The Max-Level Boss Just Wants to Be a Slacker [Apocalypse] – CH45

Chapter 45: Triple Kill

Seeing the situation, Mo Xiu’s pupils shrank sharply.

“What happened here?”

He quickly walked over to Mo Qi, frowning as he stared at the corpse of the mutated gecko lying on the ground.

He even threw a small lightning sphere onto the monster’s body to make sure it was truly dead.

When the creature still didn’t move after being struck by the lightning ball, it seemed safe to assume it was completely dead. Only then did he relax his tense nerves.

He immediately grabbed Mo Qi by the shoulders and carefully checked his condition.

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

Before Mo Qi could answer, Xiong Gangyong quickly shook his head.

“No, no, he’s not hurt at all!”

“I’m the one who got bitten by that monster. If I didn’t have my metal ability, I’d be finished! He’s completely fine.”

After hearing Xiong Gangyong’s words, Mo Xiu finally let out a sigh of relief. He pulled the man in front of him into a tight hug before speaking apologetically.

“I’m sorry. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have separated from you.”

Looking at the messy shelves inside the warehouse, it was easy to guess what had happened—Mo Qi and Xiong Gangyong must have encountered the mutated creature after entering.

Judging by its appearance alone, the thing’s level clearly wasn’t low. Its danger level must have been extremely high.

If he had known this earlier, he would never have split up with Mo Qi.

Even knowing Mo Qi carried life-saving talismans, Mo Xiu still felt it had been too dangerous.

He wanted to kill Xu Liang, but revenge meant nothing compared to Mo Qi’s safety.

Feeling Mo Xiu’s lingering fear and concern, Mo Qi quickly hugged him back.

He gently patted the young man’s back and comforted him.

“It’s fine, it’s fine. It was nothing serious. Actually, that thing wasn’t very strong. It was easy to deal with!”

“Really?”

Mo Xiu pressed his lips together, still worried.

He knew Mo Qi had many secrets and possibly abilities he didn’t fully understand, but a high-level mutated animal like that was still extremely dangerous in his mind.

Thinking about how dangerous it had been when he fought the mutated gray wolf before, he didn’t want the people around him to face the same situation.

What if Mo Qi got injured and started bleeding like he did last time?

Seeing the young man still uneasy, Mo Qi carefully explained everything that had happened earlier.

As for how he had killed the mutated monster, he used the explanation Mo Xiu had previously given—saying it was due to mental abilities, which he believed Mo Xiu would roughly understand.

The two of them were completely focused on each other.

They didn’t notice that when Xiong Gangyong heard Mo Qi casually say that dealing with such a powerful mutated gecko had been easy, his eyes widened in shock.

He recalled everything that had happened inside the warehouse.

And it really was just like that.

At the time, he thought he was about to lose his life there.

Yet such a massive creature had been killed silently by that “pretty boy.”

No—wait!

He couldn’t call him a pretty boy anymore!

Although the two of them later whispered together in low voices so he couldn’t hear clearly what Mo Qi’s abilities actually were…

It was obvious that this person was extremely powerful.

He had been too shallow—judging people by appearances.

Xiong Gangyong even felt that Mo Qi might be even stronger than Mo Xiu. Thanks to him, they had avoided a truly dangerous situation.

Thinking about it, he felt another wave of relief.

After watching the two of them hugging and talking for quite a while, Xiong Gangyong scratched his head and cautiously reminded them:

“Um… are you two done talking?”

“There’s still a lot of supplies in the warehouse that need to be moved out.”

“And also… what should we do with this monster? Are we bringing it back for meat?”

When they did missions and encountered animals, they usually killed them and brought them back as food.

This monster might be ugly, but it was still meat.

But the moment he finished speaking, he met Mo Qi’s half-smiling gaze.

“You watched that monster chewing on a zombie earlier. Are you sure its meat is edible?”

Xiong Gangyong froze.

He immediately remembered the scene when the mutated gecko appeared, and a chill ran down his spine.

He frantically shook his head.

“No, no! That’s disgusting! It eats zombies!”

“There might even be zombie virus inside its body! If we eat it, we might turn into zombies!”

While speaking, he hurriedly ran several steps away, trying to stay as far as possible from the corpse.

His cowardly, life-loving expression made Mo Qi laugh.

Meanwhile, Mo Xiu noticed that Mo Qi was watching the bald, burly man with such amusement.

His lips pressed together slightly.

That uncomfortable feeling rose again in his chest.

He couldn’t quite explain what he was feeling, but somehow it felt stifling.

He seemed unwilling to let Mo Qi focus too much attention on others.

And he didn’t like seeing him smile at someone else.

But as soon as that thought appeared in his mind, Mo Xiu immediately forced it away.

Thinking like that was too strange.

Even if Mo Qi was very close to him—the most important person in his world—he wasn’t a child who believed that his best friend could only play with him and no one else.

