Chapter 109 - Confess
Edited by Meri
“What’s going on with the shadow guards?” Yu Xuguang was silent for a long while before suddenly asking this.
Yao Mengzhi was from the Jiangnan coastal area, and was previously one of the leaders of S City secure base that was second to only B City secure base. In their last life, she even became the leader of S City secure base... Were those shadow guards created by Yao Mengzhi with the intent to kill Nie Yi?
However, he had interacted with Yao Mengzhi for many years, and her research had always been in shielding against the dark energy and growing various crops in the increasingly vile environment. It had no relation to the shadow guards Nie Yi talked about at all.
“What do you think?” Yao Mengzhi said. “Qi Jingchen used to be in bad health because he hadn’t awakened. Now, he’s getting better, and he’s about to awaken. They naturally want to find something to divert everyone’s attention.”
“Awaken?” Yu Xuguang was stunned. “He hasn’t awakened?”
“Qi Jingchen’s ability is very unique, so awakening is naturally very hard,” Yao Mengzhi said. That person’s awakening in their last life had directly destroyed a secure base.
Yao Mengzhi’s words stunned Yu Xuguang. He recalled Qi Jingchen’s past state, and realised that several of Qi Jingchen’s symptoms were identical to the state when an ability user was about to awaken.
He previously never understood why Nie Yi would suddenly leave B City secure base, but now that he thought about it... If Qi Jingchen was the dark lord, Nie Yi naturally had to take him and leave B City secure base to avoid being exposed. And Nie Yi creating some so-called shadow guards to change everyone’s target to the Jiangnan coast when he was about to awaken was also understandable.
So that meant the shadow guards were created by Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen? Nie Yi saying he was ambushed was also a lie?
Yu Xuguang’s face darkened, filled with gloominess. He previously had begun to admire Nie Yi, yet as a result... Nie Yi had always been fooling him! Had always been playing him!
He suddenly felt that he was a little foolish, to unexpectedly be so stupid to eat lies for so long, and he had even helped Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen to oppose Yu Shuo... even if Yu Shuo had some faults, at least he wasn’t like Nie Yi and the dark lord who had once killed so many people.
And Qi Jingchen. He used to worry about this person being fooled by Yu Shuo and even put in good words towards Nie Yi for him. At that time, was Qi Jingchen thinking of him as a joke?
Qi Jingchen was the dark lord, the one who killed his sister!
Had Qi Jingchen ever regretted facing them? Did he not feel sorry at all? He once killed so many people; did he want to make a move again now?
Various feelings rolled about in Yu Xuguang’s heart, and the hatred in his eyes also grew more intense. He always remembered his feelings when his sister died in his last life; it could be said he was so aggrieved he wished he were dead.
When Yu Yuehui saw her little brother’s pained appearance, she couldn’t help feeling distressed. At the start, she was somewhat guarding against Yao Mengzhi, but hearing her speak about Nie Yi and thinking about Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen’s doubtful points, she grew a little more trusting towards her.
The person who spent many years with her little brother for so long was always more worthy of trust than someone who was her little brother’s enemy in their last life.
But... Yu Yuehui still couldn’t help giving Yao Mengzhi a few more looks. To put on such heavy makeup even during the apocalypse, this woman was truly a little strange.
“What do I do?” Yu Xuguang looked at Yao Mengzhi. Yao Mengzhi was older than her, and had always been someone who had plans. At the start, many of their side’s matters were her plans and ideas.
“You don’t need to do anything at all. There are some matters that can just be handed over to the B City secure base leaders,” Yao Mengzhi said.
“They won’t help me go against Nie Yi,” Yu Xuguang said. Although he was very highly regarded in B City secure base and even had many supporters, how could the people of B City secure base help him oppose Nie Yi for no reason at all? Although Nie Yi didn’t provide many things like him, he still made many contributions!
“Why won’t they? You’re reborn. If you tell them everything from beginning to end, how could they not make a move?” Yao Mengzhi said, “Even if they won’t touch Nie Yi, they would definitely act against Qi Jingchen.”
Nie Yi and the others probably felt that she was responsible for bombing the Yuncheng central restaurant to destroy the living shadow guard, but in reality, she couldn’t care less about that shadow guard being discovered.
