Chapter 111 - Radiance
Edited by Meri
The person who had rushed out of the villa was Liu Sao.
Previously, aside from Nie Yi and his men, Nie Boyuan and Liu Sao had also been in the villa.
Nie Boyuan had already begun to run out before Qi An and Xiaomao were ambushed, and was now at a safe area, but Liu Sao had always been in the house.
Previously the situation was too urgent and when Nie Yi led his people to run out, they simply weren’t able to attend to Liu Sao. But he knew very well that as long as he left the villa, Liu Sao would be safe in the villa—Because the laws of various aspects in B City secure base were relatively well-developed, they wouldn’t indiscriminately slaughter innocents without special circ.u.mstances.
Unfortunately, he and Qi Jingchen had special circ.u.mstances…
But Liu Sao ran out!
The few of them had very strong combat awareness and a certain resistance against abilities as ability users. Even if they stood at the center of the battle, they still had s.p.a.ce to deal with them, and they could rely on rushing into the center of the ability users to try and divert the attacks that were supposed to land on them to other people, but Liu Sao…
Liu Sao was in bad health. If she were cut in a vital part by a wind blade, perhaps she would lose her life!
“Go back!” Nie Yi shouted. Unfortunately, upon hearing his voice, Liu Sao didn’t even falter and continued rushing ahead.
She wasn’t heading for Nie Yi and the others, but another direction.
Nie Yi was more familiar with fighting against ability users, so when he charged out, he entered the crowd of ability users and weaved among the ability users, causing the battle situation to become messier and making their besiegers have their hands tied. However, Liu Sao had rushed into the nearby group of soldiers who were holding guns.
When those soldiers first saw Liu Sao, they didn’t attack and only called out to stop her. But when Liu Sao came closer to them, they even fired their guns.
Gunshots rang out. Liu Sao’s chest blossomed with small sparks, but she still threw out the things in her hands.
What Liu Sao had tossed out was a few hand grenades. These were brought back by Nie Boyuan along with a few guns, for her to protect herself— There would still be people turning into zombies in the secure base, and therefore there were many people who would prepare weapons at home nowadays.
Previously, Liu Saw never thought she would have a chance to use these weapons, yet she did so at this moment. She truly had no idea why these people wanted to capture Nie Yi and attack him, but she couldn’t watch on helplessly as Nie Yi lost his life…
As a weapon distributed to the common people, the hand grenade wasn’t powerful, but was still able to blast several people causing the situation to turn chaotic, so the people besieging Nie Yi were distracted.
This was an opportunity for Nie Yi, an opportunity to get rid of the current predicament.
Nie Yi gritted his teeth, suddenly grabbed a fire ability user that was attacking him and tossed him towards the place Liu Sao had bombed, then dashed towards the gap created by Liu Sao.
Qi Jingchen was on his back, but it was unknown as to why he was limp all over. Faced with this situation, Nie Yi dared not be even the slightest bit careless… And at the same time, Ping Shengchao and Zhang Zihai also rushed over with him.
The ability users were stunned upon seeing this. At the same time, someone above also gave a command, “Don’t chase after them!” Previously when Nie Yi and the ability users were battling together, they were unable to use long range attacks for fear of hurting their allies. Now that Nie Yi ran, it was also an opportunity.
Hearing the command, the ability users really no longer chased after him. Unexpectedly, right then, Nie Yi suddenly turned and tossed out a few ‘waterb.a.l.l.s’ at the ability users no longer pursuing him.
The ability users were stunned and a little unable to react. They didn’t understand why Nie Yi would suddenly toss out such a harmless thing while they simultaneously blocked it with their abilities by instinct…
The few waterb.a.l.l.s suddenly exploded; unexpectedly, they were even more powerful than the hand grenades Liu Sao had thrown!
The people attacking Nie Yi were all experienced in battle, and they were also numerous. Therefore, although many were hurt from their battle with Nie Yi, and sustained severe injuries, in the end, they had been saved by their comrades at the critical juncture and no one died. But now, someone was dead!
