The Invasion Day – Chapter 46

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Chapter 46

“Wow!!!” Following Miao Jia’s exclamation, everyone looked towards the vast fields.

On both sides of the road were the produce fields of villages at the suburbs of Yun City. Large patches of rice plants that would soon be ready for harvest swayed under the breeze, rippling into magnificent golden waves.

Fu Shiwu suddenly realised that it was already autumn.

Now that he thought about it, they were relatively lucky. When they left the central warehouse, it was nicely the time when a large number of autumn fruits became ripe and there would be no shortage of food.

Tang Xuhai indeed had plans to search for food in the wild, so he wasn’t worried about having insufficient food reserves.

“Those are enough for many people.” Fu Shiwu said as he gazed at the wheat fields outside the window.

“Now isn’t the best time to think about the food on the roadside. Else, we might meet with our death!” Tang Xuhai said.

Startled, Fu Shiwu thought of something and said: “Will those who aren’t aware of the aliens’ position go to these rice fields?”

Tang Xuhai’s expression turned solemn for a moment, then he replied: “The moment they leave the protection of the army, they must be ready to bear any consequences. Earlier, wthout Miao Jia’s satellite images, we might not be able to make up our mind to leave.”

Fu Shiwu was silent.

He knew that now wasn’t the time to spare some pity for other people, for even they themselves might not be able to get out of this safely.

Miao Jia looked down at the laptop screen and said: “Fu ge, don’t worry, there’ll be 20 hours before the next alien wave arrives at the outskirts of Yun City. As long as they don’t get too greedy and just stop for a short while to get some food, there should be no issue.”

The car suddenly bumped and finally took Fu Shiwu away from the sullen mood. He looked ahead to find that dense weeds were growing on both sides of the road, vigorously destroying the roadbed and even cracking the road surface into tiny gravel that was scattering all over the place.

Fu Shiwu stared coldly at the extraordinarily lush weeds outside, pushed his glasses up and said: “If this continues, sooner or later the highway will be destroyed by these things.” 

“Uhm.” Tang Xuhai nodded and said: “So in the future, if conditions permit, we should still modify the car into an armoured vehicle to enhance its ability to run through any terrain.”

Fu Shiwu turned to look at Tang Xuhai’s firm profile and asked: “You want to change the car tyres into tank bogies?”

Tang Xuhai paused and gave him an amused look: “Then it’ll completely become a tank. Modern bulletproof armoured vehicles use a type of reinforced tyre that is sufficient to cope with most terrains. But now that I have a metal control ability, perhaps we can add a layer of metal to the outside of the tyres, so they won’t be much different from tank bogies.”

“Wow! Hai ge, so it’s really turning into a tank!” Miao Jia raised his head excitedly to interrupt them.

The few people in the car talked casually and the journey wasn’t boring. The atmosphere inside the two cars behind them wasn’t too dull either.

Huo Enting’s car carried three people. Beside him, there was Ma Dong, an earth-type ability user with sand attribute, and Liu Zhao, a mutant. The remaining four were all sitting inside Hollande’s car at the back.

Ma Dong stared at the rice fields fading behind him with a look of regret.

“It’s nothing to be sad about. Compared with these things, life is still more important. If we aren’t alive, what is the point of having so much food?” Liu Zhao said as he also tilted his head and looked outside.

“There will be villages along the way. Food will be everywhere, don’t look so depressed.” Huo Enting cast a glance at Ma Dong.

Ma Dong withdrew his gaze in embarrassment, let out an “uhm” and turned his head back.

Ma Dong was just an ordinary worker before he had a fever and awakened his ability. He had never come into contact with a person like Huo Enting, who, at once glance, seemed to be someone from an upper-class background. He couldn’t help but feel shy when they were together.

Although Liu Zhao’s background was nothing special, he was a company executive himself and had a bit more guts than Ma Dong.

Liu Zhao asked Huo Enting with interest: “Mr. Huo, why did you join this small team?”

Huo Enting replied: “You don’t have to be so polite, we’ll be comrades in the future, just call me by my first name.” Then he said: “Under this circumstance, any far-sighted person would naturally want to leave, and I just made the same choice.”

Liu Zhao couldn’t help but “tsk” after hearing this answer.

For most people, the way of thinking of a person like Huo Enting was certainly difficult to guess. Choosing to tag along with Tang Xuhai was just a stopgap measure to him at first, but after joining the team, he was pleasantly surprised. Seeing their modified car and Miao Jia’s access to such intelligence, Huo Enting finally felt that perhaps he would be able to return to the capital one day.

Inside the commercial car that was last in line, the four people talked very lively and discussed Fu Shiwu’s identity.

“Mr. Fu looks young, but his aura is overwhelming.” Wu Shan said, his voice laced with a hint of keenness.

“I think Mr. Fu must have some special identity, otherwise that powerful Tang Xuhai and that fire-type ability user wouldn’t respect him so much.” Wood-type ability user Liu Peiqi guessed with uncertainty.

