“Brat, go teach that disrespectful junior a lesson for this Venerable One,” Sheng Ge ordered with a dark expression.
Ah Bao: “……”
Ah Bao hurried over and tugged at Sheng Ge’s sleeve, trying to pull her back. “Grandma Grandmaster, calm down, calm down. They were just being chased too hard. You’re magnanimous, don’t stoop to their level.”
She really thought too highly of him. These people obviously weren’t ordinary, okay?
Sheng Ge: “……Fine. This Venerable One won’t argue with juniors.”
At that moment, the mutant rats had already surrounded them. Thousands of rabbit-sized mutant rats together were no weaker than a thousand zombies. In fact, they were even fiercer and faster than zombies.
Song Siyu and the others unleashed their abilities and bullets together.
But there were simply too many mutant rats, and the group had clearly already exhausted themselves. Their attacks gradually weakened, and they were starting to fail to hold the line.
One of them happened to glance toward Sheng Ge and Ah Bao and saw the two just standing there watching the show without moving. He immediately became furious, not even noticing that not a single mutant rat had approached the two of them.
“Why aren’t you helping?! Once the mutant rats come over, you won’t be able to run either!”
Ah Bao cautiously glanced at Sheng Ge.
Sheng Ge stood there calmly without moving or speaking.
“Grandma Grandmaster……”
“Go practice a little.”
Sheng Ge did not stop Ah Bao from helping.
Sword cultivators cultivated the Dao of slaying evil and protecting the world with the sword. As the number one sword cultivation genius, how could Sheng Ge really ignore lives over a single rude remark?
That said, she still wasn’t going to personally step in. Disrespectful juniors still needed a little lesson, didn’t they?
Hearing that, Ah Bao still felt somewhat nervous, but he set Xiao Huang down, grabbed his sword, and rushed in.
The trapped group saw that the one charging over was actually the little kid, and they were both speechless and angry.
They looked away, unwilling to watch another foolish death.
But not long after, they realized there were fewer and fewer mutant rats.
Turning back, they saw that the child they thought should’ve already been eaten clean by rats was actually wielding a short sword and cutting down several mutant rats with every move.
Half a month of hellish training had been extremely effective. Ah Bao’s swordsmanship had become more and more proficient, and with Fanshuang itself being a treasured sword from the Sword Tomb, he handled the mutant rats with ease.
More than ten minutes later, the last few mutant rats were completely killed. The road was densely covered with mutant rat corpses.
“Little brother, I didn’t expect you to be this impressive,” Yun Yanwu praised while panting from exhaustion.
The others also looked at Ah Bao with surprise and excitement.
Ah Bao puffed up his cheeks and snorted without replying. He walked straight back to Sheng Ge’s side.
He still remembered that these people had called them idiots the moment they arrived.
As Ah Bao moved aside, the group finally remembered there was another person there.
When they clearly saw Sheng Ge’s appearance, the men were all briefly stunned.
A year into the apocalypse, it wasn’t like they had never seen women as clean and beautiful as Sheng Ge, women who looked as though they were still living in the pre-apocalypse world.
After all, no matter the era, classes always existed. Some people still enjoyed privileges others couldn’t.
But even among the upper ranks of the bases, people like this were extremely rare.
Not to mention this was the wilderness, and she was dressed in ancient-style white robes.
The woman simply did not fit with her surroundings at all.
Her appearance made her look like a sheltered noble young lady from ancient times, yet the sharp aura around her made her seem like a female general from the battlefield.
“Who are you people? Why are you here?” Song Siyu asked with a frown.
As she looked at Sheng Ge’s outfit, irritation rose in her heart.
What an idiot.
In times like these, she was still dressing up in cosplay, caring only about looking pretty.
A grown woman hiding behind a child—once nobody protected her anymore, she probably wouldn’t even know how she died.
Then she looked at the filthy little boy covered in injuries, and her dislike for Sheng Ge rose even further.
Seeing her teammates still staring blankly at Sheng Ge, the coldness in Song Siyu’s eyes practically shot out like knives.
