9.4

Zhou Yunsheng was awakened by a sharp pain, as if something was burrowing in his limbs and bones, greedily devouring his flesh and blood. After experiencing so many hardships and dangers, protecting himself had become an instinct, and he immediately operated his soul power to wrap his heart and other vital organs. The feeling of intense pain was much lessened in an instant.

This was not his Star Ocean space, and at the moment of death, an extremely powerful force wrapped around him and yanked him toward the twisted space-time turbulence. The power was very violent, but it didn’t harm him in the slightest, and instead, it evened out some of it to warm up his damaged soul.

It was a very empty and simple room without any decoration or furniture, the only living thing was a sofa cushion padded underneath. A tidal wave of memories quickly flooded into his mind, causing the soul-traumatized Zhou Yunsheng to stifle a pained groan.

He unexpectedly returned to this world again as Bai Mohan, but it was already the world after the protagonists were reborn. According to Bai Mohan’s memories, the fate remains unchanged. The two protagonists heard that an army was preparing to escort Dr. Bai to Base B, so they cleverly blended in and became the main force of the army. They killed everyone who had betrayed Lei Chuan before, and now they are preparing to take action against Dr. Bai, who is heavily protected.

Just yesterday, Guo Zerui designed to hang the army responsible for escorting Dr. Bai, he could have ended Dr. Bai’s life with a single shot, but due to his hatred being too deep, he was unwilling to let Dr. Bai die a painful death, so he quietly sprinkled a few seeds of the Blood Silk Vine into Dr. Bai’s diet.

Blood silk vine is a kind of plant like blood silk, the largest is only a few millimeters in diameter, the smallest is even thinner than human microvessels, they are hidden in the soil, and when they see a passing animal or a human being, they will quietly pierce their skin to parasitize them, and then spread to the whole body along the blood vessels, and they will rely on the sucking of the host’s flesh and blood to live every day, until they sucked their hosts into the air-dried skin before they will merge into the mud and look for the next host.

If this plant is cut off, it will not die, but will grow into two new plants, the reproduction ability is very strong, the only way to completely eliminate it is by fire. The parasitized human must find a wood system psychic to set it aside in the shortest possible time, or else he or she will surely die.

Of course, human beings can even kill zombies, this kind of plant although terrible but not all countermeasures. Medical scientists have invented a potion that can make the blood give off the odor that the blood vine hates, after taking the potion the blood vine will not dare to come close to it, even if it has already been parasitized, it will still burrow out along the throat.

The inventor of this potion was no one else, it happened to be Baimohan, but unfortunately, time had turned back and this potion was not currently available.

Zhou Yunsheng repeatedly searched his mind for memories of Lei Chuan and Guo Zerui, and finally determined that these two people had indeed been reborn, and that they hated Bai Mohan to the bone. Without realizing it, the gazes they looked at Bai Mohan were filled with killing intent.

So Lei Chuan is really brain dead and doesn’t know about Bai Mohan’s development of the anti-zombie virus vaccine, or else a person like him who cares about the big picture would never do anything to Bai Mohan at this time.

Fuck, all the efforts have been wasted! Zhou Yunsheng frowned severely. Now, his mission was still the same as last time, to save the world, but the difficulty had risen directly to the S level. First, he had to pull out the blood vine in his body to save his life, secondly, he had to get a bottle of Lei Chuan’s blood and refrigerate it, then he had to escape to Base B with the blood under the siege of the two protagonists, and lastly, he had to follow the old ways to develop a vaccine.

While the last step amounted to a snap for him, the first three were difficult.

He didn’t have a wood-type ability to manipulate the Blood Silk Vine, and he couldn’t ask for help from the others in the team because most of them were Guo Zerui and Lei Chuan’s subordinates, all waiting to get him killed. The only solution for now was to extract soul power to expel the Blood Silk Vine.

This meant that his soul, which had just recovered a little, would become riddled with holes again, and even more so, it meant that his spirit-based psychic abilities would never be able to be improved. The size of the spiritual power determined the strength of the supernormal ability, and soul power and spiritual power were actually the same thing in the end. If the soul was damaged, even if he triggered his psychic ability, it would still be like a chicken rib, no matter how many crystal cores he absorbed, it would be like a mud cow entering the sea, silent.

