Doomsday Sequence Convoy: I can upgrade supplies

Chapter 261 Extreme Crisis! The Terrifying Price of Wind Whispers! (Two-in-One Update)

On the edge of the Southern Wilderness's extremely rainy region, a steel-assembled mechanical ship sails on the water.

The ship has no deck, and the part above the water is completely covered. Inside, there are more than two hundred power transmission devices.

Almost all of them were bicycles, and all the survivors were putting their labor on them. In front of them were Li Feifei and her three companions, standing face to face with them.

In front of Li Feifei and the others was a control panel about the height of a person, which displayed the four directions of the mechanical ship. There were also finger-sized holes above it for air circulation.

"Will my method work?" Zhou Qi looked at the more than two hundred survivors who were providing power to the mechanical ship. "We don't have much fuel. If we use it to power this ship, we can only last for two days, and the speed will be very, very slow."

“But our team still has survivors. If we can exchange their physical strength and labor for power, then we can have a continuous source of power.”

"Furthermore, a portion of the kinetic energy can be extracted and converted into electrical energy to provide video surveillance and lighting for the mechanical ship."

"At the same time, a fishing net was also woven from steel wire, which could catch fish and provide food during the voyage."

"This can effectively solve our food shortage problem, and the electricity can also provide heat."

"In addition, if we catch a lot of fish that we can't eat, we can dry and store them. If it works well, we might have a lot of dried fish after we leave this place."

"Because the center of gravity of the mechanical ship is at the bottom, no matter how big the wind and waves are, we will at most be like a roly-poly toy, but we will never sink."

"The top has a hydrophobic layer and vents, which allow water to collect and be stored at the stern, while excess water flows out through the holes on the other side."

"The vents allow fresh air to circulate in and bring in outside air as well, so that you can communicate with the wind even if you don't go outside."

Zhou Qi explained all the capabilities and ideas of the mechanical ship.

Hearing his words, Li Feifei nodded repeatedly, and then said, "It's a pity that this ship is not a sacrificial offering."

“Otherwise, our safety would be much better.” She sighed as she spoke, and Qi Yu said from the side, “Uncle Zhou’s abilities have reached their limit.”

“Sacrificial offerings are not so easy to make.”

"Among the caravans we can communicate with, only the one named Chu Sheng can create sacrificial offerings. The other caravans can only create something at most."

“Uncle Zhou is no worse than them. This ship is also a creation, an extraordinary creation with a mechanical structure all over its body.”

"Although it doesn't have the special abilities of a sacrificial offering, it can still damage strange things, and its defense is much stronger than other ships."

“I know.” Li Feifei nodded, then sighed again, “Uncle Zhou’s abilities are already very strong.”

"After all, he can fight and create machines. Although he is not as strong as the person from the Mechanical City, he is still much stronger than the other party in terms of combat ability."

"I'm just a little dissatisfied. In the beginning, when there were no creations, I thought it would be great if there were. Now that Uncle Zhou can create, I feel it's a pity they're not sacrificial offerings."

Hearing her words, Zhou Qi smiled. He could understand Li Feifei's thoughts and mindset.

Not only Li Feifei, but even he himself felt a little regretful that the mechanical ship was not a sacrificial offering when he discovered that it was a creation.

Creation and offerings may sound similar, but their essence is worlds apart.

The essence of creation is the extraordinary; anything extraordinary can be called creation.

These kinds of things usually do have some special functions. For example, this mechanical ship's ability is mechanical transmission, which can improve the efficiency of converting the energy of survivors riding bicycles, while also providing the mechanical ship with various energy and kinetic energy.

The energy that used to be provided by pedaling a bicycle for one minute is now enough for thirty seconds.

However, this ability is essentially based on logic, and it was born from the addition of Zhou Qi's mechanical sequence.

But the sacrificial offerings are completely different.

Sacrificial offerings do not require logic.

