The End of the World Base Master (8): 

Zhou Qinghao followed Gu Juntian and went to the basement first.

The basement of this villa had been renovated into a home theater, but it was now abandoned and filled with some clutter.

The ice cellar was beneath the basement, and the soil around it had been reinforced by an earth-type ability user. Its insulation was excellent—ice stored inside wouldn’t melt even after a month.

“My family hasn’t asked a water-type ability user to reinforce it for almost a month now,” Gu Juntian muttered while pulling out a pack of frozen lamb chops. “We’ll have lamb chops for lunch, and pork for dinner. I’ll go buy fresh meat later and stew it with potatoes.”

Zhou Qinghao used his ability to freeze the ice cellar even more firmly, feeling a bit emotional.

Gu Chengming really had stored a lot of food at home.

In this safe zone, the person with the most work points was him, and the one with the most supplies should also be Gu Chengming.

Gu Juntian really could just lie flat.

He was even starting to envy Gu Juntian.

“Why do you keep looking at me?” Gu Juntian asked.

Zhou Qinghao pulled him into his arms and kissed him.

The reason he kept looking at Gu Juntian was, of course, because he was good-looking!

Gu Juntian: “…” Zhou Qinghao was getting more and more like a domineering CEO. He couldn’t let this continue; he had to show Zhou Qinghao what he was capable of.

So, when Zhou Qinghao was about to head out, Gu Juntian tried to corner him against the wall.

Zhou Qinghao instinctively dodged, then realizing it wasn’t right, kissed Gu Juntian again. “Be good, wait for me at home.”

After Zhou Qinghao left, Gu Juntian went to his father’s room.

Seeing Gu Father cultivating, he lay down beside him and started doing push-ups.

“Why did you suddenly start exercising?” Gu Father was puzzled. His son was usually extremely lazy—how to put it, basically a homebody.

He had always wanted him to move more, but he never did. Why was he suddenly willing to train today?

Gu Juntian said, “My combat ability is too weak. I want to surpass Zhou Qinghao.”

Gu Father: “Then you’d better go back to sleep; in dreams, everything is possible.”

Gu Juntian decided not to help his father sort out his inner energy for the next two hours.

He worked up a sweat, took a shower, then went downstairs to cook.

After putting the marinated lamb chops into the oven, he began stir-frying vegetables. By the time the vegetables were ready, the lamb chops were roasted as well. Gu Juntian packed the food into containers and went to deliver it to Zhou Qinghao.

Just as he stepped out, he saw Zhen Jiayun.

Gu Juntian sprinted forward, leaving Zhen Jiayun behind.

Zhen Jiayun, who had spent the whole morning loitering near the Gu family villa just to wait for Gu Juntian, was dumbfounded.

Gu Juntian skillfully found Zhou Qinghao and ate with him.

Yesterday during the day, Gu Father had instructed some of his subordinates to listen to Zhou Qinghao from now on.

Last night, he had carefully gone over all the matters of the safe zone with him.

With Gu Father’s help, Zhou Qinghao’s work today went very smoothly. He directly took office and became the new district chief of the safe zone.

After all, it was the apocalypse—things moved very quickly.

In fact, H City’s safe base was still relatively orderly. In some other bases where strength ruled, powerful ability users could even kill the base leader and seize the position.

“Qinghao, try this, see if my roasted lamb chops taste good.” Gu Juntian recommended his cooking.

Zhou Qinghao took a bite and smiled. “Delicious.”

Gu Juntian said, “I think so too. Later, after buying pork, I’ll cut some pork belly and roast it the same way for you.”

“Alright.” Zhou Qinghao agreed.

After Zhou Qinghao finished eating, Gu Juntian packed up happily and left.

Seeing him go, one of Zhou Qinghao’s men asked, “Captain Zhou, what’s with this Gu Juntian? His father’s in trouble, but he’s still smiling all the time.”

Zhou Qinghao said, “Smiling is better than crying. Life has to go on.”

“But he can’t just be like this. It was one thing when he didn’t work before, but now that District Chief Gu is down, he still doesn’t find a job. That’s really useless.” The man spoke again.

Gu Juntian didn’t have a good reputation in the safe zone. He did nothing yet lived a good life, which made people resent him.

Zhou Qinghao said, “I think he’s fine. He doesn’t lack food or drink, so why should he work?”

“He might not lack it now, but without someone supporting him in the future, he definitely will.”

“Who says no one will support him in the future?” Zhou Qinghao said. “I’ll support him.”

The subordinate was stunned. “Captain Zhou, what did you just say?”

Zhou Qinghao said, “I said I’ll support him. He’s my boyfriend. I won’t let him go hungry.”

Before, Zhou Qinghao had thought their relationship was just a transaction, so he hadn’t planned to announce it.

But yesterday, after Gu Chengming gave him a meeting gift, he felt it was better to make things clear, so that people in the safe zone would take Gu Juntian seriously.

