CH 8.1

Translated by summer melodies

The Death Of Zhang Kaiyi

”I’m not angry.” Shen Chi said softly, “For a woman like her, death is a good ending. However, you have to promise me, Liu Mu, even in the apocalypse, you can’t kill just for the sake of killing.”

Shen Liu Mu seemed a little puzzled.

Shen Chi sighed, “I know you are not afraid of killing, but Liu Mu, killing is a means. You can’t treat killing as a kind of inner vent!” He said seriously, “In the apocalypse, many people deserve to die. Of course, you can kill them, but you are still so young, don’t treat killing as fun.”

Shen Liu Mu pursed his lips and seemed to understand somewhat. He tilted his head and said, “Then dad, I promise you that from today onwards I will only kill bad guys, okay?”

”Bad guys?” Shen Chi chuckled. In the post-apocalyptic world, how many good people could survive? But looking at Shen Liu Mu’s ignorant eyes, he could only stroke his head. “Okay. From today onwards, Liu Mu will only kill the bad guys.”

The concept of a bad person can be big or small, but Shen Chi genuinely does not want Shen Liu Mu to turn into a murderous, bloody and sinister person like he was in his previous life; such a person is feared by all, yet equally scorned by all.

Shen Liu Mu was depressed in his heart, so he can’t get rid of Ji Jia ah! She seems to have discovered his secret. If he remembers correctly, he seems to have seen that little puppet man once. It should be Ji Jia’s……

At this time, Ji Jia had no idea that Shen Liu Mu had already planned to kill her. In fact, she was already frightened by Shen Liu Mu. As a normal seven-year-old girl, even though she was somewhat precocious, it didn’t mean she had that kind of mature mind. She wasn’t able to see Shen Liu Mu’s bloodthirsty killing scene indifferently. Not to mention, through the little puppet’s eyes, she saw the frenzy/fanaticism and obvious bloodthirst in Shen Liu Mu’s eyes when he was killing.

Too horrible!

Hugging her knees and shrinking in the corner, she cried for the first time in so long, calling for her mother again and again, but her mother would never again be there to gently comfort her, hold her and protect her.

“Mama had died, died to save her.” Ji Jia wipes her tears. “So Ji Jia will try to live no matter what!”

That night, when Chen Chi climbed over the wall, the guards didn’t notice. In the night sky, Shen Chi’s flying kite glided across the air. In the game, the Tang family’s martial arts may not be called the strongest, but their lightness skills can overpower all sects. It is because of the power of the flying kite. It is definitely a good tool to run or jump mountains. Of course, it is easy to fall to death when you are not skilled. Shen Chi, for example, has a buffer from manipulating the characters in the game to using his own skills. In his last life, it took him nearly a year to fully adapt to or even improve his lightness skill. After two years of having this body, only then he dared to actually use it, as there was no screen to show him the qi value at this point. This level of grasp has to be precise to ensure safety. The Tang men’s lightness skill was itself too easy to fall from a high altitude. One slip would have killed him directly.

But by this time, Shen was already too used to it.

Falling gracefully from mid-air, double jump, landing steadily.

Cheng Pei’s eyes were full of appreciation. He was totally different from Zhang Kaiyi. Zhang Kaiyi was determined to keep a high profile, but Cheng Pei was calm and careful. Perhaps it’s because of his long career as an athlete, and the fact that archery is a sport that requires patience and good mental qualities, Cheng Pei, who is over 40 years old, thinks far more than Zhang Kaiyi.

When Zhang Kaiyi first arrived in Minhang, Shen Chi had already met Cheng Pei.

Their meeting place was still in the Minhang area. Although there were roaming zombies on the road, Cheng Pei was bold and certainly not afraid of them. Beside him stood two tall young men, who were probably good fighters by looking at their bulging muscles.

It was on the second floor of a small teahouse. In the open air, there were a few fairly neatly arranged fake mahogany tables and chairs.

”The plan can start now.” Shen Chi said this as soon as he landed.

Cheng Pei smiled faintly, “Then, tomorrow you and Xiao Liu Mu will be able to go to my Jiading.”

