Chapter 307: Secretive Thoughts
The wheels pressed into the cracked ground. Occasionally, a few zombies squatted on the side of the road with their heads tilted 135 degrees in a daze. The sound of car horns was very abrupt on the empty road, and there were waves of echoes.
All the rivers dried up into piles, and many corpses remained on the black dry soil.
Looking around, it was a desolate scene. Even zombies were rare and it was difficult to see living things.
Lin Xi turned the car into a small road leading to Y City. When he encountered a collapsed road, he directly took off into the air and quickly got rid of the vehicle following him.
Y City is littered with garbage, and there are some low-level zombies picking up garbage and eating it on the streets.
They all stared blankly at the car passing by, completely numb, neither chasing nor quarreling, living in harmony with the world.
All the shops on the street were emptied out, and even intact tables and chairs were hard to find.
There are only two department stores that are relatively well preserved in the entire city. There is a lot of domestic garbage on the ground next to the buildings, and many zombies gather here to pick up garbage.
Perhaps because of the sound of the car, several windows on the building were pushed open.
A shirtless man climbed out of the window and slowly slid down the rotten railing. He dusted his hands and stood in front of the car.
"I opened this road and built this building. If you want to pass this road, please leave your supplies here."
The temperature was too high and Luo Yunjin didn't want to open the window at all.
The shirtless man jumped high, shouted loudly, and then slapped the car.
Lin Xi turned the car around, and with a flash of lightning, he gave the other person a free afro.
Luo Yunjin discovered that the eighth floor of the building was a buffet restaurant. The signboard above was still well preserved, and the windows were wiped clean, indicating that someone was living there.
"Wait, big brother, don't go. We are the last group of survivors in Y City. Could you please take us away? We still have a lot of supplies stored here. There are not many of us, just twenty." The shirtless man with an afro stubbornly stopped the car. He knew that the people on the mountain must be high-level psychics.
It has been a year since the apocalypse, and the person who can still maintain the car so well must be a strong person.
They stayed in City Y for too long, observing the passing psychics and zombies, but because the department store was rich in supplies and more than enough for them to live, they never left.
But ten days ago, two children suddenly had high fevers that wouldn't go away, which seemed like they were about to activate their superpowers, but ten days have passed and the two still haven't woken up.
After that, more and more people developed fever, even people with special abilities were infected, and half of them were forced to live in the emergency room that was temporarily cleared.
They all understood that if they didn't leave here, everyone would die.
Luo Yunjin opened the window a crack and threw out a few orange seeds. Under the influence of his supernatural power, the orange tree quickly grew into a towering tree, blocking the sunlight, and the treetops were full of small yellow oranges.
Lin Xi drove the car under the shade of a tree and then got out.
"What supplies do you have left?" Luo Yunjin was holding a bottle of ice water in his hand, which he had just taken out of the car's refrigerator. It was so cool that he used it to cover his hands.
Xiao Pacai saw the two people under the shade of the tree. Their skin was glowing white, their facial features were delicate, and their clothes were clean. With the tall trees that had matured instantly next to them as a backdrop, they looked like people walking out of a painting.
"There is also half a warehouse of rice, flour, a lot of seasonings, and some beverage powder." Xiao Pacai murmured. He put his hand over his brow and felt that the man and woman in front of him were particularly shining.
"You have cars." Lin Xi looked at the 9S boutique car shop with its door tightly closed. He didn't believe that after a whole year, these people would not find a way to transport the cars on the first floor to a higher place to prevent them from being submerged by floods.
Y City is only more than 600 kilometers away from Haicheng, and it only takes half a day to drive there.
Such a big department store must have radios.
"Most of us here don't want to go to the base or the safe zone. Plus, we've sealed off the bottom four floors of the department store, and all the supplies have been moved upstairs. We also have plant-based psychics growing crops on the rooftop, so we're self-sufficient. So, we don't plan to go to the base."
Xiao Pacai and other people in the mall were very afraid of death, so when they saw Luo Yunjin and Lin Xi this time, they decided to give up some of their interests to save themselves from the dire situation.
Moreover, after witnessing Luo Yunjin's ability to plant fruit trees with ease, Xiao Pacai felt that she disdained these supplies that had been stored for a long time.
He gestured to the person in the window above his head and asked them to lower the ladder.
"Please come in, both of you."
The ladder was narrow and had several railings missing.
Luo Yunjin directly released a few vines, supporting himself and Lin Xi to climb up the narrow window.
