Chapter 688: Eavesdropping Daily Life

Chu Che pressed his ear against the Eavesdropping Radio.

Because he had turned the volume on the Eavesdropping Radio down to the minimum, he had no choice but to do this.

Otherwise, if the sound were too loud, it would draw the attention of the sea anomalies, and that would be the end of everything.

His other hand kept slowly rotating the tuning dial.

Faint, fragmented snippets of conversation drifted through the speaker.

The voices were so soft that he had to strain to make them out clearly.

"Damn it, those bastards from the Silent Council lured us all the way out here. Could they have foreseen this day coming and planned to wipe us all out in one sweep?"

This was a rough, burly male voice, and the way he spoke made the speaker sound profoundly unintelligent.

Even though he was keeping his voice low, that sheer stupidity still managed to seep through the Eavesdropping Radio and into Chu Che's ears.

"That shouldn't be the case. If they really wanted to wipe us all out, we'd probably be dead by now!"

"Besides, what would they even gain from killing all of us?"

This voice sounded far more rational.

"As for the Silent Council knowing absolutely nothing about this, I wouldn't believe that for a single second!"

"That damned Hou Junji, that damned Xiong Baochun, that damned Silent Council..."

"..."

After listening for a while, he hadn't gleaned any concrete useful information.

Chu Che could only continue slowly turning the tuning dial on the Eavesdropping Radio.

"I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry..."

"Wait, didn't you just finish eating? How are you hungry again?"

"What do you mean 'just finished'? It's been five hours since I ate! And it was only a tiny bit!"

"You... serves you right! Who told you to eat it all at once?"

"I was hungry..."

Alright, another conversation with no useful information.

Keep tuning...

"Lanlan, be my girlfriend. If you're my girlfriend, I'll give you chocolate. I still have a piece of flatbread..."

"No way... You can't even support yourself, and you want me to be your girlfriend? Keep dreaming, humph..."

"Lanlan, we could die in the next second, the next hour. Don't you want to taste the sweetness of love?"

"Humph, you're ugly, and you barely have anything to your name. Even if I were dying, I wouldn't want to be your girlfriend."

"Lanlan, I'm ugly because I haven't washed my face, and I don't have much stuff, but I'm willing to give it all to you! I have a sincere heart, and if you want it, you can take it anytime!"

"Heheh... who wants it? Get lost..."

Tsk tsk...

Chu Che listened while tuning, and similar conversations were almost a daily occurrence in his eavesdropping career.

Conversations like this had long since given Chu Che a visceral sense of disgust.

After becoming a Superhuman, Chu Che discovered that he seemed to have completely lost any interest in love and all that.

Continue tuning.

When he heard a somewhat familiar voice, Chu Che stopped.

This voice... he'd heard it somewhere before!

"You have no idea, the other day that One-eyed Guy gave me a single look, and holy mother of mine, my whole body felt like I'd been doused with water in the middle of winter, shivering from the very depths of my heart!"

"Terrifying!"

"No kidding, in our whole convoy, the kindest ones are that big lug Iron Lion, and then Chen Hao, Mr. Chen. Too bad Mr. Chen isn't part of our convoy!"

Huh...

This voice sounded like one of the survivors from his own convoy.

This was actually a conversation between people from his own convoy.

Being able to start gossiping meant everyone was starting to adapt.

Although the voices were still a bit shaky, the content of the conversation showed that people had relaxed considerably.

Chu Che also wanted to hear how the survivors in the convoy talked about their Superhumans.

In this group's conversation, Chen Ye only had one nickname: "One-eyed Guy."

But Chen Hao was honored with the title "Mr. Chen."

Tsk tsk... It seemed Chen Ye really didn't have a good reputation among the survivors.

As expected, it was the easygoing Chen Hao who was more popular.

They always say that in the apocalypse, the saint dies first.

But when a real saint like Chen Hao appeared before everyone, people still welcomed her warmly.

If everyone had to pick one of the two Chens to be their close friend...

They'd probably all choose Chen Hao.

