“Did the people who were transferred to the base in the same batch as me over a month ago all arrive?”
Su Jin knew which batch of people she was asking about.
Back when the apocalypse had just begun, Miss Chu was trapped in another city and, along with everyone else, hurriedly transferred to the base.
It was during this transfer that Miss Chu fell behind, prompting Captain Lou to personally lead a rescue mission.
“Fewer than a quarter of the people reached the Central Base.”
“Nearly half of them died on the way to the base, and the rest, who had relatives or friends in other bases, chose to go elsewhere.”
Chao Xun recalled the memories of the original owner.
“Did my cousin, Wen Yue, arrive at the base?”
In the original owner’s memory, she had always worn a jade bracelet on her wrist.
Shortly after the onset of the apocalypse, she accidentally unlocked the spatial storage within the bracelet.
However, when she was injured and pushed into the zombie tide, this bracelet went missing.
As for why the original owner was injured, it actually had to do with her cousin, Wen Yue.
At the time when supplies were being distributed, because of the original owner’s noble status, she was given one extra piece of bread. As a result, Wen Yue jumped out to play the role of a holy mother and do-gooder, saying that everyone was just ordinary people and that the original owner shouldn’t rely on her status to take more supplies than others. She demanded that the original owner hand over the bread to give to the others.
The original owner had been pampered since childhood. Entering the apocalypse, she had suffered hardships she had never experienced before. Now, she couldn’t even get enough to eat with a single piece of bread, so she was naturally unwilling and got into an argument with Wen Yue.
As they argued, she was pushed to the ground, cutting her head open, and immediately felt somewhat dizzy.
At that moment, Wen Yue offered to step forward and support her into a room to rest, but the original owner was in a fit of anger and refused.
Afterward, the original owner felt tightness in her chest and shortness of breath. She became groggy and, before she knew it, fell behind the group and was pushed into the horde of zombies.
Everyone else believed that the original owner had simply thrown a tantrum and fallen behind.
But only Chao Xun knew that she had been poisoned.
And this poison was administered by Wen Yue.
Taking the opportunity to step forward and support the original owner, Wen Yue had concealed the poison on her hand. The moment her finger brushed across the original owner’s wound, the original owner was already poisoned.
As for the original owner being pushed into the zombie horde later on, she figured it must have been her cousin Wen Yue’s doing as well.
And the newly unlocked spatial bracelet definitely had everything to do with Wen Yue.
Thinking of this, Chao Xun’s expression grew cold.
The spatial bracelet belonging to the original owner was something she would definitely take back.
Since Wen Yue had caused the death of the original owner, she ought to pay it back with her own life.
“After Wen Yue returned to the base, how did she talk about me?”
Su Jin actually did not know about this.
“The Commander-in-Chief and Colonel Chu asked her about the situation immediately. We don’t know what she said exactly, but the word that spread in the base afterward was that you threw a tantrum and fell behind, and Wen Yue wanted to save you but failed to do so.”
Chao Xun sneered.
“She certainly knows how to talk nonsense.”
Hearing this, Su Jin and the others nearby immediately looked at her.
“Miss Chu, when you fell behind back then, was there some hidden story behind it?”
As a young master of a wealthy family who had been plotted against by his half-brother and had experienced all kinds of open and hidden power struggles since childhood, Jiang Chuan immediately guessed:
“Sister Xun, did she always envy you, so she ambushed you, right?”
Chao Xun: “You actually guessed right.”
Jiang Chuan’s voice suddenly shot up in anger.
“Holy crap! That little bitch! How dare she plot against you! Sister Xun, once we return to the base, I must get revenge for you!”
Chao Xun curved her lips.
“No need, I’ll do it myself.”
Only then would the karmic debt be settled.
Hearing this, Wang Peng realized there was a story here and couldn’t help but ask Jiang Chuan:
“What exactly happened? Tell us about it too.”
Jiang Chuan: “Originally, I was also supposed to transfer to the Central Base with the first batch. But Jiang He locked me in a university classroom, wanting to leave me to die.”
“Later, I managed to escape with great difficulty and lived through some miserable days. After all, without an ability, life in the apocalypse is too hard.”
Speaking of those days of fleeing back then, Jiang Chuan felt so bitter he almost wanted to cry.
It was already the apocalypse; his status as a wealthy young master was useless. No matter how much money he had, it was just waste paper. He didn’t even know how many beatings he had endured just for a bite of food.
Wang Peng was surprised:
“Your half-brother Jiang He? I’ve met him. He looks so clean and fair, yet his heart is so cruel.”
Jiang Chuan: “Him? Only his face can deceive people. His heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys are all black. You’d better stay far away from him, or you won’t even know how you got tricked to death.”
Wang Peng nodded decisively.
“Absolutely. We are brothers now, so of course I stand on your side. But I heard him say that you didn’t awaken an ability initially. How did you awaken one now? And your ability level isn’t low either.”
The arrival of the apocalypse was due to the descent of a batch of meteors.
At the very beginning of the meteor descent, the probability of awakening an ability was at its highest.
The later it got, the harder it was to awaken an ability.
Jiang Chuan subconsciously glanced at Chao Xun, then quickly retracted his gaze.
He possessed his ability because of Sister Xun.
Although he didn’t know how Sister Xun did it, he figured it was no simple feat.
And anyone could realize how insane of an ability it was to be able to make someone acquire an ability.
He wasn’t sure if he should speak of it now.
Therefore, he needed to see what Sister Xun wanted.
Sensing his gaze, Chao Xun looked entirely indifferent.
In her view, the so-called abilities—such as gold, wood, water, fire, and earth—carried the same meaning as the spiritual root attributes in the Immortal Spirit Continent.
The attribute of the spiritual root a person possessed brought energy when the meteors fell and the apocalypse arrived.
This energy would strengthen the energy of their spiritual root attributes, which was the awakening of an ability.
As for psychic or prophetic abilities, they were essentially the same in nature—an increase in energy.
And those who did not awaken abilities generally fell into the following two categories:
First, the energy they sensed was not yet enough to stimulate their own spiritual roots and awaken an ability, requiring more energy, or their meridians throughout the body were blocked, preventing them from absorbing too much energy to circulate.
Second, they had no spiritual root, or they could not accept the energy, meaning they could never awaken.
After examining Jiang Chuan’s physical condition back then, she confirmed that his situation was the first type.
Thus, she first cleared the meridians throughout Jiang Chuan’s body and poured spiritual energy into him. With enough energy, his ability naturally awakened.
This was not a difficult task.
On the other hand, the second situation was somewhat troublesome.
Seeing her expression, Jiang Chuan knew she didn’t mind him speaking about it.
Thus, he raised his head with a face full of pride.
“You might not believe it if I say it, but I really didn’t have an ability at first. It was only after meeting Sister Xun that I awakened my gold-type ability.”
All the luck of his entire life had been used to meet Sister Xun!