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"Strange. Why was it a screw?"
Lin Yi looked away from the distant convoy and down at the utterly ordinary screw in his hand.
The sudden apocalypse had shattered every rule, and several convoys poured out from all corners of Shanghai.
No one knew how the convoys had formed. All they had was an outdated loudspeaker playing the same message on repeat.
"Please do not leave the convoy. Only by staying with the convoy will you have a chance to survive!"
"Please do not leave the convoy. Only by staying with the convoy will you have a chance to survive!"
The loudspeaker was loud, endlessly playing an elderly voice. Supposedly, the captain had recorded it himself.
Lin Yi did not know what the convoy represented, but he understood that the world had changed!
All of Shanghai had been overrun by supernatural horrors overnight. Screams, cries, and omnipresent horrors ravaged the entire city.
Only by escaping the city could they secure a ticket to survival!
"Lin Yi, where the hell did you go?"
The moment Lin Yi returned to the convoy, an impatient roar came from the sedan ahead.
The speaker was a stylish, attractive woman wearing sunglasses in the passenger seat.
"Hehe, Ruyan, I was just seeing if I could bring back some food."
Lin Yi wore an ingratiating smile, but his heart was filled with cold indifference.
Liu Ruyan, the woman he had once pursued so obsessively, had ultimately made a clown of him.
He had spent almost all his inheritance from his parents on her, only for her to get engaged to the son of some company owner sitting in the driver's seat...
It was laughable when he thought about it.
Had the apocalypse not come, Liu Ruyan's ending would have been a life-for-a-life trade.
Now that the apocalypse had come, everything had become interesting.
"Hmph."
Liu Ruyan shot Lin Yi a disdainful glance, then pulled her head back inside, showing no intention of letting him into the car.
Lin Yi did not mind.
The convoy had a little over a hundred people. The city's roads were already paralyzed, and many had chosen to abandon their vehicles to escape.
As a result, the group was not moving particularly fast.
Lin Yi walked amid the crowded group, his puzzled gaze occasionally falling on the screw in his palm.
"Something's wrong. Very wrong."
Lin Yi frowned slightly.
He had a secret he had never told anyone.
The moment the apocalypse arrived, he had awakened Sequence Transcendence-and two sequences at that.
One sequence was Divine Thief.
The screw in his hand was Divine Thief's handiwork.
With Divine Thief, he could steal whatever he needed according to his thoughts, or let the sequence ability automatically steal the most valuable item without specifying a target.
When they had passed another convoy earlier, he had activated the Divine Thief sequence without a target, only to steal a screw. He could not make sense of it.
"Forget it. Maybe there's really something I don't understand."
Lin Yi casually slipped the screw into his pocket and unconsciously felt along the fingers of his right hand. The bloodstained white bandage around his little finger was particularly glaring.
Sequence Transcendence was not a gift without a price. A certain price had to be paid according to the sequence's strength.
His little finger was the price of the Divine Thief sequence!
Clearly, Divine Thief was not a particularly powerful skill.
As for the other sequence...
Lin Yi looked up at Liu Ruyan.
A blood-red 38 hovered above Liu Ruyan's head!
This was why he had not left Liu Ruyan, and it was also the ability of the Holy Mother sequence!
When his contribution to someone reached one hundred, he could trigger the Holy Mother sequence's ability-death substitution!
As for the price of the Holy Mother sequence, it was two hundred percent pain sensitivity.
That meant any pain he suffered hurt more than it would for others!
"Liu Ruyan, you'd better not let all my efforts go to waste."
A cold smile curled Lin Yi's lips, but he concealed it well.
"Lin Yi, I'm thirsty."
Liu Ruyan stuck out a hand and waved it casually outside the car window.
"Coming right up."
Lin Yi hurried forward, pulled a bottle of mineral water from behind his back, and quickly placed it in Liu Ruyan's hand.
The 38 above Liu Ruyan's head changed to 40.
At the same time, he swiftly activated Divine Thief and stole a bottle of water from Liu Ruyan's trunk.
Even though the trunk was tightly shut, the bottle simply appeared in his hand out of thin air!
He did everything discreetly, casually tucking the water into his hiking backpack while his gaze kept roaming over the vehicles ahead.
"How strange. It's like they knew the apocalypse was coming."
Lin Yi frowned slightly.
The leader was the old man who called himself the guide over the loudspeaker. His vehicle was a modified heavy truck.
The kind that went, "We're all doing our best to stay alive..."
Except now, the heavy truck looked more like a monster, with a menacing thirty-degree steel pushing plate on its front, wire mesh all around, densely packed tires like a centipede's legs, and enormous solar panels on its roof!
Behind the heavy truck was another modified vehicle, though it looked much simpler: just an ordinary modified off-road vehicle.
Behind that was a modified pickup. Its truck bed had been expanded and was packed with people. Once used for cargo, the bed was now tightly enclosed, with only windows left on all sides, like an iron cage.
"Speed up! Keep moving, faster!"
The piercing shout blared through the armored truck's loudspeaker. Without warning, the three vehicles ahead suddenly accelerated.
Before the people in the convoy understood what was happening, several vehicles had already begun chasing after them frantically.
Liu Ruyan's red sedan reacted swiftly too, its engine roaring within a breath.
Lin Yi reacted even faster. Before Liu Ruyan accelerated, he had already scrambled nimbly onto the roof, his head facing backward as he clung to it like an octopus.
Even among those traveling on foot, most began running desperately at that moment.
Having experienced the outbreak of supernatural horrors in Shanghai, almost everyone realized something was wrong.
Unfortunately, by the time some of the slower ones realized it, they had already fallen far behind.
"Aah!"
A scream came from the rear of the convoy.
Lin Yi raised his head and looked. Through the night, past the terrified people fleeing frantically, a black figure a full three meters tall was grabbing an unlucky man amid the billowing dust in the distance.
The man only had time for a single scream before he was torn in half.
The sharp sound made Lin Yi's scalp prickle. Red blood burst like exploding fireworks, instantly staining a small patch of ground.
He could not see the black figure's expression, only its two rows of sharp teeth slowly opening.
"Crunch, crunch."
There was no sound. Lin Yi supplied it in his mind.
Like chewing chicken. Crunchy.
A man over a meter seventy tall was stuffed into its mouth in just a few breaths.
"Gulp."
"This is so fucking freaky."
Lin Yi swallowed hard. He had grown up on his own from an early age, and even with his tenacious will, he could not stop his body from trembling at that moment.
After devouring the unlucky man, the black apparition showed no intention of stopping. Like a terrifying hound, it raced wildly along the road on all fours.
"Aah!"
"Help! Save me..."
Scream after scream pierced the darkness.
Unfortunately, no mighty hero appeared, nor did any savior descend.
They could only become nourishment for that terrifying black apparition, taking their despair with them...
Seeing that they had left the horror so far behind that it was almost out of sight, Lin Yi finally let out a long, stale breath.
"Thank goodness, thank goodness..."
Just as he breathed a sigh of relief...
"Screeech..."
A piercing sound of friction rang out.
Lin Yi felt his body go weightless.
He was flung violently away like a kite with a snapped string.
Suspended in midair, he could only watch the red sedan drift and the man in the driver's seat sneer mockingly.
A moment later, the red sedan had vanished into the darkness.
"You bastard Lu, fuck your mother!"
An enraged roar burst from Lin Yi's mouth.
Then came bone-piercing pain.
Thud!
Lin Yi slammed hard into the roadside. Pain at two hundred percent intensity instantly covered his forehead in cold sweat...
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