Chapter 1: A Decade Before Rebirth

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Doctors in spotless white garbs darted in and out of the wards of a steel building with floors as clean and shiny as mirrors. This facility was at the colony’s research institutions in the new area outside of the Chengyang suburb.

Sitting anxiously outside the waiting room was a group of fresh-faced teenagers looking terrified and excited at the same time.

Ding! Ding! Dong!

“Number 2318, Qin Feng. Please head to injection area 3!”

“It’s my turn!” The young man got up quickly. He was so nervous that his legs were unsteady, and he tripped over himself, falling to the ground with a loud thud.

Anyone could tell just how bad that fall was.

“Ah! Qin Feng!” Zhou Hao shouted as he watched this horrifying spectacle unfold, hurrying over to help his friend.

To his surprise, Qin Feng was unconscious!

13“What the hell. What kind of joke is this, Qin Feng? How can you pass out at such an important time? Wake up! It’s your turn to get the awakening elixir injections!”

1In the year 2200, the world had undergone a drastic change—mankind, after 2000 years of reign, had now fallen the bottom of the food chain.

4But because sharp ability users and mighty ancient warriors as such existed among humankind, they were able to sustain lebensraum. It was also all about the premise of an awakened ability user or warrior getting the injection of awakening potion at the age of sixteen.

13This meant that, at the point in time where he was in the opportunity to experience a meteoric rise in his life, Qin Feng lost consciousness instead. Zhou Hao was in a flap.

Ding-Ding Dong!

The loudspeaker chimed again, and an echoey voice hollered, “Number 2318, Qin Feng. Please head to injection area 3!”

The reverberating noise would only add a splitting headache to Qin Feng’s already chaotic mind.

‘I’m not dead?’ A thought flashed in his mind. How was he alive? When he defeated that unidentified beast king, he had died with it.

1The voices in his ears were starting to sound more precise.

“Ah! You know what, Chen Ming, just come here and help me get Qin Feng there. He still has to get his injection even if he’s unconscious!” Zhou Hao lamented to the person next to him.

2This had Qin Feng taken aback.

Chen Ming?! How could it be? Why was Chen Ming here? Was he the one who had brought all these dangers here?

1But who was this other person fussing over him then? Why did it sound so familiar, so distinct as if it was there in his mind and yet, so far away?

Next to Qin Feng and Zhou Hao, Chen Ming’s eyes glinted.

Qin Feng, Chen Ming, and Zhou Hao were the top three students in mid-tier college.

The only thing was, Chen Ming knew that he was never going to be as good as Qin Feng or Zhou Hao.

His fists curled up momentarily. His palms were sweaty, and his eyes were gleaming.

1“Zhou Hao, I don’t think that’s a good idea. The doctor will blame us. Also, we should get someone to take a look at Qin Feng, just in case he’s really hurt.” Those were all words of concern, but in reality, he wanted Qin Feng to miss his injection.

“But, this injection is a big thing…” Zhou Hao was starting to panic and was a little out of his wits.

“Let’s bring him aside so he can rest!” Chen Ming walked over and knelt to pick Qin Feng up.

“No!” The young man said hoarsely, still a little hazy. No one knew what Qin Feng had experienced while he was unconscious.

Was it just a dream of grandeur, or was it reality?

All Qin Feng knew was that the emotions sustained from the additional past decade were all too clear in his memories.

He pushed himself off the ground. The innocence on his face had disappeared, becoming more profound. There was even a twinkle of sharpness in his gaze.

8Chen Ming froze as a chill ran down his spine, making him feel as if he was standing naked before Qin Feng, all his secrets exposed, and Qin Feng seeing through all that grime in his heart.

2But it was only a fleeting moment. Qin Feng looked away from Chen Ming and looked at Zhou Hao.

1There was a speck of red in his eyes.

In his memories, Zhou Hao, this guy who was like his own brother, had died because of him when they were sixteen. But here he was, standing in front of him, perfectly fine and guileless, looking like he was indeed sixteen.

Then suddenly, Qin Feng understood it all.

He was reborn—back to the time when he was sixteen—the day of the awakening elixir injection.

8Ding! Dong! Ding! Dong!

“Number 2318, Qin Feng. Please head to injection area 3!”

“I have to go!” Qin Feng nodded at Zhou Hao. This time, his footsteps were steady, not the hasty scuttle he had stumbled out earlier on, and there was even a domineering air about it.