As far as he knew, treasures that could directly repair the soul did not exist in this world, which meant that he was the equivalent of an ordinary person here with no power in his hands. How could an ordinary person escape from the surroundings of so many high-level aberrations and get Lei Chuan’s blood without any problems?

Since Guo Zerui and Lei Chuan were both reborn, they started to stockpile food, weapons, and contacts very early, they knew the secret of crystal cores being able to cultivate in advance, and now that the end of the world had only just erupted for half a year, they were already level 4 xenos, opening up a gap of five or six whole years with others. Even the top alien in the world could not hurt Lei Chuan a hair.

It could be said that if they wanted to get anyone killed now, it would just be a matter of moving their fingers.

After reincarnating so many times, this was the most suffocating Zhou Yunsheng had ever felt. But no matter what, he had to find a way to complete the mission in order to obtain enough energy to repair his soul.

Thinking like this, he began to utilize his soul power to force out the Blood Silk Vines spread throughout his body bit by bit. The supplies he obtained in the temporal turbulence were finally depleted, and the Blood Silk Vine was forced down his throat, it was a good thing that he had protected his heart and other vital organs beforehand, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to survive for long even if he forced it out.

But the damage caused by the engulfment of flesh and blood was still not small, he felt pain all over his body as if it had been run over by a truck, and the familiar fishy-sweet sensation spilled out of his teeth.

Just then, the door to the room was suddenly slammed open, and a tall figure swooped down on him like the wind, shouting excitedly, “Doctor, how are you?!”

Bai Mohan’s glasses broke during the escape, well at this time his eyesight is not so bad as to be half blind, when the visitor was only one or two meters away from himself Zhou Yunsheng finally recognized the identity of the other party, and his highly guarded mood slackened for a moment.

He pushed away the tall man intent on embracing him and slumped to the floor with a wolfish gagging sound, a cascade of blood pattering onto the floor in a pool of gore, and even more tiny, worm-like things struggling and saving in the pool of blood, reaching out to the warm, living thing close by.

“Stand back, it’s a blood vine!” He coughed as he quickly pulled the man back.

The man’s heart was startled at the words, and he immediately operated his foreign energy to form a metal partition, blocking the spiderweb-like tentacles of the Blood Silk Vine that were furiously surging over. Against this kind of plant absolutely can’t be cut down, the more they cut down the more they multiply, the only way to escape from their net is to attack by fire.

But there were only the two of them in the room, where did the fire alien come from?

The man’s powers were not yet at the level of full-body metallization, so he could only manage to create a metal film to wrap around his legs and run towards the door with the Doctor in his arms.

It was a suite, three rooms and one hall, Bai Mohan was placed in the innermost bedroom, the rest of the rooms were occupied by Lei Chuan’s subordinates and the survivors they had rescued on the road.

Guo Zerui and Lei Chuan tell their subordinates that Bai Mohan is an evil scientist who experiments on human beings and is the culprit of the end of the world, and tell them to ignore Bai Mohan’s death no matter what commotion they hear. The survivors are scared by the zombies and don’t dare to run around unless necessary.

So until the sound of the break-in came a long time later, no one came out to check it out.

The man ran towards the gate carrying the Doctor who kept coughing up blood. He was also a soldier, also attached to Base B, but was not involved in the mission of escorting Dr. Bai. Fortunately, he was out gathering supplies when he was reborn and was not far from Dr. Bai’s group, so he immediately drove a military jeep day and night to get here.

This was an upscale neighborhood with security measures in place that had been cleaned up by Lei Chuan and his subordinates, specifically to house the survivors in order to select useful subordinates from them. In this life, they wanted to form their own forces, and talent was indispensable.

The men took off their uniforms for civilian clothes and pretended to be ordinary survivors, and it took a lot of work to blend in.

When he heard that the B base’s army was completely wiped out, and now the ones escorting Dr. Bai were the special forces led by Lei Chuan and Guo Zerui, and that Lei Chuan and Guo Zerui were already level four psychics, and had long known the secret of the crystal nuclei’s ability to cultivate, his heart thumped in his chest.