If she were truly afraid of being discovered, she wouldn’t have made those things participate in ambushing Nie Yi.
The reason she wanted to bomb the central restaurant was honestly just to kill Jiang Pingshi and his men to leave Yuncheng city secure base without a pilot, and make Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen have no choice but to come to B City secure base.
While Nie Yi and the others were in the countryside, it was hard for her to find people to act against them. When they were in Yuncheng secure base, there was Li Shu to protect them, so it wasn’t easy for her to act either. But if they were in B City secure base?
If everyone in B City secure base wanted to put the dark lord to death?
Since they already came, they shouldn’t think about leaving!
Hearing that he had to explain everything about his rebirth, Yu Xuguang was a little surprised, but soon nodded. He had revealed many things, so explaining a bit more was nothing.
Seeing this, Yao Mengzhi said, “I also have something to request of you.”
“What is it?” Yu Xuguang asked, confused.
“I’ve never told anyone about my rebirth, nor did I do so many things like you. Now, if I announce it, other people might feel that I’m cold-blooded; after all, I did nothing even though I was reborn...” A mocking smile appeared on Yao Mengzhi’s face. “Can you not speak about me being reborn?” freewebnove(l).com
This wasn’t anything big, and Yu Xuguang immediately agreed.
The sky outside was pitch black, but after thinking about it, he still went out, then looked for Zhao Chengqi and a few other military leaders.
Zhao Chengqi and the others were all asleep, but when Yu Xuguang told them that he had an extremely important matter to say, they all got out of bed and gathered in the meeting room. “What’s the important situation? Did you predict matters related to the shadow guard?”
“No.” Yu Xuguang laughed bitterly. “I asked all of you to come because I have something very important to say... I’ve actually returned from ten years in the future.”
“What joke is this?” Zhao Chengqi said with a frown.
“I’m not joking. I once lived in the apocalypse for ten years and personally witnessed the extinction of humanity before being reborn.” Yu Xuguang said. “If not, I wouldn’t have known the cultivation method for ability users and know so many things.”
Although Zhao Chengqi and the others felt that what Yu Xuguang was saying was a little fantastical, even the inexplicable apocalypse had already arrived, so rebirth didn’t seem so hard to accept.
So when they carefully thought about it, they even felt that it probably was the case! There were some things Yu Xuguang had said that simply hadn’t been related to predictions at all, much less the fact that his strength was extremely strange—If Yu Xuguang was just a water ability user who could predict the future, then with the situation where he didn’t fight much, how was he able to beat Yu Shuo so easily?
“What in the world did you want to say by gathering us all today?” Zhao Chengqi suddenly asked. He could understand why Yu Xuguang would conceal his identity as a reborn person previously, but... Why did Yu Xuguang call on all of them in the middle of the night today?
“Let me tell you what I encountered in my last life first,” Yu Xuguang said. Before he finished speaking, there were knocks on the door to the meeting room.
The person closest opened the door and realised those who came were those important figures who didn’t weren’t involved with the military side. Among them was even Nie Boyuan, the secure base’s chief.
With these arrivals, the higher ups of the entire base were practically all gathered in this tiny meeting room.
“I hear you have something important to tell us?” An elderly who came in with Nie Boyuan asked. It was Yu Shuo who called them over and said it extremely urgent. At the beginning, he didn’t believe it, but later a subordinate informed him that the people of the military side had gone for a meeting in the middle of the night, so he had no choice but to believe.
Zhao Chengqi and the others looked at Yu Xuguang and assumed that it was Yu Xuguang who had called them, but Yu Xuguang knew it wasn’t so.
But telling one person was the same as telling a bunch. With more people, and the bigshots of this entire secure base united, the matters could go even more smoothly... Yu Xuguang thought of Qi Jingchen, and the hatred in his eyes nearly overflowed. At the same time, he slowly began to narrate his past life.
His experience at the start of the apocalypse was extremely commonplace and there wasn’t anything unique, but when the dark lord later emerged by encompassing the sky and the strong people of the secure bases died in one night, he unexpectedly began to reveal his brilliance...
Yu Xuguang spoke in a lot of detail. During this time, people asked him various questions, and he answered all of them.
