CH 26

Chapter 26: Return to the City

Shi Qingyang took a final look at the land, gritted his teeth, and went to the periphery of the security zone with Gu Changjin.

Although the two herbs he was looking for were very common, they of course weren’t planted in the farmed land.

At the periphery of the safety zone were more and more exotic creatures and plants. Every time he saw somewhere that seemed cool and shaded, Shi Qingyang got off the tank to check.

Unfortunately, he didn’t see what he was looking for. Instead, he met many mutant beasts. Shi Qingyang knew he shouldn’t fight these mutant creatures who wouldn’t take the initiative to attack, but he was unable to control his behavior.

After killing an ant beast that rushed in front of him with a wind blade, he felt he could not stop.

The radiation energy in his body is still very little, but these days’ exercise had enabled him to send out a total of six wind blades. During training, he would use up his radiant energy by repeating his movements with both hands for three times. However, in the wild, he could kill a low-level beast without using it.

Choose a good position, send out the wind blade, and let the wind blade just pierce the gap of the ant beast… Shi Qingyang didn’t hide his strength at all, but used his experience to the extreme. Because he needed to vent, and because he knew that it was impossible for him to spend the next two years in a low-key way.

In the previous life, wasn’t it because his strength increased so quickly that the Yin family wanted to kill him? They must have been afraid he would find out the truth and get revenge. Then this time, he would become even stronger and show them!

All kinds of thoughts filled his mind, but Shi Qingyang never stopped moving on his hands. When he met an animal that could not be killed, he avoided it. When he met an animal that could be killed, he killed it. When his body ran out of radiation, he drank a bottle of radiation energy restoring agent

In some ways, fighting had already become his instinct, even similar to the instincts of walking and driving that others had.

People who had been driving for a long time could avoid obstacles when they saw them, even if they were talking to people. Now Shi Qingyang could still fight even if he had all kinds of thoughts colliding in his mind.

His parents’ hatred, his own hatred, and those monsters who rushed to the city to kill human beings 20 years later… Shi Qingyang suddenly found that all of this gave him less time to become stronger than he imagined.

And Spark City was where he would start. Shi Qingyang took a deep breath and found another prey.

A ladybug was hunting aphids. It saw someone coming from a distance, and spread its wings to fly away. At this time, the radiation energy around it suddenly fluctuated. A wind blade sliced into the half of its just-opened wings and cut off half of the wing.

The ladybug, who could not fly, became angry. When it went to the place full of aphids to eat, it met humans. Those people threw gadgets at it, but they could not hurt it at all. But this time, someone hurt its wings!

Just one person! Instead of retreating, it shook its body, and sprayed some yellow liquid at the man. In the past, it had injured these two-legs in this way!

Shi Qingyang rolled on the spot, dodged the corrosive liquid, and moved his hands together. The surrounding radiant energy immediately fluctuated. A sharp blade composed of two radiant energies rushed forward quickly, hitting the leg of the ladybug that spewed yellow liquid.

The ladybug’s wings shook violently, it wanted to escape. Shi Qingyang acted with both hands and released the four wind blades that he could release, all hitting the same position on the ladybug’s abdomen.

The ladybug fell to the ground. There was no more movement. Gu Changjin watched the scene and put down his hand.

He followed Shi Qingyang and was always ready to take action. Especially when facing the ladybug, he didn’t expect that Shi Qingyang could deal with the ladybug in such a short time!

If he thought Shi Qingyang was a genius before, now he has a vague feeling that Shi Qingyang is a monster.

Ordinary level-1 radiant warriors can only hunt ladybugs if they were well-equipped and experienced. Shi Qingyang had very little radiant energy in his body. An ordinary person wouldn’t even be able to attract the radiant energy around him. Yet Shi Qingyang could already hunt ladybugs

“How are you?” Gu Changjin asked.

“I’m fine.” Shi Qingyang regained his consciousness and realized what he had done. He revealed the experience he shouldn’t have at his age.

However, he did not care much about all this. Why did Gu Changjin train him? He could guess that there was no need for hostility between him and Gu Changjin, so they could cooperate.

“You just……” Gu Changjin’s eyes were complicated.

“Grandpa Gu, I once had a teacher who taught me a lot.” Shi Qingyang looked at Gu Changjin: “Grandpa Gu, how about our cooperation?”

“Cooperation?” Gu Changjin was surprised. He was a level-five radiant warrior, but Shi Qingyang was only level-one. With Shi Qingyang’s qualifications, it was impossible to break through to level four…

He wanted to train Shi Qingyang to stay with Cheng Ran, but he never thought the word “cooperation” could be used between him and Shi Qingyang: “Do you want me to help you deal with the Yin family? You should know it’s impossible.”

“No, Grandpa Gu, you don’t have to do this. I just hope you can help me hide my situation. As long as you promise, I swear I will do my best to protect Ranran in the future.”

“In the present situation, young master would be safer without you.” Gu Changjin stared at Shi Qingyang. He appreciated Shi Qingyang very much, and it didn’t matter that Shi Qingyang was a little scheming. But now Shi Qingyang not only behaved strangely, but also had an enemy.

Why would he believe that Shi Qingyang could protect Cheng Ran?

“Grandpa Gu, I will solve the problem within a year.” Shi Qingyang was firm and set a time limit for himself. This was to urge himself, but also to make himself not impulsive.

“OK, I’ll wait for you for a year.” Gu Changjin hesitated for a moment and nodded. At first, he wanted to have someone to accompany Cheng Ran and let him learn social contact. Later, he wanted to train Shi Qingyang to take care of Cheng Ran. Now, he suddenly wanted to see where Shi Qingyang could go.

