Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 192 Each with their own agenda! Military deterrence! Resource allocation!
“Not only do they not tell the truth, but the sequences they recite are also not true,” the young man called Xiao Li suddenly said.

“When you were talking to them, the lie detector never stopped.”

As he spoke, his gaze fell upon a green-glowing instrument in the corner of the secret room.

"Except on a few occasions, the lie detector always glowed red."

He looked at Wang Jianguo and said solemnly, "That so-called Craftsmanship Sequence is fake, and his claim that he is called Chu Ci is also fake."

"However, his sequence should be related to the sacrificial offerings, so we can test him."

"Hmm." Wang Jianguo nodded and said in a dignified voice, "Then let's make a deal with them when we meet tomorrow."

"Give him a hundred pieces of extraordinary materials first, and see how many offerings he can give us."

“It’s a pity they probably won’t join us.” Wang Jianguo said, looking at Lao Wang who hadn’t spoken yet, and continued, “Lao Wang, you haven’t said anything, tell us your opinion.”

"Me?" Old Wang shook his head. "My suggestion is that we can cooperate, but don't let them join us."

"Tell me your reasons," Wang Jianguo said, resting his chin on his hands as he looked at him.

Old Wang nodded upon hearing this. "The reason is actually quite simple."

"Their thoughts are too complicated."

"During the time you've been in contact with them, they haven't told you a single truth."

“They’ve been in the apocalypse for so long, it’s normal that they were wary of us at first, especially since they even gave the children milk powder,” Wang Jianguo said.

"He's faking it," Old Wang asserted immediately.

"The report from the intelligence department is a fabrication!"

"Although we could only observe each other's emotions when they opened the car window, those few short seconds were enough to determine that the person named Chu Ci had no emotional fluctuations."

"Well, let's call him Chu Ci for now, since his name is fake."

"What about the others besides him?" Old Qin asked from the side.

"According to the intelligence department's observations, among these people, only the one named An Xi is suitable for recruitment."

“Besides her, there’s also Ah Xin, Xingzi, and Zhu Qing. We can recruit them, but they need to undergo training and ideological education,” Old Wang said, then looked at the three of them.

"But now it's the end of the world, so under this kind of procedure, they basically won't join us."

"My suggestion is that Anxi can try to win her over, but we should just maintain a cooperative relationship with the others."

"Okay." Wang Jianguo nodded. "I'll try my best."

"Old Wang, keep monitoring them."

“We must prevent them from coming into contact with our Sequence Abilities.” He paused, then continued, “We should also try to prevent the survivors from coming into contact with them.”

"I understand," Old Wang nodded. "I'll be careful."

Then, the group began to discuss Chu Sheng and the others.

On the city wall, Chu Sheng and his companions were also discussing matters concerning the Mechanical City.

Both sides had their own agendas.

After driving the survivors off the city wall on the roof, Chu Sheng and the others entered the room on the left.

Chu Sheng glanced at the two batches of extraordinary materials piled up separately in the room and then sat down at the table in the center.

Although these two batches of extraordinary materials were stored separately, they actually belonged to him.

The three items are to be given to Hui, the leader.

A batch of extraordinary materials that the butcher had placed on the fish cart were taken here by someone.

The other batch consisted of extraordinary materials collected by the people of the Mechanical City, which also belonged to Chu Sheng.

The table was large, and there was some food on it, but no one touched the food; instead, they all looked at Hui.

Hui then looked at Ah Xin, whose face was still a little pale.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Ah Xin asked, a little confused by his gaze.

Hui pushed up his glasses and said, "Ah Xin, could you please use your ability to block out this area?"

"Don't let anyone overhear our conversation."

Upon hearing this, Ah Xin's eyes widened. Without any hesitation, she conjured a blurry barrier that enveloped them.

Then she looked at Captain Hui and asked, "How did you know I had this ability?"

Upon hearing this, Hui did not answer her, but instead pointed to the tortoise shell he had taken out.

"It is indeed difficult for me to calculate sequence ability users without any cost, but that doesn't mean I can't."

"That's really perverted." Ah Xin's ears twitched, and she looked constipated.

Hui then looked at everyone and said, "They're having a meeting right now, probably discussing how to treat us tomorrow."

