Chapter 62 Getting Stronger
Before long, the man with glasses and his group settled down on the east side.
Lu Xici's tent stood directly in front of Lu Nange's tent.
A narrow passageway, several meters wide, clearly separated the two groups of people, ensuring they did not interfere with each other.
Until the last rustling sound on the east side disappeared.
Only two groups of people on night duty remained, standing on either side of the corridor, looking at each other in bewilderment.
After daybreak, the group ate their dry rations and then quietly packed their belongings.
Chi Yi was exercising when the man wearing glasses walked over.
"What's wrong?" Chi Yi straightened his back and looked at the other person warily.
The bespectacled man pushed up his glasses, giving a perfunctory smile: "Brother, we're about to leave, so we came to say goodbye."
Chi nodded, his fingers unconsciously reaching for the dagger at his waist: "I will pass on the message."
The convoy of the bespectacled man and his gang had just left the gas station.
The soft rustling of fabric coming from several tents.
Gu Wan emerged with messy hair and dark circles under her eyes.
"Finally gone." She yawned and rubbed her eyes. "I was so worried I didn't sleep well all night."
Lu Nange rolled her sleeping bag into a tight ball and raised her head slightly: "I'll catch up on some sleep when we get in the car later."
Gu Wan rubbed her eyes and suddenly remembered something: "Oh right, I feel like I've seen that bespectacled guy's girlfriend from last night. She looks like an internet celebrity."
Gu Qi poked half his head out of the tent, still sleepy: "What internet celebrity?"
Gu Wan waved her hand: "Never mind, it's not important."
After saying that, he pulled Lu Nange along, and the two went to wash up.
With a toothbrush in her mouth and foam smeared on half of her lips, Gu Wan suddenly asked indistinctly, "Nan Nan, have you ever been in a relationship?"
Lu Nange paused, then shook her head.
Neither she nor the original owner had this experience—she lived for almost twenty years in her previous life, and all she did every day, besides studying, was think about how to make money to support herself; she didn't have any free time for that!
Dating? Making money is far more important!
Gu Wan spat out her mouthwash: "That's true, you're still young! There's no rush to date, especially since life is tough enough as it is these days!"
Lu Nange replied decisively, "Well, instead of wasting time on that, we should improve our strength."
Gu Wan chuckled: "That's right, men only slow down our speed of drawing our swords!!"
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Wen Qing steamed a basket of buns using a portable stove, the steam rising in the morning light.
After everyone had eaten and packed up, they prepared to continue their journey.
The car was driving on an abandoned highway.
Lu Xici looked out the window, his brows slightly furrowed.
The rampant vines straddled the middle of the road, their thick roots even cracking the asphalt surface, spreading outwards menacingly.
He muttered to himself, "In this awful weather, people are practically dried out, but these things are growing even faster..."
Lu Nange crossed her legs and leaned back in her chair.
She glanced out the window at the rampant plants and murmured, "People and plants are the same; it's just survival of the fittest."
Lu Xici twitched the corners of her mouth and laughed self-deprecatingly: "That's true... Who would have thought that we would actually start to get used to this kind of life?"
Upon hearing this, Lu Beiye tilted his head and looked up at Lu Xici.
"Brother, wait until you're gnawing on tree bark and chewing on insects before you say things like that!"
"You little brat!" Lu Xici turned his head sharply, veins throbbing on his forehead.
Why would your brother eat bugs when he's perfectly fine? Can't you wish me well for once?
Lu Nange guessed that the little guy was thinking about his past life, so she raised her hand and ruffled Lu Beiye's short hair.
Lu Beiye squinted and shrugged.
He muttered in a nonchalant tone, "Fine, you're the older brother. I'm just a kid who's barely old enough to control my poop and pee, so I won't hold it against you."
Lu Xici felt a lump in her throat... Why did she feel even more infuriated?!
"Lu Beiye," he gritted his teeth and forced out the warning, "You should stay away from your brother Gu Qi from now on!"
Inside the carriage, the three siblings continued their playful fight, while Chi Yanzhou, in the passenger seat, remained silent.
He leaned back lazily in his seat, his gaze drifting aimlessly out the window—the desolate road and towering trees rushing past.
A conversation between Lu Nange and Gu Wan that I had inadvertently caught that morning flashed through my mind...
When he first met Lu Nange, he subconsciously categorized her as someone who "needs protection".
Along the way, he discovered that she longed for strength.
She doesn't need wings; she needs opportunities to hone her skills.
His excessive protection was nothing more than a shackle that slowed her down.
Chi Yanzhou silently tightened his knuckles.
—Become stronger.
—The only thing to think about now.
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The group traveled during the day and found a place to rest at night.
When the rusty "Quzhou City" sign came into view, the hunched figures wandering along the roadside became even more numerous.
The zombie that was running across the middle lunged at the car upon hearing the noise.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Nange and the others crushed his head with their supernatural abilities.
Further ahead, there were mountains on both sides, and the road in the middle was completely blocked by twisted and piled-up vehicles.
Both SUVs came to an abrupt stop at the same time.
The car doors popped open one after another, and everyone stepped into the sweltering heat that carried a putrid stench.
Lu Nange stood at the front, her pale pink cropped vest accentuating her cool, white skin, while the straps of her black cargo pants swayed gently in the wind.
She slowly closed her eyes, and her spiritual power seeped in.
As far as his consciousness could see, there were only congealed bloodstains and dried bones—no living people, and no wandering zombies.
Further in, the dilapidated outlines of Quzhou's buildings appear and disappear in the spiritual vision.
"Someone must have deliberately piled them up here, either to prevent zombie hordes or to keep people away!" she suddenly exclaimed, opening her eyes.
Gu Wan kicked the stacked car, the dull thud of the metal denting startling several carrion-eating crows into flight.
"Should we still go to Quzhou City? Or should we take a detour?"
Gu Qi squinted at the direction of Quzhou: "Quzhou is a necessary stop. We've already taken a long detour to Ningzhou to collect supplies. If we take another detour, we don't know when we'll be able to get back to Beijing."
"There's always a way to overcome difficulties..." He Zhuo's words came to an abrupt end.
He stared in disbelief as Lu Nange waved from the corner, and a gap was neatly cut into the thick wall of the car.
Lu Beiye raised his hand in tacit agreement, and golden light wrapped around the edge of the cut, reinforcing the sharpness.
"What are you standing there for? Let's go!" Gu Qi patted He Zhuo on the shoulder.
Lu Nange carefully stored their two off-road vehicles and bent down to squeeze through the metal gap.
Once everyone has passed.
Lu Beiye suddenly clenched his five fingers.
The twisted frame began to writhe like a living thing, and the cut surfaces severed by the wind blades were re-fused together.
In the blink of an eye, it regained its original imposing and towering appearance.
Lu Nange took out the SUV, and everyone quickly got in and sped towards the urban area of Quzhou.
He Zhuo, sitting in the passenger seat, suddenly turned around, propping his elbows on the seat back: "Old Gu, why didn't you just flip over that pile of scrap metal?"
Gu Qi held the steering wheel with one hand and tapped his temple with the other.
"Nan Nan said that it was deliberately piled up by people, either to prevent zombie hordes or to keep people away! We don't know the specifics, we're just passing through, there's no need to touch it!"
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