Chapter 816 The Past
Qin Jin looked dazed, "Is this what the phoenix...is called?"
He almost wrote "I have little education, don't lie to me" on his face. Ning Yuan laughed and whispered something in his ear. Qin Jin also laughed, and Lu Weiyi's face became darker.
"Go play." Zhuang Mingxu pinched Lu Weiyi's neck and signaled him to find the phoenix that was circling the giant wolf.
Over there, the phoenix was circling around the giant wolf like a curious baby. The little monkey couldn't see it, but it seemed to sense that some dangerous creature was nearby. It stopped picking up things and stepping on the water, and turned around anxiously, roaring from time to time.
Lu Weiyi didn't move until Qin Jin spoke, "Go, nothing will happen."
He looked at the other person seriously, nodded, and ran towards the beach. When the little monkey saw him coming, it immediately came up to stop him, and kept making sounds to try to make him understand the danger nearby. It was not until Lu Weiyi told him in his mind that everything was fine that he calmed down. Even so, the animal still remained alert.
Lu Weiyi was as curious about the giant wolf as the phoenix. After a while, he acted as if nothing had happened and then moved closer. He even reached out to touch the energy flame on the giant wolf's body. He didn't feel any temperature, but he was very curious.
Although Zhuang Mingxu was talking to Qin Jin, his eyes kept glancing towards the beach from time to time.
"Why are you still the same? Can you run away?" Qin Jin laughed at him.
"Tsk, he has to be watched closely now. There are more people willing to cling to the young master than those willing to be with him." Ning Yuan continued to adjust the display screen, hoping to see more clearly.
"You've volunteered to stay, why are you still worried?" Qin Jin looked at Zhuang Mingxu and sighed, "You've finally made it through."
“After all the hardship comes happiness”, Ning Yuan commented.
Zhuang Mingxu just smiled and said nothing. Seeing that he was having fun, he asked about the business, "Why did you come here in such a big way? Is there something you want to discuss?"
The topic changed so quickly that Qin Jin and Ning Yuan didn't react. However, Zhuang Mingxu seemed not to notice and said half-jokingly but seriously, "Xiaoyi is immature in the way he deals with people. If you tell him directly, he will be unhappy and will really get angry."
Qin Jin lowered his head as if thinking, and reached out to an inconspicuous zombie behind him. The man respectfully handed him a box of cigarettes. He took out one and handed the rest to the two men.
Fingertips brushed across and the cigarette lit.
Ning Yuan curled his lips, took out a lighter from the space, and handed it to Zhuang Mingxu.
The three of them gathered together to smoke like they did in the army. No one spoke. After puffing away for a long time, Qin Jin finally spoke, "That child..."
Zhuang Mingxu looked up at him, his calm eyes showing a thorough understanding of everything. He asked, "Aren't you going to ask the child's father?"
He said this tentatively, and also to determine how much Qin Jin knew about Qin Nian's identity.
Qin Jin seemed not to have expected him to say this. He was stunned for a moment and then smiled, "Yin Jin will definitely have a good life in your base. He is capable, and I know what kind of people you are..."
Zhuang Mingxu let him talk, and his eyes gradually showed a kind of sadness, which made Qin Jin unable to continue speaking.
Ning Yuan hadn't realized what was happening yet, and there was a rare silly look on his face.
Just at this time, the people who were digging the basement told them that it was completed, and Ning Yuan immediately called the two of them to go over.
The temporary basement is similar to a patio, and its area and environment cannot be compared with the previous dungeon.
But no one complained. Qin Jin had someone connect a solar lamp, and it immediately looked like a real thing.
Not long after the three of them went downstairs, Xu Sa arranged a table of food, including barbecue and stir-fried dishes, but how to eat it became a problem.
No one had ever tried to see if they would be infected by eating at the same table with zombies, so Qin Jin became cautious and, for safety's sake, simply divided the food into two portions.
"Can you... digest it?" Ning Yuan asked only after he had opened the bottle of wine.
"Yes, I can eat it raw or cooked, and it's easy to digest." Qin Jin amused himself, but found that his two friends were looking at him with distressed faces, which made him speechless.
"Don't look at me like that. I have already accepted my current identity and I think it's not bad. Although I'm not paranoid enough to think I'm superior to others, I do have fewer things to worry about," Qin Jin said frankly.
As a high-level zombie, zombies lower than his level are afraid of him, and mutated animals have no interest in him. If his thoughts as a human being had not made him worry about the impact of today's radiation on zombies, he would not have built his residence underground.
"Indeed, it's much better than my situation." Zhuang Mingxu took off the innermost one-piece anti-radiation suit, revealing the wet clothes underneath.
Ning Yuan handed him a towel, and Qin Jin took off a set of clothes, and he finally looked like a human being.
After a lot of trouble, they were finally able to sit down peacefully. Ning Yuan took the lead in pouring a glass of wine for everyone, drank it all in one gulp and sighed, "It would be great if Wu Yue was here."
"I asked my subordinates to look for it, it should be quick," Qin Jin said.
"Can you command all the zombies? Other bases have said before that you are already the Zombie King." Ning Yuan didn't think there was anything inappropriate about this at all, and was even excited about the title.
This simple and purposeless inquiry did not make Qin Jin feel much repulsive. "No, some zombies that have completely lost consciousness are just instinctively afraid. Those that can be commanded have some consciousness."
"Are there many conscious zombies?" Ning Yuan and Zhuang Mingxu asked in unison.
"I can't say a lot, but very few," Qin Jin pointed at the few people following behind him, "I only saw them after traveling to several cities."
