Although his left forearm was missing and his balance was a little weaker when he ran, Zhang Mu's pace did not slow down. If he could complete the Epoch Merchant Mission now, he would have a year to catch his breath. If not, he would really have to face the inevitable fact of death.

It took Zhang Mu a whole half day, without even taking out his dry food, to maintain a steady pace before he reached the outer fortifications of the gathering place in Shanxi City. This was enough to show how much of a detour Zhang Mu had to take to get to Shanxi City from the place where he was washed away.

Fortunately, this place has been cleared by the evolvers in Shanxi City, so basically no mutant beasts with strength exceeding the second level can be seen. This is actually very good news for Zhang Mu in his current state. Although time is equal to money to him, if he loses his life before entering the city, then all his troubles will be completely in vain.

But even so, Zhang Mu did not choose to fight with the mutant beast for convenience. Now, he could not resist the slightest accident. If he was seriously injured again, Zhang Mu would not have any trump card like the first-level recovery potion that could save his life.

Zhang Mu looked up at the outer city of Shanxi in front of him, and suddenly felt a lot of emotion in his heart. It seemed that his efforts were not in vain. After ten days, he finally arrived.

Even if he almost lost his life, even if he lost his arm, he, Zhang Mu, still came to the Jiyuan Store and to Shanxi City.

There was no time for Zhang Mu to waste. He had no idea what dangers he would encounter on the way back, and the shortcut he had found was completely blocked. Zhang Mu did not have the courage to go into the river, the recognized shortcut.

He only has twenty days to return to Luoyang City!

He could only take a detour, the safest but also the longest route. He had tried it before and found that at his own speed, he could probably return in nineteen days. In other words, he only had one day to deal with all possible accidents in this apocalypse.

Thinking of this, Zhang Mu walked quickly towards the city gate. The gates of the gathering places are similar, but the Shanxi city can only accommodate a limited number of people. However, it is the strongest evolver within a radius of 500 miles. Because of rumors, refugees from far and near gradually squeezed into this city that was originally large enough to accommodate nearly 10,000 people, and it became crowded.

The existence of refugees ensured that there was sufficient labor for Shanxi City's basic fortifications and food planting, which were the most important tasks in the settlement but were not valued by the evolvers.

However, also because of this reason, the city's capacity to accommodate people is almost saturated, but driving them directly into the wild is unpopular. Another more important reason is that the death rate in the wild is too high.

Moreover, many evolvers kept ordinary people in captivity, claiming that it was to give them a chance to survive and a job, but in fact they were just slaves.

However, this was also tacitly approved by the upper echelons of the settlement, because once the fortifications were almost repaired, and the manpower required to grow food was limited, there would indeed be a lot of excess labor left. In that case, many people would be reduced to fighting mutant beasts for food.

This fact is cruel, so everyone turns a blind eye to the situation of ordinary people being kept in captivity. After so many years since the end of the world, there are no longer people who are naive enough to make selfless contributions.

There may still be some kindness among them, but it is absolutely impossible for them to give up things that are also necessary for their own survival for the so-called moral standards and justice before the end of the world.

Therefore, the survival of these ordinary people at the bottom of society, including those low-level first- and second-level evolvers who have not awakened their evolutionary abilities, is related to the vital interests of the upper class.

Therefore, under the collective proposal of most evolvers, the leader of Shanxi City used the power of the huge number of earth-type awakened evolvers to build a simpler wall outside the original city within a month. Although the defensive ability may not be as good,

The core force of the gathering place is not strong and is not stationed here, but at least it gives these refugees a little hope and a little deterrence to the low-level mutant beasts roaming in the wild near Shanxi City.

The previous city was also renamed the Inner City, where relatively few evolvers above level three live. The minimum requirement was that they had to be the most scarce and useful of the level two evolvers.

The inner city was built to an extremely luxurious level. Since it could not expand outward, those who were somewhat skeptical about evolution chose to indulge themselves. The various entertainment facilities of the original society were basically restored in the inner city, including those that were originally illegal in the original society.

However, in this apocalypse, even the leaders of the gathering places cannot resist the loss of a large number of high-level evolutionists. If you do things for the so-called moral standards, you will only be known as a hypocrite. And if you don't do it, there are many people who want to attract high-level evolutionists to stay in the gathering places.

Moreover, the pressure of going out to fight mutant beasts, clear out zombie hordes, and even compete with other human settlements does exist, and they need a place to relax, so as to avoid a backlog that poses a certain threat to their rule.

He walked slowly into the outer city and paid some entrance fees, but because it was the outer city, it was not much, only one first-level Yuan Crystal was required.

The pedestrians on the road were mostly in a hurry. People here needed to work constantly to earn a day's food, so Zhang Mu, who was walking slowly, stood out.

However, when they saw the bare sleeve on Zhang Mu's left arm, the look in their eyes was as if they were looking at a dead person.

For ordinary people with no background and no strength, disability means death in this end times. This is a recognized common sense, so they naturally think that Zhang Mu has given up hope of survival.

Zhang Mu knew that with his own strength, he did not meet any of the standards and could not enter the inner city at all. However, the Jiyuan Store was right in the center of the city.

The only shortcut is to sneak in a quota.

(End of this chapter)