There Was No Next Life

"You've paid back what you owed me."

Lin Qi's eyes turned icy. He yanked out the fruit knife buried in Li Xing's heart, then kicked him to the ground.

"Lin Qi!!! I won't let you off even as a ghost!!!"

Li Xing was drenched in blood. He screamed in anguish and tried to struggle to his feet, but his rapidly draining vitality left him unable to perform even that simple action.

"Unfortunately, you won't get the chance."

Lin Qi's expression was cold, colder than anything he had ever seen.

Lin Qi tore away the backpack hanging from Li Xing, with the keys attached to it, and looked into the darkness. Over there, a store clerk entity was slowly approaching!

"Lin Qi, I was wrong! Save me! Please save me! Whatever you want, I'll give it all to you, all of it! Please!!!"

Sensing the entity approaching, Li Xing lost all his earlier defiance. His voice was filled with pleading as he tried to grab the backpack being carried away, but all his efforts were futile.

Lin Qi left decisively, without so much as a backward glance.

But soon, Lin Qi's departing footsteps paused, and hope rose in Li Xing's heart again.

That hope had barely appeared, and before he could speak, Lin Qi's indifferent voice rang out: "I Fine You 800 Yuan!"

"Huh?"

Li Xing froze and instinctively reached for his pocket. At that moment, he seemed to finally understand. "You! You've become..."

"Aah!"

Before he could finish, his words gave way to a scream...

"I Fine You 800 Yuan!"

Lin Qi stepped into the sunlight and reaped another harvest from the store clerk crouched over Li Xing.

The enraged clerk looked around for a target, at a loss. Finding no survivors left nearby, the clerk could only vent all that fury on Li Xing's lifeless corpse...

"Trust really is the cheapest thing in the apocalypse."

Lin Qi quietly watched Li Xing just like that. In that moment, he seemed to mature considerably and see the true nature of humanity in the apocalypse.

Boom!

A terrifying crash erupted inside the supermarket, drawing Lin Qi's attention.

The Extraordinary who had transformed into a black bear was still fighting the shadow. He clearly had a plan, looking for a way to escape as he fought.

Lin Qi's gaze fell on the shadow entity. From somewhere the Extraordinary would not notice, he quietly said, "I Fine You 800 Yuan!"

"Who?! Who was that!!!"

Sensing its Ghost Cash disappear, the shadow roared in fury.

That brief delay gave the Extraordinary his chance to break free. In a few leaps, he plunged straight into the light!

"Damn you! Damn you all!!"

Watching the Extraordinary flee the supermarket, the shadow could do nothing but rage helplessly in the darkness and watch him leave from afar.

After using his ability, Lin Qi had already darted out of the supermarket.

Many of the vehicles outside the supermarket had long since left.

The people watching over the few remaining vehicles were all staring anxiously at the supermarket.

At last, the Extraordinary emerged. His terrifying Giant Bear form gradually shrank back into a burly man. He waved toward the waiting vehicles. "Everyone, pull out. There's no one left alive in the supermarket."

"Sigh."

At his words, the eyes of those waiting filled with sorrow.

Most of their groups were made up of family members, and the companions who had gone inside to search for supplies were their relatives too.

The Giant Bear Extraordinary returned to his truck, and its engine started.

No matter how unwilling the other survivors were, they could only start their vehicles in silence and follow the Extraordinary away.

Lin Qi sat in the SUV's driver's seat and followed the convoy, while part of his attention rested on the virtual screen before him.

After that series of actions, his Ghost Cash balance had now reached four thousand.

He had used his ability six times, and five of those uses had earned him eight hundred Ghost Cash each.

The time he stole from Li Xing had yielded a pitiful hundred Ghost Cash...

To deal with Li Xing easily, he had ended up wasting that hundred Ghost Cash back on him.

"Looks like I'll have to choose my targets carefully before using my ability from now on."

Lin Qi thought it over. The ordinary people in the group were basically all paupers. He absolutely could not waste his ability on them.

As for the convoy's Extraordinaries, stealing from them once or twice might not matter, but doing it too often could easily get him caught and beaten to death.

He did not yet possess an Extraordinary ability that increased his combat strength, nor could he reveal his secret within the group.

Either of his two abilities was enough to make the Extraordinaries in the group wary.

If he were the captain and learned that someone in the group had such an outrageous ability, he would either bring that person under his control or nip the threat in the bud. Neither outcome would be good.

As Lin Qi pondered, he continued following the group, and before long, they reached the main road.

The town's main road ran through its center, dividing the whole town in half.

Almost all the survivors had returned. The vast crowd of refugees numbered a full hundred or more.

Half of them had lost their vehicles during their flight, looking all the more travel-worn and utterly pitiful.

Even the survivors who had vehicles were not having an easy time. Every attempt to gather fuel was a troublesome affair in the apocalypse.

The fleeing convoy was divided into the Transcendent Squad, consisting of the Extraordinaries and a dozen or so subordinates, and the ordinary survivors.

Unless the Transcendent Squad was running low on fuel, the captain would never go to a gas station out of consideration for the ordinary survivors.

The convoy had no fixed route. The captain possessed some ability to detect entities in advance, and every destination was unpredictable.

The only way ordinary survivors could obtain gasoline was to siphon it from abandoned vehicles.

But in many cases, an important resource like gasoline would already have been swept clean by earlier convoys, making it even harder for ordinary survivors to obtain any.

Ultimately, this led to more survivors traveling on foot in the convoy.

After this supply run in the town, many survivors had acquired bicycles, tricycles, and other vehicles that needed no fuel...

Lin Qi had just driven the SUV close to the main road.

At a glance, he singled out a woman in the crowd.

She was tall and fashionably dressed, standing out starkly among the filthy survivors.

This was none other than Lin Qi's girlfriend, the person who had betrayed him together with Li Xing-Huang Li!

Even in the apocalypse, Lin Qi had still kept her well protected.

The SUV's appearance soon caught Huang Li's attention.

Delight shone in her eyes, and she waved her slender right arm in the air as though welcoming a general returning in triumph!

Yet since the apocalypse began, Lin Qi had never seen her this happy!

The SUV drew closer and closer, until Huang Li could make out the figure in the driver's seat. Her waving arm stiffened, and confusion surfaced in her eyes.

Compared with Li Xing, she seemed unable to hide her emotions.

The instant she confirmed it was Lin Qi, she lowered her raised right hand and folded her arms across her chest. Her pretty face, so full of delight, turned cold in an instant. "Lin Qi, why is it you?"