Chapter 116: Evolving Ability (1/2)

Chapter 116: Evolving Ability

Translator:Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Huang Jiahui and the others had been too distracted by the motion of the giant lizard to notice that there was a bunch of people running towards them.

A slight of worry could be seen on Huang Jiahui’s face as she prayed silently.

At first, it had only been her and Wang Shishi waiting outside. However, the others had noticed the expression on their faces. Both Huang Jiahui and Wang Shishi held a higher position in the house. It was their roof they were staying under after all. Even the blind would have noticed that Luo Yuan and his women had been behaving strange all day. After Luo Yuan had left, the two of them had remained anxious the whole morning. They did not seem able to sit down. Some of them sensed that there was something going on, so everyone had come out.

As the motion got stronger, they could see the figure of the giant lizard from afar.

Huang Jiahui looked carefully, stunned. She grabbed Wang Shishi’s arm tight and mumbled, “Shishi, I’m not sure my eyes are working. You take a look and see if Luo Yuan is up there.”

The giant lizard was five meters tall. Luo Yuan was lying on its back, his body blocked by the giant lizard’s head. They could not see anything.

“I... I don’t know.” As Wang Shishi watched, she started getting nervous as well.

Cao Lin was there too, the astonishment in her heart ever the same. She peeped at the others, but they did not look any better than her.

Luo Yuan was their protector. Even if doomsday came around, he would still maintain the peace of this small place. She did not dare imagine what their future would look like without him. Her whole world turned dark. There was not even the slightest spark of life.

Suddenly, she noticed a bunch of people running towards them in panic.

Staying in a comfortable safe zone for so long had made her vigilance decrease. She had forgotten about the warning. She only realized that something was wrong when the other side aimed their rifles in their direction.

“Cooperate if you don’t want to die! Hurry up and take us somewhere safe!” Hei Ge shouted. He guessed that there had to be some secret hideout for these people to have survived around a mutated beast for so long. That was why he had run towards them without hesitation.

Huo Dong and the other men froze in the face of this unexpected situation. They did not answer the question.

Hei Ge was very nervous. He almost collapsed as he watched the giant lizard get closer. He raised his pistol. “Damn, does nobody talk around here?”

“What do you want? This is not some place you can act in such an uncivilized manner.” Lin Xiaoji had gotten mad. He had to hold his emotions back all the time, but he was not going to anymore. Not when a stranger was being so rude to him.

“How dare you talk back to me? Do you think I won’t fire?” Anxiety, fear, anger, irritation- all kinds of negative emotions surged in his heart, driving him out of his mind. Even his face looked twisted.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

He raised his pistol, and started pulling the trigger until he ran out of bullets. Then he still kept shooting on with the empty gun.

Lin Xiaoji lowered his head to his chest. He saw fresh blood on his shirt before he fell to the ground.

Wang Shishi screamed in shock.

The gunshots had awakened Huang Jiahui, who had been passed out. She tried to grab the pistol on her waist, but she felt a cold, sharp object poke her in the back while a voice said, “Just don’t move. If you do, I will use my knife. Take us somewhere safe! Fast!”

Luo Yuan’s absence had made Huang Jiahui so desperate, she thought maybe death would not be such a bad idea.

Huang Yuying, who was also there, noticed that Huang Jiahui did not seem to care at all, and quickly shouted, “No, Sister Huang!”

“It’s you?” Huang Jiahui heard her familiar voice and turned around with a frown. There was fire in her eyes now. “You brought these men here? I took pity on you last time, but I never thought you’d be such an ungrateful person!”

“I… I’m not!” Huang Yuying was panicked. She wanted to explain, but she didn’t have the time to. All these men had come there because of her. She was also the one who had taken people to raid the supplies of the old house. No matter what she said, it would be hard to make them trust her.

Hei Ge was so angry, he felt like his head was about to explode. Why was nobody listening to him? Did he look too kind? Didn’t they see that he had guns and knives? Weren’t they scared of dying?

