Chapter 128 Extra 1·07
"Listen! Listen! Is this what a human being says?" Ji Wang struggled to avoid Amanda's rough, feline tongue. Looking at Shi Ting's calm expression, he complained to the system, "He even said thank you!"
"Is there any problem?" The Doomsday Survival System asked happily.
"...I knew I shouldn't have complained to you."
Even though Amanda was a very clean cat, with someone to groom her, Ji Wang could still smell the unique, furry scent of an animal. Furthermore, the thick fur made it difficult to breathe, so even though he felt awkward, he could only reluctantly turn his head towards Shi Ting, avoiding Amanda's fluffy tail.
Shi Ting was very gentlemanly. After helping Ji Wang to steady himself, he let go of his hand and put both arms on Amanda's huge tail. He looked at the person in his arms very quietly, letting Amanda act coquettishly and rub her head against him.
"I'm sorry." After a long while, Shi Ting finally spoke. His voice was low and inexplicably reminded Ji Wang of the timbre of a cello. "Amanda is like that. She always uses her tail to wrap around the people she likes. Xi Lun was also wrapped around by it before."
"But it's not like us." Shi Ting paused and added.
...Of course we can't do it like us, brother, otherwise what will happen?
Even so, Ji Wang could only complain silently in his heart, not daring to speak aloud. He quickly waved his hand, indicating that he didn't mind the blunder. "It's okay. No matter how smart Amanda is, she's still an animal. She can't suppress and control her emotions like humans can."
The wind blew in from the window that was not completely closed, stirring the already solidified air. Ji Wang sniffed unconsciously and realized that the smell of Shi Ting was not the same as he imagined.
It wasn't the scent of smoked cigarettes or tobacco, nor was it the common smell of gunpowder on battle-hardened soldiers. In fact, it was the complete opposite of these extremely strong smells. Shi Ting's scent was light and refreshing, like a field after a rainy day, giving people a feeling of calmness and peace.
This may be related to his thunder ability. After all, the air will become much fresher after being ionized by lightning.
Ji Wang was distracted by random thoughts, trying to divert his attention, while Shi Ting just looked at him quietly.
"You just said that humans are different from animals and that they suppress and control their emotions." After a long moment, Shi Ting suddenly spoke, "Why do you say that?"
Amanda also turned to look at him, her brown eyes twinkling like glass balls, as if she could really understand what people were saying.
Ji Wang was good at laughing and interrupting others, but when Amanda looked at him like that, Ji Wang suddenly didn't want to brush this question off.
"Because people always have no choice but to do many things." Ji Wang said every word seriously.
Shi Ting was silent.
Amanda seemed to realize that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and she stopped clinging to Shi Ting, who didn't respond, and gradually let go of her tail. She jumped aside, licked her paws anxiously, and meowed.
Shi Ting stood quietly in the middle.
"Why do I feel like you've been acting a little strange lately?" Ji Wang finally couldn't help but speak out. "You don't seem like that kind of person. Can't you just say what you want to say? Killing someone is not enough to stop you from doing this. You always keep the topic hanging, talking halfway and hiding the other half. It's like killing someone with a blunt knife. It's very uncomfortable."
"I want to know," Shi Ting took a deep breath, "Why did you say at that time that if I died, you would not live either?"
"I said that?" Ji Wang was shocked.
"Didn't you tell me?" Shi Ting felt a little relieved for some reason, yet also a little melancholy. "When I was injured..."
Ji Wang then remembered what he had said when Shi Ting was being rescued, and hurriedly explained: "You mean that! That's because I was concerned about the legends about bloodlines in Cato City. If anything happened to you, it would definitely be blamed on me, saying that I was unlucky for you. So what I said at the time was, 'If he dies, I can't live either. So if he lives, I live with him; if he dies, I can't live either'..."
In fact, this was not the same as what Shi Ting said. Ji Wang knew that he should explain it clearly, but halfway through, Ji Wang couldn't continue.
