My Nascent Soul Ran Away Again - Chapter 215
Chapter 215: Tapping the Electronic Wooden Fish,
Increasing Quantum Merits, Cultivating Turing Immortals, Entering the Cyber Heaven
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The summer in the Sangna Plains was pale.
Pale skies, pale earth, pale, distorted number trees – everything was lifeless.
In the midst of this desert, a battered garbage truck traveled over undulating mounds.
The Scorpion Il transport vehicle, an old model from before the Great Catastrophe, was tough and durable, making it a favorite among the scavengers eking out a living in the wasteland.
“Big sister, we’re approaching Yellowstone Town,” said the man in the truck, a pipe clenched between his teeth, gazing towards the distant town.
“Yellowstone Town is a coveted place. Many scavengers dream of obtaining town resident status,” the woman clicked her tongue, “Unfortunately…”
She rubbed a short knife against the metal ring on her wrist, producing a brushing sound.
The man, Gu Tie, and the woman, Gu Ying, were siblings.
But in today’s world, the ethical concepts of the lower classes were shattered by harsh realities.
Being siblings… Was often just one aspect of their identity.
“Lil’ Tie, we must seize this opportunity,” the woman secured the knife at her waist.
“I traded that high-grade prosthetic limb to the Black Dragon Stronghold’s chief to get you this surgery opportunity… Once it’s done, you’ll be an ‘Qi
Refining Cultivator.”‘
“Don’t worry, big sister, I understand,” Gu Tie smiled casually.
“We’re just scouting around. What could go wrong?”
“Yellowstone Town is under the protection of the ‘Overlord Blade Sect’. If the Black Dragon Stronghold’s chief is sending us as scouts, he must be acting under someone’s orders,” Gu Ying shook her head.
Scavengers who survived in the wasteland had their own philosophies of life.
Yellowstone Town was a significant settlement, its residents wary and xenophobic, and possessed considerable firepower.
Only scavengers who earned their trust could enter the town for trade.
Gu Ying was cautious and meticulous. She knew well that the task from the Black Dragon Stronghold’s chief wouldn’t be simple.
However, the opportunity to transform her brother into a “Qi Cultivator” easily shattered Gu Ying’s defenses.
The garbage truck trundled on.
After cresting a hill, two figures cloaked in black appeared in the sights of Gu
Tie and Gu Ying.
Clad in dark cloaks, without any vehicles, they trekked across the Sangna Plains.
Gu Ying’s wariness spiked. She signaled Gu Tie with a glance to keep distance from these strangers.
In the wasteland, the best strategy upon encountering unknown people or things was to avoid contact.
However, Gu Tie turned to her, lowering his voice, “Big sister, they don’t have weapons!”
“What?” Gu Ying frowned, “No weapons?”
Gu Tie pointed to the truck’s dashboard, dirty and resembling a radar with its emanating ripples.
“I turned on the detector; it found no metal,” Gu Tie said.
Gu Ying wanted to chide her brother for carelessly using the detector. In the wilderness, electricity was precious, especially during the Sangna Plains’ cloudy summers, making it hard to fully charge solar cells.
But now, Gu Ying’s attention was also on the detector.
It was well-known that the deeper the cultivation, the higher the degree of cybernetic integration, and more metallic parts on one’s body.
Detectors don’t lie.
Undoubtedly, these were two “mortals” , just like Gu Tie and Gu Ying.
No, much weaker than us…
Gu Ying glanced down at the short shotgun by her side.
With a nearly thirty-millimeter caliber, it was a rare, high-powered shotgun even among wasteland hunters, not just scavengers.
But it was too long, and the recoil too strong. Gu Ying more commonly used a large-caliber handgun.
At close range, it could blow an enemy’s head off.
And in the truck’s cabin, there were even heavier weapons like rocket launchers. For scavengers without a fixed abode, their truck was their entire fortune.
“Shall we… Take a shot?” Gu Tie licked his lips.
Under normal circumstances, this phrase would carry no hidden meaning.
But now, Gu Tie was suggesting they attack these two strangers.
Gu Ying hesitated.
Attacking lone or wounded scavengers, murder for loot, they had done such things before.
Or rather, on the wasteland, acting on greed or lust at the sight of valuables or beauty was all too common.
A piece of clothing, a hat, even the organs of scavengers could be sold for money.
But they needed to get to Yellowstone Town quickly, and Gu Ying didn’t want any complications.
“Big sister, it won’t take long,” Gu Tie said.
“We’ll just kill them. Their cloaks look like good material; we could make clothes out of them. And if we’re lucky, any unmutated organs they have could be sold in the city…”
“Alright.”
Gu Ying nodded, unholstered her large-caliber handgun, and disengaged the safety.
Gu Tie also took out his pistol, placing it on his thigh.
The siblings exchanged a glance, and the garbage truck slowed down, heading towards the cloaked figures.
“Such poor feng Shui here,” Lu Xuan remarked, adjusting his cloak.
The sun was a dismal white, the sand and stones were a dismal white, even the plants on the ground looked as if they were suffering from albinism.
After retrieving the drive core fragment from Yuan Star, the world’s laws had changed.
The source of “Heavenly and Earthly Qi” vanished, causing global upheaval.
Overnight, even War Gods lost their transcendent powers, regressing to mere mortals..
