Shen Shian didn’t speak.

He estimated the distance from here to the location where Zhou Jianghai originally stood on the earth wall: it was not less than two hundred meters.

How did the other party find him at such a long distance? He was sure that he didn’t make any sound, and even his breathing and heart rate were deliberately controlled in a very slow and steady state. Even if it was him who was standing on the earth wall, he should not be able to detect his traces when the five senses were maximised.

Zhou Jianghai didn’t know what he was thinking, and he didn’t seem to mind his silence. “You must now think that I am a shameless man who has lost his conscience and is ungrateful, right? It’s…”

“That’s right.” Shen Shian’s back was straight, his beautiful eyes were cold, and he answered decisively.

Zhou Jianghai choked, and then continued his monologue as if nothing happened. “In fact, I didn’t plan to do so at first. I know that Captain Luo is a good person, but in the end of the world, it is not possible to survive as a “good person”. Mr. Yun should know that I was a history teacher before the end of the world. Humans have experienced many major catastrophes in history. Many historians describe it as a “disaster”, but I prefer to call it a “test”: Every catastrophe is a selection, weed out the unqualified ones, select the excellent ones, give them special abilities that pass on from generation to generation, such as walking upright, using tools, and abilities. Nature is survival of the fittest. The zombie virus is also a selection. The unqualified people are reduced to walking dead, and the qualified people are forced to survive. It is only us, only evolvers like us, who is the superior ethnic group that adapts to the new environment, and is qualified to lead others to survive in the end times.”

Zhou Jianghai looked at Shen Shian, and the eyes behind the lens were no longer the gentleness of a teacher or the arrogance of a superior ethnic group. Instead, he was recognized as the same kind and his eyes were filled with enthusiasm for his so-called lofty mission. “Mr. Yun, we are the chosen people. We shoulder the important task of guiding, inheriting, and reviving human beings. Captain Luo does not have an evolver among them. How can such a person lead us to build our base better, and how can they lead us to survive in the apocalypse? Look, they can’t even make sure that the survivors can get enough food, and this is something that can easily be done after any plant evolver has completely evolved.”

Shen Xun rolled his eyes while eating strawberries in the space. “I think this old man is sick.”

Shen Shian felt the same way. He asked Zhou Jianghai, “When did you start planning this operation?”

“It didn’t take long.” Zhou Jianghai was unexpectedly frank and cooperative. “I already said, I didn’t plan to do so well at first. I convinced ordinary people not to participate in the material search operation, and secretly deepened the conflict between the survivors and the garrison. I just wanted Captain Luo to retreat from the difficulties and take the initiative to leave the base, but unfortunately he was not willing to let go. To be honest, before your new batch of people appeared, my plan once fell into a bottleneck. Although I am confident that I could win over the control of the base, the speed was too slow, and inevitably there would be some sacrifices from the evolvers. Fortunately, God soon sent me an earth-based ability evolver: you have already experienced his ability. Such a huge power is beyond the reach of ordinary people who couldn’t possibly understand it in their lifetime.”

In other words, after Ma Zhongyi entered the base, he planned it. No wonder he was so close to Ma Zhongyi. Shen Shian’s thought quickly, and connected some incidents. “If you want more than three thousand people to cooperate with your plan, you must let them deeply exclude or even hate the garrison. So the last farce in the canteen was not only caused by you, but your purpose was to force the garrison to use force to deter them.” Luo Wei’s deterrence using force was simply in his plan.

Zhou Jianghai smiled, “Yes. Without Captain Luo’s shot, those stupid ordinary people would not be so easy to coax.”

“The so-called cooperation between the two parties was actually to take the opportunity to collect crystal nuclei in the urban area?”

“Yes. Captain Luo and others simply do not know the special role of the crystal nucleus. Letting the crystal nucleus stay in the increasingly decaying skull of the mutated zombie is really a cruel thing.”

“What method did you use to bring the zombies{n1} back?” Shen Shian looked normal, but his pair of dark pupils was scarily cold. “Did you use the blood and corpses of the three missing people?”

Note1: The raws said zombies, shouldn’t it be crystal nuclei?

To be precise, two missing people.

Shen Shian froze for a moment. He frowned and thought for a moment, and quickly reacted. “The third person is an evolver? Has he concealed himself and his body with his ability?”

