Unlike Zhang Mu who walked contentedly into the room where Yuan Rui and the others were, the Obsidian Bug seemed rather depressed. It stayed alone in the cold wind, summoning the air currents to play with itself. It was obvious that it was still brooding over what had just happened. It almost couldn't control its strength, and it actually tied with Zhang Mu, who was also at the second level. Doesn't this indirectly prove that it is not as good as Zhang Mu now?

If Zhang Mu knew that a mutant beast that had signed a blood contract was actually thinking about beating up its master all day long, he would be so angry that he would roll his eyes.

Zhang Mu took advantage of the early hours and activated the mental barrier in the house to avoid the cold wind. He found that this was more practical than using the mutant wolfhound's body to block the wind, so he pulled Yuan Rui to his side. As for the mutant wolfhound, it was too big to fit within a meter of Zhang Mu. Moreover, the mutant wolfhound had long hair and was not afraid of this level of cold wind.

Zhang Mu slept soundly and warmly, wrapped in his own spiritual power.

When he woke up in the morning, it was already dawn for a long time. His mental barrier had been open all night, and because it had not been attacked from the outside, there was no problem of damage.

After recovering all the mental power used to build the mental barrier back into his own brain, Zhang Mu suddenly felt refreshed and full of energy.

Seeing that Yuan Rui had already woken up, Zhang Mu directly grabbed the mutant wolfhound that was still sleeping soundly. However, the wolfhound seemed to lie on the ground and refused to wake up, so Zhang Mu went all out and easily lifted such a large mutant wolfhound out of the house.

Now, his strength and agility have both grown by leaps and bounds, and lifting the weight of the mutant wolfhound is simply a piece of cake.

Of course, Zhang Mu did not deliberately wake up the mutant wolfhound. He estimated that the mutant wolfhound, which had the weakest mental defense yesterday, should have suffered the most mental damage among their group.

When Zhang Mu walked past the Obsidian, he held the mutant wolfhound in his hands and had to kick its carapace to wake it up.

It shrank its body again and flew onto Yuan Rui's shoulder consciously.

The destination this time is Shanxi City, the city Zhang Mu visited in his dream, but it should still be in a mess. Zhang Mu is looking forward to it, and he doesn't know how far the gathering place led by the strong men in Shanxi City has developed. With their means and courage, it is not impossible to integrate a city in more than a month.

Zhang Mu didn't know much about the disputes in the early days of Shanxi City. He only knew that there was a particularly famous leader of the gathering place, the Ice Girl. As her name suggests, her appearance and personality were all a kind of indifferent ice. Zhang Mu had seen her from afar and was immediately subdued by her queenly temperament that looked down on the world.

It was a bone-chilling cold, so cold that none of the evolvers within a radius of 500 meters could use his energy. Zhang Mu did not have any awakened abilities at the time, but even so, he could clearly feel the blockage of ordinary energy in his body.

Later he heard from others that it was about the awakening ability of the Ice Girl, the leader of the Shanxi City gathering place.

Absolute zero!

What Zhang Mu saw at that time was just her most ordinary state when her energy had subsided. If he faced her head-on, Zhang Mu had a hunch that he would be frozen into powder with just one glance.

Now thinking back to that figure, Zhang Mu's heart was eager to try. He was not qualified to stand on the same level with such a strong man at the beginning, but now Zhang Mu has complete confidence.

Now, regardless of his physical fitness, he has three extremely strong acquired abilities. The second-level obsidian has signed a blood contract with him, and the mutant wolfhound is temporarily absolutely obedient to him. The blood vine lotus in his left arm has a parasitic relationship with him, giving him the identity of a plant-based evolver. And now that he has advanced to the second level, because of the appearance of soul crystals, he has an additional ability, mental defense, which is considered to be the dominant position among the innate awakening abilities.

These three abilities, coupled with the identity of the first agent merchant in the era,

Zhang Mu now has the capital to not fear those gifted people. He now really wants to meet those powerful people from future generations and compete with them.

The Ice City Lord was said to be a great beauty. It's a pity that she was too pretentious at that time and wore a veil. I don't know if I can see her this time. If I do, even if she is wearing a veil, I will take it off to see if she is as beautiful as they say.

Zhang Mu thought so with evil humor in his heart. Now that he had the chance, he naturally wanted to have fun.

He set off with Yuan Rui and the others. As usual, the Obsidian Worm carried Yuan Rui on its back, but the mutant wolfhound's position was switched with Zhang Mu's. Zhang Mu held the mutant wolfhound's body high with both hands and walked briskly and steadily, so that the mutant wolfhound remained asleep and was not awakened.

As for the speed, it was actually a little faster than before. Zhang Mu's speed was exactly the same as the low-altitude flying Obsidian Worm, because now he was silently opening the mental barrier, which was equivalent to holding a piece of plastic. The weight of the mutant wolfhound was almost negligible, and he just moved forward at a stable speed.

At lunchtime, Zhang Mu stopped at a small market in a town. The market, which should have been bustling, was now completely deserted with overturned stalls everywhere. Although the weather was very cold, some of the meat on the stalls had begun to rot. It should have been a month before the apocalypse that no one had been here. It seemed that even zombies and mutant beasts had not passed by here, otherwise there would be no meat left to rot.

Zhang Mu looked a little confused and secretly kept an eye on the situation. Although it was not stingy for him to hold up the mutant wolfhound's arms, it was very tiring to keep the same posture. It was time to take a short break, so he sat down alertly.

The mutant wolfhound has not woken up yet. Even though the air is filled with the smell of canned meat that Zhang Mu took out of the Epoch Merchant's ring, if the obsidian hadn't told Zhang Mu that it was just sleeping normally, Zhang Mu would have had the urge to wake it up by force.

At this moment, a pair of eyes in a corner stared at Zhang Mu and his group.

(End of this chapter)