"F******ckkkkk," Yin Mei said, clutching her head in her hands as the soldiers were being called to arms all around her, heading for the wall.
She just knew it was because something had happened with the zombie emperor.
Her gut sense told her.
The Fire Emperor looked from the wall to her, like he wasn't sure to do. Well, should he just pretend he wasn't related to these people? But he had to use them to meet up with his siblings later... Sigh, why did his siblings have to go and group up with such questionable people? Ri Lu didn't know what to do, while Yin Mei was also agonizing over her decisions. Obviously, she could not just leave the zombie emperor there. Although he was probably strong enough to slaughter the entire special forces, she was still a little worried. After all, B City still had the protagonist, that had unreasonable amounts of plot armor and a golden finger aiding him.
Although Yin Mei didn't remember that the zombie emperor had injured Lei Han, it didn't matter much, as he had gone to be healed by Ming Yu. Though Ming Wei had been reluctant to let the two meet, since Lei Han was a core member of the special forces division, in the end, he allowed him to be healed by Ming Yu.
Yin Mei, in the end, decided to go head there and escape with the zombie emperor. First, she grabbed Ri Lu and handed him the pass to the garage, telling him, "Go see Doctor Ming Wei of the lab and tell him that Lu Mei sent you to pick him and Ming Yu up, okay. No matter what, you have to bring him back to H City." She also handed him the red communication gem. "If you get lost, you can use this to contact Qin Shuang with this."
Before Ri Lu could ask her who Qin Shuang is, she had already run off in the direction of the wall surrounding the city. In the end, he could only try to enter the lab, telling the security that someone called Lu Mei had sent him to talk to a person called Ming Wei.
On the other hand, Yin Mei ran toward the wall, where flashes of light from abilities entered her vision, as they were shooting at a figure floating in the air.
The rank 6 zombie emperor could fly.
Yin Mei stared up, and glanced around. It seemed that there was a nearby staircase and ladder that was crowded by the soldiers. She backed up several steps before taking a running start and jumping up elegantly onto the top of the wall, shocking the soldiers.
As Yin Mei had expected, the protagonist was also here, throwing lightning at the zombie emperor. Yin Mei furrowed her brows. Although the villain didn't appear to be struggling, Yin Mei was still worried. This was the protagonist, after all. In the stories, the villains would appear to be the stronger one, but in the end, the one who one was the protagonist. Either through some sort of cunning plan or through teamwork and the power of friendship.
Yin Mei already stole (most) of his allies (friends), so what was left was the partial power of friendship and a cunning plan?
But, because she didn't know nor have the time to figure out any potential cunning plan that Lei Han might have, she could only run toward the zombie emperor, leaping up into the air in his direction.
"Wha-" Shouts of shock at her "suicidal" action ran through the crowd of people, except for Lei Han, who had been expecting Yin Mei all along, the moment he had seen the zombie emperor.
And so, he immediately shot forth an arc of lightning. But, Yin Mei had also been expecting Lei Han to make a move. She twisted her body, ready to throw up a water shield, when the zombie emperor shockingly grabbed her in his arms and let the lightning hit his hand.
"Ahh..." Yin Mei let out a voice of surprise. And then she was worried. She remembered that he had also let the lightning hit him just a couple of days ago. Lightning was especially effective against zombies, perhaps because it was useful in "purifying" the dead, but Yin Mei felt that even the zombie emperor wouldn't be unscarred if he got hit twice in the same place within a few days of each other.
"Let's go back to H City! We have to quickly get the Dark Saint to look at you!" Yin Mei said in a flustered manner, too worried to realize just how close the zombie emperor was to her, as he hugged her tightly.
"Mm," the man replied, leaning in so that his soft lips were right next to Yin Mei's ear, his voice almost seeming to reverberate through her body. Yin Mei stiffened, as she finally noticed.
The zombie emperor was hugging her in her arms, and she could feel the coldness of his body wrapped around hers. Her body seemed to heat up enough for the both of them as her face flushed red and her heart pounded loudly in her chest.
But, the zombie emperor didn't seem to notice, as he took her and flew away back in the direction of H City, completely ignoring the shouts of the soldiers as they sent their various abilities his way.
