Chapter 8: The Fearsome Evolvers Unite

  "Did you undergo marrow washing and bone scraping?" Liang Jing felt a little envious in her heart. Although she had a game system attached to her, killing monsters and strengthening herself had also greatly increased her power, but it seemed that she hadn't undergone any variation or evolution like marrow washing and bone scraping.

  Liang Jing has basically confirmed that his special ability is unique to himself, at least among the people he has met before, no one else has such a special ability. Of course, since he can have such a mutation, others may also have it by chance (purely protagonist's unnecessary worry).

  In fact, Liang Jing himself did not know that the mud powder on his body was actually the toxic waste discharged from his own body. The white spiritual light he obtained by killing monsters was the life source of his opponents, the purest original energy. Unfortunately, when it entered his body, only a part of it could be absorbed, and most of it dissipated without being absorbed.

  This is something that others can't get no matter how hard they try! Unfortunately, it was wasted by Liang Jing, a guy who doesn't understand anything.

  Killing monsters to level up is perhaps a kind of thing similar to the Big Dipper, only much more advanced and magical, with countless levels, but Liang Jing doesn't use it at all now, he just lets it take effect on himself.

  "Don't worry, he's fine, just wait a bit and it'll be alright, maybe even better." Liang Jing shook his head with a bitter smile, no longer envying others. If the game system's abilities were considered to be variant evolutions, then he believed that his own was the strongest.

  Besides, humans can evolve and change, so there's no need to worry about having abilities that are too unusual and being caught and used as lab rats. With multiple goals, attention is divided anyway.

  "Really?" The pockmarked man asked excitedly and nervously, while the others also looked at Liang Jing with surprise on their faces.

  Liang Jing nodded very affirmatively, letting everyone calm down and wait.

  After more than 10 minutes, Yang Youyuan woke up, although with a strong smell of blood on his body, but his expression was very excited. He clenched his fists and shook his whole body with excitement.

  "How is it, Yu Yuan? How do you feel now?" Ignoring the excitement of several others, Liang Jing pushed away a few people and approached Yang Yuanyuan, constantly sizing him up and asking, showing great interest in the evolved body of the system.

  "Great, too great, the body has such a powerful strength, you... who are you?" Yang Yu felt the change in his body and was also excited. He looked at the person in front of him who was dressed strangely and seemed unfamiliar, although the voice sounded somewhat familiar.

  "I'm Liang Jing, now that you've evolved and awakened, how does it feel? Do you have any special abilities?" As he spoke, Liang Jing removed his silver-gray helmet.

  "In short, it's great and powerful! I feel like my physical strength has increased by about twice as much as before, and I seem to be able to shoot flames or something." Yang Youyuan is also excitedly agitated, with a small handsome face that can't hide his excitement, and doesn't have time to be surprised at how Liang Jing ended up here, his right hand instinctively reaching out towards a relatively intact computer screen.

  As Yang Yu yuan's right hand swung out, a crimson fireball with a diameter of over 10 centimeters appeared in mid-air and flew towards the computer screen.

  "...Boom!" Under the astonished gaze of the crowd, the computer screen shattered and was destroyed in an instant under the impact of the fireball explosion, quickly being burned by high temperatures, powerful beyond words!

  It's likely that even a level 4 variant spider can be killed with one hit, and with the variant spider's abilities, it's definitely not possible to dodge the fireball attack.

  "Ah... Boss, have you awakened? Is this the end of the world now? Awakened to fire elemental abilities?" The pockmarked boy was clearly a fan of online novels, his face flushed with excitement as he spoke. The others were also excited, although they themselves hadn't awakened and felt a twinge of envy and jealousy in their hearts. But Yang Yuwen was a good person, had good relationships with others, liked making friends and helping people out - just look at how he had fought to protect them from the terrifying monster earlier.

  "Yu Yuan, what are you planning to do now? I plan to go to Jia Le Fu supermarket to get some food." Seeing that Yang Yu Yuan was fine, Liang Jing didn't delay any further and continued on her way to Jia Le Fu supermarket.

