Back to the Peak

Chapter 85: Growing Stronger Together

When Shi Qingyang finally dragged Zheng Gaoyuan back to the city, countless people noticed and surrounded him.
Fortunately, Cheng Xuze had already sent someone to wait at the entrance of the city for him so that he wouldn’t have to enjoy the experience of getting crowded around and blocked off.

Shi Qingyang hadn’t encountered a situation like this in his last life until he’d reached level-7.
He couldn’t help feeling a little surprised now, but after surfing the internet, he found out what Cheng Xuze had said.

This planting of evidence… What made him feel speechless was that even the person who had helped administer the test cried that he had been threatened by the Yin Family and committed a dereliction of duty, and he was willing to pay a huge fine.

Most of the fine would be paid by Cheng Xuze.
Looking at the man’s happy appearance, it seemed that Cheng Xuze would be giving him another sum of money.

As for the Yin Family, now they were unable to protect themselves.
No one would believe what they said.

Shi Qingyang was relieved to see this.
With Cheng Xuze’s remarks, he would no longer have to worry about being suspected because of his strength.
However, why did people think that Cheng Xuze wanted to marry his granddaughter to him?

“Qingyang, have you read the news?” Cheng Ran also got on the internet, and immediately asked.

“Ranran, some of the things people are posting is just nonsense…”

“What? I don’t think it’s nonsense.” Cheng Ran was puzzled.

“I’m talking about your grandfather wanting me to marry his granddaughter…” Shi Qingyang decided to show his loyalty.
He always preferred to speak with things clear.

“It turned out to be this.
Aren’t they just guessing? You’re definitely not marrying my cousin.
We’re the ones getting married soon.” Cheng Ran was very sure of this.
Shi Qingyang said he would marry him, and those other people were just guessing.

He knew that Cheng Ran’s thinking was definitely different from others’.
In Cheng Ran’s heart, there would be no emotional breakdown, cheating, or betrayal… A big smile grew on Shi Qingyang’s face, and he kissed Cheng Ran on the corner of the mouth.

Beside him, Zheng Gaoyuan was breathing heavily.
This vehicle had also been custom-made and could acommodate him.
But Shi Qingyang hadn’t adjusted his seat position properly when he put Zheng Gaoyuan down, and he had no strength to move.
All he could do was maintain an awkward posture.
With his fat face squashed on the seat, his words were muffled: “Since you’re getting married, can you let me go home?”

“I’ll train you first, then get married!” Shi Qingyang immediately said.
As he spoke, he felt a little depressed–Cheng Ran still wasn’t yet an adult

What was more, only after Zheng Gaoyuan had been well-trained would he receive money from the Zheng family, and then be able to spend some money in an honest and open way…

Zheng Gaoyuan was carried back to his room.
After a day’s tossing and turning, he was tired and even unwilling to walk.
However, he was still thinking about eating.
As soon as he was alid into bed, he shouted that he wanted to eat meat.

Unfortunately, after falling into Shi Qingyang’s hands, eating meat was no longer an option for him.
In the end, he received a large bowl of green vegetable soup without any oil and water, and there was only a little bit of green vegetables in it.

Zheng Gaoyuan drank the vegetable soup with tears in his eyes.
He was so hungry that he even had someone pour more water into the bowl to drink the rinsed water.
If the bowl hadn’t been so cleaned up, he might have licked it.

Shi Qingyang turned on the computer and sought out Cheng Xuze under “I don’t want to starve”.

“Thank you for Shi Qingyang’s matters this time.”

“No need, no need.
This is what I should do.
But Master, does Shi Qingyang really have a chance to reach level-8?” Cheng Xuze couldn’t help but ask.
If Shi Qingyang could really go that far, he’d really dug up a big treasure!

“As long as he isn’t dead or disabled, he can,” Shi Qingyang replied with a smile.
He had already walked this road once.
This time, it would be more smooth.

Moreover, his physical condition was much better than before, and he’d eaten more ant meat than in his previous life.
He might even reach a higher level in the future.

Cheng Xuze was shocked when he read such a firm sentence, and then he laughed: “It seems that I’ll really want to win him over for the future.”

“Fine if you want to win him over, but your granddaughter doesn’t have to,” Shi Qingyang joked.

“That was just a rumor written by reporters! He’s clearly the one marrying in as the grandson-in-law of the Cheng family!” Cheng Xuze said immediately.
Right after speaking, he smiled awkwardly.
“Haha, the matters between two men, actually, it’s not interesting to talk about.”

“…” Why did you have to say it if you didn’t want to talk about it?.
Shi Qingyang had no choice but to change the topic: “Let’s talk about business.
Do you have any idea about who could be the one behind the mobile town?” There was still a power behind the Yin Family, they were very sure on that.
But that person was too deeply hidden, to the point they still couldn’t find any info on him.

“Not yet, but I’m sure that person exists,” Cheng Xuze said.
He had carefully analyzed everything over the past few days, but unfortunately there weren’t many clues.

“Can you find a way to lure the snake out of its hole?” Shi Qingyang asked again.

