Beginning with the Ubume Bird-Chapter 277 - 3 Wandering Deity

Chapter 277: Chapter 3 Wandering Deity

The baby in the swaddling clothes didn’t cry or make noise, his gleaming black eyes curiously roamed, reflecting the steep cliffs of the Gobi.

Li Yan rested his head against the motorcycle, facing a poplar tree, gazing at the horizon.

Under a canopy made from withered branches behind the motorcycle, a trickling sound of water could be heard; the woman poured a scoop of water over her shoulder, occasionally glancing at the baby by her thigh with tender eyes.

“This stuff, it’s got side effects, huh.”

Li Yan held the syringe in his hand under the purplish-red sunlight; the brown liquid flowed in the needle, gleaming brilliantly.

A soft palm searched back and forth on a tree branch draped with clothes; the woman, with her wet hair, peeked at Li Yan before answering, “People with poor constitutions might die violently.”

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Without paying much heed to her words, Li Yan, after sterilizing a sewing needle with a lighter, used it as a needle head to inject the “Dual Gun Savior” into his body.

After a simple clean up, the woman appeared even more fetching, with long, curved eyebrows and tender skin, her waist and hips tight and shapely. It’s no wonder even dying rioters, their minds corrupted by radiation-induced desires, would go crazy for her.

“Sir, thank you.”

The woman looked at Li Yan’s back and greeted softly.

In such times, a man with a pistol, a motorcycle, and freshwater was undeniably charismatic.

“Around here, are there any larger settlements?”

Li Yan asked.

The woman steadied herself and replied, “If you head north for fifty kilometers, there’s a large shelter. Sir, which company issued your license? The Raine Brothers? Or Kuang Zhuoma?”

“What’s that supposed to be?”

Li Yan raised an eyebrow.

Startled by his response, the woman took a step back, and after seeing that Li Yan didn’t make any further aggressive moves, just staring at her, she continued, “The Raine Brothers, and Kuang Zhuoma, are both large munitions manufacturers here that have the power to make firearms. Only if the Wilderness Hunters hold a license issued by them will these scattered small shelters acknowledge and be willing to accommodate.”

“How does one get such a license?”

Li Yan asked without blinking.

“Complete a commission for the munitions company,” the woman answered reflexively. Then she suddenly asked with a mixture of surprise and suspicion, “You couldn’t possibly be a greenhorn, could you? Where did you get your pistol and motorbike from?”

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Li Yan turned back and said nonchalantly, “Get dressed and take me to a place where I can get a license.” He then frowned and added, “Wait, first find me a place where I can get gasoline. By the way, what was your name again?”

Li Yan threw out several questions in succession.

The Dodge Tomahawk he had acquired from Yan Capital, although modified by that unlucky wanderer to travel through various terrains, was not low on fuel consumption. On the way, Li Yan had seen too many abandoned cars, but without exception, not one still had gasoline.

His Seal Space had some reserves, but not much. If he couldn’t find a settlement where he could buy gasoline, he would have to trek on with the mother and child on foot.

“My name is Afafu,” the woman began, and before she could finish, she suddenly cried out in alarm, “Someone’s following us!”

Li Yan glanced in the direction of Afafu’s pointing finger, the corners of his mouth twitching as he looked down at the magazine in the shell casings.

The sound of vehicles approached.

Shouting, whistling, the frenzied spinning tires of sprinting jeeps, the rioters with faces like Evil Ghosts, magazine straps bound across their chests, wildly swinging carbines; each of these signs warned that the newcomers were far from benevolent.

Li Yan, from atop the motorcycle, recognized a few familiar faces among the rioters—the ones who had previously cornered Afafu. The rest were brutish men with bone decorations woven into their braids, and, without exception, they were all armed.

There were a total of four vehicles, all beaten up, with the lead green jeep patched up with iron sheets all over, its doors and the front covered in graffiti, driven by a man with unwashed dreadlocks.

And in the passenger seat, there was a bald giant with wrists as big as pears, clutching his shoulders and staring menacingly.

Ever since the two of them came into view, the bald man hadn’t even deigned to glance at Li Yan, who leaned on his motorcycle, his gaze riveted on Afafu. His crimson tongue licked his lips, his expression greedy and ugly.

The sight of Afafu’s face drove the thugs in the car into even more raucous jeering.

“Da da da da da da~”

The carbine spat out tongues of fire crazily, leaving a row of bullet holes near Li Yan’s feet.

Li Yan stood up, his Luger Pistol aimed at the jeep and he pulled the trigger, but the distance was far beyond the pistol’s range; it couldn’t even penetrate the jeep’s metal skin, and his futile resistance provoked another round of laughter from the thugs in the vehicle.

Li Yan, however, was oblivious and continued to shoot leisurely.

Biting her lip, Afafu grabbed the swaddling cloth and, using a belt, tied the baby to her chest. She kicked over a basin, disregarding her thin clothing, nimbly flipped over, and mounted the Dodge Tomahawk. Clamping the motorcycle with her long legs, she looked back and shouted, “Get on the bike.”

Without looking back, Li Yan pointed at Afafu with his idle left hand, “If you dare to drive my bike, I’ll kill you.”

“You!” Afafu was on the verge of tears.

The senseless shooting instead whipped up the sadistic amusement of the car thugs, and considering Afafu’s presence, they laughed and hooted, firing into the sky and whistling at Li Yan.

“Try hitting when you’re closer.”

No sooner had Afafu spoken than the sound of “click-click” came from the bolt of Li Yan’s gun.

“You, you’re out of bullets?”

The woman said in astonishment.

Li Yan was expressionless and silent.

The bald thug in the jeep was almost in tears from laughter.

Blazed up on marijuana, the bald hulk was somewhat out of his mind. He drooled and whistled, reaching out to slap the shoulder of the dreadlocked driver next to him, whispering something that made the driver burst into loud laughter. Suddenly, with a ‘poof,’ a dark mass shattered the windshield and smashed directly onto the grimacing bald head, splattering blood everywhere.

“Aaaah~”

The dirt-braided driver screamed as if he’d seen a ghost.

The bald giant’s head was a gruesome sight, a mix of bone shards, flesh, and metal pieces, and in his eye socket was embedded… a spring?!

A gun’s spring?!

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“What kind of freak ability is this? It’s not as handy as Wind Marsh, lucky that I could try it out before replacing my expansion skill.”

After tossing aside his Luger Pistol, Li Yan cursed twice and then, with a flick of his wrist, pulled out the Gold-engraved Tiger Head Spear. His foot stomped on the ground, causing the earth to crack!

The vehicle was at least a hundred meters away from Li Yan, but in almost an instant, Li Yan, wielding the great spear single-handedly, closed in! The Platinum Devouring Blade plunged into the headlights! The thug driving could even see the veins on Li Yan’s hand clearly!

Tiger Rises!

Immediately thereafter, the car window was covered in a white expanse of frost.

The surging ice fangs followed the spear upward, forming a glittering ice tree over a yard long on the desolate Gobi stretches, and the whole speeding jeep was flipped over by a single thrust from Li Yan!

Afafu was dumbfounded for a good while before she murmured, “Wandering Deity, a third-tier transformation drug, Wandering Deity.”