With the sudden emergence of casualties, the ability users were in a mess. The two carrying Qi An and Xiaomao also subconsciously backed up. As a result, they had only taken a few steps back when the earth before them suddenly erupted. At the same time, Shao Zhenglan emerged from the soil.
At the start, Jiang Huai had always been by Nie Yi’s side. But because everyone’s target was the Qi Jingchen on Nie Yi’s back, unexpectedly not many attacked him. When Nie Yi ran, even fewer were focused on him.
He hid himself behind a few earth walls created by some earth ability users. At the start, he didn’t move at all, but the instant Shao Zhenglan popped out from underground, he made his move.
Several wind blades flew towards the two ability users carrying Qi An and Xiaomao and perfectly cut their arms and made their hold loosen, and also allowed Shao Zhenglan to s.n.a.t.c.h away Qi An and Xiaomao.
Jiang Huai and Shao Zhenglan coordinated with tacit understanding, and ended up rescuing both Qi An and Xiaomao. And just as they rescued both of them, Shao Zhenglan fully buried herself underground.
Nie Yi had his spiritual strength and could sense whether there were people underground, but the secure base side had to use the means of instruments. With Shao Zhenglan’s rapid movements, they simply couldn’t stop her at all.
When Zhao Chengqi saw this scene, he couldn’t help feeling a little regretful. Nie Yi truly was very powerful, and his subordinates were all extremely remarkable. What a pity…
“The two children were s.n.a.t.c.hed back. What do we do?” Nie Boyuan already reached Zhao Chengqi’s side and asked in concern. Even if they let off Xiaomao, Qi An was able to teleport. If he were to teleport away with people, wouldn’t this ambush of theirs be completely fruitless?
“It’s fine. Those two were injected with anesthetic. It’s… very heavy anesthetic,” Zhao Chengqi said.
Yu Xuguang heavily emphasised on Qi An’s usefulness, so they used very potent anesthetic when they went to kidnap Qi An. They also added something that they recently just discovered would suppress an ability user’s ability.
Qi An and Xiaomao had already fallen victim to it. Even though they were taken away by Nie Yi, they wouldn’t be able to wake up or use their abilities.
Moreover, Nie Yi couldn’t run far.
“General Zhao, the anesthetic is here.” Right at this time, someone arrived. It was Li Bi who was now in charge of B City secure base’s munitions factory.
In the apocalypse, extremely destructive weapons were popular. Weapons like tranquilisers that weren’t effective against zombies at all had long died out. But previously, Zhao Chengqi and the others still ordered the munitions factory to urgently create a batch.
“Take them and chase after them.” When zqc saw these weapons that were similar to guns but were loaded with anesthetic, he immediately ordered them.
With anesthetic, they didn’t have to worry about hurting their comrades. Their movements wouldn’t be so inhibited anymore!
At this time, Nie Yi had led his men to run out of this villa neighbourhood.
His spiritual strength had always been used to pay attention to the situation behind him. Every time an attack came towards them, he either twisted his body or staggered a step to the side and was always able to swiftly evade them. At the same time, the trajectory became obscure, actually leading the people behind them to repeatedly fail their attacks.
This was the outcome Nie Yi achieved through relying on spiritual strength, but it still greatly astonished people. When Yu Shuo saw this while standing far away, his face turned ashen.
He had always thought that even if there was a gap between himself and Nie Yi, he was just lacking in genuine battle experience. But now it looked like… there was an enormous chasm between him and Nie Yi. He may never be able to catch up to Nie Yi.
Yu Xuguang stood beside the Yu Shuo he really did not like. Seeing Nie Yi’s body covered in blood as he was besieged, he thought of many matters from his past life.
In his last life, wasn’t Nie Yi just like this? That time, Nie Yi would often encounter fatal dilemmas, but neve gave up.
Moreover, for some unknown reason, people like Nie Yi and the others unexpectedly were able to have a following, and people willing to risk their lives for them.
Liu Sao was already dead, lying on the ground unmoving. Ping Shengchao and Zhang Zihai were blood-soaked all over. Because their coordination was good and Shao Zhenglan’s earth ability was also very strong, Shao Zhenglan and Jiang Hui didn’t have many injuries, but they weren’t in a good state either…
But they were all following beside Nie Yi.
