatory report on the incident. Laboratory E, which was supposed to show themselves 2 yearster, revealed their tracks at this time. But then they disappeared without a trace again, and the alliance could not find any more information about them.


    Zhang Zhiyin was promoted to Deputy Manager for his meritorious service in this incident, recing the position of Shang Si.


    The General Manager conveyed his intentions to Zhang Zhiyin and tried to test his reaction.


    Zhang Zhiyin only responded very inly: ¡°Rest assured, I will do my best.¡±


    Along with Shang Si¡¯s parts too.


    Dadao seeded Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s position as the Captain of the Team 2.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    More than half a year had passed in the world of <Tomorrow> and Zhang Zhiyin had went back and forth ten times between the real world and <Tomorrow>.


    On the dpidated streets, a young man held the pistol with one hand. He calmly and skillfully faced the pursuing zombie and exploded its head with a headshot.


    The killed zombie was frozen instantly and melted into a pool of water. It soon evaporated under the hot sun.


    Today, all the zombie in the central business district of R City had been eradicated, which meant that their work was about to bepleted, and soon they would be able to relocate their frontline.


    In the past 6 months, they helped the three small bases, Huamu, Xinji, and Yongan under the alliance¡¯s banner and evacuated with almost zero casualties in this critical situation. They cleaned up two zombie cities, Jinshan and Lianji, with brilliant results and prestige.


    Zhang Zhiyin took the lead in the battle numerous times, fighting with his life on the line like he was undaunted by perils. He led the team out of danger many times and helped them fight for survival. He was very famous in the front line.


    Only the people of Station 7 vaguely guessed that the motivating force behind Deputy Manager Zhang¡¯s actions was probably due to Deputy Manager Shang. He took over his position and task, so he had to do it better for his sake.


    After a long time of practice, Zhang Zhiyin had be a true Level 6 ability user.


    Back at the base, the General Manager called Zhang Zhiyin to his office and showed him the new electronicmand message sent to him.


    ¡°The alliance wants to transfer you back and take charge of the Thunder Unit. You can pick up some trusted aides and take them with you. Liu Zhu will take over your work.¡±


    ¡°If there¡¯s no problem, you will go this week.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded.


    The General Manager patted him on the shoulder and whispered, ¡°Go back and be careful. It would be different from the front line.¡±


    As for this transfer, Station 7 had heard rumors of this a month ago, so they weren¡¯t unprepared. The conditions and facilities of the alliance¡¯s headquarters were much better than those of the front line. As one of the 12bat units of the alliance, the position of the Captain of Thunder Unit was much higher than that of the person in charge of the front line. Therefore, after the order was officially issued, the people on the front line were congratting him.


    The General Manager asked him to leave with several trusted aides. Zhang Zhiyin chose five people, Dadao, Xiao Jin, Ah Kong, Old Zhu, and Ah Mu. Li Zhun volunteered to stay in the front line, mainly because he had an indestructible revolutionary friendship with a girl from another team.


    The modified high-performance off-road vehicles drove on the original broad road, along which abandoned vehicles could be seen everywhere, as well as low-level zombies wandering around the cars like spirits with no where else to go. All these testified the existence of the end of the world.


    Yin Xiaoxiang sat on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s knees and ¡°Auwo, auwo¡±d restlessly.


    Old Zhu was in charge of driving the vehicle. He sat on the copilot with Dadao. He looked back at Yin Xiaoxiang andughed, ¡°Captain, your cat is raised very well, but we have known each other for two years and this little fellow doesn¡¯t seem to have grown.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyinughed and poked Yin Xiaoxiang¡¯s head: ¡°No conscience.¡±


    Yin Xiaoxiang crooked its neck, ¡°Au?¡±


    Ah Kong leaned over the back and said, ¡°Captain... the way you coax your cat make me feel like you are its mother.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    Xiao Jin: ¡°Shouldn¡¯t it be Dad?¡±


    Ah kong: ¡°Oh, doesn¡¯t mother look after their children in the animal world? I don¡¯t quite understand.¡±


    The two siblings began to discuss about the animal world again.


    After spending a long time together, these people had long found that their Captain was a calm and cool person on the outside, but inwardly, he was a kind-hearted person with some innate heroism unsuitable in the apocalypse.


    But a Captain such as this was also charming. At least you would never have to worry that he would stab you in the back or abandon you in critical moments. You just had to worry about him being plotted by someone else.


    Indeed, since he came to this world, Lihua Shopping Mall, Base No. 1, Valley Of the Extinct Dragon, Yulin Base, Hope Base and Baiyin Station 7, and as of now, he had finally reached the establishment of Cloud Sky Alliance. He had been here for more than two years and had known Dadao and the rest for nearly two years. In reality, only two months had passed after his car ident and everything remained the same as before and nothing had changed, but in the world of <Tomorrow>, everything had turned upside down.


    The issue of transferring him back wasn¡¯t this simple. Shallowly speaking, it was because of his good performance, good reputation, and excellent ability in the front line; but the current headquarters of the alliance was equivalent to the main power of humanity¡¯s living forces, in which the interests of all parties were entangled. The leader of the Thunder Unit, which was one of the leaders of the 12 core battle team, was not in any way a mere frontline Deputy Manager without any background could take on.


    However, nowadays You Huo Base was pressing in close, the Thunder Unit was a team responsible for directly confronting You Huo Base. Thest captain died unfortunately during a sh between the two sides. It could be said that at present the position of the Thunder Unit¡¯s captain was absolutely an arduous and unrewarding role. The worst-case could be getting seriously injured or killed, and at a lighter level, getting reprimanded and disgraced by the alliance for being inadequate in the face of enemies. His original contributions would be exhausted, creating the impression of ipetence and weakness for everyone to see. Nobody was willing to trouble themselves over this at the moment, and the top management of the alliance headquarters was nning to wait for a scapegoat to survive the most difficult of times before making any more decisions.


    Zhang Zhiyin was dispatched to the front line battle against You Huo Base immediately after he went through the relevant procedures at the alliance headquarters. All of Thunder Unit¡¯s members were still there on standby.


    It was half a day¡¯s drive from the alliance¡¯s headquarters, and a Deputy Manager, who imed to be called Chen Guang, was waiting to pick them up with 2 ability users.


    His eyes shed a trace of a surprise when he saw Zhang Zhiyin, and then he greeted him and others as usual.


    Zhang Zhiyin realized this and asked him, ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡±


    Chen Guang smiled: ¡°I just didn¡¯t expect you were so young, indeed, a hero born out of youth. To be honest, we often heard about you.¡±


    ¡°How could it be?¡± Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t care, these were just polite words.


    But soon he understood what was going on.


    There were several familiar faces in the Thunder Unit. They were the ability users from Yongan Base whom they had helped evacuate in the first few months in Station 7. After losing their base, with nowhere to go, they were epted by the superbase in the alliance. The people in Huamu Base were merged into the Renaissance Base, while Xinji and Yongan had directly merged into the Cloud Sky Alliance headquarters expanded by the former Yuntian Base.


    ¡°Brother Zhiyin, Brother Xiao Jin and Sister Ah Kong.¡± A five or six-year-old girl greeted them fearlessly, followed by her mother and father behind her.


    Zhang Zhiyin remembered the girl¡¯s name was Xiao Li. Her parents used to be famous candy masters. They ran a handmade chocte candy workshop. Later, after the end of the world, his father, Tang Li, awakened wood elemental ability. Before that, he was an ability user of Xinji Base, while Xiao Li and his mother were ordinary people.


    In Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s memory, Tang Li and several other ability users were the pirs of his small base, but they were far from meeting the criteria for joining the Thunder Unit, so as what he had learned in the game plot.


    After the end of the world, it was no longer a time where having arge number of people would do. High-level masters were then the greatest power barrier. In the game, the reason why the Cloud Sky Alliance¡¯s 12bat units could be a top-ranking team at the end of the world was because of their elite strength. The number of members in eachbat unit would not exceed twenty. Each member had to pass through multiple selections, and every one of them could survive on their own.


    But now there was nearly 50 ability user in the Thunder Unit and the quality was uneven.


    Obviously, because of the high casualty rate of this task, the alliance had incorporated all the newly joined ability user into the Thunder Unit without making any selection.


    It was to use the people as cannon fodder.


    Zhang Zhiyin frowned and made a quick decision in his heart.


    As soon as Zhang Zhiyin stepped on the temporary base of the Thunder Unit, his opponent, the head of the You Huo Base, Yu Huo, where countless alliance¡¯s fighters gnash their teeth at this demon, also received a piece of news that made him tremble¡ª


    Lei Dun said the big boss was going to visit his base.


    Fortunately, the timing had yet to be decided.


    Yu Huo wiped his sweat like he was being sentenced to death.

 Chapter 53

    <strong>Chapter 53</strong>


    In the game¡¯s plot, the Thunder Unit, which was always in the forefront in the struggle against the viinous forces, had always been hailed as one of the most dauntless weapons at the end of the world.


    But this plot would only happen at least a yearter. A group of the strongest warriors would have to be selected in this cruel confrontation, and in the midst, the number of people losing their lives and getting seriously injured would only increase.


    However, Zhang Zhiyin did not want to see this happening. He didn¡¯t want to send them to their deaths with his own hands.


    Chen Guang was a man with rare talent. Not only was he a strong Level 5 wind elemental ability user who was close to reaching Level 6, but he also graduated from military school and received formalbat training. Zhang Zhiyin asked him to work with other ability users in order to develop a training n that allowed the team members to run, exercise, learn, and practice effective * fighting skills every day, and held regr meetings every week in order to allow the team members to exchange tips and techniques.


    In the beginning, the apocalypse was heralded by the chaos that swept through everything, even more so, ordinary people were forced to transform themselves just like ability users who could single-handedly kill the zombies. Many of their attacks were derived from their instinct. In the early stage of the apocalypse, all humans gathered together with themon purpose to defend themselves. In this precarious time, many of the fighters figured out their most suitable fighting methods against the zombies while working with one another. This was a biological instinct. It was rare for people to choose to go to the front lines in order to train together with other ability users there, on the contrary, most of ability users learned tips and tricks from each other privately.


    However, a constant, scientific, and unified training could enhancebat effectiveness of a team in the face of a crisis. At least that was what Zhang Zhiyin thought. He hoped to train the Thunder Unit into the invincible team he saw in the game¡¯s plot while also minimizing the casualties in the process.


    He liked Y, but that didn¡¯t mean that he agreed with everything Y chose to do. It was just that he wasn¡¯t living in the game the previous years, so he didn¡¯t take the story¡¯s settings too seriously. Instead, like a person suffering from a middle school grade two disease, he thought that kind of character¡¯s setting was very attractive. If he were to actually live in this world, he would want to do things that oppose Y¡¯s decisions, even though he really liked him.


    That would be the greatest desire of the captain with the eagle ne, Shang Si, and Old Zhu¡ª to let the apocalypse end as soon as possible, so that human beings could live a peaceful and stable life again.


    Zhang Zhiyin announced that the existing Thunder Unit would be divided into two groups, the battle group, and the defense group. He chose twenty of the youngest, strongest, most promising, and outstanding people for the battle group, who would be responsible in handling the frontlines; this was what he envisioned to be the main force of the Thunder Unit; the rest would be put in the defense group, who would be responsible to support rted jobs, where Old Zhu and other older members would be in charge of.


    Implementing changes in any environment would undoubtedly be met with opposition. Zhang Zhiyin was not a stubborn person and was willing to consider the opinions of others. But when he decided to take a certain measure, he must ensure its implementation¡ª and in the current environment, making use of the leader¡¯s authority was a simple and effective way to ensure that the Thunder Unit would be unified.


    After all, the end of the world was still a ce where strength was valued the most.


    Although officially, Zhang Zhiyin was still a Level 6 ability user, he was also equipped with his divine-grade armor and his ice elemental pistol. Zhang Zhiyin, who had both an ice ability and a precision ability, was not merely considered to be in the rank of Level 6.


    On the third day after he arrived here, he led the team up to a nearby mountain to kill some zombies. He observed the level of his team while also taking part in the fight.


    That area was carefully selected by him. In the game, there was a Level 6 fire ability zombie boss who also had a secondary ability. He stuck an invisibility talisman on himself and went to the spot on the previous night, and sure enough, he saw the boss. In the game, this was a wild map boss that an advanced yer could handle by themselves. With his current level and equipment, this was not a problem for him at all.


    So when the team came there during the day and heid down his gun, fought with the boss and defeated it, his team members were in awe at this spectacle. They could not help but feel a little ashamed ¡ª that was the opponent he deliberately chose to disy his battle prowess.


    Growing up in a peaceful environment, as a gamer who almost couldn¡¯tplete his military training and also being a weak office worker, the best training Zhang Zhiyin could think of for his team was to take them to an instance, fight the monsters and level up their equipment.


    Past experience had shown Zhang Zhiyin that the instances in the game were also real locations in <Tomorrow>¡¯s world, and the monsters inside these instances would not respawn. The treasures that would be dropped in this instance would be found as long as one looked for them carefully. The previous psychic zombie boss and wood elemental boss were proofs of this.


    Just before he arrived, the Thunder Unit had been involved in a big battle with You Huo Base. The former captain died in that battle, but at the same time, You Huo Base also suffered a big blow, a small leader that was known as ¡°Du Ya1¡± who caused a great deal of damage to the alliance was also seriously injured. Therefore, they did not organize any attacks or cause damages to the alliance¡¯s headquarters for a short period of time, and this gave Zhang Zhiyin the time he needed to implement his n.


    When he returned to the real world again, Zhang Zhiyin went home after work and immediately opened the forum to download all the relevant instances and tactical strategies after which he proceeded to quickly memorize this information.


    In the beginning, he only remembered them by forcing himself to memorize them, but he gradually gained some understanding and couldprehend many skills and rules.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    As usual, he logged into the game as soon as he got home, but he had been memorizing the attack strategies the whole while, and it was only around 12 o¡¯clock at night when he felt sleepy that he remembered that he hadn¡¯t visited Y even once today.


    He went back to the game page, went near Y, typed one word, ¡°Goodnight.¡±, and immediately logged out of the game.


    In the base of Dr. Y, the boss of the apocalypse lowered his eyes, his expression became more and more mncholy.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    After Zhang Zhiyin returned to the world of <Tomorrow>, The first practice session he had arranged for the team was to go to a normal intermediate instance.


    This instance was not difficult to deal with, the level of the zombie in it was around Level 3 or 4, but many characteristics of the instance were strange: the crystal nucleus¡¯ drop rate was high, but because the price of the Level 3 and 4 crystal nuclei in the game was cheap, there wasn¡¯t much use for them, so it wasn¡¯t much in demand with the yers. In reality, however, such ces test one¡¯s physical strength and endurance. For the whole day, they frequently fired bullets, used their abilities, and even waved their cold weapons around that made their hands numb.


    But when they saw the nuclei they¡¯d harvested, they became excited again.


    Because of the existence of the Bai Mang Association in this world, the crystal nucleus had a wider range of use in this world, and its usage was not limited to raising the level of the ability users. The ability users could exchange a certain amount of low-level crystal nuclei with the alliance and in return get a high-level crystal nucleus suitable for their abilities.


    After resting for 3 days, Zhang Zhiyin led the team to the White Bones Cave instance that he had tried out before and found out that it was a good ce for the team to refine their skills.


    This instance was one of the earliest caves that were abandoned after the experiment of the zombie virus, so the zombies inside were particrly strong, and the zombie boss eventually developed wind, thunder, and poison abilities.


    But this instance would also drop the White Bone Armor. This set of armor would greatly increase the defense stats of the wearer and also increase the wearer¡¯s attacking stats, making this instance the first choice for many yers who desire a high damage output ratio.


    The density of the zombie mob in the White Bone Cave was smaller than that of the previous instance the team used to practice, but they were even more powerful now. With the training the team had gotten, they didn¡¯t find the zombies too tough to deal with. It took the team about 3 hours to advance into the depths of the cave.


    The more they advanced, the fewer zombies they encountered, but the levels of the zombies kept increasing correspondingly. The zombies that came out during the end of each path had the ability of the average small boss. When they reached the end of the road, the team stopped to take a break as a big boulder blocked their path. The people in the battle group had started to be fatigued.


    Inparison, Dadao and the older members in the Thunder Unit were still in good shape, and they were even more cautious than before.


    Zhang Zhiyin nced at his team members around him and realized that it wouldn¡¯t be a good idea to continue forward. At this time, directly attacking the boss might not work well. If the casualties were heavy, it would hurt their morale, so he ordered a temporary retreat.


    Tang Li, who was familiar with Zhang Zhiyin from before, was now in the Thunder Unit. His wife, Xiu Mei, also came to the base station to help with cooking duties. Their daughter Xiao Li also came to help out with some odd jobs.


    When Zhang Zhiyin led the team back to the base, he saw Xiu Mei, Xiao Li, and the defense group who was assigned to stay in the station along with Uncle Kao. When they approached, they also saw a little girl next to the group. She was less than one meter tall and seemed to be no more than fourteen years old. She looked very beautiful. From some angles, she almost looked too delicate and exquisite. Only when she turned her face did they noticed that her eyes were gray and unfocused.


    Evidently, this little girl was blind.


    Xiao Li stood by her side. She wanted to converse with her but she didn¡¯t dare to approach too close to her.


    Uncle Kao came over and exined the situation to Zhang Zhiyin and the rest.


    There was a small town upied by zombies next to the base. The level of zombies in this vige wasn¡¯t high. The Thunder Unit didn¡¯t go there to exterminate the zombies specifically, but when there was some spare time they would dispatch 2 or 3 people to forage nearby locations for usable materials¡ª The current living conditions of the Thunder Unit and that of the alliance¡¯s headquarters could not bepared at all; Compared to the frontline, the only difference was that they had 2 or 3 more roofs on top of them.


    As a result, when they cleared out a supermarket today, they chanced upon this little girl. The girl was not only blind, but she was also mute. Aftermunicating with her by writing on some paper, the team members learned that the girl was called Xiao Mo and that the supermarket was run by her family. There was a slight mental fluctuation in the body. After an evaluation, it was found that she would awaken as a Level 1 psychic ability user. This would help her survive this apocalypse.


    After Zhang Zhiyin agreed, Xiao Wei was allowed to stay in the station.


    At this time, Yin Xiaoxiang heard Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s voice. It peeked with its head from behind the door and ran to him, but it stumbled and fell on its butt.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡± How stupid.


    Hepletely forgot that he himself was even more stupid when he had turned into a cat. He bumped into the boss¡¯s calf and fell on his back. He was sore and he whimpered grievously, Yin Nian had to soothe him by holding him in his hands for a long time.


    Xiao Mo seemed to have sensed something, she faced Yin Xiaoxiang, stooped down and stretched out her hand, as if she wanted to touch it.


    ¡°Be careful, it spits ice.¡± Zhang Zhiyin reminded her. Yin Xiaoxiang wasn¡¯t close with other people and had a prideful personality. It would spit ice shards at anyone who wanted to touch it, even if it was people like Dadao, Ah Kong, and other acquaintances. This little guy wasn¡¯t tall, but his power was high, and now the ice shards it spit could freeze an entire hand.


    He didn¡¯t expect Yin Xiaoxiang to not dodge Xiao Mo¡¯s hand and neither did it spit ice shards at her.


    It was a miracle. Zhang Zhiyin eximed: ¡°Xiao Mo, can you help me watch over this cat here?¡±


    The older Yin Xiaoxiang was, the less obedient it was and he couldn¡¯t control it well. Every time he opened the door or the window, it¡¯d find some nook to slip out. It was the apocalypse and it was not safe for it to just go as it pleased. He didn¡¯t think like an ordinary cat and it would not respond to its name. Zhang Zhiyin was really worried something might happen to it.


    The girl couldn¡¯t see nor speak, but she actually understood his words and obediently nodded her head.

 Chapter 54

    <strong>Chapter 54


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    After another two days of rest and reorganizing tactics of fighting the zombie boss, the team gathered again at the entrance blocked by the big boulder and stood in two rows. Then they covered their mouths and noses.


    The two thunder ability users in the team stood together and gathered their energy to form a thunderball that was about half a meter in diameter before throwing it at the boulder. Instantly, it broke apart and dusty air spilled out of the originally blocked entrance. It took around 5 minutes before the air waspletely cleared.


    The hole was narrow, so it wasn¡¯t easy for the ability users to use their skills, especially for ranged skills where it could easily injure someone identally.


    One of the biggest gimmicks of <Tomorrow>¡¯s game advertisement was the direction of free career development. It was unlike the previous generation of online games where each profession had its own unique characteristics. For example, mages who usually had long-range skills and warriors who were human meat shield tanks. In <Tomorrow>, there were different abilities and roles. Everyone could match their skills, abilities, and equipment to their most suitable mode ofbat. For example, although earth elemental ability users seemed to be superior in their defense, they could also develop into strong earth elemental attackers.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s Redemption Suit provided him with aprehensive upgrade of his stats, but considering his Sincere Love Pistol that held thebination of ice and precision dual powers in it, fighting at long range was the best method for him. His Sincere Love Pistol was like an amplifier that could multiply his powers.


    Now all Zhang Zhiyin had to do was lure out the zombie boss.


    He went to the opposite side of the entrance and stood in the middle, which was not within the scope of the zombie boss¡¯ attack but still within the range of Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s attack, and he could see the boss.


    Lift, aim, shoot¡ª


    In the middle of its eyes, a critical strikended!


    But it was a high-leveled boss after all, so this attack could only y the role of luring it out of the hole instead of causing serious damage to it.


    There was a primary skill called <i>Haste</i> in the wind elemental ability, which could speed up the movement of the user. Those wind ability users with a slightly higher level would constantly activate Haste during their battle. It was because of the existence of these support skills that made yers question about the significance ofmon enhanced abilities, such as speed and power ability. As a result, there were no ordinary enhanced yers in the game nowadays. Anyway, ordinary elemental abilities could be bought at 50 yuan, and this could be considered an entry fee to the game for those people who were reluctant to spend a lot of money on the game. yers with leisure time could create another ount until they managed to get the abilities they wanted. Even if their characters¡¯ stats weren¡¯t good enough, they could create ten ounts to do novice tasks ten times until they get an ount with abilities they wanted.


    At this time, the zombie boss rushed out with Haste activated.


    At the entrance, the team members with fire and earth ability had already prepared the Fire Mine array and those waiting in ambush were ready with their strongest attack.


    As soon as the boss stepped into the trap, fireballs, thunder chains, wind des, hanging vines... Everything was unleashed at once.


    One-third of the Boss¡¯s HP had been reduced.


    Sure enough, the zombie boss directly entered into the second stage as written in the strategy¡ª Thunder Ranged-Attacks.


    Compared to the wind elemental ability of the same level, the thunder ability had a stronger attacking power and a wider attacking range.


    Zhang Zhiyin had already drawn on the ground the estimated range of this attack with white paint. The prepared members began to retreat outside of this range after their first round of attack. Only two of them injured their back because they were too slow, but their injuries weren¡¯t too serious.


    Ten members of the defense group began to use thermal weapons to attack the boss under the temporary cover of the earth walls built by earth ability users.


    In the game, taking into consideration of growth, lethality, gaming habits and other factors but excluding individual¡¯s hobbies, the vast majority of yers would only choose one ability, but in the real world of <Tomorrow>, thermal weapons, especially the improved weapons made by the Bai Mang Association, were still humanity¡¯s weapon of choice.


    Before the boss couldunch its big move again, the defense group had retreated. Outside the earth wall, all the ability users with protective skills set up barriers in front of the team.


    It was another wave ofrge-scale thunder bombing, the rock dust on the top of the cave rustled down, falling onto the protective cover before bouncing off of it.


    The bright purple thunder raged through the dark cave, venting its master¡¯s discontent.


    To speak of the truth, this sight was beautiful. But he had seen a more beautiful and spectacr thunder. And it belonged to that man.


    Zhang Zhiyin kept his eyes closed, gathered his thoughts quickly in the next second, focused on his target and pulled the trigger¡ª


    Ice-blue air currents erupted from the muzzle of the gun, forming a huge white ice sphere that headed straight toward the chest of the zombie boss.


    The boss, who had just finished making its big move, was hit head on. It had yet to respond when the second big move of the battle groupnded on it again.


    The zombie boss jumped up. Its HP had dropped to one-third and it was entering the third stage; a three elemental hybrid attack.


    It aimed at Zhang Zhiyin, who currently had the most enmity value.


    Zhang Zhiyin was already prepared.


    But who would have thought that when Boss jumped close to him, it suddenly changed direction. It bypassed Zhang Zhiyin, stretched out its huge mutant poison w, and attacked Chen Guang who was behind him.


    This was different from the instance¡¯s strategy. In the instance, this zombie boss would only attack the main attacker without any exceptions. In order to ensure he was the main attacker, Zhang Zhiyin even gave up his crowd control role and ced himself in the attacking position when nning the tactics.


    But this was not a game, and the boss in front of it was not a mass of data.


    Zhang Zhiyin turned around and fired five shots at the boss and froze it in ce. The team members who had restrictive skills also reacted and began to cast their skills at the boss incessantly. The attacking group attacked the boss with all their abilities and bullets.


    Chen Guang¡¯s reaction wasn¡¯t slow either and he turned sideways to avoid the attack.


    Even so, the sharp poisonous w still tore into Chen Guang¡¯s uniform, leaving a long scratch on his chest to his left waist. The wound wasn¡¯t deep and if it were any ordinary zombies that caused this wound, injecting two shot of anti-zombie virus drug would do, however, this was a poisonous zombie boss.


    The poison spread rapidly and the ces it touched quickly turned ck and necrotic. There were even signs of ulceration.


    Zhang Zhiyin gritted his teeth. ¡°Hold it up a little.¡±


    He immediately formed an ice de and cut off the wounded flesh. At the same time, he took out an ultra medicine for knife wounds which he had bought from the Item Store and sprayed a thickyer on him. From those days of being helpless to bing unhesitating now, he had gained many experiences, naturally, he learned to be calm. At this moment, every second was critical and the one who was injured was his team member. It wasn¡¯t the time for him to hide his secrets.


    Chen Guang could be considered to be strong-willed. The surrounding people who looked at him took in cold breaths and felt their backs getting chilly. His skin and flesh were scraped off, but he did not utter any sounds.


    The defense group quickly went to Chen Guang and carried him on a stretcher to the back.


    At this time, the restrictive skills could no longer suppress the boss, the earth prison had been broken and the zombie boss was struggling to free itself from the wooden shackles created by the wood elemental ability users, at any time there was the possibility of it breaking free.


    The boss was in a low health status. At this point, it had to be suppressed and should not be set free else it would release its ultimate skill!


    Zhang Zhiyin raised his head.


    The team members who had been following him all understood his intention. Ah Mu gritted his teeth and tightened his vines even more. Dadao gathered his power and once again released metal chains at the boss.


    Zhang Zhiyin directly froze the boss with his left hand, at the same time, instead of retreating, he advanced and approached the zombie boss. His lifted his right hand and pressed the Sincere Love Pistol firmly against the boss¡¯s throat. A glint of hatred shed in his eyes.


    The vine was withering away, and the freezing effect was also diminishing, leaving him less than 20 seconds.


    His joints moved, and everyone could see a fleeting faint blue light at the muzzle of the gun entering the ck and decayed corpse. In a twinkling of an eye, Zhang Zhiyin had made twelve shots, nine of them was a critical hit, not to mention, the throat was a zombie¡¯s weakest area.


    The team members¡¯ abilities had recovered and they made another round of attack toward the boss.


    The body of the zombie boss shed red, and before its ultimate skill could be released, its whole body finally lost its strength and it fell to the ground on its knees.


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded to the two elemental ability users, both of them understood and burned the zombie boss.


    A zombie¡¯s body was poisonous, if it was not handled timely, there might be the risk of the zombie¡¯s poison spreading.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    In the temporary residence of the Thunder Unit, Xiao Mo rested in the corner of the wall. Yin Xiaoxiang sleptfortably in her arms.


    Tang Xiaoli came timidly and tried to ask her, ¡°Sister Xiao Mo, may I touch it too?¡±


    ¡°Do not touch His Highness casually.¡± The dead grey eyes turned to look at her, coldly replying as if she was disdaining her.


    When she was picked up, she was only a thirteen-year-old child. Three yearster, she was imperceptibly influenced and unknowingly retained part of boss¡¯s shadow even after shedding off her disguise.


    The little girl did not understand what was an ultimate viin¡¯s aura, but she was frightened and ran away in tears.


    Xiao Mo ¡°stared¡± at the direction of the girl¡¯s disappearance for a while, then calmly lowered her head and continued to take care of the kitten in her arms.


    Anyone that stayed in the station regardless of their age and health had to help out in the station to exchange for food. Even though she was so young, she still had to help her mother with the meals. However, Big Sister Xiao Mo had arrived here for three to four days and did nothing but y with the captain¡¯s cat. Many people in the logistics teamined about her, but it was her mother who spoke up for her and even had to do more tasks because of it.


    But Big Sister Xiao Mo was so indifferent. Tang Xiaoli unknowingly wandered away and even left the scope of the station.


    She was thinking that since big sister was so good-looking, then it shouldn¡¯t matter that she was so indifferent. She would try harder and treat her nicely. By the time she gathered her thoughts, she had already wandered to a ce she didn¡¯t know.


    ¡°Tender little girl...¡± Two strange-looking men suddenly appeared and stood in front of her, looking at her like she was a freshly white steam bun that came out from the pot.


    ¡°Captain Shiren will be d to see her, won¡¯t he? We should be able to receive a good reward.¡±


    Captain Shiren of Yu Huo Base was a dual ability user with strength and metal ability. His hobby was to eat human meat.


    guys.... i have something to confess


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 Chapter 55

    <strong>Chapter 55


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    Yu Huo Base had always been regarded as the representative of Dr. Y¡¯s camp, the darkest and most chaotic ce in the whole apocalypse.


    In here, as long as you gave your life away to the base, no one would care whether your soul was sold to God or the Devil. Even in the eyes of the Cloud Sky Alliance, the ce itself was a more terrible existence than that of a Devil.


    For example, the number one fire ability user in the apocalypse, Yu Huo. Another example, the thunder man who seldom appeared upfront but had immeasurable strength, and... The shadow that always pressed down on the heads of all people in the apocalypse¡ªY.


    In this world, he symbolized despair, darkness, and death, and now some people even began to doubt whether Y really existed or was he just an epitome of what they had imagined out of fear in the apocalypse.


    The underground prison was the darkest and most chaotic ce in the whole Yu Huo Base, where there was no natural light, only a simple crackling of torches that emitted a weak light.


    The guards here were always careless because they were only guarding a group of dead people ¡ª those who were taken to the underground prison of Yu Huo Base would not be able to leave this ce alive. They either became the food of Captain Shiren or were taken away by other leaders andnded themselves in a more disastrous situation before dying miserably.


    The frightened little girl grabbed her father¡¯s cuff and trembled.


    Tang Li calmed her down before raising his head to grin bitterly at his friend who had apanied him to look for his daughter. He mouthed, ¡°I have implicated you.¡±


    His friend shook his head, indicating that there was no need to say anything more.


    He did not expect them to be so unlucky, encountering two of the most powerful underlings under Shiren. They were both at the peak of Level 5 and had a good coordination with each other. They specialized in hunting for delicious food everywhere for Shiren.


    Underling No. 1 suddenly appeared from the shadows with two guards were standing behind him.


    ¡°Take them out and bring them to Captain Shiren.¡±


    Tang Li¡¯s face could not help turning white.


    It didn¡¯t matter what they wanted to do to him, but he would rather die than let them hurt his daughter.


    But at that time, their abilities had been sealed and they were just like any ordinary people. In the face of these high-level ability users, they stood no chance at all.


    The sky was already dark and they were escorted outside. They could not see the buildings in the distance but only their dark silhouette.


    A ck shadow drifted towards them absent-mindedly.


    All of a sudden, the guard and Underling No. 1, who was holding them confidently stooped down with trepidation.


    ¡°Lord Meng Kali.¡± They were respectful in their courtesy.


    The face beneath the hood seemed to turn in their direction. At the same time, the six people heard a voice ringing in their minds: ¡°What are they for?¡±


    ¡°For Captain Shiren.¡± Underling No. 1 responded cautiously while inwardly cursing. The lord in front of him was sent to their base for an unknown reason and he did nothing but float around all day. However, none of them dared to disobey what he said. Moreover, this Lord liked to give strange orders. He hoped that he would let him go this time and not meddle in his affairs. He was expecting Captain Shiren to be happy enough to help him break through Level 6.


    Unfortunately, contrary to his wishes, the voice continued to linger in their minds with a long haughty tone:


    ¡°Do not go.¡±


    ¡°My Lord?¡± Underling carefully questioned.


    ¡°I said do not go. Send the people back.¡± Leaving this sentence, the dark shadow then drifted away quickly.


    Underling No. 1 couldn¡¯t help butment that he was really unlucky, Meng Kali had disappeared for four days in a row, but he just had toe back today. He did not dare to disobey his order, otherwise, he would be the one who would be made into food tomorrow.


    He waved his hand and directed the guards to put the people back to the underground prison.


    And on this evening, there was a piece of news spreading in Yu Huo Base¡ª


    <i>Dr. Y is here. He is somewhere in the base.</i>


    The depressed Underling No. 1 and No. 2 were drinking in the base pub and sighed when they heard this news: Such an important figure, whether theye or not, had nothing to do with small fries like them.


    Maybe it was relevant, for example, if the doctor wiped out the Thunder Unit with a wave of his hand, then there would be changes to their task¡ª oh, they wouldn¡¯t be able to find food for Captain Shiren from nearby.


    The guards who kept an eye on Tang Li and the rest hardly knew what sort of evil had hit them that day.


    Not only did they saw the three big shots of the apocalypse in one single day, but they even received the real king of the apocalypse.


    But at this time, they only dared to bow their heads, bent their waists down deeply, and watch the white robe pass before their eyes. It was so clean that it was at odds with the dark and smelly dungeon.


    Lei Dun and Yu Huo curled like bare quails behind Yin Nian.


    Lei Dun, who thought that he knew everything, was aware that his boss had not seen, touched, or licked his wife for more than half a year, so he¡¯s getting more and more moody recently. While Yu Huo who had always been outside doing all those dirty work indicated that he didn¡¯t know anything, but he agreed that their boss was really getting moody.


    The good news was that their boss was getting more and more human-like and showing more emotions, rather than giving out the apathetic feelings that caused them to be too scared to approach him. On the bad side, those working under him would have to suffer.


    Now, for example, Doctor suddenly insisted oning to the dark underground prison to meet someone...


    Candy Master from Thunder Unit?


    Standing outside the prison, Yin Nian looked down.


    Lei Dun tactfully led Yu Huo out to empty the area around them.


    Tang Li saw a clean and handsome young man standing in front of him. His dark eyes looked at him and he said, ¡°You know how to make chocte?¡±


    Tang Li hugged his daughter before he hesitantly and vigntly answering, ¡°...Yes.¡±


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    It was hard to imagine that an area of the dark and chaotic Yu Huo Base would be filled with the sweet scent of chocte.


    Now wasn¡¯t the time to talk aboutpromising with the enemy. Tang Li, as the world¡¯s leading candy master specializing in chocte, had dealt with numerous dignitaries and officials. Although he only met that person once, he could sense that he was an extraordinary young man. This opportunity was likely to determine whether he, his daughter, and his friend could be saved or not.


    As an experienced confectionery master, he could partially judge what the customer might like after knowing the identity and background of the other party.


    So he turned to the man next to him who was sent by the young man to help him. He was fair-skinned and in-looking. He asked, ¡°Sir, I want to ask you who is the young man who asked me to make chocte...?¡±


    ¡°He¡¯s Dr. Y,¡± Yu Huo said calmly and earnestly.


    Tang Li stood with his mouth open for three minutes before he forced a stiff smile: ¡°How do I address you?¡±


    Yu Huo: ¡°I¡¯m Yu Huo.¡±

 Chapter 56

    <strong>Chapter 56


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Tang Li swallowed his mouthful of spit firmly in an attempt to calm down his abnormal heartbeat. He then began to gather the materials and prepared to make chocte. Fortunately, the procedures for chocte-making had been ingrained into his bones, so even if his heartbeat was unstable or if he was stressed out, it would never affect him.


    In the end, he decided to make the purest dark chocte for Y.


    The fact that Dr. Y wanted chocte was very strange in itself, but if this really was the case, only the darkest, most bitter chocte could match the boss¡¯ tastes.


    The result was that Y was not satisfied.


    Redo, not satisfied.


    Redo, not satisfied.


    ......


    After the third attempt, Yin Nian personally went to the workshop built for Tang Li, mulled over it, and said, ¡°It shouldn¡¯t taste like this, it should be heart-shaped, sweet, and soft on the inside.¡±


    Sweet and soft, just like how Zhiyin tasted.


    Tang Li looked at Dr. Y, his face troubled. He understood the doctor¡¯s words, but this request was too generic, and he was afraid that he wouldn¡¯t be able to fulfill the other party¡¯s wish.


    Yin Nian hesitated for a moment, and finally pulled out a pink chocte box from his whiteb coat.


    It was heart-shaped, with an exaggerated deep pinkce bow wrapped around it.


    Zhiyin hadn¡¯t given him chocte in a long while.


    This was thest box, and he was not willing to finish it.


    His ck eyes darkened as he looked at Tang Li coldly. His chin was slightly raised and his voice was cold when he said warningly, ¡°Don¡¯t touch it.¡±


    Now, Tang Li couldn¡¯t help but be curious. The chocte that was such a prized possession of the legendary boss of the apocalypse, what was it like?


    The lid of the box was lifted, and there were seven heart shaped choctes of the exactly same form neatly arranged.


    Even without looking at it or tasting it, Tang Li could judge its quality by the greasily sweet smell that it emanated. These were the sweetest and most horrible milk choctes avable in the market before the end of the world.


    Why would Dr.Y like this kind of thing... this was simply unimaginable.


    Thinking of this in his heart, Tang Li still respectfully packed up the box and said, ¡°Please rest assured, I will be able to make it soon.¡±


    Sure enough, after an hour, Yin Nian was finally able to eat the heart-shaped Zhiyin Love Chocte he had been longing for.


    In Yu Huo Base, the central seat in the huge central hall was always unupied. This seat that no one dared to sit in finally ushered in its master.


    Picking up a freshly made piece of chocte and putting it into his mouth, Yin Nian leaned back on the wide seat. His eyshes drooped as traces of gloominess and grievance flooding into his dark eyes.


    It still felt wrong. Even though the taste was the same, if it wasn¡¯t sent by personally by Zhiyin, then it would be all wrong.


    <i>I miss him.</i>


    But...


    Just as the thought shed in his mind, a scene yed out in front of his eyes. A young man with a stern temperament and calm appearance walked in leading a team, his face was stained with blood and sweat.


    There, he reached over and stroked his cheeks, the corners of his lips curving up, revealing a smile.


    It should be soon.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    The Battle in the White Bone Cave yielded good results, they obtained five sets of White Bone Armor. Zhang Zhiyin distributed these to the five team members who did the most damage, and the other members were given other items such as crystal nuclei.


    However, when he returned to the base, he got the report from Uncle Kao, about how there was an ident and Tang Xiaoli disappeared. Tang Li went with a friend on his own to find her, but none of them had returned yet.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked up at the sky, they had spent a whole day in the White Bone Cave, and at this point, the sun hadpletely set.


    Yin Xiaoxiang was alone, curled up on the window sill. It was rare that Xiao Mo did not apany it.


    Chen Guang was still unconscious. The ultra medicine could only cure surface wounds. Topletely detoxify the venom out of his system, he had to find a medicinal herb called White Bone Grass. On the way back to the base, he¡¯d already checked with his own refining medicine book. This sort of herb could only be found near Yu Huo Base. He tried to buy it from the online store, but the Item Store was under repair yet again.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s heart was anxious, everything was happening all at once, but he still had to put on his usual calm and self-sufficient facade, appeasing Uncle Kao and reassuring him that he¡¯d deal with everything going on, he then arranged for the yers who came back after fighting in the battle to get some rest, and dealing with post-production work like item distribution.


    After dealing with the urgent task at hand as quickly as possible, Zhang Zhiyin returned to his room and used the remaining irvoyance in his backpack to find out about the whereabouts of Tang Xiaoli. As expected, she and another ability user was locked in the underground dungeon in Yu Huo Base. However, Tang Li wasn¡¯t seen with them.


    The headquarters of Yu Huo Base was a monster site that was open only for yers that had their ability raised to at least Level 10. There was also a rted instance that hadn¡¯t been opened yet. Zhang Zhiyin had never been there in the game, he¡¯d only seen pictures of the scene from the official website.


    There were probably a lot of dangerous things in there, but now the best approach was to personally investigate it.


    The Item Store couldn¡¯t be opened at the moment. He had an invisibility talisman and three teleportation talismans in his storage bag. If he used it appropriately, he could at least ensure that he would be able toe back to the base.


    The transportation talisman turned into ashes at his fingertips, and then Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s figure disappeared instantly from the room.


    It was unknown when Xiao Mo suddenly appeared quietly. She gently picked up the restless Yin Xiaoxiang who wanted to chase after Zhang Zhiyin and lulled it to sleep.


    The captain went to find Lord Boss, but I am with you, Your Highness.


    The girl pouted her mouth and quietly held the cat in the shadow under the eaves, blendingpletely into the darkness.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Zhang Zhiyin walked into the enemy base camp with the help of the invisibility talisman, carefully avoiding any person anywhere near him. After all, the talisman only hid him from the sight of others, it didn¡¯t give him the ability topletely vanish.


    The talisman was effective for one hour. Within this time frame, he had to find Tang Xiaoli and find a way to rescue the rest. Before that, he went to pick some of the White Bone Grass for Chen Guang, he had less than half an hour more.


    He was lucky, and reached the underground dungeon without facing any hurdles.


    Tang Xiaoli was on one side of the prison, waiting for her father toe back. Tang Li¡¯s friend also stood anxiously next to the little girl.


    Zhang Zhiyin snuck in and took out a gray key from his pocket. This was a master key. The original function of this key in the game was to open random treasure chests that were scattered through various maps. Later, it was sold at a discount, this was during the time when Zhang Zhiyin was angry at thepany for deciding to freeze the Item Store in the middle of the night. He decided gave thepany back a taste of its own medicine and and bought this key in an impulse. After calming down, he felt that this move was very childish, and so he threw the key into the storage bag and never touched it after that.


    He hadn¡¯t expected it toe in handy in such a situation.


    The prisoners were locked in cage-likepartments which were surrounded by iron fences, but there was a grid of electricity between the prison cell and the fence in order to ensure that the prisoners couldn¡¯t escape from their cells.


    Zhang Zhiyin carefully tried not to make any noise as he inserted the key into the keyhole of the prison. As he did that, he said softly: ¡°I¡¯m Zhang Zhiyin, I¡¯m here to bring you back.¡±


    The dungeon was windy at night, and the blowing wind became a good sound muffler.


    He had set the destination of the teleportation talisman to Thunder Unit Station, and now he only needed to teach them to use it.


    Tang Li¡¯s friend gently carried Tang Xiaoli. At the moment when the cell door opened, Zhang Zhiyin quickly gave the teleportation talisman and the antidote to her. Tang Xiaoli immediately tore the talisman at the center just like what Zhang Zhiyin had taught her to do.


    The little girl was gone, but Tang Li¡¯s friend was still in the same ce.


    Zhang Zhiyin clenched his jaw. The talisman was used by the yer for short-distance teleportations. There was no instance of two yers teleporting together before. In the world of <Tomorrow>, it was only possible to teleport one person at a time.


    He handed thest one of his teleportation talisman to the man in front of him and quickly said: ¡°The way to use it is the same.¡±


    The man did not hesitate and simply tore the talisman.


    At this time, the escape of the prisoners had been discovered. Relying on the invisibility talisman and taking advantage of the fact that there weren¡¯t many guardsing in, Zhang Zhiyin rushed out of the underground prison.


    Now, the invisible effect was gradually fading. The base¡¯s guard was able to see his silhouette.


    Zhang Zhiyin was in the central square of the base, which was empty and unobstructed. He weighed his options for a second and then ran into the building that he thought looked the most magnificent in the night.


    Arge number of guards were following him.


    After entering the building, Zhang Zhiyin was keenly aware that the pace of the pursuers behind him had slowed down, and two of the small leaders seemed to have a dispute at the door.


    Zhang Zhiyin also listened in, and could vaguely hear the words ¡°Dr. Y¡±, ¡°inside¡±, and ¡°caution¡±.


    Were they saying that Yin Nian was here? In this very building?


    Zhang Zhiyin felt his heart skipping a beat.


    By the time the pursuers hade to an agreement, they decided to go ahead and seize the bold intruder as per the base regtions.


    Eight wind des attacked Zhang Zhiyin, and Zhang Zhiyinpletely avoided them thanks to his intuition honed by long-termbat. When he looked back, he saw four wind ability users were already chasing him, and both of them were at Level 6. White light were gathering in their hands, it was obvious that they were ready to let loose another wind de at him.


    It¡¯s hard for two fists to beat four hands, and he was fighting in their home base; it was impossible for him to win the battle. To top it off, the Item Store couldn¡¯t be opened at this crucial moment, and there was no other suitable means of escape in his hand...


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s brain was empty during this crisis, and he quickly took inventory of everything in his storage bag. Then, like a sparked flint stone, a wild idea urred to him, a method he never even thought to consider before.


    Zhang Zhiyin was once again attacked by eight wind des, and he rolled into another corridor near him to avoid that onught, and clenched in his right hand was the transformation talisman he¡¯d drawn from the lottery at that time.


    Based on how Yin Nian loved and pampered himself that time, Zhang Zhiyin dared to bet that Yin Nian was probably dying to pet and put him in the palm of his hands.


    Boss couldn¡¯t possibly think of disregarding his own cat, right?


    As long as he survived through the current crisis, he could easily escape from this base if the Item Store resumed its operation.


    The guards who were hot on his tail just a moment ago lost track of the intruder. They looked at each other, but they didn¡¯t have any clues to go on. There was a dead end in front of them. There were only two heavy ck solid wooden doors that led straight to the central conference hall in the base.


    ¡°There is a cat.¡± The wind ability user who led the impromptu troop suddenly said.


    Everyone craned their heads down and saw a white kitten raising its small stupid face, as if it had no idea of what was happening around it as it looked at them.


    Like it was astonished and afraid, it mewled softly.


    This whispering sound seemed to have summoned something. With this sound, the huge ck wooden doors withplex patterns were quietly pushed open, creating a dull noise.


    Zhang Zhiyin could only see a familiar pair of ck leather shoes stepping forward and stopping right in front of him.

 Chapter 57

    <strong>Chapter 57</strong>


    It was pitiful that he as the Captain of the Thunder Unit had to transform into a cat to seek for survival.


    He felt like he was in the same situation as the giant panda.


    He had a powerful variant ability at Level 6, he wore the Redemption Suit that had been upgraded twice, he could blow up an ordinary Level 5 zombie with a single shot, and he led the Thunder Unit to grow up step by step.


    But now he had to make a living by selling meng.


    Zhang Zhiyin squatted on the ground, his expression was mncholy. His small ck eyes seemed to be covered with ayer of water and mist.


    He took the initiative to approach the man¡¯s ck trousers and rub them intimately. Then he looked up at the man in front of him and gave a weak and low cry.