"However, they seem to have protective measures, so that's all I can calculate, but not their conversations."

Meanwhile, in a room in the central building of the Mechanical City, a person looked at the pixelated screen and shook his head at the others, "No, the detection devices can't see them or hear their conversations."

"I couldn't eavesdrop even if I tried with my own abilities."

"Report it up," a leader-looking man sighed.

"Their capabilities surpass ours; they can't detect it."

“From the moment we entered the mechanical city, someone has been secretly watching us.”

“They seem to have the ability to detect whether we are lying,” Hui said, looking at Chu Sheng. “Especially you. When you said you were a member of the Craftsmanship Sequence, Old Wang was very excited and even invited you to join them repeatedly.”

"But he doesn't truly believe you."

"There is no doubt about that. Although my abilities are somewhat different from those of a sequence of extraordinary beings, I am 100% an ordinary person."

"Since the other party knows we're lying, and you also know they know we're lying, why are you still lying?" Kyoko asked Hui, puzzled.

Hui chuckled, and Chu Sheng's voice rang out from the side, "That's because we can't let the other side know our true sequence."

"So you revealed my sequence name? And you also revealed my abilities?" An Xi's face darkened.

“You’re different,” Hui said from the side. “You and Zhu Qing are different from us.”

"You two, along with Chu Sheng, are the strongest fighters in our team, so you must demonstrate your combat capabilities."

"Let them know our strength, so that we will be safer."

“Your strength comes from the sequence, so it’s okay to reveal the name of the sequence appropriately. Chu Sheng’s combat strength was exposed from the beginning, also to let them know our strength.”

As he spoke, he looked at Chu Sheng.

Chu Sheng simply nodded.

“Those anomalies are actually easy to deal with. Even if there is a Sequence 7 anomaly, it can’t catch up with the speed of the Nether Light.” “If we want to enter the Mechanical City, we can directly crush those anomalies with speed, but in their eyes, our strength will be very weak.”

"And the weak will be bullied."

"Although they are government officials, the apocalypse has been going on for so long, we don't need to gamble. Using the worst possible human nature to speculate is the best way to prevent things from going wrong in the apocalypse."

"Is this why you had Butcher and the mech attack together?" Zhu Qing scratched his head. "I thought you wanted those extraordinary materials."

As he spoke, his gaze fell upon the two piles of extraordinary materials to the side.

Chu Sheng followed his gaze and looked over without making an excuse.

"Yes, extraordinary materials are also a reason."

"Speaking of extraordinary materials, the only extraordinary material on that levitating monster is its hooves?" He looked at An Xi.

"Why are you asking this?" An Xi didn't answer, but Zhu Qing spoke up from the side, pointing to the four pig trotters he had placed aside.

"There are only these four pig trotters."

Chu Sheng was somewhat disappointed upon hearing this, "What a pity."

"It's a real pity," Hui said from the side.

"You want that levitation ability?" An Xi asked Chu Sheng as she sat down, clutching her black jade bone spear.

"Hmm." Chu Sheng nodded. "Not being able to fly is still not an option."

"If we had the ability to fly, we wouldn't have missed that floating island we encountered before."

“Living on a floating island is much better than driving.”

Chu Sheng had no intention of hiding this fact; flying ability was indeed the team's weakness.

“Yes,” Old Li nodded in agreement. “If we could live on the floating islands, our safety would be greatly improved.”

An Xi nodded thoughtfully upon hearing this, and pointed to the four pig trotters, saying, "Then you can try these pig trotters."

"These four pig trotters are different from the other pig trotters."

As she spoke, she picked up the pig's trotter, then flipped it over so that the part of the trotter that was touching the ground was facing down, and pointed to a hole in it, saying, "This strange pig's trotter is different from the others, probably because of its ability to levitate."

She then looked at Chu Sheng, handed him the pig's trotter, and said, "You can try it."

"If it can't levitate, it can at least increase the speed of the Nether Light. If it can levitate, that would be perfect."

Taking the pig's trotter and glancing at the hollow inside, Chu Sheng nodded, admitting that An Xi was absolutely right.

