Everyone Knows I’m a Good Person

Chapter 157

Editor: Sahloknir

Shi Qing had been having a blast lately…

And Song Xiabing thoroughly learned how a person could be invincible, if they were shameless enough.

He very shamelessly pretended to be sick after losing his powers. He moaned about how he ached all over, and only Boss kissing him would make it better.

The words ‘can I touch your tail’ were never far from his lips. He didn’t do anything else these days.

As for whether he actually got to touch it, well, the answer was apparent from the pleased expression that was always on his face.

Recently, the people of Blazing Thunder have noticed that their Song-ge’s temper has improved quite a lot from before.

He might be more clingy now, insisting on draping himself over the Boss or leaning on him every chance he got…

But that was none of their business. The little brothers had no say in it.

In the end, people eventually found out since Song Xiabing wasn’t exactly hiding it. Those with bad intentions learned very quickly that the most powerful member of Blazing Thunder had lost his ability.

They were happy.

They were pleased.

They teamed up and stormed the Blazing Thunder headquarters with great fanfare. Then they were all beaten down by Song Xiabing.

That’s how Shi Qing was promoted to the position of base leader.

Then, before Blazing Thunder’s people could rejoice, they saw their boss carry Song Xiabing to his room with an ugly expression.

He looked like he was going to teach the young man a lesson.

Peipeipei, Song-ge’s gonna get it!

A few days later, Shi Qing limped back into view.

After he became the base leader, Song Xiabing didn’t do things so cavalierly anymore.

Was this the base?

No, it’s his Shi Qing’s territory.

He had to make sure this place was well protected.

So Song Xiabing started to clear the surrounding area of zombies, mutated animals and plants. He was literally like a plague that left only death in his wake.

Normal zombies didn’t notice the danger and continued to march forward to their deaths.

The mutated zombies and mutated plants, however, had the capacity for thought. The higher ranked ones with brains all ran away as fast as they could.

But no matter how far they ran, the plague known as Song Xiabing continued his relentless pursuit.

He was expanding his Shi Qing’s territory, after all.

Finally, when everyone in the country knew of Song Xiabing’s name, a mutated plant he was about to kill struggled to draw a bunch of squiggles on the ground with one of its branches.

After some team members tried their best to decipher them, they excitedly reported to Song Xiabing.

“Song-ge, this mutated plant says it can secret a sap that can prevent the zombie infection when dissolved in water and drunk!”

Song Xiabing furrowed his brows and looked disdainfully at those illegible scribbles. He commented to the team member, “Can you really understand these ugly scribbles?”

The team member snickered. “I only learned this year that mutated plants were sentient. However, they can only communicate through writing that no one else can understand because they have no mouths.”

“Luckily, an ability user who arrived here not long ago knows the language of the mutated plants. After taking five level five crystal nuclei as payment, he taught me as well.”

That’s how he ran into Zhou Xuanxuan again.

Song Xiabing: “…”

He recalled how Shi Qing muttered the words ‘I wonder where Zhou Xuanxuan went’ eight times over the past few years.

Song Xiabing’s gaze towards Zhou Xuanxuan immediately became oppressive.

Zhou Xuanxuan: “&#k2026;”

Oh my god. Why did this plague follow me here?

But he still tried his best to squeeze out a smile in front of Song Xiabing, whose eyes were basically saying &#k2018;how dare you still be alive’.

“Ah, Song-ge. What a coincidence.”

Song Xiabing nodded. “Indeed.”

He glanced at Zhou Xuanxuan with displeasure. “Here’s five level six crystal nuclei. Now come with us to talk with a mutated plant.”

Zhou Xuanxuan wiped a handful of sweat from his forehead.

He’s not planning to murder me, is he??

Zhou Xuanxuan glanced over warily and touched his hair.

His hair slowly crawled off and crept over to the mutated plant.

Then it went back to Zhou Xuanxuan.

Zhou Xuanxuan seemed to be listening to something, then nodded and happily explained to Song Xiabing, “Song-ge, your team member was right. The sap from this mutated plant can be used as a vaccine. There was a bitten human who wandered into its forest. They got better after drinking the sap from its body.”

In other words, the apocalypse might soon come to an end.

Song Xiabing wrinkled his brows. “You can hear this vine talk?”

“Yep. It speaks like a child because it’s not used to talking, but I can hear it quite clearly.”

Zhou Xuanxuan stroked his hair and speculated, “I guess this could be telepathic communication between a phantom fox and their master? After all, I can’t hear any other mutated plants. Song-ge, don’t you have something similar with Boss?”

He wanted to say more, but he wisely shut his mouth after noticing the dark and gloomy look on Song Xiabing’s face.

“W-well I’m just guessing here. It might not actually be the case.”

Song Xiabing: “…”

Shi Qing had never told him that he could hear him before.

Why?

Could it be that Shi Qing didn’t like him enough?

That wasn’t out of the question.

He gave that vine a dark and envious look. There was a sour feeling overwhelming his heart.

Even a vine was able to be closer to a phantom fox than him…

Zhou Xuanxuan warily shielded his vine in case Song Xiabing did something. But in the end, the young man stormed away without another word.