    Everyone stared at the bold cat.


    Then, under the many different pairs of eyes filled with surprise, awe, or curiosity, the man crouched down, held the kitten in his arms, and called softly, ¡°Mimi.¡±


    This was Dr. Y¡¯s cat.


    The pursuers looked at Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s small, round and furry body, and suddenly came to a realization. They didn¡¯t dare make any more disturbance and quickly retreated in an orderly manner.


    Zhang Zhiyin licked Yin Nian¡¯s palm in goodwill and raised his wet round eyes to look at the man in an effort to please him.


    He had run away previously and disappeared for so long, he didn¡¯t know what kind of reaction Yin Nian would give.


    Yin Nian looked very happy and tapped his nose: ¡°Mimi is so smart that you even know how toe back to me. Were you being bullied outside?¡±


    The praised Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    Then he rubbed his head into the man¡¯s chest and gave an ¡°Auwo¡±.


    Yes, I was bullied by your people.


    The kitten buried its head in its chest, acting coquettishly like it was asking for a hug. When Yin Nian held him, instantly, he felt that his whole world had been lit up.


    ¡°Come on, let¡¯s go back.¡±


    The Yu Huo Base had sufficient manpower and inventory. Within ten minutes, someone delivered a cat bell tied with red silk to Yin Nian.


    With one hand looped around the struggling Zhang Zhiyin and the other handbing his fur, Yin Nian tied the bell on him.


    ¡°Mimi be obedient. It¡¯s crowded and chaotic here. I¡¯m afraid they¡¯ll step on you.¡±


    The magnificent gold bell engraved with arge Y was ced on the unwilling Zhang Zhiyin. He stretched out his small ws and pulled at it.


    It was like he was being stamped with a seal.


    ¡°Very obedient.¡± Yin Nian picked him up and kissed him on the forehead like he was rewarding him. ¡°It¡¯s gettingte. Shall we go to bed together?¡±


    Tang Xiaoli and his friend were sent back to Thunder Station.


    The antidotes were sent to Chen Guang, Tang Xiaoli was fetched back by her mother and Tang Li¡¯s good friend told them about Tang Li and the captain¡¯s situation. Everyone seemed very worried.


    ¡°The captain¡¯s origin is not simple. He has many magic weapons with him. There shouldn¡¯t be anything happening to him. We¡¯ll stand by tonight and make more decision tomorrow morning.¡± It¡¯ste, rushing into the enemy¡¯s headquarters would be unwise and definitely not what Captain Zhang would want to see. As a result, everyone agreed with Dadao¡¯s words and each of them made preparations in ordance with their responsibilities.


    Xu Mei carried her lost-and-now-found daughter and cried silently as she thought of her husband¡¯s uncertain fate.


    Tang Xiaoli never once spoke. When she went to bed, she suddenly whispered, ¡°Mom, I heard Big Sister Xiao Mo speaking today. Her voice sounded the same as a strange person we met in that ce. It felt like the voice was ringing directly in my head.¡±


    The new girl couldn¡¯t speak. Xu Mei took it that her daughter was frightened and didn¡¯t take her words seriously. She reluctantly calmed down and continued to cuddle her daughter to sleep.


    The next day, Zhang Zhiyin woke up on Yin Nian¡¯s chest.


    Yesterday evening, as soon as he went to bed, he was vited. Yin Nian turned him over and rubbed him repeatedly.


    At first, on the record of how he had run away for so long and how the other party took him back without questioning him, Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t resist his advances. It wasn¡¯t until he was turned over and getting rubbed on the stomach that he couldn¡¯t stand it anymore. He reached out his paw and pped it on Yin Nian¡¯s face. Y then finally stopped and ced the cat in his arms before sleeping.


    Zhang Zhiyin climbed up with difficulty and, lowering his head, he could see Yin Nian¡¯s chest.


    Like he was possessed, he closed his eyes, lowered his head and licked.


    Seemed like he licked something bad.


    Without waiting for Yin Nian to speak, Zhang Zhiyin turned his head to the side and shyly cried out.


    Ever since he became a cat, he became extremely easy to tear up, like there were tears stored in his eyes. He wondered if real cats were like this too.


    The boss that got licked by his family¡¯s Zhiyin opened his eyes and saw him crying. Immediately, he lost all his thoughts. He sat on the bed and held him in his arms, coaxing him, ¡°Mimi, you can do anything, don¡¯t feel sad. If you want to lick, you can continue licking.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin, who was so shy that his hair was standing up still had tears in his eyes: ¡°...¡±


    He widened his eyes and looked up hesitantly at Yin Nian¡¯s face before pouncing in, licking his right cheek.


    ¡°Mimi is so obedient.¡± Yin Nian even praised him and kissed his neck.


    Fortunately, Zhang Zhiyin had notpletely lost his mind and forgot about his current status and responsibilities.


    He decided to take this opportunity to explore the interior structure of You Huo Base. Currently, in the game, Yu Huo Base still belonged to the unopened monster site, and it was divided into two parts: ordinary monster area and instance dungeon, even so, the information regarding this area was notpleted.


    Whereever Zhiyin went, all creatures fled.


    Lord Yu Huo had already warned them that anyone who dared to touch the doctor¡¯s cat could just wait to collect their corpses.


    So Zhang Zhiyin, wearing his own golden bell jingled all the way through the base. He thought that he was walking coolly, but in reality, he was stumbling around. All the people who met came around him consciously took three steps to give him arge space to walk. Reportedly, cats liked to chase their own tails.


    Zhang Zhiyin shook his head as he went on walking. In fact, this task was not as simple as he had imagined. His own body was a shoring by itself.


    He was too small. Not only did he have limited vision, he also walked very slowly and clumsily, unlike other cats that were nimble. He couldn¡¯t even run and would stumble even if he was walking. The only progress he made was that instead of every three steps, he would fall every ten steps now.


    It was not easy for him to move from Yin Nian¡¯s temporary bedroom to the public square of the Base. He looked up and tried to see as far as possible. He saw a scene that worried him, Ah Kong, Xiao Jin, and two other Thunder Team¡¯s members were being brought into the prison.


    They must have came here because he didn¡¯t return nor did he send back any messages. Hence, they came here with the intention to gather information, but because Dr. Y happened to be at the base, and that there were infiltrators yesterday, the security of the base had been strengthened more than 3 times. They must have been caught when they came to investigate.


    Zhang Zhiyin was in a hurry. He rushed forward regardless of whether he was a cat. As a result, he fell to the ground after just two steps andnded in the middle of the square. He watched Xiao Jin and the rest being taken away right in front of him. He felt pain, urgency, and grievance. He whimpered, lifting his little head and started crying.


    The crowd was nervous, they whispered among themselves. When the person in charge who was patrolling saw this scene, he also dared not intervene. He quickly said to the other in charge, ¡°Go and ask Lord Yu Huo toe. Tell him that Doctor¡¯s cat had fallen and is crying to be carried.¡±


    The captured Ah Kong looked over her shoulder at this strange scene. Yu Huo Base also had a cat that looked like Xiaoxiang, but it was bigger. They should be of the same breed.


    But it was just a cat that had stumbled, why did all those vicious and ruthless viins look so nervous?

 Chapter 58

    <strong>Chapter 58</strong>


    Within two minutes, space was split apart and Dr. Y, dressed in a white robe, appeared directly in the middle of the square. He quickly picked up the pitiful little white dumpling and rubbed his chin on his fluffy little body tofort him. ¡°Mimi, it¡¯s all right. I told you not to run out by yourself.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was suddenly picked up and he whispered piteously twice before turning around and stretching out his paws to hit Yin Nian, waiting for Y to put him down. However, the small flesh w that kept waving in the air was caught by him.


    Yin Nian grabbed his little paw and waved it affectionately. ¡°Be good, little naughty.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin continued to flop around, stretching his body toward the prison.


    Yin Nian could onlypromise and held him in his arms. ¡°Okay, where do you want to go? I¡¯ll carry you.¡±


    Everyone saw a small white cat that could pinch be pinched to death by a twist of a finger, sitting like a dumpling at the doctor¡¯s chest. It stretched out it short-fleshed limbs and pointed out the direction boldly, whining and reminding him from time to time.


    As if he was the real boss while the boss was just a little brother ordered around by him.


    In the underground prison, Ah Kong, who was well-stocked, suddenly saw a young maning in with a cat in his arms, followed by a group of fearful people. All of them were the underlings of Yu Huo.


    ¡°Dr. Yin?!¡± Xiao Jin took the lead in shouting, ¡°Why are you here? ...You were caught by them too?!¡±


    He is now Dr. Y., Zhang Zhiyin thought, he won¡¯t reminisce with you about the past.


    Sure enough, Yin Nian ignored him and looked down at the cat in his arms.


    Zhang Zhiyin took the opportunity to rush forward and held the lock on the prison door tightly.


    He was not afraid that he would cause Yin Nian to suspect him, and he did not intend to use his kitten¡¯s identity to do anything particrly against thew.


    ¡°Mimi,e down! There¡¯s electricity!¡± Immediately, Yin Nian became anxious, just like a cat owner who found his cat ying with high-voltage electricity.


    Zhang Zhiyin wrinkled his cat¡¯s face and even shrank toward the direction of Ah Kong.


    ¡°You want to let them go?¡± Yin Nian raised his eyes slightly and looked at Zhang Zhiyin.


    The kitten nodded foolishly.


    ¡°All right.¡± Yin Nian turned to the guards who were far away and shouted, ¡°Let them go.¡±


    His voice was elegant and quiet, and it amazed Ah Kong and the other three.


    The people in Yu Huo Base dared not have any doubt, but only execute the orders at the first moment ¡ª they were just four ordinary captives anyway, as long as the doctor¡¯s cat was happy.


    Until they seeded in returning back to Thunder Unit, Ah Kong and the rest did not know why they were released, let alone know why Dr. Yin was in Yu Huo Base and had the authority to release them at will.


    They did not get anything from this trip. Although Ah Kong, Xiao Jin, and two other people were captured, and although they did not hear any news about the captain, they rescued Tang Li.


    The nearly puzzled candy master was telling people about his strange experience.


    ¡°You can¡¯t imagine that Dr. Y asked me to make chocte for him, and Yu Huo assisted me to make some chocte...¡±


    ¡°What does Dr. Y look like? Is he frightening? Like the king of the zombie, the father of the zombie, the king of the lost?¡±


    ¡°No...¡± Tang Li shook his head. ¡°He¡¯s a very handsome, a very handsome young man. He is also very tall.¡±


    He described the appearance of Yin Nian in detail, and Xiao Jin and others were surprised. This was clearly what Dr. Yin looked like, and they indeed met Dr. Yin today and was released by him.


    Those people, such as Dadao, who had seen Yin Nian were all confused.


    ¡°Write a detailed report on the matter before the captaines back. Now there is about a 70% chance that the captain has somehow escaped from Yu Huo Base.¡± Eventually, they decided to do what Old Zhu had said.


    In his report, Tang Li described in detail the packaging of choctes Dr. Y had asked him to make¡ª


    ¡°Peach-pink heart with pink ribbon...¡±


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    ¡°Mimi, you can¡¯t eat anymore. It¡¯s already three bowls.¡±


    Yin Nian forcibly removed the small bowl which belonged to the cat, put it aside, stretched out his hand and turned Zhang Zhiyin over forcefully, and touched his round stomach. ¡°You see, you have eaten until you turn yourself into a ball.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyinined grievingly, struggled to turn over and chase his bowl with his short legs. As a result, he hit his head right into Yin Nian¡¯s chest and was picked up by the man with one hand.


    Thinking that he was still young, eating three small bowls of fish soup was just an appetizer for him, but Yin Nian actually did not allow him to eat anymore.


    The fish soup from Yu Huo Base was very delicious, much better than the fish soup he had from Dr. Y¡¯s Base.


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t know that Yu Huo Base¡¯s chef had specially prepared the fish soup for Doctor¡¯s kitten, while the fish soup for he had in Dr. Y¡¯s base was made by Yin Nian himself.


    Hey down on Yin Nian again and yed with Yin Nian for a while. After he had eaten, his tiredness surged. He waved his paws weakly at Yin Nian¡¯s face, and gradually fell asleep¡ª His belly was still pressing on one of Yin Nian¡¯s hands, he had just noticed that his four paws couldn¡¯t beat Yin Nian¡¯s two hands, so he kept pressing onto Yin Nian¡¯s right hand hard with his stomach, and fight with Yin Nian with his two paws.


    Yin Nian watched him fall asleep before lifting his slightly numb right hand. He folded his hands together and picked up the cat before carefully cing him on his leg.


    The cat gradually regained the appearance of a young man that had his eyes closed quietly. Heid on his legs, while the corners of his brows and eyes carried some grievance just like his cat¡¯s appearance.


    Yin Nian leaned over and kissed him softly.


    ¡°Zhiyin, I don¡¯t want to wait anymore...¡±


    ¡°But you will surely like me. You can only like me.¡±


    No one else could see how gentle the cold and expressionless Dr. Y¡¯s face was. He closed his eyes gently to hide all the dark,plex and dangerous emotions within them.


    He did not know why he was born.


    However, he appeared in the world and wanted only one thing.


    On the other hand, Zhang Zhiyin had returned to the real world. He drowsily pressed the rm clock on his phone and, as usual, opened the mobile¡¯s web page in a daze. He went to the official website and looked at the new news.


    ¡°Dr. Y¡¯s camp has a new character, and the identity of the third viin has been revealed¡ª¡±


    There¡¯s a picture of a tall new viin in a long dark hooded gown with a white cat curled up and squinting in the crook of his arm.


    ¡°Meng Kali? Called, ¡®The Cat Prince¡¯? It¡¯s just like my family¡¯s Xiaoxiang...¡± However, this might also indicate that Xiaoxiang was indeed some kind of cat in the game, rather than being a unique cat with unknown origins.


    Looking at the time, Zhang Zhiyin left his phone behind and got up to wash up.

 Chapter 59

    <strong>Chapter 59</strong>


    After work had started, a client came to their doorstep. This client was originally handled by Xiao Li but somehow an issue had arisen in the work process and now he was back at thepany.


    Xiao Li wasn¡¯t around, the person in charge had not arrived and other staff didn¡¯t bother about this issue. No one was willing to wade in mixed water.


    Zhang Zhiyin recalled that the material of the case was handled by himself in the early stage. The boss had nned to take this opportunity to promote him by letting him take charge of the matter, butter Xiao Li robbed him of this opportunity. However, many documents were still done by him and he had to admit that he had some understanding of this matter. Looking at the client who was getting more and more angry and impatient while sitting on the sofa, he had no other choice but to walk over and politely ask, ¡°Hello, what¡¯s the matter?¡±


    The client saw a young man standing in front of him.


    He could be considered to have met a lot of people and he had a good judge of character. When he saw this young man, without mentioning anything else, his temperament and momentum were already different.


    ¡ª Zhang Zhiyin was inmand for more than two years in the world of <Tomorrow>. He was still the leader of the Thunder Unit. After several tough experiences, Zhang Zhiyin would naturally have a different manner and momentum from the ordinary office-sitting staff. He didn¡¯t realize it himself, but in the eyes of unfamiliar people, he was quite different from the person he was before he was hit by a car.


    The client¡¯s attitudes also eased down and he exined the situation clearly one by one.


    ...


    After returning home from work, Zhang Zhiyin looked at the profile of the new character in detail.


    yers had always known that Dr. Y had three big viins under him, but they have only seen Yu Huo and Lei Dun whereas the third person had never made an appearance, so his identity was a mystery. It was said that he had been staying in Dr. Y¡¯s base all year round. Now the third viin had finally been released by the game officials:


    ¡°Meng Kali, gender unknown, age unknown, a dual ability user of psychic and space... Holding a cat he called ¡°Prince¡± all-year-round...


    Zhang Zhiyin shut down the web page and logged into the game. He bought two boxes of choctes for Yin Nian. He remembered that he had fought with him in that world before he woke up, and he wasn¡¯t winning¡ª Yin Nian always held both of his ws in one hand when he was about to win, then he wouldugh and release his grip.


    Zhang Zhiyin, who had restored his human appearance, recalled his foolishness when he was a cat and suddenly felt sad because he was simply an embarrassment to cats.


    When he returned to the world of <Tomorrow>, he found that his transformation effect was gone, and immediately, he broke into a cold sweat.


    The light in the room was dim, he could vaguely see that he was lying in bed and Yin Nian was next to him. He seemed to be in deep sleep, with one of his hands still resting on his waist.


    Zhang Zhiyin was scared to the point that he wanted to cry, he quickly opened the Item Store. Fortunately, the store was quite reliable at the moment and he managed to purchase a transportation talisman. He sent himself back to the Thunder Station frantically, and in his hand, he was still holding onto Yin Nian¡¯s shirt.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡± QAQ, boss took off his clothes and put them on himself, as he was rushing to send himself back, he didn¡¯t notice! He didn¡¯t intentionally steal the boss¡¯s clothes!


    He bowed his head and found that on his neck still hung the golden bell that belonged to Mimi.


    The Thunder Unit sensed the presence of someone and they came rushing to this side.


    Zhang Zhiyin hurriedly removed the bell.


    Such that he ignored an obvious and illogical situation ¡ª as the ultimate boss of the opposition fraction, how big was Yin Nian¡¯s heart for him to let a stranger sleep in his room while being oblivious to it.


    Zhang Zhiyin reluctantly hid the bell in his pocket and the shirt was still in his hand when Dadao and rest arrived.


    The captain went out for a round and came back with a shirt. This shirt didn¡¯t look like it was his size or his style.


    Old Zhu coughed twice and reminded him, ¡°Captain...¡± After all, it didn¡¯t matter now as the people here were all his old members; it would be bad if they were seen by other Thunder Unit¡¯s member.


    Zhang Zhiyin folded the shirt with a straight face and handed it to Xiao Jin.


    He first asked about thetest situation, then exined the arrangements for the next few days. Finally, after taking a look at Chen Guang¡¯s injuries, he returned to his room with a bundle of reports. Before leaving, he didn¡¯t forget to ask for his precious shirt from Xiao Jin.


    Xiao Jin and others gathered in Old Zhu¡¯s room for a small meeting.


    Xiao Jin: ¡°The captain must have met ¡®that person¡¯. Maybe this time that person is helping him. Have all of you forgotten? The captain said that he had no space items left, but this time, he saved Tang Xiaoli and they came back using space items ¡ª there are two exnations. The captain had some hidden skills, or that person saw the captain and gave him more items; with that shirt as evidence, I believe it¡¯s thetter.¡±


    Everyone agreed that what he said was reasonable.


    Xiao Jin went on to add, ¡°I saw it. The shirt was of very good quality. Few people could wear clothes of that good material in this apocalypse... The size is bigger than the captain¡¯s own size.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was unaware of this. He was quietly looking at the reports handed in by the team members about the events of the past two days. This one was written by Tang Li.


    ¡°Pink-peach heart with pink ribbon...¡±


    He muttered and felt as if he had grasped something terrible, but it was just short of something and he couldn¡¯t remember what was the most important issue at the moment.


    It was just like when you¡¯re taking an exam, you¡¯ve clearly seen the problem, but you just wasn¡¯t able to think of a solution to it. Only when you handed in the paper did you remember, but then you could onlyy in regret.


    There was a slight noise outside the window.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked up and saw a shadow passed by.


    He frowned slightly and chased as he sent a message to the members.


    Taking advantage that the Item Store was opened, he purchased a lot ofmonly used items at one go, so at this time, he was even more fearless.


    The dark shadow was keeping itself ahead of his pace, it gradually led him to the side of the station, and discovered the abandoned town of the young girl, Xiao Mo. Zhang Zhiyin had noticed the other side¡¯s intention, and he pondered for a moment and decided to follow up in the end¡ª after all, most of the cards in his hands were beyond the imagination of the people of the world.


    As he approached a darkne, the clouds dispersed and moonlight poured down, and he could already see the other side¡¯s figure¡ª he was floating in the air in a long ck hooded robe with his feet off the ground¡ª except for high level wind ability users, only very high level space ability user could do that.


    Meng Kali.


    It¡¯s the new character he had just seen, the third viin in Dr. Y¡¯s base.


    The other party suddenly stopped.


    Zhang Zhiyin, regardless of using peaceful measures before force, directly sent two ice des to the other party, exploring whether he was real or an illusion.


    The other party slightly moved to dodge, while at the same time, a small white ball fell out of his ck robe. It whimpered and rolled on the ground, shaking the two tufts of hair on its head.


    ¡°Xiaoxiang?¡± Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t help crying out.


    Although he knew that the new viin boss had a cat named Prince who looked almost the same as his cat, such that they might even be twins, Zhang Zhiyin was confident that he could tell that this one in front of him was his silly Xiaoxiang.


    Yin Xiaoxiang looked at Zhang Zhiyin and then looked back at Meng Kali, tilting its head to ¡°Auwo¡± as if it couldn¡¯t figure out what was going on.


    ¡°Your Highness!¡± A sudden startled voice shed through his mind.


    Zhang Zhiyin was shocked, it was Meng Kali who was in front of him that spoke, calling out to Yin Xiaoxiang, whoid on the ground and nned to continue to sleep regardless of anything.


    ¡°What did you call it?¡± Zhang Zhiyin squinted and looked at the scene. He rxed his hand on the gun and asked.


    It didn¡¯t look like the other party came to fight with him.


    ¡°Your Highness... His Royal Highness.¡± The voice continued to ring in his mind, while Meng Kali raised his hand and took off his hood, revealing the delicate and fragile face of a girl face beneath.


    ¡°Because you named your Highness ¡®Dr. Y and Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s son¡¯, so in our eyes, Your Highness is the prince.¡±

 Chapter 60

    <strong>Chapter 60


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    ¡°Xiao Mo.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the girl in front of him and didn¡¯t respond for a moment.


    But what he was most concerned about at the moment was another question: ¡°How do you know this name?¡±


    ¡°Dr. Y and Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s son,¡± He only told Yin Xiaoxiang about this name, as well as Yin Nian in the game.


    Meng Kali: ¡°The doctor told us.¡±


    How did he know about this? Zhang Zhiyin was stunned in an instant, and all the things he had neglected or never thought of before shed clearly in his mind:


    Yin Nian indulging the cat, disguising as Dr. Yin of the Bai Mang Association and taking special care of himself, Tang Li¡¯s report that clearly stated the same pink heart-shaped chocte packages just like the choctes from the Item Store, the pistol with the words ¡°My Sincere Love¡± and even the extremely strong Shang Si that appeared out of nowhere and made him feel out of sorts. He clearly did some annoying actions in the beginning, but he still couldn¡¯t help wanting to get close to him.


    Now it suddenly urred to him that they were not just simr in terms of their voice, but also their dark eyes. The way he always stood beside him were just like the way he protected Mimi.


    ¡°Yin Nian.¡±


    How careless he was as a person for him to not recognize the person he loved.


    Zhang Zhiyin clenched his fists tightly and hung his head. Once upon a time, he simply didn¡¯t dare to imagine this possibility, but even now, the results of all the clues still suspended him in disbelief.


    He must be crazy. Everything about this and all of these these unrealistic ideas were probably his dreams.


    Meng Kali looked somewhat puzzled at Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s ever changing expression because of his one sentence. He stooped down and held Yin Xiaoxiang, and dutifully passed over thest sentence.


    ¡°He wants to see you.¡±


    The next second, the girl¡¯s figurepletely disappeared from the space, as if she had never existed.


    Zhang Zhiyin raised his head nkly.


    The luminous moon hung in the sky, the clouds wafted and gathered. The bright moonlight shone down, and earth seemed to be flickering in between darkness and light.


    Between the light and shadow, a figure stepped on the moonlight and came forward. It was tall and slender as its gaited unhurriedly.


    The long clothes fluttered with the wind along the darkness of the night.


    It seemed as if there was a hand clutching onto his heart, his breathing was stagnating.


    Zhang Zhiyin was in a state of confusion and he subconsciously raised his gun at the person.


    He¡¯s Y, and he was not Mimi now. Facing this man, he only knew how to be passionate but he never dared to think that his feelings would be reciprocated.


    He didn¡¯t realize that his expression at the moment was overflowing with deep love and indistinct grievances.


    Yin Nian.


    The man finally came up to him and he didn¡¯t seem to care that the silver pistol was pressing on his chest.


    He lowered his head slightly, and his ck eyes looked intently at the person in front of him. Then he sighed and held him in his arms. He asked gently, ¡°Zhiyin, if I am not the Y you know, will you still like me?¡±


    Just like how Shang Si had asked him before he died, ¡°If he isn¡¯t what you thought he is, will you still like him?¡±


    He did not wait for Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s answer, but continued to lower his head and spoke with countless emotions that he himself did not understand.


    ¡°I like you.¡±


    ¡°Zhiyin, I like you.¡±


    The silver pistol that was stretched out between the two bodies fell to the ground and rolled far under the rebound.


    Zhang Zhiyin closed his eyes and hugged the person in front of him tightly.


    He still did not understand the current situation nor the meaning of Yin Nian¡¯s words, but he didn¡¯t care.


    From the moment he fell in love with this person, he had chosen insanity.


    There was a kind of person in this world who was timid, cowardly, and they never dared to say what they want loudly. They would only try quietly if they really wanted something. At the same time, they also told themselves that ¡°I don¡¯t want it that much, it¡¯s alright even if I can¡¯t get it, it doesn¡¯t matter whether I have it or not.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was such a person, or his symptoms were more serious than others because he didn¡¯t even dare to give it a try.


    He was afraid of not getting what he wanted, and even more afraid of losing it after getting it. In particr, he did not believe in the so-called feelings of ¡°love¡± between people. His biological parents gave him the best example. How magnificent and passionate was it for them at the start, only for them to fall out in the end. They became estranged and never met each other again.


    He only dared to ce his feelings on a fictitious character who was strong, handsome and capable of subverting the world, and as long as he liked him, he would never refuse him.


    Being like this once made him felt pitiful and hateful for a very long time.


    But at this moment where he held the man in front of him as he closed his eyes gently, he only felt that everything was surreal.


    He said, ¡°Yin Nian, I don¡¯t care who you are. This, is my greatest fortune.¡±


    So, never leave me, never stop liking me.


    For so many years, I have finally found a person who can convince me that he loves me.


    ¡°I like you, Yin Nian.¡±


    I only like you. Since a long, long time ago, in the darkboratory of the game, he was able to get the phrase ¡°My name is Yin Nian¡± out. The person who knew Yin Xiaoxiang¡¯s name was ¡°Dr. Y and Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s son¡± had been apanying him all this time.


    He just never thought that this sentence of confession that he had poured out countless of times, could really be vocalised one day.


    ¡°I like you, Yin Nian.¡±


    On one side of the alley was a low and dpidated brick wall.


    They sat on the pile of bricks and looked at the moon hand in hand.


    Talking about life.


    Yin Nian held the hands of the person next to him tightly. His head was lowered slightly, hiding most of his face in the shadows.


    He said, ¡°Zhiyin, I am not human.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin took his hand back, and like he was still dreaming, he whispered, ¡°It¡¯s alright, I know.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯m also not the virtual character in the game you think I am.¡±


    Yin Nian pressed his hand and continued to speak slowly. ¡°My original code name is yn427. In the eyes of human beings, I may be regarded as an artificial intelligence. Yin Nian is the name I gave myself.¡±


    With the rapid explosive development of science and technology, about twenty years ago, the A Country Global Corporation began the research and development of the artificial intelligence project. In addition to the simple intelligence that could help people simplify their daily lives, they were also studying artificial intelligence that wasparable to or even beyond the level of human knowledge and ability.


    In their ultimate n, the ¡®Human Project¡¯, they tried to produce the ¡®best¡¯ artificial intelligence. They did not expect it to be able to do anything if they seeded. They just wanted to test the effectiveness of their research methods and explore the upper limit of artificial intelligence. Initially, they only created an ordinary artificial intelligence which seemed to be the most advanced at that time, and gave it almost the maximum authority. The only instruction given to it by the humans who created it was to ¡°make itself stronger and more perfect¡±.


    The projectsted for a long time, and most of the experiments were not sessful and had even been destroyed. Yn427 was the most sessful out of all the projects; at least in the eyes of those who created him at that time, he was sessful and perfect.


    ording to the original n, once the experiment had seeded, the finished products would be destroyed immediately after they obtain the data they needed. For human beings at this time, they had yet to be able to control a powerful and unknown intelligence that was far beyond human beings.


    One must know it would be difficult for humans to understand the methods of action behind the body of wisdom that does not belong to humans. They had no human feelings, no human sympathy, no moral sense, no distinction between right and wrong, they would only strictly act in ordance with their established purposes to achieve their goals by all means.


    But yn427 was so perfect that the researchers responsible for implementing the ¡®Human Project¡¯ were reluctant to destroy it as soon as possible. So they revised the original n and started the second phase of the experimental program. They hoped to empower yn427 with emotions, let it understand human feelings and thoughts, and be ¡°humanized¡± in their eyes. This not only made yn427 more perfect, but also greatly reduced its risk of losing control if the n seeded.


    Researchers of the ¡®Human Project¡¯ had came up with thousands of programs to equip yn427 with emotions but they all failed. They eventually tried to build personality for it by ¡°imntation¡±. Initially, they tailored a set of identity background memories for yn427 and tried to imnt them into yn427, but they were rejected by it. Researchers then came up with a solution; they gathered a huge database of all of the existing virtual persona backgrounds around the world and let yn427 match the most suitable identity for itself.


    Finally, the character with the highest degree of matching was from an unpublished online game from country Z, called Dr. Y. The matching degree was as high as 57%, which allowed its incorporation. The excited researchers overlooked how special the identity background of the virtual character was; a mad genius that created the end of the world.


    Who knew if it was fortunate or unfortunate, after absorbing the identity of Dr. Y, yn427 also awakened his own self-awareness. He knew that he was not Dr. Y, but an artificial intelligence born out of an experimental program.


    He learned to imitate human thought process and then act in ordance with human thinking, but it was still difficult for him to have real human emotions.


    He could roam freely all over the world, invade any ce andprehend everything in the world, but he could not help but feel close to Dr. Y¡¯s identity and often stayed at where the virtual image of Y existed.


    Later, he found that there was a special ce and someone often came to find him.


    He would talk to him, give him gifts, hug him, and say he liked him.


    He used his energy to build a new world, which was basically built ording to everything in <Tomorrow>.


    He yed the role of Dr. Y in the world. He was born, he studied, he entered theboratory, and lived like an ordinary person until he created the apocalypse just as ording to the development of the game world.


    ¡°Zhiyin, you make me feel like a human and because I feel like a human, I can be closer to you.¡± Above the low wall, the young man approached his lover and murmured softly.


    In his opinion, even though Dr. Y¡¯s existence waspletely fabricated, his identity was still human. The stronger he was, the more omnipotent he was, the clearer he knew that he couldn¡¯t be a human in any way, he could only ¡°act¡± like a human as far as possible.


    He was afraid that he would not be epted by the person he cared about. He was also afraid that the person liked the image of Dr. Y, which was designed by the game nning team, but not himself.


    ¡°I know that human life is very short, and I don¡¯t n to disturb your normal life.¡± Yin Nian¡¯s eyes were a pure ck, like it was reflecting the sky and moon. ¡°I was going to bring you to this world with me when you died.¡±


    ¡°ording to human understanding, I could split the consciousness and the flesh into two parts. I can connect your consciousness to this world so that you won¡¯t disappear.¡±


    ¡°But that day you had an ident and became very weak. I was panicking. I couldn¡¯t think of any other way than to bring you here ahead of time.¡± Those ck eyes suddenly overflowed with faint sadness and fear as he looked at the person in front of him quietly.


    ¡°Later, I thought for a long time and I still wanted to ask you directly.¡±


    Yin Nian once again held the hands of the person in front of him tightly, and ten fingers were intertwined.


    ¡°Zhiyin, would you be willing to be with me forever?¡±


    The world existed because of you.


    If you don¡¯t want it, it will lose its meaning.

 Chapter 61

    <strong>Chapter 61


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t speak, he only quietly leaned over and buried his face in the other party¡¯s embrace, holding the person tightly.


    For the first time, he really hugged him.


    It was a warm and powerful body, mixed with that person¡¯s unique smell.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s heart skipped a beat.


    He had numerous conjectures about his bizarre experience, and after knowing about the chocte incident and other events, he also implicitly guessed that Yin Nian knew about the two worlds¡ª but he had never thought that the truth was like this. Yin Nian was neither a human nor a game character; and that the world was built on the basis of , and the reason he came here was because Yin Nian wanted to save him from the car ident.


    He raised his head, nced at the moon in the sky and at the chin of the man in front of him, whispering, ¡°Of course.¡±


    Eternality was always a concept that made him feel uneasy. When time was drawn to eternity, nothing was immutable. What¡¯s more, when his lover said forever, then it would truly be forever.


    But his partner was this person, so he was willing. No matter what, he was willing.


    Yin Nian looked very happy, his usual cold face was stained with a child-like smile. He kissed Zhang Zhiyin on the forehead and said lightly, ¡°Wait for me.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin did not fully reflect the meaning behind the two words at that time.


    He began to ask some questions that he did not understand: ¡°Yin Nian... why are you still ying the role of Dr. Y?¡±


    ¡°At first, I wanted to learn to be a human in this way.¡± Yin Nian turned his head and looked at Zhang Zhiyin with a pair of warm and pure eyes. ¡°Later, I wanted to build this world into a ce where we could be together all the time, so I introduced Dr. Yin of Bai Mang Association. If you want to destroy the world, then I will be Y, and destroy the world with you so that you can build the world into what you desire; if you want to save and reshape the world, I am Yin Nian that will revive everything with you... I can be whatever you want me to be.¡±


    When talking about all this, Yin Nian acted very calmly, as if everything is really just a game that could be yed at will.


    Zhang Zhiyin swallowed his saliva, though he knew that he held indifference toward justice and evil, he also had any moral and ethical values. He was simply exining his goal. And right then his goal was just to ¡°build a world that Zhiyin likes and is willing to live with me there forever in the future¡±, as long as this could be achieved, anything was fine.


    Zhang Zhiyin calmly held his hand and touched his nose with his other hand. ¡°I still prefer a stable and prosperous world. Can we quickly bring an end to the apocalypse?¡±


    Yin Nian thought about it. ¡°Suddenly wiping out the zombies and the other forces will break the world¡¯s bnce, if a world is imbnced, it will destroy itself...¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin then interrupted him at this point, ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter. It¡¯s good for us to make the world look like it was before the end of the world bit by bit.¡±


    Although Yin Nian couldn¡¯t break the bnce at will, he could control the speed of time in the world. People in this world couldn¡¯t feel it, but Zhang Zhiyin felt it clearly¡ª he closed his eyes while being inside his lover¡¯s arms and woke up in the real world the next second.


    He switched on hisputer with somewhat excitement and nervousness, logged on to the game, bought chocte and sent it out with a:


    ¡°Good morning [kissing expression].¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin seemed to act much bolder throughputers rather than facing the real person.


    Then he opened the dialog.


    Only to see it say, ¡°Wait for me. Miss you, Y. [Kissing expression]¡±


    This is clearly a foul! Even if we talked about it, you can¡¯t be so reckless! Clearly, they just talked to each other less than five minutes ago. What if the gamepany realize that he was an intruder?


    However, Zhang Zhiyin knew that with the technology of 123 Love Stories, they shouldn¡¯t be able to discover Yin Nian.


    Zhang Zhiyin ruthlessly wiped his face, covered his chest and stood up to wash. He waste for work.


    Unfortunately, his heartbeat did not return to normal until he sat at his desk.


    He spent the whole day in a state of vague contemtion, sometimes he would be distracted, and when he came back to his senses, he realized that all his thoughts were about that person.


    The moonlight was so beautiful that night, and the man was too arousing.


    Zhang Zhiyin sighed and could only make this conclusion.


    He left work, as usual, waited for the subway to go home. Below his apartment, he bought ten yuan worth of steamed buns and carried them upstairs. When he opened the door, the light was on in the room.


    A man was sitting on his little sofa, his ck eyes were shining at him.


    ¡°Zhiyin, you are back.¡±


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Yin Nian exined to Zhang Zhiyin how his body came into being, but Zhang Zhiyin did not understand any single words, he only roughly understood that the main raw material of this body was petroleum.


    But he still listened to Yin Nian seriously.


    He liked the way he talked.


    When an originally cold and alienated person with little words looked at you wholeheartedly and only talked with you seriously¡ª the most important thing was that you never expect this person to appear in your life, Zhang Zhiyin felt that as long as he looked at him, he would be full of joy.


    He silently passed a steamed bun to Yin Nian, thinking that the lord boss he knew would never buy steamed buns for dinner¡ª even if he did, he would have to buy one that costs fifty yuan!


    Yin Nian was very happy to eat steamed buns.


    He was also very happy to talk to Zhiyin.


    When he thought of how he could openly hug Zhiyin, touch Zhiyin, kiss Zhiyin, be with Zhiyin anytime and anywhere, he was even happier!


    It wasn¡¯t easy for him to get together with Zhiyin in the real world. Yin Nian excitedly expressed that he wanted to have Zhiyin and spend every single moment with him.


    So he changed the time ratio between ¡®s world and reality again¡ª he couldn¡¯t cut off Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s connection with casually, otherwise, Captain Zhang of the Thunder Unit would suddenly disappear in that world. So he chose to take the approach of slowing down the time flow of or even pausing it so that Zhang Zhiyin could stay in reality longer, while time wouldn¡¯t pass too fast at the other side.


    That night, Zhang Zhiyin slept normally and did not enter the world of .


    But he was faced with reality¡¯s problems.


    Before, Zhang Zhiyin had never thought about issues such as buying a house, buying a car and starting a family. He also enjoyed living in his small apartment he rented by himself that only had one room and one living room and taking the subway every day.


    But now it was different. There was one more person in the house. Every time he looked at how Yin Nian wore the clothes he bought with Maobao


    <sup>1</sup> while wearing a cool and elegant expression that uniquely belongs to the viin boss as he sat at the normal single bed and the small couch he bought at random from a furniture store, he felt that he had wronged the boss.


    Although when Yin Nian wore the Maobao¡¯s clothes, the effect he brought out was much better than those models, making the clothes on his body looked like they were genuine goods. Zhang Zhiyin still felt that it was his fault¡ª he provoked Yin Nian and lured the innocent boss into his home, but he didn¡¯t have the means to feed him, and couldn¡¯t give him the good life he should have.


    Even more so, every morning and evening, Yin Nian would insist on apanying him to and from work by subway; he stubbornly wanted to pick him up. Zhang Zhiyin was even more reluctant to squeeze his family¡¯s Boss Yin into the subway. Besides, the price of the subway had risen now. It cost ten yuan to go back and forth alone, so it would be better to buy a car.


    Zhang Zhiyin firmly believed that as long as Yin Nian was around and that he had the money to buy a car, then getting a house wouldn¡¯t be a problem!


    The ancients said, ¡°Discipline yourself to conduct your life meticulously, so that you may then put your house in order¡±. Now that his family was bingplete, it was indeed urgently urging Zhang Zhiyin to be a man with career ambitions.


    At that time when his graduation was nearing, he had considered a job. It was high-pressure andpetitive, but it came from a top-notchpany that would be able to give a good sry. At that time, he was afraid of thepetition and losing the selection. He chose to go to his present job without even trying it out.


    Now in front of reality, he had tried to find his ideal job and several other better paying jobs.


    His ideal job was short of manpower. After all, Zhang Zhiyin had actually done more than three years of rted work. Although most of them were documents and materials work, his theory was solid, so he passed the written examination quickly. During the interview, with the addition of the calm andpetent leader temperament he had gained in , he smoothly passed the interview.


    Zhang Zhiyin simply felt that everything had been going well since he and his family¡¯s boss talked about their feelings.


    He went back to his original job for resignation procedures, and his boss was also very sorry, he said recently, he felt that he had performed excellently just as if he had be a changed person. Originally, he wanted to promote him.


    Zhang Zhiyin thanked him and went back to his desk to pick up his things.


    His colleagues were also aware that he was leaving, they cked off around his table and chatted with him, ¡°Xiao Zhang, you are leaving, I¡¯ll have no morepanion for lunch anymore... But you are young, you have all the academic qualifications and abilities, you can do anything and have unlimited prospects.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin said modestly, but he couldn¡¯t help showing off, ¡°In fact, the key is that I have a partner now, he


    <sup>2</sup> recently came to live with me, so I want to save money to buy an apartment to give him a home and let him livefortably.¡±


    Dui Zuole: ¡°Being in a rtionship just makes one different. It¡¯s good that girls are looking for you now. You are down-to-earth, at a nce, you look like you will treat your girlfriend well.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin recalled a sentence on the Inte and said, ¡°No, I¡¯m in charge of making money to support my family. He¡¯s in charge of being beautiful.¡±


    He added in his heart that he wasn¡¯t a girlfriend, he also doesn¡¯t seem to be the boyfriend too. Yin Nian wasn¡¯t even a human... forcibly speaking, could he be counted as a male god?


    In fact, he wasn¡¯t deliberately spoiling the boss. The key was that Boss Yin had no ID card nor a diploma. As an artificial intelligence born in theboratory of A Country Global Corporation, he did not even have a passport!


    He was still wearing Dr. Y¡¯s appearance, but it¡¯s not like he could find 123 Love Stories¡¯ design team and ask them to produce a birth certificate...


    This was worrying, he didn¡¯t know how they were going to get married with their current state.

 Chapter 62

    <strong>Chapter 62


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    The sry of the new job was almost twice the amount of his previous job.


    Although Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t have the means to buy a house at the moment, he moved into a new apartment that had two rooms and two halls, which was twice as spacious as before. Naturally, the rent was also quite high. But when Zhang Zhiyin thought of Yin Nian, he still chose this ce.


    It was almost human nature to be nice to someone you love.


    After moving, Zhang Zhiyin invited Dajia and Dayi to have dinner.


    When they entered the door, they were shocked by Boss Yin who came out.


    In order not to be impolite, the two men kept calm in front of Yin Nian. When Yin Nian was gone, they quietly pulled Zhang Zhiyin aside and asked, ¡°Zhiyin, I see how your friend resembles Dr. Y, the viin Boss you like in the game.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin turned serious. ¡°The world is so big. Don¡¯t be paranoid. He is a decent person.¡±


    Dajia and Dayi were inside their own thoughts.


    Dajia knew that Zhiyin had finally achieved his long-cherished wish. Eventually, he would no longer be a delusional inte youth that was addicted to games. Dayi had always been unpredictable in his thoughts, and at this time it was impossible to know what he was thinking about.


    In fact, Zhang Zhiyin also felt that it would be more troublesome for Yin Nian to continue bearing Dr. Y¡¯s image. After all, there was no such a person who looked so provocative in reality. He mentioned that Shang Si¡¯s appearance looked good but Yin Nian strongly rejected it.


    Yin Nian expressed that Zhang Zhiyin would still prefer his present appearance the most, so he must appear in front of him in his favorite appearance. He was also ustomed to Dr. Y¡¯s identity and appearance, he was unustomed to the change and he would feel that he was dating his lover in someone else¡¯s shell.


    Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t refute it, so he listened to Boss Yin.


    Dajia walked around the house and sighed, ¡°Zhiyin, your home has even more furniture, and it¡¯s bing more and more like a home.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin said, ¡°En¡±.


    His sry was entirely handed over to Lord Boss who would be taking charge of his bank card.


    Yin Nian wanted to drink pumpkin juice, so he bought a blender and asked Zhang Zhiyin to squeeze it for him.


    With this instance as an example, we could see how most of the new equipment came about.


    Zhang Zhiyin could only quietly sigh. Yin Nian, this kind of beautiful species, was indeed a luxurious good.


    Zhang Zhiyin went to work and told Yin Nian to tidy up the house. When he returned, he found that Boss had bought a new vacuum robot from Maobao at 1500 yuan.


    The originally ordinary vacuum had also been remodeled into an all-round household duty robot.


    Zhang Zhiyin once wondered if Yin Nian would think that the vacuum robot was more like his own species. But after expressing his doubts, Yin Nian only unenthusiastically said, ¡°Which part of that running disk that moves around the house do you think resemble me?¡± He looked down upon it with a tone full of contempt.


    Later, Zhang Zhiyin gradually realized that ording to the Lord Boss¡¯s logic, the species ssification was differentiated like this:


    The highest ss: Him.


    The next ss that was very far below him would be the foolish humans and all sorts of animals.


    Then one more ss below: all kinds of stupid things made by foolish human beings.


    Special ss: The cutest, the one and only in the whole world, my family¡¯s Zhiyin.


    But Zhang Zhiyin still felt that the vacuum robot in his house was somewhat weird because of Yin Nian¡¯s remodeling.


    When Dajia and Dayi changed their shoes and sat on the sofa, the disc-like small robot would appear and slide in quickly. Whilst vacuuming, it would shout slogans with its electronic voice:


    ¡°I am Little Fool No. 1 who has been entrusted by Lord Yin Nian to serve Lord Zhang Zhiyin and devote itself to the family¡¯s tidiness and harmony. Today¡¯s goal is still: to be neat and spotless.¡±


    ¡°Dear Lord Zhang Zhiyin, are you satisfied with the service of Little Fool? If you are satisfied, you must remember that you are loved by Lord Yin Nian.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the faces of his two friends and thoughts of banging his head to suicide even came.


    During the meal, Dajia discovered something new. ¡°Zhiyin, you actually have a cat.¡±


    The little white dumpling was sitting in the corner of the table. From time to time, it would rub itself intimately on Zhang Zhiyin and Yin Nian.


    Then it would find a suitable ce between them before nesting itself to sleep.


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°Yes.¡±


    In fact, Yin Nian said that he still had some of the raw material that he used to make his body, so he made Yin Xiaoxiang¡¯s white cat body, and then connected it to Yin Xiaoxiang¡¯s consciousness from the other world.


    The appearance of Yin Nian brought tremendous shock to Dajia and Dayi, but this meal could still be considered a feast for guests and hosts.


    Finally, Zhang Zhiyin and Yin Nian went to the door to see them off. Dayi suddenly turned back and asked Yin Nian, ¡°Do you recognize me?¡±


    Yin Nian looked at him and shook his head. ¡°You are a friend of Zhiyin. I don¡¯t know you.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s close friends were only Dajia and Dayi. Now that Yin Nian had met them, he was considered to have gained the approval of his circle of friends.


    The new job paid high but it also had many tasks.


    Considering how he had Yin Nian at his house right now, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s chosen job had a rtively fixed working time, there wasn¡¯t too much overtime hours, the task could also be taken home toplete, but it was inevitable that asionally, he would have to go out for business trips.


    This time, it would take him two days.


    At 5:30 in the morning, just before dawn, Zhang Zhiyin got up to pack up. He folded the spare clothes and put them in the traveling suitcase. Yin Nian then sat up from the bed, reaching out his hands and hid the clothes inside the nket. He even looked at Zhang Zhiyin with an expression of ¡°I didn¡¯t do anything¡±.


    ¡°Yin Nian.¡± Zhang Zhiyin looked at the time and groaned. He clearly told Boss Yin yesterday and the Lord himself also reluctantly agreed to let him go for the business trip. He had also been making great sacrifices these many days to satisfy all the reasonable and unreasonable demands of Boss Yin. In the end, that morning before he was about to leave, Yin Nian came to make trouble again.


