Chapter 764: A Soap Opera Is About to Unfold

"Mom... is there really food in Xi City? I'm so hungry!"

A child of about seven or eight lay in his mother's arms, his face so sunken from hunger that his eyes looked enormous.

His mother was also a very, very thin woman, with dry hair and rimless glasses, though the lenses had long been scratched cloudy. The skin on her face was rough, and she wore a filthy old denim jacket.

The mother swallowed. The child was hungry, and truthfully, so was she.

The last half of a biscuit had been given to the child yesterday.

She hadn't eaten anything for over three days.

"Xuxu, just hold on a little longer. We'll be back in Xi City soon!"

"There's definitely food there!"

"When we get there, Mom will buy you cake!"

At the mention of cake, the child couldn't help but swallow several times.

Cake...

"Tsk... you're dreaming. Even if Xi City has cake, it's not something people like us could afford to eat."

A man around thirty years old with a sharp, monkey-like face spoke caustically from beside them.

"Ah..."

The child stared at the man with wide eyes.

Another middle-aged woman chimed in, "Even if there's no cake, any other food would be fine. At least it beats starving to death!"

"Exactly... as long as there's a bite to eat so we don't starve, that's enough!"

The man, seemingly annoyed at being contradicted, couldn't resist sneering again, "In this world, do you think getting a bite to eat is that easy?! You think the people of Xi City will just give you food for free?"

"Who said anything about free? As long as we can work for food, that's fine!"

"Yeah, even being a beast of burden is fine, as long as we get a bite to eat!"

"You people... are too naive!"

The sharp-faced man retorted again, speaking in a tone that oozed self-satisfaction.

"Hey, what's wrong with you? If you don't want to go, then don't! Who's forcing you?"

"That's right, that's right. If you don't want to go, get off the bus. Stop with all this nonsense!"

"I've seen plenty of your type, always going around spouting sour grapes! Just shut up!"

Finally, the man's attitude provoked the displeasure of those around him.

No matter what, everyone's longing for Xi City was still high at this point.

A character like this man was never going to be likable.

"What's that up ahead?"

Everyone raised their heads to look out the window.

There, in the direction of Xi City, thirteen pillars of light shot into the sky.

The thirteen pillars of light formed a circle, directly enveloping the entire city.

"Xi City! That's Xi City! We've arrived at Xi City!"

"OHHHHH~~~~"

The cheers shook the heavens, nearly blowing the roof off the bus.

The driver was also beaming with excitement and stomped the pedal straight into the fuel tank.

The engine let out a roar and shot forward.

The vehicles behind them erupted in cheers as well.

They too floored the gas and followed the lead vehicle, racing forward at breakneck speed.

This convoy quickly drew the attention of the Silent Council's personnel.

Hou Junji had anticipated that convoys might arrive at Xi City over the past few days.

So he had specifically stationed people here to keep watch.

The people stationed here were stunned when they saw so many vehicles, never expecting this many people to show up.

"Go, quick, go notify Elder Hou!"

One person sped off toward Happy Garden on a motorcycle.

The rest hurried to receive the new arrivals.

The details of the reception hardly need to be described in full.

Both sides briefly exchanged basic information, and then the Silent Council's staff led the newly arrived convoy toward Happy Garden.

At this point, the survivors on the buses were basically all pressed against the windows, looking outside.

Although Xi City was now very much in ruins, not much different from the other cities they'd passed along the way...

This place still gave them a sense of security.

Perhaps it was because all the Anomalies in Xi City had been cleared out.

Here, there was none of that unsettling feeling.

Some people even looked at the dilapidated buildings outside the windows and suddenly burst into tears.

The environment here was absolutely nothing to write home about.

But this level of safety was something many hadn't felt since the apocalypse began.

Just this one point, safety alone, was enough to break down the walls around many people's hearts.

Thinking about the whole journey of bumps and dangers...

Soon, Happy Garden reacted as well.

When Hou Junji learned that dozens of vehicles had arrived, he was stunned for a moment.

"Quick, go invite Captain Chu and Captain Zhao..."

Elder Hou ordered people to go invite Chu Che and the other captains even as he spoke.

With so many people arriving, it was only natural that some people of standing come out to greet them.

The Fair Convoy was now considered the number-one convoy in all of Happy Garden, so Chu Che's status as captain had risen considerably.

When Chu Che heard so many people had arrived, he was also taken aback. He hurriedly brought Xue Nan with him and rushed outside.

But...

When the people of Happy Garden arrived at the compound gate, they were stunned.

It wasn't that the people hadn't come.

Rather, at this moment, another battle was taking place at the compound gate.

And the arriving convoy was dumbfounded too.

They were also left perplexed by the two people at the compound entrance.

The two at the gate were none other than Guard Team Thirteen's sixth position, You Hu, and the seventh position, Wang Yu.

When the sixth position had first been contested, Wang Yu had been among the contenders.

In the end, Wang Yu lost, and that was how You Hu claimed the sixth position.

You Hu refused to accept Chen Ye as Chief Seat, and Wang Yu refused to accept You Hu taking the sixth position.

So, just when You Hu had returned from playing hooky and was about to sleep, it happened to be Wang Yu's turn to head out.

The two faced off right at the compound gate.

Neither of them had expected that so many people would show up at the very moment they confronted each other.

Wang Yu was a very tall man, at least one meter ninety-five, and very thin.

In the apocalypse, many people were thin. That wasn't hard to understand.

But Wang Yu's thinness was strange.

He looked like a snake from head to toe.

Moreover, Wang Yu wore a bizarre scarf with a thousand-bird check pattern around his neck.

One had to know, it was already March, and Xi City was in the south. The temperature was already getting quite high.

No normal person would be wearing a scarf.

And Wang Yu's scarf was extremely odd. Calling it a scarf was generous, it was more like a bedsheet wrapped around his body.

Furthermore, Wang Yu's eyes were distinctive.

His eyes were actually vertical slit pupils.

The two stared at each other, and flames began to slowly appear in Wang Yu's eyes.

You Hu, by contrast, appeared completely indifferent.

"You Hu, if I win, I want you to give up the sixth position!"

You Hu dug at his ear with a finger, utterly dismissive.

"Beat me first, then we'll talk!"

Wang Yu gritted his teeth and directly flung off the bedsheet from his body.

Several middle-aged women nearby widened their eyes in excitement.

And then they saw it, saw a scene that would give them nightmares at night.

Wang Yu's body was covered in green scales.

These scales densely covered his entire body, and behind Wang Yu, a total of eight snake heads emerged.

Wang Yu also opened his mouth, revealing sharp fangs within. His tongue was very long, just like a snake's, forked at the tip.

Combined with the eight snake heads, Wang Yu was now unmistakably a human-bodied nine-headed snake.

Wang Yu, Guard Team Thirteen's seventh position, Beastman Sequence Four, Snake-Man Bloodline.

And at that moment, Xiao Yu'er was also driving over with Chen Ye in the car.

Destined for sure, a soap opera was about to unfold.