Alright, he would grant their wish. Just as he was about to reload his gun, somebody stopped him.

“Hei Ge, don’t waste time on these people. Who cares if they don’t want to leave? We can get to the villa first!” said the man in the suit.

Hei Ge held back his temper and nodded. He looked at the crowd and quickly headed into the villa. Huang Yuying hesitated for a while. Everybody was too nervous to care about her.

“There must be a safe place somewhere in here. Everyone scatter and search. Hurry up!” said Hei Ge after rushing into the villa.

The house was not very big, and there were a lot of people searching through it. It did not take them long to discover the entrance to the basement. Everyone entered it quickly, astonished by the amount of supplies inside it.

“There’s so much food! It must be more than one hundred packs. It’s enough to sustain us for half a year,” said Ma Lian in surprise. “Dried pork slices? Mineral water? Damn, they even have an electric generator! What are they doing, generating electricity?”

“Shit, they really are generating electricity. It’s connected to a cable,” the young man with the scars shouted.

“Damn, can you see all this? We’ll have plenty of time to observe it in the future. Now, don’t speak, everyone. Stay silent. If the mutated beast finds us, then everything will be over,” Hei Ge said angrily.

Everyone felt scared as the basement suddenly became quiet. That was when they realized that there were no sounds coming from outside. They looked at each other with puzzled expressions.

The giant lizard stopped at a grass field a few hundreds meters away from the villa, just like it always used to. It looked at the crowd indifferently before it closed its eyes and started snoring.

“Brother Luo, it’s Brother Luo! He’s on the back of the lizard!” screamed Wang Shishi.

Huang Jiashi stared at the back of the giant lizard and saw Luo Yuan lying there motionless. Her happiness turned fast into worry. “He’s injured! I don’t know if it’s serious or not. Wait here, I need to go and find out!”

Cao Lin was scared, but she still held Huang Jiahui back. “Don’t go, you will startle the lizard.”

“Don’t stop me!” Huang Jiahui said as she turned around. “Do it again, and we won’t be friends anymore.”

Cao Lin loosened her arms unconsciously. When she got her senses back, Huang Jiahui was already running towards the lizard.

“Wang Xiaojie, hurry up and stop her. Only you can do it!” said Cao Lin. If anything happened to Huang Jiahui and Luo Yuan awakened, they would all be screwed.

Wang Shishi shook her head, her eyes full of tears. “I want to go and see as well!”

She wiped off her tears as she cried and ran towards the giant lizard.

Everyone stared at each other in astonishment. They was nothing they could do. They couldn’t offend Luo Yuan or his women.

Traditional Chinese culture relied on hierarchy. It was important to learn how to be a better person before you could do anything. Pleasing others was something every adult going into society had to know. Displeasing someone that your fate depended on was definitely something to avoid.

“How? Should we go, too?” Huo Dong hesitated.

“Brother Luo saved all our lives. I have no way to repay him, even my life is not enough. I want to go too!” Ning Xiaoran said with red eyes.

“Let’s go together!” concluded Chen Xianfeng.

No once could say no under the circumstances, regardless of how unwilling they were to go.

“I… I need to take care of Lin Xiaoji,” Sun Xiaowu said in terror. His face turned red as everyone looked at him oddly.

Huo Dong smirked. Sun Xiaowu and Lin Xiaoji had never had a close relationship. They never even talked to each other, yet now Sun Xiaowu was saying that he wanted to take care of him. The man had gotten so many shots, even an evolved person would have died. There was nothing to be done to help him.

Lin Xiaoji had been with them for a really short period of time. He had showed zero emotion and he had been very arrogant. Other than the evolved people, he had treated everybody else like they were invisible. He had been lying over there for so long, yet nobody had actually gone to check whether he was really dead or not.

Huo Dong did not want to offend anyone, but Cao Lin was not afraid to do it. She sarcastically said, “He is already dead, how would you take care of him? Couldn’t you come up with a better excuse to flee? Aren’t you talented at bragging! You always talk about how you used to fight in high school. Where are your guts now?”