"Don't run!" Qin Feng shouted.
His face was full of provocation, as if telling the sperm whale, "I'll come for you."
The sperm whale couldn't understand human language.
But it could sense the provocation.
*Swoosh!*
It spouted a stream of water from its nostrils.
Responding to his challenge.
"I'll wait for you!"
"Next time, I'll eat you!"
"An Ling, come with me," Qin Feng beckoned.
An Ling stared at him.
This man had taken her first time, and then driven her away as if she was used goods.
Inhumane!
Heartless!
But...
Just a few minutes ago, he had saved her again.
Otherwise.
She would have already been swallowed by the whale!
She looked at Qin Feng with complex emotions.
After a long moment.
She silently flew towards the island.
"Something wrong?" she asked, her voice cold and devoid of emotion.
"How about joining my team?" Qin Feng asked.
"Is this coercion or an invitation?"
She was expressionless.
"What if it's an invitation?" Qin Feng countered.
"I refuse!"
"Then it's coercion."
Qin Feng smiled. "If you don't listen, I'll kill people."
An Ling: ...
Is he crazy?
If he intended to use force, why bother with the pretense of an invitation?
"You're afraid of death, aren't you?"
Qin Feng narrowed his eyes, his gaze chilling. "After being chased earlier, you were already at your limit. If you didn't want to be violated by them, you could have just ended it yourself."
"But, even though you knew you couldn't escape, you still fought with all your might to flee."
"You even agreed to my terms."
He could see that she feared death!
Qin Feng had noticed this long ago.
Fearing death was not shameful.
How many people were not afraid of death?
Who would willingly die if they could live?
Even with a one-in-a-million chance!
"What exactly do you want?!" An Ling gritted her teeth.
Being seen through and unable to resist made her angry and despairing.
"Join my team. It's that simple."
"You call one person and one bird a team?"
"The others aren't here."
"Just joining your team?"
"Yes!"
Qin Feng nodded.
"What else... do you want me to do?" An Ling asked through clenched teeth.
"Nothing more."
Qin Feng saw her doubts. "That kind of thing won't happen again. From now on, we are superior and subordinate. That's all."
That's all?
An Ling stared at him intently.
She knew.
Facing this heartless but powerful man, escape was impossible.
Not only could she not escape, but she didn't dare to try.
Because she didn't know what the consequences would be if she was caught trying to escape.
"I hope you keep your word. If you dare to touch me..."
*Whoosh!*
Suddenly, Qin Feng reached out.
And grabbed her by the neck.
His eyes turned ice-cold, and he said word by word, "I don't respond to threats!"
"Let go... cough cough..."
An Ling struggled to breathe, patting his hand frantically.
Alas.
His grip was like an iron vise. No matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't break free.
"So what if I touch you?!"
Qin Feng released her.
The next moment.
A Level 7 Giant Squid crystal appeared in his hand. "Did you absorb any crystals today?"
"No... no..." An Ling was terrified.
He was the epitome of ruthlessness, dominance, and power.
She could never be tough with him.
Nor could she try to threaten him.
Otherwise.
He would really kill her!
"Absorb it."
Qin Feng pushed the crystal into her hand. "Be careful of the amount you absorb. Too much will kill you!"
To defeat the mutated sperm whale in a short time, there was only one way.
Raise An Ling to Level 6, activating her second ability.
Ten minutes later.
An Ling finished absorbing and looked at him excitedly.
This crystal...
It was too high a level!
It allowed her to advance two levels in an instant!
"What level are you?" Qin Feng asked urgently.
"Level 5... I'm Level 5!" An Ling's eyes shone.
Before.
She was only Level 3.
Just now, as she absorbed it, her head began to ache, and she knew she had reached her limit.
Then, she directly broke through to Level 5!
She had seen zombie crystals.
They were not as large as this crystal, and their colors were different.
"Only Level 5?" Qin Feng frowned.
That made sense.
In his previous life.
An Ling was weak at first, possessing only the ability to fly for escape, with almost zero combat power.
With such a weak ability, how strong could she become?
Insufficient strength.
How could she obtain a large number of crystals to improve?
Therefore, she was only Level 3 until now.
As long as she was Level 5, absorbing a Level 7 crystal once could immediately break through to Level 6.
Qin Feng looked at the crystal she returned.
His mental power delved in.
She had only absorbed a little over ten percent.
At Level 5, she would absorb more next time, likely over twenty percent.
In other words.
Given the size of this crystal, it could allow four or five ability users to advance from Level 5 to Level 6.
"Rest. We'll wait until tomorrow," Qin Feng said, putting away the crystal.
She needed to absorb it one more time to break through.
And activate her new ability.
"I..."
An Ling's cheeks flushed.
*Gulp!*
As he heard the strange sound, Qin Feng immediately guessed.
A small table appeared out of thin air.
Then...
An Ling was stunned.
In an instant.
The table was laden with all sorts of food.
There were meat and vegetable dishes served on plates, fresh fruit, and various beverages.
And a bottle of red wine.
Where did these things...
Come from?!
Seeing the table full of food, she suddenly felt like crying.
After the nuclear explosion.
All sorts of disasters kept happening.
Each one more deadly than the last.
How long had it been since she last ate a proper meal?
And these dishes were... dishes from Great Xia, like the ones her mother used to make!
And her mother.
Was no longer here!
She silently sat down at the table, picked up her chopsticks, and began to eat.
As she ate.
Tears rolled down her cheeks silently.
"What's wrong? Doesn't it suit your taste?" Qin Feng asked.
"No..."
She buried her head lower.
But she couldn't control her tears.
Qin Feng glanced at her.
He picked out a piece of stir-fried sea cucumber with scallions for her and said, "In the apocalypse, you can only look forward."
An Ling was stunned.
She never expected him to be able to comfort people.
In fact.
She didn't know that when she was just a stranger, Qin Feng wouldn't have bothered with her.
Even if he fulfilled a temporary need, it would have just been a transaction.
But now that she had joined the team, it was different.
In Qin Feng's eyes.
Close physical contact didn't mean much.
Only the bond of teammates could melt the heart.
...
Blue Star.
The Great Xia live stream chat was abuzz with discussion.
— 'I thought Qin Feng was great, a perfect match for Xiao Ruoruo. Now he's seeing two women at once!'
— 'Exactly! Men are all trash!'
Any account that posted these comments was invariably run by women.
— 'Oh! Are you Ye Wen's master? You fight so well!'
— 'Do you understand the apocalypse? Do you understand transactions?'
— 'Useless! Knows nothing but fighting!'
— 'Hello everyone, I'm a new viewer. I just wanted to ask... did our War God lose?' (Traditional Chinese)
— 'A War God who can't even beat a fish?'
— 'I have a premonition that Qin Feng will be eaten if he goes back to find the whale!'
Starting with the "new viewer" from Taiwan, more netizens from other countries flooded the live stream chat.
All sorts of sarcastic remarks.
How could Great Xia netizens tolerate being mocked?
They retorted.
They cursed back.
The chat was lively.
— 'Comrades, quickly go to the John Bull country's live stream!'
— 'Jin Qian, that bitch, is causing trouble!'
The verbal battle immediately stopped.
Everyone rushed to the John Bull live stream.
The Great Xia netizens understood that the news couldn't reach the apocalypse planet, so they couldn't inform Qin Feng in time.
Yet, they were all extremely anxious.