Sequence Highway Survival: I Upgrade Supplies in the Apocalypse-Chapter 73: The Face of the Human-Faced Scorpion

Hearing the pink-haired girl's voice, Chu Che moved even faster than Chen Ye, almost teleporting to appear by the pink-haired girl's side.
Chen Ye also saw the object that had made the pink-haired girl exclaim in surprise.
It was a complete, soft human face skin, with the hollows for eyes and mouth clearly visible.
When Chen Ye saw this thing, he instinctively felt a wave of discomfort.
Wasn't this the human face from that Human-Faced Scorpion?
He never expected the second Wonder material would be this thing.
Remembering the battle with the Human-Faced Scorpion earlier, Chen Ye's expression turned somewhat unpleasant.
Even worse than Chen Ye's expression was the pink-haired girl's face.
During the previous fight, this face skin had transformed into a woman's face that somewhat resembled her.
When the pink-haired girl saw that woman's face, she had immediately lost her combat ability.
Now seeing this human face skin again, it would be strange if her expression looked good.
In contrast, Captain Chu's face was filled with excitement.
He reached out to grab this human face skin, unable to put it down.
After spending ninety Slaughter Points, Chen Ye obtained basic information about this human face skin before him.
[Item Name: Human-Faced Scorpion's Face Skin.]
[Type: Wonder Material.]
[Origin: Item dropped by the Human-Faced Scorpion after being surrounded and killed by three Sequence Superpower users.]
[Evaluation: This is the facial skin from the besieged Human-Faced Scorpion, possessing powerful transformation and restoration abilities. If not for daytime, the Human-Faced Scorpion would never have died. It is a rare Wonder material worth serious collection.]
Meanwhile, Chu Che's eyes were glowing as he stroked the skin in his hand, murmuring: "Struck gold, struck gold."
The pink-haired girl showed an expression of disgust and turned to leave.
Chen Ye, however, showed strong interest in this human face skin.
The appraisal cost for this thing required 90 Slaughter Points. Although it couldn't compare to the previous Flayed Ghost's Scalp, it was probably still good stuff.
But when he saw the expression on Chu Che's face, Chen Ye didn't know what to say.
The Flayed Ghost's Scalp he had previously obtained from Chu Che was clearly more precious than this Human-Faced Scorpion's face skin.
In the System's appraisal results, the Flayed Ghost's Scalp could create Wonders ranked within the top two thousand.
But this human face skin didn't have such an evaluation.
Even if it couldn't create Wonders within the top two thousand, it probably wouldn't be much worse.
"What, you want this thing too?"
Captain Chu saw Chen Ye's burning gaze, his expression carrying a hint of malicious cunning.
"That skin I gave you before, although I didn't know exactly what it was, I could roughly guess it was very precious."
"Since I obtained it by chance, I didn't feel too heartbroken about it."
"Trading it to you was fine since you're part of our convoy anyway. It would ultimately be used for the convoy's benefit."
"But this thing... hehe..."
Chu Che rubbed the skin in his hand, his cunning expression deepening further.
"To kill the Human-Faced Scorpion, if not for Nana's sword strike, if not for Iron Lion blocking the front, if not for your Smoke Breath mist, or if not for my bad luck."
"We couldn't possibly have killed the Human-Faced Scorpion!"
"Therefore, this Human-Faced Scorpion face skin, including the previous carapace, all four of us have a share. You don't have any objections, right?"
Hearing Chu Che say this, what could Chen Ye possibly say.
And Chu Che was indeed correct.
If any one of them had been missing, they couldn't have taken down this Human-Faced Scorpion.
Much less obtained the face skin and carapace.
"No objections!"
"So, if you want this Human-Faced Scorpion face skin or the carapace, you'll need to trade something for it. Fairness is most important!"
Chen Ye: "..."
He was indeed interested in this thing, but currently he really didn't have anything good to exchange.
Moreover, after experiencing this sandstorm, he had probably lost quite a bit of supplies.
"I'll keep this thing with me for now. When you have enough items to exchange, come find me anytime. I'll talk to Nana and Iron Lion for you."
Captain Chu patted Chen Ye's shoulder, smiling warmly.
At this moment, the sun was setting in the west, orange-red light spilling over the sand dunes, beautiful like a dream.
Who would have thought that this same land had just experienced a sandstorm.
The big fool Iron Lion was still lying on the sand dune, snoring loudly.