Shen Chi glanced at him, “What about after Minhang gets messy?”

Cheng Pei shrugged. “Take the opportunity to recruit ability users like you and strengthen myself. I have never thought of staying in Shanghai. After the end of the world, Chongming, Baoshan and a large part of Pudong New District were flooded and the sea level rose. I heard from Yuan Xinning there that if someone is bitten by an unknown fish in the sea, he will die the next day. Undoubtedly, some of us humans have begun to evolve, and so are some creatures in the sea. I’m afraid that the sea will become more and more dangerous in the future, and we will have to go inland one day.”

Shen Chi had to say that he was foresighted. Because it was indeed true that as humans began to evolve, so did some animals. Don’t know if it was because of the unique conditions of the sea that creatures in the ocean evolved much faster than those on land. If it was not for the fact that most of them could not go ashore, I’m afraid it would be no less dangerous than that of the zombies.

When Cheng Pei said this, Shen Chi’s heart was moved. If he hunted some evolved creatures in the sea, wouldn’t the crystal nuclei he get to be better? After all, in this early apocalyptic era, it was not too easy to catch a mutated animal in a city like Shanghai.

”Jiang Bo from Songjiang and Gu Hao from Fengxian have bribed most of Zhang Kaiyi’s men. After all, they have to borrow from Minhang every time they go ‘hunting’ in the city, which is not a very pleasant experience. You know, Zhang Kaiyi is not a generous person.” Shen Chi said indifferently, “I’ve seen it. Among Zhang Kaiyi’s people, there are only two people you can recruit. One is Zhao Qing, nicknamed ‘Cook’. Although he is not an ability user, but he has good courage, and his knife skills are very accurate. Most importantly, his cooking is delicious.”

Cheng Pei laughed, “What else?”

”There’s also a woman, Zhou Weiling. Originally just a working girl, but better in strength, willing to work hard, has few ideas, is obedient, and most importantly, she is about to awaken her ability.”

Only then did Cheng Pei become interested. His seated body could not help but lean forward. “How did you see that?”

How did you see that?

Shen Chi sighed inwardly, does feeling her *blood bar getting longer count? After having this in-game body, there was no game interface in front of his eyes, yet he still had an inexplicable feeling. For example, with the thought of opening the map in his mind, the picture on the map can appear in his mind, and when he looks at a person, he can also roughly know the level of his blood and blue bars. Although there is no specific value, there is a basic grasp.

(T/N: HP)

For example, if his own life value/ health points were 80,000, then the Cheng Pei in front of him was only a little over 5,000, which was already considered good, knowing that most ordinary humans only had a few hundred. That was the difference between an ability user and an ordinary human. Most ordinary zombies have only a few hundred life value/health points, a little higher than that of human beings. However, the evolved B-class zombies have nearly 10000 life value/health points. Even Cheng Pei, the most powerful in Shanghai, cannot deal with a B-rank zombie alone at this point in time. As for Zhang Kaiyi, being a strength type ability user, his life value/health points were not yet as high as Cheng Pei’s. He had only just broken through about four thousand.

The ability users can also gradually improve through the accumulation of time and combat experience. It is much slower than absorbing the crystal nuclei, but it will undoubtedly gradually become stronger. Shen Chi remembers that the last time he saw Cheng Pei, he still had less than five thousand health points. Zhou Weiling was a working girl who originally worked in Minhang, similar to the waitresses they saw in the playground at that time. She was a hard-working girl from the countryside, brave and not afraid of getting dirty. Recently Shen Chi saw that her health points had jumped from 800 to nearly 2,000, so she was probably about to break through her ability. He heard that during the last “hunt” in the city, half of her sisters had died, so maybe she was stimulated by this incident?

”I’m not really sure, I just have this hunch.” Shen Chi said lightly, “Of course, you can also choose not to believe me.”

Cheng Pei laughed heartily, “how can I not believe Xiao Shen’s words! But I heard that Zhang Kaiyi is also good to you-“

Shen Chi laughed mockingly. “Come on, treating me well? The ones he really trusts are always his buddies. Haven’t you heard, Brother Cheng, that he is trying to get me to marry his infamous sister?”