Heiyu Was Still A Cheeky Bastard

"Let me handle him!"

Yang Huaien held back Zhan Yafei who tried to bury the zombie in sand. His arm was bleeding, but he acted like nothing was wrong. The blazing flames didn't take any shape as he waved his arms, then the zombie was engulfed by the great fire.

Roaaar!

In a split second, the half-metalized zombie turned into a walking flame. The stench of burned carrion was all over the place and there was the sound of melting metal. Fire would top gold, one of the five-element laws. It was a fatal mistake that the zombie half-covered himself with metal. Seared by the great heat, his upper-half soon melted into mush.

Thump!

When his head melted down, the gold zombie collapsed to the ground. Yang Huaien waved his hand again, the flames were gone. Zhan Yafei took a machete from the sheath on her back and chopped the zombie's head open for the golden crystal nucleus.

"Yang, let me bind up your wound."

Zhan Yafei stomped on the ground, turning the area around them into sand. She then took iodine tincture and gauze out of the belt bag that she would always carry with her. Unlike commoners, superfunction possessors wouldn't turn into zombies even though their wounds were infected by the zombie virus. Yang Huaien didn't reject her help. He liked her, it made him happy when she was worried about him.

"Are you gonna cry? Come on, it's not that serious."

Watching the serious look on her face and the careful move on her hands, Yang Huaien pulled her leg. It wasn't like the usual Yafei at all, he was more into the tough girl who fought zombies fiercer than most men.

"OK."

Zhan Yafei nodded, yet she still cleaned his wound very carefully. She wasn't sure whether she should bind the wound loosely or tightly, but she definitely didn't want him to bleed more.

"Allow me, please."

Yang Huaien couldn't watch this anymore. He took the bandage over, bit one end of it, bandaged his arm, and finished it up with a knot. "Cut it."

He was so deft that he didn't seem like a wounded at all. Yang Huaien's joke was not all soothing words. He and his gang had already gotten used to wounds like this, including Xing Feng. After all, they weren't really invincible, they would have to risk their lives for the praisable glory back in the army. Things like bone-scrapping and picking bullets out of flesh were basic first-aid skills to them. People just saw the shining side of them.

"Yang, don't get yourself hurt for protecting me again."

After cutting the bandage, Zhan Yafei started to put things back into her belt bag, but her voice still quivered. She would have been OK with it if she herself had been wounded, but she felt super bad when someone else took the hit for her.

"How can I watch the girl that I like get hurt?"

"Huh?"

It was weird timing to confess. Zhan Yafei was a bit confused. Yang Huaien just flicked her forehead. "Yeah, you heard me. But don't linger upon it, I'm just telling you how I feel. Get up now. The most important thing right now is to finish the quest and get the hell out of here."

Yang Huaien stood up and offered his hand. He didn't look cool at all at the moment but his smile was heartwarming, not weighty at all.

"OK."

Zhan Yafei held his hand, pulled herself up, and turned the sandified ground back to normal. Before plunging into the battlefield again, she turned around and beamed at Yang. "Thanks. I'll think about it."

She was astounded because she never even thought about having a relationship before. Now that she was informed that a guy had feelings for her, she would think it over. Whether she would say yes or no, she wouldn't keep the guy waiting.

"Hehe."

Yang Huaien chuckled as he didn't see this coming. After taking a look at the girl charging at the zombies, he conjured a burning blade on his unwounded hand, swiftly ran over to her and joined in the fight.

Thud!

"Thanks, senpai! Watch out, senpai!"

Jiang Shang killed two level-3 zombies on his own. Before the zombie beasts got near him, Ye Xingchen would remote-control them and had the Wolf King under him bite their heads off and stomp on them. Ye himself would collect the crystal nuclei.

"You too. Don't get hurt or it'll… it'll break my heart."

After a quick pause, Ye Xingchen spoke out his true feeling.

"Sure."

The endearing words fueled the exhausted Jiang Shang up. He then waved his golden ribbons more vigorously. All zombies under level-3 around him were swept down.

Ye Xingchen decided Jiang Shang should be OK on his own, so he rode the Wolf King around the battlefield, looking for all the zombie beasts hiding among the zombies. His job was to prevent zombie beasts from sneak attacking superfunction possessors. The best option was to kill them but mind-controlling was also an alternative. The zombie beast being controlled could help the team attack zombies. When it was exhausted, Ye would kill it for the crystal nucleus.

"Yehan, let's have a match. See who's the first to nail this one."

Leng Yehan and Lu Haixuan were fighting side by side as well. Under them was a heap of dead zombies. It was obvious that they'd killed loads. Right now, they were facing a level-3 earth zombie. Earth was the best defensive superfunction but too bad, the zombie was up against the most offensive superfunction attributes: gold and fire. The two guys were especially experienced in dealing with earth-attribute zombies. They worked together to attack the zombie from every side, even it was a level-3 one, it was sorted in a few seconds.

