Arrival at Hot Spring Village, unusually smooth sailing

Hot Spring Village!

Once everyone in the convoy saw those three words, most of their doubts disappeared.

Actually, even if they had been deceived, what did it matter?

There was that scene the convoy had witnessed with their own eyes when leaving the Snowfield.

Even without Su Chen saying anything, they wanted to get as far away as possible.

Was there really anywhere safe in this world?

Everyone still felt a little lost.

A safe hot spring village!

This place now carried a little of everyone's hope, too.

They desperately needed rest.

They had been on the run for two and a half days, with only twelve hours of rest in Banyan Tree Village.

Or rather, they had rested for six hours last night.

Tonight, they had spent another whole night on the move.

They were pushing themselves to the limit.

But in the face of death, exhaustion hardly seemed worth mentioning.

After entering Hot Spring Village, Su Chen opened the system.

He wanted to check the intelligence.

[Host detected arriving at Hot Spring Village. Intelligence has refreshed.]

[1. You can stay safely in Hot Spring Village. There is currently no time limit.]

[2. There is an Anomalous Object in Hot Spring Village. Its attribute is protection.]

[3. There are three other survivors in the village.]

[4. There is a Sequence in the village. It does not have much attack power.]

[5. Within ten kilometers, a convoy of survivors is approaching under the guidance of a Prophet Sequence.]

After reading the first piece of intelligence, Su Chen felt something was strange.

Very strange!

This was the first time he had seen a safe location without a time limit.

Did that mean...?

They could stay here indefinitely and establish a base?

Su Chen felt he needed to see how things stood first.

He kept feeling that something about this place was not quite right.

The initial intelligence.

It could be said that the underlying theme of the entire world was escape.

This was very wrong!

One little village went against the rules of the entire world?

When something was out of the ordinary, there had to be something behind it.

The problem was, the damn system said this place was safe.

It was so contradictory!

The second piece of intelligence.

He had already learned about the Anomalous Object from an earlier piece of intelligence.

Protection?

That seemed to explain why the village was safe.

Three survivors?

To be honest, Su Chen frowned slightly when he saw that number.

It just felt very wrong!

Logically speaking.

With a protective Anomalous Object in the village, there should have been a few more survivors.

Three people.

That was far too few.

Su Chen soon reached the fourth piece of intelligence and saw the Sequence mentioned there.

One of the three was a Sequence?

A Sequence and an Anomalous Object?

It was not that Su Chen liked assuming the worst of others.

He was thinking this way simply because he wanted to be careful.

It was also possible that some villagers had fled while others had fought desperately to resist.

In the end, one of them had awakened as a Sequence.

They had found an Anomalous Object well suited to the village and protected it.

And so, three people had survived.

Su Chen planned to see which person was the Sequence.

No attack power.

Su Chen felt a little disappointed.

After all, what the convoy lacked most was attack power.

Su Chen looked at the fifth piece of intelligence.

Other survivors?

They were coming here?

Su Chen even turned slightly to look toward the village entrance.

To be honest, he was looking forward to it a little.

He did not know when they would meet, and they might even miss each other.

There was no rush.

After reading the intelligence, Su Chen went to a hotel in the village.

The Golden Spring Hotel.

It was the only place in the entire village with any light.

A lantern hung by the entrance.

That was actually a little eerie.

Villages generally did not have hotels.

But this was a resort village, so it had more vacation facilities.

Su Chen drove into the parking lot in front of the hotel and stopped.

After the convoy came to a halt, the lights throughout the hotel gradually came on.

This hotel actually had electricity?

A moment later.

An elderly woman and a little boy appeared at the hotel entrance.

The pairing really was a little strange.

Quite a few people turned their gazes toward Su Chen, questions in their eyes.

Hadn't he said...?

This place would be safe?

Why was there a faintly eerie air about everything?

"Don't worry!"

Su Chen reassured everyone, then took the initiative to approach.

Weren't there supposed to be three people?

Su Chen was also a little puzzled.

"Did you flee here?"

The elderly woman looked Su Chen up and down.

"That's right!"

Su Chen nodded.

He also used the Intelligence System to scan the elderly woman.

There was no response at all.

So the elderly woman was not the Sequence.

Was that Sequence hiding in the shadows?

That was very possible!

After all, a Sequence with little attack power would probably be very afraid of outsiders.

Su Chen had a guess.

Of course, he did not completely let down his guard, either.

"You must be tired?"

"The hotel happens to have hot springs. You can soak in them and ease your fatigue."

"There's food, too. I'll go cook."

"I don't want much. You must have some supplies in your vehicles. I'll just pick out a few suitable things."

"Don't worry, we can discuss it. Other convoys have passed through, and this is how we've done things with them, too."

The elderly woman spoke very skillfully.

She knew when to press and when to give ground.

A kindly smile appeared on her face, making her look quite harmless.

"All right."

Su Chen had no way to refuse this arrangement, either.

After the discussion, he returned to the Refrigerated Truck.

He carried his younger sister out and placed her in the wheelchair.

Su Chen walked over to Xiao Zixia and asked, "When you soak in the hot spring, please remember to look after my sister."

The hot spring hotel had separate baths for men and women, so he could only trouble someone else to look after her.

"I'll take good care of her."

Xiao Zixia glanced at Su Chen and nodded earnestly.

In her eyes, there was something rather charming about the sight of Su Chen asking someone to look after his sister.

And so.

The group split into men and women and entered their respective baths.

This hot spring hotel had taken measures against power outages.

So they could still shower and soak in the hot springs as usual.

Everyone was excited.

Some people even started imitating monkey calls.

The pool water was thirty-eight degrees, and it felt very comfortable once they got in.

Su Chen picked a corner and entered the pool, feeling his body relax considerably.

Yang Defa looked at the spacious hot spring pool and moved closer to Su Chen as well.

Huang Wei was still unconscious, and the wounds on his body could not even come into contact with water.

He had been placed in a body-scrubbing room.

Yang Defa said nothing, simply enjoying his soak.

There was no need to say anything at a time like this. They ought to relax properly.

Yet after closing his eyes, Su Chen vaguely sensed something was wrong.

Too smooth!

Nothing along their journey had gone more smoothly than this.

Could it be...?

He simply wasn't capable of enjoying a peaceful life?

"Have you two noticed anything wrong?"

Su Chen looked at Yang Defa.

"It's just an old woman and a child. What threat could they pose?"

"If there's really a problem, it's that there seem to be only two people left in the village."

Yang Defa shook his head, clearly unconcerned, and mentioned a problem that was not really a problem.

"Aah!!!"

Suddenly, a scream came from the direction of the women's bath next door.

Was his sister all right?!

Su Chen shot to his feet in the pool.

With a bath towel wrapped around his waist, he headed toward the sound.