I’m Not Shouldering This Blame - Chapter 119: Way to Survive
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Chapter 119: Way to Survive

The sky is no longer lit. Under the night, the wind brought the distant roar of monsters.

Even the small pickup car doesnt even dare turn on the lights as it carefully traveled on the road.

Several thick canvases layered the top of the car, manually welded metal railings on both sides. Theres an unpleasant smell on the car. The source was coming from a stack of kraft paper bags in the corner. Blood slowly oozed from the inside.

A young ability holder stared at the paper bag in disgust. He touched his empty stomach, tangled and then asked, Uncle Ma, the news you got is correct? Can we really eat cooked food in the base?

What are you saying? Arent there just fewer people in this country? Dont worry, if theres really no fire ability holder

His name is Uncle Ma, a dark-skinned middle-aged man. His rough palms have thick calluses, apparent signs of doing physical work, and he seemed to be the leader of this group. He had a smile on his face, and hes in the safest position in the pickup truck.

Those ability holders who cant stand the bumps sat near the vents and back of the car.

They more or less have clothes on them. Even the girls are unkempt, with a few having mud marks on their cheeks. Everyone looks like a startled bird, holding a sharp object in hand.

Some are knives; some are small half-steel bars, and theres even someone who held a bottle opener.

They are separated from each other by a distance. It is the Abandoned Worlds way of teaching them how to survive the hard way, stay close with others, so if theres an attack, two people can defend.

Abandoned World is dangerous. People are forced to rely on the power of a group to survive, but people are scarier than monsters making the ability holders alert to each other. They want to sleep but still have to keep an eye open.

For most ability holders, there are no relatives in this world, no friends, and no acquaintances they can trustthey survive alone and drank blood like a primitive man.

There are not only fire ability holders in the army, but theres also water ability holders!

Cooked food, clean drinking water, and can lie in a soft bed without worrying about being attacked by monsters. Its no different from heaven on earth.

The ability holders in the pickup truck all show longing eyes, hoping that the rumors are true, but also afraid that the facts dont match.

When we left with Uncle Ma, isnt there someone who doesnt believe it, and said that there are guns in the military. They have enough resources stocked up and when the soldiers rations are not enough, why would they care about our lives?

Uncle Ma snorted, Do you think Ill dare to travel through the highway for a long time, and run the risk of being eaten by monsters to reach Haicheng if theres no conclusive news?

Youre far-sighted

Put away your scholarly words. Being far-sighted or something, I just saw the group of ability holders who went to Haichengyouve seen them, the guys wearing black badges.

Black Abyss? Everyone was surprised.

Abandoned World has been around for a long time, and groups of all kinds have emerged. The groups helped each other grow, but these organizations are only a little more prominent before meeting someone who would drop in and recommend themselves. Black badge with a golden rim. They have different ages, but what they all have in common is that they knew the monsters well. They also got some confidential information, so theyre very popular with small groups of ability holders.

There are also people who pretend to be Black Abyss but theyll usually be exposed soon, In the tightly organized Black Abyss, any ability holder who wants to enter the Black Abyss must have a referral, and also pass an assessment. Even after joining the Black Abyss, its only at the lowest rank with no qualification for wearing a badge, so its hard to find out secrets.

There are also rumors saying that Black Abyss has a deep background.

I hope that after the Abandoned World is over, the army will not arrest us.

It is what the ability holders are most afraid of, to go back to reality and go to jail. How could they face their parents and friends?

Uncle Ma has a small cigarette butt in his mouth. He heaved a long sigh, You didnt hear it? A few days ago, someone entered the Abandoned World and stayed in this damned place a whole month. Haicheng is full of monsters. We are weak. Can we defend for a few days?

At this moment, the tires seemed to have crashed into something as it suddenly jumped up.

The ability holders in the car became extremely tense, watching the dark sky outside with trepidation.

What happened, didnt I tell you not to drive into the mushrooms?

Yesbut, Uncle Ma, look at both sides of the road.

Of course, on both sides of the road are trees. Because of a monster attack, theres damage on the railing along the highway, and the streetlights seem to be gone. With very low visibility, the trunks seem connected through the shadows.

Uncle Ma cant drive. In the middle of the night, he cant see the surroundings. His heart thumped, this is like the feeling of being eyed by monsters

Thats not a tree! One of the ability holders in the pickup truck screamed.

How can there be more than ten-meter tall trees on both sides of the highway? If you run across a curve, wont it block your line of sight?

The panicked driver turned on the lights, illuminating the road ahead, and standing silently on the side of the roadmushroom!

Everyones face is white, stunned.

They dont know when they drove into the mushroom headquarters. This road runs through the mushroom jungle. Its like a safe passage that someone has deliberately opened up. The large caps on both sides of the highway reached up to five floors.

On top of some of these mushrooms hang the withered arm of a monster, and seeing this at night gave people goosebumps.

As if stimulated by the lights, the front cap slowly turned sideways the hyphae that came out gradually extended toward the pickup truck. The hyphae of a giant mushroom is roughly like a rope. The oncoming attack is like a whip that can tear the car apart.

Aaahhhh! The driver stepped on the gas pedal with his eyes closed.

Calm down, you fool!

The hyphae turned into several roadblocks, forcing the car to slow down. The lasso ropes were thrown one by one to the car. Finally, the pickup truck suspended in the air, the wheels madly turning.

The ability holders grabbed the compartment board in horror, their bodies involuntarily following the tilt.

