Chapter 118 - Disguise
Edited by Ruru
Seeing the white light on Qi Jingchen’s hand, disgust welled up within the half-zombified person and he subconsciously wanted to evade it. But he gritted his teeth, and unexpectedly, out of sheer willpower, threw himself at the white light in Qi Jingchen’s hand and allowed that white light to melt into his forehead.
Once the white light touched his forehead, it sent out a burst of black air from his body, which looked a little terrifying.
“Ah!” The half-zombified person fell to the ground and wailed, his face filled with pain. His comrades’ faces all revealed discomfort, but they did not reach out to stop him, even looking at Qi Jingchen gratefully— They had all besieged Nie Yi once. Originally, they thought that even if Qi Jingchen would save people, he wouldn’t save them…
Qi Jingchen filled the air around him with some light energy, now realising that if he were to release his light energy on the periphery of his body, his entire person would look a little pure and holy, a little divine.. this was the one and only way to garner goodwill.
Just as expected, once Yu Xuguang and his men saw his appearance, they all displayed… reverence?
The half-zombified person’s hands and legs were tied up. He was rolling and wailing on the ground in pain, but as time pa.s.sed, the sounds softened and his zombified state also slowly disappeared.
Qi Jingchen glanced at him. He knew that if he were to give a bit more of his ability, that man would probably be able to immediately stand up energetically, but… he didn’t want to.
Of course, even if he no longer gave any more of his ability, that person was already in a much better state; at least, he wouldn’t become a zombie anymore.
Seeing that person’s complexion improve, Yu Xuguang’s face was filled with a mix of surprise and joy, then even more shame.
Previously he clearly had already ascertained that Nie Yi was a good person. Why was it that with one sentence from Yao Mengzi, he completely overturned all those opinions? And in his last life… He just knew that the dark lord had controlled zombies to destroy W County secure base and killed countless people; why didn’t he think a little deeper as to why that person did so?
The half-zombified person’s complexion returned to normal, so much that he was a little pale from transforming excessively. He laid on the ground and couldn’t get up because of how weak he was, but his eyes were filled with excitement as he said hoa.r.s.ely, “Thank you.”
“No need,” Qi Jingchen said, then curiously glanced at him. “Why was your zombifying speed this slow?”
“I don’t know either?” That person laughed bitterly. “I was hurt by someone and didn’t feel anything at the start. After that I ran in the rain, then I suddenly felt that I didn’t seem quite right.”
“Didn’t anyone tell you it’s best not to be under the rain? Especially when there are open injuries,” Qi Jingchen said.
These people fell silent. Of course they knew this, but the key point was that they couldn’t avoid being in the rain even if they wanted to—Behind them were people who were chasing after them to kill them ne! Of course, why he was half-zombified probably wasn’t just because of the rain… The complexion of that person that had harmed him didn’t seem normal.
Qi Jingchen didn’t ask this person any further questions and looked back at Yu Xuguang. “What did you guys encounter?”
“We were at a small secure base. The people there are all extremely wild and said that the world became like this because a dark G.o.d had descended. If they wanted to live, they could only believe in the dark G.o.d and become the dark G.o.d’s followers, or else they would become zombies.” Yu Xuguang said. “These words are all nonsense, but there were many people who believed it. Then, there were even oracles in that secure base that would come and give sermons. After our unusual conditions were noticed, those oracles incited people to hunt us down.”
Qi Jingchen’s eyebrows rose, but he wasn’t surprised by this situation either. Weren’t there many people in his last life that believed in various religions? So much that people who believed in him, a dark lord, as a religion weren’t few…
But in the end, everyone still died.
“Their oracles are a little mysterious and look a little odd. They would also arrest some disobedient people. Listening to what they say, those people can become shadow guards, then used to ward off zombies,” Yu Xuguang said and was even more guilty.
Nie Yi previously disregarded the dangers and brought the news of the shadow guards to B City secure base, yet he even thought that Nie Yi was just putting on a play.
Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen exchanged a look, their expressions a little sombre.
They believed Yu Xuguang and those B City secure base soldiers behind him, but in the end, the situation offered by them was limited. They then said, “We’ll go take a look tomorrow.”
“If you go, you have to be careful. They’re very unaccepting of outsiders.” Yu Xuguang said. “I was nearly caught by them.”
“Do you think we’ll be as stupid as you?” Nie Yi sneered.
The monkey beside him curled its lips and copied Nie Yi’s identical mocking smile, chirping twice.
“k2026;” Yu Xuguang knelt on the ground and looked at that monkey’s appearance, unable to resist lowering his head even more.
Qi Jingchen didn’t tell him to get up, so Yu Xuguang continued kneeling. The few people who came with him introduced themselves, then brought out food and water to consume.
“Jingchen, do you want to eat?” Seeing this, Nie Yi looked at Qi Jingchen.
“Just fry two dishes,” Qi Jingchen said.
