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Chapter 214: Death Cycle (XII)

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TL: Resonance

    丧尸主要有两种，一种是初始丧尸，即第一批感染丧尸病毒的人。他们经历了完整的基因变异，最初等级虽低，却拥有无限进化的可能。如今大部分高级丧尸基本都是由初始丧尸进化而来，达到将级之后，他们将逐渐产生神智和独立的人格，成为真正意义上的新物种。

There were two main types of zombies. One type was the original zombies, which was the first batch of people who got infected by the zombie virus. They went through a complete gene mutation. Although their initial levels were low, they had unlimited possibilities for evolution. Most high level zombies nowadays were all evolved from the original zombies. After reaching general level, they would gradually gain consciousness and an independent personality, becoming a true new species.

    第二种丧尸，则是被初始丧尸二次感染后的变异体，他们没有生命体征，只有吞食血肉的本能，换一个更准确的称呼，那就是“活死人”。活死人进化缓慢，但病毒传播很快，普通人被感染后，最多只能进化成中级丧尸，但异能者不一样，被感染的异能者，能力比初始丧尸更强，也拥有进化成王级丧尸的可能，只是几率比较低。

The second type of zombies were variants formed after receiving secondary infection from the original zombies. They did not have any vital signs and only had the instinct to devour flesh and blood. A more accurate way to call them would be the “living dead”. The living dead had slow evolution, but their virus spread very quickly. If an ordinary person was infected, the most they could evolve into was an intermediate level zombie. However, it was different for ability users. Infected ability users were stronger than original zombies. They also had the possibility to evolve into a zombie king, but the probability was relatively lower.

    尚可无法判定帝馗是初始丧尸，还是二次感染的异能者，只知道他在吞食暗界精魄前，便已进化成为丧尸王。他对人类没有怜悯心，对丧尸也没有归属感，就像独立于所有生命之外的存在。

Shang Ke was unable to determine whether Di Kui was an original zombie or an ability user who got a secondary infection. All he knew was that Di Kui had already evolved into a zombie king before he devoured the dark world spirit piece. He had no compassion towards humans and he also didn’t have a sense of belonging with the zombies. It was if he was an existence independent of all other living things.

    尚可将最后一只丧尸解决，随意甩了甩长刀上的鲜血，踏着遍地残肢断臂，缓步转身朝帝馗走去。

Shang Ke settled the last zombie and casually flung the blood on his long saber away. Then, he stepped on the ground filled with broken and severed limbs and walked slowly towards Di Kui.

    “三颗晶灵石，十七块晶灵石碎片。”尚可在帝馗身边坐下，大概清点了一次这次的收获，“还行，可以购买不少物资了。”

“Three crystallines and 17 crsytalline fragments.” Shang Ke sat down beside Di Kui and roughly counted his harvest this time. “Not bad, we can buy lot’s of supplies with these.”

    帝馗看了看尚可身上的伤口，心中有些不快，随手将空奶瓶捏碎，然后消失在原地。刚才他没有阻止尚可与丧尸战斗，不代表他乐意看他被丧尸弄伤。等他打完，就该轮到他了。帝馗决定去弄死远处那群被血腥味吸引而来的丧尸。

Di Kui looked at the wounds on Shang Ke’s body and felt unhappy. He crushed the empty milk bottle and suddenly disappeared from the spot. He didn’t stop Shang Ke from fighting with the zombies earlier, but that didn’t mean he was willing to see Shang Ke being hurt by the zombies. Once Shang Ke was done, it was now his turn. Di Kui decided to kill the group of zombies far away that got attracted here by the smell of blood.

    尚可不知道帝馗去干什么了，也不在意，反正只要不是去毁灭世界都无所谓。

Shang Ke didn’t know what Di Kui went to do and didn’t mind it either. It didn’t matter as long as he wasn’t going to destroy the world.

    尚可从包里拿出肉干，一边咬着肉干欣赏残阳如血，一边在尸山骨海中等帝馗回来。

Shang Ke took out some jerky from his bag and bit on it, admiring the sunset which was bright like blood while waiting for Di Kui to come back within the mountain of corpses.