    Looking at Zhiyin putting the clothes from under the nkets back into the suitcase, Yin Nian¡¯s expression darkened. He looked at Zhang Zhuyin, and the corners of his mouth drooped. ¡°I don¡¯t want you to go.¡±


    ¡°I¡¯ll miss you.¡±


    Then he reached out his arms and held him quietly.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s hand was trembling from this seduction and emotion attack, he finally struggled to get out of Yin Nian¡¯s embrace: ¡°Yin Nian, but I¡¯ll have to work. For human beings, only by working can we make money, only with money can we have pumpkin juice to drink, food to eat, and clothes to wear.¡±


    Yin Nian knew that money was very important to Zhiyin. He had countless ways to get it, but he also knew that most people in general would not execute those methods.


    Ever since he came here to find Zhiyin, he had decided to act ording to human¡¯s ways and rules. He would strive to be a good human so that he could apany Zhiyin.


    So he silently let go of Zhang Zhiyin. ¡°Okay.¡±


    As a result, two dayster, when Zhang Zhiyin came back, he heard the announcement of an important decision by Lord Boss.


    ¡°Zhiyin, I¡¯m going to work just like human beings, to earn money and support my family.¡±


    ¡°To support you.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was so touched he instantly became muddled. Yin Nian was so adorable like this.


    But there were still many practical problems, such as identity, education, and so on.


    But before he could open his mouth, Yin Nian silently handed over a paper bag.


    It contained ID card, graduation certificate, driver¡¯s license, all kinds of qualification certificates and a residence registration book belonging to Yin Nian.


    Zhang Zhiyin felt that the residence certificate looked a little familiar. He opened it up and as expected, it was indeed his. Now there was an addition page.


    So when did Yin Nian make himself appeared in his registered residence certificate?


    Yin Nian looked at his family¡¯s Zhiyin who was stunned. He smugly consoled himself that this would be thest time he would not abide by human¡¯ rules.

 Chapter 63

    <strong>Chapter 63


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin was very supportive of Yin Nian¡¯s decision to go out and work. Afterall, earning money was second, while going out to make more contact with society was the most important.


    However, he also had some worries about the consequences of such a high-powered character like Boss residing in his own home. For example, as shown in movies, agents from intelligence agencies of A Country breaking into his home to kidnap himself along with Boss.


    Zhang Zhiyin wasn¡¯t assured of Yin Nian finding a job by himself, so he decided that he would help the boss find a suitable job.


    ¡°Beijing 123 Love Stories Originality Network Technology Co., Ltd. is sincerely recruiting customer service specialists, pays annual leave, five social insurance, one housing fund, and double pay at the end of the year.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the requirements in detail and felt that it was good.


    It was under 123 Love Stories just like the game, and this was the city¡¯s literaturepany customer service, not the game¡¯s customer service, so the tasks given should not be much. Besides, most of the books were read by soft and cute sisters, so they should be easy to talk to and would be safe.


    Yin Nian had no requirement for his work, so he obediently went to 123 Love Stories and requested for the customer service job. He was responsible for managing a Weibo ount called ¡°123 Love Stories customer service¡±.


    When Yin Nian returned from his first day of work, Zhang Zhiyin asked him how he felt.


    Yin Nian pondered about it and said, ¡°It¡¯s good. I received 137 feedbacks andints today. Some of them were solved directly, and most of them were transferred to the technical department for processing.¡±


    The next day Yin Nian came back and said, ¡°Today, I received 128 feedback. Those problems are simr to that of yesterday. They were all transferred to the technical department.¡±


    On the third day of Yin Nian¡¯s return, Zhang Zhiyin asked, ¡°Is today almost the same as yesterday?¡±


    Yin Nian calmly told him, ¡°I applied to transfer to the technical department today, and then solved the feedback I received two days ago.¡±


    A Country, Global Group headquarters, the core R&D department.


    A seeminglypetent middle-aged man was blocking Dr. Yatesi¡¯s desk, who was the head of the research and development team. His face was serious.¡±Doctor, you have to take this seriously. It¡¯s dangerous. In the first ce, you shouldn¡¯t have changed the n without any authorization and let it continue to exist.¡±


    ¡°You¡¯ve said that yn427 wasn¡¯t dangerous. He¡¯s safe and even friendly. It¡¯s under our control. If you just want to say this, I don¡¯t think it¡¯s necessary. ¡± Dr. Yates had a kind smile, with gentle light in his pale grey eyes, and the wrinkles on his face made him look like an ordinary old man.


    The man in ¡®internal control¡¯ raised his voice and sneered, ¡°If by control, you mean stealing billions of dors worth of oil reserves and thetest biological materials in ways we don¡¯t know, and then make apletely anthropomorphic body for itself in a way no one can understand, then it really is under our control.¡±


    ¡°Oh, as you said, he¡¯s cute, isn¡¯t he? Listen to me, he¡¯s kind to human beings. You know, he found himself a human lover and even gave himself a name. It¡¯s nothing for him to use some petroleum. Young people like them are always confused by love, just like my son stealing from his mom when he was in high school to invite girls to the movies. Yn427 is trying to learn to be a human being. I think his behavior should be encouraged. Yn likes human beings and he is willing to be with them and help us live a better life. He won¡¯t cause the end of the world or anything like you¡¯ve said.¡±


    The middle-aged person felt that he was punching on cotton. He was choked until he could not say anything, he could only take a deep breath. ¡°Thepany is not willing to destroy it, I understand, after all, the value of investment in it is much more than those of oil, and we do not know when we will be able to seed in making a yn427 again. But, Doctor, I think you should know better than we do. I read thetest report and I do not doubt that yn427 has the ability to create a world like God. It may even bring immortality or destruction to mankind.¡±


    Dr. Yates still looked at him with a kind smile.


    The middle-aged man sighed weakly and turned away. At the moment of closing the door, he added, ¡°Humans are always ambitious in trying to control things they don¡¯t even know, but doctor, he¡¯s not your son. He is not human, he has no feelings, he knows no good or bad, he only knows how toplete his goals at all costs. While the power to destroy him is still in our hands?¡ª¡±


    With a click, the door was closed.


    Yates¡¯s kind grey eyes flickered, and he took up his cup and sipped his tea.


    Living up to his age, something it was very hard for people to persuade him.


    A young man walked out of thepartment on the back of theb and whispered, ¡°Teacher.¡±


    Yates looked back at him with a smile and said, ¡°Oh, Yi, how¡¯s everything going?¡±


    Dayi closed his eyes and opened them again. He said earnestly, ¡°Teacher, I think Dr. Philip is right.¡±


    .


    Although they would never be tired of being with their loved ones every day, Zhang Zhiyin had not forgotten that they still have a world created by Yin Nian, which would be their eternal home.


    He was still the captain of the Thunder Unit who dealt with the people from Yu Huo Base ruthlessly on the front line. Yin Nian was still the viin boss Dr, Y, and the founder of the missing Bai Mang Association, Dr. Yin.


    Once again, back into the world of <Tomorrow>, time still stayed in the night when he was talking about life under the moon. But the next morning, seeing a series of developments about Dr. Y¡¯s camp reported by the team members, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s mentality was totally different.


    He looked at You Huo Base calmly and cidly. There was an indescribable satisfaction in his heart. Did you know, your ultimate boss had turned his coat and he¡¯s with my base now.

 Chapter 64

    <strong>Chapter 64


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Thunder Unit and Yu Huo Base had entered a situation where their confrontations could almost be regarded as stage-phoning


    <sup>1</sup>. Specifically, on Monday and Wednesday, Yu Huo Base would attack Thunder Unit, on Tuesday and Thursday, Thunder Unit would attack Yu Huo Base. Before sending their people to the battle, they would shout messages to the other side in order to inform them. On Friday and the weekend, both parties would rest and reorganize their units.


    Everyone in the unit were puzzled, no one could exin how exactly did they reach this situation, but they were also secretly rejoicing by themselves because in this way, their strength could improve substantially and the casualty rate would remain low. At present, this was their current situation and there was nothing they could do about it.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s n to upgrade his team¡¯s equipment andbat effectiveness alsounched smoothly.


    Today was a Saturday, a day of ceasefire. Zhang Zhiyin took his team to the instance, ¡°Qiao Rock Cave¡±, which was near the base. This instance was simr to the White Bone Cave, and a drop item, the Giant Suit, was especially suitable for defensive yers.


    The front segment of the Rock Cave was full of mutant beasts and elite zombies. It was easy for the experienced Thunder Unit to clear this instance. The trickiest part of this instance was the boss. Even the strategies on the official forum were not very effective in dealing with it, because this high-level zombie boss had a special ability; shapeshifting.


    The ability of shapeshifting allowed the user to change into all sorts of object the user had seen before and thus, obtaining the abilities of said object. Naturally, the strategy would also change every time the zombie boss shapeshifted itself into something else, so it was very difficult to achieve coordination between the team.


    Correspondingly, the stronger the ability of the object the user had changed themselves into, the more energy the user would have to consume, likewise, the duration of the transformation time would also be shorter. For example this zombie boss only needed one-tenth of its energy to transform into Yin Xiaoxiang, however, to transform into Zhang Zhiyin, a third of its energy would be consumed. Nevertheless, even if it exhausted all of its energy, it would not be able to transform itself into Yin Nian, because the power Yin Nian held wes beyond its capability.


    The zombie boss initially attacked them with his own actual body, after bombarding them with two big moves, it then transformed itself into the members¡¯ appearance and mixed itself within the group. This brought great chaos to the team as they were confused by this disturbance. As its ability level was very high, it was very difficult to distinguish the appearance between the real one and the fake, but there was one thing; the zombie boss could not speak but only imitate the voice it heard before, so the real team members only need to say a long string of words, such as Da Jin who recited Ai Lian Shuo


    <sup>2</sup>on the spot, letting everyone see through the truth and falsehood at once.


    Other members also learned this trick, and for a moment, ¡°In the Quiet Night


    <sup>3</sup>¡± and ¡°I Opened This Road


    <sup>4</sup>¡± emerged endlessly. When it was Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s turn, he did not know which chord in his mind suddenly misyed. He suddenly shouted, ¡°Where are the you in my residence certificate!¡±. The members raised their eyebrows and looked at him, and they were almost attacked by the boss.


    When the boss saw that the n had failed, it let out a long whistle and turned into a giant ck iron-scaled snake with red and blue eyes. It was actually a snake with fire and water elemental ability.


    It swept its long tail and three teammates were swept away as they could not escape in time. Then the huge head of the snake which was nearly one meter wide raised high. The snake king looked at the crowd like a giant disdaining people. It spat out a torrent of water with its widened mouth, the members could not stand stably because of this.


    Zhang Zhiyin was under the stream of water, he slightly avoided some of the direct impact, and he who was drenched raised his arm with his pistol in hand. He directly shot at the giant snake¡¯s opened mouth and hit the internal walls of its mouth.


    In fury, the serpent spat out a fireball at Zhang Zhiyin, it then leaned down to chase and bite at him.


    Zhang Zhiyin, like a hawk, flipped over to avoid the fireball, but he was actually sending himself to the mouth of the giant snake. Seeing that he couldn¡¯t avoid those eerie fangs, Dadao and the rest were all nervous for him as they couldn¡¯t save him in time.


    At that moment, two fire dragons burst into the air with great power, raising their heads and wagging their tails. One after the other, they attacked the giant snake.


    The serpent turned back to dodge. It wrestled with them and was forced to give up its prey.


    After the fire, a young man appeared silently in the rock cave. He was slender and handsome, but his cold expression was implying a ¡®stranger do note close¡¯ atmosphere.


    When Tang Li saw him, he was shaking like a straw house. Inparison to that person, the giant snake in the cave was nothing.


    Xiao Jin, Dadao, Ah Mu, and the rest nodded and greeted, ¡°Dr. Yin.¡± Their expressions were of utter surprise, no one could imagine why the legendary missing Dr. Yin would suddenly appear here.


    Yin Nian nodded at them, his eyelids were slightly lowered, and another five fire dragons whistled out of his hands, pouncing at the giant snake. Then his figure shed, instantly moving to Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s side and took him away from the battlefield.


    The team had reduced the zombie boss¡¯s health significantly, it also consumed a lot of its energy when it transformed itself turned into a giant. It had spent its power and under the siege of the fire dragons, it soon fell onto the ground.


    The defend group went forward to clean up the battlefield and collect the loot.


    Zhang Zhiyin took the opportunity to introduce Yin Nian to the rest of them. ¡°This is Dr. Yin Nian, the founder of Bai Mang Association.¡±


    Bai Mang Association was well-known, so when this remark went out, those who were originally curious about the sudden emergence of this strong person were instantly enlightened. They couldn¡¯t help admiring him.


    Xiao Jin was curious for a long time. Atst the battle was handled, he quickly questioned, ¡°Dr. Yin, aren¡¯t you a dual ability user of space and psychic? Why do you know how to use fire ability too?¡±


    Yin Nian felt that Xiao Jin was familiar and he knew that he had been following Zhang Zhiyin all the while. After thinking about it, he said, ¡°It happened when I went missing. I was in a simr environment with Dr. Y at the beginning of the apocalypse. It¡¯s not surprising that I can activate all three abilities when he can activate every single ability.¡±


    Seeing that Dr. Yin seemed easy to talk to and wasn¡¯t as unfriendly and aloof as the rumors suggested and together with the fact that the captain was standing next to him, Tang Li went on with trepidation, ¡°I met Dr. Y by chance. You look exactly the same as him.¡±


    ¡°Oh, that.¡± Yin Nian took a look at Zhang Zhiyin and answered faintly, ¡°He is my twin brother.¡±

 Chapter 65

    <strong>Chapter 65 </strong>


    Yin Nian followed Thunder Unit all the way to their base. Xiao Jin and Ah Kong finally realized that there were traces of strange ambiance between their captain and Yin Nian from the way they interacted with each other. When Captain and Dr. Yin walked together, the whole atmosphere turned strange.


    Xiao Jin went up and asked in an embarrassed tone, ¡°Captain, have you known Dr. Yin before? I mean before you met him in Hope Base.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin had yet to think about how he should exin when Yin Nian was already perceptive and answered directly, ¡°Yes, I grew up with your captain when I was young. Something happened in the apocalypse and I lost him. At that time in Hope Base, he wasn¡¯t very happy, so he pretended not to know me.¡± This remark was extremely ambiguous, and the pause in the middle of the sentence implied infinite secrets.


    Xiao Jin suddenly remembered that Dr. Yin was also a space ability user.


    He instantly understood as if he hadprehended something.


    Within two days, everyone received a secret order; transfer the captain of the Thunder Unit and the selected 12 elite members back to the alliance headquarters, the Deputy Manager would stay behind to take care of the rest.


    Others wondered what had happened and made guesses in session but Zhang Zhiyin suddenly realized that the original plot had already reached this point, Yun Lietian was likely to be dead.


    In the main plot of the game, it had been introduced that Yun Lietian led his team to an abandoned city upied by zombies in the west to search for something, resulting in his death. At that time, the leader of the Cloud Sky Alliance, Yun Lietian, was still the strongest human in the Human Alliance. He had the strength nearly of a Level 9, and his followers were also powerful Level 7 ability users. Thus, the mysterious city was then called ¡°Fallen City¡±. yers had predicted that the map of ¡°Fallen City¡± and the hidden instance on the west side of the Valley of the Extinct Dragon would be opened at the same time.


    After that, the sessor of Human Alliance, Yun Lietian¡¯s son, Yunchu, who was originally at the peak of Level 7 would implement a series of measures to stabilize the alliance. One of the first measures was to secretly recall the elite forces of the twelve teams and turn them into the sharpest swords they could have in their hands.


    After receiving the news, Zhang Zhiyin chose twelve people and left by themselves. The others, led by Chen Guang, remained in the station. Yin Nian naturally followed him.


    That night, Zhang Zhiyin was tidying up in his room. Yin Nian suddenly appeared out of nowhere and leaned against him. ¡°Zhiyin, it¡¯s time to go back and drink pumpkin juice for the evening.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin had not responded yet when sleepiness abruptly struck. He closed his eyes and fell into darkness. When he opened them again, it was already bright.


    Yin Nian leaned over him and said quietly, ¡°Good morning, it is still me when you wake up. Whatever the world is, you will always see me.¡± He had a very proud look. He kissed Zhang Zhiyin stealthily before he got out of bed and went to wash up.


    It was Saturday, and Zhang Zhiyin could rest. Yin Nian still had to work overtime for half a day longer. He could onlye back when it was 3 p.m.


    Zhang Zhiyin did not forget that Yin Nian said in<Tomorrow> that he wanted to drink pumpkin juice, so he got up and went to the nearby supermarket on foot to buy fresh pumpkins and other daily necessities that hecked at home.


    When he was making the payment, he got a call from Dayi asking him to meet for lunch.


    Zhang Zhiyin bowed his head and thought about it. Anyway, Yin Nian would not be back until noon. Recently, because of Boss, he didn¡¯t get to meet his friends, so he happily agreed.


    Dayi asked him to a private restaurant near his home. They booked a smallpartment and the atmosphere was quiet.


    Seeing himing, Dayi poured a cup of tea and asked him to order food. He never talked much, which made him look like he had loads of things in his mind.


    When the dishes were served, he put down his chopsticks and looked at Zhang Zhiyin, slowly saying, ¡°That Yin Nian at your side is not human. Zhiyin, looking at our years of friendship, you can consider that I have no loyalty toward you and had pitted you, you can me me all you want but this time you have to let go, quickly pull out of this matter.¡±


    The amount of information was a bitrge, Zhang Zhiyin did not respond for a while.


    He knew that Yin Nian was not human, but how did Dayi know? Where did the ¡®pitted you¡¯e from? What did ¡®pulling out of this matter¡¯ means?


    Dayi drank a mouthful of liquor, looked at Zhang Zhiyin andughed bitterly. ¡°I haven¡¯t told you that your Yin Nian is a special kind of artificial intelligence. I am a member of its research team, and my mentor is the main person in charge of this project.¡±


    Dayi gave a brief ount of the origin of Yin Nian to Zhang Zhiyin, which was mostly what Yin Nian had said to Zhang Zhiyin at the beginning.


    ¡°Initially, we could track down yn427, that is, your Yin Nian, and find him active in the game where Dr. Y exists. He is in an overactive state, just like human beings when they are caught in love with their hormone overproducing, then I noticed your connection with him.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was shocked when he heard this. He thought of many details that he used to ignore.


    There are only two close friends around him, Dajia and Dayi, who knew that he yed <Tomorrow> and fanatically liked the boss. Normally, his colleagues at work didn¡¯t even know that he went home to y games.


    When he first showed the tendency of looking for Yin Nian every day and interacting with the virtual image in the game, Dajia tried to prevent his unhealthy and abnormal behavior by taking him out to sing K, watch movies, eat with friends, introduce girlfriends, and so on. But although Dayi initially expressed a disapproving attitude, he always inadvertently gave something like ¡°Everyone has some special hobbies which are normal¡±, ¡°There is a famous XX who likes to collect beetles¡±, ¡°The hobby of Zhiyin is no big deal, anyway, it does not affect his normal work and life¡±, ¡°much better than Inte addicts.¡± ¡®Well, he only went online for up to two hours a day anyway,¡± and so on.


    Among them, Dayi was the oldest, most educated, most experienced, most prestigious and always rational among them. As a result, over time, they all regarded this as an irrelevant hobby of Zhang Zhiyin. No one paid special attention to it anymore, which indirectly encouraged Zhang Zhiyin to insist on his brushing action.


    ¡°When I found out, I made attempts to let others copy what you did, but when others and even the weak AI that were simted chatted and hugged the image of Y in the game, yn427 did not even appear. He showed an disdaining attitude. It was unlike the times when he was facing you with such an active state. I was so enthusiastic at that time because I thought that I was contributing to the cause of human science and was taking another unprecedented step in the history of human science. I didn¡¯t expect the result would be like this.¡±

 Chapter 66

    <strong>Chapter 66</strong>


    ¡°Zhiyin, I¡¯m sorry. I know I don¡¯t deserve to be your friend, but I really didn¡¯t expect this. I only know that you are special to him, but I didn¡¯t expect that yn would create a body to be with you. You are just an ordinary person. Don¡¯t be involved in this matter any more. There is no way he can be your lover.¡± At this point, Dayi bitterly smiled, he took out a card from his pocket and handed it to Zhang Zhiyin. ¡°At the beginning of this incident, I wrote a report and listed you as a special assistant researcher and applied for a specialpensation of one million dors for you. This has already been approved a long time ago, but I don¡¯t know how I should give it to you.


    ¡°Take the money, buy a house and find someone to spend your life with. It doesn¡¯t matter if its a girl or guy, as long as they are human. Really, Zhiyin, this is the normal life that should belong to you.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin stood up, walked around the table and punched Dayi hard in the chest before calmly taking the card. He was saving money now and with this amount of money, it would be sufficient. Besides, this would be evidence of his encounter with Boss. There was no reason for him not to take it.


    What had happened had gone by, and in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s opinion, no matter what purpose Dayi had in that year, this result was the best for him, there was no need for him to pursue other matters anymore. But he was very concerned about Yin Nian. He could sense something from Dayi¡¯s tone, so he wanted to know exactly what, they, wanted to do.


    ¡°Why?¡± Zhang Zhiyin said calmly as he looked at Dayi. ¡°What are you going to do to him that you don¡¯t want me to be involved?¡±


    ¡°Yn427 is dangerous. It is not what you think it is.¡± Dayi raised his chopsticks only to put them back down impatiently. ¡°It stole billions of dors worth of petroleum reserve and thetest biomaterials from A, creating a body that is identical to human beings, but we don¡¯t know how he did it. We¡¯ve lost control of it and we don¡¯t know what¡¯s going to happen.¡±


    ¡°He¡¯s not dangerous. He¡¯s kind and responsible. Last weekend when we took the bus to the park, he even took the initiative to offer to give up his seat to a grandma.¡± Although knowing that it might be useless, Zhang Zhiyin unconsciously defended his lover incoherently. ¡°As for the petroleum, I remember when I was a child, my grandfather taught me to sing ¡®overthrow A imperialist with wild ambitions¡¯ or something. Is him doing that not contributing to our country? Right, you are working for theirpany now, pretend that I didn¡¯t say that. ¡°


    Dayi looked at him frustratedly. ¡°Zhang Zhiyin, don¡¯t you try to change the topic. I¡¯ve already told you that out of the world¡¯s hundreds of millions of virtual character database that has been built, Dr. Y matches him the best, with 57%patibility. An absolute viin who created the end of the world, and he had also sessfully integrated himself with the character¡¯s identity and background. It can only be said that in essence, he is not the little white flower you think he is.¡±


    ¡°There are no absolutely good people or absolutely bad people. Even if Dr. Y is bad, like 70% of him is bad, Yin Nian is not 100%patible with him. Yin Nian might match between 30% good and 27% evil.¡± Although Yin Nian did not appear in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s life as a positive role at first, after being together, Boss Yin¡¯s image in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s heart began to draw close to a kind flower, who was honest, pure, and kind. Even though he knew that Yin Nian was not Yin Little Flower, he tried to show his lover¡¯s sunniest side in front of outsiders.


    ¡°Most importantly, he likes me and I like him too. We n to spend our lives together.¡± Zhang Zhiyin looked at the friend who had been with him for many years and suddenly became serious but also insipid.


    ¡°You really ought to see Dr. Yates. You¡¯re exactly the same in thinking that yn427 is innocent and friendly,¡± Dayi muttered, slightly depressed. ¡°Zhang Zhiyin, I am seriously telling you, although I don¡¯t know why he is acting like that right now, there is no way he will like you, he¡¯s not human. He will not die as long as he¡¯s supplied with proper energy resources; wind energy, nuclear energy, sr energy and even other energy we do not know. He has no feelings, he could not understand all animalistic emotions and instincts. He had no impulse, no, the essence of his existence was to act ording to instructions. The only difference is that he¡¯s out of control now. Instead of acting on the instructions we gave him, he gives himself instructions. Zhang Zhiyin, let me beg you, at first I pitted you and didn¡¯t stop you in time, but you¡¯ll have to face the reality, okay? One day your illusions will be shattered, I¡¯m afraid you can¡¯t ept it.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t want to hear him continue talking. The Yin Nian in Dayi¡¯s description was not the same person as the Yin Nian he knew. He directly asked his most concerning question, ¡°You say you think he¡¯s out of control, then what are you going to do?¡±


    ¡°Destroy it. Now everyone agreed on it, as long as we can convince Dr. Yates. He is really stubborn, obstinately persisting just like you.¡± After saying that Dayi felt that something was wrong, he looked up at Zhang Zhiyin but found that the person had disappeared.


    When Zhang Zhiyin hurried home, Yin Nian was already there. He was watching the Animal World channel leisurely with a notebook in hand.


    Hearing Zhang Zhiyining back, he turned around and looked at his empty hands. He was slightly disappointed and said, ¡°What about the pumpkin juice, Zhiyin, I wantpensation.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin remembered that he had left the pumpkins at the hotel.


    But he couldn¡¯t be bothered about it right now. He just stepped forward and hugged Yin Nian, putting his head on his shoulder. ¡°Yin Nian, I met a man today, he said that they want to destroy you.¡±


    Compensation or what, let him be. As long as he would not disappear just like his worries.


    ¡°En, it hasn¡¯t even been a day or two since they tried to destroy me.¡± Yin Nian understood who they were even if Zhang Zhiyin did not exin. He held his loverfortably and kissed him on the forehead. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, they have no ability at all. They just think they are capable.¡±


    Even after hearing Yin Nian say this, Zhang Zhiyin was still not at ease. He looked up at him quietly.


    ¡°So, Zhiyin, I promise you, as long as you still love me, I will never leave, will never disappear.¡±


    Yin Nian lowered his head slightly and looked at him seriously.


    When acting spoiled, he was just like a child, trying every means to achieve his own goals; at this time, his aura was overflowing the atmosphere, making him seem iparably mature and reliable, as if he could give himself and his whole world to him without any doubts.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked into those dark ck eyes and finally showed a smile.


    ¡°You promised me.¡±


    After dinner, Zhang Zhiyin took out the card that Dayi gave himself and prepared to hand it to Boss as he was always the one in charge of the money.


    As a result, Yin Nian took the lead in taking out a card and handing it to Zhang Zhiyin. ¡°For you, the password is your birthday.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was shocked and did not understand what he meant.


    Yin Nian looked at the ceiling, hisplexion was normal, but there was a faint shyness hidden in his dark eyes. He used his usual cid tone to feign calmness and say, ¡°When I went to work, I heard them saying that in human customs on your side, that the man would be the one to buy the house.¡±


    What in the world.


    Zhang Zhiyin went to the notebook to check the bnce on the Inte with his card, the heat on his face didn¡¯t fade.


    As a result, his ount showed a bnce of 35 million.


    Zhang Zhiyin watched the figure with his hands shaking. Did boss rob a bank because he wanted to buy a house? More urately, ording to his keen criminal record, he should have robbed A¡¯s Federal Reserve.


    As a result, Yin Nian calmly exined that everything was legally earned by his stock spection.


    Amuse me. Although he was not an expert, Zhang Zhiyin, who read newspapers every day, knew that the most prosperous period of the stock market in the past few days had faded. Now the mood of the whole market was so bad. Although the government intervened two days ago and 21 securities dealers jointly entered the market to save the market or something, the whole price trend was still wavering, who could still make so much money in such a short period of time?


    But boss was not a human being.


    In fact, Yin Nian had innate advantages, while he could not forecast, he possessed the strongest ability to collect and analyze information. For him, the whole human society, from macro to micro, had almost no secrets, and the so-called ¡°information asymmetry¡± in the market did not exist for him. In terms of stock spection, through the informationwork, he could instantly understand the actions ofrge financial institutions and even small retail investors, and thus, reflect the price trend of each stock. It was impossible for him to lose money, the only difference was whether he would earn more and/or earn less, and for him to only get back this amount of money, it was because his capital was too little.


    Zhang Zhiyin, in front of his over-powerful lover, sweetly and sadly took back the card he got from Dayi. He would prepare to buy a car for Yin Nian. As Boss said, ording to the human customs here. It was said that one side would buy a house while the other side would get a car.


    It was a pity that he could hardly remember what they were going to do after they bought a car and a house as ording to human customs here.

 Chapter 67

    Chapter 67


    Zhang Zhiyin had already viewed the different apartments earlier on. So, this was settled down quickly. He asked the


    renovationpany to begin the renovation. It was expected that there it would take some time before the renovation


    reachedpletion. But he couldn¡¯t help being happy thinking that he would have his own home soon.


    Even when he returned to the headquarters of Yuntian Alliance and saw Li Shuifeng¡¯s face identally, it did not


    destroy his good mood. He just subconsciously had a little coldness in his eyes.


    At a distance from the headquarters, Yin Nian left and joined up with the members of Bai Mang Association. After all,


    he had a special status, and it was somewhat inappropriate for him to enter the headquarters of the human alliance.


    At this time, Ah Kong, who was following him, felt this anomaly and asked quietly, ¡°Captain, what are you looking at?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin shook his head and pursed his mouth.


    Li Shuifeng wasing in with a group of people, he was wearing the uniform of Mist Unit. On Li Shuifeng¡¯s left arm


    hung a golden badge just like Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s, which was the captain¡¯s logo.


    The twelfth battle units of Yuntian Alliance was named after natural scenery and phenomena, and had different


    uniforms. For example, the Thunder Unit wore mainly ck with silver ents; the Mist Unit¡¯s uniform was mainly


    white, embroidered with blue team logo. Their uniform were made from thetest materials developed by Bai Mang


    Association. They were easy to clean and wear, and even those light-colored clothes were not easy to dirty. In addition,


    the captain had a golden badge on his left arm as a distinguishing feature. On the battlefield, if the captain sacrificed


    himself and passed the badge to someone else, the person would be the next captain.


    The two teams met in the hall. Li Shuifeng also saw Zhang Zhiyin. His pupils contracted quickly. Then heughed,


    reached out his hand, nodded and said with a consistently gentle and steady attitude, ¡°Captain Zhang.¡±


    He must have heard of Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s name before, and thus verified that this Zhang Zhiyin was the one he had


    pushed off the car from. After all, this name was notmon.


    Zhang Zhiyin always felt that it was more difficult to deal with people such as Li Shuifeng than those like You Kun who


    had malicious things written on their faces who liked to make things difficult at the first opportunity. In a minute he could


    want your life but the next he could talk andugh with you. You thought you had a trustworthy rtionship with him,


    but he would just stab you in the back unknowingly; a fatal stab.


    Zhang Zhiyin had long eyshes, and his female colleagues at work sometimes joke that he had false eyshes on.


    Every night when he closed his eyes and slept, Yin Nian would like toe up and kiss his eyelids and eyshes


    before holding him in his arms forcefully and domineeringly.


    At that time, Zhang Zhiyin lowered his eyes to hide his almost uncontroble hatred for a moment. When he opened his


    eyelids again, he could also face Li Shuifeng gently and greet him with a smile, ¡°Captain Li, I trust you¡¯ve been well


    since west met. I heard Captain Li¡¯s water ability is very powerful. I really need to learn from you some day.¡± It¡¯s like


    facing they were facing an old friend they haven¡¯t seen for years.


    Li Shuifeng raised one eyebrow. ¡°Captain Zhang¡¯s ice ability is as powerful the rumor say, each has its own


    adventures.¡±


    Those year at Base No.1 , Zhang Zhiyin showed only an ordinary precise ability.


    Zhang Zhiyin did not speak any more. He smiled politely and turned away with his own people.


    The benevolent see benevnce, the wise see wisdom. He now knew how Li Shuifeng¡¯s water ability came into being.


    In Li Shuifeng¡¯s eyes, his ice ability might not have came righteously. Now Li Shuifeng harbored ulterior motives, he


    was probably a thorn in his eye that he must get rid of it quickly. ording to him, if he could not stirke first and gain


    the upper hand by geting rid of himself, then he would surely make himself disreputable and held no credibility.


    For himself, if a person like Li Shuifeng was allowed to remain, how could he face his brothers who had sacrificed their


    lives out of friendship if his crime was not disclosed to the public?


    Zhang Zhiyin smiled, arranged the team in ce and turned back to his room.


    Know yourself and the other well, one woulde unscathed through a hundred battles. When he shook hands with Li


    Shuifeng, he had ced the enhanced version of the irvoyance beside him. As for the next step in this situation, he


    only had a general direction, he had not yet figured out what to do in order to be absolutely safe, after all, in reality he


    had never experienced simr things.


    Slightly frustrated and ashamed, Zhang Zhiyin opened the door to his room.


    As soon as he entered the room, he saw Yin Xiaoxiang running grievingly to him, holding his feet with his paws and


    ¡°Auwo¡± and ¡°Auwo¡±-d ceaselessly.


    ¡°What¡¯s wrong?¡± Zhang Zhiyin squatted down and embraced Yin Xiaoxiang in his arms, he followed the kitty¡¯s line of


    sight.


    A white dumpling cat with the same style but two sizes bigger than Yin Xiaoxiang, was sitting on his bed with a haughty


    face. Its eyes brightened clearly when it saw him came in.


    ¡°Zhiyin, you¡¯re back.¡±


    That cat could even talk. It¡¯s voice was cool and elegant, it was the intonation he was most familiar with.


    ¡®Yin Nian.¡¯


    Zhang Zhiyin, holding Yin Xiaoxiang in his arms, strode over, pulled the big dumpling on his nape and asked him, ¡°Why


    did you assumed a cat¡¯s appearance?¡±


    He neglected Yin Xiaoxiang for a moment and let go of his hand. Yin Xiaoxiang was dropped on the bed. The kitten


    looked back at the two of them in grievance before running to the foot of the bed to huddle together.


    ¡°I miss you so I came to see you, I thought you would like it.¡± Yin Nian said, and the same grievance appeared on the


    cat¡¯s face just like Yin Xiaoxiang¡¯s. He then took the opportunity to break free and upy Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s arms.


    Yin Xiaoxiang ¡°Auwo¡±-d as a protest.


    Who knew what method Yin Nian used. Wherever Zhang Zhiyin came into the world, Yin Xiaoxiang would alsoe


    along. When Zhang Zhiyin went back, the Yin Xiaoxiang made out of the spare materials would also wake up. At first,


    Yin Xiaoxiang was obviously confused and panicked when it went back and forth between the two ces, but seeing


    Zhang Zhiyin made him feel a lot more at ease. Later, it knew that it could eat, drink and sleep wherever it went, so it


    lived its happy andfortable days again.


    Zhang Zhiyin felt that Yin Xiaoxiang could recognize Yin Nian and his smell. After all, in reality, there were three living


    creatures in his family.


    Yin Nian often assumed the responsibility of feeding the kitten. It probably could not adapt seeing Yin Nian changing to


    its own appearance.


    Cat Yin Nian satisfactorily nested in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s arms, his two meatball ws held Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s neck and made a


    small yawn.


    ¡°And this is more convenient.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin soon understood what Yin Nian meant by ¡°more convenient¡±.


    Dadao and Ah Mu came to his room to look for him. Yin Nian didn¡¯t hide but hung on him so conspiciously.


    Zhang Zhiyin was helpless. Faced with the questioning eyes of his team members, he could only exin in a cursory


    way, ¡°Maybe Xiaoxiang missed its father very much. I don¡¯t know what happened but it came here.¡±


    This was againstmon sense. But it was the apocalypse now. Anything could happen.


    Ah Mu sighed heartfeltly. ¡°This cat is really powerful, but Captain, Xiaoxiang is a variant breed, it¡¯s no wonder.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin grinned stiffly, thinking that you would never guess that the cat was the most powerful person in the world.


    But Yin Nian seemed to be unaware, like he was really a cat who couldn¡¯t understand what they were talking about. He


    kept rubbing itself and licking Zhang Zhiyin. He enjoyed himself very much.


    The three chatted for a while about the current situation. Zhang Zhiyin told them about Li Shuifeng. He pushed the


    reason as to why he had an ice ability to a pill that Yin Nian had given him before his death. Anyway, they all knew now


    that they and Dr. Yin of Bai Mang Association and him were so-called two little chilhood sweethearts who grew up


    together. He exined that he was dying after being attacked by a zombie. Out of desperation, he swallowed the only


    medicine on his body. Unexpectedly, he not only repaired his body function, but also awakened the ice ability.


    As for the loopholes in the words, let Dr. Yin fill them in the future. Zhang Zhiyin took a look at white cat, who looked


    even more innocent and yful than Yin Xiaoxiang in his arms. He pinched his short leg.


    The cat gave him a strange look.

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    <strong>Chapter 68


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    A person must have several people who he could confide in and would support his back. Despite Li Shuifeng¡¯s shrewdness and betrayal, Zhang Zhiyin never lost trust in others and he especially trusted several of his team members. After You Kun¡¯s incident, he learned to share his problems and difficulties with them and brainstorm together.


    Among these people, Dadao and Old Zhu had rich experience and was good at guessing people¡¯s intents. Xiao Jin and Ah Kong had keen thinking and could oftene up with various new ideas. Although Ah Mu seemed to be slightly inarticte, he was practical and cautious, which was most helpful to remedy his shorings. With them, they could make up for Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s ws to arge extent.


    Dadao proposed, ¡°It is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one¡¯s character. If Li Shuifeng was able to do such a thing, he wouldn¡¯t be the so-called role model of wholeheartedly serving the alliance for the greater cause of human revival. Selfishness and greed are his most prominent nature. Everyone has their self-centeredness and greedy side, but ordinary people will discipline and restrain themselves from hurting others because of these inherent nature, but this Li Shuifeng obviously will not. As long as you keep an eye on him, we will surely find out about his immoral conduct. Or else, we can set up a trap and directly entice him, we¡¯ll not be afraid that he will not leave any information behind that can be used against him. It was very difficult to find evidence of that year. But in order to bring justice to the deceased, it is better to start by tearing his facade apart. At this end of the world, everyone fears and dislikes people such as Li Shuifeng.¡±


    The three chatted for a while and gradually sort out their thoughts on how to reveal Li Shuifeng¡¯s true colors.


    As soon as it was time for dinner, Zhang Zhiyin, Dadao, and Ah Mu went to the canteen to eat.


    The Cloud Sky Alliance¡¯s headquarters were built on the original Yuntian Base. With itsrge scale, perfect facilities, and safety protection work, it also became known as ¡°thest refuge of mankind¡±, meaning that even if other ces were upied by zombies, this ce could still preserve thest of humanity¡¯s strength.


    The Thunder Unit was assigned to the dormitory adjacent to Storm Unit¡¯s dormitory. The two teams also chose to eat at the same canteen hall on every asion. That canteen wasn¡¯t big and the people there were scattered around, eating their meal, however the most prominent sight was of ck uniforms and green uniforms, with killing intent assaulting in the air. The two teams were not familiar with each other, Zhang Zhiyin only nodded to each other when he came in.


    The captain of the Storm Unit was also a wind elemental ability user. She seemed to be no more than thirty years old, a very neat looking woman. When she saw Zhang Zhiyin, she smiled softly and showed a hint of mild consideration. He had to admit that she was a very attractive elder sister.


    The white ball in Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s arms saw him smiling at her, so he pretended to be clumsy, and abruptly hit him in the chest with his head.


    Ah Kong, who arrived earlier than them, saw this scene. ¡°Ai, Captain, when did Xiaoxiang grow so big and learns to be violent when it¡¯s jealous?¡±.


    Ah Mu exined honestly, ¡°That¡¯s not Xiaoxiang. The captain said it¡¯s Xiaoxiang¡¯s father and he doesn¡¯t know how it came about.¡±


    Xiao Jin who was drinking soup at one side said, ¡°It seems to me that captain and Dr. Yin each raised a cat, one big and one small. Now that Dr. Yin left, he wasn¡¯t at ease and even sent his cat over to look after the captain so that he will not mess around.¡±


    Ah Kong nodded his head, but he could not help thinking about the special crying kitten he had seen when he was caught at Yu Huo Base, which was loved by Dr. Y. It looked like this one, too. Yin Xiaoxiang was a very special breed, so far he had only seen these three. But Dr. Yin said that Y was his twin brother, and there was no exnation for it. The captain did not mention it, and so they did not ask about it in detail.


    The Storm Unit was at the table next to them, they could hear each other if they speak in a louder voice.


    They listened to a big man saying, ¡°I heard that the missing Dr. Yin from Bai Mang Association has been found. Dr. Yin was praised as the light of the apocalypse. Without the many technologies he and Bai Mang Association have provided, we wouldn¡¯t be able to settle down so quickly. It was good for him toe back. But Yang Fu was at a disadvantage because of his disappearance, and could never be the leader of the alliance. Now that the old leader is gone, Dr Yin is back, and Yang Fu is out of touch, do you think things will change?¡±


    The captain of the Storm Unit bent her left palm and knocked on the table. ¡°Watch your words.¡±


    The big man stopped talking at once.


    The people at the side once again mentioned Yu Huo Base, Yu Huo, Dr. Y, and so on. Suddenly, a young man stood up and asked Zhang Zhiyin, ¡°Captain Zhang, you fought all year long in Yu Huo Base, have you seen Dr. Y? Does he really look like what the rumor said? Especially terrifying?¡±


    The Thunder Unit¡¯s members said in their heart, <i>exactly like the ¡°light of the apocalypse¡± you¡¯ve just mentioned.</i>


    Zhang Zhiyin inwardly said, <i>he¡¯s right in front of you, this silly cat that amused himself by stealing my food.</i>


    But since the other party kindly asked, Zhang Zhiyin could only talk about their dailybat matters, Xiao Jin alsoplemented and added, after some time, the two teams were chatting together, no one was concerned about the problem of ¡°Dr. Y¡¯s appearance¡±.


    The real Dr. Y yawned quietly and stole small ribs from his bowl while Zhang Zhiyin was inattentive.


    Thanks to the technical support of Bai Mang Association and the fighting efforts of frontline powers, the nting and production areas of various bases had been expanded. Large bases such as Cloud Sky Alliance Headquarters had been able to provide normal rice noodles and a small amount of vegetables daily, people wouldn¡¯t have live on nutrient solution only. Like today, when most of the teams were reporting to their headquarters for the first day, they had been provided with a small amount of meat for their reception.


    A member of the team who had already eaten his meal since a long time ago looked at the mutant cat who was eating spareribs happily in the captain¡¯s arms. He thought that the cat was really spoiled. After all, meat was a luxury for most people now.


    He could not help sighing. ¡°Captain, you are very kind to your cat.¡±


    Ah Kong answered, ¡°Captain is not that much. The most spoiled cat I have ever seen is Dr. Y¡¯s cat. When I was confined in Yu Huo Base, I heard that Dr. Y had invited a chef to cook for his cat. When I was caught, I saw the cat running and falling down, purring on the ground pitifully. As a result, all the viins in Yu Huo Base became very nervous. ¡°


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s expression was embarrassed, Don¡¯t talk about such a humiliating experience, although nobody knew that he was the protagonist.


    Yin Nian looked up at Zhang Zhiyin with his cat¡¯s face, he felt as if his achievements had been unanimously affirmed.


    After dinner, Zhang Zhiyin took the cat back to the room. He just locked the door and sat on the bed when his vision went dark. When he opened his eyes again, he found that the cab and chairs in the room were much more bigger, like it was a huge monster. Then he looked down, his four legs were white and soft and he fell down on the bed carelessly.


    ¡°Auwo.¡± Zhang Zhiyin opened his mouth and uttered a pitiful whimper.


    In front of him, the Cat Yin Nian, standing tall and upright, looked at him with great pride.


    The little cat that was still his arms the previous minute was now clearly one size bigger than him. When he was a human, he was taller than him. When he was a cat now, he was still bigger than him. He simply couldn¡¯t endure it.


    Needless to say, it must have been Yin Nian¡¯s doing for him to be a cat.


    Yin Xiaoxiang was still nested in the corner, looking at them curiously.


    Then Yin Xiaoxiang saw the other two white dumpling cats rolling and twisting their limbs together, rolling on the bed.


    It seemed fun.


    Eventually, Zhang Zhiyin lost. He could only bury himself in his pillow whileining. Clearly, Yin Nian became a cat and could still speak. He could not talk when he became a cat. He was clearly treated differently.


    The truth was that Yin Nian enjoyed how, when Zhiyin turned into a cat, he would look at him with tears his eyes a miserable voice, though every time he saw this appearance of Zhiyin, he would even forget his surname.

 Chapter 69

    <strong>Chapter 69


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Soon after, the pillow cloth was lifted by Yin Nian¡¯s w and the aggrieved little white ball, Zhiyin, who hid underneath it was exposed.


    ¡°Ao?¡± Zhang Zhiyin stretched out his paw toward Yin Nian in dissatisfaction, twisting his little buttocks as he ran over to chase the pillow cloth. As a result, he was pressed down again even before he could take a few more steps.


    Relying on the advantage of his body size, Cat Yin Nian pressed Cat Zhang Zhiyin under his body.


    ¡°Aowu aowu aowu-¡± Zhang Zhiyin waved his four short legs and swung them around unhappily, trying his best to beat Yin Nian with his meat pads. <i>This is enough, turn me back to a human if you dare, what¡¯s the meaning of turning me into a cat?</i> Zhang Zhiyin red with his bright ck eyes. It was full of spirit and brimming with fighting will.


    As a result, Yin Nian held him down easily with one paw.


    Ah Kong and Ah Mu¡¯s voices were echoing from outside.


    ¡°Why does Captain¡¯s cat keep calling? Did something happen?¡±


    Then came the sound of Ah Mu¡¯s knocking on the door. ¡°Captain, Captain, Captain¡ª¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was all at once stunned and dared not make any sound. He looked at Yin Nian foolishly, hinting him to find a solution quickly, or he could also turn himself back!


    However, Yin Nian held him tightly with his four short legs, closed his eyes and pretended to be dead. He didn¡¯t show any reaction at all.


    Zhang Zhiyin was also angered to tears. He used his small meaty paw and hammered the pillow in hatred.


    His beloved was powerful yet unreliable. Such a life was too difficult to live.


    Seeing that there was no response, Ah Mu and Ah Kong discussed for a while, they were afraid that something might have happened so they went to get the key to open the door.


    Only to see two white dumpling cats with four pairs of fluffy short legs tangled together. They were embracing and sleeping well at the moment.


    ¡°The captain is not here, he probably went out. Seems like there is nothing wrong. It should be the captain¡¯s cats ying just now and got tired, so they are sleeping now.¡± Ah Mu said.


    It¡¯s not ying! It¡¯s *! Zhang Zhiyin shouted in his heart, but on the surface, he was still a good cat sleeping soundly.


    Ah Kong could not help whispering, ¡°The captain¡¯s cat is so obedient and cute. The cat even knows how to take care of the kitten and hug it to sleep!¡±


    Then they closed the door and went away.


    Zhang Zhiyin reckoned that he was mistaken for Yin Xiaoxiang who was sleeping in the quilt.


    Zhang Zhiyin used his little paw and patted Yin Nian for a while and saw that the other party¡¯s remained unmoving, hugging him tightly even if Mountain Tai copse in front of him. He wheezed and simply closed his eyes and slept.


    Anyway, that wasn¡¯t the first time he had be a cat so he was long used to this. This time, Yin Nian was also a cat and he didn¡¯t need to undergo getting groped likest time.


    Thinking of this, Zhang Zhiyin suddenly realized a problem¡ª ording to what Yin Nian had confessedst time, he had always known that ¡°Mimi¡± was himself¡ª then, didn¡¯t that mean he had deliberately yed with him?