The room was very dark and had a faint sour smell.
Melted ice water was everywhere, and black cloth was pasted on the windows to block the sunlight.
A thin young man was holding a wooden cannon in his hand and looking at the two men warily.
Xiao Pacai took them directly to see the rice and flour stored in the next room.
He had already transferred some of the supplies and hidden them elsewhere, and would not reveal all the supplies here.
There was a strong musty smell in the room, and many rice bags had black unknown stains on them. The condiments piled in the corner were all over the side, looking very perfunctory.
The interior of the mall was hollow, and it was pitch black underneath, all traces of the previous rain left behind.
The handrail collapsed and you could fall if you weren't careful.
All the survivors here live on the sixth floor. The floors above it have not been cleaned and are in a mess.
"You can take all the materials here as long as you can take us to the nearby base." Xiao Pacai is a fifth-level power-type mutant and has the highest superpower among the survivors here.
Because they have been hiding in the mall, they rarely participate in hunting zombies, rarely come into contact with the outside world, and have not strengthened their training in superpowers.
Everyone locked in the room had red faces and a layer of sweat on their foreheads. Two of them were tied to chairs, and their fingers and lips were all black.
This symptom is the same as what happened when Shen Junxie and the others accidentally ate Ganoderma lucidum. It was like being infested by parasites, but there were no signs of parasites on the body.
Luo Yunjin used his backpack as a demonstration, took out a small healing fruit, cut the cucumber-sized fruit into small slices, and asked Xiao Pacai to feed them to several people.
When Xiao Pacai saw the glowing cucumber and its refreshing smell, he thought it looked like a good thing. Without hesitation or doubt, he let everyone take it one by one.
The flush on their faces faded at a speed visible to the naked eye, but they were still unconscious. Many people began to bend over and vomit, and what they vomited was gray bitter water.
"Did you guys get a stomach upset? With so many people here, it looks like food poisoning." Luo Yunjin frowned when he saw that the treatment was useless.
"No, the first two children opened the window by themselves and fainted from the sun, and then they had a high fever that wouldn't go away. Later, everyone who came into contact with them developed the same symptoms." Xiao Pacai said, standing a little further away, not daring to get too close to those people.
This reminded Luo Yunjin of the disaster that was briefly mentioned in the comics.
After a year of continuous rain, the temperature continued to rise. A few low-level psychics and ordinary people were exposed to certain strong rays in the sunlight and developed a serious genetic disease, causing their genes to mutate.
Because only a few people were affected, it took up little space in the original text and was only mentioned briefly.
This genetic disease cannot be cured and can only be alleviated by medication. It first causes coma and fever, then paralysis of the whole body. After that, only the eyeballs can move, and the bones will gradually soften, becoming as soft as seaweed.
"They may be suffering from a genetic disease. Even a healing psychic cannot cure it and can only alleviate the symptoms." Luo Yunjin said.
All those who are still physically normal are psychics of level four or above.
The two men tied to the chairs had their lips back to normal color by this time, and they were both very depressed when they heard Luo Yunjin's words.
"But, wasn't the food you just gave us effective? If we had some more, maybe we would all recover." Cannon Fodder Armor struggled to get up, leaned against the wall, and looked at Luo Yunjin's backpack with shining eyes.
The others all had the same expression; no one wanted to die.
"The healing fruit I just gave you is only effective the first time you eat it. Furthermore, genetic mutations are irreversible. Even a star-level healing psychic wouldn't be able to do anything about it. Perhaps you could try upgrading your abilities. As it stands, all high-level psychics are safe and sound."
Everyone's face turned pale again.
The psychics among them all upgraded themselves by directly absorbing crystal cores they obtained by chance. They had no experience in hunting zombies, so it was not easy for them to break through their psychic powers.
"You can keep these materials for yourselves. In Haicheng, 600 kilometers away from Y City, there are several mountains near the sea. There are many superpowered people gathered there. We rushed all the way here, and the road is safe and there are no zombies. If you have a car, you can go there to seek help."
Luo Yunjin pulled Lin Xi and prepared to leave.
But Xiao Pacai suddenly snorted coldly, turned around and locked the door, took out a remote control, and pressed the blue button with an evil smile.
Soon, a metal cage fell from the sky.
Another cage.
Luo Yunjin hooked his hand, and the orange tree far outside the mall broke through the window directly, knocking the iron cage away.
