People who do bad things can’t help but feel guilty.

Unless they’re professionally trained individuals.

Clearly, Wu Jianshan wasn’t that kind of person. Before the apocalypse, he was just a loser in life—the apocalypse gave him a second chance at life.

What Chen Ye was thinking about now was that he absolutely had to get his hands on that Death God Blood Tears.

For this, Chen Ye didn’t even hesitate to recount all the favors he’d done for “Wu Jianshan” back in their university days.

Simply put, he was using past kindness to demand repayment.

“Old Wu, do you remember who always helped you get attendance in class back then?”

“You said you liked Huang Ting, and I immediately backed off without hesitation.”

“And that time you got cornered by a few punks, who went to save you?”

“Later when I got a major demerit, do you remember who that was for?”

Chen Ye spoke about “Wu Jianshan’s” and his own embarrassing university stories as easily as breathing.

From what Chen Ye said, his current identity and Wu Jianshan were so close they could share the same pair of pants.

Chen Ye getting expelled from university was actually because of this identity of his too.

Wu Jianshan was growing impatient—he had important matters to attend to.

In the end, he only agreed to give Chen Ye two drops of blood tears.

Actually, this stuff was precious, truly precious, but not as precious as one might imagine.

As long as he remained the archbishop of the Death God Church, he could collect several drops every day.

Wu Jianshan knew this substance had some enhancement effect on superhumans.

But the enhancement effect was minimal.

Wu Jianshan used to consume some every day, but now…

His body had developed a certain resistance to it.

The Death God Blood Tears had little effect on him anymore.

Facing Chen Ye’s pestering, Wu Jianshan didn’t want Chen Ye to discover any flaws.

According to Chen Ye’s account, his current identity and Chen Ye had a very good relationship. If he didn’t give any, it might raise suspicions and lead to unnecessary trouble.

So Wu Jianshan decided to part with two drops of blood tears to settle things once and for all.

I don’t believe you’ll have the nerve to bother me again after getting blood tears this time!

Anyway, you won’t last more than a few days.

With that thought, Wu Jianshan turned and left.

Looking at the transparent glass bottle before him, Chen Ye couldn’t help but curl the corners of his mouth upward.

To enhance his strength, to survive.

So what if he had to be a bit shameless?

As long as he could survive, Chen Ye was willing to do anything.

Looking at the Death God Blood Tears before him, Chen Ye’s eyes shone with light.

“System, upgrade the Death God Blood Tears, enhance their effect of boosting sequence superpowers.”

Chen Ye gave the system a task in his mind.

The system quickly responded.

[Upgrading Death God Blood Tears requires 5,000 Slaughter Points and six hours of upgrade time. Proceed with upgrade?]

So expensive!!!

“System, how many Slaughter Points would it take to exchange for one drop of Death God Blood Tears?”

[Exchanging for unupgraded, unpurified Death God Blood Tears requires 20,000 Slaughter Points!]

Chen Ye: “…”

Sure enough, having the system handle both labor and materials was expensive!

Chen Ye was now realizing that aside from the Sequence Serum he exchanged for earlier being cheap.

All other potions were ridiculously expensive!

Perhaps items like medicines that enhanced strength were just inherently expensive under the system’s rules!

Looking at his remaining 10,000-plus Slaughter Points, Chen Ye gritted his teeth and directly selected confirm.

He had about 5,000 Slaughter Points left before, and after fighting the Eight-Limbed Human Face, he gained some more, totaling over 10,000 Slaughter Points combined.

Enough to upgrade the Death God Blood Tears twice.

When dealing with the Eight-Limbed Human Face, Chen Ye hadn’t managed to gain much benefit.

Mainly because of that final simulated Sky Whale strike.

His vehicle was sufficient for now, and without good Wonder Materials, there was no need to upgrade temporarily.

But enhancing his strength was urgently needed.

Even Sequence 3 users had appeared, while he was still Sequence 1—it really wasn’t impressive enough.

Soon, a countdown appeared on the transparent bottle.

[05:59:59]

…

Rong City Second Elementary School, Fourth Grade, Class Three.

“Hehe… My dad used to work in the mines, and my mom ran a small supermarket in our town, selling cigarettes, alcohol, and groceries.”

“Our family was pretty well-off back then. Not that we had lavish feasts every meal, but we definitely had meat dishes every few days.”

In the Fourth Grade Class Three classroom, Iron Lion lay on the bed chuckling as he reminisced, his eyes filled with warm light.

Chen Ye and Chu Che listened quietly without interrupting.

It was rare for Iron Lion to talk this much, especially about his personal life, so Chen Ye was even less inclined to cut in.

