Chapter 17: Hot on the Heels
Just as if someone had added water to her memories and made some porridge with them, her
memories were like a cloudy broth. She could only remember herself lying asleep in her own
bed as it gradually became warmer and warmer. She became more and more thirsty… Suddenly,
she felt a gentle concern from the man beside her. She grabbed his hand and whispered, “I’m
thirsty...”
“Just about then, you unconsciously activated your ability, in that daze you unwittingly
absorbed your husband. When you became clear-headed, obviously only his pajamas was left
behind…” Lin Sanjiu’s cold voice reverberated in the dark room.
Toward the woman who was now sitting on the floor, Lin Sanjiu dreaded and feared her ability.
[How powerful is her ability? In that short time that she was in a daze, she actually managed to
absorb an entire full-grown man? She did not even leave a strand of hair!]
Kong Yun stared blankly into the air, she had a weird expression, she looked as though she was
about to cry or laugh. Just as her expression turned malevolent as she managed a “Ha.” but her
tears fell anyway, “Nonsense! What do you know! You only said that because you don’t want me
to absorb you! So you’re spouting nonsense!”
“Really? Then, let me ask you a question. When you woke up, did you still feel thirsty?” Lin
Sanjiu challenged softly.
This sentence was the last straw which broke the camel’s back. It totally devastated Kong Yun.
Suddenly, Kong Yun let out a shrill cry. The others were so shocked that they could not help
retreating backward. Thereafter, she buried her face in her arms and curled up on the ground.
She rocked her body gently as if she was comforting herself as she started crying loudly.
“I… I don’t know!” Kong Yun screamed and cried at the same time. Her face was covered in
tears, and her words were muffled and unclear. “Everyone said that I was too good for him. But
in fact, he was too good for me... too good! He was such a nice person… such a nice…” Her cries
sounded like fabric being torn, it was filled with deep wrath and pain, so much so that one could
not help feeling fearful and uneasy when they heard it.
“Why are you still just standing there?”
dug deep into the sofa. She made several deep holes in the sofa’s soft material and was
absolutely ignorant to the movements of the people near her.
Just like that, under the sound of her anguished cries, the few of them escaped quietly and
sprinted downstairs. After heart-stoppingly nervous situation, their trip back to the
supermarket was a contrastingly less eventual journey. They jogged all the way back to the road
in front of the shopping mall. They swiftly moved through the queue of cars, walking speedily
between the cars.
The scurry of footsteps woke up the dying people who were in their cars. When their group
walked past the cars, quite a few people in the cars managed to sit up, pounding powerlessly on
their car windows in despair. Even though they were alive, their expressions were not different
from the dead, without a single spark of life.
Lin Sanjiu looked at them with sympathy. Within the ten over arms behind those car windows,
she wondered how many of them could survive until they successfully evolved...
“Wait!” Luther who had been leading them suddenly stopped. He turned to instruct Marcie,
“Keep a lookout on the road, make sure that Kong Yun is not following us. Xiao Jiu, hand me
your knife.”
With a white flash, Lin Sanjiu handed him her chef’s knife and asked puzzledly, “What’s
wrong?”
Luther tilted his head to the white Volkswagen Bora, his face stiffened, “Look at that, that
person is going to change into a duoluozhong soon.”
did not know if Kong Yun was too overwhelmed by grief, but she appeared not to chase
after them. The three of them ran into the supermarket, shocked but unharmed, and they
quickly pulled down the metal shutter. Only after they locked the shutter from inside, did Lin
Sanjiu slid to the ground leaning on the shutter, exhaling a deep breath.
Marcie grabbed a few bottles of water and handed out a bottle to each of them. She took out the
Ability Polishing Agent that she did manage to retrieve previously and placed it on one of the
Lin Sanjiu, “You can start making all sorts of preparation when it is still peaceful. Be it supplies,
or body training… Your chance of survival will far succeed the original inhabitants of that
world.”
[That’s true…]
“But I think that this sort of visa is much more useful for Ren Nan… No matter how well we
prepare, we cannot guarantee that everything will work out. However, with his ability, he could
gain a lot more potential growth value in the six months.” As she thought about the past
disorienting half a year, a cold self-deprecating smile appeared on Lin Sanjiu’s face.
Luther sighed and patted Lin Sanjiu’s shoulder to show his comfort in a seemingly matured
manner.
“I wonder how he got the visa. Even if we wanted to find out, there is no one we can ask.” Marcie
was still fiddling with the paper obstinately.
“He doesn’t have many items, so I don’t think he had been to many places…” Luther’s eyes
suddenly brightened, and he said, smiling, “If we can find the Consular Officer of Hyperthermal
Hell, maybe we can survive together, we don’t have split up when we get transported to another
world.
Struggling through the infinite number of apocalyptic world, everyone comes and goes like
drifting duckweed on water. This is indeed a troubling matter. It was a rare opportunity to meet
someone that one can share a good rapport with, if they can become companions, it can’t get
any better!
The problem they had was finding the Consular Officer. All three of them had this same
thought. Lin Sanjiu was just about to speak when they heard a neither light nor heavy knock on
the door.
“You all must be inside, right? Why don’t you open the door?” Kong Yun still had that nasally
hoarse voice that one has after bawling, but her tone was a lot calmer.
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