Chapter 169 - 6.29 Third Green Star - Blocked
Inside the car the atmosphere is so tense for varying reasons.
First, the little bun is angry at Liu Yan and Baize for cutting off his fun. He really wanted to jump at them beside him. Oreo is growling as well while in his puppy form within his little master's embrace. Oreo non mutated from his size only like a normal sized adult shih tzu.
Second, System Baize looks at Zhi Yue who is in his human form despite being a system like his. The former wanted to grab him and ask how he could do such a thing. Sadly the situation isn't good as they were all inside the car.
Third, Cao Junye noticed that the sky above them is slightly turning red. Adding up the sound of converging thunders and lightning the sunny sky before had turned gloomy at this moment. It looks like it will start raining and it won't be just a simple rain.
The toddler Chino struggles from his Uncle Yue's embrace and slowly walks over to his daddy's side with everyone's support.
After falling on his daddy's chest, little bun Chino hugs his daddy's neck acting spoiled.
Baby Chino spoke, "Daddy~ why are we riding the car? Can't we just ride on Oreo and Oreo's parents back on our way home~ Chi-chan still wants to kill zombies~~"
The little one's complaints enter the adults ears and they all laugh except for Xueya yet there is still a smile in the corner of his lips.
Chuckles~
Hearing his father and uncles laugh, Chino pouted even more and hid his face on his daddy's shoulders.
"Daddy~ they are laughing at Chi-chan~"
Chino, who knew that his daddy is the strongest, immediately complained that everyone was laughing at them.
Xueya moves his eyes around the car and everyone avoids his eyes and stops laughing. Of course! Except for his husband, Cao Junye, who even teases their son further to tears.
Cao Junye with a mischievous smile on his face while poking his son's inflated cheeks. Poke. Poke. "Complaining to your daddy every time you got bullied how can you grow up strong this way~"
Teary eyed Chino, "Buhh~ father is bad. Meanie~ daddy~ father is a bully. Chino doesn't like him anymore. Ying~" complained the 3 year old toddler.
Seeing his baby bullied to tears by his father, daddy Xueya glanced at his husband with a warning as he pinched him on his sides. The latter groaned together with the pain.
Groans~
"Don't you dare bully my son!" said Xueya.
Meanwhile Cao Junye and other's saw Chino grinning showing his full white baby teeth at them after seeing his father get scolded by his daddy. It seems his crying just now was just an act for his father to be bullied back by his daddy as well. They even saw the baby sticking out his tongue towards his father secretly.
Reactions of the audience watching this family's daily skit.
Zhi Yue: "Sigh~ the young master is starting to act like the host as more time goes by."
Lou Lan: "A little devil in the making."
Wang Lei: "In the future the Lord God would be teased not only by his wife but also by his son."
Liu Yan: "Isn't this 3 year old too smart? Or I'm just stupid?"
Baize: "He is smart and you are stupid. Such difference~."
Liu Yan: "You!?"
On the other hand Cao Junye who is used to this had taken his naughty son from his wife and tickled the bad bun until his laughter resounded in the whole car.
Once the temperature once again dropped below 20 from its original 40 degrees temperature. Followed by an approaching thunder and lightning, the weather during the apocalypse is really unpredictable.
The temperature used to be so hot that plants and trees started to withered but suddenly the sky was covered with thick dark clouds together with thunder and lightning hinting for a rainstorm.
The winds had picked up and the breeze was strong enough to cause little children like Chino to be blown without an adult holding on to him. Because of the loud thunder and lightning coming closer Cao Junye and Ximen Xueya decided to stop their journey at least until the rain had passed.
They've occupied an abandoned villa within W District. This time under Ximen Xueya's orders they didn't choose a desolated building to rest but a crowded area in the district. Upon entering the center of W District they were welcomed by countless zombies from all sides. But before they could even prepare themselves for endless life or death battles Ximen Xueya snapped his finger once and instantly covered the whole district with ice and snow.
Except for ruined buildings, broken down cars, few destroyed light posts and some fragmented roads, everything is now covered in ice and snow as if the whole district had turned into an ice world. The coverage of the ice spell is too big that everyone else was left in disbelief.
Except for Ximen Chino, Zhi Yue and Cao Junye, most of them were rendered speechless. The general ordered Wang Lei to stop at a nearby grand hotel in the district. With a wave of his hand, all cars disappeared in thin air.
"Are we staying here, Xue'er?" asked Cao Junye who was carrying their son and holding his wife's hand on the other.
Xueya answered, "Yes. We'll leave after the Blood Rain. We are going to wait at this hotel until the rain stops. After the blood rain the zombies would upgrade. By them there would be crystals inside their heads. Those would be useful for upgrading your abilities. Zhi Yue would explain the details after dinner. For now go to the hotel and I will block the doors with ice. Until Morning no one is to leave the hotel.
There must be zombies inside the hotel as well. Check it though and destroy it. I've frozen the whole central area of this district. Whether it is inside or outside everything should be covered in Ice. After you cleaned up the hotel I would unfroze it."
Cao Junye ordered, "Uncle Wu, Wang Lei, split into two groups. Clean up the zombies inside the hotel. Leave not a single one. Zhi Yue, you go with them and help point out the exact location of the zombies inside the building."
Zhi Yue had introduced himself not only as Ximen Xueya's distant relative but also an awakened mental type ability user. This would allow him to use his system capabilities to check on the map by pretending to be an awakened ability user.
"Yes general!"
After a while almost all of the soldiers had entered the hotel to do their tasks. The only ones left outside the building are the family of three plus Liu Yan, his white kitten Baize and Lou Lan. The last one was dragged by his little nephew to play around with snow together with the puppy version of Oreo.
