Vol 2 Chapter 2 (2/2)

Am I like him?

Jiang Shuyu isn’t afraid of Dàgē, but I…

“Dàgē, I’ve always been scared of you”

Dàgē stiffened and his expression sank, but at the sauessed he had been able to tell, even thougharound, in order to be the “Jiang Shuyu” asn’t afraid of his dàgē

“Why are you scared of me? I’ve never hurt you”

I re while, but in the end, I still steeled myself to confess, “Ever since I woke up, I kneas Guan Weijun The nicer you guys were tothe truth Then, I finally couldn’t stand the pressure any, I started to worry again Maybe someday, you’ll throw aside the idea of past and current lives and no longer think of le me to death!”

“Never!” Dàgē roared, “Shuyu, just how ē, and I would never hurt you!”

Looking at Dàgē’s expression of fury, I really wanted to say, ”Dàgē, why don’t you just throttle the life out ofyou that I’ Shuyu,’ you will still have to treat me as your dìdi, your real dìdi!”

But I couldn’t bringfor the i Shutian would never be able to strangleShuyu’s appearance, and there was no way he could kill his own dìdi when he had no way of being sure of just as inside this body

I gazed at hiē, you only need to suspect me one more time—just once!—and I will leave both you and Shujun We’ll never see each other again That’ll be the best for all of us”

When I said that, Dàgē shuddered, and he said dryly, “I’ē to never make mistakes?”

“You made a mistake with the coffee, and I didn’t leave,” I said stubbornly, “so if you make any more mistakes, it means you don’t believe me And since I’o I don’t want to be the brother of someone who’s suspicious of me and someone I’m afraid of!”

“Well said!” Dàgē nodded in agreeood, hard look as though looking at his own dìdi for the first time

Taking in a deep breath, he said in a steady voice, “You really are Shuyu There’s no ing people, and she’s never suspected you”

My eyes suddenly flooded with heat No, this can’t do I hastily blinked a few ti in my eyes

All right, then Jiang Shuyu is Jiang Shuyu! As long as Dàgē believes inShuyu!

If their belief is ht, perhaps I’ll still be able to run away then Or perhaps I really would be strangled to death, but anything is better than spending day and night fretting about the trustworthiness of the people beside you I’ve had enough of those days in otten a new chance at life and even a family who’ll never doubt each other, how can I afford to ain?!

Dàgē reached out and ruffled ē will protect you all”

My eyes got hot again Dàgē, stop talking, okay?

But even if the orks were threatening to burst, I still couldn’t resist asking, “My personality really hasn’t changed?”

At least Jiang Shuyu couldn’t possibly be as much of a cry baby as I am?

I was starting to find his personality very peculiar, especially since I was a woman If I have a similar character as aShuyu as too girly…? Then again, normally, a thirty-five year old wo than an eighteen year-old kid who had lived comfortably all his life

Dàgē said slowly and methodically, “Not byWhen you’re pretending, it ht, like how overly lively you’ve been the past few days”

I see Zero points for the unnatural acting

“There is one thing that’s changed from before”

“What is it?” I grew a little curious but also a little anxious at the same time But I tried to tell ē and Shujun both believe me, so what’s there to be afraid of?

Dàgē’s mouth quirked a smile, and he said with amusement, “You didn’t used to sneak looks at my chest and abs”

…So he’s noticed o! shi+t, isn’t this tooShuyu definitely wouldn’t be drooling over ht?!

“You would always just look at it directly”

“…” Fine, you win, Jiang Shuyu Forget race horses, you’re so far ahead of me that I couldn’t even catch you on a rocket You’re just a huge pervert who’s both a sis-con and a bro-con!

Dàgē ruffled , “You were always very jealous of my muscles, and you had even said that, after your exams, you would buy a bunch of fitness machines to train your body to be as muscular as ood work”

I see Sorry,Shuyu, don’t waste yourthe health foods Junjun has been cooking every day, consu a few death et are these ē, it’d be quicker if you got struck by lightning and got sent to another world!

