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Chapter 119. The Aftermath of Zhenbei City

"My blindness was caused by the mental control of a blind teacher."

Shen Ye spoke slowly.

"But now, I have broken free from the blind man's control, and my eyesight is gradually returning."

He pointed to his unblinded right eye and said:
"My right eye recovered the fastest. I can see blurry things now, so I don't cover it anymore."

Jiang Jianxin suddenly realized:

"No wonder I said the captain was really handsome, so you've seen it before."

Shen Ye nodded and said:

"I can see people's faces, but not very clearly... I estimate it will take another month for my right eye to regain normal vision."

Jiang Jianxin hung the sword at his waist and said:

"Then you should rest and recover. I haven't been able to bother you much lately. I just came to check on you."

"Take me to your house."

Shen Ye led Jiang Jianxin upstairs, saying as they walked:

"After my two lovers died in a suicide pact, the base arranged for new gifted individuals to live here."

"The upstairs is now a place that runs a prostitution business. Every night the bed creaks and groans, and there are also men crying and screaming. The man downstairs is a beast tamer, but he's not very good at it, so he has a large pack of vicious dogs that bark all day long."

Jiang Jianxin looked at Shen Ye with sympathy, seeing the captain's resolute gaze through his intact eye:

"Of course, I wasn't going to be a pushover either. I bought a suona and played it day and night until I finally blew everyone upstairs and downstairs away."

Jiang Jianxin gave him a thumbs up and said:

"Well done, you are indeed someone I value."

She paused, then touched her nose somewhat guiltily and said:
"Hmm...actually, I also wanted to ask how your neighbors are doing now. Are their hearings alright?"

Logically speaking, Shen Ye's suona playing should not only intimidate those upstairs and downstairs, but also directly attack his neighbors.

—Now that they've run up and down the stairs, are the neighbors still struggling to keep going?
Shen Ye shook his head and said:

“My neighbors on both sides moved away before I started playing the suona.”

The two of them happened to arrive at the floor where Shen Ye lived, and the latter deliberately stopped in front of the faded security door.

He bent his knuckles and knocked on the right side of the door frame. The brown-painted door made a muffled sound, and as the draft swept through the crack, it brought with it the faint sound of dry leaves rubbing together.

Shen Ye said slowly:
"The aunt on the right performed outstandingly in the Dawn Campaign and has now been recruited as a new member by the United Front Work Department and arranged to live in a better place."

Jiang Jianxin looked to the right.

The faded iron doorplate above the door was covered with brown spots, and several moldy styrofoam boxes lay scattered by the threshold. The terracotta pot that had once been planted with scallions lay askew in the shadow of the security bars, the wilted yellow scallion leaves curled up and rustling in the draft.

She knew which aunt Shen Ye was referring to—it was none other than the fierce old woman wielding a spiked club that she had seen on the forum that day.

Unexpectedly, the old lady achieved great success late in life, and her career flourished. She escaped the mundane necessities of life before the apocalypse and made a name for herself in the post-apocalyptic world.

"Before my aunt left, she gave me all the scallions she had grown... At that time, I was still a girl. My aunt told me that girls should work hard to cultivate themselves and that if they become successful in the future, they should go to the United Front Work Department to find her."

Shen Ye looked at the withered scallions and said.

"So...you're the one who killed these scallions?"

Jiang Jianxin pointed to the scallions.

"There's nothing I can do, my aunt is very enthusiastic, but she doesn't know that I don't like eating scallions."

Shen Ye spoke slowly, a hint of guilt in his voice.

Jiang Jianxin remained silent. Shen Ye turned around and pointed to the left, saying, "This is a relative of a strong person in the base. She is an ordinary person, but she got into this place because of her brother. She has been looked down upon by many talented people in the building. She recently set off for Zhenbei City to become stronger."

Jiang Jianxin looked to the left.

This house has no security door, and the wind blows the sunflowers beside it. Those once proud and radiant golden flower heads now droop, their charred sepals curled up in the terracotta pot, like birds whose wings have been singed by flames.

She crouched down, and the leaves she touched shattered, revealing blurry words sprayed in red paint on the back of the flowerpot—words of abuse.

"I can understand wanting to become stronger, but what kind of strength are you going to Zhenbei City to become?"

Jiang Jianxin recalled his previous battle in Zhenbei City, where Wan Jian Guiyi annihilated Baili Taolin with overwhelming force, and Zhenbei City had long been reduced to ruins by the sword energy.

Whether it's even habitable is another matter—how is it now related to becoming stronger?
"Hmm... Although Zhenbei City is now a ruin, tens of thousands of sharpened swords are stuck inside, imbued with an unknown power. With the enhancement of these powers, those swords are more intuitive and deal more damage. Now, being able to obtain a sword from Zhenbei City is something to be envied."

Shen Ye said slowly.

Jiang Jianxin opened his mouth wide, recalling how he had indeed condensed all the metal in the city into longswords during the Battle of Zhenbei City.

Although some of those longswords were damaged during the subsequent "Ten Thousand Swords Return to One" event, some of them remained intact.

The rift between the cultivation world and this world is located within Zhenbei City. Although it has only opened up slightly so far, spiritual energy is constantly flowing in, directly nourishing the myriad swords within the city.

Now, almost a month has passed since that battle, and these swords, nourished by spiritual energy, have become even more spiritual.

Today, Zhenbei City has become a sword tomb, sitting in front of the crack, enjoying all the advantages of timing, location, and popular support.

People in the supernatural world had never seen the Sword Tomb or the Spirit Sword, so Zhenbei City became famous overnight, becoming a gathering place for divine weapons that everyone wanted to visit.

"...And because you are very popular on the forum, all the swords in Zhenbei City were tempered and sharpened by you, so many people who admire you want to get the swords - even more people are going to Zhenbei City."

Shen Ye added slowly.

"But doesn't your neighbor have relatives at the base? She's just an ordinary young girl traveling alone to Zhenbei City. Won't her relatives worry about her?"

Jiang Jianxin asked.

"That shouldn't be the case. Her relative is her brother, Chen... Tong, I think. He's the one who used the Sun and Moon Bow in the Battle of Dawn. He's quite supportive of his sister going to Zhenbei City."

Shen Ye explained.

“I feel like he doesn’t really care about his sister’s life or death. When his sister was humiliated by the perverted gifted individuals in the Hive, he didn’t care at all.”

Jiang Jianxin was taken aback, suddenly realizing who Shen Ye's neighbor was.

—The girl named Chen Xinran I saw in Yin Ju's car before I came to the War Alliance.

She got caught in the rain and drank the potion, but she didn't turn into a pollution monster, nor did she awaken her talent.

After arriving at the base, Jiang Jianxin didn't pay much attention to her. As a Sword Master with extraordinary strength, she couldn't imagine any other ending for such an ordinary person except for her mediocre life and death insignificantly.

I never expected to hear news about Chen Xinran after such a long time.

But in such an unexpected way.

An ordinary person travels alone to Zhenbei City, without a spirit sword that can travel thousands of miles by wind, and without any magic to protect himself.

In the frosty north, with sandstorms raging, she had only two legs and a heart yearning to become stronger.

Jiang Jianxin deeply admired her courage.

A gentle breeze rustled through the withered sunflowers in the stairwell, and in the hushed sound of the leaves, she seemed to hear the gears of fate suddenly turn.

The path of a life destined to be mediocre until death has taken a turn for the better.

The girl walks in the darkness before dawn, about to embark on her own magnificent and eventful life.

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