Survival Guide in the Age of Cataclysm

Chapter 69 Ambush

puff.

The teeth crushed the food in the mouth, and the tip of the tongue was covered with crystal-clear liquid from the eyes, and the aroma was overwhelming.

Xu Yang took the fork out of his mouth and pondered his next move.

He needs to determine today whether there is a laboratory entrance in the radiation cave.

We'll need to update the tools and firepower later.

A pickaxe is necessary, but vigilance must be maintained over the Serpentkin, as it's impossible to predict whether they will reappear in the cleared outposts.

Perhaps it's to rebuild the base, or perhaps it's to... wait for him.

We need to prepare a powerful weapon.

Armor-piercing bullets cannot penetrate the scales of the Ringed Serpent Man, and there is another danger.

He clearly remembered seeing photos of something resembling a snake-tailed serpent in the previous monster data.

According to the genetic memory, this is a monster that has evolved further than the Ringed Scale Serpent People...

Xu Yang quickly finished his breakfast and headed straight into the gathering area.

After moving around to several places, they arrived at a weapons shop.

Upon entering the store, a fat man was sitting at the front desk.

He had a plate of fries and a half-finished cup of coffee in front of him, and he was looking at his wristband, seemingly chatting with someone.

Strangely enough, under federal governance, a lot of entertainment content has been eliminated, and chatting is considered a decent form of entertainment.

dong dong.

Xu Yang walked straight over and knocked on the table.

"Boss, give me something strong."

……

The sun was shining brightly in the sky.

A damp wind blew across the mountain road.

The SUV window was open, and Xu Yang wrinkled his nose.

Beyond the woodland on the riverbank, the Zhenjiang River unfolds before your eyes, carrying a fishy smell as the wind blows by.

He closed the car window, and the SUV quickly entered the collection area.

After parking his car in the parking lot, he glanced around and noticed that there seemed to be an unusually large number of cars today.

The same young man in the red hoodie walked over, holding a cash register.

Xu Yang took out his ID card and paid the parking fee.

"Business is pretty good today."

The young man waved his hand, looking distressed: "Oh, don't mention it. They're building a collection area next door, and the person in charge of the Rubik's Cube potions is over there directing things. These vehicles belong to their company and are parked here for their staff."

"So...did they pay for your parking?"

"Pay my ass! My land was forcibly occupied. They said the mining area belongs to them and told me to get out if I had any objections."

This is utterly unreasonable. This is the first time I've ever heard of land belonging to someone on a median strip.

The young man, looking somewhat resentful as he collected the ATM, said, "Damn it, I was the one who had this parking lot set up."

If we weren't outmatched by them, well, when you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head.

As he spoke, he shifted his mouth to one side: "Look, they're back. The one leading them is their manager, what a piece of trash."

Xu Yang looked over.

Several people in yellow overalls and hard hats were escorting a woman in a white suit across the road.

"Oh, that woman must be that Yu something-or-other."

"Yes, it's her, Yu Xiaoman."

The young man curled his lip: "Damn it, some stinky outsider, coming all the way to Heishan District to beg for food."

Look at her, she looks like a bird, you'd think she came from a giant city...

Xu Yang also glanced at the woman in front of him.

I don't know if it was just my imagination, but the other person seemed to have glanced at me too, and then they went into the factory in the mining area with the group of people in yellow hats.

Nearby, the young man was still cursing and swearing.

Xu Yang packed his equipment and headed towards the Serpent Clan's ground base.

……

At noon, at gathering point number sixteen, in the reconstruction zone.

The streets were sparsely populated, and most people continued to maintain their normal routines.

At this time, most of the restaurants on the street were full of people, while other shops were deserted.

After lunch, the middle-aged man, Klein, stayed alone in the pharmacy.

The store's decor is old-fashioned; the shelves, counters, and even the hidden door leading to the warehouse all appear somewhat dilapidated.

The surface was cleaned, but it had various scratches.

Kress was sitting in the chair he usually used to entertain guests, legs crossed, humming some tunes from the pre-apocalyptic era.

He was clearly in a very good mood.

Since the scandal involving Hung Sheng Pharmacy was exposed, many survivors have refused to buy the medicines they need from the store.

As a fellow businessman on the same street, his business also flourished as a result.

Moreover, the new owner of Hongsheng Pharmacy was a young man who knew absolutely nothing about business.

It is foreseeable that these good days will last for a long time.

Kress thought to himself with delight.

He took out a cigarette from his old leather jacket and lit it gently.

In the instant I looked down, my gaze happened to sweep across the shop entrance and I thought I saw a dark figure.

Immediately afterward, a footstep sounded.

Welcome!

Klein said something, then threw the cigarette he had just lit on the ground and gently stomped it out.

He looked up, smiling, and gazed towards the shop entrance—

Empty... as if nothing.

There were very few pedestrians even passing by the entrance.

The sunlight illuminated the entire pharmacy, but the only sound was the whirring of the cheap air conditioner.

There was nothing there.

Klein scratched his head.

Did I hear that wrong?

Somewhat annoyed, he pulled out another cigarette from his pocket, looked down, and the lighter clicked—

puff!

Without warning, his pupils were frozen in their sockets forever.

It was Klein's slightly obese neck that had been pierced directly through his throat, leaving a bloody, mangled hole.

Tick-tock, tick-tock...

Fresh blood dripped onto the ground.

His body was slowly laid down on the ground, with two cigarettes right next to his cheek.

One was stepped out, and the other was not lit.

An unlit stick floated into the air and then abruptly disappeared into the air.

Outside the pharmacy.

Among the sparse pedestrians on the street, no one noticed the minor accident at the small pharmacy...

At one point, a man in gray calmly walked out from a corner where no one was paying attention.

Taban lit a blood-stained cigarette and took a deep drag.

Grayish-white smoke billowed from his nostrils, and his face was filled with contentment.

"There's only one left."

……

Downstream of Zhenjiang, black woodland.

Xu Yang walked among the tree trunks, and soon he approached the area of ​​stone pillars.

The journey was very peaceful; not even a single venomous snake was seen, let alone frogmen or snake people.

The monsters seemed to have abandoned this place.

It seems perfectly safe, at least for now.

Xu Yang flicked the blade off his wrist; the fact that it hadn't been stained with blood for a long time made him feel somewhat uneasy.

After walking a few more steps, we entered the stone pillar maze area.

He was stunned for a moment, then quickly recovered.

Yesterday, yes, it was yesterday again; his genetic memory made him think that a long time had passed.

Before me lay a rubble tunnel, violently demolished, just like it had been the night before, with no sign of being repaired by the frogmen.

Xu Yang drew his pistol, his boots crunching on the black gravel.

After bypassing the last few stone pillars without any unexpected events, the snake people's ground stronghold came into view.

A bunch of ugly stone cone buildings.

Xu Yang squatted down and scratched the dark ground with his finger.

There was some black blood on his fingertips; there had been a pile of corpses on the ground, which had now been disposed of by the monster.

He looked up and around.

Apart from the splashing sound of the river not far away, there were no other unusual noises or sudden flashes of dark figures, as if the snake people had completely abandoned this stronghold.

Xu Yang got up and didn't linger any longer.

He popped two anti-radiation pills into his mouth and strode towards the stone cone house he had been looking at.

He raised his shield and first turned on his flashlight to shine inside.

It was incredibly deep and dark; those were the steps leading to the underground cave, where black dust floated in the air.

Xu Yang narrowed his eyes and sneered inwardly.

"There really was an ambush."