Chapter 58

When the dirt settled, a stream of water suddenly emerged from the youth's hands. He stood in the middle of the bodies, washing his hands clean. The water slowly disappeared, and Qing Yun turned around and skipped past the dumbfounded crowd toward the car.

The child's innocence is gone, and his clear appearance seems to glow in the darkness. An indescribable arrogance crept up Qing Yun's eyebrows, making the hearts of the people watching him walk closer slowly tremble.

At the end of the world, the ability users who have lived until now are sensitive to death. Now, their whole body is shrouded by an overwhelming killing intent, but they do not even dare to lift the weapon in their hands.

Standing behind Qing Yun, Sheng Feng felt that the youth in front of him was unfamiliar. It was as if the child who had been staying by Sheng Feng's side these days had suddenly turned into a powerful and indifferent stranger.

But this strangeness also seems to carry a sense of familiarity imprinted in Sheng Feng's soul. These two feelings intertwined and made Sheng Feng unable to distinguish which he was most familiar with.

"Who are you?"

Sheng Feng's hoarse voice rang out behind Qing Yun, who turned his head to look at him. The corner of his mouth pulled out an icy and mocking curve: "No comment."

The cold words made Sheng Feng instantly clench his fists. He looked into the young man's eyes, which were incomparably empty with only a morbid killing intent and endless dead silence. The attachment and adoration that once filled his eyes seemed to be nothing more than a bubble in Sheng Feng's dream.

Sheng Feng's heart suddenly felt like someone had slashed an opening. Something unseen and untouchable flowed out clean, leaving his heart empty and unsettled.

Now, the youth's eyes are finally colored with what is most needed in the last days.

He no longer has to worry about his Qing Yun being bullied.

But in his heart, there was a vague suspicion emerging. He felt that the youth should not look at him with such cold eyes and that they should not have such a hostile relationship.

Qing Yun did not say anything all the way and just walked straight into the car. Behind him, Ding Shiang and the others did not move. They looked up at Sheng Feng, with hesitation and doubt in their eyes.

Qing Yun's current state indeed gives them the chills. Previously, when he was only five years old mentally, they dared to take him back to the base, but now?

The murderous aura that emerged from this man was not fake. Ding Shiang felt bitter in his heart. He felt that Qing Yun must have retained his previous memories. Otherwise, he could not have been so hostile to the entire team.

A feeling of regret suddenly rose in the hearts of these ability users present. If they had helped Qing Yun when he was being ostracized and bullied, they would have gotten a powerful accomplice now.

Sheng Feng could tell at a glance whether Qing Yun was angry, making a scene, or simply silent. Now, although the young man's aura is unfathomable and his face remains icy cold, Sheng Feng can still keenly feel his inner emotions.

Sheng Feng knew that Qing Yun had a little habit of pinching his index finger with the nail of his thumb whenever he was unhappy or angry. And now, the nails of the youth sitting in the passenger seat were almost sunk into the flesh. So he knew that the young man sitting quietly in the passenger seat right now must have a lot of anger in his heart.

That's right, Qing Yun is now furious.

He did not expect that he was living in such a state these days. When he first came to this world, Qing Yun was furious because of what happened to this body. He was in a bad mood and then found that there was something wrong with this body. He had a mental ability, and Qing Yun's soul raised this ability even higher.

But this is where the accident happened. This body's ability was not awakened on its own but was a product of human experimentation. Therefore, this artificially stimulated ability itself was extremely damaging to the body. Qing Yun's soul directly boosted this body's power, but the physical body's enhancement was slow. This directly led to a near-collapse of this body's brain field, which could not withstand Qing Yun's powerful soul.

Qing Yun's soul nearly left his body. To avoid attracting the Heavenly Dao's attention, Qing Yun could only conform to the state of this body and seal a part of his soul, leaving only the parts that this body's fragile mind could withstand.

But Qing Yun did not expect that his memory would stay when he was five years old. Five years old was just a false age, to be precise, the other day, his mind was only over three years old, and that was the time Qing Yun...least wanted to touch.

His soul slowly transformed this body so that Qing Yun could fully recover his memory. However, this body's abilities are too overpowered. Every time he uses it, it causes significant damage to his brain field. So he cannot maintain this state of adulthood for a long time.

Although the state of five years old made Qing Yun's heart stuffed, this was not the thing that angered him the most.

What made him even angrier was that this world's protagonist was not Lu Changfeng, who had provoked him much, but Sheng Feng.

However, the five-year-old Qing Yun was close to Sheng Feng and had an attachment to him. This emotion was buried in his five-year-old memory, which spanned close to ten thousand years and passed intact to the present Qing Yun's mind.

The Sheng Feng in the memories was even warmer and more nostalgic because of the passage of time and the contrast between Qing Yun's past cold memories.

This nostalgia simply makes Qing Yun want to crush the person to death. Simultaneously, the man's identity makes the storm in Qing Yun's heart roll over even more.

In the last world, he almost became the protagonist's lover. In this world, he became the protagonist. What is the origin of this man?

Seeing that the index finger of the young man beside him almost oozed blood, Sheng Feng couldn't help but hiss out, "Don't pinch any more, if you are angry, come at me."

As soon as Sheng Feng's words fell, he saw the youth beside him suddenly close his eyes. Then, his surrounding aura abruptly transformed, and the childishness that he greatly missed appeared in these eyes again.

"Pigeon!" Qing Yun opened his eyes and immediately turned his head to look for his pigeon.

Hearing his call, the sound of wings flapping outside the car window rang out, and a gray pigeon with a rope falling from its feet flew over.

He tilted his head to grab the pigeon that flew in but suddenly felt his waist hugged by someone fiercely, and then was brought into a warm embrace.

