Scum Gong Walks the Career Line in the Crematorium

TL: Moonlit

Chow is a virus expert from Country A who developed the X-26 zombie virus.
Due to undisclosed reasons, the virus leaked, and he became a wanted criminal in Country A for crimes against humanity.

After people discovered that he was the creator of the virus, individuals all over the world made great efforts to find him—some wanted to kill him, while others wanted him alive to research an antidote.
Under the global search, Chow hid for a full five years before a clue to his whereabouts was found.

He had returned to his mother’s homeland, Country C.
This revelation led powerful individuals from all over the world to converge in Country C.

However, Chow hid there for another three to four years before his whereabouts were finally traced.
By then, he had already become the Zombie Emperor capable of summoning a large army of zombies.
He never attacked humans actively, but anyone attempting to find him never returned alive, regardless of their ability level.

In the end, during the tenth year of the apocalypse, the original host, Tu Ji, who had already become the strongest in the original text, teamed up with other top experts from around the world and managed to kill Chow.

This was the original plot about Chow.
Without Tu Ji, the number one expert in the previous life, it was feared that Chow would have lived even longer.

How could such an ultimate boss appear now? And why did he come to the Imperial Capital? Lin Hanchuan was deeply puzzled.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” Cheng Jizhou couldn’t help but be curious.
He looked back at Lin Hanchuan, who was blocking the door, and asked, “Aren’t you going to invite me in for a seat?”

His appearance was handsome, more like a young movie star or model than a researcher.
At this moment, his eyes were lively, and the beautiful sky-blue pupils carried a strangely familiar look when gazing at Lin Hanchuan.

Lin Hanchuan silently stepped aside and watched the future Zombie Emperor walk into the room familiarly, sit on the sofa, and casually pick up some candies from the fruit plate, stuffing them into Cheng Jizhou’s mouth.

Everything he did flowed smoothly.
Afterward, he raised his head and asked, “Why don’t you sit down?”

Cheng Jizhou didn’t know what Lin Hanchuan was thinking.
He thought that Lin Hanchuan was stunned by his appearance and couldn’t help but reveal a smug smile.

Compared to his excellent work ability, Cheng Jizhou’s appearance had received the most compliments.
He wasn’t particularly concerned about his looks, but he knew he was better looking than the vast majority of people in the world—99.99% to be exact.

If one of his subordinates stared at him blankly, Cheng Jizhou would have started cursing and immediately replaced the assistant.
But when it was the man in front of him…

Cheng Jizhou raised his chin, and his eyes sparkled, “Do you like my face? If you do, feel free to look more.”

Lin Hanchuan didn’t understand how Cheng Jizhou got this misunderstanding and confidence.
He didn’t bother with this trivial topic and asked, “What about Zhou Zhou? Did you not bring him along?”

The original text didn’t mention that Chow had any younger brother.

In fact, the original text barely touched on the origin of the zombie virus or Chow’s background, only briefly mentioning that the original host and others joined forces to kill the Zombie Emperor after he lost most of his combat power due to losing the Zombie Empress.
Afterward, only some easily handled regular zombies remained, and no vaccine or remedy for the zombie virus was developed.
From then on, humans coexisted with the zombies.

Cheng Jizhou’s face turned pitifully gloomy.
He looked displeased.
“My younger brother is none of your concern.”

According to Cheng Jizhou’s thoughts, after he transformed back into his original appearance, he would be able to follow the other person at any time and stay by his side… With his limited understanding of human emotions, Cheng Jizhou felt like he had done something wrong.
Not only could they not be together all the time, even a simple hug was impossible now.

Angry, really angry.
He had never been this furious even when his research results were stolen by his biological father.

Just as the atmosphere between the two had turned tense, the door of another room opened, and Wei Zheng walked out, still drowsy.
He casually glanced at the two sitting in the living room and greeted, “Boss, Zhou Zhou.”

However, he suddenly froze, his gaze stopping on Cheng Jizhou for a few seconds.
He stepped back, closed the door, opened it again, looked at Cheng Jizhou, closed it, and opened it again.
He repeated this three times before he looked confused and asked, “How long have I been sleeping? Zhou Zhou has grown so big?”

This statement made Lin Hanchuan slightly surprised, and he poked the pretending-to-be-dead 001: [“Can you tell if he and Zhou Zhou are the same person?”]

[“…Yes,”] 001 replied sluggishly, and then paused for a few seconds, [“Scan confirmed, the soul fluctuation is consistent, and there is a one hundred percent possibility that they are the same person.”]

