Chapter 53.2 (1/2)

Chapter 53.2

The apocalypse’s heavenly master poorly versed in the world’s affairs (15.2)

Translated by: Niladri

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Clearly smelling the fragrance of meat, Qin Yi, who had eaten nothing, gobbled up an entire bowl of noodles, looking like a ravenous beast in the eyes of others. Seeing this, some of them fled upstairs in awkwardness. In the end, he heard some people ask doubtfully, “Should we cook a bowl of porridge?”

After having consumed a sufficient amount of food and drink, the two finally had the strength to work. In fact, studying the formation was mainly being done by Qin Yi. Lu Heng was cultivating beside him. The moment he discovered Qin Yi overusing his divine sense, he would snap him out of it.

They spent several days staying indoors. Finally, Qin Yi deciphered the patterns of the formation, which was the first step.

At that time, looking at the engravings on the crystal nucleus, Qin Yi already had a guess in his heart: “This is a formation of energy conversion.”

“The demonic energy being converted into spiritual power?” the conjecture in Lu Heng’s heart was proven to be true.

“I haven’t confirmed anything yet, but it should be something like that.” Qin Yi said.

This discovery, like a thread, connected together everything that happened upto this period. But before Lu Heng could untangle up the mess, there was a knock on the door.

“Brother Yi! Open the door quickly! Things are really bad!”

It was Jiang Sile. As soon as he came in, his face was full of anxiety, and he did not seem to have ulterior motives. He spoke directly, “Yige, I just had a dream. Two days later, the city will be besieged by zombies!”

Qin Yi and Lu Heng were shocked. Although Jiang Sile seemed somewhat different, he wouldn’t lie about it. There was no benefit in lying about it. It must be true.

Qin Yi hurried downstairs and called the people into the room: “Yu Shan, old Qian, go and find out the high-level speed ability users who are staying at the base to go out and scout the situation.”

A few hours later, the speed ability users’ reports were found to be in line with Jiang Sile’s statement. From all directions, a large number of zombies were pouring into the W base, and were expected to reach the area of W base in two days.

The way out in all directions had been cut off by the zombie tide. In addition, there were still a large number of logisticians and ordinary people in this base who were powerless. They could neither rush forward nor retreat backwards.

“Old Qian, Little He, Little Lin, you three go separately to inform the leaders of the three forces. Yu Shan, you go to inform the teams, and try to gather all the ability users in the base.”

Seven days later.

Qin Yi stood on the high tower in the outer wall of the base and watched the endless tide of zombies. Lu Heng stood by with his sword in his hand.

During these seven days, the Jian Dao team suffered heavy losses. Even though practicing cultivation prevented the ability users from being infected, there were still many people who received serious injuries and died. There was too much disparity in strength. The whole base was being defended by Jian Dao squad with some idle teams of ability user. 1

The three big shots who controlled W base left the base ten days ago and were said to have gone in order to attend an important meeting at A base. Qin Yi would be a fool to think it was a coincidence. Someone must be plotting behind this.

In fact, Lu Heng and Qin Yi suspected a person, but during this period, although they were busy studying the formation carved on the inner wall of the crystal nucleus, they did not relax their supervision on Jiang Sile. Jiang Sile had not left the base or even the small building for a long time.

But it was neither the time nor the place to delve into this matter. The most important matter at hand was how to solve the crisis of the zombie siege.

“Jiang Sile told me that he foresaw the reason for the siege of the city.” Qin Yi said, “The Zombie king.”

The Zombie King, an existence beyond the level nine zombies. All along, though, ability users had only known the level nine zombies to be the highest level zombies. But in theory, over such a long period of time, with the rate at which the zombies were evolving, there should be more than nine levels of zombies.

Now, the presumed Zombie king finally appeared, with a zombie army to boot, and the first prey under its fangs was W Base.

“Do you believe him?” Lu Heng asked.

“If we don’t believe him, what else can we do? This is the last way out. `Kill the Zombie king and this zombie army will naturally disperse.`” Qin Yi said, “Even if what he said was false, it’s no problem for me to retreat with an intact body.” 2 I used backtick because I am pretty sure Qin Yi is quoting Jiang Sile’s prophecy 3

“I’ll go with you.”

It was not too late to hand over all the matters concerning the base to Yu Shan, and the two men set out to go to the hiding place of the zombie King mentioned by Jiang Sile.

With Qin Yi’s spiritual strength to explore the way, they tried to avoid the place where the zombies were gathered, but whenever they could not avoid it, they carved a bloody path.

“It’s right ahead. There is a very powerful energy response.” Qin Yi said.