If they chose Chen Ye, who knows when he might toss them aside as a sacrificial shield.

"Say, they're both surnamed Chen, so how can the difference be this huge?"

"Exactly. I heard that One-eyed Guy killed a lot of people before!"

"That's not all! Before the apocalypse, One-eyed Guy was a prisoner, and he only escaped from prison after the apocalypse started!"

"What did he do?"

"What else could he do? He broke the law!"

These rumors were getting absolutely ridiculous.

From what Chu Che knew, Chen Ye was just an ordinary office worker before the apocalypse, a regular person who hadn't done anything illegal.

Sure enough, the terror of the Six-Eyed Flying Fish was something even Superhumans couldn't withstand.

"It's not just him, that Bald Guy wasn't a good person before the apocalypse either!"

Bald Guy?

Chu Che frowned slightly. Who in their convoy was bald?

Oh, right, Old Li, the convoy manager of Bus Number Five, seemed to be bald too.

But from what he remembered, that guy used to be a coder with a legitimate job. How did he become "not a good person"?

Had he gotten something wrong? Or had Old Li done something that incurred everyone's wrath?

"No kidding, that Bald Guy looks shifty-eyed at first glance! He's definitely not a good person!"

Shifty-eyed?

Old Li might not be the best-looking guy, but he didn't exactly look shifty-eyed either?

Old Li often wore glasses, and he actually looked fairly refined.

"He and that One-eyed Guy are birds of a feather in the convoy, ganging up specifically to bully honest people!"

"That newcomer Gong Yong is exactly the one being bullied by those two scumbags!"

"One One-eyed Guy, one Bald Guy!"

"Sure enough, heaven has eyes, and it never lets good people have an easy time! Serves them right, one being a one-eyed guy, the other being a bald guy!"

The few of them kept chattering, one after another.

Chu Che's frown deepened.

From what he knew, Chen Ye and Old Li barely had a decent relationship. How were the two of them teaming up to bully Gong Yong?

Why hadn't he heard about this? Why hadn't he noticed?

Chu Che decided to keep listening. If Chen Ye and Old Li really were ganging up to bully Gong Yong, then this really needed to be dealt with.

You couldn't just keep picking on honest people.

Chu Che pressed his ear even closer.

The gossiping voices continued.

"No kidding, right? Say, that Bald Guy is supposed to be our Captain, after all!"

"As Captain, not only does he fail to lead by example, but he acts like a sleazy peeping tom every single day! It's absolutely..."

"Exactly, exactly! It makes people sick just looking at him! What will others think of our Fair Convoy!"

"Exactly, exactly..."

"Our convoy is so pitiful. Can you believe we actually have two of these kinds of people in our convoy!"

Captain?

Bald Guy?

What the hell... Were they talking about me?

"Sun Xixi is still the best. The Little Girl might be a bit cold, and she doesn't get close to us, but at least she's pretty!"

"Dantai Bie is decent too, aside from being a bit too talkative!"

"Teacher Ding Dong is great too, but unfortunately, she lost both her arms!"

"..."

Whatever was said after that, Chu Che could no longer hear clearly. He dazedly touched his own head.

Feeling that there weren't many hairs left on his head.

Chu Che suddenly realized...

Damn it...

Those bastards were talking about ME?

Chu Che was fuming with rage.

Those bastards...

He wanted to go find these people and settle the score, but at this moment... he couldn't get out at all.

The more he listened, the angrier he got.

Chu Che simply skipped past that channel, but he had already memorized those voices in his heart.

From now on, the camp restrooms would be exclusively handled by these guys.

From now on, these people who talked behind his back would become the Fair Convoy's official sanitation ambassadors.

He had already skipped past that channel, but Chu Che still felt extremely aggrieved.

However, the next voice made Chu Che's spirit jolt slightly...

"Elder Hou, how much longer until we can get out of here!?"

It was another hushed conversation.

The voice sounded somewhat familiar.

It seemed to be that senior observer from the Silent Council, Song Wei...