"Traveling alone? What happened? Wasn't everything going well with your convoy?"
"I don't have a choice. To advance to a Professional Sequence, I need to hunt down a Weird of a higher level than me on my own."
"That advancement requirement is harder than the usual material-gathering ones. Be careful, then. For Sequence Users who haven't spent much time traveling alone, their first solo trip is extremely dangerous."
"That's why I came to you for advice, isn't it?"
"All right, then. I've put together a few rules for traveling alone. Let me tell you about them."
"First, never take risks to hunt Weird or Fierce Beasts, because you never know whether someone will swoop in after you've finally managed to kill your target and reap the rewards."
"Second, don't trust other Sequence Users easily."
"Third, don't sleep too deeply."
"Fourth..."
"Tsk, tsk. Brother Lian, with so many taboos about being out there alone, why not find a reliable team to join? Haven't you always thought our team had a good atmosphere?"
"No. If I were going to join, I would've done it long ago."
"Don't tell me there's a story behind that? Want to tell me about it?"
"Heh."
"Brother Lian, I remember that before the apocalypse, 'heh' was basically an insult, wasn't it?"
"Yes, you remember correctly."
Luo Fan turned off his phone and pursed his lips.
Sure enough, if he hadn't met Lian Ziqiong before, Luo Fan would have found it hard to believe the person on the other end was actually a woman, judging by her way of chatting alone.
Still, the things Lian Ziqiong had warned him to watch out for really were practical.
Over the next three days, the Hope Convoy encountered no major trouble. The occasional Fierce Beasts they came across were easily dealt