“Let me think…” Cheng Xuze sighed.
“In fact, in the mobile Town, I once caught a level-5 rad-energy warrior.
This man should have known something.
Unfortunately, he insisted that the Yin Family had found him.
This man had also been trained against torture, and has been trying to commit suicide… Today, I even got news that he’s started to accuse people wildly.
People in Spark City, Anhang City, and even Yangtze City, he’s testified against more than 20 people.” If Ao Zhi had just grit his teeth and didn’t confess that was one thing, but now he was wildly throwing accusations and mixing truth with lies.

Shi Qingyang also knew that this matter couldn’t be rushed.
Now that they had returned to the city, it wasn’t easy for them to intervene in this matter.
He didn’t ask any more questions for the moment.
He just discussed some cultivation matters with Cheng Xuze.

The next day, Shi Qingyang got up very early as usual, but after he and Cheng Ran had eaten, there was still no movement in from Zheng Gaoyuan’s room… No doubt, he was pretending to be dead again.

Zheng Gaoyuan was carried out of his room by Shi Qingyang.
Shi Qingyang was still just 18 years old.
Even though he was tall, his face was somewhat childish.
Now that he came downstairs carrying such a big fat man, the visual effect was amazing.

When Ye Houan came over with his wife and daughter, he was just in time to witness this scene.

Ye Jinyu had been injured when she was captured by the people from the mobile town.
Later, she had been fed medicine that made her weak.
Then, finally, she had been whipped and fed aphrodisiacs…

After returning to the city, she had been receiving treatment until she was discharged from the hospital yesterday.
Early this morning, she followed her father to thank him, but she didn’t want to see the fat man being carried by Shi Qingyang.

Ye Jinyu’s feelings for Zheng Gaoyuan were very complicated.
Although she had been a little confused at that time, she remembered everything that had happened later.
She was ashamed and grateful, and even dared not come here at the beginning.

But at this time, seeing Zheng Gaoyuan being carried down by Shi Qingyang, her shame was swept away.
She didn’t feel embarrassed any more, and even couldn’t help laughing.

However, Zheng Gaoyuan didn’t notice that he was teased by the young girl.
He looked at the two egg sized dumplings in front of him with a sad face and almost burst into tears.

This vegetable dumpling was the cheapest available food made of plants.
Nowadays, food was precious and couldn’t be wasted.
Therefore, the leftovers of mutant beasts were made into nutritious meals, and the leftovers of plants were made into this kind of vegetable dumpling.

For example, the leaves of potatoes and sweet potatoes, which weren’t used for food in ancient times, were now crushed to make this type of food.
It was also known as being nutritious and helpful for losing weight.
One could just imagine the taste and texture…

“Eat quickly.
If you don’t eat it, you won’t have anything else for a while.
If it weren’t for me being afraid you’d starve, I wouldn’t even be willing to let you have this much,.” Shi Qingyang bluntly said.
He had read Zheng Gaoyuan’s physical examination report and knew that he had accumulated toxins in his body.
It was more difficult for him than for ordinary people to lose weight, but it wasn’t impossible, only more difficult.
If he really made up his mind, he would definitely be able to lose weight.

The nutritional supplements he drank guaranteed Zheng Gaoyuan’s nutrition, so Zheng Gaoyuan didn’t even need to think about being able to eat meat.

Zheng Gaoyuan threw the two dumplings into his mouth at the fastest speed, and after chewing them for a while, swallowed them, lest Shi Qingyang snatch them back.

Today’s training was the same as yesterday’s.
Zheng Gaoyuan was trapped in the mud and moved slowly.
Shi Qingyang caught five ant beasts and made a big circle in the swamp.
Then he ran around the circle without using rad-energy.
Any ant beasts that tried to escape the circle, he caught and threw them back..
Once he saw Zheng Gaoyuan suddenly stop moving, he would throw two ant beasts on Zheng Gaoyuan.

Of course, he wouldn’t be too cruel.
When Zheng Gaoyuan really couldn’t support himself any longer, he’d also allow Zheng Gaoyuan to lie on the swamp for a while and then give him some prepared saline water.

Through this cruel and brutal practice, Zheng Gaoyuan was completely unable to move come morning.
In the end, Shi Qingyang carried him out of the mud and asked the cleaning robot to clean him up and fill him with medicine.

Zheng Gaoyuan drank three bottles of medicine, ate a vegetable ball, had a rest, and then was thrown back into the swamp by Shi Qingyang.

“Qingyang, can I also go down to exercise?” Cheng Ran suddenly asked, seeing that Shi Qingyang had changed into his combat suit and planned to disembark.

Shi Qingyang subconsciously wanted to refuse.
No matter how dirty and tiring his training was, he could bear it.
But when it came to Cheng Ran, he simply couldn’t bear to let Cheng Ran suffer even the slightest.

However, he was very clear that it didn’t do any harm for him to have some strength…

Cheng Ran saw the hesitation on Shi Qingyang’s face and said, “Qingyang, I’ll go out with you in the future.
If I don’t have any skills, I’ll just drag you down.
Even if I can’t attack with radiation energy, I can at least try to run faster.”

