Chapter 85: Probing

Even Cai Zhenlong, who prided himself on being clever and eloquent among them, shut his mouth, a heavy sense of discouragement appearing on his face.

With this kind of strength, can they even still be considered human?

They probably won't be able to achieve this in their entire lives.

Yang Pingqiong's eyes turned red; she did not want to leave just like that. She felt that she had been rescued by her brother and cared for by everyone, and when the disaster struck, it was the older sisters she was close to who protected her, so she should always do something.

She cannot rely on others forever; she must be able to do something for everyone, she must be useful!

"Please teach me," Yang Pingqiong stepped forward, stubbornly glaring to keep herself from crying, "I can endure any hardship; starting with running is fine too. I've been exercising on the mountain for these past few years, I can run very fast. If you don't believe me, ask my brother; whenever there was something to do, I was the one responsible for delivering messages. I really can do it, I can run very fast."

Liu Mu's patience ran out. This girl's physique alone looked weaker than an ordinary person's, and for her to be so persistent in making demands of a stranger, it was simply overestimating her own capabilities.

"Can you catch up to my dog with your speed? The people we are about to face likely have airplanes and cannons; which one can you outrun?" Liu Mu said irritably, "Time is tight and the mission is heavy, don't mess around, child!"

Seeing his younger sister being heartlessly rejected, Yang Pingxi felt a pang of heartache. He pushed past a few people, pulled his sister aside, and coaxed her softly, "Be good, it's enough that your brother is out here doing things; you should go back and help everyone. You do run fast, but your stamina isn't good; don't you get exhausted every time after running a short distance? Let's get your body healthy first, okay?"

Yang Pingqiong stood motionless, biting her lip hard, her large, wet eyes glaring. She envied her brother for being able to undergo Mutation; if possible, she also wanted to save up enough supplies to ask the Boss to help her undergo Mutation.

But in the current situation, without Boss Liu's support, it was difficult for everyone to even get enough to eat, and there was simply no opportunity to accumulate supplies.

In the past, when they were on the mountain, they could still pick medicinal herbs, make jelly, and pick wild fruits to sell in the county; as long as they avoided the people from Yang Family Town, they could still earn some money back to buy basic daily necessities.

Added to the money her brothers usually saved, the sisters didn't have it too hard.

She was grateful that she could survive the disaster and the attacks of mutated creatures, but now, she felt she was so useless, unable to help everyone at all.

Let alone protect her brother.

"I'm sorry, but I really don't want to be a useless person," Yang Pingqiong was unwilling to give up; she couldn't go down into the Coal Mine, and there were many other sisters who could do the cooking and laundry.

Liu Mu did not want to continue the entanglement and found a very unreliable method, "Follow Niu Boyi to patrol the mountain tomorrow; aren't you fast at running on the mountain?"

Fearing she would cause trouble for her later, she gave a goal that was almost impossible to achieve, "You only weigh about eighty jin now, right? How about this: if you can double your body weight within two months without increasing your body fat percentage, I can teach you Fighting Technique myself."

Once Yang Pingqiong heard there was something to do and a chance to receive personal instruction from Liu Mu, she agreed without a second thought, "I will work hard, Boss, please rest assured, I will definitely be able to do it!"

The few people who understood the latter requirement fell silent one after another. Of course, they didn't believe that Yang Pingqiong, who was not even one meter sixty tall, could grow to one hundred and sixty jin while keeping her body fat percentage unchanged. That would require being some kind of muscle monster; this could no longer be considered just making things difficult for someone.

Before the apocalypse, even those professional bodybuilders could never have accomplished this in two months, let alone now, when there was a shortage of food and clothing.

But Yang Pingqiong, having seen hope, did not think so; she hopped and skipped back to sleep.

Liu Mu looked at Cai Zhenlong with a hint of threat in her eyes, but the young man, who was clearly adept at reading the room, acted as if he were blind this time, standing straight in the ranks without moving an inch.

This appearance was exactly the same as Yang Pingqiong's just now, yet he possessed a brain that was not easy to fool.

Liu Mu thought for a moment, "You all want to train too? Then follow Xiao Qiong..."

"We are very healthy!" Cai Zhenlong actually boldly interrupted Liu Mu's words, but immediately showed a bit of sycophancy, "Hehehe, Boss, I screened everyone before we came; none of us have hereditary diseases in our families, and we don't have any underlying illnesses, we are very healthy."

"If you're very healthy, then start by running two laps around the town," Liu Mu completely lost patience with another person; if this continued, she wouldn't get anything done all night.

The faces of the group turned ugly at once. Yang Family Town was not actually small, despite being called a small town. Because of the Coal Mine, there had been quite a few outsiders in the past few years, and its scale was already the size of an average county town.

Running two laps, the sky would be bright by then. Would they really not be exhausted to death?

Cai Zhenlong, however, did not retreat and called out, "Attention everyone, turn left, quick march."

Someone wanted to raise an objection but was suppressed by Cai Zhenlong's fierce gaze, and the figures of the few soon disappeared into the dark, rainy night.

"Now, you three show me your abilities one by one," Liu Mu said to the remaining three, "Try to show them all."

Yang Pingxi was worried about his companions, but he also knew that saying anything else would be useless; it was clear that Liu Mu intended to give those people a show of force to make them retreat in the face of difficulties.

Honestly, if it came to risking their lives, he would rather go himself than let people he was familiar with take the risk.

Yang Pingxi used to believe in one saying: the greater a person's ability, the greater their responsibility. Now that destiny had fallen upon him, then he would take on the task of protecting the town and protecting everyone!

"Tsk, completely useless!"

The hot blood that had just risen to his head was doused by Liu Mu's words.

Yang Pingxi looked at his tongue moving in the rainwater and couldn't help but doubt, perhaps... destiny had not actually fallen upon him?

Pray tell, what kind of Superman has an ability that is just having a long tongue?

Not understanding the complex psychological activities of the college dropout, Liu Mu reached out and flicked that bright red tongue.

"The texture is actually not bad; it could make three plates if turned into a braised dish." While she teased, she was also thinking that this kind of Mutation shouldn't be so unreasonable, "I'll test the attributes; if it hurts too much, just say so."

Yang Pingxi watched in terror as Liu Mu took out a lighter, and the cyan-blue flame made contact with the tip of his long tongue just like that.

One second, two seconds... one minute...

Huh? It doesn't hurt!

It didn't catch fire either; the hot blood in Yang Pingxi's heart began to bubble up again. Sure enough, heaven creates everyone with a purpose!

"It doesn't hurt at all?" Liu Mu put away the lighter and looked at the patch of skin that hadn't even changed color, becoming a bit interested, "Try this."

A silver-gleaming Scalpel appeared between her fingers, and Yang Pingxi's long tongue curled, letting out a cry of pain, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, Boss, just once is enough."

Liu Mu clamped the tongue that was trying to shrink back between two fingers, watching as the tip of the tongue, which was oozing beads of blood, healed in just a few seconds even while being drenched by the Black Rain.

The sharpness of the Scalpel went without saying; what surprised Liu Mu was that this healing speed was almost on par with Niu Boyi's.

Before Yang Pingxi could resist, Liu Mu moved her hand, and an extra cut appeared on his arm, longer and deeper than the one on his tongue.

The remaining two were curious and leaned in to look, also amazed at that extremely fast healing speed.

Yang Shun couldn't help it; he spat out some water and said weakly, "Xi Zai, your Self-healing Ability is too fast, much better than mine. My useless Purification Ability isn't even as good as a Water Purifier; it has no use at all..."