Duan Xuhong was lying in the corner vomiting in the dark. At this moment, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind and put it on her shoulder.
"What’s wrong with you?"
Lei Min walked around the village and finally found Duan Xuhong in a corner. Seeing that she was so vomited that she couldn't even straighten her waist, she asked a strange question.
"I, vomit~"
Seeing that she was vomiting and couldn't even speak, the owner of this hand patted her back sympathetically.
"We are leaving. The captain asked me to ask you, what are your plans next?"
"I, I want to go with you, I can't stay here any longer!" Duan Xuhong said with tears in her eyes, holding Lei Min's hand tightly.
"Okay, then come with me. Why are you holding me? Let me go!"
Seeing Duan Xuhong clinging to her like a koala, Lei Min quickly grabbed her arm and helped her to the entrance of the village.
"Captain, she said she wanted to follow us!" Lei Min pushed Duan Xuhong in front of Lin Qingqing and said.
"Well, since everyone is here, let's go!" Lin Qingqing glanced at Duan Xuhong, then pulled Wen Ling and walked straight out of the village, followed by the others.
They walked very fast, Duan Xuhong's steps were frivolous, and he couldn't keep up after a while.
"S-slow down." She breathed heavily, stumbling along the way.
"Minmin, take her with you."
Lin Qingqing had no intention of slowing down and just asked Lei Min to help her.
Duan Xuhong didn't dare to say anything and could only grit his teeth and follow. She was just an ordinary person. She had been running away since the morning, and she hadn't even eaten a bite of food. She just drank a mouthful of mud.
Duan Xuhong couldn't help but vomit when she thought of the bowl of gray-black paste.
"What's wrong with you? You can't be pregnant, right?"
After hearing Lei Min's words, everyone stopped and looked at Duan Xuhong's belly.
"No, it's nothing! I just have a bad stomach."
Looking at everyone's suspicious eyes, Duan Xuhong's face turned red and white.
"Really, I just took a sip of that paste."
In the end, she told her about secretly drinking Mrs. Ge.
Lin Qingqing knew as soon as she heard that she was talking about the company she had inquired about before.
"In exchange for a human life?"
She glanced at Duan Xuhong thoughtfully, and combined with the previous conversation between the old lady and her son, she unexpectedly thought of a possibility.
"You have lived in the village for so long, what do you usually eat?" Lin Qingqing looked at her with a half-smile.
"Dried sweet potatoes and rice soup. This village is very poor. I haven't seen meaty meat in months." Duan Xuhong didn't know why Lin Qingqing asked this.
"It seems that the bowl of black paste is indeed a very good thing in the eyes of the villagers."
Lin Qingqing sneered and said, "But luckily you didn't drink, otherwise you would have become like those villagers."
Hearing what she said, everyone else couldn't help but think of those villagers who behaved strangely.
Duan Xuhong looked at everyone with a blank face, completely unaware of what was happening.
"Let's go, that has nothing to do with you anymore. Does Yaxiu have anything to eat? Give her some first."
Lin Qingqing shook her head and thought: This woman is lucky.
"Yes," Yin Yaxiu said, taking out a small bag of biscuits from her pocket.
Duan Xuhong's eyes suddenly lit up when she saw the normal food. She didn't even have time to think about the dark things. She didn't even have time to say thank you. She grabbed it and ate it in a few mouthfuls.
With food to fill her belly, Duan Xuhong no longer shouted to slow down.
They had been gone all day and the car was still parked.
"Can I take that big car?" Duan Xuhong pointed to the RV and said, "The car is so big and comfortable to look at."
"Sit next to me, Minmin, go to the back."
Lin Qingqing would not listen to her. She arranged Duan Xuhong on the off-road vehicle and asked Lei Min to go to the RV behind.
"oh."
Duan Xuhong got on the off-road vehicle obediently after hearing this. Among these people, the one she was most afraid of was Lin Qingqing. This woman was a murderer. Even if she was unwilling, she did not dare to show it in front of Lin Qingqing.
After changing into clean clothes, the Qingmang team continued on the road. With Lei Min helping to drive, Yin Yaxiu tinkered with new materials in the car An Xin.
She took out the white tiger skin full of scorch marks and studied it for a long time, and finally made it into a vest according to Lei Min's instructions.
"We each have one piece of this. Wearing it can not only be used as a body armor, but the white tiger aura remaining on it can also deter and intimidate low-level beasts."
Lei Min took the tiger skin vest she handed over, touched the fine hair on it, and suddenly asked: "What if we encounter a high-level mutant beast? Will they treat us as enemies in turn?"
Yin Yaxiu paused after hearing this and looked at Lei Min strangely: "Can they regard you as their friend if you don't wear a tiger skin vest?"
Lei Min choked: "..."
"Okay, I'll send it to the captain and the others later. I'll keep the rest of the tiger skin and make it for them when our team has new members!"
Yin Yaxiu put away the remaining materials, then yawned and went to the back to catch up on her sleep.