Because he saw that the light in Shi Ting's eyes dimmed little by little.
"So, Shi Ting is being so kind to me for the first time in his life. Could it be that he misunderstood my intentions and thought I wanted to marry him?" Ji Wang finally figured it out and asked the system in a panic, "Is that so? How should I respond now?"
"Just pledge your love to him!" said the Doomsday Survival System. "I see you really care about him."
“But this kind of concern…”
Ji Wang was busy arguing with the system in his head and never said a word. Seeing that Ji Wang didn't say anything, Shi Ting didn't say anything either. He lit a cigarette in annoyance.
Amanda obviously didn't like seeing Shi Ting smoking, but she also knew very well that Shi Ting would completely clean up the smell of smoke here, so she didn't really pounce on him to knock out his cigarette, but just meowed in dissatisfaction and turned away.
Ji Wang looked at the free Amanda and felt extremely envious.
At this moment, he really wished he was a cat so he could just meow and walk away, but he couldn't. If he did that, Shi Ting would definitely think he was crazy.
Thinking of this, Ji Wang even asked the system whimsically: "If I really am a psychopath, will Shi Ting give up his thoughts on me?"
"Don't even think about it!" The Doomsday Survival System suddenly became anxious.
Seeing the system's big reaction, Ji Wang immediately realized that something was wrong. He thought that this was not the first or second time he had made such a mistake, so he gritted his teeth and really imitated what Amanda had just done, meowing at Shi Ting.
Shi Ting was stunned for a moment, then tentatively reached out and touched his hair.
Ji Wang: "...Why is this different from what I imagined?"
The Doomsday Survival System calmly analyzed, "He seems to think you're being coquettish."
"Only a fool would act like a spoiled brat at such a strange time!" Ji Wang was horrified. "What is Shi Ting thinking?"
But after touching Ji Wang's hair, Shi Ting's mood seemed to have improved a lot.
"Are you trying to comfort me?" Shi Ting laughed self-deprecatingly, "I'm being sentimental, right?"
Ji Wang knew that as long as he nodded, everything would be over. The mission would definitely fail. Shi Ting was such a proud man, he would never give others the chance to reflect and wake up.
But when he was about to nod his head, he suddenly felt that his cervical vertebrae could not move.
Got a stiff neck?
Ji Wang tentatively shook his head left and right and found that there was no problem. Just as he was about to ask the system what was going on, he saw Shi Ting's eyes light up again.
...No, it's not what you think!
"Is it you who did this?" Ji Wang asked the system anxiously, "It's you who made me shake my head instead of nodding, right?"
Doomsday Survival System: "Hello, the system is busy, please call again later."
Ji Wang: "..."
Seeing that Shi Ting was about to continue speaking, Ji Wang immediately decided that the best strategy was to flee before the system could control him. "I suddenly remembered that someone is waiting for me tonight. I'll be leaving now! See you later!"
After saying that, he slipped away without even daring to look back at Shi Ting's expression.
The Doomsday Survival System said angrily, "I've never seen a host more cowardly than you. What are you afraid of?"
Ji Wang just wanted to run faster and faster, letting the whistling wind fill his ears and drown out the system's chatter.
The Doomsday Survival System was so irritated by him that it became autistic and went offline to do its own thing. When it came back and picked up Ji Wang's signal, it found that he was drunk.
The reason why the celebration is called a celebration is that its core is the carnival of the whole nation. A portion of the traditional brewed wine, which was very rare in this era, was also taken out and provided for all the citizens of Kato City to drink.
Ji Wang usually doesn't drink much, and the original owner of this body was also the kind of person who would drink a lot, so Ji Wang just drank a glass of wine and lived up to everyone's expectations by passing out drunk on the spot.
Coincidentally, Ji Wang really needed to get drunk at this moment, so he drank to drown his sorrows, one cup after another, until he was completely drunk, and then staggered out of the city.
As soon as the Doomsday Survival System came online, it asked him vigilantly: "Where are you going? Aren't you going home?"