    正在这时，尚可感觉眼角一跳，似有所觉地转过头，身后空空如也，但那种危险的感觉始终挥之不去。

At this moment, Shang Ke felt his eyes jump. He seemed to have felt something and turned around to look. There was nothing behind him, but the feeling of danger didn’t disappear.

    尚可放开感知，果然发现几点亮光隐藏在附近，其中两点亮光属于两只将级丧尸，另一点来自于异能者，而且是实力卓绝的异能者。

Shang Ke spread his perception and found some light hidden nearby as expected. Two of the lights belonged to two general level zombies while the other light came from an ability user, and it was an ability user with exceptional strength.

    那名异能者距离他最远，几乎处在他最大感知范围的边缘。换做其他异能者，肯定察觉不到他的存在。感知中那团魂火是紫蓝色的，如果尚可没有猜错，它应该属于不久前见过的左弦。

That ability user was the furthest away from him and was at the edge of his maximum perception range. Other ability users definitely couldn’t sense his existence. The soul fire within his perception was purple-blue. If Shang Ke didn’t guess wrong, that soul fire should belong to Zuo Xian whom he had seen not long ago.

    那两只将级丧尸似乎正在追赶着什么，一前一后，快速向他这边跑过来。

Those two general level zombies seemed to be chasing after something. With one after another, the two of them ran quickly towards his direction.

    不过几秒钟，尚可便看到了他们追赶的东西，那是一团急速旋转的气流，气流似乎有意将它们引过来，目标直指他所在的方位。

Shang Ke saw what they were chasing after within a few seconds. It was a ball of rapidly spinning air. The air seemed to be intentionally attracting them over and the target was directly at the position he was in.

    尚可抽出武器，做好战斗的准备。虽然他不是将级丧尸的对手，但仗着自己的不死之身，也没什么好怕的。

Shang Ke drew out his weapon and prepared himself for battle. He wasn’t a general level zombie’s opponent, but he had nothing to be afraid of with his immortal body.

    眼见那团气流即将冲到近前，尚可忽然感觉视线一暗，一道高大的身影毫无征兆地出现在他身前，随手一挥，那团气流倏地在空中炸开，化作无数风刃，向那两只将级丧尸疾射而去。

When that ball of air flow was almost reaching Shang Ke, he suddenly felt the sight before him darken and a tall figure appeared before him without warning. With a wave of his hand, the ball of air swiftly exploded in the air and turned into countless wind blades blasting towards the two general level zombies.

    一只丧尸快速隐去身形，消失无踪，另一只四肢着地，避开风刃，继续向这边冲来。

A zombie quickly turned invisible and disappeared completely while the other went on all four and avoided the wind blades before continuing to rush towards them.

    尚可的视线被挡，也不知道身前的男人做了什么，等他探出头，只看到地上出现了一个坑洞，那两只丧尸则消失不见了。

Shang Ke’s vision was blocked and didn’t know what the man before him did. By the time he poked his head out to look, he only saw a hole on the ground and the two zombies disappeared.

    “你没事吧？”男人转过头，两道深邃的目光落在尚可身上。

“Are you okay?” The man turned around and two profound eyes landed on Shang Ke.

    霍轩？他怎么会在这里？

Huo Xuan? Why was he here?

    尚可收起武器，对他笑了笑：“没事。”

Shang Ke put away his weapon and smiled at him, saying, “I’m okay.”

    霍轩看到他身上的伤口，微微皱眉：“天快黑了，早点回基地。”

Huo Xuan saw the wounds on his body and frowned slightly. “It’s getting dark, return to the base soon.”

    尚可点点头：“知道了，谢谢。”

Shang Ke nodded his head and said, “Understood. Thank you.”

    说完这句话，两人陷入诡异的沉默。

After saying so, the two of them fell into a strange silence.

