Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 273 Shifting Goals: Humanity Is Not Alone

Two large fish were swimming frantically, as if they would die if they slowed down.

Although in fact it is true.

"Old Wang, go faster!!" A man who looked to be in his thirties kept looking back at the black mist that was gathering, his face full of anxiety. At this moment, the black mist had already formed half of its shape.

"What's the rush! Don't bother me!" Old Wang snapped at him, then sat cross-legged on the ground, trying his best to control the big fish beneath him and increase its speed even a little.

Sometimes, the difference is just a tiny bit.

Big fish are naturally fast; with each flick of their tails, they can travel hundreds of meters forward.

At this moment, the fish's tail was like a whirlwind, wildly swinging underwater, moving forward thousands of meters in the blink of an eye, which can be described as extremely fast.

The eerie black mist behind them was still gathering. When it finally took shape, the two large fish carried the twenty-odd people on their heads more than ten kilometers away.

A bizarre creature with a round head, two hooves-like legs on top of the head, sharp teeth in the soles of its feet, and eyes within those teeth, slowly emerged from the water, reaching a height of over a thousand meters.

The legs on its head bent, and the eyes in its sharp teeth looked in the direction where the group had just left. It remained motionless, and through the sharp teeth on its feet, one could see that the eyes within were crimson.

His once scarlet and savage eyes now held a humanistic thoughtfulness, as if he were contemplating something.

"ga"

It floated on the water for an unknown amount of time before slowly moving across the sea, but not in the direction Ling Yun and the others had left in; instead, it moved in another direction.

It figured it out: compared to the group of people who had just left, the food it sensed from the other direction seemed to be more delicious, more plentiful, and slower in movement, making it easier to hunt.

Ling Yun and the others were unaware that the strange entity had abandoned them.

At the boundary between the polar wave region and the polar ice region, behind you are swirling clouds and waves that can easily reach thousands of meters high, while in front you are a calm expanse with only the seawater flowing by, and wisps of cold air rising from the seawater, forming white mist in the air.

The further you go, the thicker the fog becomes, and the lower the temperature gets.

Ling Yun stood on the head of the giant fish, completely ignoring the chill around her, her expression grave as she warily surveyed her surroundings, especially beneath the surface of the water.

She hadn't forgotten that the strange creature had just emerged from underwater and swallowed a whole fish without warning.

This resulted in the loss of more than a dozen men and a vehicle for their team.

Transportation is a minor issue; what's abundant on the sea are fish and shrimp.

Fish that are thousands of meters long are not uncommon in the sea.

With Lao Wang's fishing series available, they don't lack such tool fish.

But the loss of more than a dozen people made her feel bad.

As the representative of authority and order, the more sequence ability users under her command, the more power she wields, and the stronger her personnel and forces, the stronger her sequence becomes.

In other words, the number of people under her command can also increase her strength.

After all, no matter how high one's position or how much power one wields, that power ultimately comes from the people.

If the masses are gone, her rights will naturally decrease, and with less power comes less strength.

This is a double-edged sword. It can allow her strength to increase explosively, even far exceeding her original sequence level, but it can also cause her strength to fall far below her original sequence level.

Fortunately, the sequence ability users under her command can bring her combat power to the level of sequence seven, and those survivors are just an extra.

Ling Yun stood on the head of the giant fish, looking at the other giant fish with only a dozen or so people left. She felt somewhat relieved that she had separated the survivors earlier.

Otherwise, if we wipe them all out at once, her sequence will become even weaker. Although it won't be much weaker, it's better to be a little stronger.

Just then, a girl in her early twenties in the group looked at Ling Yun and said, "Captain, I don't know why, but I feel that spying feeling again."

Upon hearing this, Ling Yun's expression turned serious, and she said, "Everyone be prepared to prevent that strange creature from emerging from underwater and swallowing me whole."

"Sequence Six is ​​extremely strange; swallowing it will almost certainly mean certain death."

"Ok!"

"Understood, Captain!" everyone replied.

The girl who had spoken earlier glanced at them hesitantly, but after a short while, she said, "The spying I felt wasn't underwater."

"I don't know how to describe this feeling of being watched."

As she spoke, she thought for a moment and tried to express herself in the most appropriate way so that others could understand.

"It feels like when you're online, the person on the other end of the screen knows what you're doing."