The mycelium bluntly took off the covering on top of the truck and went into the car like snakes. It overbearingly searched the car, carefully sniffed the blood-covered paper bag, and found that these are the dregs of what they ate themselves. The mushroom immediately wasnt interested and transferred their focus on the ability holders.

Even though they have been in close contact with the mushrooms and also suffered binds from the hyphae, the difference in size is enormous! If its thinner than a human hair, it can be ignored. If its as thick as noodles, peoples heart will thump, but if the size reached the point of what they see right now, those with poor mentality would have weak knees.

Good thing theyre all people who came out of a monster heap, so they did not faint on the spot.

Between being horrified, a car honk sounded from behind.

What happened, how is the front blocked?

dont come. There are mushrooms! A trembling voice came out of the car.

Of course there are mushrooms, a few kilometers near here is the site of the mushrooms! The person in the car behind said snappily.

Otherwise, with the Red Dragon gathering so many ability holders, isnt it a table full of fragrant food in the eyes of monsters?

Ah? Haicheng license plates, who are you, what are you doing here?

The modified roof of the pickup truck was turned over, revealing several ability holders with pale faces and woodenly looking at the SUV behind them tied up by the mushroom too, and hanged up parallel with them.

There is no difference with the hyphae searching them.

Compared to this side, the people in the SUV are much more relaxed, leaning in their seats and letting the hyphae rake them, looking like theyre used to it.

B-black badge. The female ability holder next to Uncle Ma noticed the sign that theyre Black Abyss.

The one wearing the badge is a little young, a smile showing teeth, and the general appearance is more than ordinary people, but what Uncle Ma is more concerned about is that theyre all wearing camouflage clothes.

We want to gowe heard that theres a base nearby, with army stationed.

Looking at those hopeful eyes, the young man from Black Abyss nodded, and asked in a drawled out tone, Have you registered your identity information?

What?

I mean, you are ability holders. Have you registered your identity with the country?

Theyre doing their all to hide it, but they still have to report it?

Its troublesome without information because the identity household registry information can only be queried in the real world. The information about registered ability holders is especially handwritten on each base. If you arent registered, you cant enter the base, and can only live in the periphery. Oh, the so-called periphery is a temporary tent built by mushrooms.

Several ability holders in the pickup truck were speechless.

The mushroom search ended, and hyphae slowly loosened, putting the two cars back on the road. Theyre holding several dead bodies of monsters on the SUV, as it excitedly left.

Its really a crime to feed this guy. If its not fresh, they wont eat. The young man from Black Abyss whispered.

The mushroom extracts the power from the monsters, not consuming the flesh. The energy from a corpse that has been dead for a long time has dissipated, so of course, they wont take another look.

Arent you specifically responsible for this job? The Red Dragon member driving ridiculed, Flame Demon has spoken.

Havent I fed a few kilometers of mushrooms ah. Theres enough food out there, why is it still hungry!

This young man from Black Abyss is Yang Chao. He kept one thing in his heart. Li Fei recently hinted that hed control the range and quantity of mushrooms.

Saying it is easy but doing it is somewhat hard. Take the mushroom forest near the Red Dragon base. Only the edges have food to eat. Those hyphae inside will naturally run out of energy and disappear. The mycelium that has consumed their fill on the outer edges will be called back, so there is a reasonable cycle. The problem is that the mushrooms are running around, and showed no signs of stopping. To make the mushrooms not open a new site, its more difficult that detoxifying an addict.

Keep up!

Yang Chao went past the pickup truck and said.

Surrounded by mushrooms, this group of ability holders has no choice. The driver holding the steering wheel shivered as he carefully kept up with the SUV.

The road gradually disappeared, becoming bumpier, and sometimes bending and swirling like a maze.

Following the bright lights that appeared ahead, none of the ability holders in the car can tell where the Red Dragon base is located. They have been unable to distinguish which direction is which.

The warm lights and the smell of barbecue floated in the wind, lifting their spirits.

Waiting until theyre near the base, Uncle Ma and the others are surprised that there are many cars parked here. Some are roughed up, and at least dozens of ability holders are gathered here. Some people queue up for registration; some people surrounded pots cooking something, and theres also some sleeping in hammocks using tall mushrooms. It was very lively.

The SUV drove straight, driving into the heavily guarded base gate.

A two-person high bronze sculpture with a strange shape resembling an hourglass is erected at the door. The newly arrived ability holders dont understand, and the others whispered in confusion.

Its for measuring time

The mechanical pendulum arm emits a low impact sound. Everyone became silent, stopped their eating action, and even those who are arguing shut up immediately with a look of melancholy and loss.

The people in camouflage uniforms climbed the two-person high structure using mushrooms and changed the hanging iron card from 7 to 8.

its the eighth day of the entire Haicheng entering the Abandoned World.

At the gate of the base, people are coming over every once in a while. Some are like Uncle Ma who heard the news, and some are Red Dragon members who have sent messages from other cities.

These cars are severely damaged, and seriously wounded people lifted from the vehicle. They rushed for several days before arriving at Haicheng, encountering countless dangers along the way, and fully prepared to go out again even when the ammunition is used up. Moreover, accidents are everywhere.

In the map hanging on the wall of Major Zhangs office, the range of red circles are getting bigger and bigger.

The current policy is to hold the base, protect as many ordinary people as possible, and keep in touch with the outside Zhang YaoJin paused for a moment, looking at the people in the conference room, This time the entire planet has entered the Abandoned World. The duration in the book lasted one year. Who is going to tell the news to the Devourer and Flame Demon?

Everyone turned their heads and looked at the skinny man in uniform with the code word Albatross.

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