Chapter 45: Visitors

Bailing glanced at Su Tao, walked forward, and wrote on the ground with her paw: "Vixen, you really know how to twist."

Seeing what Bailing wrote, Su Tao trembled all over, growing even more excited.

Next, Bailing walked up to the bespectacled man and wrote: "Cuckold Man, rest in peace. We will take good care of your girlfriend."

The bespectacled man gasped for air, coughing violently, and soon spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.

Simultaneously, Ye Nan suddenly shuddered.

Realizing what had happened, the bespectacled man's heart turned to ashes, and his eyes slowly closed.

He had actually died of pure indignation.

With her deep vengeance fulfilled, Su Tao felt an immense wave of relief wash over her. No longer able to suppress herself, her body gave a violent quiver before she collapsed weakly onto the floor, breathing heavily, her face flushed with a gorgeous rosy hue.

This two-hour-long performance had finally come to an end.

Ye Nan took a deep breath, a satisfied smile curving the corner of his mouth. It had been an absolute treat.

After resting for a moment, he dragged the bespectacled man's corpse and threw it outside the residential compound, where a pack of zombies quickly gathered and devoured him.

When Ye Nan returned to the safe house, Su Tao had already retreated to her room to rest.

In truth, her limbs were completely limp without a shred of strength left; she had been carried into the room entirely by the other three women. She vividly remembered the ambiguous expressions the three women wore as they left, making her feel utterly embarrassed.

While she was exacting her revenge on the bespectacled man, she hadn't thought much of it, but now that it was over, a wave of shyness washed over her. She secretly scolded herself for being too impulsive, knowing she would likely be teased by the three women for quite some time.

Li Siqi's older sister was a doctor, and Li Siqi had picked up a fair amount of medical knowledge from her, making simple wound dressing and bandaging well within her abilities.

Ye Nan retrieved medicine and medical equipment from the Thunder Tower and asked Li Siqi to tend to Gong Wanru's and Bailing's wounds.

Seeing Ye Nan magically produce items out of thin air, Bailing stared in wide-eyed curiosity. Ye Nan saw no reason to hide it and revealed the truth to the cat.

Feeling a deep sense of injustice, Bailing could only write: "Comparing a human to a cat is enough to anger a cat to death."

That evening, with Bailing's addition, the group of people and the cat enjoyed a lavish feast to celebrate. The atmosphere was wonderful, filled with laughter and cheerful chatter.

After dinner, there were no particular entertainment activities.

The four women and the cat headed to the home theater to watch a movie, while Ye Nan went to the yoga room to begin his workout.

Three thousand push-ups, three thousand sit-ups.

As Ye Nan's strength grew, his physical fitness had improved tremendously. Completing a thousand repetitions felt like nothing at all, so he had increased his workload to three thousand.

With more and more women living in the safe house, Ye Nan had to maintain peak physical condition to have the energy to handle them. Otherwise, being forced to just look without being able to participate in actual combat would be far too great a loss.

Sometimes he couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Thinking back to his days as a security guard compared to his life now, it was more than ten times better. If he were asked to return to the peaceful era now, he wouldn't agree to it for the world.

The apocalypse was truly wonderful—it had food and it had women.

Late into the night, Ye Nan inevitably engaged in passionate intimacy with the women, though he spared Su Tao, considering how exhausted she had been during the day and that she was already fast asleep.

When she woke up the next morning, Su Tao was filled with resentment. She had been so tired and desperately wanted to sleep, but loud noises had echoed from the neighboring room all night long, preventing her from getting any rest at all.

Bailing had also been kept awake by the noise the entire night, cursing Ye Nan in its mind ten thousand times over.

During breakfast, Su Tao and Bailing chewed on their food with fierce intensity, their angry expressions as if they were biting directly into Ye Nan, leaving him utterly speechless.

Today, Ye Nan planned to venture out alone to scavenge for supplies, hunt zombies along the way, harvest crystal cores, and strengthen his abilities—a daily routine that could not be neglected.

If you don't progress, others will. When that time came, if you couldn't defeat them, the safe house and the women would belong to someone else. Ye Nan would never allow such an outcome to happen.

Since Bailing's injuries had not yet fully healed, Ye Nan left it behind in the safe house to guard the place, though he didn't entirely trust the cat, so he also instructed Gong Wanru to stay home and keep an eye on Bailing.

Just as he stepped outside, Ye Nan heard the roar of machinery. Looking into the distance, he saw several excavators driving over.

It was people from the Jinshan Base.

Before the apocalypse broke out, the boss of the Jinshan Base had been a construction contractor with a large crew of brothers and numerous excavators under his command. It was precisely on the back of these assets that he had established the Jinshan Base.

Yesterday, after Brother Qiao was killed, the boss of the Jinshan Base flew into a rage, dispatching men to the residential compound with orders to flatten it and make Ye Nan pay the price.

Rumble!

