Yun Che and the gang were either having fun or happily taking a bath in the Space while the coastal base was being turned upside down by Tan Weiye. Tan Weiye had gone to invite them over for dinner after settling the issues outside. Admiral Tan was waiting for them, but none of them were at home, and even their pets had disappeared. Tan Weiye had initially thought they were out roaming around the base, but it turned out that no one had seen them when he asked around. Tan Weiye panicked and quickly sent people to search for them. However, they still couldn't be found even when the sky was getting dark, and there was panic everywhere as they were now heroes of the coastal base.
In the Space, everyone's superfunction had improved a lot after soaking in the Jade Spring. However, with the exception of Lu Haixuan whose endurance and quick-recovery superfunction had perfected into the light superfunction, no one had a second superfunction activated. The probability of that happening seemed low, and Xing Feng was the only lucky person to encounter it. Nonetheless, they were all very happy that their superfunctions had improved, for this wasn't something that could happen overnight.
"You've hit the jackpot this time, Haixuan. I guess you won't complain about your superfunction anymore?"
As the group walked out of the Space after dark, Zhou Zeyu put his arm on Lu Haixuan's shoulder and teased him. Before this, he was also a dual-attribute superfunction possessor just like Chu Haoling, who was a fire/space superfunction possessor, and Jiang Shang, who was a gold/speed-enhancement superfunction possessor, not to mention Jiang Shan, Meng Xu and Che. Only Lu Haixuan had felt resentful having only an endurance and quick-recovery superfunction whereby he had to rely on crystal nuclei to level up. He couldn't possibly get into a cycle of allowing others to beat him up and wait for recovery, could he?
"Of course."
Lu Haixuan was all smiles, for he didn't expect that his subpar superfunction would become the most sought-after light superfunction. The thought of them not having to wait until they got to Xiu Jie back in the base if they got injured during quests made him all hyped up.
"Look at you, you're grinning like a Cheshire cat."
Chu Haoling roasted him as he shot him a sideways glance while biting the wild fruit in his hand. He had also gained a lot having picked most of the wild fruits in the Space, and he never had to worry about not having enough food again.
"Haha…Chu, why don't you just admit that you're very happy for your man?"
Yun Che, who had already sat down on the sofa, teased them. Xing Feng took Chenchen over and carried him into the room downstairs. The little guy had already fallen asleep after having fun the whole day. They had wanted to keep him in the Space, but decided against it since Heiyu was still in deep sleep and no one would be there to take care of him if he woke up in the middle of the night. He was after all just a three-year-old child.
"Who, whose man? What's with that look, Che? Does he look like my man? I'm the one on top and he's obviously the one below!"
The topic seemed to have hit his sore spot. Chu Haoling jumped up, and everyone present looked at them back and forth before sighing at the same time. It was obvious who was the top and who was the bottom. Did they even need to guess?
"I heard that only the one at the bottom would emphasize that he's the one on top. Stop denying it, Haoling, we get the picture."
Jiang Shan mocked at him as he put his hand on Shen Rui's shoulder. Yun Che simply shrugged and laughed, as if saying that there was no way he could fool them.
"Get my foot! Ask him if you don't believe me."
Chu Haoling glared at Jiang Shan before pointing at Lu Haixuan, and the latter gave him a meaningful look with some helplessness and love in his eyes before nodding, "Whatever he says, I only care about the actual situation."
In other words, although he admitted verbally that he was the bottom, the fact was otherwise.
"Lu Haixuan, you're dead!"
"Haha…"
After getting what he meant, Chu Haoling pounced on him and the couple started bickering in front of everyone. All of them burst into laughter, and the anxiety they had for the last two weeks disappeared completely.
"What the hell, where were you guys?"
Someone shouted at the door, and Tan Weiye had already rushed in in a fluster before they could react. After taking a look at him and seeing that the subordinates who came with him were all sweating profusely, Yun Che asked with a puzzled expression, "What's happened?"
Did the zombies gather outside again? Or did the sea beasts attack again?
"What happened? Damn, I've been searching high and low for you guys and almost turned the base upside down. Where did you go?"
Despite Yun Che being the younger brother whom he held in high regard, Tan Weiye couldn't stop himself from swearing. He hadn't had both lunch and dinner because of them, but in the end they appeared in the house looking perfectly fine. Were they playing a joke on him?
"Huh?"
Suddenly realizing that this wasn't their home after all, Yun Che quickly apologized, "I'm so sorry that I forgot to inform you. Well, my pet told me to get him something before he went into deep sleep, and we were too excited when we got back. Since we couldn't get to sleep, we rode the Eagle King and Queen out."
Did this sound okay? There was nothing he could do if Tan Weiye refused to believe him. This was his explanation anyway.
