Chapter 113: Rock Safety Zone (I)
The original armored bus has been turned into a pile of scrap metal by the insect swarm.
Because of the insect swarm, not a single vehicle was in good condition. Everything was reduced to rubble, even the roads.
Xie Mian flew forward holding E Shifang in his arms. E Shifang wrapped its neck around Xie Mian's waist and lowered its head to look down.
On the bumpy and cracked road, Lao Wang was dragging the supplies slowly forward.
Following behind him was a charred and swollen mass of something, its entire body pressed against the ground. As it walked, it oozed festering mucus and made a constant "grunting" sound.
Xie Mian quickly arrived near the Rock Base. He retracted his wings and landed on the ground holding Goose Shifang.
E Shifang lay in Xie Mian's arms, feeling dazed and listless.
"Gah! Honey, I feel like I'm flying sick?"
Xie Mian fed E Shifang water with a bit of amusement, and injected some healing insect energy into him, and only then did E Shifang feel better.
In front of the Rock Base is a huge, bottomless rift.
When they reached the bottom of the suspension bridge, the survivors who had been waiting for a long time rushed up as if they had been pardoned. The suspension bridge swayed under their feet, almost swinging like a swing, but no one was afraid to retreat.
This suspension bridge is more than three meters wide and more than twenty meters long, and is far from being able to carry so many survivors.
Some people were pushed down and fell to the bottom of the cliff before they even reached the middle of the suspension bridge.
Xie Mian did not lead E Shixiang to squeeze forward, but waited until most people had left before he took a long step and walked towards the entrance of the bridge.
When we were almost across the suspension bridge, a commotion suddenly broke out at the base gate.
"Please, let me in. I really don't have that many spirit stones!"
An elderly woman knelt on the ground, begging the strong man guarding the gate of the base.
The burly man's face was grim. "Get out, get out! You can't even enter the base without insect stones!" He glared at the people around him fiercely. "I'm telling you, if you want to enter the base, you need ten insect stones. Not even one less."
Many of the people gathered at the base's entrance didn't even have any insect stones. They'd come here through so much hardship, and were lucky to be alive. How could they possibly have the skills to kill insect monsters and retrieve insect stones?
Those who had insect stones had already handed them in and entered the base, while those who did not have insect stones gathered at the entrance of the base and refused to leave.
Xie Mian took out ten insect stones and handed them to the strong man.
The strong man looked at Xie Mian's appearance, then looked at the clean clothes on Xie Mian's body. He turned his eyes and pointed at the big goose in Xie Mian's arms and said:
"It's also a head!"
This was obviously a spur-of-the-moment remark, and Xie Mian's eyes suddenly turned cold.
E Shifang was about to take action when he was stopped by Xie Mian.
Now is not the time to reveal their strength. They don’t know what this base is like yet.
“Ga ga ga!”
Goose Shifang had no choice but to pretend to be an ordinary goose and retreat into Xie Mian's arms.
Xie Mian took out the worm stones and threw them to the big man. The big man counted them with satisfaction, gave Xie Mian a pass, and made way.
“Two!”
Xie Mian pointed at E Shifang. He had handed over two insect stones, so why should he be given a pass?
"What the hell kind of pass do you need for a fat fucking goose?"
The big man blocking the road was unwilling to give it. After being poked on the arm by his companion and seeing Xie Mian's cold eyes, he took out another pass.
Anyone who can keep a pet in the apocalypse and still be clean is obviously not an ordinary person.
They have already made a profit from ten insect stones, so there is no need to cause trouble again.
The big man waved his hand, motioning Xie Mian to go in.
Xie Mian raised his foot and was about to go in when suddenly another pair of hands reached out to grab him, and he turned around to avoid them.
"Young man, please take me in. Since you can bring a big fat goose in, you must have a lot of insect stones!"
The old woman was the same old lady who had just begged and thrown a tantrum at the security guard.
She didn't dare to look at the two strong men anymore, and instead set her sights on Xie Mian.
"Young man, you look kind, thank you!"
As he said that, he walked forward and tried to steal the bag that Xie Mian was carrying.
In order to avoid others noticing Shifang's space insect energy, he deliberately carried a bag behind him to hide it from others.
