“Thank you.” Gu Xiaoxue thanked her sincerely, then eagerly asked, “Then how do I fuse with this thing?”
Sheng Ge: ……
While inwardly lamenting that the younger generation nowadays were truly a bunch of useless little fools who knew nothing, Sheng Ge instructed Gu Xiaoxue to channel her ability into the crystal stone.
Very quickly, the crystal stone slowly disappeared, while a small green plant tattoo appeared on Gu Xiaoxue’s wrist.
Looking closely, it even resembled the mutated pea vine quite a bit.
Gu Xiaoxue reached out and touched the tiny plant. Her ability circulated within her body.
The next moment, the little plant came alive from her wrist, then grew to half a meter tall. With a thought from Gu Xiaoxue, a string of pea bullets shot out, nearly hitting the unprepared Zhuo Dahong.
It really was… Plants vs. Zombies!
Zhuo Dahong stared at his Xiaoxue sister with his mouth hanging open, his eyes practically glowing.
“Carefully comprehend this power of vitality. Little girl, you’re far more powerful than you imagine,” Sheng Ge said with a smile.
Then she casually tossed over a bottle of “expired” antidote pills from her storage ring and told the two of them to feed them to the others.
Having watched the whole process, Zhuo Dahong walked over to Gu Xiaoxue’s side, delighted that his little sister finally had the ability to protect herself.
But he still did not forget to remind her, “Xiaoxue, before you become strong enough, absolutely no one can know about this.”
Gu Xiaoxue was still immersed in excitement. Hearing this, she nodded.
Of course she understood Zhuo Dahong’s concerns.
Gently stroking her wrist, she secretly vowed to grow stronger as quickly as possible so she could protect the people she wanted to protect.
And also…
Thank you, Sheng Ge.
“Grandma Grandmaster… what happened?”
Ah Bao woke up groggily and saw his Grandma Grandmaster standing outside the vehicle.
Before he could even figure out what had happened, a chicken was suddenly tossed at him, nearly scratching him with its claws.
Cluck cluck cluck…
Ah Bao narrowly dodged Xiao Huang’s attack and was just about to accuse Grandma Grandmaster of attempting to murder her own grand-disciple when Sheng Ge’s voice sounded first.
“Starting tomorrow, your daily training time will double.”
“Ah?! Why?!” Double? Wouldn’t that mean ten thousand sword swings a day and four hours of meditation?!
“Why do you think, Sect Master?” Sheng Ge cast him a cold glance.
Ah Bao: “……Okay, Grandma Grandmaster.”
To become Sect Master, one must bear heavy responsibilities. This was all necessary tempering for him as the Sect Master of the Wuji Sect!
Ah Bao silently encouraged himself in his heart.
……
The others in the vehicles gradually woke up as well.
After checking each other’s conditions and confirming that everyone had merely fainted without suffering any other problems, Zhuo Dahong was just about to drive everyone away from the area as quickly as possible.
Suddenly—
Bang!
A water column slammed into the passenger-side window.
But water was still just water. Its attack power was nowhere near that of an ice spike. It only managed to crack the window slightly.
If not for the furious expression on the attacker’s face, everyone might have suspected she was trying to wash the car.
Even so, the attack was clearly aimed at Sheng Ge!
“Sheng Ge, pay for Song Zhi and the others’ lives!”
An angry voice rang out.
Feng Shuang’er stormed toward them aggressively, holding a gun in her hand, while Yun Yanwu followed behind her trying to stop her.
“Yun Yanwu, whose side are you on exactly? Song Zhi and the others are dead, and you still won’t let me avenge them? Don’t you have any loyalty toward your teammates at all?”
“Song Zhi and the others were killed by the mutated plants. What does that have to do with Sheng Ge?” Yun Yanwu’s expression looked terrible.
After waking up and discovering that the two teammates who hadn’t made it back into the vehicles had died miserable deaths, they had all been heartbroken.
But he also knew they couldn’t just irrationally blame Sheng Ge for it.
Especially since she had just saved them again.
“How is it not her fault? She had so many things that could protect people, so why didn’t she give them to us and instead only gave them to this bunch of lowly old weaklings?
“If she weren’t so selfish, how could all these useless old and weak people survive while two of our ability users died?!”
Feng Shuang’er felt completely justified.
Ever since seeing Sheng Ge for the first time, she had disliked her intensely.
Why?
How could there still be a woman in this apocalypse cleaner and prettier than her?!
“Hmph. And you still want to enter our Tyrant Base? I’m telling you right now—if you don’t hand over that sword of yours today, don’t even think about getting the chance to enter our base!”
Feng Shuang’er had never actually seen Sheng Ge use talismans to protect the people inside the vehicles. No one else had explained it to her either.
She had always assumed it was the effect of the sword Sheng Ge used to save Gu Xiaoxue and the others earlier.
“So after all that talk, you just wanted Sheng Ge’s things. I almost thought you actually cared about your teammates.”
Gu Xiaoxue immediately got out of the vehicle and stood protectively in front of Sheng Ge.
Hearing this, she looked mockingly at Feng Shuang’er.
“You—!”
Having her thoughts exposed so directly, Feng Shuang’er’s face darkened.
She pointed the gun at Sheng Ge and arrogantly demanded, “Are you giving it or not? If not, then none of you will—AH! My hand!”
A flash of light streaked past.
A bloody cut suddenly appeared on Feng Shuang’er’s wrist, and blood began pouring out.
“This Venerable One hates being pointed at with objects the most,” Sheng Ge’s indifferent voice sounded.
Her gaze rested calmly on Feng Shuang’er.
“Considering your youth and ignorance, I’ll only cripple one hand this time. Next time, my temper won’t be so good.”
Silence fell all around.
Everyone was stunned by the sudden turn of events, and even more shocked by the sharp, imposing aura Sheng Ge suddenly revealed.
Although Sheng Ge still sat quietly in the vehicle and her expression remained calm, as though she were still that harmless-looking young woman, everyone suddenly felt like they no longer dared to look directly at her.
“Sheng Ge, I’m going to kill you!”
Holding her injured hand, Feng Shuang’er glared hatefully at Sheng Ge while screaming threats.
When Yu Sheng approached, she immediately acted aggrieved and demanded that he avenge her.
“Are you still making trouble? Is this place safe already? Why aren’t we leaving immediately?”
Song Siyu walked over after finishing the handling of Song Zhi and the other man’s bodies and coldly scolded her.
Seeing the injury on Feng Shuang’er’s hand, she glanced at Sheng Ge.
“It was only a verbal argument. Don’t you think Miss Sheng’s actions were a bit too harsh?”
“Oh.” Sheng Ge’s expression did not change in the slightest.
Song Siyu frowned but did not say anything else. She simply urged everyone to hurry and get back into the vehicles so they could leave.
Then she mentioned that seats had opened up in the vehicle ahead, and anyone willing could move over there.
In the end, three people went together to their vehicle.
Feng Shuang’er was helped into the car to have her wound treated, and the group finally resumed their journey.
However, after all that had happened, Zhuo Dahong could not help feeling worried.
They were heading to seek refuge at Tyrant Base.
But before they had even entered, they had already fallen out with the daughter of the second base leader. Who knew what would happen after they arrived?
“Don’t worry. If things really don’t work out, we’ll just leave and head to another base,” Gu Xiaoxue comforted him after noticing his concern.
Zhuo Dahong sighed.
At this point, they could only take things one step at a time.
The remainder of the journey went smoothly.
By afternoon, they finally arrived at Tyrant Base.