My Dating Sim Just Got an Update - Chapter 9

After the girl dragged the man onto the bus, she ran straight to the back window and made a “12” gesture toward Ren Chenxi. She was signaling that there were twelve enemies left inside the supermarket.

In truth, Chenxi didn’t need the reminder; she could see the exact number of enemies on her mini-map. However, because of this interaction, she adjusted her plan. She decided to stay in her current position, picking up another fist-sized stone and waiting for the next enemy to step out.

Inside the supermarket, perhaps because one girl had died and another had been taken away, the remaining yellow dots stayed quiet. However, the coarse voices of men drifted out occasionally. From their muffled conversation, Chenxi gathered that they were planning to eat dinner and were forcing the captives to cook for them.

As for the “ingredients” of that dinner, Chenxi didn’t want to know. Realizing that the yellow dots weren’t in immediate danger, she settled in to wait.

Five minutes later, another man emerged from the supermarket, dragging the lifeless body of a woman. In his right hand, he carried a gleaming machete. The door was pulled shut behind him by someone inside, likely because they didn’t want to watch what he was about to do, or perhaps they didn’t want the smell to drift back in and ruin their appetites.

Instead of heading for the bus, the man dragged the body toward Chenxi’s position. She wasn’t about to miss such a perfect opportunity. She swapped the stone for a fruit knife she’d looted from the hotel and hurled it at the man’s throat.

A spray of crimson followed, and the man toppled forward without making a sound.

He fell just a few steps from the bus entrance, and the girl inside scrambled down to “collect the body.” She was cautious, glancing toward the supermarket windows to ensure she was out of their line of sight before bending down to grab the machete. She tossed the weapon onto the bus first, then, with one hand on the male corpse and the other on the female victim, she dragged them both onto the vehicle.

Watching the “Body Collector” haul the corpses with such ease, Chenxi was amazed. Despite her delicate and fragile appearance, this girl was clearly an Awakened. Given her immense strength, was she a Strength-type?

But if a Strength-type could be captured by this gang, it meant there were even more powerful Awakened among the thugs.

This realization made Chenxi’s expression turn grim. Her gaze fixed on the supermarket door with newfound intensity.

After another ten minutes, a rich aroma began to drift from the supermarket a scent so fragrant it made Chenxi feel momentarily dazed. It was the smell of hotpot base. These bastards were actually having hotpot?! She had spent the entire week choking down dry rations and cold water!

As Chenxi was stewing in jealous indignation, another man stepped out. He was likely annoyed by how long the “butcher” was taking and had come to rush him along—and perhaps to help, given the machete in his hand.

He kicked the supermarket door shut behind him. Despite her loathing for these animals, Chenxi silently thanked them for their consistent habit of closing the door.

The man turned and saw the pool of blood in front of the bus. He froze for a second, then began cursing at the vehicle. “You mother-f—! Old Qian, you’re processing the meat on the bus? How are we supposed to live in there later?!” Cursing, he raised a hand to pound on the bus door.

As he reached for the door, Chenxi threw a fist-sized stone, striking him squarely in the temple. His shouting ceased instantly as he collapsed. However, the red dot representing him didn’t vanish, and his health bar only dropped by half.

This man was an Awakened. His physical stats were higher than the previous two, and his HP bar was longer; even a direct hit to the temple only managed to knock him unconscious.

The “Body Collector” emerged again. Chenxi showed herself in the grass and mimed a throat-slitting motion. The girl, noticing the man was still breathing, immediately snatched his machete, gave Chenxi an “OK” sign, and dragged him onto the bus to finish the job.

There were ten red dots left inside.

But then, disaster struck. On the mini-map, two red dots moved rapidly toward the entrance. Before Chenxi could warn the girl, the supermarket door swung open and the bus door was still wide open.

“Damn it!” The man who opened the door saw the unconscious body being dragged onto the bus. He roared in fury, “You bitch, you’re asking for death! Fourth, Fifth, get out here! We’re putting this bitch in the pot tonight!” He charged toward the bus.

“What’s going on? What happened?”

