Meng Qingyin stared at the Pheasant, and the Pheasant stared back at her.
One person and one chicken stared at each other, wide-eyed.
After a moment, Meng Qingyin was the first to look away.
The more she looked, the more familiar it seemed.
She frantically searched her memory when a “ding-dong” notification sound suddenly interrupted her thoughts.
It was another message from the Highway Survival Management Group.
She had already formed a habit: whenever there was a message in the Management Group, she would click to see it.
Although most of the time they were just chatting, she didn't want to miss any potentially important information.
Pheasant: Help! I've been caught by an evil human!!!
White Fox: Are you kidding? We have a special barrier. How could a human see you? And even catch you? How is that possible?
Honey Badger: That's not funny at all.
Pheasant: It's true! This evil human even tied me up. Her eyes are so hungry. I'm going to become a roasted chicken very soon! Help!
Meng Qingyin, who was lurking in the chat, was full of questions.
What kind of look was that Pheasant giving?
Also, was it really the Pheasant from the Management Group?
What was going on?
Her mind was a mess, but she continued to read the Management Group messages.
Pheasant: Really, really, big brothers, please save me! I don't want to become a roasted chicken!
White Fox: Wait, I'll go check. If she can see me, I'll report it immediately to see if she needs to be eliminated!
Pheasant: Thank you, White Fox Big Brother!
Meng Qingyin immediately closed the Management Group. Although the light screen was most likely only visible to her, seeing the White Fox coming still made her shiver.
She absolutely couldn't let them know she was also in the Management Group!
Meng Qingyin's gaze fell on the Pheasant.
The next moment, she heard extremely faint footsteps behind her, “da da,” “da da.”
The Pheasant's gaze also fell behind her, and it chirped excitedly, “Oh oh.”
Meng Qingyin pursed her lips. It must be the White Fox coming!
She had to pretend not to see it now.
Once the White Fox knew she could see it, she would be in danger.
She pretended not to hear anything, even pulling out a dagger, as if she were about to kill the chicken.
The White Fox deftly jumped onto the cart bed.
It had snow-white fur and blood-red eyes, which were exceptionally striking.
At this moment, those eyes were fixed directly on Meng Qingyin.
Meng Qingyin acted as if she hadn't seen it, drew her dagger, approached the Pheasant, and murmured, “Tonight, I'll have roasted chicken…”
Seeing that she couldn't see it, the White Fox didn't pay much attention to her.
With a gentle flick of its fluffy tail, the Pheasant vanished, leaving only the knotted rope on the cart bed.
“Where's my wild chicken?” Meng Qingyin exclaimed in shock.
Her shock at this moment was not entirely feigned; five parts of it were genuine emotion. Anyone who witnessed that scene would be shocked.
As for the remaining five parts, there was indeed an element of acting.
To make her shock appear more authentic, she even circled the twist car and looked underneath it. “It just disappeared like that? What happened? Is it a system bug?”
After speaking, she caught a glimpse of the White Fox's figure disappearing from the corner of her eye.
But she knew that many more eyes were watching him.
Meng Qingyin's shock had now completely turned into anger: “What kind of broken system is this? It bugged out my wild chicken? I want to complain, complain!”
On the empty highway, only her unwilling roar echoed.
Soon, another message sounded in the Management Group.
Meng Qingyin didn't check it immediately. Instead, she spent another ten minutes playing the role of a “Miserable person who lost roasted chicken due to a system bug.”
Only then did she grudgingly pedal her twist car forward.
It wasn't until an hour later that she took a break and quickly opened the Management Group.
The group was already filled with unrelated messages, so Meng Qingyin used her mind to scroll back and check.
Pheasant: White Fox Big Brother, from now on, you are my reborn parents!
White Fox: That's too formal. How about calling me 'Dad' first?
Pheasant: ?
White Fox: Haha, just kidding. But don't worry, I've confirmed that human can't see me, so there's no need to report it to the higher-ups.
Hyena: Then why could she see the Pheasant and even catch him?
White Fox: It must be a system bug. You know, 007 has always been unreliable. When the game first started, didn't it also take a few minutes to pull us in? It must be its bug again.
Cang Lang: However, since it's a bug, it should be fixed as soon as possible. I'll contact 007.
After that, it was other topics.
Meng Qingyin completely relaxed.
However, she also gained a new understanding of the animals in the Management Group.
Like the White Fox, it could make the Pheasant disappear out of thin air. This ability was far beyond what a normal human could do.
Moreover… it was not difficult to deduce from their words that humans should not be able to see them.
But why could she see them?
Forget it. If she couldn't figure it out, she wouldn't think about it.
Wasn't her entry into the Management Group also inexplicable?
However, after today's encounter, she would need to be even more careful in the future, making sure she was never discovered.
Meng Qingyin glanced at the time; it was already 3:20 PM.
She first poured all the chicken heart fruit from her system backpack into the storage box, putting the vehicle upgrade materials back, as these materials were heavy and difficult to carry, so keeping them in the system backpack was more suitable.
The chicken heart fruit filled two supply boxes, and the original items in the supply boxes were placed in the cart bed.
Meng Qingyin then restored the remaining time on the Suction Card and continued pedaling her twist car forward.
In the next hour, she obtained two supply boxes.
Then the Suction Card completely expired.
Meng Qingyin looked down at today's mileage; it was already 5 km, far exceeding her daily target mileage.
The Suction Card's range was ten kilometers around.
In other words, there were no more supply boxes within a ten-kilometer radius.
Meng Qingyin opened the two supply boxes and obtained 【plastic x 3】, 【rubber x 1】, 【sesame cake x 1】, and 【electronic scale x 1】.
Not bad, at least there was food.
She didn't decompose these empty boxes this time but kept them as storage boxes.
Four boxes filled the entire rear cart bed space.
Perhaps, she should try to upgrade her twist car, otherwise, if she got more supplies later, there would be no place to put them.
She definitely didn't have enough materials now, but she had a lot of chicken heart fruit, which she could use to exchange for materials.
But not now.
It was very dangerous after dark; she couldn't leave the three-meter range around her vehicle, and the visibility was dim. In such conditions, it was impossible to clearly see the supply boxes around.
Even if she could see them, she couldn't pick them up rashly.
The trade would be conducted at night.
Now she had to keep moving forward.
Meng Qingyin rested briefly, then slowly set off on her twist car.
After only five minutes, she suddenly received an apology letter.