Chapter 396 I Want to Be Alone
Yang Xiao, besides occasionally looking directly at Huang Wen, usually just gave her a glance without paying much attention to her appearance. In his impression, she was neither ugly nor beautiful, but had some potential in terms of figure.
But unexpectedly, when he saw her today, she had turned into a beauty.
Yang Xiao stared blankly at Huang Wen, and her face flushed red as she chided:
"What are you looking at?"
"Ah, I, I...how come I find you beautiful now?"
No girl dislikes being complimented, and Huang Wen was no exception.
With a faint smile, Huang Wen said sorrowfully:
"You have never really looked at me. In your eyes, there are probably only Qin Yu and Deng Xiao, right?"
Yang Xiao responded with an embarrassed smile:
"That's not true, I always..."
He paused here, as he couldn't just say he had always liked her, which would be too hypocritical.
Huang Wen looked straight at Yang Xiao, deliberately teasing him by asking:
"Always what?"
At this moment, Huang Wen was very close to Yang Xiao, and they could feel each other's breath.
Yang Xiao, being stared at so closely by Huang Wen, felt a rush of confusion in his heart, especially when he suddenly noticed that Huang Wen's face was changing, becoming more beautiful. He guessed this was related to her cultivation and the Beast Soul. After practicing the Genetic Transformation Technique himself, his own skin had undergone significant changes.
What man doesn't like beautiful women?
Huang Wen had always had a good figure, and now that she had become more attractive, it naturally stirred desires in Yang Xiao.
Yang Xiao swallowed, suppressed his inappropriate thoughts, took a step back, and said with a smile:
"I've always...thought you were good. I never judge by appearances, and I don't care about others' looks,"
"So you mean I used to be ugly?"
"Ah? No, I mean,"
"Hehe, hypocrite!"
Huang Wen glared at Yang Xiao.
...
Yang Xiao stayed in Nanmu City for three days and made a trip to Shanyun City during that time.
With Yang Xiao present, and everyone talking about how he had killed the giant snake with one move, everyone's confidence was boosted. Under the leadership of Gong Yu, Xiao Zhe, Zhao Gang, Huang Wen, Long Yongjun, and others, over ten thousand people participated in an operation to clear the Mutant Monsters.
Those hidden in the ruins, damaged houses, and subway tunnels, like rats, spiders, dogs, rabbits, pigs, wolves, and more, were almost entirely eradicated.
Xiao Zhe established a Defense zone along several main streets, with watch posts at intersections and patrols between them, and the Flying People Team in the sky.
A large number of monsters were intercepted and eliminated before entering the city.
Xia Luo and Zhou Qiang conducted similar operations in Shanyun City, consolidating the population of surrounding points into the city area and establishing a city defense system to ensure everyone's daily life and cultivation safety.
Yang Xiao walked around to understand the situation of various points, occasionally participating in battles. Huang Wen, Qin Yu, Deng Xiao, and Chen Fei always closely followed him.
Chen Fei joked:
"Boss, from now on, we four will follow you wherever you go. Don't let some vixen outside bewitch you."
The few girls had always been bothered by Yang Xiao taking away thirteen boxes of tissues and felt that he was up to something outside.
But this was not something they could openly discuss, so they hinted at it jokingly.
Xu Nanqiang had secretly told Yang Xiao that Huang Wen knew about him taking the thirteen boxes of tissues.
Yang Xiao spoke very seriously and earnestly to Xu Nanqiang:
"Ah, doing a good deed is really hard!"
...
Yang Xiao inadvertently thought of Jingjing, the woman No. 25 at the Magic City Financial Building, that soul-stirring night, her smile and thoughts, every gesture and motion, and her snow-white skin... which he found unforgettable and deeply etched in his bones.
Yang Xiao decided to make a trip to Magic City, to see the changes in Magic City after the ice and snow had melted, and by the way visit the Financial Building to see if there was a chance to meet the woman No. 25.
Gong Yu accompanied Yang Xiao to Magic City, where they met Du Tianxing.
"Brother Du, long time no see, what have you been busy with lately?"
Du Tianxing sighed and said:
"What else can I be busy with? Now, the entire periphery of the city is plagued with mutant monsters, and every day there are incidents of people being devoured by monsters, I, as the king of Magic City, am almost dizzy from it all. Right now, I am arranging people to defend against the attacks of mutant monsters."
Magic City had over two hundred thousand people, ten Genetic Store bases, plus the bases in the suburbs; with its large area and dispersed population, it was naturally more difficult to manage compared to Nanmu City.
"How about Brother Gu's Wentian City? What's the situation now?"
Yang Xiao asked, he had just come out of the desert and was not very familiar with the outside situation, although he roughly guessed it, he still wanted to confirm it personally.
"Don't mention it, it's all the same, absolutely chaotic, all cities are busy resisting the attacks of mutant monsters, almost every city has people dying every day, ah, now that I think about it, it was better during the ice age, back then, mutant monsters were afraid of the cold and didn't dare to come out to attack humans."
"Have you thought about calling a City Alliance meeting to discuss together?"
"I went to Wentian City a few days ago for this very reason, but Brother Gu said that everyone is too busy to even think of holding a meeting, and besides, can such a thing be resolved by a meeting?"
Yang Xiao nodded his head.
"Brother Du, do you have any strategies?"
"I have no good solutions for the time being, can only send people to defend everywhere. How about you? How is Nanmu City doing? You still have time to come out?"
"Hehe, our Nanmu City is a small place, I gathered all 20,000 people into the city area and established a simple defense line, now the situation is much more stable."
Du Tianxing was startled and said:
"You make sense, it seems we should also pull back our lines, otherwise, Magic City is too big and the population is too spread out, we are really struggling to manage."
"How about Wangchuan River and East Sea?"
"They are thawing, the upstream water sources keep flowing into the East Sea, we can't dig Ice Fish anymore, now everyone has retreated, it seems that future developments will undergo a change, shifting from the sea to the land, demanding resources from the land."
Yang Xiao chatted with Du Tianxing for a while longer, rejected Du Tianxing's request to stay longer, and bid farewell to leave.
Arriving at the base of Global Financial Square, he saw the gate closed tightly with four Iron Tower Warriors standing at the door, Yang Xiao sighed and directly entered the Transmission Array, returning to Nanmu City.
In the future, when thinking of Jingjing, I'm afraid I can only be alone quietly!
Yang Xiao entered the Genetic Store.
"Old Gu, please help me open the transmission channels to Shaolin and four other locations."
Gu Bo nodded, turned, and went into a room behind the counter, and after a moment came out from the room, saying:
"I've opened the transmission channels to four places for you, according to the information here, these four places had already applied for transmission channels to Nanmu City 20 days ago, because they had not been opened here, so the channels were not activated."
Yang Xiao nodded, took his Flame Horse, and entered the Transmission Array.
Gong Yu said:
"Do you want me to accompany you?"
"No need, just help me watch over Nanmu City."
Yang Xiao, in the halo of the Transmission Array, saw the newly opened places, hesitated for a moment, then tapped on Divine Mountain.
With a flash of light, Yang Xiao disappeared from the Transmission Array, arriving at Divine Mountain.
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