Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

"I think I've met those three people you mentioned, but I can't remember them right now. I need to go back and check my notebook to confirm. Let me know when I'm done."

Zhou Yang thought for a moment and agreed: "Okay, but how will we find you then?"

"Just tell me your address, and I'll come find you after I've confirmed and checked everything."

"Alright, by the way, what's your name again? I can't exactly call you a busybody, can I?"

Upon hearing this, the boy glared at him and said, "You know what I look like, you know I have a stall at the trading market, and you even know what my special ability is, but you don't know my name?!"

Zhou Yang rubbed his nose: "Ahem, knowing about your affairs was purely accidental. I just happened to run into you once. You must have just come out after gathering information and had just ended your invisibility. I also found out about your stall by accidentally mentioning it while you were getting dressed..."

"..." The boy was speechless with anger for a moment, and after a while he uttered two words in a muffled voice, "Cui Ze".

"Okay, Cui Ze, thank you for your help. Please come to this address as soon as you have any news. We're always home, but please contact us as soon as possible, we're in a bit of a hurry."

After Zhou Yang finished speaking, he handed Cui Ze a piece of paper with his address written on it.

Cui Ze took the note, glanced at it, and then stuffed it into his pocket.

"Aren't you afraid I'll retaliate? Or just run away?"

"I'm scared, so I prepared something for you."

After Zhou Yang finished speaking, he smiled slightly, and then, taking advantage of the other party's daze, he grabbed Cui Ze's chin and quickly threw a small meatball into Cui Ze's mouth with his other hand. He watched Cui Ze swallow it directly before letting go.

"What did you feed me?!"

Cui Ze desperately tried to vomit, but he couldn't bring himself to spit out what he had already swallowed.

Zhou Yang laughed and said, "I am the seed of a mutated plant. As long as you behave, nothing will happen. But if you run away or betray me, without my control, it will take root and sprout in your stomach and eventually turn into a humanoid plant."

Cui Ze: "..."

Seeing Cui Ze's disgusted expression, Zhou Yang reassured him, "Don't worry, once you finish your mission, I'll destroy it, and you'll be fine. Okay, you can go back and prepare for your work now. Good luck! We're waiting for your good news."

"Then I really thank you," Cui Ze said through gritted teeth, then turned and left.

Only after Cui Ze had walked far away and disappeared from sight did Shen Zechuan walk up to Zhou Yang and ask, "Did you really feed him Ah Hu's seed?"

Zhou Yang chuckled: "You actually believe that? I can only control Ah Hu's branches, not his seeds. I just gave him a fig candy to scare him and make him give up the idea of ​​running away, and also speed up his work efficiency."

Upon hearing this, Shen Zechuan immediately felt some sympathy for Cui Ze.

However, remembering Zhou Yang's earlier comment about seeing Cui Ze put on clothes, her face immediately darkened: "You also saw him put on clothes after disabling his invisibility?"

"Ahem, I was just making this up. It was pitch black at the time, and all I could tell was that it was a man."

"So you still saw it? Was it really that good? That's why you still remember it?"

"..."

No, can we shift our focus?

Instead of questioning when and where he saw it, all he cares about is whether he actually saw it and whether it looks good or not.

Zhou Yang rubbed her forehead, feeling utterly overwhelmed. Seeing Shen Zechuan's face growing darker and darker, she quickly coaxed, "I just glanced at him by accident, I didn't see anything. Besides, his skinny, bony figure is nowhere near as good-looking as yours, I don't like him at all."

Shen Zechuan's anger subsided immediately after hearing this: "Hmph, of course. This Cui Ze looks like a weakling, you're not allowed to watch him anymore!"

Zhou Yang nodded repeatedly: "No, no! I definitely won't watch!"

After finally managing to appease Shen Zechuan, Zhou Yang silently wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and quickly pulled Shen Zechuan back to their residence.

In the days that followed, Zhou Yang and Shen Zechuan stayed at home waiting for news.

They thought it would take a few days to get definite news, but on the morning of the third day, while they were having breakfast, there was a knock on their door.

Before Zhou Yang could even say a word, Shen Zechuan got up and opened the door.

However, when he opened the door, he didn't see a single person. He was frowning and wondering who was playing a prank when he felt a breeze brush past his face.

But how can there be wind in a poorly ventilated stairwell?

Shen Zechuan then realized something, and his face darkened.

After he closed the door and turned back, Zhou Yang was still sitting and eating breakfast, completely unaware of what was wrong. Seeing his dark expression, she asked, "What's wrong? Who's outside?"

"I didn't see anyone, but..."

Shen Zechuan lowered his eyes and spoke while looking around the room, a barely visible bolt of lightning gathering in his hand.

"Ok?"

Zhou Yang looked at Shen Zechuan with suspicion, waiting for him to continue. But then he saw Shen Zechuan throw a lightning bolt net towards a corner of the living room. Before he could figure it out, a scream came from that direction, followed by the sound of something falling to the ground.

He got up and was about to go check what was going on when Shen Zechuan pulled him back and held him in his arms.

Just as they were wondering what was going on, they heard Shen Zechuan throw something in that direction and say something with obvious disgust:

"Put your clothes on, you're making a fool of yourself!"

Zhou Yang finally understood: someone had sneaked into the room, and someone who could turn invisible.

Now even a fool could figure out who it is.

In the entire Hecheng base, Cui Ze is the only one with the ability to become invisible.

Is this someone who has already gathered information and is now reporting back?

But if you're just going to finish the job, why use invisibility to sneak in?

He felt that what he had said before was all a lie, and he wanted to test their strength to see if he could really break free from their control.

Thinking of this, Zhou Yang couldn't help but roll his eyes. He felt that the reason this person hadn't been discovered yet was thanks to the limited knowledge of the people in this small base. No one had thought of such a thing as invisibility yet, otherwise he would have died countless times by now.

A few minutes later, after the person on the sofa had finished dressing, Shen Zechuan released Zhou Yang.

Turning around, he saw it was indeed Cui Ze.

Shen Zechuan looked coldly at Cui Ze: "What were you planning to do by sneaking in here?"

Cui Ze rubbed his limbs, which were still sore from the electric shocks, and was still a little confused: "Huh? Didn't you ask me to investigate someone? I found out, so I came to tell you!"

Shen Zechuan continued in a cold voice, "Since you came to deliver the message, why did you hide?"

Upon hearing this, Cui Ze was taken aback: "Huh? I've always been sending messages to my employers in stealth mode. I feel it's safer that way."

"..." Zhou Yang, who was standing to the side, twitched his lips. "How come you've never been caught doing something so obviously suspicious?"

"No, I didn't tell them directly. I wrote it down on a piece of paper and secretly left it somewhere for them when no one was looking. Like this!"

Cui Ze scratched his head, then removed a folded piece of paper from the sole of his foot and handed it to the two of them.

Looking at the paper in front of them, Zhou Yang and Shen Zechuan both fell silent.

This is some rather unsettling news...