The Last 299 Days of Humanity

Chapter 70 Angelica sinensis disappears
Yu Qing was still processing the news he'd just heard. Three heads and six arms—that was insane!
At that moment, he didn't know whether he should admire or fear it. He felt that something was wrong with this place for him, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what it was.

He paced back and forth, anxiously waiting for Chang'e and the others to return. Just then, three more humanoid beauties floated down from the sky, smiling as they said to him, "If you are tired, please sit down and rest for a while, distinguished guest."

Yu Qing nodded and said, "Thank you."

But he looked around, puzzled, because there were no chairs at all. Were they making him sit on the floor?

At this moment, the three humanoids miraculously joined together to form a bench, and beckoned to him, "Please."

Yu Qing hesitated for a moment, but decided to accept the service and sat down. He was indeed a little tired of standing. The revelry last night had drained him of his energy.

After resting for a moment, another question came to mind. If the humanoid beauties here could float silently through the air, then Chang'e and the others should be able to do the same.

He asked the humanoid girl, "You guys are floating around in the air, you must be wearing some kind of invisible flight suit, right?"

"Yes, esteemed guest."

Can you tell me where I can buy it?

“We have them here, but you won’t need them if you buy them. If we’re not mistaken, you want to buy them for the humanoid Shu next to you, right?”

"Yes, they can't use it either?"

"Yes, VIP, they can't use it. They don't have the interface and capability to control the stealth wings. Besides, ours is from Shengdi Company, while theirs is an older generation product from Shengtian Company, so there's simply no possibility of compatibility."

Their words gave Yu Qing the idea of ​​buying two more of the humanoid beauties from Shengdi Company. But he quickly dismissed the idea. Sometimes, the pursuit of perfection can have the opposite effect.

At that moment, the Lingxi collar transmitted a message to Chang'e and the others. They had finally found a four-seater flying car, and it was even cheaper than the one he had bought last time. If an energy pack were added, the maximum theoretical range could reach 12900 kilometers.

This meant they could fly directly to the Third Paradise without having to stop anywhere for supplies. He decided to buy two of these vehicles immediately.

Soon after, Yao Dan returned and took Yu Qing to the scene to make a decision personally.

Yu Qing was very satisfied after seeing the actual car. The car was very spacious and much more comfortable than his old car. Moreover, its wings were flexible and could even collect wind and solar energy.

As they returned to the place where Daji and the others were waiting in their new car, Yan'er touched the front of the car and said, "Baby, now we can easily go wherever we want."

Everyone chattered about the car, and then they started moving their luggage into it.

Yao Dan asked excitedly, "That's wonderful! Darling, shall we set off now?"

Yu Qing said, "Of course. I can't wait. Is everything ready? The key is to make sure we have enough food and water for Dang Gui and me."

Furong said, "Babies, we have enough food for you for two months. We might only have enough water for two weeks; we don't have enough containers..."

"This is already very good. Let's leave it at that for now. If all goes well, we can have dinner at the Third Amusement Park tomorrow, so we don't need to bring too much water."

However, a small problem arose: everyone crowded into the car Yu Qing was riding in, while no one wanted to ride in the other car.

Yu Qing scratched his head and said, "This is really troublesome. Are we just going to ignore the car behind us?"

Yao Dan said, "Since it can follow us automatically anyway, why don't we just leave it empty?" Yu Qing said, "No, that's not safe. I think we should play a game. Whoever loses gets to ride in the back car. At least three people will go."

Yan'er asked, "Tell me, how do we play?"

"Let's have a Five Elements competition. The Five Elements are metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Metal overcomes wood, wood overcomes earth, earth overcomes water, water overcomes fire, and fire overcomes metal. You can choose any of these Five Elements to represent yourself, write it on your hand, and then show it to each other."

The contest is based on who controls the most elements. For example, if one person chooses metal, two others choose wood, one chooses earth, and one chooses water, then the person who chose metal wins, and the two who chose wood lose.

In the next round, we can select one or two more losers.

Of course, there are also situations where no one can defeat the other. For example, if two people choose metal and three people choose earth, then the one with more earth elements wins.

There is also an extreme case where there is one person representing each of the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, and earth), and all are evenly matched. In this case, a new selection is needed, but the previous selection cannot be repeated until a winner is determined.

If the outcome cannot be determined after three rounds, then the competition will switch to two-on-one battles. For example, those who chose metal will battle those who chose wood, and those who chose water will each battle once. This continues until those who chose wood will battle those who chose water once more. In short, each row will battle once against the other two rows that are mutually generating or restraining. The row that loses two rounds is declared the loser.

What if everyone loses two games?

"The player who loses two out of the last three games is declared the loser."

"Why isn't it the person who loses the first two games who loses?"

"That way you won't waste time talking nonsense and rush to be first."

After the game started, Daji, Furong, and Yan'er all thought that choosing gold would be the most advantageous, so they all chose gold without prior agreement. Only Chang'e and Yaodan chose water and fire respectively. As a result, Furong, Daji, and Yan'er all lost and could only go to ride in the next car.

But then Yu Qing discovered that Dang Gui was missing. He hurriedly asked Da Ji, "Where did Dang Gui go?"

Daji panicked immediately: "We were just...we were just here..."

Yu Qing said with dissatisfaction, "Wasn't I supposed to be in charge of taking care of her?"

"I...it'll only be a little while...she must have gone back in..."

Yu Qing and Daji tried to contact Dang Gui several times through the Lingxi necklace, but received no reply.

Yan'er quickly said, "Let's use the old method and make them obediently send the angelica out to us."

"Times have changed. Last time we had a huge debt to settle, but what bargaining chips do you have this time? They'd love for Dangui to stay here for another year or two!"

Yu Qing had no choice but to bite the bullet and send Chang'e and Yao Dan to the entertainment venue to search for Angelica sinensis again.

They went inside and searched around several times, but couldn't find even a trace of angelica. When they asked the humanoid creatures inside, they all gave the same standard answer: "We didn't see it."

This time, Yu Qing was truly in a dilemma. He couldn't leave this place without finding Dang Gui, but he really didn't know how to find her quickly.

(End of this chapter)