My Endless Life.

Chapter 383 Accident at the Heating Plant

The man outside the door was wearing thick clothes and a thick cotton hat. In order to let the people in the villa see his appearance clearly, he deliberately took off the cotton scarf around his neck, revealing his resolute young face.

Liu Cheng had never seen him before, and the other party was not a resident nearby, so when he saw the other party, Liu Cheng frowned.

However, he was not too alert. Since the other party rang the doorbell and showed his appearance in such cold weather, it proved that the other party came with good intentions.

There was only one issue Liu Cheng needed to consider.

That was Reacher's opinion.

Through the surveillance, Li Qi glanced at the face of the man outside the door, then nodded to Liu Cheng, signaling him to come in.

Liu Cheng pressed the button next to the surveillance camera to open the door outside, and the man, whose purpose and name were unknown, walked into the courtyard outside the safe house.

Liu Cheng went out to greet him personally, while Li Qi returned to his room, intending to continue compiling his own magic book and alchemy notes.

When strangers came, Li Qi was reluctant to stay outside.

After all, he still has to behave like a child in front of outsiders. Even though Li Qi is indeed more playful now, he doesn't want to pretend to be childish in front of others all day long.

So unless someone who knew that Li Qi was "special" came to visit, such as Zhao Chenghu, Li Qi would basically go back to his room when someone visited.

Only this time it seemed different from usual.

Li Qi had just returned to his room not long ago when he was called out by Liu Cheng.

"Meng An, looking for you."

"?"

After hearing what Liu Cheng said, Li Qi walked downstairs with doubts.

The man who came to visit had taken off his hat and scarf, revealing his slicked-back hair, looking like a business elite.

When the man saw Li Qi, his tough face softened a little, and he said to Li Qi:

"Meng An, my name is Zhao Hong, and I'm a student of your grandmother Zhang Fengyun. I think you should have heard of me."

"…Agent?"

Li Qi instantly thought of what Sun Xiaoqing had mentioned to him, those students of Zhang Fengyun in the Ancient Monuments Society, one of whom was the agent in front of him.

And the person in front of him is the one with the highest achievements among all of Zhang Fengyun’s students.

"it's me."

Zhao Hong was not at all surprised by the maturity shown by Li Qi.

The knight had already told him about Li Qi's performance in the town, so he came here prepared today.

Li Qi also knew very well that since the knight was Zhao Hong's subordinate, he must have told Zhao Hong what happened in the town.

So he didn't pretend and asked directly:
"Aren't you at the headquarters of the Ancient Monuments Society? Why are you here?"

The ancient site will have an overseas headquarters prepared for doomsday. That headquarters is located on the high seas and is shielded from satellite detection. It is an extremely mysterious place.

In today's world plagued by pollution, it is undoubtedly one of the safest places in the world.

Why did Zhao Hong run back to China instead of staying there?
"Come here to investigate some things and... take away your custody."

Zhao Hong said with a smile.

Li Qi was speechless after hearing this.

Why do so many people want custody of me? Even if they are students of my grandmother Zhang Fengyun, there is no need for them to compete for raising me.

So, what kind of person is Zhang Fengyun, and what kind of personality charm does she have? Why are so many people willing to help her deal with her afterlife...

Li Qi had a lot of thoughts in his mind in an instant, but on the surface he did not delay his communication with Zhao Hong at all.

He leaned back on the sofa and said:
"I think I have the right to choose who will raise me, and I choose Liu Cheng. Apart from him, I will not accept anyone else as my guardian."

Li Qi once again used the same rhetoric he had used against Zhao Chenghu.

In fact, the main reason was that he had implanted a spiritual seed into Liu Cheng, which made him feel more at ease.

Perhaps Zhao Hong had already inquired about Li Qi's general situation before coming, so he was not surprised by Li Qi's words at this moment.

He glanced at Liu Cheng, then quickly looked away and said to Li Qi:
"I know that the reason you chose him is because he has been influenced by your magic item. You trust him more, but... he can't protect you."

"you can?"

"I can."

Zhao Hong said solemnly: "I heard from the knight that you are not an ordinary child, so I won't use those childish words to deceive you.

"If you are willing to let me be your guardian, I can guarantee that no one will hurt you before you come of age. I will do my best to keep you away from possible dangers in the future and provide you with more rare items to protect yourself.

"If you want, you can even choose to join Bureau 057 or the Ancient Monuments Society. If you join one of these two organizations, I guarantee that you can immediately become a full member, or a code name member."

Zhao Hong seemed to treat Li Qi as an adult at this moment. He directly stated the above conditions in front of Li Qi and let the other party make his own choice, instead of saying disgusting words like "I am your grandmother's student, you should listen to me".

It seems that he did a lot of homework before coming here, at least he knew that Li Qi would respond to soft tactics and not hard ones.

Li Qi pondered over the conditions Zhao Hong mentioned and did not answer for a long time.