I mournfully looked down at my skinny body There was indeed a little meat on my arms, and while you couldn’t say that there were abs on my sto when coē next to me!

Fine, us ē, I’ll—I’ll compare myself with Xiao Sha!

Junjun said that his waist o measure it myself If he dares to be more buff than me, I’ll ask Junjun to starve him until he’s thinner than me!

I didn’t knohere I had heard it from, but someone had once said that all special abilities came from the same root—it was just a question of how you used the that cay that unlocked a switch in huy

But forget about the end of the ten years, even froed far behind the others If she were in a race, she would only have run about three hest tier aberrant she had ever faced was only a third tier, and this only happened eight years into the apocalypse

On the other hand, Jiang Shuyu was able to kill two tier one aberrants within the first three , there was no point in co or so trash, and you’d forever be trash!+

Then again, Jiang Shuyu had eaten far more crystals than Guan Weijun I tried to console myself that my previous self wasn’t entirely useless but just very stupid There was no way she could have beco all her evolution crystals to her trash boyfriend

Although I had sworn that I would beco this lifeti his mercenary troop to conquer the world by now The news just hadn’t reached us yet simply because ere on wholly different continents … Um, or at least I don’t think we’re on the same continent?

Although the continents’ nahly be mapped to each other Meisia was probably Asia, and while I didn’t remember which continent the Ice Emperor was on, I was absolutely certain that he wasn’t here during the early days of the apocalypse As for the top elite in Asia, as that again…? I forgot

Xia Zhengu had always toldable to remember the three human elites But I couldn’t have cared less at the ti where there were supplies was far more important back then That lazy ass hadn’t even knohere super of the apocalypse Did he think that knowing the names of the three elites would help fill his belly?

By the way, I’d originally thought that the Oceania here and the one there were one and the sa The Oceania there corresponded to Glacia1 here, which was also the place where Dàgē alot trapped

The Ice Emperor was far away on another continent, so that was that In Asia… well, Meisia, there had in fact been one elite If we could get then supreme in the apocalypse? But then I couldn’t remember his name, only that his surname was very unique What is it?

“Èrgē, what are you thinking about?”

I replied without thinking, “Thunder”

“You want to eat chocolate?”

I looked up and stared at Shujun in confusion “Huh?”

Shujun gave me an innocent look as she said, “We don’t have Black Thunder chocolate in the baseē says that one is too sweet and he hates it, so I didn’t get any back then Is Godiva okay?”

There really is no corateful tears in my eyes In the past, I couldn’t afford to eat these chocolates, so I was going to make up for it now! In any case, I needed more calories to build up a muscular body

Speaking ofhis knife throws

Xiao Sha walked over, his eyes filled with resignation as he said, “Is it my turn to train?”

“Hold up your arms”

He obediently did so Although Dàgē said that ood enough for dealing with the ht now, they listened to every word I said, so they really were treating me as the Boss Jr of theup Dàgē twice has really yielded some benefits

I took out atape to measure Xiao Sha’s waist

He was one inch wider

Silence

From today onwards, I will eat Godiva as part of etables!

In the end, Shujun said that vegetables were even etarian I had no choice but to give up on the idea with tears inmore Godiva instead

At the dining table, I spoke seriously, “Dàgē, when you’re out looking for supplies and you encounter so poith a very unique surname, can you ask for their name? Get to know that person and leave them a way to contact us, then come back and tell me their name”

“Already done,” Dàgē replied calmly

I jolted and asked quickly, “Really? What’s his name?”

“Jiang Shujun”

…Shujun has very strong lightning powers and a unique surna” Holy shi+t!

“The Thunder God is male” Such a pity So close—but I couldn’t bear to have ave up on the notion

“Thunder God?” Everyone perked up with interest

“You mean the chocolate?” Yunqian licked her lips, “Those are sweet and delicious”

“It’s a person!” Is food the only thing that’s on their —these are the top three human elites, so remember these names!”

Our htning, and fire But in le person who stood out What a failure!

