"Fuck, fuck, fuck! What the fuck even is that thing?!"
Zhu Qing covered three or four meters in a single stride as his body grew to over five meters tall, his head almost touching the ceiling.
Behind him, a somewhat petite-looking Anomalies followed relentlessly. Each roar usually made Zhu Qing run even faster.
With the exit right in front of him, Zhu Qing picked up speed.
Just then, An Xi charged into the supermarket from outside, carrying the White Jade Spear, which shimmered with pale golden light. Her expression changed when she saw Zhu Qing covered in blood.
Zhu Qing was a Sequence 8, yet he had ended up in such a sorry state!
Zhu Qing's expression changed too when he saw An Xi come in. Even with his teammate here, he didn't think they could handle the Anomalies behind him.
He immediately shouted, "Run! That thing behind me is fucking terrifying!"
Zhu Qing's voice was loud enough for even the people outside the supermarket to hear.
Though they didn't know what had happened, everyone's expression changed, and they all ran back the way they had come.
Those who had driven there scrambled into their vehicles as if fleeing for their lives. Those without cars traded the supplies they had painstakingly gathered for a spot inside. Some even clung to the roofs.
In the apocalypse, you ran at the first sign of trouble. Every survivor understood that.
Those who didn't were already dead.
Chu Sheng had been about to follow An Xi into the supermarket, but his expression changed the moment he heard Zhu Qing's voice from inside. Forgetting all about survival points, he turned and sprinted toward his Pickup Truck.
Behind him, An Xi had already turned back as well.
They were nothing if not good at taking advice.
The pickup had already been turned around to make loading the dry goods easier. Chu Sheng climbed inside, ready to drive off.
He floored the accelerator, and the pickup shot forward like an arrow.
Seeing this, An Xi gritted her teeth as she watched Chu Sheng speed away. She planted the White Jade Spear against the ground and vaulted into the air, landing directly in the Pickup Truck bed.
Stepping over the pile of dry goods, An Xi clambered across and climbed from the roof into the passenger seat, then stared at Chu Sheng with wide eyes.
"You're a fucking animal!"
"Couldn't you have waited for us?!"
"Watch your mouth. What do you mean, animal? My name's Chu Sheng!" Chu Sheng protested.
"Zhu Qing told us to run. If I stayed there, wouldn't I be letting his kindness go to waste?"
An Xi looked at his utterly self-righteous face. "You really are a fucking animal!"
"Look who's talking! How come you jumped aboard, then?!"
"I..." An Xi paused, her gaze wandering toward the rearview mirror. She couldn't exactly say it was every man for himself when disaster struck, could she?
If she did, he would definitely turn her insult right back on her.
An Xi hadn't known Chu Sheng for long, but she already understood some aspects of his personality.
Just as she struggled to find something to say, she spotted Zhu Qing in the rearview mirror, sprinting toward them for dear life.
Behind him was an Anomalies moving on tiptoe, an eerie smile on her face that never reached her eyes. Her pitch-black eyes had no whites and betrayed no emotion as she followed Zhu Qing relentlessly.
But An Xi seemed to come up with a good idea. She stuck her head out of the passenger window and shouted behind them, "Zhu Qing, grab my spear and shrink back to normal!"
"I'll pull you back!"
An Xi's voice wasn't loud, but it carried remarkably well, reaching Zhu Qing clearly. Chu Sheng heard it too.
Glancing at the rearview mirror, Chu Sheng slowed down a little. If possible, he still wanted to save Zhu Qing.
For no other reason than to improve his own chances of survival.
Having one more or one fewer Sequence Adept in the convoy made a huge difference, especially a tank-type Sequence Adept like Zhu Qing.
If he kept driving, they might move beyond the White Jade Spear's recall range.
Zhu Qing had now spotted the White Jade Spear that An Xi had used as a vaulting pole. Without hesitation, he covered the distance in a few strides and pulled it from the ground.
At the same time, his body kept shrinking. He held the White Jade Spear in one hand and dragged his enormous backpack with the other.
"Hurry up and pull me back!"
Zhu Qing shouted, his eyes fixed on the Anomalies approaching him step by step on tiptoe.
"Why didn't you come back to marry me?"
The Anomalies's voice was surprisingly calm as she walked toward Zhu Qing, but the closer she came, the more emotion seeped into it.
"I'm pregnant."
"They called me a cheap slut, a whore..."
By the end, her voice had become sharp and piercing.
As those words rang out, the wounds on Zhu Qing's back, which his powerful constitution had stopped from bleeding, burst open. Blood soaked his body once more.
His old wounds reopened, and new ones appeared, tiny but countless.
"Fuck! What does your pregnancy have to do with me?! I'm not the fucking guy who abandoned you!"
Gritting his teeth, Zhu Qing swallowed the Little Supernatural Cherry Tomato he had been holding in his mouth, and the wounds on his body began to heal.
He stared at the Anomalies, who looked just like an actual ghost, seething with anger.
He had been sweeping up supplies in the supermarket when this damned thing appeared beside him. He had originally planned to hold her off briefly and then leave.
But he couldn't touch her!
The damned thing was like a phantom. He couldn't touch her, yet she could touch him and even make wounds appear on his body.
Just then, the White Jade Spear in his hand shifted. Zhu Qing instinctively tightened his grip. A moment later, a powerful force appeared out of nowhere, and the White Jade Spear hurtled away, carrying Zhu Qing and the enormous backpack in his other hand.
"It worked!"
Seeing what had happened behind them, An Xi clenched her fists and gave Chu Sheng a proud look, as though saying, See what I can do now, little buddy?
Chu Sheng ignored her. The moment he saw Zhu Qing being pulled along in the rearview mirror, he floored the accelerator again.
The pickup surged forward, speeding toward the convoy.
Behind the pickup, the White Jade Spear carried the shrunken Zhu Qing, keeping close behind.
At that moment, Zhu Qing was like a link connecting the White Jade Spear to the backpack.
A link that could get generation after generation killed.
Seeing her prey about to escape, the Anomalies let out a shrill scream, sending a ring of air rippling around her. When the sound reached Zhu Qing's ears, he gave a muffled groan.
"Ugh..."
An inexplicable drowsiness settled over Zhu Qing's mind. All he wanted to do was sleep.
He wanted nothing to do with anything else.
But he wasn't stupid. Despite the sensation, his hand maintained a death grip on the White Jade Spear's shaft.
Inside the Pickup Truck, Chu Sheng and An Xi heard the shrill scream too. Chu Sheng felt as though his mind had taken a heavy blow. Exhaustion washed over him, making it difficult to keep his eyes open.
Realizing something was wrong, he pressed the accelerator down even harder.
Anomalies. Far too eerie!
This Anomalies really was eerie!
She had far too many inexplicable tricks.
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