There's No Love In the Deathzone (BL) novel Chapter 612

Chapter 612: Chapter 606. Farewell

Two hours after he woke up, Zein was already out in the Deathzone again.

The surprised reporters flashed their cameras at the few seconds window of Zein’s appearance before the guide entered the car and went away again. He was one of the people the reporters wanted to see the most, but the man hadn’t shown himself at all, and no one was willing to tell them where he was or what he had been doing.

But they weren’t given time for an interview, because the guide immediately dashed away in a car with several espers. The car headed east, across the desert, before turning into a mountain range Bassena had seen before on the first day of their dungeon hopping.

"This feels so stupid," Bassena muttered.

He had seen that mountain range before, but he hadn’t thought of searching on the mountain. To be fair, they were just looking for dungeons and beasts at that time, with only a two-hour time limit. Still, he felt foolish to never think of coming back to look for it.

"What are you doing there, anyway?" Zein asked while patting his annoyed esper’s knee.

"Training," Zhan shrugged his shoulder. "I’m going to get a prosthetic later, but I feel like I should use the chance to train using one hand too--you know, in case the prosthetic malfunctioned in the middle of the fight or something."

Zein raised his brow. It was admirable how the spearman was so nonchalant about having to re-train his whole posture and balance, but...

"In the mountain?"

What kind of spearman-ship training was there to do in the mountain?

"Oh, I want to try climbing with one hand," Zhan laughed lightheartedly as if climbing with one hand was the same as jogging around the neighborhood. "Oh, there--so you see that weirdly shaped boulder? Stop there!"

Lex stopped the car right in front of a huge boulder that Zein thought kind of looked like a two-story high cone. Zhan thought it looked like something else though.

"I was running around and got bored and found this poop-like boulder, so--"

"Poop?"

"Yeah, isn’t it look like that poop emoji? Anyway--"

Zein had to grip Bassena’s arm and sink his face into the esper’s back to muffle his laughter while listening to Zhan’s story. It seemed like the co...poop-shaped boulder intrigued the spearman, who thought it would be fun to try and climb it. It was hard doing it with one hand, but he also had both of his legs to support him, so even though it took a considerably longer time, he managed to reach the tip of the...poop.

Anyway, Zhan felt exhilarated at that moment; the same feeling of accomplishment he got when he was mastering a new technique. It was something he had stopped feeling for a few years now, and the dopamine rush made him think;

Would it feel better if he could climb the whole mountain?

Zein looked up at the mountain, which had an almost ninety-degree slope, and could be called a cliff in some places, and thought--this guy was crazy.

"Did you not think you might die?"

"I did, but thinking you might die means you have no choice but to succeed, right?" Zhan laughed and pointed up. "Let’s go!"

Zein looked at the spearman incredulously, before turning toward Bassena. But he just patted Zein’s back with an empathetic face that said ’that’s just him’ and moved on. It would be tiring to try to understand someone whose life running on adrenaline addiction.

As they walked toward the boulder, however, Bassena tilted his head to ask. "But why didn’t you just mark the place on your map and call us through commlink?"

Zhan raised his left arm, where his commlink was. "My fingers and my commlink are attached to the same arm, you know?"

"Ah..."

"Also, I didn’t know that Zein was already awake," he shrugged. "I thought ’we won’t be able to get it without him anyway’ and so I decided to just come back," Zhan’s patted the boulder he called looking like poop, and spoked with a laugh. "It’s not a hard place to find again

"Well, he’s not wrong for that," Tian Yu chuckled. "But let’s not tire up someone who just woke up."

The fact that he managed to find these shards by pure coincidence because he was just too bored and wanted to play around also felt out of this world. It almost justified all of the jinxes he had induced. _{freewёbn૦νeɭ.com}