Taking Chenchen into the Space

It had been three months since Doomsday started. The new Superfunction Association officially started operating on Jun 1st, and all the squads became busy. According to their previous agreement, Yun Che and some members of Chaoyang started to lead other squads to carry out missions in the city area. Thanks to them, those squads had collected rich supplies from the missions over the past ten days.

Of course, not every squad had the chance to be led by Chaoyang or Peak Squad. There were almost a thousand superfunction squads in the southwest base. Some of the squads had once helped them, and some allied with the other two armies or the government, and some switched sides all the time. With the assistance of Joy Squad and Loser Squad, they had made a list. Chaoyang and Peak Squad only led those squads who had once helped them to perform missions, and the rest of squads could do nothing but envy them.

Despite that their covers had been blown, Overlord Girls, Almighty Squad, and Incense Squad didn't return to their troop. Instead, they stayed in the Superfunction Association and led the squads willing to follow them to do missions as usual. Occasionally, they would run into Chaoyang and Peak Squad. As long as they didn't pick a fight, Yun Che and the others would just ignore them. It wasn't like they had any deep-rooted hatred against each other, after all. They were just working for different parties.

During the past two weeks, Yun Che was only on holiday twice. Both times when he took a day off, Wei Army had found themselves in trouble. Instead of resting at home, Yun Che took Heiyu and Yun Cheng to secretly snatch the supplies that Wei Army were trying to collect. Twice in a row, Wei's team went out for missions but returned with empty hands. Mo Army and Wang Army started to suspect Wei Army of embezzling supplies. Wei Kan knew someone was screwing his army on purpose, but he couldn't figure out who that person was.

"Hey, why did you get up so early today?"

This day was Jun 17th, Chenchen's third birthday. Yesterday, Yun Che had told him to take a day off, which meant he didn't need to go out for running in the morning. Nevertheless, Chenchen got up early and played Tai Chi in the yard with Mr. Chen and Zhan. Each time he pushed out his meaty hands, his plump body would spin as well, which looked funny. This was what Yun Che and Xing Feng saw when they walked out of the door side by side, and they both smiled involuntarily.

"Uncle!"

Upon hearing his voice, Chenchen bounced over excitedly and held his leg. Thanks to the training and the crystal nuclei he had consumed in the past twenty days, Chenchen had soared up to level 1, and he was getting close to level 2. His weight, on the other hand, didn't decrease at all. Fortunately, it didn't increase, either.

"I told you that you didn't need to get up early today. Look at you. You're sweaty."

Yun Che leaned down to carry him and squeezed his fleshy cheek. Before Chenchen could respond, Xing Feng took him over and said, "This is your gift. Happy birthday."

"Thanks, Uncle Xing."

Holding the gift box from Xing Feng delightedly, Chenchen leaned over to peck Xing Feng on the cheek.

"Che, Captain Xing, what are you doing out here so early?"

Zhan and Chen greeted them. Xing Feng nodded to the two elders, and Yun responded with a smile, "Today is Chenchen's birthday. We have to keep him company. We don't want our little prince to get upset, do we?"

"Haha…"

Upon hearing that, the two elders laughed. After they continued to chat for a while, Mr. Chen looked up at the gloomy sky and said, "The weather doesn't feel right. Is something going to happen?"

Having been a farmer for most of his life, Mr. Chen knew how to forecast the weather by looking at the sky. He and his family were able to survive the Doomsday catastrophe because he had accurately predicted the weather at the time. Nevertheless, he failed to keep his wife, son-in-law, and granddaughter alive. The human heart was more difficult to predict than the weather.

"Uh-huh. I think so."

Yun Che looked up at the sky and mumbled involuntarily. Chaoyang and Mo Army had been taking precautions recently, hoping to get through the snow in Jun, which seemed to be coming in a few days.

"Uncle Zhan, don't go to the hospital these days. Just stay at home for some rest."

If he recalled correctly, the snow would arrive all of a sudden. Though it wouldn't spread the zombie virus like the snow before Doomsday, it could bring some other kind of danger. It would be better for them to take shelter when it was happening.

"Uh-huh."

Zhan Tianlong nodded in agreement as he knew Yun Che must have a reason to ask him to stay at home. After they chatted for another while, Yun Che and Xing Feng carried Chenchen into the house.

Nobody was going out for missions today, as they all wanted to stay at home to celebrate Chenchen's birthday. However, Yun Che seemed to have other plans for Chenchen. After breakfast, he instructed Zhou Zeyu to ask Joy Squad and Loser Squad not to take any missions these days. He even advised those two squads to stay at home if possible. After that, he took Chenchen upstairs. Even Xing Feng, who only took a day off once in a blue moon, was left behind.

Before Xing Feng was bored by loneliness, he took Gu Mingxuan to the next door because of an uninvited guest. Since Chenchen had left, the rest of the men had no choice but to kill time in their own way, while the women in the house stayed in the kitchen to do the cooking, preparing for the birthday dinner at noon.

