Chapter 8

"It's right up ahead!"

The girl's clear voice reached my ears, her words revealing unconcealed joy, "There, there is the entrance to the warehouse. It's well hidden, right?"

"The warehouse door is tightly closed, and there's no sign of anyone around here." The girl said smugly, "I knew it, this place wouldn't be easily discovered. What do you think, Sister Ayun?"

The person she questioned didn't say anything, but his already ugly expression became even uglier.

Seeing the tense atmosphere, Xiang Haoyu said quickly while feeling pleased with himself: "I feel something is...wrong with this place. Let's go in and collect supplies."

In fact, Xiang Haoyu felt that it was dangerous here, but saying this out loud might affect his image, so he changed his wording.

"I'll listen to Brother Haoyu." The girl immediately agreed, "I'll go open the door now."

Xiang Haoyu's smile deepened. "Xiao Wen, you are truly my lucky star. Now we don't have to worry about running out of supplies when we get to Hope Base."

"Brother Haoyu is my lucky star. If you hadn't rescued me, I would have died at the hands of those zombies." The girl replied shyly.

Liu Yun on the side didn't say anything, but a hint of sarcasm flashed in her eyes.

Save her?

Liu Yun lowered her eyes to hide her emotions. If it wasn't for the more supplies she mentioned, why would Xiang Haoyu take action?

You have to know that at the beginning, Xiang Haoyu planned to stand by and watch like her, and wait for the zombies to kill this man before reaping an unexpected fortune.

In this way, the people they killed were not zombies.

They would then take care of the zombie that killed her, and in this way, they would be able to take the windfall with peace of mind.

Facing the girl's admiring eyes, Xiang Haoyu maintained a gentle smile on his face and urged subtly, "It's getting late. Let's quickly get all the supplies and find a safe place to rest."

"Brother Haoyu is right, we need to hurry." The girl nodded quickly and muttered softly, "If Sister Ayun hadn't had an accident on the way, we would have probably found a place to rest by now."

"Oh no." The girl patted her head in annoyance, blinking and saying to Liu Yun, "I'm sorry, I'm just not very good at speaking. Sister Ayun, you won't blame me, right?"

Liu Yun: "..."

I think you are not bad at speaking, you are very good at speaking.

Although she wanted to shut the girl's mouth in her heart, but thinking that she was still useful, Liu Yun smiled generously: "How could I blame you? Brother Hao also knows that I have a good upbringing and never bother with ignorant children."

Gu Qi, who was hiding in the dark, watched with great interest. If conditions allowed, she would even want to take a handful of melon seeds and crack them while watching.

What a great show!

"What do you mean, Sister Ayun?" The girl's expression froze, and then she showed a pitiful look, but the jealousy in her eyes was not well hidden.

Xiang Haoyu, feeling increasingly uneasy, couldn't help but feel a little annoyed when he saw this, but he didn't show it on his face. He said in a soft voice with some helplessness, "We'll be on the same team from now on, so let's keep quiet."

As he said this, he gave Liu Yun a reassuring look.

"Once you get the supplies, you can do whatever you want with them."

After understanding the meaning in Xiang Haoyu's eyes, Liu Yun said nothing more. She turned her gaze away and looked at the situation around her.

The girl wanted to say something else, but then she said to Haoyu, "A swarm of zombies could follow the scent at any moment. There might even be other mutant plants around. We'd better finish our important business and leave here quickly."

Thinking back to the zombie horde and the horrible mutated plants, the girl's face turned pale and she said no more.

Besides, she was not a stupid person. After testing, she realized that Xiang Haoyu actually favored Liu Yun, even though the other party had caused a lot of trouble and even hurt him before.

Besides, the gold-type mutant next to her looked at her in an unfriendly way. The girl thought to herself: There is a long time to come, I don’t believe that I can’t win against a disfigured ugly woman.

Thinking of this, the girl's expression returned to normal, and she moved closer to the warehouse door step by step under the protection of Haoyu and the others.

