Transmigrated as the Villainous Love Rival of the Abusive Novel's Heroine [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 45

Chapter 45: Na Anxue

“So… what exactly is this thing?”

Yun Qianxue stared into the big rabbit’s eyes for a long time before turning to ask the “culprit” beside her seriously. “Is this dinner, or emergency rations?”

Yin Shaoqing, a professional foodie, swallowed her food and said nonchalantly, “Just keep it. I didn’t know what it wanted, so I brought it back.” Rubbing the bowl filled with warm food, Yin Shaoqing winked at Yun Qianxue. “I think you’ll definitely understand what it’s trying to do.”

Right? You understand me, don’t you? You must.

Yun Qianxue: “…”

If she hadn’t spent so much time with this woman and hadn’t been able to guess what she was getting at, she would have really wanted to slap this riddle-monger to death! If you can speak, can’t you say a bit more? That mouth is used for eating and annoying people; why can’t it be used for something useful?

And then there was this rabbit she brought back, staring straight at her. What are you looking at?! Yun Qianxue coldly handed the hot soup to the woman beside her, who was buried in her meal. Then she turned back and stared intensely at the rabbit, lifting her chin proudly.

Hmph, no portion for you. Greedy rabbit.

The big rabbit: “…” Its mouth twitched humbly. Endure it… can’t endure it… it smells so good, I really want to eat!

Thus, Yun Qianxue watched helplessly as a trace of saliva leaked out from the corner of the rabbit’s mouth.

Yun Qianxue: “Tsk.” How is this thing even greedier than Yin Shaoqing?

“Do you think it can understand us?” Yin Shaoqing finished her meal and looked back at Yun Qianxue while clumsily washing the dishes.

“Try it and see,” Yun Qianxue replied casually, still in a standoff with the rabbit under the shade of a tree.

“Not a bad idea.” Yin Shaoqing raised an eyebrow and happily snapped her fingers. In her excitement, she accidentally pressed a dent into the iron bowl.

Yin Shaoqing: “…” Hiss hiss hiss!!! D*mmit!

“Why are you trying to hide it? Push it back out.” Yun Qianxue didn’t even turn her head to know what the woman was doing.

If this woman didn’t spend a full thirty minutes washing dishes, it was either because she had crushed the bowl flat or overturned the basin. If the sound of water stopped midway, she had definitely dented the bowl and was trying to hide it so Yun Qianxue wouldn’t find out. Yun Qianxue gave a mysterious smile; the reason the bowl wasn’t completely flattened was that the woman found it too much effort to pop a flat bowl back out and would just use her metal-attribute ability to remake it. Such an extravagant woman.

“Oh.” A guilty Yin Shaoqing obediently pressed the bowl back into shape, furrowing her brows and complaining inwardly that this bowl was truly flimsy! Not durable at all!

“Do you want us to help you avenge your companion?” Yun Qianxue, tired of staring at the rabbit, tried talking to it. She wanted to test its intelligence and see exactly how the mutation had changed it.

The big rabbit remained motionless, still staring fixedly at Yun Qianxue, the fur around its mouth getting wetter.

“Those people up ahead,” Yun Qianxue continued her efforts to communicate, even gesturing with her hands. Alas, the rabbit wasn’t buying it.

“Fine.” Yun Qianxue gave up. She pulled a zombie crystal core from her pocket and held it out to the rabbit. The transparent core instantly grabbed its attention. It struggled to split half its gaze to the core while keeping its peripheral vision on Yun Qianxue.

“I really…” Yun Qianxue snapped. She gripped her miao dao and swung it out.

“Swoosh!” The big rabbit dodged at lightning speed, but its fur puffed out in fright. Looking closely, Yun Qianxue’s blade had severed a vine that had unknowingly slithered toward her.

The big rabbit was agile; with Yun Qianxue’s speed, she couldn’t catch it. Furthermore, it used the vines and wooden spikes it summoned to block her movements. But that didn’t stop her from wanting to give the rabbit a beating. She drew her longbow to its limit; as long as she predicted its movement trajectory, she could kill it.

“Leave it alive.” Yin Shaoqing, who was sitting nearby honestly scrubbing dishes, saw that she was getting serious and hurriedly called for a halt.

“Why keep it? It’s just a beast that wants to eat people; it can’t communicate.” Even as she spoke, Yun Qianxue showed mercy, using arrows to block the rabbit’s path. Each feathered arrow landed just a hair’s breadth from its front paw, sinking deep into the soil and causing its fur to stand on end.

Seeing that Yun Qianxue had had enough fun, Yin Shaoqing raised a hand, and the soil surged up to form a cage, locking the rabbit inside. Wiping the water from her hands, Yin Shaoqing walked to Yun Qianxue’s side and said, “This fellow can distinguish good from evil.”

From beginning to end, Yin Shaoqing had radiated goodwill, as had Yun Qianxue. So even though the big rabbit was wary of them, it couldn’t resist the temptation of delicious food and eventually crouched down opposite Yun Qianxue.

“It’s greedy for my flesh and blood.” Yun Qianxue let out a cold laugh. “Quite bold.”

She had a guess—this rabbit could devour the flesh of those with similar abilities to upgrade. If she got her hairpin back and washed her marrow in the spirit spring, she would also possess a wood-attribute ability. This was passed down through her family’s ancestral teachings, though no one had tried it because it was said the spring would be destroyed if used without the “appointed person” unlocking the restriction. Just as it had been destroyed in that woman’s hands in the previous life.

The Yun family had always had some influence over plants even before the apocalypse. Although Yun Qianxue’s ability wasn’t plant-based after the outbreak, her crystal core had a sliver of pure green embedded in it. That was the wood-attribute ability waiting to be activated.

