Chapter 124 – You’re Not Very Good at Lying

All night long, the sound of sirens continued outside without end. Under these circumstances, ordinary people stayed at home in a state of fear and unease.

But being at home was not necessarily safe, either, because no one knew whether a Xenospecies had already appeared inside their own house.

Su Lifeng felt this was still because most people did not fully understand the abilities of Xenospecies. If they knew these Xenospecies could quietly replace other people’s identities without anyone noticing, perhaps it would trigger a new wave of chaos.

Rumble…

A peal of muffled thunder rolled across the horizon. Dark clouds seemed ready to press down from the sky, making the air feel especially oppressive.

Although everything seemed to be gradually settling down, this atmosphere made people instinctively feel that perhaps all of this was only a brief silence. And after the silence would come an eruption…

“Xiaomei, do you want to go out with me?” The next afternoon, after sensing that the situation outside seemed to have stabilized slightly, Su Lifeng packed up his things and prepared to leave. But just as he opened the door, he suddenly stopped and turned back to ask.

From a moment ago, he had noticed Cheng Xiaomei crouching at the “hole” that led up from downstairs, with only the top of her head and a pair of eyes showing as she stared at him.

Jiang Yushi was still busy inside Jiangnan Group. After waking up today, Su Lian had started installing more hidden cameras near the residential complex and around this building. Only Cheng Xiaomei, after finishing the housework and practicing some combat techniques, had become idle and a little stifled.

The moment she heard Su Lifeng speak, Cheng Xiaomei’s eyes widened. By the time Su Lifeng turned around, Cheng Xiaomei had already rushed in front of him. She was gripping the wall with that mutated hand of hers, staring at him with a face full of excitement. “Really?”

“Really…” Su Lifeng glanced at her right hand. The deformed bones and silvery-white spikes were indeed quite ferocious. But looking at the owner of that hand, it did not seem frightening at all.

“Then let’s go! I’m already ready!”

After they left, Cheng Xiaomei was still immersed in excitement. She looked at the backpack Su Lifeng was carrying and asked curiously, “Lifeng, what are you planning to do?”

“Buy some things,” Su Lifeng answered. He had to make a trip to Shencheng as soon as possible, but judging from the state of the blockade line, smoothly reaching Shencheng through normal channels would probably be rather difficult. His identity as a Mutant absolutely could not be exposed for now.

As for what things were like outside the city, Su Lifeng had not seen it with his own eyes, but from a few clues in the news reports, it was not hard to reconstruct the general situation.

Large numbers of roads were blocked. Many scenic areas and small towns had been closed for various reasons. Some people online were complaining that phone calls could not get through in certain areas… All kinds of signs showed that outside the major cities, many small towns across the country had probably already fallen.

Of course, this was only Su Lifeng’s speculation. But no matter what, being prepared was always the right choice.

“What’s wrong? Why are you looking around?” Su Lifeng suddenly asked.

Not long after leaving, he had noticed Cheng Xiaomei constantly looking behind them.

“Ah? Nothing… I just feel like it’s a little eerie. It doesn’t feel like a normal World anymore at all.” Cheng Xiaomei hurriedly answered, forcing out a faint smile.

“That’s true.” Su Lifeng nodded, but a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes as he looked at Cheng Xiaomei.

This Girl was not very good at lying…

As they spoke, Su Lifeng and Cheng Xiaomei had already ducked through several alleys in succession and were gradually approaching the city center.

This was exactly why Su Lifeng had chosen his home as their “base.” It could serve as cover, while in a straight line it was actually very close to the city center. Under these circumstances, staying far away from the urban district was not necessarily the safest choice.

And despite the large difference in their evolutionary levels, Cheng Xiaomei actually managed to keep up with Su Lifeng, barely, without making him deliberately slow down to accommodate her. This made Su Lifeng feel rather gratified.

While traveling, he was also continuously adjusting the state of his body. It was both a warm-up and a way to adapt to the changes after completing himself with the Wisdom Species. Although the mutation brought by the Wisdom Species seemed at first glance to be only the Exoskeleton, only Su Lifeng himself knew that it had also strengthened his body’s absorption and fusion of Soldier Types.

His stamina and self-healing ability, which had previously not improved much at all, had begun to slowly rise after the Wisdom Species completion. Even if this kind of improvement showed no visible effect in the short term, once it accumulated, it could be of enormous use at a critical moment.

“Wooo…”

The sirens still sounded from time to time, and the inspections at every intersection had become even stricter.

Some citizens had already come out of their homes, and quite a few pedestrians had appeared on the streets again. Many families did not have food stored at home, while the army was distributing emergency rations on the streets, so they had no choice but to come out. This was also a good opportunity to detect Xenospecies, though it was hard to say how many Xenospecies would be “fished” out.

There were also some people “wandering” along the roads, looking rather lost. But aside from a small number of little shops by the roadside, most storefronts were closed. Passing military vehicles warned them from time to time to return home after receiving their food, but with manpower insufficient, there were always people who came back onto the road after being driven away.

Perhaps staying at home made them even more afraid. As for going to work… in the current Ningnan, those who went to work were probably all inside special companies, such as Jiangnan Biomedical Group.

“For it to become like this after one night… it feels complicated. But this should make things a little safer too, right?” Cheng Xiaomei said with a sigh.

“But this is all they can do.” Su Lifeng had just finished speaking when a scream rang out not far away. Then people began scrambling and crawling as they rushed over from that direction.

One of them had not run very far when a man who had been shot charged up from behind and threw him to the ground. After knocking him down, the shot man stopped moving. The person underneath trembled twice and had just begun to crawl up when several soldiers rushed over from behind and dropped him with a few shots.

But that person was screaming, “Help… help me…”

A soldier immediately rushed in front of him and looked him over, then cast his gaze toward several people still running ahead. “Wrong one. It’s one of them. You up front, stop immediately, or we’ll open fire!”

At the same time as he spoke, a fleeing woman suddenly charged toward several pedestrians not far away, and gunshots immediately rang out.

“Ah! The soldiers are killing people!”

“Damn it…” Hearing the screams coming from nearby, a man who looked like the captain cursed at once.

These Xenospecies did not care about death at all. They only wanted to cause even greater chaos before they died.

In the end, there were not large batches of Xenospecies, only these Xenospecies popping up from time to time and constantly making trouble, disgusting them to the extreme.

“If only we could implement military management!” one soldier said.

“Millions of people. How could it be that simple? Even checking ourselves has already been troublesome enough.” The captain raised his head and glanced at the sky. “The weather is getting darker and darker. Ningnan isn’t about to run into extreme weather too, is it?”

Su Lifeng also looked up at the gloomy sky, then jumped down from the top of the wall together with Cheng Xiaomei. “Let’s go.”