Sequence Awakening, Machine Soul Master?

By the time Su Chen drove out of the white fog, the sun had just crested the mountain ridge.

The morning sun rose in the east.

Su Chen glanced at the sun, momentarily lost in thought.

Only a single night had passed between the Red Moon's appearance and its setting.

He felt as though he hadn't seen the sun in a month.

With the sun out, the whole world seemed much safer.

Su Chen continued driving north.

In the rearview mirror.

Yang Defa and Zhang Xiaomeng had both emerged from the white fog and caught up.

The group had lost some people.

Not many.

Just then, Su Chen actually saw Gao Yue's car following them.

She'd caught up?

Su Chen clearly remembered Gao Yue's car heading toward the village entrance.

She'd actually caught up?

Sure enough.

The wicked really did live forever!

At the same time.

Gao Yue saw the sunlight illuminating the road ahead.

For a moment, tears filled her eyes.

Just a moment ago, there had still been thick fog ahead.

She had seen Su Chen.

Su Chen had stood in the middle of the road, waving for him to stop.

Su Chen!

Without hesitation, Gao Yue had driven straight over him.

However.

Gao Yue hadn't felt herself run over anything.

At that moment, she had known something was wrong.

Sure enough.

A woman dressed in white had appeared in the back seat.

Her face was pale and stiff.

She stared fixedly at her.

Having seen the Tree People, Gao Yue had actually calmed down a little when faced with this kind of Weird Entity.

The car hadn't stopped and had continued forward.

Suddenly, beams of light had pierced the thick fog like swords, breaking through the mist.

Gao Yue had seen the road clearly and sped up.

The female Weird Entity in the back seat had vanished from sight as well.

A convoy lay right ahead.

At its head was Su Chen's refrigerated truck.

"Didn't Su Chen just die?"

Fan Hui was still looking back.

She had also seen Su Chen get into a car accident just now and had been feeling pleased.

"That was fake."

Gao Yue spoke helplessly.

That Su Chen had definitely been some kind of inexplicable monster.

The world was gradually becoming something she couldn't understand.

"What rotten luck!"

Looking at Su Chen's convoy, Fan Hui couldn't help grumbling.

Suddenly, a tree moved in the grass beside them.

It was one of the Tree People.

The tree person pushed off with both legs, trying to jump onto the car.

Bang!

Gao Yue felt something hit the car, knocking it off course.

A dent immediately appeared in the door.

Joy had turned to sorrow!

Gao Yue immediately turned the steering wheel, bringing the car back under control.

She stepped on the accelerator again.

Where had this tree person come from?

Gao Yue had no time to think.

With the tree person pursuing them, she sped up again.

"Drive faster!"

"Get ahead of them."

Looking at the tree person pressed against the window, Fan Hui trembled.

Gao Yue gritted her teeth and kept accelerating, trying to catch up to the others.

We can't stay at the back.

Get to the front.

Then the tree person will attack someone else.

Su Chen also saw the tree person appear in his rearview mirror.

He stepped on the accelerator and sped up.

The convoy followed behind Su Chen, naturally accelerating along with him.

As a result, Gao Yue remained at the rear.

The tree person behind them could catch up at any moment.

Gao Yue wanted to curse, but there was nothing she could do.

After all, the tree person was still following them.

Watching the tree person, Su Chen thought of the intelligence about the Tree People.

That tree person had been hiding among the group and might have revealed its true form after being affected by another Weird Entity.

There was no telling.

Within the group.

Were there any other Tree People?

Fortunately, he had told Yang Defa about it, so there might be some clues.

But even if they found one.

They might not be able to beat it.

They did have black dog blood, incense ash, and the Pig-Killing Knife.

But it was hard to say how effective those would be against it.

As he drove, Su Chen thought about how to deal with the Tree People.

He had no idea.

Su Chen watched the roadside as he drove.

There were fields, mountain forests, and slopes on either side of the country road.

Occasionally.

They could also see some houses.

Those were other villages.

With the tree person behind them, no one dared stop.

In fact.

They wouldn't have dared stop even without the tree person.

Having just experienced the thick fog in Banyan Tree Village, who knew what was happening in the other villages?

Villages like these had no supplies either, making them even less worth the risk.

Following the map, the vehicles drove past the villages, heading north all the way.

Half an hour later.

The convoy returned to the national highway.

