Chapter 14: CH 14

After half a day in the car, Feng Qianqian’s fever went away as expected. Nestled in Feng Junlei’s arms, she stretched out her delicate little hands and touched the rough stubble on her father’s chin. 

“Daddy, I had a dream about Mommy.” 

With tears in his eyes, Feng Junlei lowered his head and dropped a sad kiss on his daughter’s forehead, fondly remembering his wife who had passed away two years ago. 

The metal necklace hanging from his neck started levitating in thin air, gradually floating away from his neck before settling in the palm of his daughter’s hand. Feng Qianqian opened the pendant of the necklace, stroking the photo of her mother inside, and softly called out: “Mommy.”

The young girl was immersed in reminiscing of her late mother, completely unaware that she had done something extraordinary. Feng Junlei was startled by the sudden emergence of his daughter’s “extraordinary” powers, and he was at a loss for a while. 

Chu Qianxun turned to glance back at this scene, her teeth itching with envy. It’d be so much better if she had this ability. 

The Hummer blazed by, quickly passing the pedestrians on the side of the road. 

Chu Qianxun suddenly braked, reversing the car and stopping it next to a girl squatting on the ground wiping away tears. When the girl lifted her head and glimpsed Chu Qianxun, she started to cry harder: “Qianxun, waaah…” 

It’s Chu Qianxun’s roommate Gan Xiaodan. 

Chu Qianxun looked at her disdainfully: “What’s a capable person like you doing here? Did you lose your bag?” 

Gan Xiaodan sat in the passenger seat. Her clothes were caked with filth, and a mixture of dirt and tears was plastered to her face, completely unrecognizable from the bright, sunny appearance of a college girl she had been just three days ago. 

“After that monster appeared, everyone panicked. At first Senior She and I were still together, and some soldiers came from behind to push us towards the highway, but in the rush of the crowds, Senior She didn’t know where to go,” Gan Xiaodan cried pitifully. 

“I followed the crowd all the way here, and was too tired to walk any further. I just wanted to sit down and have a bite to eat. Who would’ve thought that right then, three men would come up and steal my bag, and, and… wuwu, they pushed me into a ditch…” 

Chu Qianxun hardly spared her a glance. “Don’t cry, cry my ass. You know that you fell into a ditch, but other people don’t know and what’s more, they don’t care.”

Gan Xiaodan instantly stopped crying. 

She didn’t know what happened, but after the apocalypse hit, the dormitory’s most gentle and considerate Qianxun changed overnight into a brave and resolute lone wolf, even turning cold-blooded almost to the extent of cruelty. 

But fortunately this kind of Qianxun exists.

Seeing Chu Qianxun’s attitude, Gan Xiaodan seemed to have gained a spine, and she completely calmed down. 

At the very beginning, if Chu Qianxun hadn’t forced her to climb out the window, she might have walked down the stairs to her doom together with everyone else. Her current self is likely only capable of guarding a few apples, helplessly staying on campus where monsters run rampant. 

Up ahead, vehicles parked on the roadside slowly begin to appear more and more frequently. 

Chu Qianxun also pulled over and stopped her car. 

From the passenger seat, an obvious sound came from Gan Xiaodan’s stomach. Gan Xiaodan awkwardly glanced at Chu Qianxun, but held back and didn’t speak. 

Even though it had only been two days and one night since they fled the dormitory, it was enough for her to understand that the world was not what it used to be, and food was no longer a cheap commodity that was easily shared among roommates. 

In the backseat, Feng Qianqian put her arms around her father’s neck and said in a hushed voice: “Dad, I’m hungry.” 

Under the unremarkable shade of a tree, Chu Qianxun opened the car’s rear door and exited the vehicle. Although she had prepared so much, she doesn’t actually care that much about the food in the trunk. 

There is almost a thousand kilometers between Hua City and Lu Island, and they could encounter serious problems like traffic jams or landslides anytime, anywhere on their journey. 

In her experience, no matter how good the car is, it couldn’t possibly drive that distance, and eventually it would need to be abandoned on the road halfway through the journey. 

The car was filled with lots of things that she unfortunately couldn’t carry. 

The present is still a time of material abundance. Having survived the later stages of the apocalypse when materials were scarce, Chu Qianxun didn’t worry at all about this short-term problem of survival. 

She took a large bundle of food from the trunk and went back inside the car. Each person in the car received one box of self-heating rice and a bottle of mineral water. Open the box of self-heating rice, insert the heating pack into the lower layer of the box, and pour water on the pack. Soon the heating pack emits a lot of heat, warming up the rice. In the end you can still have a bite of steaming hot food, who cares about things like chemicals or preservatives?

