Chapter 59
Ye Xuan chuckled softly. A loser’s threat did not make people afraid. It only looked ridiculous, like a creature baring its fangs and waving its claws.
“Most of the people in Team C used to be unemployed drifters or street thugs. They’re not exactly high quality. There’s no need to bother with them,” Xia Chenxi said to Ye Xuan.
“I know, but I don’t want to go around them either. Otherwise, they’ll think I’m scared of them and only get worse.”
Ye Xuan’s words made sense. When dealing with people like that, the more you backed down, the easier it was for them to bully you.
A bunch of people who bullied the weak and feared the strong.
Xia Chenxi rubbed Ye Xuan’s head. “If you run into something you can’t solve, call me anytime. I’ll be there.”
The gesture was far too indulgent. Ye Xuan shrank his neck a little and stammered, “G-Got it.”
That sounded too dry, so Ye Xuan asked another question to change the subject. “Are you here to train too?”
That question was a little unnecessary. If Xia Chenxi was not here to train, was he here to shop?
Ye Xuan slapped himself in his heart.
“Yes, I’m here to train. To challenge Nan Yunzhou’s virtual model.”
Ye Xuan: “?”
“You challenged him?”
“Yes.”
Ye Xuan hesitated before asking, “Is it… because of me?”
It sounded narcissistic, but Ye Xuan vaguely felt part of the reason had to do with him.
A smile spread across Xia Chenxi’s face. He rubbed Ye Xuan’s head again.
“In your heart, am I like that?” Randomly getting jealous.
Ye Xuan’s cheeks heated up, and he shook his head.
A shy little fox. Xia Chenxi liked Ye Xuan like this—cute and obedient.
“He has already accepted my challenge. Don’t worry, you are part of the reason, but not much. I just want to experience what it feels like to challenge a special combat team member. He’s the base’s challenge-match winning streak king. Losing wouldn’t be embarrassing, and if I win, it means I’m better.”
Xia Chenxi had made a very good calculation. Weighing the pros and cons had already become part of his bones. He would carefully consider every decision he made.
Except when it came to Ye Xuan.
Even if Ye Xuan asked him to go through fire and water, he would not hesitate for even a moment.
Ye Xuan did not know what Xia Chenxi was thinking. He only saw the smile at the corner of his mouth.
Compared with this morning, his mood seemed much better now.
“Then go train first. See you this afternoon.”
After sending Ye Xuan to the door of his room, Xia Chenxi closed the door for him and headed upstairs.
The warmth on his cheeks still remained. Ye Xuan patted his own face to wake himself up.
Training time. He should not let his thoughts wander.
Ye Xuan was already very familiar with this type of room. He put on the equipment, entered the virtual space, and chose combat simulation.
Different virtual portraits of ability users appeared in front of Ye Xuan. Under each portrait were their name, number, and team.
He swiped past all the special combat team members, Team 1 members, and his own teammates, then pulled the list to the middle and saw Team C.
Team C was not at the very bottom, which surprised Ye Xuan a little. He kept pulling back and actually saw members of the reserve team.
Ye Xuan randomly selected someone and tapped, only to find that he could not click on them.
It seemed the system had only recorded the information of reserve team members. Without concrete data, it could not generate a model.
Ye Xuan pulled back and chose someone from Team C to challenge.
After challenging three people in a row, Ye Xuan found it very easy.
Most members of Team C were space-type ability users. They were fast, but compared with Ye Xuan, their abilities were extremely inferior.
No matter how fast they were, Ye Xuan could blink to their side in an instant and kill them with one cut.
If he met them in the challenge match, those would be free points.
Ye Xuan then chose a few strength-type ability users. Strength-type ability users not only had great strength but also higher defense. Among Team C, they were a little harder to deal with than space-type ability users.
But only a little.
Ye Xuan still took them down easily.
There were also a few people with rather special abilities, such as Quan Guanxi, whose ability was berserk enhancement.
Ye Xuan understood Quan Guanxi’s methods very well. He did not choose Quan Guanxi as a challenge target, but instead chose an ability user whose ability was imprisonment.
The name sounded impressive, but in reality, it was just summoning a wooden cage to trap him. Within a certain range, his ability could ignore any obstruction.
Ye Xuan classified him as free points.
He chose another ability user whose ability was burning.
This ability user’s ability was to condense a circle of flames beneath his feet.
In group combat, this ability might be somewhat useful. But in a challenge match, it was truly not enough.
And it had a wind-up. During the time that person stood there holding his breath and concentrating, Ye Xuan could have already gone up and knocked him down with one punch.
Free points.
Ye Xuan chose another one.
Free points.
Free points.
After challenging everyone in Team C, Ye Xuan classified all of them as free points.
It was not ability discrimination. He could only say there was a reason they were in Team C.
This was probably what people called a talent gap. It was not something hard work could make up for.
Ye Xuan was very confident about Sunday’s challenge match.
He then chose zombie simulation and found that there was one more option: hybrid-type zombies. After tapping it, a strength-defense-type zombie appeared, followed by a long ellipsis.
That meant it would continue to update later.
Ye Xuan tapped it, and an explanation appeared on the screen.
After research, it has been discovered that the weakness of strength-defense-type zombies lies in the lower back. After mutation, their arms become thicker, their legs become shorter, and their skin is stretched; therefore, the defense around the lower back is the weakest. Their lower limbs must bear greater weight and constantly receive energy. Severing the spine at the lower back can deceive their brains, causing them to exhaust their glycogen and die.
The virus parasitized the human body and needed energy. That was why zombies tore at and devoured humans on sight. At its core, that was a form of eating, just like humans needed to eat.
But zombies could not think like humans. Their brains were controlled by the virus. By deceiving their brains and causing the cells in their bodies to receive the wrong instructions, their bodily functions would collapse. In that way, this type of zombie could be killed without bloodshed.
There was no need to smash its head. He only needed to blink behind it and stab its spine.
The person who had come up with such a method and verified it through experiments so quickly was definitely Xie Yan.
They had also only told Xie Yan about it first.
Although he usually seemed unserious, he was still quite reliable at critical moments.
Ye Xuan tapped “Understood” and selected this type of zombie for combat.
A “stone man” appeared in front of him, swinging its fists as it walked toward him. Its steps were slow but heavy.
Being punched by it was not a pleasant feeling. This time, Ye Xuan would not foolishly take a beating again.
Ye Xuan blinked behind the “stone man” and observed its reaction.
The person in front of it disappeared, and the “stone man” froze in place before slowly looking around. Its movement was as slow as a turtle poking its head out.
Whenever the “stone man” was about to see him, Ye Xuan blinked behind it again.
The “stone man” spun around and around like an idiot.
It had been so ferocious before, but now it looked so stupid.
He wondered whether it was because the system’s recorded data was incomplete.
Ye Xuan closed in behind the “stone man” and, in the blink of an eye, stabbed into its lower back.
He twisted hard and pulled the blade out, bringing with it a spray of virtual blood.
Reborn in the Apocalypse: I Decide to Cling to My Roommate’s Thigh
