Not only does the woman look beautiful, but her face was also very thick. She knew that the three people didn’t want to take care of her, but she still persevered in not falling behind the three as she kept chattering. Her friends were also following the team, and it seemed that they were going to rely on them.
"Younger brother, are you a multi-system ability user?" The woman lowered her head to speak to him and her voice was especially flattering. The group of little eunuchs from the second team felt disillusioned from the sight. Her friends, on the other hand, were very calm, as if they were used to it.
Gong Lixin was sandwiched between Lin Wenbo and Song Haoran. His head was lowered as he concentrated on walking and didn’t answer. However, his indifference couldn’t hinder the woman’s enthusiasm. The woman continued to ask with a thick face, "You don’t have to tell this sister. I can guess that you are power, ice and fire ability user, three-line ability user? How many systems? How about your level? It must be above mid-grade of the third-level, maybe third-level high-grade, right?" Pulling out the steel diamond vine so easily, his level was definitely not low!
Gong Lixin looked up at her and still didn’t answer.
The woman seemed to be encouraged though and the more she talked, the more she asked questions, such as; how old was he, what was his surname, what colour did he like, and finally, she had to stop talking to gasp for air.
The teenager still walked without a word. It was the first time someone treated her so coldly and the woman was a touch hurt. She turned to ask a member of their team next to him, "Hey guys, where are you going?"
"Our base was destroyed by a landslide. Now, we are headed to Long Snake Island Prison." This was not a secret that couldn’t be said, not to mention the fact that the four of them didn’t forget to warn Young Master Gong to escape in the previous dangerous situation. It was obvious that they weren’t bad guys.
"Long Snake Island?" The woman frowned and looked serious. She cautioned, "I advise you to change your course quickly. Don’t waste your time and energy. Long Snake Island never accepts outsiders and the environment is very chaotic. We passed by Long Snake Island and are heading North to Xiangcui Bay. Do you want to join us?"
"No, we have a lot of people. It’s not safe to go so far North. You go there by yourself." The team member saw her sincere attitude and answered her with a smile.
Gong Lixin turned his head and looked at the woman, his expression was not as indifferent as before. Although this woman was noisy, she was not bad.
Too many people? Wasn’t this all of them? The woman’s eyes were bright and she felt she was lucky to have encountered a large army. She rubbed her chin with her fingertips and after talking with her friends using her eyes, she looked at the youth with open intention in her tone. "Young Master Gong, we won’t go to Xiangcui Bay. The road is too far away and it’s not safe. Can we follow you?"
Gong Lixin glanced at her before he finally spoke. "Our base doesn’t just accept strangers."
"My name is Cao Yanan! A second-level mid-grade wind ability user." The woman pointed at herself and exclaimed in a loud voice. She pointed at the two shorted women, "That is Yang Xiaoxue, a second-level low-grade ice ability user. That is Le Jia, a second-level low-grade fire ability user." Finally, she pointed at the man who physically appeared strong and said, "This is Wei Guo, a second-level mid-grade wood ability user."
After her words fell, she paused and smiled before saying, "Now we’re not strangers anymore, right? Young Master Gong, you see, we four have good characters and high ability strength. Let us join your team and we’re sure to contribute to the strength of your team. We have four young and strong workforce and can help you make a big profit!"
When they heard her ridiculous words, everyone around her laughed, and even cold-faced Lin Wenbo’s and Song Haoran’s lips curved into smiles. It’s a pity that Gong Lixin, a man from ancient times, couldn’t understand her sense of humour. He only swept his eyes over her and continued walking.
Cao Yanan was very energetic. She knew that this youth among the group of people had not yet reached adulthood. She saw that at his young age, he was not moved by beauty, nor was he tempted by greed. Her heart didn’t feel the same as before. Her expectation for this unit had become higher and thus, her perseverance in following behind Gong Lixin and explaining the benefits of letting them join his team increased.