“Isn’t that very good?” Wang Dan looked like an average lady at first glance, but on a closer look, she was rather attractive. This and her valiant aura gave out the feel of a big sister: “Their identity is also considered to be part of their power. People like that are often afraid of dying, so they definitely won’t venture onto any road that is too dangerous.”

Hollande listened to the three’s discussion with a smile on his face.

At this point, Wu Shan directed the conversion towards him: “Why is Mr. Hollande in Yun City? To be honest, when I first saw a foreigner in the warehouse, I was really surprised. Your Mandarin is stellar.”

Being addressed as a ‘Mr.’ but with his first name, Hollande, whose full name was Hollande Parril, didn’t mind; he just smiled and replied: “I was sent here to negotiate some business when the incident took place. It happened too suddenly for me to go home, so I had to remain here. Fortunately, the people in Yun City were very friendly and took good care of me.”

“Mr. Tang is very responsible. He’s even willing to drive his car in front.” Hollande said with appreciation.

“With such a car, of course they should be at the front. Does it make sense to let our crackly cars be at the front?” Wu Shan said.

Wang Dan glanced at him. These people who had temporarily gathered here had all kinds of personalities. Wang Dan felt a little disdainful towards Wu Shan. The car of Tang Xuhai’s group indeed seemed scary, with its huge size and windows reinforced with railings. But a closer look would make it obvious that it was a common car modified with their own abilities. Wu Shan’s attitude that took the car for granted made her uncomfortable.

Unlike the others, Wang Dan and Hollande actually approached Wen Zhaoming on their own volition and asked him to let them join. From Wang Dan’s observations, this team led by Tang Xuhai might have a better chance of survival. The other teams were led by normal salarymen who were probably only good for office politics. If they truly had to fight with such terrifying enemies, a man who had been on the battlefield would be an important companion.

But different from Wang Dan, who took an interest in Tang Xuhai, Hollande felt that Fu Shiwu’s strength was rather impressive. As a man who used a crossbow and arrows himself, Hollande could appreciate Fu Shiwu’s talent in shooting. Hollande was also one of those who noticed Fu Shiwu’s remarkable marksmanship that day.

Unlike other sharpshooters who could blow up a head with a single shot, even though Fu Shiwu spent a few more shots than them, he could subtly calculate every step to achieve his intended goal. This had Hollande sincerely admire him.   

On the other side, after leaving the warehouse in a hurry with a team where each member had their own conviction, Wang Ziping soon felt burnt out.     

‘The more people, the more powerful the force’ was how he managed to win their hearts.     

But after he struggled to gather enough cars and quickly followed Tang Xuhai’s team to leave the central warehouse, the disputes along the journey kept on with seemingly no end in sight.

“Why do you want to go in this direction?!” Someone angrily sprayed saliva on Wang Ziping’s face: “Didn’t those soldiers say that there’s an alien wave in that direction?!”

“Then you tell me which direction has no alien waves?!” Wang Ziping yelled impatiently: “Is there even a place in this world that doesn’t have aliens? If you know, we’ll go there at once! Do you know?!”

Of course the person didn’t know, so he had no choice but to say unwillingly: “Why do you insist going in that direction?” 

Wang Ziping pressed down his rage and said as calmly as possible: “Trust me, I have my own judgment. You’ve been following me for so long, have I ever let you suffer?”

That’s true. The mutant finally stopped arguing and started focusing on the road in earnest.

Wang Ziping’s confidence naturally came from Tang Xuhai’s decision to take this route, which meant that there was absolutely no problem in this direction. They had to follow behind his car as fast as possible to get to a safe place.

His idea was perfect, but reality was cruel. When they left Yun City and caught sight of the abundant rice fields on both sides of the road, the people in his team suddenly felt their spirits boil!

Who wanted to eat just bland vegetables every day?!

Although they had been getting their rations everyday, no one had enough to fully fill their stomach. The large golden rice fields in front of them made their saliva drip.

This could all be eaten!

The man stopped Wang Ziping’s car and was determined to grab the rice from those fields before leaving.

“No! Absolutely not!” Wang Ziping said sternly: “Now the most important thing is to get on our way first, we definitely can find food later!”

“Where to find food?” The man asked: “After leaving Yun City, all we’ll see are winding roads around mountains, where will we be able to find food?! We all left in a hurry and didn’t bring anything to eat, do you want people to chew on tree barks?” 

Choked by this argument, Wang Zipang tried to persuade him again: “We only have to bear with it for a while. As soon as we arrive at a safe place, I’ll assign someone to find food.”

“Easy for you to say. Who knows if we’ll starve to death by then?” The man sneered.

Wang Ziping quietly cursed him inside. If it wasn’t for this person to be a powerful mutant, he would find someone to silence him.

At this time, Wang Ziping’s family also approached him: “Let’s get some food, I also don’t want to go hungry.”

Wang Ziping gazed at the national road ahead of them and sighed inwardly: “Hurry up, we still want to get back to the road.”