Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 265 Compassion? Doesn't exist.

"Dad, I'm so hungry."

"When will the convoy find a supply point?"

A dirty-looking girl with tangled, dry hair, a sallow complexion, and a somewhat weak appearance spoke to a middle-aged man in his forties beside her.

The middle-aged man also had a sallow complexion, and his hair was matted and tangled because he hadn't taken care of it for a long time.

Hearing his daughter's words, the middle-aged man patted her head, took out half a dried fish from his pocket, and said in a low voice, "Eat it, we should be finding a supply point soon."

"There will be food then."

The girl took the half-piece of dried fish, looked at her father whose cheeks were also sunken from hunger, pursed her lips, and then broke the half-piece of dried fish in her hand in half.

"Dad, I'm not too hungry yet, you should eat something too."

Looking at the dried fish his daughter handed him, the middle-aged man remained silent for a moment, then nodded, took the dried fish, and put it in his mouth.

Regardless of whether there were fish bones in the dried fish, he chewed it heartily, trying to replenish his energy.

This was their last meal.

If no other food is provided, they will most likely starve to death.

Thinking of this, the middle-aged man paused slightly while chewing, then resumed chewing, but glanced at another person out of the corner of his eye.

It was a man about his age, and next to this man was a pocket.

He saw with his own eyes that the man put several pieces of dried fish in.

He can hold on for one more day, but if there's still no food tomorrow, he'll have no choice but to take the risk.

The convoy was forbidden from fighting without cause, but with no food left, they couldn't care less about that.

It doesn't matter if he dies, but his daughter is only seventeen. He knows she will die sooner or later in this apocalypse, and he can't let her starve to death!

He wasn't the only one with this idea; besides him, there were five or six other people on the bus who were also looking at the people around them.

After swallowing all the dried fish in his mouth, the middle-aged man glanced at his daughter who was still eating dried fish, remained silent for a while, and then said, "Xiaoling, you will have to learn to survive on your own from now on."

"In this apocalypse, no one knows what will happen in the future. If I die, you must live well."

"Your mother and I's biggest wish is for you to live a good life."

The girl, referred to as Xiaoling, murmured "Dad."

"Don't speak yet," the middle-aged man said in a low voice. At the same time, he glanced at the people around him. When he saw that some people were looking at him and his daughter, he pulled out a watermelon knife about the length of his forearm from his pocket and glared back fiercely.

Seeing this, the others quickly looked away and gazed elsewhere.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man looked at his daughter again and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "If I'm gone in the future, you have to be careful about everyone around you."

“When there is plenty of food, they should be safe, but with food shortages like they are now, each of them could be dangerous to you.”

"Also, if you find something that can be stored for a long time, save it for last. It's best to store food for a few days in case of emergency."

The middle-aged man gave his final instructions, as if he were giving his last words, and Xiaoling's eyes welled up with tears.

In the light of the underworld, Chu Sheng looked at the father and daughter on the projection, his eyes completely unmoved.

A ghostly mechanical voice echoed in the cockpit, "Master, is this human emotion?"

"According to the interpretation I copied in the book, this should be a kind of feeling called fatherly love."

“That’s right.” Chu Sheng nodded, his eyes still expressionless. “Parents who love their children plan far ahead for them.”

"All living beings place great importance on offspring; the primary meaning of life is continuation."

"It's instinct."

"Master, are you going to help them?" The mechanical voice of the underworld sounded again. "According to my detection, your emotional fluctuations were greater than usual when you were observing this girl named Xiaoling."

"My initial assessment is that you were moved by compassion."

"Based on the analysis of the remaining food in the cargo box, providing the other party with three days' worth of food would have less than one ten-thousandth of the impact on the owner."

"Compassion?" Chu Sheng murmured, finally a smile appearing on his face. "I have no compassion."

"I was just thinking about something."

"Is it really possible for people in this world to have absolutely no blood relation but look remarkably alike?"

Upon hearing Chu Sheng's words, You Ming did not answer immediately, seemingly searching for an answer.

After a long silence, Youming's voice rang out again, "According to statistics, there are people who look very similar but are not related by blood."

"There is about a one in 100,000 chance of finding a non-relative who is similar to you, with facial features that are more than 75% alike. However, the probability of being extremely similar, or identical twins, is one in a trillion."

"So my answer is that such people exist, but the probability is extremely small."

