Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 269 What is the sacrificial offering?
Zhuo Wu's words startled Chu Sheng, but he quickly realized what was going on.

When the Monkey King appeared before, they saw him looking in their direction, and now they realized that this must be what Zhuo Wu was talking about.

Although he had previously learned from Hui that Zhuo Wu already knew about their existence and was even thinking of joining them.

But when I actually heard him say those words, I was speechless.

When the world changed dramatically, their convoy had just emerged from the extreme rainstorm, and they were at least tens of thousands of kilometers away from Zhuo Wu and his group.

I can see them even from this far away.

However, recalling the appearance of the Monkey King earlier, Chu Sheng felt relieved.

After all, that was the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, Sun Wukong, a true mythological figure. Although An Xi's White Tiger lineage also contains the word "myth," it cannot compare to the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, who represents mythology.

"You two don't need to chat here, do you?" An Xi couldn't help but interject as she watched Chu Sheng and Zhuo Wu start their conversation. "We are all sequence ability users and can ignore this volcanic ash, but they can't."

She pointed to Zeng Lei next to Zhuo Wu, and the survivors behind them.

Hearing An Xi's words, Zhuo Wu scratched his head awkwardly, "Sorry, sorry."

"Shall we leave here first?" he asked Chu Sheng tentatively.

Upon hearing this, Chu Sheng nodded, "Okay."

Hearing his agreement, Zhuo Wu turned to look at the survivors behind him and said to Zeng Lei beside him, "Have everyone return the way they came to a place without volcanic ash."

"Yes, boss!" Zeng Lei replied and began to make arrangements.

Since Chu Sheng and his companion arrived, the survivors have been keeping a close eye on them.

Zhuo Wu had told them before that there was a convoy ahead and that they were going to join it.

However, Chu Sheng and Zhuo Wu hadn't spoken loudly, so apart from Zeng Lei who was always next to Zhuo Wu, the others hadn't heard their conversation. So, they were a little curious and retreated back the way they came, discussing amongst themselves.

"Aren't they part of a convoy? Why are there only two of them?"

"I don't know, but these two people look very capable."

"Boss Zhuo is no slouch either, there's absolutely no need for him to join them, they can join us too."

"Who knows? Maybe they're even more powerful than Boss Zhuo?"

"If we can reunite, let's reunite. It must be really tiring for Boss Zhuo to protect us all by himself. Several times I've woken up in the middle of the night and seen him reading alone."

"That's true. When we come together, we become stronger. Humanity has become the pinnacle of the natural world by sticking together. We will stick together even in the end times."

They were talking amongst themselves, not very loudly, but their voices still reached the ears of Zhuo Wu, Chu Sheng, and An Xi.

Zhuo Wu apologized to Chu Sheng and An Xi, saying, "I'm sorry, they didn't mean it."

"It's nothing." An Xi shook her head.

She was quite tolerant of the survivors; they were just speculating and there were no negative comments, so there was no need to correct them.

As for Chu Sheng, it's even simpler.

He never had any particular thoughts about the survivors, and he didn't even care what the survivors in his own caravan thought of him, let alone the survivors who hadn't even joined their caravan yet.

Seeing that the two seemed genuinely unconcerned, Zhuo Wu breathed a sigh of relief.

He had never met any other sequence transcendents before, nor did he know what these sequence transcendents were thinking. He was really afraid that these survivors might offend them by talking about them in front of them.

After all, he wanted to bring them into Chu Sheng's caravan.

These survivors didn't know, but how could he not know how many people the other side had?
These two were the first to arrive; there are others coming later.

The volcanic ash blanketed a large area, but they didn't go very far in, so it didn't take long to get out of the area.

Zeng Lei led the way, guiding the survivors back the way they came, while Zhuo Wu, Chu Sheng, and An Xi followed at the very back.

Behind them was the slowly moving Nether Light, which, under the control of the Netherworld, was neither too close nor too far from them.

Zhuo Wu couldn't help but turn around and look at the Netherworld Light, his eyes filled with envy as he said, "This car can even drive itself, that's high technology, isn't it?"

Where did you get this?

"If possible, I'd like to get one too."

