Hearing the faint cries for help from the guards sleeping next to him, Wang Xuwen frowned and slowly woke up. Just as he was about to curse, he saw a sharp dagger held to his neck.
"This kid is good-looking, even better-skinned than those girls, his skin is so fair and tender it looks like you could squeeze water out of it." Those lewd and toothless bandits groped Wang Xuwen's fair skin.
These days, people with superpowers have to outwit and outfight humanoid monsters and snatch the few mutated animals they can find to fill their stomachs, leaving them covered in dirt and sweat every day.
Few people remember to take a shower every day and keep themselves clean and tidy anymore.
Besides Wang Xuwen, as Wang Shi's youngest son, he loved to enjoy life just like his father. When he received the secret mission assigned to him by his father to escort weapons to headquarters, he was afraid of the sandstorm outside, so he applied a face mask, face cream and lip balm.
Before leaving, he even indulged in a luxurious lavender essential oil bath. In the entire escort team, there was no one else who was fairer-skinned and more fragrant than him!
"What...what are you going to do?" He looked at the robber's teeth, which were covered in tartar and black cavities, with a look of horror in his eyes.
"I'm a man! If you want to vent your anger, go find a woman!" he roared angrily, then pushed the female superhuman next to him, who was also being held hostage, towards the bandits.
The female superhuman looked completely bewildered. He nudged her in the back, and she stumbled and fell into the robber's arms.
"Captain, you pushed me out to avoid being raped, you're such a jerk!" the female superhuman accused.
Although she hadn't gone on many missions and had mostly stayed in the inner city, she knew the cruelty of the apocalypse and that this wasn't the time to care about chastity.
"Where there's life, there's hope," she thought, steeling herself. She closed her sleep-filled eyelids, pouted her dry, chapped lips—which, accentuated by her sallow skin, appeared even more purplish—and pressed them against the robber's mouth, intending to sacrifice herself to save her life.
"Ugh! Go away, get out of here, your mouth stinks."
The robber, his mouth full of tartar and cavities, still complained that the female superhuman hadn't brushed her teeth. He shoved her aside and stared intently at the fair-skinned, slightly handsome Wang Xuwen.
Given the choice between a handsome, fair-skinned man smelling sweet and the disheveled woman with acne scars who hasn't brushed her teeth in over a month, is there even a question of who to choose to relieve her pent-up frustration?
Getting a cooling-down isn't like finding a partner!
"Hehehe! Let's leave the woman aside for now, we'll use her after she's washed up. The man, on the other hand, is fair-skinned and tender, and his voice is nice too, kind of exciting!"
The robbers opened their filthy mouths and, seeing his desperate expression, surrounded Wang Xuwen.
A small group of people were venting their anger, while the majority of the rest were more concerned about supplies. They opened the truck beds and searched for supplies one truck after another.
"Boss, there's not much food in this car, but there are quite a few strange weapons, but I don't know how to use them."
A man fiddled with a high-frequency sonic cannon, but found that nothing had changed around him, and his eyes were full of disappointment.
Some people even found the carriage where the Level 3 winged monster was being held. When they opened the carriage door, they were startled to see the winged monster with its ferocious fangs and claws.
"Boss... come quick, there's a Level 3 Winged Membrane Monster locked up here." The man had never been in close contact with a Level 3 Winged Membrane Monster before.
Now, less than four meters away, the thought of these monsters tearing people apart in mid-air made his legs tremble uncontrollably.
"What on earth is Hope Base up to? Why would they send someone to escort a Level 3 Winged Membrane Monster on their way?"
The bandit leader scratched his head, completely baffled by Hope Base's intentions.
The people around him asked him what to do with the monster.
The bandit leader took out the only meteorite knife in the entire group, intending to kill it.
After Gu Mingyue saw that no more people had appeared around her, she used her metal-type ability to make herself a golden mask and put it on before jumping down from the five-meter-high mutated tree.
Hearing the sound of something heavy falling to the ground, the robbers looked towards the source of the sound like startled birds.
A woman with a full head of golden curly hair, a pretty figure, and wearing a golden mask easily leaped down from the purplish-red mutated tree. In a sprint, she arrived in front of the group in just a few seconds.
Could it be that they were double-crossed by the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind?
The bandit leader cautiously looked around, trying to find the woman's helpers.
Gu Mingyue stopped three meters away from the bandit leader.
They threw out a palm-sized, crescent-shaped metal dart, which struck the meteorite blade they were about to use to kill the level three winged membranous monster.
The meteorite knife instantly slipped from the bandit's hand and stuck into the ground.
"Don't move! You're surrounded now!" Gu Mingyue said in a languid tone from her bright red lips.
“I’m a man of principle. If you put down your weapons and that winged monster after I count to three, I can let you go as if you were air.”
After saying this, the crescent-shaped dart that had just knocked away the meteorite knife flew back to Gu Mingyue's hand, floating and spinning above her palm.
"This woman is really arrogant. Is she mentally ill? How could she possibly surround us all by herself?"
One of the bandits was extremely indignant, "Boss, with so many of us charging at once, even a high-level superhuman wouldn't be able to withstand a relentless attack from over thirty of us!"
"Wait a minute, this woman's ability to control metal-based superpowers seems to be superior to that of our people."
With his evolved eyes, the bandit leader could clearly see that the crescent-shaped dart in Gu Mingyue's hand seemed to be decorated with star-shaped patterns.
In normal attack mode, metal-type ability users don't have the leisure to carve the shape of their weapons, let alone control them to accurately pierce the enemy's heart while ensuring the weapon has intricate patterns.
"This woman is probably quite capable; let's not act rashly." The bandit leader said, taking out a tattered cigarette case from his pocket, pulling out a cigarette, and handing it to Gu Mingyue.
"You're also involved in the underworld?"
"Although you have powerful abilities, there are also many people with superpowers on our side. It's fate that we've met. Since there are so many supplies here, how about we split them 20/80?"
The bandit leader forced a somewhat friendly smile and said.
Gu Mingyue's face, hidden beneath the golden mask, was as cold as ice, and her beautiful eyes showed no emotion whatsoever.
"Why should she get two portions of the supplies we worked so hard to seize?"
The men behind the bandit leader spoke without any attempt to conceal their anger, their eyes fixed on Gu Mingyue, displaying their fury and defiance.
"No, these things are all mine." Gu Mingyue said coldly, the crescent-shaped dart in her hand had already split in two, becoming two swirling in the air.
"Young lady, don't be so arrogant. The apocalypse is not a child's game. If you choose the wrong path, there will be no turning back." The bandit leader's eyes were already filled with anger.
Gu Mingyue's gaze was calm and still, and her red lips parted slightly: "One!"
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