The Max-Level Boss Just Wants to Be a Slacker [Apocalypse] – CH76

Chapter 76: Uprooting the Problem

A look of surprise appeared on Mo Xiu’s face. He glanced at Professor Frank, who was still lying on the ground nearby, looking as if he were listening to incomprehensible scripture, and finally a smile formed at the corner of his mouth.

He nodded to Mo Qi, deciding to leave the rest to him, while he himself stepped aside.

However, something surprised Mo Xiu.

He had imagined that after using the Truth Spell, the other party would start telling the truth immediately, just like in the cultivation dramas he had watched before. But the reality seemed somewhat different.

He wasn’t sure whether Mo Qi had done it intentionally or whether the methods of demonic cultivators were simply different. Although the professor gradually revealed all the truth, it was obvious he was enduring tremendous pain while doing so.

Still, Mo Xiu felt somewhat relieved that he hadn’t interrogated Professor Frank in front of so many people earlier.

Because among the secrets the man revealed, some of them were indeed related to Mo Qi.

It turned out that many years ago, Country A had secretly sent people into Xia Country to steal resources and collect unknown materials for research.

By chance, they discovered demonic energy underground in one location and managed to extract it using certain methods, bringing it back to their country.

At that time, they didn’t know it was demonic energy. They believed it was some kind of special virus.

But they soon discovered its unusual power and hoped to use it to create the most powerful soldiers.

Unexpectedly, through a chain of accidents, they created zombies.

They treated zombies as biological weapons and began secretly experimenting with releasing them. But they never expected it would spiral out of control and overturn the entire world—turning everything into the apocalypse.

Even afterward, Country A kept researching, but they were never able to use demonic energy to create natural ability users like those who later evolved spontaneously.

The only thing they could reliably produce were controllable high-level zombies.

As for why Professor Frank had deliberately come to Shanhe Base—this had also been planned from the beginning. The so-called rescue missions and the information he had released were all smokescreens.

His real goal was Shanhe Base.

Because the place where Country A had originally discovered the demonic energy was here.

He believed that returning to this location might help him find better research methods.

“So that’s how it is… so this is the real origin of the apocalypse!”

Mo Xiu stared at Professor Frank intensely. He had never imagined the apocalypse had begun like this.

The first zombies had actually been created by humans.

The newly born monsters they had just killed must have been Professor Frank’s latest experimental results.

“You don’t understand!” Professor Frank shouted wildly.

“This is all for the sake of great scientific research! If we succeed in creating super soldiers, it will be a qualitative leap for humanity! The entire human race will be elevated!

Who wouldn’t want to become a true evolved being? Who wouldn’t want a stronger body and a faster brain?

Then we will have a better world!

Those people should feel honored and proud to contribute to humanity by becoming my experimental subjects!”

As he spoke, his face twisted with fanaticism, as though he were doing something immensely noble.

Mo Xiu let out a cold laugh.

“If it’s so great—so honorable and glorious—why don’t you experiment on yourself?”

The man choked on those words. His gaze flickered, yet he continued muttering that they didn’t understand—that he was conducting the greatest experiment in history.

“Stop dressing it up with pretty words. It’s all bullshit.”

Seeing the man’s hypocritical face filled Mo Xiu with anger.

He stepped forward and kicked Frank in the chest, sending him flying several meters until he slammed into the wall opposite them and spat out a mouthful of blood.

Under the effect of the Truth Spell, Professor Frank had already revealed everything he knew.

That included the entire progress of his experiments and the exact location where demonic energy had originally been discovered.

To Mo Xiu’s surprise, the people Xiong Mingyuan had mentioned before—Elder Zhuang and the others—already knew about the demonic energy.

Yet they had still chosen to assist the professor, all for the chance to become the so-called “evolved beings.”

Looking at the unconscious professor, Mo Qi cast him a cold glance before saying to Mo Xiu:

“There’s no other useful information in his mind.”

The hidden meaning was clear: if his partner wanted to kill him now, it didn’t matter.

Mo Xiu naturally understood Mo Qi’s meaning. That unconditional support and indulgence calmed him slightly.

“Killing him directly would be letting him off too easily.

Doesn’t he always say his experiments are great?

Then he shouldn’t mind becoming one of those monsters himself.

But those powerful and dangerous creatures are unnecessary. Let him watch himself slowly turn into an ordinary zombie… and then we’ll kill him.

Mo Qi, can you do that?”

Mo Qi raised an eyebrow.

As expected of the person he loved—he had even come up with a creative way to use his abilities.

He had heard many people ask him to save others, but this was the first time someone asked him to do the opposite.

