"Battalion Commander Chen!"
Jiang Wan shouted so loudly that she successfully attracted the attention of Cheng Zhen on the other side of the abyss!
At the critical moment, he immediately opened a portal to another dimension and pulled Old Chen, who was falling rapidly, back up.
Jiang Wan stood far away, but couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.
Although Zhao Gang had verbally agreed, he still had some doubts. But now, seeing the situation, he realized that she was with the superhumans, and that the rescue team the refugees were talking about was also them. All his doubts disappeared.
In an oxygen-deprived apocalypse, survival is the most important thing.
As for keeping a few secrets, he didn't think it was a big problem. In this kind of society, who doesn't have a few secrets? Even he himself has some.
After a false alarm at Old Chen's place, Jiang Wan left and hurried to continue searching for supplies as Cheng Zhen had instructed.
Most importantly, it was the food and supplies they had previously harvested from the wild.
Zhao Gang wanted to go with them, but Jiang Wan refused: "You wait here, Captain Cheng will take you to the safe zone."
The camp was severely damaged. Once the ground cracked open, all the supplies they had hidden were exposed. Several refugees were scrambling to grab them, but they didn't have any spatial abilities. How much could they grab with just their bare hands?
Jiang Wan didn't join them in looting the food. Instead, she went around to the other side of the underground warehouse and started collecting most of the supplies there, including various kinds of food, medicine, and ice.
However, this was less than half of what it was before the earthquake, because many things were buried in the mud and she couldn't reach them at all.
"Stop right there!"
Suddenly, several men emerged from the side, their faces menacing and filled with greedy glints. One of them spoke up:
"I've been watching you for a long time. Wherever you've been, everything here has disappeared!"
"You're also a superhuman, and your superpower is space manipulation!"
The more the man spoke, the more excited he became. "If you obediently hand over some of the things to us, I'll let you go and won't hurt you."
The people around him were also looking forward to hearing his words. They were all refugees. They were afraid of people with superpowers, but they were not afraid of a person with spatial abilities. He was just a human warehouse and had no fighting power. What was there to be afraid of?
Jiang Wan couldn't help but sneer. It was quite remarkable that these guys knew so much about people with superpowers.
"Why do you think I have to give it to you?"
Upon hearing this, the men instantly wiped the smiles off their faces, revealing their ferocious expressions: "You won't listen to reason, so you'll have to suffer the consequences! Alright, brothers! Let's go together and make her taste the bitterness of punishment!"
In this oxygen-deprived apocalypse, human order has long since collapsed, and such acts of vandalism and looting occur frequently.
Jiang Wan had always lived cautiously, and later even moved into the city's military camp, so she rarely encountered any danger. She hadn't really encountered situations like this many times.
These people thought she was just a space-type ability user and wouldn't have any more lethal abilities, so when they suddenly saw the vine whip she conjured, they were all startled and stopped in their tracks.
But it was all too late!
Jiang Wan's rattan whip swept towards them, lashing them hard at their feet. The whip, which was either a knife or barbs, caused them excruciating pain in their legs and feet. They stumbled and fell to the ground.
The second lash followed immediately, striking them directly. The thick winter clothes were instantly torn open, and blood splattered everywhere.
Only at this moment did they truly realize how wrong their judgment had been, how careless and underestimating their enemy, and that they themselves would ultimately have to pay the price.
Just then, Cheng Zhen, worried about her, came looking for her. Seeing this scene, his already grim expression darkened further, and he exuded a murderous aura.
Are you alright?
Then, with a sharp and intimidating gaze fixed on these people, he raised his hand and slashed at them more than a dozen times with his lightsaber.
He was indeed rescuing refugees, but that didn't stop him from taking care of a few scumbags.
"It's nothing." Jiang Wanqing shook her head coldly, then said, "I suggest you don't send them to the safe zone. Corrupt people are corrupt people no matter where they go."
"good."
Cheng Zhen completely agreed to her request.
A few simple questions and answers sealed their fate. Those people were extremely indignant and shouted, "Why can't we go to the safe zone? Who said we were parasites? You were the one who hit us, so why are you accusing us first?"
They all recognized the city guards' uniforms, so they immediately fawned over Cheng Zhen: "Captain! Sir! We're really all law-abiding citizens! We're not parasites!"
"Really, really! Please don't be fooled by her one-sided story! We are very hardworking, and you will definitely need us!"
It must be said that these people do have some brains. They know that labor is scarce in the post-apocalyptic world with no oxygen, especially now that the earthquake has caused countless deaths and injuries, making labor even scarcer.
He thought that by focusing on this key point, Cheng Zhen would be more cautious. Once they were sent to the safe zone, who could control them afterward?
Unfortunately, they didn't realize that they had offended the woman Cheng Zhen cared about most today, which was tantamount to cutting off their future path to survival.
Cheng Zhen gave them a cold glance out of the corner of his eye, and shouted in a tone that seemed to want to kill, "Get out! Don't let me see you again!"
After saying that, he took two quick steps to catch up with Jiang Wan.
Thanks to Lao Chen for digging the storage room for supplies under the forest farm, Jiang Wan didn't walk far before seeing the metasequoia trees. All thirty-one large trees had fallen to the ground. Fortunately, there were no tall buildings nearby, so they did not suffer any secondary external injuries.
Jiang Wan checked them over and found they were still alive.
However, many of the dozens of saplings that were propagated later died because of their poor location in the ground; many of them were buried by the broken soil layer.
She breathed a sigh of relief and, without further ado, put them all into her spatial storage, planning to plant them again later when she had the chance.
The earthquake was still occurring here, and Cheng Zhen urged her, "We have to go."
The increasing frequency of earthquakes indicates that a larger earthquake is imminent.
“Okay, let’s go.” Jiang Wan agreed. The two hadn’t walked far when they encountered several low-lying creatures flying in mid-air.
Upon closer inspection, Jiang Wan exclaimed, "It's Little Mobi and Little Mobo!"
When they saw Jiang Wan, they flew towards her joyfully as if they had seen a family member, as if they had been searching for her all along.
Jiang Wan beckoned them to follow, then turned around and saw Cheng Zhen's somber expression. She was taken aback and asked, "What's wrong?"
She suddenly looked around and asked in a low voice, "Has something happened to Old Chen?"
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