Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 130 Another Use of Black Flame

At noon, the scorching heat baked the earth. The roadside grass and trees were dry, and the ground, which was cracked from long-term exposure to the sun, became even more cracked as a convoy drove by.

Inside the ghostly bone chariot, the butcher sat in the driver's seat, muttering strange noises as he closely followed the vehicle in front.

The ground was cracked, and small bumps would appear from time to time, causing vehicles to shake.

The windows on both sides of the vehicle were covered by tricolor tarpaulins.

Chu Sheng was jolted awake by the occasional tremors and slowly opened his eyes.

As a level 8 ability user, he, like An Xi, has been enhanced twice.

While it can't compare to the special attack enhancements of the combat sequence, it's still far beyond that of ordinary people.

Even so, I was still exhausted.

Opening his eyes, Chu Sheng saw An Xi, and a wave of fear instantly washed over him.

Yesterday, I was so tired that I fell into a deep sleep after the peace truce, and I didn't even think that An Xi might pose a threat to me.

"I can't do this again next time. No matter how tired I am, I have to make sure no one is near me when I'm sleeping," Chu Sheng thought to himself, then shifted his body slightly.

As he moved, An Xi slowly opened her eyes.

However, in an instant, feeling something was wrong with her, An Xi's eyes widened, and then the events of last night came back to her mind.

At that moment, Chu Sheng's voice reached her ears: "Alright, it's all done, you can leave now."

An Xi: "???"

"Hmph! But your service was alright, I'll come back to you next time."

As she spoke, An Xi fumbled behind her back for a moment, then opened the door to the cargo box and slipped inside with lightning speed.

Having participated in yesterday's supplies collection, she knew that there were clothes inside the cargo boxes.

As for her clothes from yesterday, they're no longer wearable.

Seeing An Xi crawl into the cargo box, Chu Sheng didn't even bother to go in and check on her. He simply lifted the blanket, picked up his clothes from the floor, and put them on.

Squinting at the sunlight outside the windshield, Chu Sheng finally saw their current environment clearly.

The surrounding area was desolate, and the mountains that should have been green and lush in the distance had turned yellowish-brown.

The sweltering heat has extinguished the vitality of this place.

Whether it's animals or plants, you can't see any of them anywhere you look.

All that can be seen is desolation.

This is what true extreme heat looks like.

Sunlight provides energy to all things, but excessively intense sunlight can become poison to everything.

Sensing that Chu Sheng had woken up, the butcher turned his head to look at him from the front, his voice cheerful, "Waaaaah!"

"Waaaaa! Gaaaaa!"

Today was another day of protecting my master!
Chu Sheng sensed the butcher's emotions, a smile appeared on his face, and then he sat in the passenger seat, took off the tri-colored tarpaulin from the right window, and basked in the warm sun through the window and windshield.

The air conditioning was kept at 20 degrees Celsius, maintaining a relatively comfortable temperature inside the car.

A few minutes later, An Xi emerged from the cargo box, having changed into a T-shirt and cargo pants, wearing high-top Martin boots. Her ponytail was tied high, but because her hair was quite long, the ends fell to her waist.

Stepping out of the cargo box and jumping off the bed, An Xi glanced at the map she had drawn on the bedsheet yesterday and awkwardly turned to look at the front of the vehicle.

Her pale gold eyes and expressionless face made her appear exceptionally cool and aloof.

However, she occasionally glanced at Chu Sheng, already calculating the extraordinary materials she possessed.

The red veil from the previous collision is still there, as is the small tower obtained from wiping out that convoy. In addition, there's the spider venom sac obtained yesterday and the piece of glass from the icebox monster.

There aren't many extraordinary materials; there are only four in total.

She hadn't expected Ah Xin to return the extraordinary materials to Ah Xin after she helped her with the cat ears, so her gaze was somewhat hesitant.

She wanted to keep two extraordinary materials, but also wanted to make two sacrificial offerings.

Recalling the scalding heat inside her lower abdomen last night, An Xi made up her mind and decided to create two sacrificial objects or enhance the sacrificial objects she already possessed.

For some reason, the aura left by Chu Sheng yesterday was completely different from that of the first time.

The first time was a little warm, but still within the normal range.

But the aura Chu Sheng left behind yesterday was incredibly hot.

If she hadn't used her Gengjin power to envelop that aura while she was in a daze, she estimated that she would have been melted away.

