A hundred happy years together!

The blood-red dagger was about to pierce Lin Yi's heart.

At that very instant, Sequence: Thief activated!

The blood-red dagger that had been plunging toward his heart simply appeared in his hand.

The instant the blood-red dagger reached his hand, a thick, overpowering stench of blood all but enveloped him. He did not spare the dagger another glance, much less use it to fight back.

He merely darted aside, slipped past the eerie creature that had lost its blood-red dagger, and fled swiftly through the darkness.

The eerie creature seemed to have fallen into a stupor after losing its blood-red dagger, or perhaps suffered a programming error. It stood rooted to the spot in the same dagger-raised pose, motionless for a long time.

Only after Lin Yi disappeared into the night.

Did the black figure finally move.

It seemed to have been drained of all life, its body limp and swaying. Eventually, whatever was inside the black robe dissolved into a pool of blood. The robe drifted down like a fallen leaf, finally settling over the blood...

A night breeze blew past.

The black robe turned to mist, carried away by the night breeze until it vanished...

"It stinks."

As Lin Yi fled, he raised the blood-red dagger in his hand.

Lines of information actually popped out of the blood-red dagger!

[Anomaly name: Broken Blood Dagger.]

[Rumored to be a weapon of an indescribable being, possessing unparalleled sharpness!]

[Wondrous item sequence: 2025.]

[Trait 1, sacrifice: killing can continuously increase the Anomaly's power!]

[Trait 2, rend: wounds inflicted by rending can never heal!]

[Trait 3: locked...]

[Cost of use: offer up your heart, and I shall bless you to devour everything!]

[Note: plunge the Broken Blood Dagger into your heart, and you will obtain a powerful Anomaly! Of course, you will also draw the gaze of an indescribable being!]

"Hiss."

Just reading the description made Lin Yi feel how powerful this thing was.

Never mind its limitless growth potential-rend alone could torment an enemy to death!

"And this is only a sequence 2025 Anomaly. Heaven knows how powerful the Anomalies ahead of it are."

Lin Yi marveled inwardly.

But when he saw the cost of using it, a sharp gleam flickered in his eyes.

Stabbing it into his own heart meant death!

Perhaps the vast majority of Sequence Transcendence beings could not use it, but he was different!

He could use the death substitution of the Sequence Holy Mother to avoid dying entirely!

As for the gaze of an indescribable being?

With the world in its current apocalyptic state, if he did not grow stronger, he would die on some coming day without even having to wait for an indescribable being to find him.

"It's just this stench of blood."

Feeling the thick stench of blood constantly wafting from the Blood Dagger, he could not help frowning.

If he entered the convoy with this thing, it would probably be discovered very soon.

Perhaps Sequence Transcendence beings could carry Anomalies openly.

But until he knew exactly what was going on with the people leading the convoy, he would not choose to reveal that he was a Sequence Transcendence being.

For no other reason than that he valued his life.

After running for about five minutes.

Lin Yi was lucky enough to find a shared bicycle by the roadside.

It might have locked automatically after reaching a certain distance, leaving it unrideable.

But with his physique as a Sequence Transcendence being, Lin Yi easily worked a miracle through brute force!

Riding the shared bicycle, his speed clearly went up another level...

About an hour later.

He finally spotted the convoy in the distance.

The convoy had split into two clearly distinct groups.

One consisted of three vehicles gathered around a modified heavy truck, with a group of people lighting fires and cooking in the middle.

Behind them, ordinary survivors were laboriously chewing their own dry rations.

Lin Yi did not enter the convoy immediately.

He took a roll of gauze from his hiking backpack and began wrapping the blood dagger, layer after layer.

Only after he had wrapped the Blood Dagger into a ball did the stench of blood finally weaken somewhat.

A little of the smell still escaped, but that was no real issue.

After all, in the apocalypse, even ordinary people smelling a little of blood was perfectly normal.

He stuffed the blood dagger into his hiking backpack. Once he was sure there were no problems, he pedaled the shared bicycle into the convoy, puffing and panting like an ordinary person.

Lin Yi's arrival soon drew one gaze after another.

"Hey, handsome, have you seen my boyfriend? He's about this tall..."

"Brother, have you seen my mom? She's wearing a floral dress, she..."

"Boohoo, have you seen my best friend? She's about five foot five..."

No sooner had Lin Yi entered the convoy than quite a few people crowded around him.

Their overlapping questions mingled with a few sobs.

His gaze swept over them one by one, but he sneered inwardly.

Quite a few of them had heartlessly abandoned their own family members to hitch a ride in someone else's car.

He had even seen the woman looking for her best friend kick that very friend, who had been holding on to her, a full two meters away so she could get into a jeep.

Lin Yi said nothing and merely shook his head.

He understood that these people were not looking for answers, only a little solace for their pitiful consciences.

"Young man, you got lucky."

The man driving the jeep smiled and waved to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi returned his smile and continued riding the shared bicycle in search of Liu Ruyan.

He did not like getting too involved with others, especially in the apocalypse.

The man driving the jeep might be warmhearted, a good person.

Unfortunately, in the apocalypse, good people were destined not to live long.

Lin Yi understood this, so he would not become a genuine bleeding heart just because he had the Sequence Holy Mother.

The Sequence Holy Mother was nothing more than a means of survival.

Liu Ruyan's red sedan soon came into view.

As soon as Lin Yi approached, he could hear repeated sobs.

Looking through the window, the corners of his mouth slowly curled upward.

Liu Ruyan was slumped painfully in the front passenger seat. Her right arm was gone, with only blood-soaked gauze haphazardly wrapped around the severed stump at her shoulder.

"Just as I thought."

Lin Yi had already expected this.

The injuries he suffered would be transferred to his target through contributions.

He put away the coldness on his face, then put on his usual ingratiating smile.

Taking off his backpack, he brought gauze, bottled water, bread, and a pile of other things over to the passenger door.

"Ruyan, what happened to you? I have some gauze here!"

"Huh?" Liu Ruyan opened her pain-filled eyes. A flash of disgust crossed them the instant she saw Lin Yi. Then she snatched the supplies with her remaining left hand and tossed them into the car. "You're lucky you're not dead. All right, get lost. Don't disturb my rest."

She waved as though shooing away a fly, and the open window quickly closed, without the slightest trace of gratitude.

Watching this from the driver's seat, Lu Sheng felt no guilt whatsoever for what he had done earlier. Instead, he sneered and raised his middle finger.

At this, Lin Yi's smile remained unchanged.

He quickly darted over to the driver's door, grinning as he pulled out a pile of colorful jewelry and offered it to Lu Sheng. "Hey, Brother Lu, here's to a hundred happy years together."