Now it made sense.
Lin Hanchuan felt relieved, as long as Zhou Zhou was safe.

He never expected that the person he casually saved in an inconspicuous small town turned out to be the biggest boss.
After some thought, Lin Hanchuan recalled that in the original text, Tu Ji had overdrafted his powers to save Rong Ziping, leading to a few days of poor condition and him refusing Rong Ziping’s request to save someone.
The two even had a disagreement, and they only reconciled after Rong Ziping was reborn.

So, Chow had been there all along, and the protagonist’s team had missed him.

It seemed that the Zombie Emperor had used some method to not only disguise himself as a human but also transform into a child without arousing suspicion.
Using this ability, he could evade the pursuit of the entire world.

[“Can you tell if he is Wan Li Shuang?”] Lin Hanchuan asked the system again.

While interacting with Cheng Jizhou, Lin Hanchuan noticed that the other person gave him a sense of familiarity, unrelated to appearance or personality.
The slightly brightened eyes when confronting someone, the small preference for head pats, the indifferent expression when receiving candy but actually enjoying it… all reminded Lin Hanchuan of people from previous worlds.

However, Cheng Jizhou’s age was too young, so Lin Hanchuan subconsciously ruled out that possibility, only considering Cheng Jizhou as a cute little brother, maybe with a bit of fondness for him.

Now that he knew Cheng Jizhou was Chow, Lin Hanchuan had a bold idea.

[“…Cannot tell.”] 001 replied after struggling for a while, [“I cannot store soul fluctuations from a previous world and make a comparison.”]

001 was also puzzled; as the latest version of the advanced system, how could it have such a low-level bug? The most likely possibility was that there was another system hidden in the other person, with a higher level and more powerful functionality, blocking other systems from scanning the host.

For a system that prided itself as the latest version and faced this situation on its first mission, it was difficult not to feel disheartened.

Lin Hanchuan didn’t pay attention to 001’s response.
After experiencing so many worlds, he had a vague intuition.
The person he was interested in was not ordinary.
At this moment, he was only more certain of this idea.

But no matter what, this was the person he liked, the person he had been searching for.
A slight smile appeared on Lin Hanchuan’s face as he said to Wei Zheng, “This is Zhou Zhou’s big brother, Big Zhou Zhou.”

Big Zhou Zhou? The unhappy Cheng Jizhou suddenly widened his eyes.
The round, glossy eyes lost their cold and distant look, revealing a few hints of innocence and cuteness on his stunning face.

Lin Hanchuan’s heart skipped a beat, and the curve of his lips slightly increased.

The normally indifferent person rarely revealed such a pure smile, causing Cheng Jizhou’s already-dead heart to tremble.
His long eyelashes quivered, and soon he became displeased again, asking, “Why are you looking at me like that?”

Although the smile was charming, Cheng Jizhou was not the type to be swayed by a smile alone.
He felt that the look in Lin Hanchuan’s eyes was seeing through him, reminiscing about someone, and that was why he smiled.

Who was that person? It definitely couldn’t be Rong Ziping.
Cheng Jizhou had this strange feeling for the first time – sour and bitter, quite uncomfortable.
Annoyed, he thought that he might as well turn him into a zombie.

“You are very good-looking,” Lin Hanchuan’s smile deepened, and he said, “I really like it.”

Regardless of Cheng Jizhou’s appearance, Lin Hanchuan would like him anyway.

Cheng Jizhou then became happy again.

Wei Zheng, feeling even more bewildered, wanted to ask what had happened, why this Cheng Jizhou’s elder brother suddenly appeared, and where the little Cheng Jizhou had gone.
However, looking at the strange and unapproachable atmosphere between the two, he felt as if he should disappear on the spot.

He shouldn’t be in the living room; he should return to his room and sleep with Lu Mao.
Wei Zheng retreated slowly, closed the bedroom door, and no one noticed his departure.

By the time Lin Hanchuan finally confirmed the identity of the person he was looking for, the people of the Rong family had already gotten up.

Yesterday, Rong Ziping returned to the Rong family and was surrounded by his parents and elder brother, who expressed their concerns.
He concealed the origin of his space and the fact that he was reborn, only telling them that he had awakened a spatial ability.

In the imperial capital with millions of survivors and countless supernatural abilities, there was not a single person with spatial abilities.
He was the first one!

“How big is your space? Can it hold land?” Rong’s father’s eyes lit up with excitement.
A space that could be used for farming!