"Uncle, where are we? It's beautiful!"

Standing in the Space and looking at the green view, Chenchen ran out a few steps joyfully. The outside world he had seen was gloomy and filled with zombies, but this place had green mountains, clear water, singing birds, and fragrant flowers. It was beautiful and full of wonder.

"This is my Space. Do you like it?"

Suppressing the forces running around and colliding against each other inside his body, Yun Che walked towards Chenchen with a smile. After he put the eagles inside, the Space had grown much larger. Feeling that he had got used to transporting large living creatures, Yun Che badgered Xing Feng for days and finally convinced the latter to let him take Chenchen into the Space. Although the transporting process wasn't easy, the result was gratifying.

"Yes, I love it!"

Chenchen nodded delightedly. When he turned around and tried to run out, a giant shadow approached from afar. "Hello! Fatty Chen, how did you get in? I thought I was hallucinating."

The next second, Heiyu shrank into a little puppy and jumped into Chenchen's arms. Chenchen grabbed him by the tail and hung him in the air upside down. "It's Chenchen, not Fatty Chen. Uncle Heiyu, you're the worst!"

Well, Chenchen was mad. Being hung in the air upside down, Heiyu waved his claws, "Alright, whatever you say. Chenchen, just put me down. You can't do this to me."

Heiyu was upset. If he had known this was going to happen, he wouldn't have shrunk into a tiny puppy form.

"Don't ever call me by that name again!"

Chenchen turned him over and carried him in the arms, adding, "I'm not fat at all!"

"Okay, you're not fat. I am. Alright?"

Heiyu dashed out of Chenchen's arms and transformed into Tibetan Mastiff-size instantly. If he could roll his eyes, he would be doing it at the moment. Chenchen was unusually stubborn. Except for Yun Yao, who was gentle and sweet, none of the Yuns was normal.

"Alright, come with me, Chenchen."

While Heiyu was talking to Chenchen, Yun Che drank a bottle of spring water and finally made the pain inside his body go away. He reached out to carry Chenchen and walked to the Jade Spring. Chenchen looked around curiously.

"Are you going to make Chenchen soak in the Jade Spring?"

Sensing what he was trying to do, Heiyu approached to ask in a low voice. Although the spring water worked better for a young age, the human cells would reprogram themselves to discharge impurities during the soaking process, which was extremely painful. Could Yun Che bear to watch that happen to such a young kid?

"Uh-huh. He has to go through this sooner or later. Besides, I want to see if he'll get to level-2 after soaking in the spring water. Others already have enough superfunction to break through the level-3 limit, but oddly enough, I'm still the only level-4 superfunction possessor in the base. I think there is some certain requirement other than the superfunction itself for a level-3 to level up again, just like zombies need the upcoming snow to level up. I'm trying to figure out what that requirement is."

About ten days ago, they were attacked by a large group of level-3 zombies when they were foraging for supplies in a mall. During the fierce fight, he evolved to level four. He thought his teammates would also level up, as the parameters on the air panel indicated that they already had enough superfunction. However, ten days had passed, but none of them had leveled up. He started to wonder what they were missing. In his previous life, it took him almost a year to get to level four, and others didn't grow so fast, either. After his rebirth, many things had changed.

"Master, has it ever occurred to you that maybe the upcoming snow is what human beings are missing?"

"When you say that, it seems possible."

Yun Che was enlightened. Seeing his reaction, Heiyu continued, "It's a universal law that everything has two sides. Take the zombie virus as an example, it turns some people into zombies, but it also turns some people into superfunction possessors. Maybe the number of zombies and that of superfunction possessors were equal at first. But zombies attacked normal people and turned them into zombies before they could acquire superfunction. Thus, zombies eventually outnumber human beings."

Heiyu only spoke in a serious manner once in a blue moon, but whenever he became serious, his words always meant something. Yun Che remained silent. He believed Heiyu was right. Everyone had the virus inside their bodies, which had infected part of their cells. In the case that the infected cells outnumbered the healthy cells, the person would become a zombie. On the contrary, in the case that the healthy cells outnumbered the infected cells, the person would acquire superfunction. As for those who had as many healthy cells as infected cells, they would remain normal. If a person was bitten by a zombie, the number of his infected cells would increase sharply and he would be zombified instantly. In rare cases, some normal people would acquire superfunction because their heathy cells were extremely active. This also explained why superfunction possessors usually wouldn't be zombified after getting injured.

He was able to use diluted spring water to stop Zhan Tianlong and the severely injured soldiers from zombifying because the spring water had a cleansing effect. In Yun Cheng's case, the cleanse was not thorough, and the infected cells provided the energy to accelerate his evolution.

He concluded that Heiyu could be right. He was able to reach level four because his body had gone through the evolution once in his previous life, and the natural law no longer applied to him. But the others needed the snow to help them level up, just like zombies and all kinds of mutant creatures.