Moreover, Nie Yi was protecting Qi Jingchen as if his life depended on it.
Qi Jingchen wasn’t some good person either, so why did Nie Yi and the others want to protect him like this? Nie Yi clearly had feelings for the secure base too and was willing to handle matters for them, so why was he also insistent on rescuing Qi Jingchen even with his life?
Yu Xuguang couldn’t figure it out, but he still rushed towards Nie Yi.
Yu Xuguang initially had been standing near the outer circle, and thus soon blocked Nie Yi’s front. “Nie Yi, as long as you hand Qi Jingchen over, it’ll be fine!”
Nie Yi turned a deaf ear to him. He was now using every bit of his strength on where he should use it, and couldn’t possibly waste any energy on speaking to someone!
“Nie Yi!” Yu Xuguang called again with gritted teeth.
But Nie Yi was running towards a residential district to the side.
Yu Xuguang and the rest took until daybreak today before they finished discussing the concrete method they would use. Naturally, they hadn’t evacuated the people near the villa neighbourhood yet. Now, if Nie Yi wanted the people behind him to hold back to prevent harming innocents, he had to run to where there were more people.
If these people from B City secure base saw that his side had ‘hostages’, they would have to hold back to not harm the residents in that villa.
“Zhang Zihai! The one we want to capture is just Qi Jingchen alone, and we have no plans of hurting you guys. As long as you surrender, I promise we won’t hurt you,” Yu Xuguang said.
“f.u.c.k me! What in the world did Qi Jingchen do? These people are simply crazy,” Zhang Zihai said, then helped Ping Shengchao fend off an attack while simultaneously pulling Ping Shengchao along as they ran.
Those people who were chasing behind them didn’t intend to stake their lives against them and their main target was Qi Jingchen. In the end, they allowed the two of them to survive…
Of course, their conditions weren’t that great… Zhang Zihai felt himself lose a little too much blood. If he were to continue like this and not get treated, he would die sooner or later.
But he wouldn’t throw down Nie Yi and Ping Shengchao and surrender just because he was afraid to die… Forget it. In any case, he was about to die, so he’ll just live as long as he could.
Shao Zhenglan’s way of thinking was more or less the same as Zhang Zihai. After knowing that those people unexpectedly wanted to capture Qi Jingchen, she felt even more certain that B City secure base people had gone crazy. Although she once disliked Qi Jingchen a lot, after a long period of interaction, she felt that aside from being a little finicky and liking to toss Nie Yi about, Qi Jingchen had never done anything that bad.
For someone like this, why did the secure base insist on killing him?
Using her earth abilities to erect walls of earth behind her, Shao Zhenglan ran quicker and quicker with Jiang Huai’s wind ability’s support—more like being blown forward— but if they kept running like this, she suspected she would be unable to brake.
The party finally arrived at the residential neighbourhood and reached an open s.p.a.ce at the front of that district. However, at this time, a group of full armed soldiers unexpectedly ran out from the residential neighbourhood. At the same time, the people behind also caught up.
They were surrounded and it was impossible to escape even if they could fly. At this time, perhaps only Qi An would be able to escape, but he was unconscious and had never woken up. Perhaps he wouldn’t be capable anytime soon.
“Wait!” Nie Yi suddenly said.
“You’re willing to hand Qi Jingchen over?” Yu Xuguang said,”Nie Yi, in this life, you don’t owe him grat.i.tude for saving your life. On the contrary, you’ve always been protecting him and rescuing him. Even if you give up on him, it isn’t anything bad.”
“You all better not come close, or else… the might of an ability user self-detonating: I think you’re all very clear about it.” When Nie Yi heard Yu Xuguang’s words, he laughed. “I’m a fire and water dual ability user. The strength of this self-detonation is at least three times stronger than other people.”
“You better just wait to be captured. You’re already surrounded.” Yu Xuguang had a certain understanding of self-detonation, and knew clearly that Nie Yi was speaking the truth. His expression was a little ugly.
