On the way from the giant wall to the surrounding satellite towns, you can see many small ruins.
The era before the Great Cataclysm had entered a prosperous period with highly developed science and technology.
As long as there are human beings living there, basic living facilities must be very complete.
No matter where you live on the earth, the quality of life will not decrease. This leads many people who don’t like crowds and noise to prefer to live alone in more remote places.
As a result, on the large tracts of land between cities, you can always see many tiny living areas like stars.
Some have three or five households living together, some have more than a dozen households, and some even have only one or two households. With sufficient material guarantees, they enjoy a peaceful life of their own.
After the catastrophe, these places were quickly abandoned.
Because the catastrophe destroyed the entire civilization system, the country no longer existed, and the supply chain that had been functioning well naturally collapsed.
There is no longer any overall construction of the superstructure, nor is there a stable cycle of the economic system. All survivors are struggling to survive and trying their best to stay alive.
In this situation, survivors who enjoy living alone are often the first to be eliminated.
Humans are social, herd animals.
Perhaps when many people gather together, problems of one kind or another may arise, but as long as there is a person with real leadership in the group, the group can easily become united and unleash a power far beyond that of an individual.
The merits outweigh the flaws. The powerful group coordination and cooperation ability is one of the key factors that enables humans to defeat other species and ultimately stand at the top of the food chain.
When nothing happens, the advantage of this ability to coordinate and cooperate is not obvious. However, once something happens, the human species' ability to survive as a single person is far less powerful than its ability to survive as a group.
Of course, this does not include special cases like Robinson or Bear Grylls.
In short, between the giant wall and the surrounding satellite towns, there are many such ruins of living places where one person or a few people once lived.
Because it was abandoned too early, almost all of it fell when the Cataclysm broke out, causing the ruins to be overgrown with weeds. No one knew whether there were any poisons hidden inside, and no one was willing to take the trouble to clean up the ruins.
Instead of cleaning up these small-capacity ruins, it would be more convenient to rebuild in an open area.
Therefore, when Chen Yan and his party passed by such ruins on the way, they were not overly vigilant.
After all, it is in the actual control area of Kahn Company and close to the core position of the giant wall, so safety is definitely guaranteed.
But unexpectedly, such a cognition that should not have any problems suddenly became problematic!
As Chen Yan's alarm grew, a figure suddenly rushed out from the ruins next to the group!
The various mutated plants in the ruins have grown to nearly two meters high and are densely packed together. It is very easy to hide a person in it.
The key point is... why is there a person hiding here? !
And they attacked them without any warning? !
Because the distance was too close and the attacker was too fast, Chen Yan had no time to make an appropriate response.
Qin Yourong had no time to think about it. She instinctively moved slightly to the side, subconsciously trying to use her body to block Chen Yan as much as possible!
A special knife pierced Qin Yourong's lower abdomen!
However, the knife was only the length of a dagger, and after stabbing into Qin Yourong's abdomen, it had no ability to go any further.
Qin Yourong's subconscious action obviously stunned the attacker.
It can be seen from the direction of the attack just now that his primary target must be Chen Yan!
As a result, Qin Yourong valued Chen Yan's safety more than her own, so her body reacted faster than her brain, and the attacker's original plan immediately came to nothing.
Although the primary objective of the sneak attack was not achieved, the attackers' response was not slow at all.
He quickly pulled out the dagger and stabbed at Chen Yan again!
At this time, Chen Yan had recovered from the initial surprise thanks to the buffer created by Qin Yourong.
He quickly hugged Qin Yourong's body and retreated quickly on the spot!
Xu Qinghe and others rushed forward in time, trying their best to stop the attacker.
But Chen Yan knew very well that Xu Qinghe and others would not be able to stop them for long.
Therefore, the combat power that this attacker who suddenly appeared had just erupted had reached the level of a sixth-level awakener!
Unexpectedly, even though the other party was wrapped in black clothes and even his eyes were covered by a black translucent eye mask, the image of Shen Ke still emerged in Chen Yan's mind!
Daring to take action not far from the giant wall and taking such a big risk, the first goal is to kill him. Chen Yan asked himself, since he came to Kahn Company, except for that Shen Ke, no one should have such a big hatred with him!
As for why Chen Ke suddenly made such an extreme choice, Chen Yan could roughly guess it.
It must be the chain reaction caused by those ten tons of zero-pollution water!
I believe that as soon as they arrived at the mission management office, the news that they had submitted ten tons of zero-pollution water would have spread like wildfire within Kahn Company.
It is not difficult to understand that Shen Ke would get the news in time.
After all, the two sides had a head-on conflict before, and Chen Ke’s attitude was very clear. As long as the time was right, the other party would definitely find an opportunity to attack them outside the actual control area!
However, Chen Ke must not have thought that they could bring back ten tons of zero-pollution water after just going out to carry out their first mission.
In addition, the reward for the ten tons of zero-pollution water was not even enough to ensure a stable life in the coming days. Instead, it was a level six and a level seven potion!
Such a result would definitely make Shen Ke's heart alarm bells ring!
With the strength of the sixth level awakening, Shen Ke has enough psychological advantages over their team.
But if he were to complete the injection of all the redeemed potions, Chen Ke's original awakening level advantage would instantly turn into a disadvantage!
The consequences brought about by this must be unacceptable to Shen Ke.
So in a panic, Shen Ke rashly decided to take a risk, which was not a difficult choice to understand.
As long as you don't carry a communicator with you and act quickly, the probability of success is actually quite high due to the suppression of the awakening level.
He could even snatch away three awakening potions. In Shen Ke's opinion, it was definitely worth a gamble!
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