“Nie Yi...” When Nie Boyuan heard Yu Xuguang speak of Nie Yi’s experience, his entire being was a little stunned. Nie Yi actually killed him?
Although Yu Xuguang currently hated Nie Yi very much, he was still considerate just when speaking about Nie Yi. At the beginning, Nie Yi contributed a lot to the secure base, but later followed the dark lord after being set up and nearly killed by Yu Shuo.
In the midst of things, he returned once to find Nie Boyuan, but Nie Boyuan planned to kill him, so he countered and killed his father instead. After this, Nie Yi thoroughly became a devil. He would often kill at the slightest provocation.
The other people looked at Nie Boyuan with rather strange expressions. They previously felt that Nie Yi treated his illegitimate child too well and Nie Yi badly, but after knowing the aftermath, they didn’t know whether to say Nie Boyuan deserved it or Nie Yi was too ruthless.
Naturally, when these two people were placed together, they were still more sympathetic towards Nie Boyuan— Even if Nie Boyuan made a mistake with his slight bias, Nie Yi shouldn’t commit patricide!
Even Nie Boyuan once again had feelings of dissatisfaction against Nie Yi.
Everyone was sympathetic towards Nie Boyuan, but Zhao Chengqi’s expression was a little grave. He suddenly thought of something.
At the start, Nie Yi once told him about a cultivation method identical to what Yu Xuguang provided, and Nie Yi had also spoken about things that only occurred now, like the zombie beasts that were emerging.
At the time, he didn’t think much and even thought that Nie Yi was smart and far-sighted, but now he couldn’t help thinking deeper... could it be that Nie Yi was also reborn?
Yu Xuguang didn’t bother with the thoughts of these people. He spent an hour’s time explaining what he explained during the ten years. But thinking of what Yao Mengzhi said, he didn’t mention her much.
“Is that dark lord truly so powerful?” Zhao Chengqi couldn’t help but ask. If there truly was a human existence that could kill people like flies, then that was really too dangerous!
“Precisely this powerful.” Yu Xuguang said. “I was the number one expert of the secure base during the last two years of the apocalypse and possessed an extremely powerful ice domain, but it was no more than a trick under his hands.”
“Who is this person? Why didn’t you find him after you were reborn?” Someone immediately asked. Yu Xuguang didn’t need to lie to them, so they mostly believed what Yu Xuguang said now.
Even if they didn’t believe it, they would still choose to deal with that person— there were some matters that were better to assume were threats than otherwise.
“Previously I never knew who this person was and just thought that Yu Shuo must not be allowed to tempt Nie Yi’s lover and push Nie Yi to the dark lord,” Yu Xuguang said. His words barely fell when everyone looked at Nie Boyuan once more.
“But today, I suddenly discovered that Nie Yi was probably reborn as well,” Yu Xuguang continued.
“What?” Zhao Chengqi was startled, but soon said, “That’s true, his attitude towards me is too different compared to before the apocalypse...” The Nie Yi now unexpectedly was the Nie Yi who killed his own father?
“Before Yu Xuguang was reborn, he once told me the cultivation method for ability users.” Zhao Chengqi sighed. Although Nie Yi walked the wrong path in his last life, in any case, he still looked after the secure base in this life. It was just that Qi Jingchen... If he betrayed Nie Yi, then he could not be allowed to continue staying by Nie Yi’s side.
Hearing Nie Boyuan and Zhao Chengqi’s words, Yu Shuo was all the more certain that Nie Yi was reborn. “If Nie Yi is reborn, then Qi Jingchen can’t possibly be his past lover.”
The door to this room was knocked on again. The guard outside came to report that it was Yu Shuo bringing a middle-aged pair of husband and wife.
“Let him in,” a seated elderly said. Today it was Yu Shuo who had gathered them. It could be assumed that Yu Shuo knew something too.
Yu Shuo soon entered. Yu Xuguang didn’t have a good impression of Yu Shuo, and had been a little disparaging towards him just now. As such, when everyone saw Yu Shuo, their expressions were a little odd.
