The temptation of food was too great for these hungry people. On the night when the news spread throughout the gathering place, some people wanted to go out in the dark to find out the news, but the guards ordered by Wang Liang refused to let them go. They also passed on Wang Liang's words to the ears of every ordinary person who still hoped to leave the city.

"You can leave the city if you don't want to live, but if you are discovered, the reward for the mission will be cancelled. Is life more important than food?"

This calmed down those people who were blinded by interests. If the rewards might be cancelled, what would be the point in risking so much danger to leave the gathering place in the middle of the night?

This was also what Zhang Mu meant. When he saw many people packing their luggage and preparing to leave the gathering place, he knew that he seemed to have underestimated these people. You know, let alone the evolvers with awakened abilities, even he, Zhang Mu, would not dare to wander around in the wild unless there were special circumstances.

Humans without night vision suffer great losses in front of mutant beasts, not to mention these ordinary people who have not gained much benefit after the end of the world.

Although Zhang Mu wanted to make full use of the resources in the gathering place, he couldn't bear to watch these people die in vain. Besides, it would be a waste of time for him to gather information during the day.

.......At dawn the next day, Zhang Mu got up and looked at the black cocoon which was still motionless. Then he walked out of the courtyard alone, rode his wolfhound quietly, greeted the guard at the door, and then searched for the second-best possible clue in the notebook last time.

After running around for a whole morning and afternoon, although his face was covered with dust, Zhang Mu's excitement could not be concealed. What's more, these clues that he had put at the back actually turned out to be large groups of mutant beasts, and the difficulty was not very high. Three of the four locations had mutant beasts.

The number of animal cores harvested today is as many as 110. Of course, the main attributes are the common earth and water attributes, but there is also a small surprise. The mutant sika deer that Zhang Mu found by a stream turned out to be of ice attribute. This took him some time, but he still accepted it with great joy.

However, after seeing that there were only ten in total, Zhang Mu seemed a little disappointed and had to quietly head to the next location.

Zhang Mu's mind was immersed in his Epoch Merchant Ring again, and he carefully looked at the various animal treasures placed in the marked sacks.

Nuclear, suddenly a little intoxicated.

It's a pity that humans nowadays have not yet gained a firm foothold. If gathering places were established in various places within three months in the future, several types of beast cores could be hyped up to a considerable price.

Zhang Mu smacked his lips in dissatisfaction. He had no choice but to hoard these things first. If he had most of the supply firmly in his hands, he could wait until those powerful evolvers broke through the bottleneck of the second stage and then take them out. Not only would he make a lot of money, but he could also trade with some awakening evolvers with greater potential and gain favors from them. Why not?

But at the end of the day, not only Zhang Mu, but even the wolfhound looked tired. Not only did it have to carry Zhang Mu to four different places in different directions, but it also had to act as Zhang Mu's thug when necessary. As a result, Zhang Mu called it to exercise its physical strength and combat ability.

After being scorned by the wolfhound, Zhang Mu reluctantly took out the Yuan Crystal mixed with a few earth-attributed beast cores and stuffed them into the wolfhound's open mouth, and then ignored it.

When Zhang Mu returned to the gathering place at night, the whole gathering place was in an uproar, because Zhang Mu took out a big black bear that had just been shot, as if by magic, and divided half of it equally among the four people who provided the information as a reward, and Zhang Mu distributed the remaining half to all the remaining people in the gathering place.

There were nearly five hundred people in total, and each person got about two pieces of meat on average. They all looked like starving ghosts. If there hadn't been guards nearby, I'm afraid someone would have tried to snatch the meat.

Seeing this scene, Wang Liang complained to Zhang Mu, who was sitting around a separate campfire with him, that if he continued like this, his position as the leader would really be shaken.

But Zhang Mu just handed over a roasted bear paw and said, "If you don't want to eat it, I won't be polite."

Wang Liang had no choice but to take the bear paw that was oozing with oil and started chewing it. He asked Zhang Mu vaguely, "Brother Mu, what are you going to do next?"

Zhang Mu was also enjoying the grilled bear paws that Wang Liang's chef had prepared for them. He seemed to be enjoying it very much and replied nonchalantly, "What else can I do? But I don't need to borrow food from you now. I found that they would be much happier if I just used the mutant beasts as collateral."

"Of course, now in the gathering place, 20 kilograms of rice can be exchanged for one kilogram of meat.

It's cheap, and it's the kind of bacon. Even I only got this kind of fresh meat when that Epoch merchant made a move last time and caught a few small ones to eat. Later I wanted to bring the rest over, but they had already been divided up by the zombies, so I had to give up. "

Zhang Mu blinked at Wang Liang mysteriously and said, "Did you feel any difference after eating? You should know that each mutant beast has different attributes. If they conflict with your own attributes, you will feel dizzy at best, or even explode and die."

Seeing Wang Liang's livid face, Zhang Mu nonchalantly gnawed the bear paw in his hand again, laughing, "Just kidding, if something bad happens after eating it, can we still sit here? If I don't want to live, do I have to drag these hundreds of people to die with me?"

Wang Liang's expression eased after hearing this. He was really frightened by Zhang Mu's seriousness just now, because Zhang Mu did know a lot of things that he didn't understand at all. Sometimes Wang Liang even doubted whether Zhang Mu was a human being or just like when Wang Liang first introduced himself, a businessman from another world.

However, as Zhang Mu ate, his playful expression subsided, and he said to Wang Liang in a serious tone, "This mutant beast meat is harmless. It is not only used to fill the stomach, but most importantly, it can strengthen the body if eaten in large quantities. The effect on ordinary people is very obvious, but as for the evolvers, it will be much inferior. The stronger the evolvers themselves are, the greater the restrictions they will face.

But remember, you can eat the beast meat at will, but you must not take the beast core carelessly. When you reach that stage, I will tell you how to use it. Now you don’t have to figure out how to use it.

Otherwise, the consequences I just told you were definitely not meant to scare you."

"Okay, Brother Mu, Wang Liang will remember this." Now Wang Liang has no choice but to trust Zhang Mu, because he is not worth Zhang Mu's time to deceive him.

Zhang Mu looked at the people in the open space not far away who were looking satisfied after eating, and he felt a little emotional.

“When we lose everything, what we ask for is actually very simple.”

"But now, even the simplest wish like this one requires you to risk your life to fulfill it."

Zhang Mu's last muttering was too soft for Wang Liang to hear clearly.

"Is Paradise, Era, Hell?"

(End of this chapter)