Translator: Superbulat

Proofreader: Jae

*Sorry guys there’s some slight delay for Chapter 16, probably will publish them tomorrow (Oct 21th)

When the first rays of the morning sunlight hit the city square, the 8th Special Forces Unit had already packed their things and began broadcasting over loudspeakers.

While the noisy crowd were still grumbling behind the military truck, Jin Yang and the rest were already all prepared.

Jin Yang’s large SUV could easily accommodate six people and one rabbit, but the car was also filled with gasoline, food, clothing and other necessities. In the end, the Zhao siblings were assigned to ride in Jin Yang’s car, while Lei Hongyi would trail behind, in his own car, with his girlfriend and sister.

Except for Lei Ruduo who was not satisfied with the arrangement, no one else had any objections.

“I don’t want to sit with her!” Lei Ruduo yelled while stuffing clothes into her bag.

She didn’t want to see Lin Jia at all. Every time she saw Lin Jia’s pitiful-looking face, she was reminded of the bloody scene of her mother being ripped apart by a mutated dog. She just wanted to be in the same car as Jin Yang; why couldn’t they satisfy this simple request?

In Lei Ruduo’s heart, Lin Jia was a murderer who had indirectly killed her mother.

Her elder brother who had always fulfilled her demands also began to lose his patience with her, saying that she was being inconsiderate. She felt that her brother was biased and had become completely infatuated with Lin Jia.

While Lei Hongyi took a bucket towards the military truck to get the gasoline for the journey, Lei Ruduo scoffed at Lin Jia who was quietly packing, “You ruined my family, and now my brother even scolded me because of you. Are you satisfied now?”

Lin Jia had very delicate features and had recently lost a lot of weight due to guilt. She looked so skinny, as if she were but a piece of paper that would be blown away when the wind blew. Her lips trembled, and she said in a hoarse voice, “Little Duo, it’s not like this…”

She wanted to say that she didn’t want things to turn out like this as well. In fact, she felt extremely guilty and wished that she had died instead of Mama Lei. But before she could say any further, Lei Ruduo threw down the clothes in her hands and frowned.

“Just shut up. I get annoyed when I see you!” she yelled and stormed off.

Tears eventually streamed down Lin Jia’s cheeks. She wiped them away and continued packing in silence. But after waiting for some time, neither Lei Hongyi nor Lei Ruduo returned. She got worried and took a glance outside. There were a lot of people waiting for gasoline. The military had taken over most of the gas stations in the city, so if anyone needed gasoline, they could only get it from the military.

Lin Jia bit her lower lip. She was worried about Lei Ruduo. It was too dangerous for an ordinary girl to wander around.

She hastily packed her belongings and walked outside. There were a lot of cars parked in the city square. She shouted Lei Ruduo’s name, but the familiar face was nowhere to be found.

Lin Jia panicked. She thought of Hong Ming who had been recently hanging around with Lei Ruduo, and walked directly towards where Xiang Yingzhuo and his group were. From a distance, she saw a bright yellow floral shirt — Hong Ming was transporting their supplies. This translation is only hosted in Foxaholic.

“H-have you seen Little Duo?” she stammered as she grabbed Hong Ming’s sleeve nervously.

Lei Ruduo was missing?

Hong Ming had some genuine feelings for Lei Ruduo, and after listening to Lin Jia’s explanation, he revealed that Lei Ruduo was indeed not with him. He intended to put down the things on his hands and look around with Lin Jia.

At this time, a young woman wearing a velvet dress walked out of the Military truck. She frowned at the two as she poured the tea residue in her teacup on the ground.

“Hong Ming, what’s going on?”

Li Yingying just woke up. She couldn’t sleep after she was awakened by the continuous noises outside. She was annoyed so she went to make herself a cup of cold tea. She felt that nothing was going well in her life. When she saw Lin Jia, a member of Jin Yang’s group, she became even more irritated.

After hearing the news of Lei Ruduo’s disappearance, she smiled, thinking that the girl deserved it.

Li Yingying hated the girl. Lei Ruduo had the audacity to roll her eyes at her. Li Yingying would have slapped her long ago if it weren’t for her evolved brother. Li Yingying was so happy to hear about her disappearance, so how could she allow Hong Ming to help.

Li Yingying furrowed her brows and reminded Hong Ming, “What does she have to do with you? She’s not your girlfriend. Hurry up and pack. Yingzhuo will be back soon.”

Hong Ming thought that Li Yingying had a point. Lei Ruduo treated him like garbage but went goo-goo eyed at the sight of Jin Yang. Why didn’t they seek Jin Yang’s help instead?

