Chapter 171: Meeting an Old Acquaintance

A figure no one expected appeared!

The person who arrived was none other than Luo Shiqing!!

"Luo Shiqing! You actually ran all the way here?!"

Seeing this old acquaintance Luo Shiqing, Luo Xixi felt a wave of emotion; although the two had fought tooth and nail before, suddenly arriving in this strange, desolate world made even an enemy feel a bit more intimate.

Just as Luo Xixi was about to approach her, Sheng Tinglan grabbed Luo Xixi and held her back, saying vigilantly: "Xixi, don't go over! We don't know the intelligence of this place yet, and this woman might not necessarily be the Luo Shiqing we know."

!!

Hearing Sheng Tinglan say this, Luo Xixi also felt it made sense; she had indeed been too lax, so she stopped as well.

Meanwhile, Luo Shiqing on the opposite side heard the conversation between Luo Xixi and Sheng Tinglan and seemed to confirm something; her eyes widened abruptly, and she said in astonishment: "So it really is you two! Luo Xixi, Sheng Tinglan! How did you two end up in this world too?!"

Luo Xixi: "!!!!"

This Luo Shiqing could actually say her and Sheng Tinglan's names.

They clearly hadn't revealed them in front of this person.

"Are you really Luo Shiqing? The original one?"

Luo Xixi asked aloud.

Luo Shiqing was a bit annoyed and sneered: "My appearance hasn't changed, Luo Xixi, how come you can't recognize me? Did you lose your memory?"

Luo Xixi: "..."

Luo Shiqing's personality had changed so much.

She used to pretend to be a little green tea, but now she's not pretending at all, is she?

"Luo Shiqing, why are you here?"

Luo Xixi asked again.

Mentioning this, Luo Shiqing's face darkened; her eyes were filled with resentment as she looked at Luo Xixi and said: "You have the nerve to ask me why I'm here? Isn't this all thanks to you? If you hadn't cheated, how could my system have been taken away? If the Heartthrob System were still here, I wouldn't have been thrown into this world!"

"What does this have to do with me?"

Luo Xixi refused the gaslighting and said: "It was clearly your system that was caught cheating, which is why it was taken away. My existence only made it happen faster, but to put it bluntly, you brought this on yourself! You colluded with the Heartthrob System to turn Big Brother into a mindless puppet; don't you feel even a shred of shame?"

"..."

Luo Shiqing seemed speechless.

Her expression changed repeatedly, then she snorted and said: "Say whatever you want! Anyway, I've already been punished, haven't I? Being thrown into this dump to fend for myself, what else do you want from me?!"

"What did I do to you?" Luo Xixi felt it was inexplicable and said: "You were the one who opened fire on me first, I only retorted a little, don't you dare blame me!"

"!!"

Luo Shiqing glared at Luo Xixi again, then turned her head away and stopped talking.

Sheng Tinglan then spoke up to bring the topic back, asking sternly: "Luo Shiqing, when were you transferred to this world? How much do you know about this world?"

"..."

Hearing this, Luo Shiqing gave Sheng Tinglan a resentful look and said gloomily: "Sheng Tinglan, the kindness you showed me before was indeed fake. I actually thought you were sincere."

Sheng Tinglan was an expert at counter-gaslighting; after all, he was a master of it himself. He said coldly and ruthlessly: "Why put on the face of a victim? Didn't you approach me to complete your mission? Everyone was just using each other for their own purposes; don't make it sound like I deceived your true heart. When I was injured, I didn't see you truly caring about me much either."

"You!!!"

Luo Shiqing was speechless; she gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "I hate you! You two are both so annoying! How can I run into you two even in another world?! Are you two ghosts that won't go away?"

"Luo Shiqing, answer my question!"

Sheng Tinglan pulled the topic back again.

Luo Xixi secretly glanced at Sheng Tinglan, feeling moved in her heart: It has to be Sheng Tinglan; no matter what Luo Shiqing says, he is completely unswayed, a person who goes his own way to the extreme.