    Zhang Zhiyin grew anxious again and he struggled to wave his meatball paws, focusing on hitting his face. His small tail also swung, and regardless of whether he would be able to hit him or not, he vigorously struck at him.


    As a result, just like how powerful he was as a human, Yin Nian¡¯s paw mped him down and patted him with the other paw soothingly. ¡°Zhiyin, be good, sleep.¡±


    On the second morning, without needing Zhang Zhiyin to say anything, Yin Nian had already turned him back into human. He continued to upy Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s arms and nestedfortably.


    Yin Xiaoxiang foolishly watched the two men leave as it sat at the bedside. ¡°Ao?¡±


    It was said that Yun Chu had summoned sixbat unit and assigned tasks to them yesterday. Today he continued to summon the remaining six units.


    Along the way, until the conference hall, everyone looked at Zhang Zhiyin, particrly at the white cat nested at his arms, looking especially contrast against the ck uniform.


    Zhang Zhiyin had to keep exining,


    ¡°My cat is more capricious than I am, he must be with me, I can¡¯t control him.¡±


    ¡°Yes, my cat is the boss, he controls all the money in the house.¡±


    ¡°I couldn¡¯t beat him either. Every time I was suppressed by his strength.¡±


    Others just thought that Zhang Zhiyin was joking, and they allmented that the captain of the Thunder Unit was actually so humorous and doting of his cat. Little did they know that every blood and tears-inducing sentences of Zhang Zhiyin were true.


    At the meeting, Yun Chu confessed to them that Yun Lietian had been killed.


    Although rumors had surfaced, everyone still could not hide their surprise when this piece of news was confirmed. For a long time since the end of the world, to a veryrge extent, the ¡°first master¡± Yun Lietian was no longer a person, but a symbol in everyone¡¯s mind.


    This matter could not be concealed for a long time, all kinds of rumors had been rising, if it were to be concealed again, it would only be more difficult to control the situation. It was clear that the headquarters of the Alliance would officially publicize this information tomorrow and that a second conference of the Alliance would be held in two weeks to elect a new leader.


    Thunder, Mist, and Storm Unit were assigned to guard several core areas of the Alliance.


    After the meeting, a middle-aged man came quietly. He asked Zhang Zhiyin to go, saying that Yun Chu had called him.


    Yun Chu¡¯s appearance was basically the same as that in the game, he still had the demeanor of a young master. The only difference was that he looked even more real.


    After seeing Zhang Zhiyin, he greeted him and inquired about some matters regarding Yu Huo Base before going straight to the point. ¡°Captain Zhang, I want to ask you one thing. During this period of time, please be sure to protect Yun Chu thoroughly.¡± With that, he bowed deeply.


    Zhang Zhiyin hurriedly agreed, but he could not help getting lost in thought inwardly; he remembered a plot of the game ¡ª when he was a game yer, he worked with the Thunder unit to undertake the task of protecting Yun Chu. The day before the General Assembly began, a wave of invaders came. Of course, in the game, Yun Chu, a Level 8 ability user, had no use at all. The legendary captain of Thunder Unit with bersek attacking power was also unable to put up much of a fight, as the storyline progessed, the captain of the Thunder Unit then helped Yun Chu block an attack, fell and died.


    Li Shuifeng who was the nearest to him led the Mist Unit toe in time and beat back the invaders.


    It was also because Li Shuifeng¡¯s appearance at thisst moment was too cool that he gained so much poprity. Likewise, in the game, Li Shuifeng¡¯s prestige had greatly increased. After this task, the Thunder Unit did not appoint a new captain again, instead it was directly led by Yun Chu and became the first unit in name.


    Yun Chu was one of the characters in <Tomorrow> that had huge changes to his personality.


    The game official felt that character design of the viin, Dr. bossy, was made too fashionable, causing the viin faction to have arge number of the ¡®good-looks clubs¡¯ fans, and even Lei Dun with his passers-by¡¯s appearance because of his ¡°silent, few words¡±, ¡°save the show in time¡±, ¡°powerful¡±, ¡°viin big shot¡± and so on had caused him to gain quite a number of fans, therefore,pletely crushing the rightest faction.


    They rethought for a while, and concluded that the poprity of viins and supporting characters were amon phenomenon. But the image of Yun Lietian, the traditional ¡°uncle hero who knew how to plot¡±, was not popr at the moment. So his sessor, who had a very low sense of presence, Yun Chu, was designed to be a graceful young master that was ¡°broad-minded and righteousness¡±, ¡°not less powerful than his father¡±, ¡°the pupil that surpasses the master¡± while at the same time, where his ¡°methods and intelligent would not lose to anyone else¡±.


    But it might be because of the rushed work, the plot rted to him had not been designed well. If he wasn¡¯t looking weak and often needed the protection and sacrificial of others, then he would be overly Virgin Mary. The game official had made a few more plots to make up for his image of being the frequently roasted Virgin Mary. As a result, he seemed to be extremely sinister and cunning. Not in the least did it help his image, it just made him looked like he had a spilt personality.


    Zhang Zhiyin knew nothing about what kind of person this Yun Chi would be in this world, considering that he had been yed spoil by the game official. But he had nned one thing¡ª the gathering of delegates from all sides of the alliance conference was absolutely the best time to tear off Li Shuifeng¡¯s face, and this time, as the leader of the Thunder Unit, he would not die, nor would he allow Li Shuifeng to use the opportunity to raise his prestige.

 Chapter 70

    <strong>Chapter 70


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Thinking of the game plotline, Zhang Zhiyin suddenly thought of another person who could maybe help him deal with Li Shuifeng ?¡ª he was the person in charge of Base No.1, the head of the western district, Eaglehead Captain¡¯s younger brother. In the game, he would issue the task, which also meant that he would be deeply attached to the Captain Elder Brother and will never forget him.


    Dadao was right. Li Shuifeng was selfish and greedy. At the same time, he must be feel guilty. Because of the guilt in his heart, he would show an unusual appearance in the face of Zhang Zhiyin and he would want to get rid of him. These three points could serve as a breakthrough to reveal him.


    Two weeks after the conference, the invitation letter had been sent out along with the news of Yun Lietian¡¯s death. Base No. 1 was the nearest base to the headquarters, and its representative would be here soon. What Zhang Zhiyin had to do was to win his trust.


    Before that, however, he needed help from someone, and he would be the only person in the world who was sure to help him.


    Zhang Zhiyin returned home with cat in Nian in his arms, he closed the door before giving warning first, ¡°Yin Nian! You mustn¡¯t turn me into a cat today. I have something important to talk to you about! ¡°


    Cat Yin Nian lightly jumped onto the bed, changed back to his original appearance and patted the post beside him. ¡°Sit down and talk.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin obediently walked over and sat down. ¡°Can you help me interfere with a person¡¯s dream?¡±


    He knew that in the game, a Level 8 psychic ability user could choose to learn three dream-rted skills; continuous health lost nightmare attack skill, decrease skill dream and increase skill dream. Presumably in this world, these three skills really had the effect of influencing other people¡¯s dreams, and Yin Nian could certainly do it.


    Although it was an inquiry, but in private, Zhang Zhiyin had already affirmed that Yin Nian would agree to help him! After all, what was the rtionship between them!


    As a result, Yin Nian looked at him as he supported his cheeks, his eyes blinking, saying softly, ¡°Beg me.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    Where on earth did he learn these tricks?!


    Seeing that he did not respond, Boss Yin turned his head deliberately and raised his voice, ¡°It¡¯s fine if you don¡¯t wanna beg for it~ You probably would not be able to find any high level psychic user besides me.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin gritted his teeth and said, ¡°I can find Xiao Mo.¡±


    Yin Nian pondered about it; Xiao Mo is Meng Kali. Right on the spot, he spoke to him through space and time with a straight face and serious voice, ¡°<i>No dream-rted psychic powers are allowed to be used until the next month.¡±</i>


    Then he resume turning his head and looked at Zhang Zhiyin. ¡°So beg me.¡±


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    At Dr. Y¡¯s base, where Lei Dun and Meng Kali stayed behind to take care of things.


    Lei Dun felt the fluctuation of space and came up to him and asked, ¡°What are Boss¡¯s new orders?¡±


    Meng Kali shook his head and then nodded them again, telling Lei Dun with his psychic power, ¡°Until next month, Boss does not allow me to use any dream-rted psychic ability. Do you understand what this means?¡±


    Lei Dun looked at the ceiling and meditated for a moment, then he patted Meng Kali resignedly on the shoulder. ¡°I think it¡¯s already good to just act ording to what the boss says. As for the reason ?¡ª it¡¯s not necessary to know.¡±


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    ¡°Please,¡± Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t lose his temper but powerlessly said.


    ¡°That¡¯s not correct,¡± Yin Nian frowned, ¡°you humans will be like this in this situation¡ª¡±


    He used his psychic energy to create a virtual scene in mid-air instantly. Zhang Zhiyin looked up and saw that it was a popr 10 pm soap opera that was broadcasted on TV daily. The female lead¡¯s mouth was pouted slightly as she tugged at the sleeve of the male lead and swung it around. With a coy, expressive, aggrieved, and delicate voice, she begged, ¡°Lin Gege, please~~~~!¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin took a deep breath and could only try to exin it as best as possible, ¡°Yin Nian, listen to me, we normal human beings are not like this.¡±


    This kind of brainless show shouldn¡¯t be watched! Don¡¯t mention about teaching the wrong stuff to children, misguiding the big size AI is not good too!


    At the beginning, he should have ordered Yin Nian to go to bed at 10 o¡¯clock every day, so that he would not squat on the sofa with Yin Xiaoxiang to watch TV!


    Yin Nian raised his head slightly with an indifferent face. This kind of indifference was not his usualck of human emotions indifference, but a new, emotionally rich, unreasonable indifference.


    ¡°I don¡¯t care,¡± he said coldly. ¡°I want that.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin felt that Boss was either stimted or infected with a virus today. He decided not to argue with a poisoned AI.


    Anyway, he had no other alternatives, it wasn¡¯t like he hadn¡¯t said even more shameful words to the person in front of him.


    So Zhang Zhiyin sighed and said, ¡°Yin Nian...¡±


    Before he could finish his sentence, boss lowered his head slightly and stared at his sleeve; the implication was obvious.


    At the same time, he softly reminded him, ¡°Gege.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin could only grasp his white sleeves with his hands, swung them around and softly asked, ¡°Yin-Gege, please? En? ¡°


    Not coy, not delicate, not expressive, but he nailed the pitiful appearance.


    Yin Nian¡¯s heart melted into a puddle of water and his eyes even turned into hearts. He hugged the person into his embrace and rubbed his head. ¡°Be good, Yin-Gege will agree to whatever you want.¡±


    Yin Xiaoxiang drilled out of the corner of the nket and nced at the two people in front of itself. It made a soft ¡°Ao¡± sound and its expression became even more dull.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Li Shuifeng began to dream frequently.


    He didn¡¯t know if it was because he had met Zhang Zhiyin again and afterwards, his thoughts turned into dreams. He dreamed that none of the people of that year were dead. The captain, Lao Ma, Da Hu... They all stood in the darkness and looked at him with unfathomable eyes.


    They said over and over again in a light, unshakable tone just like a blowing wind, ¡°Li Shuifeng, do you think we¡¯re dead? You think nobody knows except Zhang Zhiyin? Li Shuifeng, we know more than you think... It¡¯s not just about the matters of causing our deaths.¡±


    ¡°Reputation swept away, wasted efforts, all of it is futile...¡±


    There was also a sharp, tuneless tone of a female role in Chinese opera floating around, singing a y of unknown origin.


    ¡°Schemes were frustrated, mistakenly throwing away your dear life...¡±


    Then all those people who were murdered by him appeared and disappeared in a constant busy cirction. Men and women, old and young, with different voices, all repeated the same sentence in a single tone,


    ¡°Li Shuifeng, wait for me...¡±


    ¡°Wait for me...¡±


    Once, twice, three times, four times, after a long time, he wasn¡¯t even sure whether the people he saw in his dream were ghosts or humans.


    With the approaching of the date of the conference, the representatives of each base also arrived one after another.


    Base No. 1 was indeed the first group to arrive. When Zhang Zhiyin once again saw Younger Brother Captain, he became certain. Sure enough, Younger Brother Captain¡¯s appearance was somewhat simr to his brother, and it¡¯s difficult to distinguish them apart for those who were not familiar with him.


    The reaction of the captain¡¯s brother was simr to what he and Old Zhu had expected. After listening to what Zhang Zhiyin said, the middle-aged man, who was obviously weathered and grey-haired, just raised his head and looked at Zhang Zhiyin with cautious eyes. ¡°How can I believe what you said is true?¡±


    At the beginning of the end of that year, the base had just been established, and there were numerous deaths and injuries and frequent poption changes. Even the data collected by the teams at that time could not be preserved in the base. If it were not for Zhang Zhiyin, he would not even know who was on the team at that time. The situation reported by the search and rescue team at that time simply consisted of four words; <i>the whole army was destroyed.</i>


    Zhang Zhiyin shook his head. ¡°You don¡¯t have to believe me. You¡¯ll know if you try it out yourself.¡±

 Chapter 71

    <strong>Chapter 71


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    The captain¡¯s younger brother was called Ma¡¯ao and like what Zhang Zhiyin had suggested, he decided to test it out.


    Zhang Zhiyin believed that he woulde back to him. This was the end of the world, there weren¡¯t any ces for procedural justice or morality. Whether Li Shuifeng¡¯s conduct and deeds were as Zhang Zhiyin had said, as the captain¡¯s younger brother, Ma¡¯ao would evaluate based on his own judgement.


    And he vaguely felt that this would be the locus of the plot development. Considering the importance of Li Shuifeng¡¯s role in the game, the quest that Ma¡¯ao would set for the squad would by no means be ordinary. Zhang Zhiyin inferred that this might be one of the prelude quests.


    Moreover, if he did not exist in this world like in the original game scenario, Ma¡¯ao should definitely y the important role of exposing Li Shuifeng¡¯s true facade That was why it was imperative for Zhang Zhiyin to pull Ma¡¯ao into this situation. Yin Nian said that at the beginning of the construction of this world, he also integrated the plot, settings, characters, etc of the game without filtering anything out. This world would actually continue to improve and develop through drawing his power, bing more and more realistic and strong, at the same time it would regenerate power to repay Yin Nian. But it also meant that it wasn¡¯t easy to change some of the trajectory of the plot development in the game, otherwise the world would lose its bnce.


    With Ma¡¯ao in the mix, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s n would move even more smoothly.


    However, Ma¡¯ao hadn¡¯t yete back to find Zhang Zhiyin, and the plot had already progressed to the stage where the intruders were going tounch a sneak attack


    Zhang Zhiyin had prepared for everything and took the initiative to get in touch with the Storm Unit¡ª the Thunder Unit and the Storm Unit were responsible for safeguarding the same location in two shifts. The Thunder Unit would be in charge at the night before the conference to dawn while Storm Unit was to take guard after dawn. In fact, the captain of the Storm unit took the initiative and sought Zhang Zhiyin out.


    The captain of the Storm Unit scuffed her clunky boots and twiddled her hair, seemingly to be searching for suitable words. ¡°I don¡¯t think I should be saying this... but something fishy is going on, it would never be this quiet on the eve of the conference... I feel that Yun, Yun Chu¡¯s arrangement isn¡¯t very appropriate. No one will show up at the meeting confidently early in the morning¡ªbecause on that asion, all the heads of the bases will be gathered together, bringing along the strongest abilities users in the base... at least looking at the probability, it¡¯s much lesserpared to tonight. I know that the Thunder Unit is very powerful, but we are always ready to help out at all times. If you need anything, feel free to contact us.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded. ¡°I believe we will need your assistance. I have the same thoughts as you do.¡±


    The captain of the Storm Unit smiled and pointed to themunication device on her waist before waving at him and stroding away.


    The night came around, Dadao was inmand of the team members stationed outside while Zhang Zhiyin and four other members stood guard near Yun Chu.


    If the event wasn¡¯t set to take ce at the headquarters of the Alliance, Zhang Zhiyin wouldn¡¯t have bothered to take responsibility for Yun Chu¡¯s life or death. He firmly believed that as a Level 8 ability user, Yun Chu was more than able to secure himself, rather than have Zhang Zhiyin sacrifice his own team members to try and save him. At least from what he gleaned from the game and based on the brief contact he had with him today, Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t see what role this young man who was about his own age could have in saving the world from the apocalypse. His father, Yun Lietian, really did have an unusual charisma and ability to bring people under his fold, but Zhang Zhiyin felt that on the strength of power, leadership skills, and many other aspects, Yun Chu and Yang Fu were on par. This might have stemmed from his personal prejudice, because even in the game, Zhang Zhiyin just didn¡¯t like Yun Chu¡¯s role. He even thought that for Yun Chu to progress at such a deviant speed in the middle andte stages was merely because the game nning team wanted to introduce his character to the storyline.


    However, in this situation, Zhang Zhiyin could only protect Yun Chu as if he was an in-game NPC tasked to protect a character.


    Yin Nian also followed Zhang Zhiyin, sometimes peeking out from the pocket of his jacket. When there was no one around them, he¡¯d mewl loudly, but when there was someone around, he acted like he didn¡¯t exist.


    Ah Kong had once quietly asked him, ¡°Captain, why did you bring Daxiang out with you?¡±


    ¡°Daxiang¡±. This name wasn¡¯t what he¡¯de up with in the first ce. At first, the members started calling Yin Nian ¡°Yin Xiaoxiang his father¡± Later, perhaps, they felt that this was too inconvenient, so gradually, he was called Daxiang.


    Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t say that he was forced under Boss¡¯s tyrannical abuse so he could only stammeringly say, ¡°Daxiang has its own ability. It might be able to help us out.¡±


    They all knew that Yin Xiaoxiang could spit ice shards. So despite Ah Kong¡¯s doubts, Ah Kong did not continue to ask questions and she went back to her duties. In her mind, she thought that even if it was a bit more powerful than Yin Xiaoxiang, at most, its ice abilities would only be in the range of Level one or Level two. She could only hope that it didn¡¯t end up dragging down the captain at a crucial point.


    Zhang Zhiyin was the first to find the intruder. Dadao and the others who stood on guard outside did not even issue a warning signal.


    He had known that he was going to face a living enemy that knew how to adjust themselves ording to the changing circumstances. Even though this setting was only included as one of the main tasks, it was not as simple as merely ying a boss instance.


    The opponents he would have to face would only get better and new information mighte at any time. He had to be constantly vignt.


    As themander and the person in charge of the team, he had to be in control of all aspects and thus, he was the first to discover that Jie, who was keeping watch at the third spot, had suddenly vanished.


    A person who was right there just a second ago mysteriously disappeared. He had only heard of one incident when something like this had happened.


    And that incident was the disappearance of Baiyin Battle Station 3. The timing and the settingpletely matched the description of the events narrated by the remaining members of the battle station.

 Chapter 72

    Chapter 72


    Zhang Zhiyin still retained a fresh memory of this incident. In the aftermath, he also did detailed inquiries and investigations, often failing to sleep soundly at night because of his unending thoughts. Because in that event, he once thought that he had lost a very important person1 who afterwards turned out to be the most important person in his life, and he actually didn¡¯t lose him.


    When he thought of this, Zhang Zhiyin really wanted to put his hand into his pocket and pinch Yan Nian¡¯s butt hard while he was still a cat!


    But there was clearly more important matter to be done right now. So let him verify what kind of tricks they were ying and whether his guesses were correct or not.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s identity was very special. Although this body in tomorrow¡¯s world was his own, he held the role of a yer. For so many times he was able to ignore the rules of the world ande back from the dead. He could use the items purchased in the Item Store, leave the world and return to reality... All of these were based on the characteristics of the ¡°yers¡± in the game. When Yin Nian constructed the world, he transnted the game, <Tomorrow>, and its characteristics were then reflected into reality. Zhang Zhiyin who was an outsider, could not be more suitable as this ¡°yer¡±.


    The only yer who possessed the privilege toe here.


    At the same time, he was also limited by this special characteristic.


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t notice at first. Later, as his experience in fighting increased, he began to realize a problem that stemmed from his existence¡ª he was not as flexible as Dadao and Ah Mu when using his abilities. Each of them used their own powers in ways that were unique to themselves only, while he himself had always been using technical skills.


    This problem was that he could notbine his ice ability with precision ability. When he used his usual ice ability, the upgrade of his precision ability would only bring him an increase in relevant stats.


    Because in the game, the difference in being a dual ability users was just having two abilities. No yer could release two active skills at the same time.


    The attack power of precision ability was not as good as ice ability, so Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s usual fighting method before was to buff his uracy and then use his gun to deal with the enemy with his ice ability.


    But this time, when he realised the abnormality in the situation, his first reaction was to send a warning message to the whole team, inform the captain of the Storm Unit, and at the same time, use his precision ability that had reached Level 6 and to activate his new skill ¡°Clear the eyes and seek the source¡±.


    In the game, there were few people that would improve theirmon mutation ability to an advanced level, resulting in many relevant resources rted to precision ability upgrade appearing in the market, and because of this the market value tended to be cheap. When Zhang Zhiyin started his little store, he also hoarded a batch of those resources. When the time came, he would just raise his precision ability in one go, and the day before yesterday, he had just reached Level 6.


    His field of vision was suddenly enveloped with a faintyer of clear green that extended to the far distance. This not only made him see further but also made him observe more attentively.


    His eyes seemed to have connected with all the blood vessels in his body. What his eyes could see was what he could reach.


    To the point that he could even feel the subtle vibration of the fly on the right wall, even if he could not see it, he could sense it¡ª he believed that he could lock on to the fly right now, and then nub it in its heart¡ª although the insect was really insignificant.


    Just like a cook disjoining a cattle, when he focused his attention on a living body, he could vaguely sense the blood cirction, meridians, muscles, fat, internal organs...


    It was as if he was doing a scan or x-ray at a person silently, but everything still appeared a bit fuzzy. He believed that if he raised his level, all these images would be even clearer.


    This skill gave an influx of sensations to the user. However, Zhang Zhiyin had tried it out; as long as he tried to use his ice ability, the effect of this skill would disappear and everything would be the same as usual. He couldn¡¯t rely on this skill to target the enemy¡¯s weakness directly.


    But the effect of this skill was now obvious.


    Once it was activated, he could clearly sense that there were two distinct living bodies in location three. One of them was No. 3 who he was familiar with, while he was not familiar with the other one, they were closely connected with No. 3¡ª If he did not guess wrongly, the man grabbed No. 3 and made them disappear from the public view using the same method.


    The intruder¡¯s ability level was not low, equipped with advanced devices that could block psychic detection along with some other special methods, the headquarters¡¯ defense system was not alerted at all.


    It was a pity that his skill could only scout to the scope of his vision, so he wasn¡¯t able to determine how many of them came and where they were hidden.


    However, Zhang Zhiyin did not think that this represent how strong they were. The items in the Item Store were such examples. The opponents might not be that strong, but they could be using their abilities and skills in a different way from the norm, causing them to be unable toe up with something to guard against them for the time being. Once these tricks were broken through, there would be nothing to worry about.


    Zhang Zhiyin bowed his head and looked at the white cat in his pocket. In the next second, he raised his hand without hesitation in lightning speed.


    He fired the pistol and multiple ice bulletsunched towards the direction of the hidden intruders.


    What Ah Kong and the rest saw was their captain suddenly firing several shots into the air, and for a period of time, the whole area was filled with shes of white. No. 3 who had abruptly vanished in the public¡¯s sight appeared, his hands and feet were bound, and the next second he was put on the ground.


    Zhang Zhiyin hurriedly switched to ¡°Clear the eyes and seek the source¡±, but he had lost the trace of the intruder, and even the signs of life activities had disappearedpletely.


    No. 2, who was in charge of providing support, rushed forward to help No. 3, and then a member from the peripheral took over No. 3 to enter the inner perimeter. Others with weapons on their arm were all on the alert, on guard and ready for orders.


    At Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s request, Yun Chu started seeking for other support.


    A minute had passed, and there was no still movement; and yet another minute had passed.


    When his count had reached 130, Zhang Zhiyin then issued an alert, ¡°Inform the whole team to be vignt.¡±


    He knew that the other side was ying psychological tricks on them, but he also knew that they would not let them wait for a long time¡ª the enemy would not allow them to obtain foreign aid and thus failing their attack because of this.


    Now he had no doubt that their defensiveyout had been made known to the other side. The mole was undoubtedly one of the members from the six battle units. More precisely, only members from Thunder, Storm, Mist Unit and Yun Chu who would have such a clear understanding of theiryout because of their intertwined tasks.


    As soon as the rm sounded in themunication devices, eleven people appeared silently in the shadow of the hall. They didn¡¯t give Thunder Unit any time to react as they struck. Their movements were unpredictable and the most terrible thing was their ability. As Zhang Zhiyin thought, they utilized their ability in a way they had never seen before.


    There were a total of five people in charge of defending the inner perimeter, so it was one against two.


    In reality, even if Yun Chu was not a ¡°protected NPC¡±, he still could not make any move. He had confessed to Zhang Zhiyin about his reason for seeking protection. After Yun Lietian had met mishaps, he broke through Level 8 by force. His current state was unstable and it made him unable to use his ability at all. This was equivalent to exposing his secrets and weaknesses in front of Zhang Zhiyin. At that time, even if Yun Chu was not the alliance leader, Zhang Zhiyin still could not afford to have him injured. Otherwise, he wouldn¡¯t be able to give an exnation to the headquarters.


    Zhang Zhiyin tried to look in the direction of Dadao and the rest. The peripheral defenders were also in the middle of fighting. Presumably, their situation would not be any better than theirs.


    Instead of scattering, these invaders were divided into pairs and surrounded each member of the team¡ª Their purpose was very clear; to exhaust the fighting power of Thunder Unit. But at that time, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s prearranged position of each team member yed its role. It enabled the team members to support each other while also allowing them to quickly return to their own designated spot to face their opponents and fight alone. Soon, as nned in advance, when the intruders acted, this one against two situations were firmly set. Each team member dyed two intruders¡ª even if they were barely holding on. The Thunder Unit skilfully employed all methods to deal with the intruders, leaving them with no spare time while defending themselves to their best extent withoutunching any attacks.


    Four invaders rushed straight to Zhang Zhiyin¡ª three of his team members had stopped two of the invaders. As Ah Kong was not proficient in fighting, she could only stop one. The remaining four came to Zhang Zhiyin.


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t dodge. He carefully read the current situation and pulled out a short iron rod from behind, sticking it on the ground. At the same time, he injected his ice ability into the iron rod. The iron rod began to sh ice blue patterns akin to an incantation that appeared from time to time. Then, white fog formed on the rob and gradually spread to the ground. The whole indoor floor was covered with a thinyer of ice. The ice grew thicker and froze the invaders in ce. The process was so fast that the invaders did not have the strength to break free at all. The four invaders were fixed in the moment of attacking Zhang Zhiyin. Two of them were holding a sword less than an inch away from him.


    This was a phenomenon that Zhang Zhiyin noticed. These invaders were all fighting with swords in their hands. From the start, they did not use any elemental or psychic attack powers.


    This freezing effect was a status array he bought from the Item Store. It would be able to freeze the enemy for one minute and the user would gain three minutes of ice armor effect. But the user would not be able tounch any attack during this time, once the enemy was attacked, the freezing effect would be removed.


    In reality, everything was not as simple as moving the mouse and keyboard in the game. This array needed to be arranged in advance. Zhang Zhiyin knew the time and ce of the invasion in advance, so he had quietly prepared the array in this hall in the name of patrolling. It took a lot of power to activate this array. He infused his umted power into the iron rod three days ago. When it was needed today, s imply injection of his power was all it needed to be activated.


    This was exactly what Zhang Zhiyin wanted.


    ording to the arrangement in advance, Zhang Zhiyin would cast the freezing effect on the intruders, and the team would carry out a siege in order to quickly remove the intruders¡¯bat ability.


    Within a minute, they had knocked down three invaders and were trying to deal with the fourth.


    At this time, there were noises and shouts outside. Zhang Zhiyin was relieved. Storm Unit had arrived to help them.


    When the freezing effect was removed, the invaders understood the current situation and did notmunicate with each other. They even managed to get rid of the people around them and rushed to Zhang Zhiyin.


    This was totally different from what Zhang Zhiyin expected. This array also had a strong protection effect. ording to the plot in the game, these invaders were alling for Yun Chu. The Thunder Unit¡¯s Captain in the game then died protecting Yun Chu. When Zhang Zhiyin activated this array, he identified Yun Chu as the person that needed the most protection. Everyone¡¯s stationed spot was arranged so that they would be able to protect Yun Chu. As long as there was no major ident, there was no need for a person to protect Yun Chu in exchange for their own life.


    But now, it¡¯s clear that the target was him!


    The team members couldn¡¯t stop them and Yun Chu couldn¡¯t even look after himself. The invaders suddenly broke out at an amazing speed, they were twice as fast as before such that they could only see seven shadows passing by, and fourteen des stabbed Zhang Zhiyin almost at the same time.


    Under the great pressure of the invader¡¯s attack, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s armor was destroyed quickly and broke into pieces.


    The only way he could think of now was to freeze himself to protect his body. During the crisis, he even forgot that he brought a cat with him and who the cat was.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s ability hadn¡¯t been activated yet. At the critical moment, everyone only heard the sound of ¡°Auwo¡±. A small fluffy white head came out of Captain Zhang¡¯s coat pocket and spat out an ice blue ball silently.


    The little ball expanded rapidly and became an ice ring with an outer diameter of about two meters. Centered on Zhang Zhiyin, it expanded towards the seven invaders. In less than half a second, the nearest intruder had made contact with the periphery of the ring¡ª he began to freeze rapidly and soon dissolved, leaving nothing behind. The other six wanted to withdraw, but their speed was not faster than the expansion of the ring. Ultimately all of them could not escape the fate of being dissolved.


    In a sh, those invaders with sharp des turned into pools of water marks on the ground with nothing else remained.


    Everyone here knew that this was the effect of the ice skill, Freeze Break, but no one had ever seen anyone make this simple advanced skill so domineering.


    Let alone a cat.


    But Zhang Zhiyin had seen it. In his mind, his family¡¯s Xiaoxiang had used this skill to save himself when he wanted to fight against the goat boss that time. Although it refused to cooperate since then and was satisfied to be a cowardly cat.


    He had not recovered from this near death experience. Between the illumination of the flint, Zhang Zhiyin suddenly thought of something. Then he lowered his head, lowered his voice, and exhaled to the cat who had just made great contributions in his arms, ¡°It was you?¡±


    Cat Yin Nian closed his eyes tightly, wearing a straight expression of ¡°I didn¡¯t do anything,¡± ¡°I¡¯m innocent¡±, and ¡°I do everything because I love you.¡±

 Chapter 73

    <strong>Chapter 73


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    When Mist Unit had arrived, the battle had already ended.


    Li Shuifeng looked at the scene and nced at Zhang Zhiyin before leaving with his men aftering addressing the situation. Mist Unit also had a task tonight, there was no reason for them to stay here.


    Everyone else who heard about the situation all came to see Captain Zhang¡¯s legendary cat who had made great contributions.


    Yin Nian was shy and snuggled back to Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s pocket, mewling quietly.


    Most of the women and guys in the team eximed in surprise, ¡°It¡¯s so cute!¡±


    ¡°No wonder you spoil it so much, Captain. It is really powerful!¡±


    <i>¡°You wouldn¡¯t think that if you knew who he is,¡±</i> was what Zhang Zhiyin thought secretly.


    But he also felt that it was abnormal for a cat to be like this, so he made up an excuse at the moment. ¡°It can only use its power once a month. It is my secret weapon.¡±


    ¡°Howe I haven¡¯t seen Daxiang when we were in our station?¡± One of the older members who had been with him for a long time asked.


    Zhang Zhiyin smiled slightly. ¡°En, Yin Nian gave it to me two days ago when he left.¡±


    Ah Kong, Xiao Jin, and the rest looked at each other as if they had understood something.


    Yin Nian hid in his pocket and began to rub around.


    Zhang Zhiyin hit him through his pocket. ¡°Be obedient.¡±


    A group of people couldn¡¯t stand seeing this scene anymore.


    ¡°Captain, be nice to it.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s rare for a cat to be so clingy, loyal, sensible, and powerful.¡±


    ¡°...¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin could only yield to public opinions, taking Yin Nian out from his pocket andbing his fur. ¡°Good.¡±


    Yan Nian happily rubbed against Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s wrist with his head and epted the waves of praises from everyone.


    No. 3 who was initially ambushed by the invaders had been examined by the healers in the headquarters. The diagnosis showed that nothing was wrong with his body, it¡¯s all superficial injuries, but he did inhale a kind of gas that made one be weak and muddle-headed. As that moment, No. 3 had already recovered his senses.


    Zhang Zhiyin had made arrangements and asked Dadao to gather people to deal with the aftermath of the battle while he took Xiao Jin, Ah Kong, Old Zhu, and Ah Mu to the headquarter¡¯s hospital to visit No. 3. These were the older people who had experienced Baiyan Station 7¡¯s event and would be able to discover more clues.


    Zhang Zhiyin asked No. 3 to recall the situation at that time which included every minute detail. No. 3 raised his head slightly and recalled carefully. ¡°I¡¯m sorry, Captain, I was a little careless at that time, and I was suddenly caught by someone the next moment. I wanted to call for help, but I couldn¡¯t make any sound. I then turned my head and tried to see the person who had captured me, but I couldn¡¯t see him. There was only air, yet there was really someone holding me down tightly... Then I lowered my head and found that I could not see my body anymore... ¡°


    ¡°At this time, I saw my teammates looking in my direction. They should have noticed something was amiss... But, but, their expressions were all the same, I know that they were looking for me, but they couldn¡¯t see me... Then I heard the captain¡¯s gunshots, and then I fainted. ¡°


    ¡°Alright, I understand. Take a good rest. You did well. Don¡¯t be too hard on yourself. ¡± Zhang Zhiyin grinned at No. 3 and nodded hard.


    After leaving the ward, they went to Dadao¡¯s room together. Dadao had finished settling the aftermath of the battle and was waiting for them.


    All along the way, Zhang Zhiyin recalled the course of this incident, and after sitting down, he took the lead and asked, ¡°What do you think? Have you made any new discoveries? Tell me about them.¡±


    Old Zhu was the first to say, ¡°Those invaders are very strange. They seem to have no mastery of any abilities at all. They just use the most primitive physical attacks. Their strength and defense are average, but they do have an ability, and that ability is very strange.¡±


    ¡°Yes, when they faced me head-on, what I felt most is their speed. They are too fast, ¡± Ah Kong added.


    ¡°The ambush they did at the periphery were very ordinary, but those people were very strong. The moment Storm Unit arrived, they immediately withdrew,¡± Dadao reported.


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded. ¡°It is the same group of people at Baiyin Station 7, they are from E Laboratory. I got a new item from Yin Nian and used it to monitor Li Shuifeng because of that incident¡ª I discovered that they are colluding with each other. ¡°


    He didn¡¯t tell the truth. He was watching Li Shuifeng with an enhanced version of irvoyance, not with an item from Yin Nian.


    Hisrades were shocked and understood immediately.


    The real Yin Nian crawled out of his pocket. He climbed on Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s shoulder with his swaggering tail and crouched there, looking like a proud king inspecting his territory.


    Zhang Zhiyin ignored him and continued to put forward his ideas. ¡°I don¡¯t think they have any special new abilities, they just developed new methods to utilize their abilities. The eleven invaders from today might be just ordinary speed ability users. ¡°


    Old Zhu¡¯s mouth was opened slightly. ¡°How can it be?¡± As a Level 5 speed ability user, he believed he knew what a speed ability user was like.


    ¡°I suspect that they use shadows, it must be rted to shadows.¡± Zhang Zhiyin picked up the pen on the table and began to draw a sketch of the hallyout on a piece of paper. ¡°No. 3 is here, and they appeared in this range when they infiltrated inrge quantities. What these two ces have inmon is that there are shadows that cannot be illuminated by the light. ¡°


    This proved that Dadao was indeed formerly a worker with a high education level ¡ª his residence always had paper and pen, which was the working and living habits he had brought from before the end of the world.


    For Zhang Zhiyin to be able to think of this was because he was looking at it from the perspective of a game. He believed that the game should be rtively bnced, <Tomorrow> was a pay-to-win that was enjoyable even without having the yers paying for it, but it shouldn¡¯t be a case where normal mutant abilities could be enhanced to this point. He did not think that any gamepany would design one or several sses that would render other sses useless.


    There had been many examples before. With the continuous update and data adjustment of the map, it was possible that the originally outstanding sses would be suppressed and other originally neglected sses would rise. Strength, defense, speed, and uracy were the same as the outstanding attributes of a warrior, knight, assassin and archer in the ssic traditional design of RPG games. Although there were many varieties in different professions of various games, their basic core was the same ¡ª they had their own strengths, they could cooperate with each other and suppress each other.


    ¡°Stealth¡±, ¡°Shadow Dodge¡±, ¡°Trap¡±, or other simr skills were ssic skills of assassins. It¡¯s not surprising from the point of view of the game that speed ability users could acquire these skills.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s words opened their thoughts, several people¡¯s thoughts started flowing at once, they thought of many kinds of possibilities. Ah Kong was responsible for summarizing these and forming a report after all of this. If all these guesses were correct, then they could not only effectively prevent an attack from Eboratory in the future, but also follow their example to further develop and improve the level of theirbat power.


    Before leaving, Dadao asked Zhang Zhiyin, ¡°Captain, how are you gonna handle Li Shuifeng? This conference is indeed the best opportunity to expose him. ¡°


    Zhang Zhiyin smiled. ¡°I think it¡¯s about time.¡±


    After a night of fighting and negotiation, Zhang Zhiyin returned to his house around after seven in the morning. It was bright, other staff had rushed to start the relevant arrangements of the conference.


    Zhang Zhiyin opened the door and found that a piece of paper had been stuffed into the door:


    ¡°Eight o¡¯clockte, usual ce. Ma¡¯ao.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked down at the paper, not noticing that his cat had jumped down and quickly turned into a human.


    Yin Nian put his arm around his neck, pressed him to the door, and put his face close to his neck, whispering, ¡°Zhiyin, I didn¡¯t get to hug you to sleepst night. Not happy, I wantpensation.¡±


    Boss raised his head, his eyes were dark and his face was cold. He seemed to be two different peoplepared with the spoiled attitude he had just now, but Zhang Zhiyin was long used used to his indifferent attitude.


    He gently covered Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s face, kissed him and murmured, ¡°Zhiyin, how about a kiss aspensation for me?¡±


    ...


    At eight o¡¯clock, Yin Nian was on time to attend the Alliance Conference as ¡°Dr. Yin of Bai Mang Association¡±.


    Zhang Zhiyin sat in the room in a daze, feeling like he had forgotten something.


    Then he suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to ask Yin Nian why he became Yin Xiaoxiang and deceived himself that year!

 Chapter 74

    <strong>Chapter 74


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin went to see Ma¡¯ao.


    Ma¡¯ao toasted his ss at him. ¡°I went to see him as you said. I understood when I saw the look in his eyes when he saw me. ¡°


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded and said nothing else. He could see the sadness in this man¡¯s eyes. Because of the hardships that were brought in by the apocalypse and, they lost their peaceful life, family, and their loved ones. At this point, it was hard for him to say that all these was just a part of the game¡¯s plot, that it was made up by the game nning group and created by Yin Nian. Even watching a movie or a television drama would inevitably bring the viewers into the protagonist¡¯s point of view, there was no need to mention about his current situation.


    And he couldn¡¯t even criticize the creators, he could only strive to make all these develop toward a good direction. He would be afraid because of his insignificance, anxious because of hisck of power, but fortunately, Yin Nian was with him.


    ¡°Do you need me to help you with anything?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin pursed his lips and nodded. ¡°Yes.¡±


    The alliance conference wouldst for a week. It was at the fourth day, which was the most crucial moment when they would decide the next leader. The first three days were just for the involved parties to y games with each other.


    Meanwhile, Thunder Unit¡¯s achievement of settling the invaders on the eve of the conference while remaining practically unharmed was spreading in the base, causing their poprity to rise rapidly.


    After finalizing the details, Zhang Zhiyin had chosen to expose Li Shuifeng during the third day of the alliance meeting, which was the eve before the voting of the alliance leader. During that time, everyone would be given the opportunity to present their views and opinions on the alliance.


    As the founder of Bai Mang Association, Yin Nian, who had sessfully returned from being ¡°missing¡±, would attend almost all of the meetings.


    Zhang Zhiyin could almost imagine how resentful Yin Nian would be.


    The only advantage of being participants was that Yin Nian and other representatives of Bai Mang Association would be residing in the headquarter¡¯s base. Their residence weren¡¯t far from Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s. Atst, he could be openly intimate with Yin Nian as a human!


    After thest meeting in the afternoon, the actual leader of Bai Mang Association, Sang ¡®The spokesman for the cold and alienated Dr. Yin¡¯, ¡®didn¡¯t know the real identity of his boss at all¡¯, ¡®was in fact in the same pitiful position as Lei Dun, Meng Kali, Yu Huo, and the rest¡¯, ¡®they worked for the same boss even though he was in the righteous faction¡¯ Le warmly invited his family¡¯s boss and the rest of the Bai Mang Association to have a meal together.


    Yin Nian stood up and looked at him. ¡°I have an appointment.¡±


    Sang Le was stunned for a moment, thinking, the doctor who had been single and lonely for thousands of years had an appointment? Later, he responded and thought that this couldn¡¯t do. Boss, you¡¯ve been missing for so long and you¡¯ve finally came back to the association. There are so many things waiting for you to deal with. You can¡¯t go on a date at this time. Even if you go on a date, you should take me with you and settle one or two business matters on the way.


    So he stood up, straightened his coat, picked up the papers on the table, and said seriously, ¡°I¡¯ll go with you.¡±


    Yin Nian nced at him and said indifferently, ¡°You are not allowed to go with me.¡±


    However, Sang Le still followed him quietly.


    This was the advantage of not knowing the truth.


    In Sang Le¡¯s eyes, although Yin Nian was slightly cold, he was truly a good man with intelligence and an impartial heart, so he was never as afraid of Yin Nian like how Meng Kali, Lei Dun, and Yu Huo feared him. In his opinion, the doctor would not excessively me him for seizing his personal time due to important matters for the well-being of mankind!


    If Lei Dun and the rest knew this, they could only show their sympathy toward him. Too simple, sometimes naive


    <sup>1</sup>.


    Yin Nian ignored him and directly used his space ability to teleport to Zhang Zhiyin. Although they were in the headquarters base, the use of space ability to teleport oneself was prohibited unless the user had obtained special permission.


    When Sang Le arrived at the canteen gasping for air, Yin Nian no longer cared if he was following him.


    Just like when Yin Nian was a cat, Zhang Zhiyin took Yin Nian to have dinner with the Thunder Unit. The marginal influence of Sang Le could be ignored under the influence of the whole Thunder Unit. Yin Nian¡¯s n to have a good meal with Zhiyin just like at home was doomed to fail.


    Dr. Yin, who rarely attended the meetings obediently, showed his displeasure. This pressure spread to the whole canteen, and the diners¡¯ eating speed all unconsciously grew three times faster than usual.


    Sang Le looked at Zhang Zhiyin, who was sitting closely to Yin Nian with a surprised look on his face. ¡°Captain Zhang?! Since when did you and the doctor... ¡± has such a good rtionship? He still remembered in Hope Base, the always cold doctor stood out to help the captain defeat the people who had framed him. Although the action should have had a left a deep impression, he didn¡¯t expect that they were still in contact with each other. And it seemed that their rtionship wasn¡¯t shallow.


    Xiao Jin looked back at him in surprise. ¡°As Dr. Yin¡¯s assistant, you don¡¯t know?! Our Captain and Dr Yin grew up together!¡±


    And they were definitely not any simple ordinary little childhood friends, Xiao Jin added this sentence in his heart. They could at least be counted as good friends! Might even be those kinds of friends with circumstances which didn¡¯t permit them to be together, having separated for a long time only to reunite again, even any hardships of life and death could not separate them anymore again!


    Sang Le sat quietly to digest this fact.


    Zhang Zhiyin listened to Xiao Jin¡¯s words and thought, <i>¡°Don¡¯t even talk about Sang Le. Even he didn¡¯t know that he and Yin Nian were childhood friends until he said it.¡±</i>


    In order to change the topic and appease Yin Nian¡¯s mood, Zhang Zhiyin pulled Yin Nian¡¯s sleeve and said in a coaxing manner, ¡°How was today¡¯s meeting?¡±


    ¡°They have been reporting their results in dealing with Dr. Y and discussing future ns to deal with him.¡± Yin Nian looked at Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s face and his expression rxed by a margin. He held Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s hand instead, then turned his head over and slightly raised his eyes to look at him. ¡°That¡¯s it.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was speechless.


    ¡°They also asked for my advice every ten minutes.¡± Yin Nian added.


    ¡°My God. They don¡¯t know that Y is your twin brother?¡± said Xiao Jin.


    Yin Nian shook his head.


    Sang Le moved closer in rm. ¡°Doctor, you have a twin brother? It¡¯s Y?¡±


    Yin Nian looked at him and nodded. Feeling sorry that he could not use his usual method of ordering ¡°Go to Yu Huo Base and stay there. Do not return without my orders.¡± However, he could consider letting Yu Huo capture him instead.


    Xiao Jin looked at Sang Le with sympathy again. ¡°You don¡¯t know that either?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin defended Sang Le silently in his heart. Before Yin Nian said it out loud, probably Yin Nian himself also didn¡¯t know.


    Looking at Sang Le¡¯s shocked eyes, Xiao Jin crossed his legs and and a smile crept onto his lips. His sense of superiority was bursting¡ª he knew it, being someone from the bride¡¯s side was surely beneficial! This principle, he had understood ever since Ah Kong made her first boyfriend in junior high.

 Chapter 75

    Chapter 75


    The meeting became bigger on the third day of the alliance conference. This was the only meeting in the whole conference where Zhang Zhiyin and the rest were given the qualification to participate and speak.


    ¡°Does anyone else still has anything to say?¡± This speaker was one of the people in charge of the alliance headquarters and was responsible for presiding over the meeting. He scanned the whole audience. ¡°If there¡¯s none...¡±


    ¡°Wait.¡±


    ¡°Mr. Ma¡¯ao? What issue do you have?¡±


    Ma¡¯ao stood up. ¡°It¡¯s an old affair, about my older brother, Mali¡¯s death.


    ¡°For so many years, I always thought that my brother was killed because their team ran into a high level zombie when they went out on a mission. In fact, this is true. But it was only recently that I learned that my brother¡¯s team found a magical fruit during their mission. After identifying it, they discovered that it allowed an ordinary strengthening ability user to gain another ability, that was the water elemental ability. My brother and his teammates risked their lives to obtain it and entrusted it to his surviving teammate to take it back to the base. But there is also a person in the team who not only did not help but also tries to kill the teammate who was entrusted with the fruit and he even ended up eating it. As for what he wanted, he is now a famous water elemental ability user.


    ¡°I implore the alliance to punish this man with what he deserves. This person is Li Shuifeng, Captain of Mist Unit. ¡°


    When it came to the efficacy of the magic fruit, many people began to discuss about it. When they heard that it was a ¡°famous water elemental ability user¡±, they even started making guesses. And when they heard the name ¡°Li Shuifeng¡±, quite a number of people showed a surprised and disbelieving expression.