Su Chen didn't know what this national highway was called, either.

The escape map didn't show it.

Back on the national highway, Su Chen immediately felt that the world was different.

The national highway, which had once carried plenty of traffic, was now utterly empty, with hardly any vehicles.

A single night had passed.

It was as though everyone in the world had disappeared.

The tree person chasing the convoy, however, was gone.

Perhaps they had shaken it off.

Or perhaps it had stayed in one of the villages along the country road.

That no longer mattered.

Su Chen began looking forward to the gas station.

The system had said.

There was a gas station fifteen kilometers away.

There were gas stations at expressway service areas, along provincial roads and national highways, and in cities.

Now that they were on the national highway, they would probably find a gas station soon.

Su Chen's refrigerated truck was a hybrid fitted with solar panels, so even without gasoline, he didn't have to worry about it breaking down.

But they really did have to think about refueling the trucks and motorcycles Yang Defa and the others were driving.

Of course, he had fuel cans filled with gasoline in his truck, just in case.

He could also trade it with other people later.

Su Chen had another consideration as well: refreshing the intelligence.

The points on the map should allow the intelligence to refresh.

A good piece of intelligence wasn't necessarily worth less than fuel.

"Mmm..."

Suddenly, a sound came from the passenger seat.

Su Chen turned to look.

Su Xi's eyelids fluttered, a blanket covering her stomach.

The unconscious Su Xi had woken up.

Did this mean her Sequence Awakening had succeeded?

Su Chen used the Intelligence System to look at Su Xi.

He immediately received some intelligence.

[Name]: Su Xi

[Sequence]: Machine Soul Master

[Level]: Sequence One

[Ability]: Can awaken the souls of machines, thereby learning their condition.

[Price]: Flesh is weak; ascend through machinery. Flesh and blood will be sacrificed and replaced with machinery.

Ability and price?

So this was a Sequence?

Machine Soul Master.

Su Chen had never imagined that his younger sister would have anything to do with machinery.

After all.

Apart from her wheelchair and phone, his sister had never had any contact with machinery.

Even Yang Defa would have been more likely than his sister to awaken something related to machinery.

But.

Sequence Awakening didn't seem to follow any logic.

Machine souls?

Did machines have souls?

Su Chen didn't quite understand the ability.

But.

The price listed afterward made him frown slightly.

Did this mean his sister would lose all her flesh and blood?

Su Chen was a little worried.

Even if Su Xi never awakened a Sequence, he could still protect her.

She was his little sister.

On the other hand.

Could the price be more than she could bear?

After Su Xi opened her eyes, she looked around in confusion.

The moment she saw Su Chen, her eyes lit up.

"Big brother~"

Su Xi called out to Su Chen, then looked out the window and asked, "Have we left the village?"

Her memories still stopped at the Yang family's home in Banyan Tree Village.

"Yes."

"We've already left Banyan Tree Village. Are you feeling all right?"

"Would you like something to eat?"

Su Chen had specifically put some snacks in the cab.

"I..."

After Su Chen asked, Su Xi closed her eyes again, then opened them with joy.

"Brother."

"I think I can hear it. The vehicle is happy."

After saying that, Su Xi's own face was full of puzzlement.

She did not know why she could sense the vehicle's condition, either.

But she really had sensed it.

"What else?"

Su Chen continued asking with concern, "Does anything feel wrong with your body?"

What concerned Su Chen most was the price.

"No."

Su Xi closed her eyes to check again, then shook her head.

She felt no discomfort and even felt full of energy.

Su Chen, however, glanced at his sister's legs.

Could it be...

Because her legs were already disabled, she couldn't feel the price?

Perhaps.

When the information refreshed later...

He would be able to see more information about the Machine Soul Master Sequence.

Even though Su Chen worried that something might go wrong with Su Xi awakening a Sequence,

she had already awakened it, and there really was nothing he could do.

He could only try his best to lessen the price in the future.

"Big brother, there's a gas station up ahead!"

Su Xi observed their surroundings and soon spotted the gas station ahead.

Su Chen also pulled his attention away from the Sequence information and looked ahead.

By the roadside.

There stood a gas station.

Finally here!

However, Su Chen did not drive straight into the gas station.

He stopped the vehicle while they were still some distance away.

The convoy behind him followed his lead, and they all stopped their vehicles.