Just like this mechanical ship, its ability to create things is to double the energy provided by pedaling a bicycle, but in terms of the ability to sacrifice, it might become that pedaling a bicycle can destroy all life around it.

Or perhaps the bicycle simply disappeared, and the ship flew forward.

If someone said that if you stabbed someone with a dagger, that person would heal all their wounds, Zhou Qi wouldn't believe it.

But if the person is using a sacrificial offering, he will blindly believe it.

Because sacrificial offerings do not require logic.

Just as the group was talking, the mechanical ship began to shake violently. The survivors who were riding bicycles fell off their bikes and onto the ground due to the violent shaking.

Of the more than two hundred people, apart from a few, the other more than one hundred were constantly rolling and colliding on the ground as the mechanical ship rocked.

"boom!"

Another impact sound came, and this time Zhou Qi and the other three grabbed the edge of the control panel, fixing their bodies in place, their expressions changing.

"Weird!"

"The wind around me clearly told me there was nothing strange!" Li Feifei thought in disbelief, her eyes wide with disbelief. "How could there be anything strange here?!"

"Stop talking!" Wei Haoran used his abilities to create a barrier at the bottom of the ship, blocking the strange third attack from outside.

The mechanical ship was no longer rocking as violently as before.

But instead, Wei Haoran's face was pale and bloodless, and his body was trembling and swaying.

"Sequence number 7!" His voice wasn't loud, but it still reached the ears of Li Feifei and the other two.

"My mental energy was depleted too much. One attack from it consumed 80% of my mental energy. I won't be able to help anymore."

"Run!"

After saying that, he weakly let go of the edge of the control panel and slumped down. If Qi Yu hadn't acted quickly enough, he would have fallen to the ground.

"Damn it!" When Zhou Qi saw Wei Haoran fall to the ground, he used his own abilities to start controlling the propeller at the back of the mechanical ship to speed up the rotation.

At the same time, he shouted to the survivors on the ground, "What are you all standing there for?! Get on your bicycles! Providing power to the machine ship, or we'll all die here!"

As a member of the mechanical sequence, even though his direction is different, he still possesses some of the abilities of Xiao Zhan from the Mechanical City.

The other party can control the mechanical city and turn it into a sacrificial offering. Although he cannot do these things, he can partially control a part of the mechanical ship to accelerate its operation and turn the mechanical ship into a creation.

"Feifei, Xiaoyu, you two stay here and keep an eye on them, and also protect Haoran. I'm going to the bottom of the ship to see if I can drive that weirdo away!"

Before Li Feifei and the other person could speak, he ran straight to the bottom of the mechanical ship.

At this moment, on the hull outside the mechanical ship, a bizarre creature resembling neither fish nor crocodile, with eyes all over its body and a mouth like a crocodile, was swinging its crocodile jaws to attack the hull of the mechanical ship.

It seems they want to sink it.

At the same time, a layer of pale green illusion appeared in its eyes, spreading along the places it had attacked earlier towards the entire mechanical ship.

Where the green illusion spreads, it seems that one can see what's happening inside the mechanical ship through the illusion.

"boom!"

Another mouth-slapping attack, and the mechanical ship began to shake violently again.

Because of its repeated attacks, water began to seep into the bottom of the mechanical ship, and a crack appeared on it.

Fortunately, Zhou Qi had made preparations beforehand, dividing the bottom of the boat into sealed spaces, so leaks in one or two places wouldn't matter.

However, with this strange attack, the speed of the mechanical ship suddenly increased by 50%, and then it seemed to have gained more power, increasing its speed by another 30% from the 50% increase it had made.

In an instant, it left the strange creature hundreds of meters behind.

Seeing this, the strange creature spun its tail and chased after it again, seemingly with ease, not at all needing to be pursued.

With just two simple tail-swings, it strangely overtook the mechanical ship and rushed to the front of the mechanical ship. With another mouth-swing, it dented the front of the mechanical ship.

However, Zhou Qi had already realized what was happening, and the bottom of the mechanical ship had turned into cannons pointing in different directions.

