Chapter 778: A God Worshipper’s Misjudgment

The person standing before Chen Ye looked like the kind of sinister villain you’d see in a TV drama.

He was unnaturally thin, and a black robe enveloped his entire body, as if he were terribly afraid of sunlight.

Through the black robe, Chen Ye could even see the man’s shoulder blades jutting out. It was as if he had not an ounce of flesh on him, and beneath that black robe was nothing but a skeleton.

Even his face looked like a skull. He was so thin that it seemed as though a layer of human skin had been stretched over bare bones.

The instant Chen Ye saw him, one person came to mind: Wu Jianshan.

This man gave off the same feeling as Wu Jianshan.

Sinister, cold, dark, indifferent, and stubborn…

Chen Ye’s eyes narrowed slightly…

This man was a God Worshipper!

He had seen him before. Back when they first began clearing Anomalies from Xi City, it seemed that this man’s wife had died.

At the time, the man had spent a very, very long time at Rest Eternal Garden.

After the apocalypse, Superhumans had rapidly risen in status. For them, finding a girlfriend or boyfriend was no difficult matter.

Even if you had once been an ordinary person with no house or car, being a Superhuman now meant that finding a minor Internet Celebrity or star to marry was no great challenge, as long as you made the effort.

As a result, many Superhumans didn’t take relationships all that seriously.

People had said that this man’s wife was still an ordinary human being.

The fact that he was so devoted to an ordinary wife made many people envy him.

Some had even given him the nickname “The Apocalypse’s Most Devoted Man.”

Chen Ye, however, had never thought much of him.

In Chen Ye’s eyes, the God Worshipper Sequence was a thoroughly inhuman Sequence.

The man raised his head, his face breaking into an exceptionally bright smile. “Cousin, don’t you remember me?”

Chen Ye’s vision wavered. The face before him seemed strangely familiar, as if he had some connection to this person.

He had experienced this feeling somewhere before.

Just as Chen Ye began to question the title “Cousin,” thoughts suddenly surged into his mind.

This man was his younger cousin. He really did seem to have a cousin like this.

If Hatred were still around, it would probably have triggered its taboo right then.

One of the God Worshipper Sequence’s innate abilities: Intimate Relationship!

Everyone had seen this ability in action when Wu Jianshan used it. It had nearly caused infighting within the convoy.

But even now, with another God Worshipper using the ability, it still worked.

The essence of this ability was to replace the target with someone they knew well and felt close to, while making everything unreasonable seem reasonable.

If Wu Jianshan were here, he would certainly tell this junior that Intimate Relationship was completely ineffective against this One-eyed Guy.

He had proved that with his own life.

When this One-eyed Guy decided it was time to act, no matter how close you were to him, he wouldn’t hesitate to strike.

“Cousin?”

Chen Ye’s consciousness grew hazy in waves. It was as though the person before him really was his younger cousin.

His gaze changed. It was no longer so unfamiliar, as if he truly were looking at a cousin he hadn’t seen in a long time.

The man’s body shuddered. A trace of blood escaped the corner of his mouth, his face turning much paler in an instant as he swayed unsteadily.

But his expression was one of excitement! Utter excitement!!!

He was only Sequence 2, yet he had used Intimate Relationship on a Sequence 4.

And he had succeeded!!!

His target was even the Chief Seat of Guard Team Thirteen!

God Worshippers weren’t actually very strong in direct combat. If they didn’t steal power from their “god,” their combat strength wasn’t much greater than that of someone in the Support Sequence.

The blood at the corner of his mouth was because Chen Ye was a Sequence 4 Superhuman. To affect a Sequence 4 while spanning two ranks, he had to pay a much higher price.

In just a moment, the man had suffered serious injuries.

Before coming, the man had used a special secret technique to increase the chance that his Intimate Relationship would succeed.

He hadn’t expected to pay such a terrible price anyway.

The reason Wu Jianshan had been able to use Intimate Relationship so easily on Chen Ye and the others was mainly that his sequence rank had been higher than theirs at the time.

Besides, Wu Jianshan had worshipped a god for a long time. He was in a completely different league from this Sequence 2.

“Cousin, I’ve finally found you.”

The man struggled to squeeze out a few tears, then weakly looked around for a chair and sat down.

Now that they were cousins, the man seemed much more relaxed and at ease in the Chief Seat’s office.

“Cousin, do you know how much I’ve suffered, how much hardship I’ve endured, just to find you?”

“Mom and Dad are gone!”

“Even Yue-jie is gone!”

“I… you… you’re the only family I have left!”

As the man spoke, tears began to fall.

He looked utterly miserable, and the tears ran down his cheeks as if they cost him nothing, leaving him looking heartbreakingly wretched.

Chen Ye blinked his blood-red eyes. As for this person who was supposedly his only family…

Well, he didn’t feel much of anything.

No matter how hard the other man cried, no matter how heartfelt his grief seemed, Chen Ye still didn’t feel much.

“Cousin, do you remember Yue-jie?”

Chen Ye blinked. “Not really.”

The man paused slightly. Under normal circumstances, when people who hadn’t seen each other in a long time met, even if you didn’t remember the other person’s name, you’d find some way to bluff your way through and avoid the awkwardness.

Especially when they were family!

But this One-eyed Guy was being so blunt?

The man reacted quickly and gave a slight sigh. “Right. You were very busy back then, Cousin. You didn’t come back for my wedding!”

“Yue-jie was my wife. She was two years older than me. We met at university…”

The man’s name was Huang Jue. He had met his wife, Song Yue, at university.

Song Yue was a junior when she met Huang Jue, who had just started his freshman year. She had been the one to make the first move at every turn.

She was the one who went up to Huang Jue to ask for his phone number, and the one who asked for his social media account.

Then, naturally, the two of them fell in love.

After Song Yue graduated, she waited two years for Huang Jue.

Like any other couple, they argued, made up, traveled, and then started working…

Huang Jue always called Song Yue “Yue-jie.”

If the apocalypse had never come, the two might have become a model couple, staying in love until old age.

Then the apocalypse began.

Huang Jue became a Superhuman, while Song Yue remained an ordinary person.

After the apocalypse, life wasn’t too difficult for the two of them, thanks to Huang Jue being a Superhuman.

Their feelings for each other never changed.

They had even promised to die together if one had to die, and to live together if they could live.

But some time ago, Song Yue died…

When he got to this point, Huang Jue was overcome with grief, so sorrowful he could barely contain himself.

People had once called him “The Apocalypse’s Most Devoted Man”!

It seemed that although he was a God Worshipper, his love for his wife had been genuine.

Chen Ye listened in silence…

He had heard many versions of similar stories.

Some were even more tragic than this one.

Instead, Chen Ye felt an urge to kill the “younger cousin” before him.

Because this cousin was a God Worshipper.

No one understood better than Chen Ye just how dangerous God Worshippers were.

As Huang Jue continued speaking, he finally sensed that something was wrong.

The man before him wasn’t sharing his grief the way he had imagined.

Something… wasn’t right!