Chapter 18

There are two types of formations that Liu Huaizhao knows about. One is the formation that Liu Huaizhao is more familiar with, which is supported by pure energy. This type of formation is usually used by cultivators.

Another type involves arranging flowers, plants, rocks, and wood. These formations are often mazes, disorienting and preventing anyone from traversing them. These formations are often used by exceptionally talented individuals among mortals. He didn't know much about them, but he had heard his master tell a legend about a mortal who used mountains and rivers to create a formation, preserving a small kingdom in troubled times. Whether this was true or not, and who created the formation, remained unknown.

The formation he learned from ancient books was a magic formation. Compared with the formations used by mortals, the magic formation did not require too much effort. The only two requirements were the spiritual power of the person who set up the formation and the subsequent supply of fresh air.

I have discussed with the headquarters before that if we set up a formation, we must include Cong Mountain in the formation.

The final result of their discussion was to create a circular magic circle with the safe city as the center and the Fir Mountain as the radius. Liu Huaizhao was going to see today whether the range could be expanded further.

Unfortunately not.

He looked at the cliff in front of him and told Qin Zunyue with regret.

Qin Zunyue didn't care too much. After all, the larger the magic circle was, the more difficult it would be for them to supply fresh air. As long as they could completely isolate the turbid monsters outside the magic circle, expand the space and redevelop the aquaculture industry, then people would at least be able to be self-sufficient.

Liu Huaizhao sat in the car. After Qin Zunyue took him around according to the simple map drawn by the headquarters, he said, "Let's go back."

"Do you need to leave the city to set up the magic circle?" Qin Zunyue asked.

Liu Huaizhao was opening the biscuit box he had brought out today. Upon hearing this, he shook his head and said, "I will set up the center of the formation inside the safe city, so there is no need to leave the city. It can be completed inside the city."

Qin Zunyue smiled and said, "Sometimes it really feels like a dream. I never thought there really is a way to completely avoid the turbid monster."

"Not completely." Liu Huaizhao bit into the biscuit, "The golden elixir left for them will run out sooner or later. If this matter is not completely resolved before the clear energy is exhausted, it will return to the way it was before."

"How long can those golden elixirs last?"

Liu Huaizhao gave him a time, "Five years."

Qin Zunyue tapped the steering wheel lightly and said, "I believe this matter can be completely resolved within five years."

Liu Huaizhao suddenly laughed and squinted at him, "Where do you get your confidence from?"

"It's my intuition."

Liu Huaizhao didn't refute him, but only said: "It won't take five years. Even if I can't remember the sealing method, it doesn't matter. As long as I kill that person completely and eliminate that heavy and turbid energy, it will be fine."

His tone was arrogant but serious. Qin Zunyue's heart trembled. He didn't pay attention to the stone in front of him and bumped into it heavily.

"Ah!" Liu Huaizhao, who was about to say something harsh, accidentally bit his tongue and cried out in pain.

Qin Zunyue quickly braked, pinched his chin in panic, and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, let me see."

Fortunately, no wounds were caused by the bite. Qin Zunyue breathed a sigh of relief, raised his eyes to look at Liu Huaizhao, and said, "It's nothing, it's me..."

Before he could finish his words, he was stunned.

The two were quite close to each other, allowing him to clearly see the tears in Liu Huaizhao's eyes.

Liu Huaizhao was not a crybaby. No matter he was injured in the fight with the man in black or his wrist was almost broken in Song Mountain, he never shed a tear.

This time, perhaps due to the momentary stimulation, a layer of water misted up physiologically. He felt a little embarrassed and turned his head away. "What's it about you?"

Qin Zunyue also stood up and returned to the driver's seat, pretending not to see it. He cleared his throat and said, "I was careless driving. It's my fault."

"It must be your fault." Liu Huaizhao muttered softly.

"I'll go back and bake you some new cookies. I just learned how to make cookies from Boss Yu."

"Well, okay." Liu Huaizhao reluctantly agreed, and added: "Tell Sister Shu that this is compensation for me and it can't be counted as part of the cookie share."

The ingredients needed to make desserts were too expensive, so Zheng Shu set a limit on the number of desserts that had to be made each month in order to ensure they would not starve to death in the future.

Although their hunting luck had always been good and they rarely returned empty-handed, they could exchange a lot of food for it. However, there were many of them and they all ate a lot, so they consumed food and meat very quickly. In addition, the electricity bill was expensive and was paid with food, so Zheng Shu felt that he had to control it.

But in fact, she didn't control herself too harshly. After all, they were about to leave the safe city, and she just had to make sure they didn't go to collect relief food before leaving.

So after returning to the city, Liu Huaizhao successfully ate the cookies.

Qin Zunyue's cooking is average, but he has some talent in making desserts. Boss Yu once said that if it weren't the end of the world, he would definitely have a prosperous dessert shop.

After Liu Huaizhao finished eating a few biscuits, Qin Zunyue quietly pushed the bicycle out while Ajin was not in the yard, and began to wander around the safe city according to Liu Huaizhao's instructions.

This is to find a suitable place to be the center of the formation.

Following what was written in the book, Liu Huaizhao chanted a spell and drew a talisman with his spiritual power. He then found a vacant lot with no buildings according to the instructions of the talisman.

Qin Zunyue noted the location and took Liu Huaizhao to the command center on his bicycle.

Arranging the eye of the formation is not complicated, and it will not even delay the use of that piece of land. It is just that it will be a bit troublesome to supply the pure air in the golden elixir to the formation, so the command center temporarily cordoned off that place for Liu Huaizhao to operate.

