Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 167 Game, Cowherd and Weaver Girl

"Looking at this fish now, I feel like the Type C New Human is a bit of a supermodel."

Lu Xian looked back in the rearview mirror and saw the big fish above the reservoir shrouded in white mist and then disappeared. He couldn't help but sigh.

"What is a supermodel?"

Yao Wei asked.

"It's just too powerful."

Lu Xian explained, "Look at this fish, and then think about that brown bear. Once stimulated by the pheromones of the Type C New Human, it can actually exert strength far beyond its usual level.

"And pheromones can control more than just one animal at a time, not just humans...

"Just imagine how horrible it would be if a Type C New Human was paired with a Type A New Human. I can't even imagine it."

His mind suddenly flashed back to Ana from Overwatch, as if he heard her yelling, "You've been enhanced! Send it!"

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded and said, "It's very powerful, but it's not good. It can make people lose their minds and control themselves."

In Yao Wei's view, the power that can be controlled by oneself is the best and most powerful power, and there's nothing wrong with her saying that.

It was getting dark again, so Lu Xian found a parking area on the side of the mountain road and parked the car.

The pressure above their heads began to appear again. The two got out of the car, ate the meat strips, and looked at the sky.

The night sky is dotted with stars, which seem to be extremely high and far away. However, such a high and far sky makes people feel extremely oppressive.

Where did this feeling of oppression come from? Lu Xian and Yao Wei still couldn't explain it.

"We'll leave early tomorrow morning and eat some meat sticks. I just can't seem to stay here any longer."

He talked to Yao Wei while chewing on a piece of meat.

"Ah."

Yao Wei also bit the meat strip and nodded in agreement.

The meat strips did not need to be processed and could be eaten directly. They even planned to pass through the heart of Jianshan City in the next two days and just rely on eating meat strips.

This way you can save as much time as possible and use it to travel.

But unfortunately, things did not go as planned. When I woke up the next day, the weather had turned cold again.

There was no snow this time, or maybe it snowed a little while I was sleeping at night, forming a thin film on the road.

This kind of road surface that seems to be covered with a film of ice is particularly terrifying. If it were normally a heavy snowy day, the car could still barely move on flat ground if you were careful. But on this kind of road surface, you will slip if you are not careful.

Even paying attention is useless. Even if you idle slowly, when you step on the brakes, the car will not be able to stop in time and will only slide forward on the ice film.

Not to mention the ups and downs on this mountain road.

"My crow's mouth!"

Lu Xian couldn't help but complain about himself again.

Yao Wei was a little surprised: "But you didn't say anything." The last time she heard the term "crow's mouth", she had heard the explanation from Lu Xian and knew what "crow's mouth" meant.

Lu Xian said: "I thought about it in my heart."

For some reason, Yao Wei suddenly felt like laughing.

However, Lu Xian quickly adjusted his mood and said, "Forget it, since God wants us to stay here, let's just stay here honestly.

"We've stayed here before, and for quite a long time. It shouldn't be a problem."

This time he forced himself not to even think about the bad aspects, and naturally he would not mention them.

"Ah."

Yao Wei agreed again. After hearing what Lu Xian said, she also relaxed.

Indeed, they had been under this inexplicable pressure for a long time and had done many things, such as building a shelter in Xiaogang Village and finding things to make oil pumps in Xifang Village.

Moreover, those places are still in Niutou County, and the pressure coming down from the night sky is very great.

But now, they are still far away in Liangcheng County, not even in Jianshan City, and still far away from Niutou County. To be honest, the pressure they feel is actually small.

Why do we feel more worried when we encounter this kind of pressure again?
I've been through this before, so there's no need to do this...

Perhaps it's the inexplicable pressure that makes one feel like they're about to lose control at any moment? It's quite impressive.

Therefore, after leaving this pressure, the impression left in the memory is inexplicably strengthened, and the resistance to this impression also becomes stronger.

Lu Xian took out four more strips of meat from the car, gave two to Yao Wei and two for himself.

He looked at the thin ice on the ground and suddenly felt playful. He took two steps forward, stopped with his feet staggered, one in front of the other, and let inertia carry his body across the smooth ice.

Yao Wei looked at Lu Xian's actions and felt a little puzzled.

