Doomsday Sequence Caravan: I Have a Mechanical Heart

Su Mu looked at him suspiciously, then teased, "What, you seem to really want it to be female?"

"No, that's not it." Cheng Jun was taken aback, then quickly said, "Of course I hope it's a small male snake."

"That makes them very powerful in battle."

"Oh~!!" Su Mu responded meaningfully.

"..." Now it was Jun's turn to be speechless. "Brother, I was wrong."

"Let's change the subject."

"By the way, how come you can suddenly fly? Is it related to your dragon?"

Su Mu glanced at Cheng Jun and saw him wink at him. He wasn't surprised; this guy was actually making up an excuse for him. But the excuse wasn't bad. When he went to rescue An Xin, there was indeed a dragon soul flying around him.

He then nodded and said, "Yes, I suddenly had an epiphany a couple of days ago, and now I can fly."

"That's what I was thinking." Cheng Jun smiled as if he had just realized something. "By the way, how about you take me for a ride in the sky sometime?"

"Okay," Su Mu replied.

Hearing Su Mu's words and recalling the small energy tree, Ling Hao guessed what had happened. A hint of regret flashed in his eyes, but it quickly disappeared.

Yu Yao seemed somewhat skeptical and was about to say something when Cheng Jun spoke first, "Yao Yao, wait until my brother Mu takes me flying to the sky."

"I'll come back and tell you about what it feels like to fly."

"I can fly too." Upon hearing this, Yu Yao suddenly became inexplicably displeased. "How about I take you flying?"

"But I've never seen you fly before," Cheng Jun said, somewhat surprised.

"That's just because I don't want to fly," Yu Yao said calmly. "It's a bit late today, let's wait until tomorrow, I'll take you flying."

"Okay!!" Cheng Jun nodded heavily, a hint of anticipation in his eyes.

Su Mu smacked his lips. He really wanted to remind Cheng Jun not to strain his back while flying, but he felt that the words were a bit off, so he swallowed them.

The next morning

The convoy was speeding along the road. Cheng Jun sat in the living room of the RV in Yuyao, his face full of frustration. "How could this happen?"

He held the snake egg in his hands. Although its surface was covered with cracks, the blue patterns had completely disappeared, and it had lost all signs of life, becoming a dead egg.

"Sigh!" Yu Yao sighed, her eyes filled with frustration. "I was hoping to see a cute little snake today."

"Chengjun, don't be sad."

"Sigh." Cheng Jun sighed, seemingly quite philosophical about it. "Perhaps I'm not destined to be a contracted beast."

"I should have just stir-fried it; that way, it wouldn't have gone to waste."

Yu Yao chuckled upon hearing his words, placed her hand on his, and said, "I never knew you had such a cute side."

"Huh?" Cheng Jun paused for a moment, scratched his head, and chuckled, "Isn't it cute?"

"I'm a man, after all."

"I like your pure side." Yu Yao smiled charmingly, and Cheng Jun stared at her, his breathing quickening.

Yu Yao sat down next to him and whispered in his ear, "I'll take you flying tonight, how about it?"

"Okay!" Cheng Jun nodded, but then, thinking of something, he added, "But it's so dark, what if we can't fly back?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Yao chuckled, "I have sharp eyes, I can fly back, I won't let you lose it."

"That's good." Cheng Jun chuckled. "But speaking of which, how did you develop such sharp eyes?"

···

During lunch break

Ling Hao arrived at Su Mu's place, with two small white snakes, about the thickness of a finger and a foot long, coiled around his arm. "Su Mu, look!"

"These are your contracted giant beasts?" Su Mu was taken aback when he saw the two small white snakes.

"Yes." Ling Hao nodded, a hint of pride in his voice. "Don't underestimate them just because they're newborn; they're very intelligent."

"No." Su Mu frowned. "How come the snake that hatched from such a big egg is so small?"

"The essence of energy has given rise to its intelligence," Ling Hao explained, "which is why its snake body is so small."

"But it won't be long before they grow up."

"When will they be able to fight alongside you?" Su Mu asked after thinking for a moment.

"To reach the strength to deal with a Xuan-level transcendent being," Ling Hao said, "it will take a year."

"However, after they have grown for three months, they will have the strength of a mortal-level extraordinary being."

"That works too," Su Mu said with a sigh. "That way you'll have two more combatants in the future."

As the two were talking, Cheng Jun walked over, looked at the little white snake on Ling Hao's arm, and felt a pang of envy.

"What about yours?" Su Mu glanced at him. "Take it out and let me see."

"Sigh, don't even mention it," Cheng Jun said dejectedly. "I only discovered today that it was a dead egg."

"What a waste of all the time I waited."

"Dead egg?" Su Mu and Ling Hao both looked surprised. "No way, when I saw you take the snake egg out of the car yesterday, it was perfectly fine. How did it become a dead egg?"

"I don't know either." Cheng Jun sighed. "Anyway, it's a dead egg now, there's nothing inside."

Su Mu and Ling Hao exchanged a glance, feeling somewhat bewildered. "Was something done to your egg?"

"No," Cheng Jun tilted his head and thought for a moment, "I was holding him while I slept last night."

"That's strange." Su Mu shook his head, but he guessed in his heart that it might be related to Yuyao. It was left in that van for so long and nothing happened.

I spent one night in a campervan in Yuyao and then I died.

He couldn't help but think of An Xin's weak origin, and became even more certain that Yu Yao had the ability to absorb the power of origin.

What puzzled him was why Yu Yao only targeted An Xin. He had plenty of time to take action against Cheng Jun, Song Weiwei, and other ordinary people, but none of them did.

Cheng Jun even looked more and more energetic.

Even Nie Xiaoying couldn't detect Yu Yao's scheme, so he could only be more cautious and wait for Qiu Ling to uncover Yu Yao's plot as soon as possible.

At this moment, Ling Hao and Cheng Jun distanced themselves from each other.

"?" Cheng Jun was stunned for a moment, looking at Ling Hao in surprise.

"I'm afraid you'll kill my little snake," Ling Hao said with a calm smile.

"Me." Cheng Jun was speechless for a moment. "I'm very sad right now, why are you making me even more upset?"

"I don't see any sadness in you," Ling Hao said casually. "You seem more upset about not getting to eat scrambled eggs."

"..." Cheng Jun felt a bit annoyed, then chuckled speechlessly, "You're just too smart."

"I wish I were half as smart as you."

Dozens of miles behind them, a black eagle soared high in the sky. Liu Sihai stood on the eagle's back, holding a telescope, watching Su Mu's convoy from afar.

With a furrowed brow and a look of confusion, he asked.

"They're not heading in the direction of the lighthouse either."

"Where exactly are we going?"