Mo Xiu wanted him to control demonic energy and turn Professor Frank into an ordinary zombie.

Mo Qi had never done something like this before, but he didn’t mind trying. It would also allow him to better understand how demonic energy worked within human bodies in this world.

He was quite curious about how demonic energy infected humans in the apocalypse and transformed them into zombies.

Such delicate control was actually much harder than simply extracting demonic energy to restore someone to normal.

With that thought, Mo Qi became slightly more interested.

Following Mo Xiu’s request, he began slowly injecting demonic energy from his body into Professor Frank.

The old man woke up almost immediately.

Forcing demonic energy into another person’s body was an extremely painful process.

Professor Frank howled on the ground like livestock awaiting slaughter.

He could only watch helplessly as his skin gradually turned bluish-gray and black veins bulged across his body.

Rolling on the ground in agony, he begged desperately for Mo Xiu and Mo Qi to spare him. When he looked up again, his eyes were filled with pure terror.

Mo Qi deliberately slowed the process.

While the demonic energy invaded Frank’s body, he reduced the damage to his brain.

That meant even after turning into a zombie, Professor Frank would remain conscious for a long time—fully aware that he had become something he once despised: a defective creature, a rotting walking corpse.

Of course, this didn’t last long.

On one hand, Mo Qi had little patience for torturing him. On the other hand, both he and Mo Xiu understood the importance of eliminating problems completely.

Even as a zombie, Frank could still potentially evolve and recover some power.

So in the end, Mo Qi directly used his spiritual sense to invade the professor’s mind.

He dragged the man’s consciousness into an illusion.

Inside that illusion, the creator of zombies personally experienced again and again what life was like as a low-level zombie.

His consciousness remained awake the entire time.

For him, it was no different from living in hell.

Once Mo Qi finished, he shattered the man’s mental domain with his spiritual sense and ended his life completely.

“It’s done. Let’s go,” Mo Qi said softly, taking Mo Xiu’s hand when he saw him standing silently nearby.

Mo Xiu nodded.

“Next… we should go visit that so-called Elder Zhuang.”

According to the information Professor Frank revealed, the place where demonic energy had been discovered now had a villa district built above it.

Those people were currently living there.

And beneath those villas was a deep pit hidden in a basement—one that could erupt with uncontrollable demonic energy at any time.

It was definitely worth investigating.

What surprised Mo Xiu, however, was that when they came out of the place where Frank had been held, many residents of Shanhe Base were already gathered outside waiting for them.

At first, Mo Xiu thought they had come to cause trouble.

But the moment they saw him, they rushed forward like he was a hero, thanking him enthusiastically.

They said it was thanks to him that the truth about the laboratory had been exposed and the professor who wanted to harm people had been captured. Otherwise, if the research continued, Shanhe Base might eventually have turned into a paradise for monsters and zombies.

Mo Xiu noticed several members of his own team standing farther away. They looked fine—especially Cheng Cheng, who seemed energized again like an overexcited teenager.

The people crowding around him didn’t move Mo Xiu much.

But seeing his teammates smiling happily made him feel slightly lighter, and he nodded with a faint smile.

He had never cared about the so-called gratitude of the base’s residents.

They were just opportunists swaying with the wind.

Mo Xiu hadn’t killed Professor Frank to save them.

He had only done what he believed he should and wanted to do.

In this life, he only cared about the people he truly cared about.

He waved to Xie Wu in the distance—the one best at dealing with people—and asked him to handle the crowd.

Soon, Mo Xiu quietly pulled Mo Qi away from the surrounding crowd and returned to Xiong Mingyuan.

Compared with Xiong Gangyong’s usual silly grin, Xiong Mingyuan’s attitude had clearly become much more respectful when he saw them again.

“This time we truly owe everything to you,” Xiong Mingyuan said sincerely.

“If it weren’t for you, who knows how many people in Shanhe Base would have been harmed.”

After Mo Xiu and Mo Qi left earlier, he had taken over dealing with the research institute. Seeing the remains of those experimental creatures firsthand had made him realize how terrifying they would have been if they had been unleashed inside the base.

Xiong Gangyong puffed out his chest proudly.

“Brother, I told you long ago! Brother Mo and Brother Qi are amazing. Listening to them is always right! You didn’t believe me before—now look, you got proven wrong!”

Hearing this and seeing Mo Qi’s teasing expression, Xiong Mingyuan laughed awkwardly.

Mo Xiu, however, went straight to the point.

“Save the polite talk for later,” he said.

“Right now… it’s time for us to change locations and settle accounts with some other people.”

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