After a long pause, Zhang Mu walked out of the inner city alone and dejectedly, feeling out of place in this bustling capital.

He broke into Li Pangsan's shop and looked at the fat man who was sleeping soundly and taking up the entire bed. Then his heart began to stir. Was it only when he was about to die that he met someone who could be considered a friend?

Unfortunately, it's too late.

He gently placed the cloth bag containing five third-level Yuan crystals on the head of Li Pangsan's bed and turned away.

The gates of the outer city were not closed, and the guards were relatively lax. They only glanced at Zhang Mu before letting him go. A disabled second-level evolver was probably thinking too much to leave the city so late at night.

There are so many people who give up on themselves that the guards don't even think of reminding them.

Each step was extremely heavy, and Zhang Mu's figure gradually disappeared into the night.

Zhang Mu didn't know where he was going. Apart from Luoyang City, the nearest city would take at least half a month to travel to. If he returned to Luoyang City, it would take even longer, at least twenty days.

In the past, it didn't matter. As long as Zhang Mu didn't encounter a particularly bad market, he could usually solve the problem easily. But now, he didn't know what other measures he could take to save the situation.

He wanted to live, so he kept struggling. However, it seemed that fate had played a big joke on him. After he had suffered so many disasters, at the last step, when he was about to succeed, his hope was cut off.

Deathly intent was all that was left on Zhang Mu’s body. His eyes were lifeless, and his sleeves hung down limply, being blown fiercely by the cold wind. If one didn’t look closely, he would look just like the zombies outside, a walking corpse.

They were already far away from the safe area of ​​Shanxi City, and along the way, there were no mutant beasts to harass Zhang Mu.

If it were any other time, Zhang Mu would have gotten out smoothly and would have felt that he was lucky. But this time, Zhang Mu didn't care about their existence at all, because if he wasn't eaten, he would just die later.

Zhang Mu felt a little tired after walking like this, so he sat down on the side of the road.

Came down.

Suddenly, he finally figured out where he should go.

In an instant, he wanted to go back home, back to the place where he was born and raised, Luoyang City, where the fallen leaves return to their roots.

But now it was too dark and Zhang Mu couldn't see the way back.

He randomly found an old car that had been parked on the road for who knows how many years and no one had driven it. He smashed the window, opened the door, and lay down in it, not caring about what was around him.

Tonight was his most indulgent night. He had never been so relaxed before. He was so tired that he didn't want to worry about anything happening. Even if something happened, could it not be bigger than death?

If he was really eaten by a passing mutant beast tonight, Zhang Mu wouldn't have to work hard for another twenty days.

The night passed quietly, and the dawn light woke Zhang Mu from his deep sleep. Too many things happened yesterday, and Zhang Mu's mind was also so tired. This was the deepest sleep he had in the three years since he became an agent of Jiyuan.

He woke up and saw his broken left arm. He realized that all this was real. He laughed at himself and said, "There really wasn't a mutant beast passing by. Otherwise, it would have had a good meal. Zhang Mu, oh Zhang Mu, has the peace and tranquility that you usually hope for become a mockery now?"

Zhang Mu opened the car door, stood and looked around for a while, and finally saw clearly where he was.

Have you walked this far to the southeast?

But fortunately, there are still nineteen days left, so it should be enough time. There is no need to rush. It would be great if he could return to Luoyang City before the deadline.

He looked at the Epoch Merchant Ring on his right ring finger and really wanted to chop off that finger, but he knew it would be useless. He heard that a small businessman tried to escape the fate of being sucked dry before he died. He first cut off his finger with the Epoch Merchant Ring, but it was directly transferred to the fingers around him. Then he cut off his entire palm in a rage, and the merchant ring immediately appeared on his other intact hand. In order to survive, the ruthless man continued to chop off his finger twice.

Lian Sandi also cut off the five fingers on his other hand.

The last time, the Epoch Merchant Ring did not appear. He thought he had escaped this fate, so he began to indulge in romantic affairs in various places. However, on the day when the deadline came, he was suddenly killed by a prostitute.

Because the death was extremely tragic, as the person was sucked dry, it caused a great sensation, and was finally taken over by the first, second, and third Epoch Agents of this city. Because the background of this brothel was so shocking, it took three Epoch Agents to come forward at the same time, and the boss behind this brothel handed over the body.

Originally, they just thought that an Epoch Agent had reached his deadline and wanted to indulge himself one last time, and they wanted the Epoch Agent to avoid being exposed to the public as much as possible. However, when they arrived at the scene, they were shocked. The mummy turned out to be a person with all four limbs chopped off, and it looked like the wounds had been there for some time.

So is the Era Merchant Ring gone just like that?

After they brought the body back and performed an autopsy, they found a ring-shaped embedding in the dead heart of the corpse. This matter spread at a trade fair of Epoch Agents. The fate of Epoch Agents is truly inescapable.

Thinking of this, Zhang Mu looked at the Jiyuan merchant ring on his hand, smiled bitterly, and started his journey home.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or what, but Zhang Mu was safe and sound throughout the journey without any problems. Although it was related to Zhang Mu choosing the safest route, he didn't encounter any danger at all.

There were no human attacks, no zombie hordes surrounding us, no mutant beasts hunting us, nothing.

However, no matter how strange the matter was, it had nothing to do with Zhang Mu. He saw the outline of Luoyang City in the distance.

This time, he did not use a human skin mask to conceal his identity, but there was actually no need to do so.

After paying the entrance fee, he came to the starting point, the large lawn next to the People's Square. This area of ​​buildings was well preserved, and Zhang Mu lay quietly under the big tree.

There is only one day left.

(End of this chapter)