Chapter 521: In the End, Still Brought Everyone for the Large Portion

【Show your physical charm to more people (50/50)】

【Mission Three completed.】

【Rewards obtained: Constitution Improvement: Lifespan increased by 20%, Physical Strength increased by 50%; System Currency *100】

Upon discovering the mission completion condition had changed to merely encountering a zombie and letting it charge at you, the difficulty plummeted.

Don't laugh, you'd have cleared the second stage too.

After a dozen or so minutes, mission progress climbed to 100%, the system popped up a notification, and the rewards were collected.

Theoretically, staying outside any longer to deal with zombies or whatnot held no further benefit, but simply leading everyone back like this was even more inappropriate.

After all, these people had followed him out full of joy and anticipation, yet nearby supplies had long been scavenged clean — not a single usable thing remained — and the group's only harvest now was loneliness.

Going out and turning right back would seem like toying with them.

Moreover, Lin Li also needed to scavenge some supplies the shelter lacked.

For instance, maps.

The shelter only possessed Yun Guang City's internal map from before the apocalypse, but Lin Li needed more than that; he also needed a world map, specific pre-apocalypse maps of other provinces or cities, for convenient cross-referencing when reaching other locations later.

Continuing to kill zombies through melee combat was no longer necessary; Lin Li directly used "Voice of All Things" to command and drill the zombies, making them disperse outward, attack or assimilate all zombies other than themselves, and forbidding them from approaching.

This is still the most useful.

This operation, which nearly overturned the shelter residents' worldview, gave everyone another small shock.

A shock no less than your bro asking if you want to come over for crab roe, you asking if he bought crabs, your bro explaining that crab roe is the crab's ovaries while crab paste is the crab's dedication, and he just happens to be a Cancer.

Wuhu, still crab paste made from imitation crab sticks, bro.

After spending several hours searching for supplies, unfortunately only a few relatively scattered maps of other regions were obtained.

No helping it — maps are something that, first, aside from world maps, few people specially buy or sell; second, paper maps themselves don't preserve easily.

But there are substitutes; once they located a pre-apocalypse local library, the shelter's people used the remaining electronic devices here to bring back to the shelter and extracted some electronic map data.

This way Lin Li can print them out after returning to the modern era.

However, Lin Li still has to consider the interface issue.

Because time was limited, Lin Li still had to return and rendezvous with the mecha; in the end, the exploration didn't go too far, and eight hours after leaving, the group returned to the shelter.

The haul wasn't much, but they were each in high spirits, excitedly discussing what they'd just seen, while regretting that Lin Li wasn't a true shelter survivor.

If they could be led by Lin Li to survive, they'd be willing to never play billiards again, never live in a villa, never go to KTV, never go to an amusement park to ride the carousel, never play international chess.

After returning to the shelter, Lin Li didn't do anything else, just wandered the surrounding area until the 11-hour stay limit for this apocalypse was about to end, then recalled the mecha and charger and returned to reality.

Nearly 11 minutes had passed in the real world.

Compared to the initial one minute equals three hours, a 1:180 time flow ratio, the current time flow ratio is only 1:60.

If the time flow ratio becomes 1:1 later on, I won't be able to casually stay in the other world for the full duration like now.

But let's worry about that problem when the time comes.

When difficulties arise, just sleep it off!

……

Morning.

Arrived at school.

Class Four entrance.

"According to unofficial history, back then Cao Cao didn't kill Lu Bu right away, but imprisoned him in a basement, sending in 10 beauties every day, letting him revel night after night, ultimately causing Lu Bu to die of sexual exhaustion."

"And the women who mated with Lu Bu all became pregnant; after giving birth, Cao Cao discovered these children's traits showed a 9:3:3:1 distribution."

"The most common, the a_b_ trait, these children could skillfully wield the Sky Piercer and tame the Red Hare."

"a_bb: skillfully wield the Sky Piercer, but cannot tame the Red Hare."

"aab_: cannot wield the Sky Piercer, but can tame the Red Hare."

"aabb: worthless trash, can't use the Sky Piercer, can't use the Red Hare either."

