Chapter 245 - 212: What to Prepare for the Wilderness

Chapter 245: Chapter 212: What to Prepare for the Wilderness

"Sister Chen Xing, you’re really too smart!"

Huai Yu looked at her happily, her eyes sparkling. Chen Xing raised her eyebrows triumphantly. "What’s this? You’ve just lived alone for too long and forgotten how good people in our country are at making money!"

That was true!

Huai Yu remembered the tricycle owner from last time, who had ridden for four or five hours! She decided she would go to the highway entrance to find someone later. She wondered if the person would be there during the day.

After the pleasant surprise, she asked again, "Then... Sister Chen Xing, if someone wanted to go to the Wilderness, what would they need to prepare?"

Chen Xing sighed helplessly. "Why do you still refuse to give up?" But she still told the truth. "You still need some strength to go there, otherwise it’s just throwing your life away.

"First of all, from our Flower City to the Wilderness, because Sanqing Mountain can’t be crossed directly, we have to detour to the neighboring city. You need a vehicle, right?

"Moreover, the periphery of the Wilderness has been mostly explored by now, and there isn’t much left. Further inside, there are driving routes. If you rely solely on walking, trekking over mountains and rivers will be too agonizing.

"But vehicles nowadays aren’t like the ones you could just find anywhere on the streets during the cataclysm. They’ve all been specially modified. Whether utilizing new alloys or new biological materials, these modifications make them safer and more reliable in the Wilderness. Otherwise, no matter how fast the car goes, if a mutated plant just stabs the ground and ruins the tires, you won’t be able to run away anyway..."

Huai Yu listened with a solemn face.

There were so many requirements just for a vehicle, and it didn’t sound cheap at all. She originally thought about going straight through Sanqing Mountain from the Rose Corridor, wondering if she could skip all this. But the Wilderness was so huge...

Huai Yu’s face slumped in frustration.

But she was young after all, and a stubborn refusal to admit defeat was in her nature. Unwilling to give up just yet, she asked, "Then how many points would a car like that cost?"

"Depending on the quality of the car, the points vary," Chen Xing said in resignation. "Let’s put it this way: the car I have belonged to me since the cataclysm. But over the years, I’ve gradually modified it, and all in all, it cost over forty thousand points."

Forty thousand?!

Huai Yu subconsciously covered her trading bracelet. She had only managed to save up twenty thousand points so far. And just modifying a car required over forty thousand?!

Why was Lin Xuefeng so expensive?!

After a long while, she asked weakly, "Then... apart from the car, what other preparations are needed?"

Chen Xing looked at her as if she were looking at an obstinate fool. But precisely because of this, she needed to explain things even more clearly.

So she asked sharply, "Driving alone to the Wilderness is absolutely out of the question. At the very least, you need a reliable companion or driver, right?

"Because plants are very good at ambushing. If you don’t have a companion and it’s just you alone, you might be swallowed silently in your sleep."

Although Chen He was a scumbag, he had still been quite reliable when they were dating. Ever since their first tentative exploration of the Wilderness’s periphery, they had been a team. Coupled with the fact that his driving skills were good and he remembered the routes well, he was brought along every time they entered the Wilderness.

Even though Chen He had betrayed them, truth be told, Chen Xing didn’t find it too surprising. "Wealth is sought amidst danger. Good things could appear at any time in the Wilderness. Even blood brothers might turn against each other. Without a companion you trust completely, you simply can’t go to the Wilderness."

She just hadn’t expected the way he betrayed them to be so stupid and so arrogantly presumptuous.

Coincidentally, Huai Yu didn’t have a completely trustworthy companion either.

As for Zhou Qian...

Just kidding! Going to the Wilderness was her own wish. Dragging Zhou Qian to risk life and limb, what kind of behavior was that? Passing the danger onto him?

Thus, her frail shoulders slumped down once again.

Seeing this, Chen Xing felt a pang of pity. "Everyone who goes to the Wilderness has a reason they must go. But Little Yu, we barely survived these six years.

"Right now, nothing is more important than our own lives.

"Think about it some more."

Huai Yu thought about it seriously—actually, at present, she hadn’t truly experienced just how powerful the plants were. But... Lin Xuefeng was also very important, right?

Everyone who had shown her kindness was very important. It was just that the portion he gave was exceptionally large and exceptionally close to her heart.

"I’ve thought it through," she said seriously.

Chen Xing suddenly heaved a sigh of relief. "As long as you’ve thought it through."

She smiled again. "I heard from Zaozi that you have two super-strong older brothers, and you yourself can get so many good things. It seems you really have a solid background. I don’t know why you’re living alone in such a dangerous place, but if you were to go to the Wilderness, I’m really afraid your family members would come and beat me half to death." She joked, "I can’t bear that kind of responsibility."

Huai Yu shook her head and said solemnly, "Sister Chen Xing, don’t worry. I definitely won’t let Brother Zhou Qian come and cause trouble for you!"

"Pfft, COUGH, COUGH, COUGH!!!"

Before Chen Xing could even begin to speak, she choked heavily. By the time her face had turned red from coughing, she suddenly saw a tall, robust, and fierce-looking man at the door of the ward. He checked the bed number and then strode in.

Chen Xing subconsciously clutched Huai Yu’s arm tightly.

Hearing the sound, Huai Yu looked up and quickly smiled. "Brother Zhou Qian, are you done with your checkup?"

"Yeah," Zhou Qian replied. It was just as he had felt. The new biological material integrated with him extremely well. It could even be said to move like an extension of his own body, and its vitality was even more active than normal.

The downside was that it was a bit too active, but this wasn’t a major problem. It merely made the doctors in charge of the biological material increasingly excited, prompting them to invite him to come in for a free follow-up checkup once a month.

As a thank-you gift for his cooperation, Zhou Qian handed over the bag in his hand. "The doctors gave me a lot of donkey-hide gelatin, saffron, and a bunch of other random supplements. Make sure to eat them often when we get back."

Thinking of Huai Yu’s currently complicated condition, he added, "I asked. They’re suitable for both growing teenagers and adults."

After explaining this, he turned his gaze to Chen Xing. "Are you okay?"

"...Thank you, I’m done coughing," Chen Xing said.

But she quickly started to tattle. "Um, Little Yu was just asking me a bunch of questions about going to the Wilderness. Do you guys have plans to go there?"

It wasn’t that she couldn’t keep a secret; it was truly because Little Yu’s brother looked so fierce and formidable. His entire aura was intensely righteous and strict, making it feel like a crime to hide a secret from him.

Chen Xing felt that she might as well confess!

After all, Huai Yu looked so young. There were quite a few teenagers who didn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth and went out to cause trouble. Every year, clueless youngsters died in the Wilderness.

Even though there were heavy guard posts outside, for those inexperienced young people, just the periphery of the Wilderness was deadly enough. Now, she was also terrified that Huai Yu, relying on the fact that she could live in the Rose Corridor, would emulate others and go out adventuring.