Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 89 The Little Bastard and the New Human

"If we had known you two were new humans and not that car from before, why would we have attacked you? Are you looking for death?!"

As the man next to her continued to scream and writhe, the woman gave a bitter laugh, her tone tinged with self-mockery, "We haven't seen a single car here for years, and now there are two?! Damn it!"

Lu Xian didn't explain that their car was the same one the woman thought it was. He was too lazy to explain, and there was no need to explain.

"Where are you from? What are you doing here?"

He asked two more questions.

"Mengxin City, I mean the urban area of ​​Mengxin City."

The woman's answer was not unexpected to Lu Xian.

Lu Xian and Yao Wei continued to listen, and the woman immediately answered the second question: "We are actually going to Tongzhou County to look for something called fungus stone..."

"Mushroom Stone?!"

Lu Xian instantly thought of the thing wrapped in wolf skin in the car, but he remained calm on the surface and asked, "What is that?"

Yao Wei remained silent beside him.

When she heard the word "mushroom stone", she immediately thought of the stone covered with purple mycelium.

In that situation, what name could be more appropriate than this?
She wasn't good at talking to people, but it didn't matter, Lu Xian would do it. She knew she just had to remain calm and not reveal anything too obviously.

The woman said, "It's just a rock anyway. It's a bit strange. We actually just learned the name."

Lu Xian asked again: "Why is it strange?"

The woman was about to continue answering, but the screams of the man next to her became more intense, and his body, which was rolling around, began to twitch, and he screamed at the top of his lungs, which was so miserable.

The woman looked at him with an unbearable look and begged, "How about...let him die first? Look how cooperative I am. I will definitely tell you the truth about everything."

Yao Wei looked at Lu Xian and asked for his opinion.

After working together for so long, she has become accustomed to putting herself in the position of executor. If there is anything, Lu Xian will just do the brainwork, and she only needs to do the work.

So after Lu Xian nodded, she slashed the man's neck with a knife.

The woman's ears instantly became quieter, and her expression relaxed as she continued to explain to Lu Xian and Yao Wei:

"We found that stone on the tower in the city. It's a strange stone. Anyone who touches it will suffer from ulcers all over their body, in unbearable pain, and eventually die.

"We used the stone as a little toy to punish people. If anyone did something bad or was an enemy and we caught them, we would tie the stone to their body and torture them to death.

"But one day, a little scoundrel from the city came and started to mess with us and steal our things. We caught her and tied her up, then we opened her clothes, scooped up some rocks with a shovel, and threw them into her clothes.

"We all thought that little girl would soon be rotten all over and die, but we didn't expect that she would sneak away at some point and take the stone with her."

There is no doubt that the little bastard she was talking about was Chai Xin.

The "mushroom stone" that Chai Xin gave to Lu Xian and Yao Wei turned out to be from the urban area of ​​Mengxin City, and was taken out by Chai Xin when he escaped.

So, Chai Xin fell out with Mengxin City after that? And Mengxin City didn't benefit from the stone, only using it as a torture device?

Lu Xian observed the woman sitting on the ground covering her wound for a few seconds, and felt that his judgment should be correct.

This woman and the man whose neck had been cut were obviously ordinary people. There was nothing strange about them facing Yao Wei's attack before.

From this perspective, "mushroom stone" may not be useful to everyone, and it may just be a coincidence that it works on Chai Xin.

But both Yao Wei and I reacted to the "mushroom stone", so does that mean that this thing might be mainly aimed at new humans?

So, how did this thing come about? Lu Xian suddenly became curious about the tower in the urban area of ​​Mengxin City that the woman mentioned.

But this is just curiosity.

He couldn't be sure whether everything the woman said was true.

If the woman didn't lie at all, then Mengxin City might be like Tongzhou County, posing no threat, and Yao Wei and she could give it a try.

But if there is any falsehood in what the woman said, and the "mushroom stone" in the car has caused changes in some people in the urban area of ​​Mengxin City, then wouldn't Yao Wei and I face certain risks if we go in?

In that case, if Yao Wei and I went to the urban area of ​​Mengxin City, it would be like jumping into a wolf's den.

This must never be done.

Lu Xian could only suppress his curiosity and not try to understand the mystery.

"That little bastard is in Tongzhou County?"

Lu Xian followed the woman's words and asked.

"No."

The woman shook her head and said, "She has fallen into the hands of the new humans."

"New humans?!"

Lu Xian's eyelids twitched.

"Yes, the new humans."

The woman seemed to have thought of something terrifying, and her face, already pale from excessive blood loss, turned even paler. "A new human has gone to Mengxin City. His skills aren't as good as yours, but he's also very powerful.

"We will be controlled by him without realizing it. He can even make us happy when he wants to, or violent when he wants to.

"After he entered the city, he occupied the tower and said that the stone taken away by the little bastard was called a fungus stone. He also found something in the tower, saying it was some kind of resonance instrument.

"Some time ago, he connected that instrument to the power supply, and then he said the fungus stone was here and asked us to come and find it.

"We arrived but found nothing. We only saw the wolf's body, which had been run over by a car. Then the weather got colder and we had to go back.

"After the weather improved, I didn't expect that little bastard to run off to Mengxin City on his own.

"We secretly captured her, hid her, and asked her where the mushroom stone was. She said it was in Tongzhou County.

"Then the new human used that instrument and also said that the fungus stone was in Tongzhou County, so that made sense.

"We just want to sneak into Tongzhou County and find the fungus stone..."

After hearing this, Lu Xian asked, "So, you didn't tell that new human about catching that little bastard. After that new human knew that the fungus stone was in Tongzhou County, he didn't let you go there again like before?"

The woman sneered and said, "How could we possibly tell him? We've seen the changes in that little bastard. He's much more powerful than before."

“It took several of us working together to finally pin that little bastard down.

"Why did that little bastard become so powerful, and why do the new humans care so much about fungus stones? Do I need to say more?
"You all became new humans because of the fungus stone, right? If we control the fungus stone, why should we be afraid of him?

"With so many of us, I don't believe any of us can handle that broken rock like that little bastard did. Once one of us becomes a new human, we can walk freely in Mengxin City and no longer be at the mercy of that new human."

At this point, the woman suddenly looked dejected and said, "But... it's useless to say anything now..."

(End of this chapter)