This ordinary junk food that no one is fond of has transformed in the blink of an eye to a delicacy that makes one’s fingers tremble. Even the recently recovered Feng Qianqian ate sweetly. 

Chu Qianxun gave a bottle of milk and a piece of chocolate to her alone. Feng Qianqian looked at her father, and only after getting permission, took them and said in a lovely, pure voice: “Thank you, Qianxun jiejie.” 

Chu Qianxun stroked the girl’s head. A too-kind father and this simple, obedient child. Even with that ability, she was afraid it would be difficult for them to survive the apocalypse. But that has nothing to do with her, Chu Qianxun reminded herself coldly. She just needed to walk her own path and live her life well. 

Besides her aunt’s family, she would only help others if it wasn’t too difficult. She would not waste her energy wholeheartedly helping other people, nor would she stop walking for them. 

Chu Qianxun turned around and began eating in big spoonfuls. She ate neatly and smoothly, not leaving even a single grain of rice behind. No matter how much food she has, the concept of cherishing every bite has been engraved deeply into her everyday habits. 

Gan Xiaodan took the initiative to clean up everyone’s finished boxes of food and got out of the car to throw them away. 

Many vehicles stopped one after another on the road ahead, and people got out of them, flocking together in threes and fours. A young, beautiful woman accompanied the hordes of men, cautiously moving in closer. She had graceful, elegant features, wearing a loose t-shirt and form fitting shorts that revealed a pair of tall, slender white legs. 

The men spoke amongst themselves, flashing amorous eyes and glib smiles at her. This sort of situation felt a little bit like prostitution. It was obvious she was trying her best to show off her feminine charms in exchange for some food. 

It’s too bad those men weren’t really in the mood to seriously flirt and not only rejected her, but also shoved her away. Despite suffering defeat, the woman was undeterred. After leaving the crowd of men behind, she spat on the ground and searched around for her next target.

She spotted Gan Xiaodan, who was coming back after discarding the lunchboxes. Her eyes lit up and she began walking towards them. Gan Xiaodan was especially disgusted by this type of woman. Seeing her approach, she hurriedly got into the car and slammed the door shut.

The woman laughed and knocked on the car window. Seeing that the car was almost entirely filled with women, the flirty expression on her face immediately faded. She knew very well that these types of serious, scholarly-looking girls looked down on girls like herself. So she bit her lip, lowered her head, and put on the appearance of a weak person asking for help.  

She hasn’t even eaten two meals yet, and she didn’t know what she had yet to encounter. Anyways, she needed to find a way to secure a bite to eat. 

“Don’t pay attention to her, it’s obvious she’s not a good person,” Gan Xiaodan said indignantly. 

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Chu Qianxun rolled the window down. “Yan jie?” 

This woman was familiar, even more so than anyone else in the car. This woman, named Gao Yan, was truly not a good person. 

But good people don’t survive to reach the later days of the apocalypse. 

Even Meng Rongxuan, a master who possessed that superb thunder and lightning ability, had to pitifully exit the field due to excess honesty and kindness. 

This Gao Yan had once fought on the same side as Chu Qianxun for many years, and her ability level was only half a rank higher than Qianxun. But she was much better than Chu Qianxun. Not only was she heartless, she was also skilled in smooth talking her way out of mishap and acted much freer in other aspects. 

On ordinary days, there was some amount of feeling between the two. But if a dangerous situation arose, Chu Qianxun was convinced that Gao Yan would absolutely abandon her without hesitation, and if it was necessary, would push her towards the monsters to give herself more time to run. 

On the battlefield, Chu Qianxun wouldn’t dare to trust that Gao Yan would watch her back. But when she was at the lowest point in her life, Chu Qianxun had in fact accepted a loan from this Yan jie in the form of a demon seed. 

After all this time, her debt with tons of accumulated interest still hadn’t been paid. Now, in this version of the apocalypse, she had a rare opportunity to spare a little kindness and return the favor.

“Get in the car, Yan jie. I’ll take you along for a while.” In front of Gan Xiaodan’s astonished gaze, Chu Qianxun opened the door. 

Perhaps because she stepped into society at a young age and quickly gained experience, Gao Yan’s superb social skills began to shine the moment she got into the car. She first sought out the driver, Chu Qianxun, and expressed her gratitude earnestly but not excessively. At the same time, she seamlessly flattered the others in the car, praising them as kindhearted and as the rarest good people in the world. 

Soon afterwards she efficiently began to talk about her pitiful and tragic life story, setting up a clever persona of a girl who, despite her impoverished background, fought valiantly against the whims of fate. 

