Kai went back home under the watchful eyes of the Huo family guards. He knows they probably want to kill him because of the mess he made that day, Kai didn't mind them. What he minded was the girl they ended up insisting that he marries as a sign of partnership between himself and the Huo family.
Kai saw this as it is, a forced marriage to muscle him into being their little bitch. Although, this third choice is supposedly a talent and will supposedly be of great use to him in the future. Kai is not fooled, even if they want to marry him to one of them why force them to stay together on the start like this?
This is a spy. She must be very loyal to her family to have been placed as a last resort. Kai didn't say anything to the girl as they walk towards his home. Huo family are not such barbaric people to push the girl out the door so they can nurture a 'friendship.' There is obviously a hidden plot here.
"Phil, watch her vitals if she seems excited all of a sudden let me know."
"Yes sir." Phil responded.
Kai told them that he is far too busy for such things but they said he needs to quickly build the hospital and put their worries to ease before even considering bringing back the girl.
Until he proves that he can benefit their family by making good on his promise, they are going to use this engagement as a way to explain why he is still living within their territory. This way they will not look weak.
Kai is vey cautious with this girl because of the warning from Phil. "This girl has twice the size of the core for supernatural ability as you do, it is the spirit pawer." Hearing this information made Kai realize the real intention behind shoving this girl into his home.
Kai and Phil share a subconscious mind so he is aware of everything that Kai has. The girl has not said anything to Kai, she no beauty, in fact that boy with colorful hair was prettier than her. He doesn't need to make small talk with a spy.
"It means she has a spirit power that can see through closed doors like mine. She really is a spy." Kai concludes.
" Not just that, in her level, the spirit power can control humans and animals. She is here to brainwash you. What are we going to do?" Phil asked.
"For something like that to happen, she needs to have a bigger sea of consciousness than mine. I am at the foundation establishment realm. Do they not know this or they think I will be surprised and fall into a trap? Maybe she has done it before and they are very confident in her skills. This made him to be very cautious of the girl.
When they got to his place, they found the two girls looking much better than how they were when they got here. They seem to have showered and ate something.
"Feeling better?" Kai asked them seeing the two girls watching TV.
"Who are they? I was under the impression that you lived alone?" The girl, Anna is cold by disposition. Her sharp pair of eyes with deep black irises make her look like a proud empress. The worlds sound like they contain an inherent distain.
"I was under the impression that you're mute." Kai looked at the girl with unfriendly eyes. His eyes flashed a sinister light, this girl must think him a buffoon, she comes here and thinks she will have a say on who stays in his house? What a joke.
She looked at him and coldly stated. "I know you're a poor orphan raised by a mentally unstable woman but it is proper etiquette to introduce people when you are their point of contact."
Kai felt a lump on his chest. Just as he is distracted, the girl extended her mental claws into his head. He felt it and Phil felt it. He didn't say anything and just opened his hand as if to smack her but a blue powdery substance fell on her.
She stood there without any way to retract her mental tentacles. Kai didn't cut them off and just waited. They shrunk on their own and grew smaller. In a matter of seconds her full sea of consciousness suddenly became spacious. The crystal core on her head deemed little by little until all the color leaked out. The crystal core itself is intact but will not hold power anymore.
The yellow powder he had given to Wang Ning is an extreme version of this one. This powder just takes away the power and does not eat away the spirit root preventing a person from ever gaining strength. Even though she can not have a supernatural ability, she can start spirit cultivation or even body cultivation.
This girl had awakened her supernatural abilities when she was just born which showed her immense potential. She was quickly nurtured to subdue more complex enemies whom the family wants to sway to their side or when they want to turn someone into a dog of the Huo family.
Huo Gin or Anna, has done a lot for the family and only the main branch knows of her talent. Even her own mother didn't get to raise her. When she was taken, her parents were told her daughter would grow up to be the lady of the Huo family.
Her parents agreed to it since as a side branch this offer was high honor. She has never even been to a meeting with Huo Jun, instead she has been raised as a child killer to be pointed at this target or that target.
It turns out the real reason the old man was insistent on marriage is because of this? Do they underestimate him or they think too highly of this girl?
"Why is she just standing there?" Xiao Yue, the younger sister to Paige asked.
"I poisoned her." Kai said walking away from the girl. The two girls by the couch stiffened.
"Hmmm?" Paige seemed confused.
"I poisoned her because she tried to do something to my mind with her supernatural power just now." Kai defended.
"She has a supernatural power?" Yue Yue asked amazed.
"She did." Kai said coldly. The girls felt a chill up their spines hearing his words. Does that mean the girl is useless now?
On the way Phil told him she is carrying a communication device. Her masters must be listening.
"How did you know?" Paige asked.
"Don't asked too many questions little princess. Why don't I ask my chef to make us a sumptuous meal to celebrate me getting engaged?" Kai asked.
"You are engaged?" Paige asked a little louder than necessary.
"Yeah. To this ray of sunshine. How lucky! Nanny move my future wife to the guest room in ground floor." Kai said and went away. He instructed the home system to help the girls choose a meal.
He went to the space and walked around nervously. Should he leave his home? Should he kill all the Huo family members? Or go through with the fake engagement and marry this girl to keep them in line?
They won't have an excuse to attack him publicly if he is a member of their family. But that girl is simply too annoying. Perhaps he should make her mute?
Is it so hard to have a simple life of a shut in?
"Don't spiral, just take deep breaths and focus on the next project. Leave the scheming to the politicians and just live your life one robot at a time." Phil said making Kai smile.
