Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies

Chapter 1061: What I say goes

Li Tianyang’s eyes turned bloodshot as he struggled to lift his head, glaring deathly at Zhang Yi.

”Absolute nonsense! Who are you to decide what’s true?”

Zhang Yi stared back at him with an arrogant expression. ”Exactly, what I say goes!”

Li Tianyang trembled with rage, knowing that nothing he said now would matter.

Driven to desperation, he decided to strike first and reached for the gun at his waist. Zhang Yi made no move to stop him.

Just as Li Tianyang aimed the barrel at him, Zhang Yi pulled the trigger first.

The bullet pierced straight through Li Tianyang’s head, leaving a beautiful red dot right between his eyebrows.

The air grew exceptionally still.

The officers from the East Sea Region turned deathly pale, unable to believe that Zhang Yi had actually killed their operations minister without hesitation!

Zhang Yi holstered his gun and spread his hands innocently toward the surrounding crowd.

”Everyone here clearly saw what happened. I had no intention of killing him—he attacked first. I was simply defending myself.”

No one around dared utter a single word in response.

If he dared kill Li Tianyang, he certainly wouldn’t hesitate to eliminate anyone else who spoke out of turn.

Xuanwu’s spirit form floated over to Zhang Yi’s side and said coldly, ”You’ve really outdone yourself this time! Better think carefully about how you’ll explain this to both regions.”

Zhang Yi tilted his head and replied meaningfully to Xuanwu, ”After you became an Epsilon superhuman, did you still handle things with such caution?”

Xuanwu thought for a moment, then suddenly laughed. ”Don’t joke around. Since then, everything I do has been right.”

”Haha...”

”Hahaha...”

The two of them suddenly burst into laughter together.

They were absolutely right—from now on, whatever Zhang Yi did would be considered correct.

He was already an Epsilon. The Huaxu Kingdom needed his power, and Zhu Zheng from the Jiangnan Region wouldn’t blame him for deliberately concealing his strength—instead, he would try even harder to curry favor with him. 𝘳ᴀ𝐍Ｏ𝔟Εṣ

As for the East Sea Region, their anger could be smoothed over as long as the Jiangnan Region paid sufficient compensation.

Because the Jiangnan Region now had its own Epsilon.

And the corpse lying on the ground was already of little concern to anyone.

The position of operations minister was just that—a position, not a person.

With Li Tianyang dead, there would be a Ma Tianyang or Niu Tianyang to take his place.

Xuanwu submerged underwater, while Zhang Yi had the Jiangnan Region personnel brought over.

There was no way he would follow Xuanwu back to the East Sea Region.

After all, he had thoroughly played the East Sea Region this time, and going there would only invite more trouble.

Zhang Yi couldn’t be bothered to argue with them.

He had already decided that after returning to the Jiangnan Region, he would dump this mess on Zhu Zheng to handle.

He had originally been wondering how to explain to Zhu Zheng that he had secretly taken the Divine Source and let the Jiangnan Region personnel go to their deaths.

Now it was perfect—Zhu Zheng had also sent Jingwei to spy on him, which provided the perfect excuse.

Anyway, he no longer needed to worry about Zhu Zheng turning against him. Instead, Zhu Zheng would have to be even more careful about keeping him happy.

This was the law of survival in the apocalypse.

As long as you were strong enough, you would always be right.

The Jiangnan Region personnel were gathered together, many of them wounded, including Situ Xin who had fainted.

But the others had learned the truth that Zhang Yi had become an Epsilon superhuman.

Their eyes were filled with both envy and awe when they looked at him.

Yet remembering how Zhang Yi had tricked them also filled their hearts with resentment.

Zhang Yi paid no attention to any of that.

Once Xuanwu reached the Huaxu Kingdom’s border, Zhang Yi had him surface, then chose to take a ship back with everyone.

Xuanwu couldn’t afford to turn against Zhang Yi at this point either, so he obediently escorted Zhang Yi and the others out.

Zhang Yi opened his Dimensional Gate and took out a massive icebreaker ship, then directed everyone to board.

Deng Shentong and the others boarded one after another, taking all the wounded with them.

”Well then, goodbye, everyone!”

Zhang Yi smiled cheerfully as he bid farewell to Xuanwu and the others.

Among the Four Spirits, only Xuanwu was in decent condition—both Qinglong and Zhuque were severely injured and unable to see them off.

But if those two had actually been here, they probably would have been gnashing their teeth at Zhang Yi.

Xuanwu shrugged indifferently. ”Actually, it’s better if we don’t meet again. When two Epsilons encounter each other, I don’t think it’s a good thing.”

Zhang Yi nodded, thinking of the black-armored strange man in the massive abyss on Star Island, his heart still trembling with fear.

”You’re right about that.”

After bidding farewell to Xuanwu, the giant sea turtle swam toward the East Sea Region.

Zhang Yi directed the soldiers on board to pilot the icebreaker ship toward Tianhai City.

They would go to Tianhai City first, then take the Blizzard City Express Train back to Blizzard City.

Everyone’s attitude toward Zhang Yi had grown increasingly respectful.

If during the journey here they had been angered by Zhang Yi’s laziness,

now the vast majority of them genuinely revered Zhang Yi from the bottom of their hearts.

Some might feel that Zhang Yi’s schemes had caused too many casualties from both regions, including their comrades.

But most people would only acknowledge Zhang Yi’s strength.

Because the strong were always right in whatever they did, and they didn’t need to explain themselves to weaker individuals.

Most people who had survived this long after the apocalypse understood this principle.

However, Deng Shentong and Linghu Feixue might not fully accept Zhang Yi’s methods in their hearts.

After having the wounded settled, Zhang Yi stood alone on the deck, leaning against the railing as he gazed at the blue icy sea.

Deng Shentong and Linghu Feixue approached him.

Deng Shentong wore a helpless expression, while Linghu Feixue’s delicate eyebrows were furrowed with clear dissatisfaction.

”Hey, Old Zhang!”

Deng Shentong raised his hand to greet Zhang Yi.

”Never thought you’d be the final winner this time! Really surprising. But since you’d already become an Epsilon, why didn’t you tell us? That would have reduced our casualties.”

Zhang Yi replied calmly, ”If I had told you, would you have been able to act so convincingly?”

Deng Shentong rubbed his forehead and shook his head helplessly.

Since Zhang Yi had saved his life, he couldn’t really say much.

Linghu Feixue wasn’t as easygoing.

She walked right up to Zhang Yi, lifting her head to stare directly into his eyes. Her ice-blue gaze was incredibly sharp, mixed with intense anger:

”We were comrades! Not enemies. At least when we’re on a mission together, I hope you’ll consider our survival!”

Hearing this, Zhang Yi said nothing, simply turning his gaze toward the vast ocean.

The salty, cold sea wind blew against his combat suit, making it cling more tightly to his skin.

”Actually, none of that matters.”

He suddenly uttered this seemingly random statement, then walked off on his own, saying nothing more to Linghu Feixue or Deng Shentong.

Because he couldn’t be bothered to explain.

Everyone could blame him for this matter, and Zhang Yi didn’t see any problem with that.

Because they were thinking from their own perspectives.

But Zhang Yi didn’t need to explain himself to them either, because he was thinking from his own perspective.

So this conflict had no right or wrong, nor any correct answer.

It was simply a matter of different standpoints.

Then everyone would have to rely on their own abilities.

Author’s Note