Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland: The Female Protagonist Has Become a God

Chapter 154 I Never Knew You

After Fang Yanqing left, the base gate closed again, and the superhumans guarding the gate began their search once more.

How's it going on your end?

A woman with a curvaceous figure and long, black hair reaching her waist walked over. She was wearing a black jacket, shorts, and knee-high black boots.

"Sigh, still nothing to show for it," the tall, thin male superhuman in the lead replied.

"We had the same thing over there." She crossed her arms and looked curious. "I just saw you open the base gates, who went out?"

"Sister Xingyue and her boyfriend discovered a passage leading from Fang Yanqing's house to this place, and suspected that he had already escaped, so they went outside the base to take a look."

"What? Sister Xingyue?!" The girl exclaimed in surprise. "I just saw Sister Xingyue and the others. How could they be here?"

"You didn't actually let Fang Yanqing out, did you?"

The boy scratched his head. "No way, how could I mistake Xingyue and the others? Maybe what you saw was Fang Yanqing and the others."

"Oh dear!" The girl stamped her foot anxiously. "Didn't you hear Sister Xu'er say that Fang Yanqing has a strange corpse beast that can create illusions?!"

"You can't find someone just by their appearance. You need to make them demonstrate their special abilities to identify them!"

The girl unleashed her supernatural power into the sky, and the sound of explosions spread in all directions.

"Don't be in such a hurry. Maybe it really is Sister Xingyue and the others who went out," the boy said, sounding a little unsure.

Shortly after the explosion, Cang Xingyue and Lu Siyan appeared before them.

"Sister Xingyue, how come you arrived so quickly!" The two were shocked.

“We have teleportation, of course we’re fast.” Cang Xingyue looked at them and asked, “What’s wrong? Have you discovered anything?”

The girl quickly recounted what had just happened.

Cang Xingyue frowned upon hearing this. No wonder Fang Yanqing wanted to protect that strange corpse beast; it was to make it easier to hide in the crowd. Transforming into her and Lu Siyan's likeness—how cunning!

The boy pulled the girl aside, looking at them warily. "We can't be so sure that it was Fang Yanqing who went out, can we...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Cang Xingyue conjured a fireball in her hand and said coldly, "Can you prove it?"

"Yes..." The boy lowered his head, speechless.

“Do we need to walk to teleport? Fang Yanqing doesn’t. Of course we need to walk out. You idiot, you can’t even think of that,” Lu Siyan said unhappily.

The boy lowered his head even further. It was indeed his oversight, and he couldn't deny it.

Cang Xingyue grasped Lu Siyan's hand, "He shouldn't have gone far yet, let's go after him first."

In the blink of an eye, the two disappeared from the spot.

The girl nudged the boy's arm. "Look, look, what a difference there is between the real thing and the fake. I told you to stop everyone leaving the base, but you still let them out. If Fang Yanqing had really escaped, you'd be drowning in everyone's spittle."

The girl patted him on the shoulder, "Good luck to you, sigh."

Outside the Nanqi base, Cang Xingyue and Lu Siyan scanned their surroundings. In the past, the Nanqi gate was bustling with people, but now, apart from the two of them, there was no one else in sight. It was very quiet.

If you want to find traces of someone coming and going, you can only tell from the footprints on the ground.

At this moment, three sets of footprints were imprinted on the yellow sand. One set of footprints was wide, slightly deep, and clearly embedded in the ground, suggesting that the owner of these footprints was a man, either tall and strong or short and stout. The direction was eastward.

The second set of footprints was lighter, and the size looked like a woman's. They were heading north.

The third set of footprints was very small, and the shape was not human but animal, like a dog, wolf, fox, or some other animal. The direction was westward.

Cang Xingyue stared at the footprints and fell into deep thought. She felt something was very unusual and there were many suspicious points.

Normally, even if there are only twenty or thirty people coming to or leaving the Nanqi base, now that the base gates are closed and no one is leaving, not a single person has come to Nanqi.

Moreover, the ground here is yellow sand, and every step you take will leave a mark, but there are only these three sets of footprints.

The base gates were closed in the afternoon, and residents were still leaving the base in the morning and forenoon, but now there's not a trace left.

There is probably only one way to produce such a scene: it is an illusion.

To verify her conjecture, Sousei used water to wash the footprints on the ground. The water swept across the sand without leaving a trace, not even wetting the sand, and the footprints remained intact without being damaged in the slightest.

"It really was an illusion." She exchanged a glance with Lu Siyan and confirmed.

All of this is an illusion, a delusion created by Fang Yanqing to mislead them.

They can't just release their powers to break the illusion, because there might be people passing by in the real scene outside the illusion, and releasing their powers would inevitably cause accidental injury.

"Star Moon, I have an item here that can dispel illusions, called the Obstacle-Removing Lamp. You can take it and use it for now." The system, which had been silent for a long time, finally reappeared.

"System, you're still here? I thought you had quietly left." Cang Xingyue was pleasantly surprised.

Since that last conversation in the underground laboratory, the system has not spoken to her or given her any hints for the next few days.

"Sigh." The system sighed helplessly, "The trouble I caused has been discovered, and now I'm wanted. I've been hiding for the past few days to avoid being discovered."

"If the mistake is corrected, will you receive a lighter punishment?" she asked.

"Perhaps, but it all depends on the Law God's decision." The system's voice was somewhat dejected. "I can only appear for a short while before I have to go back to hiding. From now on, it's up to you. I can't use any abilities right now, or I'll leave a trace."

"it is good."

Cang Xingyue gripped the obstacle removal lamp given to her by the system, her expression solemn. She secretly resolved to find Fang Yanqing as soon as possible, understand the truth, and prevent the tragedy from happening.

Hopefully, this can salvage the system's mistake and allow him to receive a lighter sentence.

After all, the system had saved her life and helped her become stronger; she could say that she owed her success today entirely to the system's assistance.

The obstacle clearance light is shaped like an old-fashioned kerosene lamp. Under the glass cover, it is divided into upper and lower sections like an hourglass. One side is pitch black like the night, while the other side is sparkling with golden light like fine sand.

Cang Xingyue flipped the lamp, causing the stars to fall into darkness, as if they had fallen to earth, instantly illuminating the surroundings.

The illusion before my eyes disappeared under the light.

The three sets of footprints on the ground had disappeared, replaced by a jumble of messy footprints. The people around them were also revealed; some were standing and some were squatting outside the Nanqi Gate, all looking at them with curiosity.

The illusion dissipated, and Cang Xingyue looked at Lu Siyan with a smile, but saw only a look of dejection on his face.

He looked at the obstacle clearing light in her hand and suddenly smiled bitterly, "I suddenly realize that I seem to have never really understood you."

Each time they met, she was stronger than the last time. The weapons she could summon at will were ones that no one had ever seen before. She possessed an invulnerable body and could do things that ordinary people could not, such as bringing him back to life.

Another example is to restore Song Lin and the others' physical condition to that of a few months or even a few years ago.

I hadn't thought about it much before, until she suddenly produced a novel lamp out of thin air, easily dispelling the illusion.

He suddenly recalled all the things that had happened in the past, which made him feel a sense of distance between him and her that was impossible to reach.

Ah Yue, if one day you leave me, will you?

He wanted to ask her that question, but he didn't dare to ask it aloud, afraid that he wouldn't get the answer he wanted, afraid that after hesitating, she would give him a comforting lie.