The Max-Level Boss Just Wants to Be a Slacker [Apocalypse] – CH64

Chapter 64: Dao Companion

Mo Qi didn’t take it to heart at all. He simply assumed that Mo Xiu was curious about the world he had lived in during his previous life.

One was a cultivation world, the other an apocalypse. The two places were indeed very different, so he felt it was perfectly natural for Mo Xiu to be curious.

What he didn’t expect was that in the next second, the person across from him suddenly reddened his eyes, and tears began pouring out uncontrollably.

“Sorry!” Feeling the tears he couldn’t stop, Mo Xiu hurriedly raised his arm and wiped at his eyes with his sleeve in a flustered way.

But the tears flowed like water breaking through a dam—he simply couldn’t control them.

If at first he still had some doubts, after hearing what Mo Qi had said, what was left to guess? No one but the man in front of him could possibly have the ability to let him be reborn.

What he hadn’t expected was that the other person had paid such a huge price. In his previous life, he hadn’t even done that much—so why would Mo Qi sacrifice himself to such an extent for him?

A price thousands upon thousands of times more painful than having one’s skin flayed and bones carved.

Mo Qi clearly knew how terrible it was, yet he had still laughed about it. How could anyone be that foolish?

Yet he didn’t realize that the real fool was himself.

“Mo Xiu, what’s wrong? Why are you suddenly crying? Did I say something wrong?”

Seeing the tears on the other man’s face left Mo Qi at a loss. It was the first time he had ever seen Mo Xiu this heartbroken.

He didn’t like seeing the person he loved sad, because it made his own heart tighten painfully.

Hearing Mo Qi’s words, Mo Xiu suddenly couldn’t help himself—he rushed forward and hugged him tightly.

He knew he shouldn’t be crying like this. He shouldn’t be crying so inexplicably. He didn’t even know how to explain it.

Should he say that he had already died once, that he had been reborn?

Mo Xiu had originally thought this secret would stay buried forever, that he would carry it with him to the grave.

But just now, Mo Qi had already revealed his greatest secret to him—one that sounded even more unbelievable than rebirth.

Cultivation, ascension, crossing between worlds, the Demon Lord, even the truth that zombies weren’t controlled by a virus but by demonic energy…

Any one of these revelations was explosive.

Yet Mo Qi had still chosen to be honest with him.

So perhaps he should gather his courage too.

Mo Qi had said that he regarded him as his only dao companion—someone he was willing to live and die with.

And Mo Xiu himself valued Mo Qi’s life more than his own.

Maybe there were things he should let him know as well.

Mo Xiu cried for quite a while before finally calming down. He knew he must look pathetic and embarrassing.

But when he thought about the pain Mo Qi might have suffered for him, his emotions simply couldn’t hold together.

Fortunately, Mo Qi had always been patient with him.

Seeing that he had stopped crying, Mo Qi gently patted his back and comforted him softly beside his ear.

“It’s okay. I don’t know what happened, but I’m here. I’ll always stay by your side. If there’s really something difficult to face, let’s deal with it together.”

Hearing this, Mo Xiu felt moved beyond words again.

How could this person be so good?

Across two lifetimes, he had given him such profound warmth.

Taking two deep breaths, Mo Xiu finally confessed the truth about his rebirth.

“You mean… you’ve actually been reborn? Everything you’re experiencing now—you already lived through it in your previous life?” Mo Qi asked, rarely showing a look of surprise.

Mo Xiu shook his head.

“Not exactly. It’s not entirely the same. This life is already very different from the previous one.

But some things still follow the same direction, so I knew about them beforehand and changed them.

For example, I changed the route and timing of my trip to the Shanhe Base. That’s why, by coincidence, I met you earlier.”

Mo Qi nodded after hearing this. Everything Mo Xiu said made sense to him.

He also believed Mo Xiu wouldn’t lie about something like this—no one would make such a ridiculous joke.

If he himself could be someone who crossed worlds, then Mo Xiu could certainly be someone reborn.

However, what surprised Mo Qi was that, from Mo Xiu’s words, it seemed that he believed Mo Qi himself was the reason behind his rebirth.

Mo Qi hadn’t returned from the previous life together with Mo Xiu, so he didn’t know what exactly had happened back then.

Earlier he had joked that someone who used such a rebirth technique would be foolish.

But if that person were Mo Xiu…

Based on his own personality, Mo Qi was certain he would do exactly the same thing.

Still, there was something he couldn’t quite figure out.

If he really had done it, then according to Mo Xiu, they hadn’t even been that close in the previous life. Mo Xiu had suffered terribly for many years.

Under those circumstances—when his powerful soul didn’t match his body and he couldn’t even fully control himself—his strength must have been greatly limited.

So how could he possibly have used such a forbidden technique?

Unless he had trained for decades first, and only then used the secret technique to send Mo Xiu back.