Hearing this, Nie Yi immediately took out the vegetables the little monkey had grown and fried up a plate of eggplants, tossed a plate of cuc.u.mber, and fried some eggs with tomatoes.
The fresh eggplants, fresh cuc.u.mbers, and fresh tomatoes… the few B City secure base members were incredibly envious, but still could only nibble on compressed biscuits.
In the end, it was the middle of the night and Qi Jingchen was full after eating some of the dishes, leaving the rest to Nie Yi. Nie Yi had just taken a bite when the little monkey came over to s.n.a.t.c.h it.
Speaking of which, it was also strange. The little monkey liked Qi Jingchen the most but it didn’t dare make much of a fuss in front of him. Instead, it was very fierce when it came to Nie Yi. For example, at this time, after it was carried and put aside by Nie Yi, it kept baring its fangs at Nie Yi, appearing fierce.
Of course, Nie Yi didn’t take it seriously at all.
“Qi Jingchen.” At this time, Yu Xuguang suddenly spoke.
“What’s wrong? Can’t kneel any more?” Qi Jingchen looked over.
“It’s not that… Back then, W County secure base’s panacea, what was it?” Yu Xuguang couldn’t help asking. Although he had already guessed the truth of the matter, he still wanted a confirmation.
“It’s my flesh,” Qi Jingchen said.
Yu Xuguang’s face instantly paled. The panacea those experts fought over was unexpectedly Qi Jingchen’s flesh… In his last life, they ate a light ability user?
“Then those experts.”
“After I turned from light to dark ability, what do you think the people who ate my flesh to gain benefits would become?”
Yu Xuguang immediately couldn’t help retching.
He thought of his sister’s appearance when she died. She died so tragically and he always thought that it was because the dark lord had used some unique method to kill her. As a result, it was because she ate something she shouldn’t have.
Yu Xuguang suddenly felt that him having once gone to get revenge against the dark lord was quite laughable.
Thinking of this, he thought of Qi An too. Qi An was now no more than a child, and wasn’t an adult during the end stage of the apocalypse, yet he ended up dying in his hands just like that…
Yu Xuguang’s face was extremely ugly, but Qi Jingchen was in a very good mood. In his last life, many people once came to take revenge against him. At that time he wanted to ask, ask those people what they would have done if they were in his shoes, and even wanted to tell those people that being killed by him served them right. Now, his desire was fulfilled.
In the end, Nie Yi still gave the monkey a small portion of the dishes Qi Jingchen had left, then finished up the ice house he had previously constructed, picking Qi Jingchen up and laying down inside.
He did not chase away Yu Xuguang and his men partly because Yu Xuguang was still kneeling and partly because he wanted to observe these people with his spiritual strength, checking to see whether there was anyone off among them.
“Zhizhi!” Seeing Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen enter the ice house, the little monkey grew anxious and also wanted to squeeze in. Upon seeing this, Nie Yi simply created an ice house next door for it, then unhesitantly sealed up his own.
“Aren’t they cold?” Someone on Yu Xuguang’s side couldn’t help asking.
“Nie Yi also has a fire ability,” someone next to him said.
“After getting cold, the two of them can also… warm themselves,” someone else said. Although he didn’t finish the sentence, the rest all understood… To warm up in the cold, they would definitely have to hold each other.
These people couldn’t help feeling a little rueful—Unexpectedly, even someone like Nie Yi would use ploys!
The little monkey couldn’t understand these people’s conversation, much less Nie Yi’s thoughts. At the start when it saw that it had its own ice room, it was especially delighted. After feeling cold inside for a while, it ran out chirping and even clawed on Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen’s ice room, seemingly wanting to save Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen who were freezing from the cold.
However, how could its little claws be able to scratch open the ice house? The little monkey scratched for a long time and became even colder and could only give up on the idea of rescuing Qi Jingchen, crawling onto a nearby cupboard and going to sleep aggrievedly.
Once other people saw this, they found a place in the corner to sleep while also arranging two people to be on night watch.
Someone was standing guard outside. Although Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen kept an eye on them at the start, they later slept quite well, so much that even what they initially wanted to do ended up not being done…
At dawn the next day, Nie Yi stewed a pot of vegetable and egg congee for Qi Jingchen, then made sweet and sour fish with a fish he caught a few days ago.
Yu Xuguang had knelt for half a night and did not eat. But seeing this, he didn’t have any appet.i.te at all, and conversely felt faint and nauseous.
“You can get up,” Qi Jingchen suddenly told Yu Xuguang. For Yu Xuguang to be able to kneel for this long, it could be seen that he genuinely knew his mistakes.
Yu Xuguang stared blankly before he thought of getting up. As a result, he had just moved when he fell down again, and wasn’t quite able to get up.
After laughing bitterly, Yu Xuguang simply sat on the ground cross-legged.