  Although he envied and admired Yang Yu's awakening of his superpower, he didn't have any other thoughts about it. He had a game system, but it gave Liang Jing a reminder that in this world, there was never a lack of capable people, nor was there a lack of lucky people with opportunities. He himself was just one of them, and if he wanted to be truly powerful, he would have to work even harder.

  "Liang Jing, we still don't understand what's going on in this world right now. Can you tell us?" Yang Yu yuan looked at them and said without any objection.

  "Look outside and see the two suns in the sky, then you'll know that probably the whole world is similar to our place here. No electricity, transportation and communication are all gone, everywhere is full of mutated monsters that can't be killed, perhaps even the government can't control this area anymore. We have to take care of ourselves, first priority is to survive, hope we can find a safe place before the massive gathering of mutated mosquitoes and other creatures, then slowly think of ways to contact the government." What Liang Jing said wasn't some absurd fantasy, now that the world has been mutating for only half a day, there are already so many mutated creatures. With so many insects in the world, definitely not a few will mutate, if they gather together, how can we resist thousands and thousands of mutated mosquitoes? Who can resist? Isn't it said that unity is strength, the power of the masses is infinite?

  Yes, just now Liang Jing thought for a moment that Yang Yuwei was a capable partner after his successful awakening, and decided to ask him to team up. At least before Liang Jing had the ability to protect himself, he would rely on the team's strength to fight against the mutated monsters.

  Although he has a system, it's not invincible, and now Liang Jing still feels a lot of survival pressure.

  ……………

  Liang Jing, Yang Yu Yuan and the acne boy walked carefully on the street, Qian Bai Hui supermarket was at the intersection, it was the most bustling section of Qing Shui Bay, just a few dozen meters away from the internet cafe where Yang Yu Yuan was, but danger wasn't that simple.

  After listening to Liang Jing's words and seeing the two bright suns in the sky, Yang Yuwen and several others finally chose to join Liang Jing's team.

  After all, other things can be put aside for now, survival issues are indeed necessary and a prerequisite.

  Among them, three went out to the Qianbaihui supermarket to search for food, while the other three stayed in the internet cafe temporarily, also clearing and reinforcing the defensive fortifications of the house.

  "That's amazing."

  Watching Liang Jing's knife flash with electricity and flames, the swift and agile mutated mosquitoes in front of him were split in two. With his left and right hands coordinating seamlessly, he killed three mutated mosquitoes in no time, leaving Yang Yu and others in awe.

  Liang Jing, after equipping the leather armor and leg guards, was more than enough to deal with the mutated mosquitoes. The mutated mosquitoes were already hard-pressed to threaten him, and were now merely targets for practicing his knife skills.

  Yang Yu Yuan and Qing Chun Tuan followed behind Liang Jing, under the scorching sun in the stifling air, still wearing their winter clothes without taking them off, holding iron pipes that had been removed from chairs.

  "Too awesome! How come we didn't know that you, Liang Jing, are also a master? Are you an Awakened one too?" The acne-faced youth looked at Liang Jing's swift and effortless slaughter of the mutated mosquitoes, his heart filled with shock and his face full of excitement.

  "Ah, it's too incredible!" Yang Yuwen couldn't believe his eyes. Just a moment ago, he had also used an iron rod to attack the mutated mosquito, and after awakening, his physical strength was twice as strong as before. Unfortunately, it was very difficult to hit the mutated mosquitoes flying in mid-air. Although the mutated mosquitoes were much larger, their agility and speed were fundamentally unmatched by their previous forms. They were about the size of a fist, and even if he used his fireball technique, it would be hard to hit them. It was like using a cannon to shoot at mosquitoes. Watching Liang Jing slaughter the mutated mosquitoes left him in awe.

  Watching Liang Jing's speed and agility, I'm afraid that in a fight, I won't even be able to react in time. After all, it takes time for the fireball to be released and fly, and it's not like in games where you can lock onto and track targets. If someone is fast enough to dodge, once they get close and face Liang Jing's big knife, I'll be completely powerless to resist.

