The Max-Level Boss Just Wants to Be a Slacker [Apocalypse] – CH51

Chapter 51: Strength

The warm touch of lips against the corner of his mouth—Mo Qi had not failed to notice it.

The moment those lips pressed against him, a tingling numbness spread from the corner of his mouth throughout his entire body.

His heart fell into chaos, and he stood there frozen.

However, his habitual restraint over his emotions meant that Mo Qi’s expression did not change much on the surface.

But how turbulent his heart truly was—only he himself knew.

He had experienced countless storms and hardships, yet he had never imagined that such a simple touch—barely even a kiss—would make his heart race so violently.

Letting out a soft sigh, Mo Qi felt a trace of sweetness in his heart.

It was not only because of that ambiguous kiss. More importantly, this time, Mo Xiu had taken the initiative.

Regarding his “future dao companion,” Mo Qi felt he understood Mo Xiu fairly well.

Mo Xiu had always taken meticulous care of him, gentle and attentive in every way.

There was only one issue: Mo Xiu was far too shy.

The other party almost never initiated intimacy with him. All those hugs and affectionate gestures were things Mo Qi had to ask for himself. Only occasionally, when he pretended to be angry and Mo Xiu wanted to coax him, would Mo Xiu become a bit more affectionate.

But this time, it was completely different from before.

Mo Qi felt that something had changed.

Enjoying the rare initiative from the person opposite him, Mo Qi felt quite pleased inside.

Sigh… his dao companion was still too shy—only kissing the corner of his mouth. Honestly, kissing him directly would have been perfectly fine.

After all, he still had his first kiss.

Come to think of it, in his previous life he had gone thousands of years without ever seeking a dao companion. Could this be fate working behind the scenes? Perhaps the person he had been waiting for all along was actually Mo Xiu.

Otherwise, after failing his ascension, his soul should have been destroyed completely. So how had he ended up transmigrating into this strange and unfamiliar world?

Cultivators believed in intuition, and they also believed in fate.

Those mysterious sayings about destiny being predetermined—cultivators loved to talk about them all the time. Of course, that was only when it suited them.

Because cultivation itself was about struggling against the heavens. When things did not go their way and they planned to fight head-on, they would also say that man could triumph over heaven.

Looking at Mo Xiu’s ears, now completely red, Mo Qi enjoyed the feeling, his entire attention focused on the person before him.

Perhaps his feelings for Mo Xiu ran even deeper than he had imagined.

It was only when he heard Mo Xiu ask about the exact location of that professor that Mo Qi finally came back to his senses.

Just now he had once again started thinking about all sorts of unnecessary things. Truly, beauty could lead one astray—he had nearly forgotten the real business. Who could blame him when the dao companion he had chosen was simply too good? No matter how much he looked, it never seemed enough.

Thinking of this, Mo Qi coughed lightly and patted his chest as he said to Mo Xiu, “It’s hard to explain the exact location since there’s no map here. The place I detected is quite far away, probably near the outer edge. You can take me along and I’ll help guide you.”

Hearing this, Mo Xiu nodded.

If that was the case, then it seemed impossible not to bring Mo Qi along.

After asking the man for the approximate location, Mo Xiu realized that it really was a place they had overlooked.

They had searched most of this area thoroughly. Only one place remained unexplored—a very large park.

Many people believed that the area had already been abandoned long before the apocalypse. The environment there was chaotic and overgrown, with almost nothing left. That professor from Country A couldn’t possibly appear in such a place.

But since Mo Qi said the person was there, Mo Xiu trusted his findings completely.

It was said that the area had once been a comprehensive experimental agricultural park. It covered a vast area and had planted all kinds of experimental crops.

Although it had been abandoned later on, there might still be many plants inside.

Which meant there was a possibility of mutated plants appearing—representing unknown danger.

Moreover, if Mo Qi did not stay behind at the resting camp and instead followed the team to search for the professor, that would also be a problem.

The off-road vehicle they would be taking wouldn’t contain only Mo Xiu, Mo Qi, and familiar people like Cheng Cheng. Other members of the team would also be riding along.

Mo Xiu did not want others to discover Mo Qi’s special ability by seeing him give directions, so they needed to make preparations in advance.

To avoid exposing the man’s uniqueness, Mo Xiu and Mo Qi agreed on a set of hand signals beforehand.

With just a few simple signals, Mo Xiu could understand whether the direction was correct, or whether their search should continue deeper.

After discussing everything, Mo Xiu went to find the others and explained his proposal to investigate the abandoned park the next day.