He is a reborn person, found that the situation is completely inconsistent with the memory, unavoidably think a little too much, that night picked the house directly opposite Dr. White’s room to stay, using infrared binoculars to observe Dr. White’s situation, found him lying on the ground and kept coughing up blood, that scene reminds him of the last life when Dr. White was near death, at that moment, he could not care about anything, and immediately ran over to check it out.

Lei Chuan and his subordinates had no good intentions towards Dr. Bai, but the survivors knew that Dr. Bai was the top medical doctor in China, and that he had gone to Base B this time to conduct research on an anti-zombie virus vaccine. They saw him as the hope of China and naturally didn’t want to see him killed, and there were even armed forces from several other bases lurking around, trying to loot Dr. Bai away.

This was the fundamental reason why Guo Zerui had adopted the Blood Silk Vine to assassinate Dr. Bai.

As long as he got Dr. White out of this room, Lei Chuan wouldn’t lay a hand on Dr. White again in plain sight, and he’d have time to plan how to escape with Dr. White.

The man thought a lot, but it only took him a few blinks of an eye. He ran out of the room littered with bloodied vines, and just as he was about to speed up he stopped violently, deep scorn in his eyes.

Lei Chuan was standing straight in his way, a pair of eyes covered with blood, so much so that the pupils reflected a reddish glow, looking as horrifying as a wild beast that had lost its mind. He stared straight at the man who kept coughing up blood, a few veins appeared on the corners of his forehead, and his jaw was as stiff as a statue because of his clenched teeth, so it was obvious that his emotions were on the verge of a rampage.

An aura both eerie and fiery permeated his body as he spoke slowly, word for word, “Give him to me!”

Zhou Yunsheng climbed hard on the man’s neck, his dark eyes had no other emotions but wariness. The assassination plan had failed, Lei Chuan was going to do it himself?

Lei Chuan met his defensive gaze hastily, and his already gloomy face became more and more ugly.

“Give him back!” He took a few steps forward to snatch it up, but found a dense layer of silky objects pouring out of the room and slowly climbing up the backs of his feet.

He quickly rummaged through his mind to find his previous memories, which were the Blood Silk Vines that Guo Zerui had planted into Bai Mohan’s body! His already crimson eyes exploded with a ferocious light, and he burned these ugly and unpleasant monsters to ashes with a handful of fire, then closed the door of the room behind him tightly and said in a deep voice, “Put him down!”

The men are no match for Raichuan, and fearing that Dr. White will be hurt in the fight, they are forced to compromise.

A soldier in a special operations uniform heard his boss’s voice and rushed to open the door of his room to check the situation. Lei Chuan occupied his room and kicked out all the idle people.

The bed and sofa in Bai Mohan’s room had been appropriated by these men, and the soft, snow-white mattress-covered king-sized bed looked very comfortable. The man carefully placed Dr. Bai on the bed, and was about to go to the bathroom to get a towel to clean up for Dr. Bai, but when he saw Lei Chuan blocking the doorway with his eyes staring red, he immediately dismissed the idea.

He didn’t dare to take a step away from Dr. Bai. Obviously, not only he was reborn, even Lei Chuan was reborn, and perhaps Guo Zerui, otherwise they would not have arranged this murder so carefully under the premise of never having met before. Placed in Dr. Bai, he is certainly not reborn, otherwise would not be defenseless to follow Lei Chuan and Guo Zerui side.

The man removed the pillowcase and gently wiped the corners of Dr. White’s bloodstained mouth and neck.

Zhou Yunsheng’s brain was in severe pain, and the muscle tissues that were penetrated by the Blood Silk Vine were oozing a large amount of blood. He had to continue to extract soul power to repair his body, which also intensified the headache. This simply formed a vicious cycle, the weaker he was, the more he had to rely on soul power to repair, and the more he extracted soul power, the weaker he became.

At this rate, he may not survive for a few days.

Thinking like this, Zhou Yunsheng’s mouth spewed out another large stream of blood, dirtying the corners of the man’s mouth and neck that he had just wiped clean again.

The man’s eyes were scarlet, his heart was twisting, and his voice took on a distinct choking tone as he called out to Dr. White. Why is it that good people are never rewarded? Hundreds of millions of living beings had been given a new life because of him, and such merit was not enough to offset that little bit of killing sin? God can not be so unfair!

