Lian Hua sat in a tent, staring at the corpse crystals in his hand. This was due to his hard work was.h.i.+ng corpse crystals for that deadpan Elite. If he wanted to absorb the energy inside, he had to swallowー swallow it!
Lian Hua felt that when Pig Leg explain the use of the corpse crystals, those who took out a piece, threw it in their mouths, and swallowed were really heroic! They were real men! What could your brother do if he couldn’t swallow? Although corpse crystals were very useful, his heart refused to accept it. This came from a zombie, furthermore, it was dug out from a dead person’s brain. Brain tumor? Great Lord Author, your method of using corpse crystals is in really bad taste, you know? How could a mortal accept it? Lian Hua burst into tears.
“Master!” Lian Yu jumped out from his pocket, there wasn’t anyone around so it was free, “You’ve been holding that stone for such a long time, what do you intend to do with it?”
“I’m contemplating the meaning of life!” Lian Hua was serious.
Lian Yu “…” The stupid Master flailed!
“If you don’t need it, let me eat it!” Lian Yu twirled.
“After eating, can you give birth to the energy mushroom?” Lian Hua’s spirits soared.
“Of course! As long as it has energy, I can eat anything, yo. Energy mushrooms are just pure energy byproducts.” Lian Yu spoke very calmly. Of course, the majority of the energy was absorbed by it, but it wouldn’t say so.
Lian Hua was very excited, “Wow! *kiss kiss* Xiao Yu Yu, you’re *kiss kiss* your owner’s good luck charm. In the future, I’ll give these kinds of things to you, hun. I’ll give it all to you!” Lian Hua hugged Lian Yu like a crazy man.
“Of course! People are the most powerful, most adorable, most overpowered mushroom!” Lian Yu’s mushroom cap blushed red, it rolled around on Lian Hua’s thighs.
“Yes, yes, yes, why don’t we see who our Xiao Yu Er is!” Lian Hua busily complimented. s.h.i.+t, if this mushroom had a face, it’s skin would definitely be thicker than a wall.
Lian Hua threw the corpse crystal at Lian Yu. Lian Yu shook and as soon as its body moved, the corpse crystal turned into powder.
“Alright, you’ve eaten so much of your brother’s jade today, where’s the energy mushroom? Hand it over.”[1]
Lian Yu trembled. f.u.c.k, it wanted to hide away, but it was caught. It lowered its head and unhappily shook a few times, spreading spores that, pop pop pop, turned into baby mushrooms. Lian Hua saw this scene again, still feeling that it was strange and fun to play with. He tossed one into his mouth and cultivated easily for some time, really the ultimate enjoyment.
“Bang bang bang!” Someone knocked on the tent. “Surname Bai, right now you’re part of the support team. It’s time to prepare dinner, why aren’t you out there?” A little sister’s familiar voice rang out.
Lian Hua flinched. He almost forgot Pig Leg threw him into the support team.
Lian Hua was responsible for was.h.i.+ng dishes. Aunt Li gave him this task after he knocked over two camp fires and ruined basket of vegetables. He wasn’t allowed to touch the plates with his hand. He was only allowed to use a small water ball to scrub each plate one by one. Your brother washes dishes so skillfully, don’t admire too much. Jiang Siyu was so angry that her face turned green. Lian Hua continued to ignore her. Little sister was hostile to him, why should he give her face?
Lian Hua felt really weird, he didn’t offended Jiang Siyu! Why did she dislike seeing him? Could it be revulsion of the opposite s.e.x?
Jiang Siyu watched Lian Hua leisurely command the little ball of water to wash dishes and didn’t have anywhere to vent her anger. She wanted to arrange for Lian Hua to tend to the fire, the dirtiest work. How could she expect that Lian Hua would directly overturn the fire, throw a pile of firewood into it, and finally got her to clean up the huge mess! She then sent him to wash vegetables, but the result was that he didn’t know how to control his strength and ripped the vegetables to shreds. That old woman even laughed happily and said that young master Bai has never done these kinds of things before and told her to do it! She was so mad she wanted to vomit blood!