Naturally, no one wanted to return empty-handed. So the next day, the group prepared themselves and headed straight for the park.

Just as Mo Xiu had expected, with Mo Qi guiding them, they quickly found the approximate location of the professor.

The moment their vehicle appeared inside the park, a powerful beam of light suddenly shone from the top floor of the experimental building beside the agricultural fields. It was obvious that someone inside was signaling them for help.

Seeing this, everyone was instantly motivated and hurriedly drove deeper into the park.

On the way there, they encountered several mutated plants.

However, these plants were clearly not very high level. Mo Xiu’s lightning and wind abilities had both already reached Level Four, so naturally he did not take such things seriously.

Not to mention Mo Xiu himself—even the other ability users in the team could easily deal with them.

Thus, their journey at the beginning went quite smoothly.

But once they entered the experimental building where the signal had come from, the situation turned out to be somewhat beyond Mo Xiu’s expectations.

Originally, there had been almost no humans in the entire area—only mutated plants—so Mo Xiu assumed the interior would be the same.

But he had not expected that the moment they pushed open the doors of the experimental building, they would see numerous zombies inside.

And they weren’t just gathered on the first floor—every floor had them.

From their clothing, it was possible to tell that these zombies had likely been mercenaries or research personnel when they were alive.

If they were only researchers, that might still make sense in an experimental agricultural park.

But mercenaries?

Before the apocalypse, mercenaries would never have appeared openly on the streets in Xia Country. Moreover, judging by their appearance and skin tone, more than half of them were clearly from Country A.

So they could not originally have belonged to this agricultural park. Most likely, they were connected to that professor.

But how had they turned into zombies?

Countless questions arose in Mo Xiu’s mind, yet he had no time to investigate further.

Because he discovered that among these zombies there were even Level Two—and even Level Three—zombies, far more difficult to deal with than the ordinary ones they had encountered outside.

“What the hell is going on? Brother Mo! Boss! These zombies are way too hard to deal with! I’ve never seen anything like this before—why are they so fast?!”

Cheng Cheng shouted in shock while quickly ducking his head and using his vines to bind the zombie charging at him before flinging it away.

“And that one! Boss, did you see it? That zombie—it can throw fireballs!”

Cheng Cheng looked utterly stunned. Previously they had only encountered ordinary zombies. This was the first time he had ever seen mutated zombies like this.

The others were the same. For a moment everyone was scrambling in confusion, unsure how to deal with the situation.

Seeing the scene before him, Mo Xiu’s expression also became more serious.

Level Two zombies possessed far greater speed, strength, and bodily toughness than ordinary zombies.

Level Three zombies would undergo mutation and had a chance of gaining certain abilities.

It seemed the situation was more troublesome than he had expected.

At this stage, mutated zombies had already begun to appear—it felt even earlier than in his memory.

But after his rebirth in this life, many things had indeed changed.

Hadn’t his own abilities also advanced faster than in his previous life?

Originally he had intended to hide the fact that his abilities had leveled up.

But looking at the current situation, that was no longer possible.

Thinking this, Mo Xiu looked at the Level Three zombie that was causing chaos by throwing fireballs everywhere.

Without hesitation, he unleashed his lightning ability.

A lightning dragon crashed down, instantly blasting the Level Three zombie into a charred corpse.

Everyone else stared at the scene in shock.

Although they all knew that Mo Xiu possessed dual abilities, and had heard the base commander say that he was powerful, they had never had a concrete understanding of just how strong he was.

Not until they saw that zombie—something they had never encountered before, fast, powerful, and even capable of launching fireballs—die so easily beneath Mo Xiu’s lightning dragon.

Only then did they realize how terrifyingly strong this man truly was.

He hadn’t even used his wind ability in combination.

With only his lightning ability, he had destroyed such a powerful monster in an instant.

To save time, Mo Xiu even unleashed several more bolts of lightning, killing all the other Level Two zombies as well.

Only the Level One minions were left for the others to handle.

With such strength, across the entire Shanhe Base, there was likely no one who could match him.

After witnessing Mo Xiu’s terrifying power, some people even began to feel lingering fear.

Previously they had thought Mo Xiu had been blinded by beauty and bewitched by that pretty boy.

For such an important mission, he had even brought along the “canary” he kept—far too arrogant and overconfident.

But now it seemed they had been completely wrong.

This wasn’t arrogance at all.

It was absolute confidence.

In the face of overwhelming strength, these so-called dangers meant nothing at all.

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