Holding a map with dense markings in his hand, Zhang Mu frowned slightly.

Although this map is accurate, there are too many notes on it, which has somewhat affected his normal judgment.

Now he has no idea about excavating ancient monuments.

This is a map from the old era that Wang Liang prepared for him. It contains the detailed route and address to Inner Mongolia City. It is the only one in the entire Luoyang City and was contributed by an archaeologist before the end of the world.

Sadly, a detailed map was only exchanged for a bag of rice, and the ordinary man who was about to forget his identity in the old era was so excited that he almost cried. He completely forgot that this treasure was the result of his years of hard work. He carefully dragged the food back to his house without any attachment to it.

When Wang Liang told Zhang Mu about this, he was just saying it as a joke and he didn't take it seriously, but Zhang Muliang took it to heart with a lot of emotion.

It's sad, pitiful, but helpless.

The reason why Zhang Mu is having a headache now is that he can no longer distinguish the correct path.

Normally, this map is accurate enough, but the small county town in front of Zhang Mu has been completely changed, as if it had been trampled by a group of giant beasts. There are no intact houses standing along the way.

He didn't know how to go, although he roughly knew that this was within the territory of Yulin City.

After observing the huge traces left on the ground, Zhang Mu guessed that there shouldn't be many survivors left in this small county, and even if not all of them died, they should have been evacuated.

This type of mutant beasts must have been huge animals before the end of the world. Once stimulated by the evolutionary ripples, the most ancient genes in their bodies were activated, and their bodies have expanded to a terrifying size.

The entire herd of beasts swept through the county, leaving only broken walls and ruins.

However, the development of things seemed to be different from what Zhang Mu expected. When Zhang Mu and his companions walked into the county town, a group of ragged humans jumped out from the ruins from somewhere. They looked at the clean Zhang Mu and his companions, ignored the hideous obsidian worms and mutant wolfhounds, and crawled towards Zhang Mu and his companions.

Where are the survivors?

Before Zhang Mu had time to think, the mutant wolfhound jumped out from beside him, revealing its hidden fangs and letting out a low growl like a wolf's howl from its throat.

But even so, humans still did not take the threat of mutant wolfhounds seriously.

Instead, he used his hands and feet together and rushed towards Zhang Mu and the others a little faster.

The mutant wolfhound was annoyed. Yesterday's depression had not yet dissipated, and today someone came to provoke it again. Without asking Zhang Mu's instructions, it suddenly used its earth-related abilities. The soil on the ground cracked and condensed, and countless earth spikes suddenly rose up.

But it still had some sense and did not harm the lives of these humans. It simply used earth spikes to tie them firmly to the spot.

Zhang Mu did not stop the mutant wolfhound's actions, but quietly observed the survivors who rushed out.

They should be humans without a doubt, but why have they lost the ability to walk like wild beasts?

These people are indescribably weird.

At this moment, one of the survivors seemed to regain consciousness and looked up at the man in front of him who was examining them.

His lips, which were severely dry and dehydrated, moved up and down with difficulty, "Sir, please be kind and give me something to eat. I have children at home waiting for us to bring food back for dinner."

"It's so dangerous outside, why are you still begging? How do you know someone will pass by here?"

Zhang Mu saw that the other humans were gradually regaining their normal consciousness, so he let the mutant wolfhound disperse the condensed earth thorns and asked with some doubt.

The man who had spoken just now stood up shakily, looked at Zhang Mu with fear and trepidation and said, "Recently, there have been many adults like you who are neatly dressed and don't look like locals passing through our county. They feel sorry for us and give us some food.

With those monsters around, we can’t go out to find food. We have to hide here and wait for the adults to pass by and give us some food.

Sir, please give me some food."

The pale-faced survivor in front of him clearly showed fear when he mentioned the monster.

"Adult? What kind of adult?"

Zhang Mu thought he was just an ordinary evolver and asked casually.

Unexpectedly, the survivor stared at Zhang Mu's right hand, swallowed his saliva and said, "Those adults, like you, wear a black ring on their right hand, and food will appear out of thin air from the ring, just like a magic trick."

After saying that, he couldn't help swallowing again.

saliva.

Hearing this, Zhang Mu's eyes became serious.

A black ring with space attributes? He should be the Epoch City agent of the Epoch City Store, but I don't know which Epoch City he belongs to.

"How many of them are there? How long does it take them to pass through this county town on average?"

Honestly, these two bags of rice are yours. "

I saw that two bags of grain were really taken out of Zhang Mu’s black ring and were held in Zhang Mu’s hand.

When these survivors saw the black light flashing from the Epoch Merchant's ring, their eyes suddenly flashed with greed.

After hearing Zhang Mu's words, the other few people tried to struggle to stand up and answer Zhang Mu's questions, but the mutant wolfhounds, who understood what he meant, tied them to the spot again with earth spikes.

“This time it was him who was called.”

Zhang Mu's faint voice sounded, and he didn't look at those people any more. He knew that the mutant wolfhound knew his limits.

What surprised Zhang Mu was that the mutant wolfhound's actions did not scare the man at all. He answered fluently, "A total of nine adults passed through our Yulin City, and on average they passed through once a month."

He seemed to have noticed that Zhang Mu didn't want to talk more, so after answering Zhang Mu's two questions, he immediately kept silent.

No wonder there were so few Jiyuan agents that I met before, almost none. It turns out that they all went in this direction, which is why I didn’t meet them.

He took out another bag, and then threw three bags of rice in front of the man, saying slowly, "You deserve it."

Just then, the impatient Obsidian worm complained.

"Can you hurry up? The dirt on their bodies has been stinking for days. A dead dog can't smell it. I'm about to vomit."

Does it smell like dirt? I guess they don't care about their appearance. The wind-type mutant beast is too pretentious. But there's nothing to see. They are just a group of wandering ordinary survivors. It's time to go.

At this time, the survivor asked a question tentatively, which made Zhang Mu suddenly not want to leave and became interested.

"Sir, there is another lord who came to our Yulin City yesterday and is resting in our village. Do you want to go and meet that lord?"

(End of this chapter)