Chapter 12 – A good child, ah!

Editor: Xinghe

Translator: YuQiChen/Churen

The end of the world? Wasn’t this what he wanted to do?

Jiang Que became a bit interested and reluctantly suppressed his thoughts of opposition.

Shen Tazhi rearranged Jiang Que’s sleeping bag and brought another blanket for him to lean on comfortably before continuing:

“This story takes place on a day after years of human resource abuse. On that day, the largest undersea earthquake in nearly a century erupted in the Pacific Ocean, submerging most coastal cities in tsunamis. People panicked and fled inland for refuge, but this was just the beginning.

Soon after, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, extreme cold, heatwaves, floods, droughts, insect plagues… countless natural disasters followed one after another.

No zombies, no bioweapons, just Earth’s natural disasters that easily destroyed human civilization, thus ushering in the end times.”

Jiang Que didn’t quite grasp the concept of natural disasters; he only knew that volcanic eruptions were quite spectacular. He was about to ask, but seeing Shen Tazhi’s expression, he inexplicably closed his mouth.

He felt he shouldn’t interrupt Shen Tazhi at this moment; otherwise, he might miss out on important information.

“The protagonist is a CEO of an inland company. When doomsday arrives, he commands all employees to gather in the cafeteria for shelter. Even though they are temporarily trapped in the company after the earthquake, facing extreme cold, they mostly survived thanks to the supplies in the cafeteria.

At this time, the national organization was still functioning, and with the protagonist’s status not being ordinary, the national rescue team, along with the protagonist’s family, came to rescue him. As a family that had some capital even before the apocalypse, after the protagonist was rescued, his family informed him that they had exchanged supplies for a property in a national shelter, so they needed to move their entire family to the new shelter.”

“The protagonist… has no name?”

In the end, Jiang Que couldn’t help but hesitantly ask.

“No,” Shen Tazhi shook his head with a smile. “The company employees followed him to the shelter, but just before reaching it, the protagonist’s family turned against him. They kidnapped him and abandoned him in the wilderness while the employees chose to remain silent due to bribery.”

“It was only at this moment that the protagonist realized that his family had never intended to share the resources they had acquired with him. From the beginning to the end, their only goal was to find him and kill him to seize all his remaining assets.”

“The extreme cold of the apocalypse was freezing, reaching about minus fifty degrees outside. In that remote wilderness, there were no traces of any human presence, let alone any encounters with non-human entities. That’s how the protagonist died.”

“Died…?”

Jiang Que didn’t quite understand.

“Yes, died,” Shen Tazhi said lightly. “In the apocalypse, regardless of being a protagonist or not, encountering wonders or not, as long as you are human, you will die equally.”

Jiang Que felt a bit guilty for some reason. Although he didn’t know why Shen Tazhi suddenly told this story, he hadn’t forgotten his original intention –

To exterminate humanity.

Although he rarely thought about it after Shen Tazhi’s arrival and didn’t even deliberately observe humans out of schadenfreude, it didn’t stop him from constantly bringing natural disasters to humanity every moment. After all, as long as he didn’t deal with grievances, humans would face countless natural disasters similar to what Shen Tazhi described.

In order to “communicate” with Shen Tazhi, Jiang Que directly told him all these things. Humans were inherently selfish, and Jiang Que strongly suspected that Shen Tazhi was intentionally trying to persuade him not to harm humans.

With these thoughts in mind, he asked directly, “So why are you telling me this story?”

If Shen Tazhi was really just boringly lecturing him on kindness, he would… never chat with Shen Tazhi again.

Shen Tazhi pondered for a moment and said, “Maybe because humans tend to tell bedtime stories to good children who are awakened by nightmares?”

He took the empty cup from Jiang Que’s hand, changed the subject, and asked, “Feeling tired? Do you want to sleep?”

With warm milk in his stomach, Jiang Que, who was originally filled with random thoughts, actually felt a slight, indistinct drowsiness when Shen Tazhi asked.

Yawn—

He yawned slightly, then looked up to see Shen Tazhi smiling at him, gently saying, “If you’re tired, go to sleep.”

Feeling a bit drowsy, Jiang Que no longer dwelled on Shen Tazhi’s inexplicable story from before. He obediently cooperated, got into the sleeping bag, tucked away his little tentacles, and prepared to sleep.

So… why tell that story?

Jiang Que thought drowsily.

Of course, he wouldn’t get an answer, but he was grateful that he hadn’t mentioned to Shen Tazhi the fact that humanity would truly face extinction if he continued to ignore grievances.

Even if Shen Tazhi was a good person, his current attitude towards him was definitely based on the fact that he didn’t pose much of a threat.

Perhaps Shen Tazhi believed that humans could surely control natural disasters, or perhaps he didn’t even believe those fantastical things he mentioned about humans.

In any case, after knowing the true consequences of not addressing grievances, Shen Tazhi would definitely not provide him with food anymore and would, like the humans he had seen at the beginning, find ways to deceive himself into dealing with grievances.

He didn’t want that. He wanted to eat good food.

Finally, amidst the chaotic thoughts, Jiang Que fell asleep, leaving only his still awake little tentacles whispering softly.

One little tentacle imitated Shen Tazhi’s actions and gently touched Jiang Que’s head.

Another tentacle mumbled to itself:

[Xiao Que, are you a good child?]

[Are you a good child?] the other tentacle asked back.

[I don’t know.]

The tentacle that had initially touched Jiang Que’s head shook its sharp tip, wriggled out of the sleeping bag, and skillfully wrapped around Shen Tazhi.

Although it was unknown if Que Que was a good child, but being praised made them happy. Now they wanted to cuddle with Zhi Zhi!

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