Millennium: I Love Demon King

Gu Cheng's team had a total of eight people, and they were assigned to receive the three star level difficulty daily zombie clean-up missions. Originally, they had thought that their choice was quite normal. However, after they had accepted the mission, they had attracted quite a bit of attention. Firstly, their team actually had two white-haired old men, and secondly, besides their team's small number of people, there were actually half of them female.

The soldiers who issued the tasks in the base's mission hall also looked at them in surprise and asked, "Just you few, are you sure?"

Gu Cheng nodded his head, and the small soldier gave them a task card. He told them that every time they killed a zombie, they had to use the task card's information card to collect the blood or brain of each zombie. At the time of handing in the task, the base's mission hall used this information card to determine the number of tasks they had completed. Lin Xin didn't understand how they were able to determine the number of zombies on the information card. She was rather curious, but Gu Cheng and the rest were busy leaving, so she hurriedly followed behind them as they left the mission hall.

The military card from the base sent out the other teams on missions together. Along the way, there were teams getting off at two task points each. Gu Cheng and the rest took a look and only then understood why they had almost been surrounded. The number of people in these teams varied from ten to thirty, but the only similarity between the teams was that they were made up of young and able-bodied men.

But even when they were in their prime, their description was miserable. Their hair was tangled and their faces were thin and yellow. It was a sign of chronic malnutrition. Due to the lack of water, their bodies were not very clean. Their collars and cuffs were stained with suspicious dark red to black stains.

Gu Cheng protected Lin Xin behind him, blocking most of the gazes with his own. Nearly a hundred people were crowded together, and the smell inside the car wasn't very nice. Lin Xin leaned on his back, her breath was filled with his smell, a calm yet reliable smell.

When it was time for them to get out, they were baptized again by the eyes of the people in the car. The driver had agreed to meet them at the same time and would have waited at the same place where they had left the car. Knowing that they were on their first mission, the driver reminded them that the car wouldn't wait for them after a while, so they had to show up on time.

He Meiwei thanked him. The car did not stop and left in a cloud of dust.

Gu Cheng took out the map from his Mission Card. Right now, they were located in a horse farm in the outskirts of Beijing. The terrain was vast, and there weren't many places they could hide, so they had to pay attention to observing the terrain while on mission. They couldn't let themselves be surrounded by zombies.

Because there were fewer people, they decided not to split up. Although Grandpa Liu was currently the most powerful in their team, he was still old after all, and his reaction was not as fast as that of the young people. Gu Cheng was worried that he would walk at the very front, so he sent him to the back to take care of the rest of the team.

It had been a long time since Lin Xin had felt her blood boil. It had been almost a year and a half since the last time she pulled the bow. She wondered if she would be able to pull it off after such a long time without touching it. Lin Xin couldn't help but rub the wooden bow on her shoulder that Gu Cheng had exchanged for an apple from the black market. There were a total of twenty arrows in the quiver, just that it would be rather troublesome to recycle them. This bow was too heavy for the seller. Initially, the price had been very high, but after Gu Cheng had exposed the fact that ordinary buyers could not even pull the string, the seller had endured the pain of selling it cheaply.

Compared to her weapon, what Gu Cheng had exchanged for himself was a cheap steel sabre. The sabre wasn't very sharp, but he said that his strength alone would be enough. Lin Xin had yet to see his appearance of not using his superpower to fight. From the moment she got off the car, she had been following Gu Cheng closely, afraid that if she made a mistake, something would happen to Gu Cheng.

On the way to the racetrack, they ran into more than ten zombies. Fortunately, these level two zombies didn't evolve too badly. Lin Xin only had enough time to shoot one arrow and the rest were taken care of by them. She paid particular attention to Gu Cheng's movements. Seeing that he was nimble in dodging, easily landing a hit in a single strike and easily battling it out, she relaxed and split her attention to sweep through the battlefield.

