Table of Contents Chapter 26: Immunity The dreams that followed were chaotic and Shu Jun even dreamt of roast chicken floating in front of him. He stretched out his head happily and took a bite — it tasted warm, just that the meat was too chewy and bulky. Shu Jun opened his eyes in dissatisfaction, then he saw the man in front of him. He was biting the base of Zhu Yanchen’s thumb. Shu Jun felt a cool refreshing sensation on his face. Zhu Yanchen was holding a piece of soaked cloth in his hand, likely trying to wipe off Shu Jun’s sweat. At this moment, Zhu Yanchen stared at…

Table of Contents Chapter 25: Breaking The Cocoon Perhaps it was the information gotten from Sweet Vanguard’s memories that disturbed him, or perhaps it was a deep despair that truly came from himself. Logically, he shouldn’t collapse because he lost an ‘online buddy’ who was both his friend and his foe. But Shu Jun had no time to think about it right now. Emotions wouldn’t lie. Shu Jun stood on the spot, holding Zhu Yanchen tightly with a dazed expression, his mind completely empty. The excruciating pain was clutching onto his lungs, so much so that he couldn’t breathe or even make a sound. No, it’s not time to give…

Table of Contents Chapter 24: Dead End With Shu Jun jumping and dodging up and down, the Erosion Marsh couldn’t afford any time to pay attention to Zhu Yanchen  — After all, he was just a human almost exhausting himself and not a threat at all. Right at that moment, Zhu Yanchen threw out a rope with a hook at its end. Jumping at the chance where the head was tilting towards the ground, he leapt to its temple. His clothes were stained with blood, but he stood firm without the slightest sense of weakness. Several jars slipped from his hands and a creamy white smoke rose up, then a…

Table of Contents Chapter 23.2: First-Generation Players (Part 2) “Zhu Rong has been studying highly resistant animals to let them replace humans in the task of purifying the surroundings. At first, his experimental subjects were mice and then dogs. But their intelligence is too low and their lifespan is too short.” Zhu Yanchen said as his hands turned over the objects on the corpse. Shu Jun looked at his back, suspecting that this guy was deliberately avoiding eye contact. “After getting that inspiration, he began to use humans as experimental subjects. He separated the genes of highly resistant humans, randomly mixed them up and selectively supplemented them with fragments of…

Table of Contents Chapter 23.1: First-Generation Players (Part 1) Concerning this city where humans hadn’t set foot in for 200 years, Shu Jun’s guess was quite simple. There were no green plants in the eroded zones; at most, there were only some greyish-white mutated plants that grew sparsely. The worst case that could happen to them was that the city turned out to be full of mutated monsters. After fighting for so many years, Shu Jun had seen many urban ruins that lay at the edge of eroded zones; they had always been rather similar. However, the sight before his eyes right now was something he really hadn’t seen before.…

Table of Contents Chapter 22: “There’s Something In That Place” Zhu Yanchen said that the Erosion Marshes could be compared to a wolf pack, where one particular marsh would be considered the Alpha. The ‘leader’ that this creature kept asking about must be referring to an Alpha-level marsh. The creature in front of them didn’t seem like it was much more powerful than Monday, but its intelligence was obviously of a higher level. Shu Jun was never afraid of fighting, nor was he afraid of such a peculiar presence. However, ‘reckless’ and ‘brave’ weren’t synonymous after all. In this situation where his eyes could barely see, a rash attack would…

Table of Contents Chapter 21: Another Wolf This was Luo Duan’s second entry into Y City. Just like the first time, Yi Ning’s assistant drove over to pick him up and took him all the way to the Y City Central Headquarters. Through the car window, he could see the silhouettes of people in the city, but that was all his eyes could catch. As the capital of this land, Y city was many times more prosperous than the combatants’ stronghold. But compared with the ‘real world’ in which Luo Duan lived, it still looked a bit backward and destitute. Here, people dug up extremely intricate electrical appliances from erosion…

Table of Contents Chapter 20: Yi Ning At 8 o’clock in the morning, Zhu Yanchen slowly woke up. He hadn’t slept so well in a long time. It wasn’t because of his mental stability, rather, it was because of real physical changes —  Over the past ten years, in order to cover up the changes that happened to his body so that outsiders couldn’t see that he was eroded, Ai Xiaoxiao had removed innumerable lumps and overgrown bones from him. She used them as research materials and kept them well. According to Dr. Ai, those removed tissues were enough to squeeze an adult out of them Zhu Yanchen knew very…

Table of Contents Chapter 19: Dead City Since Zhu Rong perfected the Player System, the Zhu family’s status had been completely stabilised. After nearly 300 years of humanity’s restoration, it could be estimated that the Zhu family had established ten generations. In the generation of the previous Marshal Zhu, several large families were caught up in conflicts and troubles, which only pushed the Zhu family’s power to its peak. Thanks to this family background, Zhu Yanchen had become accustomed to all sorts of humans since childhood. Shu Jun was smart but wasn’t sly. The moment Zhu Yanchen saw that Shu Jun quickly changed the topic, he knew that Shu Jun…

Table of Contents Chapter 18: The Wrap-Up Xia Liang took over the management of the Fourth Team from Zhu Yanchen, but the investigation on Erosion Marsh still couldn’t advance. Just after the concert, Xia Liang looked at herself in the mirror and used a hair curler to fix her hairstyle. She chose her perfume while looking at the report from the Fourth Team. It was all perfunctory nonsense. Sure enough, Xia Liang pursed her lips. The Fourth Team was an investigation team trained by Zhu Yanchen, who specialised in collecting rarely-known information about Erosion Marsh. These days, anyone who cherished their lives knew they should stay away from those marshes.…

Table of Contents Chapter 17: Bad Reputation The atmosphere between the two of them could be considered a little more relaxed than before. Now that the matter had been exposed, Zhu Yanchen no long had any hesitation and simply changed his shirt right in front of Shu Jun.      Shu Jun: “Ouch.” Spotting Shu Jun’s embarrassed expression and thinking that he was being bothered by these abnormal scars, Zhu Yanchen quickly put on his clothes: “I’m sorry, I’ll pay attention next time.” “No, no, no.” Being apologised to so politely, Shu Jun quickly waved his hand: “It’s just that looking at you, I feel… very hungry.”  Zhu Yanchen: “……”  Shu Jun:…

Table of Contents Chapter 16: The Deadline “No.” The Erosion Marsh said. Right now the two of them were staying in a cave where Zhu Yanchen had placed a simple purifier at the entrance. Shu Jun was negotiating with the small Erosion Marsh. The marsh still looked like a lump of coal but with an open mouth on the surface, which made quite a strange sight.  A few hours ago, Zhu Yanchen went silent for a few minutes after hearing Shu Jun’s whimsical thought. When he spoke again, he sounded a little numb: “I have no relevant experience regarding this matter, perhaps you can try. If you can’t persuade this…