No matter what, Bin Mushi never expected that someone as ordinary as himself would one day be reborn like a protagonist.
Before his rebirth, he had relied on his psychic ability, brainwashing and pleasing people from all sides, to scrape by for a full ten years.
Ten years of the apocalypse, from age twenty to thirty. In order to survive, and live a little better, he had exhausted all his energy. He had done every immoral thing he could do, yet in the end, he still died.
He did not die beneath a surging zombie tide, but at the hands of a powerful ability user.
As expected, only by becoming the strongest, most powerful person did one have the right to survive.
When he died, he wondered: if he had known how to use his ability from the very beginning of the apocalypse, skipped the trial-and-error stage, and directly started controlling others, would everything have turned out differently?
By a strange coincidence, at the same time Bin Mushi died, a seventh-rank time-type ability user in the base also died.
That person died from his own ability going berserk. The overflowing ability intertwined with Bin Mushi’s energy space.
Time and space distorted.
When he woke again, Bin Mushi had returned to one week before the apocalypse.
Dazedness, fear, wild joy, anticipation.
He was utterly certain that with his foreknowledge, he would become stronger than everyone else. As long as he survived the weak period of first- and second-rank, he would be invincible!
Sang Wenhao—he had heard this name before. In his previous life, he had been one of the earliest strong ability users to reach fifth-rank. Unfortunately, he had not been ruthless enough and had died at the hands of a teammate who was also metal-type.
That teammate stepped over his corpse and successfully advanced to sixth-rank. Later, he joined Ning City Base and threw his weight around under the previous-life boss of Ning City Base, causing Bin Mushi to suffer quite a few losses too.
When ordering Bin Mushi to serve him tea, pour water, and lick his shoes, that man had bragged about Sang Wenhao as a conversation topic.
“Still pretending to be a good person in the apocalypse. Dying by my hand counts as him learning a lesson.”
Unexpectedly, after being reborn, Bin Mushi actually encountered Sang Wenhao in University City.
So, when the apocalypse arrived, he hid inside the bicycle shop where Sang Wenhao and his uncle were staying. He used his difficult-to-detect ability to make Sang Wenhao help fight zombies, fetch water, seize food, and lure away that extremely troublesome ability zombie, helping him survive the hardest transition from first-rank to second-rank.
Watching Sang Wenhao lure the zombie away, fleeing with almost no chance of survival, Bin Mushi thought, What a pity. In this life, he won’t reach fifth-rank. He can only leave behind an insignificant crystal core of less than second-rank in this world.
“Still, I hope you survive,” Bin Mushi said, riding a bicycle away from the shop. “That way, when we meet again in the future, I can have another high-rank crystal core.”
However, the man who should originally have died five years later encountered a huge crisis ahead of time because of Bin Mushi’s deliberate arrangement. He ran dozens of kilometres and almost died together with the metal-type ability zombie.
Yet at that moment, he met Fu Erdie, who was struggling to survive in the residential compound, and who should originally have died half a year later.
Wings quietly fluttered.
The contamination faded, and the seeds of spring waited in slumber to sprout.
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