Chapter 170: The Divine Elephant

Chu Che patted Chen Ye on the shoulder, acting like a commander: "Well done, but some parts were too rough. Pay attention next time."

Chen Ye: "……"

He’d completely forgotten how the guy had been hiding behind the vehicle earlier, huh.

After Chen Ye revealed that trick, nobody on the scene dared to act reckless anymore.

Chen Ye’s ability was simply terrifying.

One person spontaneously combusted, another went berserk and lost control of his own body.

Even an idiot would know these two had problems.

Especially the one with the blood-red left eye, who clearly looked like trouble.

Everyone stood quietly in place, cowering as they watched Chen Ye and Chu Che, like they were staring at two devils.

The cleanup afterward was exactly Chu Che the squad leader’s specialty.

Normally Uncle Bao or Xiao Wang would handle this, but both of them were too ill now.

It had to be Chu Che.

"What’s with the masks?"

Chu Che asked that first.

Xiao Wang’s condition was getting worse.

Xiao Hua ground her teeth and glared at Chen Ye before saying, "The fog is poisonous!"

"Any medicine?"

Xiao Hua shook her head. "No. Once the coughing starts, there’s no saving them!"

"Then how did you survive it?"

"We didn’t know at first. A lot of people died!"

A single sentence representing countless living souls.

Chu Che glanced anxiously toward the vehicles. Xiao Wang lay on the passenger seat with a mask, nearly collapsed, his face ashen, coughing at intervals.

Chen Yu snorted coldly, red light flashing in his eyes.

Xiao Hua’s expression changed dramatically. Her right hand raised a knife slowly toward her throat.

That knife had been hidden in her sleeve;

no one expected she’d try to kill herself now.

But looking at her expression, it didn’t seem genuine!

Xiao Hua’s left hand clamped hard on her right, still resisting the blade moving closer.

Only her two eyes were visible, swollen and bloodshot.

Chu Che watched this and sighed inwardly: this kid has so many tricks. I wonder, if Xixi ever faced him, who would win.

Chen Ye’s left eye continued to flicker red, runes in his pupil beginning to turn.

His voice was bone-chilling cold: "Are you really telling me a simple mask can block poisonous fog?"

The girl’s left hand gripped the right one so tight her neck strained backward.

"Please… spare me! I beg you…!"

The girl began to plead.

When she saw Xiao Long’s neck get cut earlier, she’d only felt horror and strangeness.

But now she truly understood it was a feeling of utter despair.

Like her right hand suddenly having a will of its own.

Worse, she had no idea when she’d been affected.

It was completely unavoidable.

Terrifying.

Seeing no change in Chen Ye’s expression, the girl struggled and finally said:

"I… I don’t know either, but if you… use a mask to block the fog, it guarantees that at the start… you won’t cough. After that… it’s not such a big problem!"

The blade was right at her pale throat.

Though the girl looked dirty overall, her neck was clean, clearly someone who cared about hygiene.

A drop of crimson blood appeared on her throat.

"Let go of Sister Xiao Hua!"

A young man went berserk and tried to rush forward.

A survivor who had killed Xiao Long grabbed him, and the two instantly wrestled.

"Xiao Yan, I’m sorry, I… I don’t know what’s wrong…"

"Xiao Yan, I’m sorry!… I… I can’t control myself!"

Everyone watching felt their guts wrench.

What kind of sequence was this person? It was far too terrifying.

Chen Ye sighed slightly and withdrew the Abyss control from the Blood Eye.

Xiao Hua and the two grappling people instantly froze.

The girl gulped in fresh air, feeling like she’d just crawled out of hell.

Beads of sweat the size of beans dripped from her forehead onto the ground.

This man… was just too terrifying, terrifying!

This man… was like those monsters on the divine elephant!

Chen Ye sighed. Xiao Wang was an honest kid.

Whenever there was something in the convoy, a single shout and this kid would sort it all out. Not talkative, but Chu Che trusted him.

