Chapter 14

"Dead? The monster is dead!"

Someone rubbed his eyes in disbelief. Was this really not his hallucination?

There were many people like him, and they all couldn't believe what they were seeing.

Is the monster that has been following them, attacking suddenly from time to time, swallowing a person and running away really dead?

No one dared to get close to confirm whether the mutant earthworm was really dead, including the psychics.

Because there had been similar situations before, people had finally managed to knock down the mutant earthworm and smashed the part of its "mouth" that could swallow people, so they thought it was dead.

As a result, when a person with special abilities came forward to dig out the crystal core, the mutant earthworm suddenly came back to life, and a "mouth" grew again in the broken part. It swallowed the person who came forward and ran away.

The woman quickly remembered this incident and quickly hugged her daughter away from the mutant earthworm's corpse.

Just when everyone was hesitating, a water arrow flew from a distance towards the mutant earthworm's corpse.

The water arrow fell into the sticky and smelly liquid, turned into a water ball, rolled up the yellow crystal core, and cleaned the crystal core while rolling it up, and finally floated back in the direction it came from.

Everyone looked over and saw a strange girl sitting on the branch of a big tree.

Huh? Is there such a big tree there?

Everyone felt a little doubtful, and their eyes looked at Gu Qi with a hint of caution.

Even though the current situation seemed to indicate that it was this girl who suddenly appeared who killed the mutant earthworm, everyone still did not dare to let their guard down.

After all, this kind of situation has happened before. The people who rescued them turned around and waved their weapons at them. If there weren't a few people with special abilities in the team, many of them would have died at the hands of their own kind.

The scene suddenly became eerily quiet.

Until someone asked in surprise: "Gu Qi? Are you Gu Qi?"

The people in the team immediately recognized the voice as that of the team leader, Sister Wen, and were a little surprised for a moment. It seemed that Sister Wen knew this girl who suddenly appeared?

Gu Qi nodded slightly and said affirmatively: "It's me."

As she spoke, she jumped down from the tree with light movements. After she got down from the tree, she raised her hand and slapped the trunk.

Then everyone saw the big tree with lush branches and leaves shook its branches, and the figure slowly disappeared from the spot, as if it had become invisible.

So that's how it is. They didn't see the tree and the girl before probably because the tree was invisible.

Everyone thought so in their hearts.

Just as this doubt was answered, more doubts arose in everyone's minds.

The big tree that can become invisible is obviously a mutant tree. Why didn't the tree attack the girl but seemed to obey her?

How did the girl do it? Was it her special ability or some other method?

If it was some other way, would it be possible for them to be like her?

Some people couldn't help but think in their hearts: If I could control mutated plants like her, would I not have to be afraid of zombies and mutated animals in the future?

Even though those who think this way know very well that the possibility is very low, they still can't help but hope for it.

After all, in this apocalyptic world where zombies eat people, mutated animals and plants eat people, and even people eat people, it is well known how important it is to have strength, no matter whether this strength comes from supernatural powers or other means.

Being stared at by so many people, Gu Qi's face didn't change at all, and she didn't feel nervous at all. She always attracted a lot of attention in the world of immortal cultivation and had long been accustomed to the different looks from others.

The only thing that caught her attention was the look that was filled with hatred and even murderous intent.

There was no doubt that all this hatred and murderous intent came from that young man.

"It's really you!" Wan Shiwen stepped forward quickly, with disbelief in her eyes.

If Gu Qi hadn't agreed himself, and if his appearance hadn't changed much, Wan Shiwen would never have dared to think that the two were the same person.

The Gu Qi in front of her was so strong that she couldn't have any other thoughts after just one look at her. Her eyes were more oppressive than those of any big shots she had ever seen, especially her extraordinary temperament. When Wan Shiwen saw her for the first time, she even thought that she was a fairy who came down from the sky to save them.

However, the next second after this thought arose, Wan Shiwen knew that this was absolutely impossible. How could God send someone to save them? She felt that the evil God must want all of them to die in this apocalypse.

