Lu Yuan and Liu Yuan arrived at Xiling City around noon.
The entrance to the city was controlled by a squad of mercenaries wearing camouflage combat uniforms and armbands with lightning bolt symbols.
Liu Yuan drove up and a soldier carrying an assault rifle came up, saluted, and took out a QR code saying: "Entry fee, 2,500 for one car."
Lu Yuan in the back seat took out his phone and scanned the code. Just then the soldier took a look at Lu Yuan's car and hesitated before saying: "You two, although your car has been modified, I have to say the odds are against you going into the city at this time."
The sunglass-wearing Liu Yuan smiled and said: "No problem, our boss has money to burn, plus we're just going in to take a look around, nothing else in mind."
The mercenary nodded, and after the payment went through, he let Lu Yuan's car pass.
At the exit next to them, a long line of big trucks was queueing up to exit the city, loaded with food, medical supplies, bank safes and all kinds of valuables.
The convoys coming in from surrounding cities were looting the last valuables from this city of death.
Lu Yuan's off-road vehicle was the only small and medium sized car among the incoming and outgoing vehicles.
Seeing the long line of trucks queued up to exit the city ahead of them, Liu Yuan glanced at Lu Yuan in the rearview mirror and said: "Boss, it looks like you were right, this city did suffer a Spiritual Qi Storm."
Lu Yuan said nothing. He had a rough idea where Zhang Baobao's special ability came from.
The Spiritual Qi Storm was a unique phenomenon in this World of Spiritual Qi Resurgence. Whenever a Spiritual Qi Storm arose, the violent spiritual qi fluctuations would kill all fragile life forms in the surrounding area.
The Spiritual Qi Storm could also lead to many bizarre changes, such as the formation of Spiritual Qi Pollution Source Areas where the storm occurred, the resurrection of departed life forms, or the emergence of varying numbers of mutated life forms, among other things.
With his professional instincts as a doctor, Lu Yuan was able to determine at first glance that the girl was someone who had died once already.
Even if the dead returned to life, they would still carry the aura of death.
As for the old man who came to see him that morning pulling a cart, he had probably already left Xiling City before the Spiritual Qi Storm arose, thus escaping disaster.
The woman lying on the cart that the old man was pulling, on the other hand, had probably died on the way to see the doctor.
Lu Yuan pondered the sequence of events while Liu Yuan also wondered about it.
A complicated expression crossed her face. She said: "It seems that old man still had some conscience, at least he knew to take Baobao's mom around to see doctors..."
Lu Yuan looked troubled. Meaningfully he said: "Whether he has a conscience or not, we can ask Baobao when we have a chance."
Speaking of which, Liu Yuan grew worried thinking of Baobao's mother. She asked: "Boss, Baobao's mom is dead and gone. Can you really bring her back?"
Lu Yuan rubbed his temples and said: "It's not like I can manually generate a Spiritual Qi Storm. How could I have the power to resurrect the dead?"
"But I only need to resurrect Baobao's mother in her heart."
"Boss, you are so multi-talented!"
...
After driving around Xiling City for a bit, everywhere they saw people from finance consortiums and guilds from surrounding cities moving goods, as well as charity workers helping clear the bodies of the deceased.
This trip Lu Yuan simply wanted to verify his guesses and determine the source of Baobao's special abilities.
An hour later, the two drove their vehicle out of the city, following the long convoy of trucks like a dragon.
Back in 27 Region, Liu Yuan parked the car at the foot of a mountain.
Before their eyes, the high mountain was shrouded in mist and clouds. This was a Level 2 Spiritual Qi Pollution Source Area, also the team building location specified by Lu Yuan this time.
Level 2 meant that heterologous beasts with ability coefficients exceeding 1.0 but under 2.0 would appear.
By now, Lu Yuan had left footprints in practically every pollution source area in 27 Region.
Just as Liu Yuan was about to undo her seatbelt and get out of the car, Lu Yuan said: "Wait here, I'll be back in half an hour."
Liu Yuan was startled. She looked at Lu Yuan and asked: "Boss, would you please explain what you mean by 'team building'?"
Lu Yuan said lightly: "It's team building. Guarding team transportation is very important, you know?"
Liu Yuan: "..."
Seeing Liu Yuan's miffed expression, Lu Yuan reached out and rapped her head, consoling her: "Alright, come help me if I'm not back in an hour."
Liu Yuan rolled her eyes. "You said that last time too, but you were out in ten minutes. Boss, you're so fast!"
Lu Yuan's face darkened instantly. He scraped hard down the bridge of Liu Yuan's pert little nose and growled: "Such impertinence! Watch me dock your pay!"
Liu Yuan made a face at Lu Yuan: "Bleh!"
Seeing Liu Yuan's cute expression, Lu Yuan grinned. Waving his hand, he headed towards the Spiritual Qi Pollution Source Area up the mountain.
The Spiritual Qi Pollution Source Areas, also known as Spiritual Qi Pollution Zones, were areas humans could not survive due to the intense fluctuations in spiritual qi.