Cao Yanan was starting to have a dry mouth but was also not willing to give up on getting a positive answer from Gong Lixin. Her heart felt somewhat frustrated and she moved the bag behind her to the front. She fished out a few canned bottles and said with a strong but pitiful voice, "Young Master Gong, let us join and I’ll give you these. I will give you some bottles of beef sauce that I’ve collected! The taste is juicy and tasty and is a must-have for travelling!"
Since the animals have mutated, she hasn’t tasted meat for more than a year. Thus, she was unwilling to finish these bottles of beef sauce. She would only use chopsticks to pick some up and put it on her tongue and she would be so happy that she wanted to fly. Now that she was giving them to Gong Lixin, her heart and soul were twisted in pain and tears almost wanted to fall out of her eyes.
Gong Lixin’s footsteps stopped and the indifferent look in his eyes flashed with a different emotion for a moment as he looked straight at Cao Yanan. Luo Dahai’s mouth twitched and secretly though if this Cao Yanan had not investigated his boss beforehand. How else would she know to poke boss’s soft underbelly?
Song Haoran, Lin Wenbo, Luo Dahai and the members of the second team all thought the same thing at the same time and were staring at Cao Yanan with weird expressions on their faces.
Big sister, what have you done? If you are a foodie, it doesn’t mean that others are also a foodie! Want to exchange for beef sauce? Are you out of your mind!? Le Jia and Yang Xiaoxue stood behind Cao Yanan and secretly pinched the soft flesh around her waist. Wei Guo also lowered his head. Under the strange looks from the others, he felt that he had no face left to show.
"Beef sauce? Can you let me see?" While the four people wallowed in shame, Gong Lixin opened his mouth and said so with a clear and mellow voice.
Cao Yanan stupidly handed over the bottle of beef sauce over. Gong Lixin took it, unscrewed the bottle cap and sniffed it. His eyes brightened slightly and he lifted his face, showing a pleasant expression.
"Beef sauce is mine now and you are part of my team." Holding the bottle in his hand, he said so while staring at the other bottle in Cao Yanan’s hand with extremely hot eyes.
Cao Yanan felt that the back of her hand holding the bottle felt hot. She quickly handed over the bottle of beef sauce with a painful expression. Yang Xiaoxue, Le Jia and Wei Guo almost fell to the ground. They were stunned and looked at the teenager who was holding the two bottles with happiness. Their mouths twitched: a cat encounters a dead mouse and a foodie actually meets another foodie!
Song Haoran and Lin Wenbo lowered their heads and smiled, picking up the bottles of beef sauce in Gong Lixin’s hands to help him carry it before saying to the four people behind them, "Welcome to our group. We should leave for now though; the main team is still ahead of us. You guys should get some good rest tonight, we will be heading towards Long Snake Island." No matter what their origins or intentions were, the fact that they joined the first group proves that they won’t be much of a nuisance.
"Oh, that’s good!" The four people came back to reality and followed behind Gong Lixin.
As soon as they joined the group led by Young Master Gong, these four people became as loyal as dogs! Others were indignant from this outcome and stared at the backs of the four people with envious eyes while the four’s heartbeats drummed in their ears as they felt extremely uneasy.
After walking for a while towards the camp, they finally saw several members of Young Master Gong’s team where the four inquired about Young Master Gong’s name. The anxiety in the four people’s hearts dissipated and was replaced by excitement as if they had won the lottery. Cao Yanan, who had contributed the beef sauce, was deemed to have done a ’good job’. In any case, they didn’t expect that Young Master Gong was not a three-system ability user, but a four-system ability user, and not a three-level user, but a four-level user and the first one to appear in the entire country. The person at the top was truly invincible! After Cao Yanan heard this news, she didn’t feel the pain from a moment ago. She was sitting at the campfire and chatting with Sun Tiantian and Ling Yin, her expression showing her happiness.
"Wang Tao, drag the snake back from the woods." Gong Lixin introduced the new team members to his companions and waved Wang Tao over.
