Survival in the Ruins: I can make everything evolve infinitely - Chapter 6

006: Minuo: I’m a Mutant.

“Who is Blood Beard?” Mu Liang asked expressionlessly.

Minuo’s face, covered in dirt, showed no expression, and her tone became serious as she said, “Blood Beard is the leader of a group of thieves nearby. He often robs small camps and villages or ambushes travelers.”

“Heh heh~~ you’d better let me go,” the thief scout holding a bone knife suddenly sneered, seeing that the two of them were frightened.

The scout immediately became emboldened, saying, “Otherwise, when our boss attacks your camp, he will definitely kill both of you.”

Based on past experiences, just mentioning the name of their leader, Blood Beard, usually made most people back off.

“Wait, did you just say they’re going to attack our camp?” Mu Liang’s eyes narrowed.

“Huh? Did I…did I say that?” The thief scout’s face changed as he stuttered.

“You four are scouts, right?” Mu Liang said coldly.

“No, we’re just out hunting,” the thief scout hurriedly denied, panic in his voice.

If Blood Beard found out that he had leaked the information about the camp being attacked, he would be tied up and dragged to death.

“When will they attack our camp?”

Mu Liang picked up a bone knife nearby and pressed it under the scout’s chin, his tone calm, “I will only ask once. If I’m not satisfied with your answer, this bone knife will go through your chin and straight into your brain.”

“W-w-w-what…?” The thief scout looked at Mu Liang in terror. From the look in his eyes, it was clear that the youth wasn’t joking.

“Looks like you’re willing to bring your loyalty to Blood Beard to hell.” Mu Liang’s lips curled slightly, and he pushed the bone knife forward.

“No, no! I’ll tell you everything!” The thief scout tilted his head back in fear, shouting, “I really don’t know when Blood Beard will attack your camp, I only know that he made that decision and sent us to scout the situation.”

“You really don’t know when?” Mu Liang’s voice grew colder.

“I really don’t know, but it won’t be more than three days.” The thief scout, in order to save his life, even revealed the thief group’s unspoken rules.

After a few more questions, just when the thief scout thought he had made it through—

Crack!

Mu Liang suddenly made a move and snapped the thief scout’s neck.

“Blood Beard is targeting our camp…”

Minuo grabbed Mu Liang’s arm in panic and asked, “Mu Liang, what should I do?”

“How many people are in the camp? How many women, children, and elderly?” Mu Liang asked.

Minuo thought for a moment, pursed her lips, and said, “About 300 people, with women, children, and the elderly making up about half.”

“Tell everyone to run. You’re not a match for the thief group,” Mu Liang shook his head.

He had interrogated the thief scout and knew that Blood Beard had more than 500 strong thieves under his command.

With 300 people in the small camp, half of whom were women, children, and the elderly, they couldn’t defend against a thief group’s attack.

Even if they were lucky enough to win, there would probably be very few survivors.

“Run? Where can we run to?” Minuo asked, confused.

“That’s not my concern. Tell your leader about this, and then it’s up to them to figure it out,” Mu Liang said as he crouched down and began searching the thief scout’s body.

Minuo asked eagerly, “But… will the leader believe me?”

“There’s a high chance they won’t believe you,” Mu Liang thought for a moment and replied.

After all, a nobody in the camp suddenly going to the leader and saying there’s a thief group planning to attack the camp without knowing when? How many people would believe that?

At first, they might, but if the thief group didn’t attack for a few more days, no one would believe the girl.

“Whether they believe it or not, I have to tell them,” Minuo bit her lip.

The camp was her home, and she couldn’t just watch it be destroyed.

“Alright, leave this to me,” Mu Liang interrupted her resolve.

He had already come up with a plan. He would talk to the camp leader tonight.

If it were before, sneaking in would have been difficult.

But now, with the ‘Camouflage’ ability, talking to the leader of a small camp was no pressure at all.

“Mu Liang, you’ve come up with a plan?” Minuo exclaimed with joy.

“Yeah, I have an idea,” Mu Liang replied as he finished searching the thief scout’s clothes and only found some dried meat.

He then searched the thief scout who had spit blood; the scout was barely hanging onto life.

“Is there anything I can help with?” Minuo asked eagerly.

“You?” Mu Liang said indifferently, “Think about it, do you want to come with me the day after tomorrow?”

“Yes, I’ll go with you,” Minuo said, her face lighting up with a smile.

With the camp in danger, she had no reason to stay anymore.

“What’s with the rabbit ears on your head?” Mu Liang glanced at the long, twitching ears on top of the girl’s head.

No wonder she always covered her head with a headscarf—she was hiding rabbit ears.

“Hehe… I’m a mutant, and these rabbit ears are the result of my mutation,” Minuo giggled awkwardly, pulling at her rabbit ears.

“What abilities do you have?” Mu Liang asked curiously.

“I can hear sounds from farther away,” Minuo tilted her head and softly said, “And I’m faster and can jump higher.”

“Rabbit’s abilities,” Mu Liang realized.

No wonder the girl had survived alone until now and dared to go out and catch small lizards.

To survive alone in the wasteland was no small feat.

“I’ll help you search the other two’s belongings,” Minuo said, hopping over to search the bodies.

“Truly poor,” Mu Liang muttered as he finished searching the corpses and found only a bit of dried meat.

“Wow! There’s a Beast Crystal!” Minuo’s excited voice sounded.

“Mu Liang, hurry, come over, there’s something good.”

“…,” Mu Liang looked down at his hand, wondering if this was the girl’s luck.

He walked over and took the thumb-sized white crystalline stone she handed him.

“Ding! Energy source detected. Do you wish to convert it into Evolution Points?”