20: Chapter 20 Humans Killing Each Other?

However, danger is always accompanied by extreme rewards.

The exotic beasts there are higher-leveled and more densely packed, and the beast cores they drop are far richer than those of ordinary exotic beasts.

That is the most core resource for enhancing Superpowers.

He currently has an endless supply of fresh provisions, but having provisions alone is not enough; only by enhancing his Superpower can he avoid being trampled underfoot by others.

And the only thing he lacks is beast cores to strengthen his Superpower.

The exotic beast tides will only become fiercer each time, and the dangers in the future will not just be exotic beasts; he has no time to hesitate.

Chen Ye repeatedly zoomed in and out on the screen, firmly engraving every detail of the Guangming Residential Community into his mind:

Building layouts, main roads, underground garage entrances, fire escape passages, and the main water, electricity, and gas valves.

Even every corner where one could hide.

The miserable death in his previous life made him deeply understand that in the apocalypse, details are the capital for survival.

The night grew deeper, and the city returned to a dead silence; for some reason, this silence made one's hair stand on end at this moment.

Chen Ye looked at his phone and fell asleep without realizing it.

Steady breathing slowly sounded as he drifted into a deep sleep in the quiet night, fully prepared for the blood and opportunities to come.

...

"Bang!!"

A huge explosion tore through the silence of the morning like a thunderclap, forcibly dragging Chen Ye awake from his light sleep.

He opened his eyes abruptly, his muscles tensing instantly as he entered a state of alert.

The sky was already bright, and the warm sunlight slanted in through the window, falling onto the clean floor, spreading a pale golden patch of light.

The small lamp by the bed was still on, its dim yellow light interweaving with the morning light.

If it were before the apocalypse, such a lazy morning...

He would definitely have stayed in bed, only to rush through washing up before hurrying to work.

But now, with exotic beasts running rampant and order collapsed, those mundane daily routines had long since become an unreachable luxury.

Chen Ye did not hesitate at all and got up briskly.

He walked quickly to the bathroom and splashed his face with cold water; the cold chill made him instantly awake.

He grabbed the backpack he had packed in advance last night and quickly checked his equipment:

Two sharp fruit knives were tucked at his waist, and a thick electric scooter helmet was hung on his bag.

The gas mask brought back from the hospital, adrenaline, and some medicine brought back from the military were all prepared.

After simply taking a few bites of bread exchanged from the symbiosis chamber to pad his stomach, Chen Ye picked up his backpack and walked downstairs quickly.

He straddled his electric scooter, twisted the throttle, and the wheels sped off in the direction of the Guangming Residential Community.

Along the way, the scene was chaotic to the extreme.

Countless people were fleeing frantically in the opposite direction; crying, screaming, and the anxious honking of cars were all mixed together, sharp and piercing.

From the distance, dense gunfire came from time to time, mixed with the violent roars of exotic beasts, making the air tremble slightly.

Chen Ye's eyes darkened.

"Has the firefight already begun!"

In just 10 minutes, the electric scooter stopped outside the Guangming Residential Community.

The scene before his eyes was exactly the same as the eerie scene that circulated in short videos in his previous life.

The entire Residential Community was shrouded by a huge, translucent energy shield.

Inside the shield, thick gray fog churned, blocking out the sky and sun, making it impossible to see any situation inside.

Even more eerie was that there were no warning lines at the entrance of the Residential Community, no standing SWAT guards, and no rescue personnel.

The empty main entrance was dead silent, making one's skin crawl even more than the chaotic streets.

This was the death zone that everyone in his previous life turned pale at the mere mention of.

Chen Ye took a deep breath, suppressed the palpitation in his heart, and rode the electric scooter around to the small gate on the north side of the Residential Community.

There was no access control here, only a rusty iron fence.

He clenched his fists, summoned his courage, lifted his foot, and walked in.

There was no physical obstruction, but the moment his body passed through the energy shield, a faint electric current surged through his limbs and bones, and the tingling sensation vanished in an instant.

Chen Ye subconsciously reached back with his hand, his fingertips touching a layer of cold, hard, yet invisible and intangible barrier, like a wall of solidified air.

"Sure enough... once you come in, you can't get out."

He muttered to himself, no fear in his eyes, but instead a hint of fighting spirit ignited.

The mysteries of his previous life would be solved by him personally in this life, and beast cores must also be harvested here.

Chen Ye lowered his body and walked slowly along the small path inside the Residential Community.

Under the shroud of thick fog, even though it was already bright, the light was as dim as twilight, with visibility less than 10 meters.

The distant gunfire and roars of exotic beasts became increasingly clear, making his eardrums ache.

He knew his goal very well.

To scavenge and harvest beast cores, not to engage in a head-on confrontation.

The most urgent thing right now is to avoid the dense combat zones and first figure out the details of this restricted zone.

Having only walked a few steps, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a figure curled up in the flower bed bushes by the roadside.

Chen Ye became vigilant instantly, lightened his steps, and approached slowly.

In the dense fog, the figure was motionless, covered in blood, and appeared to be injured.

With the intention of investigating the situation first, Chen Ye quickened his pace to go forward, and just as he was about to speak and ask, the man curled up in the flower bed suddenly lifted his head.

The moment he saw Chen Ye, the man's originally painful face was instantly occupied by extreme fear, his pupils shrinking as if he had seen a soul-reaping ghost.

"Don't kill me! Don't kill me!"

He scrambled to get up from the flower bed, disregarding the injuries on his body, and fled frantically toward a nearby building unit, limping.

The wound on his leg tore open, and blood flowed down his trouser leg, but he dared not slow down at all.

"Hey! Wait!"

Chen Ye shouted subconsciously, but the man didn't pay any attention at all, only focused on fleeing for his life.

As if what was chasing behind him was not a living person, but a man-eating exotic beast.

Chen Ye was full of surprise and looked down to examine himself:

Wearing casual clothes, no weapons in his hands, and no ferocious look on his face; no matter how one looked at it, he was not a man-eating monster. Why was this person so scared?

With confusion, Chen Ye quickly chased after him.

Just as he rounded the flower bed, the scene before his eyes made his whole body stiffen, and the sense of crisis in his heart instantly soared to the peak.

On the open ground behind the flower bed, corpses were lying everywhere, dense and shocking.

There were residents in casual clothes and Armed Police in uniform.

The corpses were piled together, blood staining the ground red, emitting a pungent, fishy smell.

Chen Ye squatted down and quickly checked the wounds on the corpses.

The next second, his pupils constricted.

The fatal wounds on these people were not from the claws or teeth of exotic beasts at all.

But from blunt force trauma, sharp blade slashes, and even dense gunshot wounds!

"It's not an exotic beast massacre, it's humans... killing each other?"

A chill shot straight from the soles of his feet to his scalp; the eeriness of this Guangming Residential Community far exceeded his imagination.