“But it likes zombie cores too.” Yun Qianxue handed a handful of cores to Yin Shaoqing and tilted her chin toward the rabbit. “Go and come back quickly; we still need to follow the convoy.”

She knew Yin Shaoqing brought the rabbit back to make her realize that mutated animals can devour the flesh of humans or animals with the same type of ability to level up, or they can devour crystal cores. This was why mutated animals in the previous life became powerful so quickly despite being few in number. The whole world was a breeding ground for “gu” venom.

And then, she looked down at her hands. She could directly absorb external energy; her Ouroboros ability made her body refined like “Tang Sanzang’s flesh”—everyone wanted a bite. She turned to watch the woman walking away with the rabbit, staring at her back until she disappeared before shaking her head with a light laugh.

If you want to remind me to be careful of mutated animals, just say it directly. Why go through all this trouble? “If you said it directly, would I not believe you?” Yun Qianxue muttered softly. There was a tiny bit of complaint, a trace of “crossing the line” emotion that she only dared reveal after the person had left.

Yin Shaoqing kept the rabbit not just to remind Yun Qianxue of her dangerous situation, but also because she had her eye on that apple tree. While she couldn’t take the whole tree, she could certainly pick all the apples. Thus, under Yin Shaoqing’s threat of violence and the lure of crystal cores, the big rabbit surrendered without a shred of dignity.

There were two thick apple trees covered in large, red apples. Yin Shaoqing ruthlessly looted them all, using her wind ability to carry them back, not caring at all about the energy consumption. She cared more about Yun Qianxue’s health; without fruit, she worried the girl wouldn’t get enough nutrients. Even in the apocalypse, she wanted to give her the best.

Three days later, the convoy finally reached a section of intact highway. The group in front cleared the road and the zombies, while Yin Shaoqing and the other followed behind quite comfortably.

“Did you see? A woman joined their convoy yesterday. She was masked and very young.” Yun Qianxue asked the person guarding outside while she made the bed inside the car. “She came off the helicopter; it seems she was the only one.”

“Mhm.” Yin Shaoqing had seen it too. Through the Fat Calico Cat’s check, she knew that person was Na Anxue. “Perhaps their ‘all-knowing, all-powerful god’ discovered we were following,” Yin Shaoqing said startlingly.

Yun Qianxue froze mid-motion. She turned to Yin Shaoqing. “So that’s why the convoy didn’t send scouts to check today.” Right—she gripped the sheets tightly. She had been wondering why there was no motorcycle patrol today.

Suddenly, a round, washed apple was handed through the window. Yun Qianxue looked toward the light. The woman’s tall figure seemed capable of blocking all wind and rain. She said, “Don’t be afraid.”

I will protect you, always…

“Have they caught up yet?” Na Anxue, her face dark, asked the man beside her impatiently.

The man had just returned from scouting the rear, drenched in sweat, only to be questioned so harshly by a woman. He also darkened his face and snorted, “They caught up. I told you they wouldn’t notice; you’re the one being so d*mn fussy!”

“A woman insisting on meddling in men’s business, who knows what’s wrong with her head,” someone cursed from the crowd.

“Who! Who said that? Step forward!” Na Anxue’s face turned red with rage. If the Young Mistress hadn’t sent her, she wouldn’t want to deal with these smelly men at all! Unfortunately, without the word of the second-in-command or the convoy leader, the men ignored her completely. From time to time, insults against her would erupt from the group.

Na Anxue’s eyes brimmed with tears of rage. She slammed the car door and retreated inside, though no one knew if she was crying or just sulking.

“Heh, stupid woman, so high-maintenance,” someone spat.

“Exactly. She really thinks she’s some princess and every man should kiss her feet? Look at her—other than that face, what skills does she have?”

“Doesn’t she have the skill of stabbing people in the back?” Someone laughed loudly, not caring at all if Na Anxue heard.

Everyone in the base knew Na Anxue rose to power by selling out her friends. First was that Yin Shaoqing; to curry favor with the Young Mistress, she gave away the access rights to the Kanya Tower. The people of Kanya, nearly a thousand of them, had been buried in the soil inside the building to become flower fertilizer before the apocalypse even started. And Yin Shaoqing’s father—wasn’t he pushed off a bridge by Na Anxue’s own hands to drown in the river?

As for Yin Shaoqing, she had been fooled by this “friend” the whole time, not even knowing her father was dead. She was even locked in an empty room by this poisonous woman to wait for death when the apocalypse arrived. In that woman’s words, she just wanted the rich young mistress to experience a life of having nothing. It was merely a “small lesson.”

And as for Yun Qianxue, her cousin—she had been slandered quite a bit as well. Though, no one knew why the Young Mistress cared so much about these two people.

Inside the car, Na Anxue was so angry her tears soaked her eyes. She hugged herself, weeping helplessly. She just wanted a better life; what was wrong with that? Besides, what kind of good people were these men? How dare they talk about her like that!

“Wait until we get back to the base…” Na Anxue gritted her teeth, tearfully clenching her fists. Once they were back, she would definitely make these people pay! The Young Mistress liked her best and would definitely help her deal with them!

“Truly a naive thought,” Yin Shaoqing sneered, listening to the Fat Calico Cat’s report. She couldn’t understand how the original body could be so brainless as to become friends with a mindless villain like Na Anxue. And to be scammed by her? As for Yun Qianxue being deceived, she just double-standardly considered the girl too kind.

The Fat Calico Cat was speechless. Host, can you pull yourself together? Do you realize your double-standard behavior clearly shows you’re falling in love, hey!

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