Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 298 The Mysterious Disappearance! The Bloodstained Wooden House!

When they entered the village, it was already eight o'clock in the morning, when the sun was fully out and the ground temperature had risen to over forty degrees Celsius. All the survivors were forced to hide in the shade of the vehicles due to the intense heat.

Although it's still very hot, it makes you feel a little cooler psychologically.

Looking at the village ahead, which exuded an eeriness and gloom, Chu Sheng sat cross-legged on the roof of the Netherworld Light vehicle, his whole body covered in dark gold armor, holding two long swords in his left and right hands, crossed on his lap.

One is a dark gold battle blade, and the other is the butcher's true form, a scarlet butcher's blade.

An Xi, Zhu Qing, Qing Qing, and the Great Sage Equal to Heaven were also on the roof of the vehicle of the Netherworld Light.

The ghostly light slowly moved towards the eerie village ahead.

Apart from the Monkey King, the others each carried eight talismans given by Zhuo Wu, dandelions to restore mental energy given by Old Man Li, three enhanced cold medicines given by Xingzi, two doses of adrenaline, a healing leaf, and two rolls of bandages in their pockets.

They were fully armed.

From functional talismans to dandelions for restoring mental strength, as well as adrenaline, healing leaves, and bandages.

They even prepared cold medicine.

"The Great Sage's body can only fight at full strength for ten minutes. In terms of combat power, it is equivalent to a Sequence 7, but it can only entangle a Sequence 7 monster. It can kill a Sequence 8 monster with a few blows."

“When the time comes, the Great Sage’s body will disintegrate. You must be mindful of the time.” The Great Sage Equaling Heaven, standing behind Chu Sheng, spoke. It was Zhuo Wu’s voice.

"Although I will remind you in the end, it would be better if you remembered the time."

Upon hearing his words, An Xi, following Chu Sheng's example, placed the black jade bone spear cross-legged on her lap and sat cross-legged next to Chu Sheng. She turned her head to look at the majestic Great Sage Equaling Heaven and said, "I understand."

As the convoy slowly entered the village, the sunlight that had been there vanished instantly, and the intense heat dissipated, replaced by a slight chill.

This place is like two completely different worlds from the outside world.

"Damn it, this place looks like something out of a horror movie."

Zhu Qing sensed the changes around him and couldn't help but curse. He then looked back, wanting to see the convoy, but as soon as he turned around, he found that the figures of the convoy, which were not far away from them, were becoming increasingly blurry.

It's like a blurry mosaic.

"Grass!"

Zhu Qing cursed again, rubbed his eyes as if trying to see more clearly, but found that they were still blurry, and the convoy became increasingly blurry as they got closer to the village.

"Look behind us! The convoy is getting blurry!" Zhu Qing shouted to Chu Sheng and the others.

Upon hearing his words, Chu Sheng and the others turned around and found that it was indeed as Zhu Qing had said. At this moment, they could no longer see the specific details of the convoy, only its blurry outline.

Chu Sheng was silent for a few seconds, then looked ahead again and said without turning his head, "Don't look anymore."

"We can only move forward."

Then he continued, "Youming, has anything changed in space?"

“No change.” Youming’s voice came from the roof of the car. “We’ve entered less than 500 meters into the village, and we can still scan the outside scene.”

As Youming spoke, a screen projected all the situations within a 500-meter radius of Youming's light onto the ground beneath everyone's feet.

During the screen mirroring, two completely different images appeared, but the overall effect was coherent, except that the styles changed drastically at a certain dividing line.

For example, the color of the ground.

Outside, the landscape was a mixture of earthy yellow and black, but inside the village, everything was completely black.

This black is not the black of black soil, but a black filled with desolation, decay, and even chaos.

Chu Sheng didn't know why he could perceive so many different feelings from the blackness of the ground, but that was exactly what he felt.

"strangeness."

Chu Sheng muttered to himself, while simultaneously becoming wary.

As the light of the underworld penetrated deeper and deeper, the light became less and less, and the sun's rays grew dimmer and dimmer.

By the time the ghostly light reached the first house on the edge of the village, the sun in the sky had completely gone out, and a blood moon appeared, radiating a scarlet moonlight.

The world is strange now; moonlight is no longer reflected sunlight, but emits its own scarlet glow.

Not only that, when Chu Sheng looked up, he saw a sun the size of a disc that no longer emitted light and a crimson moon appearing simultaneously, hanging high in the sky on the left and right.

Upon briefly sensing the situation within the sequence space, Chu Sheng's heart skipped a beat, and his vigilance reached its peak.