"The odds of you winning are even smaller than if you knew the lottery numbers before the apocalypse, bought a lottery ticket, but the other party cheated or made a mistake."

"According to the infinite monkey theory, there is no such thing as zero probability in the world. On an infinite time scale, a monkey randomly typing on a keyboard will still be able to type out a book of human history."

Upon hearing about the various laws, theories, and probabilities of the Netherworld, Chu Sheng smiled but remained silent.

No one knew what he was thinking. The convoy continued on its way.

As the convoy advanced towards the Endless Volcanoes region, the surrounding temperature gradually rose, and volcanoes emitting black smoke could be seen from time to time, with lava flowing out of the crater every now and then.

The Nether Light dragged the convoy behind it with iron chains, maintaining a speed of over 600 kilometers per hour until the sky began to darken, at which point the convoy finally stopped.

As the campfire was lit, Chu Sheng and the others gathered together.

Not far from them, dozens of survivors used pickaxes to extract lava to roast fish.

Their current state is much more relaxed than Chu Sheng had seen through Youming's feedback.

This was because the moment the convoy stopped, Cheng Xue informed them that the convoy was about to search for a supply depot.

With a general timeframe in mind, the survivors no longer had to wait indefinitely.

Of course, the most important thing was that Anxi, Ah Xin, and Xingzi gave out some food.

There wasn't much food, but it was enough for them to eat for three days if they saved up.

That's the real reason they've relaxed so much.

Chu Sheng and the others sat around the campfire. Since they were all sequence ability users, they had a relatively high tolerance for the current temperature, so they didn't feel much heat.

Old Li tossed a potato into the campfire, and Chaohui Team asked, "How far are we from that team?"

Upon hearing this, Hui calculated for a moment with his right hand before replying, "It's about 10,000 kilometers away."

"At this rate, we should meet them around tomorrow evening."

An Xi asked with some concern, "How long will it take to reach the next supply depot?"

"Those survivors may not last much longer."

“If Ah Xin, Xingzi, and I hadn’t given them some food, they might have even started killing each other.”

Upon hearing her words, Hui, who had been smiling, immediately became serious and said, "To be honest, the supply depot is a bit far from us."

"The closest distance between us is more than 20,000 kilometers."

"So far?" Ah Xin stared wide-eyed at Captain Hui in disbelief. "But we found the supply points so easily before."

Upon hearing this, Hui gave a wry smile: "Finding supply points wasn't easy for us either."

"It was easy at first because we had never left the area where Earth is located. At that time, our convoy was moving very slowly and we had to avoid all the weird things, often going in circles in one place."

That's why you get the illusion that supply points are everywhere.

"But ever since we entered the realm of the uncanny, we have truly stepped into this apocalypse."

"Although we will encounter places where we can resupply, that's because we are heading towards the supply points."

"The only exception was the village I encountered when I left the Ghost Realm, but in all the places after that, I followed the directions of the supply points."

He paused, looking at Ah Xin, "Including Fangxiang City."

"Food is relatively plentiful in the region where Earth is located, since many foods have a shelf life of more than one year. However, outside of the region where Earth is located, food is not so plentiful."

"Although there are some places on Earth, these regional extreme climates and environments mean that even if the shelf life is long, the food can easily spoil."

“There are supply points like this within a thousand kilometers of us, but everything inside is broken.”

"Unless you want to get some inedible supplies, there's no need to go."

"Even the supply point I calculated survived because it had several dry goods stores and grain and oil stores, and luckily, there weren't many volcanoes in that area."

"Otherwise, we would have to travel 30,000 kilometers before we encountered another supply point."

At this point, he sighed, "Everyone should get ready."

"Food will only become harder and harder to find in the future."

After a moment of silence, Fang Hong looked at Team Leader Hui and asked, "There seem to be creatures inside the volcano."

"Are those things edible?"

“I just communicated with fate and asked about food, and fate told me that there are creatures inside the volcano.”

"They didn't give many specific answers."

At this point, she sighed, "Speaking of which, this world is indeed absurd."

"There are clearly many wild animals in the wild, but we haven't seen anything along the way."

Upon hearing his words, Chu Sheng and the others looked at her with surprise.

"do not you know?"

Sensing the strange looks from the crowd, Fang Hong frowned and asked, "What do I know?"

“As long as it’s an animal, it will emit a life force. The eerie doesn’t care whether this life force is human or something else.”

(End of this chapter)