In the end, Ivy closed her eyes, and the answer appeared clearly in her mind.
Even if others called her cold and heartless, she had already chosen her path. She would not waste ti here. Her parents ca first.
She doesn’t believe that during the ti her parents set out to find her, they didn’t encounter any problem. They might have, but they still focused more on finding her.
And now... she was going to do the sa.
So when Silas returned from eting Austin, she did not even ask him about what happened.
Instead, her eyes locked on his sapphire ones, and she stated in a firm tone, "I want to leave."
Silas studied her for a second, then simply nodded. "Alright. We leave."
Without hesitation, they packed up the few things they had brought with them.
Ivy put the rest into her temporal storage and prepared to walk out.
Just then, she heard a cold, chanical voice echo in her mind.
[If you help with that woman nad Miley, you will unlock a hidden function.]
Ivy froze mid-step. Her heart skipped.
’Did I just hear that right? The storage... spoke on its own? For months, I thought it was only a prerecorded voice. An instruction guide. Not sothing alive.’
She clenched her fists and tried speaking in her thoughts.
’Are you alive? Are you a system? Can you think? Are you a living being?’
Silence.
No matter how many tis she asked, there was no reply.
Her brows furrowed as impatience seeped into her expression.
"So you speak only when you want to. Are you playing dumb with ?" she muttered under her breath.
Still nothing.
Her lips pressed into a thin line. ’Fine then. If you want to pretend to be dumb, then I won’t bother. Play this twisted ga of yours, on your own.’
Unlike others, she knew about systems. In her previous life, so of the chosen one had awakened sothing called a system.
And she heavily suspected that temporal storage was a system, too.
Albeit a doormat one.
She turned her back and continued walking. The strange voice never ca again.
But after a while, a new thought entered her mind.
’What if it was not an order? What if it was only warning ? Maybe it was telling I would lose significant rewards if I ignored it.’
That seed more believable, and the tight expression on her face eased.
There were many reasons why she was certain of this theory.
One of them being... if temporal storage was truly a system, it wouldn’t have held back until now.
Behind her, Silas walked, his body protected her from behind.
His sharp eyes scanned every corner, making sure no one from the base tried to stop them.
He did not know how Austin had found out about his powers, but one thing was clear.
Austin wanted to use him. That was why he had called for him.
Others didn’t know, but he was already at level 3 of his thunder elent, a feat rarely achieved by anyone till now.
Even Silas suspected that he was the first to reach level 3 in the entire continent.
And sohow... Austin, that dog, got to know about his trump card.
Yet even then, Austin had not dared to stop them from leaving.
’Good,’ Silas thought. ’He still does not know everything about us.’ Like Ivy’s power and his system.
The mont they crossed the outer gates of Twilight Base, Ivy said calmly,
"Let’s go far away from here."
Silas agreed, though he let out a sigh.
"Yes. There is no point in staying here. I asked around, and the people you want are not here. Twilight Base is a waste of ti."
Still, he felt an odd itch crawling across his skin, his body heating up.
A fever pressed against him faintly.
’It must just be exhaustion,’ he told himself. ’I can ignore it.’
They walked further away, but they were not alone.
A group of desperate survivors had followed them quietly.
They rembered how Ivy had waved her hand before and pulled bags of rice out of thin air. The mory was etched in their mind like a glimr of hope in complete darkness.
If they could just capture her, they would never starve again.
Ivy noticed the faint sound of footsteps behind them, but before she could speak, Silas had already raised his hand.
A thick bolt of lightning shot out from the clouds, striking right at the place where many of the desperate survivors were standing.
Many of the survivors collapsed on the ground in pain, while a few zombies, attracted by the commotion, rushed to their location.
"Sh*t! Run! That bastard’s move has attracted zombies!" One of the people who was far away from the thunder-affected area and was following behind Ivy and Silas shouted.
His voice caused the survivors to flee in a chaotic manner, and many of them even cursed and took vows of revenge.
Silas’s eyes took in everything. "We need to go far away. Now."
Ivy nodded and waved her hand.
A scooter appeared.
Both of them climbed on, and the scooter sped off like a streak of light.
The zombies nearby barely reacted, as if sothing around Ivy repelled them naturally.
Silas stayed silent, though in his heart he guessed it was another one of Ivy’s strange abilities.
’So it’s indeed true... she has the power or the potions to repel zombies. Good for her. I hope it isn’t a power, though.’
Silas knew the ugly side of humanity and had an idea of how fatal temptation Ivy’s power could beco in the apocalypse.
’No, I need to make sure that others doesn’t notice this.’
After a while, Ivy asked, "Where should we go now?"
Silas leaned closer so she could hear him against the rushing wind.
"Keep going straight. Five kiloters from here is Moonjewel Base. It is smaller than Twilight, but its leader is young and not as power-hungry. We might get information more easily there."
Hearing that, Ivy’s tense shoulders relaxed.
Austin’s base had left her with a bitter taste, and she even cursed herself for wasting ti.
’I can’t expect to hit the jackpot at once. There always so walls that we are destined to crash into, and Austin is one of them...’
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