Chapter 670: Nan Xiaomo's Superpowers
"Just let us leave safely," said Cangcuo.
"Okay," Wu Yue agreed without hesitation, pretending to be all ears.
This time, Nan Xiaomo did not speak. Cangcuo looked at the night outside the window and said softly, "Discovering the mountain god's enlightenment was just an accident."
When Cangcuo and Nan Xiaomo left the Yuebanwan temporary base together, they were both prepared to die together.
Nan Xiaomio has had a heart disease since childhood and suffers from pain from time to time. Cangcuo doesn't want him to be tortured by the golden eagle, and Nan Xiaomio himself doesn't want to die there like Cangcuo, so they decided to leave. At least they could die together.
Not long after the two walked in the night, the smell of blood on Cangcuo attracted mutant carnivores.
Nan Xiaomio couldn't stand running for a long time, so Cangcuo could only take her to hide. Unexpectedly, they fell into an underground cave in the dark.
Cangcuo stood under Nan Xiaomo and was pierced in many places by stalagmites extending from the underground cave.
Fortunately, Nan Xiaomo knew some basic herbs, so he survived, but his body was completely ruined.
Afterwards, the two of them chose a passage and kept walking. When they reached the exit, they had already reached the territory of Panshui Base.
Because they had followed Gu Sheng before, the two were worried about being recognized by the escapees, so they hid in the corners of the city. Unexpectedly, they ran into a psychic who was going out of the Panshui base.
"At that time, the Panshui base did not openly consume the flesh and blood of people with special abilities. Although they enjoyed the comfort of living underground, there were also teams that would go out to look for items or hunt zombies."
"We accidentally ran into a psychic who missed the order." Cangcuo paused here and did not speak for a long time.
"Let's kill him," Nan Xiaomo replied, "I used to eat the flesh and blood of people with special abilities and my body felt better, but I have been traveling for a long time and the unstable life has made my body unable to bear it anymore."
During that time, Cangcuo dragged his body around searching all day long, just to find suitable "food" for her, and the psychic came across at the right time.
"He was being chased by zombies and thought he had met some reinforcements, but..." He was rescued by them, and then killed again.
"Cangcuo is not in good health, and it is not so easy for him to obtain the flesh and blood of the superpowers. He hopes that I will eat more and try to hold on for as long as possible."
When Nan Xiaomo talked about those days, there was lifeless despair in his eyes. Those were the days when fate forced him to the point where he had no choice but to follow his instincts.
His lover dragged her dying body and tried every means to prolong her life. She would not let her down no matter how difficult it was.
She spent four days eating a man weighing over 100 pounds before his skin and flesh completely rotted.
Nan Xiaomo will never forget the feeling of meeting her lover's worried gaze, forcing herself to eat until the food reached her throat, and the taste of flesh and blood in her nostrils. Even now, she feels like vomiting when she smells meat.
"Later..." Nan Xiaoma paused, she looked at Wu Yue, and said in a flat tone, "I awakened the wood-type ability."
"The same superpower as the one I ate."
The surprise in Wu Yue's eyes lasted only for a moment. Zhuang Mingxu had previously speculated that the missing psychics in Panshui Base might be related to the psychics who were enlightened in Shanshen Base.
With this knowledge in mind, he was not surprised to hear Nan Xiaomo say this, but what was incredible to him was that the entire mutant was eaten.
Although Sha Peng also said that the so-called enlightenment was just eating something given by the mountain god, Wu Yue felt that if it was flesh and blood, it would have been suspected long ago.
He showed a bit of surprise and asked, "Are you saying that their enlightenment comes from eating mutants?"
"According to this statement, the people in Panshui Base are all people who eat superpowers. Doesn't that mean their superpowers can be combined to achieve a superimposed effect?"
Nan Xiaomo shook her head and said with difficulty, "...I ate a whole person."
"Excuse me, this doesn't prove anything," Wu Yue said.
Nan Xiaomo lowered her head and pinched her hands together, then was caught by Cangcuo. The cold touch gave her courage back, "In my situation, the supernatural powers that appeared are not entirely my own."
"My ability is already B-level when it appears, and... it cannot be upgraded." Nan Xiaomo thought of an explanation. "Rather than saying it's mine, it's better to say I plundered someone else's ability. This is the level I got from his body. I'm destined to always be at this level. Even if I absorb crystal cores, there will be no growth. If I absorb too much, I'll even feel a bit..."
Nan Xiaomo frowned and said, "It feels like it's going to explode."
At first, when Nan Xiaomi discovered that she had awakened her special powers, she felt a little secretly happy in her heart, because this way, she would not have to ask Cangcuo to search the world for people with special powers to prolong his life. However, every time she used it, she was reminded of what she had done, which made her more and more reluctant to use it.
Cangcuo saw her situation and tacitly assumed that she was still an ordinary person.
Afterwards, they met Zhang Shun who was out. He saw the unconcealed skeleton in their hiding place and immediately understood what had happened.