In the blink of an eye, five men poured out of the supermarket. The girl on the bus was remarkably calm and fast; facing five charging men, she slammed the bus door shut with a resounding bang.

While the men gathered around the door, pounding on it and shouting, Chenxi hurled a Flash Card. It struck the man in the front a loud-mouthed guy with a goatee with pinpoint accuracy.

“AH—MY EYES—!”

A blinding white light erupted. The goateed man and his cohorts clutched their eyes, screaming in agony. Even two men peering out from the supermarket doorway were caught in the blast.

The Flash Card affected everything within five meters. The flash was instantaneous, but the blindness lasted for a full twenty seconds.

Staring coldly at the scum stumbling into each other, Chenxi took advantage of those twenty seconds. She rained stones down upon them, one after another. One man took a rock to the head and went down instantly, his HP bar hitting zero. Another required three stones before his red dot finally vanished.

One, two, three, four.  As she prepared to strike the fifth man, a serpent of fire suddenly streaked toward her position. Fortunately, the flame wasn’t long enough; it scorched a patch of tall grass in front of her before dissipating. Chenxi stomped out the embers reaching for her feet, but her position was now exposed.

Since she was seen, she simply stepped out and hurled two more stones, finishing off the fifth man’s health bar.

“Enough! Stop!!!”

A desperate roar echoed from the supermarket. Chenxi looked toward the sound and saw a figure ducking behind a window, hiding completely to avoid her line of sight. It seemed the occupants were terrified by her 100% accuracy.

“You’re an Awakened, aren’t you? Come out! Let’s talk!”

Heh. If she stepped any closer, she’d be within their attack range. Chenxi wasn’t stupid. She was about fifteen meters from the window; the Fire-type’s range seemed to be only ten meters. However, if she moved forward, she could bait the scum out. Judging by that fire snake, the Fire-type couldn’t attack through the wall. If she was faster than him, she could blind all five remaining red dots at once.

As she plotted, the man’s coarse voice rang out again.

“Come out right now! If you don’t, I’ll kill all these women!”

Great. Now she really had to go out. Especially since she noticed that on the mini-map, two of the remaining four yellow dots had turned green.

Even though she had been telling herself these people were just NPCs or monsters, seeing those green dots made it impossible for her to ignore their lives.

After a lonely week in the hotel, Chenxi felt that having a few reliable companions to support each other in the apocalypse might not be a bad thing. Besides, with her mini-map, she could tell instantly who was trustworthy.

“Fine, stop yelling. I’m coming out.”

Chenxi raised her voice and stepped toward the window, one measured pace at a time.

“A woman?”

Another male voice drifted from under the window. A dark head popped up briefly and then ducked back down. It was so fast that Chenxi didn’t have time to throw a Flash Card.

“Holy crap! She’s a total beauty!”

It was true. Compared to the “Body Collector” and the victims who were covered in grime and despair, Chenxi looked clean and composed. Her shoulder-length hair was tied in a low ponytail. She wore a stylish long windbreaker, slightly loose casual pants, and a pair of brand-new sneakers. She had used a Dress-up Card to get the windbreaker set, though she had swapped the tight jeans for comfortable trousers since she hated restrictive clothing. Even so, the pants emphasized her long, straight legs.

More importantly, her natural looks were striking. She hadn’t been running around in the sun for two years, and her fair complexion from the real world remained bright and clear.

The man’s “compliment” caught her attention—not because of vanity, but because of a realization.

She was dressed in a neutral, practical style, yet this person had recognized her as a woman instantly.

Before the update, even when she had shorter hair, bound her chest, and lowered her voice, no one in the game world had ever suspected she was a girl despite having the same face and body. She had actually begun to think she looked exactly like her rugged brother and had been depressed about it for a long time. Now, simply because her player info had been changed to “Female,” everyone could see it?

So, the people around her had only been “blind” because the system had dictated her gender?

Whatever, why dwell on that now? She had been playing her brother’s account, living as a man to woo the campus goddess. If the “Woodhead Goddess” hadn’t seen her as a man, her affection wouldn’t have maxed out so suddenly.

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