Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 520 Parallel World (4)

Yan Zhen stayed in this world until he was sixty years old, then withdrew his consciousness and returned to the Quick Transmigration Division.

Jing Chen returned at almost the same time as her.

Outside the gate of the Quick Transmigration Bureau, Jing Chen, like a thief, furtively glanced around. Seeing that no one was around, he quickly went over and hugged Yan Zhen from behind.

In the small world, because he fought too hard in battle when he was young, he began to show various ailments after the age of fifty.

In the last few years of his life, he was almost unable to walk and could only sit in a wheelchair all day.

Although Yan Zhen treated him as before, and would push his wheelchair to take him for walks in her spare time, Jing Chen had not been able to hug her as tightly as he was now for a long time.

Smelling the familiar scent on Yan Zhen, Jing Chen felt much more at ease and whispered, "Want to come to my place later?"

"Ah."

"What do you want to eat? I'll cook it for you."

"Anything is fine." Yan Zhen wasn't picky about food. After thinking for a moment, she added, "Let's bake some cookies."

Xiaoqi really likes Jingchen's cookies; the last batch she brought back was finished in less than a day.

"it is good."

Jing nuzzled her shoulder hard with his chin, wanting to say something more, when the door of the Quick Transmigration Bureau suddenly creaked open.

Like a startled cat, Jing Chen suddenly released Yan Zhen and dodged three meters away with lightning speed, keeping his distance from Yan Zhen with a cold expression.

Two colleagues walked out of the Quick Transmigration Division and saw this scene: the main god and the top-performing task taker of the Quick Transmigration Division returned from outside at the same time. One had a cold expression, and the other had a calm demeanor. Although the two walked towards the entrance of the Quick Transmigration Division at the same time, they ignored each other.

Greetings, Lord God.

"Sister Yan is back."

Jing Chen gave a cool "hmm" and brushed past them.

Yan Zhen smiled slightly and greeted his colleague, "Yes, what time is it now?"

"Five o'clock in the afternoon."

"have you eaten?"

"I ate. The food in the cafeteria was pretty good today. They had steamed lobster."

……

Yan Zhen entered the office and, as usual, checked in on the virtual display screen to officially end the mission.

After checking in, Yan Zhen habitually opened the Quick Transmigration Division's internal network to check his points ranking.

Upon checking, she discovered that her score had returned to first place, while Zhou Yanqing, who had previously surpassed her, had dropped to seventeenth place.

It seems that Zhou Yanqing used points to redeem something.

"What did this guy surnamed Zhou do? He used up so many points all at once," Yan Zhen asked.

Speaking of this, Xiao Qi leaned over with a gossipy look on her face and shared the information she had found out with Yan Zhen.

"I heard he used points to reserve a body."

Yan Zhen raised an eyebrow: "What, is he going back to the real world?"

Many participants spend over a decade, or even several decades, completing tasks and using points to earn the chance to return to the real world and reunite with their loved ones there.

Yan Zhen didn't understand, but he respected.

"No, it seems he reserved his father's body, probably to resurrect his father."

Yan Zhen declined to comment, but said it felt good to be back in first place.

She patted Xiaoqi's head: "I'm leaving now, I'll bring you some cookies when I come back."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Qi immediately and diligently pried open the drawer with its paws, took out a remote key from inside, and placed it in Yan Zhen's hand, not forgetting to remind him, "Take more!"

"understood."

Just as Yan Zhen was about to unlock the key to teleport to Jing Chen's doghouse, there was a knock on the office door: "Miss Yan, are you there?"

Yan Zhen paused and exchanged a glance with Xiao Qi.

Little Seven spread its wings and made a shrugging gesture, indicating that it didn't know who the newcomer was either.

Yan Zhen put away the key, walked over and opened the door.

Standing outside the door was a man who looked to be about twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old. He had a gentle and refined demeanor and looked somewhat familiar.

Yan Zhen asked, "Who are you?"

The man smiled and said, "Zhou Zhiji."

After he finished speaking, he looked at Yan Zhen with anticipation.

Yan Zhen: "..."

Meeting the man's gaze that seemed to ask, "Do you remember now?" Yan Zhen thought for a few seconds and then honestly shook his head: "Sorry, I forgot."

Zhou Zhiji's eyes showed obvious disappointment, but he then smiled and said, "We did the same mission a while ago. You helped me out and prevented me from failing the mission. That mission was about the apocalypse."

In the Quick Transmigration Bureau, "a while ago" could be a month ago or millions of years ago, since the flow of time here is different from that in the mission world.

But after Zhou Zhiji mentioned it, Yan Zhen remembered.

According to the time flow in the Quick Transmigration section, it should be about three months ago when she accepted a post-apocalyptic mission. In the mission, she was a scientist, while Zhou Zhiji was an evolved special forces soldier.

The two had a brief encounter during the mission; she helped Zhou Zhiji cut off his arm, which was infected with the virus, thus preventing him from dying from the infection.

"It's you," Yan Zhen said. "No need for thanks, it was nothing."

Zhou Zhiji couldn't help but smile at her straightforwardness: "I've come looking for you several times, but you've always been on missions. You truly deserve to be the workaholic of the Quick Transmigration Division."

Yan Zhen smiled.

“I owe you a favor,” Zhou Zhiji said sincerely. “But with such a high number of points, you can redeem anything you want without any problem. Giving you a gift would be too insincere. Let me treat you to a meal.”

Yan Zhen declined, saying, "I appreciate your sincerity, but there's no need for a meal."

"Sister Yan, give me a chance to repay this favor, otherwise I'll keep thinking about it." Zhou Zhiji insisted, "It's just a meal, we won't go far, just to the cafeteria. Today's menu is Chinese cuisine, including sweet and sour pork ribs."

Yan Zhen's heart stirred slightly.

Jingchen doesn't have a strong appetite, but he especially likes sweet and sour pork ribs, so I used to pack some for him.

"Okay, let's go then."

The two walked side by side toward the cafeteria. Yan Zhen didn't forget to open the virtual floating screen and send a message to Jing Chen, saying that he would be late.

After having a meal with Zhou Zhiji, Yan Zhen packed a serving of sweet and sour pork ribs to go before leaving.

As the two walked out of the cafeteria, Yan Zhen looked up and saw Jing Chen walking towards them.

Just as she was about to say goodbye to Zhou Zhiji, two colleagues came out of the cafeteria behind her. As they quickened their pace and passed by Yan Zhen and Zhou Zhiji, one of the colleagues deliberately bumped into Zhou Zhiji and winked at him: "Did you catch up?"

Zhou Zhiji blushed and pretended to hit him: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

"You've already eaten together, what's the difference between that and an official announcement?" a colleague teased. "Remember to send a red envelope when you make the official announcement."

Yan Zhen's expression froze, and he subconsciously looked at Jing Chen.

Jing Chen had obviously heard this too. He stopped and looked at Yan Zhen, then at Zhou Zhiji, before finally settling on the sweet and sour pork ribs in Yan Zhen's hand.

He then turned and left without any expression.

Knowing him as Yan Zhen did, she knew he was definitely overthinking things.

She immediately greeted Zhou Zhiji and quickly caught up with him.