“I haven’t tried,” Rong Ziping shook his head in confusion.
He was a spoiled young master who didn’t even know how to do household chores.
Even during the most difficult times of the apocalypse, Lin Hanchuan suddenly became cold towards him, reducing his food and clothing to that of an ordinary person’s.

Before that, everything was done for him, and after that, with the protection of the highest-ranked members in the group, he couldn’t even try to see if he could farm.

“I’ll give you some seeds, and you can give it a try,” Rong’s father said.

As they ate breakfast and talked about important matters, they finished their meal.
At this moment, Rong Ziping hesitated and spoke, “Dad, did my brother, in the past… cause harm to others?”

“Harm to others? Which incident are you referring to?” Rong’s elder brother, who was quietly drinking porridge, chuckled.
His appearance wasn’t bad, but his demeanor was too frivolous, making him look greasy.
“There have been countless women who got pregnant for me.”

Before the apocalypse, the eldest brother of the Rong family had numerous relationships with both men and women, and was excessively promiscuous.
After the apocalypse, his true nature was exposed, and he became even more reckless and licentious.
Rong Ziping could hear the sounds coming from the neighboring room last night.

“It’s not just any ordinary lives I’m talking about; it’s… real lives,” Rong Ziping turned away, looking at his brother’s frivolous appearance.
“Ten years ago, you caused someone’s death and made a student take the blame…”

Everyone present had a change in their expressions, and Rong’s mother interrupted sternly, “Where did you hear such nonsense?”

Rong’s eldest brother, however, remained indifferent and smiled, waving his hand dismissively.
“That was ten years ago, and I was young and foolish back then.
I’ve since learned to restrain myself.
It’s the apocalypse now; why bring up old history?”

“As for that scapegoat, I’m sure he must have died long ago.”

‘That scapegoat not only didn’t die but also became a supernatural ability user, intending to seek revenge against you.’ Rong Ziping felt a bit bewildered for a moment.

Before his rebirth, when he heard about this incident, his first reaction was disbelief.
After his rebirth, he learned about his elder brother’s character and had a vague premonition, but now that it was confirmed, he felt no sense of joy.

As it turned out, there was a deep-seated enmity between him and that person.
Rong Ziping was dazed for a moment; he couldn’t bear to harm his own family, so he could only gradually distance himself from that person.

That person in the apocalypse who still went to find fresh fruit for him, the one who saved him countless times from danger, the one who put him first, the person willing to die for him… memories of various moments intertwined in his mind, finally stopping at the moment when he was pushed into the zombie horde.

At that time, he was full of disbelief, and anger and hatred consumed his heart.
However, there was one person who ignored the danger and jumped to his side, wanting to save him and protect him in their arms.

Rong Ziping could have been sent out of the zombie horde, but he was shot by his childhood friend, Nie Feiyu, and fell back into the horde, bitten alive.

When he returned this time, he was full of resentment, only wanting revenge, and ignored the person who treated him the best.
He only wanted to maintain a cooperative relationship, but now that he had come to this point, Rong Ziping realized that he was unwilling.

Rong Ziping gritted his teeth and glared fiercely at his eldest brother, then said to his father, “The person who escorted me back is a supernatural ability user.
Dad, can you recruit him with the highest treatment?”

“What level is he?” Rong’s father frowned.
Although supernatural ability users were important, some of them were not very useful.

“He’s very powerful,” Rong Ziping said.
“He has the ability of lightning, and I’m not sure what level he is, but he must be beyond level two.”

Rong’s father’s brow slightly relaxed, and he smiled, saying, “Good, you can go and recruit him with the highest treatment.”

Rong Ziping hesitated for a while but eventually didn’t say anything.
The powerful supernatural ability user he mentioned was the high school student scapegoat from the past.
He knew his father’s character well and knew that the first thought after hearing about this matter would be to eliminate potential threats and uproot the problem.

He didn’t want to harm that person anymore.

He wanted to recruit him with the highest terms, make up for the harm he had suffered before, and let him forget about hatred.
This was Rong Ziping’s only thought at the moment.

 

Author’s Note:

Scum protagonist: My childhood friend killed me; I must seek revenge!

Still a scum protagonist: I want to make it up to him and let him forget about hatred!

Tips: Absolutely DO NOT update on Jinjiang! It’s too ugly!

Not just ugly but also censored, many comments were deleted, and high-V became low-V, and all the comments are now under review…