Chapter 719: Escape
The large man with a wicked grin, knife in hand, directly blocked their path, seemingly oblivious to the bizarre sight of Lun Qin currently carrying a coffin.
These past few days, since the monster apocalypse began, were arguably the most exhilarating of his life.
Originally a low-level member of a small gang, he had banded together with a few of his lowlife friends and forcibly seized the small supermarket nearby.
Those who had typically disdained him now licked his boots more obediently than dogs, all for a scrap of food.
Initially, he had simply sold the supermarket's goods for ten or twenty times their original price. But after stuffing his pockets full of banknotes and reveling in his excitement for half a day, the man suddenly realized that in this new world, paper money was no different from scrap paper.
So he came up with a brilliant idea—one lay for a loaf of bread.
"To die under the peony, even as a ghost, one remains a romantic."
In any case, they had no shortage of food, and with only two doors, one large and one small, the supermarket was incredibly easy to defend and difficult to assault. In their leisure, they naturally began to vent their excess energy.
......
But she held back. If she truly used this coffin as a weapon, the God inside would probably smite her to death.
So Lun Qin took off her mask and, enduring the vile stench, took a deep breath.
"Whoosh..."
A blast of air shot from her mouth, like a heavy punch, slamming the utterly defenseless man directly into the roadside.
The knife-wielding brute felt as though he’d been struck by a speeding car, his mind replaying memories from his days as a crash-for-cash scammer.
It was a night with a sparse moon and scattered stars.
He and his accomplice had gone out to stage a crash-for-cash scam, but to their surprise, the other driver, too flustered, had stomped on the accelerator instead of the brake and genuinely hit them. Their fake crash had turned into a real hospitalization.
They had indeed extorted money, but it all went to medical bills, suffering for nothing.
......
"People like him, I'd feel my hands get dirty just hitting them." Lun Qin remarked, demonstrating her skill before her brother.
"But isn't this stench even dirtier...?"
"......"
"......"
Several people lay sprawled across the ground.
But inside the supermarket, there was nothing as disgusting as she had imagined; only a few men gathered, drinking and playing cards.
According to their confessions, the siblings were actually the first to encounter the "one lay for a loaf of bread" scheme... Prior to that, they had merely been extorting money at exorbitant prices amidst the chaos.
"Big Sister Boss, can you take me on as your subordinate? I can cook, carry luggage, and I'm especially good at running errands; I can save you a lot of trouble!"
The large man, who had just been beaten for his "one lay for a loaf of bread" remark, was now, in the blink of an eye, all smiles, fawning like a sycophantic dog. The speed of his shift in demeanor and the sheer thickness of his skin utterly surpassed Lun Qin's imagination.
She had never witnessed human shamelessness reach such a degree.
"Scram!"
The large man comically rolled a full circle on the ground.
"......"
"This is a golden thigh; I must latch onto it." After being blown away by a single breath, this thought was all that remained in his mind.
His greatest virtue was his ability to yield and adapt.
Those he could bully, he’d oppress to death; those he needed to flatter, he’d lick to death.
The other thugs, likewise beaten and sprawled on the ground, were also terrified of the violent woman's fists, but they truly couldn't bring themselves to stoop so low. They could only turn their heads away and remain silent.
......
"Big Sister Boss, stop eating dry rations! Come, have some roasted fish; this is delicious." About twenty minutes later, while the two were still resting and eating bread in the supermarket, the large man pulled out a plate of fragrant roasted fish from some unknown corner.
"Holy shit, how did you conjure that?!" This time, it was Lun Heping's turn to be shocked.
"The supermarket doesn't have electricity, but there's a portable gas stove, and all sorts of ingredients for roasted fish..."
"......"
"This is an untamable, ungrateful wolf."
Lun Qin had him pegged.
His expression changed at the drop of a hat; he did whatever he wanted to the weak, and fawned over the strong. If he ever got the chance to turn the tables, he would very likely bite back immediately.
Despite these thoughts, she ultimately persuaded herself to temporarily accept this subordinate and also learned his name: Wu Ren Xing.
After all, having someone to boss around and do all sorts of odd jobs would be much easier and less worrying.
As for loyalty, that was irrelevant; she had never intended to trust anyone anyway.
Her experiences in the previous world had long since accustomed Lun Qin to all this.
And of course, the roasted fish he made was truly delicious.
......
"Pat pat pat." After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Lun Qin gently patted the coffin behind her.
"Why are you inside?" This time, she posed a new question.
"If I come out, the game ends."
"A game? The lives and deaths of billions are just a game in your eyes?! Are all Gods truly this ruthless?
It's only been a few days, and already a billion people have died!"
"You will see more."
"......"
Lun Qin was momentarily speechless. In his voice, she couldn't detect a trace of cruelty, only pure indifference.
"Then what's the content of this game? What determines victory or defeat?" She wanted to know more.
"Kill them all, then obtain the Holy Grail."
"What is the Holy Grail?"
"The key to controlling the future."
"Where is it?"
"Kill all the Apostles, and the Holy Grail will naturally appear."
"Since you know everything and are so powerful, why don't you do it yourself? And those disgusting monsters, you call them Apostles?"
"Why do the Apostles kill people?
How many Apostles are there?
......"
She felt like she had an endless string of questions to ask, but unfortunately, Bai Mo did not respond again.
......
"Another one!"
"Big Sister Boss is mighty!"
Lun Qin punched an Apostle monster, blasting a hole right through it.
This was their fifth day since departing the supermarket.
The large group had finally broken through numerous obstacles and fought their way to the outskirts of New York City.
Lun Qin and her brother alone naturally wouldn't have needed such a long time, but aside from Wu Ren Xing, who proactively became their subordinate, they had been followed by a large number of refugees all along the way.
They were all abandoned residents from the city's west side.
For days, they had been battling against zombies, but what made them feel most helpless was that the living population was dwindling, while the zombie hordes only seemed to grow with every kill.
Some had been their own relatives and friends just days ago, but now they had to chop them into meat paste one by one.
The suddenly appearing Lun Qin, capable of felling a monster with a single punch, naturally became a savior in everyone's eyes.
At first, it was a few people, then dozens, and now thousands followed in her wake.
New York City was, after all, a metropolis with nearly ten million people.
This team of thousands attracted the attention of countless zombies. If not for Lun Qin and several other newly joined Treasured Artifact holders desperately protecting them, they would likely have been washed away and scattered by the zombie horde long ago.
And mixed within the zombie tide were hundreds of special monsters called Apostles. Killing them offered a certain chance of yielding new Treasured Artifact seeds.
But unlike the brainless zombies, if one didn't possess absolute power, killing them would be significantly more difficult. Apostles knew how to hide within zombie hordes, using them as meat shields, and they could even fly...
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