Lu Xian turned around and smiled at her, saying, "I used to play games like this when I was a kid. Do you want to try it?"

Yao Wei shook her head, thinking it was meaningless and unnecessary.

But Lu Xian smiled and said, "Come on, try it." As he spoke, he walked over and took Yao Wei's hand.

He dragged Yao Wei forward, and Yao Wei wanted to take a step forward.

Lu Xian said, "You don't have to walk. Just do what I did just now, put your feet one in front of the other, or just squat down."

Yao Wei listened to Lu Xian and did not take that step. She let Lu Xian pull her and slide forward.

The thin ice under her feet made her lose friction with the ground, and her body was pulled forward by Lu Xian, surprisingly lightly.

Yao Wei didn't think this kind of game was interesting, but after sliding for a while, she wanted to experience it again.

So she turned around and waited for Lu Xian to pull her.

After pulling it back to its original position, Lu Xian let go of his hand, and Yao Wei subconsciously squeezed it.

Turning around again, Lu Xian asked with a smile: "Continue?"

Yao Wei suddenly felt something was wrong and said quickly, "No, I want to try it myself."

"it is good."

Lu Xian didn't force it. He watched Yao Wei imitate him before, took two steps forward, and then let inertia push her body forward.

Lu Xian followed, slid over, and asked, "How does it feel?"

Yao Wei thought for a moment and said, "It's too dangerous. If the car goes on the mountain road like this, it won't be able to stop and might end up in the ditch."

Lu Xian: "..."

What did I ask, and what did she answer?

But what Yao Wei said was indeed right, so Lu Xian nodded and said, "Then let's continue to stay here. I don't know how long it will take for the weather to warm up."

The two did not play around too much. After staying outside for a while, they returned to the car.

In the car, Gouzi turned on the air conditioner, and they each took a book to read. As for the laptop, it still had some power, but Yao Wei said she didn't want to use it now, and could open it to read before going to bed at night. This woman seemed to be using the computer as a hypnotic tool for Lu Xian. Lu Xian could see it, but he didn't expose it.

Anyway, talking about it in detail like this can help me sleep more easily.

As the day passed and night fell, without any light, the two naturally had no way to read, so they looked at the night sky through the front windshield while chewing on the meat strips.

In the night sky here, Lu Xian could not find the familiar Big Dipper or the North Star. All the stars and all the positions had changed. Only the interweaving of light and dark, flickering, made people feel familiar.

"Want to hear a story?"

Lu Xian asked suddenly.

"Ah."

Yao Wei replied that she wanted to listen to whatever Lu Xian said, and it didn't matter what Lu Xian said, she would listen to anything he said.

Then Lu Xian began to talk: "Once upon a time there was a cowherd..."

He was telling the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

It didn't take long to tell the story, from the Cowherd herding cattle, to the Weaver Girl coming down to earth to take a bath, to the Cowherd stealing clothes and letting the Weaver Girl stay in the mortal world, to them meeting and falling in love, the man farming and the woman weaving, to the Queen Mother blocking them, to them being separated forever by the Milky Way, and meeting on the Magpie Bridge.

But after listening to this, Yao Wei frowned.

Lu Xian could see that Yao Wei was not satisfied with this story.

He laughed and said, "Why, you don't like this story? Actually, I don't like it either.

"The cowherd stole the woman's clothes without even knowing her.

"This is the Weaver Girl. If it were us, she would definitely come to our house and beat the Cowherd to death with one punch, right?"

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded, agreeing with Lu Xian's opinion.

But that wasn't what she was dissatisfied with. She said, "They are both too weak to be each other's helpers. When the Queen Mother attacked them, they couldn't even fight back."

It turned out that the thing that made her most dissatisfied was here.

After all, her thinking is different from that of ordinary people in her previous life.

Lu Xian smiled again and said, "This is a myth made up by ordinary people in ancient times. Although the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are characters in mythology, they are not new humans after all. It is normal for them to have no power.

“The Queen Mother in the story is a symbol of power and rules, and she refers to different things.

"They are them, and we are us. If anything happens, we can definitely help each other."

