Chapter 152
The mutated Horsehair Worm had been burned to death, but the convoy's mood had grown unbearably grim.
No one had expected things to come to this. Even the supplies they had risked their lives to obtain had turned into something deadly.
Nobody wanted to eat insect eggs.
Xu Mu looked at Pang Xiuxiu's dried-out corpse on the ground and sighed. "She brought it on herself."
"Your machete."
Lin Yi tossed the machete in his hand to Zhou Qingping, then turned and walked away without another word.
Watching him leave, Xu Mu raised his eyebrows slightly and said to Zhou Qingping, "He talked to me about how the convoy should develop. Maybe we were wrong before."
"Sharing resources?" Zhou Qingping understood what he meant.
In truth, he had opposed sharing resources from the very beginning.
Back when he was a celebrity, he had been an award-winning actor, enjoying more resources and people at his disposal. Now that the Apocalypse had come and he had become a Sequence Transcendent, he should, logically, have continued enjoying the resources he deserved.
But what had happened instead?
He actually had to share resources with a bunch of ordinary people, and even protect them on the road.
Why should he?
Zhou Qingping had said nothing throughout their journey. After all, he still needed Xu Mu, their captain, to lead the way.
But now that someone had brought it up, Zhou Qingping immediately warmed to the idea. "We should have changed things long ago. There was no fairness even in peacetime. The whole idea of sharing was something the capitalists came up with. So why should we still share resources now that the Apocalypse is here? What happened today was a wake-up call."
"He told me about the dangers, but I..."
Xu Mu still did