Ji Wang was holding an empty bottle of wine in his hand, and he said with infinite sorrow: "I am becoming a monk."
Doomsday Survival System: "...That's not necessary?!"
Ji Wang took another sip of wine and suddenly began to sob: "Brother Tong, I'm so sad."
The Doomsday Survival System decided not to argue with the drunkard and patiently asked, "Why?"
"Shi Ting is so handsome, I'm so angry."
“…”
There may be something wrong with your brain, the Doomsday Survival System thought coldly.
"Brother Tong, you're making me so angry too." Ji Wang stumbled forward, pointing his hand randomly, "You! You're forcing women into prostitution! You! You have bad intentions!"
The Doomsday Survival System naturally couldn't just sit there and take a beating, so it retorted, "You can't tell good from bad."
"You're worthless!"
"You are worth..." The Doomsday Survival System searched the vocabulary and was frustrated to find that there was no four-character idiom beginning with "worth".
"Winner!" Ji Wang jumped up and gave himself a thumbs up.
"Fuck you!"
The Doomsday Survival System felt very depressed about the fact that it, as an AI, lost to a drunk human in the idiom chain game.
Ji Wang walked forward while arguing with the system, and soon arrived at the city gate.
It was late at night. In order to protect the lives of the residents in the city, the city gates were always closed at night. Even if someone knocked on the door, it would not be opened easily. The Doomsday Survival System had just breathed a sigh of relief when it saw Ji slowly bend down and lift a bolt buried in the ground.
Doomsday Survival System: “?”
"Want to stop me?" Ji Wang put his hands on his hips and laughed wildly, "No way!"
Afterwards, under the extremely complicated gazes of the soldiers guarding the city, this distinguished figure who had just been named "God's Messenger" crawled out from the cat hole that Shi Ting had specially left for Amanda when she was a child.
Doomsday Survival System: "...Xi Lun told you so much about Shi Ting's deeds, is this the purpose?!"
Ji Wang ignored the system's complaints and continued to walk forward in a swagger. The ordinary soldiers guarding the city did not dare to ask the whereabouts of the respected envoy of God. They could only watch him walk away and quickly inform the city lord Shi Ting.
The Doomsday Survival System felt extremely exhausted and could only hope that Shi Ting would arrive quickly and capture this monster.
Ji Wang didn't know how far he had walked before he could no longer walk. He found a square-looking concrete space, brushed off the surface soil with his hands, and lay down on it exhausted. He still held the wine bottle in his hand, always adhering to the bottom line of not littering, and looked up at the sky.
The night wind blows gently, blowing away the misty clouds. The clear and bright moonlight shines through the gaps. The moon is bright and the stars are sparse, clean and gentle.
"If I were a human, perhaps I would say that the moonlight is so beautiful tonight." The Doomsday Survival System sighed.
Ji Wang felt the cool breeze and became a little more awake than before. He held a piece of hay in his mouth and asked vaguely, "Do you know what this sentence means?"
"Nonsense." The Doomsday Survival System said unhappily, "I'm not as useless as you. I've been working hard to study human emotions, okay?"
"Human emotions are the most difficult to explain. Even humans themselves don't understand them." Ji Wang coughed twice. "That's why I really don't like the 'tasks' prescribed by your system."
"If I'm not mistaken, once the host's mission is completed, they will quickly leave this world. This means that if I successfully capture Shi Ting, I will leave him with a corpse of natural causes, right?" Ji Wang was silent for a moment, then said, "You are too cruel."
"...But all hosts do this." The Doomsday Survival System suddenly felt a little insecure.
“Just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s right,” Ji Wang said. “They’re not me.”
"So that's why you drank so much tonight?" Seeing that he couldn't convince him, the Doomsday Survival System simply changed the subject.
Ji Wang obviously remembered what the system had taught him before, and immediately replied: "I have the right to remain silent."
"Let me guess," the Doomsday Survival System didn't play dumb with him and asked directly, "Are you in love with Shi Ting?"