“Don’t tell me…” Cain said solemnly, “that I’m actually—”

“No,” I dashed cold water over hi isn’t on this continent The person in Meisia is the Thunder God”

Cain instantly deflated, while the others collectively looked toward Shujun Ever since that training session, their respect for Shujun had grown in leaps and bounds by the day They even had a revelation of “so just by doing housework, you can train to be so aweso to do the housework

Ceng Yunqian focused on doing the laundry, Lily swept away every single speck of dust in the house, Xiao Sha was responsible for hanging the clothes and drying therow crops, and with Cain around, we didn’t need to worry about fire whenever we ran out of gas

The Jiang Do Housework Troop

In contrast, it was the three deadweights ere theand drinking their fill was starting to tickand Chen Qianru weren’t too bad, because they could keep Shujun co the housework But for that silent as ato make him so busy, he’ll wish he were dead!

Lily stuttered in absolute astonishment, “D-don’t tell me the Thunder God is Sh-Shujun?”

I became speechless Didn’t anyone hear what I just said? “The Thunder God is male”

Everyone breathed sighs of relief, pissingto screa!” Do they have any idea how much I wish that Shujun is the Thunder God? Then ould rule this apocalyptic world!

“I want to check out Zhongguan City today,” Dàgē suddenly interjected, “so I’ll keep an eye out for this Thunder God of yours But the likelihood of running into him is quite low”

I know it’s unlikely, just saying Still, Dàgē suddenly wants to go into the city? I thought about it for a moment No, it’s not very unusualThe police station was already on the outskirts of the city, so they had probably run out of things to scavenge in the neighborhood We weren’t short on supplies—we had long run out of space in the basement, but ere short on ammunition Even the police station operation hadn’t yielded much, so if they wanted to find more, they had to head into the city

“Shuyu, stay here and watch over the house”

I blinked, and then said quickly, “Dàgē, I should be going with you”

Dàgē shook his head in reply “It’s a long journey to the city, so ill need to stay the night there if we’re to find so for more than a day, I can only trust you to watch the house I’ll leave Xiao Sha here to guard with you”

…Dàgē, you keep putting Xiao Sha together with et Are you sure you’re not up to so?

I pondered over the facts If Dàgē and I left, neither of us would be able to stop worrying about the house, so we had to leave one of us behind But we couldn’t let Dàgē stay at hoē I was just a stronger individual fighting unit but was no good at co

“Why don’t you leave Ceng Yunqian here? She can snipe, and that’s not soood at”

Guan Weijun had never been so lucky as to be able to find so rifle

“Sure”

I glanced over the deadweight trio and said, “Dàgē, why don’t you take Ding Jun along? He needs to work for his meals”

Ding Jun looked le word

I ad Jun but going easy on Su Ying and Chen Qianru I just instinctively felt that girls should stay at hoht whenever possible So even if Shujun’s abilities had plenty of attack power, Dàgē and I still didn’t want to let her go with the mercenary troop She should be protected as much as possible

It’s really not a good thing, but I can’t help it I really can’t bear to see Shujun…

“Shutian, Xiao Yu,” Auntie suddenly spoke up, “I’ll go too”

I blinked and blurted, “No way!”

Dàgē frowned

“My ability is sensing all living creatures around er You should let o, if you don’t want Uncle and me to worry”

I’d alotten Auntie’s powers—they really would coē

Unexpectedly, Dàgē only pondered for a heartbeat before he nodded, “All right, Auntie, co, you must come as well”

Su Ying became flustered, and even turned to look at Shujun, but Shujun didn’t back her up As expected of ht and listened to him

Su Ying had no choice but to agree

I understood the reason for taking her along—she had psychic powers, and she had spent a long tiht If they encountered psyche-type aberrants like the brainwight, she would have better resistance against their powers and could wake up the others

Dàgē stood up and addressed everyone, saying, “The operation will be conducted in Zhongguan City, and the duration will be three days Prepare your things now, and ill set out in one hour”

With that, everyone gave a cheer and scattered The good progress in their training made me feel a lot ē had been able to break out of the city at the beginning, whereas noas just going to wander around the outskirts And everyone’s abilities had improved a little, so there shouldn’t be any problems

Yet after issuing the order, Dàgē didn’t go to pack his things, because Shujun was doing it for him

He turned to look atback?”

