Chapter 863: Binding the Birth System to Become a Winner in Life Chapter 864 Global Evolution (24)

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Protagonist:

Shen Yao

Northwest of Ping City were all factories.

Before the apocalypse, this place was a gathering of large and small factories, and the surrounding area was full of ordinary people coming to work; they had no special skills or abilities and could only do whatever work they were capable of that didn't require technical expertise.

After the apocalypse arrived, the factories fell into chaos directly; those inside died or were injured, and the survivors were eventually taken away by the arriving army, after which this place became a well-known uninhabited zone far and wide.

"It seems there are no survivors in the whole of Ping City, right?" Even if there were before, winter had arrived now, and the weather was too cold; survivors had to move to shelters to survive.

After all, shelters had heating facilities, unlike Ping City, where water, electricity, and gas were cut off, and even the most basic guarantees were barely manageable.

Shen Chengyu rested her chin on her hand and muttered; she had come to Ping City several times before, and they had conducted search operations around the vegetable market and wholesale market, while later visits were just to pass the time when they had nothing to do—any harvest was good, and none was understandable.

"No, even if there were, judging by this situation, they'd all be dead without a whole corpse."

Sun Tiantian looked sweet, and her speech was crisp and direct enough to choke someone.

"Last time we passed through Ping City, there was a dedicated life detector in the team, and no survivors were found."

Leng Wei added, because when they went on outdoor missions, search missions were considered routine missions, and as long as they brought people back to the shelter, they would receive special points.

However, for ability users like them, every outing for a mission was relatively dangerous, and they definitely considered their own safety first; unless it was a very confident Big Shot, very few people were willing to bring survivors back.

After the two finished speaking, the other Team Members around them also added explanations.

Everyone joked and laughed while walking toward the factory area ahead, not taking the troubles of the factory area seriously at all.

Their strength was very strong; such a long time of outdoor missions had given them much experience, and moreover, this trip out had been unexpectedly smooth.

When things were going very smoothly, people always relaxed their vigilance; Shen Chengyi spoke up to remind them twice, which made everyone tighten up a bit, but in the end, they still didn't encounter danger, and wanting to be nervous wasn't very professional.

Only when pairs of eyes lit up inside a factory building within a factory did everyone tacitly stop speaking; they began to act as before, in groups of four, forming a square, with no one responsible for a direction, to ensure their own rear safety.

Shen Chengyi pushed Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning to the back, letting the two of them guard the gate behind them; if they really couldn't hold out, they could fight while retreating.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning's fingers emitted light, signals that their respective abilities had been activated.

And in front of them were streaks of fiery red flames and purple thunder; the factory building ahead was blown to pieces, and the large and small stones flying everywhere all showed how intense the situation here was.

Perhaps the mutated animals had long been used to various competitions and targeting; their flexible bodies kept twisting back and forth, and soon they avoided the stones flying everywhere.

This place was not only a paradise for mutated dogs but also a paradise for mutated cats.

Shen Chengyu even saw mutated mice following beside the cats and dogs.

Hmm

This could be considered overcoming biological instinct; even food could be used as underlings? Fantasy!

Shen Chengyu, who found it fantastical, retreated two more steps, both ensuring she wouldn't drag down her Big Sister and ensuring she could scout the situation behind them, to prevent being ambushed by other Forces.

Shen Chengning:...

"Someone spying?" So sinister!

Shen Chengyu was calm and composed, "One cannot be too cautious," just in case there really was such a person.

Taking advantage of others being mutually wounded to pick up a bargain was something many people would do.

Just as the sisters gathered together whispering to each other, the group ahead had officially started fighting with the mutated animals.

Whether mutated cats or mutated dogs, their bodies had evolved to be much larger, while the mutated mice among them were instead agile, ran fast, and were no bigger than a normal palm; a pair of protruding sharp teeth contained toxins, and they could be said to be the most difficult creatures to deal with here.

Shen Chengyi had to spread her lightning ability all over her body and actively threw herself at these mutated animals, while the water ability user beside her followed closely, cooperating with the lightning ability; both sides cooperated and made these mutated animals suffer badly.

The fire ability was prepared as a backup; even if they dodged the horizontal slash of the lightning ability, they couldn't resist the roaring flames; these flames were not the kind that could be simply extinguished, as they contained the energy of the ability user inside them, and as soon as they touched a bit, they would burn rapidly until the body was burned to ashes.