“Leader Yu.” Someone gave Yu Xuguang a piece of compressed biscuit and a bottle of orange juice. While this orange juice had a lot of additives and was an ordinary drink worth a couple dollars, it was high in sugar and could replenish some vitamin C; it was a good thing during the apocalypse.
Yu Xuguang stared at the biscuit for a while but shook his head in the end, placing them both beside him. “No need. I can’t eat now.”
He couldn’t stomach it, but that monkey had long been eyeing their compressed biscuits. Seeing Yu Xuguang place the biscuit to the side, it frantically rushed over to s.n.a.t.c.h it away, then ran to Nie Yi’s side, chirping— It knew that if it ran to Qi Jingchen, it would be tossed away, so it simply didn’t bother.
Nie Yi expressionlessly took the compressed biscuit and helped tear it open.
These compressed biscuits were produced before the apocalypse and had several flavours; they were honestly quite delicious. The little monkey slowly but surely finished up the entire packet of compressed biscuit.
It was especially full after eating. Rubbing its belly, it then ran to Yu Xuguang’s side again and s.n.a.t.c.hed away the orange juice.
Nie Yi was a little helpless, but still helped open the bottle for it. Then… the little monkey that liked the orange juice so much it made itself overstuffed began rolling about on the ground relentlessly, then began crying out in pain…
“You still let it drink orange juice after it ate the compressed biscuits?” Qi Jingchen looked at Nie Yi, speechless.
Nie Yi was similarly a little speechless. He himself could eat four to five packets of compressed biscuit in one go. Who knew that this little monkey would be unable to bear it after a single packet?
Holding the little monkey in its arms, he began resigning himself to rubbing the little monkey’s belly.
This definitely wasn’t because he cared about this little guy, it was completely because… If he didn’t rub, Qi Jingchen would do it. He definitely couldn’t let Qi Jingchen rub another person, no, another monkey!
When Qi Jingchen saw that Nie Yi was already helping the little monkey rub its belly, he didn’t extend a hand as expected and merely gave the little monkey some light ability to soothe it.
The little monkey looked at Qi Jingchen piteously and still wanted Qi Jingchen to continue giving a bit more, but this time Qi Jingchen was unwilling—This monkey was very, very attached to light energy. If he were to give it a lot of light ability because it filled its belly, perhaps it would later deliberately stuff itself…
“What should we do next? We definitely can’t go to that small secure base, so should we go to another?” Yu Xuguang asked.
“Naturally,” Nie Yi placidly said.
“Then where do we go?” Yu Xuguang asked.
“S City secure base.”
“S City?” Yu Xuguang was stunned. Though he didn’t know how Yao Mengzi became the leader of S City secure base, it was definitely her headquarters now. Wouldn’t something happen if they went there?”
“Are you worried about Yao Mengzi noticing us? You just have to disguise yourself,” Nie Yi said.
“Disguise?” Yu Xuguang nodded. “Yes, we should disguise ourselves. We brought someone skilled in makeup…”
“Just sticking on a moustache or something definitely isn’t enough. You can dress up as a woman,” Nie Yi said.
Yu Xuguang: “…”
Among the people with Yu Xuguang, there truly was someone very good at makeup. He even brought various tools that only a shooting crew would use pre-apocalypse.
Yu Xuguang was tormented by him one round and genuinely became no different from a woman. The other people also changed appearance under his hands.
Nie Yi didn’t allow him to put on makeup for him, because his own skill was no weaker than the other—Back when he was in the army, he also learnt some things. Later during the apocalypse, because he was wanted by everyone but had to go to secure bases to exchange for some seeds and whatnot, this skill strengthened.
Nie Yi disguised himself as a middle-aged man and even changed to more unkempt clothes. Then he dressed Qi Jingchen in a thick school uniform, applied a darker foundation and thickened his eyebrows, turning him into a youth that was still in school.
Honestly, if Qi Jingchen were to dress as a woman, perhaps he would be even prettier than Yu Xuguang, but Nie Yi was unwilling to do so.
“Like this, we can tell other people you’re my son,” Nie Yi said.
“Dad.” Qi Jingchen looked at Nie Yi and suddenly called out. His expression was even a little charming, appearing a little enticing.
Although Qi Jingchen became a tanned youth after the tussle, Nie Yi still wished he could take him in his arms and kiss him. But the word ‘dad’ also made him a bit embarra.s.sed to eat Qi Jingchen’s tofu… In the future, he might be very tangled up…
After the group finished disguising themselves, they got another sedan and then rushed towards S City secure base.
Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen were just two people, but the other side had five people. However, Nie Yi refused to let them into his s.p.a.cious off road vehicle and made them squeeze into the sedan.
The two cars headed towards S City secure base. Midway, it was unknown whether it was coincidence, but they saw another familiar face…
Baobao Notes
Fun fact! There was a vine with EXO Lay in the bus with the subt.i.tles ‘you are my daddy’ while the girl was saying 你是我的爸爸 to. his. face. and I screamed when I first saw it. If you guys saw it you know what I mean.