Chapter 46: I’m a Vibe of Delicate Weakness (15)
All morning, Qian Rongrong looked at Si Xu with a ghostly expression, becoming even angrier when Si Xu didn’t notice her at all.
“What happened?” Jiang Zhiyan asked curiously. That look was hard to ignore.
Qian Rongrong let out three dry laughs, then indignantly described Si Xu’s cruel and inhumane actions that morning. She didn’t expect any real comfort from Si Xu’s fan, but she also didn’t expect Jiang Zhiyan to burst out laughing after hearing it.
Qian Rongrong stared at Jiang Zhiyan expressionlessly, her speechlessness almost tangible.
“Sorry, Senior Qian.” Jiang Zhiyan finally calmed down, but the smile on her face was still obvious. “Senior was very gentle when she woke me up this morning. She probably took it out on you because she was annoyed with me, sorry.”
Qian Rongrong stared at Jiang Zhiyan, unable to detect any hint of “sorry” in her expression.
“Are you showing off your love?” Qian Rongrong asked seriously.
“How could I be so mean?” Jiang Zhiyan widened her eyes innocently.
“I think you are that mean, you’re very mean!”
System: Hahahaha.
Qian Rongrong stormed off, grabbing someone else to complain to.
After the first two days, fewer people came looking for Jiang Zhiyan and Si Xu. Seeing Si Xu’s recent training intensity, many guessed she wanted to form her own team, so they didn’t bother wasting their breath.
Many thought she was delusional, after all, reaching level five wasn’t something you could achieve just by training. Evolution was still quite mysterious, they hadn’t grasped the rules yet, but the general consensus was that they needed to go out and fight aliens.
But they couldn’t go out without a team.
Si Xu still hadn’t reached level five. Although she felt like she was on the verge of a breakthrough, she couldn’t quite get there, and she didn’t understand what she was missing.
Jiang Zhiyan wasn’t surprised. After all, according to the plot, Si Xu only reached level five after joining a team. She was originally annoyed that Si Xu was going to join the male lead’s team again, but now Yu Wenyu was very well-behaved, avoiding them whenever he saw them and even sending someone else to handle any communication.
“A male lead who keeps his distance from the female lead is a good male lead.”
“Are you even speaking human language?” The system was speechless.
“I never do.” Jiang Zhiyan smiled.
All twelve of them from A University eventually joined Yu Wenyu’s team. Those who initially wanted to join larger teams changed their minds after learning about certain situations in the past few days.
The leader of Yu Wenyu’s team gave Si Xu and her group a lot of flexibility, only mentioning things not written in the manual during team meetings.
“Each outing requires a minimum of ten people, so if you don’t want to team up with us, you can also act independently. But I still suggest bringing a veteran.”
“This is our team’s logo. Our team currently has three vehicles. Every time you go out, make sure to fill up the tank before returning.”
“Team ranking is based on contribution points. This is the contribution points form. We currently can only earn contribution points by collecting supplies.”
Jiang Zhiyan glanced at it. High contribution points were mostly earned by capturing aliens alive, which wasn’t easy now, but some teams had already managed to do it. She wondered what their abilities were.
After the meeting, everyone introduced themselves, and Jiang Zhiyan matched the faces with the people on the flyer.
She had to admit, this team’s abilities were quite… underwhelming. The flyer definitely embellished quite a bit.
For example:
Quantify Alien Levels – Fast Counting
Efficient Camouflage – Color Changing
Heavy Blow – Increase Own Body Weight
…
It reminded Jiang Zhiyan of online dating jokes.
Although everyone tried to control themselves, their expressions still betrayed their true thoughts, exchanging glances, the atmosphere slightly awkward.
“Our team’s main strength is our good atmosphere.”
“Yes, yes, after all, it’s the apocalypse, everyone is anxious, a good atmosphere is very important.” Xiao Li, the kind healer, said.
Everyone chuckled dryly.
“So what’s his ability?” Si Xu pointed at Yu Wenyu.
Yu Wenyu looked up, and said hesitantly, “My ability might injure teammates when activated, so I usually don’t use it.”
“Oh, so it’s basically useless.” Jiang Zhiyan commented.
Yu Wenyu looked at Jiang Zhiyan, wanting to retort, but in the end, closed his mouth. Jiang Zhiyan wasn’t wrong, it was indeed useless. He visibly deflated.
“A blow straight to the soul.” The system couldn’t bear to watch.
The twelve new members were all going out tomorrow. According to the plot, Yu Wenyu should be leading the team, but because Jiang Zhiyan was there, he flatly refused, saying he’d rather live in the ruins of A University than take them out.
Although Jiang Zhiyan seemed to have no offensive power, he was truly afraid of her. After the meeting, he ran away.
Si Xu’s decision to join Yu Wenyu’s team made the other teams speechless, and they made harsh remarks, saying she would regret this decision.
“So young, still doesn’t understand what resources mean at a time like this.”
“So old, talking like an old fart.” Jiang Zhiyan retorted.
The speaker, who had already left, turned around, took a long look at Jiang Zhiyan, sizing her up and down, then sneered: “Forget it, I hope you can still survive with your good luck.”
“Do you rely entirely on luck to survive?” Jiang Zhiyan raised an eyebrow and asked.
“You’re quite the talker, little girl.”
“Greasy.” Jiang Zhiyan frowned.
The other person gave a disdainful smile and walked away: “I hope your mouth can always be this tough.”
“Impressive.” Qian Rongrong gave a thumbs-up.
Jiang Zhiyan snorted and gave Si Xu a look that said “see what I did for you.” Si Xu pinched the flesh on her arm.
