Chapter 731: His Presence Had Vanished!

"Squad Leader Chu, everyone in the convoy has been arranged already!"

"Mr. Gong, Sister Ding Dong, and Miss Xu are all fine on their end too."

"Mr. Dantai is still unconscious and won't wake up for now!"

"The supplies are ready as well. We can set off at any moment!..."

Xue Nan reported the convoy's current situation to Chu Che one by one.

According to the previous plan, they intended to lure Xu Wan to a remote location before killing her.

There was nothing wrong with this plan itself.

Moreover, the ones Chu Che had invited were among the most formidable experts at the entire base.

Whether it was Sun Xixi, Jiang Rou, or Hou Junji...

Even if these Sequence 4s were thrown into those Uninhabited Forbidden Zones all by themselves, they could still come out unscathed.

Chu Che wasn't too worried about this encirclement plan.

Xu Wan was strong. This was a fact Chu Che had detected the moment he met her.

Xu Wan could even distort a person's basic cognition.

Take Dantai Bie, for example!

Perhaps when they first encountered Xu Wan, Dantai Bie had already fallen under her spell.

But this time, their side's lineup was nothing to scoff at either.

Killing off a slightly stronger Anomaly shouldn't be much of a problem.

But... the unexpected still happened.

The Superhumans' arrangement had been discovered by Xu Wan long ago.

This did give Chu Che a good scare.

Fortunately, Xu Wan didn't care about any of this. She even actively cooperated with the Superhumans' plan to kill her, going to the killing ground they had prepared for her on her own.

This left Captain Chu Che completely dumbfounded.

Chu Che had no idea what this Anomaly named Xu Wan was thinking.

But the plan to kill the Anomaly still had to proceed. Chu Che shared the same sentiment as Chen Ye.

An Anomaly was an Anomaly. Anomalies could not coexist with humanity.

When encountering an Anomaly, there were only three paths to choose from.

One: run away. Two: kill them. Three: be killed by them.

Aside from these three paths, there was no fourth option.

But the relocation of the base personnel was still necessary nonetheless.

When facing Anomalies, no amount of caution was ever too much.

Chu Che even had Xue Nan load all the convoy's supplies onto the vehicles and fill the fuel tanks of every single vehicle to the brim.

As long as things went wrong, everyone in the entire convoy would leave this place in the shortest possible time.

Although doing this was somewhat akin to abandoning the other convoys...

This was the apocalypse, after all. Doing everything possible to keep yourself alive was what mattered most.

Moreover, there was no shortage of convoys preparing like this.

Nobody was stupid. Just by looking at how everyone was preparing, you could tell that each person had their own little agenda in mind.

Everyone here had survived this long in the apocalypse. There was no way any of them were idiots.

Fortunately, with Xue Nan's help, the convoy didn't trigger any major chaos.

Although the survivors were somewhat tense, at least they could still act according to Xue Nan's arrangements.

The entire base was in utter chaos.

But at least it was organized chaos!

Chu Che had been using his ability to sense the situation on the battlefield the entire time.

He wasn't too clear on the specific details of the battlefield.

But when Xu Wan's presence vanished several times and then reappeared, Chu Che knew the battlefield situation was far more troublesome than he had imagined.

When Number Two appeared, Chu Che felt his entire body go ice cold.

As if someone had doused him from head to toe with a bucket of ice water.

That intense feeling of unease, along with that overwhelmingly powerful Anomaly presence, was unlike anything Chu Che had ever witnessed before.

Even from this far away, Chu Che still felt a bone-chilling dread.

The hairs on the back of his hand stood on end one by one.

One had to understand that the convoy's current position was at least ten kilometers away from where they were fighting.

And yet, even from this distance, Chu Che still felt uneasy, still felt terrified...

Without even thinking, Chu Che knew just how terrifying this Anomaly was.

Compared to Xu Wan's presence earlier, this aura was many, many times more powerful!

Chu Che didn't know what was happening on the battlefield, but an Anomaly with such a powerful presence was absolutely not something humanity could deal with right now.

Running was the only choice now!

So Chu Che hastily had Xue Nan begin preparing for evacuation, to get out of here immediately.

They had to leave this place at the very first moment.

An Anomaly of this caliber offered no chance of survival if encountered.

