Chapter 052 – This Tragic End of the World: A Gentle Little Submissive – “Bro, can you lend me a cigarette?” (02/09)
Suddenly a man rolled down from upstairs, letting out a pained cry.
You Huang: “That’s Sun Xu.”
Xie Chenyang averted his eyes; his gaze swept around and paused on a person.
He was a black-haired young man, and it wasn’t clear whether it was because it was difficult to trim hair these last days, or whether he had intentionally left it long, but his hair fell over his shoulders and was tied into a loose braid that rested across his right shoulder and down his chest.
His features appeared steely, his gaze impassive. He held a cigarette with his head slightly tilted back.
Noticing Xie Chenyang’s stare, he coldly returned his gaze.
Apart from them who were staring at each other, everyone else’s eyes were attracted by Sun Xu’s tumble.
Some of the kinder ones even went over to pull him up.
Sun Xu saw Xie Chenyang first, and his eyes were filled with delight and love.
Xie Chenyang wrapped himself around the braided youth with a cheeky grin. “Brother, can I borrow a smoke?”
With the arrival of the end of the world, people were exhausted due to running for their lives, and manufacturing had come to a halt.
Cigarettes weren’t easily obtained.
You Huang: “How did you recognize him?”
[One look and I knew, ah.]
You Huang: “…… ” It seems that as they traveled through more and more worlds, their divine souls have grown more deeply entwined
The youth reached out to pinch his cigarette and coldly exhaled a mouthful of smoke without responding.
Xie Chenyang moved closer to him. “Let me borrow just one.”
The youth: “……”
He took out his cigarette case and opened it before handing it over.
Xie Chenyang nonchalantly took one out, put it in his mouth, and mumbled, “By the way, could I borrow a light?”
The youth stuffed his cigarette case back into his pocket and took out his lighter, handing it to him.
Xie Chenyang didn’t take it, but instead narrowed his eyes slightly and leaned forward.
The youth looked into his amorous and seductive eyes, his glare slightly cold, and gave him some spark.
“Thank you.” Xie Chenyang’s curiosity overtook him. “What’s your name?”
You Huang: “…… ” No matter how many times it happens, he still feels that Xie Chenyang is too direct.
The young man dropped his burnt-out cigarette, crushing it out under his boot, and his voice lazily sounded cold. “Yue Qing.”
“Which Yue, which Qing?”
Yue Qing took out his ID card from his pocket and stuffed it expressionlessly into the small chest pocket of Xie Chenyang’s shirt.
With half of it still peeking out.
Xie Chenyang pulled it out, looking at Yue Qing’s more youthful face on it, dumbfounded. “I thought I was getting a bank card.”
Yue Qing: “……”
Sun Xu, who realized that Xie Chenyang had been ignoring him the whole time, felt a trace of embarrassment cross his heart.
Sun Xu thanked the person who helped him up, straightened his clothes and walked towards Xie Chenyang. “Ah-Chen ……”
A look of deep affection.
Xie Chenyang impatiently turned his head back. “Who are you?”
Sun Xu was confused, then remembered that when he had broken up with Xie Chenyang in H City, he had said that they should just pretend that they had never known each other.
While cursing himself for being too desperate and not leaving a way back, Sun Xu smiled bitterly. “I know you blame me, but you don’t understand. I have a grim reason for all of it, and my love for you has always…… remained the same.”
“Oi, oi,” Xie Chenyang impatiently interrupted him. “Although there are a lot of people who like to fall for someone strong nowadays, you should forget about it. Don’t disgust me.”
“Ah-Chen.” Sun Xu looked stricken. ”Don’t you believe me? In the beginning, please listen to my explanation……”
Xie Chenyang flicked his hand.
An invisible space enveloped Sun Xu, isolating a portion of his connection to reality.
People could still see him, but they couldn’t hear him anymore.
Sun Xu’s face changed and he raised his feet to leave, but he found that he was blocked by an invisible wall of air.
He slapped the air wall, looking anxious, his mouth opening and closing, incessantly saying something.
Xie Chenyang did not even look at him and extinguished his cigarette before extending his hand towards Yue Qing. “Hello, my name is He Chen. You can call me Ah-Chen. Brother Chen……is also fine.”
[It is best to call me husband though.]
You Huang: “If you have the ability to say it, then say it, ah.”
Yue Qing was silent for a while before reaching out to grasp his hand.
“Your hand is so icy.” Xie Chenyang held his hand back and rubbed it twice. “Are you cold?”
