Along the way, the four encountered scattered eerie creatures, but with four Sequence Transcendents working together, the lesser creatures rarely lasted more than a few exchanges.
Suddenly, dazzling headlights pierced the darkness.
In the distance, five battered vehicles were approaching along a side road.
A young man wearing psychiatric hospital pajamas sat cross-legged on the roof of the off-road vehicle at the front.
The instant they saw the convoy, Xu Zhong and Clown visibly froze.
Then Xu Zhong waved his arms wildly. "Zhao Xing! Zhao Xing!"
"Huh?"
The initially wary young man in hospital pajamas sprang down from the roof, his voice excited. "Uncle Xu! Clown! You're actually still alive!"
Lin Yi understood. They knew each other.
"Zhao Xing, let me introduce you. This is Lin Yi..."
As they talked, they climbed into the lead off-road vehicle.
Since Lin Yi could locate the convoy's direction, he took the driver's seat.
With vehicles to travel in, they all relaxed considerably.
"Thank you."
Zhao Xing looked at Lin Yi with complete sincerity.
Twenty Contribution popped up above his head.
So sincere.
Lin Yi was speechless, but he returned a smile. "It was no trouble."
Seeing that Lin Yi was rather aloof, Zhao Xing stopped bothering him and began talking with Xu Zhong and Clown instead.
Listening to their conversation, Lin Yi picked up the gist.
Eerie creatures had scattered their group of several hundred people.
Half had died, and half had escaped.
Those who escaped had also been separated.
Zhao Xing belonged to the psychiatrist sequence.
His sequence ability seemed to be a mental power that could drive its target toward madness.
It could even be used on eerie creatures.
Once attacked, an eerie creature would become deranged and indiscriminately attack everything around it...
Listening to their conversation along the way, Lin Yi soon saw a camp with burning bonfires finally come into view.
"We're here."
Lin Yi's voice roused them from their grief.
They looked at the convoy ahead, filled with excitement.
"We... survived..."
Xu Zhong sighed deeply, but his expression was very complicated.
The vehicles' arrival naturally caught Elder Qi and the others' attention.
Several sequence users emerged, appearing at the front of the convoy.
Holding a megaphone, Elder Qi called, "Please stop."
Screech.
The five vehicles stopped ten meters from the convoy.
Quite a few people from the convoy gathered around curiously.
Since the apocalypse, they had rarely seen other living people.
"Elder Qi, it's me."
Lin Yi stepped out of the driver's seat.
Elder Qi's tense expression eased considerably.
"Lin Yi, you're still alive?"
Elder Qi was somewhat surprised.
"If you'd run any faster, I'd have been done for." Lin Yi rolled his eyes.
Elder Qi and the others couldn't help looking a little embarrassed.
Xu Zhong and the others also got out. The survivors in the other four vehicles totaled over forty people.
One of those vehicles was a bus, which carried the most people.
"You talk. I still have some things to settle."
Lin Yi waved and headed into the convoy with Da Sha without looking back.
Elder Qi didn't stop him. With Lin Yi making the introduction, these negotiations should be easy.
Watching the three approaching figures, Bai Xiaoyu's mouth twitched involuntarily.
A lunatic, a clown, and a beggar...
We might as well rename ourselves the Trash Convoy...
Lin Yi had no interest in knowing what Elder Qi discussed with Xu Zhong and the others.
Instead, he hummed a tune as he approached the jeep.
"Lu Sheng, Xiao Chusheng, shouldn't we have a proper chat..."
Lin Yi toyed with an ordinary dagger.
Da Sha stood behind him like a bodyguard, holding the Rolling Pin.
An invisible pressure enveloped the area around the jeep.
"Lin Yi, y-you can't..."
"This is the convoy! Fighting isn't allowed!"
The moment Lu Sheng saw Lin Yi, his face went considerably paler.
But he still stiffened his neck and stammered.
"Oh..."
Lin Yi spoke, and Lu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief.
But soon, Lin Yi revealed a playful smile. "So what?"
"Y-you, you!"
Lu Sheng suddenly shouted, "Murder! Help!"
"What's going on?" Li Yong came over at the sound.
Lu Sheng looked as though he had found someone to rely on.
Amusement flickered in Lin Yi's eyes. He couldn't even be bothered to explain. "If I remember correctly, the convoy has a rule that Sequence Transcendents can ignore the rules, right?"
"Besides, these two tried to get me killed..."
As he spoke, the Blood Dagger appeared in his hand, and he kept turning it over.
Lin Yi had thought through his decision to reveal that he was a Sequence Transcendent.
When he returned with Xu Zhong and the others, that fact had already been completely exposed.
Rather than let people hear it from someone else, he might as well reveal it himself.
Of course, he absolutely could not reveal the saint mother sequence.
If the saint mother sequence were exposed, it would be easy to connect it to the teammates who had died inexplicably.
How would he keep sowing his kindness then?
Li Yong's pupils contracted. "Lin Yi, what sequence did you awaken?"
Lin Yi spun the Blood Dagger in a beautiful flourish and casually made something up. "Assassin!"
"Hiss..." Li Yong was somewhat puzzled. How had such a kind boy like Lin Yi awakened such an underhanded sequence...?
Lu Sheng's face went even paler. "Y-you, you... How could you be a Sequence Transcendent?"
"Heh."
Lin Yi said nothing, dragging Lu Sheng toward the darkness. No matter how Lu Sheng struggled, it was useless.
