Chapter 888

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

Sit down and depart, the travel route heading straight for several destinations known to the Officials.

"Host, do you think the Officials can succeed this time?" The system once again followed beside Shen Chengyi, but because the other party had just set out, the system focused most of its energy on Shen Yao.

"Who knows? It depends on the Officials' own thoughts," not forcing it might bring unexpected joy, but if forced, they might return disappointed.

Shen Yao knew what the Officials were planning, and she knew the specific situation of those people left outside; more than half of the several locations the Officials speculated were false.

Shaking her head, Shen Yao went to the kitchen and brought out the prepared breakfast: a bowl of translucent white porridge, with rice grains distinct and separate.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning rose early to see Shen Chengyi off, then returned and went straight to the Ability User Center to train; now only Shen Yao remained at home.

The system neither agreed nor disagreed with the host's statement; it felt the Officials' ideas were too idealized and that they completely lacked understanding of those people outside.

If a few more Shen Chengyis appeared among those people, they might perhaps save lives, but unfortunately there was only one Shen Chengyi; no matter how capable others were, they lacked spatial means, and having to persist in the suburbs without food or drink awaiting rescue at an unknown time—tsk, even the most determined mind couldn't handle it.

"Alright, this matter doesn't concern us much," she slowly scooped a spoonful of porridge into her mouth to taste; the faint saltiness entered her body through her mouth, and Shen Yao narrowed her eyes comfortably, thinking that today she was unusually calm, and even the white porridge that usually tasted bland in her mouth now had a different flavor.

"System, bored and idle, go find yourself some fun," her mental ability had passed the threshold; it was time to strive hard.

System:...

Although she didn't understand why the host said that, the system was still very willing to find fun; there were so many people in the shelter that the fun appearing every day would never repeat.

Saying it was one thing, but in action it vanished with a whoosh, showing just how attractive finding fun was to the system.

Shen Yao didn't care, continuing to eat the white porridge in her bowl; after finishing, she simply tidied the room's hygiene, then put on her clothes and left.

The Ability User Center looked livelier than when she last came; Chen Xuanxuan was busy on her side, surrounded by many ordinary people who had just become ability users, all with their own little schemes, clutching registration forms and demanding various treatment; fortunately Chen Xuanxuan had a good temper—if it were other ability users, they would have snapped back long ago.

Shen Yao stepped toward the training room run by Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning; before entering, she heard various sounds from inside.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning were training hard; after Shen Chengyi's instruction, the two of them reassembled and released the skills they had learned once more, improving both in coordination and tacit understanding.

Their current plan was to train actively, striving that when the weather warmed next year, they could become Shen Chengyi's left and right arms.

Shen Yao's arrival did not startle the two people focused on sparring.

Looking up at the vines flying everywhere and the water flow, with abilities exploding from time to time, Shen Yao came to a relatively clean corner and released her mental ability against the silver-white wall.

Although mental abilities needed tools to unleash greater effects, who was Shen Yao? With so much experience, she had no need to follow rules; she simply followed her own designed route, bit by bit squeezing out the ability within her body, repeatedly compressing the ability through constant extraction to raise her potential.

White ability was slowly released from within Shen Yao's body; originally just a single strand, this white ability grew thicker and thicker, finally becoming a radiance that could cover her whole body.

Shen Yao neither dodged nor avoided, allowing herself to be covered by the white light; she continued releasing until there was no ability left within her body.

A sore, swollen feeling spread from inside out; Shen Yao felt somewhat uncomfortable, this situation often occurred, and although she was prepared, she was still backlashed.

Bang!

Kneeling on both legs, large drops of sweat fell; Shen Yao gritted her teeth, finally supporting herself with both hands on the ground, slowly sitting down to rely on evolution potions to recover.

The tasteless evolution potion felt like nothing when drunk, but it could greatly alleviate the aftereffects of ability exhaustion; now only Shen Yao in the Shen Family needed evolution potions, so it wasn't as tense as before.

Gurgle gurgle

After several bottles of evolution potion went down, Shen Yao's ability was quickly filled like a spring gushing out.

Shen Yao's body felt no discomfort; not only was she not uncomfortable, on the contrary, she felt her current body could take on nine opponents single-handedly—she was practically a superman.

