Transmigrated as the Villainous Love Rival of the Abusive Novel's Heroine [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 39

Chapter 39: Entering the City

A7a City was like a node that made Yun Qianxue realize she was tethered to Yin Shaoqing by an invisible rope. She could not leave.

Similarly, it gave Yin Shaoqing enough confidence to stop looking back to see if the other person had kept up or departed. No one knew that every time she left to hunt, her repeated inquiries about whether Yun Qianxue wanted to go with her were born from the fear that the little girl would be gone the moment she returned to camp.

But now, everything was resolved.

“A6 City is just ahead, but the only safe entrance to the city has been occupied. They want us to trade food for a quota to enter the city.” Under the signal of her son, Qi Ming, Zhe Yu had gone ahead to scout for information.

“Isn’t A6 already a ghost city?” Yun Qianxue frowned. Why were these people guarding a wasteland?

“Yes.” Zhe Yu found it strange too. Furthermore, the people Qi Ming saw had very strong abilities.

“How many of them are there?” Wanting their lives was out of the question, and as for food, there was none. Yin Shaoqing tightened the bandage on her arm, already prepared for a fight.

“Hiss, stop always thinking about solving problems with violence.” Yun Qianxue gave her a dissatisfied glare.

This person had gone hunting the day before yesterday and insisted on chasing a maddened bull. She caught the bull, but the shed it knocked over crashed onto Yin Shaoqing. She hadn’t failed to dodge it; rather, the wild vegetables Yun Qianxue had asked her to pick were right at her feet. Yin Shaoqing only thought of protecting the vegetables and didn’t have time to move herself.

When she returned, she experienced the “wickedness” of the world firsthand. Yun Qianxue used her slightly long fingernails, pinched a tiny bit of skin on her arm, and gave it a hard twist!

“Hiss…” Yin Shaoqing rubbed her arm. It had been two days, and the purple bruise still hadn’t faded.

“If you don’t know how to protect yourself next time, I’ll pinch you to death!” The cute, gentle-looking girl had said those words fiercely, like a little demon in human skin.

Tsk…

“Ah-Xue is right; we need to plan carefully.” Zhe Yu stood on Yun Qianxue’s side. In fact, she had seen it clearly: in this family, Ah-Xue called the shots. Xiao Yin’s opinion didn’t matter; her brain seemed to belong to Ah-Xue.

Furthermore, ever since the two of them returned from the heavy rain that day, the atmosphere had been clingy and filled with ambiguity. Zhe Yu pursed her lips and smiled. They must have confessed to each other. The way they interacted now was very much like an old married couple. Zhe Yu had seen many couples before the apocalypse, but few shared an atmosphere as comfortable and perfect as these two girls. She recalled a phrase she saw online: They must have met hundreds of years ago.

“Fine, everything goes by your word.” Yin Shaoqing compromised in a particularly spineless manner, showing no persistence whatsoever.

“Zhe Yu, tell me more details about those ability users.” Yun Qianxue pulled out a map of A6 City and began circling areas. That backpack full of maps made Yin Shaoqing extremely curious; she really wanted to pry it open and see what maps were inside.

“Don’t move. Come over and help think of a plan.” Yun Qianxue seemed to have eyes in the back of her head as she pointed a hand back at the restless Yin Shaoqing. This person loved to mess around when idle; she needed to be given something to do.

“The entrance is blocked by earth and metal ability users. Moreover, there are many people stationed in safe areas near the city.” Zhe Yu hadn’t dared to get too close; she only saw a camp of several hundred people outside the city. “Those people are well-equipped; they look like a team of bodyguards for some big boss.” Since Zhe Yu’s own husband was a bodyguard, she was confident in her conclusion.

Hearing this, Yun Qianxue whispered: “Bodyguards?”

A thought flashed through her mind—that batch of experimental equipment. At this, Yun Qianxue looked at the tall, powerful woman beside her and asked, “Do you have a way to sneak into the city?”

“I can do it alone.” Yin Shaoqing wasn’t sure what defenses they had set up in the city, so entering by herself was the safest bet.

“What do you plan to do?” Yin Shaoqing pointed her finger at the deep red circle in the north of the city. That was where the zombie horde was located; no one would be guarding it. She could dig a tunnel to get in.

“Just how many types of abilities… do you have?” Yun Qianxue was once again lost for words.

“Not many.” Yin Shaoqing raised her hand. A miniature thunder-fire tornado swirling with sand grains formed a layer of ice in her palm. After showing off her abilities openly, she closed her hand into a fist before their wide eyes, and the extinguished tornado crumbled into sparkling ice dust.

It shimmered and drifted in the sunlight, catching the eye and making An An giggle as she reached out to catch it. Even the usually quiet Qi Ming moved his fingers slightly, wanting to grasp the elf-like ice. The longing in the two children’s eyes couldn’t be hidden. Yin Shaoqing simply flicked her fingers, and two crystal-clear ice flowers appeared. She crouched down, wrapped the stems in handkerchiefs, and handed them to the children.

“Here, hold them with the handkerchiefs. Watch out for the cold.”

“Thank you, Big Sister~” An An and Qi Ming were overjoyed. They took the flowers, thanked her politely, and ran off to play nearby.

The smile on Zhe Yu’s lips hadn’t faded. Since joining this small team, the two children had become much more cheerful. This allowed her to breathe a sigh of relief while the gloom in her heart gradually dissipated. Before, she worried if they could even reach N8 City, but now she believed she could not only take the children there safely but also find her husband.