Since the heavens had given him once more chance, he would not let the events in the previous life continue to happen.

2Qin Feng curled his hands into a fist and walked to the injection area.

A tube of turquoise substance was injected into his veins.

“The awakening elixir will awaken your abilities and strengthen your talents. The stronger the talent, the sooner the awakening. In one month, your perceptions of the surroundings, strength, and speed, would grow exponentially. Even without the extra abilities, you will at least have the lowest-level of a good physique. I advise you to increase training during this period!”

“Mm. Thank you, doctor!” Qin Feng took in a deep breath of air. He could already sense an unusual aura emerging from the depths of his body.

But he made no mention of it, even doing his best to conceal his aura to keep it from spreading. A smile crept across his face.

The stronger the talent, the faster its awakening!

It was only one minute after the injection, and his abilities were already emerging. What kind of talent was this?

Unfortunately, in his previous life, before he could even begin to enjoy this talent, he was persecuted, then put through a painful experiment that stripped him of his abilities before getting thrown into the shark-infested waters. While he managed to survive, he was incapable of confronting the enemy.

15He was practically useless then!

But now…

Perhaps he might not be able to go head to head against that organization for the time being, but their henchman, he would not let off the hook.

As he was pondering over that thought, Chen Ming appeared in front of him.

Qin Feng smiled knowingly at him, making him shudder!

1What was it? Then why was Qin Feng so strange today? Why did it feel so dangerous? Chen Ming couldn’t put the finger on those muddled feelings.

“So, how was it, Qin Feng? Were there any reactions?” Zhou Hao asked excitedly.

“No!” Qin Feng shook his head.

Zhou Hao looked disappointed. His shoulders were sagging inches lower as he sighed. “Whatever. If the three of us show no response, then others probably won’t either. Let’s go back and continue training.”

“Mm, let’s go!”

The three left the building.

Qin Feng had not been back here for many years.

This was just one of the large colonies in the outskirts of Chengyang, a sprawling cesspool of reinforced concrete buildings, so suffocating that even breathing within its cramped confines deemed a challenge. Hovering a few hundred meters in the skies above was a giant floating machine that bore a resemblance to a satellite.

The object in question turned out to be a space stabilization device—the only thing that guaranteed the safety of the colony.

‘It should be happening soon,’ Qin Feng thought.

And then, without warning, the piece of space equipment suddenly burst into flames!

Chapter 2: Space Stabilizing Device

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The space stabilizing device above their heads was a thing the people relied on to survive, the most powerful weapon protecting the colony.

But now that the machine had malfunctioned, the waves invisible to the naked eye that stabilized space was gradually disappearing.

Everyone who noticed this breakdown was alarmed at first before breaking out into a panicked frenzy!

“What is happening to the space stabilizing device?! Is it broken?” Zhou Hao asked, his voice trembling.

“Does that mean…” Before Chen Ming could even complete his sentence, an alarm on their wristwatches started blaring loudly.

[Warning! Warning! A space rift is opening in a hundred meters. Unidentified organisms are about to appear!]

A tear in space?!

This was the culprit! The thing responsible for the fall of mankind, the reason humankind had fallen from the dominant force of nature to the bottom tier on the food chain.

There was a set deepness in Qin Feng’s eyes. His skinny and frail back had now straightened up, and from head to toe, he was on guard, neither shocked nor alarmed.

That was because he had come prepared.

5In his previous life, the exact situation had happened at this exact time.

Since Qin Feng had been unconscious, Zhou Hao had decided to bring him inside for the injection. Once he had also received his dose, he had slumped Qin Feng over his shoulders and carried him out.

By the time he had left the research institution, he was already awake. However, now, the space stabilizing device was damaged, a rift had torn in space, the ferocious beast attacked, and Zhou Hao had died while saving Qin Feng.

3As for where Chen Ming was at that time…

Qin Feng was just trying to recall that information when, in reality, Chen Ming presented him with the answer.

“Run! Better run fast!” Chen Ming shouted before quickly disappearing.

They were all students who had undergone mid-tier education. Each one of them came with able bodies and respectable combat power. It only took Chen Ming two seconds to put about ten meters of distance between them.

Qin Feng’s expression grew cold.

If this was the previous experience, then he was a total joke back then!