When they were still some distance away from the warehouse gate, the girl suddenly thought of something and quickly said, "By the way, I hope the base is near J City, right?"

"Yeah." Xiang Haoyu nodded slightly. "I hope the base is located in the suburbs of J City. Why do you suddenly ask this?"

"That's great!" The girl said with surprise, explaining, "Because I just remembered that my friend told me about a warehouse in J City. It's where her supermarket stores supplies, and she also told me the password."

Liu Yun gave her a meaningful look and said, "What a coincidence."

Before the girl could say anything more persuasive, danger suddenly arrived.

"Ah!" the girl screamed palely, "Something is wrapped around my feet!"

As she screamed, Liu Yun quickly stepped back to avoid the thing that was attacking her.

Xiang Haoyu and Zhang Lie, who are also people with superpowers, reacted quickly and avoided the sneak attack.

While dodging, Xiang Haoyu looked down and found that what was wrapped around the girl's ankle was a thorny rose vine. He quickly used his supernatural power to break it.

His action was like a trigger. The next second, the ordinary-looking grass in front of the warehouse door suddenly moved, as if some small animal was crawling among it.

A closer look revealed that there were countless rose vines hidden in it, which soon surrounded Xiang Haoyu and others, as if they wanted to trap them to death.

However, Xiang Haoyu and others were no pushovers. They soon mastered the rhythm of the battle and gained the upper hand.

Seeing that the mutated rose was about to be solved, Gu Qi, who was hiding in the dark, raised his hand and formed a seal, and then a concealment spell was cast.

Not for herself, but for the mutant Rose.

Along with the concealment spell, there was also a spiritual ball of pure energy without any lethality, which instantly restored many of the mutant rose's superpowers.

The mutant rose, having sensed something, was stunned for a moment and quickly took the opportunity to hit a few people. Then it quickly retracted its branches and hid. In just a moment, it disappeared from the spot.

Xiang Haoyu and others who were picked all looked unhappy.

I wanted to find the mutant rose that was hiding, but I couldn't find any trace of it, so I had to give up.

Of course, the most important thing is - it's getting dark.

It would be dangerous to wait until dark. Even though his physical fitness had improved after awakening his special powers and his five senses were more sensitive than usual, they were only more sensitive and he did not have the ability of night vision.

As a result, as soon as I opened the warehouse door and hadn't seen what was inside clearly, several dark brown tree roots came towards me.

Xiang Haoyu's thunder ability gave him a natural advantage in dealing with mutant plants. Moreover, his combat awareness was also pretty good. With the help of Zhang Lie and Liu Yun, he successfully defeated the mutant tree after some effort.

However, this mutant tree was just like the previous mutant rose. Just when we finally found its crystal core, the mutant tree disappeared in the next second, allowing it to escape.

Gu Qi, who harvested another mutant plant: These thugs are really useful!

Xiang Haoyu and the others who were forced to become thugs without knowing it all looked unhappy at this moment. They had fought hard for a long time, consumed a lot of their special powers, and suffered a lot of injuries on their bodies, but in the end they didn't gain anything!

"The mutated plants here are so good at escaping and hiding!" Liu Yun frowned slightly, always feeling like something was wrong.

Xiang Haoyu also felt that something was wrong with the two consecutive situations, but he couldn't find out what was wrong.

Today can be said to be his most unlucky day since the end of the world.

First, he was accidentally caught up by a group of zombies, then he was injured by a bus explosion caused by a madman. Before he could recover, he was ambushed and a large group of zombies also caught up with him.

It took a lot of effort to finally kill the beast-like zombie that was about to be promoted to level four, but it ran away at the last moment. When the remaining zombies were finally shaken off, there were not many supplies left.

When he met that girl, Xiang Haoyu thought his bad luck was finally over.

As a result, on the way to the warehouse, Liu Yun suddenly lost control of her supernatural powers for some reason, causing a lot of trouble when they were fighting the mutated plants.

Now, I have missed the crystal core that was almost in my hands twice in a row...

