Sequence Highway Survival: I Upgrade Supplies in the Apocalypse-Chapter 337: Rune Sequence

Chen Ye narrowed his eyes slightly.

No matter what was inside that paper ball.

Chen Ye had no intention of looking at it.

Whether the other party was asking for help, or had some kind of message.

In this kind of environment, anything that couldn't be said openly and honestly was definitely trouble.

Chen Ye didn't mind lending a hand to a cute girl if he could do so safely.

But the current situation forced Chen Ye to entertain many thoughts.

Chen Ye shifted his foot slightly, directly kicking the small paper ball under a nearby cabinet.

The girl in the sailor uniform caught Chen Ye's action out of the corner of her eye. Her thin body trembled faintly, and the light in her eyes instantly dimmed.

However, the girl still walked away with determined steps, as if she had swallowed all her emotions.

It was just that her gait now carried an extra trace of despair and lost a bit of that human vitality.

The girl forcefully wiped the corner of her eye and resolutely quickened her pace.

Chen Ye used his peripheral vision to glance left and right.

He didn't notice anyone paying attention to this area.

Chen Ye fished out a Ta cigarette from his pocket and lit it.

He took a deep drag, looking like a veteran smoker who had smoked for decades.

A faint haze of smoke began to spread within the small room.

Only then did Chen Ye have the chance to survey his surroundings.

This small cubicle was a separate partition within the main hall. The side facing the hall was a full wall of floor-to-ceiling glass.

Therefore, Chen Ye could see the situation in the main hall very clearly.

Chen Ye carefully observed the reactions of the people inside the hall.

But he found that no one spared an extra glance in this direction.

Something's off!

Very off!

You have to understand, whenever he smoked before, people would always look over with envious eyes. Some of the bolder ones would even try to ask Chen Ye for a cigarette.

But now, no one had that kind of expression.

As if smoking was a very ordinary thing.

This was strange.

You know, outside, just a cigarette butt he dropped on the ground would cause people to fight over it until they were bloody.

But here...

It seemed no one was interested in his smoking.

There were far fewer people in the main hall compared to outside.

After watching for a short while, Chen Ye noticed a very strange issue.

Most of the young men and women here were quite good-looking.

The clothes on each person also looked much cleaner than those worn by people outside.

The expressions on these young people's faces also seemed quite calm, forming a sharp contrast with the wretched survivors outside.

Of course, there were also many Black Clothes moving among them.

A young man dressed in black held a cinnabar brush in front of a small table, his expression extremely solemn.

The cinnabar brush in his hand moved like a dragon or snake across a piece of yellow talisman paper.

In just a moment, after a burst of brilliant light flashed across the talisman paper, it fell into stillness.

Chen Ye's eyes narrowed slightly.

This is... a Rune Sequence superhuman?

No, this person isn't a superhuman, he's wearing black clothes!

Right, this youth is Black Clothes, but...

Wasn't it said that Black Clothes couldn't cultivate?

What exactly is going on here?

No matter how surprised Chen Ye was, the youth's current state was strange. He looked completely drained, as if he would have collapsed to the floor long ago if he wasn't leaning on the table in front of him.

But the expression on the youth's face was one of excitement.

At that moment, a middle-aged man walked over. The man picked up the talisman paper from the youth's table, examined it for a while, and a smile curled at the corner of his mouth.

He seemed to be praising the youth.

The youth looked at the middle-aged man with a silly grin.

The middle-aged man raised his hand, and two girls about the same age as the youth walked up from behind him, supporting the youth as he left.

The middle-aged man carefully placed the talisman paper into a box beside him.

What the hell...

Watching the whole process left Chen Ye somewhat confused.

Hold on... Black Clothes who aren't superhumans can draw talismans?

What exactly is going on?

Not only that, there were several similar small tables near where that youth was.

Soon, Chen Ye roughly guessed the reason.

Because Chen Ye saw a youth who looked clearly listless receive a talisman paper from a girl in a sailor uniform.

After a brief hesitation, the youth pasted the talisman paper onto his own body.

When the talisman paper made contact with the youth's body.

The youth's originally somewhat hunched back slowly straightened, and a touch of color returned to his pale face.

Similarly, the white hair on the youth's head seemed to increase a bit more.

Chen Ye could clearly sense a faint ripple of supernatural power emanating from the youth's body.

This seems to be...

Chen Ye roughly figured it out.

That talisman paper must be a type with magical energy.

Its main function was to stimulate the youth's life force, allowing him to temporarily possess supernatural power to draw talismans.

Of course, stimulating life force wasn't without cost.

The white hair on the heads of these teenagers, none older than their teens, was the price they paid.

Perhaps their lifespans had been greatly shortened.

Chen Ye could even sense an aura of death emanating from some of the young men and women whose hair had already turned mostly white.

A few of them, with hair completely white, looked as if they might collapse and never wake up the next second.

This...

For a moment, Chen Ye was speechless, not knowing what to say.

Shifting his gaze, right at that moment, Chen Ye saw a commotion in the main hall.

Eight burly men carried a sedan chair, struggling to emerge from the back of the hall.

A sedan chair, the kind of human-powered transport often seen in scenic areas.

Typically carried by two people, one in front and one in back, with a chair in the middle.