"Another level-3 crystal nucleus. Cheng will be very pleased this time."

Said Lu Haixuan when he beat off those low-level zombies around him after picking out the crystal nucleus. Leng Yehan involuntarily put on a small smile. "Yeah. He likes high-level nuclei."

Cheng wasn't a picky eater before. He would eat all crystal nuclei like they were candies regardless of the level. But ever since he got out of Space, he was under the care of Leng Yehan. He became picky. Leng gave all the level-3 fire crystal nuclei he got from Yun Che to Cheng. Those crystal nuclei were supposed to upgrade Leng but Cheng's happy face made it all worthwhile. Yun Che, however, didn't 100% approve of it, after all, he didn't have that many level-3 fire crystal nuclei. Leng Yehan kept promising Yun Che that he wouldn't do it again but guess what? He did it again and again. He had done this so many times that Yun Che didn't have an opinion anymore. Now they would just give all the high-level crystal nuclei to Cheng, unless they were transparent, attributeless ones.

"Don't you guys find it strange?"

Yun Che rested on Heiyu's back for almost half an hour and he was pretty much recovered. But the increasing number of zombies made him wonder.

"Right. We've killed nearly a thousand zombies but the number isn't reducing, instead, there are more and more."

Said Xing Feng who was slashing the zombies behind him.

"There must be a reason."

Yun Che gave up examining the dense dots on the air panel. He bent down to pat Heiyu on the neck. "Heiyu, don't mind the zombies, Let's go for a stroll."

They would be on the lookout for the cause of such strangeness during the stroll.

"Sure thing. Stroll is my favorite. Master, don't you think I'm extra cool and valiant today? You must reward me well. Wenqing told me energy bars can be produced. How about you get me the energy bar production equipment, so instead of spending time and effort collecting them, we can produce them on our own? Wow, I just realize I'm super smart!"

Once out of battle, Heiyu started to trick his master into getting an energy bar production machine for him. It sounded easy but the entire southwest area wouldn't even have that kind of a machine.

"Sometimes I really want to cut your tongue."

The combat-mode Heiyu was no doubt powerful but when he got nothing to do, he was unquestionably annoying. And why the hell did Yu Wenqing tell him that? According to him, it was supposed to be easy to obtain an energy bar production machine? Only the coastal regions might have things like that, so must Yun Che lead the team there as so to make the insatiable god beast happy? And what if there were no such machines in the coastal regions? Would they have to go abroad to get one?

"Heehee, I know you're joking, you wouldn't have the heart to do so. Just take a good look around, can you find another smart and cool god beast like me? You love me so much, no way you're gonna cut my tongue."

Heiyu was as narcissistic as usual. Yun Che facepalmed without making a response. Xing Feng, however, quibbled, "Heiyu, it's not cool to be the third wheel. Don't get in between us, we don't do man-animal kind of thing."

"Shiiiiit! I smell something shady. Since when are you two together?"

Heiyu suddenly started shaking his body in excitement. Xing Feng and Yun Che were speechless on his back. They thought their relationship was obvious enough. How could Heiyu not know this or was it another set-up of his?

They weren't being paranoid. It was just every time Heiyu acted abnormal, he was most likely plotting something. They knew what he was like so yes, they had to keep on alert all the time.

"Heiyu, can you shut up? They have been together for ages. Can you stop advertising your stupidity?"

They were on the first floor of the research institute and as we all know, Heiyu was a loudspeaker. Zhou Zeyu heard it and jeered at Heiyu, which kind of hurt his feeling. "Why am I the only one who doesn't know? Master, you don't like me anymore? It's a big thing, why didn't you tell me? You know I'm always on the lookout for pretty girls for you and here you tell me you're gay? Boohoo, it's so hurtful…"

Heiyu sounded genuinely sad and touching. All superfunction possessors took a quick break during the battle and glanced at the both of them like they were the bad guys…

"Master, I'm also a dude. We're together all the time, should I worry about my virginity? Will you take it away from me someday without notice?"

What? What?

What a surreal surprise! The corner of Yun Che's mouth twitched. "Are you sure you still got your virginity? I'd say you lost it millions of years ago."

"Nonsense! My morality is gone but I still got my virginity."

Heiyu sounded indignant. To him, virginity was far more important than morality. He'd rather die than lose his virginity. The superfunction possessors, however, moved further and further away from him in order not to lose their morality.

"When I was an innocent cub…"

"Got it!"

Yun Che cut off Heiyu's babble with a serious look on the face. He and Xing Feng both looked at the front where the cause of abnormity lies!