Chapter 22 Desert Gas Station - 9 Lu Yi was unaware...

Lu Yi didn't know why Anderson wasn't rushing out to attack him. The previous two times, Anderson had charged at him like a mad dog on his motorcycle, but this time he was hiding in the shadows.

Is it because there's someone with me this time? Lu Yi looked at Tang Bufan, hugging the basket and getting closer to him.

"Give me the basket," Tang Bufan said to him in a low voice, placing the oil lamp on the windowsill.

He didn't want the basket to affect Lu Yi.

"Can you carry this?" Lu Yi was considering whether to put down the basket in his hand and take Tang Bufan back to the RV first.

"I can carry it." Tang Bufan saw through his intention, but he didn't want to give up things like soap and nightlights.

Lu Yi hesitated for a moment before handing the heavy wicker basket to Tang Bufan. Tang Bufan was slumped down by the weight, his legs bending slightly.

"...Maybe you shouldn't force yourself."

"I said I could." Tang Bufan stubbornly insisted, bending his legs and struggling to carry the basket outside.

Lu Yi simply reached out and wrapped her arms around his waist, lifting Tang Bufan up, which immediately made Tang Bufan feel more relaxed.

The two then walked out arm in arm. Lu Yi's steps were unhurried, while Tang Bufan lowered his head and pretended to look at the things in the basket. Both of them were wondering why Anderson didn't come out.

But since the other party has chosen not to move, there is no need for them to take the initiative to make things clear.

"What are we going to do with the oil tomorrow?" Tang Bufan asked Lu Yi. Their purpose in coming to this gas station was to get those dozen or so barrels of oil, and they couldn't give up because of Anderson.

"Put it in that abandoned bus and tow it away in the RV," Lu Yi replied, pretending to be normal.

There is clearly no space for fuel in the RV's cabin, and the roof is occupied by solar panels and plant cultivation boxes, so it can only be transported by bus.

It tests the RV's towing capacity.

"Can the RV tow it?" Tang Bufan asked with some concern.

“It’s a modified cargo armored vehicle from the Northern Federation, no problem.” Lu Yi had confidence in the armored vehicle made by the Russian-blooded Northern Orcs.

The biggest problem now is how to deal with the man hiding in the dark watching them.

Just as Lu Yi was holding Tang Bufan and worrying, Kai Ge's alarm suddenly sounded in the RV:

"Warning! Orc spotted in the southwest, height 225, no beast form detected, race unknown. Warning! Orc spotted in the southwest, height 225, no beast form detected, race unknown. Warning!"

At the same time, the RV's spotlight shone on them, and Tang Bufan immediately turned around and saw a silver-haired, silver-eyed man squatting on the top of the gas station, watching them.

“That won’t do, little Louis.” The man was tall and thin, with silver-gray pupils and a pale face that had never seen the sun. He had heavy dark circles under his eyes, and the whites of his eyes were bloodshot. He was squinting his narrow eyes and looking down at the two of them.

"How can you let such a frail human carry such a heavy basket? Didn't I teach you to be gentle with humans?" Anderson said sarcastically with a grin.

Given Lu Yi's personality, he would never let a human carry such a heavy thing, so Anderson immediately realized that he had been discovered by the two men.

Tsk, he clearly wanted to watch the young couple's drama a little longer.

Lu Yi frowned and stared at him. He released his arm from Tang Bufan's waist and said in a deep voice, "Teacher, get in the car!"

Tang Bufan immediately grabbed the heavy basket and ran towards the RV, feeling a surge of energy from his nervousness.

“Anderson.” Lu Yi stood in front of the RV, his eyes filled with complex emotions and seriousness: “I don’t want to fight you.”

"Oh~?" Anderson's tone was drawn out, making it unpleasant to listen to. He looked meaningfully at Tang Bufan, who was running away: "Is it because of him?"

"It has nothing to do with the teacher."

"Teacher?" Anderson raised an eyebrow with interest. "What kind of game are you playing?"

"..." Lu Yi remained silent. He looked at Anderson, who seemed mentally unstable, and sighed softly, "Anderson, I know my mother hurt you. I apologize. I will try to help you regain your commander status, provided you cooperate with the treatment..."

"Hahahaha!" The orc squatting on top of the gas station suddenly bent over and burst into laughter. He clutched his stomach, laughing so hard that tears streamed down his face.

"Cooperate with the treatment... cooperate with the treatment..." he murmured, slowly standing up in the night wind. The searchlight of the RV shone on him, making the man's bloodshot eyes even redder, and his long silver hair fluttered messily.

"I'm not sick at all! Why should I cooperate with treatment!" He suddenly roared hoarsely, and then lunged at Lu Yi from the top of the tall gas station!

"Your whole family is sick!" Anderson's thin body, encased in a leather jacket, suddenly swelled in mid-air, his pale face twisting and deforming into a half-human, half-leopard face.

"Beast-like transformation detected, height 2.67 meters, gene fusion determined to be: snow leopard."

Inside the RV, Kai reported to Tang Bufan in a gentle electronic male voice. Tang Bufan pulled out a sniper rifle and anxiously opened the window.

Outside, two incredibly tall figures were fighting in the darkness, their figures flashing in and out of sight, moving so fast that the RV's searchlights couldn't reach them. Tang Bufan raised his sniper rifle but had to put it down again, enduring the pain in his feet as he quickly returned to the driver's seat and took out the light screen glasses from the dark box.

Putting on his glasses and switching to night vision mode, Tang Bufan returned to the window and finally saw the two giant orcs fighting in the green darkness. The two, who were nearly 2.7 meters tall, were chasing each other in the gas station. Anderson was pressing forward with punches and kicks, while Lu Yi kept retreating, mostly dodging, and only occasionally reaching out to block the opponent's attacks, then sliding far away due to the impact.