Tourists who couldn't climb the mountain would pay to hire this kind of human transport to go up or down.

Some also called it a mountain sedan.

But the sedan chair before him was completely different from the lightweight mountain sedans Chen Ye had seen.

This sedan chair was much larger.

The eight burly men carrying it had faces flushed red with strain, as if bearing a weight of ten thousand pounds on their shoulders.

That massive chair seemed to hold a huge creature.

Looking closely, it appeared to be a giant fat pig.

This was a huge fat pig weighing at least seven or eight hundred kilograms.

No...

Not a fat pig...

What the hell... it's a person!

It was a person who looked like a mountain of flesh.

This was an excessively obese person.

Someone this fat, Chen Ye had only seen in news reports before.

He never thought he'd actually encounter such a person in real life.

Compared to this fatty, the Little Fatty from the Apocalyptic Fortress could be considered slim.

The layers of fat on this mountain of flesh piled upon each other, the flesh on his face already sagging down to his shoulders.

Several types of talisman paper that Chen Ye couldn't decipher were pasted on the fatty's body.

This person...

How could there still be someone this fat in the apocalypse?

What the hell...

As soon as the fatty appeared, everyone in the main hall stopped their work, standing to the side with heads bowed and hands at their sides.

A group of girls in sailor uniforms gathered around, standing respectfully in front of this fatty.

Among them was the cute round-faced girl who had served Chen Ye earlier.

This round-faced girl stood among the group of sailor-uniformed girls, head bowed, not daring to look at the mountain of flesh opposite her.

Her body was also trembling slightly.

Seeing this fatty, Chen Ye instantly remembered who he was.

He had heard the Pink-haired Girl mention before that all the talismans and talisman paper in Oasis City were supplied by a Rune Sequence 3 superhuman named Sha Fei.

It was just that this Rune Sequence superhuman was very fat.

Relying on the talisman business, this person was the wealthiest individual in all of Oasis City.

Now it all matched up.

This unique physique.

And this unique body shape.

Both indicated exactly who this fatty was.

The other Council Member of Oasis City, Rune Sequence 3 superhuman—Sha Fei.

The fatty seemed to sense Chen Ye's gaze, slowly turning his head, then nodding slightly at Chen Ye as a form of greeting.

Chen Ye also nodded slightly in response.

The fatty's eyes slowly swept around the hall, and he merely uttered one word from his mouth, "Hmm!"

After saying that word.

The men carrying the sedan chair struggled to turn it around, then disappeared from everyone's sight.

Chen Ye watched this fatty who was so fat he was barely human anymore, his eyes flickering.

Right at that moment, the door to the small cubicle opened.

The neon sailor-uniformed girl entered.

The neon girl in the sailor uniform was carrying two exquisite boxes.

Clearly the kind used to hold important documents before the apocalypse.

The neon girl in the sailor uniform first gave Chen Ye a ninety-degree bow. "I'm sorry, sir, for making you wait!"

The girl's current attitude was no different from before.

As if the incident with the paper ball had never happened.

It was just that the girl's eyes were slightly red, obviously having cried secretly somewhere no one knew about.

Chen Ye pretended not to notice.

The girl placed one of the document boxes on the table in front of Chen Ye.

She opened the box.

Inside the box, ten Concealment Talismans were neatly arranged.

"Sir, these are your Concealment Talismans, ten pieces. You can check them."

Chen Ye reached out and took the ten Concealment Talismans in his hand.

"Thank you!"

After saying that, Chen Ye prepared to leave.

He didn't want to stay in this place any longer, and he didn't even want to have any further interaction with the cute girl before him.

Even though the girl in front of him was truly adorable.

"Sir, please wait!"

The girl brought over another box and opened it in front of Chen Ye.

Inside the box were several more pieces of talisman paper.

But these talismans were quite different from the Concealment Talismans in Chen Ye's hand. Chen Ye hadn't seen them before.

Before Chen Ye could ask, the girl began to explain.

"Sir, these are other products from our talisman shop. Perhaps there's something you need among them."

"This type is the Revitalization Talisman!"

"It has miraculous effects on injuries and illnesses!"

There's something like this?

Chen Ye carefully examined this green talisman that faintly glowed with a fluorescent light.

"Not only that, this Revitalization Talisman can also return expired food to its shelf-life period!"

The girl's next sentence made Chen Ye pay a bit more attention.

It could restore expired food to safe, edible food.

What the hell...

Nowadays, the difficulty of going out to scavenge for supplies was increasing, and the gains were completely disproportionate to the effort.

After taking huge risks to bring those supplies back, you'd find only a small portion was edible.

Even that small edible portion would often cause diarrhea after eating.

In serious cases, it could even kill people.

Therefore, healthy food was the biggest problem facing all of humanity now.

"How do you trade for this kind of talisman?"

Chen Ye's eyes lit up slightly.

The girl directly took the talisman from the box and handed it to Chen Ye.

"One Revitalization Talisman can affect about two kilograms of food."

"There are three Revitalization Talismans here in total. I'm giving them to you, sir!"

"Huh?"

Chen Ye was stunned!

Wait!

It could be like this?

Giving them to me?

The girl gave Chen Ye another ninety-degree bow.

"Please be careful, sir. If you can live a few more days, it's always good!"