    在认定帝馗之后，尚可下意识觉得应该和霍轩保持距离，但这个男人，同样让他感到熟悉。

After choosing Di Kui, Shang Ke subconsciously felt that he should keep a distance from Huo Xuan. However, this man made him feel familiar too.

    尚可想了想，问道：“我刚才看到左弦了，那两只丧尸是他故意引来的吗？”没错，想让一个人反感就要不遗余力地揭他的短！

Shang Ke thought for a while and asked, “I saw Zuo Xian just now. Are those two zombies purposely attracted here by him?” That’s right. If you want to disgust someone, then you must spare no effort to expose his shortcomings!

    “这件事我会追究的，你放心。”

“I will investigate this issue, don’t worry.”

    放什么心！左弦不是你的心腹吗？你应该理直气壮地包庇他！维护他！

What do you mean by don’t worry! Isn’t Zuo Xian your confidant? You should confidently defend and protect him!

    尚可语气不善：“你怎么追究？左弦是你的人，就算知道他想害我，最后也只能不了了之。”

Shang Ke said with an unkind tone, “How are you going to investigate? Zuo Xian is one of your people. Even if you knew that he wanted to harm me, you can only leave him alone in the end.”

    “那你觉得应该怎么处理？”霍轩一副“大公无私”的包容状。

“Then how do you think I should settle this?” Huo Xuan in a “fair and just” mode.

    尚可凶狠地说：“废掉他的异能，将他丢进丧尸群，让丧尸啃得尸骨无存！”

Shang Ke said maliciously, “Get rid of his ability, throw him into a group of zombies and let the zombies eat him until not a single piece of his corpse is left!”

    作为过来人，这个惩罚绝对够残忍、够血腥、够暴力！

As someone who has experienced it before, this punishment is definitely cruel, bloody and violent enough!

    霍轩听罢，不但没有生气，反而露出一丝笑意。他是这个星球的无冕之王，备受崇敬。就算有人对他不满，也不会直接表现出来。更何况大部分人在他面前都很难保持镇定，像他这般坦然随性、甚至敢要求他严惩左弦的人，还真是绝无仅有。

After listening to him, not only did Huo Xuan not get angry, he even let out a slight smile. He was the uncrowned king of this planet revered by many. Even if someone was dissatisfied with him, they wouldn’t directly express themselves in front of him. Not to mention, most people found it hard to stay calm before him. Someone like Shang Ke who was calm, casual, and even dared to ask him to punish Zuo Xian was really unique.

    尚可奇怪地看了他一眼：笑什么？有人要把你的心腹扔出去喂丧尸你还笑得出来？敢不敢有点做老大的觉悟？

Shang Ke looked at him strangely: What are you laughing about? Someone wants to throw your confidant out to feed the zombies and you’re still able to laugh? Where’s your conscious of being the boss?

    正想着，忽听霍轩问了一个风马牛不相及的问题：“之前送你的香水还喜欢吗？”

As he was thinking about it, Huo Xuan suddenly asked an irrelevant question, “Do you like the perfume I gave you previously?”

    香水？尚可下意识往口袋里摸了摸，摸出一瓶香水。今天换衣服时，顺手就把它收进口袋里了，也不知道自己抽什么风。

Perfume? Shang Ke searched through his pocket subconsciously and took out a bottle of perfume. While he was changing today, he had placed it into his pocket. He didn’t know why he did that.

    抬头朝霍轩望去，后者目光深邃，意喻不明，看得尚可心弦一颤：你别误会！这只是巧合！

He looked up towards Huo Xuan. The latter had profound eyes of unclear meaning, causing Shang Ke’s heart to tremble: Do not misunderstand! This is just a coincidence!

    尚可装作不在意地将香水塞进口袋，语气平淡道：“没用过，不知道。”

Shang Ke pretended not to care as he stuffed the perfume back into his pocket. He said calmly, “I’ve never used it before so I don’t know.”