After learning that the Crimson Moonlight was the source of the sequence, he also learned that the Strange would also absorb the Crimson Moonlight to become stronger.

Upon entering this place, the sun will go out and the moonlight will shine through. Although it is unknown whether this is the case at night, since the sun goes out, it is highly likely that the moonlight shines continuously for 24 hours.

Even though the levels of this world were previously sealed by the strongest in the future sequence, a year has passed and the anomaly of sequence six has been born. It would be unreasonable to say that there is no anomaly of sequence six in this place.

Behind Chu Sheng, Zhuo Wu, who was controlling the body of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven on the roof of the Netherworld Light chariot, had two golden beams of light in his eyes. Looking around, he couldn't help but say, "This place has such dense black energy and a lot of scarlet energy."

"Hmm." Chu Sheng nodded, his scarlet eyes and green pupils scanning the surroundings. The eternal vertical eye on his forehead opened slightly and also scanned the surroundings. He then continued, "There are no strange things within a radius of one thousand meters, but the black aura here is very dense, which means that there are no few strange things, and they are not weak either."

"Be prepared to fight at any time."

As Chu Sheng spoke, he looked toward the northwest, "According to my observation, most of the black energy converges in the northwest, and that's where the black energy is most abundant."

"Most of the eerie things are probably there."

Hearing Chu Sheng's words, An Xi couldn't help but ask, "There are strange things here, and they are quite powerful. There are strange things of various sequence levels. Why don't they come out to hunt us down?"

An Xi only exhibits masochistic tendencies in Chu Sheng's bed; otherwise, she does not. The reason she asked such a question was simply because she was not used to it.

They firmly believed that the eerie creatures were chasing after them, and since they no longer had Ah Xin's ability to protect them, it was indeed strange that the eerie creatures hadn't appeared to hunt them down.

Hearing her words, Chu Sheng shook his head, "I don't know, we'll find out when we get there."

With that, he jumped off the Netherworld Light and headed toward the somewhat dilapidated wooden house ahead.

Most of the buildings in this village are wooden houses, in addition to two houses with bluestone tiles and a dozen or so thatched houses.

On the surface, it has nothing modern about it and looks like an ancient village, with each house surrounded by a fence.

Looking at the wooden house in front of him, Chu Sheng thought for a moment and then threw the butcher in his hand inside.

The butcher transformed into his true form, the Crimson Butcher, in mid-air, his tentacles flailing wildly like a dehydrated octopus.

A pair of chicken feet landed steadily in the small courtyard enclosed by a fence.

"Waaaaah!" The butcher threw the blood-red kitten in his hand toward the wooden house.

Although it's called a wooden house, it actually has earthen walls, but they're not very high; only the lower half is made of earth, while the upper half is entirely made of wood.

Chu Sheng had never seen a house like this before, and he didn't know if this was the right way to do it.

His gaze was fixed on the blood-red kitten.

Not only him, but An Xi and the others were the same.

As the blood-red kitten was smashed against the upper half of the wooden house, blood began to seep from the planks before everyone's eyes.

The blood touched the crimson kitten, which stuck it to the wooden board. No matter how much it struggled, it showed no sign of breaking free. The wooden board was like a swamp, slowly swallowing it up.

Because of its constant struggle, it was swallowed up faster and faster.

"Meow~!"

"Meow!!!"

The blood-red kitten let out a sharp cry, its eyes fixed on the butcher, seemingly hoping he would save it.

Seeing that the butcher made no move, it looked at Chu Sheng again, hoping that its master would save it, but Chu Sheng just watched silently, gripping the dark gold longsword in his hand tightly.

The Crimson Kitten is just an add-on for the killer; it's an infinitely regenerable byproduct. The Crimson Kitten will revive the next time the killer appears, so there's no point in saving it.

However, Chu Sheng was still somewhat puzzled by the appearance of the blood-red kitten.

It's important to know that although the Crimson Kitten is an accessory to the Butcher, its sequence level is only one level lower than the Butcher's.

The butcher and his sequence level are synchronized.

Bloody Kitten was a standard Sequence 8, but it was immediately controlled after being thrown onto a pallet by the Butcher.

"Damn it." Zhuo Wu cursed, then looked at Chu Sheng and asked, "Brother Chu, is there really nothing strange about this place?"

"No, right?" Chu Sheng was now a little uncertain and asked doubtfully, "My eyes are sacrificial offerings."

"You can see the strange things within a kilometer radius. Even if you can't see what they look like, you can see their black aura."

"There's nothing eerie about this place, but this house..."

Chu Sheng didn't say the rest, but everyone knew what he meant.

I didn't see anything strange, but the house itself was very eerie.

