Half asleep and half awake, Luo Fan saw balls of light drifting past his eyes. Suddenly, one of them fell toward him.
He made no attempt to dodge, letting the ball of light fall onto him.
He had no idea how much time had passed. In any case, it felt like waking from a nap, without knowing whether he had dozed for two minutes or ten.
Once his awareness cleared, Luo Fan was overjoyed.
His sequence had awakened!
It was a wondrous feeling. With his awakening, Luo Fan naturally understood his own condition.
Assassination sequence Lv1!
Along with his sequence awakening, Luo Fan had also gained a sequence skill of his own: Sap!
Its effect? Very simple: striking an opponent's head would stun them.
As for how long the stun lasted, that depended on various factors, including the difference in strength between the two sides.
Of course, Luo Fan had gained more than just a skill from his sequence awakening.
More importantly, after his sequence awakened, Luo Fan could clearly feel that his physical condition had changed dramatically.
His formerly scrawny body was now much sturdier.
However, it was not the bulky, knotted musculature of Niu Dagang, but a well-proportioned build full of explosive power, giving the impression of a sleek, agile cheetah.
"Everyone, we'll be stopping here for an hour to rest. We'll set off again in an hour."
The middle-aged man walked over and made the announcement to all the survivors.
"Got it, Uncle Li," some of the survivors replied.
Uncle Li was the driver of Zhao Chunfeng's off-road vehicle, and also served as his spokesman.
"Wait, Uncle Li..." Luo Fan spoke up just then, stopping him.
"What is it?" Uncle Li paused as he was about to turn away and looked questioningly at Luo Fan.
"I'd like to see Brother Zhao. My sequence has awakened," Luo Fan said frankly.
A sequence awakening was a good thing. There was nothing to hide.
"His sequence awakened? Isn't he lucky?"
"We've got another sequence user in our convoy? That's great."
"With another sequence user, our convoy's chances of survival should go up a fair bit, right?"
Luo Fan's words shocked all the survivors around him. They began discussing it, looking at him with envy or delight.
"You've awakened? All right, come with me." Uncle Li was briefly taken aback by Luo Fan's words, then a smile immediately spread across his face.
He then led Luo Fan straight to Niu Dagang's bus.
This bus belonged to Niu Dagang. It was a minibus.
But why was Zhao Chunfeng staying in this bus rather than his own off-road vehicle?
Luo Fan soon understood what was going on. Quite a few supplies were piled inside the bus, and Niu Dagang took some of them and handed them to Zhao Chunfeng.
There was probably some sort of deal between them.
"Chunfeng, this is Luo Fan. His sequence has awakened," Uncle Li told Zhao Chunfeng as he brought Luo Fan over.
At those words, both Zhao Chunfeng and Niu Dagang looked at Luo Fan.
"Your sequence awakened? Which sequence did you awaken?" Zhao Chunfeng asked Luo Fan, a smile appearing on his face as well. He was clearly very happy.
"I awakened the assassination sequence," Luo Fan told him frankly.
"The assassination sequence? I remember its starting skill is Sap, right? Not bad. That skill is very well suited to working with Dagang." Zhao Chunfeng nodded at Luo Fan's answer.
"Um, Leader, do you know everything about sequence awakenings?"
He had only just said that he had awakened the assassination sequence, yet Zhao Chunfeng immediately knew what his skill was. Luo Fan was a little surprised as he asked.
"Pfft, hahaha! You really are a newly awakened sequence user." At Luo Fan's question, Zhao Chunfeng reacted as though he had heard something funny.
Brother Niu beside him grinned as well, but the movement tugged at the wound on his shoulder, making Niu Dagang grimace in pain again.
Luo Fan: "???"
He looked at the two of them in confusion. Had he just asked a rather stupid question?
"All right, since you've awakened your sequence, I'll explain some of the basics."
"Although sequence users have different specializations after level 10, with almost no duplicates..."
"Before level 10, there are only eight sequences."
"Your assassination sequence starts with Sap, and once you reach level 6, you can awaken another skill, Spirit Void Step."
"This information is pretty much common knowledge."
Zhao Chunfeng explained it to Luo Fan.
So that was it!
Hearing this, Luo Fan understood.
He had only known that sequence users possessed extraordinary powers and all sorts of strange abilities. He had never expected that they all originally branched out from eight sequences.
After level 10, would they specialize and embark on their own unique specialized sequences?
"Leader, what are the eight sequences and their respective skills?" Luo Fan continued curiously.
"Since you're already a sequence user, you don't need to call me Leader. You look younger than me, so just call me Brother Zhao. Now that you've awakened, we're partners."
Zhao Chunfeng corrected Luo Fan's form of address, then went on to explain the eight initial sequences.
"First is the melee sequence. Its two initial skills are Heavy Strike and Unyielding Body, which you gain at level 6."
At this, Luo Fan cast an unobtrusive glance at Niu Dagang beside him. It seemed he had awakened the melee sequence.
Zhao Chunfeng continued explaining, "Then there's the spell sequence. Its skills are Missile and Flame Ring."
"The support sequence has Healing and Shield."
"The agriculture sequence has Cultivation and Harvest."
"The craftsman sequence has Repair and Socketing."
"The potion sequence has Recovery Potion Crafting and Magic Puppet."
"And mine is the prophecy sequence. Its skills are Divination and Stargazing."
As he listened to Zhao Chunfeng's explanation, Luo Fan silently committed all eight sequences and their skills to memory.
Melee, spell, support, agriculture, craftsman, potion, prophecy, and his own assassination.
Thinking about it, Niu Dagang had Heavy Strike, while he had Sap.
When Niu Dagang was fighting, he could go up and use Sap to stun the enemy? That really wasn't bad.
No wonder Zhao Chunfeng had said his skill worked so well with Niu Dagang's.
"Right, there's one more thing I need to make clear to you first."
After introducing sequence awakenings, Zhao Chunfeng continued, "Since your sequence has awakened, from now on, you'll need to give me a portion of any supplies you gather as payment for my predictions."
"After all, my prophecy sequence has no combat capabilities. You can't expect me to risk my life gathering supplies myself, can you?"
Luo Fan thought Zhao Chunfeng's words made sense.
The survivors were fleeing to escape being hunted by ferocious beasts and uncanny entities, and the prophecy sequence's abilities would greatly improve their chances of escape, allowing them to avoid terrifying beasts and uncanny entities!
So it was indeed only right for sequence users gathering supplies to give a portion to Zhao Chunfeng.
"But those ordinary survivors don't have to pay, while awakened sequence users like us do. Is there a reason for that?" Without objecting, Luo Fan followed up with a puzzled question.
Indeed, he had never seen Zhao Chunfeng take a cut when those survivors gathered supplies.
Logically speaking, those survivors benefited from Zhao Chunfeng just the same.
In the apocalypse, it was only to be expected that ordinary people would be treated unfairly, but here, it was the sequence users receiving unfair treatment instead?
Could it be? Was Zhao Chunfeng an apocalypse bleeding heart?
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