He sneered, turned around, and picked up the supplies. He told Lin Jia that he was busy as they were leaving soon.

Lin Jia had no choice but to search aimlessly in the crowd. When she walked to the man-made forest behind the square, she thought that Lei Ruduo would not have run so far. She then saw a man emerging from the woods. He threw a cigarette butt on the ground and went back in.

Her intuition told her that there was something fishy going on, so she quietly tailed him. She peered inside the man-made forest and, as she had expected, saw Lei Ruduo.

Besides Lei Ruduo, there were two other familiar faces. Lin Jia recognised them as the evolved people who were about to leave the city. They instructed their underlings to tie up and gag Lei Ruduo, and then covered her head with a hood.

Lin Jia tightly covered her mouth with her hands. She had to return and inform Lei Hongyi at once. When she turned around, her face was slapped hard, and she collapsed on the ground.

The man behind, with a cigarette in his mouth, kicked the knocked out woman on the ground and took a glance at her swollen cheek. He snorted and strolled into the forest.

“Shit! Can you guys be more careful? There was a woman peeping outside!”

……

When Lei Hongyi returned with two buckets of gasoline, Lin Jia and Lei Ruduo were gone. Their luggages were rummaged through by the passersby, and some of their clothes and food had been stolen away.

He dropped the buckets in his hands on the floor with a thump before rushing out.

He went to find Hong Ming, but Hong Ming casually told him that Lin Jia had come and left, searching for his missing sister. He crazily shouted the names of the two in the crowd. People thought that he was out of his mind.

When he found Jin Yang and his teammates, they were already waiting in the car.

The Zhao sibling had nothing much to pack. Their only valuable possessions were themselves. The food they had was given to them by the military; each person was given three days worth of food. They then got into the SUV and waited for Lei Hongyi to meet up with them.

Zhao Qiyang was at the age of having Middle Schooler Syndrome. When he saw such a nice and cool car, the overly excited kid explored every inch of the car, touching here and there. Zhao Sihui was speechless at her brother’s actions.

When he was done, he turned his attention to Jin Yang.

Following their discussion, Jin Yang and Zhao Sihui decided that Zhao Sihui would drive in the morning, and Jin Yang would be driving in the evening and night. Jin Yang was currently seated in the back beside Zhao Qiyang.

Although Zhao Qiyang felt pressured and awkward, he was a simple-minded teen who, after a while, even dared to ask Jin Yang the strangest questions.

“Big Bro Jin, your family has hundreds of billions of yuan, right?”

“Big Bro Jin, do you use guns often? Why don’t you teach me? I have really good eyesight now!”

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“……”

Zhao Sihui, who was sitting in front, admired her brother’s courage for the first time.

He didn’t get discouraged when Jin Yang ignored him. Instead, he redirected his focus on Yin Yiliu who was in Jin Yang’s arms.

Yin Yiliu was still shocked by Liu Zhen’s words last night, and she fell into a deep sense of crisis. She had been listless since last night. Her ears had flopped down, and she was all curled up in Jin Yang’s arms. Even being stroked on the head wasn’t as pleasurable as it used to be.

She was puzzled. Why did Liu Zhen go OOC(Out of Character)?

Did her very existence really cause the butterfly effect?

If the butterfly’s wings fanned Liu Zhen to Jin Yang’s side, she’d rather the butterfly didn’t fan its wings at all…

Jin Yang had no idea what was wrong with his little rabbit. The fluffy little ball, who always had a good appetite, didn’t eat much this morning and stopped hopping around. He wasn’t sure if it was his imagination, but he had the impression that those pea-shaped eyes were staring at him bitterly, as if he had committed a serious crime.

He was concerned about whether the little rabbit ate something bad or if it got sick.

Zhao Qiyang moved his face up close to the little rabbit and carefully observed it.

The rabbit’s fur was very soft, its paws were pinkish, and when it yawned, its white little teeth did not appear sharp.

The little rabbit, who looked like the perfect ingredient for a mala spicy stir fry dish, could move so fast that he couldn’t see clearly, and it could even claw through the thick skin of evolved people. How incredible!

“Big Bro Jin, why doesn’t your mutated rabbit grow taller?”

“Why does it look so dispirited? Is it malnourished? Let me go down and grab some leaves for it.”

Yin Yiliu was annoyed. He kept blabbering in her ears. She gnashed her little baby teeth at Zhao Qiyang and extended her claws from her soft, pink paw, threatening to scratch him.