"Um……"

Yao Wei nodded, agreeing deeply, feeling inexplicably excited, and said, "Even if it is..." She began to say this, but suddenly didn't want to continue and closed her mouth.

"Even what?"

Lu Xian asked.

"nothing."

Yao Wei shook her head, opened her laptop, and said, "Go to sleep."

The woman seemed a little nervous, otherwise she would have said "Let's watch a movie" instead of "Let's go to bed".

Lu Xian glanced at Yao Wei, then silently reclined the seat and lay down.

Yao Wei selected the movie, clicked play, took the bed sheet, threw one side to Lu Xian, and asked Lu Xian to cover himself with it.

The starlight in the night sky was drowned out by the fluorescent light from the laptop screen, which filled the entire car with flickering light.

Lu Xian bent his arms, put his hands behind his head, and suddenly said: "Even if there is something like the Milky Way separating us, we can definitely meet again with our own strength, without having to wait for his Magpie Bridge."

Yao Wei was silent for a long time, then said, "Yeah."

Lu Xian glanced at Yao Wei secretly and saw that the corners of Yao Wei's mouth curled up uncontrollably.

He pretended not to see it and closed his eyes to sleep. If Yao Wei was exposed, she would probably feel something was wrong again.

There was a voice thinking in the laptop, and even after closing his eyes, there was still a flickering light seeping through his eyelids. But even in such an environment, it was particularly hypnotic, and after a while, Lu Xian fell asleep.

The weather in Jianshan City seemed to want to keep Lu Xian and Yao Wei here. The cold this time was not as severe, but the thin ice on the ground did not melt for a long time and lasted for five days.

Fortunately, Lu Xian and Yao Wei had enough patience. They read books and watched movies every day, or wore thick clothes, exercised around the car, practiced a set of boxing, and stretched their muscles. In five days, they easily got through it.

During the five days, they tried to reduce their food intake and water consumption to lower their consumption and ensure that they could survive the severe cold no matter how long it lasted.

This is not a problem at all for these two new humans.

Five days later, they still had a lot of dried meat left, and the water in the bucket hadn't run out. The thin ice on the road had melted, and Lu Xian, confirming that everything was fine, continued on his journey with Yao Wei.

He calculated the time and said, "If we keep going this way, by the time we get to Xiaogang Village, your period will probably come again."

"Ah."

Yao Wei said, "It's okay, you can keep going."

Lu Xian said: "Why rush? The shelter is just there, we can go back and reminisce about it. When I left before, I was still a little reluctant to leave.

"When we left here earlier, we were somewhat resistant to the pressure above our heads. But now that I think about it, it seems that we no longer feel the pressure in Xiaogang Village.

"We stayed there before, and it was fine, wasn't it?"

Yao Wei was finally persuaded by Lu Xian and said, "Yeah."

Continuing on their way, they bypassed Jianshan City but still didn't enter. Then they entered Niutou County and, when they reached Xifang Village, they had to refuel at the "First Petrochemical" gas station there.

The valve of the oil tank at this gas station had been opened by Lu Xian. This time when he went there, Lu Xian was afraid that something was wrong and an explosion had occurred.

Fortunately, his bad luck did not come true this time. When he arrived at the gas station, everything was still fine.

Lu Xian asked Gou Zi to check again, and after confirming that it was safe, he carefully pulled out the anti-theft bolt, opened the valve, and then refueled with the oil pump.

After filling up the gas, they did not stop and continued on their way. When they arrived at Niutou County, the inexplicable pressure on the other side reached its strongest point.

So Lu Xian and Yao Wei left quickly without stopping for a moment and without any intention of exploring Niutou Mountain.

But before leaving, there was a place they went to -

The sewage treatment plant in Niutou County.

There are two computers in the factory office. One of the computers has a good monitor. Now that there is enough space, Lu Xian feels that he can bring the good monitor with him.

There are also video signal cables and power cables for the monitor.

"This is where the game console comes in handy. When we get to Xiaogang Village, we can try playing some games."

After Lu Xian packed all these things into the car, he said cheerfully, "Thanks to you, if it weren't for you, now I would only have a monitor but no game console."

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded. Seeing Lu Xian so happy, she also felt a little happy. She felt that she had done something very necessary before.

(End of this chapter)