As long as Mo Qi valued him the same way and treated him as his closest family and friend, that should be enough.

Mo Xiu tried hard to convince himself.

Remembering how Mo Qi had said earlier that Xiong Gangyong hadn’t abandoned him and even tried to protect him, Mo Xiu felt the man wasn’t too bad.

So he turned to him and smiled.

“Don’t worry about the warehouse supplies. Let’s fill the backpacks we brought first. Later I’ll have someone drive the truck in.”

After speaking, he took the backpack Mo Qi had prepared earlier and entered the warehouse.

Choosing shelves out of Xiong Gangyong’s line of sight, he quickly stuffed the bag with food suitable for long-term storage.

Thanks to Mo Qi’s “modification,” the backpack could hold far more than before.

But considering the harsh conditions of the apocalypse, Mo Xiu tried to prioritize foods that were more filling and nutritious.

He hesitated over snacks like potato chips and shrimp crackers.

Thinking Mo Qi might not have eaten many of those before, he finally added a few bags at the end as treats for him.

After hearing Mo Xiu’s words, Xiong Gangyong also hurried to fill his own bag.

If the supplies were loaded onto the trucks and brought back to the base, they could transport more items—but most of those would belong to the base, and they’d only receive a small share.

But items carried back in their own bags required only a small portion to be handed in. The rest could be kept.

Even Mo Qi slung a bag over his shoulder and carried a small pouch.

Inside were talismans he had prepared earlier, allowing him to easily pack quite a lot of supplies.

However, Mo Qi finished much faster than the others and was the first to leave the warehouse.

As soon as he stepped outside, he went directly to the corpse of the mutated gecko.

While the others inside weren’t paying attention—and carefully avoiding Xiong Gangyong—he cut open the creature’s abdomen and extracted its crystal core.

The moment he held the crystal core, he immediately felt the surging demonic energy inside.

This mutated gecko was indeed no ordinary creature. Its evolution had taken a very strange direction.

No wonder he had felt that strange intuition earlier.

Before, he thought that feeling was related to Mo Xiu.

But now it seemed that perhaps this was his own opportunity.

The crystal core was completely saturated with demonic energy.

If Mo Xiu tried to absorb it for cultivation, it would only harm him.

But for Mo Qi, a demonic cultivator, such pure demonic energy and power was an excellent tonic.

However, the demonic energy inside the crystal core was extremely dense.

Given the condition of his current physical body, even if he wanted to absorb it, it would take quite a long time.

After putting the crystal core away, Mo Qi waited at the door for a short while before the other two came out.

Xiong Gangyong carried a bulging backpack, clearly in a good mood.

Just as he started heading toward the exit, he suddenly remembered something and asked Mo Xiu:

“Oh right—what about Xu Liang? Why did only you come back?”

“Xu Liang?”

Mo Xiu paused slightly but didn’t stop walking.

“He’s dead.”

“D-dead?”

Xiong Gangyong froze in shock and quickly caught up with him.

“What happened? What exactly happened?”

Mo Xiu didn’t turn around.

He simply took the bag Mo Qi was carrying and said calmly:

“Nothing special. Didn’t you hear the explosion earlier?”

“There was an accident in another warehouse. That place was destroyed.”

“Xu Liang was… unfortunate. He didn’t make it out.”

As for how that “misfortune” happened, Mo Xiu had no intention of explaining further.

“He’s dead? Just like that?”

Xiong Gangyong’s mouth hung open wide enough to fit a light bulb.

Today’s mission had given him far too many shocks.

Thinking back, he had indeed heard the explosion earlier.

But at that moment, all his attention had been focused on escaping the mutated monster.

He never imagined that the explosion meant Xu Liang had been blown to death.

The biggest threat his older brother had always worried about had been resolved just like that?

Xiong Gangyong felt happy.

If his brother heard about this, he would definitely be thrilled!

And since Mo Qi had basically saved his life earlier, he felt grateful.

So for the rest of the journey, Xiong Gangyong quietly followed behind Mo Xiu and Mo Qi, not daring to talk nonsense anymore.

The truck that had brought the ability users couldn’t possibly carry all the supplies in the warehouse.

Fortunately, two people with “special skills” were present.

Several trucks that had been sitting unused at the factory—without anyone knowing where the keys were—were somehow successfully started.

Thus, the convoy returning to the base was large and heavily loaded.

Everyone was in good condition and had barely suffered any injuries.

The only one who had died was Xu Liang, who had been killed in the explosion.

The moment Xiong Gangyong returned, he eagerly ran to find his older brother to tell him the news.

But after excitedly recounting everything, he noticed the man beside him wearing a strange expression.

After listening to his younger brother’s story, Xiong Mingyuan rubbed his chin thoughtfully and said in a low voice:

“Xu Liang’s death… probably isn’t that simple.”

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