Old Li had already had people set up a canopy tent to block the scorching orange-red sunlight.
The wounds on Iron Lion's body had already begun to heal.
But several wounds were noticeably blackened, clearly having been struck by the Human-Faced Scorpion's tail stinger. Scorpion tail stingers are all poisonous.
Black blood slowly seeped from the wounds.
Old Li left a relatively young girl to take care of Iron Lion.
Whenever black blood seeped out, the girl would take out a towel to wipe it away for Iron Lion.
Seeing Chen Ye approach, the girl fearfully shrank back, obviously quite afraid of Chen Ye.
Most vehicles were buried by the sand dunes.
Those two small cars were even half-buried.
Pulling the vehicles out from the sand dunes wasn't an easy task.
And the sand dunes just after a sandstorm had very soft sand.
This further increased the workload for the survivors.
At this point, there was no distinction between men and women. All survivors worked together using their hands and feet, bringing out anything usable to dig through the sand.
In the apocalypse, vehicles were undoubtedly one of the most important assets.
Chen Ye also immediately checked his Apocalyptic Pickup Truck.
The windows on both sides had all been blown out.
Even the front windshield hadn't been spared.
The canopy at the back of the vehicle had also suffered damage, and the vehicle canopy had been blown away to who-knows-where.
Only a bare truck bed remained.
The supplies previously tied to the roof of the canopy were also missing.
Fortunately, the food was still preserved.
Although the chopped pepper fish head was a small two-door commuter car, it still had a back seat.
Chen Ye had previously placed food on the back seat.
The sandstorm had blown away the canopy but hadn't destroyed the cabin.
It was just somewhat deformed from being squeezed earlier.
Through System monitoring, the vehicle was basically intact.
This gave Chen Ye some slight relief.
This vehicle already had strong apocalyptic style, and now after experiencing the sandstorm, it looked even more post-apocalyptic.
Chen Ye could only comfort himself that without windows, driving would be cooler in the future.
The group of survivors worked until midnight before finally pulling all the vehicles out.
After experiencing this sandstorm.
Chen Ye clearly noticed that the convoy had lost quite a few more people.
"Sigh... When we first left Longevity Village, there were over forty people. Now there are less than thirty left."
The wrinkles on Old Bao's face had deepened.
"How many went missing?"
Chen Ye asked, a cigarette in his mouth and sunglasses on his face.
"Previously there were two survivors riding motorcycles, both went missing. There was also one called A-Cai who went missing..."
Old Bao rambled on.
Though only a man in his forties, he now looked like he was in his fifties.
He was responsible for the convoy's daily affairs.
After all, these were people he had spent time with in the convoy.
Now that they were gone, Old Bao felt somewhat sad in his heart.
"As long as we're still alive, that's what matters. In our current situation, we can barely take care of ourselves."
Chen Ye's voice was calm and without fluctuation.
He wasn't familiar with these people. Usually they were just nodding acquaintances.
Even when Zhou Lan went missing, he hadn't felt any emotional turbulence.
Seeing Chen Ye's indifferent eyes, Old Bao sighed inwardly: This man is truly hard-hearted.
Only people like Chu Che, Nana, and Iron Lion who were also Superpower users could catch his eye.
In this kind of apocalypse, people died every moment. When they escaped from Jiangcheng, they had seen too many deaths.
To survive, Chen Ye had no choice but to become increasingly hard and cold.
"Chen Ye, there aren't many people left in the convoy. A-Che's meaning is that we should all eat together from now on."
"This way we can also save some resources!"
"Of course, ingredients need to be provided by ourselves."
Old Bao had come to Chen Ye specifically to discuss eating together in the future.
Chen Ye thought about it and agreed.
Eating together wasn't bad - he was completely fed up with his own cooking level.
Aside from making decent instant noodles, everything else was pretty average.
According to what Old Bao relayed from Chu Che, they would eat communal meals from now on.
Chen Ye, Chu Che, Nana, and Iron Lion would eat together as a group of four.
They would eat separately from the other survivors.
Divided into two groups.
Of course, if someone wasn't willing, they wouldn't be forced.
Chen Ye understood Captain Chu's meaning and even quite approved of this arrangement.
After Old Bao left, Chen Ye planned to check the Slaughter Points gained from this harvest before mealtime.
When he saw the number of Slaughter Points displayed by the System, his heart suddenly jumped.
There were actually over thirty thousand Slaughter Points.
This was the most Slaughter Points he had possessed since obtaining the System.