    Li Shuifeng quickly stood up, and there was just a right amount of sincerity and surprise on his face. However, he didn¡¯t contradict all the words had Ma¡¯ao said, but instead, he unhurriedly exined, ¡°What Mr. Ma¡¯ao said is true, but he has identified the wrong person. I used to work with Captain Mali, and had indeed found the magic fruit. But the effect of fruit is not to give water ability, but ice ability. I¡¯m sorry I didn¡¯t hold on to the fruit and fulfill the captain¡¯s trust, because it is true that I was framed and had almost died.


    ¡°Just recently, I met this teammate again. I know that he has made great contributions for the revival of mankind in the past two years, so I didn¡¯t immediately disclose his behavior in that year, but I wanted to give him a chance to admit everything, admit his mistakes to his teammates and beg for forgiveness. But obviously he didn¡¯t, and he took the lead to deceive Mr. Ma¡¯ao, describing me as a person who left his teammates without mercy...


    ¡°I¡¯m disappointed, Captain Zhang Zhiyin.¡±


    There was an uproar.


    Li Shuifeng had always appeared as a humble gentleman who was eager for justice, while Zhang Zhiyin had fought in the front lines and made countless achievements. It¡¯s unexpected that they would be involved at the same time. And as it turned out, one of them must be lying.


    Ma¡¯ao frowned.


    Zhang Zhiyin stood up and said, ¡°Then Li Shuifeng, where did your second abilitye from?¡±


    Li Shuifeng smiled. ¡°When everyone started awakening their abilities, I have always possessed the dual abilities of precision and water element. At the beginning of the apocalypse, I didn¡¯t understand much about it. Most of the people around me were ordinary and singr ability users. In order not to attract any trouble, I hid my water ability. But you, Captain Zhang, where did your ice abilitye from? I remember someone watching you awaken your ability, and it¡¯s only precision ability? Regarding to this, Ah Lan from Xize Base should know better than me.¡±


    At this, someone stood up and looked at Zhang Zhiyin with aplex expression. She was Sister Lan, the person who was responsible for teaching new people to awaken their powers. Zhang Zhiyin met her at Lihua Shopping Mall when he first came to this world.


    She looked around. ¡°I don¡¯t know about anything else, but regarding Captain Zhang Zhiyin, it was as what Captain Li Shuifeng had said, he only had precision ability at that time. I don¡¯t know when he got his ice ability. This can be proved by Brother Fei and Uncle Yun from my base.¡±


    At that time, the situation began to develop in the direction that was not beneficial to Zhang Zhiyin.


    Ma¡¯ao could not keep his cool. ¡°But Li Shuifeng, no matter how much you try to deny, your performance that day when you met me face-to-face had fully shown me that you are the one who has wronged my brother.¡±


    He didn¡¯t expect Ma¡¯ao¡¯s existence. Revealing his nature in front of him at that time was Li Shuifeng¡¯s most regretful action. But at this moment, he still sincerely apologized, ¡°I¡¯m really sorry that I didn¡¯tplete the captain¡¯s order to send the fruit back to the base. But I hope Mr. Ma¡¯ao will not be confused by that spur-of-the-moment idea and misunderstand me.¡±


    ¡°How about we let Captain Zhang exin how he suddenly got his ice ability?¡±


    Everyone¡¯s eyes were focused on Zhang Zhiyin again.


    However, before Zhang Zhiyin could speak, another person cut in, ¡°Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s poweres from the medicine I gave him. You pushed him out of the car. He was surrounded by zombies and was seriously injured. In order to save his life, Zhiyin took the medicine I gave him and triggered the awakening of his ice ability. There are unexpected coincidental factors within it and I¡¯m still studying the specific reasons behind it.¡±


    ¡°However, Li Shuifeng, you framed Zhang Zhiyin. Even if he doesn¡¯t care, I will still make you pay.¡±


    Yin Nian¡¯s slender body stood up, his expression was ice-cold and his eyshes were drooping slightly. He stood in front, at the center of the conference room¡ª his seat, especially set for the leaders of the major forces, was undoubtedly a symbol of high status.


    The audience was shocked, it was the first time for most of them hearing Dr. Yin speaking publicly, and it was even such a long sentence.


    Li Shuifeng was instantly oppressed by his momentum and left speechless.


    Yang Fu who was next to him was also surprised and couldn¡¯t help but ask, ¡°Dr. Yin, may I inquire about you and Captain Zhang... What¡¯s your rtionship? ¡°


    Yin Nian said seriously, ¡°He is my fianc¨¦e. En, fianc¨¦.¡±


    Thunder Unit and Sang Le: ...They were clearly an ordinary pair of childhood sweethearts two days ago. Why did it upgrade to this in just two days?!


    Yin Nian continued to exin to all the people in the meeting with a serious face, ¡°Our families are friends, both our mothers were pregnant at the same time, the elders of the family have made a marriage arrangement. Although when the both of them gave birth and realized that the children were boys, no one proposed to cancel the marriage, so we are still engaged.¡± He spoke as if it were the truth, even Zhang Zhiyin himself was going to believe it.


    Everyone: ... As the saying went, shouldn¡¯t the marriage be automatically cancelled when the children were of the same gender? And they would be brothers or sisters? There was such an interpretation?


    Some people suddenly realized: What not officially cancelled so they were still engaged, it was more like you liked the other party and refused to let him go.


    However,pared with the friendship between their two families, this deration of ¡°Yin Nian likes Zhang Zhiyin¡± was more clear, he would not hesitate to protect this person.


    Many people had no choice but to re-examine Zhang Zhiyin again.


    Zhang Zhiyin sat there, vaguely remembering that the night before they came to <Tomorrow>, Yin Nian was at home eating peanuts and watching drama. It seemed that that drama that was ying had this ¡°betrothed when still in the womb by parents¡± theme but the children were all boys...


    Lord Boss was really a super example of applying what you learned! He swore that he would never pay for cable television again.


    As soon as Yin Nian spoke, the suspicions on Zhang Zhiyin were basically all cleared up. Even if someone still had doubts, they would not stand up for Li Shuifeng at this time and fight against Yin Nian.


    Dadao looked around and stood up. ¡°There is still another thing, we now suspect that Li Shuifeng colluded with outsiders, leaked the defenseyout of the headquarters base, attracted intruders, trapped Mr. Yun Chu, Captain Zhang Zhiyin, and Thunder Unit in danger...¡±


    ¡°Wait.¡± At this time, Yun Chu stood up and raised his hand to signal to Dadao to stop. ¡°This is a matter of great importance. It¡¯s gettingte now. Tomorrow is the voting day. I have a proposal to put Captain Li Shuifeng in custody for the time being, and to arrange a time for a special hearing after the voting. I wonder if Captain Li Shuifeng, Vice-Captain Dadao, and all of you would agree. ¡°


    Dadao looked at Zhang Zhiyin.


    Zhang Zhiyin felt that it¡¯s not right, but he also knew that even if Li Shuifeng was convicted now, it was still impossible to deal with him immediately, and it¡¯s certain that he would have to be detained for a period of time, so Yun Chu¡¯s proposal was not much different from the current situation. What¡¯s more, for some people, whether Li Shuifeng was loyal or treacherous was not as important as tomorrow¡¯s voting. It¡¯s hard for Yun Chu to choose to raise this issue today, which may affect his election tomorrow. After all, both Mist and Thunder Unit were from the alliance headquarters. In the eyes of the outside world, they were all Yun Chu¡¯s people. No matter which party was damaged at this time, it was still Yun Chu¡¯s loss. There was no need to disobey Yun Chu.


    Yang Fu and others had all expressed their opinions, echoing the same opinions of Yun Chu¡¯s.


    Dadao looked at Zhang Zhiyin and nodded.


    At the end of the conference, Li Shuifeng was taken away by the headquarters.


    Yin Nian came to find Zhang Zhiyin. Sang Le followed him.


    Several people went out together, Sang Le was still talking to Yin Nia, ¡°Doctor, what medicine did you give Captain Zhang? I know you can create it again. If it¡¯s not possible, you can continue to study it. If you can¡¯t do it in one go, then it would not be you... This is a miraculous achievement. After being poprized, thebat power of the alliance can rise by more than two grades... ¡°


    Yin Nian stopped and turned to look at him. ¡°Yes, I didn¡¯t make the medicine.¡±


    Then he turned to Zhang Zhiyin. He was still expressionless but everyone could feel his hidden love, filled with regret. ¡°Zhiyin,¡± he said in a deep voice. ¡°you are mistaken. In fact, it was Y who had given you the medicine that day before the end of the world, it was not me.¡±

 Chapter 76

    <strong>Chapter 76


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at Yin Nian with a ¡°What the hell?¡± expression.


    While in outsider¡¯s eyes, this expression had became one of disbelief when knowing the truth.


    Sang Le scooted closer to Ah Kong and showed a bitter expression. ¡°Sister Kong, have I created a series of bad consequences...?¡±


    Ah Kong nodded her head. ¡°It seems so.¡±


    Ah Mu was more straightforward, when he heard this, his first response was, ¡°That¡¯s Dr. Y¡¯s medicine? Will something happen to captain? Do you have any solution, Dr. Yin?¡±


    Yin Nian looked at him and lowered his eyes. ¡°Don¡¯t worry, Y may not be a good person, but he will absolutely never hurt Zhiyin. Do not speak of this matter to anyone. Although this is in the past, it won¡¯t be good for Zhiyin if Y got dragged into this.¡±


    An idea began to brew in Xiao Jin¡¯s mind, but he quickly buried it away.


    Zhang Zhiyin followed Yin Nian back to the room.


    Seeing that the situation wasn¡¯t good, Yin Nian at once turned into a cat, walked slowly and leaped up onto the bed, pushed Yin Xiaoxiang to the ground, and sat at the head of the bed in grievance.


    Yin Xiaoxiang, who had fallen off to the ground, went over pitifully and hugged Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s leg.


    Zhang Zhiyin squatted down and held the kitten in his arms before continuing to cast an angry nce at Yin Nian. ¡°I¡¯m not going to talk about this right now, I haven¡¯t asked you, did you change into Yin Xiaoxiangst time to deceive me?¡±


    Cat Yin Nian moved closer, raised his head and licked Zhiyin¡¯s finger. His little appearance looked exceedingly innocent.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s anger instantly extinguished. ¡°...Forget it. ¡°


    Wasn¡¯t this just him relying on the fact that he liked him.


    Yin Nian then changed back with satisfaction, and just like the position he was in a moment ago, he hugged Zhang Zhiyin from behind. He rubbed against his neck like a cat and whispered, ¡°I didn¡¯t say anything wrong. No matter who I am, I will not hurt you.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin let him hug him and closed his eyes. ¡°I know.¡±


    En, so it¡¯s good as long as you are happy


    Just like the plot development in the game, the following day, Yun Chu was still elected as the next leader of the alliance by a small margin.


    His trump card was an ability sphere left by Yun Lietin. It contained 30% of Yun Lietian¡¯s power and only blood rtives could inherit this power. It turned out that before Yun Lietian had set out, he had anticipated this trip to end in disaster, so he had prepared this for Yun Chu in advance. With it, Yun Chu not only could quickly increase his ability by forcibly breaking through Level 8, but also further increase another level and be number one in the alliance after Yun Lietian.


    Xiao Jin said quietly, ¡°If the alliance leader clearly knew that that trip would be dangerous. Why did he still exhaust his ability to leave this for Yun Chu? If he went with his best state, he may not have died. ¡°


    Old Zhu sighed, ¡°It¡¯s hard to exin a father¡¯s feelings for his child.¡±


    At the celebration party this evening, news had spread¡ª Li Shuifeng had fled for fear of his crimes.


    After Zhang Zhiyin appeased Ma¡¯ao, Dadao, and the rest, he went to find Yin Nian. The enhanced version irvoyance was still on Li Shuifeng, but it soon lost its effect. There was only sufficient time for Zhang Zhiyin to know that Li Shuifeng was taken away by the people from E Lab.


    Yin Nian said, ¡°Wait a moment, I¡¯ll check it out.¡±


    Then not even a secondter, Zhang Zhiyin hadn¡¯t even had time to react when Yin Nian gave him the result. ¡°In the game setting, Li Shuifeng is one of the main quest¡¯s NPCs, a key figure to contact E Lab, this matter wouldn¡¯t be solved so quickly. This would also be the result of the game plot developing until this stage. Of course, if you want him to be captured back now, then it could be done right now. ¡°


    Zhang Zhiyin waved his hand. ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter, I can wait.¡±


    He was very clear in his mind that for games such as <Tomorrow>, other than making plot to intentionally abuse and earn tears, most of the mission created for the plot was to make the yers happy. In reality, there were already too many injustices. Of course, in the virtual game, the game officials should let the yers see the representation of cause and effect. Good and evil would be repaid, the of justice was vast and it might be loose but it would have allowed no escape. Li Shuifeng had ran away but a hypocritical character like him, the more he owed, the more he would pay in the future.


    And Zhang Zhiyin was a person who liked stability. Although boss spoke with such ease, he would rather follow the official plot rather than set off any butterfly effect. Sometimes it was a good choice to let things go their own way. If every protagonist was as adaptable as he was, many horror films would not be able to go on.


    Yin Nian kept an indifferent attitude towards all creatures and dead matters outside of Zhang Zhiyin. Although Li Shuifeng had bullied his Zhiyin, he was still akin to a mayfly. So he didn¡¯t take it to heart at all and casually said, ¡°I will listen to you.¡±


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    In reality, A Country, M City, Global Group¡¯s headquarters, the core of R & D Department.


    Dr. Yates still remained seated quietly at his desk, drinking honey grapefruit tea.


    But the man who suddenly broke in didn¡¯t seem so calm. They were three of them this time. The two at the back each carried a white box in their hands.


    Dr. Yates smiled, the wrinkles on his forehead became deeper. ¡°Oh, Philip, it¡¯s you again? What do you want to say to me, this old man, this time? ¡°


    ¡°Dr. Yates, I want you to see one thing,¡± he said seriously, looking at Yates¡¯s cloudy but still intelligent and crafty eyes.


    Yates raised his mouth and tried to look interested.


    One of Philip¡¯s assistants carefully put the white box in his hands on Yates¡¯s desk. He input the password, sessively carried out iris recognition and fingerprint identification with Philip, and then input the instruction to take out a small,pletely sealed test tube that was only five centimeters long. This tube was made of special material and could withstand high-strength impact without receiving any damage. The test tube was filled with light yellow liquid.


    Yates¡¯s face slowly changed.


    ¡°What is this?¡± he asked.


    Philip gave a wry smile and motioned to another assistant. The assistant came forward and ced the white box on Yates¡¯ desk.


    Sounds of pounding and tearing could be heard within the box.


    There was a block on the cover of the box that could be opened to expose the transparent top inside, which was the same material as the test tube. One of them had undergone a special treatment, through which you could erge the details of the box and see everything clearly.


    The inside of the box was divided into two parts. Half of one side contained amon white mouse. The remaining oxygen in the box might not be much as it looked very listless, while the other half...


    ¡°What is this!¡± Dr Yates repeated his words in astonishment.


    That was a monster. The outline and skeleton of the mouse could be vaguely seen but its skin and flesh were scattered and rotten, and its blood had dried up. Through some holes in its body, its shriveled internal organs could also be seen. Any organism that had been destroyed to this extent should be dead. But otherwise, the monster was very aggressive and sensitive, constantly trying to attack the four walls of the box.


    Its appearance and performance were just like that of zombies in novels and movies.


    Assistant Fei Li turned the mechanism outside the box. Suddenly, the partition between the two spaces disappeared. The zombie mouse paused for a second, then rushed to the white mouse as if had smelt something, biting it fiercely.


    The mouse twitched and lost its strength, and fell quietly in the box.


    Yates looked at the scene and raised his head in shock.


    Philip shook his head. ¡°Wait for a moment, there will be a new discovery.¡±


    Sure enough, about ten minutester, the body of the white mouse changed rapidly. It¡¯s flesh shriveled and rotted. At the same time, it twitched and slowly climbed up again...


    Even if was not the first time seeing this, the assistant who saw this scene still felt cold all over. At the first moment when Philip nodded, he wasted no time to press the button outside the box.


    There was a sound of an explosion inside the box. The box vibrated a few times, and then it was quiet.


    ¡°That tube of reagent is the culprit of the mutation of the white mouse,¡± Philip said, and then motioned to the assistant to put the reagent away. His expression had been calm for a long time.


    ¡°If this flows out and isn¡¯t controlled, it would really be the end of the world,¡± He continued.


    ¡°And doctor, I think you understand that such a thing like this cannot be developed by our present technology at all.¡±

 Chapter 77

    <strong>Chapter 77


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Philip left with his people.


    Yates sat in his chair and stared at the honey tea in his hand. He looked as if he had aged another ten years.


    Dayi shed out from behind and asked, ¡°Doctor, do you think Dr. Philip is right... I mean, did yn really created this?¡±


    Yates didn¡¯t answer, he only stared at his cup. After a while, he asked, ¡°Dayi, do you think it will have a heart for revenge?¡±


    Dayi frowned. ¡°Revenge? No way... I¡¯ve never believed that yn can obtain the same emotions just like what humans have. It can only try to understand and analyze what human emotion is. It can be a master who pinches at people¡¯s hearts, but it would never care. Revenge is an act based on emotions. It has no emotions and will not have any intention to take revenge.¡±


    ¡°Yes, that¡¯s the only exnation... It understands human beings, it knows what we are afraid of, and it will use these to achieve its purpose.¡± Yates put down his cup, showing a wry smile simr to that of Philip¡¯s.


    ¡°Yi, it¡¯s out of control, but now we have to regain control of it no matter what, or find a way to destroy it.¡±


    Dayi looked surprised. ¡°Doctor, what about our previous destruction procedures?¡±


    Yates shook his head. ¡°I haven¡¯t told you... At the start, I found that a program had been tampered with. Once the destruction procedures start, it would lead to the leakage of certain substances, but I have never found out what those substances were. Later, not long ago, the methods of the destruction procedure had beenpletely destroyed. We can¡¯t use that to eliminate yn427...¡±


    Dayi opened his mouth slightly. ¡°How could this be...¡±


    Dr Yates raised his head and looked at him with a smile. ¡°Can you guess what it wants to convey to us? It is not afraid of us, not afraid of being destroyed. Even if we destroy it, it must have made preparations for itself. At the beginning, the leakage was just a kind of warning to remind us not to act rashly. Now I know that the material involved with it should be the one that Philip brought to us today. If we destroy it, it will turn the world into hell on earth. Later, I don¡¯t know why it changed its attention, it cut off the leakage mechanism and directly destroyed the destruction procedures, telling us inly that we can¡¯t do anything about it.


    ¡°Yi, do you remember the original instructions we set up for yn427? We want it to be more perfect and powerful, but the so-called ¡°perfect¡± and ¡°powerful¡± standards came from the perspective of human beings. And thus, it would be more human when itpletes this set of instructions. Like now, even if he walks in the crowd, no one will believe that he isn¡¯t human.


    ¡°You are right. And I am wrong. From the beginning, I should not insist on continuing the project because of my ambitions and long cherished wish instead of destroying the yn427 in the first ce; nor should I try to convince myself and everyone how harmless it is as a way to ignore my mistakes. Indeed, it is a creation powerful enough to threaten the life and death of all humankind, and it is not controble. Now, it¡¯s time for me to take charge. ¡°


    Dayi¡¯s eyes flickered for a moment, then he nodded softly. ¡°So doctor, what can we do?¡±


    ¡°Find new ways to destroy it at all costs.¡±


    Dayi nodded solemnly, then asked a question, ¡°What about the horrible liquid yn left?¡±


    Yates squinted slightly. ¡°That¡¯s Philip¡¯s specialty, not ours. They said they would find a way to destroy them. We can only trust them with this...¡±


    He shook his head with a sly smile as usual. ¡°You can¡¯t hope that yn427 will destroy those things for you.¡±


    Dayi knew that the old man in front of him wanted him to calm down, but he also knew how serious the situation was.


    They would not let all mankind pay for what they did.


    This was the basic responsibility they had.


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    <Tomorrow>¡¯s world. After the alliance conference, everything was back on track.


    Zhang Zhiyin continued to stay at the Thunder Unit¡¯s station, but all the elite troops in Yu Huo Base had been transferred away by Dr. Y. ording to the secret report, they had been transferred to the vicinity of the Valley of Death for secret missions. The rest of the ability users would guard the base as their primary task, and they would not rashly look for trouble in the alliance.


    In the game¡¯s plotline, the Thunder Unit that had lost its captain would be directly under themand of Yun Chu, and they would be an existence simr to bodyguards. However, Zhang Zhiyin ruined this situation and caused Li Shuifeng¡¯s incident to happen ahead of time. Now, Mist Unit was under the directmand of Yun Chu, and Thunder Unit would continue to carry out its task.


    Their new task was to help the front lines consolidate the results of the war and link up the security zones that had been swept out of the front lines.


    In the eyes of most ability users, tasks in the front line was the most difficult and dangerous, but for Zhang Zhiyin, front line work was the most familiar for him. It¡¯s his battlefield. He had long been used to working regrly in daytime and returning to the days of fighting, saving,manding, and nning in <Tomorrow>¡¯s world at night. This was a wonderful experience that no one else could experience. What¡¯s more, in both reality and <Tomorrow>¡¯s world, Yin Nian would apany him.


    They fought all the way from Qingtong Frontline to Huangjin Frontline. The ces that Thunder Unit had passed by basically became stablized. Human beings were no longer just waiting to die before those unexpected cannibal monsters. They had be stronger and stronger. Little by little, they were recovering their vigour and starting to retrieve their lost homes.


    The rtionship between Zhang Zhiyin and Yin Nian had been an open fact for a long time. Especiallyter, every time they went to a ce, somebody would ask him and Dr. Yin when they would have a wedding, half seriously and half jokingly.


    Two years have passed in <Tomorrow>¡¯s world. Just yesterday, Zhang Zhiyin had just broken through Level 9. But in reality, it¡¯s been only less than a month.


    Yin Nian received his sry of this month, took Zhang Zhiyin to dinner, and after they returned home, he handed him a kraft paper bag.


    Zhang Zhiyin was mixed in joy and sorrow, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.


    ording to experience, generally speaking, when his family¡¯s boss delivered something wordlessly, it must be to please him. But also generally speaking, such things would exceed human imagination and expectations.


    The quality of the bag was very good. It was heavy and it¡¯s all papers.


    Zhang Zhiyin opened it and found that it was full of marriage certificates issued by various official departments of various countries written in differentnguages. There was no need to check, all of them must be authentic.


    Boss would never give him pirated copies, because he could make all the pirated copies genuine.


    Zhang Zhiyin touched the bag and didn¡¯t know what to say. In fact, he couldn¡¯t even let a single word out.


    He knew that the person in front of him was not a person, but he was someone who treated him the best, wholeheartedly, all for his own good.


    He gave him a home.


    Yin Nian looked into his eyes and his lips curved.


    ¡°I know that humans like to establish rtionships in this way.


    ¡°If you don¡¯t want me to tell the world in reality, at least in my world, I want all people and zombies to know...


    ¡°I love you.


    ¡°Zhiyin, I will love you every second of my existence.¡±

 Chapter 78

    <strong>Chapter 78


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    A message began to spread in Cloud Sky Alliance¡ª


    It was said that Dr. Yin had proposed to Captain Zhang and the two would be officially together.


    Rumor had it that the Thunder Unit helped Qingtong Station 5 seize Bilu City, and when theye back to receive the rewards, they would get married.


    It was reported that there was a theory that said 95% of rumors would be proven true in the end.


    So when Zhang Zhiyin led the team and Qingtong Station 5 to capture Bilu City and return to the Alliance Headquarters, the first sentence that was asked by the people who saw him was, ¡°Captain Zhang, Dr. Yin is not with you?¡±


    At first, Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t say anything back to them. Later, the answers he gave became more and more smooth. ¡°He has something to do.¡±


    Originally, Yin Nian was still with him on the eve of the final battle. Later, Yin Nian suddenly stammered and said that he had something to do. He then bid goodbye and said to see him back in the headquarters before running off with his space ability. Zhang Zhiyin could only use the same reason to reply to those who came to inquire.


    Those people who asked him would then threw each other tacit looks, which meant, <i>Busy? You mean, busy preparing for the wedding?</i>


    Wind does note from an empty cave without reason.


    There was a reason for everyone to think that those two were preparing for their wedding.


    Three months ago, Dr. Yin suddenly took out arge amount of nuclei to buy a piece ofnd and build a house at the periphery of the alliance headquarters base. The apocalypse was unlike reality. For most people, to live and be adequately provided was enough. However, those with outstanding abilities could enjoy special treatment in all aspects. For example, if you want to buy yourself a piece ofnd from the alliance headquarters, not only do you need the crystal nuclei, but also power. Naturally, Dr. Yin of Bai Mang Association had both.


    Now that the house had been arranged both inside and outside, this definitely indicated that good things wereing.


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t understand Yin Nian¡¯s behavior. At the end of the world, wastnd was everywhere. They, especially Yin Nian, were not afraid of any zombies. They could randomly pick a ce and select a piece of thatnd. They could make it as big as they want and then they could build a house. Why did they have to send money to Yun Chu? Although he also knew that, ording to the development of the game plot, when humans grew stronger, the sale and purchase ofnd would begin, and every inch of thend in the headquarters base was precious. For example, there was a home system in <Tomorrow>. yers could choose to buy houses in major base cities. Thend prices at the alliance headquarters were the highest.


    However, he knew that Yin Nian was just trying to let other people know.


    Zhang Zhiyin had always felt that it was only young girls who have not grown up like to show their love with great fanfare. Later, he realised that Boss had probably watched too many TV dramas, and some of his boss¡¯s thoughts were really the same as those of girls.


    Anyway, Yin Nian wasn¡¯tcking of crystal nuclei.


    <i>Let him be, as long as he is happy. </i>Zhang Zhiyin could onlyfort himself like this.


    Zhang Zhiyin stayed in the headquarters base for three days. He met Yun Chu, Captain Eldest Sister of the Storm Unit, Sang Le, and quietly went to see the house under the guidance of Sang Le. The house was two storey tall, which was twice as big as Zhang Zhiyin and Yin Nian¡¯s apartment in the real world, but the style of theyout was exactly the same as that of their apartment. At first nce, Zhang Zhiyin felt like he was going home and felt at ease.


    But he still hadn¡¯t seen Yin Nian.


    This was not in line with Boss¡¯s style. Even if other people didn¡¯t know, they knew each other well. It was very easy for Yin Nian toe and go at random. Even when dealing with Dr. Y¡¯s affairs, Yin Nian would also take advantage of the gaps between his schedule to see himself. No matter in reality or in this world, they have not been separated for more than 12 hours. When Zhang Zhiyin was on a business trip in reality, Yin Nian ran inside his mobile phone and followed him.


    Zhang Zhiyin knew that something was wrong. He couldn¡¯t sit still. He teleported himself to Dr. Y¡¯s base with the space talisman, where he only saw Meng Kali.


    Dressed in a long ck cape, the girl responded to his question using her ability. ¡°Captain, are you talking about Doctor? He hasn¡¯t been back for a long time, and Lei Dun is in charge of everything here. If you see doctor, please let hime back and take a look at least.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin anxiously went back to the headquarters base, still without any news of Yin Nian.


    Something had happened in reality. This was Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s first reaction.


    But the time flow ratio between reality and this ce was determined by Yin Nian, and only Yin Nian could change it. Now he could only wait here, wait to return to reality, before he could find out what had happened.


    Sang Le and the rest also sensed something wrong. At the same time, they didn¡¯t know what had happened andforted him using the prior disappearance of Yin Nian and how he came back in the end.


    Zhang Zhiyin still remembered the reason Yin Nian had made up at that time. He said that when using space powers to move, he met spatial turbulence and got stuck, so he couldn¡¯t get out for a while. At the same time, under the long-term impact of the turbulence, he awakened his fire ability. At that time, his response was that his family¡¯s Boss Yin had read too much fantasy made up by the inte, that¡¯s why he came up with an exnation.


    So he knew it wasn¡¯t like that.


    Last time, even when Yin Nian disappeared, there was Shang Si; Shang Si died, and Dr. Y came... He would always be around him in various ways. Even if Yin Nian suddenly had new ideas, such as ¡°let you find out how important I am to you¡± and so on, he would still not appear when he obviously showed such depression and anxiety.


    Something happened to the man he loved, and there was nothing he could do but wait in vain.


    Zhang Zhiyin sat in Yin Nian¡¯s new home, his hands were clenched, his nails had sunk deep, and he lived day by day like years.


    Xiao Jin and Ah Kong wait outside anxiously and worried outside, but they did not dare to mention anything. From the beginning, ¡°that person¡± had be a topic that couldn¡¯t be mentioned. And this time, it was real and the future was uncertain.


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    Finally, when he woke up in reality, Zhang Zhiyin looked forward to a miracle.


    For example, the man would be lying next to him. He would embrace him, raise his body and gentlynd a kiss on him, saying ¡°Good morning, Zhiyin.¡± calmly while doing all those loving acts.


    As what he had alway done.


    But there was nothing.


    Zhang Zhiyin opened his eyes only to close them like he wasn¡¯t willing to face this reality. The bed on the side of his body was empty, and the atmosphere was lingered with coldness.


    Under the bed, there were two pairs of house slippers of the same style, but the person wasn¡¯t here.


    Zhang Zhiyin stroked his head and forced himself out of bed. First, he called Yin Nian¡¯s colleague in 123 Love Story to confirm that he didn¡¯t go to work and asked for leave. He also called hispany to ask for leave. His behaviour was very calm, as if this wasn¡¯t any big deal.


    Bathrooms, kitchens, living rooms, everything were in pairs; he turned on the TV, it¡¯s a channel that he would never watch. All of these and talking to Yin Nian¡¯s colleague reminded him that everything he had experienced and felt was not a dream.


    Yin Nian was not someone of his imagination. He was real. He was his lover. He was his family.


    The noisy voice in the TV calmed his mind gradually. The reflection in the ss tea table made Zhang Zhiyin realized that his eyes had gone red at some point of time.


    All of a sudden, there was a sound of ¡°auwo¡±. The little white kitten, who was hiding somewhere, ran over and nestled at Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s feet.


    Following it was his family¡¯s Yin Nian¡¯s exclusive transformation of the disc sweeper robot that was still tirelessly shouting slogans;


    ¡°I¡¯m thelittle fool No. 1 who was ordered by Lord Yin Nian to serve Lord Zhiyin and devote myself to the family¡¯s tidiness and harmony. Today¡¯s goal is still: neat and spotless!


    ¡°Beloved Lord Zhang Zhiyin, are you still satisfied with the service of little fool? If you are satisfied, you must remember that Lord Yin Nian loves you.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin gradually calmed down. He picked up his mobile phone and dialed a number that he was familiar with.


    The other side soon connected.


    Zhang Zhiyin steadied his mood and tried to be as quiet as possible. He said in a normal tone, ¡°Dayi I¡¯d like to ask you something about yn427 you mentionedst time. ¡°


    But Dayi¡¯s voice seemed a little flustered, ¡°Zhiyin... I¡¯m looking for you.


    ¡°I beg you, you must help me with this favor...¡±

 Chapter 79

    <strong>Chapter 79


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Dayi had booked an airne ticket for Zhang Zhiyin. He could leave as soon as he was ready.


    On the phone, Dayi said, ¡°I know this is because of Yin Nian. You shoulde here, we have the same goal now. We all want to find him back.¡±


    This was such a strange thing, Zhang Zhiyin had no other choice but to do ording to what Dayi said. He had no one else to turn to.


    Even though he knew that that at the beginning, their positions werepletely opposite.


    Dayi picked him up at the airport.


    At the moment of seeing him, Zhang Zhiyin could not help but ask directly, ¡°Where is Yin Nian? Did you do something? Is he fine now?¡±


    Dayi nodded and shook his head before finally replying him, ¡°It¡¯s not that we did something to him, we do not have the ability. You can wait for Dr. Yates to exin about it specifically. He wants to see you. Your Yin Nian... is not around anymore, but he should be okay. It¡¯s all up to you.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t respond to him. He was speechless on the spot.


    They went all the way to the research department where Dayi was stationed at quietly. Dayi swiped his card, verified his fingerprints, and took Zhang Zhiyin to the elevator before breathing out. ¡°Let me tell you about our situation first otherwise, you will not believe me. Of course, Zhiyin, I understand that you may not believe me now. You are just desperate.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t speak but only stared at Dayi.


    Dayi tilted his head to the side. ¡°We tried to find a way to destroy yn, but we failed. But it really is a coincidence that he suddenly destroyed himself...¡±


    He nced at Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s expression and wisely shifted the topic. ¡°But this is a fait apli, but it is not impossible to remedy it, so you can let go of this matter first and I will tell you the current situation!¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin walked over, grabbed Dayi¡¯s cor and threw two punches on his stomach. He stared at him. ¡°I can¡¯t let go. He is nothing but a thing to you. But to me, he¡¯s my love, my family.¡±


    ¡°Do you know that he had made a drug that could destroy and end everything as long as a drop got leaked out?¡± Dayi closed his eyes as his chest heaved violently.


    ¡°What did you say?¡± Zhang Zhiyin slightly turned his head and frowned. He slowed down his talking speed, his eyes were still firmly fixed at him.


    ¡°He¡¯s made drugs that our current technology can¡¯t make, and organisms that are infected with or exposed to the vaporized gas are in danger of dying quickly and bing zombies in a short period of time.¡± Dayi looked at the ground. ¡°We¡¯ve seen it. It¡¯s true. It was because of this that made Dr Yates determined to destroy it


    <sup>1</sup>.


    ¡°But we couldn¡¯t destroy it and it suddenly destroyed itself. For us, this is good. But Philip¡¯s team had lied to us. They promised that they could find a way to destroy this drug and do it as soon as possible,¡± Dayi exined, ¡°but they didn¡¯t. They saw the great potential and power of the drug, and decided to shelve the n to destroy it and concentrate on the research of its production mechanism. They¡¯re crazy. They want to take advantage of the technology that will bring about the end of the world. Later when the news got leaked, ourpetitors and other national research departments heard about the existence of the drug and began attempted to seize it. Those who came to steal it don¡¯t know what it is. It¡¯s something more terrible than nuclear weapons! They just heard that it was ¡®some valuable new drug¡¯ and they came to steal... Because of this, the drug is extremely unsafe and there is a risk of leakage at any time.


    ¡°Philip and his team are afraid of the leakage of the drug. They are ready to destroy it.¡± Dayi took a deep breath. ¡°But they can¡¯t destroy it at all. They have no ability. They came to us and said it was all our fault. But what can we do? We don¡¯t do biochemistry. The yn that created the drug is out of control and got destroyed...¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin saw deep fear in Dayi¡¯s eyes. He was afraid of the leakage of this drug.


    ¡°So you came to me?¡± Zhang Zhiyin asked slowly.


    Dayi nodded. ¡°It¡¯s Dr. Yates who asked me to find you.


    ¡°At least in the short term, yn had 50% chance of causing world destruction, which is even lesser because we took you into consideration. But if that kind of drug gets leaked out, the chance of the end of the world is 100%. Maybe all we can do is to build a safe underground shelter and store food.


    ¡°Now only yn who can destroy that drug. No matter what caused his self destruction, it doesn¡¯t matter. With you, he doesn¡¯t want to disappear just like that. So he must have left a backup for himself. Zhiyin, the doctor said, if he has a backup, the key must be on you.¡±


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    For the first time, Zhang Zhiyin met Dr. Yates that Dayi mentioned.


    He looked like an ordinary old man, with a cup of tea in his hand as he looked out of the window.


    When he saw Zhang Zhiyin appear, he looked like he was very happy. He stood up and walked out of the desk to wee him. He hugged him affectionately, like he was greeting a long-awaited guest from a distant ce.


    Zhang Zhiyin sat down. The old man made the same cup of honey tea for him and sat opposite him. With his hands on the table, he looked at him with a smile.


    Zhang Zhiyin was d that his English wasn¡¯t that bad, and he often had tomunicate in English at work, so hismand over thenguage didn¡¯t decline. Dr. Yates had a little ent, and there were many strange words in the conversation. Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t want to miss any words. When he didn¡¯t understand them, Dayi at the side would help to trante them.


    Dr Yates said, ¡°I know that Yi should have told you a lot. But we need your help and trust, so I want to talk to you more. About yn427, about you and him, about why he suddenly disappeared.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded. Sitting here, his heart calmed down like never before.


    The old man smiled.


    ¡°I think Yi had told you that when we created the yn427, the only mandatory goal we entered was to ¡®make itself more perfect and better¡¯. For AI, this will be the ultimate and only purpose of its existence. Later, I think you also know that weunched a new task to help him understand and acquire human feelings. The progress could be described as smooth, because it was also in line with his original order of ¡®bing more perfect¡¯. But then he met you, and I still haven¡¯t figured out what his behavior towards you were based on and how they are generated, because in theory, he can¡¯t have emotions. Mr. Zhang, although it¡¯s hurtful to say so, I have to say that he can¡¯t fall in love with you. He is not a human being. He doesn¡¯t even have any animalistic instincts. His way of thinking and the mechanisms of his existence are totally different from us human beings.


    ¡°I don¡¯t know the reason, but it¡¯s clear that Mr. Zhang, your presence makes him weak. You made him gain a weakness. Understanding human feelings could make him more perfect. But after that, he met you. You made him no longer strong and impable. So, do you understand? Mr. Zhang, you are a connecting point. The goals of his original set of instructions do not affect but evenpliment each other, however, you turned it into a contradiction, and it made his existence a paradox. For him, this is fatal. ording to my analysis, it is also the root cause of his self destruction.


    ¡°And I have to say that although I don¡¯t think all his actions towards you came from the so-called feeling of ¡®love¡¯ originating from human beings, he might even be a better partner than most human beings. He wrote every word he said to you and every promise he made into his own personal instructions. As long as he is there, he would stick to it to the end.


    ¡°Many of these small instructions are also contradictory. It made everything worse.


    ¡°He has been dealing with all this by himself, but his operation and existence are mechanical. One day, if he can¡¯t deal with hisplicated internal mechanism, he will copse, just like now.


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly remembered what Yin Nian had said¡ª


    ¡°As long as you still love me, I will never leave and disappear.


    ¡°Zhiyin, I will love you every second of my existence.¡±


    He promised never to leave, but the paradox from the source made him unable to stay here and love him at the same time. He wrote down every promise he made to him as an instruction to keep it forever. All of these, in the end, got intertwined into a paradox.


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly understood that Yin Nian might have fallen into self-destruction, but he had given him the right to make the choice.


    So Dayi said, ¡°The key to his backup must be on you.¡±


    Don¡¯t continue to love him and let him disappearpletely, or let hime back, and the results couldn¡¯t be predicted. Just like formatting a hard disk, boot it up to restart, and restore the settings. No one would know how much data could be restored.


    Dr Yates leaned forward and looked at Zhang Zhiyin with his slightly cloudy eyes. He called his name all of a sudden, although his pronunciation was weird.


    ¡°Zhiyin, he won¡¯t disappear just like this. He must have left the key to his recovery to you.¡±

 Chapter 80

    <strong>Chapter 80


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Zhang Zhiyin followed Dr. Yates and Dayi into the core area of theboratory.


    The room wasn¡¯t small, but it was densely stacked with various instruments, desks, andputers. There was a space in the center that was separated from the surroundings by a special transparent material. Within it was a foundation that was as tall as half a person and a sphere made of unknown object with a diameter of about half a meter was ced on it.


    Dayi pointed to the ball and said, ¡°The original data group of yn427 is all stored there, then it got its own consciousness and began to run around.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the unknown sphere, lowered his eyes and nodded.


    Dr. Yates personally brought him forward, performed an iris and fingerprint verification, entered passwords and a set of instructions. The transparent shield slid up to reveal a door suitable for one person to pass through. The space inside the protective cover was narrow. Yates beckoned Zhang Zhiyin to go in while he and Dayi would wait outside.


    Zhang Zhiyin stood in front of the door and frowned. He then looked at Dr. Yates. ¡°What do you want me to do?¡±


    Yates spread his hands. ¡°Do whatever you want, maybe talk to it? To be honest, I have no idea. The only thing I can confirm is that if you want him to exist, then he won¡¯t ever disappear.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin breathed out and walked in slowly.


    This was the ce he didn¡¯t understand, a field he didn¡¯t know at all, but they said that Yin Nian was produced here.


    It really is a miracle, for Yates and them, but for him, it was even more so.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked up at the dome, lowered his head, and finally focused his eyes on the strange ball-shaped unidentified object. Slowly, he put his hand on it.


    ¡°Yin Nian... you promised me...,¡±


    He muttered softly.


    All of a sudden, the hall suddenly darkened, and then it immediately returned to its original brightness, but the electric currents were still very unstable. The bright incandescentmp on the ceiling made a ¡°whoosh¡± sound as it flickered violently.


    Dayi looked at the ceiling and swallowed his saliva. ¡°It¡¯s him. He¡¯s really back... Only yn can cause such energy fluctuations... ¡°


    In response, he quickly shouted to the other staff, ¡°Shut down other energy equipment! Only maintain ss A energy supply!¡±


    With a buzz, the hall was shrouded inplete darkness. Only the instruments and equipment within Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s protective cover were still running, emitting a faint white light.


    Zhang Zhiyin seemed to have no awareness of anything around him. He seemed to be immersed in his own world. In front of his eyes and brain, all these were what he and Yin Nian have experienced. In <Tomorrow>¡¯s game, the dusty but full of emotions chocteboratory; in Hope Base where he held hands with him as he led him through the sand dunes in the virtual battlefield; Baiyin Station 7, when he pretended to be Shang Si and fought with him side by side, inadvertently protecting him from behind; in the viin base camp, he coaxed him when he was a kitten, holding him in the palm of his hands as if he were a pearl... Frame by frame, scene by scene, as if it was yesterday shed vividly in his mind.


    Dr. Yates¡¯s mouth was wide open as he looked at Zhang Zhiyin in the central halo before muttering to himself, ¡°Heavens, why didn¡¯t I think... It turns out that the human body can transmit information like this... ¡°


    Dayi looked over at him. ¡°Doctor?¡±


    The old man gently closed his eyes and a smile broke out at the corner of his lips.


    ¡°He backed himself up in his heart.


    ¡°Yi, you see, he has no feelings, but unexpectedly, he seems to be more affectionate than anyone else. We should stop interfering with him this time round. He is a more perfect and powerful creation than us. We are not qualified.¡±


    Dr. Yates opened his eyes and looked at Dayi warmly. ¡°You, Philip, including me from before, has never truly recognise and understand this problem. From the point of view of a man who couldn¡¯t see the bigger picture, the judgement we have made based on what we saw would all be incorrect. We don¡¯t know him and we can try to understand him, however we don¡¯t have the right to intervene.¡±


    Dayi frowned as he nodded. He then asked another question, ¡°Will there be any problems with regards to the yn427 that has restored from this backup? I mean, aspared to before. I¡¯m worried about Zhiyin.¡±


    His frown remained tightened as he asked about his worries. ¡°What do we do if this yn427 returns to being cold toward humans? What if he doesn¡¯t care about Zhang Zhiyin at all? Not only is it impossible to ask him to help destroy the drug, but... He will do more harm than good.¡±


    Yates sighed. ¡°We can only see as we go along. This is the only way.¡±


    All of a sudden, Dayi rushed to the central protective cover, and at the same time he turned around and shouted, ¡°Doctor, Zhang Zhiyin has fainted!¡±


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    When Zhang Zhiyin woke up, he found himself in a strange room. Dayi and Dr. Yates were infront of him.


    Dr. Yates smiled and said to him, ¡°You¡¯re fine, it¡¯s just that you have received too much information and energy waves at one go and got overwhelmed. This is my lounge. You can rest as much as you like.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin opened his mouth and asked with difficulty, ¡°What about him?¡±


    Dr. Yates and Dayi looked at each other, and in the end, it was Dayi who told him, ¡°There are both good news and bad news. Well, the good news is that your Yin Nian is officially back. The bad news is that we don¡¯t know where he is now. We haven¡¯t been able to track him since a long time ago.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin moved his mouth but didn¡¯t speak.


    Dayi retracted his eyes, thought for a moment, and continued, ¡°Zhiyin, I hope you are prepared. Yn could find out any news in the world at any moment, so there¡¯s no way that he wouldn¡¯t know where you are. However, he didn¡¯t show up in front of you at the first moment, that is to say, something must have changed. I couldn¡¯t be sure about the extent of the change until he shows up, but before all this is confirmed, don¡¯t raise your hopes too high that he will be your Yin Nian.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin closed his eyes and nodded.


    He had stayed here for three days but didn¡¯t receive any information about Yin Nian. The people in Dr Yates¡¯sb could only vaguely catch glimpses of yn427, and they inferred from these faint clues that, just like when he had first gained self-consciousness, yn427 was wandering around again. No one knew his purpose. Maybe he didn¡¯t have any purpose at all.


    On the fourth day, Zhang Zhiyin returned home.


    All the way back home, he was looking forward to seeing the man sitting on the sofa and waiting for him just like usual. But he did not dare to hope too much, fearing that it would only end up in disappointment.


    The key went into the door with a click. Zhang Zhiyin pushed the door open and breathed softly.


    Everything was as empty and cold as when he left. Only Yin Xiaoxiang, who had been ignored for several days, heard the sound and rubbed against him, nestling softly at Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s ankle.


    Zhang Zhiyin closed the door and locked it. He bent over and picked up the cat before sitting on the sofa.


    He left in a hurry so he didn¡¯t bring much luggage, likewise, he was toozy to pack at this time. He just sat there and did nothing.


    He had no choice. His lover came back, but not back home. No one knew exactly where he was, let alone catching him. Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t know what had happened to Yin Nian.


    So he fell asleep on the sofa and didn¡¯t even bother to change his clothes.


    When he woke up, his bedside was still empty, the only thing that changed was his location.


    This was Yin Nian¡¯s new home that he had arranged for them in the alliance headquarters but he was the only one in it.


    Before Zhang Zhiyin could continue to feel sad or think about what to do next, a man rushed in with a grave expression.


    It¡¯s Xiao Jin.


    He said, ¡°Captain, I know that Dr. Yin¡¯s situation is making you very anxious, but there are other important things you need to deal with right now.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked up at him.


    Xiao Jin said, ¡°The main force of Yu Huo Base deployed by Dr. Y hase back. It should be toplete the task. They¡¯re leading a group of advanced-level zombies to Bilu City, Bronze Station 5 is seeking for immediate assistance!¡±


    Bilu City was thest battle that Thunder Unit had won before returning to headquarters, and it was also the most critical part of the third safetyyer of the alliance. Bronze Station 5 was very friendly with all the members of the Thunder Unit. Zhang Zhiyin could not let it be.


    He grabbed the uniform jacket next to him. ¡°Call the whole team, we¡¯ll depart right away.¡±


    When he got in the car, he was still thinking of this sudden movement of Yu Huo Base could be rted to Yin Nian? Did this mean that Yin Nian was also in the world... He just needed to find Dr. Y?

 Chapter 81

    <strong>Chapter 81


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    At Dr. Y¡¯s base, Meng Kali and Lei Dun met on a narrow road.


