If someone went out in the snow, they would find a rather bizarre scene on the road- a man riding a snowmobile at a high speed, as if the knee-high snow did not exist to him.
If they got closer, then this scene was even scarier, because whenever this person was about to touch the snow, the snow in front of his snowmobile would suddenly disappear. Sometimes, the cars in front of him would also suddenly disappear. They disappeared as if they never existed.
In this way, he forcibly opened a path.
This person was Ye Xuan.
According to his previous investigations, there were many fork roads in the urban area and there were also many survivors thus it was not suitable for him to drive a snowmobile in such a swaggering way. The previous problem was that car accidents had blocked a lot of roads, and he was not sure whether he would be attacked by zombies while he was using the space to clear these vehicles. Thus, he did not dare to force a breakthrough. Now that the snow had become an obstacle, the threat of zombies was suddenly much smaller, and the road had naturally become his first choice.
Along the way, he kept using the vine to collect the snow into the space. Anytime he felt that there was too much or his energy couldn’t hold up, he stopped to pile the snow aside, and took out a crystal nucleus from the space to quickly absorb.
In this way, he continued to drive for three hours, and finally finished the journey that only took more than half an hour prior to the apocalypse.
There were more survivors in the vicinity of C University. Ye Xuan was afraid of meeting people, so he simply drove the motorcycle at the maximum horsepower and forced to break through the snow. Although the loss of gasoline was too high, he still managed to get to C University.
As he learned in his previous life, C University had killed some of the zombies in the school and established a gathering place around the dormitory buildings.
There were some students in the school who were shoveling snow, and it was not too weird for Ye Xuan to appear outside.
In fact, Ye Xuan had no time to worry about the curious eyes of these people at this time. The closer he was to C University, the more intuitively he could feel the warning from the vine. Ling Jiaze’s physical condition was quite abnormal.
Maybe it was because some parents who lived relatively close came to the school to look for students before, C University had specially gathered a list of surviving students in the school so that they could easily find anyone. Ye Xuan followed the guide, came to the desk, and asked, “Hello, do you know where Ling Jiaze, a senior from the foreign language department, is located?”
The student was lying on the table sleeping when he heard Ye Xuan say that he was looking for someone, and drowsily said, “Ling Jiaze? Who is that? I don’t know him.”
“Boom” Ye Xuan took out a can of chicken soup from the space under the cover of his backpack and slammed it on the table, repeating word by word, “Ling Jiaze, a senior foreign language major, I need to find him.”
The boy next to him who was thinking about other matters was frightened by Ye Xuan. He turned around and saw the can of chicken soup he put on the table. He immediately smiled and said, “Ling Jiaze? He’s a senior right? I know him, I know him. Please come with me!”
He hadn’t smelled meat for more than ten days, and canned food was an absolute good thing.
While holding the can, he said to Ye Xuan, “Senior Ling is a famous person in our school! He collected a lot of materials before the apocalypse. It all comes in handy now that the apocalypse is here. It’s a pity his roommate was unlucky and turned into a zombie, otherwise he wouldn’t have to worry about eating and drinking.”
Ye Xuan frowned slightly and said, “He shared everything he saved with others?” Was this person so stupid?
“How can that be? Even if he is willing, our school leaders can’t do things like collecting other people’s life-saving supplies, right? Our school said that everything that everyone saved before the apocalypse is their own. The school has no right to interfere. If you have nothing to eat, the school will provide simple meals, but not much. If you have a lot of things in your hand, you can choose to support the school. Senior Ling has donated more than a dozen bags of rice.”
Oh, voluntary support?
Ye Xuan thought to himself that many people in the school knew that Ling Jiaze had a lot of things in his hands. If he really didn’t give some out, he was afraid that his dormitory would have been robbed long ago. If he took the initiative to donate them, he could still have a good reputation with the school. If he failed to do so and was robbed, he would really have nothing left.
The two of them went to the lobby of the dormitory while they were talking. Ling Jiaze’s dormitory was on the third floor. Ye Xuan heard noises from upstairs as soon as he got to the second floor. The boy who led the way heard the loud voice and said to Ye Xuan, “The person who spoke should be Zhou Jian, an ability user with a lot of people around him.”
“Ling Jiaze, we heard that you were ill and came to see you. Why don’t you want to open the door?”
“Falling sick is a big deal now. Don’t hurt the rest of us upstairs!”
“Are you going to become a zombie?”
“Hurry up and open the door. Why are you refusing to do so? Before the apocalypse, we asked to borrow somethings and you refused. Now we’ve come to see you and you are still refusing to see us. What do you mean by that?”
“If you don’t open the door right now, I will kick it down. Let me tell you, I am an ability user and it will go down with a single fist.”
“And then what?” Ye Xuan ran up quickly when he heard someone shouting Ling Jiaze’s name. As soon as he came up, he saw a boy with a large group who was about to smash the door. He immediately stopped him, saying, “If you dare to touch that door, I guarantee you will die without even knowing how it happened.”
Zhou Jian had been used to being praised ever since he awakened his ability. He was stunned for a moment when he was suddenly threatened, and then immediately looked at Ye Xuan angrily and said, “Who are you? Do you know who I am?”