Zhou Hao had died for him, and here was Chen Ming walking away so casually, downplaying the abandonment of his brothers.

4That wretch!

1Zhou Hao was also stunned for a moment. Then, propelled by Chen Ming’s reaction, he too decided it was best to run.

“Hurry! Let’s run!” he grabbed Qin Feng by the arm and pulled.

But Qin Feng did not budge.

Realizing his friend had become motionless, Zhou Hao turned around, his face crumpled in fear and distress, forehead lined with beads of cold sweat.

“Qin Feng, are you not feeling well? Can you still run? Hurry, we have to go! How about I carry you?!” Zhou Hao babbled, not waiting for Qin Feng’s answer, ready to flee!

And rightly so too, for they were brothers.

Qin Feng, on the other hand, felt sharp stabbing heat shoot down his chest like a volcanic eruption, causing a stinging pain in his heart.

“I’m alright. I’m good. I’m terrific, in fact! Thank goodness the gods gave me a second chance so that I can redeem all of this. I’ve lost a hypocrite, but at least I still have a true brother!

We can’t go there. We don’t know where the tear is exactly, so the safest place right now is the research institute!” Qin Feng reckoned.

2Zhou Hao was stunned for a moment but quickly regained his composure. “We have other classmates in there too, goddamnit! Hurry, let’s go back!”

The guy had always been like that. Warm and friendly, always looking out for other people.

This, to Qin Feng, who had suffered and struggled for a decade before his rebirth, was absolutely invaluable! You couldn’t put a price on those things.

“Let’s go!” Qin Feng started to run. Although the demeaning prospects of a weak and small body bothered him somewhat, it was brimming with vigor and energy.

6They turned around the corner of an alley and out into the main road. The drivers in the cars were honking at each other. Being so busy trying to get away, they rammed into each other in uncoordinated panic, causing traffic to come to a standstill.

Just then, in the sky three meters above the road, a tear gradually formed. Within it was pitch-black darkness, and surrounding it was a ring of silver light—the materialization of space elements.

“Rift!!!” Zhou Hao looked terrified.

No matter how many times they had learned about it in school, he was petrified, this being his first time seeing the actual thing. No one knew what kind of creatures were lurking behind the crack, waiting for the slightest opportunity to pounce out. It could be the devil himself, for all we knew, coming to destroy the world.

The rift was expanding ever so slowly. It was only about half a meter long and thirty centimeters wide, but the potent disorientation from something so alien in nature had the people on the road screaming their heads off, leaving their cars behind and running for their lives.

The tear did not stop expanding.

And then, all of a sudden, from the midst of the rift, a figure appeared.

It looked like a soft-skinned, and slightly bloated baby. Bathed in a strange yellow and green color, a terrible stench came out from its hair.

5The infant crawled with much difficulty out of the crack and then dropped down onto the ground.

Falling from such heights should have caused death, or at the very least, injuries. The baby’s arms and legs, however, were still mobile. Picking itself up, it raised its massive head, allowing people to see what the grotesque incarnation looked like.

1Alright, alright. That was not a baby. It was a monster, one with a pair of humongous semi-convexed scarlet eyeballs, disproportionately larger than its deformed head. Its unnaturally vast mouth resembling a demented clown stretched far to its ears, revealing a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth. And unlike a human, its teeth had the sharpness of a wolf, easily able to tear through the toughest of flesh.

They were man-eating creatures!

1“It’s a razor-fanged infant!!!” the crowd screamed in utter, unabashed horror.

A razor-fanged infant, according to the federal textbook, was the lowest category of G3 monsters, but it had a very special trait—it lived in a group!

So, as the first razor-fanged infant landed, the second, and third appeared right after. These razor-fanged infant’s crawl may look clumsy, but whenever a prey caught their large eyes, they would suddenly pick up speed and leap into the air, viciously tearing at their victim’s throats with their sharp teeth!

“Arghhh!!!” A man screamed. He swiftly drew the weapon strapped on his waist and pointed it at the infant abomination!

Bang!

The unmistakable sound of gunfire echoed in the streets. The already chaotic road had now turned into hell.

Four to five razor-fanged infants were killing people, freely devouring them on the streets like wolves among a flock of sheep.



COMMENT

One of them pounced on Zhou Hao.