"Thus, Cao Cao discovered the laws of genetics and concluded that being able to use the Sky Piercer and ride the Red Hare are dominant genes."

"Later Europeans heard of it and followed our ancients in saying 'Among the heroes under heaven, only Meng Deer,' but because forcibly making women mate with Lu Bu was disgraceful, coupled with women's low status at the time, they hid the women's sacrifices and narrated those young girls in their prime as peas."

"In the end, this version of genetics went out and came back in, becoming what's in our biology textbooks."

"Meng Deer (choking up) (sniffles), he, is our compatriot!! Everyone say it with me, Meng Deer… come home tat……"

Bai Bufan's voice narrating the unofficial history gradually choked up.

"Sigh, poor Lu Bu, became Cao Cao's research sacrifice; if Dong Zhuo were here, he certainly wouldn't watch his lover fall into such a plight, Lu Bu probably called out Zhuo Zhuo's name before death too, sigh, truly a pair of ill-fated mandarin ducks, truly heartbreaking." Wang Ze sighed.

"Give it a rest, Lu Bu refused to J-10 to the end, what true love are you talking about." Qin Zeyu sneered.

"That won't do; doing that would only mean Lu Bu was a vulgar person obsessed with the flesh, but is Lu Bu really that kind of person? No. Although Dong Zhuo was hanged by Lu Bu, in my view, wasn't that a kind of liberation?

Love and indulgence are opposites; Dong Zhuo indulged in wine, lust, wealth, and pride, pursuing what every tyrant pursues, while Lu Bu pursued enduring love, which also destined their relationship to end in tragedy.

The world doesn't understand this pair of ill-fated mandarin ducks, a relationship that cannot see the light; perhaps this is the best ending……"

Wang Ze immediately denied it, words sincere, eyes full of sorrow.

"What nonsense, Wang Ze, are you a bandwagoner? Have you even read it? If you had, you'd know the plot clearly shows Lu Bu fell for Dong Zhuo at first sight!" Qin Zeyu got angry.

"Who hasn't read it? I've re-read it four times. The plot is indeed like that, but Zeyu, have you thought about it — if Lu Bu really wanted to do it, do you think he'd really lack men?" Wang Ze, faced with such questioning, didn't get angry, just calmly countered.

Qin Zeyu fell silent.

"But all in all, it indeed counts as an excellent work; after taking off, give it a read, a different flavor."

Seeing the topic reach this point, Bai Bufan also abandoned the unofficial history and joined the bullshit exchange; actually, he had quite some insights too:

"Honestly, this manga truly succeeds and fails because of its art style. From the moment Lu Bu became an adopted son to gradually developing murderous intent then letting go of hatred and falling for Dong Zhuo, his psychology must have undergone many feelings — from submission to unwillingness to loving Dong Zhuo, which initially felt like Dong Zhuo chose Lu Bu's courtship to beg for mercy; it can be said Dong Zhuo chose Lu Bu to survive, but genuine affection for Lu Bu did grow considerably, until Diaochan's appearance brought out Dong Zhuo's initial thoughts.

Until Lu Bu chose to execute Dong Zhuo and Dong Zhuo said 'All the past…', Lu Bu also knew the other just wanted to live and behave the same as when courting him. 'All the past… you speak of the past,' he thought of the bits and pieces with the person he loved, until the third person appeared, and Dong Zhuo even had his own lover beaten out with clubs.

Every time Lu Bu mentioned the past, he would think of Dong Zhuo's betrayal of him; when truly executing Dong Zhuo, he still softened like the first time."

"Do you have anything to say?"

This sentence is truly wonderful; at that time, Dong Zhuo's state of mind must have been special, fragile, until—

"Nothing to say, please act quickly."

Oh my heavens!

Lu Bu might have thought of severing this relationship with one stroke, free of attachments, but the aftertaste was still too intense; Lu Bu must have been heartbroken, recalling at the place of their first meeting what he left for Lu Bu and us—that kind of emaciated, bitter, unwilling feeling.

Bai Bufan's love for Three Kingdoms figures is genuine.

Naturally, this includes Dong Zhuo.