“Offending him isn’t a good thing.” Someone whispered. “Chen Yang is petty. Someone offended him before, and he blocked their way outside, that person didn’t make it out of the horde of aliens. Be careful tomorrow.”
“What’s his ability?” Si Xu asked.
“Level six, body transformation. I haven’t seen it myself, but I heard from others that it’s very disgusting.” The person waved their hand. “Come with me, I have some information for you to look at, some information we’ve gathered about abilities. If you’re in a large team, and you have connections, you can directly ask for the registration list. People like us can only inquire ourselves.”
He sighed. “But the good thing about our team is that we’re pretty laid-back. The larger teams are under a lot of pressure. It’s the apocalypse, as long as we can survive, it’s fine. Sigh, who knows when we’ll die, why bother working so hard?”
“Thank you.” Si Xu nodded.
Jiang Zhiyan glanced at the person. There were really quite a few slackers in this team.
Si Xu and the others spent the entire afternoon looking through the information, after all, there were over two thousand people, several thick stacks of documents. Si Xu pulled out some people to pay attention to, their abilities quite special.
“Sigh, it should be a time for unity.”
“That’s just how people are. Those people probably already think they’re superior.”
Jiang Zhiyan rested her chin on her hand.
“Pay attention, stop spacing out.” Qian Rongrong handed her some documents. “By the way, can your ability make them not notice you?”
“Probably.” Jiang Zhiyan said.
“Then I better take a closer look.” Qian Rongrong immediately said.
“Jiang Zhiyan, you were too impulsive today, you should hold back a bit in the future.” Someone in the corner said worriedly. “You’ve already made an enemy just after arriving.”
“It’s fine.” Si Xu said. “Don’t worry too much.”
Early the next morning, the twelve of them gathered at the meeting point. They were going to a shopping mall in the city center to search for supplies. Because of Si Xu’s ability, she was assigned a gun and a bullet.
Two veteran team members were accompanying them.
One was Lao Yang, a middle-aged man who had been with the team since its inception. His ability was X-ray vision. Evolving directly caused problems with his eyes. Now, everything he saw was in X-ray mode, his ability always active, and he couldn’t turn it off. He saw everyone as skeletons, but he could now distinguish between males and females by looking at their skeletons. Because of his ability, he often scared people.
The other was Xiao Tian, a girl in her second year of high school, from the same school as Yu Wenyu. She was quiet and didn’t like to talk. Her ability was to help others restore their energy, also a very sought-after ability. If she weren’t schoolmates with Yu Wenyu, she would probably be in another team.
Shortly after the three vehicles left, Chen Yang, the one Jiang Zhiyan had offended, also set off with his team. Their destinations were in opposite directions, but Chen Yang followed Si Xu’s team.
“Host, they’re following you. You’ve really caused yourself a big problem this time. Someone in their team hid their ability.”
“What?”
“Someone’s ability is ability transfer. Within five minutes of a person’s death, they can transfer the deceased’s ability. Chen Yang is coveting Si Xu’s ability.” The system sighed. “They were originally going to wait a while before acting, but you provoked them.”
Jiang Zhiyan and Si Xu were in the last vehicle. Jiang Zhiyan looked back, but she didn’t see any vehicles following them: “I remember now, someone in their team has a tracking ability.”
“What do we do now? Their average level is four, your highest level is four, and you only have a few people with offensive abilities.” The system said anxiously.
“It’s fine.” Jiang Zhiyan patted her pocket full of stones. “Aren’t I prepared? I provoked them because I’m not afraid of them.”
“I never doubted that you were afraid of them, I’m just worried about you… oh, I was looking forward to seeing you fail.” The system suddenly realized. “I shouldn’t have told you.”
Jiang Zhiyan yawned, leaning against Si Xu: “Keep an eye out for me, tell me if you see any vehicles following us.”
“No way!” The system snorted. “Say something nice, and I’ll consider it.”
“Then don’t look.” Jiang Zhiyan closed her eyes.
System: Aaaaaah!
It was also being manipulated by Jiang Zhiyan. Damn it, why was it always so soft-hearted?
Chen Yang’s team maintained a distance of three kilometers from Jiang Zhiyan’s, clearly planning to act after they reached their destination.
Jiang Zhiyan also thought this was a good idea. Three kilometers, they would arrive at the mall, and after splitting up with the others, she could just kill them halfway.
The aliens wandering around here weren’t very strong. Because of her special ability, Jiang Zhiyan separated from the others first, circling back to the main road from their blind spot.
She didn’t activate her ability and just stood by the roadside, quietly waiting for them to arrive.
“Brother Chen? Isn’t that the girl who dissed you yesterday?”
“Where? Let me see, standing over there? Don’t tell me she’s deliberately waiting for us.”
The people in the car laughed disdainfully.
“I want her ability. We’ll kill her later, and you can transfer her ability to me.” One person said. “She’s quite pretty, if she says a few nice words later, I’ll let her go.”
“A few nice words are enough?”
Jiang Zhiyan raised her hand, timed it perfectly, and three stones hit the rear wheels of the three vehicles.
“Fuck? What happened? The tires are blown!” The driver of the first vehicle tried to stabilize the car, but two more stones flew over. He couldn’t dodge in time and watched as the stones shattered the windshield, then he felt a sharp pain in his forehead and lost consciousness.
The out-of-control vehicle crashed into a tree by the roadside, forcing the other two vehicles to stop.
“Fuck! What was that? This isn’t what the intel said!”
Chen Yang quickly got out of the car, his arm stretching towards Jiang Zhiyan like rubber, then turning into a liquid as it reached her, aiming for her mouth and nose.
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