This time, Ji Wang was silent for a longer time. After a long while, he said in a voice as soft as a mosquito: "A little bit of affection."
The alcohol started to take effect again, and Ji Wang felt his temples throbbing. His mind buzzed, and all the words that he had been holding back in his heart suddenly rushed to his lips.
"I'm really angry." Ji Wang, under the influence of alcohol, drawled out his words without a care in the world. "If Shi Ting wasn't so handsome—let's say, if he hadn't pointed at me and said, 'Spare my life' when he was almost unconscious, I might... I might not even like him at all."
"If Shi Ting wasn't handsome, wouldn't you save him?" the Doomsday Survival System asked back.
"...I will still save him." It is not Ji Wang's style to watch someone die without helping.
"That's it, isn't it?" the Doomsday Survival System said. "You saved his life. He already had a crush on you, and this incident only deepened his affection for you. During the recuperation period, their relationship gradually warmed during their daily interactions. If you want to blame someone, you can only blame your good looks. How can you blame him for being handsome?"
"You make sense!" Ji Wang didn't refute. Instead, he nodded in appreciation, stretched out his arm, and gave a thumbs up. "Dad thinks so too!"
"...If you don't fight for three days, will you tear off the roof?"
Finally, after Ji Wang begged for mercy and promised not to do it again, the Doomsday Survival System let him go. Ji Wang drank the last half bottle of wine in the bottle and struggled to get up from the ground.
"Although I don't know why Shi Ting hasn't arrived yet, I suggest you return quickly." The Doomsday Survival System resisted the urge to attack its host and said, "You should know that there are a large number of zombies roaming outside Cato City. Although you took the antidote before and won't be infected by the zombie virus, and the zombies won't be attracted to your scent, if you are unlucky enough to run into a group of zombies leaving, I can't guarantee that you won't be torn to pieces by them."
"Then let them come!" If Ji Wang had been able to stay slightly sober just now, now he was completely drunk. He took off his coat, tied it to the bottom of the wine bottle, and holding the bottle mouth with his hand, ran to a high place and swung his clothes like a pendulum, "Shake it!"
The Doomsday Survival System originally watched Ji Wang spinning and jumping non-stop like crazy with indifference, but suddenly realized that something was wrong and shouted in horror: "Wait! Stop!"
But it was too late.
At this time, Ji Wang was standing at the highest point of the plain outside the city of Cato, holding a bottle of wine. Like the dancing zombie in a certain Plants and Zombies game, he raised his hand and pointed upwards, and the wind around him suddenly became still for a moment.
Then, as if an earthquake, a rumbling sound like an ancient oracle came from afar. The ground cracked, and giant trees tens of meters high fell down and were swallowed up without a trace in an instant. The center of all the drastic changes gathered at Ji Wang's feet, like the singularity of the Big Bang, radiating explosive power outward.
"Run!" the Doomsday Survival System shouted, "There's a tomb under your feet! A tomb of the ancient Chinese—"
Ji Wang was completely frightened and woke up at this time. He wanted to run, but found that he could not move. A withered black hand suddenly broke through the concrete ground under his feet, grabbed his ankle and tried to drag him underground.
"Fuck!" Ji Wang couldn't help but curse. He picked up the bottle and swung it at the withered hand. However, the hand seemed to feel no pain at all and just held him tightly.
As he watched in horror, the withered hand seemed to have absorbed energy from him that could bring the dead back to life. Muscles and skin quickly grew out of the hand, and a milky white light extended all the way to the ground, as if an evil ghost crawling out of hell was hiding underground.
"What should I do now?" Ji Wang said desperately, "Brother Tong, help me! Didn't you say that fools have good fortune?"
"Fuck!" The Doomsday Survival System was so anxious that it even swore. "I did say that, but fools have their own luck, but idiots don't!"
In the distance, a ball of light as bright as daylight suddenly burst out from the center of Cato City.