Yue Qing: “……” He was right.
This person was seducing him with his eyes when he was asking for a cigarette, and now he was just going straight for it.
He drew back his hand expressionlessly.
Xie Chenyang, with a regretful face, raised his hand and took out a trench coat from his space. With a gentle movement, he draped it over Yue Qing.
You Huang: “Sending you a reminder: even if you give him a down jacket, his hands will still be cold.”
[?]
You Huang: “He is a zombie; his body has no temperature and no heartbeat. However, he hasn’t touched flesh nor blood, so there isn’t a trace of decay on his body, and his appearance looks no different from a normal person.”
[How did he become a zombie?!]
You Huang: “Of course he was infected, ah.”
[There is no warmth …… then, then the inside is also cool?]
You Huang: “?”
After Xie Chenyang gave him a cloak, a hand couldn’t help but slide underneath, lingering around the base of his waist, and pinched his supple yet taut buttocks. [Is it also cool in here?]
You Huang: “……” I want to sever this father-son relationship.
Yue Qing’s body stiffened, grabbed hold of his licentious hand, and pinched it hard, his voice chilly. “Don’t be so flirty.”
Xie Chenyang: “Gently, my bones are going to break.”
Yue Qing threw away his hand with a cold face, his eyes dark.
This man was really bold!
Seducing someone so blatantly!
The others clustered together and whispered.
“That Spatial Esper–that’s He Chen, the captain of the Star Team, isn’t it?”
“It’s him.”
“I didn’t expect him to take on this mission as well.”
“Then are we going to be saved?”
They sent one of them forward as a representative. “Excuse me, are you Captain He, He Chen?”
Xie Chenyang: “Yes.”
“I’ve heard that you’re already a level 5 esper. Do you have a plan for that mutated plant outside that’s enclosed the entire mall?” The representative sincerely spoke. “As long as you can guide us to escape, we’ll pay you.”
Xie Chenyang looked towards the tree branch on the glass door outside. “That mutant plant is also level five.”
Just then, the mutant plant that had been only enclosing them and not attacking suddenly stretched out a branch and directly broke the glass door open.
The espers retreated behind Xie Chenyang and Yue Qing.
“Captain He Chen, we are at your command!”
“I’m a fire type.”
“I am …….”
One by one, they reported their psychic abilities and spoke in unison, “We’ll all listen to you!”
They didn’t have very high levels of abilities, and now that they were trapped here, they could only pin their hopes on Xie Chenyang, who was at the same level as the mutated plant.
Xie Chenyang:”……”
The mutant plant moved brutally and broke the entire glass door, but instead of attacking, it herded in a whole bunch of zombies from the surrounding area.
Xie Chenyang waved his hand and unlocked Sun Xu’s spatial restriction.
The reason why Sun Xu was able to save He Chen’s life in the original storyline was because He Chen had fought with the mutated plant before entering the shopping mall, which had consumed most of his powers.
After being forced into this mall by it, he had been trying to recover his powers.
But even though he had crystals in his space to recover his ability, the rate of absorption was too slow.
Therefore, after the mutant plant set free a steady stream of zombies to consume them, Sun Xu had calculated the opportunity to seemingly save him with his life, but in fact, he was able to ensure that he could finish off those few zombies.
Because Sun Xu stayed in front of him, he had been able to focus and preserve enough of his ability.
Space system crystal cores were very rare. He Chen had been using the comparatively more mild wood type crystal cores to recover before.
Because of the different alignments, although the wood type could be absorbed by any person of any alignment to recover somewhat, it was minimal.
Moreover, He Chen’s space did not have any space-type crystal cores.
But Sun Xu had a few.
He gave the crystal cores to He Chen, on one hand letting him recover his psychic abilities without worry, and on the other hand, sparing no effort to protect him from being disturbed.
In the end, He Chen, who had recovered half of his powers, directly rushed out to engage the mutant plant.
He was also extremely lucky to find its weaknesses and managed to vanquish it with a lot of effort.
Without the mutated plant, the zombies no longer entered like a continuous stream. They broke out and managed to get away.
After Sun Xu was released, he realized that Xie Chenyang had not forgiven him that easily, and without complaining about being locked up just now, he directly took out a few space system crystals.
“Ah-Chen, I know you’ve consumed too much of your powers and are a bit exhausted. Please use this to recover and let’s stop these zombies.”
Xie Chenyang nonchalantly accepted the crystal cores, absorbing them much faster than He Chen.