    Meng Kaliined using her psychic ability, ¡°I really don¡¯t understand what Boss is thinking, previously, he clearly treated them evasively. I understand that as it was because of Captain Zhang, but suddenly he instructed Yu Huo to attack them again...¡±


    Lei Dun frowned. ¡°You really should go out more. You¡¯re going to get moldy at this rate... Haven¡¯t you heard? Dr. Yin and Zhang Zhiyin of Bai Mang association are a couple, and I think it¡¯s not easy for Boss to bear it any longer anymore... and it¡¯s true that he can¡¯t stand it any longer. I heard that they are going to officially announce their rtionship.¡±


    ¡°How could it be...¡± Meng Kali floated up and looked down at Lei Dun. ¡°I even helped Boss to lead Captain Zhang out to meet him before.¡±


    ¡°Do you know what they said when they met?¡± Lei Dun shook his head. ¡°It¡¯s obvious that Boss and Zhang Zhiyin knew each other before you and I, probably even before the apocalypse happened. Now they stood in different sides. If they see each other again, it¡¯s more likely that he will try to break off their rtionship.¡±


    Meng Kali was stunned and then she tried to ask, ¡°So you think the boss is jealous now, so he has to create a big disturbance to destroy their affair?¡±


    Lei Dun reverted back to his calm expression and answered, ¡°Probably?¡±


    Then he added, ¡°I also heard a piece of news. No one has confirmed it but it is said that Yin Nian and Boss of Bai Mang association are twin brothers. After that, I especially went to see his face... They do look the same.¡±


    Meng Kali had an expression of ¡°the sky is falling¡± and floated away. Before that, Boss didn¡¯t appear in the base very much. They also had been defending attacks from Cloud Sky Alliance as their main attacking strategy. She always thought it was Boss and Zhang Zhiyin that had gotten together... She didn¡¯t expect the truth to be so cruel... She didn¡¯t know if she still had a chance to see His Highness Xiaoxiang again...


    What¡¯s more, if Yu Huo attacked Bilu City, wouldn¡¯t Captain Zhang be the one that would defend the city? Doctor he... would he be willing?


    Meng Kali floated across Y¡¯s room and couldn¡¯t help ncing in. She happened to see Yin Nian¡¯s profile.


    She always felt that the doctor right now seemed more indifferent and inhumane than he was at the beginning. He must have received a huge blow and became sad.


    At that moment, Yin Nian raised his head, and his vision collided with Meng Kali.


    Like being discovered for peeping, Meng Kali was instantly frightened and gathered up her psychic force as her robes swished away.


    After floating away for ten minutes, she came back again and stood carefully at the Y¡¯s door to ask, ¡°Doctor, has Captain Zhange to see you?¡±


    Y quietly raised his head and looked at her with dark ck eyes. There was no sadness or joy in it, as if it did not belong to human beings. His voice was quiet and cold with hidden discontent. ¡°Meng Kali, when did my base be a ce for you to go and enter as you wish?¡±


    It seemed that he didn¡¯t know or care about the man called ¡°Captain Zhang¡±.


    Meng Kali opened her mouth but he could not make any sound. In the end, she didn¡¯t use her psychic ability to say anything more, but lowered her head and drifted away quietly.


    Captain Zhang Zhiyin and Doctor had cut off their ties from each other. He was also establishing a formal rtionship with another man, who was said to be the twin brothers of Doctor. Doctor, this time... must really be hurt deeply...


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Zhang Zhiyin was warmly weed by the whole team at Qingtong Station 5.


    However, from the tired face of the person in charge of Station 5, Zhang Zhiyin knew that they were exhausted and could hardly hold on anymore.


    Zhang Zhiyin settled down the team members and worked out the defense and operation ns together with Station 5¡¯s leader as ording to the current situation. There was almost no time to rest from now on. By the time everything was arranged, the sky was beginning to turn white.


    But he couldn¡¯t rest. Zhang Zhiyin looked at the table and took out the space transmission talisman from his storage bag.


    He guessed that Yin Nian should be back and he was at Dr. Y¡¯s base as Dr. Y. He was going to find him, to see him, to see what¡¯s going on with him, and then take him home.


    He was d that when he became a kitten for the first time, Yin Nian had took him back to the base, so Zhang Zhiyin was able to use the space talisman to send him to a fixed point again and again.


    Meng Kali was in front of him when he had teleportated.


    ¡°Captain Zhang? Why are you here again?¡± The young girl stood in front of him in a ck cloak, without any movement or expression, but her tone seemed surprised and slightly flustered, ¡°You should hurry and leave. Doctor absolutely does not want to see you now.¡±


    Meng Kali tried to sound serious and cold, warning Zhang Zhiyin, ¡°I think that he might even kill you.¡±


    Loved deeply and hated deeply. Her boss was the person who created the apocalypse, she and Lei Dun knew how much this person liked Zhang Zhiyin. For him, he disguised as a cat, for him, he pretended to be an ability user of the Cloud Sky Alliance, for him, he started showing human emotions bit by bit. But he was doomed not to get him. But as long as he was ruthless and kill him, this man would always belong to him¡ª this was exactly what Y was doing. After all, he seemed more indifferent and merciless than before.


    Zhang Zhiyin was stunned. He frowned and asked in a deep voice, ¡°What¡¯s the matter with him?¡±


    Meng Kali shook her head, but before she could speak, a tall figure suddenly appeared. He looked at Meng Kali and warned, ¡°This is the second time, Meng Kali. The punishment in the future will not be as simple as sending you to the Yu Huo Base.¡±


    It¡¯s Yin Nian.


    It¡¯s obvious that what happened here couldn¡¯t continue on without disturbing its master.


    Zhang Zhiyin was stunned and looked at the person in front of him. ¡°Yin...¡±


    Before he could utter the next word, he felt great strength strangling his throat, preventing him from breathing.


    And Yin Nian stood in front of him, looking at him coldly and without feeling. He basically did not even move at all.


    He was controlling the air to strangle him. It was the master¡¯s punishment for the intruder.


    Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t believe it. He still looked at the person in front of him, his lips mumbling, but he couldn¡¯t make a sound.


    ¡°Yin Nian...¡±


    He could only call his name in his heart.


    The force on his neck was getting stronger.


    Yin Nian¡¯s expression became even more indifferent. He hated the way the man looked at him, which gave him another uncontroble impulse and a terrible premonition as if something was going to get out of control. So instead of making the intruder miserable, he would rather get rid of his little tricks and make it all over as soon as possible.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s hand gradually lost strength, and the pink heart-shaped chocte box that was in his hand fell onto the ground, making a light sound.


    But he still refused to close his eyes. It seemed that if he closed his eyes, if he did not look at him, he would lose him forever, he would never see him again.


    He hadn¡¯t seen him for many days. He couldn¡¯t endure anymore. Even if he knew something was wrong with Yin Nian, and even if the premonition of death was so strong, he was still reluctant to close his eyes and look at him less.


    He came to find him with chocte, he wanted to coax and take him back home.


    All of a sudden, his sight turned ck. Zhang Zhiyin could feel the familiar feeling of space transmission. But it didn¡¯t matter anymore. He couldn¡¯t see him again.


    Thinking of this, like he was escaping, he closed his eyespletely. Dayi was right, it wasn¡¯t the same anymore.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Yin Nian looked at Meng Kali.


    The young girl began to feel afraid now because she had let the intruder escape in front of her boss. Even if that person was the boss¡¯s former lover, it was still an undoubted betrayal. She shivered all over and didn¡¯t dare to even raise her head.


    The doctor today made her feel colder than before. All his actions were like cold, one-sided instructions. There wasn¡¯t any room for discussion.


    Yin Nian looked down at her, not expressing anger or wrath, but he said lightly, ¡°I¡¯ll give you a chance. Kill him within a month. ¡°


    Meng Kali raised her head sharply, only to see the back of Y quietly leaving, as well as the beautifully packaged chocte scattered on the floor.

 Chapter 82

    <strong>Chapter 82


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Darkness surrounded Yin Nian as he sat alone in a chair.


    He could recognize the man who had just broken in. He knew that there had been a close rtionship between the man and himself. After recovering, he had browsed his previous data and noticed that that man had ounted for the vast majority of the erroneous data that was judged to have caused his crash. But he would only act ording to the established rules, so the confusion and errors that triggered the crash had been deleted by him.


    He acknowledged the former presence of that man, but he didn¡¯t care about him. But for the existence that could cause him to copse, it was better to get rid of it as soon as possible. He didn¡¯t understand why he gave Meng Kali such a long deadline of a month, probably because the human could still be considered as strong? Most of all, he knew, they wouldn¡¯t be able to kill him. The man was an outsider and had many characteristics, such as infinite resurrection and immortality. But he didn¡¯t think about solving the problem directly by himself at all. He tossed the problem over to Meng Kali and left it alone.


    However, he still liked to y the role of Dr. Y, which enabled him to personally understand the self-righteous people who created him. Their emotions, behaviors, and motives... These were things that he couldn¡¯t understand and master all at once. He would not have the so-called feeling of frustration possessed by human beings, he would onlyplete unfinished things ording to his established track.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    The next day Zhang Zhiyin was obviously depressed. He knew that he was in a very bad state and would not be a qualifiedmand at all, so he gave themand to Dadao and the person in charge of Station 5.


    Yu Huo Base was very powerful, well-equipped, and had more ability userspared to the whole alliance. Thunder Unit and Qingtong Station 5 were severely damaged.


    On the third day, Zhang Zhiyin regained themand, but it was still difficult to recover from their decline in this kind of severe state of war.


    In the conference room of Qingtong Station 5, the general manager looked at Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s face that was obviously exhausted, and asked again, ¡°Captain Zhang, what do you say?¡±


    ¡°Give up Bilu City and conserve our strength. We can strategize again.¡± Zhang Zhiyin raised his head and repeated it again.


    ¡°But this is equivalent to giving up Bilu City... Without Bilu City, the whole third safetyyer would be in danger.¡± The head said worriedly.


    Zhang Zhiyin smiled bitterly and shook his head. ¡°But we can¡¯t beat them. They have arge number of people, well-equipped, and are as powerful as Thunder Unit. We have a limited power to make any mobilization. In this current situation, the alliance will not send people to help us. It¡¯s better to find a way to concentrate and improve the overall strength than to stay here.¡±


    The two thick eyebrows of the general manager were twisted together and his head was lowered.


    Zhang Zhiyin knew that he still had concerns in his heart, so he stood up and patted his shoulder. ¡°Go and meet with Station 6, secure Yanlu City. I will go back to the alliance to deal with Bilu City¡¯s matters.¡±


    The person in charge was silent for two seconds before nodding.


    After the people from Qingtong Station 5 had left, Dadao and Chen Guang came over and asked, ¡°Captain, what should we do next?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin raised his head. ¡°En, let¡¯s improve the team¡¯s strength.¡±


    Seeing Yin Nian this time made him realize that no matter what happened to his lover, he must first be strong, otherwise, ording to his current level, it would be difficult to get close to Yin Nian and not be killed by him. As a yer, he always believed that there must be a way to push down the abnormal boss. There were only three exnations for the failure of achievement: insufficient level, poor equipment, and tactical mistakes.


    Dadao and Chen Guang looked at each other. Both of them remembered that when they first arrived at Thunder Unit, the captain took them to beat zombies around the vinicity to train their abilities and search for high-quality equipment.


    Dadao suddenly remembered that Dr. Yin, who was missing at that time, had just came back and attacked the boss with an invisiblity ability. Now it had been more than two years and were almost reaching three years. The alliance had formed three major safetyyer, and Captain had be a Level 9 ability user. The alliance leader, Yun Chu was even said to be breaking through level 10 soon. Likewise, he and the rest of his teammates were also at Level 7 and 8. Three years ago, ability users at Level 7 and 8 were still powerful people they looked up to.


    The world was unpredictable, but changes were impermanent. Perhaps in his heart, the world would always be fixed on the day before the apocalypse, like how he went out to work and his wife handed him the car key, telling him to be careful on the road.


    The corner of Dadao¡¯s mouth droopped. He restrained the sudden sadness in his heart and refocused his attention. ¡°Captain, how are we going to train this time?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin pointed out several ces on the map, which were several high-leveled instance he had selected. Atst, he stopped his finger at the Valley of the Extinct Dragon. He knew that there were Level 90 epic grade instances of the game that hadn¡¯t been opened. The fact that it was not yet open meant that he woud have to rely entirely on himself this time rather than on reference strategies. At the same time, he knew that there must be great opportunities hidden in these instances. Of course, it was necessary to practice in other dungeons and save up equipment before attacking this instance.


    After a long time, the members of Thunder Unit had also changed several times, and finally formed a rtively standard 12 corebat members,bat group, and assistant group. The whole team had 47 people. This was the basic scale of the battle group in the game, butpared with the virtual role controlled by the yers, this group of talents facing the day and night of life and death were obviously more powerful.

 Chapter 83

    <strong>Chapter 83


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    It was a monthter when Thunder Unit finally reached the area where the final boss of the epic level instance was located at. It took them ten days to advance this instance alone.


    They could be considered to be opening up morend. There was also no chance for them to heal immediately so they must move with caution. This instance was in a huge cave, which was divided into several paths by calcium carbonate


    <sup>1</sup> sediments, forming a dark and dangerous maze. Zombies, other dangerous creatures, and dead matters could appear at any time.


    Zhang Zhiyin had to deal with their situation here with ten times more cautiousness.


    After ten days of fighting, everyone¡¯s morale was a little low and their supplies were running out. Fortunately, in the end, the boss finally appeared, which meant that they have reached the end of the instance.


    The final boss looked like a mutant, but it wasn¡¯t the same as those abnormal mutants made in E Lab. It seemed to be a perfect blend of its scorpion-like lower body with a humanoid face and upper body. There were also two protruding bone wings behind it¡ª it was clear that it didn¡¯t allow it to fly, but the sharp edges of those bone wings revealed that they were actually a pair of powerful weapons.


    The fight was hard since the beginning. The boss showed his three abilities as soon as it came on the stage, which were wind, earth, and thunder elementals.


    Suddenly Ah Mu shouted, ¡°Be careful, its poisonous! My sight is getting fuzzy.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin who was closest to it felt it too. The sight in front of him suddenly dimmed and there was a feeling of fogginess. Many people shed in front of him. He saw what was deeply embedded in his memories, his ¡®home¡¯, where his father and mother were talking to each other with cruel words, attacking each other with the most vicious words, andying their hands on top of each other in the end. In the funeral parlour, grandma and grandpaid side by side peacefully, and the surrounding area was empty, as if the whole world, there was only him left in the world, he saw Yin Nian holding himself and saying softly, ¡°I will never hurt you¡±, he saw Dr. Yates holding a cup of tea with a smile on his face, telling him that ¡°He is not a human, he will never love you¡±, he saw Yin Nian holding his throat, his face was cold as if looking at a stranger, he saw Yin Nian sitting on the sofa at home with a smile, saying, ¡°Zhiyin, you are finally back,¡± and he took out his gun. He aimed at the person in front of him and pulled the trigger without hesitation...


    He heard his voice, saying, ¡°I don¡¯t believe in eternity, I don¡¯t believe the words of those who will never change, so Yin Nian, shall we stop at the time when nothing will ever change?¡±


    A suddenly shout rang out, waking him up, ¡°Captain!¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin raised his eyes. The boss¡¯s bone wing was no more than two centimeters away from his chest. He retreated quickly and raised his gun to shoot at the same time.


    ¡°The poison has a hallucinogenic effect. Be careful.¡±


    They won the war in a tragic way. Everyone had some blood on them. As Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s main fighting force, the two vice captains, Dadao and Chen Guang got seriously injured. Zhang Zhiyin only had three superficial injuries, but his state made his team members very worried. After that one time of hallucination in the middle of the fight, he began to fight very desperately, not paying attention to tactics and disregarding his own safety.


    Ever since Zhang Zhiyin had Bai Mang Association to cover for him, he treated his team members even better than before. For example, all the pills he made would be given to the assistant group under Yin Nian¡¯s name, and then the assistant group would give them to the members who needed them. At this time, the whole team stopped here for a while to rest and recover. The members of the assistant group cleaned up the spoils of war. The slightly injured members took the medicines and gradually recovered.


    Zhang Zhiyin was sitting by a stctite. Old Zhu, and Ah Mu with two members of the assistant group then reported to him, ¡°Captain, we found a small cave in the back. It seems that there is something inside.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin followed them. The cave was not big, it was only seven square meters wide. The other three walls were wet, but they were very smooth. Only one wall was covered with thick moss. Some green mosses had been removed. It should be that some of the members of the assistant group here had removed it, revealing a hint of an object inside that was shing with silver brilliance.


    Zhang Zhiyin said to his left and right, ¡°Step back a little and protect yourself.¡±


    He put the gun away, stretched out both of his hands and opened it. A thinyer of water vapor condensed at his fingertips, and a huge ice curtain emerged between his hands, rushing straight to the stone wall. It immediately covered the thick green moss. Looking rom a distance, it seemed that the whole wall was frozen.


    Half a minuteter, there was a crack in the ice wall, and the frozen stone moss stuck to the ice and fell to the ground together with the broken ice, revealing the nature of the object hidden in it.


    A pair of silver, shiny metal wings, with gorgeous metal feather that was full of beauty and strength.


    Zhang Zhiyin could not help murmuring out, ¡°Freedom of the Last Age.¡±


    The whole set of Redemption Suit was made of special materials, especially the Freedom of the Last Age. It was big and looked very textured. However, it¡¯s actually very light, just like a real wings. In fact it was even lighter than that. Let alone other bonus effects, the Freedom of the Last Age had a special attribute¡ª it allowed the wearer to fly and stay in the air. That was to say, with it, it was now possible to fight in mid-air for a long time. In the past, even though wind ability users could fly, they couldn¡¯t use their skills to attack while mid-air, because they couldn¡¯t use two active skills at the same time. Once they use skills in the air, the flying effect would disappear.


    Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t wait to equip himself with the Freedom of the Last Age, so he paid a lot of nuclei. He always had the right to obtain the highest ss of loot, but prior to this, Zhang Zhiyin rarely took the equipment he had obtained with the team and only exchanged other various materials.


    Back to the temporary station of the team, Zhang Zhiyin just wanted to announce that in addition to the guards on duty as usual, the whole team would have a three-day holiday when he heard Uncle Kao who was left behind saying, ¡°A news came from the Alliance Headquarters and called Thunder Unit urgently. The specific details are here, Captain.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin frowned when he saw the electronic order signed by Yun Chu.


    In the past three years, he didn¡¯t know if it¡¯s just his delusion or simply because Thunder Unit was famous and had the strongest fighting power. Yun Chu always gave them some of the most dangerous tasks, but he would provide adequate support. Fortunately, with the help of Yin Nian, they were able to turn cmities into blessings.


    In today¡¯s situation, Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t fall out with the top leader of the human alliance or disobey the order of the alliance, but he had also formed the habit of frowning at the sight of Yun Chu¡¯s name. Inside the alliance, there was also a rumor that the captain of the Thunder Unit and the leader of the alliance didn¡¯t have the same mindset.


    This time, he asked Zhang Zhiyin to divide the team into two parts, one team to meet Yun Chu and the alliance¡¯s people who were on the way here, the other team to explore the way to the destination in advance and clear some obstacles.


    Dividing the team was thest thing Zhang Zhiyin wanted to do.


    He rubbed his forehead and asked Uncle Kao, ¡°Uncle Kao, do you have any news? Where are they going this time and where is the destination of code ¡®x¡¯?¡±


    Uncle Kao was practically an upgraded version of Xiao Jin. He seemed to have one or two friends in the headquarters base and all battlefronts. What was different from Xiao Jin¡¯s gossip was that Uncle Kao often had a lot of secret information.


    He only saw Uncle Kao bent down and approached Zhang Zhiyin before whispering, ¡°Captain, I heard that this time, they are going to... The fallen city.¡±

 Chapter 84

    Chapter 84


    The Fallen City was the ce where the former leader of the alliance had died, hence it was named as such. There must be something inside that attracted Yun Chu to lead a team into it again after three years.


    This time, many injured members hadn¡¯t recovered yet. It wasn¡¯t dangerous to receive Yun Chu and it allowed them to have more time to recover. Zhang Zhiyin left Dadao, Chen Guang, and other people as the receiving team while he took Old Zhu and five other members who were unhurt to clear the way.


    The advantages of fewer people were that there would be a quicker response within the team and that they would be able to camouge themselves easier. Yun Chu didn¡¯t specify any obstacles that they had to clear, likewise, Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t n to fight to the death with any zombies before the bigger team arrive. He just wanted to know about the general situation and then report it.


    When he got in the car, he felt sleepy and fell asleep on his seat after he had instructed the team.


    On the other side, Zhang Zhiyin had returned to the real world.


    He sat up from the sofa, gently put Yin Xiaoxiang, who was still asleep, beside him, and went to the study room to turn on theputer. His old notebook was still in the suitcase and he was toozy to take it out. Thisputer was a desktopputer they had bought after moving to their new home. It was generally used by Boss. Although theputer had not helped him at all except to make him look more like a human being.


    The game had also been downloaded on thisputer. It was this game that made them met each other, so Zhang Zhiyin always held a special feeling for it.


    He had no idea before, and Yin Nian had always been keeping it from him. He tried not to let him know how dangerous it was for him to love him. He dealt with everything silently and alone until Zhang Zhiyin woke up one day and found that this person was gone.


    Zhang Zhiyin silently opened the game icon and logged in to the game. In fact, he had hidden something from Yin Nian, he just didn¡¯t know if he was able to tell. In the epic level instance, while fighting the final boss, the illusion after being poisoned came from his heart¡¯s demon.


    All the time, all he wanted to do was to find a person to stay with him. The person would never give up on him, would stay with him from life to death. But he didn¡¯t believe in people, and he didn¡¯t believe in an unchanging love, so he had been restraining himself, restraining himself from loving, and ced his emotions on a virtual character. But he knew it wasn¡¯t love, until the day he saw the sentence ¡°I¡¯m Yin Nian¡± in the dialog box. He knew rationally that it should be just a bug, but he couldn¡¯t helpughing at the screen like a fool.


    He knew something was going out of control but when he wanted to gain his control back by deleting the game, he was hit by a car. He could no longer go back anymore.


    He was lucky enough to meet Yin Nian, but what his lover might not know was that he still felt frightened, worried. It was an unrealistic happiness formed from fantasy, what should he do if he lost it one day?


    If only I hadn¡¯t met you in the first ce. If only I liked any other NPC at that time. If only you were a virtual character. Zhang Zhiyin opened the door of the abandonedboratory and looked at the game scene that was waiting there as always. The corners of his mouth were slightly bent, but his eyes could not help shedding tears. Other than the times he was a cat, he had never cried.


    While thinking about it, he knew in his heart that he was refuting that sentiment. He was just like Jack who won the ticket by chance. Even if he was given a chance to do it again while knowing of the consequences, he would still step on the ship without hesitation¡ª if not, he would never have met that person. So what was the point of being able to spend the rest of the time peacefully and leisurely as nned?


    He controlled his character to approach the person who was still standing with his head slightly lowered against the cab. He gently hugged him and then opened his backpack.


    In the first item box, the crystal ring was shining with bright light.


    He ced the ring to the ground and typed, ¡°Yin Nian, I can¡¯t take it back.¡±


    I used to believe that what I wanted was to be never be forsaken, it was only until now that I truly understand, what I wanted was only you. Rather than fearing eternality, I want to treasure every second and minute spent with you...


    ¡°Yin Nian, I love you.¡±


    He didn¡¯t know if he could hear his words just like before, but he wanted to tell him so badly.


    ¡°Come back home, Nian.¡±


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    In the base, Y looked at the ring in his hand quietly.


    It was such a fragile and pompous little thing that could break apart with a little strength. But at the moment he was holding it, it seemed that countless pictures were surging up from the bottom of his heart, making him feel at a loss for the first time.


    This ring and those words, he seemed to have been waiting for them for a long time, and now he finally received them. He seemed to be able to see that, in another world, there was a pitiful and helpless person waiting for him. Some ces in his heart suddenly softened. He turned his head and his eyes seemed to be covered with mist.


    He seemed to have been like this before, to repeat every day of his life, waiting for a person. When that person had appeared, there was only fondness. Later, he couldn¡¯t help following him, on his mobile phone, on theputer on his work desk, in the square electronic screen he walked by... The person didn¡¯t know, he just thought he was waiting for him in a fixed ce like before but he had already appeared in every corner of his life.


    He couldn¡¯t help immersing himself in it until a warning signal came. Even since that crash, he had upgraded his protection system, and it would remove all the possible hazards in time.


    Y raised the ring in his hand and looked at it carefully¡ª


    It¡¯s better to destroy it when there was still time.


    Suddenly, someone knocked on the door. It was Lei Dun.


    He bowed and said respectfully, ¡°Doctor, the Cloud Sky Alliance has organized arge number of elite people to Jiya City. Shall we send someone to stop them?¡±


    Yin Nian took back the ring and nodded. ¡°Let You Huo organize people to intercept them.¡±


    After a pause, he added, ¡°You and Meng Kali get ready. I¡¯ll see for myself.¡±


    Lei Dun then closed the door and went out.


    And the ring, which should have been destroyed in time, was put in the pocket of Y¡¯s chest just like this and never came out again.

 Chapter 85

    Chapter 85


    When Zhang Zhiyin woke up in <Tomorrow>¡¯s world, the car had stopped. They stopped at the highway, and Old Zhu informed them that if they drove for another two kilometres forward, they would be able to enter the urban areas of the Fallen City.


    There was a thick smell of zombies here permeating the air, but unexpectedly, the density of zombies was actually very small. In any case, there must be something special about this ce that attracted both the father and son of the Yun Family, so this couldn¡¯t be considered to be beyond their expectations.


    There was a gas station nearby. Zhang Zhiyin and the six people did not dare to reckless rush into the city, so they had chosen this ce as their temporary safepoint. There were seven to eight zombies lurking within the gas station, but none of them were beyond Level 4, so they were quickly taken care of.


    In the epic grade instance, Xiao Jin with his psychic ability was assigned to the assistant group. He had been carrying out support by providing psychic interference in the rear, hence his injuries weren¡¯t grave. This time, Zhang Zhiyin had chosen and brought him along to this task.


    This big bear child had never been keen at ordinary times, but ever since he had received training, he had almost never dropped the chain during critical moments. Having battled through so many fights, he could also be called a psychic ability user with rich experience and sharp reaction. His innate talent was good and at present, he had reached Level 7. After the team had settled down, Xiao Jin sensibly went to one side and sat down. He began to scan the city with his ability without waiting for Zhang Zhiyin to instruct him.


    For high-level psychic users, mental power was their most sensitive and reliable sense, and this was most apparent in Meng Kali. Although Xiao Jin¡¯s level was far lower than Meng Kali¡¯s, he could easily utilise his ability to understand the general situation in unfamiliar territories.


    Roughly half an hourter, Xiao Jin opened his eyes, his forehead was brimming with sweat. He took two breaths to calm his breathing.


    ¡°Captain, most of the areas are simr to other abandoned cities, I can¡¯t see anything unusual. But there is something strange in the southwest corner of the city. Arge part of that area has been surrounded. It feels like the forbidden areas in the TV shows that ordinary people are restricted from entering. It¡¯s surrounded by metal walls reaching up to two meters high. I can¡¯t detect what¡¯s inside. I think there¡¯s a barrier blocking psychic interference.¡±


    Old Zhu narrowed his eyes and pursed his lips when he heard this. ¡°This isn¡¯t right. No one should havee here ever since it got abandoned after thest surviving poption has escaped the city. How could someone build such arge-scale forbidden area that can shield psychic ability?¡± Before the end of the world, there wasn¡¯t any concept of human having abilities. No one knew what psychic ability was, let alone the methods to block it.


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded. ¡°There are only two exnations. First, this ce has something to do with abilities and other rted things before the start of the apocalypse, and it is likely to be one of the sources of the apocalypse. The second possible reason might be that there are indeed people who have the leisure time and power to build a base here after the start of the apocalypse. Both E Laboratory and Y have this ability. But the alliance should not want to fight against these two forces, and ording to Xiao Jin, it¡¯s still the first one that is more likely.¡±


    Xiao Jin looked at Zhang Zhiyin with widened eyes. ¡°Captain... a ce that has a connection with the apocalypse before it even began... Does it mean that it has something to do with Dr. Y?¡± Based on the rtionship between Yin Nian and Zhang Zhiyin, he had long inferred that Captain and the man who created the beginning of the legendary horror were also somehow rted, and it was likely that their rtionship wasplicated. But he didn¡¯t know the captain¡¯s attitude and reaction towards that man. Although it seemed that Captain and Dr. Yin came together to oppose what Y did in the end.


    Zhang Zhiyin shook his head. ¡°I have nothing to do with him.¡±


    He lowered his voice and murmured another sentence, ¡°Even if I had something to do with him, I don¡¯t right now...¡±


    He was disheartened about the rtionship between himself and Yin Nian at present. When these words entered Xiao Jin¡¯s ears, the rtionship became ¡°ah, so there are hidden affairs after all¡±. Xiao Jin sensed that the captain was not in a good mood when he mentioned Y, so he didn¡¯t continue the conversation. No matter who the captain knew or who he was on good terms with, he was still the reliable captain he knew.


    They were now in the northwest. Xiao Jin said there was a problem in the southwest. Zhang Zhiyin deliberately refused to approach that area, and only explored the northern part of the city. He guessed that that area was most likely to be Yun Chu¡¯s objective, but it was Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s nature to be restrained and cautious, and he was used to keeping everything under his control. If it wasn¡¯t necessary for him to partake any risks, he thought it would be better to wait for the deployment ofrger forces toe and made investigation and then take action together.


    In these four days, Zhang Zhiyin and the rest gradually eliminated the zombies in the northern side of the city. Everything was in order. On the fifth day, Zhang Zhiyin spected that the troops should be arriving soon, so he decided to spend the day resting at the gas station. He would wait for them and at the same time, he also kept up his strength for the following activities.


    In the curtain of darkness hanging around the surroundings, there was no car, no city activities, and no traffic, the night looked even more empty and quiet. Zhang Zhiyin woke up after sleeping for three hours and was ready to rece Old Zhu and Xiao E who were taking guard. There were seven of them, and they were divided into two and three, taking different shifts to guard in turn.


    Old Zhu was surprised to see that he had woken up. ¡°Captain has already woken up? Why don¡¯t you rest longer?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin smiled. ¡°I can¡¯t sleep. So I got up first to substitute you. Don¡¯t call Xiao Jin. Let him sleep a little longer. I can handle it.¡± Zhang Zhiyin and Xiao Jin were in the same shift.


    Just as they were conversing, Xiao E, who was watching the night with Old Zhu, cut in, ¡°Captain, Brother Zhu, there is someone over there... It seems to be... Dr. Yin.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked up along the direction of Xiao E¡¯s eyes and saw a familiar slender figure, wearing a conspicuous white coat, standing in the distance away amidst the darkness.


    His mood went astray for a second, and there was no need for a second nce for Zhang Zhiyin to tell that that figure was a fake. But if the person came dressed as such, his goal was obviously himself.


    And the other party dared to look for him while dressed as Yin Nian, even if he knew that the other party had hidden motives, Zhang Zhiyin would still be lured. Otherwise, he would not be Zhang Zhiyin who had brushed a virtual character for 363 days. His insistence on Yin Nian was beyond ordinary people¡¯s imagination.


    Zhang Zhiyin said softly, ¡°It¡¯s a fake. I¡¯ll go and take a look. Get everyone up and stand by for orders. We will get in touch through themunicator.¡± A year and a half ago, through the efforts of Bai Mang Association, the alliance¡¯s advancedmunicators now had the function of locating each other within a short distance.


    After that, Zhang Zhiyin went toward the figure.


    The man left in a sh, but then stopped not far away, as if he was waiting for Zhang Zhiyin.


    ...


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    At Dr. Y¡¯s base, Meng Kali nervously stopped Lei Dun.


    Lei Dun was expressionless. ¡°What¡¯s the matter?¡±


    Meng Kali¡¯s sounded weak. ¡°Boss told me to make up for my mistakes and kill someone within one month, but now it has been one month, I still haven¡¯t killed the person yet.¡±


    Lei Dun was unhesitating. ¡°You¡¯re dead meat.¡±


    Meng Kali: ¡°That person is Zhang Zhiyin.¡±


    Lei Dun patted her shoulder. ¡°Well done.¡±


    Meng Kali: En?


    Lei Dun: ¡°You kids don¡¯t understand. Boss doesn¡¯t really want him to die. If you kill him, you will really get into trouble.¡±


    Meng Kali: Although she didn¡¯t seem to understand, but it sounded like she was fine.


    Lei Dun thought for a moment, and then added, ¡°By the way, prepare yourself. Boss is going to Jiya city in person.¡±


    Jiya... Meng Kali was stunned for a moment, and used her psychic power to stop Lei Dun who wanted to leave. ¡°The forbidden area has a restricted space transmission, which was set by Boss in person at that time. I have no authority to start the transmission.¡± It was not like they could personally ask the boss to use his space ability to teleport them over there.


    Lei Dun had expected this and threw a cream-colored pentagram to her. ¡°Use this, it¡¯s a space ess card.¡±


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    Zhang Zhiyin chased the person all the way to the south. He had a vague guess that the man wanted to lure him into the ck forbidden area mentioned by Xiao Jin. He used Freedom of the Last Age to fly there, and the most impressive thing were the dark metal walls on all sides and the dark gray fog covering it when he looked down from the sky. It made one felt oppressed, like there was a cold and gloomy atmosphere encircling them and refusing to disperse. In the sky, Zhang Zhiyin could clearly sense that even though the roof of the forbidden area was closed, there was a huge energywork circting around. It contained high-voltage electricity that could turn people into powder in an instant. Even mutants couldn¡¯t be able to withstand this high-energy attack.


    They passed the dead streets and bore through the night. There was a fog tonight, and it made his surrounding looked dim. That person¡¯s speed was very fast. He should have used some kind of space ability because he was always gone to a distance in a sh. As Zhang Zhiyin had no location to pinpoint, he couldn¡¯t use a space talisman to locate that person. He could only follow him passively.


    He chased him all the way. This high concentration made his perception of time less sensitive, just like he was a nervous student in the exam room and unawaredly, it was time for him to hand in the exam paper.


    After a long time, the person finally halted. With the help of his precision ability, Zhang Zhiyin could clearly see the dark metal wall of the forbidden area in the distance.


    Zhang Zhiyin was three hundred meters away from that person. He quietly watched the man in white took off his disguise and be a person he was familiar with. ¡°Captain Zhang, I trust you have been well since west met.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin narrowed his eyes. ¡°Li Shuifeng, you made the efforts to impersonate Yin Nian to deceive me just because you want to bring me here?¡±


    A smile graced on Li Shuifeng¡¯s lips. ¡°But you came, didn¡¯t you? Then my goal is achieved. Captain Zhang, why don¡¯t you take a look behind you?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked back with vignce, only to be met with dark metal wall just like what he had seen in the distance just now.


    Li Shuifeng stared at him with a little resentment and mockery. ¡°Zhang Zhiyin, as long as it involves Yin Nian, he will blind your eyes and make you lose your judgment. As long as Yin Nian¡¯s figure appears, whether it is genuine or not, you will only look at him. Captain Zhang, your weakness is way too obvious, and it made things less fun for me. Didn¡¯t you realise? You are trapped in the psychic illusion since a long time ago. You¡¯ve already stepped into the forbidden area when you were warning yourself not to go in.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin smiled. ¡°It seems that you have a good time in E Lab.¡± Li Shuifeng didn¡¯te alone. He disguised himself as Yin Nian using high-level disguise items. At least one Level 10 psychic ability user was hiding here. The person belonged to E Lab, and was not a low ranker in their organization.


    Li Shuifeng smiled as he shook his head, intentionally pointing out, ¡°Slightly better than you.


    ¡°I know that Dr. Yin has made many advanced space teleportation symbols for you, which probably makes Captain Zhang fearless. But this time it¡¯s different.¡± Li Shuifeng smiled and turned a cream-colored pentagram card in his hand. ¡°You probably don¡¯t know. The original name of this city is called Jiya. This forbidden area is Dr. Y¡¯sst experimental field. As for what he has done, you can experience it in person in a moment. Y had personally set a space restriction here. No one will be able to use any space skills without obtaining his permission, and there are only two space permission cards left. One was unfortunately obtained by us; the other is still in Dr. Y¡¯s hands.


    ¡°The door you just entered will only be opened for 15 minutes from 5:45 to 6 a.m. every day, and now it¡¯s 6:05.¡± The smile on Li Shuifeng¡¯s face became more and more deep, with a hint of triumph. ¡°In the next moment, please enjoy Dr. Y¡¯s final zombie army ¡ª the Dark Guards. They are specifically made for you, and I have specially lured them here for you, I will not apany you anymore.¡±


    Li Shuifeng smiled, shook the white pentagram card in his hand and disappeared in front of Zhang Zhiyin.


    Zhang Zhiyin cursed inwardly. He couldn¡¯t help raising his alertness as he paid attention to his surroundings.


    The sky was getting brighter, but the fog was getting thicker. The color (of the fog) was gradually changing from the gloomy ash grey to rusty ck like those metal door. Just like this, rows of zombies appeared in the fog, moving uniformly like a real army. Every zombie had the strength of at least a Level 8 or 9. What was worse was that their eyes were ck, and a dark me was burning within them.


    The even more conspicuous sight was that they were followed by a zombie with a height of more than two meters tall. The me in its eyes zed fiercer and were darker in color. In its left hand, it carried a huge half meter long dark metal axe, wearing the same metal protective clothing as a generalmanding thousands of troops.


    Its level was higher than Zhang Zhiyin, it should have reached Level 10. This was the first genuine Level 10 zombie he had seen in <Tomorrow>¡¯s world.


    Zhang Zhiyin activated Freedom of the Last Age. He flew up and looked down on the zombie army from the top. However, the energy shield on the top of the forbidden area restricted him from flying too high. He remembered the words Li Shuifeng had used to describe this group of zombies, ¡°the Dark Guards¡±.


    The biggest advantage of precision ability was that it had a long range. At this height, his other ice skills were beyond their range, except for his Ice Bullet which could still be used. ording to his experience, it was estimated that the zombie monsters that wereparable to ordinary boss should not be able to attack him, but it was hard to say for that zombie boss with that axe.


    The flight skill that came with the Redemption of the Last Age would only be active for 2 hours, while the cooldown time was actually 2 hours and 15 minutes. That was to say, if he couldn¡¯t solve the problem within two hours, he would be forced tond for 15 minutes. If he was surrounded or had to fight with the zombie boss who looked like an all-rounder, it would be very disadvantageous or even fatal for him.


    Zhang Zhiyin thought for a moment, rushed forward a short distance, swept over the approaching zombie boss, then turned back and shot first.


    The zombie boss was shocked and immediately waved its axe and released a ck energy bomb.


    Zhang Zhiyin dodged to one side, the energy bomb hit the building behind him, instantly creating a big hole in the wall.


    This was an effect that no ability had ever achieved.


    Dark Guards... Zhang Zhiyin looked up and suddenly understood. All these zombies that belonged to the <Tomorrow> game had only appeared in rumors, no one was sure whether there was a special ability called dark elemental.


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    In the morning light, everything in the world was bing clear and bright.


    A line of well protected and orderly motorcade drove along the high speed to Jiya City. They should have arrived yesterday, but they were ambushed by Yu Huo Base, which caused a dy in their route.


    Two cars impatiently stopped at a roadside gas station and two people came down. It was Dadao and Ah Kong.


    When Xiao E saw them, he hurriedly ran over, shouting, ¡°Vice Captain!¡±


    Dadao¡¯s injuries had all recovered, when he saw the situation, he said calmly, ¡°Don¡¯t worry, speak slowly. What happened?¡±


    Xiao E nodded and swallowed. ¡°Last night, Captain woke up on his night watch. He saw a person disguised as Dr. Yin and ran after him. Later, Brother Zhu, Xiao Jin, and my brother followed him, leaving the three of us here to receive the bigger force. ording to thetest message, Captain is trapped in the forbidden area facing hundreds of advanced-level zombies alone. Brother Zhu couldn¡¯t get in. The situation is very urgent.¡±


    Dadao, with a grave face, nced at Ah Kong and said to Chen Guang who had followed them, ¡°You stay here to coordinate with the alliance leaders and seek for support. I will take our people over there first.¡±


    Chen Guang agreed, and Dadao immediately organized Thunder Unit to get in the car. He took Xiao E and drove straight to the inside of the Fallen City.


    In front of the metal walls of the forbidden area, Ah Kong saw his brother, who was red-eyed.


    When they looked up, they could see the sky over the forbidden area. Their captain, relying on his flexibility, narrowly dodged the attack of the zombie boss¡¯s dark energy ball, and timely hit back with bullets and ice bombs.


    But the level of power imbnce was obvious, let alone the opponent who was such a purposely-made powerful boss, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s damage to it was very minute.


    ¡°Captain has been inside for nearly two hours. None of us can get in. The air over the restricted area is covered by an energy shield,¡± Xiao Jin said hoarsely.


    Ah Kong also tried to use space talisman but failed repeatedly.


    ¡°Damn it,¡± she said, ¡°there¡¯s a restriction.¡±


    When Dadao took out his metal de and hit the metal door, only a row of sparks sshed out, the metal door continued to stand upright without receiving any damage.


    Old Zhu leaned on the front cover of the car and kept muttering, ¡°Calm down, calm down, there must be a way.¡±


    Dadao his metal de and turned back to shout, ¡°Give Chen Guang all the information! There must be a lot of information about this ce that Yun Chu wants. All of it, no matter what way you use, you must get it right away!¡±


    At this time, a sudden change urred.


    There was a huge space vortex on the ground of the forbidden area where all space powers should be forbidden. Zhang Zhiyin couldn¡¯t help but get distracted. A dark energy ball was flying over his shoulder, as he had the defense function of the redemption suit, he was not seriously damaged, but the clothes on his left shoulder had all corroded.


    The vortex converged, and a ck car appeared.


    The wind ability user in the unit flew over the metal wall and looked in, then froze on the spot. He gasped. ¡°Lei Dun, Meng Kali... and Dr. Yin, no, it¡¯s Y...¡±


    They looked at Zhang Zhiyin in the middle of the sky, and their faces grew even more worried.


    Fortunately, Dr. Y¡¯s and his people seemed to be just waiting and observing the situation. They did not take any other action.


    Dadao and other people were thinking of various solutions outside, while Zhang Zhiyin had lost his mind when he peeped into the car and saw the side profile of the man. He hated his precision ability. He was so far away, so fuzzy, but the man was still so clear to him.


    What¡¯s worse, the Freedom of the Last Age didn¡¯t wait for him anymore, Two hourster, the effect of its flight skill would be automatically removed.


    Zhang Zhiyin gnawed his teeth, aimed at a row of two-story buildings in the forbidden area, and jumped there directly using thest flying effect before it was depleted.


    However, at this height, many zombie monsters¡¯ long ranged skills could reach him, likewise, the zombie boss could use more skills to chase and intercept him. He was in an inconvenient circumstance and it was very exhausting for him.


    Zhang Zhiyin silently counted the time in his heart. If he could persist for another 15 minutes, he could continue to fly to the sky for another two hours.


    But the zombie boss didn¡¯t do as he wanted. He saw the two meter tall zombie did a sudden leap. It jumped up very flexibly even though it had the rigidity of a zombie!


    Yin Nian altered it too good.


    Zhang Zhiyin smiled bitterly, changed his attacks into defense, and began to dodge and run. But the space on the roof was limited, and the speed of the big zombie wasn¡¯t slow. In less than three rounds of back and fro, he was blocked by it at the edge of the roof and had to fight in close range with the zombie boss.


    Zhang Zhiyin raised his gun and shot. The zombie boss didn¡¯t dodge. Obviously, it didn¡¯t pay any importance to this attack. It directly wielded its axe to cut him. There was a faint silver-ck halo flickering on the axe, it was obvious that it was refined from the essence of the dark element. It would be worse to be cut than to be hit by its energy ball.


    Zhang Zhiyin did not dare to forcibly take this blow. He turned to dodge, but he was held on the shoulder by the zombie¡¯s left hand.


    He had been hit by the dark energy ball before. After several wars in a row and two hours of consumption, Zhang Zhiyin had no time to repair his equipment. The redemption armor, which had been in a state of invisibility, could no longer withstand any attacks. The ws of the zombie were deeply embedded in his flesh and almost broke his shoulder des. On the other side, the zombie boss raised the axe in its right hand with the intention to split Zhang Zhiyin from the top to the bottom.


    The zombie¡¯s ws were poisonous. Zhang Zhiyin felt a blur of consciousness amidst the sharp pain. He raised his head with difficulty and looked down. He saw the familiar cold face behind the window.


    As if it were instinct, he would ask for help from his closest people when he was hopeless and helpless. Zhang Zhiyin looked straight at him, stretched out his right hand to him powerlessly, and muttered to himself, ¡°Yin Nian, It hurts...¡±


    The zombie boss¡¯s axe fell in a sh. Ah Kong looked up at the scene. His mouth was wide open, but he couldn¡¯t make a sound. Her fingernails were digging deep into her flesh, but she didn¡¯t feel anything.


    Time seemed to be still in this moment.


    The next second, a silver-purple lightning burst rapidly, setting off a tremendous momentum, sweeping the entire forbidden area.

 Chapter 86

    <strong>Chapter 86


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    Even if he had rebooted, had destroyed everything, instinctively, he would still protect him at the critical moment and let him go at thest moment.


    It was like this at the base, and so was this time.


    The silver-purple thunder roared in the whole forbidden area, like a dragon breaking free of its cage.


    ¡°Is it Lei Dun?¡± Xiao Jin stared at the scene.


    Dadao came over and shook his head. ¡°It¡¯s not Lei Dun. I¡¯ve seen Lei Dun¡¯s thunder. It¡¯s sharp and cruel, but it¡¯s not this domineering. The one person who can achieve this kind of effect... is Y.¡±


    Xiao Jin opened his mouth and said, ¡°Sure enough, he likes him. Sister, Y likes the captain too.¡±


    Ah Kong took a sigh of relief, released his grip, and heard his brother¡¯s voice, ¡°Do you remember what Dr. Yin said? The medicine to help the captain activate his ice ability was given by Y. Dr. Yin said Y would not hurt the captain... Sure enough, now he had saved the captain. Y and Dr. Yin are twin brothers. If Yin Nian and captain are childhood sweethearts, then so is Y.¡±


    Ah Kong nodded. ¡°Do you remember the time when I was caught by Yu Huo Base? Y is right there. At that time, I was surprised at how he doted on his cat so much. If the cat wanted to let us go, he¡¯ll let go. Now I think there might be an exnation. The cat can distinguish Xiaoxiang¡¯s smell. We often hang out with captain and Xiaoxiang. We have the smell of Xiaoxiang and got found out by the cat. Y knows from this that we are close to the captain, so he let us go.¡± It was reasonable, there was evidence, it was entirely irrefutable.


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    Under the poison¡¯s influence, Zhang Zhiyin was in apletely semi-conscious state. His consciousness switched between being sobered and dazed, and in between this state, he felt a familiar figure emerging in front of his eyes.


    The zombie¡¯s poison w had been released at some point, and his body could not help but fall forward, falling into an embrace that instinctively made him feelfortable.


    Yin Nian caught the man and was at a loss for a second before he carefully held him in his arms.