    “嗯。”霍轩没有继续追问香水的事情，而是从怀里拿出一管针剂，然后走到尚可身边，“你被丧尸抓伤了，我帮你注射疫苗。”

“Mn.” Huo Xuan didn’t continue asking about the perfume. Instead, he took out an injection syringe and walked towards Shang Ke. “You’re scratched by a zombie. I’ll help you inject the vaccine.”

    人类研发的疫苗，能够在一定程度上预防病毒感染。对于异能者而言，除非多次交叉感染，否则只要及时注射疫苗，一般都能避免被感染。只是疫苗非常珍贵，并不是所有异能者都能买到。

The vaccine developed by humans can prevent the virus infection to a certain extent. Unless they have overlapping infections, ability users generally wouldn’t be infected if they receive timely injection of the vaccine. However, the vaccine is very precious and not all ability users can buy it.

    “不用了，我自己有。”这种疫苗用在他身上纯属浪费。

“No need, I have my own.” It was simply a waste to use the vaccine on him.

    霍轩却没有理会，眼疾手快地在他手臂上扎了一针。

However, Huo Xuan didn’t care and very quickly poke the needle into Shang Ke’s arm.

    尚可：都说不用了……

Shang Ke: I’ve already said that there’s no need… 

    这一针刚刚扎下，四周便传来一股浓重的杀气。

The needle had just pierced through when a strong murderous intent could be felt from the surrounding.

    霍轩面色一凛，周身银光闪现。

Huo Xuan’s expression turned serious and silver light flashed all over.

    “小心！”

“Be careful!”

    一个人影骤然出现在尚可身后，霍轩厉喝一声，数道银刃疾射而出，在空中划出一个半弧，直直扎向尚可身后的人影。

A figure suddenly appeared behind Shang Ke. Huo Xuan made a stern shout and several silver blades shot out. The silver blades drew a half arc in the air and flew straight towards the figure behind Shang Ke.

    人影带着尚可瞬间移出了银刃的攻击范围，下一秒，又独自出现在霍轩面前，一拳砸向他的胸口。

The figure took Shang Ke and instantly moved out of the silver blades’ attack range. The next second, the figure appeared alone in front of Huo Xuan and punched towards his chest.

    两人你来我往，开始在半空中激战起来。

The two of them went at each other and started fighting mid air.

    尚可揉了揉太阳穴，心中焦虑，他极力想要避免的情况还是出现了。

Shang Ke rubbed his temple and felt anxious. The situation he did so hard to avoid still happened.

    霍轩肯定不是帝馗的对手，而帝馗对他绝对不会手下留情。如果霍轩被杀死，那就真的game over了！

Huo Xuan definitely wasn’t Di Kui’s opponent, and Di Kui definitely wouldn’t show him mercy. If Huo Xuan gets killed, then it’s really game over!

    两位王级强者的战斗，别说阻止，就是靠近都很难做到。磅礴的威势覆盖了方圆数十里，所过之处，活物退避。

It was hard to get close to a fight between two king level people, don’t even mention stopping them. Their majestic power covers tens of miles. Wherever it goes, living beings retreat. 

    “怎么回事？”左弦的声音突然在尚可耳边响起。

“What happened?” Zuo Xian’s voice suddenly sounded beside Shang Ke.

    尚可没有心情理他，只是紧紧盯着正在激战的两人。

Shang Ke wasn’t in the mood to care about him. He stared closely at the two who were having a fierce battle.

    左弦见他在如此强大的威压下，依然面不改色，眼中不由得闪过一丝惊异。连他都只能勉强支撑，眼前这个人却好像完全不受影响。他的实力难道也达到了王级？不，不可能。左弦很快否认了这个猜测。他刚才见过他战斗的样子，不过比普通战士高一点而已。

A trace of surprise flashed past Zuo Xian’s eyes when he saw Shang Ke’s expression remain unchanged under such powerful pressure. Even he could barely support himself, yet the person before him seemed to be completely unaffected. Has his strength also reached the king level? No, that’s impossible. Zuo Xian soon denied this conjecture. He had seen how Shang Ke fought earlier. He was only slightly better than ordinary fighters.