Zhou Xuanxuan: “…”

He was very curious, but not enough to risk his life. He waited until others confirmed Song Xiabing’s departure before running over to that team member.

He was equally puzzled. Scratching his head, he said, “Our Song-ge did say something earlier…”

Zhou Xuanxuan: “What did he say, what did he say? Tell me already!”

“He said, ‘love is a reaction to experiences’ before leaving without even fighting the mutated animals. I have no idea what that was all about. Zhou-ge, do you have any ideas?”

Zhou Xuanxuan: “…”

Sorry Shi Qing…

In the base, Shi Qing greeted the enthusiastic Song Xiabing.

He was cursing on the surface, but his heart was very content.

That kid Zhou Xuanxuan shows so much promise. Kudos to him.

In Shi Qing’s third year in charge of the base, a zombie vaccine was made.

In the fifth year, zombies were declared extinct and humans signed a peace pact with mutated animals and plants.

None of the parties involved could refuse to sign with Song Xiabing around. Between life and death, the choice was obvious.

At this very moment, Song Xiabing, who’d latched onto the excuse ‘you don’t have a telepathic connection with me’ to engage Shi Qing in exercise several times, received a letter from Zhou Xuanxuan.

The gist was that he figured out the telepathic connection between him and the vine had nothing to do with him being a phantom fox. It was his master’s second ability that it didn’t know it had until later.

Song Xiabing was happy to learn of this.

Then he made sure no one was around (especially Shi Qing) before destroying the letter with his ability.

He then ran to the man, who was in a meeting, and waited patiently for Shi Qing to come out, before leaning on Shi Qing’s shoulder with a dejected expression.

“Boss, you still don’t have a telepathic connection with me… I’m so, so sad. Why don’t you comfort me in the hot springs?”

His lie wasn’t exposed until Zhou Xuanxuan returned to the base for supplies and casually chatted with Shi Qing.

But Song Xiabing was so thick-skinned that he didn’t mind, ah.

He enjoyed himself in the meantime anyways.

In the sixth year, the apocalypse was officially declared over.

Shi Qing didn’t become the new president because he had no interest in those things. Song Xiabing felt the same way. He was only interested in Shi Qing.

After the apocalypse, the two happily skipped off to play wherever they wished.

They lived out the rest of their lives together and passed away beside the person they loved.

But because no one knew where they went, no one knew where their bodies were either.

Zhou Xuanxuan cried a lot when he heard the news.

He didn’t know whether these were tears of joy or sadness.

Probably both.

He was happy that the only two people who ever saw his bald head were dead.

Never will anyone know that he, the great beauty Zhou Xuanxuan, was bald!

As he cried, his master climbed down from the top of his head and stuck to his skin like glue.

Zhou Xuanxuan: “Can you not?”

The vine silently played dumb.

Zhou Xuanxuan: “Fine. But just one vine, okay? You can’t use all of them.”

The vine continued to play dumb.

Zhou Xuanxuan: “…Fine.”

Sigh. He did owe his master a lot.

What was once a towering mutated plant was now just hair that laid on his head everyday. It was so pitiful to even think about.

Sigh. Shi Qing, ah. How come you left so soon, ah…

Oh wait, this guy lived for more than a century. ‘Soon’ isn’t the word to describe it, ah. ;(

Shi Qing ah, Song Xiabing ah…

Pei. No way he was going to cry for that old bat Song Xiabing.

Extra: The Vine

I’m a vine.

Obviously.

Although I grew a little taller and stronger, my life still consisted of just sunbathing and taking in the scenery.

That was, until a human burst into my world.

I don’t know what he looks like, aside from that he has two arms and two legs. Oh, and he likes to talk a lot. I tried to get rid of him, but for some reason my ability doesn’t work on him.

So I could only fume silently as this human started living on my body.

He ate my leaves and used parts of me to make clothes.

What a nuisance.

One day, the human was about to die.

I was so happy that I would’ve set off fireworks—if I had any. Then I had a sudden thought: since the human was dying, would my ability work on him now?

So I used my ability.

Then my ability was siphoned into his body for some reason.

After that, the human was fine again.

I was soo mad.

Then the human took me with him. He put me on his head and talked to me everyday. At first, I resented him and thought he was annoying.

Then I got used to it.

I think at some point I even started to like him a bit.

Even when my ability came back eventually, I didn’t want to get off his head.

I started to like playing games with him.

He always says he doesn’t like it at first but starts shouting that he does later.

Sigh. Humans are so hard to understand.

[Ding! Task complete. Please choose either 1. Continue to the next task, or 2. Vacation]

Shi Qing: [11111]

He opened his eyes and looked at his surroundings.

Author’s Corner

En…what could the next world be?

I don’t know either.

It’s too hard to write an outline… I’ll do it tomorrow wuwuwuwu

Randomly sending out red pockets~

Night night~

Rain

I had a blast working on the part from the vine’s PoV. That vine is definitely the MVP of this arc lol. Moving on…

Arc 11 complete! Next up is the devious xianxia sect master and his cold, reserved daozhang!