With Uncle Bao down, this kid probably wouldn’t make it.

He must have inhaled a lot of fog toxin when the thick mist rose.

By the time he realized and put on a mask, it was too late.

As for Chen Ye and Chu Che, both were superhumans;

their physiques were far stronger than ordinary people.

Chen Ye looked at Xiao Wang with pity.

What a shame for the kid!

The cleanup after that was straightforward.

Chu Che checked the Convenience Supermarket, and when he came out his face looked extremely grim.

He must have seen things he shouldn’t have.

The girl’s expression was also off, but she maintained her composure.

Chu Che asked a few survivors some questions.

They glanced at Chen Ye and answered in broken sentences. Because they were a bit of a distance away, Chen Ye couldn’t hear clearly.

He could only see through the mist that Chu Che had approached a few survivors.

But Chu Che’s face grew increasingly ugly, even his clenched fist trembling slightly.

Chen Ye glanced at his wristwatch. From encountering the man with the broken leg until now, forty minutes had passed.

"Squad Leader Chu, it’s about time!"

Chu Che came before Chen Ye, his face muscles twitching: "All of these people deserve to die, deserve to die!"

"Keep a few, at least to guide us!~~~"

"You don’t know what they did. Damn it, I’ve survived through the apocalypse for so long, this is the first time I’ve seen this. You…"

Chen Ye quickly said, "Cut it out. Don’t tell me—one disgusting person is enough. Don’t pass that to me!"

Chu Che: "……"

"Squad Leader Chu, it’s getting late. We should depart…"

A few minutes later.

Two people were loaded into Chu Che’s truck bed: the uncle with the broken leg, Uncle Zheng, and the other was the young man named Xiao Yan.

The youth kept staring at Chen Ye with demon-like eyes, muttering to himself.

As for the others…

Demons had no need to remain among humans.

Xiao Hua sat in the passenger seat.

She trembled with fear, no thought of resisting the man in front of her.

She’d never forget what she had just seen.

Those scythe demons struggling out of the smoke had only swung their scythes a few times…

So many people, not one escaped!

"From now on, cooperate. If you do as we say until we reach the destination, you’ll live."

"Understand?"

Without hearing the girl’s reply, Chen Ye looked back at her.

She was so startled by his indifferent gaze her whole body shook: "I… I… okay…"

She began nodding crazily, looking pitiful.

"I… I haven’t eaten anyone, please, don’t kill me!"

Tears rolled down her cheeks.

Chen Ye coldly replied with two words: "I don’t believe you!"

At those words the girl collapsed and began wailing loudly in the car.

Chen Ye was annoyed and drew the machete, pressing it to the girl’s throat.

Her crying stopped immediately.

Pretending—are you pretending to me?

Earlier she’d acted so clever;

now she played the weak girl?

You’re the boss of this little group, aren’t you?

With the girl guiding them, although the fog over Fog City hadn’t dissipated, their pace picked up considerably.

They soon reached the main road;

once they crossed the Mist River, it wouldn’t be long before they were out of Fog City.

The forty minutes of delay was clearly worth it.

This trip was proceeding too smoothly.

The vehicles kept moving, Chu Che trailing behind Chen Ye’s car.

Visibility was worrying, but fortunately the whole city was empty.

They simply rammed through cars blocking the road.

Driving by the road’s painted lines, they avoided hitting roadside flowerbeds.

With one local, Chu Che’s directional sense, and the map in hand, the speed steadily increased.

With the map, Chu Che didn’t worry about the girl playing tricks.

"Are you… from the divine elephant?"

Suddenly the girl asked that in the seat beside him!

Hearing those words, Chen Ye remembered what Mo Huairen once said.

Mo Huairen had said he’d seen an enormous elephant with a fortress on its back.

Could the divine elephant be referring to that?

"Divine elephant?"

"Uh-huh… a very big elephant. On its back is a village. You… you are from the divine elephant, right??"