In his eyes, the Nether Light was a high-tech product from before the apocalypse. He had previously been just a hoodlum, and although he knew some things, he didn't pay attention to those technologies or current events.

As for those scales, they were simply considered as offerings placed on the Netherworld Light.

Upon hearing his words, Chu Sheng glanced at him and said with a smile, "I modified this car myself."

"Do you want to?"

"If you want, I can get you one, but it certainly won't be as good as mine. However, as long as you have enough materials, even if it's a little inferior, it won't be that much worse."

Hearing this, An Xi couldn't help but look at Chu Sheng strangely, but didn't say anything.

What the others didn't know was that the sequence ability users in their team, even Fang Hong and Qingqing, all knew the value of the Netherworld Light.

This isn't something you can just create on a whim.

The Netherworld Light that Chu Sheng created using Sequence Nine, Sequence Eight, and some Sequence Seven, combined with his own abilities, had an element of luck involved to some extent.

Even if Chu Sheng were to rebuild a Netherworld Light, it would most likely be impossible.

Putting aside everything else, the ability of the Netherworld Light to shield against life force is something that cannot be achieved with ordinary extraordinary materials.

Things like endless energy are minor matters; the Netherworld Bone ability is the real core.

In addition to these, there are all sorts of special abilities and additional items, none of which are simple abilities.

An Xi had previously estimated the materials required for Chu Sheng's Netherworld Light vehicle, and concluded that it would take dozens of materials that could be combined to create a simplified version of the Netherworld Light.

This was Chu Sheng's own expense. If it were them, according to Chu Sheng's pricing standards, it would take at least several hundred extraordinary materials to create a simplified version of the Netherworld Light.

So far, no one else in the team has built another Netherlight.

They were all basically thinking of slowly finding Chu Sheng to build their own vehicles.

Zhuo Wu was unaware of An Xi's thoughts. Upon hearing Chu Sheng's words and glancing at the Netherworld Light, he couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement. However, he was still somewhat worried and pondered the matter. In the end, he sighed and waved his hand.

"Forget it, I reckon even if I managed to make one, I wouldn't be able to afford to keep it."

At this point, he looked at Chu Sheng with some curiosity and asked, "By the way, how did you manage to get so much gasoline or diesel?"

“Our team had vehicles before, but we had to abandon them because we ran out of gasoline and diesel.”

“Some of these vehicles are electric vehicles that can generate electricity from solar power or kinetic energy, but the efficiency is too low, so they have to be discarded.” The more he talked, the more curious and distressed he became.

If it weren't for the fuel shortage, their team wouldn't have had to rely on their own two feet to walk.

Upon hearing his words, Chu Sheng smiled, maintaining his previous harmless and amiable demeanor.

"Because our team doesn't need fuel."

"All vehicles are sources of inexhaustible energy."

"The engine has become a perpetual motion machine." He paused, pointed to the Netherworld Light behind him, and continued, "In addition to being a perpetual motion machine, my Netherworld Light can also absorb sunlight to generate electricity, a hybrid of oil and electricity, providing kinetic energy 24 hours a day without interruption."

"So our team doesn't need fuel."

Chu Sheng made no attempt to conceal anything in this regard.

It wasn't that he was generous; he just wanted to get himself a big client.

Moreover, Hui had talked a lot about Zhuo Wu before, all of which were calculated from the survivors in their team.

Especially Zhuo Wu's strength; Hui has been calculating against them whenever he has free time these past two days, and Fang Hong has taken over the task of leading the way.

And his calculations did not disappoint him.

After two days of calculation, Hui also realized that the Monkey King that Zhuo Wu had previously created was just a trump card, not his normal combat power, and that such a trump card could not be used again in the short term.

When Chu Sheng met Zhuo Wu, he sensed the sequence levels on his body.

Zhuo Wu is just a sequence eight.

Although he didn't quite understand why his sequence could unleash such powerful strength, it didn't stop him from assessing Zhuo Wu's threat.

The final conclusion was that it posed some threat, but not a significant one.

The Nether Light followed behind, with An Xi beside her. Xingzi was also inside the Nether Light, her dark gold armor providing extremely strong defense.