In just a moment, Ji Wang felt a strong arm grabbing his waist, and then he vaguely heard a groan. The shackles on his feet disappeared like a knife, leaving only his ankle, which had been tightly pinched, still aching slightly.
Ji Wang didn't have time to catch his breath. In the blink of an eye, he fell back into the altar that Amanda had thrown him into. The sound of shallow water echoed in his ears. He smelled a nauseating smell of blood in the water.
"How are you?" Ji Wang's clothes were suddenly opened, and a pair of hands anxiously groped his body without any lust. "Are you hurt?"
Ji Wang felt a little dizzy and raised his foot at a loss, but someone grabbed his ankle and pushed up his trouser leg. The scars caused by the withered hands were carefully examined.
"It's okay, it's not a big problem, it's not a big problem..." The man seemed to be relieved, took out the medicine from his multi-functional pocket, and handled it very quickly. "Hold it, it will be fine in a moment."
With the help of moonlight, Ji Wang finally saw the face of the person who came.
It’s Shi Ting.
Shi Ting's deep eyebrows and eyes still looked extremely three-dimensional in the dim light of the night. He frowned, and regardless of the bitter taste of the medicine, he bit the medicated bandage he was using and bandaged him carefully.
"Why are you here?" Ji Wang was surprised.
"Who else are you hoping for?" Shi Ting glanced at him, put the bandage aside, and sniffed his body again. He seemed to want to question him about drinking, but after all, Ji Wang was an adult, not his relative, so he had no reasonable excuse to question him and had to hold back his words. "I was negotiating with the people in the main star system before. The soldiers guarding the city didn't dare to come in to report. It wasn't until something big happened over there that they bit the bullet and broke in, so I came here. Lightning abilities usually have an acceleration effect. When fully erupted, they can reach the speed of light, so I came here quickly. Is that what you want to ask?"
Ji Wang's heart was suddenly filled with a sour yet happy emotion, like a fluffy feather pillow that would bounce back proudly and awkwardly when poked.
He thought so in his heart, but asked cautiously: "What about the people in the main galaxy now..."
"It's hanging there." Shi Ting was a little annoyed, but the strength in his hands was always gentle and moderate, and he quickly hid the injury on his ankle within the bandage.
Ji Wang lowered his head and suddenly found that there was no blood seeping out of the bandage. Only then did he realize that the blood in the pool was not his.
He raised his head again, his eyes falling on Shi Ting's chest. Seeing the torn clothes and bloodstains, his face changed drastically: "I'm fine, you're the one who's hurt!"
Shi Ting was stunned for a moment, then he touched his chest and waved his hand impatiently: "It's just a minor injury."
Ji Wang was about to say something else, but he was unable to do so.
Seeing that Ji Wang was having trouble walking, Shi Ting picked him up and placed him on the edge of the altar.
Then he stared at Ji Wang for a while, and suddenly pressed him against the smooth stone tablet next to him.
Ji Wang was shocked by the strength with which Shi Ting held him down and the gloomy look on his face. He mistakenly thought that Shi Ting had finally come to his senses and that he was going to be beaten in the next second, so he closed his eyes in a cowardly manner.
However, the expected fist did not come, but a cool breath hit him in the face.
Shi Ting hugged him tightly.
Ji Wang suddenly opened his eyes.
"Are you trying to scare me to death?" Shi Ting whispered in his ear, his voice hoarse and trembling in a rare moment. "It's so dangerous out there, and you don't have any special abilities. Do you know how lucky you are to survive?"
The rapid air flow sprayed on Ji Wang's earlobe, bringing a tingling sensation that was definitely not an electric current, along with a frantic heartbeat, which made Ji Wang stand there in panic.
Just as he was desperately thinking about how to get out of the ambiguous atmosphere, a long howl that did not sound like that of a human suddenly came from outside the city. The beast-like roar brought a gust of fishy wind and rushed into the city. There were echoes from all directions, as if a group of minions were surrounding the bandit leader.
Shi Ting then let go of Ji Wang and looked into the distance, his expression becoming even uglier: "Zombie King."
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