MCL CH133

Chapter 133: This ability, why is it so damn familiar…

When Gu Beiqiu re-entered the room, he was momentarily stunned by the impact of the mixed supernatural ability and contamination radiation in the air.

Glancing at the two people whose expressions were as usual, he averted his gaze as if he hadn’t noticed the messy traces under their disheveled clothes.

After a period of adjustment, Shen Nanyang’s condition had clearly stabilized a lot.

He also didn’t ask about the two’s “discussion” process and asked directly, “Now, can you tell me the final result?”

This time, although Yan Xingzhou instinctively frowned, he did not speak.

“We accept the cooperation.”

Lin Xi spoke slowly. “But before we start cooperating, it seems we have other things to resolve.”

His gaze turned towards the sealed window. The distant sky was almost completely dyed a chaotic crimson.

It was the direction of the frontline special-grade contamination zone.

Lin Xi asked very casually, “How many people are left on the front line?”

He wasn’t asking how many had died, but how many were left.

Gu Beiqiu answered at once, “Probably less than half.”

Lin Xi was not surprised by this answer.

Due to the different time flow between inside and outside, while only a few days might have passed outside, the X-rank ability users fighting inside might have already spent long months. From the information he had previously learned from Calamity, the contaminants were using rifts opened across the globe as teleportation points, continuously sending monsters from various inner worlds. This was destined to be a protracted war.

No matter how powerful X-rank ability users were, they were still just human. Humans have limits. In the end, only two outcomes were left for them—to be devoured by contaminants after exhausting their strength, or to be unable to withstand the stimulation of the contamination radiation and completely lose control.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Xi asked the question he was most concerned about at the moment, “Is Samuel still alive?”

Gu Beiqiu: “…Alive.”

“That’s good.” Lin Xi nodded with satisfaction, his expression also seeming to relax slightly. He glanced at Yan Xingzhou out of the corner of his eye and slowly stood up. “Since we’ve reached an agreement, we should set off.”

Gu Beiqiu’s expression paused slightly, and he finally realized, “You’re going to?”

“By choosing to cooperate, I will naturally show my sincerity. What’s more…” Lin Xi said with a half-smile, “Compared to the so-called crystal core, what we need more urgently now should be time, right? If this situation continues to develop, the last of those ability users won’t last long. Once the defense line around the special-grade contamination zone is broken, even if Professor Shen’s research is successfully completed, I’m afraid it won’t be possible to implement it and benefit the whole world.”

Compared to Gu Beiqiu, Shen Nanyang’s expression was clearly much calmer.

There was still not much color on his pale face. He looked straight at Lin Xi, and the scenes he had seen in the timeline he had finally found couldn’t help but surface in his mind.

In the destined future, the crisis of the special-grade contamination zone would end at Lin Xi’s hands. And at the same time, it also meant that he had given up his human identity and completely sided with the contaminants.

At that time, Yan Xingzhou would become this man’s last link to the human world.

Shen Nanyang’s gaze fell on Lin Xi, and in a daze, he seemed to recall the figure in uniform from the past.

His dry lips trembled slightly, and two words came out of his mouth: “I’m sorry.”

Although it was an unfounded sentence, everyone in the room understood what Shen Nanyang was saying.

This was an apology that was many years late. Although, if he had to do it all over again, he might still make the same choice.

“It’s a bit too late to say this now, isn’t it, Professor Shen?” Lin Xi let out a light sneer, blocking the words back neither lightly nor heavily. Apart from that, he showed no extra emotion in his expression.

He seemed to not take Shen Nanyang’s words to heart at all. He walked to Yan Xingzhou and, as if no one else was there, kissed the lips he had bitten, and chuckled lightly. “President Yan, you have to wait for me here obediently, okay?”

“One day.” Yan Xingzhou looked at him. “I’ll wait for you outside for one day. If you still haven’t come out, I’ll go in and find you.”

Lin Xi smiled with understanding. “Alright, just one day.”

According to the difference in time flow, one day outside was enough for him to do many things in the special-grade contamination zone.

And Yan Xingzhou’s current ability condition was very unstable. He was also not at ease letting this man leave his contamination radiation for too long. One day was also the deadline he had set for himself.

“I’m leaving.” Lin Xi walked to the door and waved at Gu Beiqiu. “Go arrange for a spatial ability user to send me over.”

Gu Beiqiu nodded. “Okay.”

This was the second time Lin Xi had entered this special-grade contamination zone.

But to be honest, he really couldn’t muster much interest in this kind of place filled with contaminants.

He drove the vehicle provided by Gu Beiqiu, the accelerator pressed to the maximum, one hand propped on the edge of the open car window.

Although it was a very familiar scene and he also needed to race against time, his entire state was unprecedentedly relaxed compared to the last time he entered.