The men snapped back to their senses under her glare and awkwardly looked away.
Everyone in the base knew that Captain Song hated women who still refused to stand on their own in the apocalypse and only knew how to cling to men like parasitic vines.
And in their eyes, Sheng Ge had clearly already been categorized as that type.
Mm… a parasitic vine hiding behind a child, at that.
Completely unaware that she had apparently become “kept by someone,” Sheng Ge looked puzzled at the dislike in the woman’s eyes.
Still, she didn’t really care.
Nor did she answer their questions.
Instead, she glanced at Ah Bao.
After following Sheng Ge for half a month, Ah Bao naturally understood what his Grandma Grandmaster meant. He immediately pulled out two fire talismans Sheng Ge had given him and tossed them onto the mutant rat corpses.
There were too many mutant rats. Digging them out one by one would be too troublesome. Better to burn them first.
“A fire ability user?” Song Siyu showed slight surprise.
But she hadn’t sensed any ability fluctuations from Ah Bao. So it had to be some other method.
That strange piece of paper?
Very quickly, the mutant rat corpses were burned clean.
Ah Bao was already happily running around collecting crystal cores.
Only then did the others react, their expressions turning ugly.
They wanted to collect some too, but they couldn’t bring themselves to fight a little kid over them.
Yun Yanwu struggled for a moment but still couldn’t resist. Thick-skinned as ever, he went to collect some anyway.
Neither Sheng Ge nor Ah Bao said anything. After all, most of the mutant rats had indeed been killed by them.
Unfortunately, most of the mutant rats were low-level, so not many had crystal cores.
In the end, Ah Bao collected more than eighty low-level crystal cores of various colors, while Yun Yanwu picked up a little over fifty.
“Little brother, which base are you from? How about coming to our Tyrant Base? I’ll ask Captain to recruit you into our team,” Yun Yanwu said cheerfully after collecting the crystal cores.
The moment he saw how fiercely this little brat killed mutant rats, he’d already wanted to drag him into their team.
Even if he wasn’t an ability user, swordsmanship this good was still rare support.
And the kid was so young—a guaranteed high-potential stock.
Maybe in the future he’d even surpass Ning Yi, the legendary King of Cold Weapons from the official base.
When Yun Yanwu finished speaking and saw Song Siyu didn’t object, he knew his captain had tacitly agreed.
“I’m not going. Grandma Grandmaster and I are going to the C City Official Base to find someone,” Ah Bao refused unhappily.
“The C City Official Base?!” Yun Yanwu shouted in surprise. “Just the two of you? Do you even know how far it is from here?”
Hm?
Ah Bao and Sheng Ge both looked at Yun Yanwu.
“It’s that far?!” Ah Bao cried out.
Yun Yanwu shook his head at the two of them and continued, “No no no. Distance isn’t even the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that C City itself is in the way.”
“And inside it… there are over ten million zombies!”
Over ten million zombies?!
Ah Bao’s mouth fell open as he instinctively looked at Sheng Ge.
Grandma Grandmaster… can you handle that?
Sheng Ge: “……”
“But if you really insist on going, it’s not impossible…” Yun Yanwu said as he noticed the little guy’s dejected expression and curled his lips into a grin.
After Ah Bao looked over, he continued, “There are two ways. First, you can go around C City through Jinyun Mountain beside it. But the distance will be much farther, and the dangers in the mountains aren’t any less than the zombies in the city.”
“Second, you can come with us to Tyrant Base first.”
Ah Bao looked at him suspiciously. “How is going to your Tyrant Base supposed to help?”
Besides, “Tyrant Base” sounded so embarrassingly cringe to a kid like him.
Yun Yanwu grinned smugly.
“That’s because our base has… a helicopter!”
A helicopter!
Ah Bao’s eyes widened in delight. “Grandma Grandmaster, a helicopter!”
Sheng Ge: “……What kind of chicken?”
Xiao Huang: “……Cluck cluck cluck. I’m eating. Don’t disturb me!”