“You are very smart.” The appreciation in Zhou Jianghai’s eyes grew stronger. “Mr. Yun, you are an excellent evolver and I have no intention of being an enemy to you. The reason why I will answer these questions frankly is to express sincerity. If you want, I can manage the base with you, and we will gradually expand to build this base into one of the largest survivor bases after the end of the world; if you don’t want to, you and I are the selected evolvers, there is no reason for us to kill each other at all. You and your companions are free to leave. I promise you, I will not hinder you. If you need it, I am also willing to give away a large amount of supplies. The number of evolvers is already small, so we should unite together as one and make unremitting efforts to rebuild and revive the civilization.”

Shen Xun in the space “vomited”, “This old man is really sick.”

Shen Shian stayed silent for a moment, then looked at Zhou Jianghai’s eyes. “What if I neither want to build a base with you nor want to leave? I just want to coexist with the garrison.”

Zhou Jianghai supported his glasses, and the lens reflected a cold light. “Mr. Yun is indeed very powerful, but after all, you are only a person. On our side, there are more than 150 evolvers.”

“He dares to threaten you!” The dog jumped with energy, “An An let me go and kill him!”

Shen Shian ignored him and said to Zhou Jianghai, “I still have two questions.”

“Mr. Yun, go ahead.”

“You have attracted so many zombies here, and with the garrison and two or three hundred survivors, it will certainly be impossible to kill. So when they become zombies, what are you going to do with them?”

Zhou Jianghai was confident. “Since I have a way to bring it in, I naturally have a way to bring it back.”

That means killing two more people. “The last question: what is your ability?”

Zhou Jianghai’s expression froze for a moment, and then his gentle eyes met Shen Shian’s. “If I asked Mr. Yun this question, would Mr. Yun answer the truth?”

“I would not.”

“Then it’s easy, Mr. Yun should also be able to understand that I could not easily tell my ability.”

Shen Shian nodded, “Fair enough.”

Zhou Jianghai seemed to be relieved and then extended his right hand. “Although the timing is not particularly suitable, I am very happy to have such a chance to talk with Mr. Yun. No matter what your final decision is, I will fully respect it.”

Shen Shian stared at his palm for a while, and extended his right hand as well. “Thank you for understanding.”

Just as the palms of the two were about to be held together, his left hand pulled out the long sword quickly, and the blade was flipped and struck towards Zhou Jianghai like lightning. However, this sword did not stab the other party, because suddenly a two-meter-thick earth wall was erected between them, protecting Zhou Jianghai.

The light swept through the soil wall, but Zhou Jianghai had already hurriedly backed away with this moment of blocking. His face full of sorrow, “Yun Feiyang, what is the meaning of this?!”

Shen Shian ignored it. He held a long sword and ran. The slender and muscular posture was like a cheetah, chasing his prey quickly and gracefully. Between the battles, there were many different abilities that showed up from Zhou Jianghai: either suddenly growing vines, a water curtain floating in the air to block the attack, or a wind blade that appeared across the sky…

Numerous, he had over ten different abilities.

Shen Shian’s expression gradually became dignified, and the longsword also became fiercer. Zhou Jianghai took a bit of a loss, several bloody wounds were on his body. He raised his hands and sent two wind blades to get a moment of breathing behind the wall. When he looked at Shen Shian again, his eyes were full of anger. “Refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit!” {n2}

Note2: Someone proposes a toast to you in a nice and sincere way in the first place while you decline it; however, as a matter of face you must take that drink anyway; they will find a rough way to force you to do so.

Is there any ability that has not been used? Shen Shian slowed down the offensive and tensed his body again to raise his vigilance. He immediately witnessed that Zhou Jianghai was like a splash of water under the scorching sun, and from his head to toes, he “evaporated” and disappeared right in front of his eyes.

A strong sense of danger suddenly struck. Shen Shian crossed his longsword in front of him and looked around cautiously, but there was nothing around him. The bright lights were empty and there was no trace of Zhou Jianghai.

Shen Shian took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He ran his spiritual power to the extreme, and enhanced his five senses multiple times. A three-dimensional figure was projected in his consciousness, every movement, every particle of dust, and even every trace of water vapor within a radius of 50 meters were clear in his mind——this was one of the fighting methods he found in Lin’an County.

He held his longsword tightly and after focusing for a while, he thrusted the sword straight to his right rear. With a scream, the bright red blood trickled down the blade, and soon a small puddle gathered on the ground. A piece of clothing belonging to Zhou Jianghai was left, and no matter how Shen Shian tried to find him again, the existence of the other party was gone.

Shen Xun was so anxious in the space, “How about we kill him?”

Shen Shian shook the longsword, and put it into the sheath. It’s a pity, “No, let him run.” Judging from the amount of blood loss, the injury should not be critical, but it should not be ignorable. At least he already speculated about Zhou Jianghai’s power, and he knew how they hid the body of the missing people.