The espers behind him glanced at each other and reached an agreement, rushing out to take on those zombies.
These zombies consisted of level 1, 2, and 3s, but there were no level 4 or 5s, so they could still handle them.
Sun Xu stood in front of Xie Chenyang and shouted, “You guys stop the zombies! I’ll protect Ah-Chen. When he recovers his psychic abilities, he’ll definitely be able to bring us out!”
At the same time, Sun Xu’s teammates who were originally on the second floor heard the commotion and came downstairs.
The one who was currently voted as the new captain was the one who once had an affair with Sun Xu in H City and later got together with him.
His name was Li Chengan.
When Li Chengan saw Sun Xu guarding He Chen’s figure, he smiled brightly. ”Aiya, Brother Sun, you’re hoping to return to old pastures, ah? I just don’t know if Captain He Chen still has eyes for a little loser like you now.”
Sun Xu’s gaze turned cold. “Li Chengan, you betrayed me and united our teammates to rebel against me. What qualifications do you have to call me a loser?”
“Haha.” Li Chengan scoffed. “You abandoned Captain He when he didn’t have any special abilities. You don’t think that now that he’s so powerful he’d forgive you and then take you as a rebound, right?”
Xie Chenyang finished absorbing the crystals and glanced at Li Chengan as he grimaced at his words.
In the original plot, there was also something like that.
Li Chengan had wanted to remind He Chen how he’d once been abandoned by Sun Xu. But he never expected that He Chen would forgive him.
Later, after He Chen and Sun Xu got back together, he also helped him to take revenge on Li Chengan and those who “betrayed” him.
Sun Xu said angrily, “What do you know? I never gave up Ah-Chen, it was for the sake of……”.
Before he finished speaking, he was kicked into the pile of zombies from behind.
Sun Xu was horrified, immediately scrambled to his feet, and sent a few zombies flying.
While solving the zombies, he said, “Ah-Chen, don’t listen to his nonsense! Please give me a chance to explain!”
Li Chengan was happy. “That’s not what you said when you were fucking me, Brother Sun.”
“You shut up!”
“Why should I shut up? Even when you were with me, you still didn’t forget to flirt with other people, dreaming of having lovers left and right. If it wasn’t for the fact that you hadn’t been able to grow in your abilities before you hurriedly tried to consolidate your position, I’m afraid that not everyone you’ve slept with would be……”
“Shut up!”
Xie Chenyang was too lazy to care about them and directly rushed out to fight the mutant plant.
Armed with the original plot and knowing its weaknesses, Xie Chenyang took care of it without much effort.
The greenery that surrounded the mall retreated, and the originally dim mall brightened up.
Everyone fought the zombies with more vigor.
“He Chen has taken out the big guy outside, charge! After we finish these zombies, we’ll be able to leave!”
Xie Chenyang re-entered the mall and said to Yue Qing, who hadn’t made a move, “I have a car, shall we go back to S City together?”
“No–” need.
Xie Chenyang didn’t want to listen to him refuse, stepped forward, and took his hand, leaving a barrier around the two of them and heading out.
The zombies appeared as if they couldn’t detect them and turned a blind eye.
Yue Qing felt Xie Chenyang’s warm hand and frowned slightly.
Instead, he couldn’t shake it loose.
Sun Xu was agitated and tried to calm down. Don’t panic. He Chen was just angry. , He’d find a chance to explain when they get back……
Li Chengan: “Yo, Brother Sun, looks like Captain He has a new love. I’m afraid he can’t be bothered to look at you, right?”
“Li Chengnan, I won’t let you off!”
“Wrong, it’s me who won’t let you go.”
Xie Chenyang brought Yue Qing into his SUV and smiled as he fastened his seatbelt. “Don’t worry, my driving skills are solid.”
Yue Qing looked indifferent. “I know you want to seduce me.”
Yue Qing: “I advise you to give up early, otherwise, you will die.”
He was a zombie.
If this person in front of him really dared to have anything to do with him, he was afraid that he would turn into a zombie as well.
Xie Chenyang started the car, hooked his lips and smiled with affection. “To die under the peony flower, and become a ghost is also romantic.”[mfn]Dying for love between a man and a woman was considered a romantic affair. Yuan Dynasty : Zhu Lianxiu’s “Zheng Gong: Drunk Xi Shi”: “If I could come back, we could walk together and stay together. Even if I died under the peony flowers, I would still be a romantic ghost.” — Baidu[/mfn]
Edit: Krone
Proofread: Choux_choux
