3.17

The life in Duran City after President Ru returned was a lot busier. President Bi He returned the position for President Ru, and he reclaimed his position as Vice President again. Meanwhile, the zombie king was now living in the same tower with President Ru, only on a different floor.

In truth, nobody liked the zombie king. They always saw him as a cold blooded monster, or a grotesque zombie who would devour their brains whenever he wanted to. They often slandered him behind his back, but Ling Kai didn't seem to be bothered.

He only focused his attention solely for Ru Lan. If Ru Lan said yes, then he would nod, if Ru Lan said no, then he would shake his head. He was like an obedient dog for Ru Lan. It should be satisfying for Yunyu, because Ling Kai was now obedient to him.

However, today's expedition was slightly different than what they used to have. Because the scout reported to Ru Lan that there was a behemoth zombie with a glowing head located at the north of the city, it should take them one hour of drive.

Behemoth zombie was a rare zombie mutated from human with excellent physique as a human. It would be at least 15 feet tall or about 450 metres. Usually bulky and would carry weapon such as tree or boulder. It also had amazing durability and strength.

To have a behemoth zombie with glowing head meant that the brain bead would be extremely valuable, Duran City could use it to power the city electricity for two years or more or sell it at extremely high price in other cities.

All in all, if they were able to defeat this behemoth zombie, then it would be a jackpot for Duran City. Thus, they set up on the journey to fight with this behemoth zombie as a full group. Because the mission was dangerous.

"Ru Lan, let me drive you," Bi He offered with a gentle smile on him. He intertwined his finger with Ru Lan's.

"Ru Lan will be with me!" Ling Kai snarled as he separated their hands. He pulled Ru Lan rudely to the car and started the engine. He locked the door, so nobody would dare to enter the car. Everyone could only stare at President Ru's car and they just went with it. The group's cars passed through the zombies as usual.

Ru Lan sighed and patted Ling Kai's head, "Don't get overworked by something like this."

"But, Bi He is dangerous! I don't want you to get hurt by him!" Ling Kai huffed puffed while he was driving the car. He kept saying to Ru Lan that he should drive that guy away from the city, but Ru Lan persisted that Bi He wasn't as dangerous as he said.

"But I can sense that he is dangerous…" Ling Kai kept pressuring Ru Lan. Ling Kai ability could read the mind of most people, but he couldn't read Ru Lan's mind because of the electromagnetic barrier around Ru Lan's brain and he couldn't read Bi He simply because he had a deep thought.

Which made Ling Kai worried the most, if he couldn't read someone's mine because of his crafty way to hide his true intention, then that guy was surely dangerous.

[Honestly, I don't feel comfortable with Bi He too, he is too deep minded.]

[Pupa: Why don't you just kill him then? He is not the master of the world.]

[Are you setting up a trap on me, Pupa? I know that would cause me to get booted out of the world, Ru Lan's character setting forbids me to do such a thing. Ru Lan values Bi He highly.]

[Pupa: Ah, I thought you are still easy to trick, I will get you later.]

[You will never get me!]

The group arrived at the location that had been pinpointed. It was an abandoned village that was swarmed with zombies, and in the middle of the zombie horde, there was a behemoth zombie that was about 17 feet tall with a glowing red skull.

Everyone waited until President Ru came out of the car. Once he was out of the car, everybody followed him, "Go clean the zombie hordes," President Ru commanded.

"Yes, President!"

The people cleared the zombie hordes with their ability powers and made way for President Ru. President Ru walked steadily with Bi He and Ling Kai behind him. Ling Kai quickened his pace, so he could walk side by side with Ru Lan.

"I can defeat that thing in one attack, do you want me to?" Ling Kai offered.

"No, it is my job, stand by my side and protect me if something happened," Ru Lan said.

"I will always protect you!" Ling Kai said obediently, people felt like the zombie king had a tail wagging behind him.

"I will also protect you, Ru Lan…" Bi He said.

Ru Lan ignored Bi He and he stood in front of the behemoth zombie. The behemoth zombie who was idle the whole time finally moved after it detected a powerful ability user. Its eyes darted towards Ling Kai, it tried to avoid the confrontation with the zombie king, but the zombie king forced the behemoth zombie to stay and fight, just like what Ru Lan wanted.

The behemoth zombie roared and smashed the boulder in his hand to the ground. It threw the boulder to Ru Lan and Ru Lan dodged it, "Dong Xu, Ronald, bind him!"