The factory buildings here might be temporary residences for the mutated animals; they dealt with the batch in front of them, but new mutated animals kept running out one after another, until they fought more and more fiercely and gained the upper hand, at which point those mutated animals tucked their tails and fled from behind, no longer fighting them head-on.

This battle wasn't dangerous but was quite tiring; everyone's ability consumption was about the same, so they simply rested and recovered on the spot before getting up to dig out the Crystal Cores inside the ashes.

Ashes condensed into a thick layer on the ground; Zhuo Yuan was the main force for digging up Crystal Cores and had already started working with a Crate in hand.

After Shen Chengyi rested, she got up and led others to explore the inside of the factory building.

The place where the mutated animals lived had been blown to smithereens by them, but that didn't mean they couldn't find any news from the broken limbs and remains.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning saw Shen Chengyi return with a bad complexion and hurriedly ran over to ask what was wrong.

"Inside are all bones that have been eaten clean," most of them were human.

This was no wonder; there weren't many large animals in the city, and mutated animals needed energy supplements for their daily lives; humans were indeed the most suitable food source.

Some bones in the factory building were already broken, while some were still quite fresh, showing that although there were no survivors in Ping City, people from outside often came to search for Supplies.

Even people living in Shelters might not all return when they ran out usually; who knew how many died outside, and the corpses of these people basically became meals on some creature's Plate in the end.

After Zhuo Yuan and the others packed up all the Crystal Cores on the Ground and locked them, Shen Chengyi waved her hand, and following the decision to explore the next factory.

Anyway, there were many large and small factory buildings here; they had just blown up a small factory, one factory building, with a few warehouses and office buildings around as support; one could take in the whole view with a glance, and there was no need to stay extra.

Going around the factory Gate, after walking forward dozens of meters, they entered another factory that looked about the same size; unsurprisingly, they were attacked by mutated animals again.

This time the mutated animals weren't as numerous as the first one; perhaps their previous fight hadn't subsided, and the released energy scared other mutated animals; they weren't brain-dead evolving wood puppets, and being afraid and running away was the nature of creatures (wood puppets not included).

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning did their Security work again; compared to the previous experience, they slightly optimized their work process this time.

After everyone cleaned up all the mutated animals here and picked up the Crystal Cores by the way, Shen Chengyi announced to rest on the spot and eat some food; the time had come to Noon, and they hadn't relaxed much all morning, which easily led to mental fatigue and overlooking problems.

"The danger here is greater than the center; there must be people on night watch for resting at night," previously one person was responsible for the first half and one person for the second half; this time they needed at least two people as partners, and the number of people would be double that of before.

"There are many mutated animals in the factory; some are local Varieties, and some are Varieties that evolved after being abandoned,"

Mutated animals also liked to gather in groups, especially in winter when it was cold and hard to endure; only groups with large numbers could get more food.

Sun Tiantian called others to hurry and drive the three vehicles parked Outside over, especially the small truck with a Che Xiang, inside which were placed several spliced single beds; these were important facilities for them to rest at night.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning also went along; they were responsible for driving Shen Chengyi's car over; the car had their Sleeping Bags and daily food, although they were all semi-finished products and the taste wasn't great.

Noon time was used for resting and eating; afterward, they went to the neighboring factory to clean it up.

It was still the same process as before, only the speed and coordination were getting faster and faster.

Zhuo Yuan was already so happy he didn't know how to describe it; this trip out was truly a huge profit, so many crystal cores, even if he could only take a very small part (after all, his ability leaned toward support), it was enough for him to cultivate and improve a great deal.

The others all had thoughts similar to Zhuo Yuan's; they had never seen this many crystal cores before. When Shen Chengyi first found them, they more or less all hesitated, but thinking of Shen Chengyi's capability and skill, and the effect of crystal cores on abilities, they thought to come out and take a gamble — even if it failed, they would die without regrets.

Who could have imagined the result? Their gamble really won no matter what; this time wasn't even completely over yet, and those who couldn't wait were already asking indirectly about the next one, determined to hug Shen Chengyi's thigh tight, absolutely not withdrawing on their own initiative.

Not only that, they also planned to refuse all other people who wanted to join the team after going back; once there were many people, the benefits wouldn't be enough to divide, and they still wanted to improve more themselves.