After a while, Li Qicai continued:

"Just these are not enough for me. I am a greedy person. If you can't come up with conditions that impress me, I will not give in." "...You are more like a..." Zhao Hong opened his mouth, and countless metaphors rolled through his mind. Finally, he gave up the metaphor and said bluntly:
"Then let's talk about another condition."

Zhao Hong said, his eyes wandering around the safe house. He spread out his palms to feel the warm temperature in the room, and finally asked Li Qi:

"How long do you think you can live like this? You have a warm room, fresh food, and no worries about the wind and snow outside... How long do you think you can live like this?"

Zhao Hong asked the same question twice, trying to confirm Li Qi's thoughts.

Li Qi did not answer and turned to look at Liu Cheng.

Liu Cheng answered for him:
"With our current resource reserves, if it's just the two of us, and we don't consider whether we can get new resources in the future, we won't have to worry about living for five years."

Zhao Hong said: "That is to say, you only have enough coal, food, and water for two people for five years. What about after five years?"

Li Qi still did not respond. After thinking for a moment, Liu Cheng suddenly showed a shocked expression and asked:
"You mean to say that this apocalypse will last longer than five years!?"

"What do you think would be the end of the world for mankind? If it is just a five-year dark winter, with the current level of human technology, how can this be considered the end of the world?"

Zhao Hong sneered and asked back. Without waiting for Liu Cheng to respond, he continued:

“We can be sure that the Eternal Night will definitely last more than five years. And it’s not just the Eternal Night. There will be more and more pollution, and there will be fewer and fewer safe areas in the world. Even if you have five years of resources, you won’t be able to stay here for five years.

"But if you follow me, you don't have to worry about these. I will let you maintain the good life before the end of the world, or even better than that."

Zhao Hong opened his palms and told Li Qi his beautiful vision for the future.

I have to say that his words were indeed very tempting. If Li Qi was just an ordinary child, if he didn't have the Dream Town in his hands, he might really be moved by Zhao Hong.

It’s a pity that these are not enough for Li Qi.

He said:
"All you said is based on the premise that I don't have another safe house."

"?"

Zhao Hong was stunned. For a moment he couldn't understand what Li Qi meant.

Li Qi smiled and said:
"I think the knight should have told you about our experience in Dream Town, so guess...who owns Dream Town now?"

"..."

"So instead of talking about adopting me, let's talk about something else. Zhao Hong... Uncle Zhao, I should be able to call you that. Can you tell me about my grandmother Zhang Fengyun? I'm a little curious about her now."

Li Qi tapped his fingers on the table, changing the topic from adoption to Zhang Fengyun.

At this point, he was really becoming more and more curious about Zhang Fengyun.

At the same time, he also became more suspicious that Zhang Fengyun might not be dead.

How could Zhang Fengyun die so easily if he could train such loyal "students" like Zhao Hong?

It just so happened that Zhang Fengyun’s most outstanding student was right in front of him, so Li Qi wanted to take this opportunity to get to know his only relative in this life.

Perhaps, we can find some clues from it.

……

Heavy snow has been falling and the city is covered with snow.

The snowplow went back and forth again and again, barely clearing a road, but it was soon covered with heavy snow again.

Under such circumstances, coal transportation becomes a problem.

Moreover, the city's heating plant operates 24 hours a day and is already overloaded. Everyone knows that it only takes a small mistake or a small change to cause an accident in the heating plant that everyone currently relies on for their livelihood.

This accident won't come too late.

In the second week after the end of the world, unexpected events occurred.

A special incident happened in one of the two heating plants in Suhe City. Hundreds of employees in the entire heating plant disappeared! As a result, the heating supply of half of the city was in trouble!

This made the already chaotic city even worse.

At this time, Ye Yue's 'master' in this life, Yi Cheng, chose to intervene.

But Ye Yue could understand why Yi Cheng intervened.

After all, the heating for the high-end residential area where Yi Cheng lives is provided by the heating plant whose employees have disappeared.

As soon as the heating was stopped there, the temperature in Yi Cheng's home dropped to single digits in just one day and headed towards negative numbers.

For this reason, Yi Cheng decided to take action personally to solve the problems plaguing the city.

So, at exactly 8 o'clock that evening, Yi Cheng and Ye Yue stood fully armed on a tall building not far from the heating plant.

"Hmph, a mere nightmare barrier actually causes such a headache for the mortals in this world, I have to take action..." Yi Cheng stood on the edge of the tall building, wrinkling his little nose that was red from the cold and complaining dissatisfiedly.

If possible, she also wants to stay at home and have a good rest.

But there is no way. The heating plant is infected by pollution. Ordinary people are no longer able to solve this problem, and the authorities have been slow to take action.

Yi Cheng is standing here for the sake of his future life.

Of course, according to Yi Cheng, this is not pollution, it is a 'nightmare barrier' that emerged from hell.

Apart from her, there are not many people in this world who can handle this nightmare barrier.

(End of this chapter)