The men called Dong Xu and Ronald used their earth ability together to form an earth grip. The ground beneath the behemoth zombie cracked and the behemoth zombie plunged to the ground up to its knees, then, the ground closed together to trap the behemoth zombie.

Ru Lan stood tall and he placed his index and middle fingers between his eyebrows, he took a deep breath and channelled electricity on to his index and middle fingers, he pointed the fingers on the behemoth zombie's head, aiming to explode the head.

"Take this, Special Beam Cannon!"

The ball of lightning on Ru Lan's fingers turned into a highly concentrated laser and the laser pierced through the behemoth zombie's head. The behemoth zombie's head exploded and it fell to the ground. The fall shook the ground, then President Ru said, "Take the brain bead and let's return."

One person took the shining brain bead from the behemoth zombie's crushed skull, but he felt that there was a hot bullet that hit his arm suddenly, "Argh!" he turned to the source of the attack and he saw around thirty masked men with guns, "The raiders! The raiders are here!" the guy said.

Everyone immediately retreated, trying to save themselves from the raiders. These raiders were people who only looted on people's hard work, even if there would be bloodshed between them.

The ability users were strong, but the raiders were usually very skilled in combat so their ability didn't matter. They immediately forgot about their President who had been weakened after using a powerful attack.

Ling Kai was once again angry at these people who abandoned their president like this, including Bi He who was nowhere to be found. There were thirty raiders in front of Ru Lan and Ling Kai, "Isn't this the famous ability user Ru Lan? Oh, what a fine catch we get here!"

"Indeed, his people might have gotten the behemoth brain bead, but we can use this guy as our hostage. Or at least we can use him to power up our electricity for a lifetime, ahahaha!"

Ru Lan had been weakened, unleashing a powerful attack like before costed him a lot of energy, since Bi He ran away, he couldn't get healed.

Ling Kai gritted his teeth, he was angry and kept holding his anger since then, "Leave before I kill all of you," Ling Kai threatened.

"Who is this guy? Does he really think that he can defeat thirty raiders?"

"Let's just kill him and take the president soon!"

The raiders aimed their gun at Ling Kai and fired many shots at him. Ling Kai grinned and he raised the ground to create a stone wall to block the bullets. A raider with ability charged him with his steel fist to kill him, but Ling Kai tapped the same stone that was used to block the bullets and the stone suddenly shattered into hundreds pieces of sharp pebbles.

"I will kill all of you," that was Ling Kai's last word before the sharp pebbles flew at the raiders at high speed. The raiders were too shocked and they were too late to react before the sharp pebbles pierced their bodies like hundreds of bullets.

Ling Kai spared one guy who was charging at him before. The guy tried to run away, but Ling Kai choked him, "I'm innocent! There is someone from your city who asked us to come here and steal the behemoth zombie's brain bead!"

"Who is that guy?"

"I don't know, he sent a letter! Please spare me, I will give you everything!"

Ling Kai wanted to kill this guy too, but Ru Lan glared at him. Thus, Ling Kai had to release this guy and carried Ru Lan back to the village gate, "It's Bi He," Ling Kai said.

"We don't have any proof," Ru Lan said, "It's fine, we're not harmed."

Ling Kai was angry at Yunyu who kept on protecting Bi He, "Are you really in love with that guy? Even if he abandoned you many times?"

"Ru Lan, why don't you… consider me instead? I will never leave you, I will always protect you!" Ling Kai said, "I… I lov—"

"Ling Kai, you want to know what I feel right now?" Ru Lan interrupted him.

"What.."

"I feel safe with you. I want to keep this feeling around you, as much as I want you to feel safe around me, Ling Kai, you are my most trusted."

[Pupa: Ding! Fatemeter increases to 97%.]

[Pupa: Why did you stop him from confessing?]

[Because I'm not sure how to answer, you see, Ru Lan's setting makes me unable to come up with a good response, and I don't want to risk decreasing the Breakmeter with the wrong response.]

They returned to the village gate, everyone swarmed around President Ru and kept apologizing, "We're sorry, President Ru! We are too shocked! But we know that President Ru can do anything by yourself!"

Bi He's worried voice turned their heads, "Ru Lan, are you hurt somewhere? I—I was going to help you, but others pulled me away!"

"You—" Ling Kai gritted his teeth, he was fed up with this faker.

"All is well, I'm unharmed. Ling Kai protected me. Let's just go now, at least we got the brain bead."

The group entered their respective vehicle, when Bi He entered his car, his gentle face turned ugly.

'There is no other way.'