    但是，他为什么能在两大强者的威压下泰然自若？

However, why is he able to remain composed under these two people’s pressure?

    正在这时，空中突然传来一阵刺耳的破空声，随即是霍轩的冷喝：“你是……丧尸！”

At this moment, a piercing sound sounded in the air followed by Huo Xuan’s cold shout, “You’re… a zombie!”

    随着战斗的展开，帝馗皮肤上的粉妆逐渐脱落，露出原本的面貌，那一块块灰蓝色的尸斑，无不显示他的身份。

As the battle went on, the foundation on Di Kui’s skin gradually fell off and his original appearance was revealed. The patches of greyish-blue corpse spot clearly showed his identity.

    他不是普通的丧尸！

He wasn’t an ordinary zombie!

    霍轩无比确定，这家伙的实力在王级以上，很可能就是传说中的丧尸王——帝馗！

Huo Xuan was extremely sure this fellow’s strength was above the king level. He might be the legendary zombie king—Di Kui!

    远处观战的左弦听到霍轩的话，脸色微变，转头看向尚可，不可置信地问：“你居然把一只丧尸带在身边，还把他带进人类基地？”

Zuo Xian, who was watching from a distance, heard Huo Xuan’s words and his expression changed. He turned to look at Shang Ke and asked unbelievably, “You actually brought a zombie along with you and even brought him into the human base?”

    尚可见他对自己怒目而视，心头一动，故意挑衅道：“那又怎样？养丧尸是我的爱好，以后说不定还会多养几只。”

Seeing Zuo Xia glare at him, a thought came to Shang Ke’s mind and he purposely provoked him, “So what? Raising zombies is my hobby, I might even raise more zombies in the future.” 

    “你疯了吗？”左弦指着他，怒道，“这么强大的丧尸，你知不知道会给人类带来多大的危害！”

“Are you crazy?” Zuo Xian pointed at him and said in anger, “He’s such a powerful zombie. Do you know how much harm it would bring to humans!”

    “能有多大的危害？他在基地待了两天不是什么都没发生吗？”尚可一脸无所谓。

“How harmful can it be? Didn’t nothing happen during the two days he stayed in the base?” Shang Ke had an indifferent look.

    “没发生不代表不会发生！”左弦见霍轩形势危急，命令道，“立刻让他住手，否则别怪我对你不客气！”

“Nothing happened doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t happen!” Seeing Huo Xuan in a critical situation, Zuo Xian ordered, “Make him stop immediately. Otherwise, don’t blame me for being impolite!”

    尚可扬起下巴，一副欠揍的小样：“抱歉，我无能为力。”

Shang Ke raised his chin and gave a look which made people want to punch him, “Sorry, there is nothing I can do.”

    左弦急道：“霍轩是什么身份你很清楚，如果他有什么三长两短，你将成为全人类的公敌。”

Zuo Xian grew anxious, “You know exactly who Huo Xuan is. If something happens to him, you will become the public enemy of all humans.”

    “呵呵。”尚可淡笑道，“只要霍轩一死，帝馗就可以取而代之，其实我挺期待人类灭亡的。”

“Haha.” Shang Ke smiled and said, “As long as Huo Xuan is dead, Di Kui can replace him. In fact, I am quite looking forward to mankind perishing.”

    其语气神态，俨然就是一个超然脱俗的反社会分子。

Based on his tone and demeanour, he looked just like an extreme anti-social.

    左弦终于被他气爆了，眼中杀机顿现，徒然伸手掐住他的脖子，森冷道：“既然如此，在人类灭亡前，先让我先送你一程吧。”

Zuo Xian finally got fed up because of him and murderous intent immediately appeared in his eyes. He stretched out his hand to clutch Shang Ke’s neck and said ghastly, “Since that’s the case, let me send you off first before humans perish.”