The excavators arrived at the gates of the compound, generating a massive racket that attracted the surrounding zombies. However, before the zombies could even get close, they were eliminated by an esper.

"Boss, the main entrance is blocked, and the remaining passageway is too narrow for the excavators to get through," a subordinate reported.

The boss who led this expedition was Qian Fucai, the second-in-command of the Jinshan Base, while Brother Qiao, who had been eliminated previously, was the third-in-command.

Qian Fucai pointed at the perimeter wall nearby and ordered, "Knock down the compound wall for me and let the zombies in. I want to see how they handle that."

"Yes!" the subordinate shouted loudly.

As the several excavators roared into action, the perimeter wall was quickly knocked down, and a massive wave of zombies surged into the residential compound.

In an open area where a group of people had been trading goods, the sudden intrusion of zombies left everyone dumbfounded.

"Run!"

"Run for your lives!"

"Those murderous bastards actually dug through the compound wall and let the zombies in! Everyone, run!"

"It's all that bastard Ye Nan's fault! Why couldn't he just mind his own business instead of killing Brother Qiao? Now look, he's enraged the people of the Jinshan Base, and we're all caught in the crossfire."

"With zombies everywhere in the compound now, how are we supposed to go out and scavenge for food in the future?"

"Cursed Ye Nan."

"You guys are going too far! The zombies inside the compound were cleared out by him in the first place, and he's definitely not the one who let the zombies in now. No matter what, he did us a great favor. How can you repay kindness with enmity?"

...

Watching from a distance, Ye Nan made no move to intervene.

In truth, he could easily have prevented the wall from being knocked down, which would have kept the zombies out.

Ultimately, however, he chose not to act.

During this period, he had seen enough of human nature. You step forward to help them, yet they complain that your help isn't enough. Since that was the case, why bother playing the good guy?

He would mind his own business. After all, he was an esper; no matter how many zombies filled the compound, it made no difference to him—a single sword strike would wipe them out. Instead, this would serve as a good lesson for the residents and teach them a thing or two. Why not let it happen?

Before long, a massive horde of zombies flooded into the compound, plunging everyone into panic.

No one dared to venture outside anymore.

After all, for ordinary people, trying to move through a horde of that size was no different from seeking death.

Qian Fucai bellowed, "Which one of you is Ye Nan? Get your ass out here and face your death!"

A faint smile touched the corner of Ye Nan's mouth. Cutting down zombies left and right, he approached Qian Fucai. Since you're asking for death, I'll gladly grant your wish.

Qian Fucai looked Ye Nan up and down, his gaze chilling. "You're Ye Nan?"

"That's right," Ye Nan replied.

Qian Fucai asked, "You're the one who killed my brother Qiao?"

Ye Nan nodded, "Correct."

"Very well." Qian Fucai's eyes turned icy as a cruel smile spread across his face. "Kneel down and kowtow three times, and I might leave your corpse intact."

"What a coincidence. I was just about to say the exact same thing to you," Ye Nan retorted coldly.

"Brat, you've got guts. I'm going to shatter your bones one by one." Aura erupted from Qian Fucai's body. Ever since he awakened his abilities, no one had ever dared to speak to him like that.

Ye Nan said, "Come ahead. Let me see just how much skill you really have."

"Fine, I'll satisfy your wish."

As the words fell, Qian Fucai charged forward. His speed was blistering, resembling a flash of lightning, accompanied by a devastating punch.

This ferocious strike seemed to distort the surrounding space itself.

When Ye Nan had watched Qian Fucai clearing out zombies earlier, he had already deduced that the man was a physical-type esper with formidable physical fitness, perhaps not far from reaching Level 2. Still, he was ultimately only a Level 1 esper.

Putting away his Thunder Sword, Ye Nan neither dodged nor evaded, throwing a punch of his own to test his physical prowess and see if it could match up against a professional physical-type esper.

Boom!

Their fists collided, producing a dull, muffled sound in the air.

Both men took a step back.

Ye Nan thought to himself, *I couldn't even gain the upper hand. The physical strength of a physical-type esper is truly terrifying.*

Little did he know, Qian Fucai was even more shocked inwardly. He knew Ye Nan was a lightning-type esper, but for his physical strength to rival that of a physical-type esper like himself was simply absurd.

"Again!" Qian Fucai roared, his figure flashing like electricity as he closed in on Ye Nan once more. He threw another punch, but compared to the last one, the force behind this blow was even greater and far more terrifying.

Ye Nan transformed his fist into a palm, gathering crackling tendrils of lightning energy directly across his palm.

"Palm Thunder!"

Ye Nan met Qian Fucai's fist with his palm. Both men stood frozen in place, appearing evenly matched, but suddenly Qian Fucai let out a muffled groan, violently shaking his right hand as a wave of intense pain shot through it.

As it turned out, he had been injured by Ye Nan's lightning energy.

And that wasn't all; the electricity had burrowed past his palm and entered his body, ravaging his skin and causing excruciating agony.