This was the benefit of quickly draining all ability: recovering back and forth to broaden the ability's reserve, then causing the ability to increase.

Rising to stand steadily on the ground, Shen Yao raised her hand to wipe the sweat remaining on her face, then continued to focus, releasing the recovered mental ability.

White radiance, faster than before, enveloped Shen Yao's body; because Shen Yao adopted no attacking strategy, this caused the manifested ability to vanish without a trace after just a moment.

Her body once again felt sore and swollen; Shen Yao, having had the first experience, simply sat cross-legged on the ground, tossing the empty evolution potion tube to one side, and clutching the evolution potion yet to be drunk in her hand, pouring it into her mouth.

In the span of one morning, Shen Yao just kept trying back and forth like this.

Although doing this was nothing but squeezing herself, the ability Shen Yao released still affected Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning next door.

The two sisters said that the eldest sister being so driven was scary enough, but now even their birth mother had to be driven? If they didn't want to admit defeat, wouldn't they have to invest even more?

Tsk

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning were panting from exhaustion, but they didn't rest; instead, they got up and continued practicing.

Shen Yao continued drinking her evolution potion; by now many empty evolution potion tubes had been thrown beside her, the liquid naturally going into Shen Yao's mouth—since no one else at home used them, she might as well drink them like water.

The mother and three daughters competed with each other in effort, and there were benefits to this; when they came out of the Ability User Center, the ability within their bodies was visibly thicker, giving them the confidence to survive in the future.

"I wonder how Eldest Sister and the others are doing?" Saying she'd go out and going out, Shen Chengyu pouted, finding the current Officials unsatisfactory no matter how she looked at them.

"Maybe everything went smoothly and they've already found other squads," Shen Chengning added with a smile; although this possibility was small, it couldn't be ruled out.

"It's dark; they must be finding a place to rest, probably eating dinner right now," Shen Yao said lightly, describing Shen Chengyi's current situation while listening to the system shouting in her mind.

"Host, Host, something big has really happened, Host, did you hear?"

The system's noise was annoying, but Shen Yao perfectly suppressed it in her heart, not showing a hint of emotion for Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning to notice.

The two sisters were still speculating about Shen Chengyi's current situation—whether she had encountered danger, how she was getting along with her team members, whether it was harmonious?

In short, Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning could never imagine that Shen Chengyi was currently chewing jerky in her hand, watching infighting within the team, and also guarding against hostile forces that might ambush them at any moment.

Mm

Just as the system said, something big had really happened!

"Don't worry about Chengyi; she'll be fine," Shen Yao said, then actively blocked everything related to the system; only after the three of them finished dinner did the system finally calm down, and Shen Yao opened the channel between them, indicating the system could speak slowly if it had anything to say.

System:...

Even if there was more to say, it couldn't be said; who would have thought the host would be so ruthless to her own system, blocking it just by saying so—a system needs face too.

"Hmph, your temper is quite big; I haven't even pursued your harmless joke, so what, you want to continue?" The switch was in Shen Yao's single thought; she wouldn't indulge a system that occasionally had a screw loose.

System:...

The system backed down, saying it didn't want to, just now it was momentarily nervous, not intentional.

Shen Yao:...

Knowing the system had no brain, otherwise she would have long since thought of ways to artificially add some difficulty for the system, making it behave properly as just a system, instead of running everywhere and listening everywhere, acting exactly like a massive gossip collection entity.

"Host, you're really not worried about Shen Chengyi?" This time is so dangerous, it hasn't even been a full day since they went out.

"Not worried, she can handle it," let alone what they encountered today, even doubled it would be no problem.

Still that same sentence, Shen Chengyi went out this time to find people, the Official's main reason for choosing her was that Shen Chengyi wouldn't drag them down.

So Shen Chengyi only needs to protect herself well, find those team members who haven't returned, everything else is not within her scope of duty.

Of course, Shen Chengyi can also take appropriate action on the premise of not affecting herself, the Official will give corresponding compensation, this was the tacit understanding between them before they went out.

Half-resting her chin, she tapped the tabletop, Shen Yao turned her head to look at the sky outside the window.