It was probably because he ate a lot of queen ant meat at the beginning, he had adapted better than Shi Qingyang.
At present he had a lot of radiation energy in his body, about as much as a level-3 rad-energy warrior.
However, he was unable to affect the radiation energy in the air, so he had little combat power.

However, even if he couldn’t use his fighting skills, he could always learn to run away.

“That’s fine.” Shi Qingyang nodded: “Ranran, I won’t go easy on you.” Since he was going to train, he had to achieve results by the end.

“I will work hard.” Cheng Ran nodded seriously, recalling what had happened in the ant nest.
If he had been useful at that time, he wouldn’t have had to watch Shi Qingyang get hurt.

Shi Qingyang had expected to need to pay more attention to Cheng Ran.
After all, Cheng Ran had never experienced field training before, but in fact, Cheng Ran performed very well.

At first, he walked slowly through the swamp because he wasn’t used to it, but with the passage of time, his speed grew faster and faster.
Cheng Ran even asked him for an ant beast and began to chase it on the mud.

Different from Zheng Gaoyuan’s constant cry of exhaustion, Cheng Ran kept gritting his teeth and persisting.
It was only when he guessed that Cheng Ran’s physical strength had been exhausted that he let Cheng Ran rest beside him for a while.

As a result, Cheng Ran didn’t rest long before he quickly resumed his training.

“Ranran, don’t you feel uncomfortable? Don’t overexert yourself,” Shi Qingyang asked with some worry.

“Qingyang, it’s alright.
I’m fine now.
The radiant energy in my body seems to help me recover my strength quickly, and my strength seems to be especially strong…” Cheng Ran looked at his legs and whispered.

“I think it’s because you ate the queen ant’s meat.
Ranran, you can do it.” Shi Qingyang finally let go.
Since Cheng Ran had gained some benefits, he couldn’t let them go to waste.

“Yes!” Cheng Ran immediately nodded.

On the other side, Zheng Gaoyuan screamed: “Help! Help! You can’t just talk about love and ignore me!” Just now, he wanted to take advantage of Shi Qingyang’s carelessness to take a rest.
Unexpectedly, Shi Qingyang immediately released the ant beasts that he had held using his radiant energy.
Now, those ant beasts were biting him while trying to drag him out of the mud and take him back to the nest.

“As long as you keep running, you’ll be fine.” Shi Qingyang glanced at him.

“You must be trying to harm me, you must be doing this on purpose…” Zheng Gaoyuan tried hard to pull his two fat legs out of the mud.
After finding that he couldn’t pull them out, he got up again in desperation.

“Don’t forget that our training time is no shorter than yours.” Shi Qingyang said: “Ranran doesn’t even have rad- energy.
This is even his first time training.”

Zheng Gaoyuan was stunned and finally stopped talking.
Although he had been poisoned in the beginning and his body and intelligence had been damaged, it was no problem for him to live a good life like ordinary people.
The reason why he was like this was actually partially because he’d given up on himself.

“You’d better move quickly.
If you just stay still, the ant beasts will bite you,” Shi Qingyang said again.

“I will crush you one day!” Zheng Gaoyuan struggled to get up.

When he returned to the city that day, not only did Zheng Gaoyuan lie down in exhaustion, but even Cheng Ran felt uncomfortable.
However, he didn’t lie down pretending to be dead as soon as training was over like Zheng Gaoyuan did, but instead insisted on walking back.

However, in the end, he ate just like Zheng Gaoyuan, and only drank a little bit of green vegetable soup.
Zheng Gaoyuan was forced to eat this type of food, but for Cheng Ran it was that he couldn’t bear to eat more than this.

When he went back to his room and laid in bed, he thought about how tired he was during the training.
For a while, Cheng Ran even wanted to give up.
After all, he was a pharmacist, and it didn’t matter if he couldn’t fight at all.

However, thinking of Shi Qingyang’s continuous training, he immediately gave up that idea.
He was still too weak, and he should strive to become stronger as long as he had the opportunity.

Shi Qingyang could get through this.
Why couldn’t he?

He made up his mind and recovered a lot.
He suddenly felt hungry, and finally understood why Shi Qingyang could eat so much.

Now he even thought he could eat a big bowl of roast meat!

“Ranran, I made something easy to digest.
Would you like to eat it?” At that moment, the door opened, and Shi Qingyang came in.

“Yes!” Cheng Ran spoke without hesitation, swallowing a mouthful of drool.

Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran had a late night snack together, and naturally shared the room overnight.
On the other hand, Zheng Gaoyuan was lying in bed alone, dragging his exhausted body up to go to the toilet again and again, and almost collapsed in the toilet several times.

He was so hungry that he couldn’t sleep at all, so he filled his stomach with water to make himself feel better.
As a result, his stomach kept shaking and he kept needing to go to the toilet…

If he was at home, he could have someone wrap him in adult diapers.
But here, Shi Qingyang didn’t let anyone wait on him… Wu…

Finally, Zheng Gaoyuan simply sat on top of the customized toilet, and slept against the shower room.