After all, there aren't many things that can directly devour a Sequence 8 Crimson Kitten without the kitten being able to resist at all.

It's worth noting that even the Crimson Kitten attempted to attack a Sequence 7 monster.

"So, should we go out now or what?" Anxi asked, looking at the wooden house and the blood-red kitten being swallowed up, listening to its pitiful screams.

"Leave?" Chu Sheng looked at the butcher inside the fence, then turned to An Xi. "Let's take a look around the village."

Although he was greedy for life, cowardly, untrustworthy, and immoral, he wasn't always afraid of death.

He believes that you have to give something in return for something you receive; this has always been his view.

He didn't believe in free lunches, nor did he believe that mere fear of death could prolong life. Ever since he learned about the ability to plunder sequences, he had felt a sense of crisis.

After he personally plundered someone else's sequence, his sense of crisis was amplified to the extreme.

After encountering other intelligent races, this sense of crisis evolved into unease.

He didn't know what would happen next, or how the world would change, but he knew he had to grow up.

Strength is the root of everything, and for him, extraordinary materials are strength.

Chu Sheng's gaze hardened, and at the same time, his heart, which had been wavering because of An Xi's words, began to pound violently.

"We knew there was danger in here before we came in. We didn't see anything strange. Maybe we can slink back out without any real danger, but does that mean we won't encounter any danger afterward?"

"Only by bravely facing danger can we live longer."

As he spoke, he turned around, looked at the Netherworld Light, and said, "Netherworld, activate the Netherworld Mech and be ready for battle at any time."

"If there is anything unusual within 500 meters, fire the laser cannon at full power!"

"If there are any strange things that you can't understand or scan, don't hesitate to take us away from this place."

"Received." Youming's voice rang out, and then he transformed into a twenty-meter-tall mecha, standing behind everyone.

Upon seeing the Nether Light transform into a mecha, Chu Sheng jumped over the fence and entered the courtyard.

Upon seeing his actions, An Xi and the others exchanged bewildered glances.

"Is this still Chu Sheng?" Zhu Qing asked the question that struck a chord with the soul.

Leading by example and spouting platitudes—this is not Chu Sheng's usual style.

Based on Chu Sheng's usual practice, he should have let them go in first.

Thinking of this, Zhu Qing's expression turned serious. He looked at An Xi and Zhuo Wu, who was controlling the body of the Monkey King, and said, "I suspect that he is not Chu Sheng."

"He should have been replaced by the monster when he got inside."

As he spoke, his telescopic steel baton slid directly from the sleeve of his combat uniform, instantly transforming into a baton as tall as a person. He slammed it into the ground, creating a crater more than twenty centimeters deep.

Hearing this, An Xi looked at him speechlessly, "I'm pretty sure he is Chu Sheng, stop using your brain to doubt."

"My resistance to mental influence is beyond your imagination. To achieve a silent replacement in front of me, you would have to make me unconscious, otherwise it would be impossible."

"Moreover, the bond between the sacrificial offerings and the spirit is at the spiritual level. If it weren't for Chu Sheng, he wouldn't be able to command the Butcher and the Netherworld."

As she spoke, she, like Chu Sheng, jumped over the fence and entered the yard.

Zhu Qing coughed lightly and looked at Zhuo Wu beside him, who in turn looked at him.

"Brother Zhu, shall we go in?"

"Okay, let's go in!" Zhu Qing smiled awkwardly, then jumped over with the extendable steel baton on his shoulder.

With a light leap, the Monkey King, controlled by Zhuo Wu, also entered the courtyard.

Only the twenty-meter-tall Netherworld Mech remained standing in place, wary of its surroundings.

"Waaaaah!"

"Waigaga! Waigaga!"

When the butcher saw Chu Sheng enter, he yelled at him a few times, looking quite excited.

Chu Sheng glanced at it, knowing it was happy about killing the blood-red kitten, but ignored it and looked at the things in the yard.

There wasn't much in the yard: a vegetable patch that seemed to have been neglected and abandoned, a wooden table with several dishes of completely rotten green vegetables and wild greens on it, and a few stools lying on the ground next to the table.

The door to the wooden house was also ajar, making it seem as if something had happened while the family was having dinner and they had hurriedly left.

Having witnessed the horrific state of the blood-red kitten, no one dared to approach the wooden table and stools.

Chu Sheng glanced at the butcher, thought for a moment, then looked at Zhu Qing and Zhuo Wu and said, "The butcher isn't suitable to open the door. Why don't you two give it a try?"

As he spoke, he looked at the telescopic steel rod in Zhu Qing's hand and the golden cudgel in Zhuo Wu's hand next to him.