Lei Chuan sprinted two steps and reached out his hand to touch Dr. Bai, but the man grabbed his wrist with force, gritting his teeth and growling lowly, ”Get out of the way, don’t touch him! If you dare to make a move, I don’t mind shouting through your conspiracy. Although the people from Base B have already been killed by you, as far as I know there are still a few other bases following you. They know the value of Dr. White and will definitely not stand idly by!”

This was not enough power to stop Lei Chuan, but he did not dare to move again. He was shocked and pained to realize that Bai Mohan was coughing up blood as he tried to curl up his body and hide towards the man’s back, and the look he gave him was so strange, cold, and guarded.

“Don’t be afraid, I just want to help you heal. I have healing psychic abilities.” The psychic ability that he had never shown to anyone before was so easily revealed to Bai Mohan and he waited nervously for his reaction, even his palms began to sweat. He thought that he would show a look of joy at the sight of the hunt and then accept his approach. He knew Bai Mohan too well, in order to find a way to fight the zombie virus, he would not let go of any possibility, even if he was asked to get close to the devil, he would not shy away.

But Lei Chuan had stayed in the lab for too long, forgetting the most crucial point, that although healing system psychics were rare, they were not absent. In the beginning, Bai Mohan would be interested in him because his healing ability was the most special, even those infected with the zombie virus could be saved.

When he spoke vaguely, Bai Mohan just assumed that he was an ordinary healing psychic and would not risk his life to get close to him. Moreover, now that the person had been changed to Zhou Yunsheng, he was even less likely to throw himself into the net.

“You want to kill me, why? I, Bai Mohan, spend a lot of time in laboratories or operating rooms, and I don’t think I’ve done anything to hurt the world.” Zhou Yunsheng coughed up blood while speaking weakly. He would not reveal his identity as a reborn person, that would only intensify Lei Chuan and Guo Zerui’s hatred towards him, after all, the current Bai Mohan’s hands were very clean and had not experimented on anyone.

Lei Chuan was dumbfounded as a deep sense of powerlessness struck his heart. If he could have been reborn earlier, he would never have let things proceed to this point. By rummaging through his memories, he knew that Guo Zerui must have been reborn as well, or else he wouldn’t have told him before the end of the world that he had to gather supplies, buy weapons, and stockpile military power.

Guo Zerui guides him forward to block the army protecting Bai Mohan, telling him that Bai Mohan is a pervert specializing in human experimentation, and that monsters like zombies are the products of his experiments. He says he wants to kill him to prevent him from creating more monsters.

After getting along for eight-nine years with a brother and a stranger, Lei Chuan of course chose to trust his brother. He secretly strangled the army protecting Bai Mohan and agreed to Guo Zerui’s plan to plant the Blood Silk Vine in Bai Mohan’s body.

The moment he opened his eyes and finished receiving all the memories, he was terrified beyond words, the scene of Bai Mohan covering his chest and collapsing repeatedly replayed in his mind, causing his heart to strangle, his eyes to go red, and the nerves that had been repeatedly pulled were almost ready to collapse.

However, all the previous anxiety and sorrow could not be more hurtful than Bai Mohan’s defensive eyes, which cut his violently beating heart into pieces in an instant.

“I ……,” he said, his throat clogging up so badly that he just spit out the word and couldn’t get it out anymore.

“How do you know it was us who tried to kill you? The Blood Silk Vine is everywhere, it’s not likely that you unintentionally got it when you were resting in the wilderness.” Guo Zerui appeared in the doorway with a very impatient tone, and at the end, he looked at the man protecting Bai Mohan’s body and asked, “Who are you? What’s your relationship with him? Why did you mix into our team?”

“This is not your base, all survivors have the right to stay here.” The man avoided answering, there were armed forces from other bases in the area, and he was certain that Lei Chuan and Guo Zerui wouldn’t make a big fuss.

Guo Zerui sneered and stopped pursuing. He assumed that the man was a wood system psychic, helping Bai Mohan to dial out the blood silk vines in his body, while the boss heard the commotion and came over to make good.

There are other survivors living in this room, fearing that the boss will rise up and kill someone and make people’s hearts flutter, Guo Zerui quietly tugged on his sleeve.

