Apocalypse on the Run: My Intel System Gives Me the Edge!
Chapter 41

This is Su Chen, respond if you hear me!

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"Sequence?"

Butcher repeated the word.

"Let me go, and I'll tell you!"

Fan Hui trembled all over, but still gritted her teeth and spoke.

She just wanted to stay alive.

Now, all Fan Hui could do inwardly was curse.

That bastard Su Chen!

Why didn't he take me with him?

As for how she had just sold out Su Chen's information, she had completely forgotten about it.

"Fine."

Butcher nodded.

He also let go of her completely, seemingly agreeing to the deal.

"There's a little boy in the trunk who has a Sequence. Su Chen abandoned him because he eats people."

"I was the one who saved him."

Fan Hui deliberately emphasized that last sentence.

She wanted to prove her worth.

In other words, she wanted to tie herself to a Sequence, thereby making him take her seriously.

"Got it!"

Butcher said.

Then his fan-sized palm crushed Fan Hui's head.

Just like a rubber ball.

As the ball burst, Fan Hui's eyeballs popped straight out.

She had died with her eyes open, in a manner of speaking.

Gao Yue's eyes widened as she watched the scene before her in terror.

Not a sound came out of her mouth.

Her body stiffened instinctively, and she had no idea how to react.

"Open the trunk!"

Butcher glanced over and gave the order.

Gao Yue instinctively pressed a button and opened the trunk.

Butcher soon found a boy in the trunk who was still breathing.

After sensing that the boy possessed a Sequence, he lifted him out of the car with one hand.

Butcher then removed a hook from the mask over his mouth and hooked it through the boy's lip.

Xu Zihao soon woke up.

"Name?"

"Xu Zihao."

"You're my son from now on."

"I'm hungry!"

"What do you want to eat?"

"I want to eat..."

Holding Xu Zihao, Butcher asked him a few questions.

Finally.

Xu Zihao licked the blood on Butcher's hand.

Butcher immediately understood exactly what Xu Zihao needed.

A moment later.

Gao Yue was thrown into an iron cage.

The other women soon tore all her clothes off.

The people in the cage could no longer be considered human.

They were very afraid of seeing anyone different.

At the same time.

Xu Zihao was placed in a vehicle.

Of course, seeing Xu Zihao with his red eyes, holding a curved biscuit and sucking on it bit by bit, everyone moved farther away.

Some survivors also pushed the sedan on the national highway off the cliff.

"Ah!"

Just then, a cry rang out from the rear of the convoy.

The searchlight on the fire engine immediately shone toward the back of the convoy.

"Cluck, cluck, cluck~"

In the light stood a Weird Bird with an upright, humanoid posture.

When the Weird Bird raised its head, a ghostly face became visible, along with a serrated beak over a meter long.

The moment the searchlight hit it, the Weird Bird vanished into the darkness.

Butcher glanced behind him and ordered, "Throw some people out. Drive away!"

With that said.

Butcher returned to the off-road vehicle and started it.

"Rumble, rumble!"

As the vehicle started, the convoy members immediately began shouting.

"Butcher!"

"Butcher!"

"Prey on them!!"

The flamethrower on the fire engine also spewed jets of flame into the sky.

"The apocalypse is God!"

"We are the scavengers!"

The music started again, deafeningly loud.

The convoy charged forward again.

What had just happened counted as an initial victory in the hunt; now they were pressing their advantage.

At the same time.

Several naked men in the iron cages at the rear were immediately thrown off the vehicles.

The convoy was occasionally caught by Weird Entities.

At those times, they could only throw out the people in the cages to buy some time.

The men's legs broke after they were thrown off the vehicles.

They could only lie in the middle of the road, struggling to move.

However, the Weird Bird appeared again and picked up a crippled man in its beak.

"Cluck, cluck, cluck."

The Weird Bird let out cheerful, strange cries.

"Aaah~"

The man screamed as soon as the Weird Entity came close.

