Table of Contents Chapter 38: A Passing Encounter  Shu Jun had been to the Headquarters before, where the assistants would always take him to the upper floor. This was the first time he had headed downwards. The two of them were clearly trespassing, but Zhu Yanchen walking in front of him didn’t seem to feel guilty in the slightest, as though he was walking in his own yard. Zhu Yanchen didn’t speak a word. Shu Jun was so uncomfortable under the impact of the purifier, so he had to divert his attention by contemplating random stuff. After hearing a lot of things from Ai Xiaoxiao, Shu Jun didn’t quite know…

Table of Contents Chapter 37: The Visit At Midnight After Zhu Yanchen was formally declared dead, Yi Ning’s workload increased manyfold. He simply put up a canopy bed in the office to stay the nights there. Zhu Yanchen’s death had completely disrupted the rhythm of his campaign. Supporters thought that he was sure to win and their energy surged out of control. But, Zhu Yanchen’s father, Zhu Sheng, had been constantly making his moves as of late, and the Zhu family obviously had no plans to give up the leader’s position. The Tang family behind Yi Ning ran around to handle different relationships, while the Xia family was still on…

Table of Contents Chapter 36: The Hole In His Brain Looking at Monday, Shu Jun suddenly thought of a dog wailing at the gate of a pet hospital. With him staring intently at it, Monday didn’t dare to attack Ai Xiaoxiao. It attempted to flee in another way — Monday absorbed water again, crawled away from the cloth and twisted itself into a slippery lump, firmly clinging to the floor. During the whole process, its harsh scream never stopped. Not deterred by the noise at all, Ai Xiaoxiao snorted, then she took a shovel from the tool cabinet and quickly scooped Monday up. “Your sword has quite a personality.” She…

Table of Contents Chapter 35: The Gathering of Four Used to disasters and obstacles thrown at them, the two wouldn’t panic just because of this piece of bad news. Regardless of the real situation outside, worrying and panicking wouldn’t change anything. Zhu Yanchen put down the surgical tray in his hand and carefully asked Shu Jun a few questions, then he picked up the tweezers again and started to treat the wound. Shu Jun liked this feeling of being able to communicate smoothly. They didn’t spend any time questioning each other or denying their breakdown, while the efficiency of their discussion remained high. Shu Jun closed his mouth contentedly, and…

Table of Contents Chapter 34: The Countdown Hou Ye wasn’t from The Old Fourth at first. When he was young, he did some labour work in the city and saved enough for a small house with his wife. Life was easy back then, where everyone smiled and called him Hou Ge. Later, such a lifestyle no longer worked. He got old and was no longer capable of engaging in strenuous work, and his wife got so ill that she was bed-ridden. The two have never had children, possibly because of their exposure to the erosive substance. The coalition government wasn’t so bad that they completely tossed them away, but there…

Table of Contents Chapter 33: The Old Fourth After the shower, Shu Jun poured himself a glass of water and sat on the edge of the bed. His body was basically made of erosive substance, so in theory, he didn’t have to shower, and the food he ate would also totally decompose by itself. But he still kept his old habits to make himself feel normal. Zhu Yanchen’s clothes were neatly folded and placed at the top of the bed, while the man himself was lying facing the wall, his breathing soft and even. His sleeping posture was quite normal — Zhu Yanchen no longer curled up in pain, his…

Table of Contents Chapter 32: Far From Enough For the remaining time, Shu Jun was a little dazed. Had it not been for Zhu Yanchen to pull him back in time, he would’ve hit the remnants of a billboard in front of him. Luckily, Yu Jin had been focusing on searching for traces of the mutated monster and didn’t detect Shu Jun’s strange state. The mutated monster wasn’t far from the three of them, and when Shu Jun finally saw it, it was busy chewing on another monster’s corpse. The creature was close to the size of an elephant, with its soft neck being tightened by a collar, looking almost…

Table of Contents Chapter 31: The First Encounter The two of them didn’t spend too long on purchasing weapons — In any case, they were just putting on a show, thus there was no need to choose too carefully. Monday was already a peculiar broadsword, while Marshal Zhu’s weapons looked way too advanced. It wouldn’t be ideal to use them in front of other people, so the two had to find something else to make do with. Seeing that they were moving quickly, Uncle Xiong simply waited outside the store. After shopping, the three went straight to Yu Jin’s place. Zhu Yanchen was acting on his own volition and even…

Table of Contents Chapter 30: One Eye  Luo Duan looked at the empty vase and didn’t answer. Since he knew that Ai Xiaoxiao wasn’t his own doctor, he closed his eyes and put on a pretense of wanting to rest undisturbed. Ai Xiaoxiao was too lazy to even be ashamed of herself. After stroking two more walls, she hummed a folk song and turned to leave. Sure enough, the moment the door was closed, the veins started leaking from the wall and the lump of liquid fell down again. “I… help… you… you…” Its voice was discontinuous, like an old radio with a bad signal. The slightly pungent smell of…

Table of Contents Chapter 29: Special Mission  People had a tendency to get sleepy when they were full. Zhu Yanchen was very healthy now, so Shu Jun no longer needed to be so polite. He went half a circle around the big bed: “I don’t have a very neat sleeping posture, maybe I should sleep on the outside.” Anyway, Monday didn’t need to be hugged by him anymore. It was now wrapped in a cloth, lying across the sofa near the purifier, exhaling and inhaling grumpily at the cloth covering itself. “Wake me up at 6 tomorrow morning.” Shu Jun said to Monday. The two of them had been doing…

Table of Contents Chapter 28: Mood Swings Shu Jun froze. They hadn’t even started discussing the details of the plan. He was simply throwing a few words to kickstart things. As the leader of a team, Shu Jun was used to making similar remarks to adjust the atmosphere. For example, “Let’s go and make the Groundwater team cry” or “This is a good terrain, we can end the battle in one day.” Of course, even if they eventually won, Luo Duan wouldn’t really cry, and the Blackbird team had never ended any battle within one day. After talking to Zhu Yanchen all these years, he thought that the man would…

Table of Contents Chapter 27: The Hunt In order to preserve the image of a ‘graceful ex-girlfriend’, Xia Liang put on sobbing makeup, fully coupled with swollen eyes. When Master Zhu was giving his eulogy, she even pretended to be in a trance and mourning. Xia Liang’s performance was so good that no one came up to ask her any questions. She choked eloquently as tears flowed down her cheeks, yet her thoughts had already fled many miles away — Even if she knew that Zhu Yanchen wouldn’t be able to return, she didn’t have any real emotions for the moment, rather, she was only feeling a tad regretful. According…