CHAPTER 74: CHAPTER 74: SEWER

Huang Biao shook his head and said, "No, but I know where there is gasoline. I saw a gas station from a distance before; we can get gasoline from there."

Su Changxing waved his hand and said, "No need."

Huang Biao asked in confusion, "Do you have gasoline with you?"

"Of course not."

Su Changxing took out his phone from his pocket and said, "There might not be gasoline at the gas station. I can buy gasoline directly on the forum; I saw someone posted a sale for gasoline before."

Huang Biao was stunned and said hesitantly, "You’re acting like a rich guy."

He had thought about buying from the forum, but it felt uneconomical, either exchanging with food or spending a lot of points.

Su Changxing glanced at Huang Biao’s envious expression and lamented the severe class conflict, saying, "I’m spending the money; you don’t have to worry."

Su Changxing opened the forum and searched for the keyword "gasoline," finding more than ten posts about it, and opened one of them.

Rice Grain: I have a lot of gasoline here. You can exchange it with food or points.

500ml gasoline, 150 points or a bag of biscuits.

Reply 1: You can’t drink gasoline, and you’re selling it so expensively. Are you starving?

Reply 2: Would you sell for 50 points, or I’ll find someone else.

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Then Su Changxing spent 150 points to buy a pot of gasoline, and later in a nearby restaurant, he used a steel saber to chop off six chair legs to make torches.

He tied rags to the sticks, soaked one end of the rag-wrapped sticks in gasoline, and let them dry for more than ten minutes to finish the preparation.

While the torches were drying, Su Changxing reviewed the path log and found it was already analyzed.

[Deep Analysis: Mystery Makes You Stronger

Help others enter dreamland.

High-level Dreamers often appear as lucid beings, guiding others into dreamland. Sleeping together can deepen relationships and is an important method for managing interpersonal relationships.]

So, the way to increase mysteriousness is by lulling others to sleep?

It feels like being a Hypnotist and similar to the Extraordinary person I met before; could this be my next advancement direction?

"I wonder if sleeping pills would work."

Su Changxing pondered, thinking about what constitutes "helping others sleep."

He saw Zhu Wenwu fiddling with his phone and asked, "Zhu Wenwu, what are you doing?"

Zhu Wenwu said earnestly, "I’m arranging affairs, telling my sister what she should do if I die."

"Don’t be so pessimistic; we’re just leading the way."

Su Changxing thought for a moment and said, "I want to ask, do you feel like sleeping right now?"

Zhu Wenwu looked at Su Changxing in confusion, not understanding what he meant, "Hmm, not really."

Su Changxing said seriously, "When you want to sleep, let me know, and I’ll help you."

"Huh?"

Zhu Wenwu became more bewildered, though curious about how Su Changxing planned to help him sleep.

Huang Biao leaned against an old tire, looking at his phone. His expression suddenly turned serious, and he said, "Su Changxing, I just saw on the forum that there have been multiple massacre incidents involving groups, all occurring last night, and several were near us."

Su Changxing connected the previous information and immediately realized the problem: "There are several? There are quite a few survivors from this world nearby."

Huang Biao nodded, "It seems so; they might have a gathering point nearby."

Su Changxing couldn’t help but clenched his fists. These survivors weren’t ordinary people; they were all Extraordinary and held absolute hostility towards them.

"Let’s leave now, the sooner we leave, the sooner we return."

Su Changxing put one torch in his backpack and held another in his hand, saying.

Zhu Wenwu looked at the torch in his hand, and said blankly, "Shouldn’t we prepare a bit more, like upgrading our weapons or something?"

Huang Biao waved him off, "Let’s go. There isn’t much to prepare, and you can’t prepare much. Your main task is to lead the way, not to fight."

Su Changxing led the way, climbing down the stairs, once again entering the cool and damp sewers, with the sound of dripping water in his ears.

"Brother Su, are you down there? I can’t see you at all."

Zhu Wenwu’s voice came from above.

Zhu Wenwu was the second to climb down, but halfway through, he found everything pitch black and didn’t dare to continue down.

Su Changxing looked up and shouted, "Climb down; I’m still alive."

"Oh, I’m coming down."

Su Changxing took out a match and lit the torch.

"Whoosh."

The dancing flames illuminated the surroundings, and the walls of the sewer were covered in furry moss.

"Hmm, this should be moss..."

Su Changxing raised his eyebrows, feeling like the moss seemed to be wriggling, but upon closer inspection, it wasn’t.

Zhu Wenwu climbed down and said, "The smell down here is better than I imagined, quite strange; shouldn’t sewers be stinky?"

Su Changxing squinted slightly, pulled out a steel saber, and said, "Take a look at this moss."

Zhu Wenwu looked at the moss, finding nothing unusual, "What’s the matter?"

Su Changxing suddenly slashed at the wall, causing a sharp sound, and the moss on the wall retreated like worms.

"What the heck is that?"

Zhu Wenwu felt his scalp tingle, and his relaxed mood tensed up again, encountering strange things right from the start.

Su Changxing looked at the dark tunnel ahead and fell into thought, considering whether to proceed, as the sewer might hold more bizarre things.

Huang Biao climbed down from above and saw Su Changxing staring blankly ahead, asking, "What’s wrong?"

Su Changxing shook his head, "Nothing, let’s go."

The night vision ability granted him a broader view in such an environment, but apart from the moss, nothing else was discovered.

This seemed just like an ordinary sewer, just cleaner.

The sewer was very quiet, without the growls of zombies, just the sound of water splashing and the breathing of the three, with Huang Biao’s breathing being the heaviest.

The more it was like this, the more unsettling it felt.

After walking for over ten minutes, Huang Biao appeared somewhat agitated, "I’d rather have a bunch of zombies down here than this silence, with nothing at all."

Su Changxing agreed with this statement; with zombies, they at least knew they were facing zombies, but now they faced the unknown.

Zhu Wenwu was quite nervous at first, but after finding nothing happened, he relaxed and said, looking around:

"Don’t you all feel like the oxygen concentration here is very high, making your mind clear, yet there’s no vegetation down here?"

Huang Biao examined the moss on the surrounding walls with the torch:

"Could these be something like cordyceps, both plant and bug, maybe they produce oxygen?"

Listening to Huang Biao, Su Changxing thought that since humans could become Extraordinary, these plants or animals might also become Extraordinary species.

This possibility was not small; he had encountered a Zombie Monkey, so monkeys could turn into zombies, but hadn’t yet seen other zombie species.

Is it because monkeys are relatively similar to humans?

The three reached a fork in the tunnel, surrounded by several smaller openings, with rusty red steel pipes, and the iron gate in the wall channel bent inward.

Zhu Wenwu examined the surrounding pipes with a torch and said, "Shield Company is to the northwest; we should go through the left opening, seems like the right direction."