In the bathroom—
Qin Siyang sat on a small wooden stool, giving Li Pengfei a bath.
The shower in the bathroom was extremely hard to control when it came to hot and cold.
Turn it a little to the right and it was icy to the bone. Turn it a little to the left and it was hot like lava.
Trying to find a proper balance between hot and cold was almost impossible.
Qin Siyang was afraid that before he even adjusted the water temperature properly, Li Pengfei's delicate skin would get frostbite or burns and he'd have to carry him off to find Chen Fenghe, who was working overtime at the hospital.
So he could only act like a nanny and wait on Li Pengfei while he bathed.
Only at moments like this did Qin Siyang truly realize that Li Pengfei was just a six or seven year old child.
"Lift your arm. Let me wash your armpit."
"Brother Qin, why are you so nice to me?"
While scrubbing him, Qin Siyang replied irritably, "It's entirely for your dad's sake. Otherwise, why would I care who you are?"
After hearing that, Li Pengfei's gaze dimmed slightly, "I haven't seen my dad in a long time. He's probably dead, right?"
"More or less. He's like a walking corpse. Lift the other arm."
"Brother Qin, you and Uncle Li are both very good to me. Are you close friends with my dad?"
Qin Siyang looked annoyed, "Probably like Chen and Zhang before they fell out with Xiao and Zhu. Wash your butt crack and your little thing yourself."
"Oh! Will your relationship get worse in the future too?"
"Who knows. Half the time I feel like stabbing him with a halberd. Here's the towel. Dry yourself. The bathrobe is hanging at the door. The smaller toothbrush and cup by the sink are yours. Don't mix them up."
"Okay."
After Qin Siyang finished washing up himself, he went to bed.
Lying beside him, Li Pengfei looked at Qin Siyang, whose breathing gradually grew heavier, with a bit of worry and confusion.
'From what Brother Qin said, it sounds like my dad isn't dead?'
'Then where is he?'
Li Pengfei glanced at the dark night outside the window, stared blankly for a while, then closed his eyes and drifted into sleep.
———
The next day, after dropping Li Pengfei off at school, Qin Siyang took the drill pod straight to where the three Wang brothers were staying.
When he maneuvered the drill pod upward to dock beneath the Wang family's courtyard, he had to be careful to avoid obstacles.
Because buried under that courtyard was more than half of a Redstone Termite's remains.
The Redstone Termite was a mid-sized god, its body nearly indestructible, but its pair of compound eyes were its fatal weakness.
It was only more than half because when Qin Siyang had hunted it before, he knew it wasn't worth much money, so he dealt with it casually. He punched straight through from its left compound eye to the right one. Its brain matter spilled everywhere, so it couldn't really count as a complete divine corpse.
Also, because the Redstone Termite was too large, the courtyard couldn't fit the entire body underground. Qin Siyang had removed its wings and only buried the torso remains.
After thinking it over repeatedly, Qin Siyang felt that the method Zheng Mubian mentioned about awakening a sequence for ordinary people wasn't absolute.
Was there really that big of a difference between burying a whole huge mid-sized god beneath a residence and burying most of a slightly smaller one?
Weren't they both dead things anyway?
He'd try it first and see if it could awaken sequence abilities for the three Wang brothers. If it didn't work, he would follow Zheng Mubian's method properly.
Burying the Redstone Termite remains under the courtyard wasn't something Qin Siyang could do himself. At least, he couldn't do it without damaging the buildings above.
So the construction team from Tengfei Group that specialized in confidential projects handled it for him.
Qin Siyang's plan to form a sequence team was practically an open secret with Zhao Longfei. As his entanglement with the Zhao family deepened, Qin Siyang no longer worried about them leaking information.
To persuade Zhao Longfei to send people to help bury the divine remains, Qin Siyang made full use of his eloquence and gave Zhao Longfei a good round of flattery.
Zhao Longfei went all the way and even did some extra work to help conceal the Wang family's identities, making sure no one paid attention to this narrow little courtyard.
When Qin Siyang arrived at the Wang family's courtyard, he saw several strange models set up inside.
Some looked like running beasts, some like crawling insects, and some like flying aliens.
The three brothers, Wang Defa, Wang Deyou, and Wang Dezhong, were wearing soft armor and holding weapons, sparring against these models.
It was obvious they were simulating battles with gods.
Qin Siyang shook his head, thinking that training against lifeless objects wouldn't be of much use.
Just then, the previously motionless models suddenly moved and attacked the three brothers one after another.
Qin Siyang widened his eyes, "Well I'll be damned. These models are pretty smart!"
So he stood to the side and watched for quite a while.
The three Wang brothers were completely focused and didn't notice the extra person standing in the shadow of the courtyard corner.
Only when they were drenched in sweat and taking a break did they spot Qin Siyang.
"Who's that? Oh, Boss Qin!"
"Hello, Boss Qin!"
"Hello, Boss Qin!"
Qin Siyang walked over and patted one of the models that had just fought them, "This thing's not bad."
"It's really useful! As long as we enter a combat stance, these models automatically come to attack us! When we're tired and rest, they stop on their own. We've heard that as our strength improves, they'll automatically increase the difficulty too! It's fully automated from start to finish. It's incredibly advanced!"
After hearing that, Qin Siyang nodded slightly. These models that imitated small gods were probably low-level god-hunting tools.
"Who gave them to you?"
"Uh, that person wouldn't say. He only told us he was a friend of Boss Qin."
The place had been arranged by the Zhao family, so these things were obviously from them too.
Wouldn't reveal their real identity? Probably afraid the Wang brothers might say something wrong and expose the Zhao family's help in building the sequence team.
Qin Siyang nodded, "I was worried that training empty-handed wouldn't prepare you for real combat. Now it seems I was overthinking it. Keep practicing and get used to it."
"Yeah, that's what we were thinking too."
"Defa, Deyou, Dezhong, how's life here with your families? Getting used to it?"
Wang Defa waved his hand, "What's there not to get used to! When the three of us were down and out before, we even fought wild dogs for scraps. Life now feels like we're immortals living in heaven."
Wang Deyou said, "District 7 really is way more developed than where we used to live. Just walking around dazzles us. It feels like we're back in a big city before the apocalypse. Oh, Boss Qin, don't worry. We've told our families to keep a low profile outside and not cause trouble."
Wang Dezhong echoed, "In the ten years since the apocalypse, my wife and I never even dreamed we'd live like this. It's all thanks to Boss Qin."
After chatting about daily life, Qin Siyang's gaze fell back on the models, "No matter how realistic these models are, they're still dead objects. In the end, it's not much different from discussing warfare on paper. Three days from now, the three of you will come with me outside the safe zone to hunt gods."
"Three days?"
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