"Fight back, you idiot!" Tang Bufan was getting anxious, gripping his sniper rifle tightly. However, the two were engaged in close combat, and their attack and dodge speeds were very fast. He raised his gun and fired haphazardly for a while, but he couldn't aim at Anderson at all.

Noticing Tang Bufan standing by the window, Lu Yi lost his focus and was punched hard in the cheek. He slid back two meters, frowned, and looked at Anderson again.

"Heh, it feels so good to punch someone in that face that resembles Anna's," Anderson said with a smirk, looking at Lu Yi's distorted, beast-like face. "But what did Anna say about your face again? Oh! I remember now, she called you... ugly thing~"

Lu Yi's expression changed visibly, and he finally charged angrily at Anderson.

"I'm not ugly!"

He was incredibly fast, but Anderson leaped high into the air with a powerful push, laughing wildly as he dodged away.

"Hahahaha! How can you still call Anna 'Mom' after all that Anna did to you! Our little Louis loves his mom the most~ Did you cry when she jumped to her death? Tell me what she looked like! Did her internal organs spill out? Her heart must have been pitch black!" Anderson verbally taunted Lu Yi, his face contorted with malice: "That vicious woman... she deserved it!"

"Aaaaaah!" Lu Yi's eyes turned red, his veins bulged, and his muscles bulged. He swung his fist at Anderson with all his might. The silver-haired orc nimbly dodged, and Lu Yi's huge fist smashed into the gas station pillar. Instantly, cement fragments flew everywhere, and Lu Yi punched a meter-wide hole in the thick pillar. As the pillar cracked, the entire roof of the gas station shook.

Upon realizing the danger, Kai immediately started the RV, but just as it had driven Tang Bufan ten meters away, the entire roof of the gas station collapsed.

A deafening roar kicked up dust and scattered rocks, causing the ground to tremble. Tang Bufan gripped the window tightly in the car, struggling to steady himself. His heart was pounding, and his eyes were wide open in shock at the battle.

Is this the power of the advanced orcs? This is the strongest humanoid weapon developed by the dungeon scientists!

The collapsed roof crushed the two enormous orcs beneath it, raising dust like smog, making it impossible for Tang Bufan to see clearly. His light screen glasses also lost their target, and a red exclamation mark flashed on the screen.

"Brother Kai!" Tang Bufan covered his mouth and nose with his arm to prevent inhaling too much dust, and asked loudly, "Is there really no way we can help Lu Yi?"

“Little Tang, we can’t interfere in a battle between two high-level orcs,” Kai replied in a gentle, electronic male voice. “The only thing we can do is run.”

Tang Bufan frowned as he listened, feeling that this wouldn't do. He had to find a way to help Lu Yi, so after the RV stabilized, he set up the sniper rifle again at the window.

"Stop!"

"Little Tang..."

"Stop!"

A gentle electronic male voice seemed to let out a soft sigh. The RV stopped far away from the gas station, and as the dust gradually settled, the collapsed gas station slowly reappeared in Tang Bufan's view.

The night grew colder, and the desert temperature had dropped to the teens. However, Tang Bufan felt a long-lost warmth in his body. His light-screen glasses found their target again in the darkness and circled the figures of the two orcs.

Anderson stood in the rubble, grabbed Lu Yi by the neck, and slammed him to the ground. Lu Yi landed hard on his back, crushing the rubble beneath him, and slid several meters across the ground under Anderson's impact.

Tang Bufan felt heartbroken watching this. He saw Lu Yi in the light screen glasses raise his foot and kick Anderson hard, sending the ferocious-looking orc flying more than ten meters into the air.

Lu Yi rose from the rubble with a grim face. His black vest was tattered and torn. He simply tore it off with his claw-like hands, revealing his muscular upper body.

Anderson adjusted his posture high in the air, then landed heavily on his knees, kicking up a cloud of dust. He slowly got up, clutching his abdomen, his distorted beast face twitching slightly, and blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.

“Your strength is even greater than it was a month ago…” Anderson was injured, his lips parted and his teeth were full of blood, but he still grinned, his silver beastly eyes staring straight at Lu Yi: “So, you deliberately lost to Luther in your duel, didn’t you?”

How could that genetically flawed orc possibly defeat Louis?

After venting his frustrations, Lu Yi calmed down a bit. He glanced in Tang Bufan's direction and realized that Tang was far away from the two of them and hadn't been accidentally hurt. So he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

“Go back and tell my brother that I will not compete with him for the position of heir.” Lu Yi looked at Anderson again, his voice low, his golden curly hair blowing in the desert evening wind: “I will not go back, nor will I get married. I am no threat to him. I just want to wander around and help the people I want to help.”

"Oh? You're going to abandon the Orc Federation?" Anderson spoke again in that unsettling, drawn-out tone. His mouth was full of blood, but his smile was chilling. "Although I taught you to care for humans from a young age, aren't you being far too biased towards them?"

"..." Lu Yi remained silent.

"Or is it because of Anna?"

"Don't mention my mother again!" Lu Yi clenched his fists again, his breathing becoming rapid.

"It seems that woman had a deep influence on you. It's a pity I was locked up when she jumped off the building..."

"Bang!"

A gunshot interrupted their conversation, and Anderson, lying in the rubble, shuddered slightly. He turned to look at his right arm, where a small bullet hole had appeared on the swollen muscle, and a little blood was flowing from the hole down Anderson's arm.

Anderson remained silent.

"!" Lu Yi was somewhat surprised.

Then both orcs looked toward the RV in the distance. The thin man wearing light-screen glasses was standing behind the window, holding a sniper rifle, staring at them with sharp eyes.