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Boss’s Death Guide - Chapter 132

Published at 12th of July 2023 07:51:13 AM


Chapter 132

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When facing Yu Xuguang, Qi Jingchen's emotions were a bit complicated.

 

He didn't care about Yu Xuguang's actions in his past life of trying to kill him, but he did care about how Yu Xuguang had trusted Yao Mengzhi and led them into an ambush, almost resulting in their deaths.

 

But Yu Xuguang was someone who only cared about what was best for humanity itself, which made Qi Jingchen feel helpless and unsure of what to do with him.

 

When he saw that Yu Xuguang had woken up, Qi Jingchen furrowed his brow, about to leave. However, before he could, his shirt was pulled back.

 

It was Yu Xuguang who grabbed onto his shirt, and looked up at him with bright and clear eyes, pure enough to make people's hearts skip a beat. Qi Jingchen had a bad feeling.

 

Yu Xuguang had awakened, but he was now cognitively impaired.

 

The nucleus resided deep inside an ability user's brain and was not easily moved. If Yu Xuguang blew up his own nucleus, it would hurt his brain beyond repair, leaving him a vegetable. But he had been lucky to survive, even though he was now cognitively impaired.

 

The foolish Yu Xuguang fixated on Qi Jingchen, forgetting everyone else around him.

 

His intellectual capabilities had regressed to that of a three or four-year-old child, and he didn't recognize anyone around him except for Qi Jingchen.

 

Fortunately, he was obedient. If Qi Jingchen didn't let him approach, he wouldn't dare approach and would quietly watch from a distance.

 

"Is Yu Xuguang really stupid now?" Nie Yi followed behind Qi Jingchen and frowned upon seeing the person who kept staring at them from afar.

 

No one would like having someone stare at them, and he certainly didn't want someone to stare at his lover.

 

"I think he is, his brain is damaged," Qi Jingchen said. He thought  Yu Xuguang might become a vegetable. He hadn't expected him to wake up as a fool.

 

"He's lucky to be alive; fate has been kind to him," Nie Yi sneered at Yu Xuguang from a distance. He couldn't be bothered dealing with someone who lost their nucleus and became a fool. As long as they stayed far away, he wouldn't affect them.

 

"You and I are also lucky," Qi Jingchen said, holding a pen and jotting on a notebook his plans for the future. Everyone had something they wanted to do after being reborn. Nie Yi had sought him out, and he, too, wished to make some changes and improve the world.

 

The team kept moving forward, and many people were already very tired. But they didn't stop and kept moving because everyone knew they had to keep going. Their pace wasn't particularly fast, but it wasn't too slow either.

 

Of course, compared to the convenient transportation options from before the apocalypse, their pace was almost as slow as a snail's.

 

Qi Jingchen did not have to walk. He sat on a truck surrounded by people, like stars surrounding a moon, protecting his vehicle.

 

He wrote out his thoughts and plans on many sheets of paper.

 

When he looked up, he saw a little girl being carried on her mother's back. She was blinking her eyes and staring at him.

 

The little girl was skinny, and perhaps because of this, her eyes appeared much larger than they actually were. Qi Jingchen smiled at her, and the girl's face lit up with a bright smile, melting people's hearts. The girl's mother, who had begged for milk for her baby in the past, had the same expression on her face upon seeing Qi Jingchen smile at her child.

 

Qi Jingchen was fond of children, and Nie Yi, who noticed how often Qi Jingchen paid attention to the children, became instinctively guarded. In his eyes, Qi Jingchen had been heavily influenced by him, but he was always worried that Qi Jingchen would turn back to his old self and have his own ideas about things.

 

"Yeah," Qi Jingchen smiled before tossing a light ball at the monkey to encourage it to continue planting vegetables.

 

The food grown by the little monkey was never enough for everyone, but they could be used as rewards.

 

"Do you want children?" Nie Yi couldn't help but ask.

 

"Why? Would you give birth or would I?" Qi Jingchen raised an eyebrow, sometimes wondering why someone as powerful as Nie Yi was always so anxious.

 

Nie Yi didn't know what Qi Jingchen was thinking, but he was pleased to see that he hadn't listed someone else giving birth to their child as an option.

 

Their team had too many people, and it was inconvenient for them to find a place to settle down, so they kept moving without rest during the day. They usually asked water ability users around them for water and ate as they walked.

 

At night, they would find a place to stop before the sky was completely dark and rest.

 

On a map, the S city safe zone was not far from the Dabie Mountains, but via walking, it felt like crossing mountains and rivers.

 

Along the way, they managed to get some cars, but they could only be used to transport supplies and weak people, not allowing them to speed up.

