CH 147

Late in the night, around 2 a.m. when people were in the deepest stage of sleep, Zhou Cang Ming, Feng Tang and the rest of the group had their heads down and were snoring away, especially tired after fighting with zombies in the morning.

Only Pei Ran was unable to sleep, his worries keeping him awake. He leaned against the wall, thinking about something, with his legs completely covered in shreds of cigarettes, having torn up half the box of cigarettes.

Qu Yan’s eyes were closed with one hand resting on his knee. His fingers tapped in a rhythm as if counting the time. After a while, he finally opened his eyes and a ray of darkness flashed across them.

While Pei Ran was still blanked out, all depressed and lost, Qu Yan turned his head slightly to look at him. Shadows from the light shining on his face created a dark and a bright side, neither half which looked very likeable. Whatever happened then, a flash of blue light came across Qu Yan’s dark eyes, and Pei Ran slouched over, weakly falling down.

His body did not drop onto the floor but was instead caught by a hand and slowly placed down.

Holding onto his stomach, Qu Yan silently rose up. He headed out the door, heading upstairs and out of the supermarket. The two zombies that had been wandering back and forth in front had been decapitated by Feng Tang earlier today and their rotting bodies were silently lying on the floor, soon to be turned into dust.

He walked under the dangerous red sky, yet he had no fear, as if this world… was supposed to be like this.

Qu Yan could faintly feel that a signal around him, one that merged with his mental ability. He closed his eyes, stepping over pools of dried blood, over dead grass, as if to find something, before stopping in front of a rotting head.

He bent over, picking up a metal tube lying not too far away and emotionlessly smashed down, with a viciousness that did not match his age. There was the faint crack of bone before a red and white fluid began to flow out of the brain along with a filthy stench, revealing an ability stone.

Like a perfectly cut diamond, it shone brightly underneath this half red, half black colored night.

Qu Yan used the metal tube to move the stone off to the side before bending down and using a tissue from his pockets to pick up the stone. He first wiped it clean and then examined it closely with his eyes while sending a faint pulse from his mind to investigate. It was at this time, a faint invisible light suddenly followed the pulse into his body and that brightly shining stone immediately dimmed, becoming a boring ashy crystal once more.

If Pei Ran was here, he would have definitely recognized that this was a mythical stone used to level up abilities.

Qu Yan stayed outside for a long while before heading back to the storage warehouse before the rest of the people woke up. He walked into the washroom, emotionlessly cleaning the blood off his hands. He washed and washed when he suddenly stopped, as if he suddenly found something.

Water was sputtering out of the faucet, the stream evidently looking way smaller than the days previous. Against the white basin, it was clear to the naked eye that a layer of black cloud had infiltrated the water.

First it was the network outage, then it was the electricity, so the water supply being contaminated was not that shocking. Qu Yan walked back to his original spot and then closed his eyes to sleep.