At that time, Cangcuo's body could no longer withstand the displacement. Nan Xiaomi wanted to find a stable environment for him to recuperate, while Cangcuo thought of going to a base so that Nan Xiaomi could survive well if he died. With these thoughts in mind, Nan Xiaomi told Zhang Shun about the situation.
"At the time, I just found it unbelievable, but because I am a superpower and I reject people who eat the flesh and blood of superpowers, I only brought them to the Panshui base because of our childhood friendship and Xiaomo's pleading, and let them live on their own," Zhang Shun continued.
But the two of them really just lived an ordinary life, like ordinary people, and even took good care of his father and children. Living at the bottom of this world, Zhang Shun knew best how many people were forced to do things against their will, and gradually he began to accept them. After that, the Panshui base split up, and the group left together.
"Originally, we were planning to keep this matter a secret, but who knew that some mountain god would appear here with supernatural powers? Except for Tan Yun and a few others who were chosen randomly at the beginning, all the children in the next batch have relatives who are supernatural powers." A sneer appeared on Zhang Shun's face. After all, he was a man who had been able to survive in the difficult environment of Panshui base with his family for five years. He was no less vigilant than anyone else.
"In today's world, children are so precious. If I control one child, it means I control the whole family of supernatural beings. I felt unsafe, so I discussed with my father and refused to let my daughter be enlightened."
"At that time, I was just being vigilant. I told the villagers that it was unsafe, and that was also with the purpose of bringing more people together." Zhang Shun did not show any guilt on his face. "The second batch of chosen ones they chose were all children with burdens at home. These people are the easiest to control."
"This deepened my suspicion, so I contacted someone I knew who had been enlightened to superpowers, got him drunk, and learned about the disadvantages of enlightened people with superpowers."
"Their situation is exactly the same as Xiaomo's. I don't believe there are such coincidences in the world, so I never compromised. But I couldn't figure out where there would be so many people with special abilities for them to eat, until..." Zhang Shun looked at Cangcuo.
"The source of suppliers and the new Panshui base," Cangcuo continued. He suddenly looked up at Wu Yue and asked an irrelevant question, "Have you met Luo Qi, the current leader of the Panshui base?"
Wu Yue shook his head.
"What about Qi Le?" he asked again.
This already clearly states that there is some kind of relationship between Luo Qi and Qi Le.
Wu Yue didn't answer, but looked at him with a forced smile and said, "You can just say it directly."
Cangcuo raised his eyebrows and said, "I met Luo Qi when I was still following Gu Sheng."
As soon as these words came out, Zhang Shun and his son looked at him in surprise.
"So, Luo Qi was really the one who followed Gu Sheng back then?" This is also the most common rumor about Luo Qi.
Cangcuo shook his head, "No, he was just passing by..." Cangcuo paused and didn't say it. Instead, he threw out another bombshell for Zhang Shun and his son, "Luo Qi and Qi Le are the same person."
"What?"
"How is that possible?"
Old Zhang and Zhang Shun spoke at the same time, and their voices were so loud that they attracted the psychic outside, who knocked on the window and asked what happened.
"It's okay, you continue to be on duty," Wu Yue replied.
"It seems that you have guessed it a long time ago." When Cangcuo saw such big news, Wu Yue's expression did not change at all, and he said in a firm tone.
Wu Yue did not answer, but only asked, "What evidence do you have?"
"At that time..." Cangcuo recalled what happened when he first met Luo Qi.
At that time, Gu Sheng was at the peak of his career. Many ordinary people in Panshui Base believed in him and found people with special abilities for him. Gu Sheng was promoted rapidly, and Cangcuo, the person who dealt with his "garbage", became extremely busy.
Although everyone who followed Gu Sheng knew his upgrade method, Gu Sheng was particular about not bringing it up on the table. Apart from the flesh and blood he consumed daily, the rest of his body would be buried in a specific burial ground - near the mutant plant that followed him.
The mutated plants were spreading on the ground and no one could get close to them, so he specially ordered people to open a passage from the ground that led directly to the roots of the mutated plants. Cangcuo had walked that road countless times, and that was the only time he heard voices coming from above.
So much so that he and Nan Xiaomo who was accompanying him were unable to react for a moment.
Fearing that a powerful psychic might come to deal with the mutated plant, Cangcuo and Nan Xiaomo did not dare to move. They hid underground and listened to the conversation between the two people above.
"There is a couple up there, and their voices are exactly the same as Qi Le's." Cangcuo did not say what they said, but directly stated the evidence, "I saw Qi Le's face."
"What are they doing there?" Wu Yue asked.
"They were discussing how to get close to Gu Sheng. I thought they were here to cause trouble, but later I figured it out and realized that they had been eyeing Gu Sheng's body and wanted to plunder his supernatural powers." Cangcuo smiled and took the initiative into his own hands without waiting for Wu Yue to continue asking.
"Do you know how I determined that Luo Qi and Qi Le are the same person?"
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