DDT - Chapter 14
Chapter 14: Zombie King × Little White Flower (13)
Inside the luxurious villa.
Chi Junluo stood coldly on the stairs, looking down at the man who appeared somewhat embarrassed. She said nothing.
For a moment, the spacious living room fell into silence.
Officer Wang struggled to adjust his facial muscles. Within a few breaths, the embarrassed expression had vanished completely, and his face was once again radiant.
"Beautiful lady, please don't speak of me that way. My heart will ache." Officer Wang stood up quite gracefully, gave a slight bow toward the stairs, and said, "Beautiful lady, I have admired you for a long time. Might I be so bold as to ask for your name?"
"No." Chi Junluo glanced with some disgust at the posturing Officer Wang and rejected him flatly and decisively.
"Beautiful lady, please don't be so quick to refuse me, alright?" Officer Wang straightened up, swept a hand through the bangs on his forehead, lifted his chin, and said with feigned deep emotion, "I adore you. I hope you will agree to be my woman. I will give you the best, most wonderful things in the entire world. In this bloodthirsty apocalypse, I will grant you the safest harbor. So, I ask, are you willing?"
Chi Junluo raised an eyebrow in displeasure. In her sea of consciousness, the Heavenly Dao said with a cheeky grin, "Ooh! Chi Chi's romantic luck has arrived! It's here!"
Chi Junluo opened her mouth and said, "Noisy."
Those two words, sharp and penetrating, floated into Officer Wang's ears. The displeasure in his heart could finally no longer be suppressed.
He, Officer Wang, was the strongest ability user in the entire B City Base and one of its high-ranking officials. What kind of man or woman couldn't he have? He was usually as gentle as jade, publicly acknowledged as the most elegant gentleman in B City Base. He was handsome and good in bed; countless men and women flocked to him on a daily basis.
Was this woman before him blind? Could she not see how great he was?
"Beautiful lady, you've only just arrived at the base. You probably don't know who I am, do you?" Officer Wang's expression darkened slightly, but he still wore what he considered a handsome, fake smile as he asked with a touch of pride.
"Who cares who you are? This is my territory. You came uninvited. Shouldn't you see yourself out? Otherwise, I don't mind tossing you out on your head." With my short temper, do you really think I'm going to humor you? Chi Junluo thought.
Officer Wang's composure finally shattered, and he couldn't even maintain his fake smile. "Do you have any idea who I am?! I am the strongest ability user in B City Base, a person in power here. Even this house was a gift from me! Otherwise, did you think old man Yi had the capital to give you such a high-class residence?"
Officer Wang shed his "gentle" facade, his entire demeanor turning stern and cold-blooded. "Woman, I can give you better. Don't refuse me, and don't provoke me! Otherwise… the consequences are beyond what you can imagine."
Watching the bizarre man below her switch faces as if it were a game, Chi Junluo was somewhat astonished. What kind of clown did this monkey send? It was like he had a split personality, and he was even going for the overbearing CEO trope so popular on sites like Green JJ.
In her sea of consciousness, the Heavenly Dao started munching on popcorn. "Oh, it's a rotten peach blossom!"
Hearing the Heavenly Dao's detached, teasing tone, Chi Junluo said with some exasperation, "Shut up!"
Those words weren't directed at Officer Wang, but since he and Chi Junluo were the only two people there, he naturally assumed she was telling him to shut up.
In all his time since the apocalypse began, no one had ever dared to talk back to him like this!
This woman was so special!
"Woman, you've successfully caught my attention." Officer Wang's face grew grim, his eyes flashing with a venomous light, yet the words that came out of his mouth were the kind of overbearing CEO lines that made Chi Junluo want to burst out laughing.
"Hahahaha!" The Heavenly Dao showed no restraint, roaring with laughter in Chi Junluo's sea of consciousness.
"Little girl, if you submit to me now, I can overlook your past rudeness. But if you still refuse to obey, then don't blame me for being impolite!" Officer Wang raised his right hand, clenching it into a glittering golden fist as a show of force.
This Officer Wang was actually a metal ability user!
"Hmph. Utterly ridiculous. So what if you're an ability user? Get out of here right now!" Chi Junluo snorted coldly, expressing her dissatisfaction with having her territory invaded.
"You've chosen the hard way!" Officer Wang's body began to transform into a golden substance, the change visible to the naked eye. With every step he took forward, the golden material on his body rippled, forming small waves across his surface.
This metal ability user had actually evolved to the point where he could transform himself into liquid metal!
Officer Wang, the only 7th-level ability user in B City Base, one of the few 7th-level ability users in all of C Country that could be counted on one hand!
Chi Junluo felt a sense of pressure. An ability user who could make even a Zombie King feel something was truly no simple character!