His men were shocked.

Zhou Qinghao continued, “We’ll get married in a while. Remember to bring a gift.”

Everyone: “…” Did they hear that right? Zhou Qinghao wanted to marry Gu Juntian?

“Captain Zhou, how could you like Gu Juntian?” someone couldn’t help but ask.

Zhou Qinghao said, “He’s good-looking and cooks well. Isn’t that great? Enough gossip, let’s head out of the city to clear zombies.”

Dazed, the group followed Zhou Qinghao out of the city to clear zombies.

At the same time, news of Zhou Qinghao wanting to marry Gu Juntian spread.

If it were someone else marrying Gu Juntian, people in the base would definitely think that person was after the Gu family’s supplies, or just wanted to play with the former district chief’s son.

But since it was Zhou Qinghao—

Who didn’t know he was upright and self-disciplined? He didn’t lack supplies either.

So if Zhou Qinghao was marrying Gu Juntian, it had to be genuine.

But precisely because it was genuine, people were extremely envious.

That Gu Juntian was way too lucky!

When Shao Huirui learned of it, his expression twisted.

He had always wanted to outdo Gu Juntian.

He thought after Gu Chengming’s accident, Gu Juntian could finally be trampled underfoot. Who would have thought he ended up with Zhou Qinghao instead?

So that was why Zhou Qinghao suddenly interfered and moved into the Gu household—he had taken a liking to Gu Juntian!

Shao Huirui liked men, and Zhou Qinghao was very handsome, so naturally, he had paid attention to him.

He had always assumed Zhou Qinghao had no interest in romance, caring only about his career. Who knew he would actually fall for Gu Juntian, that useless embroidered pillow stuffed with straw?

Just then, Zhen Jiayun came back.

Seeing his listless expression, Shao Huirui said, “Gu Juntian’s getting married, did you know?”

Last night, Zhen Jiayun had stayed over at his place. They had gone all the way, confirming their relationship.

Although Zhen Jiayun had been rather demanding last night, making him a little impatient, he still liked his freshness.

The fact that someone Gu Juntian had longed for but couldn’t get had become his, gave him a psychological satisfaction no one else could provide.

But now, Gu Juntian was about to marry Zhou Qinghao.

Zhen Jiayun instantly seemed far less appealing.

“What?” Zhen Jiayun froze.

“No wonder Gu Juntian ignores you… he’s going to marry Zhou Qinghao, of course he won’t bother with you anymore.”

Zhen Jiayun had never liked Gu Juntian.

But for some reason, upon hearing this, he found it hard to accept.

At the Gu family villa—

Although Gu Father was injured, he had many contacts and was among the first to hear that Zhou Qinghao was going to marry his son. After learning it, he looked earnestly at Gu Juntian. “Juntian, you must treat Zhou Qinghao well in the future. Don’t let him down.”

He had previously thought his son was just lovestruck. Now it seemed Zhou Qinghao was too.

It had only been a few days, yet he was already thinking about marriage.

“No need for you to say it.” Gu Juntian happily went to prepare dinner.

He roasted some pork belly and stewed potatoes with the leftover meat.

After spending the afternoon killing zombies outside, Zhou Qinghao was exhausted. But when he returned home and smelled the rich aroma of meat, his fatigue vanished.

“Qinghao, you’re back!” Gu Juntian beamed. “Dinner’s ready! You look a little tired—eat, then go to bed early.”

Zhou Qinghao said, “I can’t go to bed early today. Someone spotted a level-six zombie outside the city. I need to go out tonight—best to kill it as soon as possible.”

Although the zombie tide had passed, there were still many zombies roaming near the base.

In recent days, the base had sent many ability users to clear them.

Today, a squad had been attacked. According to the survivors, the one who ambushed them was the same high-level zombie that had injured Gu Chengming.

That day, after injuring Gu Chengming, the zombie had lost half an arm to Gu Chengming’s flames, but since it was stronger than him, it had still escaped.

If it wasn’t dealt with, it would surely attack people from the base again. Zhou Qinghao intended to track it down and kill it.

“Qinghao, can I go with you?” Gu Juntian asked.

Zhou Qinghao instinctively wanted to refuse, but then Gu Chengming said, “Qinghao, when you go out tonight to kill zombies, we’ll go with you.”

“That level-six zombie hasn’t been taken down yet. It’s dangerous out there…” Zhou Qinghao tried to refuse.

Gu Chengming said, “With you there, we’ll be fine. At worst, we can call a few more people to come with us.”

If it were just Gu Juntian wanting to go, Zhou Qinghao would refuse.

But since it was Gu Chengming who suggested it… he agreed. “You must be careful.”

“We will.” Gu Chengming replied, then pulled out two masks, wearing one himself and giving one to Gu Juntian.

His son wanted to kill zombies, and truthfully, he did too.

The zombie crystal nuclei he had were almost used up!