The Creatures That We Are

Chapter 52: End of Test

Everyone in the yard turned to Wang Zikai, wondering what he was laughing about.

Once he had finally laughed enough, Wang Zikai pushed Fat Jun away and walked up to Gao Yang, his gait unsteady but radiated definite swagger.

Just when Gao Yang was picking himself up, Wang Zikai slapped him heavily on the shoulder. “I knew you’re a virgin, punk!”

“Shut up...” Gao Yang almost gave him an eyeroll. Do you have to embarrass me in front of so many people?

“Serve you right for lying to me ahahaha...” Wang Zikai couldn’t help but burst out laughing again.

“Hey, hey, hey!” Annoyed, Wu Dahai swept through his hair habitually. “What’s wrong with being a virgin?”

Wang Zikai turned to Wu Dahai, pleased. “You too, bro?”

“Yeah, why?” Heavenly Dog chimed in as well. There was a hint of irritation in his lazy voice.

“Whoa! You all are!” Wang Zikai couldn’t be happier, and he had never felt closer to anyone than these people. “We’re family from now on!”

“Not Uncle Dead Pig.” White Rabbit walked up and patted the still sleeping man. “He had a wife.”

The operative word here was ‘had’.

Wang Zikai’s smile froze. “Really? Someone like him...got game?”

He sighed and lamented, “Fucking hell, the world isn’t fair!”

“Right?” Wu Dahai echoed the grievance. “Even Dead Pig got a wife, yet handsome men like us remain single...”

Wang Zikai looked at Wu Dahai, and Wu Dahai met his eyes. After a split second, they held each other’s hand like fate was cruel to have kept them apart for so long and exclaimed at the same time.

“I got you!”

“I got you!”

White Rabbit pressed a hand to her forehead with her other hand holding her baseball bat. “Why don’t you get together? We’ll make an exception to the no office romance rule so that you won’t go on to make girls suffer.”

“So we’re now part of the organization?” Officer Huang finally broke his silence. He was sitting on the ground with a bottle of glucose drink. He had drunk half of it.

“That’s right. Gao Yang, Qing Ling, Huang Qi.” White Rabbit made the official announcement. “Congratulations on passing the test and joining the organization.”

“Whew!” Officer Huang exhaled a long breath and lay down with his arms open, ignoring all the dead monsters around him. “Being an adult...is so difficult!”

Finally. Even though they had brushed shoulders with death, they managed to survive and pass the test.

Gao Yang let out a long breath as well and opened a bottle of water, taking a big gulp.

Then Qing Ling, who had been lying on the ground unconscious, blinked her eyes open. Someone had wiped the blood off her face, and it looked clean and fair as usual.

Her eyes widened after two seconds.

Gao Yang recognized immediately that it wasn’t Qing Ling, but her sister.

Face twisted in fear and body shuddering and heaving with hurried breaths, she threw herself at Gao Yang the moment she saw him like he was her only lifeline. Arms wrapped around him, she clawed at Gao Yang’s clothes and buried her face into his chest, sobbing silently. Her tears drenched his clothes. Gao Yang could feel the warmth on his chest.

“It’s okay, it’s okay... You’re safe.”

Gao Yang didn’t know how to comfort her, so he simply patted her gently on the shoulder. It was already impressive for a regular girl to endure this much.

“Hey, wait...” Wu Dahai turned to Heavenly Dog, peeved. “I was the one who made an awesome entrance and killed the hair monster. Why did she throw herself at that useless brat? Heavenly Dog, didn’t I say I was gonna show her my awesome side? You agreed to help me get the girl. Well, great help you were!”

“She had already lost consciousness by then.” Heavenly Dog shrugged.

“You should be happy that she didn’t see it, or your chance of getting her to like you would’ve dropped from 1% to 0.1%.” White Rabbit made another jab.

During their conversation, Little Qing Ling managed to get herself under control, and Gao Yang was pushed away without hesitation like a tool. She hurriedly wiped her reddened eyes and said in an icy voice, “A moment. I’ll let my sister out.”