This bag is a yellow backpack, which is very similar to the yellow beak of the goose. There is also a small goose pendant hanging on it.
There was a dirty handprint on the bag at this time.
Xie Mian frowned and said nothing.
"Big brother, please help my grandma. How can she survive out there as an old lady?"
A girl with a pitiful look in her eyes walked over. She was wearing a sports suit, but her good figure couldn't be concealed.
As the girl spoke, she began to hold Xie Mian's arm.
"Ga, ga, ga, ga, ga!"
How dare you seduce my wife in front of me? Before Xie Mian could make a move, E Shifang directly unleashed a bolt of lightning, the girl's long black hair was blown up by the lightning, and her entire face turned pitch black.
"What are you doing? Why are you striking my daughter with lightning?"
Another middle-aged man and woman came forward, apparently a couple. The couple thought it was Xie Mian who had released the thunder and lightning.
Xie Mian didn't explain, but just said coldly: "Stay away from me!"
"Oh, my daughter..." the man said as he supported his daughter.
Although his daughter was struck by lightning, he became more and more attracted to Xie Mian after seeing his abilities.
The reason their family has been able to get to where they are today is, firstly, because he and his wife have awakened their insect powers, and secondly, because of their daughter's beauty and his mother's pity, many people feel sorry for them.
They did have some insect stones in their pockets, but after hearing from others that the expenses in the base were very high, they decided to save as much as possible.
He, his wife, and his daughter all bought passes to enter the base. Now the only one missing was his mother.
"Now is the end of the world, everyone should help each other. Why don't you leave this goose behind and take my mother in? Our whole family will thank you!"
"Yes, please, big brother!"
"Oh? Leave my goose behind and take your mother in?" Xie Mian crossed his arms.
"Yes, yes, yes!" The man nodded, and the old man got up from the ground with a happy look on his face.
"Heh!" Xie Mian glanced at the passes in the hands of the man and his wife and daughter, "Don't you guys need passes here too?"
"We have one, but my mother doesn't. She's old and doesn't have any insect power. She definitely can't survive outside alone. Please be so kind!"
"Give the pass in your hand to your mother, and she can go in!"
The man's face instantly turned purple. He didn't expect Xie Mian to expose his thoughts so directly.
He stammered in defense, "I... only young people like us can make better contributions to the base if we go in. My mother...she's old, there's nothing she can do if she goes in..."
"You yourself are unwilling to give up the pass to let your mother in, yet you ask me to do so. Isn't this too obvious a moral blackmail?"
After saying that, Xie Mian didn't even look at them again and left with E Shifang in his arms.
Before leaving, E Shifang struck down several more lightning bolts. The man was now the same as his daughter, with smoke coming out of his hair and mouth.
Seeing Xie Mian disappear, the old lady was completely panicked.
The remaining people are obviously poor. Now that the sucker is gone, how can she get in?
She turned around abruptly and grabbed her son's arm tightly. "Don't you still have some insect stones? Hurry, buy me a pass! Ten insect stones, take them out!"
The man stumbled as his mother pulled him. He put away the hypocrisy on his face and said impatiently, "Mom, are you crazy? Those ten insect stones are our capital for living in the base! If I buy them for you, our family of three will starve in the northwest wind."
"That's right, Mom!" The daughter-in-law next to her echoed, "You're already half buried in the ground. It doesn't matter whether you can get in or not. One less insect stone is enough. You can't be so selfish!"
The granddaughter who had just been electrocuted also covered her charred hair with her hands, complaining in her eyes: "Grandma, it's all your fault for provoking that man, otherwise I wouldn't have been electrocuted like this. Please stop making trouble, you are so old, can't you just be quiet for a while!"
The old lady was struck by lightning and looked at her son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter in disbelief.
In order to save the insect stone, she risked her dignity to beg others, made a scene, and even went so far as to steal a stranger's things, but in the end, she was treated like this.
"You...you heartless beasts!" The old lady was so angry that she was shaking all over and foaming at the mouth.
"Go ahead and curse, we're going in anyway."
The man snorted coldly, shook off his mother's hand, and walked towards the base gate with his wife and daughter without looking back, handing three passes to the guard.
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