Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 334 The Four Celestial Spirits! Black Tortoise!
The moment Hui's voice fell, a piercing alarm sounded on the floating island.

Beneath the tower, Xingzi was trying to replicate the life force that Chu Sheng had given her.

Although this thing may not seem to have much effect, it is very useful in many ways. Although it increases one's own vitality and may attract more strange things, the ability to maintain a constant body temperature is enough to offset this side effect.

Whether in extremely cold regions, hot regions, or areas prone to torrential rain, this thing is very useful.

If we can mass-produce these replicas, we can make a fortune when we encounter the official Spark Base in the future.

Just as Kyoko was pondering the source of the energy, an alarm sounded on the floating island, and at the same time, she heard the voice of the Netherworld.

"There is an anomaly ahead. You need to notify the master to come back."

Upon hearing the voice of the Netherworld, Xingzi was startled. She then stood up, put the source of life force in her hand into her pocket, and headed straight for the dark portal.

Meanwhile, Zhu Qing and the others who heard the alarm also heard Youming's voice, but what they heard was different from what Xingzi heard. Youming simply told them to find Team Leader Hui, and at the same time displayed guidance on the ground.

Xingzi hurried through the dark doorway, and in her haste, she almost tripped over the sack that Chu Sheng had thrown out earlier.

Running through the dark doorway, Xingzi saw Chu Sheng sitting on a burlap sack, with Lin Bei and the other three sitting cross-legged on the ground in front of him, listening to Chu Sheng speak. It looked like a peaceful scene, like a teacher instructing students.

However, Kyoko's arrival broke the atmosphere.

Upon seeing Xingzi, Chu Sheng frowned and asked in confusion, "Xingzi, what's wrong?"

"Why the rush? What happened?"

"Youming asked me to call you out, saying there's something unusual up ahead."

As Xingzi spoke, she recalled how Zhu Qing and Zhuo Wu had run towards the front of the floating island when she ran over, and continued, "Zhu Qing and the others went over there too."

"An abnormal situation?!" Chu Sheng's expression turned serious. He stood up abruptly, and the armor that had been transformed into leather armor was instantly put back on him, turning back into dark gold armor.

The crimson butcher's knife appeared directly in his hand from the floating island, and he then said to Lin Bei and the other three, "I have something to attend to, I'll be leaving now."

After saying that, without waiting for Lin Bei and the other three to react, he grabbed Xingzi and ran out.

Watching Chu Sheng leave through the dark portal, Su Qiang looked at Lin Bei with some regret and said, "It's a pity. If we had talked for a while longer, we would have known even more information."

"There's nothing I can do." Lin Bei shook his head, also feeling a bit regretful, but he was quite philosophical about it, letting out a sigh of relief, "But knowing so much is worth it."

"We can't rely on others for everything; we need to have some decent value too."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "And as I guessed, there are more than four Sequence Ability Users."

Although he had no sequence, he had just felt fear.

The source of this fear is the apricot itself.

This pressure stems from the life level, a blow from a higher level to a lower level.

"Let's put that aside for now. Let's discuss who should use this flame."

The flames from Chu Sheng's previous transaction are still burning in the transaction space; they haven't decided yet who will control these flames.

Hearing his words, Su Qiang took a step back and said, "I don't need it. Although this flame is powerful, it's not suitable for me."

In order to improve his image and gain favor, Chu Sheng made himself appear righteous and gentle. He explained the abilities and functions of Black Flame to them, emphasizing that it was to help humanity and highlighting his helpfulness.

In fact, his actions were not in vain. Although Lin Bei still had some doubts and caution, he had generally categorized him as a friendly senior.

As for Su Qiang and the other two, they directly regarded Chu Sheng as a beacon of civilization.

Hearing Su Qiang's words, Lin Bei nodded, "You really aren't suitable."

"You are the only one among us with sequence ability, and your safety must be absolutely guaranteed."

"Although this flame of civilization is powerful, it is still part of the power of their offering. Once you accept this sub-flame, your life or death will be entirely in their hands. Although Brother Chu doesn't seem like that kind of person, you still can't take this risk."

Lin Bei's words made Su Qiang nod as well. He didn't have as many thoughts as Lin Bei. He simply felt that he was also a sequence ability user and that his life and death should not be controlled by others.

"The three of you should discuss it and decide who should use this flame."

"Brother Lin, come on over," one of the slightly burly men said. "Our little team was created thanks to Su Qiang's abilities."

“If Su Qiang can’t take this flame, then let’s have Brother Lin. Although his life and death will be in our hands, according to Brother Chu, with this flame, we can try to hunt down the strange creatures of Sequence Seven.”

"And Brother Lin is our captain, so he also needs to be able to protect himself."

At this point, he said with a hint of self-deprecation, "Of the four of us, if any one of us is missing, we can't do without the two of you."

Hearing his words, another person nodded in agreement, "Dazhuang is right, I, Xu Hou, wholeheartedly support him!"

Hearing their words, Lin Bei frowned and pondered for a moment, then said without further politeness, "Since you put it that way, then I will accept your offer."

"Don't worry, we have Su Qiang's trading sequence, so we'll definitely be able to get other extraordinary abilities in the future."

