Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 272 Type C Mycotic Stone Martial Arts Manual
When Lu Xi'an returned, he saw that Yao Wei had already pulled the woman out of the hill and, incidentally, shaved her into a human stump.

The woman's long legs and arms were neatly arranged to one side, alongside her body, as if they were on display.

Lu Xi'an glanced at Yao Wei, whose expression remained unchanged, as if she had only done something extremely ordinary.

As expected of Yao Wei!
Lu Xi'an admired her inwardly and asked, "Why didn't you kill her?"

Yao Wei said, "I'm afraid you might have questions for her."

Lu Xi'an glanced at the woman with the stick and said, "That's right, we should ask her if there are any problems."

However, the woman, now a human stump, lay on the ground, looking up at the sky with lifeless eyes. It was unclear whether she was in the mood to answer the questions.
Lu Xi'an crouched down and asked, "You're from Jiangbei, right? Why are you targeting us? What do you want? Besides the three of you, are there any other New Humans?"

He asked four questions in one breath, but the woman seemed not to hear any of them, continuing to stare blankly at the azure sky.

Seeing this, Lu Xi'an said again, "If you answer me, I'll let you die a quick death."

The woman finally reacted, came to her senses, and glanced at Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei.

But then she looked away and continued to stare lifelessly at the sky, as if her mind had been drawn away by the endless heavens.

Lu Xi'an sighed, took out his knife, and said, "Forget it, we won't get anything out of her. Let's kill her and keep going."

Knowing the answers to some questions so we can pay more attention in the future is certainly good. But if we don't know, there's nothing we can do; leaving as soon as possible is the most important thing.

Who knows if the person who escaped will call for reinforcements and come back?

But just as he was about to strike and get up, the woman suddenly turned her gaze from the sky back to him.

Lu Xi'an paused, then heard the woman say, "Tell me where your Type C new human is hiding. Make him come out and let me see him. Then give me a quick answer, and I'll answer your question."

Lu Xian: "..."

Yao Wei: “…”

It seems that the misjudgment just now left a deep shadow on the woman. So much so that it has become an obsession; even at the cost of death, she wants to know where that "hidden Type C New Human" is hiding.

Lu Xi'an recalled the cries of the Type C new humans inside the quilt. At that time, he was being carried on the back of a long-legged man, who shouted, "Quickly find where they are hiding people on their bodies."

So, do they still believe that there is a Type C new human hiding in the shadows?
—At least that's what this woman thinks.

Lu Xi'an said, "You're overthinking it. There are no Type C new humans, just the two of us."

"Just the two of you?!"

The woman's voice was filled with astonishment, her tone rising in disbelief, "Impossible! How could this be?! Old Duan is a master among Type C humans. Even if he isn't a master, with or without Type C New Humans, the power of Type A New Humans is incomparable."

"We have Lao Duan. If you don't have Type C, how could you possibly beat us?"

The sound of vehicle tires rolling over the ground rang out. Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei looked south in the direction of the sound and saw their RV approaching from afar.

The dog, based on some unknown judgment, had determined that the area was relatively safe, and thus steered the RV back.

The road was bumpy and slippery, and it would take some time for the RV to arrive, so Lu Xi'an decided not to wait any longer. He picked up the woman and asked her, "Do you still want your arms and legs?"

The woman was speechless: "I'm already prepared to die, what do I need all this for?"

"Oh, all right."

As Lu Xi'an spoke, he picked up the woman and, together with Yao Wei, headed towards the RV.

Yao Wei pursed her lips and remained silent. But for some reason, she felt that these two sentences and her current actions were something only she would have done.

But now Lu Xi'an has learned it too, and he does it so naturally.

This woman was being carried by Lu Xi'an; she looked quite pitiful.

As Lu Xi'an walked, he answered the woman's question: "Didn't you think we have other things that could enhance ourselves?" Since the woman was about to die anyway, he didn't mind talking to her a little more.

"You mean fungal stone?"

The woman sneered, "Don't joke around. You just got that thing, didn't you? We should know more about it than you do."

"what happened?"

Lu Xian asked.

The woman said, "You should know that the fungal stone is what we've been looking for. It appeared once before in Yangcai County, and after we found it, we wanted to come and find it."

"It's just that the tide came in just then, and we detected that the fungal stone had been washed into the sea, which is why we were unable to get it in time."

"Later we detected that the thing kept drifting eastward and eventually entered the sea, so we started searching here again and again, but we still haven't found anything."

“We noticed you passing by, but we didn’t intend to bother with you.”

"Later, when the tide was almost out, we suddenly detected something extra in your bodies, which confirmed that you were lucky; the fungal stone had actually fallen into your hands."

