Apocalypse on the Run: My Intel System Gives Me the Edge!
Chapter 50

Cleaning up the aftermath, the Pig-Killing Knife upgrades!

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He had clearly promised!

He had said he would get his sister back on her feet, yet he had let her lose both legs.

"Su Xi!"

When Su Chen opened his eyes again, he could barely bear to look at her.

"It's all right, Su Chen."

"I can stand again once I get a pair of mechanical legs."

A smile bloomed on Su Xi's face, as radiant as peach blossoms.

She pushed her wheelchair with both hands.

She wanted to get closer to Su Chen and comfort her brother.

Biting his lip, Su Chen stood, came over to the wheelchair, and crouched down.

He lifted her skirt slightly with one hand.

The middle sections of her lower legs were already completely mangled.

The wounds looked as though they had been burned.

Although the bleeding had stopped, the sight was still heartbreaking.

"It's all right, Su Chen."

Su Xi reached out toward Su Chen, offering to pull him up.

Su Chen stood up.

He rested his hand on Su Xi's head, stroked it, and sighed.

"Su Chen, why don't you go take care of the other things?"

"I'm really fine."

Looking at the chaos on the battlefield, Su Xi spoke with great consideration.

The fight had just ended, and there was much to take care of.

Su Chen glanced at the metal ball in Su Xi's hand and could not help asking, "You helped out back at the landslide too, didn't you?"

He remembered how Butcher's convoy had inexplicably stopped during their escape.

Clearly, there had been more to it than a landslide.

"Take a guess!"

Su Xi did not want to answer her brother.

"Then I won't!"

Su Chen patted Su Xi's head again.

The little girl had grown up too, and had ideas of her own.

After checking on his sister, Su Chen returned to the scene of the battle.

The Pig-Killing Knife stood embedded in Butcher's body, gradually devouring the corpse.

Let it be!

Su Chen did not stop it. A stronger Pig-Killing Knife would benefit him and the others.

Then Su Chen checked Huang Wei's condition as well.

Only dying!

At that point, the people up on the cliff also came down after seeing that the battle had been won.

Zhang Xiaomeng immediately rushed over to Huang Wei.

She tore strips of cloth and began stopping Huang Wei's bleeding.

Her tears flowed uncontrollably.

"Senior, don't die!"

Su Chen was somewhat speechless at the sight.

"Stop shaking him. Keep that up and he really will die!"

Su Chen could not help making a sarcastic remark.

For a moment.

Zhang Xiaomeng laughed and cried at once.

After checking on Huang Wei, Su Chen went over to Ye Tong.

He wanted to confiscate Ye Tong's pistol.

A pistol was still quite dangerous.

But disarming the other man right after winning seemed somewhat inappropriate.

So.

Su Chen decided to offer a few reassuring words first.

"I won, and your gamble paid off too!"

"Could you tell me about the convoy?"

Su Chen held his hand straight out to Ye Tong.

He was offering a handshake.

A symbolic courtesy.

Ye Tong glanced at Butcher's corpse, still scarcely able to believe his eyes.

Butcher had actually been killed.

It all felt rather unreal.

After all.

Because of Butcher's brutality, no one had dared try challenging him.

"And you are?"

Ye Tong put his gun in its holster and held out his hand.

He did not know the other man's name.

"My name is Su Chen!"

Su Chen gave his name.

Su Chen!

Ye Tong's eyes widened in disbelief.

This...

He suddenly understood why Butcher had died.

Su Chen had deliberately muddled his name to lower his opponent's guard before launching a surprise attack.

Who could have expected that?

For that instant, even he had thought Su Chen was going to surrender.

"Captain Su!"

Ye Tong clasped Su Chen's hand in both of his and nodded.

After letting go, he continued, "Let me tell you about the Predator Convoy."

"The convoy has four Sequence members in total: me, Butcher, the Strategist, and a boy who just joined."

"The convoy's vanguard is Butcher's vehicle, the Predator."

"In battle, the Predator charges straight at the enemy's most important vehicle."

"The Fire Engine behind it serves as something of a command center. It has a sound system and loudspeakers, and it's called the Crow's Nest."

"The Strategist is in charge of it."

"The Pickup Trucks are called Reapers. They attack other convoys with Heavy Crossbows and guns."

"The motorcycles are Hounds, and there are also trucks in the rear for imprisoning people, called Cages."

Ye Tong told him about the convoy.

"The Strategist?"

Su Chen immediately recalled a piece of information he had received through the Pager earlier.

The Strategist had advanced to Sequence Two and was still unconscious.

"Where is the Strategist?"

Su Chen asked about the Strategist's whereabouts.

"In the fog, probably?"

Ye Tong glanced helplessly at the fog.

Quite a few people had been in the fog earlier and had not made it into the fight in time.

Su Chen immediately headed into the fog.

Everyone in the fog had already been poisoned into unconsciousness.

Su Chen saw the Cage. The people inside had all collapsed in a heap.

No wonder the fighting had been so limited in intensity!

Next, he would have to get people to drive the vehicles out.

The fog was poisonous, and Su Chen had no intention of staying in it.

He had just emerged from the fog when he saw Yang Defa approaching.

With the battle over, the others had also come down from the cliff.

"Yang Defa, have people toss the bodies aside!"

Su Chen took the opportunity to give an order.

Just then, Xiao Zixia came over and said, "Captain, some of them aren't dead."

"Captain, I can cure the poison."

Many of the people on the ground had been knocked unconscious with a combination of thorns and poison.

Within three paces of a poison, there would be an antidote.

So Xiao Zixia had figured out which plant could counteract the poison.

"There's no rush to cure them, is there?"

Hearing that the poison could be cured, Su Chen immediately asked.

He was worried these people might be hard to manage once they were cured.

If there was no rush.

There was no need to remove the poison so quickly.

"Not much of a rush!"

Xiao Zixia shook her head.

That made things easy!

"Then get the antidote supplies ready and prepare to leave."

Su Chen gave her that instruction.

This place was not safe.

Su Chen glanced at the Intelligence System.

On the Escape Map, two Weird Entities were approaching.

They were Weird Entities numbered 95213 and 89945.

The other survivors had people pile all the unconscious people together.

Then they drove the vehicles out.

The School Bus had overturned, and turning it back over was a little more difficult.

At the time, they had planned to overturn it to block the road.

Now it was not so easy to deal with.

With Huang Wei unconscious, they were missing a key source of muscle, making it difficult to right the vehicle.

However.

The survivors paid no mind to that and worked together to turn the vehicle back over from the roadside.

The convoy now had half again as many vehicles.

It also had half again as many people, all unconscious.

Su Chen returned to Butcher's corpse.

After the Pig-Killing Knife's absorption, all that remained of Butcher was his skeleton and armor.

Su Chen picked up his Pig-Killing Knife and took a look.

[Name]: Pig-Killing Knife [Number]: Anomalous Object 100100 [Traits]: It has an owner and likes staying by its owner's side. It is highly compatible with the Butcher Sequence. After absorbing the Butcher Sequence, it has acquired the Sequence's abilities. [Weakness]: Its appetite seems to be growing larger and larger.

The Pig-Killing Knife had evolved, jumping more than twenty thousand places in one go?

Su Chen was still somewhat surprised by the Pig-Killing Knife's evolution.

It had absorbed the Sequence's abilities?

After reading its traits, Su Chen was even more pleasantly surprised and could hardly wait to try it.

As for the increased appetite listed afterward.

That was already outside his considerations.

How big could it possibly get?

Rustle, rustle!

Su Chen had just finished checking the Pig-Killing Knife when he heard faint footsteps in the fog.

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