Chapter 552: I just want to be closer to you
Although their strength hadn’t recovered, they could move freely—especially Xia Bai. Ye Zhongming was carrying her, but actually, her body was in a much better state than his.
The two of them were dealing with the corpses in the mist…
“This should be an island.”
Ye Zhongming stared at one level seven lifeform. Its remaining half-body was gory, but he was already used to it. Or rather, everyone in the apocalypse was used to it. No one would care about the blood if you gave ten thousand people a choice. They would only bother about getting the demon crystals and materials.
Ye Zhongming relied on his experience and some guesses and knew this should be an island. It was one wrapped in a grey mist, and on it was the Ocean King Wheel.
“There are 30 here, and I can’t recognize some of them.”
If Cloud Peak members were here, they would be shocked. They had never seen the female demon Xia Bai speak so sweetly and so many words. She didn’t even wear a mask. The rumored face that was destroyed was gone, and what replaced it was a gentle and warm face. One could only see some coldness flash across her brow.
“It is okay; this is good enough.” Ye Zhongming looked at where she was and remembered the number.
“Why are you counting?”
Xia Bai completed her job and tossed the materials she collected together. She moved beside him and squatted behind him to see him use his dagger to slice off the spike that was in one of the corpses.
Ye Zhongming wiped using one of the clothes that Xia Bai handed him. He wanted to reply but saw that the cloth were special. He raised his head and rolled his eyes.
What was Xia Bai doing? How could he use such a thing to wipe his hands?
She smiled when she saw his reaction.
“The two of us split up to deal with these things, but what we are calculating is the time.”
Ye Zhongming replied casually. Xia Bai didn’t understand fully, but she thought about it and roughly knew what he was saying.
It referred to the time the battle took. For example, the battle that they witnessed was the latest one. Those corpses with dried blood and smelly corpses probably died a long time ago.
Ye Zhongming was experienced, and he had guesses based on these factors.
“We can’t walk out of the mist as we are trapped here, so we can only wait for the next time it opens up. I want to see how many beasts would die each time, and using the number of corpses, we can see how many high-level mutated lifeforms there are.”
Ye Zhongming looked around and still handed that soft lace thing to Xia Bai. She tossed it aside.
“If there aren’t many, we can continue to guard this place. If there are too many, we retreat?”
Xia Bai stood up. She was adapting to the light, so she squinted her eyes, and no one could tell what she was thinking.
Ye Zhongming nodded, “We came here to get rich and strengthen Cloud Peak. Be it the Secret Realm or to handle the revenge from Soul Merchant or Glory Army, we need to strengthen. If possible, I don’t want to leave so easily.”
“But the two of us are still in danger?” Hearing Xia Bai say that, Ye Zhongming was stunned. In his impression, this woman was never afraid of death.
“Right, but I don’t think it is so easy for us to die.”
Ye Zhongming stood behind the meat from the beasts and closed his eyes.
He activated the Star Absorbing Satan and Soul Refining Technique to recover his stamina and mental energy. Xia Bai didn’t know the Soul Refining Technique, but she needed her stamina and mental energy to recover, too. She sat near him, hugging her legs while watching him stand there. Her eyes were dazed, and no one knew what she was thinking about.
The area around lit up, which kept Xia Bai alert. She took a look. Apart from the beasts out of the mist, there weren’t any other abnormal points. But she knew this signaled that the Ocean King Wheel was about to start.
Looking at Ye Zhongming, she noticed his aura was climbing. In such a short while, he had healed a decent amount.
Xia Bai was delighted, but then her expression changed. She was struggling with something deep down.
Xia Bai was still a woman. She thought this was a rare chance for them to be alone. She thought about how they might die in the next round of attacks. She stood up and walked beside him. When he opened his eyes, she carried him up.
Ye Zhongming trusted all the core members, so he allowed her to do what she wanted. If you had to identify the most loyal members of Ye Zhongming, apart from Yellow Ball, it would be Xia Lei, Liang Chuyin, and Xia Bai.
He was happy with Xia Bai by his side, so he entered the meditation state without hesitation.
Who knew that Xia Bai would do this?
When XIa Bai pushed him to the edge of a mountain of shells, a sharp glow appeared in Ye Zhongming’s eyes.
Humans were often stunned when they faced sudden situations during peacetime, but in the apocalypse, they would be wary and fight back.
So, Ye Zhongming’s reaction was normal. But in the next second, his sharpness calmed down. He didn’t know whether to laugh or cry a few seconds later. Then, he felt really comfortable.
He looked at her, kneeling in front of himself and helping him. He felt warmth in his heart. Xia Bai’s abnormal actions before were perfectly explained.
Even if this woman became strong and her level increased, she still didn’t feel a sense of safety. Things had happened long ago, but she was still in that nightmare.
When tears landed on him, he exploded. He felt like he was floating in the sky. He heard Xia Bai say two sentences, which made him pity her.
“I just want to leave a mark on your soul and body…”
“I just want to be closer to you.”
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