In short, it was completely different from his previous smooth sailing when he could get whatever he needed quickly.

Could it be that God has stopped favoring him? Xiang Haoyu thought to himself in a panic as he walked inside.

That’s not right! God still favors him.

Xiang Haoyu's gaze fell on the girl. At least she sent such a person to him when he was short of supplies.

As for other things that happened today, Xiang Haoyu chose to attribute them to God's tests on him.

Xiang Haoyu's emotions gradually calmed down and he put on a gentle mask again. He helped the pale-faced girl into the warehouse, and while comforting her in a gentle voice, he asked questions calmly, wanting to know more about the warehouse in J City.

It takes a flight of stairs to get from the warehouse door to the underground warehouse. The light inside the stairs is dim, so Xiang Haoyu didn't notice that the girl's eyes became more and more reluctant as he continued to ask questions.

It didn't take long for them to finish walking up this section of stairs, and they didn't encounter any accidents along the way.

The girl took the initiative to step forward and enter the password. In order to avoid asking Haoyu any more questions and worried that he might notice something, she opened the door while chattering about the warehouse.

"This small underground warehouse was built for my friend at home. She's a very anxious person and likes to stockpile all kinds of goods. She even joked that if the apocalypse ever came, she'd definitely be able to survive with the stuff in this warehouse. I never thought the apocalypse would actually come. What a pity..."

As they were talking, the warehouse door had already opened. After seeing the situation inside, the girl couldn't help but panic and said, "How is this possible!"

The warehouse was empty, without any supplies. There were only two zombies running over excitedly after smelling the scent, and some tree roots hanging from the ceiling.

Xiang Haoyu and others behind her naturally also saw what was happening inside.

Seeing the ugly zombies coming towards her, the girl quickly dodged backwards, screaming, "Help!"

Xiang Haoyu quickly used his supernatural powers to get rid of the two zombies.

After entering and carefully inspecting the warehouse, Xiang Haoyu said with a grim expression, "A lot of supplies were indeed stored here. Judging from the traces left behind, those supplies should have been here not long ago."

Gu Qi, who deliberately left traces, showed a satisfied smile on his face. It seemed that they were very "satisfied" with this surprise.

Actually, she learned it from them.

In order to collect supplies, she worked hard to kill zombies and risked her life to fight her way out, but when she entered the supermarket, she found that there was nothing left.

At first, Gu Qi just thought that he was unlucky, until later he found out that Xiang Haoyu and the others had entered in advance and put all the things into the space.

Recalling these not-so-pleasant past events, Gu Qi's eyes seemed to freeze for a moment, but returned to normal after a moment, even with a hint of a smile.

She had another surprise on the way for them.

Gu Qi, who used the art of stealth to conceal his figure, was sitting on top of a large iron frame in the warehouse. He quietly threw a spiritual power ball the size of a grain of rice into a hole drilled by the roots of a mutant tree somewhere in the warehouse, causing the "surprise" rushing towards this side to speed up a bit.

In order to avoid being discovered in advance by Xiang Haoyu and the others, Gu Qi also spent a lot of spiritual power to set up a soundproof barrier.

After doing all this, Gu Qi continued to sit cross-legged with his chin in his hand and look at the situation below.

Xiang Haoyu and Liu Yun thought for a moment and quickly came up with a guess. They looked at each other and said in unison:

"Space ability user!"

"A person with spatial abilities has been here!"

Hearing this, the girl's heart slowly relaxed and she raised her doubts: "But how did that space ability person get in? My friend said that the doors here are specially made and there is no way to get in without the password."

Xiang Haoyu nodded thoughtfully and said, "That's right, there are no traces of other people with special abilities left here."

He had just checked carefully and was sure that there was no energy left by other psychics here. Judging from the traces left in the warehouse, it was impossible for the remaining energy to dissipate because too much time had passed.

Could it be that a person with much higher powers than him did this? Xiang Haoyu first ruled out this possibility. He didn't think there would be anyone with a higher power level than him at this time.

