Chapter 8: Ye Chen's Dominance

After more than ten days of hunting monsters, Ye Chen's physique has increased from level 86 to level 95, and his strength has also reached the middle stage of the ninth level. After reaching the ninth level, he must at least devour the life energy of 300 level 90 monsters before he can break through to the tenth level and become a strongman!

The further you go, the slower the improvement.

Although--

With Ye Chen's trump card, he can hunt down powerful monsters of level two or three hundred and obtain the basic meat inside. However, monsters at this level have a certain intelligence and cannot be easily attracted by means such as barbecue. Moreover, once they find that something is wrong, they will run away. Even if you spend a lot of effort and occasionally kill two or three of them, you may not be able to get the basic meat from their bodies. After all, the chance is only one in ten.

In the ruined building, Ye Chen put away Xiao Hei and the silver mechanical warrior, and ran with an agile figure. After running a certain distance, he would stop, lean over and put his ear to the ground to listen to the movements nearby.

From Baoshan District of Shanghai to Beijing, there are thirteen or fourteen cities in between. Ye Chen ran along the highway he came from. Occasionally, zombies and low-level insect monsters discovered him, but they were immediately left far behind.

Along the way, Ye Chen encountered several monsters over level 100 chasing him. When he summoned the level 150 Sharp-fanged Blood Beast controlled by Xiao Hei, the monsters were scared and fled everywhere. However, after being killed by Xiao Hei and Ye Chen, they all became corpses. He left behind a corpse of a level 100 monster as food, and the rest had their life energy absorbed.

Because he had to kill and avoid monsters, Ye Chen took two days to run from Shanghai to Beijing. He ran and stopped along the way. At the fastest speed, his physical strength would be greatly consumed every half an hour, and he needed to stop to rest.

On the third day, Ye Chen arrived in Beijing. Looking up, he saw a city wall standing in the distance. Within dozens of miles of the base city, there were almost no monsters. They were all cleared out by the troops coming in and out. Under the military merit system, these people were very diligent in hunting monsters.

Ye Chen sat on a rock and rested for a while. After his strength gradually recovered, he walked towards the base city. Not long after, he entered the effective firing range of the artillery on the city wall. There were many soldiers coming and going nearby, or some soldiers wearing special medals. Among them, the captains were all wearing clothes made of low-grade animal skins, and the rest of the people only wore ordinary reinforced coarse cloth or camouflage uniforms.

Many people were surprised when they saw the animal skin robe on Ye Chen, and they subconsciously stayed away from him. In the early days of the apocalypse, being able to wear animal skins was considered an extremely remarkable figure.

Ye Chen didn't care. He flipped his palm and took out the general's order that he had taken out from the rune space long ago and handed it to the soldier guarding the gate. The middle-aged man was surprised when he saw the token in Ye Chen's hand. He saluted quickly and said respectfully: "Greetings, General!"

Ye Chen took the token and walked in.

After Ye Chen entered the base city, he saw that the city had changed a lot from the past. The outermost part of the city was the barracks, and the second layer was the civilian camp, where elite personnel from the base city's Information Department, Commerce Department and other major departments, as well as some ordinary people, lived. With the establishment of the Atlantis city, many high-level officials had moved in, and more land outside had become available, so that the elite talents from various major departments no longer had to sleep on the floor on the streets. They were allocated houses to live in, and their lives had undoubtedly been raised to a higher level.

After all, sleeping on the street can be quite troublesome when it rains in the middle of the night.

In the central area surrounded by these civilian camps are rice and wheat plantations. The hillsides are used to grow rice, and the plains are used to grow wheat. Due to the virus, aquatic plants, soil, and so on have all mutated. The nutrients contained in rice are dozens of times more than before, and it will still be the main food in the future.

In the end times, food is the foundation, so seven or eight military camps are set up in the area where rice and wheat are grown, with 24-hour surveillance to prevent monsters from rushing in from underground and destroying the planted fields.

With the assistance of robots, hundreds of thousands of troops, and millions of personnel from other departments, the base city expanded extremely quickly. In just half a month, it had completely changed into a completely different place. In the apocalypse, high efficiency was everything!

Ye Chen was walking on the street, surrounded by people coming and going and a lot of noise.

"Haha, daughter, I, your dad, have hunted down another bloodthirsty rat monster today. It's a level 10 monster. I'll sell the meat and you can have a good meal with me!"

"Yeah!" A little girl of six or seven years old nodded happily.

The middle-aged man holding her hand had a hint of imperceptible worry in his eyes. If he could hunt today, would he be able to hunt tomorrow? Perhaps, in the end times, there is no tomorrow, so just work hard to live well today!