Lei Han glared at the two of them, wanting to send another arc of lightning, but knowing that it would just be a waste of energy until he could figure out a way to overcome that water shield of hers. She preached about him being an enemy of humanity, but actually teamed up with the zombie emperor - who was the real enemy of humans here?
But, he couldn't ignore her words of coming from this timeline's future. Which did mean the knowledge they had... was probably different. While he knew who humanity's former powerhouses were, she knew who humanity's powerhouses would be, now that he had already started to change the future.
It was a bit confusing, how convoluted the timeline was getting, but Lei Han knew that meant she probably knew what he would do in the future, and how he would go about doing it. Revealing her future knowledge was a bad idea, as just by doing so it would change the way he acted.
The Yin Mei who enjoyed revealing everything in classic villain-style: Your expression was totally worth it though.
The zombie emperor quickly flew back to H City, the two of them rushing (well, one person rushing and the other person being dragged along) into the basement that the Dark Saint occupied in the five star hotel they all lived in. It was a former storage place that had completely been renovated into something of a small hospital and lab space.
The Dark Saint was currently in the middle of an operation, three stitched and stapled together arms working in concert as they stitched together the large incision in the middle of the body of whoever he was working on. His eyes and mouth were sewn shut by thick black thread, and his long white hair was tied back into a ponytail.
"Saint, Saint, Saint!" Yin Mei barged in at this moment, before immediately turning 180-degrees and out the other way.
She didn't like watching the Dark Saint work, as she found it too creepy. It was a good thing that he wasn't working on a human, or Yin Mei would have been bringing all sorts of dirty contaminants into the room that could have risked the life of the patient.
But currently the Dark Saint was operating on a zombie, so that didn't really matter.
While Yin Mei impatiently paced back and forth outside the room, the Dark Saint was leisurely finishing up his operation.
But, the Dark Saint was quick at working and ten minutes later, the patient walked out, dressed neatly in a butler's outfit as he bowed to Yin Mei and the calmly sitting zombie emperor. Yin Mei recalled that this was the zombie who she had assigned to one of their younger kids, a young girl with a summoning ability. She nodded back, but didn't say anything, too impatient for the Dark Saint to quickly treat the zombie emperor. Plus, he couldn't leave that girl alone for too long, or they might end up with a dragon ravaging their city.
"Saint," Yin Mei said, her expression slightly panicked as she saw the three armed stitched up Frankenstein-like doctor walk out while wiping his hands with a clean towel.
"What is it that you had to bother me during my operation?" A sarcastic and slightly high pitched voice that didn't match his appearance came out, not from his sewn up mouth, but a mouth moving on one of his six hands, which he raised up. An eye appeared on the side, the bright blue pupil blinking at her.
Ugh, this was why she didn't like dealing with the Dark Saint! She felt a little faint seeing this, but the zombie emperor had priority.
"His Majesty got hit twice on his right hand with a lightning attack. I want you to check if he's alright." Yin Mei answered, and the Dark Saint nodded.
He walked over toward the zombie emperor, taking his hand in two of his own. Another mouth appeared, this time talking in a deeper, calmer, and different voice in comparison to the previous one. "It's here?" It asked, as several eyes also seemed to surface on his other hands and arms, all trained on the hand that the Dark Saint was holding.
"N-n-," Yin Mei just barely contained herself from screaming.
F*ck, the Dark Saint's ability was really just too creepy.
The ability the Dark Saint had that was not quite a healing ability but could be used to heal anyways was a replication ability. In other words, he could heal by replicating cells. He could also use it to create new blood, organs, and even an entirely new body if needed. And of course, he could use it to create all these weird eyes and mouths on his own body, as well as those extra arms of his.
He discussed with the zombie emperor for a few moments, several different voices speaking all at once, as if each with a mind of their own, before letting go of his hand and going to Yin Mei.
"The lightning didn't seem to do much outer damage to him, but for some reason, he's suffered from some strong inner injuries. It'll be a little hard to heal it all at once, so I suggest he not go out to fight or anything for the next month or so." One voice of the Dark Saint said in a calm and collected manner.