Grandma Liu was responsible for taking the information card to the blood or brain of the zombie. Once the zombies had been wiped out, she would then quickly complete her mission. Previously, when they were heading north, everyone had developed a very deep understanding of each other during the battle. It didn't take them too much time to arrive at the entrance of the racetrack.

Gu Cheng pushed open the decadent door and walked in first, quickly taking in his surroundings. The zombies wandering five meters away from the gate had also smelled their scent. In a flash, they had arrived in front of Gu Cheng.

It turned out to be a speed type third stage zombie! Gu Cheng only had enough time to warn him, "Be careful!" As he was worried about Lin Xin's safety, he resisted the urge to dodge and used his steel saber to block the finger of the nearest zombie.

At this moment, the other zombies had already arrived in front of him. Gu Cheng couldn't do anything as he was blocking the door. He had to push against the zombies to make room for the others. This way, he would be surrounded by zombies.

Lin Xin saw the dangerous situation and panicked a little. She coldly put her mind into archery and didn't bother aiming anymore and shot an iron arrow at the nearest zombie. Her luck was very good. The arrow had struck right at her forehead, helping Gu Cheng resolve this crisis.

After Gu Cheng left the door, he was finally able to freely move. He brandished his steel saber and hacked horizontally. With great force, he actually used the blunt edge to cut off the zombie's head. Even as Grandpa Liu was speechless, he didn't forget to throw a fireball at the last zombie. The small red fireball looked unremarkable, but it directly pierced into the location of the Zombie Imprint Hall, leaving a burnt hole and a disgusting smell of burnt rotten meat.

"Look, it's a crystal of the third level." Lin Xin happily exclaimed as she dug out the brains of Gu Cheng and the two zombies she had killed.

Previously, when they had been counting the supplies, Gu Cheng had mentioned that crystal cores would soon become the hard currency in the base. Although it was a pity that they were not able to take out those level 1 crystal cores for now, just the five hundred level 2 crystal cores in their possession would be sufficient for them for a long period of time. To wait for people to discover the secret of the crystal core of the first order, it would take a long time for them to fry the crystal core of the first order. The higher the grade, the better.

Gu Cheng glanced at the shiny crystal core in her palm, smiling as he rubbed her head. If the current situation weren't special, he would rather keep these crystal cores for Lin Xin to upgrade her superpower. Unlike her, she had started her training as a high-ranked Adept. These low-grade cores were perfect for her use.

The Liu family and Sun family had also dug up their crystal cores. Gu Cheng brought them further inside. The stables on both sides of the road were already empty. It was unknown whether the horses were given to zombies or were killed and eaten by people from the nearby base. The closer they got to running, the more zombies they encountered, and they were all level three colossal zombies. Fortunately, they were all working well together, paying attention to the traction alliance at all times. After half a day of fighting, the team had actually acquired more than sixty crystal cores. Including those that didn't have crystal cores, they had killed roughly eighty zombies, each with about ten.

Lin Xin didn't know if this result was considered good or not. In her opinion, it was already pretty good. A dozen or so work points were at least enough for a person to eat for two days.

Seeing that it was almost time, Gu Cheng did not linger in the battle and urged everyone to retreat. While they were waiting for the military truck on the road, they killed a few zombies. They were all level two zombies, so Lin Xin easily took care of them with one arrow.

Taking advantage of the long ranged attacks, aside from Grandpa Liu's fire attribute superpower that could compete with her, the others weren't her match at all. Lin Xin began to feel pleased with herself, and when everyone sent her out to collect the zombie blood, she was dumbfounded.

The car arrived on time at five o'clock. The driver looked at them and saw that they were not missing a single person. They did not seem to be injured. His face revealed an unconcealable look of surprise as he glanced at them for a few more times. Gu Cheng didn't pay it any heed and carried Lin Xin by the waist to the car before jumping onto it himself.

On the way back, the atmosphere in the car was heavier than it had been before. Lin Xin thought that if she didn't know that they were on their way back to the base, she would have thought that these people were heading to the grave. However, she quickly found the answer.