Lei Chuan brushed him away and crouched – down to say word for word, “I won’t kill you, you don’t need to defend yourself against me!” Seeing Bai Mohan struggling to support his body to hide towards the corner of the bed, his crimson eyes slid through a dark light, and with a raised hand, he threw out a purple ball of electricity, putting down the man who had been guarding him, and then forcefully gripped his thin wrists, channeling pure healing psychic energy into his body.

The body that had been drilled by the Blood Silk Vine with thousands of holes was quickly repaired. However, the damage caused to the soul cannot be compensated by the supernatural ability, Zhou Yunsheng immediately shook off Lei Chuan when he felt better, and pulled out a silver □□□□ from his close coat pocket and aimed it at him.

“Thank you for the treatment, but please get out now or I’ll shoot.”

Lei Chuan raised his hands and slowly backed away, his face expressionless, but his heart was violently tossing and turning. He had guarded him day and night, and had endlessly talked to himself to him, giving up all his hatred for him, even looking forward to starting over with him after awakening.

Yet what was in front of him was definitely not the scene he had imagined; he should not have feared him, defended him, or even hated him. He seemed to have come too late.

Disgusted that Lei Chuan’s pace of retreat was too slow, Zhou Yunsheng shook the handle of his gun and threatened again, “Please get out immediately!” Since Lei Chuan and Guo Zerui did not intend to tear their faces off right now, this meant that he still had a chance to escape, especially since the heavens had treated him well and gave him a helper.

Guo Zerui sneered and pulled his boss out, flinging the door of the room shut with a bang.

Zhou Yunsheng immediately put away the □□ and dragged the man lying on the ground paralyzed onto the bed and placed him there. Both of them were exhausted and bruised, neither of them spoke for a while.

Lei Chuan led Guo Zerui into his room and opened the door to order, “Don’t touch Bai Mohan in the future! He’s not the kind of inhuman scientist you make him out to be.”

“No boss, you don t know ……” Guo Zerui wanted to explain, but did not know how to narrate that he is a reborn so bizarre, the boss will definitely think that he has mental problems.

“I know, even better than you do, that I was reborn too, just now.” Lei Chuan interrupted him.

Guo Zerui was dumbfounded and froze for a minute before speaking sharply, “Boss, since you are also reborn you should kill Bai Mohan with your own hands, why do you still not allow me to move him? Could it be that you have Stockholm Syndrome?”

Lei Chuan didn’t say anything for a long time. He did have Stockholm Syndrome, and it was not a bad disease. The painful memories of Bai Mohan cutting him up inside and out with a scalpel were all replaced by the image of the man silently weeping as he gazed into the evening sun that evening. His eyes full of hope and joy were more magnificent than the warm burning clouds. In that moment, he wanted to wipe away his tears, take him into his arms and kiss his thin cheeks, and think with him of a better and purer future.

The moment he died, he felt like his entire world and philosophy had collapsed as well. He wanted, against all odds, to destroy that image and start everything over.

But when it did all start over, he hated to kill himself.

“Another half a year passed after your death, and Bai Mohan developed an anti-zombie virus vaccine.” In the end, he only gave a simple reason. But this reason was already enough, no matter how many people sacrificed and suffered for this, compared to the survival of all mankind, it all seemed so insignificant.

Guo Zerui was incomparably shocked, staring at his slightly trembling hands in a daze. It was these hands that had almost destroyed the hopes of all mankind! Luckily, that wood system psychic had arrived in time, fortunately!

“Big brother, I won’t move him. But you’re not going to go and be a test subject for him again, are you?” Guo Zerui suddenly found himself in a dilemma. Of course he wanted Bai Mohan to research a vaccine, but he also didn’t want him to tie his big brother to a test bed and cut him up.

“Actually, the development of the vaccine only requires my blood, so it’s fine to provide him with fresh blood at regular intervals. I have a measure for this, so you don’t have to worry.” Lei Chuan waved his hand to dismiss his brother and released his spiritual power to probe towards Bai Mohan’s room.

Perhaps because of his rebirth, his spiritual power was extremely powerful, and he was already able to cover an area within a hundred meter radius. He was used to staying by Bai Mohan’s side at all times, and just leaving for a few minutes made him feel uneasy and panicked.