"The other party is monitoring your every move through the computer webcam, but it seems like there's no sound. It's like they can only see the image and can't hear the sound." "Can only see the image and can't hear the sound?" Ling Yun murmured, but quickly shook her head. "The most important thing right now is to get as far away from that weirdo as possible. We can talk about this later."

"If that's the feeling, it's not eerie, but rather something unknown to us is spying on us."

"Or perhaps some special sequence is lurking." Her gaze turned cold. "If it's a special sequence user, then finding this person later will mean their death!"

"Captain, if they find out about you, they'll definitely kill you, right?" Cheng Xue asked, listening to Captain Hui's rambling beside her as she drove.

"You're right, but as long as they don't find out, isn't that enough?"

As Hui spoke, his right hand never stopped moving. "I often calculate information about other teams like this, and to prevent being spied on, I only calculate information about ordinary people. The information obtained in this way is somewhat uncertain and not very complete."

"But it's still much safer than directly calculating those sequence ability users, and it doesn't consume as much mental energy."

He paused, remembering what Xingzi had told him beforehand that she knew he was spying on them when they were in the walled village.

After thinking for a moment, he continued, "Even if someone can sense that someone is watching me, they won't know it's me, so it's not a big problem."

Cheng Xue, who was driving, said, "What if someone can find us directly?"

"If someone can find us, what else is there to say?" Hui retorted. "If they can find us across endless distances, they might as well surrender."

"You voted?" Cheng Xue subconsciously turned to look at him, her eyes filled with disbelief.

She couldn't understand why, when someone was caught spying on another and confronted her, she would simply surrender and resist.
Seemingly sensing her thoughts, Captain Hui smiled, stopped what he was doing, let out a soft breath, and, thinking that he had nothing else to do anyway, began to explain: "Just like before the apocalypse, many people worried that aliens would visit Earth. Were they worried about aliens?"

"no."

"What they are worried about is the aliens visiting Earth, not the aliens themselves."

"These two are very similar, but they are completely different."

"Extraterrestrials definitely exist. In the endless starry sky, as long as the area is large enough, life can be born no matter how harsh the conditions for its birth."

"Besides humans, all life in the universe is alien to us, and these aliens are certainly at different levels of development."

“Highly developed aliens may be beyond our imagination, but poorly developed aliens may also be far less advanced than we imagine.”

He paused, then looked at Cheng Xue, "But!"

"Extraterrestrials who are able to visit Earth must be extraterrestrials who have surpassed our level of development. Those who are afraid of extraterrestrials are afraid of this very thing."

"Similarly, the world has changed a lot, much more than we can imagine. In some ways, it's like humanity's situation in the universe, except that the existence of extraterrestrials has been confirmed."

"Treating us, the scattered humans, as different races and different civilizations, and then relating us to extraterrestrials in the universe."

"All of this can be imagined."

Upon hearing this, Cheng Xue suddenly realized and said thoughtfully, "In other words, we have no ability to resist those who can find us across such a long distance. We can just surrender. On the contrary, even if you, Captain, calculate a lot and know a lot about them, those who can't find us can't do anything to us."

“Right.” Captain Hui smiled. “So what’s there to worry about?”

"Moreover, to prevent the possibility that such people actually exist, I didn't count those sequence ability users; I only counted the group of survivors."

As the two spoke, the volcanic ash covering the convoy gradually thinned, and sunlight shone back onto the vehicles.

Seeing this, Hui moved his right hand slightly, a slight smile playing on his lips. He then flicked the magical conch shell hanging on the rearview mirror between the driver and passenger seats and said, "Everyone, get ready. We're seventy kilometers from our destination. We'll be there soon."

"The other party has joined our team and has already signed a contract with Chu Sheng."

"Yay!" Ah Xin cheered, then complained, "Captain, I was really afraid you'd lead us to our deaths."

"There was lava everywhere, and it was still flowing. If our vehicles hadn't been upgraded, we would have been dead long ago."

"Me too!" Zhu Qing's voice rang out.

"Damn it, that lava looks terrifying. If we weren't all sequence transcendents, I would really suspect that you're leading us to commit suicide."

"What do you know?" Hui retorted. "I've calculated it."

"The fastest and safest way to reach our destination is this route—it's our best choice!"

"If we don't take this route, we won't reach our destination until tomorrow. Time is life!"

"Yan!"

As soon as Hui finished speaking, a dragon's roar came from behind him.

(End of this chapter)