Noticing his gaze, Zhuo Wu took the initiative to speak up, "Let me do it."

"Anyway, it's not me personally, so if something happens, the loss won't be significant."

"It's still a bit risky to let Brother Zhu do it."

As he spoke, he pointed at the half-open door with his stick and muttered under his breath, "Long, long, long!"

As he spoke, the golden cudgel in his hand continued to grow longer, eventually touching the door and piercing it open.

At the same time, as he poked open the door with a stick, the blood that had completely swallowed the crimson kitten and disappeared reappeared on the surface of the wooden house, as if the blood had just been smeared on, and the blood was still flowing down the wooden planks.

Having survived so many apocalypses, Chu Sheng and his companions were already indifferent to such scenes.

Even Zhuo Wu, who hadn't seen much of the world, didn't feel much at all.

As the wooden door was pushed open, Zhuo Wu returned to Zhu Qing's side, and the situation inside the room was revealed.

Looking through the door and seeing the situation inside, Chu Sheng and the other three frowned.

There was no furniture inside as one might expect; only wooden floors and a wooden stick placed in the center of the room.

The wooden stick was stuck in the floor, about 1.5 meters high, straight and slender.

However, in the eyes of Chu Sheng and his companions, this wooden stick radiated a unique spiritual light, characteristic of extraordinary materials and sacrificial offerings.

This wooden stick is either a sacrificial offering or made of extraordinary material.

Apart from this wooden stick, there was nothing else in the room.

It's as if the wooden house exists solely for this wooden stick.

"What do we do now?" Zhu Qing frowned as he looked on.

No one wanted to touch the wooden plank, even though they were all Sequence 7. Zhuo Wu, who was not Sequence 7, also had the combat power of Sequence 7.

Nobody knows whether the wooden items in the cabin will work for Sequence 7, and nobody wants to try it.

Even Anxi, who can already float freely in the air, is the same.

She can fly, but she needs the aid of wings. Strong winds can also lift her up, but if she is not careful, she will bump into the wooden objects inside and outside the house, triggering the strange ability of the wooden house.

Just then, Chu Sheng looked at the butcher and said, "Butcher, try to use your tentacles to take that stick over."

Upon hearing Chu Sheng's words, the butcher let out a strange cry. Then, under the gaze of the four, a tentacle behind it passed through the door and continued to extend, wrapping twice around the top of the wooden stick.

Seeing that the butcher's tentacles did not cause blood to seep into the wooden house, Chu Sheng and the others were overjoyed.

But when the butcher tried to take out the wooden stick, something unexpected happened.

The cabin began to tremble, and the door that had been open closed automatically in an instant.

"Waaaaa! Roar! Gagaaaa!!!"

The butcher's elongated tentacles were abruptly severed by the slamming of the wooden door, leaving only a severed limb behind him. Perhaps injured by the sudden commotion, the butcher began to scream incessantly, his voice filled with rage.

As he let out a strange cry, the scarlet cleaver in the butcher's right hand continuously emitted a scarlet aura, enveloping the entire cleaver.

"Waaaaa!!!"

With a furious roar from the butcher, the scarlet cleaver instantly unleashed a slash, hurtling fiercely towards the wooden house.

Several afterimages followed behind this slash.

Strange chickens, strange cats, strange dogs, strange pigs, zombies, and headless octopuses covered in tentacles.

The six illusory figures merged into the crimson slash the moment they appeared.

The slash struck the wooden house almost instantly.

That is, the moment the slash hits, the six illusory figures that were originally integrated into it reappear.

The grotesque chicken pecked a fist-sized hole in the wooden wall of the cabin, through which one could see directly into the interior of the cabin.

The strange cat and the strange dog are even simpler.

Two illusory figures left claw-like marks on the wooden house, one on the left and one on the right, each revealing the interior of the house.

The strange boar rammed into the wooden house the moment it appeared.

"Pfft! Crack!" An impact left a hole the size of a dog hole in the wooden house.

In comparison, the attacks from zombies and tentacle phantoms are much simpler and more brutal.

The zombie phantom rushed to the side of the wooden house the instant it appeared, repeatedly stabbing at the house with both hands.

Each attack made its body more ethereal, but even so, it still left twenty-four holes in the walls of the cabin.

The final tentacle phantom was even simpler.

Its size instantly increased dozens of times, enveloping the entire wooden house, while its tentacles extended into the areas breached by the previous phantoms.

The phantom is not a real body. Although it can touch other things, it seems to be a non-threatening creature in the cabin's judgment and can be ignored.

(End of this chapter)