No Time

I won't tell much of the journey back, but I had been a great teacher if I say so myself, explaining about the mutant plants and animals I knew about.

We got back to the base and there were the family members of the red phase passers. Everyone had been fully briefed about the new laws and they were compliant. The officials said it was due to gratefulness and guilt that they hadn't been helping out when they were provided with such a safe house.

Every student was going to school now, and the adults had been taking up jobs to earn points. The researchers immediately got to work on experimenting on the mutant plants to see if they could be useful for anything. The mutant animals were already killed and they were dissected when handed off to the excited researchers.

The aunties that knew me told me to rest a little and keep my mind off the apocalypse. They said that I was in a body of a kid and should act like one. It made them really scared when they thought I had killed a human. They were apparently very relieved when it was an infected human instead.

People were either nonchalant, scared, or eager to go outside. They all knew that they were very powerful compared to a regular ability user right now.

Today, as a day off after working hard, I went outside to the capital. I liked heights and I particularly liked sitting on top of the highest skyscraper.

There weren't any mutant birds, only regular ones, and they were mostly scavenging birds. As a person with an affinity to ravens, it was easy to befriend the ones flying around.

I wondered, when would this all end? Will it lead up to only a dozen years or so? Or maybe a century? And possibly forever?

I lay on my back and sighed. I had done what I could. What to do now?

One thing I was afraid of wasn't loneliness. It was nice having people around, but most of the time, e I could only selfishly think about why they had me as a savior but why nobody came for me. I know these kinds of thoughts aren't good, but I couldn't help it.

What I truly feared, was boredom.

Because of this, many had gone crazy. These lone hunters during the apocalypse were really cool but ruthless. They killed zombies for fun and watched people get killed for fun. After that, if they got bored, they'd go off somewhere else.

I also want to kind of live on my own. So I decided, after everything in the base was situated, I would put up a respected and trustworthy leader. And then, I'd leave, to travel around the world where there is still much to be seen.

I would keep in contact with the people at the base and I'd slightly miss my siblings, but knowing that they were safe and sound, I wouldn't be too worried.

I also want to fight properly. Being at the top is lonely. Not to be narcissistic or anything, but it is currently true. I want to fight against mutants that'll be able to crush cities. I haven't fought properly in this lifetime and I'm really getting tired of it.

A mutant raven did find its way to me, but he was quite friendly after I fed some jerky to him. He curled up to take a nap, so I laid by his side and fell asleep as well. It was very warm and soft, just a little stinky. But I closed off my sense of smell, so everything was fine and comfortable.

The afternoon was peaceful and I was very reluctant when the mutant raven woke up and flew away. I stretched and yawned to shake all my weariness away.

What I didn't expect was for the mutant raven to come back. It had come back with several other mutant ravens. There were now 9 large birds.

In the end, I had to give away all the jerky I had stored up. They peacefully left cawing.

Just like the bird, I had some responsibility. But really, life was seriously boring right now. I was way too powerful compared to anything on Earth and could only wait a long while before an opponent showed up. But by then, I'd be stronger too.

Ding!

The core device lit up with noise and notified me of a new message.

[Xiao Yu, I plan to hold a wedding ceremony. Could you perhaps find mom and dad? We can send them away right after, but just this once. Please? - Ge]

"..."

Finding our parents.

I wonder if they were in the group we were previously in? I mean, are they still alive even?

This was a little intriguing. Maybe, just for the fun of it, I'd go look for them.

They probably would be arrogant until they would beg me. I wanted to see those frustrated and unwilling faces of theirs. What right did they have to request something of me? And if they even dared to say anything about my brothers' sexual orientations, I'd immediately peddle them to death. No, I'd just leave it to others.

But well.

This was less boring than usual.

Might as well try it.