“A strength ability user. I heard it just now.” When fighting with people, Ye Xuan usually did not use the Tang Dao sword. He took out a baton from the space again under the cover of his backpack and flexed his wrist. He walked over to the group of people and said, “You know, what I hate most is people like you who think that once you have supernatural abilities, you are the king of heaven while being nothing at all.”
Ye Xuan didn’t want to face strength ability users in the early stages, but the premise was that the ability user had fighting experience and knew how to use his ability. With Zhou Jian, who had nothing but brute force, Ye Xuan was really not afraid of him.
“Fuck you!”
Zhou Jian stepped forward and punched Ye Xuan. Ye Xuan moved slightly sideways, dodging the punch, and quickly hit his elbow with the baton. The sudden burst of force forcibly dislocated his right arm.
The whole corridor was quiet for a moment, and in the next second, Zhou Jian let out a loud scream:
“Ahh—my, my arm!”
Ye Xuan glanced at his overwhelmed minions and said, “His arm is dislocated. Right now he can still go to the infirmary for help, but it will be useless if it’s too late.”
Several people looked at each other. It was unknown whether they had no courage to take revenge or whether they felt that the health of the boss was more important. In the end, they invariably chose to support Zhou Jian who had fallen on the ground and left.
The boy who came up with Ye Xuan was already dumbfounded. Ye Xuan turned around and took off his backpack, put some food in it from the space, threw it to him and said, “If anyone comes up, stop them for a while. Don’t allow them to come in. Do this and the contents of the bag will be a reward, understand?”
The boy nodded in a daze, while Ye Xuan taking advantage of his inattention, found a lock pick from the space and opened Ling Jiaze’s door.
Ling Jiaze’s dormitory was very quiet, except for some faint movement from the bed. Ye Xuan walked over and saw that Ling Jiaze was wrapped in the quilt with a flushed face, looking like he had a fever.
The first batch of mutations in the apocalypse were seen directly after being in a coma for seven days. However, if the subsequent humans were to awaken their abilities again, there would be a fever process. Although it looked like a fever due to a cold, it was actually caused by trying to fight against the A virus in their bodies. If they survived, they would become ability users. If they couldn’t survive, they would become zombies.
The extreme cold weather had a great effect on the bodies of ordinary people. Ye Xuan was not sure whether Ling Jiaze was sick because of the weather changes or because he was about to awaken his ability. In desperation, Ye Xuan could only wake up Ling Jiaze, who was in a coma, to find out the truth about his situation.
He took out a clean towel from the space, wet it with water, and wiped Ling Jiaze’s sweaty cheeks, then called him, “Ling Jiaze, wake up, don’t sleep.”
Ye Xuan called him for a while. He didn’t know if it was because the temperature on his face had stimulated Ling Jiaze, or if he had heard Ye Xuan’s voice, Ling Jiaze finally opened his eyes in a daze, and said “Ye Xuan? Why am I dreaming of you again?”
Ye Xuan was so touched by his reaction that he held his hand and coaxed him softly, “It’s not a dream. I’m really here.”
“Ah?” Feeling the temperature on his hand, Ling Jiaze opened his mouth slightly like a fish. He didn’t realize what was going on now.
“Listen to me, you have a fever now and I can’t tell whether you are sick or you are going to awaken an ability. You need to judge by yourself.”
It took Ling Jiaze a long time to realize what Ye Xuan meant. He nodded and asked, “What should I do?”
Ye Xuan himself had not experienced the process of awakening abilities, but there were a lot of people who had experienced it in the last ten years of his past life. Due to this, they had already developed an optimal method. Taking advantage of Ling Jiaze’s inattentiveness, he took out a crystal nucleus from the space under the cover of his pocket and placed it in his hand. He then helped him to sit up and said, “Try to see if you can feel the energy in this crystal nucleus.”
If Ling Jiaze was awakening, then he should be in a state between ordinary people and ability users. Although he would not be as sensitive to energy as ability users, he would vaguely feel the something in the crystal nucleus. If he just had an ordinary fever, then this crystal nucleus would just be an ordinary crystal to him.
Ling Jiaze held the crystal nucleus and closed his eyes for a while. He then said uncertainly, “It’s a little warm.”
Ye Xuan wiped the sweat from his face and said, “You are about to become an ability user.” He took out another crystal nucleus with purer energy from his pocket and handed it to Ling Jiaze, saying, “The awakening of a person is a very instinct-dependent thing. Try to sense the energy in these two crystal nuclei, and your instinct will teach you what to do.”
After speaking, Ye Xuan was afraid that he would be nervous, so he said one more thing: “Don’t be afraid, I’m here with you.”
Ling Jiaze took the crystal nucleus, held it and closed his eyes. It didn’t take long for Ye Xuan to feel that the energy in the two nuclei had started to fade. This meant that Ling Jiaze had begun the process of absorbing the energy of the crystal nuclei to become an ability user.
After confirming that Ling Jiaze’s situation was all right now, Ye Xuan was also relieved. He really didn’t want things like failing his awakening and becoming a zombie to happen to Ling Jiaze.