After he figured it out, the worry in his eyes gradually disappeared. He smiled and held his daughter's hand and walked away. His daughter's innocent and happy smile was the shackle that bound his murderous soul!

Ye Chen was touched when he saw this harmonious and beautiful picture. In the end times, such a scene is rare to see. Under the face of betrayal and hideousness, everyone has a pure land to protect in their hearts!

He walked to the side, dialed Xu Tianguo's communicator, and whispered: "I'm back, on the inside of the east city gate."

"Okay, I'll send someone to pick you up right away." Xu Tianguo said quickly.

Ye Chen immediately turned off the communicator and waited quietly. Ten minutes later, two young men wearing brown coarse cloth clothes, carrying steel knives on their backs and a Type 64 pistol on their waists, ran over from a distance. They looked quite similar and were actually a pair of twin brothers.

"Are you Boss Ye? Boss Xu asked us to pick you up." Among them, a slightly mature young man stepped forward and asked cautiously, afraid of recognizing the wrong person.

Ye Chen nodded.

Seeing that he had found the right person, the young man smiled and said, "Hello, Boss Ye. My name is Cui Cheng, and this is my younger brother, Cui Fu."

Ye Chen nodded and said, "Hello." He looked at their chests and saw that they all wore a medal on their chests, made of steel with a castle pattern engraved on it.

Cui Cheng noticed Ye Chen's gaze and quickly explained: "This is what Boss Xu and the other bosses discussed. It means to build a castle of light. Although it is a castle, its symbolic meaning is a country and a world."

Ye Chen nodded and said, "Not bad."

Cui Cheng laughed and said, "Boss Ye, please follow me. Boss Xu rented a house in Atlantis, so all the members live there."

Ye Chen nodded, and the group walked towards a huge pool near the street. The spatial connection points of the city of Atlantis were decomposed into many points, scattered in various corners of the base city.

At this entrance, people are coming and going, and it is very lively.

The three of them walked in, and the Iron Castle of Atlantis came into view. It was majestic, magnificent and extraordinary. He looked calm as he followed the Cui brothers. After entering the city gate, he saw that the houses in the castle had become shops. Many guilds and small organizations had rented houses and brought back monster corpses, teeth, claws and other materials from the wild to sell in the shops.

Wherever there are people, there are classes and there are transactions.

"Everyone, take a look. The teeth of a level 15 bloodthirsty rat monster are a good material for forging weapons! They are cheap!"

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"This shop is owned by the Longteng Guild, and its reputation is absolutely guaranteed. Please rest assured to buy from it~~~"

Many shops pay very low wages to hire people to help shout and hawk to attract customers. If you want to kill more monsters, you need good weapons, even if it hurts.

Ye Chen walked along the way and saw many shops selling things under the names of major organizations, which could also promote the popularity of the organizations. He frowned slightly and asked, "Where is our guild's shop?"

Cui Cheng scratched his head and said, "This place is a prime street, the prices of the shops are too expensive, our guild's shop is on another street."

Ye Chen looked calm, and it was unclear what he was thinking. He just nodded.

Just then…

Several men wearing animal skins and carrying swords on their backs came over, with murderous auras all over their bodies. One of them carried a dead iron-haired rat on his shoulder, a monster of level 10 physique.

Nowadays, under the Atlantis civilization, the quality of various weapons and equipment in Base City has been improved. The generals in the military camp must at least reach the level of major general to become major general!

"Hey!" One of the leading men saw the Cui brothers and immediately showed a big smile on his face. He said, "Aren't these two tragic characters from the Bright Guild? How is it? Did you get your wives back? I heard that they are being kept by a general, haha..."

Ye Chen frowned.

Cui Cheng, who was standing next to him, patted his brother's trembling body, and said gloomily, "Ignore these people. Treat their words as bullshit!"

Cui Fu clenched his fists, his eyes glowing with hatred, staring at the leading man and gritting his teeth. After the virus broke out, he desperately protected and carefully cared for his girlfriend, even handing the last piece of bread to his girlfriend, but she was kept by a general and cruelly left him. This matter was once a big deal because of his challenge, and many people knew about it.

"Let's go!" Cui Cheng grabbed his brother's wrist, gritted his teeth and turned to leave. As a brother, he was furious to see his brother suffer such an insult, but he had no choice but to endure it. Dignity needs strength to defend.

But he has no strength.

"Haha, two cowards!" The leading man smiled and scolded the others, but the other party did not dare to fight back. This feeling was too exciting.

Ye Chen tilted his head and looked at Cui Cheng, and said, "You won't beat him?"

Cui Cheng was stunned, and immediately his face was filled with shame and anger. He could not speak, and said: "I, I can't beat him..."

Ye Chen said calmly: "It's okay, just go ahead and do it. If anyone dares to hide, I will make him live a life worse than death!"