"Besides, Brother Chu said before that if we have extraordinary materials, he can help us forge sacrificial offerings." "If all else fails, we can each make a few sacrificial offerings!"

As he said this, a hint of envy appeared in his eyes. They hadn't seen the other sacrificial offerings, but they had definitely seen Chu Sheng's dark gold armor, the Eternal Vertical Eye, and the Crimson Butcher's Blade.

Each of these three offerings was an extraordinary treasure to them.

Especially that butcher's knife, just looking at it exudes unparalleled power, and the stench of blood is so strong that even getting close enough to make one dizzy and nauseous.

The dark gold armor was clearly extremely strong, not to mention the vertical eye between its brows that hadn't opened.

Just by looking at the black flames generated in the vertical eye, one can tell that Chu Sheng is absolutely ridiculously strong.

A single flame possesses the characteristic of never going out; according to Chu Sheng, it can even burn the eerie Sequence Seven to death.

They simply couldn't imagine how something so powerful could exist.

Moreover, it can be created by others.

Having decided on the ownership of the black flame, Lin Bei did not hesitate and walked directly in front of it, touching the flame with his hand as Chu Sheng had previously instructed.

The process went smoothly; as long as Chu Sheng didn't object, anyone could fuse with this spark of fire.

The moment Lin Bei's hand touched Zi Huo, Zi Huo seemed to come alive, wrapping around his body along his fingers and eventually turning him into a fire person burning with pitch-black flames.

This process didn't last long, only a few seconds, before the black flames took root between his eyebrows, shrinking into a small fireball the size of a fingernail, and finally forming a dark, glowing flame pattern between his eyebrows.

As the black flames were fused together, the space began to tremble as if it had reached the point of collapse. Cracks appeared in the dark walls, and the edges began to blur.

Before Lin Bei and his companions could react, the entire trading space collapsed from the edge, and the four of them were directly expelled to the location where they had entered the trading space.

"It's surprising that the trading space can't exist forever." Lin Bei said with some regret. If it could exist forever, they would be able to establish a stable channel with Chu Sheng and the others.

Although they had previously opened a trading space to break away from the previous team, no transaction took place that time, so they were unaware that the trading space would collapse after the transaction ended.

Concealing his regret, Lin Bei stood up and said to Su Qiang and the other two, "The trading space cannot exist forever, and we cannot stay here forever either."

"We should get going, find a place suitable for us to survive, find more survivors, and build a base just like Brother Chu's!"

"Self-sufficient food, formidable strength, and acts of protecting a region!"

On the floating island, Chu Sheng had reached the edge and fell silent as he and Hui's team looked at what lay ahead.

"Is that eerie?"

"No," Hui shook his head, "that thing doesn't have any eerie black aura on it."

Hearing Hui's words, Chu Sheng took a deep breath as he looked at the giant beast that was at least a thousand kilometers away from them.

"Then tell me, what is this giant turtle?!"

"Wait, isn't this the Black Tortoise? There's a long strip on top of it."

“It is indeed Xuanwu,” Zhuo Wu said from the side. “In the Eight Trigrams, it is Kan, which corresponds to water in the Five Elements. It symbolizes the old Yin among the Four Symbols, representing winter in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.”

As he spoke, he pointed to the white part on the back of the Black Tortoise and said, "There is snow on its shell, its limbs tread on water, and everything freezes wherever it goes."

"It does indeed resemble Xuanwu (the Black Tortoise)."

"Or perhaps this is the Black Tortoise!"

Zhuo Wu was certain. Because of his sequence ability, he had read many books. Although he had mostly skimmed through them, his exceptional mental strength as a sequence ability user meant he remembered most of what he had read, though he didn't quite understand it.

However, if physical evidence were presented to him, he could easily provide proof.

"Damn it, even Xuanwu has appeared these days!" Zhu Qing took a sip of his drink, just as a gust of cold wind blew from the front, making him shiver.

He was alright, only shivering, but Fang Hong and Xingzi were different. Their sequence level was already inferior to Zhu Qing's, and their physique was even less comparable. When the cold wind blew, they started sneezing.

After two sneezes, their bodies began to feel hot and their heads began to feel dizzy.

In that instant, Xingzi sensed something was wrong, and a blue healing light appeared on her body, instantly eliminating the cold she had caught from the cold wind.

Then she said with a serious expression, "This is not an ordinary cold. Even for us, with the constitution of a Sequence Ability User, we would not catch a cold from a gust of cold wind."

"Or rather, people with sequence abilities basically don't get sick. If they do get sick, it's almost certain that there's a source of disease in the surrounding area!"

Hearing her words, Chu Sheng nodded, then looked at Xuanwu, who was walking towards them.

This Xuanwu was extremely large. Even though they were thousands of kilometers apart, Chu Sheng and the others could only see a part of its outline because of the height of the floating island.

However, just from the front half of the body, Chu Sheng could determine that the limbs of this Xuanwu were at least 20,000 meters high, the shell was more than 20,000 meters long, and the horizontal span was more than 30,000 meters.

It's only because we're far away now; otherwise, if we were standing right at the foot of this Black Tortoise, we wouldn't be able to see even a fraction of it.

(End of this chapter)