But who knew that not only did she fail to silence him, he even went “wow!” in amusement, bugging her to show him her claws again.

Yin Yiliu ran out of steam, along with the unknown anger that she had harboured towards Jin Yang. She sighed as she looked at the innocent Jin Yang.

Well, I can’t really blame Big Golden Thigh. Was it his fault for being such an outstanding person?

If anyone was to blame, it should be the female lead for being indecisive and trying to steer away from the main storyline.

After she got over her little ‘crisis’, she rubbed her little head against Jin Yang’s hand while trying to convey the message: Don’t worry about me. I was just drilling into bull’s horn1 just now. I’m A-OK now!

Jin Yang looked at the little rabbit who resumed her adorable antics, and his worries slowly disappeared.

Although he didn’t know what the little rabbit was upset about, Zhao Qiyang was able to make it energetic again. The kid was quite useful after all. When Jin Yang faced Zhao Qiyang again, his face became less impatient than before.

Just as the atmosphere in the car reached a strange balance, there was a sudden knock on the door, which gave Zhao Sihui a shock.

She quietly cursed as she looked out the window. Just when she opened the window and was about to complain ‘Lei Hongyi, can’t you knock lighter’, the man, who was sweating profusely, asked in a hurry, “Have you seen Lin Jia and Little Duo??”

Zhao Sihui’s face sank and shook her head. “No, it’s just the few of us in the car. We have been waiting here, but I didn’t see them coming. What’s wrong?”

Lei Hongyi’s face was livid. He clenched his fists tightly and said, “They’re both missing.”

Missing. Gone. Where could two women possibly go in such a short period of time?

The people heading north had begun to depart at this point. Lei Hongyi couldn’t stop these people from leaving just because he was looking for someone. “Little Yang, you have to help me!” he said anxiously to Zhao Qiyang.

Zhao Qiyang turned serious and transformed into his mutated state in the back seat. The clothes on his body burst into pieces. Densely packed green bumps appeared all over his body. His head flattened, and a large tail emerged from his back.

Yin Yiliu was at close range, so she could see the disgusting skin clearly. She was terrified of reptiles like snakes and lizards, and she also suffered from mild trypophobia, so she nearly died at the sight.

Fortunately, Jin Yang covered her eyes with his palm and hugged her closely with his arms.

Zhao Qiyang’s evolved form was a massive lizard. After Zhao Sihui opened the door at his side, he leaned out of the car, rolled his cloudy eyes and stuck out his forked tongue, trying to catch the scents of Lin Jia and Lei Ruduo in the air.

After a while, he twisted his body clumsily and said, “Bro, I can’t smell them.”

“Logically speaking, this is impossible,” Zhao Qiyang continued, “unless there is an evolved person around Lin Jia and Little Duo who can block me from detecting their scent.”

What he said was very clear cut. Lin Jia and Lei Ruduo were not involved in an accident. They were abducted by evolved people.

Lei Hongyi’s face turned pale. He watched the cars gradually leaving the square, thanked Zhao Qiyang, and said to Jin Yang and Zhao Sihui, “Jin Yang, Sihui, I can’t join you guys anymore. See you in City Z!”

As he spoke, his muscles expanded and he grew taller. When he used his abilities, his speed also increased by more than twice as much, and he quickly disappeared from sight.

Zhao Sihui shook her head. What had become of the world?

But they were just nodding acquaintances who decided to team up temporarily. It was impossible for them to postpone their journey or abandon their plans for Lei Hongyi.

They could barely take care of themselves; they did not have the power to help everyone else.

The few people in the car came to an unspoken agreement. Zhao Qiyang gradually reverted into human form. There was nothing much to see on an adolescent’s naked chest, but Jin Yang still covered Yin Yiliu’s eyes, looking displeased as if he was protecting his daughter. He pulled out a spare set of clothes and threw it on the boy.

“Hurry up and put it on.”

Zhao Qiyang glanced at the little white rabbit shaking its ears in Jin Yang’s arms. Is this even necessary? He could be wearing nothing at all, and a rabbit wouldn’t even understand anyway!

The author has something to say: Lemme repeat again, I’m not putting in fillers to meet my word count. The people that were described a lot in the early stages will definitely reappear later ww

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Footnotes

钻羊角尖 (Drill into goat’s horn) or more commonly written as 钻牛角尖 (Drill into bull’s horn) (idiom): Take unnecessary pains to study an insignificant or insoluble problem; split hairs; get into dead end.

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