I thought briefly before replying, “Godiva”

When Shujun caht me another plate full of sweets, the majority of which were chocolates

“Èrgē, don’t worry Back then, I took many boxes of chocolates!”

I reotten a few boxes of stuff—don’t tell me that they only contained chicken soup, Chinese medicinal herbs, and chocolates? Coot for you!

Shujun turned to Dàgē “Dàgē, bring back a s sweets, so we can put the se in his room, and I can stuff it full of chocolates”

I suddenly felt danger to my waistline in the horizons I only want to be a little fatter than Xiao Sha, nothing more No, seriously

“We should also get another sas and petrol, the better,” I hastily added Although I was pretty sure Dàgē knew to get these things, I couldn’t help but nag at him—if I didn’t remind him, I wouldn’t feel at ease

“Sure”

I hesitated, but still spoke up in the end, “Dàgē, don’t bring back tooback those who don’t look too sly or calculating”

Dàgē gave me a look and said slowly and deliberately, “Actually, I wasn’t planning on bringing anyone back”

I never iē would be eventhe status quo and not accepting any newcomers was safer—after all, the ē’s mercenary troop could enforce order, once the newcohting a their own schemes By then, they would form their little cliques and circles

But if we didn’t take in people noould risk running short onfor people in the future, it would be easier to raise a more loyal bunch if we took them now instead

Judging fro up After all, humans were communal and social creatures—not to say there weren’t lone wolves, but even lone wolves ultimately relied on colonies for survival And for us with our own organized group, there was no way the colony leaders would let us develop and grow If they didn’t kick us out, ould be forcibly annexed into their group and split up from there

I si subordinate to anyone or having to obey orders I also wasn’t willing to let the mercenary troop be dismantled

“We need more people In the future, ill establish our own colony”

Dàgē stared at me “You want to establish a base? Why?

I blinked Why? Because if we don’t build one ourselves, then ould have to live under other people’s coine anyone not being daunted or inti, pretty, and cute that it’s hard to i after her Even I myself have a face that attracts lots of trouble, so I have no idea how on earth we could possibly survive in other people’s territories!

“I just want everyone to live safely and peacefully together”

Shujun ihtly “We definitely will!”

Dàgē gave a faint sht, then let’s establish a base I’ll ē will take care of everything”

He reached out with both hands and ruffled Shujun’s andpeople’s heads?

“Shuyu, you’re only eighteen, just three years older than Shujun You’re still a child, so you don’t have to worry about so s”

“This is the apocalypse, Dàgē” I rolled ive a damn how old I am when they bite me”

“With Dàgē around, no aberrants will be able to bite you”

Al right, I admit this line doesprotected by so to protect me still made me very happy indeed

“If you have nothing to do, go out and find love You’re already eighteen”

…Dàgē, I really haven’t figured out which gender I like Please, give me some time to think about this

I shot back with an equally punchy question, “Dàgē, you’re twenty-seven already When will you give me a niece or nephew to play with?”

Dàgē thought a little, then said, “Yunqian had asked me before, whether or not I could have a child with her If you want one, I’ll tell her yes”

Dàgē! What happened to your et eaten by an aberrant?! How can you accept being a tool forbabies?!

“No!” Shujun exclaiē, you can only have children with your future wife If you dare to have kids with anyone else, I’ll throw those children away!”

Well said, Shujun! Throw them away!

Dàgē gave a low chuckle and spoke as he ruffled his sibling’s heads, “All right, I won’t, I won’t Throw them away as you like”

Shujun was still pouting, but she snuck lance I returned with a look of “got it” Siblings’ minds think alike indeed

We have to keep a close eye on our Dàgē!

Footnotes

1 “Glacia”: Used to be translated as the Arctic After receiving more information, we have now decided to translate this continent’s name as Glacia