Before long.

The man stopped moving. He had actually been frightened to death.

After the convoy and the Weird Entity left, a wolf also appeared on the national highway.

The injured Wolf King was walking along the national highway.

At some unknown point.

The Wolf King had fallen behind.

It still pursued them relentlessly, a hint of unfathomable depth in its gleaming green eyes.

They're catching up again?

Su Chen frowned as he looked at the information on the Escape Map.

The last shred of hope in his heart vanished without a trace.

Friend or foe?

They were definitely enemies!

After Gao Yue and Fan Hui's car broke down, he had considered all sorts of possibilities.

If the people in that convoy were good, they would not have caught up so quickly.

Normally, when a convoy saw someone whose car had broken down, they would surely want to help.

That would definitely take some time.

So the convoy would not have caught up so quickly.

What about the Weird Entities chasing them?

The way these people behaved when facing Weird Entities was even more suspicious.

What convoy kept attracting Weird Entities?

There had to be some shady tricks involved.

Conversely.

If the convoy behind them was full of bad people, they would capture the women and interrogate them for information.

Then they would only need to push the broken-down car off the national highway before resuming their pursuit.

Su Chen had already guessed that Fan Hui and Gao Yue would reveal some information.

That didn't matter!

Su Chen did not think the information Fan Hui and Gao Yue revealed would affect the overall situation.

Now, he could conclude that the convoy behind them had ill intentions.

Since they were enemies.

He definitely had to find a way to hinder them to some extent.

If they did nothing but run.

The convoy behind them would only catch up.

Su Chen thought rapidly.

First.

He should abandon some vehicles, sacrificing pawns to save the king.

If they used those vehicles to block the road and set them on fire, the road would be blocked.

Of course, they could not do it just anywhere.

Ideally, the location would catch the other side off guard.

Su Chen looked at the map.

He soon spotted a bend.

There might be a warning sign for that bend.

He would take down the sign outright, then find a way to block the road at the bend.

If the convoy behind them could not swerve in time, there might be a few accidents.

Second.

They had to find a way to attack proactively.

Blocking them would only work temporarily.

Su Chen did not think an obstruction would delay them for very long.

Abandoning vehicles would weaken his own convoy.

If they did not weaken the other side, they would have no chance at all.

Su Chen thought of triggering flash floods and mudslides.

He wondered whether, farther along.

There would be a suitable place to pull that off.

Xiao Zixia's ability might be able to help.

She could sense vegetable oil.

When the time came, they could use a mudslide to reduce the other side's numbers.

They might even be able to counterattack!

Too bad we don't have bombs!

With bombs, we could just blow up the road.

That would work too!

If the convoy behind them wanted to keep pursuing, they would have to repair the road first.

That would cost them plenty of time.

Perhaps Weird Entities would attack them from behind.

Weird Entities?

That's right!

The enemy of one's enemy was a so-called friend.

Su Chen looked at the Fierce Beasts and Weird Entities on the Escape Map, and other ideas came to mind.

The Weird Entities looked powerful.

He could try heading into some dangerous areas, forcing the convoy behind them to face the Weird Entities.

The convoy behind them would definitely suffer losses.

Therefore.

Third, he could use the Weird Entities and Fierce Beasts to launch attacks to some extent.

Once Su Chen had come up with three ideas, he immediately began making arrangements.

"This is Su Chen. Please respond if you hear me. Please respond if you hear me!"

Su Chen immediately began calling over the radio.

"This is Yang Defa. Copy!"

"This is Huang Wei. Copy!"

"This is Xiao Zixia. Copy!"

"This is Chen Siwen. Copy!"

Sensing the tense atmosphere, the convoy members responded one after another.

"This is Su Chen, captain of the Hope Convoy. A survivor convoy behind us is pursuing us with hostile intent."

"As captain, I order you to begin organizing resistance!"

"There's a turn coming up ahead. Make a brief stop first..."

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