    尚可及时护住咽喉，没有立刻被左弦杀死。他的目的是激怒左弦，逼他对自己出手，借此转移帝馗的注意力，最终阻止这场战斗。

Shang Ke promptly protected his throat and didn’t get killed by Zuo Xian immediately. His objective was to infuriate Zuo Xian and force Zuo Xian to make a move on him. He would use this to divert Di Kui’s attention and ultimately stop the fight.

    当然，他并没有百分之百的把握。毕竟丧尸王与常人不同，他未必会在杀死帝馗之前抽身过来救他，更何况他还知道自己能够复活，即使被杀死了也没关系。

Of course, he wasn’t 100% sure. After all, the zombie king was different from ordinary people. He might not necessarily pull away from the fight to save him before he got to kill Huo Xuan. Not to mention, Di Kui also knew that he could revive and it was fine even if he was killed.

    正这么想着，脖子上的压力骤然消失，随即被人卷进怀里，带离了原来的位置。

As he was thinking so, the pressure on his neck suddenly disappeared. Then, he was caught in someone’s embrace and taken away from his original spot.

    尚可从帝馗怀里探出头，看见左弦捂着流血的手臂，面色惨白地望着他们。霍轩站在他身边，表情晦暗不明。

Shang Ke poked his head out from Di Kui’s embrace. He saw Zuo Xian covering his bleeding arm and looking at them with a pale face. Huo Xuan stood beside him with an obscured expression.

    帝馗喉咙里发出低低的嘶吼，面目狰狞，眼中充满凌厉的杀气。

Di Kui let out a low roar from his throat. His face was ferocious and his eyes were full of fierce murderous intent.

    尚可环住他的腰，轻声道：“我们走吧。”

Shang Ke hugged his waist and said softly, “Let’s go.”

    帝馗冷哼一声：不走！没把这两个人类杀死，坚决不走。

Di Kui let out a cold humph: I won’t go! I refuse to leave before I kill these two humans.

    尚可在他背上捏了捏：“真的不走吗？现在走的话，可以让你做昨晚的事哦。”

Shang Ke pinched his back and said, “Are you really not leaving? If we leave now, I can let you do what we did last night.”

    昨晚的事……帝馗脑中迅速闪过各种不和谐的画面，犹豫了三秒，抱着尚可消失在原地。

What we did last night… Various unharmonious images flashed quickly in Di Kui’s mind. After hesitating for three seconds, he held Shang Ke and disappeared from the spot.

    霍轩望着他们消失的身影，眼中闪过凌厉的光芒。

Huo Xuan looked at their disappearing figure and his eyes let out a sharp glint.

    “霍轩，那个尚可是个危险人物，他想利用帝馗杀了你，然后毁灭整个人类。”左弦痛斥尚可的罪行。

“Huo Xuan, that Shang Ke is a dangerous person. He wants to make use of Di Kui to kill you and then destroy the entire human race.” Zuo Xian denounced Shang Ke’s crimes.

    霍轩叹道：“这种话你也信。”那个人，只是想将帝馗引走罢了。

Huo Xuan sighed, “You actually believed that.” That person just wanted to lead Di Kui away.

    “什么？”左弦不明所以。

“What?” Zuo Xian didn’t understand.

    霍轩没有再说，想到尚可被帝馗带走的情景，忍不住捏紧拳头。

Huo Xuan didn’t speak any longer. He couldn’t help but clench his fist as he recalled the scene of Shang Ke being taken away by Di Kui.

    世上有人愿意和一只丧尸在一起吗？那是一只强大的丧尸王，一旦激怒他，必将给人类带来灭顶之灾。尚可，或许是不得已才留在他身边的。

Is there anyone in the world willing to be with a zombie? That is a powerful zombie king. Once he’s angered, he will surely bring disaster to mankind. Shang Ke might be staying by his side because he has no choice.

    霍轩眼中闪过一丝决绝：他必须变得更强！强到足以将尚可从那只丧尸王手中解救出来。

Resolution flashed past Huo Xuan’s eyes: He must become stronger! Strong enough to save Shang Ke from the zombie king’s hands.

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