The battle was about to erupt!
Beneath the duplex villa.
After descending in the slow-moving elevator for about a minute, it seemed to reach the bottom and then began to move horizontally.
Today, Yi Mingchang seemed to be in a pleasant mood. His eyes were gentle, and the sharp angles of his face no longer seemed so off-putting. He had even specially trimmed his beard today, making him look much more refreshed.
It was as if some monumental good news was on its way.
With a "ding," the elevator came to a steady stop, and the doors slid open.
They had arrived at the B City Base Advanced Research Institute.
Before them was a long, wide corridor bustling with people. Both sides of the corridor were lined with numerous rooms. The rooms had enormous transparent glass windows, through which one could see researchers inside, either working intensely on experiments or holding meetings.
Dressed in a crisp white lab coat, Yi Mingchang led his daughter, Yi Shuhan, into the corridor. The researchers coming and going would give Yi Mingchang a polite, slight bow and murmur, "Mr. Yi," before hurrying on their way. They seemed to have little interest in Yi Shuhan's unfamiliar face, or rather, there was a strange sense of accustomed indifference.
Yi Shuhan followed behind Yi Mingchang, her steps steady and unflustered, her face showing no sign of anything unusual.
Inside, however, doubts had already begun to surface.
This Advanced Research Institute in B City must have been established long ago. It was absolutely impossible to build something so complete, so exquisitely decorated, and so well-equipped in just over a year since the apocalypse. The number of researchers here was also large; they couldn't have been gathered from all over the world in such a short time.
Then, the only possibility was that this institute had existed long before the apocalypse! But if so, why had there been no news of such a massive research facility before the end of the world?!
She, Yi Shuhan, as Yi Mingchang's daughter, had never once heard her father mention this Advanced Research Institute in her twenty-odd years of life!
To build such a colossal institute was not something that could be done in a few years! It would require at least a decade, perhaps even longer!
A chill ran through Yi Shuhan's heart. She couldn't figure out what was going on. Yi Mingchang continued to lead without stopping. The two of them walked for nearly twenty minutes inside this enormous underground institute, turning numerous corners and passing through layer after layer of security doors, finally arriving at a spacious laboratory.
This was the research center of the entire institute. Yi Shuhan looked at the words "Research Center" glowing with a futuristic light above the door, silently reading them to herself before stepping forward to follow her father.
The heavy metal door closed behind them.
Inside the research center stood more than a dozen researchers. Some had gray hair, while others were clearly Westerners. Their average age appeared to be no less than forty.
This was likely the core brain trust of the entire Advanced Research Institute.
Yi Shuhan felt a faint sense of foreboding. Something felt wrong, but she couldn't put her finger on it.
"Shuhan," Yi Mingchang called out.
Yi Shuhan was slightly taken aback. Her father had always called her by her full name, never so intimately. She was puzzled, wondering what he was up to. She took a step forward and replied, "Father."
"Let me introduce everyone. This is my daughter, Yi Shuhan. Shuhan, these are my father's colleagues." A look of joy was evident on Yi Mingchang's face as he made the introductions.
The dozen or so researchers had already been curious. The normally stern and unsmiling Yi Mingchang was suddenly beaming with joy today and had even brought an unfamiliar young woman to the research center. It was truly unexpected.
This was the research center, after all! It was Yi Mingchang's most treasured place, the culmination of more than half his life's work. It was the last place he would bring someone casually.
However, as soon as they heard she was Yi Mingchang's daughter, understanding dawned on them. Instantly, everyone's expression shifted to one of comprehension.
Yi Shuhan had been carefully observing everyone and naturally saw the change in the researchers' expressions. Seeing the strange light in their eyes, the bad feeling in the pit of her stomach grew heavier.
Seeing everyone's knowing expression that said, "I get it, I know, I won't say anything," Yi Mingchang nodded in satisfaction. He led Yi Shuhan to a row of reagents displayed on a test tube rack.
The beautiful golden reagents shimmered with a golden light. Yi Mingchang reached out, took one of the tubes, and turned to face Yi Shuhan behind him. "Are you sure you want to become an assistant at the Advanced Research Institute?"
Yi Mingchang was certain that Yi Shuhan would give an affirmative answer.
Yi Shuhan looked at the golden reagent, unable to pinpoint what felt wrong. She pinched the palm of her hand, trying hard to calm herself.
"Yes, Father."
Meanwhile, back in the villa, Chi Junluo had cautiously prepared for battle, watching as Officer Wang transformed into a giant, flowing net of liquid metal and lunged toward her.
Suddenly, in Chi Junluo's sea of consciousness, the Heavenly Dao's expression changed, dropping his metaphorical melon. "The heroine is in danger!"
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