"Oh, right. Da Sha, bring that one too."
Lin Yi waved.
Da Sha carried Xiao Chusheng into the darkness by the neck.
From beginning to end, Li Yong said nothing more, merely watching everything unfold in silence.
"All right, all right, disperse. There's nothing to see."
At this sight, the survivors were filled with terror.
That lunatic had become a Sequence Transcendent! And an underhanded assassin at that!
Those who had once scrambled to snatch Lin Yi's supplies went deathly pale at the sight.
Lin Yi and Da Sha brought the two into the deserted darkness.
Lin Yi glanced at Xiao Chusheng. Looking at the seventy Contribution above his head, he really did feel a little reluctant...
"Lin Yi, Brother Lin, Master Lin, please spare me." Lu Sheng banged his forehead against the ground, trying to secure a chance to live.
Xiao Chusheng, on the other hand, remained completely silent.
"Xiao Chusheng, you don't seem very scared?" Lin Yi studied Xiao Chusheng in some surprise, then smiled at Lu Sheng. "I'm a kind person. How about this? You two fight, and I'll give whoever survives a chance."
As soon as Lin Yi finished speaking, before Xiao Chusheng reacted, Lu Sheng seemed to find hope of survival.
He grabbed a rock beside him and smashed it viciously at Xiao Chusheng's head.
Xiao Chusheng simply stood there without dodging, a strange smile on his face, as though he had frozen.
Thud!
The rock slammed into Xiao Chusheng's head.
Xiao Chusheng's eyes rolled back, and he collapsed, blood pouring from his forehead.
"B-Brother Lin, c-can you let me go now?"
Ignoring the blood on his hands completely, Lu Sheng's eyes brimmed with the desire to live.
"Of course."
A smile curved Lin Yi's lips.
"Th-thank you!"
At those words, Lu Sheng bobbed his head like a pestle pounding garlic, repeatedly banging it against the ground.
Lin Yi hadn't intended to leave any survivors, but when he saw Lu Sheng's Contribution instantly soar to a hundred, he instinctively suppressed his killing intent.
"Sure enough, the old saying was right. Saving one life is better than building a seven-story pagoda!"
Ignoring Lu Sheng's cries of thanks, Lin Yi turned and headed toward the convoy.
"Lin Yi!"
Watching Lin Yi's retreating back, Lu Sheng clenched his fists until they creaked.
He could no longer suppress the hatred in his eyes.
Sensing the killing intent behind him, Lin Yi didn't care in the slightest.
Sorry, killing me means killing yourself...
Lin Yi left the undergrowth but didn't go far.
He scrambled up a nearby tree in a few moves, his sharp gaze fixed on Xiao Chusheng's corpse.
Xiao Chusheng was dead, yet he seemed not to be.
Because the Contribution above the dead Xiao Chusheng's head hadn't disappeared.
That vivid red seventy still flickered with a bloody glow in the night!
Sure enough, just as Lu Sheng stood up.
The skin of the already dead Xiao Chusheng beside him suddenly split open.
Crack, crack, crack...
The sound of stiff twisting was particularly clear in the undergrowth.
Lu Sheng instinctively turned to look.
The instant he turned, a pair of skeletal claws clamped around his neck.
"Urk, urk, urk!"
Lu Sheng's eyes bulged, his face filled with unrelenting terror.
He wanted to say something, but he couldn't speak no matter how hard he tried.
Only fear spread through the surroundings.
White Bone moved swiftly and cleanly.
Rip.
The dead Lu Sheng's skin was abruptly peeled away. With practiced ease, White Bone removed Lu Sheng's skeleton and burrowed into his body.
"Hehehe, human fear really is delicious..."
A sinister smile flickered across "Lu Sheng's" face as his tongue licked the corner of his mouth.
Soon, the smile vanished from his face, replaced by fear.
Imitating Lu Sheng's gait, he walked toward the camp step by step...
"So that's it. I didn't expect Xiao Chusheng to be the eerie creature Da Sha saw through."
Seeing this, Lin Yi understood immediately.
However, he had no intention of reporting it to Elder Qi.
Simply because...
The seventy Contribution that had originally been above Xiao Chusheng's head.
At the moment White Bone put on Lu Sheng's skin.
Had turned straight into 170!
It had broken through the saint mother sequence's limit of 100!
For Lin Yi, this situation was a completely unexpected windfall.
As for whether this eerie creature would continue slaughtering survivors?
Wasn't that a good thing?
Ordinary people could die at any moment, and their Contribution would go to waste.
But this eerie creature...
At the thought, Lin Yi couldn't suppress the smile tugging at his lips.
The eerie creature thought it had hidden itself well, but with that blood-red, off-the-charts Contribution, Lin Yi could spot it at a glance wherever it went.
To Lin Yi, it was practically a mobile healing fountain!
"Lu Sheng" returned to the convoy, and quite a few people saw his wretched state.
As for Xiao Chusheng, who had vanished, everyone could guess what had happened.
For a moment, countless people's fear of Lin Yi shot straight up!
Lin Yi quietly climbed down from the tree and, taking Da Sha, who had obediently stayed hidden in the bushes feeding the mosquitoes, sneaked back to the edge of Sequence Transcendence's core convoy.
He rummaged casually through his backpack for some food and began eating.
Before long, a dense crowd came toward him.
He looked up and saw that it was dozens of gray survivors with Contribution displayed above their heads...
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