Chapter 341: Chapter 326: She Can’t Trust Men

After Gu Xi took the empty Hibernation Chambers and technical documents from her space and handed them over to the research institute staff, she went to stand alone, quietly leaning against a large tree to the side.

Just as the crowd exchanged glances, intending to approach her and build some rapport, a scimitar suddenly appeared in Gu Xi’s hand. She lowered her head and began to casually wipe it clean.

Anyone who had ever seen the Blood-colored Asura fight, whether in person or on video, felt their blood run cold at the sight of that blade.

——Xidao!

According to incomplete statistics, this peerless weapon, ranked first on the Abnormal Weapon List, had slain at least a million zombies!

More than half of them were High-level Zombies!

And... countless powerful ability users.

Without a doubt, this was a peerless, deadly weapon. A peerless, deadly weapon truly forged in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

Seeing Gu Xi take out this blade, everyone who recognized it was struck with terror.

’...What is this Evil God trying to do, pulling that thing out? Does she want to cut us all down, or is she just blatantly threatening us?’

Seeing the group from City A suddenly start cowering like a flock of quails, Qi Xiang couldn’t help but let out a snort of laughter.

’This is all they’ve got? And they dare to come and snatch the prize?’

Qi Xiang’s laugh drew everyone’s attention, but with Gu Xi right beside her, they were all furious yet dared not speak a word.

And so, riding on the coattails of a greater power, Qi Xiang’s disdainful, mocking gaze grew even more insolent.

The others: "..." 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Even Zhou Jinyu, who had been about to approach and fish for information, stopped in his tracks. He subconsciously raised a hand to adjust the cold frames of his glasses.

A faint gleam of light reflected off his lenses. Inexplicably, Zhou Jinyu suddenly felt a chill on his back.

Even after so many years, the Blood-colored Asura’s reputation was still enough to strike fear into one’s heart.

Zhou Jinyu lowered his gaze, deliberately avoiding Liu Bo’s eyes. Seeing Gu Xi again, she seemed even more profound and reserved.

Then there was Ye Xin’s attitude... For some reason, Zhou Jinyu had an intuition that Gu Xi had now become even stronger, even more uncontrollable.

’Perhaps I should reconsider my own future.’

Liu Bo’s heart sank when he saw Zhou Jinyu avoid his gaze. ’As expected,’ he thought, ’those people from the research institute are always scheming. They can’t be trusted. Good thing I came prepared...’

Liu Bo shot a meaningful glance at the subordinate beside him.

However, this was noticed by Yang Xi, who had been watching Zhou Jinyu the entire time.

How to describe Yang Xi? Although she could be a bit love-addled and lost her senses when it came to Zhou Jinyu, she was undoubtedly a very shrewd woman when men weren’t involved.

Otherwise, she never would have been able to carve out a path to survival for herself during the apocalypse, let alone dared to compete with Ye Xin for a man.

...Though the competition was entirely one-sided on her part.

Yang Xi’s eyes flickered. She nudged Tang You beside her and jutted her chin toward the group opposite them. She and Tang You weren’t exactly comrades, but for now, they were at least allies.

For certain matters, it was more appropriate for Tang You, as a base leader, to step forward than it was for her.

Tang You glanced impassively at Zhou Jinyu and Liu Bo but said nothing.

Everyone’s minds were racing, each harboring their own ulterior motives.

But they all shared a single goal—to snatch the prize.

But this prize was clearly not so easy to snatch, so of course, they first needed to find a few sacrificial lambs to test the waters.

Gu Xi couldn’t be bothered to care what the others were thinking. She leaned languidly against the dead tree trunk, her consciousness sinking into her dimensional space.

’That self-proclaimed Guardian 027 of the Starfire Plan... was currently brawling with the successfully evolved Unknown No. 1 inside her space!’