“Our family had five siblings in total, hehe…”

“Back then, we had to fight for food at mealtimes.”

“Whoa, how did your family have so many kids?”

Chen Ye exclaimed in surprise.

Iron Lion chuckled: “Hehe… what could we do? Pay fines, of course. According to my parents, they paid fines every year back then—all the money they earned went to fines!”

“Our family didn’t earn much, but it was enough to eat. But we couldn’t handle the heavy fines, and there were many mouths to feed too.”

“I’m the oldest in our family, with two younger brothers and two younger sisters below me.”

“Second Brother is a son, disobedient, often got beaten.”

“Third Brother is also a son. My dad really wanted a daughter, said daughters are like little warm jackets.”

“When Fourth Sister came along, they finally had a daughter, and my dad treasured her so much!”

“They didn’t want Fifth Sister originally, but she was already conceived, and my parents couldn’t bear to abort, so they had her.”

“Fifth Sister is the smartest, very sensible. Actually, both my younger sisters are sensible and well-behaved!”

Iron Lion grinned foolishly, as if he could still see his younger siblings before him.

This big fool rambled on and on.

Chen Ye listened very quietly. Outside the window was the rustling sound of falling snow. Through the window, he could see that under the blood moon, the snow had never stopped, though it was no longer the heavy snowfall from before.

The world outside the window was completely blanketed in white.

If it continued like this, there would likely be considerable snow on the ground by tomorrow morning.

The roads were already difficult to travel today.

Chu Che was also listening quietly.

He was thinking about his own matters too.

What happened back then was very complicated. He just never expected the squad leader to still be alive.

But this squad leader didn’t seem like the original squad leader.

It felt somewhat strange.

The power of Intimate Relationship was still in Chu Che’s mind, automatically rationalizing all unreasonable factors.

Chu Che looked at the four words on the blackboard, feeling deeply unsettled.

“Later my dad got pneumoconiosis, do you know what pneumoconiosis is?”

Iron Lion continued.

“Many people in our area got this disease. I heard it’s caused by long-term inhalation of coal dust.”

“Later my dad died, and the mine gave us some money!”

“During that time, my mom cried every day, my two younger sisters cried every day, our home was filled with crying every day!”

“One day when my mom went out to buy groceries, she got distracted and was hit by a car…”

“After that, I had to take care of my younger brothers and sisters…”

“I’m the oldest, right? With our parents gone, I had to look after them. That day, many relatives came to our home, ones we knew, ones we didn’t…”

“Later, my second uncle returned. If not for my second uncle coming back, our family would probably have been consumed by those relatives.”

“Do you know what ‘consuming a childless family’ means?”

“Does that kind of thing still happen in this day and age?”

Chen Ye spoke up.

“Ah… it does happen. You city folks wouldn’t know, but our place was a small town…”

“If not for Second Uncle, I probably couldn’t have raised my younger brothers and sisters…”

“Second Uncle took us to live with him.”

“Second Uncle didn’t take our money, said I should save it for my younger siblings’ education!”

“Later, Second Aunt divorced Second Uncle because of us siblings. Second Uncle never remarried after that. I originally planned to support Second Uncle in his old age and handle his funeral arrangements…”

“Later, I learned to drive and became a bus driver.”

“Second Brother was unpromising, dropped out after high school.”

“Fourth Sister and Youngest Sister are smart, both went to university…”

“Only Third Brother…”

Listening to Iron Lion’s rambling, Chen Ye understood.

Why Iron Lion was so happy when he saw Wu Jianshan.

Second Uncle held a very important position in Iron Lion’s life, equivalent to a second father.

Chen Ye frowned as he listened.

How come I didn’t know about Old Wu’s background?

He never mentioned it to me.

Wait, wasn’t Old Wu originally from a town? I think he was a local from Jiangcheng?

Can’t remember clearly…

Ah… never mind, headache.

Just as Chen Ye noticed the discrepancy, his mind unconsciously grew fuzzy, directly skipping over this issue.

But, given Iron Lion’s relationship with Old Wu…

If I ever fall out with Old Wu in the future, I wonder who Iron Lion would side with?

Also, I still have over 5,000 Slaughter Points.

Enough to upgrade the Death God Blood Tears one more time.

I’ll go ask Old Wu for another bottle tomorrow.

If he doesn’t give it, he’s not a true brother!

It’s just some Death God Blood Tears!

Surely he wouldn’t be that stingy!!!

That doesn’t seem like him!

Back in the day, we could even exchange underwear to wear!

Just then, Chen Ye heard the system notification—the Death God Blood Tears upgrade was complete.

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