QT: Against My Will

155 3.15.60 – Sweet potatoes – Downfall of Humanity

Bing Shi stared at the yummy looking fish. Where did Ziek find them? No, more like how did he keep them alive? She deployed a few people to abandoned places like underground caves and islands to look for living animals, not contaminated by the virus. When they found some, the moment the animals went to contact with them, they died due to the trial. Even if they quarantined them, they had nothing to feed the animals.

The only place which could keep animals alive was Fu Lian’s space.

[“Kuro, is this water special like Fu Lian’s?”]

[It shouldn’t be.]

Kuro answered with confusion.

Did he use a healer to heal the water? Bing Shi contemplated.

[“Let’s ask him later.”]

Kuro nodded and went out to look around this modified ship.

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Later, when Bing Shi asked Ziek how he did it, he replied with a sly smile, “What do I get in exchange?”

“I’m poor,” Bing Shi answered in an aggrieved tone and left, “Bye-bye.”

She’s not that desperate to start an unprofitable business. Growing up in a business-oriented family and living with a businessman, Bing Shi learned a few tips and tricks how to bargain. Never let the seller take advantage of you. She didn’t want to end up like Xuan Mu’s preys.

The information that something like that was possible was enough. Should she tell Yi Zen? Yup, not wasting time, she went to tell him right away.

“...” Ziek though she would say that she already gave him her pictures, or nuclei, or whatever. If that stinky woman was poor, then he was a flying vegetable!

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As soon as Ziek appeared, the rivalry between the two bases began. Soldiers, as if injected by rooster blood, started to fight for dominance. If they took one city in three days, Ziek’s base would take it in two and a half-day. Not wanting to lose, Yi Zen took down two cities in four days, having no idea that the real winner was Bing Shi, who laughed hilariously at these two men’s antics.

With this tempo, the quest which she thought was impossible to complete will be finished in a few years. She planned on giving up this quest. If she could finish an F rank world in one and a half years, why would she wait ten years for 5000p? Imagine billions of zombies hiding all over the world, how was it be possible to find and kill them all? Yes, they went into contact with a few bases along the way, but their goal was to survive, not to massacre the whole zombie population. ?? ?????

[Host, if you planned on giving up this quest, why are you still fighting the zombies? Wouldn’t it be faster to save a few cities and destroy the rest?]

‘Sometimes I wonder if it’s Kuro asking those questions, or someone else.’

‘Yi Zen hates Fu Lian’s prison. But does he realize that my base is a prison too? The chance of Yi Zen killing Fu Lian is minimal. But he is not the only threat, Fu Lian, this girl is a magnet for disasters.’

‘I can’t stop fighting the zombies. I need to have Fu Lian and Yi Zen under my constant watch. That’s why I entrapped both of them in this place.’

Bing Shi didn’t tell Kuro this dark truth. Instead, she told it another one.

[“Throwing a nuclear bomb at the city would go against my nature and morals, which I don’t plan to change any time soon.”]

Something big was bestowed to Bing Shi’s hands, a tremendous power, which could mess with a person’s mind.

She was afraid of change, what if she became an entirely different person by the time she met Xuan Mu again? Rather than changing for the worse, she wanted to change for the better. But her loneliness didn’t make it any easier. It’s worsening everything.

Afraid of getting close to anyone, her only escape was to find some entertainment by herself...for herself.

[“Kuro, did you forget my dream? I always wanted to build a skyscraper. As a structural engineer, I don’t destroy, I create.”]

Her plans were constantly changing on the go. With her ability, she was not afraid to be more daring. It brought out her hidden potential.

‘Creating a whole new world...’

‘How amazing does it sound?’

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Packing up, Fu Lian sent the whole base into her space, which tripled in size since the time they started this journey.

To save energy, most of the soldiers ported inside Fu Lian’s space too. Leaving behind six people: Bing Shi, Fu Lian, Yi Zen, Qua Tao, Wan Ke... ehm...and the sixth person, Ren Han. Tagging with them for the time being, he was going to leave them in a month again.

Could someone tell them how great this man’s stamina was?!? Without using any physical energy, he manipulated his ship high in the sky with his mental strength alone!

Ziek didn’t use much stamina. He let the ship fly on autopilot, by imagining it gliding towards a specific destination.

Driving in an inconspicuous family car, they were on their way to the next town, when suddenly, they crossed the path with three hummers. Thinking they were refugees, they passed by them as if nothing happened.

When abruptly, Bing Shi’s team was stopped by a sharp rush of wind. Before it could touch the vehicle, Qua Tao, the driver, activated a tornado. Surrounding the car, it protected the people inside and allowed his tornado to bend the front of their car a bit.

Fu Lian swiftly moved inside her space to notify the men inside to hold a long rope, showing them the situation outside through the surface of the lake, she appeared at her seat right after.

Bing Shi ordered Kuro to shrink in size enough to hide inside her sleeve, and looked out of the window, at the three hummers outside. “Seems like someone’s out of luck today,” she said with a serene smile.

Traveling with Bing Shi was so fun!

One of her tactics how to catch an enemy?

Act as easy prey...

Shuddering, soldiers, lit a candle for the people inside those hummers.

Haha, just kidding! More like shuddering in excitement!

Two hundred or so people inside the space, and above the ground, cracked their necks and fingers excitedly.