And what about Gu Qi in Wan Shiwen’s memory?

Brave and smart, kind but not saintly, a well-educated girl.

Facing Wan Shiwen's still somewhat suspicious eyes, Gu Qi pursed his lips and smiled lightly: "Why, it's only been two weeks since we last met, and you already act like you don't recognize me, Sister Shiwen? If another month or two passes, will you forget me?"

As Gu Qi smiled like this, his strong aura subsided a lot, and his eyes became much softer. He no longer looked so oppressive, and looked like an ordinary, powerful man.

Of course, this ordinary is only relative.

At least in the eyes of everyone in the team, Gu Qi is not ordinary at all. He is a strong man who solved the nightmare monster with just one blow.

"That's definitely not the case." Wan Shiwen smiled and shook her head. "A girl as beautiful and capable as you, I will definitely still remember her clearly even after ten or twenty years."

The short-haired girl next to Wan Shiwen echoed, "Sister Wen is right. A girl as special and beautiful as you, Xiao...Gu Qi, I think I can remember her for the rest of my life."

She originally wanted to call him Xiaoqi like before, but when she thought of the scene just now, she changed her words before she said it.

Gu Qi didn't care about this. Whether they were close or distant, it didn't matter to her.

If it weren't for the fact that cultivators have very good memories, and if Wan Shiwen hadn't saved her before, Gu Qi might not have been able to recognize these people whom she hadn't seen for hundreds of years.

Here, Gu Qi was reminiscing about the past with Wan Shiwen, while the young man hiding in the crowd was secretly using his special powers to search the surroundings, trying to find out if there were any other mutant animals around.

He must teach that bitch who killed his pet a lesson. If it weren't for her, Yaoyao wouldn't be hungry now.

Oh, Yaoyao! She must be worried since he hasn't come back since he's been out for so long.

The young man thought of his lover and hurried towards the car, wanting to comfort his lover who was hungry and a little irritable.

But we can’t let other people find Yaoyao, the young man thought to himself: Those are all bad people. If they find Yaoyao, they will definitely try their best to separate him and Yaoyao, and they may even want to kill Yaoyao.

Thinking of this possibility, the madness in the young man's eyes became even more intense.

One day, one day he will turn those people into Yaoyao's reserve food!

While the young man was imagining the future, a hand under the car turned into two. It was estimated that the second-level zombies in the car would be able to crawl out through the hole in a while.

Gu Qi, who had been paying attention to the situation here, naturally discovered this.

However, she did not intend to take action now, but chose to watch from the sidelines.

Doesn’t the young man want to feed the zombie? Since he cares so much about the zombie, why doesn’t he use his own flesh to feed it?

Gu Qi wanted to see, after the young man was scratched and bitten by the second-level zombie, and after his flesh and blood were used as food by the zombie, would he still be as crazy as he is now in wanting to raise zombies?

Soon, the young man returned to the car.

He reached out and carefully opened the car door, wanting to go up and comfort his lover who must have been a little manic at this time, with a gentle smile on his face.

When some people saw him like this, they couldn't help but envy his lover in their hearts.

In this apocalyptic world where even blood relatives are not necessarily trustworthy, there is still such a loyal lover with superpowers who treats her gently even though she has a weird temper.

The next second, the smile on the young man's lips froze.

The lovers were no longer on the chair, the ropes used to bind them had been broken and fallen to the side, and dried meat was scattered on the chair...

Scarlet eyes flashed through the hole under the car. The moment they met, the young man saw the undisguised desire in the other's eyes.

That is the desire for food.

So where did the figure that flashed past the cave go? This question is not difficult to imagine.

The young man let go of his hand and tried to quickly step back away from the car.

But he was horrified to find that his feet seemed to be tied up by something and he couldn't take a single step back.

He looked down, but he didn't see the things that bound his feet. Instead, he met the same scarlet eyes he had seen before.