The mechanical ship slowed down, and arcs of electricity began to crackle from the muzzles of three or four of its cannons, conducting through the nearby water. A violent surge of electricity coursed through the eerie creature's body, causing it to shudder before it rammed into the mechanical ship again.

At that very moment, the other cannons on the mechanical ship completed their charging, and three or four beams of laser light, each as thick as a bowl, shot toward the strange creature.

The intense heat evaporated all the water near the laser, creating several straight, empty holes beneath the surface.

Seemingly possessing a special aura towards lasers, the moment it saw them, its previously toying prey-like eeriness instantly erupted with a speed far exceeding its previous limits, allowing it to dodge the laser beams.

Then its eyeballs fell off one by one and floated around it, leaving only holes the size of eyeballs on its body. You could even see the flesh and blood inside the holes and the nerves connecting the eyeballs.

Hundreds of eyeballs floated, watching the mechanical ship alongside the eerie creature, while the ship's speed gradually decreased.

"What on earth is this weird thing?!" Zhou Qi couldn't help but curse when he saw this scene in his room at the bottom of the ship.

"He can even dodge lasers?!"

This is truly a case of the predecessors cutting down trees and the successors suffering the consequences.

Under the eerie gaze, Zhou Qi felt the propeller spinning slower and slower, the resistance increasing, and the mental energy required to control it consuming more and more.

"No, we're no match for them!" Zhou Qi was somewhat dejected, but he was still prepared to go all out. Instead of relying on the energy provided by the survivors pedaling bicycles, he converted all his mental energy into energy to power a cannon with a caliber of more than three meters at the bottom of the ship.

As he poured all his mental energy into it, the energy injected into the cannons at the bottom of the ship began to accumulate continuously.

At the same time, Zhou Qi, barely managing to stay upright, took out his walkie-talkie and spoke to Li Feifei and Qi Yu in the cabin, saying, "I can't take it anymore, the strangeness of Sequence Seven is too terrifying!"

"There's absolutely no room for resistance. I can only use all my mental energy to try and attack once. If the monster attacks again, you'd better find a way to escape and leave this area if possible!"

After saying that, the cannons at the bottom of the ship seemed to have no limit, and all the energy was released, instantly reaching the direction of the strange location.

It was the same laser beam, but this one was much faster than the previous three or four. Before the strange creature could even move, the laser struck it.

The terrifyingly high temperature evaporated the surrounding water, creating cavities that floated to the surface, while simultaneously boiling the water in the area, causing it to continuously emit steam.

The terrifyingly high temperature pierced through the eerie body, and black energy continuously escaped from it. The eyeballs floating around it that came into direct contact with the laser were instantly annihilated by the high temperature.

Even those that weren't directly exposed were struck by the emitted laser light, losing their luster and helplessly drifting away with the water flow to other places.

As the eyeballs lost control, black energy began to emanate from the places where the eyeballs had been on the strange creature's body. Although it appeared in wisps and strands, it was far less than the places pierced by the laser. However, the hundreds of eyeball holes added up to a considerable amount.

Inside the cabin, after hearing Zhou Qi's words, Li Feifei and Qi Yu immediately locked onto the strange creature through the camera near the control panel.

Ahead of them, more than two hundred survivors were all pedaling frantically on their bicycles, fearing that they would be killed by the monster if they missed a single pedal stroke.

When Li Feifei and the other person in front of the control panel saw the strange creature being directly pierced by the laser and the eyeballs floating around it losing control, they couldn't help but show joy on their faces.

However, this look of joy did not last long and quickly froze on their faces.

On the screen, the strange wound that had been pierced and constantly draining black energy was healing at a visible speed, and the rate at which the black energy was draining was also decreasing.

"He's still alive! He's actually still alive!"

Li Feifei's face turned ugly.

The strange creature became enraged. Although it had lost all its eyes and could not see its surroundings, the mechanical ship's life force was so strong that it didn't need sight to know where it was.