Zhou Hao’s eyes widened, and his mind went completely blank as he scrambled to find a way to defend himself. Like it was in all textbooks, they were merely unsubstantial, general bullshit that gave its reader little to imagine what a real situation would be like. The grappling techniques they had learned were not fast enough to cope with the creature’s devilish speed and tiny stature.

Of course, this was also due to the constraints of strength. Even a sixteen-year-old teenager who had just awakened his abilities and force was only at G1 tier.

At that very moment, a pair of skinny yet strong hands shoved Zhou Hao aside hard!

Zhou Hao recognized that silhouette!

It was Qin Feng!!

TBC...
Source: Master of the End Times - ExtraNovel.com

Chapter 3: Creatures From The Rift: Razor-Fanged Infants

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Qin Feng pushed Zhou Hao aside and swung a fist at the razor-fanged infant.

He was much slower than the monster, yet as if by coincidence, when he threw the punch, the razor-fanged infant came towards its head first.

Bam!

It sounded like the squishing of a grand, big, juicy watermelon. Red and greyish brain matter splattered everywhere.

1Qin Feng frowned at this—not because the scene was too gruesome but the flesh on his knuckles that had been ripped off by the force of that strike.

Too weak! Qin Feng could not remember the last time he possessed such a frail and puny body.

4But when he narrowed his eyes slightly, his tea-colored iris darkened as dark as night; an invisible strength came through the monster infant’s body into his.

2The wound on his hand quickly turned into a scab. It shed off, completely healing itself as if he had never been injured in the first place.

This was Qin Feng’s talent!

Absorption!

1Qin Feng’s expression was a mixture of surprise and excitement!

He recalled how in his past life, he thought that he was invincible as his abilities had been awakened. He had been so excited that he had announced it to the world. In the end, his talent had been robbed from him and was only left with the ability to absorb dead monsters’ self-strengthening abilities. That little bit of power had barely helped him to survive.

6Right now, his talent was not destroyed. Did that mean that he was much stronger?

Qin Feng could feel that after he absorbed the energy from the razor-fanged infant, his physical body had gotten a lot tougher. A total of ten razor-fanged infants could at least boost his physique to G2 tier.

If that was the case, what was he waiting for then?

2Qin Feng had not felt so excited in such a long time now!

When they saw their kind getting killed, the razor-fanged infants charged angrily towards the attacker from afar.

Two monsters flanked Qin Feng. One on the left and the other on the right.

Qin Feng shuffled backward, evading the attempt to close in on him.

He reached into his waist and pulled out a small dagger less than fifteen centimeters, and took a calculated slash at one of the razor-fanged infants.

Argh!!!

The monster’s throat was sliced open, and its tiny body dropped to the ground, its neck and head clinging to each other only by a layer of skin.

1Fresh, warm blood spilled all over the ground.

Qin Feng raised a leg and kicked the second razor-fanged baby, sending it sliding three meters backward.

5So, as to not waste this opportunity, Qin Feng threw himself at the creature and swished the dagger downwards, plunging it into the razor-fanged infant’s chest, not stopping until he could he feel the blade hit the hard ground!

3One of the razor-fanged infants let out a shrill cry that resembled a cat yowling. The noise, which also sounded a little bit like a baby crying, drew another group of infants toward Qin Feng.

The latter remained composed as he made some calculations on how to tackle the creatures sequentially.

1His rich experience in battling was more than enough to help him combat these unsightly abominations of nature.

The only thing was, his body could not catch up with his rhythm. All around him, the monsters were slowly closing on him, ready to tear him apart.

Then, it pounced without warning!

Crunch!!!

One of them sank their teeth into Qin Feng, sending a blinding shock in the thick soup of his brain.

4Paralyzing pain in his punctured calf seared through the entire leg.

But that was not the scariest part. At the same time, another one of the creatures jumped for his neck.

Danger was approaching. No. Here it was!

Qin Feng raised a hand in an attempt to shield his neck with his arm.

The infant’s razor-sharp fangs dug into the flesh of Qin Feng’s arm. At least his neck was protected.

“Die!” Qin Feng roared, slamming his arm onto the floor.

The infant let out a piercing cry, as bones and asphalt came crashing together in unholy matrimony. The beast on Qin Feng’s arm was squashed.

4Another one of the creatures saw the chance and leaped.