Left alone again, the voice in his mind finally popped up again, every word filled with probing.

[Are you sure you’ve thought it through? There’s really no turning back from this.]

[I can understand helping to deal with this contamination zone, but that Shen Nanyang… he was the one who secretly attacked you back then. You don’t actually believe him, do you!]

[I wasn’t lying to you before. Actually, you yourself are very clear, right? Although it’s my crystal core, it’s now completely fused with you. It’s impossible to separate it again.]

[You are already a pure contaminant, just like the rest of us. Losing the crystal core, that means you will die completely! I won’t be able to incubate a new body for you again!]

[Hey hey hey hey, are you listening to me? You’re not still immersed in that great savior complex, are you! Can you wake up!!!]

“I hear you. You’re noisy.” Lin Xi replied impatiently. As he passed by, he瞥见 a monster rushing towards him from not far away. He casually lifted a fingertip, and the surroundings fell completely silent amidst a series of heart-wrenching screams.

His striking red hair swayed in the wind, his tone as casual as ever. “First of all, I have no interest in saving the world. But lust clouds judgment. I have a love brain. I just want to be clingy with Yan Xingzhou right now.”

[……]

Too powerless to refute, a long silence fell in his mind.

Lin Xi’s voice continued in the whistling wind. “Secondly, I don’t believe in Shen Nanyang, I believe in Yan Xingzhou. As long as any accident happens during the cooperation, with Yan Xingzhou around, he will make everyone pay the price.”

[Yan Xingzhou, Yan Xingzhou, all you know is Yan Xingzhou!]

“Can’t be helped…” Lin Xi’s gaze fell on the distant horizon, his tone wistful. “I’m now personally experiencing the weakness of you contaminants in terms of emotions. But even so, perhaps due to past responses, or perhaps it’s simply from my body’s instinct, I can still feel that inseparable attachment to him. This can probably be considered some of my only remaining human emotions. At least it makes me feel that I am indeed still alive.”

“Oh, we’re here.” Lin Xi slammed on the brakes. The car body made a neat arc around the surroundings before stopping steadily.

As a gust of wind passed, dense contamination radiation intertwined with chaotic supernatural ability fluctuations, sweeping over in a tangled mess.

Lin Xi’s gaze swept over the battlefield not far away, and he said slowly, “I didn’t finish what I was saying just now. There’s one last point—who told you I was here to help deal with the contamination zone?”

[Huh? Then you’re here to?]

Lin Xi strode forward, the words he left behind disappearing in the blowing wind. “I’m here, of course, to bring you back to your original position.”

Boom boom boom—! Boom boom boom—!

Dense clashes of supernatural abilities collided, creating a flash of sparks.

Not far away, even with a barrier that soared into the clouds blocking the way, contaminants still climbed up endlessly. The dense scene was incredibly shocking.

As several openings cracked open in the air, the contaminants above lost their support and collapsed with a roar, but soon they rushed up again, one after another.

There were simply too many of them.

Samuel once again cut open several openings in various spaces. His dazzling golden hair also appeared somewhat dim under the heavy fatigue. His gaze fell worriedly on the several new rifts that had appeared not far away, his face long since devoid of its usual relaxed smile. “Still no news from Primo? If this continues, I’m afraid we really won’t be able to hold on.”

“Not yet.” Amidst the earth-shaking tremors, Park Joon-ki assisted a comrade beside him in flipping over a wave of monsters. The ground was completely destroyed where the lightning struck, and his expression was also solemn. “The International Ability General Administration is making deployments. If there’s a way to cut off the source of the rift openings outside, the problem here will naturally be solved.”

Samuel sighed mournfully. “Then we can only hope we can still stay alive and hold on until the problem is solved.”

Under the day-and-night fierce battles, his body had even developed instincts. He had completely achieved tacit cooperation with others based on his body’s consciousness, numbly dealing with those enemies that seemed to have no end. He didn’t forget to tease, “Speaking of which, it’s really a miracle that the few of us left have been able to hold on until now. Why don’t we make a bet now and see who loses control next?”

Park Joon-ki gave him a speechless look. He was just about to complain about this incomprehensible leisurely mood when he heard a loud “Boom—!”.

As the dazzling firelight fell, the wave of monsters that was about to rush to the front was completely burned to ashes. At the same time, the contaminants that had been so excited a moment ago, as if they had sensed a very frightening existence, their offensive momentum completely stagnated.

The ability users, who had not had a moment of respite for several consecutive months, were also slightly stunned by this situation.

Everyone’s gaze was fixed on the crystal core remains left on the ground after the contaminants were devoured by the flames.

This ability, why was it so damn familiar?

“He’s here!”

Before anyone could speak, Samuel had already cheered, opened his arms towards the figure that appeared in the distance, and went to greet him.

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