bayedsolid Chapter 71 Let's play a song to liven things up!
Chapter 71 Let's play a song to liven things up!
The convoy members held their breath, watching through the gaps in the ice and stone armor as swarms of mosquitoes, like a black tide, surged toward the direction of the explosion, refilling that area.
The deep roar grew increasingly sharp; it was a deathly symphony of countless mouthparts rubbing together and wings vibrating at high speed.
Xu Si slumped in the driver's seat, breathing heavily. The "Starburst" attack had almost drained most of his energy, and the combined energy consumed in maintaining the Extreme Cold Domain and Starshine left him feeling extremely weak.
As the rumbling sound gradually faded into the distance, it finally disappeared into the thick fog and darkness.
The swamp returned to its deathly silence, with only the faint sounds of melting ice and peeling stone armor from the vehicles, and the heavy, suppressed breathing of the people inside.
"Is it... over?" Jiao Jiao asked cautiously, her voice trembling with tears.
"It's safe for now." Fu Xiaojian let out a long breath, feeling his back soaked with cold sweat.
Tashan removed his rock armor, his rocky face still showing lingering fear: "My goodness, this thing... this thing..."
He simply couldn't find a suitable adjective.
Su Su silently wiped away the foul-smelling mosquito blood from her boxing gloves, her eyes serious.
The weakness of an individual, once it reaches a certain scale, poses a threat that is in no way inferior to that of a high-level anomaly.
Xu Si rubbed his throbbing head, feeling like he might have misheard.
Current purification point: 113200
That "starburst" attack just now really made him proud!
He really struck it rich!
Although each blood mosquito provided very few purification points in that last wave, the sheer number of them was terrifying, causing his purification points to surge by more than 107000!
A level 0 blood mosquito the size of a fist, worth about ten purification points, meant he had just killed more than ten thousand of them.
There might not be that many, since some level 1 monsters must have been eliminated as well.
This is this...
Given his current level of arrogance, he could easily assemble an entire elite army.
How much is a single Sequence Awakening Potion worth?
"Brother Dao, Brother Dao, are you alright? If you're okay, please answer me!"
Xiao Luo's urgent sobs came through the walkie-talkie, unaware that Xu Si was completely absorbed in the joy of counting purification points!
This is not one hundred!
This isn't a thousand!
This is definitely not ten thousand!
This is a total of 113,200 purification points.
Xu Si didn't understand before, but now he does. What are the Rotten Moon Swamps? What are the Molten Wax Behemoths? What are the Ice-Eroded Salamanders? What are the Glacial Salamanders?
The "Ice Sleeper" has arrived, and the Blood Mosquito is the big boss.
Xu Si felt he could finally relax; he had made enough money.
I suddenly remembered something a certain entrepreneur said before the apocalypse: he wasn't interested in money.
Xu Si now felt the same way. He wasn't interested in purification points; he felt like he had earned a lifetime's worth of purification points in a single second.
"Brother Dao! Brother Dao!" the little girl kept calling out.
"Let the knife do the talking! Don't scare your brother Shan, don't die! From now on, whoever you tell your brother Shan to kill, your brother Shan will kill, don't die!"
They all saw that Xu Si, who was just under the bright stars, was surrounded by blood mosquitoes. It was pitch black, and no one saw that Xu Si had hidden in the car again, so they thought that Xu Si had been eaten by the blood mosquitoes!
Xu Si only snapped out of his joy when he heard Tashan's heartfelt cries over the walkie-talkie.
Xu Si took a deep breath, suppressing his overwhelming joy, and grabbed the walkie-talkie: "Stop howling, I'm fine."
His voice carried a hint of weariness, yet it instantly put everyone's minds at ease.
"Brother Dao! You're still alive! That's wonderful!" Xiao Luo burst into laughter through his tears.
"Old Xu, how are you? Just now..." Fu Xiaojian's voice was filled with lingering fear.
"I'm just exhausted, I won't die." Xu Si made up an excuse.
Although he felt free at the purification point, he was certainly not free in the secret.
Although the swarm of mosquitoes had passed, no one got off the bus. Everyone was waiting for the blood sun to appear, even if it would only give them a little bit of a sense of security.
However, the walkie-talkies of the convoy became very active.
"Old Fu, play a song to liven things up!" Xu Si felt that something was missing at such an exciting moment, but unfortunately his "Wax Melting Messenger" didn't have the function of playing songs.
"Brother Dao, aren't you really afraid those guys will come back?" Jiao Jiao didn't understand why Xu Si wanted to listen to music now.
"What song are you playing?" Although Fu Xiaojian didn't understand either, he chose to respect the request.
"If one day I am very rich"
"Brother Dao, have you no shame? Where did you find this song? Wait, where do you get money? It's the apocalypse now, what do you need money for?" the little girl pressed.
"Old Fu, let go, Jiao Jiao, shut up!" Xu Si had already lay down and was ready to start enjoying himself.
As Fu Xiaojian manipulated the vehicle's system a few times, a slightly noisy melody flowed from the Mengshi vehicle's horn, sounding particularly abrupt in the deathly silent swamp.
"If I ever become very rich, my first choice won't be to travel the world..."
Mao Mao's voice, tinged with a touch of languor and sincerity, gently echoed around the convoy through the electricity and mist.
Xu Si leaned back in the driver's seat, closed his eyes, and tapped the steering wheel lightly with his fingers in rhythm.
His mouth was stretched so wide it reached his ears, making him look like a clown from a magical circus.
rich?
He now has a "huge sum" of 110,000 purification points! Although he can't travel the world, in this apocalypse, this "wealth" is enough for him to do a lot.
Upgrading vehicles? No problem.
Making strange objects? Easy peasy.
Even... mass-producing Sequencers? That doesn't seem impossible.
"Brother Dao, were you possessed by a mosquito just now? Why are you acting so strangely? And how come this song actually exists?" Jiao Jiao was still muttering to herself over the walkie-talkie.
Su Su's usually cool voice carried a rare hint of helplessness: "Let him listen to the music in peace for a while."
"Hehe, this song is actually quite nice." Tashan chuckled憨厚ly.
The night fell silent once more.
Xiao Luo didn't say anything, but silently turned up the volume of the Mengshi truck so that the singing could be heard more clearly into Xu Si's car.
The blood-red sun's rays struggled to pierce the thick fog above the swamp, casting dappled patterns of light.
A new day begins.
The song played over and over again, slowly healing everyone's emotional wounds.
The convoy members began inspecting the damage to the vehicles.
Xiao Luo searched the area around the campsite for any possible strange objects that might have been dropped, but unfortunately, he found nothing.
As for the large crater in the distance, he dared not leave the convoy.
"Hurry up and do some quick repairs, we need to get out of here as soon as possible." Apart from Xu Si's 'Wax Melting Messenger', everyone else's vehicles were completely post-apocalyptic in appearance.
The car body was riddled with dents and the paint had chipped off most of it.
Some cars were missing windows, some were missing rearview mirrors, and the entire convoy no longer had the splendor it had when it first hit the road. However, it was truly a miracle that it could still move.
Xu Si, who was once the most down-on-his-luck, is now the most successful.
Xu Si even changed the car's color to a flashy one, depending on his mood.
He's definitely a spirited young man.