novelsite Chapter 288 Two Concepts
Chapter 288 Two Concepts
These are two completely different concepts.
For a moment, Song Juexiao could feel his own emotions toward Lu Xianqing.
It's not so much the indifference between enemies, but more the sorrow of feeling for one's own kind.
Song Juexiao has always been very good at discerning his own feelings—especially when they are not related to his parents.
In a sense, Song Juexiao and Lu Xianqing are similar people.
If Lu Xianqing's indifference to her own body and death stems from the latter, then she is the future that Song Juexiao should have been heading towards.
They were used as tools until they died.
Before Lu Xianqing noticed her gaze, Song Juexiao had already casually looked away.
Lu Xianqing glanced at Song Juexiao with a puzzled expression.
Years of combat experience made her realize that someone was watching her with an undisguised gaze, but when Lu Xianqing tried to trace the source of the gaze, she found nothing.
The observer quickly looked away.
Lu Xianqing's suspicions shifted from Xiao Jiming to Song Juexiao. Her gaze swept over the three people around her, and she finally concluded that someone from her organization was definitely spying on her.
To ensure she didn't escape the organization's control, having her gaze noticed was a warning, letting her know she was still under the organization's control.
They were still watching her.
So don't even think about running away.
Lu Xianqing successfully sorted out his logic in his mind and nodded solemnly to himself.
"But they're overthinking it," Lu Xianqing thought calmly. She had never intended to leave the organization in the first place.
Where could a monster like her, who can't die, go after leaving the organization?
Xiao Jiming had no idea what Lu Xianqing was thinking. He looked around and chose Song Juexiao, the most reliable of the three.
Song Juexiao glanced at him expressionlessly.
If Lu Xianqing isn't around, there's nothing to do; she can discuss the mission with Xiao Jiming.
But Lu Xianqing is still here. Is she going to use sign language to communicate with Xiao Jiming and have an encrypted call?
Song Juexiao silently pointed to his mouth.
Of the remaining two, Xie Yungui reverted to his usual aloof and indifferent demeanor. Xiao Jiming could tell from his behavior that, at least for now, Jiang Xingni had nothing to do with this matter, and he always didn't bother to show his feelings about things that didn't concern Jiang Xingni.
Lu Xianqing is even less likely to be involved.
Lu Xianqing didn't even have their trust. The only reason they were able to act with her was because they had the same mission. Even if they didn't act together, they would eventually meet in the same place.
[Mission: Are there really living humans in this world?]
They have followed the mission's guidance and arrived at the city closest to their original location.
Even before getting close to the city, one could already see its desolation and decay.
There were many houses along the street, and clothes were even hanging on the clotheslines.
However, upon closer inspection, the clothes had already dried in the sun and were even covered with a thick layer of dust.
Everyone was lying in the room, fast asleep, but they would never be able to open their eyes again.
【Task Details:】
The world is utterly silent. Besides the test-takers, perhaps there are other NPCs still alive? Investigate the cause of their unexplained deaths, or find those who survived the accident.
Xiao Jiming knew very well that exams wouldn't present unsolvable questions.
The fact that we have this question means that these people are all dead, but the cause of death is unknown.
Similarly, some people must have escaped death, but we don't know exactly where, or how many of them escaped.
Jiang Xingni, who actually only spent thirty seconds figuring out the question, said: "I didn't think that much about it at all."
She had no idea that Xiao Jiming had already pondered so many questions.
When she issued this task, she never intended for the main characters to successfully solve the mystery. Of course, the more difficult it was, the better, and the more time it would take, the more time she could buy.
The last time Jiang Xing glanced at the lower city, it was basically confirmed that without the main characters' involvement, she alone would not obtain any useful information that could advance the plot.
Everything she did was a setup for the protagonist's journey to the lower city.
This time, Jiang Xingni just wanted to test whether the clues she had prepared for the protagonist group would disappear because of their real-time movements if the protagonist changed direction halfway through because of her.
Or will something fall from the sky to prevent her from obtaining clues, and only when Xiao Jiming arrives can she smoothly overcome the obstacles and successfully advance the plot?
In the absence of a main character, can Jiang Xingni, as a member of the main group, drive the plot forward?
"Let's go into the city," Xiao Jiming said, looking towards the city along the road.
There were quite a few vehicles on the roadside.
Song Juexiao leaned closer and could see through the car window that the driver was still slumped over the steering wheel.
She punched the car window with a little force, shook her hand, and put her fingertip under the driver's nose to check his breathing.
No.
pulse.
No, not either.
Just like everyone else she observed outside, the car owner was already dead.
Song Juexiao gently knocked on the car door, then politely opened it from the inside, and dragged the car owner's body out of the car and placed it on the side of the road.
Let's drive in.
Facing his companions who had been drawn by the sound, Song Juexiao blinked innocently and gestured to them.
—Anyway, it's still quite a distance from the city.
Even with the physical strength of a superhuman, without Su Yanzhi's superpower, it would still take a considerable amount of time to walk into the city.
Xiao Jiming glanced at Xie Yungui.
He glanced at Lu Xianqing again.
"I don't have a driver's license," Xiao Jiming said cheerfully.
Xiao Jiming is still a minor and therefore not eligible to take a driving test.
"I can drive, but I don't have a driver's license."
Xie Yungui recalled the stage he was currently in.
He learned to drive and got his driver's license, but not at this time, but sometime in the future.
He still doesn't have a driver's license.
Going back in time brings this kind of trouble: you need to prove what you're good at again by taking those tests that you've already taken countless times.
Lu Xianqing was ignored by the three of them without prior arrangement.
Xiao Jiming's gaze had already been fixed on Xie Yungui—after all, there were no traffic police in the instance checking whether they were driving without a license, so all they needed was someone who could drive.
But Song Juexiao raised the corners of his lips and smiled sweetly.
[What does that mean?] Xiao Jiming saw this expression on Song Juexiao's face.
—She stole the car; shouldn't they be her passengers?