Having landed the first blow, Ye Nan pressed his advantage immediately. A bolt of lightning cleaved down from the sky like divine punishment.

Qian Fucai's figure flickered, reappearing three zhang away to dodge the strike, but Ye Nan's Lightning Fist was already upon him. Crackling arcs of lightning coiled around his fists like brilliant, dazzling serpents.

This time, the distance was too close for Qian Fucai to evade, forcing him to take the blow head-on.

The moment they collided, Qian Fucai let out another muffled groan. Countless arcs of lightning scorched his clothes black and burned the surface of his skin. Even worse, eroded by the electricity, he felt his speed plummet drastically, leaving him completely unable to dodge Ye Nan's attacks and forcing him into a passive defensive state.

Bang!

Finally, with another strike of the Lightning Fist, Qian Fucai was blasted flying, crashing to the ground and coughing up mouthfuls of blood.

The battle between the two had drawn a large number of zombies, which began swarming toward the area.

Ye Nan summoned the Thunder Sword and casually slashed through the air, dispatching the few zombies lunging at him.

As for Qian Fucai's subordinates, they remained safely inside the excavators. The massive mechanical arms swept across, knocking down the charging zombies, while the heavy treads rolled over them, crushing the creatures to instant death.

Realizing the situation was hopeless, Qian Fucai felt a surge of retreat and wanted to escape. He exchanged a glance with one of his subordinates, who immediately revved his excavator and charged straight toward Ye Nan, attempting to crush him to death.

Ye Nan smiled with utter disdain, shooting a bolt of lightning straight into the excavator. The subordinate inside was instantly electrocuted to death.

Charging forward, Ye Nan brought his sword down in a single vertical slash.

Qian Fucai resisted with all his might, but it was futile. Under the blade of Ye Nan's Thunder Sword, Qian Fucai was split cleanly in two, not even having time to let out a scream.

Seeing this, the remaining subordinates inside the excavators panicked completely, hastily steering their machines around to flee for their lives.

Ye Nan originally intended to use his abilities to wipe them out, but thought better of it, deciding to exercise caution so as not to damage the excavators—such machinery might prove immensely useful in the future.

Chasing after them, Ye Nan eliminated every single member of the Jinshan Base without harming the excavators.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, he stored the excavators inside the Thunder Tower.

Next, Ye Nan harvested the crystal core from Qian Fucai's body and turned to head toward the Jinshan Base.

He intended to wipe out the leadership of the Jinshan Base as well; otherwise, having them constantly show up to cause trouble in the future would become an endless annoyance.

The Jinshan Base was not far away, and Ye Nan arrived in no time.

"Brat, who the hell are you?" a burly guard at the gate said coldly. "This is the Jinshan Base. Take one more step forward and I'll kill you."

"I am Ye Nan. Surely you've heard my name?" Ye Nan said.

The guard was stunned. Yesterday's killing of Brother Qiao had sent shockwaves through the entire Jinshan Base, and Ye Nan's name was naturally on everyone's lips.

He just hadn't expected this fellow to actually show up on their doorstep. Come to think of it, hadn't Qian Fucai gone out to find Ye Nan? Where was Qian Fucai?

A bad premonition suddenly struck the guard. Could it be that Qian Fucai had failed and been killed by Ye Nan as well?

The guard reached for his gun, but Ye Nan was faster. A bolt of lightning flashed through the air, instantly piercing straight through the guard's glabella.

"Damn it! Backup, come quick!"

"Go notify the boss! Ye Nan is attacking!"

The surrounding henchmen instantly went on high alert, facing a formidable enemy.

Ye Nan shouted, "Surrender, or die!"

The henchmen remained unmoved.

Ye Nan said, "Very well. I gave you a choice. Since you've chosen death, don't blame me."

The Thunder Sword swept through the air, and those men died on the spot.

At that exact moment, five burly men outside were dragging three women back, wearing lecherous grins on their faces.

"Haha, beauties, don't worry. Once you're inside our Jinshan Base, you're safe, and every day will be a blast. All the men here are strong and robust, ensuring you'll never forget it for the rest of your lives."

"These three women aren't bad-looking. Later, we'll call the brothers over so everyone can take turns."

"Damn, we just ran into two old fogies who scratched us up. All because they tried to make us let their daughter join the Jinshan Base to warm beds for everyone. Truly hateful! I ended up hacking those two old fogies to death with my blade. Damn it, what terrible luck!"

As the group reached the main gate, they came face-to-face with Ye Nan, whose body radiated a murderous intent.

The lead thug sneered, "Oh, little punk, you've got some nerve causing trouble at our Jinshan Base. Tired of living, are you?"

Another thug chimed in, "This pretty boy doesn't look half bad. Some of the brothers have rather unique tastes; we might as well keep him alive to satisfy those guys' cravings."

"Hahaha, well said," the lead thug laughed.