On the other hand Xueya had brought out a set of tables and chairs, including a tea brewer which was turned on using her husband's thunder ability. They had nice tea and cakes while waiting for the rest to clean up. Cao Junye and Ximen Xueya did all this like it's normal for them to be this luxurious. Liu Yan, who was holding a cup of tea, was sneaking a peek at this couple who had abilities to destroy the world.
Xueya ignored his eyes as usual but spoke, "Ask your questions. I won't be answering anything after this."
[Venerable Lord, are you the one who allowed Sir System Yue to materialize as human? Could... could you please allow me as well? Just in this world.]
"That?! Is it possible?" asked Liu Yan in surprise.
[It should be possible.]
Xueya slightly opened his mouth to eat the cake his husband was feeding him.
"Possible... but why should I help you so?"
"This is also true~" murmured Liu Yan sadly as he lowered his head, a bit upset.
Liu Yan upon hearing this immediately gave up as he had nothing that he could use as a bargain to help Baize. But his system thought so otherwise, Baize thought that this is an opportunity that will allow him to enter the world with his host as a human.
[I have nothing I could use much in exchange but... I am willing to act as your spy, to look for intelligence about the current events that happen in the God System and Nether System. I will try my best to get you the latest and truest news about whatever you wanted to know. This... I can promise.]
System Baize is a smart person. He instantly knew what kind of opportunity he was given at the moment. Just based on the fact that someone like the Venerable Lord who is supposed to be on vacation, to be here world hopping without the God System knowing.
They must be in that kind of situation where others must not know what they are doing or why they are here. It might be a private situation and System Baize had no interest in getting himself involved deeply as it might affect not only his life but also his host.
Xueya showed an amused smile when he heard what System Baize had said, then staring at the bewildered host of Baize, Liu Yan, looking all confused made him laugh.
"Not bad. You are quite useful. But before that I need to tell you the bad news. In this A ranked World, three destroyers had entered. Just based on their target they might be high ranked ones from that organization." said Xueya with an unconcerned expression on his exquisite face.
System Baize and Liu Yan obviously didn't expect this news. It's already rare for a destroyer to enter high ranked worlds. They usually only go in for lower worlds where heavenly laws were weak and could be easily destroyed or ignored. But the last world where they've first met and this world were both A ranked worlds. The former is supposed to be only a D ranked world but it became an A rated one when a destroyer illegally set foot in it.
The current world they were in is an A ranked World. Now that there are three certified destroyers illegally entering this star meant that the rating of this world would increase. It would most likely reach S class when those destroyers unleashed their full capabilities in this world.
By that time the problem would no longer be zombies instead but those illegal world hoppers who occupied a vessel in this world.
Liu Yan reacted badly with this news. "Three!!? Why so many!? Xiao Bai lets give up on this world. It's too dangerous. I am only a God level Cultivator. If there is one we could still escape but there are three!!?"
Both the host and his system started to panic upon hearing this fact. System Baize tried contacting the God System but as if their connection to the outside world is cut off, he wasn't able to connect with the God System Main core.
[I cannot get connection with the Main System. The heavenly laws of this world had blocked all signals coming from this world. All connections from the outside cannot be reached.]
Liu Yan and System Baize's expressions turned dull at this event. This is a dire situation where they might lose their lives. It is better if they would only be killed but that only works for Liu Yan. System Baize would most likely be brainwashed as Liu Yan died and he would have to work for the killer as nothing but a machine. This is the worst thing that could happen.
While the two had fallen into silence, Xueya and Junye ignored all changes their faces had undergone through. This life and death situation is something they are used to, as they were high class Gods which could be said to have rich experience with war and killing. It's completely normal for them.
Cao Junye who was staying silent the whole time had finally spoke.
"You cannot do anything about it. The destroyers would be cleaned up by us. Just do your part well and prevent your deaths. You weren't even in their radar."
[Then... Is their target...]
Xueya smiled like an angel, almost causing the duo to be dumbfounded for a long time.
Those who knew too well of his nature understood what he is definitely feeling right now. Seeing such a beautiful smile on his wife's face, Cao Junye let out a powerless sigh. He had been holding back his wife's nature since the beginning. Since Xueya had promised before, the former had never done anything that caused destruction ever since that day.
At the third world they had experienced, Meng Anya had promised Mo Yijun that he wouldn't destroy anything as long as his husband was around. This is the reason why in the last few world's most actions Xueya had made were never destructive. Except for causing deaths of few people and causing the world plots to divert from its original path, his wife had never caused anything to be ruined. If there is someone causing disasters, it would be him.
[A/n: At least our ML knew that he is the one who caused one of the worlds to be ruined when he lost himself to anger once. This is about the fourth world which Ye Xiajie destroyed after Hei Anjing's vessel died.]
Gave his husband a deterrent gaze, "What? You have something to say?" asked Xueya.
Cao Junye, seeing his wife's mood fluctuating again, could only coax and hug Xueya to his arms.
"Nothing... Just... don't overdo it. I will help you kill them, okay?" said Cao Junye with a gentle tone and a smile.
Xueya reluctantly agreed, "...Fine... Two for me. One for you. No bargaining!"
"Okay!" said Cao Junye as he kissed those pouting lips of his wife.
They've kissed so passionately that they even ignored the two bright light bulbs which are now glowing red from embarrassment. Liu Yan and Baize looked at each other and the blushes on their faces turned even bright scarlet as they avoided each other's eyes. Unlike the two in front of them, the relationship between the two of them is only a vague ambiguity.