Shen Chengyi: ……

Thinking too much indeed; once this ends, the weather will only get worse and worse. Shen Chengyi isn't worried about herself, but she worries that the others will drag her down.

Moreover, gaining too many crystal cores in a short time, even with an official identity, cannot withstand covetous gazes. Shen Chengyi felt it would be better to finish absorbing this batch of crystal cores first, then talk about the next time.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning completely didn't care about these things; the two of them going out this trip was just to act as camera background boards. Their main purpose was to improve themselves. As for abilities, with Shen Chengyi looking after them, they fundamentally wouldn't lack crystal cores.

Leaning together, they yawned. Shen Chengyu muttered, also not knowing how things were at home. The three of them had all run out, leaving only Shen Yao behind.

Shen Chengning took out her own satellite phone. On it were still the chat contents between her and Shen Yao. Shen Yao mentioned that in the shelter, every day she just went to the supermarket to shop and went downstairs for a walk. Because the weather was cold, few people went out. There were many people near the residential area. Basically every day all sorts of things would happen. It didn't reach the point of life and death, but there would also be more or less injuries.

Shen Chengyu: ……

Shen Chengyu dejectedly took out her own satellite phone. On it were all contents she had unilaterally sent to Shen Yao. Shen Yao would occasionally reply a few sentences. As for why it wasn't like chatting with Shen Chengning, there was no other reason — blame Shen Chengyu for being too talkative. Once she picked up the conversation thread, she couldn't stop. Shen Yao's energy was limited; she really couldn't bear a chatterbox daughter like a Husky.

Seeing this, Shen Chengning covered her mouth and secretly laughed. After all, she knew her own Second Sister's virtue too well. Shen Yao doing this was also understandable.

The two sisters looked at each other and started playfully roughhousing. The sound carried outside the vehicle, drawing Sun Tiantian to tease Shen Chengyi. She hadn't expected the Captain's two younger sisters to have such lively personalities — "Completely unlike the Captain."

Shen Chengyi sat beside the bonfire. On top of the bonfire a pot was still boiling. Inside the pot was the vegetable soup they had brought along — already dehydrated vegetables and mineral water. Occasionally they would also toss in a few pieces of dry meat slices.

"The two of them are still young. As long as they can grow up as soon as possible, that's good."

Shen Chengyi didn't think so. Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning weren't like her, born knowing everything. They were just two ordinary and slightly clever children.

On the premise that she could protect them, Shen Chengyi hoped even more that they could live freely and at ease.

Sun Tiantian and Leng Wei, hearing Shen Chengyi's words, tacitly didn't pour cold water.

Mm.

If it were other people, they would definitely have advised a couple of sentences. At a time like this, still what naive innocence — better to seize the time and improve strength early.

But this is Shen Chengyi. They actively hugged a thigh and reaped a rich harvest of a Big Shot. What qualifications did the two of them have to lecture a Big Shot? Since the Big Shot expected this, it showed the Big Shot had a plan in mind. They might as well just honestly mind their own business.

The factory at night was quiet and peaceful. Apart from the crackling of the bonfire, there wasn't a bit of other disturbance.

Shen Chengyi was responsible for guarding the first half of the night, and her partner was Zhuo Yuan.

Shen Chengyu and Shen Chengning lay in the vehicle sleeping soundly. Little snores one after another, yet except for those especially close, they fundamentally couldn't be heard.

Another peaceful night.

Shen Chengyi took out the water from the water bottle, soaked a handkerchief, and simply wiped her face.

The morning wind was a bit cold. Blowing on the body it felt somewhat like sharp knife blades.

Breakfast was bread, paired with a bowl of vegetable soup. Everyone ate this simply and casually. After all, wilderness life was still very dangerous. They saved as much eating time as possible, while spending more time on other aspects.

"Today's mission is the same as yesterday's — explore all the factories on this road completely."

Shen Chengyi didn't even take out the map used before. Who let there be too many mutated animals on this factory side? Fundamentally no need for a map to assist unleashing. Randomly finding a factory, they could discover the mutated animals inside.

Zhuo Yuan's crate transformed again. Who let there being too many crystal cores also be a sweet burden.

Searching Ping City center for a week, arriving at the Northwest factories also a week. By the time they felt it was about time to depart and return, they had already been out for over half a month. The sky once again began drifting with heavy goose-feather snow.