Virus King - Chapter 78

Chapter 78: Secret Warehouse! Summoning Redo!

TL: Yang

Cold, hollow, dark.

This was Jiangcheng University’s morgue.

Inside each of those black body bags seemed to lie a corpse.

For a normal person to spend even a single night here would be anything but pleasant.

And after the apocalypse broke out, with the constant roars of zombies echoing from outside, this place made the back of one’s head feel icy with unease.

At this very moment, Emily felt exactly that way.

The foreign girl curled up in a corner, pulling her incredibly long legs close to herself.

She didn’t even dare close her eyes, fearing that if she opened them again, she’d see a zombie’s horrifying face as it bit through her delicate neck.

Countless times in her mind, she cursed that wretched man.

Leaving her—a girl—alone in such a haunted place, as if she wouldn’t be scared to death even if the zombies didn’t get to her!

Still, could that guy have perished in the vortex?

Despite not wanting to think about it, her mind kept wandering in that direction.

If Chen Bai were dead, the idea of her escaping this place—a place surrounded by zombies so dense that even within Jiangcheng, Jiangcheng University ranked among the highest in zombie concentration—was simply a pipe dream.

And yet, amid the cold, the fear, and her exhaustion, just as she was on the verge of drifting off, Emily’s eyes suddenly brightened.

From the open door at the far end of the morgue, a figure slowly emerged from the spinning black vortex!

Clad in black, wearing a strange zombie mask she’d never seen before.

The moment she saw him, all her anger vanished.

With that rebellious, punk-style mask, he looked even cooler somehow…

Chen Bai glanced briefly at Emily, who quickly stood up, and nodded.

“What time is it?”

Emily answered immediately, “A little past one!”

Midnight.

If he could help it, Chen Bai wouldn’t choose to leave now.

Under the darkened skies of the apocalypse, things were far more dangerous.

But this place was no place to linger!

If his guess was correct, meeting Redo again would require some serious preparation.

Fortunately, even the gods couldn’t directly intervene with the ordinary Evolvers in the God and Devil Trial Grounds upheld by the Cosmic Will.

Only with the signing of a contract, like in his previous life, could one receive massive, direct benefits from a god without having to follow certain rules within the Trial Grounds.

In such cases, a god could directly endanger an Evolver through the contract.

For example, just like his past life, where every “gift” came at the cost of freedom and life.

Under normal circumstances, even gods projected onto the God and Devil Trial Grounds couldn’t endanger Evolvers!

Still, better safe than sorry.

“Let’s go!”

In the dark of night, Emily, lacking any right to refuse, had no choice but to follow Chen Bai out of the underground parking garage and onto Jiangcheng University’s midnight campus.

The campus was deathly quiet.

The streetlights alone provided illumination, continuing their automatic schedule even post-apocalypse. They might last a bit longer.

It seemed like the campus was just as it used to be, and maybe, in some secluded spots, one might even catch the hazy outlines of amorous couples.

But, sadly, this was no longer a pre-apocalyptic world.

Such scenes were now impossible to come by.

Chen Bai didn’t spare a thought for any beauty in the surroundings, nor was he in the mood for it.

At night, zombie mutations and evolutions accelerated. Although he wasn’t afraid, getting surrounded would be troublesome.

In an instant, he grabbed Emily—who let out a sudden shriek—and, moving like a legendary martial artist, scaled the wall with her, gliding across like a master, and reached the street in mere moments.

Anping Road remained as quiet as it had been during the day, with hardly any zombies in sight.

Chen Bai didn’t bother pondering why this was so. He wove through the area for ten minutes, making his way into a nearby city district before finally pausing under a streetlamp, where he dropped the slightly dazed foreign girl at his side.

The dim light was still the same as before.

Above, mosquitoes—now swollen to the size of a baby’s fist since the apocalypse—buzzed around the streetlight with their summer sounds.

These creatures would eventually become one of the greatest threats to Evolvers.

But for now, their numbers weren’t too alarming.

Chen Bai took a deep breath, then looked into his backpack—at that face tucked within.

He didn’t rush to take out the summoning scroll for the God of Trade, Redo. Instead, he thought for a moment, then clenched his teeth decisively.

After clearing that instance, he’d received over a hundred gold coins as a reward. Within just a few hours of publishing the guide video, his earnings had already surged past a thousand gold coins.

It might not sound like much, but in reality, it was a considerable sum.

To put it in perspective, one gold coin was equal to ten thousand copper coins.

And ten thousand copper coins meant ten thousand views.

So, with over a thousand gold coins, that equated to tens of millions of views.

Of course, that number of views might seem small given the billions of remaining Evolvers worldwide. But the apocalypse had only just begun, and not everyone had even a single copper coin to spare.

Not everyone would be willing to part with a coin just to watch a guide video that, frankly, had little to do with their immediate survival.

After all, within the Cosmic Will’s apocalypse-exchange for basic resources, one copper coin could already be exchanged for a day’s worth of the lowest-rank food and water.

At this moment, a thousand gold coins flowed like water from Chen Bai’s hands.

He activated a rather extravagant additional feature.

Aside from the Evolver’s Backpack, there was also an Evolver’s Warehouse.

The warehouse was entirely private. There was no risk of items dropping if the Evolver was killed, and it even allowed for a will, dictating who could receive its contents in the event of death.

With Cosmic Will as its guarantor, not even a god would be aware of the items within!

Chen Bai had no choice but to be cautious.

Even though a god couldn’t harm him directly, if that God of Trade somehow learned that a mere human Evolver intercepted an item that was meant for him…

Well, obtaining that profession scroll again would not be easy!

And Chen Bai had absolutely no intention of handing over something like that.

Once everything was set up and he’d stowed away the “Face of ???” in the secret warehouse, he finally let out a sigh of relief.

Then, under the dim streetlight, he crushed the summoning scroll that Redo had given him earlier that day.