"That's why we came to find you as soon as possible after the tide receded, based on your travel itinerary."

"You haven't had that fungus stone for very long, how could you possibly have enhanced yourself to this extent using it?"

"Besides, we have fungal stones, and we know how powerful they are. How could we possibly strengthen you to this extent? Are you kidding me?!"

Of course, it's impossible with just fungus stones.

But the problem is, they also have a manual they got from the 923rd base.

The scientific and efficient training methods in that manual were practically martial arts manuals on par with the Nine Yin Manual and the Nine Yang Divine Skill; Lu Xi'an had already sensed this before. Now, after the battle with the enemy, this feeling was even more certain.

It seems that these people from Jiangbei have been lingering in Caiyang Mountain because of the fungus stones.

Or perhaps it was initially just for the pool of water, but later it was for the fungal stones.

Lu Xi'an asked, "So, you also have resonance gene scanners?"

The woman's eyes widened as she glanced at Lu Xi'an: "You have some too?!"

It seems they do exist.

Lu Xi'an immediately confirmed it.

As they spoke, he and Yao Wei had already carried the woman to the RV.

The RV then came to a stop.

Lu Xi'an opened the door to the garage at the back of the car, but before he could get in, Yao Wei said, "Don't take her up there, she's dirty."

The woman's wounds were still dripping blood, no wonder Yao Wei found it dirty.

Yao Wei spoke bluntly, and the woman's face darkened.

Lu Xi'an couldn't help but chuckle, and lifted the woman up a bit so that she could see the interior of the car from the garage door.

"Do you see this? Isn't it the same as your resonance gene scanner?"

Lu Xian asked.

"Same."

The woman answered sullenly, then added, "No wonder you were able to find that fungus stone. But if you continue to hide it, don't expect to get the answers to those questions from me."

Even if you leave me here and let mosquitoes, ants, and beasts eat me alive, I won't say a word.

Lu Xi'an sighed helplessly and said to Yao Wei, "Yao Wei, take it out and let her see."

Yao Wei obediently took out the old fungus stone from her body, while Lu Xi'an took out the new fungus stone that he had obtained from Hu Xiaodong.

The woman's eyes widened instantly.

Lu Xi'an and Yao Wei had already put away the fungal stones.

"So...it really is fungal stone..."

she muttered.

This confirmed to her that there were no Type C Newtypes here.

The intelligence regarding the number of new humans here comes from the resonance gene scanner.

The resonance gene scanner shows four red dots. There were three before, but then one more appeared, making it four. How could that be fake?
Two Type A new humans, plus two pieces of fungal stone, make exactly four red dots.

"But how could you possibly do that with just fungus stones?"

She couldn't help but ask again.

Lu Xi'an knew what she was asking.

The woman still believed that, relying solely on the fungal stone, she and Yao Wei shouldn't be able to defeat them, who were empowered by the pheromones of the Type C new humans.

Lu Xi'an smiled and said, "Because besides the fungal stone, we also have martial arts manuals."

"A martial arts manual?! What's that?!"

The woman looked bewildered, but then she understood and said, "Never mind, I don't know what kind of treasure this martial arts manual is that it's so powerful. But I've only ever lived in Jiangbei before, and I only come to Linhai occasionally. It's normal that there are treasures in the world that I don't recognize."

"Sigh, I never thought I would suffer because of something I didn't know. In the past, when Lao Duan went out, he would tell me to go out with him and broaden my horizons, and I should have gone."

Lu Xi'an said, "What's the use? Judging from your previous reactions, he didn't know either."

Nowadays, apart from Institute 923, probably no one in the world would know about it, right?
Of course, the manual found at Institute 923 must have been quite widely available back then, and it's possible that it might have been found elsewhere as well.

Lu Xi'an only hoped that this conjecture was wrong, and that this thing was not available anywhere else but only in 923.

The woman was speechless upon hearing Lu Xi'an's words.

After a long pause, the woman smiled with relief: "That's true, he doesn't know either. So it doesn't matter. I can't remember the question from earlier, so you'll have to ask it again if you want me to answer it."

"If you have any questions, just ask them now, so you can send me to my death."

"it is good."

Lu Xi'an nodded in agreement and said to Yao Wei, "Yao Wei, why don't you get in the car and check the resonance gene scanner to see if you can still see those two people?"

After Yao Wei got into the car, she quickly replied to Lu Xi'an: "It's very far. Any further and you won't be able to see it on the map."

"Ah That's good."

Lu Xian nodded.

It seems those two ran quite fast; presumably, the Type C new human in the quilt didn't dare remove the pheromones he was using to enhance the man along the way.

(End of this chapter)