Even if Zhuo Wu unleashed his power at the sixth level of the Sequence, he couldn't kill him instantly, nor could he even seriously injure him.

As long as he isn't killed, and with Apricot around, he won't die.

If he doesn't die, then Zhuo Wu will be in for a lot of trouble.

Anxi, the Butcher, is a Netherworld Mech transformed from Netherworld Light.

Three Sequence 7s, and all of them are extremely powerful Sequence 7s. Even if Zhuo Wu has other trump cards, they can still cripple or even kill him.

Given An Xi's strength, at such close range, she might even be able to instantly kill her opponent.

This is his bottom line.

Besides, someone who has been protecting so many people since the apocalypse can't be a person with bad intentions.

Unless he has a very deep mind.

With such strength and protection, and given that his words implied a transaction, unless Zhuo Wu was a fool, he wouldn't dare to lay a hand on him or try to steal the sacrificial offerings.

However, this was not the main reason why he told Zhuo Wu these things.

After all, these things can be discussed at any time, and it's not too late to talk about them after they join the team, but he wants to take the initiative.

He hadn't forgotten how Zhuo Wu had transformed into the Monkey King and killed several strange creatures of Sequence Six.

If we kill the monster, the extraordinary materials it dropped will still be there, right?

He has never seen a Sequence Six extraordinary material before.

Let alone the extraordinary materials of Sequence Six, even the strangeness of Sequence Six was only seen when the world changed drastically.

So he planned to take advantage of the fact that Zhuo Wu hadn't joined the team yet to try and get his hands on those few Sequence 6 extraordinary materials.

If he could, he would be willing to get Zhuo Wu a simplified version of the Netherworld Light, even if it was just to obtain those few Sequence Six extraordinary materials.

Who knows if Zhuo Wu will meet with Hui and the others later, and if he is fooled or even led astray by Hui or Old Man Li, he might not realize that the extraordinary materials of Sequence Six are very precious.

If we use this thing to maximize our profits or just rip him off, he'll lose a lot.

The convoy was full of "Old Six" members, even Anxi and Ah Xin were "Old Six" members, they just didn't usually show it, but they were very clear about some of the "Old Six" behaviors.

Chu Sheng knew this very well.

Even Xingzi has started to be led astray by Hui and Old Man Li.

Although he remained as love-obsessed as ever in front of her, he became increasingly sinister in front of An Xi and others.

He doesn't even know to learn from himself and become an upright and sunny young man.

So instead of waiting for Zhuo Wu to join the team, it's better to make this deal now.

He wouldn't take advantage of anyone; he'd give what he was owed. After all, he was going to join the team, and he wouldn't take advantage of the team's ability users.

"You don't need fuel?" Zhuo Wu's eyes widened when he heard this, and he looked at him in disbelief.

“Of course we don’t need fuel.” Chu Sheng looked at him and gave him a kind smile. “The vehicles in our convoy are basically sacrificial offerings.”

You should also know that sacrificial offerings are unreasonable.

Upon hearing this, Zhuo Wu looked somewhat embarrassed. "What... what is the sacrificial offering?"

Chu Sheng: "."

Hearing Zhuo Wu's words and seeing Chu Sheng's silent expression, An Xi burst out laughing.

"Haha, I never thought you'd end up like this!"

Zhuo Wu, standing to the side, was bewildered. He scratched his head and explained, "I really don't know what sacrificial offerings are."

"Our team doesn't have a leader. I'm the only Sequence Transcendent. I even heard about the title of Sequence Transcendent and the 'role' of leading the team from people on TV right at the beginning of the apocalypse."

"I've never heard of sacrificial offerings before."

Hearing his words, An Xi stopped mocking Chu Sheng and asked in surprise, "Haven't you encountered any other convoys?"

"Other caravans also know about the sacrificial offerings, right? When you encounter other caravans, even just conversations between survivors, you'll learn about the offerings."

Zhuo Wu smiled somewhat embarrassedly, "We haven't encountered any other convoys."

“I encountered them on the outskirts of the city when the apocalypse first started.” He pointed to the survivors ahead and continued, “Apart from that, we haven’t encountered anyone else.”

(End of this chapter)