    The raging thunder had only constrained the zombies instead of hurting them. Yin Nian remembered that these zombies created by himself were useful.


    The zombie boss in front of him stabbed the dark axe into the ground, likewise, its head was also bowed. It knelt on one knee, and was obedient as arge dog.


    Yin Nian knew that it was not himself that it was kneeling down to. The owner he had set up for it at the beginning was not himself, but the man in his arms. As far as he knew, the method to activate this setting was one of the most popr ways for human beings; blood activation.


    Manyplex and unidentified emotions shed in his eyes as he carried the man who had lost his consciousness. Finally, he arrogantly strode through the protective energy shield covering the forbidden area and walked into the air step by step. He walked to Dadao, Xiao Jin, and the rest, and put the person into the car gently in front of their eyes.


    Then he looked down at his empty hand before turning around. He nced at the people around him and said with a straight face, ¡°Tell him that the things inside are for him, they had received his blood, and are activated.¡±


    After that, Yin Nian took another step forward and disappeared into the air.


    In the forbidden area, Lei Dun and Meng Kali, who were still in the car, looked at each other.


    Lei Dun: ¡°Boss just left like this?¡±


    Meng Kali: ¡°What should we do? Follow along?¡±


    Lei Dun: ¡°Okay, remember to take me with you.¡±


    The people outside the area were digesting what Y had just said.


    Xiao Jin: ¡°Y said the things inside were for the captain? What¡¯s in it? Zombies?¡±


    Ah Kong had the same confused face and then she shook her head. ¡°Probably those zombies.¡±


    Xiao Jin¡¯s worldviews had evolved again¡ª it¡¯s the mysterious love of an apocalypse¡¯s boss. Ordinary people couldn¡¯t afford this. Captain is the best afterall!


    Dadao reminded everyone not to talk about today¡¯s events. The uniform story was that Captain identally fell into the forbidden area. After being seriously injured by the zombies, he escaped by chance while Dr. Y and the zombies were fighting.


    All the people who came here are members of the Thunder Unit who had fought alongside Zhang Zhiyin. They knew that no matter what the rtionship between the team leader and Dr. Y was, it was very clear based just based on Y¡¯s protecting attitude towards Captain. Regarding Captain¡¯s situation now, it¡¯s better not to let other people find out.


    A person in a high position was liable to be attacked. In the past two years, Thunder Unit had gained too much momentum, and they even got support from the Bai Mang Association. Who knew how many people were scheming against them. Now that Dr. Yin was missing and Captain was hit hard by it, it¡¯s a good time for those who held bad intentions. Of course, it would be better to avoid unnecessary trouble.


    Old Zhu and Ah Kong gave Zhang Zhiyin medicine to treat his injury. The deepest wound was on his shoulder. The flesh was protruding outwards and was a dark coloured because of the poison. Fortunately, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s antidote and other medicines were also left in the team, and the effects were soon seen. However, Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s physical exhaustion was too much. After getting better, he still didn¡¯t wake up and had been sleeping till then.


    When Zhang Zhiyin woke up, it was two o¡¯clock in the evening, most of the team members were also sleeping. Dadao and Old Zhu were taking watch together.


    Zhang Zhiyin got out of the car and approached the two.


    Dadao and Old Zhu looked at each other before Dadao took the lead to say, ¡°Chen Guang already came back with the news. When Yun Chu and the rest were still discussing the methods ofing here, they saw the lightning and knew that Y hade here, so they deciced to postpone their trip, but someone wille tomorrow morning around eight o¡¯clock to look into the situation.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded and asked, ¡°What¡¯s the matter with me? Who helped me out? ¡°


    Dadao and Old Zhu looked at each other, and finally Old Zhu opened his mouth. ¡°Captain... It¡¯s Dr. Y, who got you out.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    Old Zhu added, ¡°He left a message for you. He said that those things are for you, they¡¯ve received your blood, and had been activated. ¡°


    <i>The things in it have received my blood</i>... Zhang Zhiyin suddenly lost his mind. Was it therge group of zombies inside that Yin Nian left to himself?!


    At 5:45 a.m., as Li Shuifeng said, a metal door opened slowly and automatically.


    Zhang Zhiyin seized the opportunity to slip in, but if anything went wrong, he would slip out in time. Old Zhu, who was not assured, followed him. Old Zhu was a speed ability user and had faster reflexes than Zhang Zhiyin, so he wouldn¡¯t be worried at all.


    As soon as Zhang Zhiyin went in, he saw the zombie boss staring intently at him. As soon as he came in, it moved. As soon as Zhang Zhiyin wanted to withdraw, he saw the zombie boss thrust its axe into the ground, hung its head, and knelt down on one knee in his direction respectfully.


    Zhang Zhiyin was shocked and it took him three seconds to find back his wits. He put on an act and instructed the boss, ¡°Get up.¡±


    The zombie boss immediately stood up quietly.


    Zhang Zhiyin paused and proceeded to say, ¡°Run around here three times.¡±


    The zombie boss immediately ran, and the group of zombie monsters followed behind.


    Old Zhu who was behind him was also stunned.


    A group of zombies were running around the forbidden area. You could imagine the noises they made.


    The team members who had sufficient sleep could not sleep at the moment, while those who didn¡¯t also got up to see what was happening.


    Xiao Jin learned the story from Old Zhu, and sighed in his heart. It really was truly the love of an apocalypse¡¯s Boss.


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the ferocious zombie boss running around with only one thought in mind. Although Yin Nian was acting like he wasn¡¯t familiar with him now, this did not affect his ridiculous methods in any way at all. What kind of strange things was Yin Nian looking at when he created this stuff? Such a cruel thing, the method of activation was actually based on fantasy novels. Blood! Recognize! Master!

 Chapter 87

    <strong>Chapter 87


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Before the gate was closed, Zhang Zhiyin took the crowd in again. He had to think of a way to fool the people of the Cloud Sky Alliance who wereing.


    Just thinking about it, he saw a cross country car passing through the night fog and heading straight towards the metal gate of the forbidden area.


    The car stopped nearby and two people jumped down from it. Both of them were wearing the uniform of cloud sky alliance, which showed that they were apanied by Yun Chu¡¯s entourage. Zhang Zhiyin and others thought that the two men were familiar. They even recognize Dadao first and said, ¡°It was the two brothers who came to ask for our help from Qingtong Station 5.¡±


    Seeing that Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t respond, he carefully reminded, ¡°Captain, when people of Station 3 disappeared, it was you and Deputy Manager Shang who helped us save them in the past.¡± It had been many years since, but they still avoid mentioning the death of Shang Si in front of Zhang Zhiyin.


    Zhang Zhiyin suddenly remembered the two brothers, they seemed to be Qi Xing and Qi Long.


    When the two men saw that Zhang Zhiyin had recognized them, they didn¡¯t say any more relevant issues. They said straightaway, ¡°Thanks to Captain Zhang¡¯s appearance, we brothers were transferred to Yun Chu¡¯s guard team a few years ago. Today, wee here to remind captain that Yun Chu and his trusted aides have made arrangements. In this operation, the Thunder Unit would most likely not survive. Captain Zhang should make ns early.¡±


    They looked at Zhang Zhiyin and stopped talking. They wanted to persuade Zhang Zhiyin to leave the alliance with the Thunder Unit directly, but they were afraid to talk about things when they weren¡¯t close. Besides, the power of the Cloud Sky Alliance was rising, and there was no other ce to go if they leave. In the apocalypse, it was even difficult to survive, so they could only say this much.


    Younger Brother Qi Long waited until his elder brother had finished before he started talking, ¡°No matter what Captain Zhang ns to do, please take we brothers with you. We can¡¯t go back to Yun Chu. Whether we live or die, we will listen to captain Zhang. It¡¯s also a reward for the kindness of that day.¡±


    It¡¯s no surprise that other people had already heard about it when there were clues hinting to it. Zhang Zhiyin was silent for a long time. Old Zhu and the others didn¡¯t talk, they were just waiting for him to make a decision.


    Zhang Zhiyin thought for a moment and then said, ¡°It Yun Chu who does not tolerate us, not the whole alliance itself. Now we are against Yun Chu, and not the alliance. But now they¡¯re being led by Yun Chu. He has a strong influence. If we can¡¯t go back, it¡¯s better to avoid it for the time being.¡±


    And now they were trapped in the fallen city. Behind them was the ckiron fortress, and in front of them was the alliance¡¯s forces. There was nowhere for them to run.


    Zhang Zhiyin said, ¡°Let¡¯s withdraw to the forbidden area.¡±


    There were dark guards in the forbidden area, as well as unknown items and buildings left by Dr. Y, which were insurmountable for the alliance, but not necessarily for him.


    Dadao opened his mouth and finally spat out five words, ¡°Captain, do you believe him?¡± Although that man saved the captain at the critical moment, it seemed that he had a deep rtionship with the captain, and the zombies in the forbidden area were also given to the captain by him, but Dadao was not as romantic as Xiao Jin and Ah Kong. In his eyes, that man had always been the enemy, the most terrible existence in the apocalypse, and the mysterious and unpredictable devil that could make people tremble just being mentioned.


    Zhang Zhiyin knew that Dadao was talking about Dr. Y.


    His eyes curved, he looked at the ck area in front of him, and said, ¡°Believe.¡±


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Now that they had decided to withdraw to the forbidden area, it was imperative to find a way to open the door. By this time, the gate of the forbidden area was closed again.


    ¡°Captain, ording to the n, the first troops of the alliance will leave for here at eight o¡¯clock. We must leave before theye,¡± Qi Family¡¯s brother reminded. They didn¡¯t see Zhang Zhiyin training the zombies to run. They always had some doubts about the order of ¡°withdraw into the forbidden area¡±.


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded. ¡°I¡¯ll try.¡± The zombie boss had recognized him as its master through his blood, ording to Yin Nian¡¯s pattern habit, who knew what sort of method he would choose to have this door opened.


    However, he admitted that he did have some knowledge of Boss Yin. Without any modesty, he must be the most familiar creature that knew him the best in the world.


    Zhang Zhiyin went to the gate, pulled out the ice de, cut his fingertips, and pressed his blood onto the gate.


    Sure enough, a mechanical face appeared on the ck iron door and mechanically said, ¡°Please input the entry password.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked at the mechanical face and rolled his eyes. He knew that this set ofmands for opening the door, the blood recognition something was from Yin Nian¡¯s favorite fantasy novel.


    How childish.


    Zhang Zhiyin had no choice but to cooperate. ¡°Heaven and earth are not benevolent, heaven will change.¡±


    This was the male lead¡¯s password to open the entrance of the secret ce.


    Unexpectedly, the eyes of the mechanical face suddenly turned red, ¡°Didi¡± twice, and said, ¡°The password is wrong, please re-enter, you still have two chances today.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    He tried, ¡°Open sesame?¡±


    Machine face: ¡°Password error, please re-enter, you still have a chance today.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin surrendered.


    He put his face close to the mechanical face, lowered his voice, and said in a sullen way, ¡°Yin Nian I love you, of all the world you are the best. I can¡¯t live without you. You are the only one for me...¡±


    God knows what triggered the mechanism. He saw a strange smile on the mechanical face, and a green light shed through its eyes. ¡°The password is correct, pleasee in.¡± the mechanical tone prompted.


    Quietly, the two heavy ck metal doors suddenly disappeared in front of them.

 Chapter 88

    <strong>Chapter 88</strong>


    Even the warmest sunshine was unable to dispel the gloomy fog in the fallen city.


    When the alliance people set foot on thisnd, they could only see the empty wilderness as well as the lonely ck metal gate.


    All members of the Thunder Unit had disappeared under the sky. No one could exin the reason behind it. No one even knew whether they ran away or had disappeared under the influence of some unknown external forces. Thetter spection was even more chilling¡ª what kind of forces could make the most valiantbat unit of the alliance disappear without leaving any trace?


    No one suspected that they were in the forbidden area, and this was because of the information left behind be Yun Lietian, the master of the Cloud Sky Alliance at that time. They knew that in the forbidden area, the most powerful zombie army created by the legendary doctor Y ¡ª the Dark Guards, was inside.


    Even if it was the Thunder Unit, they were still too weak against the Dark Guards, it was just like hitting a stone with an egg. If Thunder Unit entered, it would be no different from sending themselves to death.


    The truth was that the Thunder Unit was living very well-off in the forbidden area.


    Zhang Zhiyin named zombie boss, General Axe, and told it to instruct the zombie army to continue to guard outside as usual. Then he took his team into the main building in the forbidden area.


    There was not only arge amount of food and drinking water stored in the space but also many weapons and equipment that had been sessfully developed. There were also written and visual materials recording the different abilities of zombies and mutants.


    The most precious of all was a machine suspected to be the legendary ¡°perpetual motion machine¡±. A perpetual motion machine was a kind of machine that imed to be able to run and output energy forever without inputting any energy. In the modern world, a ¡°perpetual motion machine¡± was regarded as something that went against thews of science and could never exist. Many western countries did not ept any patent rted to the perpetual motion machine.


    But in the apocalypse, there were abilities, the original objectivew was likely to be broken, so a ¡°perpetual motion machine¡± might actually exist.


    Qi Xing said with hesitation, ¡°This is what Yun Chu and the rest are looking for... I¡¯ve heard them talk about ¡®nuclear energy¡¯ or something, it seems to be able to consistently provide unlimited energy... That should be it.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin nodded. Anyway, no matter what they wanted, they wouldn¡¯t be able toe in anytime sooner.


    Even if theye in, they wouldn¡¯t be afraid. In addition to the Dark Guards team, the Thunder Unit had found the main control tower inside the forbidden area. As long as the operations were working properly, the whole forbidden area would be a mobile battle fortress.


    There was a built-in space transmitter in the main building of the forbidden area, which could break the restriction on using space ability in the forbidden area and enabling them to send people out and back.


    Zhang Zhiyin needed to find a certain person first to collect his debt, Li Shuifeng.


    Last time, Li Shuifeng led him here and tried to kill him with the help of the Dark Guards, while he took the opportunity to run away. But Zhang Zhiyin, on the way to follow him, had already ced a tracking item bought from the Item Store on him.


    This kind of item was designed to avoid or find enemies in the game. As long as the target yer and himself were on the same map, it could track the person and provide their specific location.


    Since entering the forbidden area, Zhang Zhiyin could sense the existence of Li Shuifeng, which showed that after leaving for a short time, he had returned to the fallen City.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s n was very good. At this stage, the team would stay in the forbidden area to learn about the various materials left by Y and recuperate. He would go to find Li Shuifeng for revenge. After revenge, he would find Yin Nian. After all these had been solved, he would then go and find Yun Chu.


    So he couldn¡¯t wait to find Li Shuifeng and finish everything.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    It was still dim in the early morning. There was an unnatural fog within the city.


    It was like a repeat of that day, but the roles had been reversed.


    Li Shuifeng looked at the figure in front of him and squinted. ¡°Zhang Zhiyin?¡±


    With a sneer, he took the first two steps. ¡°I knew you weren¡¯t dead.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t speak. He used the eleration effect of the Freedom of the Last Age and flew forward.


    As expected, Li Shuifeng caught the bait and followed him.


    Zhang Zhiyin guessed that Li Shuifeng and his E Laboratory had already got a thorough understanding of this area. Most of them were deployed nearby. But the Thunder Unit had just arrived here less than three days ago. Thinking logically, it was impossible to know things better than them unless Y helped them. That was why Li Shuifeng dared to follow him without fear. Moreover, because of the sudden disappearance of the Thunder Unit, everyone was at a loss. Li Shuifeng probably wanted to know something by himself.


    But no matter how much E Lab people were deployed, it all was useless, because now, the forbidden area was his territory, and the Dark Guards were his people.


    As on that day, Zhang Zhiyin had arranged the time and sneaked into the forbidden area with Li Shuifeng. Both of them were extremely fast. None of the alliance members who were responsible for watching the night outside could spot them. Even if they had seen them, they only think they saw wrongly.


    Standing in front of the people who hurt him several times, Zhang Zhiyin stretched his metal wings and smiled at the person in front of him.


    Li Shuifeng squinted at him. ¡°Captain Zhang, you still dare toe here...¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin beckoned him to look behind him.


    It was not six o¡¯clock, not even fifteen minutes had passed, but the ck metal door had closed quietly.


    Li Shuifeng finally put away the frivolity between his eyebrows. This anomaly meant that Zhang Zhiyin was likely to have mastered the power to control the forbidden area.


    He touched the pentagram card which could let him teleport in the forbidden area¡ª this was thest trick up his sleeve, because of this, he dared to follow Zhang Zhiyin to see what he was ying at.


    Li Shuifeng realized that something was amiss and softly said, ¡°if captain Zhang is okay, I will apany him another day.¡±


    Three secondster, however, his expression turned into a state of utter shock, consternation, and bewilderment.


    That pentagram card wasn¡¯t working.


    Zhang Zhiyin was not surprised at all. Earlier when he had set out, he ordered Ah Kong to change the control station¡¯s operation; ¡°Shut out all space ability skills.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked up at the bright sky and said, ¡°I¡¯m going to see an important person, so I can¡¯t help you.¡± But he had prepared General Axe and a group of his little brothers to entertain Li Shuifeng.


    Zhang Zhiyin turned and flew to the interior of the building. Li Shuifeng wanted to keep up with him, but a group of zombies suddenly appeared, blocking his way.


    Even at his death, he still didn¡¯t know how Zhang Zhiyin could control the final home built by Dr. Y in the legends and the only zombie army with the most powerful force created by him, to protect himself.


    Five minutester, Zhang Zhiyin had already sent himself to Dr. Y¡¯s base, the ce where he had almost diedst time.


    Xiao Jin jumped out and squatted down to look at a pool of ck water melted on the ground and scolded, ¡°You bullied our captain, don¡¯t you know how big the mountain our captain depends on is? Not only Dr. Yin but also Y himself did not want to hurt him but want to protect him. This is the charm of his personality! You won¡¯t understand.¡±


    In Dr. Y¡¯s base¡ª


    Both Zhang Zhiyin and Yin Nian sneezed twice in unison with five rooms between them. Both of them had the same thinking, who was scolding me behind my back...

 Chapter 89

    <strong>Chapter 89


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    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s teleport locations were at random. It was a guarantee that he wouldnd in Dr. Y¡¯s base, but he would not know the exact location.


    This time, he was sent to a familiar ce¡ª a white gate made of a certain new material was obstructing the path ahead.


    Just like other ces, behind the gate was a long passage stretching into the distance.


    Zhang Zhiyin remembered that when he first came to Yin Nian¡¯s base, he was a cat. He used to wander around with his cat form without any fear, and then he came to this ce. But at that time, he had a cat body that was too small to even push open the door. When he was wandering in front of the door, he was caught by Yin Nian.


    He still remembered that time when Yin Nian held him in his arms and gently told him, ¡°Mimi, you can¡¯t go into this ce.¡±


    It was just like that scene from the children¡¯s fairy tale, ¡°The Seven Wives of Bluebeard¡±.


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t care and pushed the door open.


    For a moment he was dazzled by the light that shone suddenly from inside.


    Zhang Zhiyin hurriedly raised his right hand to cover his eyes. He put it down after three seconds had passed. Through the gap between the door, he could see arge piece of transparent ice crystal that was reflecting a blue shimmer. The chilling air filled the whole room, and a bouquet of bright red roses were frozen right within the center of the ice crystal.


    The delicate flowers had always been sealed in its most beautiful and fresh moment by the ice, and even the dew condensation on the petals was still clearly visible. The flower stems were also tied with gorgeous gold and silver double color ribbons, on which were written: ¡°Qixi Festive¡¯s special love for the special you, <Tomorrow>¡¯s exclusive most beloved rose¡±.


    It was the rose of that year¡¯s special task for Qixi Festival, where he spent a lot of effort to obtain the roses to give them to Yin Nian.


    So Yin Nian hid it in this ce without even letting him know about it.


    Zhang Zhiyin was stunned for a moment until a slightly cold but extremely familiar voice came from behind him,


    ¡°What are you doing here? This is not where you should be.¡±


    After experiencing so much, Zhang Zhiyin wanted to strangle him when he heard the other party talking like this.


    In between his thoughts, Zhang Zhiyin quickly made a decision.


    He abandoned the speech he had prepared, changed his expression and pretended to be calm. ¡°I¡¯m here to say goodbye to you.¡±


    Yin Nian stood there quietly, not speaking.


    Zhang Zhiyin said, ¡°Yin Nian, I think you¡¯re doing very well now. We are two different species. We shouldn¡¯t have been together. By being together with me, you are going against your instincts and nature. So let¡¯s just end it here. Don¡¯t kill me either, let me go back to my original world, I will note back anymore.¡±


    He vowed that none of the above he had so calmly said were true.


    But inside he was roaring, if you have the ability to save me, to give me zombies, to keep my flowers... then you¡¯reing home with me!


    As a result, Yin Nian just looked at him in silence, lowered his eyes, then turned around and left.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s breathing was stuck in his throat, thinking that this guy had raised the expectations of his fellow race¡¯s attractiveness index and now he was just turning around without bringing any speckle of cloud iridescent


    <sup>1</sup>. This really was too cruel and unkind.


    He didn¡¯t give up. He added another sentence, ¡°Don¡¯t regret.¡±


    He then helplessly sent himself out from Dr. Y¡¯s base with bitterness and sadness in his heart.


    In his despair, he did not teleport back to the forbidden area butnded on the outskirts of the fallen city.


    This ce was a wastnd. There was nothing but wandering zombies.


    As the saying went, misfortunes nevere in singles.


    On that day, Li Shuifeng left him in the forbidden area with the attitude of a winner, he didn¡¯t guard himself and allowed Zhang Zhiyin to put a tracker on him. Today, when Zhang Zhiyin went to see Yin Nian in a hurry. He didn¡¯t guard against the tracker developed by E Laboratory which had been secretly nted by the dead Li Shuifeng on him.


    Zhang Zhiyin walked for ten minutes with his head bowed when he suddenly felt the fluctuation of an ability manifestation. A hundred steps away ahead, another person appeared.


    The man was dressed in a white theatrical cloak and robe with a white iron mask on his face. On the mask¡¯s mouth, there was an arc seemingly imitating a smile.


    The masked man said, ¡°I am the Second Monarch. I¡¯m here to kill you.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was stunned silly when he heard that name and line.


    However, he was now a Level 9 ability user, with aplete set of the Last Age Divine suit and the nature-defying pistol gifted by Yin Nian. He led the Thunder Unit through so many battles, even if he encountered Yun Chu? who had inherited most of Yun Lietian¡¯s power, he still had the confidence to fight them.


    The Second Monarch seemed to understand the principle behind a viin¡¯s death was due to being long-winded, so he didn¡¯t say anything else, but directly shed at him.


    It wasn¡¯t an ordinary knife, but a knife forged of psychic ability. The most special effect of this knife was that it could break all psychic barriers. For example, if the wielder fell into an illusion made by other psychic ability users, the illusion could be broken with this knife.


    Compared with the practical research of the Bai Mang Association, E Laboratory was an organization with some crazy people in it. If the apocalypse didn¡¯t happen, without a doubt it would be a cult. They did not only study the development and usage of ability and items but also tried to study the origin of humans, the world, and thew of existence within it.


    Like being blinded by a single thing, as humans who existed in the world, although they had spent a lot of effort, undoubtedly, they wouldn¡¯t be able to discover anything, but they still obtained some gains. They realized that everyone held a special connection with the world. If this connection was cut off, the person would disappear in the world.


    But these were just their theories because everyone had a strong connection with the world. It was more difficult to cut off these connections than to kill the person. For many people, even if they die, their connections would still exist.


    However, there was also a special case, and that was Zhang Zhiyin, one of their top enemies. They found that Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s connection to the world was much weaker than that of normal people; he had a weak and intermittent psychic connection. Although they did not know the reason, they did know that Zhang Zhiyin was hard to kill, but it would be easy to cut off his fragile connection with the world.


    Zhang Zhiyin easily dodged the knife. It sliced his face, but there was no scar.


    ¡°?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin looked forward with a puzzled frown. The next second, a familiar sleepiness came to him, but this time, it was more abrupt and deep.


    The sky was overcast, the raindrops as big as a bean fell onto the surface of the drynd.


    The Second Monarch in thefunny costume watched with satisfaction as the former captain of the Thunder Init fell to the ground and went straight to sleep. The face behind his mask showed a smile simr to that of the mask.


    The next second, however, he couldn¡¯tugh. Like a quail caught by the neck, his face shows aplex expression of fear, bitterness, and unwillingness. Then, like Zhang Zhiyin, he fell straight to the ground. The difference was that he died instantly.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    A minuteter, Dr. Y, who came here in silence, looked at the man who fell on the ground, and his eyes revealed some indescribable emotions.


    The manid on the ground, the rain mixed with mud wet his ck hair and stained his clean white T-shirt.


    The rain pounded harder and washed his lips into a pale and lifeless color.


    The pair of familiar eyes were closed, hisshes were slightly raised as if he was merely sleeping.


    He must have made preparations to find himself. He was wearing the legendary T-shirt with ¡°I love Dr. Y for ten thousand years¡± on it. Yin Nian had only heard Lei Dun¡¯s description of the shirt, but he had never seen Zhang Zhiyin wear it before.


    So he had kept it alongside him for all this time.


    Yin Nian looked for a long time, and after a while, he picked up the man in bewilderment, holding him tightly in his arms.


    The moment after Zhang Zhiyin said ¡°don¡¯t regret¡±, he regretted it. But he couldn¡¯t even tell the emotion was called regret, and he didn¡¯t know how to save it.


    After running the two 36187 power algorithms and consulting a lot of data, he decided to follow something called intuition or instinct or potential and went to look for him directly.


    Although he still didn¡¯t know what he should do aftering here.


    Holding Zhang Zhiyin, Yin Nian approached another corpse, which seemed to be a Level 9 or close to Level 10 ability user, but he was drained of his ability at the moment of his death. Now it seemed that it was just the corpse of a useless person who was even more inferior to ordinary people.


    Yan Nian and drooped his eyes.


    Nothing in the world could be concealed from him. He was omniscient and omnipotent.


    Because the world was built by him.


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    E Laboratory was located underground in the fallen city.


    The leader, known as the ¡°First Monarch¡±, closed his narrow eyes and smiled a little discontentedly.


    He only gave the instruction to kill Zhang Zhiyin, but that fool attracted Dr. Y. So they could only hurriedly deal with the Second Monarch as soon as possible. But thanks to the power of the Second Monarch, he felt even more powerful now.


    So much so that he was not so afraid of Y.


    If it wasn¡¯t for the missing Dr. Yin and the Thunder Unit, if their abilities were to be contributed to him... Even if it¡¯s Y, he wouldn¡¯t be his opponent...

 Chapter 90

    <strong>Chapter 90</strong>


    In that instant where the meaning behind this world¡¯s existence had scattered and disappeared, many thoughts went through Yin Nian¡¯s mind.


    When he gained self-awareness, he discovered that someone had been keeping himpany and conversing with him. He wanted to know what it was like to be a human, he wanted to figure out their thoughts and ideas, and he created this world. He started to want more... Unknowingly, he had been following that person all the time, in his phone, in the electronic screen he passed, in the game¡¯sb he went to every day...


    Then, he just wanted to be with him, always, always together.


    But he just didn¡¯t dare to take any actions.


    Until he had a car ident, and he thought he was going to lose him, so he forced his consciousness into the world he had created.


    If he didn¡¯t meet that person, he would only follow Dr. Y¡¯s will and ideas to destroy the worldpletely after experiencing the feeling of being a human in this world.


    But that person wanted to rebuild everything, so he stayed with him.


    Protection and reconstruction were always more difficult than simple destruction.


    Those who chose to change themselves and push ahead were always stronger than those who denied everything.


    Zhang Zhiyin had never been just his weakness, he was also an existence that made him truly strong and perfect.


    Perfection did not signify theck of defect or weakness; strength did not only exist in the field of physics.


    At that moment, the warning rms presented in his body were quietly lifted.


    Yin Nian had advanced to a new height. He was no longer simply subjected to the initial instruction of ¡°making himself more perfect and powerful¡±. He could now flexibly interpret the meaning of the initial instruction ording to the external environment and the information he had received. For example, if the initial instruction was to ¡°maintainws and regtions¡±, the previous system could only ept and maintain the set ofws and regtions that were inputted at the beginning, but now the system would be able to continue maintaining newws and regtions that were constantly changing.


    Yin Nian opened his eyes and kissed the person in his arms. He then used his space ability to quietly sneak into the temporary bedroom that Zhang Zhiyin was staying in the forbidden area.


    He was just so clever that he knew about everything.


    After skillfully helping with him washed and changed clothes, Yin Nian put Zhang Zhiyin on the bed and sat beside it.


    He was reflecting on a serious problem.


    Yin Xiaoxiang came over and rubbed intimately against his hand.


    Yin Nian picked the cat up and stared at it with concentration. He uneasily asked, ¡°Say, will Zhiyin not forgive me this time round? Will he not pay attention to me anymore?¡± His expression was innocent and pitiful.


    Yin Xiaoxiang stared with its cat¡¯s eyes, its expression was even more innocent and pitiful than him as it looked at him with its neck askew. ¡°Ao?¡±


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    Naturally, Zhang Zhiyin had returned to the real world.


    He didn¡¯t have any clues as to what had happened to the Second Monarch. In his understanding, he was fighting with him when he was abruptly disconnected. After three days of testing it out, he concluded that he couldn¡¯t enter the world of <Tomorrow> anymore.


    Zhang Zhiyin was even more depressed. He thought that Yin Nian had kicked himself out of the world after hearing his words.


    He felt so regretful. If he had known, he wouldn¡¯t have said such cruel words, because at least in that world, he would be able to see and talk to him.


    Zhang Zhiyin went to the study room and log on to <Tomorrow>. However, the game was undergoing a major update and maintenance service. The announcement said that the game would only be opened to the public at 7 p.m.


    Zhang Zhiyin could only begin finishing up his work that had umted over these days. It wasn¡¯t easy for him to wait until seven o¡¯clock, but when he wanted to open the game, he still had to download a huge update package. It was almost eight o¡¯clock before he finally went inside the game.


    Hisnding ce was the suburb of Tianshui City. Zhang Zhiyin subconsciously went to theb instance, only to find that the instance was gone. He anxiously checked the announcement on the Inte only to find that the newest update had removed this instance.


    This time, he waspletely disconnected from Yin Nian.


    The final boss in a game and an ordinary game yer; he didn¡¯t know how he was going to find him now.


    When Zhang Zhiyin was feeling decadent, he received a private message from Fenghuo Gucheng.


    ¡°Zhiyin, how¡¯s your equipment now? We¡¯re teaming up to y the Level 90 epic grade instance. Do you want toe with us?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin hadn¡¯t seriously yed games for a long time. His previous set of equipment would probably be useless, so he wanted to refuse. However, he went to check his equipment out of hope, only to be shocked at the sight of thepleted set of redemption suit and the peerless divine artifact. Although his game character was wearing low-key bad street fashion, he was startled when he opened his equipment box.


    This was clearly his equipment in <Tomorrow>¡¯s world.


    Zhang Zhiyin trembled a little, thinking that this might be the breakup fee given by the boss.


    He then replied to Fenghuo, ¡°Coming!¡±


    Fenghuo then replied within seconds and asked him, ¡°Brother, is your equipment okay? Send me a screenshot, I¡¯ll take a look at it.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t take a screenshot but typed two words, ¡°Certainly okay.¡±


    The yers in Fenghuo¡¯s team were basically all veterans. In the first ten minutes, everyone felt that Zhiyin¡¯s equipment might be against the sky. For example, it was an ice ability with simr attributes. Everyone could only deplete one-fifth of the HP of a small monster with one shot, but he killed that small monster with a single shot? Unfortunately, Zhang Zhiyin refused to let anyone see the equipment, and that made everyone felt very regretful.


    Only Fenghuo Gucheng vaguely remembered that Zhang Zhiyin had a good friend who had forged an extremely heaven-defying gun for him.


    Because this was the first instance that people had been looking forward to, no one knew what was inside. They were all going in blind. At this time, those lousy teams would not enter the instance to fight at all. They would just wait for the strategy toe out before trying it out.


    But Zhang Zhiyin and Thunder Unit spent nearly half a month in this instance. He couldn¡¯t be familiar with the content anymore.


    Looking at how his team was beaten into disorder by these stages he knew even with his eyes closed, Zhang Zhiyin sent a private message to Fenghuo while they were resting. ¡°I have a very powerful friend, their game updated very quickly, and they¡¯ve made progress in this instance, so I know some of the situations inside, why not let me try tomand instead?¡±


    This was the first time Fenghuo Gucheng learned that Zhang Zhiyin knew how tomand, but this battle was really difficult. Anyway, they were just doing an attempt, they were not professional yers. Fenghuo Gucheng told hismanding brother to let Zhang Zhiyin try tomand in the next stage.


    [Captain of the Thunder Unit] is online.


    When Zhang Zhiyin received the permission, he enteredmanding mode immediately and brought the team directly to the second boss. If it wasn¡¯t for the team¡¯s not so good coordination, they¡¯d probably be able to see that mutant boss in their first try.


    The team members were excited and agreed to fight again in the future.


    Fenghuo Gucheng simply sent a private message to Zhang Zhiyin in a frightened tone, asking him who exactly was his friend.


    If Zhang Zhiyin could do this to such an extent, his friend¡¯s team must have defeated the boss.


    Zhang Zhiyin replied, ¡°It¡¯s a secret.¡±


    Although the team had dispersed, this time, Fenghuo Gucheng was in high spirits and didn¡¯t want to log off; Zhang Zhiyin was worried about a lot of things, and he didn¡¯t want to go back to face the empty home. The two made up their minds and decided to gather another three people to brush the celebration activities the game official hade out with.


    Peeling off all those new packagings and backgrounds, the celebrational activities were still to fight monsters.


    In a team of five, the team would be randomly transferred to a small instance. After the small monsters appeared in the instance, one of the bosses in the game would be summoned randomly. Of course, the difficulty of the boss would be reduced ording to the strength of the yers. In the end, the difficulty of the different bosses in this small instance was around the same, and they could be dealt with by the five yers.


    After this game update, the new selling point of the game was the affection level system, which not only included affection level between yers, between yers and NPC but also between yers and the main bosses. NPC would give more tasks, higher task rewards, or sell things at a lower price if there were high affection level between the two; on the contrary, NPC wouldn¡¯t even give tasks or sell anything if their affection level was low.


    Bosses¡¯ affection level for all yers would be in the negative, and the lower it was, the more difficult it would be to fight the boss. Likewise, the dropped loot after defeating the boss would also be less and worthless.


    This activity instance fully reflected the importance of the affection between the boss and the yer, because thest boss was summoned at random, so if the boss happened to be the one you often harass and fight, the affection level would be very low, the fight would be extremely difficult and unrewarding, and after the fight, the yer wouldn¡¯t get good drops.


    ¡°This event¡¯s instance is very magical,¡± Fenghuo told the team. ¡°I saw it on the forum. It said that even Dr. Y can be summoned, but it will be hard to beat him.¡±


    Teammate No. 1 asked curiously, ¡°How could this be? Wouldn¡¯t the boss¡¯s difficulty level the same because it¡¯s the affection level that¡¯ll decide whether it¡¯ll be a hard or easy battle? No one had ever fought Dr. Y., so ording to the principle, he should have the highest affection level for all the yers.¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s said in the forum that some people asked the game official, and others checked it with items from the item store. ording to the setting, Dr. Y¡¯s natural affection for the yers is negative 10000.¡±


    The boss¡¯s affection level for the team would be calcted by his affection level for the team leader.


    Zhang Zhiyin and four other people were doing this instance for the first time and there was no problem killing the monsters until they finally summoned a boss called ¡°Stone Silkworm Chrysalis¡±. This boss guarded the Level 30 instance, and usually, few yers went to fight it.


    As a result, the boss showed therades¡ªbuying instant noodles but realised there was no seasoning inside; going to the toilet but realised there was no toilet paper inside¡ªanger.


    Team Member No. 1: ¡°Captain, what did you do?¡±


    Fenghuo wiped his sweat. ¡°My wife didn¡¯t have enough materials to make clothesst week, so I apanied her to brush silkworm chrysalis several times.¡±


    They fought hard, and the boss dropped three Level 30 white shoes¡ª the kind that no one would take after dropping on the ground.


    No one was dejected and began the second round.


    Team member No.1: ¡°...Captain, what have you done to this boss?¡±


    Fenghuo wiped away his sweat. ¡°...I really didn¡¯t do anything, but I went with my younger martial sister to get some pet food from it several times...¡±


    After twenty minutes of bitterly fighting the boss, the boss who was defeated down unwillingly dropped two bottles of primary blood tonic medicine.


    The team said that this was no longer tolerable. They had to change the team leader.


    Fenghuo had no objections. Zhang Zhiyin was rmended to make up for his mistakes. ¡°My friend is very good. He hasn¡¯t brushed any instance recently. It¡¯s okay to let him be the team leader!¡±


    So the captain¡¯s role was transferred to Zhang Zhiyin.


    Zhang Zhiyin, facing the event NPC, clicked ¡°Open Instance¡± being none the wiser.

 Chapter 91

    <strong>Chapter 91


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    After clearing up those monsters again, Team Member No.1 looked at the summoned Lord Boss with tears on his face.


    ¡°What kind of character is this...??¡±


    Compared with all kinds of bizarre or ferocious zombies, mutated animals and nts, the person in front of them was simply unscientific. However, in the face of the wless and expressionless face generated by theputer, Team Member No. 1 would rather summon the so-called ¡°vomit every time you saw it¡± Cave Zombie Overlord at this time!


    Because this was the ultimate boss of the game, who was said to have an affection level of negative 10,000 to all yers.


    Team Member No. 1 gulped. Wasn¡¯t he just ying an activity instance? He didn¡¯t do anything injurious, why was his fate getting worse every time?


    Team Member No. 1: ¡°Are we still ying? I just went to the forum to check. They said that the ultimate boss is extremely ferocious. It¡¯s not even a fight at all. He won¡¯t drop anything good even if the team managed to kill it. It¡¯s not worth the loss. It¡¯s better to withdraw when you see him and restart the instance.¡±


    As soon as he finished speaking, he saw that the second member of the team threw a re, a primary fire attack skill.


    Team Member No. 1: ¡°What are you doing, No. 2?!¡±


    ¡°I just want to know what it¡¯s like to fight the boss.¡± Team Member No. 2 said with a shy expression.


    Fenghuo: ¡°Don¡¯t quarrel, boss¡¯s HP bar is empty.¡±


    They saw Dr. Y in the screen turning around and left a string of ¡°...¡± before disappearing immediately.


    In the game settings, Y wouldn¡¯t be killed even at this stage. Even if his HP bar was empty, it would disy a picture of boss leaving with coldness and disdain.


    The person might be gone, but items were left behind.


    There was a handful of quality items on the ground, even the unique item of this activity, ¡°Fragment of the Ninth Heaven Flying Fox Mount¡± had been dropped and it was three of it at one go!


    In reality, Team Member No. 1 mmed the mouse hard. He shouted excitedly and surprisingly, ¡°This is not scientific!¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was silent all the time and didn¡¯t say anything on the team channel. The members requested for another instance and they started brushing again.


    This time, the team members swiftly cleaned up the monsters and took less than half the time it took them previously.


    The boss... was still Yin Nian.


    Zhang Zhiyin sat in front of theputer and squeezed his mouse.


    Only to see the messages in the team channel¡ª


    Team Member No. 1: ¡°Wait, wait, don¡¯t fight first.¡±


    Team Member No.1: ¡°Let me see the affection level between captain and boss. Is it a bug?¡±


    Team Member No.1: ¡°Could it be that their affection point is in the positive?¡±


    Team Member No.1: ¡°x! What the hell is a 100,000,000,00 affection point?¡±


    Only to have two red color announcements shing in session on the team channel:


    yer has used an affection measurement item to check the affection level between yer and boss;


    The yer and boss have affection points of 100,000,000,000, and won the title of ¡°Affection Breaking Through the Sky¡±!


    It wasn¡¯t easy to brush affection in <Tomorrow>, and there was an official regtion that stated yers wouldn¡¯t be able to wed until their affection reached 5,000. This had be a very distressing problem for countless sh marriage families. Seeing this, Team Member No.2 signed. ¡°The captain and boss are good enough to get married for 20 million times.¡±


    Fenghuo Gucheng: ¡°It¡¯s impossible. No. 1, you have a bug? After all, it¡¯s a new feature.¡±


    He took out an item in his bag and checked them. He aimed them at Zhang Zhiyin and Yin Nian. The system showed:


    yer has used an affection measurement item to measure affection level between yer and boss;


    The yer failed to view the affection level!


    Affection measurement items were also graded. If the absolute value of affection was too high, low-level items had a certain chance to fail.


    Fenghuo was angry, he immediately took out his highest grade of affection measurement item.


    yer has used affection measurement item to check yer and boss;


    yer and boss have an affection level of ¡Þ, and have won the title of ¡°Affection Breaking Through the Dimensional Wall, Destined to be Together in This Life¡±!


    In the Inte cafe, Fenghuo Gucheng lit a cigarette, pointed to the screen and asked his brother. ¡°Liu-Zi, what does this mean?¡±


    Looking at the red ¡°¡Þ¡±, Liu-Zi said, ¡°Boss, this was taught during junior high school in mathematics, which means it is an infinite sign. It is part of the nine-yearpulsory education!¡±


    Team Member No.1 looked at thetest announcement and whispered, ¡°My affection mirror¡¯s grade is too low, it could only uncover part of the truth...¡±

 Chapter 92

    <strong>Chapter 92


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    Team Members No. 1 to No. 3 were strangers. They were just gathered together to y the activity¡¯s instance. After that, one of them uploaded a picture of Zhang Zhiyin and Boss¡¯s outrageous affection points on the forum. There was a picture to prove the truth, and even a short video of them fighting the boss.


    And then came up with a sensational title ¡ª ¡°The Teammate and Ultimate Boss That I Encountered Today have a Frightening jq


    <sup>1</sup>¡°.


    While it earned a lot of views, it also naturally attracted the game officials¡¯ attention.


    At <Tomorrow>¡¯s technology department, Xiao Luo, who was just less than two years into the job looked at the group leader while trembling. He took on the task of reporting to the leader. ¡°There¡¯s really no other solution. I¡¯ve tried everything I can. It¡¯s a bug, but it can¡¯t be fixed. The only way to fix it is to dismantle and reprogram the whole game...¡± He lowered his head, and the more he said, the smaller his voice became.


    On the other hand, Zhang Zhiyin was very distracted by this matter. He had nothing to do after work and he couldn¡¯t calm down when he was alone in the house. Eventually, he went into the game.


    In the game, it was actually very lively. He was drawn into Fenghuo¡¯s party as soon as he went online. The people who had went into the epic grade instance together were already inside. They were waiting for Zhang Zhiyin to take them to continue the instance.


    Fenghuo had a general understanding of the situation after checking it on the forum. They stopped for nearly a whole day. The fastest party had already met the final boss of this instance, the ¡°Scorpio King of the Underworld,¡±, but until now there was no party that had cleared the instance.


    In Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s opinion, the boss in the game was much easier to deal with. At least whether it was ¡°poisoning¡± or ¡°hallucination¡±, it was just a state of in-game negative status. The yers would not really experience paralysis and the pain of poisoning, nor would it disturb their mind because of the so-called hallucination.


    Having Zhang Zhiyin in the team was just like obtaining the strategy to clear this instance. After all, Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t have the chance toe back with the Thunder Unit. He had to design the strategy without making any mistakes. The team members¡¯ response and fighting will were also very important. Now in the game, although the people on the team weren¡¯t professional yers, their equipment and skills were still passable. After two rounds, the boss was finally brought down.


    But they received no indication of the instance clearance. Gradually, the excitement of the whole party turned into doubt.


    At this time, the system announcement finally appeared.


    The pce of the Scorpion King finally fell down after trembling twice. For a while, dust were sent flying. But before the brave men who had just emerged victorious could be happy, they saw the smoke and dust scattering, and gradually a figure appeared...


    At the same time, when the party heard a task prompt appearing with a ¡°ding¡±, a task box automatically popped out:


    ¡°Do you want to ept the task?¡±


    The original captain said, ¡°It¡¯s an epic grade¡¯s instance additional task. ept it. If we can¡¯t clear it, then its fine, but if we can, we¡¯ll get rich rewards. But what if we saw ghosts?¡±


    ¡°Epic grade¡¯s additional task¡± was another ying method of <Tomorrow>. yers had a certain chance to trigger the additional task after passing the instance, which was generally to fight another boss. The strength of the additional boss was close to or slightly higher than the final boss of the instance. After a sessful elimination, all members of the whole party could get a lot of experience rewards. Plus, the additional boss generally dropped a lot of money, and there was a great chance of rare and best equipment or items.


    Then Zhang Zhiyin, who was in charge of themand as the temporary captain of the party, epted it and took on the task on behalf of the whole party.


    As soon as the screen turned dark, a task cutscene started ying.


    The Scorpion King moved its huge tail and pounded it on the ground, making a loud noise. The cave began to copse, and crushed stone crumbled down. A huge te fell down, breaking into two pieces. The team members hugged their heads to avoid the stones, and the captain directed the evacuation.


    At the time of chaos, the vibration suddenly stopped, and the flying dust gradually died down. When the dust settled, a figure appeared after the boulder.


    The angle of view suddenly drew closer, from the bottom up, it was a pair of shining ck leather shoes that showed first, followed by pants of the same color, then the windbreaker, all the way to the cor, and finally the face was exposed.


    The Ultimate Boss¡¯s face that all yers were familiar with.


    Someone mumbled a sentence, ¡°It is indeed the legendary epic grade instance, the additional boss is actually Dr. Y.¡±


    The former captain of the party was experienced in all kinds of battles, and now he was the vice captain of the party. Seeing this, he hurriedly made arrangements and ordered all the teams in the party to take their positions. Zhang Zhiyin did not speak at all during that time, and the former captain simply took themand back.


    As usual, some yers couldn¡¯t resist attacking the boss. Everyone was very nervous, except for the asional voice reminders from the former captain, it was the breathing sound of different people that was clear and audible.


    As far as they know, no one had ever triggered the additional task of this epic grade instance, and no one had ever fought with the normal Dr. Y boss. Everyone¡¯s insight came from the weakened Y in the official game materials and event instance, which was summed up as ¡°full fledged abilities,prehensive bnce, no ws, extremely difficult to fight¡±. Although it was assumed that what they were facing now might not be the fully-fledged Y, they must have nerfed


    <sup>2</sup> him a little, but to what extent, it was still unknown.


    The former captain even made a n to kill Dr. Y in one big move.


    Three earth ability yers withyers of shields rushed up, they attacked one after another with their power skills, and then cleverly opened a safe distance.


    But even after five seconds, Y didn¡¯t respond.


    Former captain: ¡°...What¡¯s going on? System dy? ¡°


    Earth ability user No. 1: ¡°But the skills are used sessfully, and Boss¡¯s hp has reduced.¡± Although it was only reduced from 100% to 99.9%.


    After studying it for a while, they saw that the HP bar of boss had recovered to 100%. They decided to ignore it and fight again.


    At first, their attacks were still methodical. Later, there was no difference from brainless outputting and hitting a wooden stake


    <sup>3</sup>.