She herself didn’t know why she disliked looking at Lian Hua. Women’s intuition told her this little boy with a white face was a great threat to her. After being reborn, she would never allow herself to be in danger. Jiang Siyu stared at Lian Hua’s back and revealed a ferocious expression. However, she soon returned to normal and brought a gla.s.s of fruit juice to Xia Zhi’s tent. The fruit used to make this juice came from her efforts trading her ability’s water with the army. If she knew that in Pig Leg’s pocket dimension there were countless types of fruit that you couldn’t finish eating, who knows if she would still be so self confident.
Lian Hua was was.h.i.+ng dishes when he felt a s.h.i.+ver run down his spine, was someone plotting against him?
“Master, that girl just threw killing intent at you. She wants to kill you.”
Lian Hua squinted his eyes, “Regardless, as long as she’s in Pig Leg’s team, she won’t dare to take action. Pig Leg won’t allow members to kill each other.”
“But you’re a freeloader!” Lian Yu bluntly pointed out.
Lian Hua “…” Are you really your brother’s cute pet? Why do you keep mocking your brother? Lian Hua decided to put Lian Yu into the “dark room” for a day, no, three days and ignore it.
Tonight’s dinner was rice and minced meat and vegetables. 〒_〒 Although Lian Hua washed the vegetables beyond recognition, Aunt Li could still make delicious dishes out of it. Long live Aunt Li, all the men ate while sobbing. Aunt Li secretly hid an egg under Lian Hua’s bowl, Lian Hua was moved to tears. Women who love children are great.
In the following days, due to Lian Yu’s line about freeloading, Lian Hua spent every day fighting zombies. To accomplish this, he even asked Pig Leg for a large sword[2], at least 30 pounds heavy!
“To the left, to the left, Master, there are three level one zombies to the left…” Lian Hua sliced downwards to the left.
“To the right, to the right, two…”
“Behind you, there are eight, quickly escape!”
Lian Hua ran and dodge rolled towards Pig Leg’s squad’s circle formation, and continued killing zombies courageously with Pig Leg’s comrades.
These days, Lian Hua fought desperately. The other team members that had something to say at the beginning completely changed their view of him. He gathered quite a bit of corpse crystals, which were all fed to Lian Yu. Almost all of Pig Leg’s comrades reached level two. With Pig Leg’s support, it was hard not to level up.
Unfortunately, Pig Leg still didn’t show him his good side. How could he give Lian Hua anything nice? Don’t think Lian Hua didn’t know, Pig Leg let the loyal followers beside him drink water from his spirit stream, eat corpse crystals, and occasionally gave them more food. Of course, Pig Leg wouldn’t let other people know.
Jiang Siyu still cynically ridiculed him every day. In addition to providing water to the team, Lian Hua had to grow fresh crops. The amount was great enough that every time he finished, his face was pale. Who told him to be the only wood esper in the team! Pig Leg originally didn’t bring many fresh fruits and vegetables with him. Vegetables were perishable and had to be eaten quickly. So every day Lian Hua made a little cabbage or a radish or something and was actually extremely popular.
Every time Lian Hua was tired enough to collapse, Jiang Siyu would appear like a ghost behind him and make his life miserable. Lian Hua ignored her every time, making Jiang Siyu go crazy with rage. Lian Hua was like a cotton ball. No matter how much you hit him, not even a fart would escape. Jiang Siyu felt like slightly haggard.
These days, she didn’t cultivate much, so her abilities were only at level one. She actually thought she was very amazing because in her past life, it took several months for people to cultivate to level two. Who would have thought that Xia Zhi and his team were so amazing, almost all of them had reached level two. Even the young master of the Bai family was level two and it was still very early. She was extremely upset.
Furthermore, she often dangled herself in front of Xia Zhi like bait. In order to make herself look good, she bathed every day but delayed the supply of water to the support team. Many people started to form thoughts about this, but Xia Zhi didn’t notice. Is he blind? There was a great beauty in front of him but he actually wasn’t tempted! Of course, Jiang Siyu definitely wouldn’t admit that Xia Zhi was actually more attractive than her. Thinking about it made her want to cry! A man who looks better than a woman! That idiot surnamed Bai even occasionally stared stupidly at him, extremely foolish.