"What the f*ck did you guys do to get His Majesty so injured?" A vulgar voice spoke out from a different arm.
"He got hit by a lightning attack, you should bring the lightning user to me. It'll sure be nice to dissect someone with a lightning ability for the first time." Another voice mused.
Yin Mei's face darkened. She would love to bring the lightning ability user for the Dark Saint to dissect as he pleased, but her defeat was still fresh in her mind. And now the zombie emperor was actually out of commission for a full month! She was filled with extreme anger. That d*mmable Lei Han! She wanted to rip him to shreds at the moment, but couldn't. There was no where for her to vent, and so she could only endure this stuffy feeling in her heart that seemed to want to suffocate her.
In the end, she could only gloomily return back by herself. The zombie emperor had been kept behind by the Dark Saint, who wanted to start treatment immediately.
She launched herself into her bed, all sorts of dark thoughts swirling around inside her mind.
She hated these dark feelings.
All they did was make her feel horrible, and disgusting, but they would never go away.
When was it that she started? She didn't even remember anymore. It had been a long time since she had begun completing these missions. Though, maybe it was because she wasn't good at this whole transmigrating thing that even though it had been such a long time, she hadn't succeeded even once and was only on her second world. But, it had already been so long that she felt her old world was hard to remember.
In her old world, she had been ordinary in ever way. Ordinary home, ordinary family, ordinary college... she never got an ordinary job though, as she had died first. From a very ordinary car accident too.
And now... she rolled around so that she was facing the ceiling, a blank expression on her face.
And what now?
She sat up.
That's right. The only way these dark feelings would alleviate a little would be to torture the male lead, torture the female lead, kill the male lead, kill the female lead. Only once she did that, would she feel happy again. And the demon king would show her that beautiful smile, and pat her on the head. Yes, she would complete the mission beautifully. And do a "good job".
"For now, killing Lei Han is unnecessary, but we'll need to at least weaken him. His weakness... is probably Ming Yu?" Yin Mei muttered, and then recalled that she had left the Fire Emperor behind to fetch Ming Wei and Ming Yu. "How is that going?" She asked herself, bringing up the system screen to take a look.
It seemed he had been successful, as the man was already on the way back with the two. Though Yin Mei was a little curious how he had been able to do so, considering the chaos that the zombie emperor had caused in B City at that time.
Well, whatever. The means didn't matter to her, as long as the result was satisfactory enough.
She wasn't sure how she should use Ming Yu against him, though. Should she brainwash and manipulate her?
Yin Mei pondered. She probably should have paid more attention to Villain 101 back in college, d*mmit!
Either that, or perhaps she could find a zombie with mind control abilities?
Among the many rank 5 zombies they had, not a single one had mental abilities. Among the kids, there weren't any with mental manipulation type psychic powers either.
Yin Mei felt that though it might be a little dangerous to have someone in their group with this type of ability, if they could make use of them, it would be extremely useful.
But, they couldn't have a kid with a mind control ability. It would have to be a zombie. After all, zombies were much easier to control with the zombie emperor on their side, versus kids, who could be unstable and unpredictable.
"The only notable zombie that I can think of with this sort of ability is probably... actually none?" The problem was that mind control zombies were way too uncommon, and surprisingly easy to kill as long as one had someone with a strong mind to combat them. Because of this, there actually weren't any notable mind control type zombies in the information!
"D*mn, I guess that isn't an option then," Yin Mei felt frustrated. Brainwashing through normal means was probably impossible, because Yin Mei didn't know how to do it, and brainwashing through psychic means was also impossible, because she didn't know anyone with the ability.
Then she guessed she would just have to coerce Ming Yu through force??
Sigh, should she just wing it and see how it goes then?
If she obtained Lei Han for the demon king, then maybe the Dark Saint would be able to get him healed faster, too.
Yin Mei paused. No, it was the zombie emperor. She needed to stop overlapping the two...
A beautiful red robe flashed through her head. She clutched her chest. It felt painful. Didn't people say that the pain would get better after time passed? So why is it that no matter how many years had passed, it still hurt so much?