Yu Shuo, however, turned a blind eye to everything. “Yu Xuguang, these are the two people you told me to find. They came from J City to B city with Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen. According to what they said, Nie Yi once killed someone during the journey, a handsome young man. That youth is called Yan Zhe and was once Nie Yi’s sweetheart, but not long after the apocalypse began, Nie Yi suddenly became hostile to him, and then killed him with the reason that he wanted to hurt Qi Jingchen.”
Yu Shuo wasn’t called on by Yu Xuguang, but after Yu Shuo finished speaking, Yu Xuguang had guessed some things— Yu Shuo was probably summoned by Yao Mengzhi.
Yao Mengzhi made Yu Shuo come to help him... Yu Xuguang tacitly agreed to Yu Shuo’s words.
The pair of husband and wife were cowering and clearly extremely afraid of these superiors. But once they were asked about Nie Yi, they still explained.
Their son, Yao Jialong clearly stayed with the family members and never participated in battles, yet he became a zombie during the journey out of nowhere, while others were safe and sound. Why? When they just reached B City secure base, they wanted to report Nie Yi for murder, and at this time, they naturally did their utmost to blacken Nie Yi, and described Nie Yi as a heartless rat and a homicidal maniac.
The more they listened, the more the people present felt that it was strange, and the doubts in their hearts also amassed.
“I previously did not know who Nie Yi’s lover in his last life was. Seeing Nie Yi with Qi Jingchen together, I thought Qi Jingchen wasn’t reborn. But it appears that isn’t the reality,” Yu Xuguang said.
“Then who’s Qi Jingchen?” Nie Boyuan subconsciously asked.
“The dark lord.” Yu Xuguang’s voice was very light, but these three words deeply struck everyone’s hearts like a nail and led their entire bodies to tremble, their hearts beating even more intensely.
The powerful dark ability user Yu Xuguang spoke of had unexpectedly always been right by their sides?
“Qi Jingchen hasn’t awakened yet but many things have been set in advance now. Perhaps he might awaken tomorrow,” Yu Xuguang said, his expression abnormally firm, and even led to the mood that had already been very grave to become even heavier. “When he awakens, it’s possible that the surrounding zombies will all be attracted.”
Zhao Chengqi looked at Yu Xuguang, opening his mouth, but in the end, did not say a single word of opposition.
What Yu Xuguang said was probably true; if he wanted to lie, he wouldn’t lie at such a time. He could have spoken about this long ago— previously, Yu Xuguang clearly admired Nie Yi.
“Capture them first.” An old man suddenly said. “If he resists... then you have permission to kill.”
“Right, capture them first,” someone else said.
“After all, Nie Yi obtained many merits.” Zhao Chengqi spoke up for Nie Yi, but never opposed. If Nie Yi waited obediently to be captured, he would definitely plead for leniency, but if Nie Yi kept protecting Qi Jingchen...
This outcome was what Yu Xugang expected, and afterwards, everyone began discussing various matters.
“Nie Yi is very powerful and he can’t be underestimated. And Qi Jingchen may not have awakened, but he’s still the dark lord. You must be careful,” Yu Xuguang said.
“You also shouldn’t blindly worship another and put yourself down. B City secure base has so many people; how could they escape?” Yu Shuo said with a sneer.
“That boy with Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen is Qi An, a space ability user who can teleport,” Yu Xuguang coldly said.
Yu Shuo’s face stiffened upon hearing this, but he said nothing else.
Nie Yi will be dead soon. He no longer needed to fight with anyone over anything.
Before daylight, some people in the secure base received different orders. They did not know what they were doing, but still obeyed the commands.
Yao Mengzhi sat in a vacant room. Hearing the reports from her subordinates, she smiled faintly.
Worried that Yu Xuguang would only tell the military faction about Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen, she deliberately made Yu Shuo bring along all the others.
No matter how strong Nie Yi and Qi Jingchen were, could they be stronger than B city secure base? Even if Qi Jingchen awakened right on the spot, the zombies he’d attract would be nothing more than ashes under gunfire.
She slowly washed away her makeup, finally revealing a face suffused with bluish-black.
Baobao Notes
Sorry for the hella late update. For those who arent in cg’s discord server, I’ve been feeling a bit down lately and haven’t been motivated to do anything. thank you guys so much for reading and understanding. <3
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