Chapter 488 - 484: A Matter of Fate
Chapter 488: Chapter 484: A Matter of Fate
"That’s right. Since the doctor can cure us, we’ll definitely keep on living."
Huang Genmei shot a glance at the young girl who had spoken and spat. "Hey, hey, hey, listen to you now. A minute ago, when I said I didn’t want to die anymore, you were cussing me out for going back on my word, saying I shouldn’t have agreed to die if I wasn’t going to go through with it!"
Everyone was speechless.
The young girl, Lang Xiaoye, was left speechless by this dimwit’s tirade. After a long moment, she finally mumbled, "Okay, I was wrong. I apologize, Sister Huang."
Song You’ai and the others didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
"There are a few mutated animals hiding in Room 401 on the fourth floor. Why haven’t you cleared them out?" Xie Ning asked, as if in passing.
Lang Xiaoye looked embarrassed. "We thought we were about to die anyway, that we only had a couple of days left..."
"Besides you, who else among the Superpower Users was kicked out of the shelter? Where are they?"
Lang Xiaoye’s eyes lit up. "Besides the dozen or so of us, another group went over to the breeding sheds yesterday."
"Oh, right, right! It was Zhu Chuanfa who led them there. There were about a dozen of them, too. They didn’t want to just wait for death with us, said they were going to look for a way to survive."
"They wanted to go to the clinic next to the farm to find some medicine to stabilize their conditions. There were a few intellectuals among them, and a doctor named... named Xie something? Xie Xue-something."
Xie Ning’s eyelid twitched.
Song You’ai’s eyes suddenly went wide. "Xie Xue-what?"
"Xie, Xie Xueli, I think that’s his name! Xie Xueli!"
Song You’ai was startled. She quickly turned to her daughter, whose expression was completely hidden by her mask. "My dear daughter."
"It’s a big world. Lots of people have the same name. It’s not necessarily him."
"But your second uncle is a doctor. Before the apocalypse, he really did work at Gushang People’s Hospital..."
"Oh."
Song You’ai was rendered speechless by her daughter’s simple "Oh."
Xie Ning’s expression was indifferent, showing little emotion.
She had never been close with the relatives on the Xie family’s side. They were the kind of relatives you never saw, practically strangers.
To be honest, she couldn’t even remember what this "second uncle" looked like.
Seeing her daughter’s reaction, Song You’ai knew that she didn’t much care whether Xie Xueli lived or died.
She couldn’t help but sigh.
"We’ll go to their farm first," Xie Ning ordered coolly.
The breeding farm at Gushang Base was, in fact, their primary objective.
After all, investigating the origin of the sand worms and collecting any useful supplies from the farm were more important matters.
As for Xie Xueli and his group, they’d leave it up to fate.
At least sixteen hours had passed since yesterday. There was no point in rushing now.
’If they were going to die, they’d be dead already. If they’re alive, they probably have the means to hold on until we get there.’
No one else had any objections. The big boss had spoken, and they would obey.
While they were talking, Yu Tianfeng’s hands never stopped as he gave the rest of the survivors a preliminary full-body examination.
He drew blood and administered a special potion to each of them based on their individual conditions.
The most troublesome were the two women lying in the corner, barely breathing. Their condition was not good, and they had lost the ability to walk.
As for how to bring them along, everyone’s gaze unanimously turned to Xie Ning.
Without a change in expression, Xie Ning silently pulled a "corpse board" out of her Space...
The metal board was quite sturdy, with four wheels attached underneath. It was no problem for two people to lie on it; they just needed to be tied down.
A chain was attached to the front for pulling, which made everyone crack a smile...
Xie Ning dragged the corpse board straight out the door.
The board wasn’t very wide and fit perfectly through the empty doorway.
Watching his little girlfriend leave, Gu Chen quickly followed, a smile on his face. "Ningning, did you just make this metal board?"
"What do you think?" Xie Ning shot a disgusted look at the two female Superpower Users lying on the board.
’Can’t help it when your teammates are noobs,’ she thought. ’Guess I have to carry them.’
At the same time, several of the Gold Ability Users all followed her out first, crowding around the corpse board and exclaiming in amazement.
"This is?"
"Is this a tool made with a Gold Ability?"
’This is incredible!’
’She didn’t just make a metal board, but four wheels, too!’
It looked completely effortless to pull the corpse board.
And what was even more amazing was that when they went down the stairs, the wheels didn’t bump at all.
It was as if a transparent ramp had been laid over the stairs. The wheels glided down smoothly, not too fast and not too slow, without any risk of jostling the people off.
The Gold Ability Users watched with dumbfounded expressions, stunned by this terrifying level of metal control.
A Gold Ability User about the same age as Song Kexin hurried after her, asking in a low voice, "Miss, miss, are you a Gold Ability User too?"
Xie Ning turned to glance at her and smiled. "That’s right. Just like you, a garbage-collecting Gold Ability User."
Everyone was speechless.
The Gold Ability User girl shrank back, suddenly feeling a chill in the air.
The words "garbage-collecting" didn’t fit the woman before them at all.
Xie Ning dragged the corpse board downstairs, casually summoned an electric tricycle, and tossed the two women into the back.
She straddled the tricycle herself and casually threw a second-hand bedsheet over them to block the wind and sand.
The others followed them out and, upon seeing the scene, didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Song You’ai quickly took some masks and goggles from her bag and handed them to Huang Genmei, Lang Xiaoye, and the others. "Even though you’ve already been infested by sand worms, it’s best to protect yourselves to avoid further harm."
Huang Genmei and the others nodded gratefully, took the masks and goggles with both hands, and put them on. Only then did the entire group emerge from the building.
Gu Chen came running over, pouting with jealousy. "Ningning, you’re riding the tricycle and not taking me with you."
Lu Wei could hardly bear to look at his friend acting so spoiled.
’The delicate Gu Xiaobaihua and his powerhouse girlfriend—what a beautiful picture.’
Xie Ning glanced at them. "It’s not close to the farm from here. We’ll take electric scooters."
As she spoke, she released twenty brand-new electric scooters.
Yu Tianfeng didn’t say a word and immediately got on one. "Good, this will save time. Everyone, turn on your headlights so we don’t get separated. And talk on the Spirit Net."
And so, everyone piled onto the electric scooters in groups of two and three, following Captain Xie’s little electric tricycle.
Xie Ning drove the little electric tricycle as if it were a supercar.
The two barely conscious female Superpower Users, having just taken the potion, were feeling slightly better. They both poked their heads out from under the bedsheet.
They gazed at Xie Ning’s back.
’Why does this young lady look so dashing and heroic from behind?’
Everyone felt this was much faster. Although the wind and sand stinging their faces hurt a little, at least they were all well-protected from head to toe.
"We’re almost there!" Liang Zhongping shouted to the group over the strong wind.
In the distance, they could see several dilapidated vegetable greenhouses and the ground littered with fragments of bamboo fencing.