Wang Tao nodded and quickly dragged the snake back with the top of its tail, making the people from Cao Yanan’s group look on with wide eyes and call Wang Tao ’Superman’. Wang Tao had reached the peak of second-level high-grade and his physical fitness was comparable to that of Superman. He was capable of killing a second-level evolved zombie with one fist and all physically strenuous activity in the group was basically carried out by him,
Seeing such a huge snake, the people in the base were amazed and rushed over to see. From time to time, they would touch the cold, hard scales with their hands and let out a sigh. Father Gong and Old Lin also came to join in on the fun and listened to the members of the second team describe the fierce battle at that time.
The screech of Gong Xiangyi, who had been in low spirits, had also attracted their attention. Seeing the giant snake lying across the edge of the camp, already dead, her eyes flashed with greed and she quickly walked over. She reached out and touched the scales of the giant python and listened carefully to the voices of the people around her.
She learned that this giant python was a three-level mutant of the fire system and that it was killed by Lin Wenbo. A touch of joy slipped through her expression as she walked to Lin Wenbo, hiding her expression along the way. "Wenbo, this giant snake, can you give it to me?" Right then, she forgot that the two were in a cold war.
"If it wasn’t for Luo Dahai who used the steel diamond vine to subdue the giant python, I couldn’t have killed it, so you should go and ask Luo Dahai." Lin Wenbo quietly said as he glanced at her.
"Luo Dahai?" Gong Xiangyi frowned, not knowing who he was talking about.
Lin Wenbo pointed at the man standing next to Gong Lixin, "That’s Luo Dahai. He’s a member of Xiaoxin’s team. It’s only reasonable to say that Xiaoxin is the most qualified to dispose of this giant. You should ask for Xiaoxin’s permission. Just, I really want to know what you want to use this giant python for. Its meat is poisonous, so you can’t eat it."
He knew Gong Xiangyi and if something didn’t have its worth, she would never find it interesting and do something unnecessary about it. It was part of her utilitarianism and selfish personality which led them to drift apart and wipe clean his heart of any love for her.
"Its meat can’t be eaten, but its skin is light and tough and invulnerable to fire. It can be used to make armour. But if you want to peel it off, you can only use a knife made from a fifth-level high-grade metal zombie’s nail. The dagger made from their nails, once polished, would do the trick. When sewing, only needles made from the same material could penetrate it. As it happens, there is such a set of tools for cutting and sewing armour in my space. If you can help me get the giant python, I’ll give you a set of armour. What do you think?" Gong Xiangyi said without a moment of hesitation and with a tone open for trade. She knew that Gong Lixin and he had long since had become strangers and if she went to ask him, Gong Lixin would never bother with her. Gong Lixin was that indifferent to her that it was similar to the saying ’love was given since young, yet evil has still taken root’. It was exactly the same as her previous life.
"Oh~" Lin Wenbo chuckled, raised his head and looked behind Gong Xiangyi as he said, "You don’t have to ask me, ask Xiaoxin directly."
Gong Xiangyi suddenly turned back and saw Gong Lixin standing a meter behind her, looked at her with indifference, his pair of clear eyes flashing with interest, apparently from having heard her words clearly.
"Armour? That’s a good idea! But I don’t need to bother you, I can do it myself." He spoke openly and nodded to himself.
"Boss, you just need to peel off the skin and bolts of cloth. We can use spider silk from the mutant spider that we hunted last time, which is much stronger than having to sew with a needle!" Standing behind him, Luo Dahai’s ambitiously suggested. With these armours, were they not on the same level as the giant python? Wouldn’t they be worry-free when killing zombies and thus, have more fun than before? Just thinking about it, he couldn’t help but get excited!
Gong Lixin’s eyes were bright and he nodded before he walked towards the giant snake. He pulled out the blade from his waist and started to skin the giant snake that only a fifth-level metal zombie claw from the legends could cut through, which led Gong Xiangyi to be stunned.