This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 64: Mourning and Rebirth

When the sun was at its highest point in the sky, Nie Weiyang approached Xiang Feng and asked everyone around him to leave. He then said softly, "You can try to communicate with Administrator No. 2, but just try, just communicate. I won't guarantee anything."

"Administrator No. 2 can communicate?!" Xiang Feng widened his eyes and lowered his voice, "No wonder... No wonder the clothes on it look so 'civilized'..."

The New World was a vast graveyard of past civilizations, and everyone here knew it. But the sudden emergence of a target with which one could actually communicate still excited Xiang Feng—even though this target was indeed a bit terrifying.

But after a moment of excitement, he calmed down and asked in a low voice: "So, 'you guys'? You're leaving, right?"

"Yes." Nie Weiyang replied.

"When?"

"...soon, probably...after the memorial service."

Xiang Feng sighed softly, looking a little disappointed: "Okay, that's plenty of time."

"what?"

Nie Weiyang was a little confused. But Xiang Feng just gave him a mysterious smile and went back to his business. He asked again, and Xiang Feng gave him a delivery job. "This living specimen is very important. I don't know about others, but you will definitely get it delivered safely," the guy said.

Then Nie Weiyang walked into the hospital carrying a box. As soon as he entered, he saw the Alzheimer's patient named Zhang Xiuying sitting under the eaves in a daze again. Several familiar doctors and nurses were treating a group of wounded people. Nie Weiyang squinted and took a look, confirming that they should be injuries from a fight between some professionals.

Well, not surprising.

The bloodlines of all people in the new world have been forcibly modified. Although for some apparently supernatural reasons, there will be no conflict between bloodlines leading to genetic collapse. At most, there will still be a veterinarian in the medical department... but this will naturally bring about changes in personality.

Before the blood moon ascended, the conflicts caused by personality traits were not particularly serious. But now that the blood moon has passed, it is not uncommon for people to get really angry after just a casual encounter and asking "What are you looking at?"

If you bear the bloodline power of a monster or beast, you must bear the side effects it brings.

Nie Weiyang passed by this group of people. He could feel that too many people were looking at him, but he just followed the instructions of a nurse and put the box next to the hospital's crude information desk.

"Just put it here?" he asked.

"Yes, yes... uh..." The nurse seemed to want to say something, but felt it was inappropriate. In the end, she just gave Nie Weiyang a sincere smile: "Thank you. Really... thank you very much."

Nie Weiyang knew she was talking about more than just sending a gift, but he didn't show much emotion. He just tilted his head slightly without commenting: "Anything else?"

"No more." The nurse shook her head. Her hands were clasped behind her back, nervously rubbing the corner of her clothes and a pen. She didn't ask for an autograph until Nie Weiyang disappeared outside the hospital. After all, how could she say that? This was a hospital; she couldn't start a commotion... she thought. And, for a sun destined to be far away, the best thing she could do was not to cause trouble.

"Huh..." She let out a breath, took out the pen and stared blankly for a while, shook her head and whispered a few words to a few nurses, and then the others went back to work.

She walked towards the neonatal department and approached an older nurse with a splint on her arm. She gently expressed her concern for her physical condition and asked her what was going on.

"Not bad," the other person said with a smile. "When I was attacked in the nursery, someone came. An old man with a large shield and a little girl with a dagger. They saved me. In a few days, I'll be back to work in the pediatric department... By the way, I heard someone say there's a family with a baby in the city..."

……

Langcheng is being rebuilt again.

It's a complicated matter, but Lang City is rebuilding again. And this time the reconstruction is even larger because the entire city was burned down.

But the people of Langcheng exchanged their new home for a peaceful environment and more fertile land. Now, according to the detection skills of the agricultural scholar profession, although there is slight pollution in the land, its fertility has doubled than before.

"If the temperature is right, we can even try to grow three crops of rice here..." Gong Yunfei practically lay on the ground and dug. She sniffed the soil, then took a sip. Her ordinary face lit up. "If we succeed...if we succeed...we can feed many more people than we do now!"

"Come on." Nie Weiyang nodded.

In his previous life, due to a shift in temperature zones, Zhongzhou, which had returned to a subtropical climate, had cultivated three rice crops. However, he had little contact with agricultural scholars at the time, and he didn't know if anyone in the "Shennong" team had the last name Gong.

Nie Weiyang showed her the box in his hand.

"Your stuff has been delivered too." He sighed. "This is the first time I've carried a box of cockroaches this far."

"This is a sample we asked the troops to catch in the wild." Gong Yunfei smiled and called out to Bai Lu.

Bai Lu, who was not far away, ran over excitedly to take the cockroach sample, and repeatedly said "thank you, thank you" and "thank you, boss" to Nie Weiyang, then ran away with the cockroach before Nie Weiyang could react.

"I thought you would keep a calm expression no matter what the situation." Gong Yunfei admired the shock on Nie Weiyang's face. "Are you okay? This is our job. Sorry."

