Apocalypse King: Recruiting S-Tier Beauties With My Ruler System
Chapter 73: A dangerous request - Qinglan’s Smile

Chapter 73: A dangerous request - Qinglan’s Smile

I heard her breath pause for a moment, soft and quick, before easing itself out like a hand across silk. "I see..."

"...Did you always survive alone?" she asked.

Another push. Another slow, deliberate descent, as my body lifted, I noticed Yifei on the sofa, spreading her legs as she gazed at me with flushed cheeks.

’Ah...’

▼ Shen Yifei performed her task and pleased her master

+100 EXP

The sudden message inside my head made me embarrassed. To take my focus away from her crotch and how her tight Lycra shorts dug into her body, revealing the shape of her most precious place.

"Well... technically."

I was alone since losing my mother, but now I am really alone anymore, with these three women, and hopefully Old Zhou and Tang Wei.

It seemed everything would get noisy.

But... from Shen Yifei’s eyes, it was obvious she noticed my shame.

How could I have become half erect from just seeing a woman in tight yoga pants!?

We continued speaking about little things, it was nice to learn more about Yifei, and I realised she wasn’t the slutty girl that I thought. She liked to draw, cook and especially enjoyed looking after animals.

’No wonder Yin likes to play with her...’

That reminded me of Yin.

He vanished when I went back to my apartment and helped cure Qinglan.

I’m worried about him.

"I should go and shower... then prepare dinner." Shen Yifei’s shaking voice and bright red cheeks caused me to become more conscious of her.

She didn’t leave, and continued to sit in my vision... moving her legs, stretching to give me a better view.

Although I didn’t mind, there were limits to a man’s tolerance.

"I look forward to it."

"Hmph... it’s not that I am cooking something for your praise." Though her lips curled into a smile after I said that... was she just being tsundere?

The way her twintails bounced with each step caught my attention—thankfully, Mu Qinglan and Jiang Roulan were absent for this.

"John, why are you upside down... and wearing cycling pants?" A familiar cold voice echoed from the entrance as two women stepped inside with tired-looking faces.

...

It seemed tempting fate wasn’t something to do recklessly.

——

Not long after the two returned, they forced me to take a shower and wear something better... so I took a quick shower in my huge room and wore a black training vest and some loose jogging pants.

These pants used to be fitted... now, after losing even more excess fat for muscle and the three marrow potions, my body became super lean... and muscular.

"So, did you manage to recruit anyone?"

"Well, we did, but many of them were just normal men or couples..." Jiang Roulan touched her cheek, as if lost in thought.

"They might make good flesh walls."

Mu Qinglan’s cold and heartless words might hurt someone if they didn’t know her. I noticed that since she recovered from her living dead state. Her tongue became sharper, and she lacked the restraint from the past.

’I actually like it, though.’

"Hmm..."

"Well, I asked them to meet us in two hours." Roulan started stretching her arms across her chest, crushing her soft breasts before she strode to the shower rooms, waving her hand. "I’ll be back in time for dinner, it smells nice."

That left me and Qinglan together; she seemed a little different once alone, her electric blue eyes flicking at him, gazing and fiddling with her fingers. "John, did anything happen to you? Your face seems a little different."

"Ah?" I never expected her to notice... after meeting Old Zhou, it felt like I gained a second chance to make up for my failure and the weight that remained in my chest because of Old Lei and his daughter.

’Why did I cure Roulan, but not try curing his daughter before killing her?’

[System Message]

[You could not have saved her—the cure only works for pre-infection and early stages.]

Hindsight. Bitter and regretful.

However, this didn’t stop me from feeling the dark, sludgy weight in my stomach. It might seem wrong and heartless to use Zhou and his daughter to gain redemption, but who cares... I should come first.

"I met someone, an old man... and promised to help save his daughter." My voice became deeper, touching my emotions and something I could only do with her. With Mu Qinglan. "Lan’er, will you help me?"

She looked at me with her eyes wide and pupils dilated like a cat looking at the sun.

"Who else will go?"

"Just me and you, ah... if Yin comes back, him too."

"Isn’t that dangerous...?" Although she asked, I noticed the corner of her lips trembling as she smiled, and lowered her face with pink cheeks.

[Mu Qinglan is happy, extremely happy at your offer. +10 Affection]

"It would be hard, but if you want to... I would love to!"

Mu Qinglan’s smile shone like a torch in the dark, cheeks lifting as she beamed happily.

"Then shall we leave tonight, or do you want to sleep?"

The reason I would wait until that late was that Jiang Roulan and Yifei would probably sleep, so after meeting the potential recruits, the bottom floor would become safer, since I could clean out the third, fourth and fifth floors.

’Dismantling isn’t as limited as I thought...’

At first, I believed I could only dismantle things in my territory and the zombies I killed.

[Dismantle]

Disassemble any items or furniture, or corpses for vital parts and ZKP.

- In the host’s safe zone and territory

- A place the host owns in the real world. Requires deed/contract.

- A place where the host has permission from the owner of the building.

- Abandoned buildings with no owner for at least 10 years.

"I’ll leave with you!" Mu Qinglan responded with a loud voice, her hands grabbing my waist as she hugged me. "I will go... hehe. It’s stupid and a dangerous thing, but why does it make my chest pound... can you feel it?"

She grasped my hand and placed it on her chest.

The warmth and squishy sensation flowed through my palms that sank into her flesh. Ba-Dum Ba-Dum I could feel my girlfriend’s heart beating faster than normal... her cheeks turning red as I felt a slight bump rub against my palm... ’She’s excited?!’

"Ah... wait, let’s stop here." She mumbled and pulled away. Then, skipping towards the shared shower room. Although the smaller rooms had a private shower, the shared one was like a gym training room and something I made to have fun.

It seemed she noticed my expression and confusion as she spoke again in a soft, but weaker voice that was nothing like the Qinglan I knew. "I am sweaty..."

I watched her walk.

Not for the curve of her hips, or the way those shorts clung to her like they were stitched straight onto her skin.

Okay—maybe that was part of it.

But more than anything, it was the calm.

She always moved like she wasn’t in a rush. Like nothing in this world could surprise her.

Mu Qinglan paused at the end of the hallway, her hand resting on the frame of the shower room door. Steam whispered around her wrist from within, catching the light. She didn’t turn to face me, but her voice reached across the distance—steady, low, almost like a hum.

"Don’t leave without me."

"I won’t," I said, just as quiet.

"If you lie," she added, still not looking back, "I’ll know."

There wasn’t a threat in her tone. Not ice either.

Just certainty.

And something else... almost too faint to name.

"I don’t want you going alone," she said. Then stepped into the steam and was gone.

I continued exercising for a while, deciding that I needed to build a full gym to keep working on our bodies. The increase in strength didn’t transfer to instant improvement... after an hour of handstand push-ups. My arms now felt more comfortable, and although they burned with a dull ache, I increased my control.

The warmth of her chest remained on my palm.

Qinglan didn’t talk much. She didn’t shout. She didn’t joke unless she meant it.

But that... was enough.

I checked the time—6:52 PM.

The recruits would arrive soon. Tired faces. Hungry mouths. More problems to solve.

But for now, the ninth floor felt quiet. Steady.

I sat down. Exhaled. Closed my eyes.

Somewhere upstairs, the sound of water running softened against the walls until the sound of the girls lightly vibrated from inside.

And for a moment—

I wasn’t carrying the world.

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