Lastly, she didn’t forget to give Feng Qianqian a crystal pendant that she just happened to have in her pocket to play with, easily winning the goodwill of the Feng father and daughter. Even Gan Xiaodan– who had originally thought her unpleasant to look at –was quickly swayed, and even started calling her Yan jie. 

Gao Yan placated the car full of men, women, and children and inwardly breathed out a sigh of relief, secretly telling herself she was incredibly fortunate. 

She ate the food that Chu Qianxun gave her, and quietly stole glances at the girl in the driver’s seat. 

The people in this car are as simple and transparent as glass, and she could easily understand them at a glance. Only this little girl in the driver’s seat was an existence she couldn’t see through. 

What surprised her even more was that this female college student named Chu Qianxun unexpectedly recognized her, so much so that she inadvertently treated her in a familiar manner. But no matter how hard she thought, Gao Yan couldn’t recall ever meeting this girl. 

Reasonably, in her circle of friends, if a pure and innocent younger sister like her appeared, she would definitely be impossible to forget. 

Chu Qianxun snorted when she caught sight of Gao Yan frequently peeping at her through the rearview mirror. “Eat quickly, Gao jie. After eating you start driving. I want to sleep a bit, then we can take turns keeping watch tonight.” 

“Sure, sure, I’ll drive in the afternoon. I’ve been driving for years, Qianxun meizi, you just rest.”

Gao Yan hadn’t yet finished speaking when the car screeched to a halt, causing her to almost drop her food. Up ahead, all the cars started turning around and going backwards. Those who couldn’t turn just stopped, got out of the car and fled towards this direction. 

At a section of the highway not too far away, three to four cars were stopped in the middle of the road. There were a dozen people inside a commercial vehicle with a monster crouched on top. They were reaching out and grabbing the arm of a woman to prevent her from getting yanked out. Everyone in the car held tight to the woman’s body, and their confrontation with the monster was at a deadlock. 

The man in the passenger seat jumped out while raising the axe in his hand and charged at the monster. 

A blasphemer, Chu Qianxun furrowed her brow. 

The blasphemer is a special type of monster. Its skin appears as a fleshy color close to that of human beings. It is precisely due to this close resemblance that they look exceptionally repulsive. 

This monster has no hair on its body and is more than two meters tall, with thick, long limbs and sharp claws. The upper half of its head is empty with no eyes and no nose bridge. Where a nose should be, there are only two small, bloody holes. However, its mouth is shockingly large, split open all the way to the ears, with wide gaps between the sharp teeth. There are even some remnants of flesh and blood in there.

It’s not as swift as the stalker nor is it as bulky as the blunt walker, but its mind is much more clever than that of other low-level monsters. Of all the low-level monsters, it is the most bitterly hated. 

In the early days it wasn’t so obvious. But as their demonic power continued to evolve, blasphemers would then display an IQ that stood out from those of ordinary monsters. 

They began to use all sorts of cunning and ruthless means to hunt humans, even capturing humans alive and raising them in their nests like livestock where, after being tortured, they would be eaten. Because of this, these monsters received the name “Blasphemer.” 

The man lifted his axe and swung it towards the blasphemer. The monster nimbly dodged the attack, but was forced to loosen its grip on the woman’s arm. It landed on all fours, stretched its neck and opened its blood-dripping mouth to roar at the man in protest. 

The people inside the carriage hastily pulled the woman in and shut the window, but no one got out to help the lone man. 

The blasphemer roared and lunged with its hind legs, pushing the man to the ground. The man braced the handle of his axe against the monster’s mouth, tussling with the monster. 

Wordlessly, Chu Qianxun opened the door and got out of the car. 

Unexpectedly a single beginner rank blasphemer appeared, and its intelligence hadn’t even developed. Really, too awesome. 

When she was here in her last life, she was already riding in Feng Junlei’s car at this stretch of the highway, so she hadn’t seen this monster. 

At the prospect of another fight, Chu Qianxun was secretly ecstatic. 

“Qianxun, don’t go, it’s too dangerous!” Gan Xiaodan tried to pull her away to no avail. She could only helplessly watch as Chu Qianxun, carrying a knife, headed straight towards the monster. 

“This, this Qianxun meizi, is… really too heroic,” the eloquent Gao Yan stammered, “I’m really not wrong, this is the world’s rarest good person.” 

Author’s afterthoughts:

Don’t await the male lead, the male lead is still living miserably so he can’t appear yet.

Random TL thoughts:

– Didn’t know self-heating rice exists, had to look it up because the MTL was kind of wonky. So yeah, that exists. TIL

– Everyone else: no, stop pls

CQX, in a Yugioh voice: IT’S TIME TO D-D-D-DUEL

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