Its attack was surgical—the position it had chosen perfect. Its mouth opened so wide as if about to swallow Qin Feng’s head whole.

1Qin Feng’s pupils dilated.

Just then, a snow-white baseball came to the rescue, knocking down that razor-fangs infant.

Zhou Hao appeared in front of Qin Feng. Although his body was shaking violently, he did not stop, swinging around and striking the monster latched on his friend’s calf.

1“Let go, beast! Monster! Let go!”

6However, he controlled his exertion of force in fear of hurting Qin Feng.

After a few violent thumps and only after the razor-fanged infant’s head was finally smashed in, did Qin Feng shake off the monster.

The injuries were healing quickly, but, on the surface, Qin Feng was gravely injured.

Zhou Hao trembled uncontrollably, bursting with adrenaline, face flushed, and gulping in large mouthfuls of fresh air.

5Such intense, unstopping action was all too much to bear!

2When he turned around to look at the wounds on Qin Feng’s body, what he saw left him in shock.

“Qin Feng! Are you alright?”

“No problem!” Qin Feng shook his head.

The patrol team was finally here, dutifully dispersing the crowd and slowly retaking the entire street.

“Should we leave?” Zhou Hao did not know what to do in a situation like this.

“No need!” Qin Feng answered. “It’s just this one rift. Now that the patrol team is here, it should be a lot safer!”

Indeed, it was just one rift. But in the previous life, Qin Feng had not been around. The razor-fanged infants had spread out all over the place like a plague and killed swathes of people, Zhou Hao included.

Thank goodness, all of that was over!

The flames on the space stabilizer had been extinguished. All up and running, a silver ray exploded from it.

Then, before Qin Feng and Zhou Hao’s eyes, the rift began to grow smaller until it gradually disappeared.

This was the first time Zhou Hao had such a phenomenon, leaving his jaw hanging open in amazement.

Beep! Beep!

“Street number 12 is cleared. Head-count in progress!”

“Thirteen deaths in total! Still counting causalities!”

“Secured!”

The patrol team passed them by, grimly confirming the death toll. Qin Feng calmly watched all of them, not making a single move.

On the contrary, Zhou Hao’s initial excitement had disappeared, and his face had turned a ghostly white.

And just like that, the flame of life had been extinguished. In such a brief period, thirteen people had lost their lives.

If it had not been for Qin Feng, more people would have died.

A man wearing the patrol team’s medal over his chest walked up to Qin Feng.



COMMENT

The patrol team was the police in the colony. As humans were such destructive beings, whenever a fight broke out, it would, in all likeliness, lead to a one-sided slaughter where the strong killed the weak.

3That was how the patrol team emerged, maintaining law and order to protect the very core of the colony’s safety.

That being said, the colony was, at times, not a particularly safe place either.

“Did you kill these two razor-fanged infants? Not bad, not bad at all! That’s sure looked promising, young man!” The man smiled. He was not very tall, about 1.7 meters and a little mellow. But Qin Feng would never look down on him!

Chapter 4: Profiteering Merchant At The Imperial Capital

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

A logo with the words ‘F1’ appeared above the medal on this person’s chest, which meant that this person’s strength was at least ten tiers above Qin Feng’s and Zhou Hao’s.

2Of course, he would not have counted for much when compared to the Qin Feng in the previous life.

One other thing was that, besides this F-tier logo, this person also had a medal of the patrol team’s vice-captain.

The patrol team had the highest authority in a colony. How could anyone blatantly disregard a high-ranking officer?

“No, no. This is all Qin Feng!” said Zhou Hao, not wanting to wait for the powerful people from the patrol team to start asking questions. Instead, he immediately attempted to set the record straight, not wanting to take any credit at all.

The officer, with all his experience, knew that it was all Qin Feng’s handiwork. The surveillance video had told him that already.

3“Not bad. Is your name Qin Feng? I’m Xue Xingfu, captain of Twelfth Street in the colony!”

1Qin Feng cocked his eyebrows when he heard the name.

Xue Xingfu?

This person would become a notoriously crooked businessman ten years later. Who knew that he was actually a vice-captain ten years ago.

“How are you?” Qin Feng nodded.

2Xue Xingfu grinned at Qin Feng, his eyes glistening and his voice gentle. “Thank you for your help.”

1In one sentence, he had reduced Qin Feng’s matter of life or death combat to mere help!

