Chapter 40 They Are Under Your Command

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The women showed no reaction when they saw a strange man enter.

To them, he was merely one more person who intended to use their bodies. After all, they had grown accustomed to this sort of life over the past few days.

Besides, although Meng Kui was not exactly handsome, he had a rugged face, a well-built figure, and was far cleaner than the migrant workers. Sleeping with him was much better than serving those laborers.

“Brother Meng, if you’re not satisfied, there are more women in the other villas. Every villa in this neighborhood has several women like these. They’re all yours!”

“And the women in the villa farther back are the most beautiful. You should go take a look!”

Zhou Xiang rubbed his hands together as he introduced them to Meng Kui.

In the past, Feng Kun had always enjoyed these women first. He had even locked the prettiest ones inside his own house, forbidding anyone else from touching them.

Now Feng Kun could only follow behind them and stew in silence. He did not even dare show the slightest sign of displeasure.

“No need.” Meng Kui stopped Zhou Xiang from continuing.

He had already lost interest in these women.

“Brother Meng, what kind of women does our leader like? Should we send a few of them to him?”

Zhou Xiang was still thinking of using these women as gifts for Ao Xin, but Meng Kui frowned.

“Put those thoughts away. Our leader wouldn’t be interested in women like these!”

Compared with Liu Xiyao, these women were no more than candlelight beside the bright moon.

Moreover, they had been abused for so long, while Liu Xiyao was still untouched. If Ao Xin had not even laid a hand on Liu Xiyao, how could he possibly be interested in these fallen flowers and willows?

After receiving a glare from Meng Kui, Zhou Xiang gave an embarrassed smile and fell silent.

“All right. I have a general understanding of the situation. Carry on as usual. I’ll report to our leader and come back to you afterward.”

He also added Feng Kun, Zhou Xiang, and the others as friends in the Divine Gift Space so that he could contact them at any time.

After resting briefly in the villa and recovering some of his strength, he left once more.

His leader had said that, in the apocalypse, one’s own strength came first.

In the northern part of the city, Ao Xin was taking Ao Chen northward while hunting zombies.

To ordinary people, these monsters were terrifying beyond measure. In their eyes, however, they were nothing more than one batch of points after another.

With a wet crunch, Ao Chen’s long blade severed a zombie’s head. She had become increasingly proficient at the task of decapitation.

After killing a large horde of zombies, Ao Xin left one Flesh Corpse behind for Ao Chen to train against.

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A Flesh Corpse was equivalent to a human expert in the Copper Skin realm. However, with the speed boost granted by the Treasure-Seeking Rat, Ao Chen could barely keep it at bay.

Ao Xin occasionally offered a word of guidance from the sidelines.

This kind of life-or-death battle was the best way to awaken human potential, and also the fastest method of increasing one’s strength.

Half an hour later, Ao Chen finally beheaded the Flesh Corpse.

Though her body was utterly exhausted, her heart was filled with exhilaration. This was the first time she had fought—and won—a battle against an opponent above her level.

After clearing the zombies from a section of the street, the two of them sat down to rest in a coffee shop.

Inside the Divine Gift Space, Ao Xin checked his points. He now had twelve thousand.

He intended to exchange them for some combat techniques.

The most suitable choice at present was the Six Powers. Each technique cost only one thousand points, meaning all six required merely six thousand.

Yet he did not immediately choose the Six Powers. Instead, he selected Life Return.

This ability was not exclusive to the Navy. Many pirates could use it as well.

It allowed one to directly extract nourishment from consumed food to restore stamina and even heal injuries.

Brook, for instance, could recover damage to his bones by absorbing the calcium in milk.

Although the anime had never explained it explicitly, Ao Xin knew that this was a form of Life Return.

With Life Return, his endurance and recovery would improve dramatically.

However, Life Return required far more points—ten thousand in total.

Without hesitation, he exchanged them for the cultivation method of Life Return.

Just like the three types of Haki, even though he had learned Life Return in his previous life, he still needed to exchange for it again. In reality, this was a permit to cultivate the ability.

The cultivation method for Life Return instantly entered his mind, and he had no need to study it carefully.

With the experience of his previous life, once he obtained permission to cultivate it, he would soon be able to master it.

With two thousand points remaining, he selected Soru and Geppo from the Six Powers.

Soru was a method of high-speed movement, while Geppo allowed one to walk through the air.

Although his Azure Dragon form could fly, he needed to transform into either his full beast form or his human-beast form and use flame clouds to support his body.

It was somewhat troublesome.

Geppo was much simpler and more effective.

After spending the remaining points, he discovered a message from Meng Kui in the communications channel.

When he opened it, he found that Meng Kui had already subdued Feng Kun’s forces. He had given a brief report on their situation and was asking what he should do next.

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Ao Xin did not know much about Feng Kun’s forces either. In his previous life, he had only known the general outline.

But judging from Meng Kui’s report, these people possessed fairly good professional skills. He remembered that, in his previous life, after Feng Kun surrendered to the great figure in Divine Capital, he had been assigned specifically to construct secure bases.

Ao Xin sent Meng Kui a message:

“These people are yours now. You will lead them.”

Feng Kun and the others were not qualified to enter Ao Xin’s inner circle, so handing them over to Meng Kui was ideal.

He also recalled the women Meng Kui had mentioned—the ones imprisoned by Feng Kun and his men.

They could not remain imprisoned forever. Otherwise, their bodies would grow weaker and weaker, making it difficult for them to withstand the increasingly concentrated zombie virus in the air.

If they turned into zombies, they would cause considerable trouble.

However, although Feng Kun and his men had imprisoned them, the women could still become a force of Ao Xin’s own.

After thinking it over, he sent Meng Kui another message:

“I’ll place these women under Liu Xiyao’s command. She’ll come to see you shortly.”

He then sent Liu Xiyao a message, instructing her to take charge of the imprisoned women and consolidate them into a united group.

He also transferred all three hundred and fifty-eight points left after exchanging for his combat techniques to Liu Xiyao, providing her with the “seed money” needed to gather those women.

Liu Xiyao did not reply immediately. She was probably in the middle of a battle.

Once Ao Chen had caught her breath, he led her onward toward the northern part of the city.

Their target was Xu Wenhao’s faction.

He, too, was a Devil Fruit user.

However, Ao Xin’s target was not Xu Wenhao, but one of his subordinates.

He was a taciturn boy who had probably been only fourteen when the apocalypse began.

He looked utterly ordinary. Yet who could have imagined that he would one day become the second-in-command of the great figure’s faction in Divine Capital?

He dared to fight and throw himself into danger. The madness he displayed in battle was frightening. Everyone who knew him called him by a nickname taken from the Water Margin:

The Desperate Third Brother!

He possessed no Devil Fruit ability and relied solely on physical techniques, yet he would eventually become one of the foremost experts of the apocalypse.

In the apocalypse, anyone who dared to fight was never weak.

Even Yang Shaofei and Zhang Heng, who had by then become the leaders of minor factions in Bian City, seemed utterly overshadowed by this boy.

More importantly, this boy had once helped Ao Xin for a brief time.

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