Sure enough, the older he gets, the softer his heart becomes. He remembered when he first came to Cheng Ran, at Cheng Hong’s request, he could even sit and watch Cheng Ran cry loudly…

With Gu Changjin’s affirmation, Shi Qingyang finally fell to the ground. He prepared ten bottles of radiant energy supplements for himself. However, his current physical condition would hurt him if he ate more.

Just now he had been in a very, very good state for killing beasts. He once had to exercise for a long time to reach this state, but now he suddenly reached it because he had too much grief. Similarly, such a state also made him exhausted. Even just sitting still now took a lot of strength.

After a short rest, Shi Qingyang stood up, and then loaded the ladybug behind the tank where the prey was placed. He caught a total of seven mutant beasts along the way, and did not abandon any of them.

Gu Changjin looked down on these low-level beasts, but he did not stop Shi Qingyang’s behavior: “It’s getting late.”

Shi Qingyang nodded and got on the bus. He didn’t find the two herbs he wanted to find today, but that wasn’t surprising. After all, everything couldn’t go smoothly. It would be better to leave the city again later.

Although he would report to the Academy tomorrow, neither he nor Cheng Ran cared about Spark Academy’s courses.

Just… Shi Qingyang pinched the flesh on his arm mercilessly. In the future, he wouldn’t hide himself, but would let others see his ability.

The Yin family was guilty of being a thief. Seeing that his strength became stronger and that he was friendly with Gu Changjin, they would be worried and would want to attack him, just like in his previous life.

They dared not fight in the city. Most likely they would go outside the city… 

After a long delay outside, it was already dark when they returned.

Shi Qingyang sold all the prey he had hunted at the entrance to the city, exchanged more than 10000 credit points, and then simply cleaned himself up and went back with Gu Changjin.

All the experiences outside the city made him eager to meet Cheng Ran. It seemed that only in this way could he calm down.

The speed of the tank was very fast. Before long, Shi Qingyang saw the familiar villa. The lights of the villa were on. When their car drove in, the door was opened, and Cheng Ran came out with a happy face.

It felt good to have someone waiting

“Grandpa Gu, Qingyang, you are back! I have already cooked the meal!” Cheng Ran looked at the two people in front of him with a happy face.

The suppressed sadness seemed to rush out. Shi Qingyang faintly felt that his eyes were sour, but he finally suppressed his emotions.

The table was indeed full of food, but he suddenly knew the truth about his parents’ death. He couldn’t eat anything at noon. It was the same now.

“Qingyang, do you feel ill?” Cheng Ran asked cautiously, putting away the joy on his face.

Shi Qingyang noticed Cheng Ran’s expression: “I’m fine.” Even if there was hatred, life still had to pass.

Although he couldn’t register the taste of the food, Shi Qingyang still stuffed all the food into his mouth.

Cheng Ran was eating while looking at Shi Qingyang. He spent a lot of time on this dinner. He hoped Shi Qingyang would like it and praise him. Unfortunately, Shi Qingyang didn’t say anything, which made him a little frustrated. He soon made up his mind to cook better next time.

In addition, he needed to be smarter so that he could know what Shi Qingyang was thinking.

“I have something to do. I’ll go upstairs first.” After eating, Shi Qingyang said in a low voice. He had been repressing his emotions, and was afraid that he would suddenly be unable to suppress them, and scare Cheng Ran.

After going upstairs, Shi Qingyang went into the training room and tried his best to hit the simulated robots there, and let the attacks of these robots fall on him.

He was already very tired, so he almost squeezed all his strength, and the attacks of those robots made his whole body ache.

Although these robots didn’t hit hard, he didn’t dodge their attacks at all!

The mother who cooked for him and the father who took him to fight… The blurred memory suddenly became very clear. Shi Qingyang didn’t even know what to do. Finally, he just wanted to meet Cheng Ran urgently.

Cheng Ran…

Shi Qingyang climbed down from his balcony and landed outside the balcony of Cheng Ran’s bedroom. He just wanted to see Cheng Ran, but he didn’t expect that the light in Cheng Ran’s room was still on. He knocked on the window.

Hearing the sound, Cheng Ran quickly came out of the house and opened the window: “Qingyang, are you better? I wanted to give you some medicine, but grandpa Gu told me not to go to you…”

Shi Qingyang turned in through the window and fell to the ground. Suddenly, he felt a dark shadow in front of him.

“Qingyang, we are going to school tomorrow. Do you want to go to bed early?” Cheng Ran squatted down.

Shi Qingyang subconsciously hugged Cheng Ran. He overdrafted his energy and physical strength during the day and exercised violently at night, which finally made him faint.

“Qingyang, Qingyang…” Cheng Ran hurriedly patted Shi Qingyang on the back. Suddenly, he found that Shi Qingyang was silent.

He touched Shi Qingyang’s face. Seeing that Shi Qingyang still didn’t respond, he quickly brought a therapeutic instrument to scan Shi Qingyang.

Exhausted… Cheng Ran thoughtfully put down the therapeutic instrument and dragged Shi Qingyang into his room. He had no strength to carry Shi Qingyang to bed. He simply let him lie on the ground and helped Shi Qingyang undress.

After cleaning Shi Qingyang’s body with soap, he took out the medicine and carefully wiped it on Shi Qingyang.

He didn’t know why, but whenever he was with Shi Qingyang, he felt very happy… Cheng Ran pulled the quilt off the bed and lied beside Shi Qingyang. After seeing the bruises on Shi Qingyang, he gently hugged the other’s arm and rubbed it.