“So what even if we’re already surrounded. If I self-detonate here, I’ll definitely bomb the nearby residential buildings too,” Nie Yi said with a sneer.
Nearing Nie Yi’s words, some people looked at Yu Xuguang. Yu Xuguang hesitated slightly, then nodded— Nie Yi truly had this strength.
For a time, they unexpectedly didn’t dare make a move.
“f.u.c.k! What the heck is going on? Why did those people take a fancy to Qi Jingchen?” Zhang Zihai fell on his b.u.t.t next to Nie Yi and said, “Right, the people in front, it isn’t only Nie Yi alone that can self-detonate. I learnt this skill too!”
After speaking, his complexion grew paler, and there was a puddle of blood under his feet.
Ping Shengchao did not speak, taking out a box of herbal medicine from his clothes and then applying it on Zhang Zihai…
Jiang Huai did not speak, but Shao Zhenglan ruthlessly pinched Qi An’s philtrum, wanting to wake him up. Qi An didn’t react at all.
Nie Yi wasn’t surprised when seeing this and had been long prepared for it. He undid the ropes on him, then shifted Qi Jingchen from his back to hold in his embrace. “What’s wrong? Does it hurt a lot?”
Qi Jingchen had no energy to speak, but he could distinctly feel a powerful energy resuscitating inside his body.
In his last life, he also had such a feeling, but the feeling at that time definitely wasn’t as strong as now— In this life, he hadn’t been inhumanly tortured, so perhaps his ability was even stronger than in his last life?
No one knew about Qi Jingchen’s way of thinking, and no one knew of his condition either. When Nie Yi saw that Qi Jingchen was unmoving, he even a.s.sumed that Qi Jingchen was in extreme pain. Perhaps it was like that time Nie Yi had been hurt from the explosion and Qi Jingchen became powerless because he fed him blood.
Seeing Qi Jingchen’s deathly pale appearance, Nie Yi bent over and kissed Qi Jingchen on the face.
Zhao Chengqi watched this from afar and couldn’t help sighing, but Yu Xuguang suddenly widened his eyes.
After Yao Mengzhi mentioned it, he a.s.sumed that Nie Yi merely had a subordinate’s loyalty towards his master Qi Jingchen, but now, it didn’t to be the case?
Moreover, Qi Jingchen’s appearance while lying in Nie Yi’s embrace looked nothing like the dark lord in their impression.
“Everyone, we’re now broadcasting a major manuever ongoing on B City secure base. The fire and water dual ability user Nie Yi, who was once extremely famous in B City secure base, colluded with a dark ability user and is attempting to harm the secure base…” Just as everyone stopped their movements because of Nie Yi’s threat of self-detonation and the surrounding abruptly quieted down, a voice abruptly rang out.
Yu Xuguang and the others looked over before realising the television station staff unexpectedly ran over to live-broadcast.
It was Yu Shuo who was in charge of the secure base’s television station. The creator of this situation was self-evident… Seeing this, Zhao Chengqi’s face darkened. But when he thought of how their capture of Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen would be spread out sooner or later and how the surrounding residents were all watching, he ultimately said nothing.
At this time, in the residential district, some people looked at the situation outside the window, then looked at the news on television, their faces filled with doubt. “Dark ability user?”
After some misgivings, these people frowned upon hearing the explanation of a dark ability user from the television, their face filled with hatred.
The energy of zombies was dark energy, so a dark ability user definitely wasn’t anything good! After knowing that Qi Jingchen was unexpectedly a dark ability user, they now began to hate even Nie Yi who was holding Qi Jingchen.
Right next door to these people, Yao Mengzhi was also looking out the window and watching the television. “That d.a.m.ned Yu Shuo!” With cameras around, it was much harder for her to handle matters!
After scolding them, she then looked at the person beside her. “Act according to the original plan. No matter what, you must get me a bit of Qi Jingchen’s flesh!”
“Yes,” replied the person before Yao Mengzhi.
Yao Mengzhi continued looking out the window. The hand placed on the window sill had painted bright-red nails and were especially attention-grabbing.
Nie Yi kissed Qi Jingchen, but there was still no response. Nie Yi’s complexion grew colder.