The sky had already darkened, overcast without a trace of brightness.

The moon, stars, these things that would occasionally still appear, right now couldn't be found no matter how she looked, perhaps this was also the influence brought by the End of Days.

The system was no longer in Shen Yao's mind, no need to guess, it had run off to listen to gossip again.

The shelter's night was quiet, basically no one walking around outside, but this didn't mean everyone inside the shelter had turned off lights and gone to sleep, many people hid in rooms plotting various things, letting certain dark things breed.

"Three days, it's already been three days, judging by these people's luck outside, they might as well not have gone."

The system jumped in frustration, one reason being that Shen Chengyi and the others still hadn't found any surviving squad members until now, they very unfortunately came up empty-handed, the originally planned several destinations had nothing, even digging three feet deep there was only accumulated snow and mud.

"Look on the bright side, they also haven't been attacked," a stroke of luck amidst misfortune, counted as avoiding a crisis.

System:...

What good thing is this? Not being attacked means they've deviated from the search range, in simple terms, they've gone off course.

Shen Yao spread both hands, signaling the system not to jump to conclusions now, they've only slightly deviated from the route, but Shen Chengyi is inside, on the premise of not affecting herself Shen Chengyi won't really let the Official return empty-handed.

After all, how much reward Shen Chengyi can get is directly related to how well the Official completes this mission, Shen Chengyi is also unwilling to go out with such hard work for a trip, only to return holding a consolation prize in the end.

"There are several routes along their current path that can find surviving squad members, moreover outside it's icy and snowy, the route is bad, a moment of carelessness causing a deviation is perfectly normal," as long as they seize a certain opportunity to expose the surviving squad members in the Official's view, Shen Chengyi doesn't need to do anything extra, the Official themselves will think divergently, searching around the surroundings.

Seeing the host so certain, the system thought to itself, could it be that when it didn't know, the host and Shen Chengyi secretly arranged something?

It really was true, Shen Yao and Shen Chengyi had mentioned possible temporary foothold locations for those surviving squads, all were positions with good wind-sheltering properties, because the Official had done emergency plans and homework before setting out themselves, unless their heads were muddled, they wouldn't deviate from the track too much.

Shen Yao had a plan in mind, and on Shen Chengyi's side, because of Shen Yao's reminder, they also didn't fall into disorder.

The temporary residence's bonfire gradually extinguished as dawn broke, the temperature in the air slowly dropping as the firelight disappeared.

Despite wearing very thick clothes, everyone still couldn't block the blowing cold wind, those with poor stamina rubbed their arms and complained, some wanting to say why did they have to come find people? Ran for several days and precisely found nothing.

Shen Chengyi found an opportunity to seek out the decision-maker, the time they're wasting right now is the lives of those surviving squads, they can't continue searching according to the original plan, they still need to think of other methods.

"Easier said than done, what should we do now?"

The several destinations the Official circled out all came up empty, they themselves had produced wavering in their hearts, now Shen Chengyi ran over to make them use their brains, not to search according to the positions provided by the Official, then, if something goes wrong who bears responsibility?

Shen Chengyi:...

"We came out to save people," if they can't bring people back, their mission is a failure.

Shen Chengyi pursed her lips, expression cold and solemn as she glanced over everyone present, in the end she chose to turn around and leave.

Having spoken her purpose, the rest of whatever situation depends on how these people think, Shen Chengyi also isn't demanding a clear answer, regardless she has already done what she should do, the rest has nothing to do with her.

"How can it be unrelated? Isn't she known as the most capable? Doesn't she have the ability?"

Someone couldn't stand Shen Chengyi, after Shen Chengyi left they spoke every kind of instigating words, provoking the surrounding others to frown tightly and roll their eyes in succession.

Hmph!

Who doesn't know whose petty thoughts, Shen Chengyi's words weren't wrong either, unpleasant as they may be, they didn't hurt their interests, they came out originally to save people, if they really go back empty-handed, believe it or not the Official can severely punish them to vent anger!

"Prepare, prepare, split the team up, separately explore the remaining few destinations," this way it can both speed up time and save them more time for finding people, the person in charge made a final decision, not giving others a chance to refute.