The car faltered and stopped at the side of the road. Inside the vehicle, Qing Yun held his pigeon and turned his head to look blankly at the man who buried his head into his neck.

Feeling Qing Yun's vaguely concerned gaze, the panic in Sheng Feng's heart caused by the youth's cold rejection finally subsided a little. He quietly embraced the child in his arms, reaching out to gently stroke his soft hair. An inexplicable heartache once again rushed to Sheng Feng's heart.

This heartache seeped out from Sheng Feng's soul, and it was so profound that it made his body tremble. The proud and lonely youth, who appeared for only a brief moment, was deeply rooted in Sheng Feng's heart.

He wondered what had happened to make such a soft Qing Yun eventually turn into such a powerful and cold figure?

No one could answer Sheng Feng's question.

Sheng Feng quickly caught up with the team in front of him, and in less than half a day, the group returned to H base.

"Slow down." Sheng Feng helped Qing Yun get off the car. The child sat in the car for a long time, and his feet were a little numb.

Those who followed Sheng Feng back have long avoided Qing Yun, and Lu Changfeng even ran out of sight. Although they did not join the battle, they also did not go far. What happened last night, even if they did not see everything, they also have a little understanding of it. Not to mention that there is a team of ability users with them to clarify the situation.

Qing Yun pulled the pigeon out of the car and received many glances. To be precise, these glances were not projected on him but instead focused on the pigeon flying above his head.

Greedy gazes were instantly cast over, and a few of the homeless people sitting disheveled in the corner even stood up and trembled as they walked over to Qing Yun.

"Get lost!" Sheng Feng's cold and strong gaze swept over like a sharp sword, and his powers were released without hesitation. Several people who moved towards this side instantly tumbled to the ground, curled up, and wailed.

The rest of the people who were watching intently also narrowed their eyes. They knew Sheng Feng because although he had been at H base for only a few days, his strength was much higher than the base's leader, so many people had heard of him.

"Captain, I..." A space ability user in the team came over and released Sheng Feng's share of supplies, "Can I follow you to B City? I can help you with the supplies."

They were only a temporary team, but seeing Sheng Feng and Qing Yun's strength, these people can't help but be moved. In the last days, the strongest are the most important. It would be much better to follow Sheng Feng and Qing Yun than to stay in H base.

This is the result of these people secretly thinking last night. Of course, not everyone has decided, but many people were still moved because the H base situation is not good.

It can be seen by the faces of those new ordinary people in the team that their joy last night has gradually disappeared. The dead silence that is characteristic of the people's faces of the end days has crept up again.

The entire H base is devastated. There are people on the side of the road paralyzed, unknown whether they are dead or alive. Even the faces of the ability users stationed on the base's outskirts do not look good; they are yellow and thin. This is not only because of hunger but also because of the toxins' erosion that the end times spread in the land and water.

The base can only shelter them from zombie attacks. However, it cannot give them a better living environment because the unbridled competition between their kind still exists here.

Each base was established with its own set of laws, but in less than a month, these laws collapsed due to the extreme lack of supplies, and even the upper levels of the base could not restrain their greedy mouths. Under the threat of death, everyone subconsciously seizes supplies. Who is there to uphold such laws?

"Let's talk later." Sheng Feng, who has always been good at talking, answered ambiguously this time. He picked up the supplies and carried them on his shoulders, but then said to the space user, "I have other plans for the team going to B City. I will inform you when I leave."

Speaking of this, Sheng Feng felt funny. He came here to take Lu Changfeng, but now Lu Changfeng is not the most important matter to him.

There was a flash of those cold and arrogant eyes in his mind, and Sheng Feng's breathing faltered.

Shaking off the emotions swirling in his mind, Sheng Feng turned his head, took Qing Yun's hand, and walked towards the base's interior. As he walked, he instructed Qing Yun: "Don't run around here, okay? Stay by my side."

Qing Yun nodded while quietly glancing at the roadside. He saw a man in uniform with a shovel taking the motionless baby in the corner and throwing it outside the fence.

"Don't look." Sheng Feng reached out to cover his eyes and turn his head back.

The zombie virus keeps spreading, and now even ordinary people who have not been touched by zombies have a certain chance of turning into one. And the bodies that died accidentally are unavoidable, so the city will clean up these bodies regularly.

Qing Yun's head did not turn around but stubbornly looked in that direction.

Sheng Feng could feel the child's curly eyelashes sweeping across his palm, then Qing Yun lightly tugged his sleeve, and his tender voice rang out with doubts: "Why are they taking him away? Because he won't move?"

Sheng Feng froze for a moment before it occurred to him that he asked about the motionless baby. Sheng Feng opened his mouth but couldn't make a sound. How was he going to explain to Qing Yun?

The child's low voice rang out again, "I used to be like that. I wouldn't move."

Qing Yun has never talked about his past. Now, these words appeared rashly like a sharp thorn spinning into Sheng Feng's body, stimulating the nerves throughout his body and making him shiver with pain. Sheng Feng reached out and wrapped his arms tightly around the person. He kissed the child's hair and explained in a soft voice: "That uncle took him outside the wall to play, and there was someone outside to catch him."

"Really?" Qing Yun's voice instantly took on a hopeful tone.

"Yes." Sheng Feng gently held the back of the child's head, not allowing him to look up and see his reddened eyes. This was not the first time Sheng Feng had lied, but it was the most difficult one for him.

Sadness emerged in his heart. Why was it in such an era, why did this five-year-old child appear in this devastated era? If it had been a little earlier, Sheng Feng could have shown him all the beautiful mountains and rivers of the world. He could have given him the most privileged and perfect life, instead of the cruelty that can only be adorned with lies like now.

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