Standing by the bedside, lost in thought for a long time, An Xi asked in a hoarse voice, "Chu Sheng, have there been any changes after your sequence advancement?"

"Hmm?" Chu Sheng, who was sunbathing, looked at her in surprise upon hearing this, then remembered that his blood had been replaced by black flames.

Recalling the black flames leaking during yesterday's outbreak, he felt a little strange, but still nodded, "Hmm."

“But it’s not a matter of sequence, it’s a sacrificial offering.” “My blood was replaced by black flames.” As he spoke, he glanced at An Xi and then continued, “There seems to be a trace left on you yesterday.”

"Mm." An Xi nodded, then remained silent.

She knew that yesterday's events were related to Chu Sheng.

Who knew that yesterday, the car interior, which was originally a deep green, would suddenly emit a golden light, causing her that feeling of shame.

If it were just a golden light, it would be fine, but as soon as An Xi thought about the location of that golden light, she felt like she was going to explode on the spot.

The vehicle continued driving in silence.

Anxi quietly changed the bed sheets.

Around 2 PM, the SUV at the front slowly came to a stop.

As he stopped his car, the entire convoy also came to a stop.

When Chu Sheng got off the car, he glanced back and saw that of the more than fifty survivors who had followed the convoy on shared bicycles, only twelve or thirteen remained.

About ten people made deals with the survivors on the bus and squeezed on.

The remaining twenty-odd people suffered from heatstroke due to the high temperature and long journey.

They should have suffered from heatstroke on the first day, but Anxi and Axin had already given away some of their water.

Although they only received a mouthful or even less, the clean water still relieved the heat from their bodies.

But yesterday, Anxi and Ah Xin went to Fangxiang City, and after they came back and got together for drinks, they were contacted by Zhou Qi and the others again.

The two were so busy and exhausted that they didn't have time to react, so they didn't release their excess water.

Without purified water to remove the heat, the consequences are obvious.

In less than half a day, the convoy lost more than 20 people.

Of the remaining 300-plus people, at least 50 or 60 suffered from heatstroke.

These people were just sitting in the car, so they didn't fall behind.

But if this continues, they will die of thirst.

In such extreme heat, heatstroke means death!

Without clean water to dissipate the heat, even if they suffer heatstroke on the bus, they will still die, perhaps even more painfully than those who fall behind.

Chu Sheng saw this, and An Xi, who was next to him, also saw it.

In particular, it's striking that of the fifty-odd survivors who rode shared bicycles, only a dozen or so remain.

Her pupils widened suddenly, and she ran straight to the shady SUV, unloading a bucket and a half of clean water.

At the same time, he shouted to the survivors, "Come and line up for water!"

Upon hearing her words, the survivors, who had been suffering from the unbearable heat, rushed over as if they had encountered a living bodhisattva bringing water in the desert.

Upon seeing them, An Xi felt a pang of sadness, because her and Ah Xin's forgetfulness had resulted in the loss of more than twenty people.

"Come on, cyclists, get some water first! Then come those suffering from heatstroke!"

"One person, one dose. Anyone who dares to cut in line or claim a dose fraudulently will bear the consequences."

As An Xi spoke, she poured herself a glass of water using a liquor glass.

Ah Xin had only slept for a little over four hours last night and had driven for such a long time, so she had already fallen asleep in the car.

So today, only Anxi is here.

At the front of the line was a thin young man with sunken eyes due to prolonged hunger. He took the clean water from An Xi's hand and couldn't help but shed tears.

"Thank you. Thank you, thank you!"

He poured the water from the glass of baijiu into his mouth, and a cool sensation spread throughout his body. The dizziness he had been experiencing due to heatstroke, which had forced him to keep up with the convoy, vanished completely.

He knew that he could live again.

His eyes were filled with gratitude as he looked at An Xi.

However, he didn't linger and left immediately after the heat was dissipated from his body.

He had previously worked for another caravan, where he wasn't enslaved, but he had to make offerings every now and then, so it didn't really matter.

The extraordinary convoy behind him was wiped out by the people in this convoy, and he originally had no idea that it mattered.

It's simply a matter of replacing them with a new group of people to enslave them.

There were actually quite a few people who thought the same way as him, but to their surprise, the caravan did not ask them to make offerings after accepting them. In fact, because of the weather, some superhuman beings even provided these survivors with this magical water.

My previously somewhat numb heart slowly came alive after joining this racing team.

Hope was glimpsed in despair.

(End of this chapter)