Millennium: I Love Demon King

Gu Cheng had a very long dream. In the dream, when he and Blackie were still in high school, Blackie was sitting on the school wall with a cigarette in his hand, blowing smoke into the air.

He wanted to speak to him, but Hei Zi's smile melted into the golden sunlight.

"Goodbye!"

He could read the shape of his mouth in the fading shadow of Blackie, and he shed a tear.

Tears flowed down the corners of his eyes and instantly turned cold. Gu Cheng had always been on the alert, but he immediately woke up. The curtains that covered the room were drawn back, and the light inside the room was dim. For a moment, he actually had a feeling that he didn't know what day it was.

Gu Cheng's actions alarmed Lin Xin. She was also extremely tired and had fallen asleep. She could only rely on her feelings to pounce on Gu Cheng's waist and rub it intimately against his.

Gu Cheng lowered his head and noticed her small movements. He couldn't help but rub her head, "Thank you for your hard work."

Lin Xin yawned and looked up at his face, it looked much better than yesterday.

"Are you alright?"

Gu Cheng carried her to his lap, bent over and rubbed his body against her neck.

Lin Xin was tickled by his actions. She giggled as she dodged his pestering and at the same time disdainfully pushed him away, "You're so smelly. Why aren't you getting up and taking a bath?"

Gu Cheng snorted in dissatisfaction, simply picking her up and bringing her into the bathroom with him. But when he tried to get hot water out of the space, the space failed and there was not a drop of hot water in the bathtub.

He hesitated for a moment and tried again, but he could no longer feel the connection between him and space.

"What's wrong?" Lin Xin noticed the abnormal expression on his face and a wave of unease rose up from the bottom of her heart.

"The space is gone." Gu Cheng tried activating the spiritual force in his body, only to discover that his superpower had been completely depleted. Not a single trace of spiritual force remained.

"My spiritual force has disappeared as well."

"Then what should we do?" Lin Xin blurted out, immediately realizing her slip of tongue. Having lost her superpower, Gu Cheng would only be more anxious and flustered than she was.

She hurriedly soothed Gu Cheng's arm, "It's probably the aftermath of yesterday's anesthetic. There's no need to worry. Let's go check out the source of this anesthetic. Maybe after some time, the superpower will return by itself." "Besides, if you don't have your Discipline and space, you can protect me, right?"

Gu Cheng knew that she was worried. With a grunt of acknowledgment, he turned around to ask for water from the Sun family. He Meiwei was unable to hide the astonishment on her face. However, she did not ask any further questions and just followed Gu Cheng's request to pour him two large buckets of water.

Thankfully, Gu Cheng had piled up the gas stove and the rice noodles at the edge of the balcony in order to cook. The two estimated the amount of food they would need and estimated that they would still be able to hold on for around a month or so. Unfortunately, he was afraid that the vegetables would not be fresh after a long time, so he only took out a small bag of potatoes, a few green radishes, and a few onions and left them outside. Due to the fact that Gu Cheng usually paid a lot of attention to Lin Xin's appetite, she had placed another box of apples outside. There were more than 500 Rank 2 crystal cores inside the box.

It was a pity that he could not take out the hundred thousand Rank 1 crystal cores that he had talked with Liu Shi about.

They did not need to worry about food and clothing for a short period of time. However, if Gu Cheng's superpower was not recovered by a month later, they would face their first crisis since the beginning of the apocalypse.

"Do you want to talk to the two families downstairs?" Lin Xin asked, "I'm afraid we'll have to go to the base's mission hall to accept missions."

Gu Cheng nodded in agreement. Vegetables had to be planned out for consumption, and he felt a little regretful that he had still been the one to prepare some vitamin pills.

The two of them used two buckets of hot water to wash up. This was the first time they felt so embarrassed. Lin Xin felt a bit like an ordinary person living outside. In fact, normal people outside would not be able to afford such extravagant water, much less use such a huge bucket of water to clean themselves up.

Gu Cheng did not attempt to correct her misperception. In his mind, he had indeed been unable to take good care of Lin Xin, allowing her to lead a better life than before the apocalypse. He touched her long hair apologetically. "I'm sorry, but you'll have to suffer with me in the future."

Lin Xin leaned against his chest, softly sighing, "Saying that it was all bad luck and misfortune. Without you, I wouldn't be alive right now."

Gu Cheng did not reply, instead lowering his head to kiss her forehead. He thought to himself, "No, you won't. Even if it was that difficult in your previous life, you would still be able to survive without me."

The two of them snuggled together for a while. Taking advantage of the Liu and Sun Family's presence, they gathered together for a meeting on the first floor and gave a general introduction of Gu Cheng's current situation.

"This is the situation. Gu Cheng and I plan to go to the base's mission hall in the afternoon to take a look at the situation. Do you want to go take a look together?" Lin Xin asked.

The Liu family looked at each other, then the Sun family reacted quickly. "We were also planning to go to the base's mission hall to check on the situation. We'll go together in the afternoon."

Lin Xin saw the reaction of the Liu family members. At this moment, Gu Cheng had already lost his superpower. She had never told them that he still had a healing ability on him. He would always change. Now that they had become like a burden, would the original intentions of the two families be the same as before?

"We'll go too." Grandpa Liu said, "We're back to living in the New Dawn Base. I'm looking forward to seeing if the zombies here in the capital are more ferocious than the ones in the south, hehe."

Lin Xin and Gu Cheng glanced at each other before deciding on a time to gather up and set off for the third floor. He asked the Sun family for another bucket of water to cook, this time Lin Xin knew to save water, leaving behind two bottles of drinking water. After washing the rice, she used it to wash the vegetables, the bowls were stored until night time before washing, all the dirty water was kept for the toilet.

Lin Xin originally had to wash her hair twice a day, but now she couldn't keep up with her habits. She knew He Meiwei's current ability could only condense five buckets of water a day. Before this, she did not notice, but later on she thought of this problem. Today, she had already asked for three buckets of water from He Meiwei.

Gu Cheng looked at her as she calculated her daily water consumption, before sighing helplessly. From today onwards, they would have to get used to living frugally and sparingly.

The Beijing base's mission hall was different from the New Dawn base's. It was no longer a mission assigned by the base, but rather a mission assigned by the base. The survivors would form their own small team according to their abilities and accept the missions they were interested in. Some were searching for nearby supplies, some to clean up nearby zombies, some to build the base, and so on. As for the professionals, they had specific task halls to take on. The reward was much higher than the ordinary task hall here.

Lin Xin and Gu Cheng looked at the task board for a long time. Finally, they took a designated location southeast of Beijing to clear the zombies.

A level two zombie could record a job's worth, five points was equivalent to the cost of a normal robust male's diet. Of course, other than changing meals, there were also other things that could be exchanged for points.

The weather had begun to get cold. Gu Cheng calculated that if his space could not return to normal before winter arrived, he and Lin Xin would have to exchange for at least four pieces of winter clothes and two winter quilts. Considering the current shortage of supplies, the unified heating system was unlikely to work. If the air conditioners he installed were to work, he would need to exchange for several barrels of diesel to produce electricity for the entire winter.

Previously, the supplies they had stored in Grandma Liu's space were very plentiful, but they only had about a thousand boxes of instant noodles, as well as many other canned sausages. Just like Gu Cheng, they also lacked fresh meat, vegetables and fruits, and had been able to get some benefits from Gu Cheng earlier. Now that Gu Cheng's space had failed, they had to plan on earning some work points in exchange for the necessary medicines to replenish the nourishment their bodies needed.