After confirming the location of the array's center, Liu Huaizhao stayed in that place for a few days. It was not until midnight on the fifth day that he returned home when it was late at night and everyone was asleep.

Qin Zunyue had fallen asleep, but when he heard a knock on the window, he immediately sat up.

Outside the window, Liu Huaizhao, dressed in white, was floating outside the window.

In fact, he could have gone straight back to his room, but for some reason, he wanted to see Qin Zunyue right now.

The moment he knocked on the window, he realized how rude and ridiculous his behavior was.

But Qin Zunyue quickly came over and opened the window for him.

"I'm sorry to bother you so late." Liu Huaizhao said apologetically.

"It's okay." Qin Zunyue pointed to the stool beside the table and motioned him to sit down. "Is the core of the formation completed?"

Liu Huaizhao nodded and said to him excitedly, "This is my first time setting up an unfamiliar formation. In the past, my master taught me how to set up formations, but this time I made it myself by just looking at the book! Tomorrow, come with me to confirm the edges of the formation."

Qin Zunyue nodded and said, "Okay."

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The next morning, Qin Zunyue was pulled up by the excited Liu Huaizhao. After a simple meal, the two went to the headquarters to tell Yan Ming about the plan for the day. Unexpectedly, Yan Ming put down the pen in his hand and said to them, "I want to go too."

So they drove a car, Yan Ming, Dean Xu and two other senior executives drove another car, and they drove out of the city together and headed straight for the edge of the magic circle that had been planned before.

Before he got there, Liu Huaizhao suddenly shouted, "Look!"

Qin Zunyue looked into the distance and saw a faint golden light in the distance.

After getting off the car, Qin Zunyue looked at the golden light emerging from the ground and the bright light that occasionally flashed in the sky, and exclaimed in amazement.

The others were even more surprised than him, especially the two senior executives. They only knew that Liu Huaizhao had a special identity, but had never seen him use magic with their own eyes. They were so surprised that they could hardly close their mouths.

But after all, they had both survived the apocalypse and had seen things that defied common sense, so they quickly calmed down. One of them asked, "Did they make a cover to cover it?"

Liu Huaizhao answered him, "Yes, you can say that."

In fact, this is similar to the principle of building the safe city. It’s just that they worked very hard to build the safe city which doesn’t cover a large area, while Liu Huaizhao can complete it in a few days.

and--

Liu Huaizhao placed his hand over the edge of the protective shield, and then they saw the top layer of the shield light up slightly. Qin Zunyue was about to speak when he heard Liu Huaizhao say, "In this way, there will be no more turbid monsters in the magic circle, and no more turbid monsters will enter."

Several people were filled with emotion. These monsters made them lose their peaceful lives, their relatives and friends, and now they just disappeared from their lives.

"Then where is the man in black?" Yan Ming asked, calming himself down.

"After the magic circle is completed, I can sense all things with spiritual power within the circle. There is no trace of him here now, don't worry." In fact, he knew before the magic circle was completed that the man in black was probably not nearby. He was very familiar with the man's spiritual power when the two of them were fighting. When Qin Zunyue took him to confirm the range of the magic circle before, he used his spiritual power to explore it and did not detect his spiritual power.

After the magic circle was completed, he became more certain and felt relieved.

The few of them circled around the golden light on the ground again. After Liu Huaizhao confirmed that there was no problem, they returned to the safe city.

What happens after that has nothing to do with Liu Huaizhao. He just needs to wait until the institute has completed the production of all the vaccines and the command center will issue a notice.

Half a month later, when Qin Zunyue took Ajin to play on the slide, he saw a group of people gathered in front of the bulletin board. Qin Zunyue understood that the vaccines had probably been produced.

Qin Zunyue braked his bicycle and stopped behind the crowd, then called out to the man in front of him who was standing with his feet raised and looking forward.

"Gao Yun!"

The man turned around, gave Qin Zunyue a simple smile, and then walked towards him.

"Old Qin! You came to read the announcement too. This is..." He looked at A Jin, and after two seconds, he looked as if he had suddenly realized something. "When did you get a daughter? Why didn't Uncle Wang tell you about it?"

"......This isn't my daughter." He didn't expect him to bring this up. Qin Zunyue didn't know how to explain it, so he could only say, "I found her on the road while hunting."

"Oh, I see." Gao Yun didn't think much about it.

Qin Zunyue asked, "Is your brother feeling better?"

"Alright, alright." Gao Yunyou smiled. "Please thank Master Liu for me. He woke up not long after you left that day."

"That's good." Qin Zunyue raised his chin towards the bulletin board and asked, "Why are there so many people?"

"The research institute said they've developed a new vaccine and are informing everyone to go to the hospital to get vaccinated starting tomorrow."

"Do you know what vaccine it is?"

Gao Yun scratched his head and said, "I didn't look closely, but it looks like something to prevent infectious diseases."

Sure enough, even after ensuring that the man in black could not enter the formation, the command center prudently chose to conceal it, so as to prevent that man from causing a riot through the people who had the turbid air in their bodies. The most appropriate solution was to allow the turbid air to be suppressed unknowingly.

But things did not go as smoothly as they expected. They counted the people who were sent to the hospital due to coma during that period and arranged their injection time for the earliest batch. After successfully vaccinating everyone, Yan Ming saw the guard stumbling towards her before she could feel completely relieved.

"Sir, the shelter... the shelter is full of foul monsters. Master Liu has already gone there!!"