The night passed without any major danger, and early the next morning, the group set out for the Overlord Base.
However, a small problem arose before departure—
Feng Shuang’er complained that Zhuo Dahong and the others had too much stuff. The vehicles were packed so full that she did not even have room to sit comfortably.
Their entire group totaled twenty-one people.
Song Siyu’s team had driven out in two SUVs, while Zhuo Dahong’s group had their own van.
Technically, if they squeezed together, everyone could fit.
But Zhuo Dahong’s group was leaving their old stronghold behind and heading to an unfamiliar base. Supplies were scarce now, and nobody knew what conditions at the base would actually be like. Naturally, they wanted to bring as many belongings as possible.
As a result, all the vehicles were packed to the brim.
Still, Feng Shuang’er was sitting in the front passenger seat anyway, so it did not really affect her much. She was simply used to living comfortably, and after being scolded repeatedly yesterday, she was already in a foul mood. This was merely an excuse to vent.
“If you don’t want to sit there, then go sit in the back,” Song Siyu said with a frown of displeasure.
Truthfully, she had never wanted Feng Shuang’er to join her team in the first place.
However, their fathers were very close. After the apocalypse, they had even supported each other while establishing the Overlord Base. Because of the relationship between their families, when Feng Shuang’er shamelessly insisted on joining the team, Song Siyu could only compromise temporarily.
But Feng Shuang’er had truly been spoiled rotten by her father.
Normally, needing everyone to take care of her during missions was one thing, but she also constantly clung to Yu Sheng and threw tantrums like a spoiled rich girl.
Deep down, Song Siyu genuinely disliked Feng Shuang’er.
Especially after hearing Yu Sheng explain what happened yesterday.
“How can that work? Yu Sheng’s passenger seat can only belong to me!” Feng Shuang’er complained with an aggrieved expression.
At that moment, a figure walked past the two of them, pulled the only backpack out from under the passenger seat, and quietly walked away.
“Hmph, at least she knows her place!” Feng Shuang’er snorted coldly at Gu Xiaoxue’s departing figure. So what if she was a plant-type ability user? Once they entered the base, she would still have to listen to her.
Song Siyu frowned but said nothing more. As long as nobody caused trouble, she did not care.
However, when she saw two more people walk over and remove items from their vehicle, she immediately sensed something was wrong.
“Where are you taking those things?”
“Oh, that little boy said he has spatial storage and can help us carry our stuff, so we’re moving everything over to him.”
The one answering was a woman in her fifties. Her face was full of smiles, but her eyes glanced meaningfully toward Feng Shuang’er beside them, carrying a faint trace of mockery.
Everyone still remembered Old Lin’s death clearly.
Although they could not completely blame Feng Shuang’er and had no evidence, everyone had their own judgment in their hearts.
“What? Spatial storage?!” Song Siyu and Feng Shuang’er exclaimed in surprise.
But after the shock faded, Song Siyu finally understood.
No wonder Ning Ah Bao had always been protecting Sheng Ge. So Sheng Ge was actually a spatial ability user!
What she had not expected, however, was that Sheng Ge would expose this so casually in front of such a large group.
After all, although spatial ability users were precious in the apocalypse, there was certainly no shortage of people willing to kill spatial ability users to steal their supplies.
Although yesterday’s events had already shown them that Sheng Ge possessed some strange life-saving methods…
The apocalypse had countless powerful people.
A spatial ability user plus a child—such a combination was basically like a child carrying gold openly through a marketplace.
Thinking this, Song Siyu frowned.
This woman really did love attracting attention.
Meanwhile, Zhuo Dahong stood proudly before Sheng Ge, watching as the belongings of his entire group disappeared in the blink of an eye.
The others also surrounded Sheng Ge curiously, staring at everything happening. Although they had heard of spatial ability users before, this was their first time actually seeing one.
“Little sis, I never expected you to be a spatial ability user too! Hahahaha, now we can take all our stuff with us.”
Sheng Ge denied it without hesitation. “This Venerable One is not.”
“Hehe, it’s okay. Big Brother understands these things need to stay secret. Don’t worry, little sis, we won’t go around telling people.” Zhuo Dahong patted his chest as he promised. The others also quickly assured her they would keep it confidential.