"…could you please don't take me for a fool?"
Tan Weiye was rendered speechless. Even if the two eagles were mutated, there was no way they could take all of them out? They couldn't possibly go out in batches?
"Heh heh…"
Yun Che laughed without any intention to explain. Tan Weiye waved his hand helplessly, "Forget it, as long as you guys are alright. I'll go back and inform grandpa, but don't run about anymore. Grandpa will definitely ask for you guys tomorrow."
Tan Weiye stood up while talking. As long as they were all okay, he didn't have to know everything.
"Grandpa also knows?"
Yun Che also stood up, thinking that they shouldn't have made the elder worry. Tan Weiye shot him an annoyed look, "Grandpa had a sumptuous lunch prepared for you guys. He wanted to have a drink with you, but…forget it, explain to Grandpa yourself tomorrow, I gotta go."
After that, Tan Weiye turned and left. Although the crisis at the coastal base had been resolved, there was still a lot of follow-up work to be done, and all these had to be handled by him, the acting base commander. As the capital base had greatly disappointed the soldiers and civilians of the coastal base, many had proposed for the coastal base to go independent, and he was fretting over this matter.
"Ye, wait a minute."
Yun Che stopped him and took out a big bag of fruits from the Space. He caught up with Tan Weiye and handed the bag to him, "Grandpa should avoid eating too much seafood. Here are some wild fruits we picked in the southwestern mountains, take them back for Grandpa. We will visit him tomorrow, but tell him not to go through the trouble to prepare anything for us. We're not outsiders."
Yun Che had heard about the elderly man waiting outside the protection shield with Xing Feng and the rest every day for the past two weeks. Yun Che was someone who would treat whoever was kind to him doubly well. Even if the elderly man wasn't related to him by blood, he would treat him like his grandfather since he treated him like his grandson.
"Alright, you guys go to bed early then, don't fool around all night. You've just recovered, take care of your health."
Tan Weiye didn't stand on ceremony with him either. His father was the only son in the family, and so was he. Apart from the brothers in the army, he never had any siblings. He didn't know how to be a good brother, but he would do his best to be one. He could still guess a thing or two even though Yun Che didn't say anything, but he would always be behind his younger brother whether he needed it or not.
"One more thing, I've already explained that the strange things that happened to you were because of your high-level mutant beasts, but you must also be careful. Although everyone in the coastal base is united, there's bound to be one or two rotten apples. You still gotta be alert."
Before leaving, Tan Weiye paused and turned to whisper to him. The protection shield and him being in a coma in it for half a month had been blown up, and they could only push everything to Heiyu. No one knew what high-level mutant beasts were like anyway, so they could try to fool everyone for the time being, hoping that they would forget about it after some time.
"Ok, got it."
Yun Che nodded and saw him to the door, turning back only after he got into the car. In the living room, Leng Yehan was asking Yun Cheng about his superfunction. The superfunction he used when he had thought that Yun Che was dead wasn't the blasting superfunction. Prior to that, him staying in mid-air also wasn't something the blasting superfunction could do.
"I don't know."
Yun Cheng shook his head, looking clueless. What was wrong with him standing in mid-air and killing zombies that way?
"Cheng, can you describe how you tore them apart after stretching out your hand?"
Yun Che returned to the living room and sat next to Xing Feng. Although he hadn't seen how he killed the zombies, he had heard Xing Feng talk about it and was also very curious about his superfunction. It seemed to be a special superfunction that was more powerful than the blasting superfunction, and it could be used not only to kill zombies.
"You guys are really annoying."
Yun Cheng, who didn't know how to answer them, huddled up on the sofa sulking. After thinking about it for a while, he said, "They gotta be together, then I just have to stretch out my hand to separate them, and they will be torn apart."
His answer made everyone present even more stunned. Weren't the zombies already squeezed together? What they wanted to know was how he tore them apart, and at least a hundred of them each time.
"Cheng, do you mean something like they are all stacked in a house, and the house is your territory. You can do whatever you want to them?"
Yun Che asked after a moment of silence, touching his own chin. The superfunction could be…
"Yes, that's it. The house could also appear in the sky, and I didn't get dirty because I stood on top of it, hehe… am I smart?"
Yun Cheng was asking for praises, and was oblivious to their stunned faces. Being a good older brother, Yun Che rubbed his head with a smile and praised him, "Yes, Cheng is the smartest…"
Zombie!
He didn't say the last word. He believed that as his younger brother continued to level up, he would also be as intelligent as humans. Yun Che suddenly recalled the scene he saw when he was in a coma. He was doing the same thing in his previous life, looking everywhere for him, his sister and Chenchen, but they missed each other every time, and in the end…