“And your ability levels?” Once she had all of Yin Shaoqing’s information, Yun Qianxue could feel at ease letting her enter the city alone.

“They are all Level 2,” Yin Shaoqing said with some distress. “There are too many types, so upgrading is very slow.” Even after absorbing the purest energy beside Yun Qianxue every night, her core was like a vast ocean, slow to fill.

“Understood.” If this person weren’t Yin Shaoqing, Yun Qianxue would probably have beaten this “humble-bragging” woman to death. Her Level 2 abilities were more formidable than others’ Level 3. Among the ability users she had seen, those above Level 3 only reached the standard of Yin Shaoqing’s Level 2.

“Go into the city and search for experimental equipment bearing the Kanya mark. Remember not to alert the enemy.” Yun Qianxue suspected that someone had used Yin Shaoqing’s name to manufacture this equipment. If she guessed correctly, these things had been made before the apocalypse and were just never sold before the virus broke out.

“Do you have any very good friends, or someone you consider a good friend, whom your father also approved of?” To use Yin Shaoqing’s name to mobilize Kanya’s assets, one would at least need the recognition of the Yin family.

Yin Shaoqing thought for a moment, and a short girl appeared in her mind. “There actually is one.” She looked down at the little girl, rubbed her chin, and pondered: “That person is even related to you.”

“To me?” Yun Qianxue was slightly stunned.

“Let me think what her name was… Ah, Na Anxue, your childhood friend.”

Yin Shaoqing searched the body’s memories and found a short, delicately featured girl from the depths. “You probably don’t know, but we actually went to the same school.” Yin Shaoqing sighed, ruthlessly exposing her own dark history. “Though I never actually went to school.” Her father had paid to squeeze her in, and then donated a lot of things. With that financial relationship, it was no problem if she didn’t attend; her father had already arranged her future. School was just for “gilding the lily.”

Looking back now, this person really was a piece of trash. Garbage living in a great society. “I accidentally saw her diary once; her description of you wasn’t very pleasant.”

Thinking of how cruel Yin Shaoqing had been to Yun Qianxue in the previous life, it was likely due to Na Anxue’s instigation.

Hearing Yin Shaoqing say this, Yun Qianxue was completely dazed.

“She was more than a childhood friend.” Yun Qianxue shook her head with a bitter smile. Strictly speaking, Na Anxue was her cousin. A cousin who had always stayed at her house. Na Anxue’s family was poor, and her father was a gambler; the Yun family had taken her in out of pity and paid for her education.

She remembered that from childhood to adulthood, Na Anxue always had the words “repaying kindness” on her lips. She coaxed the whole family into being very happy, and they treated the child better and better. Back then, Yun Qianxue would always save her pocket money to give to her so she could buy things she liked. This was because Na Anxue always said her classmates mocked her for being poor and wouldn’t play with her. Na Anxue was a grade below Yun Qianxue, and Yun Qianxue couldn’t be with her all the time, so to keep her from being ostracized, she constantly gave her money to make her appear wealthy.

“In the end, I was the one who misjudged her.” Yun Qianxue scratched her hair irritably. How could her family have raised such an ungrateful wolf?

“Don’t think about it. Next time you see her, just catch her and ask.” Yin Shaoqing was a woman of action; she didn’t want to dwell on these things.

“True. You be careful.” Yun Qianxue organized her gear for her and cautioned her once more.

“Don’t worry.” Yin Shaoqing waved her hand. In fact, she was more worried about these people. Two women with two children, and their abilities weren’t that great—it was dangerous. But alas, she couldn’t persuade them.

After Yin Shaoqing left, Yun Qianxue set up traps using the same methods she had countless times before. But this time, the usually quiet and taciturn Qi Ming suddenly walked over and whispered to her: “Sister, run.”

“?” Yun Qianxue didn’t understand, but she stopped and gently asked Qi Ming, “What’s wrong?”

“Many people, coming.” Qi Ming gestured, speaking in fragments as he circled the four of them and whispered: “Will die.”

“Qi Ming, how do you know?” Yun Qianxue’s heart tightened, but she didn’t treat the child’s words as mere nonsense.

“I saw it.” Qi Ming clutched the hem of his shirt, and a rare look of panic appeared in his usually calm eyes. He had been able to see fragments of the future for a long time, but except for his sister and mother, no one believed him. His father was rarely home, and he didn’t know how to tell him.

“Good boy, Sister believes you.” Yun Qianxue put away her tools and took a bag of candy from Yin Shaoqing’s snack box to give to Qi Ming.

“You believe Qi Ming?” Zhe Yu, who had been watching, walked over. She hadn’t harbored any hope for this. After all, who would believe a silent child? Many people had even mocked Qi Ming, saying he was sick, had autism, was a mute… they had said all sorts of nasty things.

“It’s better to be careful,” Yun Qianxue patted Zhe Yu’s shoulder to give her a sense of security and comfort. “Furthermore, this is the apocalypse; anything can happen.”

Zhe Yu pursed her lips, her expression filled with emotion. It had been a long time since anyone believed them.

“Let’s go. Leave as quickly as possible.” Yun Qianxue quickly led them away, heading north until they hid in a mountain forest.

Not long after they left, several off-road vehicles arrived, kicking up clouds of dust.

“D*mmit, they escaped!” A one-eyed man snarled at the dozens of fierce-looking men with guns behind him.

“After them!”

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