“You’re really bold.” Yun Yanwu stared at Sheng Ge with a complicated expression. Then he glanced at his teammates, all of whom wore different expressions, before giving Sheng Ge a meaningful look that clearly said take care of yourself.
Sheng Ge: “……”
Sheng Ge felt completely baffled.
Back in the cultivation world, any cultivator with even a little background possessed a storage ring. In her understanding, so-called spatial ability users were nothing unusual at all.
It could only be said that Grandma Grandmaster, who had slept for three thousand years, still did not fully understand this new apocalyptic world after awakening.
To her, the storage ring was far less miraculous than the strange things called cars in front of her.
Once everything was packed, the group finally set off.
Yu Sheng and Yun Yanwu each drove one SUV in front, while Zhuo Dahong drove their van behind them. Inside were all their people, along with Sheng Ge and Ah Bao.
Although it was somewhat crowded, nobody suggested moving to the vehicles ahead.
Everyone thoughtfully gave the passenger seat to Sheng Ge.
Aside from the fact that Sheng Ge had helped store their belongings, the more important reason was that her appearance resembled a celestial fairy. Just looking at her made them reluctant to let her squeeze into the back.
The only strange thing was that this fairy-like beauty had been curiously looking around ever since getting into the vehicle, almost as if she had never seen a car before.
Although her movements appeared casual and unintentional.
This place was about one hundred kilometers away from the Overlord Base.
Before the apocalypse, it would only have taken a little over an hour by car.
But after the apocalypse, mutated plants had spread everywhere, recklessly destroying humanity’s infrastructure.
Not only had the roads become full of potholes, but if one was unlucky, they could even encounter aggressive plants. Because of that, everyone drove very slowly.
The weather remained gloomy. The dark clouds overhead seemed as though they would never disperse, forever blocking the sunlight from descending.
Sheng Ge looked outside through the window and saw bizarrely shaped plants growing everywhere.
Not far away stood an especially enormous sunflower, towering high into the air as though desperately trying to rush toward the sun.
“That one is called Little Sun,” Wang Zihan explained when she noticed Fairy Sister staring at the sunflower.
“Little Sun?” Sheng Ge turned to look at the little girl.
Suddenly being looked at directly by Fairy Sister made Wang Zihan blush shyly.
Still, she tried her best to explain.
“Mhm! Because everyone misses the sun very much, and that sunflower hangs up there really high like a little sun.
“So we gave it the name Little Sun. We hope that one day Little Sun can call the real big sun back.”
“Yeah,” an elderly person in the van sighed while also looking at the sunflower. “I heard some ability users even built barricades around Little Sun to protect it.
“Everyone thinks that maybe when the sun comes back, this world might become better too.”
Sheng Ge had never imagined there would come a day when even the sun would become an unattainable longing in people’s hearts.
The dark cloud covering the sky seemed to block not only the sun, but also the hope within people’s hearts.
“But even if the sun really does come back one day, that might not necessarily be a good thing, right?” Gu Xiaoxue suddenly spoke while everyone else was sighing emotionally.
Everyone turned to look at her.
Gu Xiaoxue pressed her lips together and said nothing more.
She merely felt that in this unpredictable world, even the sun might not necessarily bring warmth.
It could also bring even greater disaster.
Who knew?
Everyone understood that reasoning as well, and for a moment, they all fell silent uneasily.
Just then, the vehicle ahead suddenly stopped.
Zhuo Dahong quickly stopped as well and stuck his head out the window to ask the people in front, “What happened?”
Yun Yanwu got out of the car and walked over to them, his expression somewhat grave.
“A huge patch of mutated plants suddenly appeared ahead and blocked the road. There may be danger. Everyone, be careful.”
Hearing this, everyone in the van immediately became tense and leaned out the windows to look ahead.
Sure enough, not far in front of them was a massive patch of green plants. Their stems were thick and long, with green leaves dotted with hints of purple growing from them. In the middle were pods the size of human palms.
Wang Zihan: “Waoh~ Pea shoots!”
Ah Bao: “Waoh~ Plants vs. Zombies!”
Sheng Ge: “……Waoh?”