Chapter 532: Are you still envious of me? |
In the Fair Convoy, everyone had their own little secrets.
Of course, there were also those who had no secrets, like Iron Lion.
That was only because no one had ever hit the nail on the head.
As long as someone asked, Iron Lion would absolutely sell himself out completely.
Since Xu Lina became a Superhuman, no one else in the convoy had ever asked what her side effects were.
Until today.
Xu Lina said those two sentences to Chen Ye.
Chen Ye didn't react, said nothing, and left.
There was no sorrow on Xu Lina's face either.
There was only Xu Lina, standing in the darkness.
As if that was exactly where she belonged.
When she was little, in that remote Mountain Village, her only thought was to study hard and escape that place.
For the land that had raised her.
Xu Lina had no particular affection for it, nor did she feel it was her true hometown.
It was just a place where she had lived a bitter childhood.
Sometimes, when she dreamed at night, Xu Lina would still think of that place.
There, the pigweed was never finished being cut, the chickens never finished being fed, and the farm work and housework were never done.
As a child, the phrase she heard most often was, "What use is it for a girl to study? In the end, isn't she just going to marry someone else?"
Back when she heard that, Xu Lina was still very young. She didn't understand what it meant.
Why could everyone else go to school, but not her?
Later, as she grew older, Xu Lina blossomed into a graceful young woman.
That was when many people started coming to propose marriage.
Some of them were even older than her father.
Good heavens, back then, Xu Lina was only in her teens, hadn't even finished high school.
Even the elders in her family urged her to just drop out and get married.
It wasn't until she left that Mountain Village that Xu Lina learned there was a world like this outside.
To live a better life.
Xu Lina stopped at nothing.
Even when people called her shameless, she paid them no mind.
She even became someone's caged canary and white glove just to climb higher.
Just when her life was finally looking up.
The apocalypse came.
Fleeing all the way, scheming all the way.
Until she learned that she had little time left to live.
It seemed that her entire life had been lived in darkness, never once standing in the light.
Just like right now, standing here, where the bonfire's glow could not reach her.
"You... eavesdropped enough?"
Xu Lina suddenly spoke into the darkness.
Her words carried far into the distance.
A slender figure stepped out from behind a pillar.
The figure slowly approached.
By the half-light of the moon and half-light of the fire, Xu Lina could make out who was coming.
"You heard all of that just now, didn't you?"
"Do you still envy me now?"
The person across from her said nothing.
"Yeah, right now you must be laughing at me inside, saying I exhausted every scheme and still ended up like this!"
"Go ahead and laugh if you want. Maybe in a little while, you won't even have a target left to laugh at."
Xu Lina's voice was as calm as ever.
It was a calm that the Xu Lina of old had never possessed.
The person across from her still didn't move, just looked at Xu Lina with an expression she herself couldn't understand.
"If it were you, would you still choose to walk this path like I did?"
The person across seemed to seriously consider the question.
After a long moment, she answered, "I don't know. That price is too high!"
"And you? If you were given another chance to choose."
Xu Lina let out a light laugh. "If I were given another chance to choose, I definitely wouldn't become a Symbiont!"
"I'm not stupid!"
"The world may be all broken and battered, but a bad life is still better than a good death."
The person across nodded. "I haven't finished my training. I'm leaving now!"
That person was Zhou Xiaoxiao.
Just now, Chen Ye and the others had already noticed Zhou Xiaoxiao hiding there.
But no one exposed her.
As the other was about to leave, Xu Lina asked, "Hey, if you were given another Sequence Serum and still didn't awaken, what would you do?"
Zhou Xiaoxiao's whole body stiffened, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
It seemed this question had been circling in her mind for days.
This was the first time someone had directly asked her.
After several dozen seconds, Zhou Xiaoxiao relaxed and said in a low voice, "Then I'd try harder and find another one!"
With that, Zhou Xiaoxiao left as nimbly as a cat, not giving Xu Lina another chance to speak.
"Such a stubborn child..."
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The Fair Convoy and the Shepherd Convoy had reached a delicate balance.
Of course, this was mainly due to the efforts of both captains.
Plus the Pink-haired Girl suddenly advancing to Sequence 4.
The Sword Immortal Sequence's Sequence 4, even without a fight, had put some pressure on the Shepherd Convoy.
However, that sexy woman had been brimming with fighting spirit these past few days, as if she was eager to battle Sun Xixi.
Chen Ye noticed the woman wasn't focusing on him, which made him quite happy to relax.
Chen Ye's gaze would occasionally sweep over the Shepherd Convoy's supplies.
Every time he saw those supplies, he felt an itch in his heart, wishing they were all his.
The next day, the Shepherd Convoy's captain, Yang Han, found Chu Che.
Then Gong Yong got a new mission.
To help modify the Shepherd Convoy's vehicles.
As payment, the Shepherd Convoy would provide medical services to the Fair Convoy.
They would also supply some food as compensation.
There was naturally no reason to refuse this deal.
So, the Shepherd Convoy's captain released a Concealment Barrier.
At least ensuring the two convoys could spend more time together.
All of the Shepherd Convoy's vehicles had their engines and such completely dismantled.
The Shepherd Convoy believed that, in the apocalypse, searching for supplies was already dangerous enough.
If they also had to solve fuel problems for the vehicles, it would add many dangerous variables to the convoy.
Besides, once a vehicle ran low on fuel, the convoy would face major trouble.
Coincidentally, the convoy had a Breeder Sequence user.
And a Beastman Sequence user.
With these two Superhumans.
It was enough to ensure the convoy's animal-drawn migration.
The cattle, horses, and sheep in the convoy were all the work of the Breeder Sequence user, Zhan Lei.
As long as the convoy didn't migrate toward extreme directions.
The convoy's feed issue wasn't much of a problem.
After the apocalypse, human activity had decreased by ninety-nine point nine-nine percent.
Vegetation in many places had grown wildly.
The convoy's cattle and horses could find feed anywhere.
The other Beastman Sequence user was Boss Ma. Of course, the Fair Convoy didn't yet know that this centaur was actually two Beastman Sequence users combined.
The Beastman Sequence and the Symbiosis Sequence had some similarities.
For example, Tang Le Le, the Beastman Sequence user with a Catman bloodline they had encountered before.
Her abilities were fundamentally different from Boss Ma's.
Although Boss Ma couldn't, like the Breeder Sequence user, cultivate a massive ox like a small mountain.
He could still, to some extent, control the convoy's livestock.
It could be said that the Shepherd Convoy choosing this path was the most suitable one for them.