 

That night, they stayed in the wilderness.

 

Although there were houses in the city, there were too many zombies, so everyone preferred to live in the wilderness and find some food while camping.

 

Someone had already helped Qi Jingchen tidy up his accommodation or simply build a house, but he wanted to walk around the camp, to get a better sense of the situation of those around him.

 

Previously, if humans were not bitten by zombies or exposed to the zombie virus, they couldn't turn into zombies. However, now the situation was different; many people became zombies after eating contaminated food.

 

The several small safe zones they later encountered were willing to abandon their homes and follow them due to this reason. When people started turning into zombies for no reason in their safe zone, out of fear of the unknown, they chose to follow this team.

 

Qi Jingchen walked slowly in the camp, with a few others. He was very popular here, but not everyone liked him. Therefore, even if Nie Yi allowed him to leave alone, he would definitely find someone to accompany him.

 

Qi Jingchen walked around the camp and, when he came to the edge, saw a girl in her early teens sitting in the corner, with her head down and immobile. She had quite a bit of dark energy on her, and although she had not become a zombie, her whole body was lethargic and she appeared physically uncomfortable.

 

Qi Jingchen looked at the girl, placed his hand on her head, "God bless." Bright energy touched the girl's body, and she became energized.

 

The change was very obvious. The girl looked up in surprise at Qi Jingchen.

 

"In the future, be careful not to eat anything that has gone bad," Qi Jingchen reminded her.

 

The girl responded softly, blushing. At that moment, a boy two or three years older suddenly ran over and looked at Qi Jingchen warily. His voice was hoarse due to puberty, "What are you doing?"

 

Most people in the team admired Qi Jingchen, but not everyone believed in him. After all, when there were too many people, Qi Jingchen didn't have time to bless everybody. Not everyone could feel the effects of the light energy.

 

Qi Jingchen wasn't bothered by the boy's wariness and instead smiled at him.

 

His affability off the charts. With that smile, the boy's face turned red.

 

He hadn't had any close contact with Qi Jingchen before, so even though he had heard a lot of good things about him, he didn't dare believe in Qi Jingchen. But at that moment, a thought popped into his mind. Maybe Qi Jingchen was quite good...

 

Wait a minute, was he being misled?

 

The boy watched as Qi Jingchen walked away and came to the girl's side again. "Do you feel uncomfortable? What did he do to you?"

 

"Brother, I was uncomfortable before, but now I feel all better!" The girl looked excitedly at her brother. She had gotten sick because she ate some contaminated food, but she didn't want to tell her brother, and so she emphasized the help Qi Jingchen gave her. "Brother, he really is amazing. No wonder people say he's a deity!"

 

The boy, hearing his sister's words, became unhappy. "Sis, you don't know what kind of person he is. Didn't Uncle Zhao say that Qi Jingchen was duping people with his special ability?"

 

"But I think he's very good," the girl pouted.

 

"Be careful in the future," the boy warned.

 

"I know," the girl nodded.

 

The boy saw that his sister's complexion had indeed improved and looked at Qi Jingchen's back, feeling like he may have misjudged him.

 

His sister had been lethargic, but as soon as Qi Jingchen arrived, she recovered. It was quite amazing.

 

As he was mulling over this, a person appeared in front of them.

 

He was a young man in his twenties. This far into the apocalypse most of the older people died off, so young people like him were the more common. Generally, they had learned to take responsibility, but the expression on this man's face was somewhat confused.

 

The boy was puzzled as to why this man was walking towards them when he suddenly saw him place his hand on his sister's head.

 

Having witnessed the cruelty of the apocalypse, the boy had even made his sister dress as a boy to keep her safe. He exploded with anger, "What are you doing? Let go of my sister!" He punched him in the face.

 

The man was hit by the boy's punch and a black eye sprouted. He looked at the boy, hurt and teary-eyed. "You hit me."

 

"Why can't I? You touched my sister!" The boy looked at the young man angrily. At that moment, Shi Qing ran over.

 

"I'm sorry, he's cognitively impaired. Don't mind him." Shi Qing said to the boy, pulling Yu Xuguang away.

Yu Xuguang refused to leave and instead turned in the direction where Qi Jingchen was and said, "Light!"

 

"What are you doing? Aren't you afraid of being slapped and flattened by Nie Shao?" Shi Shiqing ignored Yu Xuguang's resistance and pulled him away.

 

Although Yu Xuguang had made mistakes, he had also done a lot for the people in B City's safe zone, so he had to protect this person no matter what.