As for Chen Ye and Sun Xixi and the others...

Chu Che wasn't too worried about them.

He believed that when they encountered an Anomaly of this magnitude, they would definitely run away at the first opportunity.

Everyone had survived in this apocalypse for so long. They all had the ability to stay alive.

Nobody would fight to the death against an Anomaly of this level.

Someone that stupid wouldn't have lived to this day.

It was just that Iron Lion was a bit of a simpleton.

But with that cunning bastard Chen Ye around, Iron Lion should be fine too.

Especially Chen Ye. That guy, the moment he realized he was outmatched, would probably be the first to flee.

Someone like him? Even if all of us died off, he'd never die. He was absolutely the kind to be the last one standing.

Of all the people to worry about, there was no way anyone would worry about whether Chen Ye lived or died!

If someone told Chu Che right now that Chen Ye would be the first to die, Chu Che would absolutely snort in disdain, not even bothering to argue.

As the saying goes, the good die young while the wicked live on for a thousand years.

A scourge like Chen Ye, living for a hundred or even two hundred years? That would be a piece of cake, wouldn't it?

Moreover, according to his sensing, none of their presences had disappeared.

This put Chu Che's mind at ease considerably.

This wasn't because Chu Che could sense information about the Superhumans the same way he sensed Anomalies.

Rather, having spent long periods of time with his teammates, Chu Che was very familiar with their presences.

As a Pathfinder, he always possessed some sensing abilities that ordinary people found hard to comprehend.

Therefore, the fact that Chen Ye and the others were still alive was something Chu Che could faintly detect.

Of course, if you asked Chu Che to sense Xu Linhao, Lin Qingge, and the others, he still couldn't do it.

It was like when something important related to you happens a thousand miles away. Some people might not know what happened, but they'd inexplicably feel restless and uneasy that day.

It was just that Pathfinders were more sensitive to this feeling, possessed stronger sensing abilities, and combined with being too familiar with their teammates' presences, they could achieve this much.

The ones who truly needed worrying about weren't Chen Ye and the others. It was the survivors on their end instead.

The survivors on their side had already surpassed a thousand.

Some had died when the sea anomalies came ashore previously, but new convoys had joined in recent days, adding some more people to the population.

Therefore, the number remained at around a thousand, even exceeding the count before the sea anomalies came ashore by more than a dozen.

This was all the fruit of Elder Hou's tireless efforts.

And now, having this many people gathered here was a massive disaster in itself.

Any normal Anomaly wouldn't just ignore so many people.

Living humans held an extraordinary attraction for Anomalies. This was basic knowledge that every survivor understood.

Once that presence which made even him tremble with fear arrived, countless people here would likely die...

They had to leave now, and they had to leave immediately.

Chu Che's tension quickly spread to the others.

Just as Xue Nan was reporting that the convoy was ready...

Xu Lina and Gong Yong arrived as well.

Even Ding Dong, who was always unflappable, was now standing not far from Xue Nan, swaying her two empty sleeves.

After all, the convoy's main fighting force was currently on the battlefield, so coming over to ask an extra question was quite necessary.

"Squad Leader Chu, has the situation changed?"

It was Xu Lina who asked. Ever since Chen Ye and the others left, Xu Lina had been plagued by a persistent feeling of unease.

Perhaps it was because Xu Wan kept transforming into her likeness, leaving her deeply unsettled at heart.

Chu Che nodded and spoke at an extremely rapid pace. "There's no time to explain. Something's off on the battlefield. I'll fill you in on the details later. We must leave this place right now! Also..."

Mid-sentence, Chu Che's entire body stiffened!

Like a martial arts movie character whose pressure point had been struck, he stood there frozen solid, unmoving as a statue.

On the battlefield...

It seemed like some presence had vanished!

That presence he was so, so familiar with!

That person he had believed would outlive everyone else, would be the last one standing... his presence seemed to have disappeared.

He couldn't sense it anymore!

Chu Che sensed again and again, meticulously.

That presence... it seemed...

It was really gone!

He was the one most likely to survive until the end.

Why... why was he the first to die?

I haven't even died yet. How could he have died?

At this moment, Chu Che was like a crashed computer. The screen froze, his mind a complete blank.