From Apocalypse Boss to Farmer: My Vegetables Make Me Stronger!

Chapter 268 - 257: Something’s Wrong with the Script

Lin Jin and Zhao Li immediately joined the attack...

The man glanced at the girls still sitting around the campfire, then over at Wei Heng and the other two, who had already charged into the horde of infected.

Finally, he couldn’t resist asking, "Aren’t you... going to help?"

Qi Xiang gave him a completely baffled look, then said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, "Isn’t fighting monsters a man’s job? For delicate girls like us..."

She smoothed her slightly messy long hair. "Isn’t our only job to look pretty?" ’Otherwise, what’s the point of having men around?’

The man was speechless. ’This woman has a serious princess complex.’

He then looked at Gu Xi and the Qin sisters. Qin Yi, on one hand, looked eager for a fight, but the one named Qin Shi was staring fixedly at him.

Meanwhile, his most important target on this trip... Gu Xi, had her eyes lowered, poking at several large sweet potatoes roasting in the fire.

The man’s eyes narrowed imperceptibly, his gaze falling on the big, fat rat lying beside Gu Xi.

The Mutated Rat King keenly sensed the hostile gaze. Its beady red eyes darted about shiftily, and it let out a "SQUEAK" at him.

’What are you looking at? I’m one of the good guys now!’

The man: "..."

The man tightened his grip on his dagger slightly.

Just then, Qi Xiang poked the Mutated Rat King’s belly with a stick, saying with a wide grin, "Our team doesn’t support freeloaders. Even Da Hong has to hatch chicks and gather mushrooms..."

The man felt the jab was aimed at him. When he looked back at the Mutated Rat King, it first shot a shifty glance at Gu Xi, then straightened up, shook out its golden fur, and opened its mouth wide...

After waiting for a long time and hearing nothing, Qi Xiang was speechless. ’Uh, that’s... it?’

Just as she was about to poke the lazy furball again, she heard Qin Shi say uncertainly, "Do the infected seem to be moving slower?"

Qi Xiang stared at the Mutated Rat King, a thoughtful look on her face. "Well, now... I didn’t realize you had a sonic attack. Not bad, not bad. As a reward, I’ll give you half a roasted sweet potato later..."

"Absolutely not," Qin Yi, who was sitting nearby, flatly rejected the proposal. "That’s too much. We only roasted a few of them..."

Qi Xiang began to argue her case. "Why not? They’re just sweet potatoes! Worst case, we can just roast a few more later..."

Before the two could come to an agreement on the division of the sweet potatoes, the man, unable to stand it any longer, suppressed his irritation and reminded them, "Those infected are about to go berserk."

Qi Xiang looked up and was indeed startled by the scene unfolding up ahead. She whipped her head around to face the man. "How did you know they were about to go berserk?"

The man was speechless. ’Is that really the important part right now?’

He stared at the infected and said, "Look at their eyes..."

"Gasp!" Qi Xiang suddenly cut him off. "Don’t tell me they have pink eye?"

"Gu Xi," she said, turning to her with exaggerated drama, "I heard pink eye is contagious..."

The man was speechless.

Gu Xi tossed the root in her hand into the fire and suddenly stood up.

The man’s eyes narrowed slightly. ’Is she finally going to make a move?’

He watched as Gu Xi suddenly produced a uniquely designed Superpower Gun from thin air and began firing rapidly. RAT-A-TAT-TAT.

She was firing indiscriminately, making no distinction between friend or foe...

The man shot Gu Xi a look of surprise.

Ten minutes later, the man stared at the infected littering the ground and muttered in disbelief, "How can this be... How could these high-level infected be defeated so easily by a Superpower Gun?"

It’s impossible. They all clearly...

Just then, Gu Xi put away her gun and gave the man a long, meaningful look.

The man froze for a second, just in time to see the tree roots on the ground all around them suddenly begin to move.

Seemingly aware of what Gu Xi was about to do, the man quickly said, "You can’t just bury them here! Their bodies carry a virus. If it seeps into the soil and water supply, the consequences will be unthinkable..."

Gu Xi glanced back. "Don’t worry. It won’t spread." ’The energy inside these infected, including the virus, has already been completely parasitized and devoured by a certain starving entity. What’s left to spread?’

Even so, that entity still wasn’t satisfied and was currently raising a ruckus in Gu Xi’s consciousness.

But given how useful it was, Gu Xi just let it be. She glanced at the man, then led the Mutated Rat King over toward Wei Heng and the other two.

Behind her, the man’s eyes narrowed. He’d just realized something was off about the infected corpses. But just as he was about to examine them more closely, the bodies were rapidly dragged deep into the earth by the countless roots of the surrounding plants.

The man was stunned.

He felt that things weren’t unfolding as they had anticipated.

What’s more, no one had even bothered to ask who he was.

A vague sense of unease grew in the man’s heart. He just felt that this entire development was... off.

His gaze swept inconspicuously over everyone present. Finally, he chose his target for prying information: Qin Yi, the sweet-looking girl who seemed the easiest to talk to.

"Are you with the military?" he asked, starting with the safest possible topic.

"We are," Qin Yi said, giving him a sweet smile that revealed her dimples. "Don’t worry, our team is incredible. The one you just saw..."

She pointed at Gu Xi. "That’s our captain. She’s a total powerhouse, you know."

She said this with a look of immense pride.

"So she’s the captain..." Just as the man was about to say something more, he realized he could no longer hear the conversation between Gu Xi and the others.

’A Spirit Barrier.’

His interest was piqued. He asked Qin Yi curiously, "So your captain has the Spiritual Element? No wonder her aim is so precise. To fire like that... and not hit a single one of your three teammates."

"Of course. Our captain is amazing..." Qin Yi replied, her expression unchanged as she proceeded to lavish him with praise for Gu Xi.

Gu Xi’s back was to the man, so he couldn’t read her lips to figure out what she was saying. He thought for a moment, then said with a hint of dejection, "Your captain doesn’t seem to trust me..."

Qin Yi gave the man an odd look. "You’re not a member of our team. Why on earth should our captain trust you?"

The man was speechless.