Whenever a rift appeared threatening the safety of the colony, those who extinguished the threat would receive a special reward. What more a dangerous thing like this.

Qin Feng had no intention of exposing the guy.

“We were just defending ourselves. Otherwise, we would’ve died as well!”

Xue Xingfu maintained his smile, but deep inside, he wondered why Qin Feng was so calm. Too calm, in fact.

“It’s like that—you can collect the fangs and heart’s blood of the razor-fanged infants and sell them for a nice price, but because considering you’re so young, if you sell them on your own, I’m pretty sure you wouldn’t make a profit.”

Qin Feng smiled thoughtfully at that.

If it was Zhou Hao who was standing there, he might have fallen for Xue Xingfu’s trick.

Fangs and heart’s blood may not sell for much, but an entire body could be counted as a significant contribution. If he wanted to, Xue Xingfu could have actually claimed that he was the one that killed all of them.

These were all behind the scenes, under the counter dealings. In this world, the strong wielded the scepter. The ones who were powerful had a say in everything.

Qin Feng did not beat around the bush either and said, “Eight bodies for eight G-tier strengthening potions!”

Xue Xingfu’s smile froze, his gleamy pleasant demeanor replaced by one of seriousness.

1The price of G-tier strengthening potions was not too high. One tube only costs about 10,000 yuan, but in the colony, the average wage a month hovered around a very humble 1,000 yuan.

Eight tubes of that potion would cost 80,000!

As an official, however, Xue Xingfu could purchase them at an ‘insider’s price,’ saving himself half the cost.

40,000 yuan was the exact amount that Qin Feng had received as a reward for killing the razor-fanged infants.

If that was true, wasn’t that too much of a coincidence?

“Either way, you won’t make a loss!” Qin Feng added.

Xue Xingfu was about to probe him further, but his questions were already answered.

It appeared that this kid really did know things!

“Fine. You got it!”

“Then, thank you, Captain Xue!” Qin Feng answered in a happy, congratulatory tone.

“Hahaha, there’s no need to thank me. You’re not bad all, all. If you come across something good next time, you can come see me!” Xue Xingfu added Qin Feng to his communicator. He might have use of it in the future.

4If this boy could kill razor-fanged infants now, he might just be powerful enough in the future. He might just be useful in the time to come.

Xue Xingfu might not be a merchant now, but he already had the potential of a successful businessman!

…

Xin Feng gave half of the potions he had received to Zhou Hao. The latter merely stared at the thing that they never even dared imagine having.

2“Why did you ask for so many? Aren’t these things ridiculously costly?” Zhou Hao asked.

“Members of the patrol team get them for half-price.”

“Wow. Being part of the patrol team sounds great. Governments will always be governments. It’ll be great if we could make the team next time!”

“You can join if you want to, of course!” Qin Feng nodded in eagerness. Zhou Hao had died for him before. Now that Qin Feng was reborn, he would make sure to treat this brother well.

5As for that Chen Ming…

1Perhaps human hearts are fickle. Perhaps after losing a brother, Qin Feng wanted to have a friendship so bad that his eyes were blinded to the fact that he was, for all intents and purposes, a wretch!

“Wait, Qin Feng, take these two back. I don’t need so many. Also, I only killed two. If you hadn’t saved me, I would’ve died just now!”

Zhou Hao warmly pushed two vials into Qin Feng’s hands.

“You can earn it back once your abilities or ancient warrior talents have awakened!” Qin Feng gave them back. These potions were not very useful to him since his abilities had already been awakened. He did not just dump everything to his friend only to avoid raising Zhou Hao’s suspicion.

Qin Feng did not plan to tell anyone about his rebirth.

9“Alright, brother. Once, I’ve awakened, I would even buy you A-tier ones if you that’s what you want!” Zhou Hao said, thumping his own chest.

2Of course, it was just a young man’s irresponsible crowing, filled with hot air!

Only a few A-tier strengthening potions were issued every year.

As the pair chatted on, the ambulance finally arrived at the scene to help the injured. Because Qin Feng helped fight off the razor-fanged infants, he was given a hero’s treatment.

“It’s alright. I can do it myself. Go ahead and tend to the severely injured. I’m fine!” Qin Feng stopped the nurse tending to him and picked up a bit of gauze to bandage his wounds.