"It's too lonely to be alone. I used many methods to make them the same as ordinary people." Only then did Qin Jin reveal a trace of loneliness. It was the loneliness of finding that he had finally returned to normal, and found that there was no one like him around.
"Why don't you come to us directly?" After a few drinks, Ning Yuan's eyes were filled with tears again.
"I only have sporadic memories of that time. I just remember that I had to..."
Qin Jin didn't continue, and Zhuang Mingxu supplemented for him, "I only remember going to find Yin Jin, so why?" But he didn't ask any more questions afterwards.
Not knowing if alcohol also has an effect on zombies, Qin Jin sighed, "I have recovered my memory now, but it is still like a fog. There is a layer of separation. I know rationally that it is my past, but I cannot resonate with it emotionally."
Ning Yuan was dumbfounded, looking a little dazed, "Then...then you..."
He didn't know what to say, and it seemed like nothing he said would be right.
Zhuang Mingxu directly hit the nail on the head, "Yin Jin knows the news you brought."
Qin Jin, who said he couldn't resonate, dropped the wine glass in his hand on the table with a clang. His cheeks twitched uncontrollably and the aura around him instantly became sharp. The zombies that were waiting for him shrank back two steps away from him.
Ning Yuan looked around and finally could only persuade Qin Jin, "You'd better be careful. He is a highly vulnerable person now. Lu Weiyi can't stand anyone saying anything to him. If he gets hurt here, you know his values... Don't cause trouble for your uncle, aunt and those two people."
Zhuang Mingxu was amused by his words and said in a sweet and cocky tone, "It's not that exaggerated. Xiaoyi never vents his anger on others."
Ning Yuan pursed his lips and did not argue.
Qin Jin had also controlled his emotions and said sorry, then he heard Zhuang Mingxu continue without caring about his life or death, "Tell me the truth, if you really don't have any feelings for them, then don't delay Yin Jin."
"It's not easy for him to survive in the laboratory protecting the child alone. It just so happens that a person with superpowers has found out about me and is quite interested in him. I have been dragging it on because of you. Now if you think it's over, I can't stop you."
Qin Jin couldn't hold back this time. His nails grew at a speed visible to the naked eye and he directly broke the chopsticks. His teeth chattered as if it was a conditioned reflex, and his pupils, which were as thin as needle tips, trembled violently like a wild beast.
Ning Yuan quickly pulled Zhuang Mingxu and whispered, "Please behave yourself, ancestor."
At least when Qin Jin lost control, he still had his superpowers and was able to fight back. But the guy next to him was a fragile person and had no self-awareness at all.
Zhuang Mingxu turned his head to meet Qin Jin's eyes, "Qin Jin, you have to give an answer. You can't just keep wasting time. When your uncle and aunt knew you were still alive, they had been waiting for you, but you haven't looked for them once in all this time."
"Do you know how Yin Jin survived?"
"He was stripped naked and placed on the experimental table, a man with a big belly, being observed without dignity because his crystal core was dug out and he no longer had superpowers. But his child happened to be a spiritual child and needed spiritual nourishment during the embryonic period. He almost knelt down and begged people to save the child."
"How can you just say that you can't empathize with them and offset what they've gone through?" Zhuang Mingxu was heartbroken.
Amidst the accusations, Qin Jin gradually calmed down. He drank the glass of wine in front of him and said, "Give me some time."
"Okay, but don't go to see them before you think it through. I'm Qin Jin's brother, and I have to protect these remaining relatives of his from harm," Zhuang Mingxu said calmly and unkindly.
These words seemed to be saying that the Qin Jin at this moment was not the Qin Jin they knew. Ning Yuan was a little dumbfounded, and Qin Jin fell visibly silent.
As Ning Yuan became more drunk, the atmosphere became heated again and both sides talked about each other's experiences after the apocalypse.
As for the two "public figures" Zhuang Mingxu and Ning Yuan, their experiences have become transparent, and the focus is on Qin Jin.
He and Yin Jin met unexpectedly after the end of the world. Living in troubled times, their feelings for each other quickly heated up and they confirmed their relationship within a few days. Qin Jin's awakened fire ability also ensured their lives, and not long after that, Yin Jin awakened his spiritual ability, making life even easier.
However, on their way to find Qin's father and mother, they were captured by Zhuang Mobai's men and taken to the laboratory.
After some operations, Qin Jin lost his superpowers and turned into a zombie.
"He knew me, and probably for your sake, he didn't kill me outright, but had someone take me away from Kyoto." Recalling the past, Qin Jin couldn't help but sneer.
"Before I died, I learned that Ajin was pregnant. That was my last obsession. I wanted to live to save them. But as the zombie energy invaded my body, I could remember less and less, and only fragments emerged every day."
"Relying on these fragments, I traveled to many cities. As my level increased, I could remember more and more things. I knew that I had important things left in the Kyoto base, so I led the zombie army to besiege Kyoto again and again."
"Until the last siege of Kyoto, I was seriously injured and thought I was going to die." Qin Jin paused and did not describe how he managed to survive. "After I recovered, my memory was completely restored, but... I couldn't understand it, like a puzzle that couldn't be put together."
"Then he took... Nian Nian away. Lu Weiyi created an illusion for me, which allowed my memories to merge together, and only then did I completely return to normal."
In the past six years, all they had said to each other were just a few short sentences like these, which made both of them sigh.
"We didn't believe you were dead and have been looking for you," Ning Yuan choked.
"I know. I've seen the bounty information for missing persons from various bases, and none of them has a higher reward than mine," Qin Jin boasted, "I'm quite valuable."
"Of course, no matter who we are, we are the strongest base, so we have to be well-prepared."
"Haha, it's indeed enough."
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