Zhao Chunfeng naturally felt the pulsing from Luo Fan as well and realized that he had leveled up.
"You've reached Lv3?" Zhao Chunfeng asked, looking at Luo Fan in surprise.
"Well? Pretty gifted, aren't I? I awakened my Sequence and even reached Lv3 in just a few days." Luo Fan lifted his chin slightly, looking pleased with himself.
Indeed, even counting every day, it had only been four or five days since he awakened his Sequence. Having raised it to Lv3, Luo Fan thought he ought to count as a genius, right?
"Blowing your own trumpet." Zhao Chunfeng rolled his eyes at Luo Fan's smug expression.
"Seriously? You awakened your Sequence almost half a year ago, and you're only Lv10. I reached Lv3 in four or five days, and that doesn't make me a genius? You're not jealous, are you?" Luo Fan asked, his eyes widening at Zhao Chunfeng's jab.
"Sorry, but while it's true that it's been almost half a year and I'm Level 10, it only took me half a month to get from awakening to Level 10," Zhao Chunfeng said.
"Huh? Brother Zhao, you reached Level 10 in half a month? And then you've been stuck for this long?"
Luo Fan had just learned from Zhao Chunfeng that going from Level 10 to a Professional Sequence was a bottleneck.
But he had never expected that bottleneck to hold someone back so firmly.
Without dwelling on his own Professional Sequence, Zhao Chunfeng continued, "So, once you awaken a Basic Sequence, how quickly you level up doesn't really say anything about whether you're a genius."
"It's like playing an online game. While you're hanging around the beginner village, if you're lucky and snag a few extra monsters, you naturally level up faster. What does that have to do with being a genius?"
"The same principle applies to awakening a Basic Sequence."
"It's very easy to level up a Basic Sequence. On top of that, fighting and eating Fierce Beast meat can both greatly speed up the process."
"You've only been awakened for a few days, but you've already taken part in two battles against ranked Fierce Beasts, and you've fought a Sequence User too. Add in the Fierce Beast meat you've eaten, and there's nothing strange about reaching Lv3."
Well, he had thought reaching Lv3 made him a genius, but after Zhao Chunfeng threw this bucket of cold water over him, Luo Fan understood that he had apparently been getting ahead of himself.
After dinner, Luo Fan went straight to the person Zhao Chunfeng wanted him to deal with. He killed the person in front of the Hope Convoy's survivors, serving as a warning to them!
Once they learned that the person had secretly leaked information to another convoy, the survivors had no objection to Luo Fan killing them.
After all, they had seen with their own eyes how the original Luo Family Town Squad treated those survivors. Though everyone was fleeing for their lives, no one wanted to be a dog for the Luo Family Town Squad when they could be treated as a human in the Hope Convoy.
After this, Luo Fan's standing in the Hope Convoy rose a notch. He then returned to his truck and closed his eyes to rest.
Knowing that Zhao Chunfeng's divination had been inaccurate these past two days, Luo Fan did not dare sleep soundly and slept very lightly.
When midnight arrived, the corresponding notification appeared right on schedule.
Check-in successful. Received 30 yuan. Balance: 61 yuan.
The notification flashing past the corner of his vision made Luo Fan open his eyes.
The check-in reward is already 30 yuan a day? In other words, Lv3 corresponds to 30 yuan?
Does each Sequence level gained increase the Check-in Funds by 10 yuan?
With 30 yuan a day, I could live pretty well, couldn't I?
An increase in his Check-in Funds was naturally something to celebrate.
An Xiaoran was a bit of a picky eater and liked drinking plain milk. Before, Luo Fan had thought three yuan a bottle really wasn't worth it.
But now, Luo Fan felt he wouldn't mind supplying her with a bottle of plain milk every day.
She was a growing child, after all. Drinking more milk was good for her.
"Ah!"
Just as Luo Fan was thinking about his current fortune of 61 yuan, a scream suddenly rang out from the survivors' camp, clearly audible in the silence of midnight.
At the sound, Luo Fan opened the truck door and jumped down.
The scream had clearly startled many people. The group, which had been resting in relative quiet, quickly woke up.
When Luo Fan got out, he saw Niu Dagang and Zhao Chunfeng getting out as well.
The three of them then went over together to investigate.
Where the survivors were sleeping out in the open, a dozen or so had already gathered, talking among themselves in an atmosphere of intense fear.
"How am I supposed to go on? H-how am I supposed to go on?"
A woman in her thirties sat slumped on the ground, wailing.
On the rug beside her was a picture depicting a man.
"What's going on? What happened?" Zhao Chunfeng stepped forward and asked.
"Leader, there's an anomaly! An anomaly has attacked the convoy!" someone nearby said fearfully.
As it turned out, this was a young married couple who had fled on foot and spread out a blanket to sleep on that night.
The couple had been sleeping together, but when the wife woke in the middle of the night to use the toilet, she discovered that her husband had become a picture, imprinted right there on the rug.
The horrifying sight had made the woman scream.
An anomaly!
Seeing that the woman's husband had become a picture, everyone in the survivor group was terrified. In the darkness, it felt as though countless eyes were watching them.
Compared with Fierce Beasts, anomalies were what people truly found most terrifying.
Especially anomalies with no physical form, whose abilities completely defied the laws of science.
It was nothing unusual for an entire group of survivors to be wiped out after encountering a terrifying anomaly.
This ability to turn a living person directly from a three-dimensional being into a flat, two-dimensional picture clearly belonged to an anomaly far beyond their comprehension.
Luo Fan and Zhao Chunfeng exchanged a glance, each seeing the gravity in the other's eyes.
There was no doubt this was an anomaly. What was even more frightening was that they had no idea what it looked like or how it turned a living person into a picture.
"An anomaly! Ah, help!" Just then, another cry suddenly rang out.
Luo Fan and the others immediately ran toward the sound.
In the dim moonlight, they could see a man staring ahead in terror.
On the ground beside him was another picture. Clearly, this was another victim.
"You saw the anomaly? What did it look like?" Niu Dagang hurriedly asked the man.
"Help! This anomaly is right in front of me!" the man cried out in terror as he turned and ran toward Luo Fan and the others.
Clearly, when faced with an anomaly, running toward the Sequence Users was his only chance of survival.
Right in front of him? But there's nothing there! Luo Fan and the others' hearts sank at his words.
Could it be an anomaly capable of turning invisible? No, more precisely, an anomaly that other people couldn't see?
But Luo Fan soon dismissed that thought.
Because Luo Fan and the others had originally been standing side-on to the man, now that he was running toward them, they were face-to-face.
Then Luo Fan saw an anomaly appear out of thin air.
This anomaly looked like a flat image far thinner than a sheet of paper, hideous and terrifying. It could only be seen head-on. From the side, as they had been viewing it earlier, it seemed invisible.
Having apparently locked onto the man, the anomaly swiftly drifted toward him. The Paper-Sheet Anomaly struck him directly and actually passed straight through his body.
Immediately afterward, the man who had been running for his life fell straight to the ground and became a flat picture.
"Hiss..."
At this horrifying sight, Luo Fan and the others sucked in a sharp breath.
The other survivors scattered in terror, fleeing for their lives.
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