When the nurse saw how deft his movement was, she nodded and left to help others. They couldn’t afford to be distracted on the battlefield. For every extra minute saved was another minute that could be used to save someone’s life.

On top of that, special ability users in the colony were rough and tough. This surface wound was nothing.

No one knew that Qin Feng’s special ability allowed him to heal his wounds rapidly.

Since the hastily set up triage tent by the ambulance team was tight and cramped, Zhou Hao did not come along. He waited outside for Qin Feng, and when he saw his friend’s arm and calf wrapped in thick, bloodstained bandages, he could not help but feel sorry for him.

“Qin Feng! Surely, a miserable day for you!” Zhou Hao muttered. “You fell down and blacked out this morning, then you were bitten by the razor-fanged infants. Should you go find a light ability user and ask for a blessing or something?”

“Are they that easy to find?” Qin Feng chuckled.

He did not think that he was unlucky today. In fact, he felt extremely fortunate.

How many people in history could start afresh, respawning like in some video game after they had died?

12“Alright, I’m just saying, you know!” Zhou Hao smiled.

“Mm. Oh, right, I have something I need to do. You should go back to school first.” Qin Feng stopped suddenly.

“Qin Feng… are you still going to work? Don’t go yet! This is the best time for awakening. You don’t want to delay it.”

Zhou Hao’s statement caught Qin Feng by surprise. He pondered for a bit before remembering that he did indeed have a job ten years ago.

Zhou Hao’s parents were still around and healthy. He even had a brother. While they were considered of average status in the colony, they had jobs that paid them well enough to raise Zhou Hao comfortably, albeit, minus some comforts in life.

TBC...
Source: Master of the End Times - ExtraNovel.com

Chapter 5: T3 Combat Uniform

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Qin Feng’s thoughts drifted back and remembered that he had quit the job so that he would have enough time to train after his awakening.

Only, he never told Zhou Hao about this.

Qin Feng and Chen Ming were both orphans where the latter’s parents had tragically died in a beast horde attack. Owing to that, he would receive a 500 yuan hero’s orphan subsidy every month.

4As for Qin Feng’s parents, on the other hand, no one knew what had happened to them. He was left outside the door or an orphanage.

3Because newborns were the hope of mankind, and humans could only administer the awakening injections at sixteen, raising orphans became a matter of extreme importance for the current Chinese Alliance.

9A caveat, however, was that it would be impossible if the orphans wanted extra money to enrichen their lives.

Qin Feng had to work to make any extra money he needed.

As a result, he did not have to make up excuses for Zhou Hao.

“I will at least have to inform the management. Don’t worry. It won’t delay anything. I have to go.” Qin Feng said, waving to his friend, making sure to take a different road.

Zhou Hao watched Qin Feng’s back, feeling that this friend of his had become much calmer and more practical as if he had suddenly grown up.

Undoubtedly, after today’s awakening injection, the rift, and the razor-fanged infants’ attack that almost took their lives, how could they not grow up?

Qin Feng was unaware of what Zhou Hao was thinking. If he had known, he would have surely laughed a bitter laugh. His experience spanned not just a single day but ten whole years.

When he was sure that Zhou Hao wasn’t trailing him, Qin Feng slowed his pace down.

The Chengbei new district colony was his birthplace. This was not within Chengyang but on the outskirt of the outskirts. It might have looked as if it was accessible from all directions, but even the tall buildings could not hide the fact that this was all but a slum, a terrible living environment.

There was not enough land here, and dangerous beasts overran the place, roaming around as they pleased. Far away from the main city of Chengyang, security was poor. To make matters worse, their most powerful ability user was only at E-tier.

Even their space stabilization device had been in disrepair for years.

That time after he was captured, he never returned to Chengyang causing his memories of the place to be a little blurry.

3After strolling down three streets, Qin Feng finally found the shop he was looking for—an outdoor combat supply store.

The store was huge—at least in this colony!

In particular, this store belonged to the Wanzhong Group franchise.

In the shop, a woman in her thirties sitting inside the shop sized up Qin Feng. The moment she realized the pathetic state he was in, she cast him a look of utter disgust.

“Little Sun, go serve the customer! Remember to clean the floor after!”

“Ah, yes, manager!” shouted a male clerk named Little Sun, who came over to attend to Qin Feng. As for the floor cleaning remark, it was clear that the manager felt that Qin Feng was going to soil the store.

