135: Chapter 135 The Underworld Boss's Benefactor 1
This was an abandoned city, surrounded by collapsed buildings and derelict vehicles. The prosperity of the past no longer existed, and an atmosphere of decay and oppression permeated everywhere.
Zombies wandered in twos and threes along the dusty streets.
Their bodies were twisted, with rotting skin hanging from them, emitting a nauseating odor. Some had faces covered in blood, their skin severely decayed with maggots squirming upon them.
Such a scene, even with the scorching sun hanging high, looked exceptionally eerie and terrifying!
In a nearby ruined building, inside an extremely hidden basement, there were eight or nine people hiding. They sat leaning against the walls, full of hope that they could wait for rescue.
Lu Zhan was among them. His originally exquisite and magnificent clothing was now tattered beyond recognition, his hair was messy and stained with dust. He looked extremely disheveled, yet one could still tell that his former status must have been very high.
Lu Zhan had just arrived in this Small World, and the scene before him left him feeling a bit dazed. He immediately submerged his consciousness into his mind to ask 009.
"009, which Small World is this? Who is the Male Protagonist? What is the blackening value?"
"host, this is a Small World where species will mutate, thereby entering the apocalypse. The Male Protagonist is Leng Yan, and the current blackening value is 96."
009's voice, as cheerful as always, rang out in his mind.
Leng Yan? Species mutation? Apocalypse? Lu Zhan only needed a moment of recollection to recall everything about this Small World.
The Male Protagonist's father died from a work-related injury, and his mother raised him and his younger sister alone through great hardship.
Due to the family's poverty and the lack of a father's protection, when the Male Protagonist went to school, he was bullied as soon as he arrived. However, everyone was scared off by the Male Protagonist's ruthless, life-risking fighting style.
Over time, the Male Protagonist's style of doing things and that ruthless streak spread throughout the surrounding schools, and he became a little bully that no one dared to provoke.
Later, a small gang leader in the area approached Leng Yan, wanting Leng Yan to join him.
Leng Yan's academic grades were poor, but his younger sister, who was two years younger than him, consistently ranked in the top three of her grade.
He really didn't want his mother to be too exhausted, and someone like him seemed unlikely to find any promising work, so he agreed to the other party, thinking that he could carve out a future with his own hands.
Everything progressed very smoothly. Relying on his own ruthlessness and that life-risking drive, Leng Yan established a firm foothold in the gang within just two or three years, and he also provided a relatively comfortable life for his mother and sister.
However, good times did not last long. His younger sister, Leng Na, who went to B City for university, attracted the attention of Li Mingda, the young master of the Li family in B City, due to her exceptionally outstanding appearance.
Li Mingda launched a passionate pursuit of her that lasted for half a year, but he was ignored by Leng Na, and even his carefully prepared confession was directly rejected.
Li Mingda became enraged and lost his patience. He had Leng Na's roommate trick her into coming out, then took her to the Chenghuang Club, intending to drug her...
Fortunately, Leng Yan happened to be in B City that day visiting his sister. When he received his sister's call, he rushed to the club in time, successfully rescued his sister, and also broke Li Mingda's leg.
Although his sister was saved, the seeds of disaster were sown.
Li Mingda fainted from the pain and was sent to the hospital. The first thing he did after waking up was to have his parents send people to keep watch on Leng Yan's family; he was determined to take revenge himself.
Although the Li family could only be considered a second-rate family in B City, wanting to put Leng Yan, who came from a small city, to death was simply an easy task.
A month later, Li Mingda was discharged from the hospital. Under the pressure from the Li family, the leader of the gang where Leng Yan worked dared not say a word and directly chose to bow his head in submission.
The gang leader, afraid of being implicated, even took the initiative to attack Leng Yan. Fortunately, Leng Yan treated his underlings quite well on a daily basis, and at the critical moment, a loyal underling tipped him off in advance.
Leng Yan knew about all this in advance and thus escaped a disaster for the time being, but his mother and sister did not have time to be relocated and were firmly controlled by the Li family.
Leng Yan wanted to call the police, but he had no evidence in his hands. Moreover, given the Li family's power, this move might be useless and would instead expose his own whereabouts.
If he were to meet with a mishap, his mother and sister would have no hope of being saved!
Leng Yan concealed his whereabouts and inquired many times about the whereabouts of his sister and mother. However, he was unfamiliar with B City and had no power, so he had no way to search.
His heart was full of worry for his mother and sister, so he decided to make a desperate gamble, directly taking action against Li Mingda to coerce the Li family into releasing them.
But ever since the last incident, Li Mingda had numerous bodyguards following him, making it very difficult to strike.
After careful consideration, Leng Yan thought of a feasible method. The bodyguards were successfully lured away, and he took the opportunity to drug Li Mingda and kidnap him.
He just didn't expect that Li Mingda was carrying a GPS tracker. Not long after he left with Li Mingda, the police caught up, and subsequently, Leng Yan was taken away by the police.
Li Mingda told Leng Yan that if he wanted his mother and sister to be safe and sound, he should obediently listen and confess to all the crimes.
Hearing these words, Leng Yan was constrained by fear of harming his family; for the sake of his mother and sister, he could only helplessly compromise.
Under the Li family's machinations, he was charged with both extortion and attempted murder, and Leng Yan was sentenced to ten years in prison.
However, this was not the end. Li Mingda also carefully arranged everything, telling the warden to make sure to "take good care of" Leng Yan.
As for Leng Yan's mother, she died in a car accident just a few days after he was sentenced, and his sister also died after suffering abuse.
This news was personally delivered to Leng Yan by Li Mingda.
For Li Mingda, a low-life thug like Leng Yan actually dared to break his leg, causing him to lose face in the B City circle. Naturally, he had to pay with blood to eliminate his hatred!
He deliberately did not kill Leng Yan, just to make him live every day in despair and pain.
And because of this, Leng Yan completely blackened, but no matter how much he hated, he could not escape this man-eating prison.
Until one day, two years later, numerous animals and plants mutated one after another.
Then, a red rain fell, and most people began to run high fevers and fell into a coma.
A few days later, the world had completely changed. Some people turned into mindless zombies, some people possessed various Superpowers, and others were just ordinary people.
As for Leng Yan, after the high fever, he surprisingly awakened both Mental Ability and Consumption Superpowers.
His Mental Ability could be used to soothe, interfere, and even control, while his Consumption Superpower could decompose everything into nothingness.
The people in prison who had once tortured him were tortured to death by him using the same methods.
The sudden arrival of the apocalypse caught the government off guard. All laws completely collapsed, and the entire world began the law of the jungle.
Leng Yan's two Superpowers both belonged to special mutated Superpowers and could be described as extremely powerful. No matter how strong a species was, they could not make a splash in front of him.
However, his inner emotions and sense of justice, after undergoing drastic changes, had long since been worn away to nothing. In his heart, the evil of humans was a hundred times worse than demons and ghosts.
Therefore, he watched all the tragedies of the apocalypse with cold indifference. After all, when he was suffering, didn't no one extend a helping hand to him?
Even for the sake of researching his Mental Ability, Leng Yan also created and fused quite a few high-level zombies that were difficult for humans to resist.
Just like that, the Male Protagonist who should have saved the world instead accelerated the process of the world's collapse. Not long after, the human bases were completely overrun, and the Small World collapsed along with them.