Chapter 473 - 469: For Survival
Chapter 473: Chapter 469: For Survival
Ma Yu watched the scene before her with a puzzled expression, an imperceptible emotion flickering in her eyes.
Xie Ning was acting very strange.
Meeting again after a year, Ma Yu realized she couldn’t seem to figure out what Xie Ning was thinking.
She was very odd.
’Did she really board the bus with the official personnel just to re-register her information?’
Ma Yu was still sitting by the window in the fourth-to-last row.
Liu Fen had squeezed into the back row a while ago and hadn’t come back yet.
’Good. This way, I won’t have to waste energy dealing with that stupid woman.’
Ma Yu narrowed her eyes at Xie Ning, who was standing at the front, her mind racing. ’She couldn’t have discovered my secret, could she?’
’No, that’s impossible.’
’Even if Xie Ning is no longer the person she once was and has awakened a powerful Attack System superpower, how could she possibly discover my secret?’
Ma Yu frowned, pondering to herself. ’But her Spiritual System must be quite strong, too.’
She looked up and saw Xie Ning following behind Zhai Ruobai and the others, getting off the vehicle with them.
She paid close attention to Xie Ning’s facial expression.
She looked completely normal, her expression perfectly calm, as if she really had just boarded the vehicle to help register people’s information.
But no matter how Ma Yu thought about it, something felt wrong.
"How ridiculous!" Captain Qu cursed as she told the driver to close the door. "What’s wrong with her?"
’Suddenly pulling a stunt like that—what is it if not a waste of time?’
"Liu Fen, what are you doing? What’s the point of squeezing in the back? Get back to your seat." Qu Lanping looked up and saw Liu Fen crammed in with the female team members in the last row, which only made her angrier.
"It’s, it’s nothing, Captain. I’m fine sitting here."
Qu Lanping glared. "You’re fine, but I don’t think the two people next to you are! It’s not like there are no other seats, so why are you cramming in there? Who the hell knows how long this trip will take? You plan to stay squeezed in with them the whole way? Now get your ass back to your own seat."
’What a bunch of losers. Just one Xie Ning, and this whole group is scared out of their wits.’
’They don’t even dare to return to their own seats!’
The more Qu Lanping thought about it, the angrier she got. She glared at Liu Fen, who was scurrying back to her seat, and roared, "Let me tell you all, don’t you dare try to sow discord in my team!"
"If I find anyone isolating their own comrades behind my back, they can get the hell out of my team!"
Liu Fen hung her head, looking utterly dejected, not daring to make a sound.
Qu Lanping continued, "Ma Yu is a teammate I recruited. Whatever happened in the past, she’s a member of our squad now!"
"As long as someone is on my, Qu Lanping’s, team, I will treat them all the same."
"Besides, don’t be so naive. You believe whatever people say? Someone says something about Ma Yu, and you immediately believe it?"
"Liu Fen!"
"Here!" Liu Fen shot to her feet, shrinking her neck as she glanced at Captain Qu.
"You’re a veteran of this team. You should look after Ma Yu more. If I catch you pulling these little tricks to isolate a teammate again, you’d better watch your hide."
"Yes!"
Zhai Ruobai strode quickly behind Xie Ning and asked in a low voice, "So, no trouble?"
"Mhm."
"Xiao Ning, don’t take what Qu Lanping said to heart. She’s just a straightforward person. She doesn’t mean any harm, she just talks a lot of nonsense and is a bit thick-headed."
Xie Ning paused for a moment, then smiled. "I’ve already forgotten what Captain Qu said."
"That’s good, that’s good." Zhai Ruobai led her straight toward the vehicle in front of them.
"At this rate, we can probably check five or six vehicles each time we stop. Hopefully, we can finish before dark."
Xie Ning sighed inwardly. ’That’s probably going to be difficult.’
After they got off Feng Lijian’s vehicle, Zhai Ruobai didn’t even need to ask to know that there was a huge problem with Superpower Team One, which Feng Lijian led.
After all, Ningning had given them a look earlier, signaling for them to find a way to stall and spend more time on Feng Lijian’s vehicle.
"It’s not the whole vehicle, is it??" Zhai Ruobai asked, his heart pounding with fear.
"No, there are three."
"Three Alien Species?" Zhai Ruobai almost screamed, but fortunately, his reason returned at the last second, and he suppressed the cry in his throat.
Xie Ning opened the registration book and pointed to three names for Zhai Ruobai to see.
"Their auras aren’t as strong as Ma Yu’s." Xie Ning frowned. "I have a feeling Ma Yu’s parasite source is the strongest among them."
After all, the parasite source in Ma Yu’s body was already stronger than the host, on the verge of taking complete control of her.
But for the three from Feng Lijian’s team, their parasite sources weren’t as powerful.
At least, according to Little Spider’s scan, those three could still temporarily suppress the parasite sources within them.
"This needs to be reported as soon as possible," Zhai Ruobai said with a grave expression. "These parasite sources have already infiltrated Superpower Team One. Who knows how many more are inside the Jingji Base?"
Xie Ning also felt a heavy weight in her heart.
What Er Bai was worried about was probably right.
So, this so-called cooperation might just be a one-sided annihilation.
Perhaps ever since the Global Superpower Academy was established three years ago, the X Realm has been preparing for a full-scale invasion.
’You want the X Realm’s advanced, dark technology.’
’What the X Realm wants, perhaps, is a diverse array of experimental vessels—the lives of the human masses.’
Xie Ning returned to her vehicle and took a sip of hot water to calm her nerves.
"Is the situation bad?"
Xie Ning nodded slightly. "We rooted out three more."
Upon hearing this, Song You’ai’s face filled with worry. "Then Xiao Gu and the others... their mission just got a lot harder."
They were originally on their way to the Gushang Base to participate in a rescue, but now they’ve run into this mess on the road.
That side is waiting for a rescue, while this side is dealing with huge internal problems.
Just thinking about it made Song You’ai’s head ache.
"Don’t worry, we’ll solve things one step at a time," Xie Ning said in a low voice. "First, we identify them and keep an eye on them. At least for now, it seems the Alien Species won’t do anything drastic."
"The X Realm turned Ma Yu and the others into these inhuman Alien Species... what are they trying to do?"
"We’re already in the middle of an apocalypse here."
"Then perhaps the X Realm’s current state is an even bigger wasteland, ten thousand times worse than ours."
"Can it get any worse than this?" Song You’ai was stunned.
Xie Ning turned to look out the window, a distant look in her eyes. "I’m afraid they might be facing an extinction-level catastrophe?"
Hearing this, Song You’ai couldn’t help but shiver. "Volcanic eruptions, sweeping tsunamis? The planet exploding?"
Besides their heavily polluted environment and biochemical threats, is the X Realm also facing the explosion of their world?
In any case, Song You’ai couldn’t even imagine it.
Xie Ning tilted her head. "Mom, why do you think we’re building the Ark? And why would the X Realm be so kind as to provide us with all sorts of technology and advanced alloy materials?"
Xie Ning felt she was about to touch the truth of the matter.
The truth, often, is just half a step away...
"For... survival?"