Chapter 57: 57, Transcendent!

As the atmosphere in the team grew increasingly strange, Xu Xianchu spoke coldly: "Look at what you've all become. The most urgent thing now is to find food and get out of here. Do you all want to die here?"

Liu Bu laughed awkwardly: "Right, we need to work together now."

At some moment, Liu Bu had also had a wicked thought, but he suddenly realized he no longer had any teammates. If something dirty happened here and everyone truly survived, these private soldiers would kill all witnesses outside their ranks.

"Where are we going to find food?" someone complained: "Do you dare enter this forest now? I'm not going in!"

Xu Xianchu looked at Ren Xiaosu: "You're the most knowledgeable about surviving in the wilderness. Help everyone find some food."

Suddenly, a voice echoed in Ren Xiaosu's mind: "Mission: Help the team find food."

Find food?

Ren Xiaosu pondered for a moment, then pointed to a private soldier beside Xu Xianchu: "I saw him take food from the pickup before entering the canyon. It should be in his backpack."

The soldier was stunned. Are you kidding me? We asked you to find food in the wilderness, and you're taking it from me?

"Mission completed: Reward basic skill learning chart."

Ren Xiaosu smiled. After all, the palace didn't specify where to find the food. Whose food isn't food?

He was growing more fond of the palace's way of assigning tasks...

Xu Xianchu looked at the soldier beside him: "Hand over the food."

"Why should I give you the food?" The soldier immediately turned hostile: "When I went to get food, what were you doing? You took clothes, tents, and that celebrity even took his makeup bag. Why should I give you mine?"

Ren Xiaosu said: "That's quite reasonable."

Everyone turned to stare at him silently...

To be honest, Ren Xiaosu supported this man. On one hand, he felt the others hadn't done their jobs properly. Now that they hadn't taken food themselves, demanding others share was a moral hijacking. On the other hand, Ren Xiaosu enjoyed the spectacle and wasn't afraid of trouble. After all, none of them were good people...

No one paid attention to Ren Xiaosu. Luo Xinyu tried to sit beside him but was pushed away.

So Luo Xinyu sat next to Yang Xiaojin, but their relationship seemed only that of employer and employee. She no longer bothered to pretend, ignoring Luo Xinyu as she ate her mouse meat.

She held her gun, as if nothing had to do with her.

Xu Xianchu looked at the soldier hoarding food and said: "Give it up. Since we're united to face this crisis, we can't have too much selfishness. When dawn comes, we'll find food naturally. You won't starve."

"Who knows if we'll even live till tomorrow?" the soldier said: "Besides, I'm not the only one who took food. Li Maoxian and Jiang Yang did too. Why should I be the only one to hand it over?"

Ren Xiaosu froze when he heard the name Li Maoxian. So there are such careless names in the Barrier?

But the most important thing now was the team's atmosphere solidifying into ice. He hadn't expected these fellow sufferers to immediately turn on each other over a bit of food.

Xu Xianchu tried to persuade gently: "I'm doing this for the whole team."

The soldier beside him sneered: "Are you still playing your authority card here? You have a gun, and so do I!"

As he spoke, he drew his gun, but Xu Xianchu suddenly kicked out, striking the speaker's chest and sending him flying several meters.

Everyone was shocked. Xu Xianchu had acted so suddenly, and with just one kick, he'd nearly incapacitated someone!

Ren Xiaosu estimated roughly. His current physical condition should allow him to do this, even surpassing Xu Xianchu in strength. Thinking this, he relaxed a bit.

The kicked soldier probably wouldn't survive the forest. Xu Xianchu's kick was heavy, and he must have suffered internal injuries.

From today on, he could only wander the forest with that injury, growing more exhausted until it finally consumed him.

It seemed Xu Xianchu was making an example of him, even if it meant losing another teammate.

But before Xu Xianchu could retract his leg, another soldier attacked from behind, drawing a military thorn and stabbing at Xu Xianchu, intending to kill him while he dealt with the others.

Even Yang Xiaojin stopped eating. If this stab hit, Xu Xianchu would die.

Wait!

Ren Xiaosu saw a gray shadow separate from Xu Xianchu's body, an exact replica.

At first, Ren Xiaosu thought his eyes were playing tricks, but he quickly realized: "Supernatural!"

Xu Xianchu was a supernatural!

No wonder he had continued forward despite the eerie things they'd encountered. He had something to rely on.

Ren Xiaosu had felt something was off. Even if Xu Xianchu wanted to complete the mission, even if he feared being expelled as a vagabond, he shouldn't have acted so recklessly.

It turned out Xu Xianchu wasn't fearless—he just had secrets.

When facing the sneak attack, the gray shadow turned abruptly, gripping the thorn as if it were a real person, its speed and strength surpassing Xu Xianchu's original body.

Moreover, the gray shadow seemed unafraid of sharp weapons, grabbing the thorn bare-handed. In a flash, the soldier's mind was in chaos. He hadn't expected to face a supernatural, nor that the opponent would dare grab a thorn bare-handed!

In the soldier's moment of distraction, the gray shadow seized the thorn and plunged it into his abdomen.

The camp fell silent, leaving only the tense breathing of everyone. The soldier slowly collapsed, his purple blood seeping into the soil and turning black.

But the wound wasn't fatal on the spot. The fallen soldier was still breathing.

The previously kicked soldier struggled to draw his pistol and began shooting, but a shocking sight occurred. The gray shadow stepped in front of Xu Xianchu, blocking all the bullets!

A ripple passed through the gray shadow's body, and the bullets embedded in it fell to the ground one by one.

Someone wanted to blame Xu Xianchu for slaughtering a comrade, but they no longer dared to speak!

All stared in shock at Xu Xianchu. Was this ability to create a shadow clone? But this shadow was clearly stronger than Xu Xianchu himself.

Moreover, this gray shadow couldn't even be penetrated by bullets!

Was this the true supernatural?

Ren Xiaosu pondered. He noticed Xu Xianchu's face had grown grim. Did this mean the shadow blocking the bullets still affected his original body?

The two "Xu Xianchus" looked around, then the gray shadow slowly approached Xu Xianchu's original form, finally stepping into his back and vanishing.