But if that were the case, it didn’t match Mo Xiu’s memories either.

Could it be that something went wrong when he cast the spell, forcing him to repeatedly rewind time—burning his soul again and again?

That would be unbelievably stupid.

Mo Qi curled his lips, almost wanting to laugh at the thought.

But strangely, he suddenly couldn’t laugh.

Because that outcome was entirely possible.

If the person he wanted to revive was Mo Xiu—the one he had chosen—then he probably would ignore all consequences, paying any price.

Repeating it again and again… until the day his soul burned away completely.

But none of that mattered now.

What mattered was that Mo Xiu was standing right in front of him.

At least in this life, so far, things were still good. His beloved hadn’t repeated the same tragic fate.

According to what Mo Xiu said, he had already taken some revenge and killed a few people…

Thinking of this, Mo Qi suddenly narrowed his eyes.

Back when they first met at the Shanhe Base, Mo Xiu had mentioned wanting to kill a few people.

At the time, Mo Qi hadn’t known that those people were enemies from Mo Xiu’s previous life.

If he had known earlier—

No. Even if he had known, Mo Qi would still have let Mo Xiu handle it himself, out of respect.

But he definitely would have secretly helped more along the way.

“I heard what you said earlier. At this point, it seems your revenge isn’t completely finished yet.”

Mo Qi wasn’t normally someone who held grudges.

But once something crossed his bottom line, he could pursue it relentlessly.

And Mo Xiu was exactly that bottom line.

Mo Xiu was surprised that this was the first thing Mo Qi focused on.

It made him realize again just how much Mo Qi cared about him—even the suffering from his previous life mattered to him.

Leaning closer, Mo Xiu gently kissed the man’s cheek and said softly:

“Actually, I’ve already taken revenge on everyone who was obvious. But I still feel like there might be someone behind the scenes who hasn’t been exposed yet.”

During his time at Shanhe Base, Mo Xiu certainly hadn’t been idle.

People like Xu Liang, Ren Zha, and Bian Tai—he had killed them without hesitation.

The rest had received varying degrees of punishment.

At first, Xu Liang had been a powerful figure he had to be cautious around. Killing too many people at once would attract attention.

But after Xu Liang fell, his faction collapsed as well.

Handling the others became much easier.

After all, in the apocalypse, there were countless ways to make someone die—or live miserably.

Thinking of this, Mo Xiu smiled at Mo Qi.

They had both revealed their greatest secrets to each other, completely honest with one another.

Didn’t that mean they had grown even closer?

But soon Mo Xiu remembered something else.

“If the zombies in this world are caused by demonic energy, then there isn’t actually any virus.

If that’s the case, what about Professor Frank’s research? Why did he say he had made progress?”

The more Mo Xiu thought about it, the stranger it seemed.

If the research direction was simply wrong, that would be one thing.

But they had encountered Meng Zhen before.

That powerful fire-type ability user had been bitten by a zombie. After using the professor’s serum, he managed to remain human for quite some time without mutating.

But then suddenly he transformed into a high-level zombie.

At that time, everyone—including Mo Xiu—had still been relatively weak.

If many ability users hadn’t been present that day to kill the mutating Meng Zhen together, the consequences for the base would have been unimaginable.

Hearing Mo Xiu’s doubts, Mo Qi told him everything he knew.

Now that he had already admitted to being a demonic cultivator, it was much easier to explain certain things that had been difficult to clarify before.

“So you discovered back then that Meng Zhen’s body also contained demonic energy, but it was somehow sealed off. That allowed him to maintain his human form and not turn into a zombie immediately.”

Mo Xiu thought about it and compared it with what happened to Xiong Gangyong.

The more he considered it, the more suspicious Professor Frank seemed.

After all, Xiong Gangyong had once been assigned by his brother, Xiong Mingyuan, to help the professor with various tasks.

During that time, Xiao Wan had even run into Dayong and heard him say that the professor sometimes conducted experiments on them.

If that were true, then Xiong Gangyong might not be the only one with those symptoms.

Thinking about the still-unconscious Xiong Gangyong, they could question him carefully once he woke up.

“If that’s the case, then the so-called serum might have been fake from the start.

But if he could isolate the demonic energy in Meng Zhen’s body, and also put demonic energy into Dayong’s body…

Does that mean the professor can control demonic energy too? Is he also a demonic cultivator?” Mo Xiu asked.

Mo Qi stroked his chin and shook his head.

“He’s probably not a demonic cultivator. I’ve seen him before, and I couldn’t sense any cultivation from him at all. Perhaps he has some other method to manipulate demonic energy. We can figure it out after we return to the base.”

Then Mo Qi leaned forward and kissed Mo Xiu again, his voice carrying a teasing tone.

“My future dao companion… shouldn’t you be thinking about how to properly comfort this injured patient instead?”

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