Chapter 5: This is Sequence Extraordinary

When Chen Ye arrived at the shopping mall entrance, he noticed several vehicles parked outside the supermarket.

There were modified off-road vehicles, sedans, and even a coach bus.

Chen Ye recognized these as belonging to their convoy fleet.

In the apocalypse, maintaining a vehicle was quite troublesome.

Whether electric or gasoline-powered.

Refueling or recharging both presented significant challenges.

He had just seen two off-road vehicles continuing ahead in search of a gas station.

Since fleeing Jiangcheng, Chen Ye had encountered numerous luxury cars along the way - many of them models he'd only seen online before - all abandoned by the roadside.

Survivors on the road had tried driving these vehicles away.

Most vehicles had been abandoned because they ran out of fuel.

This explained why many in their convoy rode bicycles during migrations.

Ordinary people struggled to gather supplies.

Chen Ye immediately spotted his own tricycle parked outside the supermarket.

His belongings remained in the cargo bed.

When he'd emptied his backpack earlier, he'd taken everything out, and now it all lay scattered in the tricycle bed.

Apparently, that wretched couple had also come to the supermarket.

The shopping mall appeared quite large, with four o'clock sunlight casting faint illumination at the entrance while the interior remained pitch black and unclear.

So many people had entered - it should be lively inside, with at least some noise.

Yet it remained unnervingly quiet.

Chen Ye decided to scout around the entrance, hoping to gather some supplies by chance.

Surviving in this apocalyptic world required some adventurous spirit - otherwise, you'd starve quickly.

As for that wretched couple, he definitely wouldn't let them leave here alive.

But gathering supplies remained the top priority now.

Convoy's second iron rule: Gather as many supplies as possible!!!

In the apocalypse, supplies meant everything!

After emptying his backpack of supplies and shouldering it again.

Chen Ye crouched low and slowly approached the supermarket entrance, hand crossbow ready as he cautiously scanned left and right.

At any sign of abnormality, he would turn and run immediately.

As he ventured deeper, Chen Ye quickly realized his plan had flaws.

This supermarket covered much more area than he'd imagined.

The shelves near the entrance stood completely empty.

Only the more distant shelves retained some remaining goods.

Not far from Chen Ye, two figures moved between shelves, continuously grabbing items and stuffing them into their bags.

Chen Ye raised his hand crossbow slightly, then ultimately lowered it.

These weren't that wretched couple - they bore him no grudge, and the two couldn't carry much anyway.

With so many supplies nearby, committing such foolishness seemed unnecessary!

Chen Ye slowed his pace and gradually advanced deeper into the supermarket.

The food section lay just ahead.

Chen Ye crept over and discovered several figures already there.

These people noticed Chen Ye's arrival and immediately made shushing gestures at him.

Before Chen Ye could react, he felt that familiar hair-raising sensation surge through him.

This feeling again.

Chen Ye saw a young girl wandering among the shelves ahead, murmuring something under her breath.

While warehouse-style supermarket shelves stood exceptionally high, normal supermarket shelves typically reached about 2.2 meters.

Yet this young girl stood half her height above those shelves.

By this estimate, she must have measured over three meters tall.

Normal humans simply couldn't reach such height.

Only one possibility remained.

This girl was an Anomaly!!!

The girl had disheveled hair completely obscuring her face, wore a white dress, and swayed like a puppet as she moved.

The super-tall girl carried an enormous pair of scissors.

The scissors continuously opened and closed in her hands, emitting a chilling sound.

"Where are you?~~~"

"Where are you?~~~~ Come out, let's play together!"

The girl murmured these words, her voice drawn-out and eerie, as if talking to herself yet also speaking to little mice hiding in the darkness.

Now Chen Ye understood why those people had shushed him earlier.

A cold sweat drop trickled down Chen Ye's forehead.

Having just escaped from the Paper Crying Child, he never expected to encounter the White Dress Scissor Woman.

Chen Ye felt his heart nearly leap from his chest.

The Scissor Woman turned past a shelf row and slowly rotated her body.

Chen Ye also crouched low and gradually moved out of the Scissor Woman's line of sight, shifting to the other side.

Only then did Chen Ye notice the food section contained quite a few people.

But he didn't spot the yoga pants woman or Qiangzi.

He did notice the burly man there, his massive frame comically trying to curl up small, his facial expression appearing somewhat foolish.

Currently, the burly man also looked extremely tense.

Seriously!

With your huge size, you're also afraid of Anomalies?

How could you fear Anomalies?

The Scissor Woman seemed to detect something, suddenly stopping, her head obscured by long hair turning toward Chen Ye's direction.

Two crimson points of light beneath the hair looked this way.

Everyone's movements instantly froze.

As if placed under a immobilization spell, tense atmosphere permeated the air, cold sweat spreading across foreheads!

Chen Ye could even feel time passing slowly, each second stretching like a year.

If the Scissor Woman discovered them, everyone including himself would die.

Fortunately, the Scissor Woman eventually moved again, walking forward mechanically.

Everyone collectively sighed in relief, then began playing hide-and-seek with the Scissor Woman.

Chen Ye thought about it - continuing like this wasn't sustainable.

Chen Ye quietly took a bucket of beef noodles and stuffed it into his bag.

Others saw this and began following his example.

Some carried woven plastic bags, others had backpacks.

Everyone quietly started loading items into their bags while nervously watching the Scissor Woman.

Chen Ye followed behind these people.

Having all survived this long in the apocalypse, they managed to avoid attracting the Scissor Woman's attention.

Just as Chen Ye enthusiastically gathered supplies.

He suddenly bumped into the back of the survivor ahead.

Looking forward, he saw everyone had stopped moving, their eyes terrified as they stared ahead.

A seven or eight-year-old Anomaly child blocked everyone's path.

That deathly pale skin resembling a three-day corpse, those unnaturally flushed cheeks, and those venomous eyes.

This was... the Paper Crying Child!

He had tracked them here!

"Ah~~~~"

A scream shattered the supermarket's silence.

This scream awakened certain sinister presences in the darkness.

The three-meter-tall White Dress Scissor Woman stiffly turned her head toward them.

An overwhelming chill instantly swept through, making Chen Ye's hands and feet feel somewhat numb.

"Snip snip!~~~"

Scissor sounds echoed through the supermarket.

"Hehe... So you're here! Want to play together?"

The Scissor Woman strode toward them, knocking over several shelves.

"Oh god!"

"Run, I don't want to die!"

Chen Ye grabbed his backpack and turned to flee.

Before he could turn completely, he witnessed two survivors ahead get cleanly cut into upper and lower halves by giant scissors.

The two survivors seemed not to have processed what happened yet, their upper bodies falling to the ground while they still crawled and struggled with their hands, leaving trails of blood across the floor.

"Hehe... Wonderful, so much fun!"

"I want to play more!"

The scissors lifted again.

The next second, another survivor wearing a suit and gold-rimmed glasses got cut in half at the waist.

"Damn it, fight it out!"

A furious roar!

The entire supermarket filled with explosive energy.

Chen Ye watched as that two-meter-tall muscular giant, like an inflating balloon, transformed in the blink of an eye into a giant rivaling the Scissor Woman's size.

Also three meters tall, his muscles bulging like iron lumps.

Compared to the Scissor Woman, his overall presence seemed equally powerful if not stronger.

This... was Sequence Superpowers?