There were fewer people in the car.

Life in the apocalypse was too frivolous. There were no tears, nor was there any grief. She only saw the numb faces of the people who had tidied up all their emotions.

It was then that she noticed that something was wrong with the face of a young man sitting across from them. He had been holding his right arm and looking flustered. If one looked closely, they would see that he was still trembling uncontrollably.

Lin Xin tugged on Gu Cheng's sleeve, using her eyes to indicate that he was facing an anomaly. She was sitting in the back, so she didn't see the tiny ball of moisture on the man's upper right arm. Gu Cheng guessed that the person had been scratched by a zombie, and he couldn't help but question the brain. Before entering the base, their mission team still had to inspect one side of their body. With such an obvious wound, how could it be hidden from the eyes of the guards?

Without batting an eyelid, he pulled Lin Xin over, hugged her, and whispered into her ear, "There's a wound."

He suddenly noticed that there was someone in the car probing for him. That familiar feeling immediately made him realize that this person was a psychic. He immediately followed the man's spiritual force and looked back. The man he had caught red-handed was clearly stunned. Gu Cheng had even shifted his gaze away after confirming that he was not in danger.

"How could he have found out?" Du Jie pondered in puzzlement. He hadn't paid much attention to Gu Cheng's group at the beginning, but upon his return, he discovered their peculiarities. That was why he had purposely used his supernatural ability to probe them. He was surprised to find that half the team of this old man and woman had several Adepts lurking around. What was even weirder was that these Adepts were willing to obey orders. They didn't seem to be the slightest bit affected by the man's presence.

Moreover, Du Jiu's Discipline had already reached the third level. Not many spiritual-type Adepts in Beijing could surpass him. Never in his life had he been caught driving his Discipline to investigate. This was the first time he'd been caught red-handed. What he couldn't understand was that this man didn't have any Discipline.

Gu Cheng had been resting with his eyes closed. Almost at the same instant his gaze landed on Gu Cheng, Gu Cheng opened his eyes and noticed him, his gaze chilly.

Du Jie was frozen by his cold gaze and quickly turned his face away. Thanks to them, Du Qing found out that one of the people on the train had been injured by a zombie. He was not in the mood to rest and was only focused on observing the movements of that person.

They stopped twice along the way. There were nearly a hundred people, but now, the number of people on the bus was less than seventy.

No one was in the mood to chat as the military card silently drove into the gates of the Beijing base.

The first thing he did after getting off the car was hand over the task card and the information card. There was someone responsible for checking the zombie count on the spot and recording the team's points. Killing eighty-seven zombies was not a very shocking number. What they were surprised about was that Gu Cheng's team of eight could actually kill a number that could only be achieved by killing over twenty young and strong teams. Furthermore, they hadn't even been harmed in the slightest.

There was actually another piece of data that hadn't been announced yet. Of the zombies that the eight-man team had killed, nearly half of them were Level Three zombies. He checked the difficulty of the mission. It was a three star mission that had been newly established after patrolling half a month ago, so he didn't expect the zombies there to evolve so quickly. If they were in a different team, then it wouldn't be so easy for them to leave.

Before entering the inspection area, the base administrator had specifically left a few words for Gu Cheng and noted down their information. He planned to report it to his superior later on. The Chief of Staff would definitely like such a talent.

He did not know that the person who had caused Chief of Staff Liu the greatest headache was Gu Cheng. When Liu Shi received the joyful news from his old subordinate, he could not help but let out a bitter laugh. Gu Cheng, this great Buddha, had once again run out to snatch the lives of others. He had really wanted to recruit him into his special team. Unfortunately, this person was too wild and unruly, destined to be useless to him.

Thinking of the hundreds of thousands of precious Rank 1 crystal cores in his hand and his several infuriating conditions, Liu Shi held his chest as he opened the drawer to find the Heart Cleansing Pill. Encountering such a troublesome master, his lifespan would be shortened by ten years.