And just like that, Qing Ling returned.

As if she had never been away, she didn’t seem surprised by the situation she found herself in at all. She took the bottled water from Gao Yang and downed it all with her head tipped.

Then she turned to Heavenly Dog, her gaze demanding. “Return my weapon.”

Heavenly Dog was holding Qing Ling’s Tang Dao. He sounded a little envious as he said, “It’s a good blade. It doesn’t get blood on it when you kill, and it can be stored and unsheathed at will. It’s obviously been injected with the power of a Rune Circuit.”

He threw the Tang Dao back to Qing Ling. “Who gave you that?”

Qing Ling grabbed the Tang Dao and glided a finger along the blade to fold it into her palm.

“A friend.”

“And your friend...”

“Dead.”

“Ah.” Heavenly Dog didn’t push. He yawned, seemingly tired. “That’s it for today then. I’m off. White Rabbit, Electric Mouse, take care of the rest.”

“You got it,” said Wu Dahai.

“Cute Little Lamb, come on.”

Lovely Lamb looked between Gao Yang and Heavenly Dog like she was struggling to make a choice. In the end, she ran to Heavenly Dog, who picked her up and carried her on his shoulders.

“Bye-bye, Brother Gao Yang.” Lovely Lamb waved at him.

“Bye.” Gao Yang waved back. He was suddenly reminded of his little sister, Gao Xinxin. She had been meek and cute when she was little, but now...well, better not dwell on it.

Defying gravity, Heavenly Dog took flight without changing his posture. Dead Pig woke up from his nap then and reached out to grab the white band Heavenly Dog dropped like he had done it a thousand times, letting himself get pulled to the air. It was clear that there was a limit to the weight Heavenly Dog could carry. With Dead Pig joining the ride, the speed at which he soared into the sky slowed noticeably.

“Whoa, you guys only get more and more awesome.” Fat Jun had been keeping quiet because he knew he was a nobody among these people. Now that things seemed more relaxed, he couldn’t help but flatter the bigshots here.

“Flattery won’t get you anywhere,” said White Rabbit. “The three of them are the only ones to become official members. Wang Zikai and you are still in trial period.”

“Oh, it’s perfectly fine. It’s a great enough honor to be part of such a fine company as a trainee!” Fat Jun smiled servilely. Although he just barely escaped death, at least he found a thick thigh to latch onto for support, and he didn’t have to be so scared and worried all the time.

“Heavenly Dog has two Talents. Fly, serial number 29, and Spatial Dissection, serial number 14. Both are of the Time-Space type.”

White Rabbit continued to explain, “Both his Talents are only level 3, but he’s strong enough as it is. All members of the organizations share information about our Talents with each other. But no rush, you’ll learn more about us going forward.”

“White Rabbit, is it?” Wang Zikai spoke up.

White Rabbit turned to him. “Yeah?”

“What about my serial number?” Wang Zikai looked excited. “It’s among the top three, right?”

Gao Yang had seized a moment to tell White Rabbit about Wang Zikai, and she gave Wang Zikai a smile, her eyes curved into a pair of crescent moons. “Your Talent is Destiny, serial number 0. It’s the most powerful Talent, bar none.”

“Whoa! For real?!” Wang Zikai couldn’t be happier. He knew he was strong, but not to such an extent.

“Talents are mysterious and unpredictable, of course, and I can’t give you the exact details.” White Rabbit smiled. “Explore your power in your own time. I can guarantee it’s one that can threaten all between heaven and earth.”

Gao Yang almost applauded her performance. She came up with lies as easily as one breathed.

“Alright!” White Rabbit clapped to get everyone’s attention. “You must have questions for the operation at Gu Family’s Village. I’ll explain later. Let’s get out of here first.”

“We’re flying out as well?” asked Gao Yang.

“Nah.” White Rabbit turned around. “We’ll take the other exit.”