Why he would mention self-detonation was genuinely because he already had such a notion. But if it were possible, it would be good if he could let Qi Jingchen live for even a second longer.
Glancing at where the television station staff were waiting, Nie Yi gave Yu Xuguang a cold smile and said, “How laughable. You’re all taking advantage of your power to kick people around. Crying for murder is one thing, but you still want to frame us with the t.i.tle of a dark ability user.”
“If he isn’t a dark ability user, why do you insist on refusing to give him to us?” Yu Xuguang said, “Nie Yi, I respect you as a worthy man, so why are you looking for such reasons? Qi Jingchen is a dark ability user. If we can’t kill him, he’ll exterminate humanity in the future!”
Yu Xuguang’s greatest desire after his rebirth was for humanity to avoid extinction, to kill that dark lord as soon as possible. Now, he naturally would not shrink back.
“Exterminate humanity? How laughable. Even if you want to murder someone, this isn’t how you should find an excuse,” Nie Yi said, wanting to delay for a while longer.
But soon, he felt that something was wrong.
Needles as thin as ox hairs abruptly flew towards them from all over the place. These needles were extremely quick. Nie Yi had spiritual strength and blocked the needles with an ice wall at the final moment, but the people beside him were all struck.
This was a tranquiliser dart. After Zhang Zihai, Ping Shengchao, and the others were hit, they instantly pa.s.sed out.
Nie Yi’s expression turned cold. These people made a move!
He knew that even if he threatened them, he wouldn’t be able to delay for long. And now, since he couldn’t delay any more….
Nie Yi swept his gaze across the people surrounding him, and truly realized he had to go all out.
Being able to die together with Qi Jingchen was also pretty good. It was a pity that he wasn’t able to kill the mastermind behind the scenes…
Nie Yi’s spiritual strength entered his ability nucleus and he was ready to self-detonate at any time. But unexpectedly, a tremendous force abruptly emerged from Qi Jingchen.
“He’s about to awaken!” Yu Xuguang instantly sensed that something was wrong.
“About to awaken?” Yao Mengzhi’s face was filled with pity. If Qi Jingchen were to awaken to an ability, perhaps B City secure base wouldn’t hesitate to risk everything and kill him with bombs. Like this, it would be hard for her to obtain Qi Jingchen’s blood and flesh.
Qi Jingchen truly was about to awaken. The process of his awakening was far quicker than it had been last time. Of course, it was like this mostly because he did not want Nie Yi to die.
As long as he awakened his ability, the predicament before them would be easily solved!
The dark ability was extremely sinister. During the latter stages of his past life, he had discovered a method that could turn other people into zombies.
As long as he pierced a person’s body with the dark energy in their surroundings, the would transform into a zombie.
Of course, he basically had never used such a move. After all, he had no goodwill towards zombies at all, but now he intended to try it.
When he awakened his ability, the surrounding dark energy would be very, very dense. This would attract ability users, and would allow them to turn the attackers into zombies!
Qi Jingchen suddenly had strength in his body. He stood up from Nie Yi’s embrace, then began sensing everything around them with his spiritual strength, and also perceived his own body.
This time, he didn’t sense the existence of zombies and summon them like in his last life, but the energy in his body was abnormally strong…
The energy in his mind grew, and finally formed a sparkling and translucent, round ball. His ability was about to awaken!
But the situation seemed a little off?
Qi Jingchen opened his eyes. His black eyes were unexpectedly suffused with a golden glow. After that, his whole body began to shine brightly. This radiance was dazzling, and practically attracted the eyes of everyone.
This radiance first appeared around Qi Jingchen, then slowly spread outwards…
This sort of energy was extremely gentle and filled with vitality. After Nie Yi b.u.mped into it, the wounds on his body suddenly began healing, and Zhang Zihai’s face that had paled from excessive blood-loss had also recovered its flush.
Zhang Zihai, Ping Shengchao, and the others who had been knocked unconscious by the tranquiliser guns slowly regained consciousness now, and even Qi An and Xiaomao who were injected with heavy anesthesia opened their eyes…