At the south gate of Jing'an City, at the Defense Department's Medal Exchange Office, Meng Yi and his companions quietly listened to Zhu Hongyu's "popular science".

Meng Yi's expression was not pretty. "So, the New City is conducting forbidden research?"

Zhu Hongyu corrected her: "It's reproduction!"

"Research...that's what the Steel City would do."

Meng Yi took a deep breath. "Is the City of Purity carrying out a systematic xenophobic massacre?"

Zhu Hongyu corrected her again: "It's purification!"

"And even if there's just this hint, there's pressure from the Supreme Human Arbitration Council."

Meng Yi lowered his head and said nothing. He had been happy about mankind's self-rescue, but reality slapped him in the face.

He looked up and asked persistently, "Isn't it possible that humans don't have a more normal attempt?"

"Eh?" Zhu Hongyu was puzzled. "What's wrong?"

Uh... the other party's righteous question made Meng Yi at a loss for words.

Indeed, these self-help efforts are perfectly normal in this world.

Cen Qiyun suddenly spoke up, "My Lord saves."

Meng Yi glanced back at her. Cen Qiyun had a solemn expression on her face. "My Lord is the Savior!"

Meng Yi was a little confused. He had just made up the name of the god based on what the believers said.

Bang bang bang!

Someone clapped loudly at the front gate, attracting everyone's attention.

"Now that we have enough people, we can open the city gates. As usual, each team of three will go out."

Meng Yi was confused, "Why do we need to form a team?"

Zhu Hongyu explained, "Because the death rate of divinely blessed individuals in the wilderness is quite high, the authorities want them to work in teams to increase their survival rate."

"Ah, this..." Meng Yi and Cen Qiyun exchanged glances. They still wanted to team up? Zhang Yao hadn't said anything. Did they have to wait for Xu Qingsong?

Someone behind him poked Meng Yi, "Brother, want to form a team?"

"Huh?" Meng Yi turned around, a little confused. Is it so casual? He said, "Do we know each other?"

"What kind of bullshit? ...We can't form a team if we don't know each other?"

The man glanced at him with disgust, shook his head and left.

Meng Yi frowned, feeling something was wrong.

Zhu Hongyu sighed, "Is it possible that the officials would go to the wilderness to see if you have formed a team? If you go out together, no one will care in the wilderness.

As for forming a team... many people with divine grace will do this, otherwise they won’t even be able to rest in the wilderness.

It’s just that… everyone in the team will treat each other as cannon fodder…”

Meng Yi suddenly realized, damn, I always use normal thinking to think about this fucked up world.

Zhu Hongyu said calmly: "Want to form a team?"

Meng Yi nodded, "Okay."

He and Cen Qiyun carried their packages and prepared to walk towards the city gate.

"You can let my little cutie help you carry the bags."

The two looked back and saw Zhu Hongyu waving gently. Two spiders half the size of a human ran to her side.

"They are the ones carrying my bag."

Meng Yi looked at the half-human-sized spider. The enlarged version of the spider looked extremely ferocious and had nothing to do with being cute. Moreover, if the legs were included, the two creatures were actually bigger than a human.

If she didn't have to carry her own backpack... that would be great. Meng Yi put the bag on her and then praised her, "What a cute little thing."

When Zhu Hongyu heard this, the expression on her face, which had been indifferent until now, changed. Her eyes curved and she looked pleased.

The three men and two spiders followed the crowd toward the city gate. The Defense Department staff didn't care much about this "teaming up," so they just asked around.

A group of divinely blessed people and about two hundred ordinary people stood behind the tall city gate.

Many ordinary people were trembling with fear, and many of the people with divine grace even started to tease him:

"Wu~ You can't come back..."

"Hehehe... I'm going to follow you guys, maybe I can pick up some of your bits and pieces."

"Hiss~ If you leave the city and go to the formation for protection, you will immediately be transformed~"

This makes it even more difficult for those who are afraid.

"Humph!" A young man in a defense uniform sneered at the group of booing God's Graces.

"This time I was the one who protected them as they went out to perform the ceremony. The one who wanted to pick up the scraps..."