Luo Shiqing glared hatefully at Sheng Tinglan, as if she wanted to hit someone, but perhaps thinking the gap in their strength was too vast, she held it back and compromised: "As you can see, this is a desolate world. Because I don't have a system, I don't know much, but I've been here for over a year, so I know a little. This is an apocalypse; the story background is that humanity went through several nuclear wars, and most people are dead. Because this world is full of nuclear radiation, it has bred many monsters from science fiction, which has dealt a near-extinction blow to the human groups that were already hanging on by a thread."

"So we really did transmigrate into an apocalyptic novel!"

Luo Xixi took a breath, then glared at Sheng Tinglan and said: "You really know how to pick!"

Sheng Tinglan's eyes also flickered: "..."

Could it be that Yehruohua really wants to get rid of him and Xixi?

"Since you've lived here for over a year, you should know about human tribes, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't have the wilderness survival skills to be alone."

Sheng Tinglan analyzed.

"Yeah." Luo Shiqing nodded and said gloomily: "I was lucky. Although I was thrown into this apocalypse, a traveling convoy happened to find me and brought me back to a human tribe. It's just that the monsters' attacks on the human tribe have become more and more fierce lately, and food in the tribe is scarce, so I came out to see if I could find something to eat."

"Tsk tsk... you're something else. Someone as pampered as you actually running out into such a dangerous wilderness alone to find food."

Luo Xixi sighed.

She hadn't forgotten that she and Luo Shiqing had once participated in a Wilderness Survival variety show; at the time, Luo Shiqing still had the Heartthrob System, yet her performance in it was the epitome of uselessness.

"Hmph!"

Luo Shiqing snorted coldly and said: "Anyone will grow when pushed to the edge, okay! If you lived in this apocalypse for a year, you'd grow too!"

"Even if it weren't the apocalypse, I'd still beat you."

Luo Xixi said the truth.

"Luo Xixi, you want to fight, don't you?"

"Alright, stop arguing."

Hearing that monsters really existed in this world, Sheng Tinglan felt incredibly lucky that he and Xixi hadn't encountered any monster attacks when they arrived. He said to Luo Shiqing: "Since you know where the human tribe is, hurry up and take us there. It's getting late, and it would be bad if we ran into monsters."

"Fine..."

Luo Shiqing said: "Human tribes are very short on labor right now; the Leader will be happy when you go."

As she spoke.

She pointed in a certain direction and said: "Our tribe is over there, about 5 kilometers away."

Hearing this, Luo Xixi sighed again and said to Luo Shiqing: "Luo Shiqing, you really have grown a lot. In a world with monsters, you actually dare to run this far alone; aren't you afraid of running into monsters?"

Luo Shiqing said coldly, "Isn't encountering monsters just getting eaten? But if I continue to stay in the tribe, I will truly be starved to death!"

"What methods does this world use to deal with monsters? Firepower coverage? Or are there supernatural abilities?"

Luo Xixi had read quite a few novels on related themes before; generally, in the apocalypse, the protagonist's team would mostly awaken special, rare, and powerful supernatural abilities.

Luo Shiqing said, "There are indeed supernatural abilities, but unfortunately I am very unlucky; coming to this world, I did not awaken that power, but our Leader is a powerful supernatural user. It is precisely because of his existence that our tribe has been able to linger on until now. It is a pity that during a previous expedition, the Leader was attacked by monsters. Now he is seriously injured, and the barrier outside the tribe has also become weak. I don't know how much longer it can hold."

"Tsk... isn't that very dangerous?"

Luo Xixi was shocked.

"It is very dangerous. Everyone feels that we won't live much longer. I feel that this world is also about to end."

Luo Shiqing said leisurely.

"..."

Sheng Tinglan heard the conversation between Luo Shiqing and Luo Xixi, his gaze changing again and again. He looked around the surroundings and discovered that this world was desolate to an extreme degree, with very few signs of life.

One could even exaggerate and say that this world was about to die immediately.

And when he was doing missions before, he had heard the "Help You Reach the Peak of Life System" mention it.

When a book-transmigration world has no humans, that world is considered completely abandoned, and the entire world will begin to collapse.

Now listening to Luo Shiqing's description, it seems that human tribe probably won't last much longer. Once the Leader dies, the human tribe will soon be completely devoured by monsters.

Once there are no people left, this world will likely collapse and be destroyed.

He must hurry to contact Yehruohua and then perform a Dimension transfer.