  "Yes, I woke up a little earlier than you." Liang Jing was also happy that others thought he was awake, wearing a horse jacket to run around safely, with many benefits, and maybe even pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger.

  Liang Jing and the other two continued to move forward towards Qian Bai Hui Supermarket, with Liang Jing taking the lead in killing off the mutated monsters that came their way. As long as they followed closely behind him and took care of themselves, they would be fine.

  Along the way, many houses that were on fire still smoldered in the mountains, emitting thick smoke and various acrid smells. The streets were stained with blood, littered with human remains and mosquitoes. The three people's faces turned pale and their stomachs churned with nausea. However, as young internet-savvy individuals of the new era, they had already seen videos of two girls sharing a cup and a girl who livestreamed her own death after eating curry rice for 20 days, so they didn't vomit. They were just temporarily unaccustomed to facing such a miserable reality.

  As soon as he entered the supermarket, he saw the corpse of a female salesperson wearing a red vest at the checkout counter. Her long hair was disheveled, her eyes were rolled back and staring outward in a terrifying grimace, her face twisted in agony and terror, as if she had suffered greatly before dying. Liang Jing felt a pang in his heart, remembering how he had chatted with her just yesterday when he came to buy instant noodles. She was from a rural village in northern Jiangnan province, and now the whole family had moved here to work and live, only to end up like this.

  What the heck!

  "There are woven bags behind the cash register. You two first gather the items on the shelves, I'll go take a look in the warehouse." After calming down, he walked around the shelves in the hall and killed three mutated mosquitoes.

  They should now be the first batch of living people in the supermarket.

  He needs to collect items in bulk and put them into the item slot, the food items on the shelves are too scattered, each one still occupies an item slot.

  "Jing Ge, why don't we just let Liu Wei Xin and the others take over here at the supermarket? We can just stay here and not have to bother moving all this stuff." The acne-faced young man said excitedly, seemingly very proud of himself for coming up with a constructive and farsighted idea, his face flushed bright red.

  "No way, that would be too provocative and we can't use all this stuff anyway!" Yang Yuwen cut off the acne-faced youth before Liang Jing could even speak.

  "What's there to be afraid of? With you two awakened ones here, it'll be easy to subdue the others and establish a survivor base. We can do whatever we want, how cool is that?"

  Liang Jing was speechless.

  The warehouse of Qianbaihui supermarket is just inside the door not far from the checkout counter, after turning two corners it still doesn't seem close, and now it's a bit dark inside, usually energy-saving lights are on, Liang Jing came to buy a bowl of noodles once before and knew the way, so there was little impact.

  There aren't many monsters inside, but there are quite a few corpses. Mutated spiders and mosquitoes can be seen everywhere, and even a mutated rat that's almost as big as a normal dog before mutation. It seems the struggle between mutated creatures is also intense, perhaps the current food chain has completely collapsed.

  Looking at the piles of goods stacked up like mountains in front of him, Liang Jing's emotions were stirred. These were the most important resources in the post-apocalyptic world, and they were basically non-renewable. Unfortunately, his inventory was too small, or else he would have taken everything with him. He shook his head and started collecting the items.

  High-calorie compressed biscuits, scattered ones are not wanted, all of them in boxes are needed.

  Dove chocolate, all collected; these high-calorie foods are the easiest and most convenient way to replenish the body's energy needs in the doomsday, which is essential.

  Steamed chicken feet with pickled mustard greens, my favorite dish. No room for negotiation, or else I don't know when I'll be able to taste this flavor again.

  Rice looks at which brand has the most quantity, a bag of rice weighs over 100 catties, all collected.

  Salt, it's all collected, this is very important, people can't leave without it.

  After a round of selection, 8 storage compartments had gone through 5 rounds. Liang Jing considered which food was more suitable and in larger quantities. In the end, she collected over 10 boxes of sausages and the largest quantity of blankets. One storage compartment was left empty as a precaution.

  After a while, the warehouse was emptied out quite a bit, but Liang Jing still thought it was a bit of a pity. If the storage grid were just a little bigger, that would be perfect.