Chapter 687: Don't Make a Sound

After Iron Lion finished recounting what had happened on their side, the entire convoy fell into silence.

Xu Lina's nerves were especially frayed. She went straight down from the second floor to the first.

She couldn't allow Bus Number Six to experience the same thing that happened on Bus Number Five.

Iron Lion had killed those people. Inside, he was probably far from calm.

But she didn't care.

If anyone made any attempt to produce a sound, she would kill them without hesitation.

Anyone who stood in the way of her survival was her enemy.

Besides, her own lifespan wasn't exactly long anyway.

The black-flame youth from the Happy Family convoy earlier was a perfect example.

If you compared sheer intelligence, the black-flame youth was undoubtedly much sharper than Iron Lion.

But Iron Lion kept one thing firmly in mind: never let danger spread, never let the entire convoy fall into peril.

The black-flame youth, before things even showed signs of going wrong, was probably thinking about whether there was a safer, more measured approach.

And that was exactly what dragged their convoy into danger.

Sometimes, the clever ones didn't necessarily hold the advantage over the more foolish ones.

Just like in society, those who looked incredibly smart often didn't live as comfortably as those who weren't quite as sharp.

And at this moment...

Back in the Happy Family convoy.

Just now, it was Captain Auntie Zhao who had held Lin Qingge and Little Bug back, refusing to let them act.

The moment the young man Crow had violated the rule, Auntie Zhao knew he wouldn't survive.

To keep the entire convoy from being dragged into the Abyss, Auntie Zhao gritted her teeth and stopped the two from making a move.

Because she knew very well that even if Lin Qingge and Little Bug intervened, nothing would change.

And if she dragged Lin Qingge and Little Bug into the Abyss as well...

The final result would be the entire convoy being wiped out together.

Watching her own nephew being carried off by the sea anomalies.

Even though she had long prepared herself mentally, Auntie Zhao was now teetering on the edge of complete collapse.

Their convoy also had radios.

Lin Qingge, Little Bug, and Auntie Zhao each had their own migration vehicle.

Auntie Zhao clutched the radio in her hand, grinding her teeth as she whispered: "Don't make a sound, don't make any movement... don't..."

From the radio, there was nothing but the suffocating sound of suppressed breathing, nothing else...

Everything that happened felt like a silent pantomime.

The sound lasted only an instant...

So brief that many people didn't even have time to react.

The battle was just as short.

Crow, that rebellious young man, had virtually no ability to resist against the head that had emerged from the middle of the sea.

Quite a few people secretly peeked at what was happening from the corners of their windows.

They watched a Superhuman get half his body swallowed in a single bite by that head protruding from the sea.

Everyone felt a creeping dread crawl down their spines.

Some people had previously thought these sea anomalies were simply numerous, nothing more.

If a real conflict broke out, maybe they could survive it too.

But seeing that head rising from the middle of the sea, whose neck alone stretched for kilometers...

Countless people were already regretting it, regretting why they hadn't left with the Skeleton Convoy earlier.

Others regretted participating in this "Return to the City Plan" at all.

If the saying held true, that the longer the neck, the more powerful the being...

Then how would you even classify that thing in the middle of the sea?

Invincible?

How could humanity possibly kill something like that?

The migration life wasn't fit for human beings.

But at least it still offered a sliver of hope.

Deep down, many people had already cursed the Silent Council out in every way imaginable.

But this wasn't the time to go settle scores with them.

Everyone huddled inside their vehicles, eyes darting warily at every survivor around them.

As for what had just happened, even though they hadn't experienced it firsthand like Iron Lion, most people could piece together a rough picture.

The sky was now faintly lit with daylight, clearly already morning.

But it was even more overcast than the gloomiest cloudy day.

The oppressive grey sky pressed down on everyone's hearts, making it hard to breathe.

Chen Ye lowered the corner of the curtain he had lifted and turned to sit back on the edge of the bed.

Faced with a situation like this, he didn't know what kind of reaction was appropriate.