The Lian Hua who was called stupid by young miss Jiang Siyu was busy using his wood energy to comb through Pig Leg’s system. From the time Lian Hua saw a small wound on Pig Leg’s arm and volunteered to heal it, Xia Zhi called on him every day to nourish his system with wood energy, which was said to be beneficial to the body.
In the beginning, Lian Hua wasn’t very willing because in the squad he was already considered half a healer. Although espers were resilient, some times they would still get poisoned. It wasn’t easy to cure the infection in the wound, water energy had to be used to clear the toxin, and then the wound had to be treated. Some times Lian Hua was very busy and didn’t want to take care of Pig Leg. He didn’t expect that Pig Leg would use chicken legs to tempt him. It was a long time since he was able to eat chicken, so he gave in humiliatingly.
Pig Leg was too cheap, he raised so many chickens and ducks in his pocket dimension, but he only gave Lian Hua half a chicken leg every day. That’s right, only half. First, Pig Leg would eat half of it, then give the remaining half to Lian Hua. Super stingy.
After Lian Hua finished nouris.h.i.+ng Xia Zhi’s body, today Xia Zhi generously gave him a whole chicken leg. Lian Hua was foolishly happy.
“You’re eating chicken legs again today!” Xia Xingwen came in, sneering. Today they were resting in a small village. There were no more people here, so they cleaned up the zombies inside and occupied the area. More than a month ago, Xia Zhi parted ways with the army. He didn’t want to move around with a lot of people and their objectives was different. Xia Zhi didn’t intend to go straight to the capital, he wanted grind experience for his team members.
“That’s right! There’s no portion for you.” Lian Hua was proud.
“Old Bai ah! Let’s discuss it, you give me the chicken leg and I’ll give you two pieces of level one corpse crystals, ok?” Xia Xingwen rested his arm on Lian Hua’s shoulders.
“No need! Your brother does not lack corpse crystals!” Lian Hua directly rejected. Since he was transferred from the support team to the combat team two weeks ago, he did not have to give out vegetables for free. He cleverly opened a stall, directly selling fresh vegetables for a price. There were a variety of fragrant mushrooms that tasted good and were extremely delicious, arousing the ranks of men who fought zombies into rus.h.i.+ng over one after another. Vegetables and mushrooms were one corpse crystal each. Animal crystals were one for two corpse crystals, take your pick, it was a midday robbery! But the mushrooms really were very delicious, coupled with the meat of mutant animals, it was simply divine. Xia Xingwen was extremely envious, it would be great if he was also a wood esper.
Xia Zhi’s team grew until they had almost a hundred mouths to feed. Every day, people went to find Lian Hua to buy things. Even if he was dying, he worried about selling. Xia Xingwen really wanted to beat up the local tyrant Lian Hua.
Xia Xingwen was feeling cranky when he suddenly felt his scalp p.r.i.c.kle. He glanced around and saw Xia Zhi staring deadpan at his arm around Lian Hua’s shoulders. Xia Xingwen hurriedly retracted his arm in fear.
Xia Xingwen was dragged out by Xia Xingwu.
“You get out too.” Pig Leg’s tone was very malicious. Lian Hua was surprised for a moment, completely clueless as to what set Pig Leg off. He honestly retreated. Recently Pig Leg’s temper was really eccentric, it was best to stay away from him!
Translator’s Notes:
TOO MANY BIG PARAGRAPHS. Also I have…. so… many snarky comments about this chapter.
[1]I’m not sure if Lian Hua does an immediate 180 after feeding Lian Yu… It says “today”, so maybe some time pa.s.sed? But the s.p.a.cing on jjwxc says this sentence was part of the last bunch… maybe it loaded up weird…
[2]The problem with Chinese swords is that they’re all “dao” if they’re bladed weapons with a handle. I’m actually under the impression that Lian Hua is using one of these:
…but it could also just be a really big/heavy sword.