"Master?" He heard a voice of one of his soldiers. She was a team captain in the past and now she spends her time putting synthetic material on female robots. This is how Kai's army have increased significantly in the last few months in space time.
"I would like to go out for a while. This place is nice and all but we crave for some battle." She said with determination. It must have taken a lot for her to say it. The soldiers have each managed to trigger supernatural power, only 11 out of 35 people have not been able to trigger powers. They must be eager to give their powers a try.
"You have your space rings?" Kai asked them. When they agreed he smiled.
"I need hospital supplies. I plan to build a hospital in this place and I have to provide my own equipment and medications. You will each take out your team and bring me that equipment." Kai said to the team.
"Hospitals are the places with more zombies than any other place." Lu Mo said with some trepidation.
"If you think you can't handle it..." Kai said.
"We can handle it. We are just worried, being scratched by zombies because some of us are of large stature?" Jiang Xi said scratching his head.
"I will first upgrade your uniforms before you head out. This will be a long trip since I want you to target this hospital," Kai pointed at the isolated hospital that is very large and not under any specific city.
Kai will have to go with them because he needs to make a trip to the company called 'Lumen' that produces construction materials. He needs to 'borrow' a few items for his own use.
Kai took a more time in his space than he had initially anticipated because he had to teach the Ye twins how to command his army. Incase the zombies make it to the villa area, they need to take care of it. He will leave them in the villa with 2000 soldiers inside their space rings each.
They can command such a large army because they are stronger and already have several advantages compared to the other human slaves serving under Kai. He has made them physically superior with medicine and body refinement. Kai has every reason to trust them to complete the task.
After training them for a while, they managed to surprise Kai leaving him completely relieved. He did not for get to give them supplies for their cultivation and general needs during the time he will be away. The children will be coming with him of course.
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"He found out." Huo Jun said staring at the device. They had heard Kai's conversation with Huo Lin.
"He is even more impressive than we thought." Old man Huo smirked.
"He is too cunning." Huo Guo said.
"I think he is cautious." Huo Jun said.
"He is also ruthless." Huo Guo reminded.
"Is he wrong to be?" The old man asked.
"What now?" Guo asked with displeasure.
"She is useless to us now, let her marry him. If he really makes a hospital, then he will be of great use to us even if he is not loyal to us."
"She is not the right choice for this. By the time they marry she will be pumped full of poison, she will probably be a fool."
"It is not her complete health we need, it is her position as his wife." The old man dismissed it.
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"You are going out?" Paige asked dully.
"Yes, I have a few things to pic up. Have you guys made up your mind when you will go to a public base?" Kai asked.
"Do you want us to leave?" Xiao Yue asked Kai with a straight face.
"Do you two want to just stay here for free?" Kai found it incredulous. The girls looked at each other and didn't have anything to say.
"There is a base and you can work in the base to pay for your accommodation and food." Kai spoke while the girls seemed to get more uncomfortable.
"Since I am going out I will take you to the base along the way." Kai said calmly.
"Kai, can we stay? I can provide you with water while Paige was in the chef school. We can work for you." Yue said with a cracking voice. She had seen her father turn into that ugly monster lusting for human flash.
Kai became stunned, stay? on what grounds? He had been willing to let the soldiers stay at that time because they were crippled, the Tang family were a family of a friend, sort of. Why would two perfectly capable people be perpetual guests in his villa?
"I am sorry but you must prepare to leave early tomorrow." Kai said with finality in his voice. He said early because he knows according to Phil's calculations, midday will be the time when zombies will attack the area.
They will be able to fend them off eventually but they will lose a significant amount of their man power. Perhaps he should let the girls stay this day and go when it dies down?
At night, Kai is playing with the twins in one of the previously empty rooms that he had transformed into a nursery for the twins. He let them sleep outside the space whenever he is around. He still hasn't made up his mind about the names of the babies. Coming out of the place, he smells like baby puke so he went to take a shower.
The next day a single truck full of people went out from the villa area. Kai got to see the rapid growth of a tall wide wall all around the city. The outline is already clear to those with vision.
He reached the would be entrance and got out safely with a pass to the check point upon his return. Apparently belonging to one of the powerhouses of the base has its advantages.
The road after leaving the base far behind is bumpy. Mainly because it is full of parts from when the virus erupted and people left the city or tried to but ended up causing accidents on the road. Then there is the dead bodies, limbs, heads, the scene is heartbreaking but Kai had gone out before so he is not too surprised.
The ride is unusually tense as each harbors deep thoughts about the world as it is. As soldiers they are sad. However, remembering their own fates before the world even went to chaos to this extent, they are happy to be amongst the fortunate. Their fortune was meeting Kai.
At home, Huo Gin woke up from the paralysis state, she found she could finally move her limbs. What she fell on the ground kneeling as tears filled her eyes. She has never cried so hard in her life.
As a baby she was told that she has exceptional talent and that she is the one to be by the future head's side as the wife and lady of the clan. But last night, she was shipped off to an uncertain assignment without preparations. Is she resentful? yes!
Huo Gin did not get to enjoy the love of her mother or the doting of her father. Now she is without power which was the one thing her family cared about, she will definitely be discarded by them now. Her parents will no doubt feel humiliated by her failure.
She is a normal person now. This Kai person is scary, she regrets it now. As she thought about her bleak future, even more tears came and she ended up falling asleep that way.
Just as the day is at the peak, resounding roars sounded and a massive army of zombies made it's way to the newly constructed base. All the existing base leaders went to a meeting on how to defend the base against the horde of zombies.
Tensions are high. Many people are not optimistic about the victory of the base against such numbers.
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