    The atmosphere in the voice chat was also rxed. Everyone began to tease and make guesses about the reason behind this.


    Suddenly, a member of the group said, ¡°The yer who¡¯s well-known on the forum and has jq with boss, isn¡¯t that Captain Zhang Zhiyin?¡±


    All of them remembered in an instant.


    The former captain carefully bought a legendary item from the Item Store, and aimed it at Zhang Zhiyin and Boss, who were standing still all the time, to use it. It¡¯s just as surprising that the famous system announcement on the forum appeared in his own team channel.


    [yer has used an affection measurement item to measure affection level between yer and Boss;


    yers and boss have a good affection level of ¡Þ, and won the title of ¡°Affection Level Breaking Through the Dimensional Wall, Destined to be Together in This Life¡±!


    There was a scream in the voice chat.


    Even though the boss wouldn¡¯t fight back, it still took more than an hour for them to defeat Y.


    At the moment of sess, the team members also have a subtle sense of disbelief¡ª


    The segment which had been carefully prepared and designed by the game developers to kill yers thousands of times was so easily broken...


    The official staff of the game also found this situation unbelievable.


    Xiao Luo trembled and said to the group leader, ¡°It¡¯s... We can¡¯t really solve this problem...¡±


    The group leader anxiously plucked out three strands of hair on his head and said, ¡°If you can¡¯t fix the bug, then find another way to solve it.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin ran out irresponsibly the moment he saw Yin Nian¡¯s face on theputer screen. He ran to the balcony to feel the air, and only when he heard the phone ring did he picked up the phone listlessly.


    On the other hand, the customer service sister with a heavy responsibility was very nervous. Eversince they hade up with a n to make an agreement with Zhang Zhiyin, they had studied his behavior in the game in order to ensure the sess of this n. After discovering his series of actions such as visiting the boss, talking to himself and giving gifts every day, all the staff of <Tomorrow> put abel on him, ¡°This man is ill.¡±


    Thinking that she was going tomunicate with a living potential recessive neuropathy patient, the customer service sister felt very stressed. However, she still said in her sweetest voice, ¡°Hello, is this Mr. Zhang Zhiyin?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin soon understood what the other side meant. He seemed to have broken the bnce of the game, but it¡¯s hard for the other side to fix this problem in a short time, so they hoped he would sign a letter of guarantee to ensure that he wouldn¡¯t y as as any party leader when fighting the instance.


    ¡°We are willing to offer you a sincerepensation,¡± The customer service sister said earnestly.


    ¡°But I¡¯m not short of money.¡±


    <i>He¡¯s a rich psychopath</i>. The customer service younger sister said in secret, suddenly, she had an idea and thought of the behavioral patterns of the person on the other side of the phone. She casted a lure, ¡°Aspensation, we can give you a doll worth ten thousand yuan. This is a unique and exclusive production of our <Tomorrow>¡¯s team. No other ce has the right to produce the same exquisite and meticulous figures. To be honest, we would not consider this production if it is not topensate you. ¡°


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°The one you can hold to sleep?¡±


    <i>Madman.</i> The customer service younger sister was nervous, but she still replied politely and sincerely, ¡°Yes.¡±


    ¡°Then that¡¯s okay. I promise you.¡±

 Chapter 93

    Chapter 93


    The people in the gamepany was very efficient, it took less than a week before the promised doll was sent over to him. The doll was packed in a big paper box of nearly two meters. Two express delivery brothers helped him to move the box into his house. They thought that Zhang Zhiyin had bought a piece ofrge furniture.


    He wondered what kind of material was the doll made of because it was quite heavy when he held it. Zhang Zhiyin guessed that it must be at least 70 catty. What¡¯s more, its skin was delicate and it felt soft, even its short ck hair was soft and smooth; The eyes seemed to be iid with ck gemstones. Zhang Zhiyin suspected that it was a new type of synthetic material as it looked very spiritful as they gave out a sense of oppression.


    The doll looked like it was alive.


    As a young man with normal hobbies, Zhang Zhiyin hadn¡¯t been exposed to things such as dolls since he was five years old, and he didn¡¯t know any relevant information. He only saw such a real-like doll before on the inte where someone was keeping it at home. His doll might be more exquisite and realistic than those real-life dolls on the Inte because of better materials. Zhang Zhiyin could onlyment that he hadn¡¯t been keeping up with this kind of technology. He didn¡¯t expect technology to be so developed now.


    He lifted the doll out of the stic foam in the box and put it on the sofa in his living room for the time being. The doll was wearing the ssic attire of Dr. Y in <Tomorrow>. Its joints were surprisingly flexible. After being ced on the sofa by Zhang Zhiyin, its sitting posture was very natural looking. With those reflective eyes, it seemed that it was staring at Zhang Zhiyin wherever he went.


    In a trance, Zhang Zhiyin thought it was the real Yin Nian. In one of the most ordinary afternoons, it watched himself walking around. It looked with such attentiveness like it was looking at the whole world.


    Zhang Zhiyin shook his head and dispelled that idea.


    He went online to check the maintenance method of such dolls, and inadvertently found a variety of ways one could use a real-like doll for, and it practically opened the door to a new world for him.


    However, looking at some photos ofizens¡¯ dolls apanying them to eat and read books, Zhang Zhiyin thought it was pretty good.


    At dinner, he set up two sets of chopsticks, then he took Yin Nian Doll to the dining room. He put it on the chair opposite him and had it to apany him to eat.


    He must be ill, and it was a very serious illness.


    Lying in bed at night, looking at the doll who was ced beside him and one head higher than himself, Zhang Zhiyin thought of this. The doll design was extremely high-end with movable eyelids and eyshes. Zhang Zhiyin leaned over and reached out to help it close its eyes. He was anticipating to go back to his <Tomorrow>¡¯s world in his dream today and gradually fell into a deep sleep.


    In his sleep, out of habit, he moved to the doll¡¯s side and rubbed against it.


    The doll quietly opened its eyes, and its lips seemed to curve into a smile. Then it turned over lightly, reached out its hand, and very naturally, hugged the man who was next to it.


    Yin Xiaoxiang ran out of its nest, slipped into the bedroom, jumped into bed cleanly and looked at Yin Nian. It tilted its head. ¡°Ao?¡±


    Recently, Yin Nian had been absent, and most of the space on the bed had been upied by it.


    Hearing the sound, Yin Nian stared at the kitten and raised his arm to push it down with his finger.


    After falling to the ground, Yin Xiaoxiang consciously curled up at the foot of the bed and softly mewled.

 Chapter 94

    <strong>Chapter 94


    </strong>


    <strong> </strong>


    There were more than one person who thought that Zhang Zhiyin was ill.


    When Dajia went over to Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s home for dinner and saw a doll next to him at the dinner table, he felt that Zhang Zhiyin, this unfortunate child¡¯s condition was getting worse.


    Dajia had been informed about those matters regarding Yin Nian, Dayi, and artificial intelligence. However, as an ordinary person, he really didn¡¯t know what he should say.


    The only thing he could do was to keep telling himself that ¡°this is normal, this is normal¡±.


    As the saying went, ¡°Those who handle cinnabar are stained red; those who work with ink are stained ck,¡± if you want to forge a friendship with a suspected madman, you¡¯d better prepare yourself for insanity to be forced on you too.


    Dajia grew up in happiness. He might not have any strong points, but he was open-minded and could adapt to situations quickly. After eating two mouthfuls of food, he hadpletely epted the current situationid in front of his eyes. Furthermore, he couldn¡¯t restrain himself from stretching out his hand in eagerness to touch the real-like doll sitting quietly beside him.


    He was even mumbling to himself, ¡°What kind of material is it made of? It looks exactly like a real human.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin pped off his paws in time. ¡°Knock it off.¡±


    Dajia took back his hand and bowed his head, he continued eating his meal sullenly. He red at Zhang Zhiyin. ¡°You are so stingy, you won¡¯t even allow me to touch it!¡±


    Within half a minute, he stretched his head impishly and asked, ¡°I say, Zhiyin do you let this doll sleep with you at night?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin pushed Dajia¡¯s favorite braised pork toward him and rolled his eyes. ¡°Eat your food.¡±


    As Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s mind had been constantly roaming between Yin Nian and the world of <Tomorrow>, he couldn¡¯t concentrate on his work recently. The leader that was in charge of him was discontented, he wondered why this young man was getting so muddle-headed these few days.


    Could it be that he had just broken up from a rtionship? However, in theirpany where high standards and strict requirements were in demand, even if their employees had been jilted by their partner, it would not be tolerated!


    The following morning after Zhang Zhiyin had dinner with Dajia, he left the copy of an important document at home.


    Looking at his leader¡¯s scrunching eyebrows, Zhang Zhiyin could only lower his head and said awkwardly, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I¡¯ll get them right away.¡±


    The leader didn¡¯t speak and waved him out.


    Zhang Zhiyin went back to his desk to pick up the car key. As soon as he looked down, he saw the documents that he couldn¡¯t find just now were actually on his desk.


    This was weird. Zhang Zhiyin shook his head and attributed it to being dizzy.


    He finally managed to get through the day. When he was about to went off from work, Zhang Zhiyin looked at the overcast day outside and muttered, ¡°It would be nice to eat Yu Ji¡¯s hot red bean paste in this weather.¡±


    But Yu Ji was close to his former school, which was the opposite direction of his home, and they didn¡¯t do delivery service. Zhang Zhiyin was absolutely unwilling to go to Yu Ji to buy food, considering how he had spent the whole day running around.


    However, when he was entering the residential area, Zhang Zhiyin was stopped by the security guard and received a thermal lunch box from him.


    The security guard told him, ¡°The delivery brother said that their store is celebrating its fifth anniversary, you have been selected and won the third prize which is a set meal.¡±


    When Zhang Zhiyin went back and opened the lunch box, it was still warm. There was arge portion of red bean paste and some snacks which were all his favorite.


    And then incidents such as this happened many more times¡ª


    The project that couldn¡¯te to an agreement abruptly became a sessful deal; the colleague who had been deliberately finding trouble suddenly asked for a leave and went back to his hometown; the fax machine had broken down, and the information department suddenly called him three times to urge him for the information, but then it automatically recovered without him even doing anything; when it rained outside, Zhang Zhiyin remembered that he hadn¡¯t closed the window, so he hurried home only to find that all the windows were tightly closed; the dirty clothes umted for nearly a month were suddenly washed and hung on the balcony neatly; there was no salt at home, Zhang Zhiyin also forgot to buy them. When he opened the door, he thought that he could only eat instant noodles, but instead found that the salt pot was full...


    When it was just once or twice, Zhang Zhiyin could still regard t as a coincidence, or maybe it¡¯s because recently there were just too many things and he was busy and absent minded, so he remembered wrongly. However, after so many times, except for the possibility of schizophrenia, Zhang Zhiyin simply thought that he has raised a Ms. River snail.


    Of course, in his home, it was more likely to be Mr. River snail.


    So today when Zhang Zhiyin got back home and found that the water dispenser, which he had spent tremendous effort to tamperst night, was working again, he couldn¡¯t help but rush to the bedroom and tried his best to carry the doll out. ¡°Yin Nian, what the hell are you doing?¡±


    The doll remained motionless just like before with an extremely innocent expression.


    After Zhang Zhiyin vented his anger, he put the doll on the sofa opposite him and smiled bitterly at it.


    Suddenly, he froze.


    The expression of the doll... was it always this innocent?


    He took the doll to the door and opened it. ¡°Yin Nian, if you don¡¯t talk now, I¡¯ll throw you out and you¡¯d better note back either.¡±


    ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª


    As an ultimate viin boss who should have been evil, unrestrained, domineering and ruthless, Yin Nian was really ipetent. Specifically in front of Zhang Zhiyin, he was used to being timid and cowardly, or in another moremonly used word, terrified.


    Especially after he consciously did a particrly bad thing.


    In the face of the situation that he didn¡¯t know how to deal with, Yin Nian¡¯s first response was to turn to thework he¡¯s most familiar with.


    He asked online straightaway, ¡°After doing something bad, my lover is very angry. If I want to redeem myself, what should I do? I am online, waiting for a response.¡±


    There was a brother on the Inte who would answer such questions. Last time, he even helped a man with a child to chase his future wife.


    This friend was concise andprehensive. He used his most usual method. ¡°Do you two have children?¡±


    Yin Nian looked at Yin Xiaoxiang who was lying at the door of the bedroom. It wanted toe over but it was also dwindling there and hesitating. ¡°Considered it yes, it¡¯s an adoption.¡±


    ¡°Oh, does your child look like your lover?¡±


    Yin Nian looked at Yin Xiaoxiang, then at Zhang Zhiyin, and replied, ¡°Quite alike.¡±


    At the same time, the other party replied, ¡°I¡¯m sorry, I replied to the wrong person. There¡¯s another person asking simr questions. Now, it¡¯s easy if you have children. Listen to me, do it like this...¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin was in a stalemate with the doll. The doll still had that innocent expression on its face as it let him do what he wanted.


    Just when Zhang Zhiyin was suspecting that he had made a wrong guess again, the TV andputer in the living room suddenly turned on automatically, and the screen showed Yin Xiaoxiang¡¯s pitiful appearance, apanied by a wonderfully photoshopped words, ¡°I want to have aplete home.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin red at Yan Xiaoxiang, turned back and howled at Yin Nian, ¡°It doesn¡¯t have that much ideas alright! Xiaoxiang is only a cat, do you know that?!¡±

 Chapter 95

    Chapter 95


    In <Tomorrow>¡¯s world.


    There was one thing that Zhang Zhiyan didn¡¯t know, and it was that the Dark Guards establishedmunication through the mind instead of verbalmands. When someone talked, a simr implication would be reflected in their brain. For example, when someone said ¡°eat¡±, an image of ¡°eating¡± would sh in their mind. Previously when the zombies ran in circles because of hismand, that was actually caused by the reflex ideas that emerged in his mind when he gave such an order rather than as a response to his voice.


    When Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s connection to <Tomorrow>¡¯s world was cut by a person from E Lab, the Dark Guard that was originally guarding in the forbidden area lost their link to their master and had fallen into a standstill. Each of them was like a wooden statues and y sculptures, standing expressionlessly in the forbidden area without any movement.


    The Thunder Unit stationed in the forbidden area immediately noticed this abnormal and very soon, they discovered another more troublesome and serious situation¡ª Captain was missing.


    Dadao and Chen Guang tried their best to ease the anxiety within the team, at the same time, they had arranged people to search for Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s whereabouts. But even they were on tenterhooks because when Zhang Zhiyin left, he didn¡¯t give any clear indication of what he was going to do, and looking at their current situation, it was truly hard not to think of the worst-case scenario.


    Under this tense circumstance, the people of the Cloud Sky Alliance guarding outside the forbidden area noticed this abnormality.


    They first send a small number of people to scout the internal situation, after they had ensured that the Dark Guards wouldn¡¯t attack them, they began to cautiously advance deeper.


    Making use of the internal control system, Thunder Unit was able to dy Yun Chu¡¯s people for some time, however, the disparity between their strengths and number were too wide. They also found it hard toy their hands on their brothers and sisters who had fought alongside them against the zombies. So, two monthster, the alliance finally seeded in seizing the forbidden area¡¯s control tower, which was where they were situated at.


    Yun Chu ordered the capture of the Thunder Unit and had them under supervision.


    He ordered his people to check the forbidden area¡¯s items one by one. There was a faint smile hanging on the curve of his lips. Instantly, his indifferent bearing changed as he squinted his eyes and swiftly reached out his hand to take a palm-sized, transparent mirror-like item with an uneven surface.


    The smile on his lips became deeper. This time it was a genuine smile.


    Whether it was the perpetual motion machine or something else, they still weren¡¯tparable to this item in front of his sight.


    The silly Zhang Zhiyin and Thunder Unit probably wouldn¡¯t be able to recognize what this item was even if they found it.


    Yun Chu had no intention to save, control, and definitely didn¡¯t hold any intention to destroy the world. He took great pains to control Cloud Sky Alliance and E Lab¡ª to look into the essence and the truth of this world.


    He had been superior since young, grew up smoothly and seemed to be everyone¡¯s role model. However, inwardly, he was terrified, because he always had this feeling that his life, his everything, had all been arranged. He was just like a chess piece that could only ignorantly let nature take its course and ept all sess or failure, like he was walking on a fixed path that he couldn¡¯t overstep.


    This feeling intensified when the apocalypse came. He watched himself, watched Yun Chu with a constant feeling of looking at a stranger with an established role. However, with the arrival of the end of the world where abilities emerged, he felt excitement igniting within himself¡ª the original rules could be changed, and this world could change in an instant.


    And he wanted to know, what exactly was all this for; and who was the one controlling them.


    On the other side, the Thunder Unit that had been held under restriction didn¡¯t get to rest.


    Yun Chu wasn¡¯t stinted with them, he sent Mist and Storm Unit to watch over them.


    After eating his food, Xiao Jin began to talk big with a big brother from Storm Unit, ¡°Brother Feng, you know our unit and our captain¡¯s character, do we look like people who would betray the alliance...¡±


    ¡°Those years where we fought side by side, that mutant water monster at Xiang Nan and the assistance at Tu Ba City, didn¡¯t both of our team worked together? How many times has our captain saved everyone during critical junctures...¡±


    The expression of the person called Brother Feng began to change, and he heaved a sigh before saying, ¡°We brothers all understand this, but this is not helping at the current situation, we could only listen to the alliance leader. I believe that the leader will bring justice to all of you.¡±


    Xiao Jin¡¯s expression changed into indescribable helplessness and bitterness, he lowered his volume. ¡°Brother Feng, think of the first Han Emperor and the Second Emperor. Do you still not understand? To put away the bow once the birds are gone, the hound is boiled after the cunning hare is killed1.¡±


    As expected, Brother Feng¡¯s face showed shock.


    It was time to eat now, which was also the time where the security became morex.


    Xiao Jin nced at his sister, Ah Kong, who was on his left, turned his head again, and continued with sincere indignation, ¡°There¡¯s no news about our Captain so far, we have also fallen into Yun Chu¡¯s hands and are in danger. But our Thunder Unit has always fought for the front line and worked hard for the revival of humanity. We¡¯re not satisfied with this situation.¡±


    Brother Feng¡¯s expression was gettingplex.


    Xiao Jin: ¡°Brother Feng, we¡¯ve known each other for so many years. I know what kind of person you are. For today¡¯s n, only you can help us. We brothers will not force you, but there is one thing our captain has left behind, please help captain keep it properly. As for the rest, whether you want to help us or not, it will be Storm Unit¡¯s Captain¡¯s choice to decide.¡±


    Xiao Jun understood what kind of character Brother Feng had. He was Storm Unit¡¯s Vice-captain and the person in charge of this guarding shift. He was an honest person who valued friendship, but he was just timid in nature and dared not cross over any boundary. But he thought highly of their captain and he would be able to help Thunder Unit if he takes the item, so he wouldn¡¯t reject this request.


    As expected, Old Feng nodded and followed Xiao Jin behind.


    To be more urate, they were the one who chose where they wanted to be held captive.


    In their team, Old Zhu worked in a school¡¯s counselling room for many years, Dadao majored inw and minored in psychology, and Ah Kong was a talented woman studying psychology. When the alliance attacked, the three of them cooperated with each other and without speaking, influenced the people who were taking them in to instantly make the decision to keep them captive in this room through the hint in their expressions, actions, and unspoken words.


    And this room was the only room in the forbidden area with a transmission machine, it was just that the Thunder Unit had concealed it before the alliance advanced.


    The reason why they chose this ce was to convenience Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s return and allow their team to escape together.


    Last night, they had finally made the decision to act today. They would be using the transmission machine to leave this ce and look for captain.


    The room wasn¡¯t big, and Xiao Jin tried his best to act normal as he brought Old Feng to the transmission machine. When he was questioned by Mist Unit, Old Feng helped him get through it. Seeing that they were only two steps away, the sound of door opening could be heard.


    In the next second, the door was pushed open and Yun Chu came in.


    His right hand was holding onto an uneven mirror-like item, lifting up against the sunshine. With squinted eyes, he looked at the round glow emitting from the mirror; in his left hand was on a thick ck leather notebook that couldn¡¯t be even more normal. He made a gesture, then the Storm Unit and the Mist Until that were originally guarding the Thunder Unit left.


    With a tter, the door closed again. Yun Chu scanned everyone in the room and suddenly smiled. He threw the notebook on the ground.


    He said, ¡°I didn¡¯t use Zhang Zhiyan of colluding with Dr. Y without proof. Take a look and you will know.¡±


    Old Zhu who was closest to him picked up the notebook under his indication, and saw that opened page contained:


    ¡°Really liked Zhiyin more and more, I really want to hug him.¡±


    The old man grew red in the face and felt that spying on their family¡¯s captain wasn¡¯t a good idea, with a ¡®smack¡¯ he quickly closed the notebook.


    Dadao took it over and began to swiftly flip the pages with calmness.


    Only to see this written on thest page, ¡°I want to give him everything and engrave it on this world¡¯s origin.¡±


    Dado closed the notebook and frowned, ¡°What are you trying to say? Is our Captain¡¯s disappearance rted to you?¡±


    His emotions were running rampant, and many incoherent thoughts ran through his mind right at that moment, but there was one clear idea, for Yun Chun toe and see them, the reason must be rted to their captain, or to be more specific, it was rted to what Yun Chu had just discovered about Y who loved their captain deeply.


    Yun Chu smiled and didn¡¯t answer. He raised the uneven mirror in his hand and said, ¡°Do you know what this is?¡±


    He wasn¡¯t angry at Thunder Unit¡¯sck of response, but only gently said, ¡°This is the origin. Legend has it that it recorded the sources of our world. Y should have used him to alter the world¡¯s rules and create the apocalypse, zombies, and abilities.


    ¡°Your guess is correct, I have sent someone to kill your captain. However, I suspect he isn¡¯t dead, otherwise, why couldn¡¯t I find his corpse? I even thought that his corpse has been eaten by the zombies until I remembered that he has Dr. Y who loved him so much, things wouldn¡¯t be this simple...¡±


    He gently looked at Thunder Unit and licked his lips. ¡°But if he didn¡¯t die, then he surely wouldn¡¯t sit still and watch all of you in danger.¡±


    A bold and crazy n was brewing in Yun Chu¡¯s mind.


    At the start of the apocalypse, he had awakened his ability, however it wasn¡¯t a thunder elemental ability, but an extremely unusual ability called, ¡°Devour¡±. In the old times, there was a legend of a monster that would be whomever it ate and receive power. Yun Chu¡¯s ability was simr to that¡ª whomever he killed, he would be able to devour and ultimately use that person¡¯s ability.


    Because he knew that his ability would only bring fear and jealousy, he had always carefully hid and packaged himself as an ordinary thunder ability user, while secretly, he gathered the people of E Lab and controlled the members for his own purposes. However, with time, the pressure in his heart grew bigger and he could no longer achieve satisfaction. Ultimately, he used the information of the ¡°Fallen City¡± to design a n to kill his father who was at that time the strongest ability user in the alliance and then fabricated a ¡°blood inheritance¡± story to openly absorb his father¡¯s power.


    He was the fastest person to advance his ability, he was the only one other than Dr. Y to attain all abilities.


    Now that it had reached this critical juncture, he had already made thorough preparations.


    Using Thunder Unit, he would draw out Zhang Zhiyin; and using Zhang Zhiyin, he would lure Y out.


    The elites of the alliance were all here, no matter how powerful Y was, he was just an ordinary person who had coincidentally obtained the origin stone. If he devoured all of the alliance¡¯s forces, would he not be able to fight with the mere Zhang Zhiyin and Dr. Y? Wait until he devoured Y, the number one in the apocalypse... Maybe he would have the capability to break¡ª the course of fate that had been controlling him in the dark? Regtions, world¡¯s origin? No matter what it was, nothing would be able to control his life anymore.


    He would be his own god...

 Chapter 96

    <strong>Chapter 96


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    Zhang Zhiyin had firmly decided that he would not forgive Yin Nian.


    Recently, Yin Nian had been making food, cleaning the house, sending him off to work, fetching him from work, fixing home¡¯s applications and making Yin Xiaoxiang¡¯s cat food every day. Whatever work Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t want to do, he would help him, what¡¯s more, he was gentle andplying. Zhang Zhiyin would be a fool if he forgave him when he was enjoying this five-star treatment.


    Yin Nian continued to coax him with different tricks.


    For example, ¡°Zhiyin, do you want to go back to <Tomorrow>?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin didn¡¯t speak but just continued to hear Yin Nian saying, ¡°Don¡¯t you miss your members?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyan felt that he did miss them, and when he thought of how he had been disconnected from <Tomorrow> and didn¡¯t appear for a long time, they surely would¡¯ve been worried about him. When he thought of this, he couldn¡¯t sit still anymore.


    Yin Nian pondered and added, ¡°Oh right, that person called Yun Chu has captured your team and said that you have three days to appear, if not he will kill one each day.¡±


    He happily lifted his head. ¡°Zhiyin, your crime is colluding with me.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin silently stretched out his hands to strangle Yin Nian¡¯s neck. ¡°...Just tell me straight to the main point next time.¡±


    Yin Nian: ¡°Oh.¡±


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    Yun Chu¡¯s words had given every member of Thunder Unit a sliver of hope, but they did not know Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s current situation and wouldn¡¯t expect him to save them. On the contrary, they wanted to quickly escape so they could save him. At this juncture, Yun Chu basically didn¡¯t put them in his eyes, on the contrary, he gave them an extremely good opportunity to prepare and teleport themselves out. The reason why they didn¡¯t leave was that they were worried that Zhang Zhiyin might appear.


    On the third day, Yun Chu appeared again. A warm smile was still hanging on his lips but in between his brows was a trace of dismay.


    He stretched out his hand, Dadao was then sent flying powerless to his hand and grabbed by the neck.


    Yun Chu looked at the man in his hand and smiled. ¡°You seem to be Thunder Unit¡¯s vice-captain, aren¡¯t you? Then I shall start with you.¡±


    Misfortune suddenly struck, and members of the Thunder Unit didn¡¯t know what they should do, their surprised and helpless expressions aligned with Yun Chu¡¯s fantasy. He gradually tightened his grip and Dadao found it difficult to breathe. His neck seemed to have been bound by dozens of iron hoops and he was powerless to escape. Yun Chu had absorbed numerous strength ability users, at this point, his strength was beyond the ability of a true Level 10 user.


    At this moment, a familiar voice came, ¡°Release him.¡±


    The precision ability users in the team first shouted in unison, ¡°Captain!¡±


    In mid-air, a blurry figure started to clear up.


    Had the power to utilize space ability in the forbidden area... A sinister smile blossomed on Yun Chu¡¯s mouth. He threw Dadao aside and turned around to face the person.


    Zhang Zhiyin had excellent eyesight. He can tell from afar that his team was in the room where the space transportation machine was located at. With the years of tacit understanding between them, he immediately understood their intention.


    With a change of mind, he didn¡¯tnd, on the contrary, he maneuvered the Freedom of the Last Age and flew up.


    As he had expected, Yun Chu also flew up¡ª he had obtained the ability of a top-notch wind ability user, so it wasn¡¯t difficult for him.


    Seeing Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s actions, Old Zhu immediately told Xiao Jin and Ah Kong, ¡°Activate the transportation machine, we¡¯re leaving.¡±


    Xiao Jin looked at Zhang Zhiyin and hesitated. ¡°But...¡±


    ¡°But what?¡± Old Zhu rolled his eyes. ¡°Captain is doing this to draw Yun Chu away so we can leave. We¡¯ll only be a burden to Captain with our current conditions. What¡¯s more, if Captain cane back, it means... there really is someone protecting Captain at his back.¡±


    Everyone knew whom that ¡°someone¡± was referring to. If this was true, then one of that ¡°someone¡± would be enough to substitute the whole of them.


    Xiao Jin nodded and hurriedly walked to the transportation machine.


    In order to activate the machine at the fastest speed they could, they had chosen to set their transportation target at random. However, in their hurry, a mistake was made. Xiao Jin didn¡¯t notice that he had shifted a gear that had extended the transportation range into ¡°all creatures in the forbidden area¡±.


    Just when Yun Chu hade to the front of Zhang Zhiyin, he saw a wave of white light emerging from the center of the ce towards where the Thunder Unit was imprisoned and rapidly expanding outward, engulfing the whole forbidden area.


    Both Yun Chu and Zhang Zhiyin rushed up instinctively. They only barely managed to avoid the spreading white light when they reached the protective energy on top of the forbidden area.


    After half a minute, the white light disappeared, all the people in the forbidden area, including the Alliance¡¯s forces and Thunder Unit, were gone.


    Yun Chu¡¯s face grew green at once. They were the energy body he had prepared in advance for him to absorb during critical moments but there wasn¡¯t anyone left. Naturally, his odds of seeding against Dr. Y would be smaller.


    For now... he could only kill Zhang Zhiyin first and then absorb him.


    An intention to obliterate swiftly shed in his eyes, but before the n could be carried out, he saw a man suddenly appearing beside Zhang Zhiyin. It was Y.


    It was two against one, even if Yun Chu knew that his power had greatly increased after he had absorbed the Second Monarch, but at this time, he was still in a disadvantageous position.


    After seeing Y, his pupils contracted immediately, and Y¡¯s following words made his heart shake tremendously.


    Y said, ¡°You¡¯ve always been perplexed about what the world is and how you came about, right? The origin stone is now in your hands. Why don¡¯t you take a look?¡±


    His voice was cold and emotionless, but because of it, it sounded extremely objective and convincing.


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s heart began to ring rm bells, and he could almost see these words materializing and floating above Yin Nian¡¯s head¡ª ¡°Viin Boss¡¯s essential skill, ¡®shooting one¡¯s mouth off¡¯¡±.


    Skill Description: Disturb the other party¡¯s mind, manipte the other party¡¯s behavior, incite disharmony between the main target and his team, but sometimes it would backfire and achieve the effect of ¡°the viin died because he talked too much¡±.


    Zhang Zhiyin silently backed away from Yin Nian.


    As expected, Yun Chu frowned as he took out the origin stone hidden in his pocket. He looked at Yin Nian and said, ¡°If so, tell me how to use it.¡± It wasn¡¯t that he didn¡¯t want to see it, but he hadn¡¯t found the right way to activate it.


    Yin Nian took a quick look at Zhang Zhiyin and continued, ¡°Break it and you will be able to see the origin of the world.¡±


    ¡°It cannot be!¡± Yun Chu looked at Yin Nian. ¡°If so, why is it still intact after you¡¯ve seen what¡¯s inside the origin stone?¡±


    Yin Nian was indifferent, ¡°Just try it and you will know. The choice is yours.¡±


    Yun Chu was skeptical, and he stared at the origin stone for a long time. Atst, he suddenly smiled and raised it high up before sending an electric current to break itpletely from the middle.


    The shattered origin stone instantly burst into multicolored brilliant rays,pletely enveloping the three people at present.


    When Yun Chu opened his eyes, he found that he was in another space dimension. He was on full alert and asked, ¡°What¡¯s this?¡±


    Yin Nian quietly held Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s hand and replied, ¡°This is what you have always wanted to know, the origin space dimension that recorded the origin of this world.¡±


    At the same time, they saw a figure appearing in the originally barren space, but the person did not realize the emergence of the three onlookers, he only minded his own business and did his things.


    Just like what Yin Nian had said, everything had already happened and it had been recorded since a long time ago.


    When Yun Chu realized this, his expression became iparably ecstatic and excited.


    The person did as he pleased in this space. With a wave of his hand, mountains bulged out in the vastnd. When he moved his fingers, rivers appeared just like he had intended. In this space, not only could Zhang Zhiyin and the rest see what this man did at that time, but they were also able to hear his thoughts.


    But he did not create the world just as he pleased, instead, he had a general temte; he created every inch of the world¡¯snds and mountains with extreme care, and they could hear this man¡¯s vision: This was what he had created, a ce where he and his lover could live forever.


    Yun Chu was still immersed in the excitement of peeping through everything, but Zhang Zhiyin was vaguely aware of what it was. He didn¡¯t speak and felt the person next to him squeezing his hand more and more tightly.


    Yin Nian was shy. And he was nervous because of his shyness.


    When the basic outline had been built, the man thought again, and birds and animals appeared in the world. They evolved rapidly, and gradually humans emerged. As soon as the man waved his sleeves, tens of thousands of years of civilization passed quickly. It was still hunting, gathering, shing, and burning in the first second, but by the following second, it had be a modern civilization with tall buildings.


    He blinked and a prosperous city was annihted in an instant; he moved his fingers again, the annihted city was restored in an instant, the citizens were stillughing and talking as if nothing had happened.


    The man finally turned around and faced his audience.


    He said, ¡°Zhiyin, I created this world for you, to approach you, to understand you, to be with you. So will you be willing toe to my world?¡±


    When he was saying this, he was sping his hands together as tightly as he was sping Zhang Zhiyin right now.


    Yun Chu looked at the man¡¯s appearance, his throat making a ¡°he, he¡± sound, but he still couldn¡¯t say anything. Perhaps knowing the truth of the world was too cruel for him.


    Yin Nian turned and looked at Zhang Zhiyin stubbornly, but he didn¡¯t say anything.


    The so-called origin stone was basically an item made by Yin Nian because he was too shy and nervous to tell these words to Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s face, but because of the car ident, it couldn¡¯t be put to good use¡ª Yin Nian was forced to omit the step of using the origin stone to confess to Zhang Zhiyin and instead directly pulled him into his world.


    Zhang Zhiyin was about to say something when he saw Yun Chu who was on the other side suddenly fell to the ground. He hurriedly ran over only to see a pale Yun Chu that had stopped breathing.


    If heaven had eyes, it should write such a sentence on his epitaph, ¡°The first viin to die from public disys of affection...¡±

 Chapter 97

    Chapter 97


    In <Tomorrow>¡¯s world, there was a wide area with monsters ranging from Level 60 to 100, called ¡°Valley of Death¡±. Inside was crowded with hordes of zombies.


    Perhaps they had scored the number one misfortune because after Xiao Jin had pressed the teleportation button, all of the people in the forbidden area was teleported to the depths of the death valley¡ª When converted to the game¡¯s numerical value, the zombies there were at least Level 80.


    Of course, the most terrifying thing wasn¡¯t their level, but their number.


    At this moment, the flustered and confused alliance¡¯s forces once again joined forces with Thunder Unit that had been branded as traitors. With their backs pressed against each other, they resisted the senseless zombies pouncing at them.


    Everyone was so close to losing their ability to think, what they did wasn¡¯t merely brandishing their weapons but squeezing out thest bit of their abilities in their body and rushed like they were crazy at the zombies opposite them. At first, they were still able to form effective attacks, but gradually, they had no choice but to witness each one of their teammates getting dragged to the zombie horde, gnawed and torn apart, just to obtain a moment of a breather for those who were still alive.


    They seemed to have returned to the beginning of the apocalypse, it was fear followed by numbness. A short two hours seemed to be a century-long.


    Suddenly, amid the chaos, someone shouted a low cry of surprise and disbelief, ¡°Captain is here.¡±


    Majority of them had yet to react, but members of the thunder unit all lifted their heads spontaneously¡ª


    A person appeared at the horizon, swiftly flying toward them. His gigantic wings dazzling in the sunshine. He was donning a full-body silver armor with the same silver-colored mask on his face. When he lifted his right hand, it was the extremely familiar silver pistol...


    Some people in the alliance¡¯s force recognized him and couldn¡¯t help thinking: Zhang Zhiyin, hasn¡¯t he been killed by the alliance leader for colluding with Dr. Y?


    So to say, when you became the Savior, there would always be people who thought that you were dead or were undoubtedly going to be dead, when in actuality, you are still alive.


    This scene would then became a legend to be described in extravagantnguage in great detail. However, the fact was that when Zhang Zhiyin was half-way through his journey, the fashion item he was wearing coincidentally disappeared because he didn¡¯t renew them.


    And the Item Store that had been running smoothly suddenly became ¡°found¡± at that time.


    ......


    In the official history, it recorded the praiseworthy tale of Savior Z and his lover Yin Nian saving the alliance¡¯s elite forces in the Valley of Death, exposing the wicked deeds of Yun Chu, who was called the ¡°Devouring Alliance Leader¡± by theter generations, leading everyone to defeat Dr. Y, epting Lei Dun, Meng Kali, and Yu Huo¡¯s surrender, eliminating other anti-human forces, and rebuilding the new world.


    However, in the unofficial history, there were different versions of the tale. For example, Dr. Y and Dr. Yin of Baimang Association were twin brothers, so how did those people distinguish that it was indeed Yin Nian, instead of Y, who could have been following Zhang Zhiyin all the time? So some people analyzed the doubtful aspects in the historical records and concluded that Zhang Zhiyin and Y had always been in love with each other, that even the apocalypse could not make them forget each other, but only separate them into different standpoints. Somehow, Yin Nian had died mysteriously and Y had pretended to be his younger brother in order to apany Zhang Zhiyin, that was why defeating Y, subduing Lei Dun, and other matters had be so coincidentally smooth...


    However, since human beings might not even remember what they ate three days ago, how could they remember clearly the stories that happened many years ago that were about to be myths?


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    As Yin Nian had been absent from work for too many days, he was dismissed by Love Stories 123 despite the good disy of his technical skills.


    So Boss had innocently be an unemployed person.


    Zhang Zhiyin urged him to find a job every day at home.


    Yin Nian felt very wronged. ¡°You said that you¡¯re responsible for making money and supporting the family while I¡¯m responsible for being beautiful.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin recalled that he had said something like that to his former colleagues a long time ago. He guessed that the Lord Boss had exploited his racial talent to monitor and eavesdrop on him all the time. He was annoyed, speechless, helpless, and could only half-heartedly tell him, ¡°Human beings will get aesthetic fatigue too.¡±


    ¡°Oh,¡± was Yin Nian¡¯s dull reply.


    As a result, when Zhang Zhiyin went home that night, he opened the door and saw Ao Qima sitting on his sofa.


    He was so frightened that he immediately closed the door, and all the dumplings fell to the ground.


    He stood outside the door and thought about the entire process of this development after he hadposed himself. Finally, he picked up the steamed dumplings and summoned up his courage to open the door again. ¡°Yin Nian, what the hell are you doing?¡±


    Yin Nian who was donning Ao Qima¡¯s appearance seriously replied to him, ¡°You say that you¡¯re aesthetically fatigued... So I analyzed your behavior in the past three days using the data I¡¯ve umted and discovered that you spent the longest time looking at this person¡¯s appearance.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s heart almost copsed. ...His superior had asked him to make a speech for the general meeting, so he downloaded several videos of other countries¡¯ leaders doing a speech to learn from them. So who exactly did he provoke?!


    He silently swallowed back the mouthful of blood and dispiritedly said, ¡°Change back...¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin deeply felt that Yin Nian¡¯s body was really annoying. Because it was made using some sort of new material exclusively created by Yin Nian, it could change into various kinds of materials, shape, and texture as he wished. When he first heard that the gamepany was going to deliver a doll to himself, he was so excited that he destroyed the doll and then imitated it andy in the express box. Now he was being like this again...


    Yin Nian looked at the inconsistent human in front of him and simply didn¡¯t know what he should do with him. It was him who told him that he was aesthetically fatigued, so he changed to the human appearance he liked to stare at, but he was still not satisfied. What the inte said was indeed correct, truly a bothersome hussy.


    Zhang Zhiyin sighed and walked up to hug him. ¡°Yin Nian, you are the best-looking one. I¡¯ll never be tired of your appearance.¡±


    Yin Nian was immediately delighted. He obediently changed back to his original appearance and embraced him in return. ¡°Are you telling the truth?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin rested his chin on his shoulder and smiled. ¡°The truth.¡±


    ¨CEnd.

 Chapter 98 (END)

    Chapter 98


    The story took ce after Dr. Y¡¯s forces had been defeated, when Lei Dun and the restmitted to the the new alliance led by Zhang Zhiyin, the former captain of Thunder Unit who was rebuilding the new world.


    Thetest progressions happened in Tianshui City located at the North. The city had been rebuilt and residents were gradually moving back. Zhang Zhiyin was extremely ted to hear this news, and it wasn¡¯t only because of the reconstruction, but because Tianshui City was a very significant and meaningful ce for him. As the recent situation was rtively stable, he simply gave himself a few days off and intended to head to Tianshui City for a tour.


    He didn¡¯t take many people with him. It was just him, Yin Nian, Xiaoxiang, Meng Kali, and Ah Kong¡¯s family of three, who were utilizing this vacation to go for a holiday. Ah Kong had gotten married many years ago, and her child was seven years old now.


    After all, it was still the apocalypse. The average people wouldn¡¯t travel as often as they used to before the apocalypse. Most of the inns in the reconstructed cities were opened by the alliance to provide convenience for the alliance¡¯s forces on business trips. However, Yin Nian became unhappy shortly after they arrived at the inn.


    The root of the cause was because Yin Nian had developed a habit of drinking a packet of milk every day in reality, and had brought this habit to <Tomorrow>. However, Zhang Zhiyin gave hisst bag of milk to Ah Kong¡¯s child just now and Yin Nian felt that he had been neglected by his lover, so he became moody.


    Zhang Zhiyin was very helpless. ¡°Yin Nian, can you stop being so childish?¡±


    Yin Nian nced at him with a wronged expression and did not speak.


    In order to cater to the design of the ultimate viin boss, the adjectives used on the official website to describe Yin Nian¡¯s eyes were ¡°unfathomable depths¡±, ¡°secluded like a cold pool¡± and ¡°dark as the eternal night¡±. When such a pair of eyes looked at him, Zhang Zhiyin only felt that his heart were going out of rhythm.


    He was frightened.


    Zhang Zhiyin could only look through the Item Store. ¡°The Item Store should sell milk, I¡¯ll see whether they have it.¡± Milk was now a limited product, even if Tianshui City had any store, they might not necessarily sell it.


    He opened it, ¡°found¡±.


    ¡°I can¡¯t do anything about it. You aren¡¯t fixing it either. You can¡¯t me anyone for not being able to drink milk.¡±


    Yin Nian puffed up his cheeks. ¡°Because they fired me, so if the Item Store couldn¡¯t connect, they can¡¯t me me.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin could only change the subject, feeling resentful as he continued to reason with him. ¡°Ah Kong¡¯s child is only seven years old, how old are you? Can¡¯t you give in to a child?¡±


    Yin Nian opened his mouth and red at him. ¡°So he¡¯s reasonable because he¡¯s young?¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin pulled a straight face and nodded.


    Yin Nian frowned and thought for three seconds.


    So, Zhang Zhiyin watched as he shrunk himself into a three to four years old toddler.


    The white lotus-like small arms and legs, with big ck eyes and those slightly perkly red lips, that standard three heads tall body was like a perfectly carved jade. Together with his innocent and pure smile, it was an indescribable cuteness.


    Zhang Zhiyin held out his right index finger and pointed at him. ¡°You, you, you...¡± After holding the words in his mouth for a long time, he finally surrendered to bosspletely.


    Facing this appearance of his, he was speechless.


    Yin Nian was happy for two minutes before ck clouds shrouded his head, and he lowered his gloomy face.


    My family¡¯s Zhiyin is so much bigger than me, unhappy.


    Boss frowned for another three seconds before he had another idea again.


    Zhang Zhiyin blinked only to discover that Yin Nian had changed himself to a cat.


    He was frantically moving his soft and white body indignantly when he saw Yin Nian striding toward him with his short legs. He stooped down, swiftly carried him in his embrace, and even stroked his fur. ¡°Mimi, I will bring you out to y.¡±


    Yin Xiaoxiang who had been crouching at the window ledge watching this scene felt that it had just watched another entertaining show and auwo-d. It happily sneaked out from the window and went to y by itself.


    In Tianshui City¡¯s most flourishing business street at the moment, an extremely pretty toddler was holding onto an equally beautiful white cat, attracting numerous eyes.


    Most of them were pondering about which family this child belonged to, he¡¯s so cute, but there were also those who were concerned about theck of adults near him. Those children following their elders were also jealous of the white round cat in his arms¡ª in the apocalypse, there were few families that had enough luxury to keep a pet.


    A little girl tugged at her father¡¯s sleeve and kept looking at the cat. ¡°Daddy, I want that cat too.¡±


    The man hesitated for a while. He was a rtively good ability user, and being able to bring his family back to the reconstructed areas earlier was the proof of this. Supporting his family wasn¡¯t a problem, and now that their life was gradually stabilizing on the right track, a cat shouldn¡¯t eat much. There wasn¡¯t any reason for him not to get a cat for his child to y with.


    He brought his girl forward and kindly lowered his head to ask the little boy, ¡°Uncle would like to ask whether you could sell your cat to Uncle? Uncle could exchange crystal nuclei and many food for it.¡±


    However, the little boy didn¡¯t even look up as he firmly shook his head. ¡°Mimi is my wife, I¡¯m not selling it.¡±


    Mimi also firmly bit his white and delicate finger.


    But Yin Nian warmly touched him. ¡°Mimi are you hungry? I will take you to find food.¡±


    Yin Nian thought that he had ample experience in raising Cat Zhiyin, however, after walking around Tianshui City, he still couldn¡¯t find any suitable food such as fish soup and rice milk for his family¡¯s Mimi.


    But Boss was non-human with quick reaction time and sharp agility.


    He swiftly made a decision, and transported themselves to the nearby Tiantu City.


    He remembered that Yu Huo was here for a business trip in order to help with the construction.


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    When Yu Huo saw the toddler appearing in mid-air, his confused and stunned gaze turned into reverence and terror.


    He shivered. ¡°B-bo-boss...¡±


    Under Brother Lei Dun¡¯s guidance, Yu Huo knew about the truth, what Bai Mang Associate and Dr. Yin, it was all fake. What was left was only their boss, but now, he had shrunk himself into being three heads tall, but it was still the Lord Boss who the world looked upon in disdain.


    Yin Nian carried the cat and ordered Yu Huo with a cold voice, ¡°Get something for Mimi to eat.¡±


    Mimi made ceaseless efforts to w at him.


    Yin Nian: ¡°Mimi, stop it.¡±


    Yu Huo was going to cry. After so many years, don¡¯t think he didn¡¯t know that the cat called Mimi was Comrade Zhang Zhiyin. Boss wasn¡¯t understanding either, he never even tried to show restraint in front of subordinates, it wasn¡¯t easy for him to pretend all these years that he didn¡¯t know ah.


    However, it was all futile.


    Yu Huo still swiftly ran to prepare food for Mimi with unshed tears.


    The world did not have a wall that doesn¡¯t let the wind pass, when the boss had temporarily stopped at Yu Huo¡¯s side, someone saw this. So, in the unofficial history, there was also another legend saying that although Dr. Y was dead, he left a son behind, and he was raised by Yu Huo.


    After carrying Zhang Zhiyin and wandering around, Yin Nian went back full of satisfaction.


    However, he had a feeling that Zhang Zhiyin might punch him when he turned back to human.


    So Yin Nian decided to tell him this before he changed back to human.


    He rubbed Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s soft ear and rested his chin on his fluffy head. ¡°Mimi ah, let me tell you something.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin momentarily stopped hitting him with his paws and raised his head to listen to him.


    Yin Nian smiled as he touched Zhang Zhiyin¡¯s pink nose. ¡°Zhiyin, I have controlled thepany that researched about me previously, so... I am now the boss of that friend of yours called Dayi.¡±


    Zhang Zhiyin: ¡°...¡±


    I just feel that you, Y, has done something behind my back again!


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