Global Game: I Have Portable Store-Chapter 283 - 282: What Is Light

Another bolt of lightning exploded in the sky, accompanied by the relentless rain. Water flowed through the rubble, squeezed into the abandoned drainage ditch, sliding across the deep green moss.

It started raining.

The rain came without any warning.

Black and putrid blood was mixed with the rain, overflowing the edges of the boots’ soles, and the stench of decay in the air intensified.

"Are you okay?"

Su Changxing stepped through the water and approached Zhong Jueqing.

He was half-kneeling on the ground, gasping for breath. The warm air met the coolness in the atmosphere, forming "smoke" that slowly dispersed and rose.

The dazzling blue light in his eyes weakened, revealing the brown-black pupils, reflecting the lightning in the sky.

"Noth...nothing much."

He wobbled as he got up, his joints like rusty gears left unused for too long, making a creaking sound, not harsh but teeth-grinding.

There was more silver in his hair.

Su Changxing keenly noticed that now his hair seemed almost entirely silver; previously, there was at least some black.

Zhong Jueqing looked down with a smile, his voice hoarse as he said:

"Just as I thought, there’s a limit. That Hunter’s ability to control these Zombies has a limit...it makes sense."

Su Changxing took a cane with a ghostly wooden face carved on top from his backpack, inspecting Zhong Jueqing’s tattered clothes and fine wounds, he asked:

"Are you the head of the tenth team of the Security Bureau?"

Zhong Jueqing squinted, looking up at the piles of Zombie corpses around them, said: "Hmm, what? Don’t I look like it? I’m invincible, aren’t I."

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Su Changxing twitched the corners of his mouth, frankly saying: "Right now, you certainly don’t seem like the person in charge of the Security Bureau······"

"Hm."

Zhong Jueqing straightened up and said coldly: "We can’t just follow these Hunters’ rhythm... Should we retreat when an Undead Tide forms?"

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and continued: "Most of the time, we can’t take a step back; thousands, even tens of thousands of people stand behind us."

Silence.

Su Changxing placed the Totem on the ground, its green radiance spreading out, swirling with the night wind:

"This has a healing effect... Excessively powerful Superpowers are actually life-draining."

"Hmm?"

Zhong Jueqing’s face showed surprise as he felt the astonishing healing effect, saying: "This is something good, the effect is almost too excessive."

"Of course."

Su Changxing let go and said with a curl of his lip: "This Totem can only be used three times, this is the second time...you owe me one for this."

A familiar taste.

Zhong Jueqing felt like he had heard this tone somewhere before, deja vu: "Hmm, consider it a debt... those Hunters must have already detected our presence, they’re on their way."

Surrounding them were only fields of corpses, and the distant sound of howling.

Su Changxing heard this, and said: "You can detect that too? Your Ability?"

Zhong Jueqing said earnestly: "Intuition."

Su Changxing reckoned that Teng Beng probably had no spare effort to deal with them at this moment, even if they caused a lot of trouble.

Soon after, several more peals of thunder came, and torrential rain fell, laced with the smell of blood.

A graceful figure slowly emerged from the ruins, rocks tumbling with unstoppable force.

"How bold you are, trying to destroy everything, pathetic humans, pitiful, haha, you think too highly of yourselves, but you’re just this and nothing more."

She looked in the direction of Teng Beng, smiling with grace, a mix of mockery and disdain, lofty yet incomparable.

Teng Beng’s expression remained unchanged, meeting her gaze across the night sky, more Zombies stagnating in place, in a daze, as if frozen.

Both sides were vying for control over these Zombies, their abilities, in some way, were two sides of the same coin, like two tigers cannot share one mountain.

Initially, through a series of preparations, Teng Beng had the upper hand, but because of the person who plunged into the sea of Zombies, everything turned chaotic.

Meticulous people often despise unexpected disruptions and chaos, as it makes them lose Control Power, losing control over the surrounding matters.

The Lady of the House showed a charming smile, dark purple sharpness in her eyes, continued:

"Still, you’re quite remarkable. As a High Ability User, getting to this point, perhaps genius isn’t enough to describe you."

She was a Tier Seven Extraordinary, one rank higher than Teng Beng, theoretically, there should’ve been no contest.

"Do you really think you’ve got it in the bag?"

Teng Beng said coldly, an indescribable momentum rising around him, rolling and overwhelming, not losing to the Lady of the House at all: "I’ve existed perhaps longer than you’d imagine, Netherworld Girl."

As he spoke, the surrounding Zombies once again started to move, rushing towards the ruins, wave after wave.

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"Seems like your intuition isn’t as accurate as you thought."

Su Changxing smiled as he said.

The surroundings remained silent, with only a few Zombies charging towards them, only to be intercepted and harvested by Tao Yi halfway.

Zhong Jueqing closed his eyes, sat cross-legged to rest, and said seriously: "Then I suppose they were scared away by me."

This Security Bureau team leader was really thick-skinned.

Su Changxing replied in exasperation: "But the fact is no one came."

The green light of the Totem gradually dimmed, the wooden face at the top changing its expression to a mournful one, as if signifying the end of its life.

Zhong Jueqing opened his eyes, stood up, and said: "Let’s go see what’s happening; the sea of corpses has dispersed, with your Ability, crossing over shouldn’t be much of an issue."

"You might be trusting me a bit too much."

Su Changxing said somewhat grudgingly, feeling like he wasn’t being treated as an outsider at all.

Zhong Jueqing chuckled and continued: "I need to rest for now, so I can only rely on you. Let’s first head over to check the situation, it’s very important... You must think so too."

Su Changxing pondered briefly, but without refusal, said: "Let’s go, I was also planning to see what’s happening... Right now, we’re like old liu."

Hearing Su Changxing’s words, the smile on Zhong Jueqing’s face grew wider, hearty and cheerful, as he walked ahead and said: "Do you know what light is?"

"Hmm?"

Su Changxing turned his head to look at him, feeling this person was quite unique, with thoughts different from ordinary people, at least different from his own.

Zhong Jueqing put on sunglasses, waved one hand, and several blades flew, floating in front of him, falling into a wrap:

"Light is when someone walks ahead, blocking out darkness, and the remaining part is light."

The pale moon cast a long shadow behind him, overshadowing Su Changxing’s boots, floating in the water, twisting on the ground.