That night, when her superpower had upgraded, a bit of energy had overflowed. The creature that had been following her, seeing her as one of its own kind, finally succumbed to the temptation of that pure energy. It had snuck over furtively, and then... Gu Xi had locked it inside her space.

Right now, these two advanced beings were brawling in her space while Sprout, with its Vine Mustaches posed like arms on its hips, cheered them on relentlessly—or rather, egged them on.

Gu Xi watched for a moment before her attention landed on the guardian’s eyes.

If she had only suspected a connection between this 027 and Yun Ye before, then after seeing the pure black eyes Yun Ye revealed while possessing Zhou Yue, Gu Xi no longer had any doubt.

Their eyes felt remarkably similar, both filled with the same dark, negative emotions.

The only difference was that the eyes of this self-proclaimed Guardian 027 held a more distinct and violent brutality...

Gu Xi speculated that this 027 must have also been possessed by Yun Ye at some point. For some unknown reason, however, he had managed to break free of Yun Ye’s control, even managing to turn the tables and severely injure Yun Ye, ultimately forcing Yun Ye to flee the region.

Of course, what exactly transpired was now impossible to verify. After all, according to 027 himself, his condition had been terrible, and he had been delirious, with no memory of what happened. But Gu Xi guessed it had something to do with the Superpower Seed.

This was also likely why Yun Ye, despite staying in City A all these years, had never dared to come near this place.

Gu Xi wondered. ’Perhaps this 027, the only one to "survive" in the Land of Death, has some special ability? And perhaps that ability just so happens to counter some of Yun Ye’s own powers?’

’As for why he remained beneath the swamp all these years without leaving the Land of Death...’

Gu Xi’s gaze fell on 027’s eyes. He claimed it was because his eyes would contaminate other living creatures. He didn’t want to hurt anyone, nor did he want to release the Superpower Seed and let it cause harm, so he had willingly remained beneath the swamp all these years...

Gu Xi didn’t know how much of that was true. But she was certain of one thing: this sole "survivor" was fundamentally unable to stray too far from the Superpower Seed.

In other words, wherever the Superpower Seed was, that was where 027 had to stay.

Otherwise, judging by his violent reaction when Yun Ye appeared, if he could have left this place, he would have charged out to find Yun Ye long ago!

Seeing Unknown No. 1 and Guardian 027 locked in a stalemate, Gu Xi called over Sprout, whose leaves were glowing with excitement as it watched.

Sprout was reluctant, but it eventually released its aura and lured Unknown No. 1 away to another area.

Gu Xi took out a small box and presented it to 027.

couldn’t speak. He just frowned slightly, looking at her in confusion.

Gu Xi didn’t offer an explanation, simply tossing the box to him.

This was the same small box that Ye Xin had asked Zhou Jinyu to deliver.

Naturally, the box was empty. If it had contained anything important, Ye Xin would never have entrusted it to Zhou Jinyu.

Ye Xin didn’t trust Zhou Jinyu in the slightest.

To be precise, Ye Xin didn’t trust any man in the world. Even when it came to her old companions from their apocalypse squad, there were certain matters on which she wouldn’t trust them completely.

This included Li Ming, Xiao Yu, and Qee Ran.

Gu Xi still remembered a time when Ye Xin would constantly repeat a phrase in her ear: "If you can count on a man, a sow can climb a tree!"

Although Li Ming had found the saying a bit unfair at the time, he hadn’t stopped her. He figured that since Gu Xi was a girl with a rather naive personality, he was worried she’d be tricked by a man someday.

But Qee Ran, Xiao Yu, and the others, who were just teenagers back then, saw how Ye Xin would give them malicious looks from time to time and was constantly inciting Gu Xi against them. Eventually, they couldn’t stand it anymore and went into the mountains to catch a mutated wild boar...

And after that, the wild boar’s actions finally led to Ye Xin personally cooking a plate of roasted pork, successfully convincing the boys on the team to never again try to prove a point so recklessly...