 

The young man didn't know whether what Shi Shiqing said was true or false, but when he saw these people leave, he breathed a sigh of relief and said to his sister, "Little sister, there are a lot of wild vegetables near where we stopped today. I asked around and as long as they're not black, we can eat them. I'll go find some."

 

Although some food was distributed to them, it was really little, and they were all still growing, so it was hard to eat enough. That's why he was always trying his best to find food and save it up.

 

The girl hesitated whether to tell her brother about how she had gotten sick from eating bad food, but in the end, she didn't say anything and just said, "Brother, I'll go too."

 

"I can go alone. You stay at here obediently." The young man left quickly - he had made an appointment with someone to go out and find food.

 

Qi Jingchen encouraged everyone to go out and find food, but there were too many people in the group, so only a few were able to find food in the end.

 

"We found a village nearby, and the people there planted a lot of leeks. We dug up the roots and plan to plant them ourselves. We can have leek soup tonight." The first to return was Nie Yi, and one of the fighters selected from the huge team. They had cleared the area of zombies while searching for supplies. Because they were at the forefront, they usually had good harvests.

 

"Did anyone get hurt?" Qi Jingchen asked.

 

"Yes." The man nodded, then quickly brought over a few people, among whom two and a half had started turning into zombies but, because they were ability users, their transformation was slow. They could still talk when they came in front of Qi Jingchen and were grateful to him.

 

Qi Jingchen healed them one by one, then went to see what they had brought back.

 

The dark energy in the cities was very strong, but it was still relatively okay in remote villages. They not only found leeks, but also other vegetables that grew naturally in the village and some rice and wheat left behind by the villagers, which had not gone bad yet.

 

The rice and wheat had not been husked, so Qi Jingchen had it all crushed and made into dumplings - they couldn't afford to waste even the bran now.

 

The grains added up to several thousand pounds, enough for each person in the team to have a small dumpling, and with the leek soup, the dinner was anything but bad.

 

"This soup tastes weird!" Ryan, one of the foreigners, was given a bowl of leek soup. He thought it tasted terrible but he took his time and still drank all of it.

 

"I've been to China before and there were so many delicious things! They're all gone now!" Ryan said with a regretful face.

 

Ryan's Chinese was awkward, but Qi Jingchen had no way to communicate with him in English. He had worked hard to learn English by listening to tapes when he was in college, but after the end of the world ten years ago... now he only remembered the alphabet and a few common phrases.

 

Just then, Nie Yi finished cooking Qi Jingchen's meal.

 

Braised potatoes, stir-fried vegetables, a bowl of loach soup, a steamed carp, and pancakes made with flour as the main dish.

 

Everything else was normal but when Qi Jingchen saw the loach and carp, his eyes lit up.

 

"I'll go get two more things for us tonight." Nie Yi said. When they were in places with fewer people, he always managed to find something to eat using his spiritual strength and abilities.

 

Ryan and several other people who were protecting Qi Jingchen and guarding Chu Zhen drooled at the sight of the food, but unfortunately didn't get any.

 

Just then, there was a noise outside. The adolescent boy's voice was in the midst of his voice change and somewhat unpleasant to the ear but the anger in his voice was very clear.

 

"Come out!" Qi Jingchen heard vaguely, the voice familiar.

 

"What's going on?" Nie Yi asked coldly.

 

"Nie Shao, a teenager is causing a commotion, suspecting that Qi Shao has abducted his sister." A person from B City's safe zone said indignantly.

 

"Why would Jingchen take his sister?" Nie Yi snorted. He was unhappy when he heard someone falsely accusing Qi Jingchen.

 

Qi Jingchen thought for a moment and said, "Bring him in."

 

The young man was soon brought in, and it was the one Qi Jingchen had seen before. He had been wary of Qi Jingchen before, but he had not had any malice towards him. Now, his face was full of anger. If someone hadn't been holding him down, he would have rushed at Qi Jingchen.

 

When he saw the food in front of Qi Jingchen, he sneered even more. Everyone said how good Qi Jingchen was and how much he had done, but in fact? They couldn't even eat their fill, while Qi Jingchen was eating big fish and meat...

 

Qi Jingchen still gave him a friendly feeling, but this made him even more angry. Who knew how this person had deceived others using his kind impression?

 

"Your sister is missing?" Qi Jingchen asked.

 

"What are you pretending to be kind-hearted for? Isn't it you who kidnapped my sister?" The young man gritted his teeth and looked at Qi Jingchen. "Why would I kidnap your sister?" Qi Jingchen furrowed his brows.

 

"Who knows? That idiot who is always following you even bothered my sister!" The young man clenched his fists.

 

Idiot? Was he talking about Yu Xuguang? Given Yu Xuguang's current circumstances, how could he bother others?





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