Each Spiritual Qi Pollution Source Area was home to large numbers of heterologous beasts. Over the years, Lu Yuan had left footprints in practically every pollution zone in 27 Region.
As Lu Yuan crossed the caution stone tablet at the foot of the mountain, he clearly sensed the surrounding air currents become violently turbulent. But even more violent than the air currents was the commotion coming from the dense mountain jungle.
No sooner had Lu Yuan set foot into the lush jungle than the entire tranquil mountain forest erupted!
Swish swish—
The first to react were the bizarre large birds with bat wings and sparrow bodies roosting on the branches. It was as if they had been frightened by something the instant Lu Yuan arrived. Flapping their wings frantically, they took off towards the mountaintop as if their lives depended on it!
"Caw—"
"Caw caw!!"
Piercing bird cries echoed over the jungle. The entire flock commenced a mass migration.
Next, Lu Yuan felt slight tremors through the ground beneath his feet.
"Roar—"
"Woof woof!"
"Awooo!"
All kinds of beastly roars arose one after another without cease!
Whether it was the mutated giant tigers or wolves, or the packs of heterologous dogs roaming the jungle, their originally ferocious, bloodthirsty cries now contained a hint of urgency and fear!
Boom!!
Not only did the birds in the sky commence migration, even the heterologous beasts in the jungle began fleeing helter-skelter.
The beasts all fled in different directions, but they shared one common trait—they were all sprinting away from Lu Yuan!
In the blink of an eye, within one minute, Lu Yuan stood dumbfounded as he sensed that within a three kilometer radius, the only breathing creature left was himself.
It was well known that beasts had very keen senses of danger.
The heterologous beasts mutated in the Spiritual Qi Pollution Source Areas even more so.
iemie, male, Race: Moon. Hobby: Collecting anomalies. At first, he thought he possessed two systems: the Crimson Rainbow Moon and the Clear Cold Frost Moon. One day, he discovered that he himself could also become a system for others, holding the chessboard of fate. The Eighth Epoch, also known as the Eternal Moon Epoch. Humans, witches, elves, bloodline descendants, specters, demons, and spirits together compose a new history. Walking the path on behalf of the moon, before he knew it, Chen Miemie's footsteps were followed by all manner of strange and wondrous anomalies. As time passed, many titles circulated about him—The King in Yellow, Lord of Anomalies, Heart of the Eternal Moon, and more. "Me? I'm just a traveler who enjoys collecting interesting creatures," Chen Miemie said.
close your eyes and open them again, only to find yourself transmigrated into the role of a villainous male supporting character. Readers familiar with urban wish-fulfillment novels know that it is only through the relentless antics of the villainous male supporting character that the plot between the male and female leads can progress. As the villainous male supporting character, Long Aotian not only has to bully the female lead, harass the second female lead, and flirt with the third female lead, but he also has to go all out to antagonize the male lead. In the end, when his body is discovered, he is still clutching half a moldy fried dough stick in his hand. Fully aware of the plot, Long Aotian is determined to change his fate, starting with the female lead! In the beginning, the female lead lacks confidence: "Big brother, I hope I didn't scare you?" In the middle, the female lead treads carefully: "Brother Long, please don't hit me, okay?" Later on, the female lead becomes coquettishly clingy: "Aotian, it's time to pay the 'public grain' tonight." Long Aotian's legs go weak, and he feels like crying: "I taught you to be thick-skinned, not shameless!"
ut it can buy an entire year of absolutely perfect training results! Su Yu stared at his empty wallet and decisively opened up various online loan platforms. “Borrow a thousand bucks! Recharge my vitality!” Boom! His vitality broke a hundred points, shattering the limits of the human body! “Borrow ten thousand bucks! Recharge my combat skills!” Boom! A basic punching technique so common it was everywhere instantly maxed out, revealing the ultimate assassination technique of Five Elements Unity—Inner Force! When a rich kid hired assassins for a midnight ambush, aiming to break both of his legs, they instead ran headfirst into a monster—a human-shaped tyrannosaur, brimming with dragon-like vitality. With just two fingers, Su Yu snapped a steel staff reinforced with alloy. Staring at the killer’s stash of stolen cash—a staggering quarter-million dollars—he showed a corporate-sincere smile: “Thanks for the pre-exam gift pack, Mr. Zhao! I’m gonna go re-invest this!” Three days later, at the National Martial Arts College Entrance Exam, while everyone else struggled just to reach the passing line, Su Yu threw a single punch—and more than a thousand vitality points literally detonated the entire arena!
ing gift was a patch of barren land, and disciples were all picked up along the way. He spent fifty years diligently building three "ramshackle little sects," thinking he could finally live a carefree life relying on his disciples. But right at the fifty-year mark, he was suddenly swept away by a spatial rift and exiled to the Chaos Desolation, the Disorderly Ruins. There was no spiritual energy there, only slaughter. Relying on the cultivation feedback from his disciples, Gu Changyuan hacked his way through a sea of blood for eleven hundred years. When the system finally fished him back out, he discovered the ramshackle little sects he'd built back then had developed a rather... unusual style. Hold on... I vanished for a thousand years, so how did my ramshackle little sects become holy lands?!