"It's over, it's over!" Qi Yu murmured, her whole body trembling, as if she had foreseen her death.

"No, there's one last way." Li Feifei had also given up hope, but the voice in her ear told her that there was still a chance.

"Please, please save us!"

She looked up at the holes in her head, her eyes filled with sincerity.

"Wind~ Wind~ Wind~"

"Whoo~"

The wind howled through the holes, and on the water's surface, the storm that was already present in the downpour seemed to come alive, heading towards the mechanical ship.

The wind direction has changed.

The previously chaotic winds began to converge, and the torrential rain was blown away from the area by the storm, while the mechanical ship found itself with the wind at its back.

Waves began to appear on the water's surface, propelled forward by the wind.

With the help of the wind, the speed of the mechanical ship began to increase dramatically.

The wind-blown water created waves, turning the mechanical boat into a downstream, downstream-friendly vessel.

The powerful winds could uproot trees, collapse houses, and cause the speed of the mechanical ship to increase dramatically. Its original speed of over 100 miles per hour became 200 miles per hour in just two seconds, then 300 miles per hour, 400 miles per hour, and it continued to increase.

When times come, heaven and earth all work together!
But the sequence tells you that even if the time is not right, heaven and earth can still work together!
Just as the enraged creature underwater was preparing to attack, it realized that the life force it sensed was rapidly moving away from it.

It wanted to catch up, but perhaps because it had lost all its eyes and a lot of black energy, it was not as fast as before.

At this moment, inside the cabin, Li Feifei's eyes were red-rimmed, her face was deathly pale, her once jet-black hair had turned white, wrinkles appeared at the corners of her eyes, and she exuded an aura of decay.

However, her strength had increased considerably, and a spiritual power representing Sequence Seven emanated from her body.

Qi Yu, who was next to her, didn't feel anything. They were both Sequence Ability Users, even if Qi Yu was only Sequence Nine. She could still ignore the mental pressure that other Sequence Ability Users unconsciously emitted.

Unless it's specifically targeted at her, she generally won't feel much.

Of course, if the difference in strength is too great, they will still be suppressed.

Qi Yu could ignore it, but the survivors inside the cabin were in a bad mood.

The mental pressure emanating from Li Feifei wasn't a major problem, but the sense of oppression caused by that leap in life level was very real.

"Feifei." Qi Yu looked at Li Feifei and couldn't help but cover her mouth, staring at her in disbelief: "You..."

"I'm fine," Li Feifei said, but she froze as soon as the words left her mouth, touching her throat. "How come?"

Her voice became low and hoarse, like that of an old woman.

Then, as if she had thought of something, she sighed, "It's okay, I know what happened."

"The wind in my ear just now told me it could help me, but the wind's help comes at a price. How much it helps me depends entirely on how much I have to pay."

"However, the cost is random; I'm asking them for help by offering my lifespan as the price."

She gave a wry smile as she said this, "But it seems the price is a bit too high."

“I can feel that my body has withered away. At this rate, I have at most two or three more years to live.”

Upon hearing this, Qi Yu was speechless.

Seeing her like this, Li Feifei smiled with relief, "There's no need to be like this. Since the apocalypse, our world has been different. I've heard a lot from the sound of the wind."

"They know more than you, and they do have things that can restore lifespan, and it seems that those with sequence ability have a longer lifespan than others."

"After that, I can also extend the lifespan of the sequence replenishment."

There's no need to feel sad for me.

As she spoke, she looked at the survivors and continued, "Neither of us are capable of fighting, and Haoran exhausted his mental energy after withstanding just one attack from that strange creature."

"Uncle Zhou's abilities could only injure that strange creature, but he also fell into a coma."

"Moreover, that monster has clearly gone berserk. For its own sake and for yours, it is worth paying a heavy price."

She looked at the survivors who were still frantically pedaling their bicycles, a relieved expression on her face.

“At least we didn’t abandon the survivors, did we?” she said, looking at Qi Yu.

(End of this chapter)