Everyone was very happy to get the tiger skin vests and immediately started wearing one.
Along the way, Duan Xuhong was very quiet except for eating and sleeping. Even when he went to the Xiangcheng base with Lin Qingqing, he had no objection.
Seeing that she was so honest, Lei Min and others gradually relaxed their guard against her, and even invited her to chat with her from time to time.
Lin Qingqing did not participate in their small interaction. She had been comprehending supernatural powers along the way. Until today, she finally felt the opportunity to upgrade.
"Let's find a place to rest for a day."
Lin Qingqing told the team members about her upcoming upgrade. She still didn't know what was going on at the Xiangcheng base. She planned to enter the base after being promoted to the fourth level.
"Captain, don't worry, we are waiting for you here!"
"Well, you have to be careful. I can be back in one day at the earliest and in two days at the latest!"
Not knowing how much noise would be required to advance to the fourth level, Lin Qingqing planned to find a quiet place with no one around.
"Captain, let me go with you!" At this time Wen Ling stood up.
"I'd better go!"
"I am coming too!"
…
According to past experience, it is best to have a companion on guard when advancing. Lin Qingqing did not refuse, and finally decided to let Qu Xingchi and Wen Ling go with her.
The others had no objections. After they settled at a toll station, Lin Qingqing left with Wen Ling and Qu Xingchi.
"Where are you going, Captain Lin?"
Looking at the black off-road vehicle leaving alone, Duan Xuhong asked curiously.
"The captain is taking some people to the front to do some errands. We'll wait for them here," Lei Min made up a random reason.
"Oh, that's how it is."
Duan Xuhong curled her lips secretly. She had an intuition that things were not that simple, but they obviously didn't want her to know.
Yin Yaxiu was still tinkering with her materials in the car, while Lei Min was focused on Lin Qingqing. She looked at the direction they left every day with an anxious look on her face.
No one deliberately paid attention to Duan Xuhong. They had already cleared away the nearby zombies. Duan Xuhong was already very courageous. After staying at the toll station for a day, he began to try to go further.
On the other side, Lin Qingqing took Wen Ling and Qu Xingchi away and came to a mountain forest a few miles away.
She didn't know what would happen when she upgraded to the fourth level, so she could only ask Wen Ling and Qu Xingchi to watch from a distance.
After everything was ready, Lin Qingqing came to the mountainside alone. This time Lei Min was really right. After searching around, he finally found a cave.
Sitting down in the cave, Lin Qingqing closed her eyes and calmed down.
Mind, get rid of distracting thoughts.
The ice mist slowly enveloped her. As time went by, the color of the ice mist began to gradually deepen, slowly starting to change from light blue to ice blue. The stone walls and ground around the cave began to be covered with frost flowers of the same color.
Different from the last time when he advanced to the third level, this time the ice mist and frost flowers never changed their forms, but the colors kept repeating deepening, getting lighter, then getting darker, and then getting lighter again. There is quite a rhythm between one shallow and one deep.
If anyone is around here, it must be extremely painful, because this seemingly simple change in color depth causes the surrounding temperature to rise, fall, and rise.
Lin Qingqing didn't know the situation in the outside world, and her whole mind was completely immersed in this alternation of hot and cold.
The speed of this change was sometimes slow and sometimes fast, and the temperature was sometimes high and sometimes low. She was constantly making adjustments and testing her upper limit.
Until finally, the surrounding vegetation and rocks could not withstand such drastic and complicated changes, and they all fell into pieces.
Immediately afterwards, the ice mist and frost flowers that had been quietly clinging to the stone walls and place names suddenly began to spread. They centered on the cave and quickly spread in all directions.
At this time, Lin Qingqing seemed to be experiencing something extremely painful. Her condition was extremely unstable, her forehead was covered with sweat, and a huge snowflake logo appeared and disappeared under her body.
"Little Bell, do you feel that the weather is getting colder?"
At the foot of the mountain, Qu Xingchi rubbed his arms. A gust of wind blew from the mountain and he couldn't help but sneeze.
"It's not the weather, it's the captain's power."
Wen Ling kept "staring" at the cave. She was most aware of the changes around Lin Qingqing.
"You said these air conditioners were put in by the captain?"
Qu Xingchi couldn't help but sneeze again, and then he quickly took a blanket from the car and put it on Wen Ling.
"Hurry up and put it on, don't catch a cold, ah, ah sneeze~"
"Let's go to the car." Wen Ling said, looking at his trembling appearance.
The cold outside is still spreading and is getting colder. Wen Ling and Qu Xingchi stayed in the car wrapped in blankets. They looked at the fog gradually gathering on the glass windows and chatted.
"Hey, little Lingdang, tell me about Sister Minmin's upgrade. Is she as powerful as the captain?" Qu Xingchi asked curiously.
"Minmin is much more exaggerated than this."
Wen Ling recalled the previous situation when Lei Min advanced and said, "Captain can still stay in the cave. If Minmin advances to the fourth level, I'm afraid he will have to go to the desert!"
