Night fell. A bus stood parked in the outskirts, and four people got off, all of them Sequence Users.
Once the four got off, they divided the work clearly, some preparing food and others setting out tables and chairs.
One of them, a young man, said, "I'll gather some dry branches nearby for a fire. It's the dead of winter, but we can't afford the luxury of running the bus's heating."
His three companions nodded at his words.
After letting them know, the young man went to look for dry branches to use as firewood.
He walked about two or three hundred meters and collected a dozen or so branches of varying thickness. Just as he was about to turn back, a crystalline glint in the moonlight suddenly caught his attention.
"What's that?"
Curious, the man took two steps closer, then his expression turned ecstatic. The sparkling thing on the ground was actually a Weird Crystal!
Wasn't this even luckier than finding a gold ring on the street before the apocalypse?
The man immediately dropped the branches in his arms and picked up the Weird Crystal to examine it. Yes, it really was a Weird Crystal.
He had actually found a Weird Crystal just walking along? Was today his lucky day?
Delighted, he slipped the Weird Crystal into his pocket and was about to pick up the branches again.
Suddenly, he caught another glint out of the corner of his eye.
Looking toward it, the man was a little stunned. Another Weird Crystal?
He immediately took seven or eight steps forward and picked this Weird Crystal up too, while curiously surveying the surrounding area.
Having found two Weird Crystals in a row, could there be more nearby?
Sure enough, after searching for a moment, he found a third beneath a