A thin green vine wrapped around the remote control in Xiao Pacai's hand.
Xiao Pacai did not show any fear. He kicked his dirty shoes away, hitting the wooden leg of the bench in front.
Immediately afterwards, a metal net inlaid with various blades fell from the roof.
The blades are extremely sharp and are all made by gold-type mutants.
If you are caught by this thing, you will be disfigured at best or killed at worst.
Obviously, Xiao Pacai did not hold back on them. He set up a full set of tactics from the moment they entered the room.
Although those who were still dying in the corner were weak, they still supported each other to get up, forming a circle, with deep malice and greed in their eyes.
Everyone pulled out long swords or long wooden cannons from under their clothes, aimed at the two men, and rushed forward.
They had malicious intentions and placed many hidden weapons in the room.
Just think about it, many people with special abilities must have died here.
Too bad they messed with the wrong guy.
Lin Xi didn't even need to do anything. Luo Yunjin asked Ju Shu to tie up everyone and hang them upside down from the ceiling.
"I didn't lie to you just now. You do have a genetic disease that's incurable. It seems like you were plotting against us the moment we walked into the room. Whether we took you away or not, you were ready to take action."
"There are a lot of messy footprints next to the condiments in the next room, and there are bloody handprints on the rice bag. You have robbed a lot of people with special abilities using this method." Luo Yunjin hates this kind of people. They are scarier than zombies.
Even ordinary eighth-level and ninth-level psychics may be deceived.
Xiao Pacai laughed out loud, "You weren't the first to discover it. But the others are all dead now, you're the only one who caught me."
He looked greedily at Luo Yunjin's backpack. "How many goodies are there in your bag? Take them all out! There are other traps in this room. If you don't let me go and hand over the things, you can't leave!"
The vines of the orange tree tightened a little more.
"Are you talking about this?" Lin Xi dug out a small electric shock device from under the carpet in the corner. It was crudely made and had a specific button on it. As long as you stepped on it, the carpet would be electrified and anyone standing on it would be knocked unconscious by the electric shock.
However, Lin Xi is a lightning-type mutant and is naturally very sensitive to this kind of thing.
Luo Yunjin also asked Tengman to remove the smoke bombs and anesthetic bombs tied behind the chair.
Xiao Pacai was originally very confident, but when he saw them dismantling it so easily, he suddenly felt despair.
He had tricked a ninth-order water-type mutant before, and now he was locked up on the thirteenth floor, being humiliated by him every day.
When he saw this outstanding couple, he wanted to repeat his previous behavior and capture them, but he didn't expect to fail this time.
And they were all wiped out at the same time.
Luo Yunjin had no interest in the materials hidden here. She could grow wheat on the stones herself and there was no need to harvest the moldy rice.
She put Xiao Pacai down and asked him to lead the way to release all the other imprisoned people with special abilities.
In the seven rooms on the 13th floor, six people were nailed to their beds with iron nails, and one had died from excessive bleeding.
Luo Yunjin gave them the rejuvenation fruit one by one and said, "I'll leave this to you guys to handle on yourselves."
"Thank you!"
There were six people with special abilities who had been imprisoned for a long time. They were thin and had various scars on their bodies. There were four men and two women.
Luo Yunjin and Lin Xi left the mall directly without caring how those psychics dealt with the group of people.
I can only say that it is very dark here. Never trust strangers at any time. Those who seem kind actually hide dirty thoughts.
Obviously, most of what Xiao Pacai said before was false.
Judging from the skilled movements of those people, there must be more than just those people who were harmed.
The only people who can survive safely for a year in the apocalypse are those with high-level psychics or those with cunning minds.
The car continued to drive towards Xisui Base.
They did not follow the original route. Lin Xi could turn on the flying function and fly for a while before returning to land driving in order to get rid of the car chasing him from behind.
Those cars repeated the route of the car just now and also stopped under the mall.
All the oranges on the orange trees outside had been plucked by Luo Yunjin, leaving only bare tree trunks.
Lan Xinya looked at the open windows on the sixth floor of the mall and said with certainty, "They must be inside!"
At this moment, several screams were heard in the mall.
Several people were about to take out the elevator and climb to the sixth floor.
I saw a man covered in blood sliding down the pipe.
"Hello, my name is Xiao Pacai. We have a large amount of supplies stored in our mall. As long as you are willing to take us away from here, all the supplies can be given to you." Xiao Pacai said with a smile.
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