All he could do was wait.

If he could ascend to Blood Moon Lord Sequence 4, would things be better?

Sequence 4... Sequence 4.

It always felt like he was just one step away from the threshold, but that final step simply wouldn't land.

What exactly was still missing?

For an entire day, the base remained almost completely unchanged.

Endless sea anomalies walked up from the ocean.

They were soaked through, radiating incomparable chill that left the survivors shivering uncontrollably.

Even so, the survivors didn't have a single hot meal.

The hot food and dishes prepared earlier had long since turned into lumps of ice.

If they wanted to eat, they had to tuck the food inside their clothes and use their body heat to try to thaw it.

As for taste or texture, forget it.

As long as it was edible, as long as it kept them alive, people would think of any method possible.

It had to be said, the survivors who had made it this far.

Whether in willpower or resourcefulness, they were on a completely different level from the people of before.

The Superhumans' meals weren't any different either.

Chen Ye had originally planned to use the rice cooker to heat up the food that had long frozen into ice blocks.

But he worried that the heat might draw the attention of the sea anomalies, so he abandoned the idea.

Such food didn't exactly whet the appetite.

But to stay alive, Chen Ye had no choice but to use Hatred to chop the frozen food into chunks, tossing them one by one into his mouth, letting the warmth of his oral cavity melt them slowly before swallowing.

Truthfully, going a few days without eating wasn't a problem for a Superhuman.

But Chen Ye still chose to eat twice a day.

Not because he was a glutton, willing to eat even this kind of thing.

But to conserve his strength.

Here, an accident could happen at any moment.

If something unexpected really did occur, a body that hadn't eaten in days certainly wouldn't be able to unleash his combat power at its peak.

All of this was for survival.

Besides, a Superhuman's physique was far stronger than a normal person's.

Eating food frozen into ice lumps wouldn't cause gastroenteritis or diarrhea.

The pink-haired girl's situation, on the other hand, was much better.

Ever since the sea anomalies came ashore, the temperature inside her vehicle had never dropped.

The reason was the Fire Dragon Sword.

This innate Wonder, the heat radiating from its blade, was enough to offset the chill emanating from the sea anomalies.

Even eating was much simpler for her.

She just had to hold the cold food near the Fire Dragon Sword, and within minutes, she'd have piping hot meals.

Oddly enough, the heat from her side hadn't drawn the attention of the sea anomalies.

Perhaps it had something to do with the Fire Dragon Sword itself.

There was a theory that the energy of Wonders and the energy of Anomalies came from the same source, just manifested in different ways.

In fact, there were many instances that seemed to support this argument.

Others said that Wonders were simply another kind of Anomaly.

Some radicals even claimed that Superhumans were essentially Anomalies with consciousness!

It was just that these claims hadn't fully spread yet.

So for the pink-haired girl's side, things were slightly more bearable.

As for Captain Chu Che, Squad Leader Chu's side, it was a bit lonelier.

Ever since Old Bao died, Captain Chu had spent long stretches of time alone in his vehicle.

Aside from the daily migration process, when he needed someone to drive, Captain Chu would have Xue Nan take the wheel for a while.

And now, Captain Chu sat alone in his vehicle. Though he wasn't particularly afraid of the cold, he still had to eat food frozen into ice lumps.

His thinking was the same as Chen Ye's: conserve strength, be ready to respond to any situation that might arise.

At this moment, Captain Chu was eating his frozen meal while tuning the Eavesdropping Radio in his hands.

He had nothing better to do anyway, and maybe he'd stumble onto something useful.

Over this period, the Eavesdropping Radio had essentially let him listen in on nearly all the secrets in the entire base.

Like who from which convoy had feelings for who from another convoy.

No one knew more about that than Captain Chu.

But as for truly critical information, there wasn't much to speak of.

Everyone's thinking was the same. After all, who would be stupid enough to repeat their real secrets out loud every day?

Who knew what kind of outrageous abilities those Superhumans in such a massive base might possess?