Qin Feng shot the woman a frosty look. No one had treated him in such an uncivilized way for so many years. Having just being reborn, however, he was swamped with too many things for him to do anything about it.

1She was just a narrow-minded woman. Nothing worth fussing over about.

“Excuse me, mister. Are you here to buy or sell?” Little Sun asked politely, secretly perplexed.

Qin Feng was covered in wounds, which meant that he had most likely just returned from a battle. But he was not carrying any spoils with him. If that was the case, he was probably not here to sell materials. As for purchasing power…

Now how could someone not even wearing an ability user’s logo be able to afford the store’s merchandise?

It would seem that the lady manager was in fact, a good judge of character.

“Do you take these?” Qin Feng took out the four vials of the G-tier strengthening potion.

The potion was a pale red color, and the vials were only about the size of his pinky. One simply needed to examine the official stamp on the label to know whether or not it was the real deal.

Their shop did not trade with drugs, but the G-tier strengthening potion was an essential item.

One look was enough for Little Sun to tell that they were real.

This looked like a great business opportunity, too great to let slip just because of prejudice and innuendo.

Little Sun caught his breath. “We do! We do!”

He picked up one of the vials and examined it in the fashion of an expert. “Here in our store, we buy these at a 20% discount of the market price. That’ll be 32,000 yuan for four!”

3Once this purchase was completed, he could earn a commission of three hundred. What fortuitous fortune!

Qin Feng nodded, surveying the products the store had to offer.

“One T3 combat suit1, one dagger, a crossbow with thirty arrows, a combat bag pack, and an outdoor utensil set!”

There were so few elites in the entire colony that most of them ordinary folk who would never choose to purchase something of such high quality, such as the T3 combat suit.

“Alright. Please provide the size that you want!”

“…170!” Qin Feng looked at his scrawny body, managing to crack a bitter smile.

Right now, he was only 1.7 meters tall and painfully bony—it was so different from the one he had before rebirth.

4Once he was done with all these, it looked like the time was nigh to work hard and develop his body.

“Great!” Little Sun hurried around the shop, bringing a T3 combat suit for Qin Feng to try on, then picking up other things he had requested.

Qin Feng selected the items skillfully, snapping up everything up he needed, and refusing anything that Little Sun was trying to sell him that he did not need.

In the end, he spent 30,000 at the store, pocketing only the remaining 2,000 yuan, which he stuffed into his backpack.

“Sir, if you wish to come again, you’ll be treated as our regular. We can give you a discount for any transaction over 10,000 yuan. This is my communicator’s number. You can add me!” Little Sun said.

Qin Feng nodded happily. It would be very convenient to do business with familiar people.

After he asked the guy for his real name, Qin Feng added the salesperson named Sun Yu to his contacts.

There were very few contacts on his communicator, only about twenty or thirty people, with most of them his schoolmates. But it also kept things clean.

After that, Qin Feng turned off his communicator, changed into his new T3 combat suit, armed it with the dagger, and left the store with his brand new bow and arrow strapped to his back.

5Along the way, Qin Feng could sense the attention that his new suit was drawing.

On a hot day in June, just like today, the waterproof and fireproof combat suit could equalize the cold and heat. Even if he were completely wrapped up, it would engulf him with a cool, comfortable temperature, not too hot and airless.

The greyish-green camouflage of the suit was a protective color for the wilderness, which was exactly the thing that made him stand out like a sore thumb.

His young face might have looked unfledged, but the expression on his face was sangfroid; his sharp eyes darting about for the slightest sign of danger.

5The crossbow at his waist, the dagger in his boots, and the arrows hidden inside his combat backpack represented absolute power but, at the same time, was also a symbol of money.

3Qin Feng ignored the strange looks he was getting and flagged down a car. “Go to the wilderness’ dispatch site.”

The driver shot him a curious look, but when Qin Feng got into the car, he kept his gaze lowered and lips sealed, saying nothing. So, the driver kept quiet, driving silently to the destination.

Because of space rifts, the areas outside the colony were treacherous. But they needed people to go out there to hunt, kill, and protect the settlement, which was why the wilderness’ dispatch site was set up.

Over here, Qin Feng’s suit was not that conspicuous.

Because out here, in fact, everyone was dressed just like that.

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