Seeing Chu Sheng nod, An Xi smiled, which made Xingzi, who was standing to the side, grit her teeth. What a seductive slut!
However, An Xi did not notice her and continued, "Both the golden-armored corpse and this strange boar are Sequence 7 anomalies. The strange boar lost four hooves, while the golden-armored corpse lost seven pieces of golden armor, a leg bone, and a rib."

"Although the seven pieces of golden armor are separate, they are too small, each piece is only two fingers wide and two fingers long, so these seven pieces of golden armor can be considered a piece of extraordinary material."

"If you count them that way, there are seven extraordinary materials."

"That is, golden armor, leg bones, ribs, and four pig trotters."

"We killed these two monsters together. We got seven extraordinary materials. The captain got one, and the three of us each got two."

"Okay." Chu Sheng nodded.

“My Geng metal fire contributed a lot, so I chose first, then Zhu Qing, then you, and finally the captain.”

As An Xi spoke, she picked up the leg bone of the golden-armored corpse from the ground, and then picked up a pig's trotter.

Upon seeing this, Zhu Qing picked up the golden armor and ribs.

Chu Sheng glanced at the three pig trotters on the ground and fell silent.

However, he didn't remain silent for long and immediately picked up all three pig trotters.

“You heard that, we really need to try this.” Chu Sheng said, looking at Team Leader Hui, “I still have three extraordinary materials that I haven’t given you. Give me this pig’s trotter, and I’ll give you four extraordinary materials in exchange.”

“Not enough.” Team Leader Hui shook his head. “This pig’s trotter fell from a Sequence 7 monster. Your extraordinary materials are not as good as this pig’s trotter, unless I get to choose from these four offerings first.”

As he spoke, he looked at Chu Sheng's more than thirty extraordinary materials.

Chu Sheng raised an eyebrow, then looked at the pile of extraordinary materials and shook his head as well, "It's impossible for you to choose first, but I can give you five pieces of extraordinary materials."

Upon hearing this, Hui frowned and pondered for a moment, then nodded, "Alright."

Seeing him nod, Chu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief.

The reason he wasn't allowed to choose first was simply because although there seemed to be a lot of those extraordinary materials, most of them were bone-type.

Unless it's an extremely special type of bone, bone-type supernatural materials mostly only make the fused object stronger.

Or it could attach itself to swords, giving them some strange properties, such as corpse poison.

These bone-type supernatural materials are somewhat useful to them, but not very effective.

On the contrary, other types of extraordinary materials are very useful.

For example, materials such as hands, feet, fur, and eyes.

There are thirty-one extraordinary materials, of which about twenty are bone-type extraordinary materials.

How could we let others choose first? Even giving them two extra bones would be better than letting them choose first.

And
Chu Sheng glanced at Hui Dui and made a note of it.

If you take advantage of someone's misfortune now, don't blame yourself for doing the same thing later.

After Hui got into his own car, he decided to start charging a fee.

However, he didn't say it out loud; he wanted to get the pig's trotters in his hands first.

Holding the three pig trotters, Chu Sheng looked at An Xi without saying a word. He knew that since An Xi had brought up the matter of the pig trotters with him, she probably wouldn't make things difficult for him.

Sure enough, sensing his gaze, An Xi tossed the pig's trotter to him.

He then handed over the black jade bone spear and the leg bone of the golden-armored corpse he had obtained.

"Help me fuse them, and the pig's trotters are yours."

Seeing this, Chu Sheng placed the four pig trotters on the table, took the black jade bone spear and the golden-armored corpse leg bone, sensed them briefly, and then looked up at An Xi.

"Would you like to change the ingredients?"

"Hmm?" An Xi was prepared for a blinding white light, but she didn't expect Chu Sheng to suddenly say such a thing.

Seeing An Xi's expression, Chu Sheng didn't keep her in suspense and explained, "If this leg bone is fused with your Black Jade Bone Spear, it will most likely make your spear three times heavier, increasing its defensive capabilities, but at the same time, the spear tip will become blunt."

"Initially, because the offerings weren't very strong, fusing them with any extraordinary materials would only enhance them."

"But as the offerings gradually become stronger, if you don't choose the right materials to fuse with them, they will develop in a direction you don't want."

"For example, becoming heavier is also an enhancement, but for you it is a weakening."

(End of this chapter)