"Could it be that a mutant creature with spatial abilities did this?" Liu Yun guessed.

"It's very likely." Xiang Haoyu nodded in agreement. "I think it's very likely one of the two mutant plants just now. This would also explain why they suddenly disappeared at the last moment."

"Squeak... squeak... squeak..." The sound that was getting closer and closer was blocked by the soundproof barrier.

Xiang Haoyu, who was thinking about how to find the space mutant plant, suddenly changed his expression and said urgently: "Quick! Get out of here!"

"What's wrong?" The clueless girl asked in confusion, "Why are you leaving so suddenly? Haven't you found it yet..."

Before she could finish her words, the girl was grabbed by Xiang Haoyu and ran out.

Almost the next second after she was dragged away, the tree roots above her position fell down. After the tree roots fell, one mutant rat after another fell from the sky.

"Ahhh!" Seeing those mutant rats chasing after her, the girl couldn't help but let out a shrill scream.

"Shut up!" Liu Yun glared at her. "If you keep making noise, I'll throw you to the rats!"

"No!" The girl quickly covered her mouth, her eyes full of fear.

She felt that Liu Yun really wanted to throw her to feed the rats!

The girl, fearing she would be left behind, quickly whispered, "I'm still useful. I'm the only one who knows the password to the warehouse in J City!"

In fact, there is no supermarket warehouse for storing supplies in J City. She just made it up to deceive them because she was worried that they would be thrown away after use. Otherwise, she would not have been worried about Xiang Haoyu noticing anything.

But now she doesn't care what will happen after being exposed, at least she can't be abandoned now!

Thinking of this, the girl couldn't help but feel a little angry.

It was all because of that bitch Fang Jiao who refused to tell her more information. She said she didn't know the passwords to other warehouses, but she didn't believe it! In her opinion, that bitch just wanted to use the remaining information to keep her hanging so that she would serve her like a maid!

What a shame! If she had known this day would come, she wouldn't be so impatient and would have taken action later. At least she would have waited until she could get information about another warehouse before taking action. That way, she wouldn't have ended up in such an embarrassing situation.

Thinking of the empty underground warehouse, the girl couldn't help cursing in her heart, but she hid her anger very well on her face. She didn't slow down her pace at all. Even though her hands were pulled so hard that it hurt, she didn't dare to make a sound, for fear of being left behind.

Watching Xiang Haoyu and the others running out of the underground warehouse, Gu Qi quietly followed them, thinking to himself what a pity.

If they had been a little later, they would not have been able to escape so easily.

After leaving the underground warehouse, Xiang Haoyu and the others killed the mutant rats that were chasing them while moving back the way they came.

Finally, when their supernatural powers were running low, Xiang Haoyu and the others successfully ran to the side of the road, took out the off-road vehicle they had put away earlier, quickly got in and drove away.

While driving, you have to use your superpowers to deal with those fast-running mutant rats to prevent the tires from being bitten by them.

Looking at the car getting farther and farther away, Gu Qi's eyes darkened. He waved his hand again in disbelief and wanted to cast an attack spell.

However, the final result was the same as before, and the attack technique failed to be constructed at the last moment.

This is also why Gu Qi did not take revenge before.

It's not that she doesn't want to, but she can't do it.

Not only the means of cultivation, but also supernatural powers cannot be used to attack Xiang Haoyu.

Gu Qi looked up at the sky. She could vaguely feel that now the most she could do was to create some trouble for him by other means, but it was impossible to take his life.

At least I can't do it directly now.

But who knows what will happen in the future.

It seemed as if something was protecting the other person in the dark, but just when Xiang Haoyu suffered another setback and was chased by mutant rats in a particularly embarrassing situation, Gu Qi felt that the restraint had weakened a little.

"That day will come sooner or later."

Gu Qi withdrew his gaze and no longer looked at the car that was about to disappear.

Now she should take the mutant plants back to test her previous guess. If the guess is correct, then it will save some effort in repairing the cave.