Gu Mingyue drove her eye-catching gold car and easily slaughtered many level two and three humanoid monsters along the way.
With her right hand on the steering wheel, she took a big sip of the taro ball milk tea she had stocked up on in her left hand, then squinted her eyes and continued driving.
What others see as a wasteland is like a trip to another world to her.
Those man-eating, fang-baring humanoid monsters were just minor bosses she encountered on her journey.
When they were still half a day away from Hope Base, Gu Mingyue encountered a group of people wearing Hope Base combat uniforms escorting some large combat weapons.
They chatted and laughed along the way, seemingly having something to rely on, and like Gu Mingyue, they were not afraid of the humanoid monster.
They were all young men and women in their early twenties, their eyes filled with innocence and naivety.
Like children living in an ivory tower who have never experienced setbacks, they pitched their tents in an open field with no shelter, and unabashedly took out fresh food and a first-aid kit, only to stop because a young man had a cut on his hand.
Gu Mingyue had never seen such a stupid person before, so she secretly followed them, put the car into her spatial storage, and took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention. She lightly leaped onto a purplish-red mutated tree and eavesdropped on their conversation.
The young man looked to be about twenty-one or twenty-two years old. He was surrounded by a group of young men and women who were frantically bandaging the scrapes on his hands.
Gu Mingyue had good eyesight. Hiding in the tree trunk, she pushed aside the leaves blocking her view and, judging from the sand still clinging to the young man's body, guessed that he must have just tripped and fallen.
The man, protected in the center by the crowd, had delicate skin, but he spoke fiercely to those around him who weren't protecting him, constantly cursing and swearing.
The sound traveled far and wide across the vast land without any obstruction, attracting many monsters. However, they were not afraid at all when they saw the monsters attacking, and calmly took out the strange horn-shaped weapon from the car.
A short while later, a faint sound like an electric drill came from the open field. Gu Mingyue rubbed her uncomfortable ears.
To everyone's surprise, the monsters seemed to have heard some terrifying sound; the Level 3 Winged Membrane Monster hovering in the sky covered its ears.
The monster's five-meter-long wings flapped wildly behind it, and after crashing around a few times, it fell to the ground with a thud.
Gu Mingyue then remembered that she seemed to have seen a similar weapon in her previous life. A thing called a high-frequency sonic cannon appeared three years after the apocalypse and was sought after by many bases as soon as it was released.
I heard that the thing is small in size but powerful; activating just one can protect more than a hundred survivors from monsters below level four at night.
Gu Mingyue once wanted to buy one, but it was too expensive for her.
After much searching, she managed to buy one at a low price from the black market, only to find that the thing was very complicated to make and had no instruction manual. She couldn't figure out how to tune it to the most effective sound wave to fight the monster, and in the end, she wasted the crystal core.
This is good stuff!
Gu Mingyue glanced at the combat uniforms of Hope Base that they were wearing, and her red lips curled up slightly. It seemed that Hope Base had already developed a high-frequency sonic cannon based on the Level 3 winged membrane monster she had sent over.
She is increasingly looking forward to and hoping for a long-term partnership with the base.
Perhaps because this group had high-frequency sonic cannons, and the monsters were afraid of them, they acted even more ostentatiously. Gu Mingyue followed them for a while and then discovered that several superhumans dressed in purple were hiding in the purplish-red thorn bushes not far away.
Those people were like wolves that had been starving for a long time, and now that they saw a group of fat sheep walking ostentatiously in the wilderness, their sharp teeth could hardly be hidden.
Gu Mingyue thought that this batch of weapons might have been sent to the Mingyue base by Jiang Huaisheng based on the 10,000 crystal cores deposit she left before leaving.
Now that she's encountered it, how can we let the bandits of the apocalypse steal it away?
She shook her head slightly. These young superhumans were far inferior to Xu Lanyue and the others. They all acted arrogantly, only knowing how to guard against monsters, but they didn't know that in the apocalypse, starving people were more terrifying than monsters.
She was just about to jump down from the mutated tree to warn the group of reckless youths.
However, she sensed a familiar spiritual power in her mind. Maintaining her cautious approach, Gu Mingyue released a long wave of spiritual detection.
The long wave spread to the group of young people under the tree, and behind a covered truck, it stirred up a circle of ripples, revealing the image of a Level 3 winged monster inside.
"Isn't this the Level 3 Winged Membrane Monster I sent to Hope Base?" Gu Mingyue frowned slightly. She didn't remember any agreement to have Jiang Huaisheng use it and then transport it back to Mingyue Base.
"Could it be that these weapons weren't sent to the Bright Moon Base?" Gu Mingyue's eyes showed a thoughtful look, and she didn't rush down.
After inquiring for a while, they learned that the young man they were protecting in the center was named Wang Xuwen.
"He's actually Wang Shi's son?" Gu Mingyue had never met Wang Xuwen in her previous life, but she had heard about him from the survivors of Hope Base.
Wang Shi's only son was very arrogant and spoiled.
Why would Jiang Huaisheng send him out to transport this batch of weapons, and these weapons don't look like they're being transported to the Mingyue base?
Wouldn't her 10,000 crystal cores be wasted? What exactly are Jiang Huaisheng and the others up to? Do they think it's easy for her to mine crystal cores?
As night fell and starlight gradually scattered across the sky, the doomsday bandits hiding in the mutated bushes discovered that the people from Hope Base had only left two on night watch, while the rest had gone to sleep.
"Whenever the base goes out to hunt mutated animals, they always make ample preparations. They always send half of their people to guard the area at night, taking turns on watch. Their security measures are exceptionally strong."
"Besides, Hope Base is extremely focused on personal safety. Could we have been discovered and are deliberately pretending to be relaxed to lure us out?"
The bandit leader stroked his chin and carefully examined the young men and women with their innocent eyes.
"Never mind, we haven't had any business in ages. If we don't find some profit soon, we'll have to learn to eat human flesh from the S people. Do you want to eat human flesh?" He looked at his sallow-faced companion beside him.
His men all shook their heads. They were thieves and robbers, but they couldn't bring themselves to eat human flesh.
"Let's go big today, brothers, charge down! Hopefully, the people in the base will have more to gain than us. If we can get our hands on something, great! If we die, it'll be a clean break, instead of being tormented in this terrible world."
Upon hearing his command, his subordinates all drew their weapons. First, the plant-type ability user activated a mutated flower that could induce drowsiness, and then two silenced crossbow bolts pierced through the two young men on night watch.
Their robbery went very smoothly. The group seemed to have never been on a mission before, completely unprepared. Only when the robbers pierced their throats with weapons did they start babbling and screaming for help.
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