"...No, there's nothing to apologize for." Nie Weiyang shook his head slightly. In fact, during the most difficult times of his previous life, he had eaten things like grilled cockroach skewers...

"I admire the research spirit of you scholars," he said. "You are one of the important pillars of civilization."

"...You really are good at talking." Gong Yunfei was stunned for a moment, then a more sincere smile appeared on her face: "They all say you are not good at speaking."

"I'm indeed not good at speaking, but there are some things that need to be said," Nie Weiyang replied.

These words made Gong Yunfei laugh even more happily.

Over the next period of time, Langcheng roughly rebuilt a framework. The trauma left by the ascending blood moon still existed, but this could not stop people from moving forward.

Nie Weiyang only remembered to look at his task list the day after the Blood Moon Ascending. He was not surprised to find that the Charisma task had been completed automatically, perhaps during the battle.

Now, his charm value has reached 51 points, and combined with the process of completing the task, he has obtained a new charm-related talent 'Pioneer's Inspiration'.

【[Pioneer Inspiration]-
You have become a pioneer. -
Charm value permanently +10%
Improve persuasiveness

Improve charisma

Significantly increases the chances of others executing the holder's orders/obeying the holder's guidance
Significantly improve charm-related skills and judgment success rate

When others sincerely and completely identify with the holder, they will receive a 10% recovery speed bonus for any combat resource of the holder. At the same time, the holder's 10% recovery of this combat resource will provide a bonus to others, and the combat status will take effect.

This is a magical skill.

Nie Weiyang set this resource as 'health' without hesitation - this is an attribute that everyone can use. After all, in battle, only by staying alive can you have anything else.

Half a month later, the memorial service for the Langcheng area was about to begin. Nie Weiyang emerged from his tent, washed up, and headed for the simple central square. Although grief still lingered, nearly everyone along the way looked at him with bright, gentle eyes. When they smiled and greeted him, he responded calmly.

Many people passing by with their children in their arms pointed at him and said something to their children. Nie Weiyang glanced at them, saw the lip movements of a few words, and then turned his head away, not intending to listen to the speeches of praise and teaching the children to learn from him.

It didn't take long before the remaining 20,000 people in Langcheng all arrived at the scene.

Nie Weiyang stood on a makeshift podium, listening to Xiang Feng's speech for a while, then calmly accepting the crowd's praise, showing little interest. But he didn't appear to be in the least disappointed, simply walking off the stage after his speech and walking into the crowd.

After walking a few steps, he suddenly heard a soft voice calling his name.

Nie Weiyang turned around and found a group of women holding children surrounding him. The children looked at him curiously, and with smiles on their faces, they pushed out an old woman. The old woman looked familiar, perhaps he had seen her in the city. Now, she was holding a cloth bag with a smile, and took out a colorful bracelet from it: "Mr. Nie..."

"I'm not 'Sir'." Nie Weiyang gasped and waved his hands repeatedly. This old lady looked to be in her eighties, and he couldn't bear to be called a 'Sir'. "Just call me Nie Weiyang or Weiyang."

"Okay, Weiyang." The old woman smiled and handed him the bracelet.

"All the families with children in the city took apart the clothes their children wore to the new world, pulled out the good thread, and asked the tailors to weave them into bracelets to give to the soldiers. This one is for you," she said. "We know it's not the Dragon Boat Festival now, so it doesn't seem right to give longevity threads, but thank you. If we hadn't brought anything from home, everyone would have prepared a big gift for you... My child, live long, live long. Good people like you deserve a long life..."

Nie Weiyang held the bracelet. It was colorful and strung with a unique gold bead. It almost sparkled in the breeze and sunlight, which made him a little dazed.

After a moment, he smiled and put it on his hand.

"Thank you, I'll try my best." He said, a light song playing in his headphones: "Let's go, it's time to eat."

　Volume 1 - The Beginning of Darkness - End.

　　↑ Although I feel that the above sentence would be cooler if it were placed in the main text, I still won’t use it to take up the word count x
　　Volume 2 starts tomorrow!

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　　By the way, I recommend a song:

　　Two People Sitting Opposite Each Other on the Train - Lowell Lo/Him Lam

　　Although it's called "Train", it feels more like the soundtrack of an old-school martial arts film about wandering around the world.

　　You may have noticed that I am actually an old-fashioned person who likes some old-fashioned things, so this article has been criticized many times for "writing such a saintly thing is not in line with the current trend", but they were all hidden by my authority dog ​​hehe (hey
　　I will not make excuses, nor do I want to argue about the definitions of words like "holy mother" and "holy bitch" that I am not interested in. As I wrote in my article, the meaning of words will shift, and the most important thing is our own heart.

　　I mean,
　　I want to be old-fashioned, I want to be old-fashioned, I want to be a good person, I like this, no matter what anyone says, I won’t change, lululu!

(End of this chapter)