Author: Youjiu L

"here it is?"

Chu Zihang looked at the darkness in front of him, wondering in his heart.

He pinched his arm. It was still thin, but already at the level of a young man.

It should be Lu Mingfei's time in the Chaodu gang now.

So

Chu Zihang touched around again, and sure enough he found a shotgun.

Then this should be another safe spot.

With this movement, there was a faint feeling of pain in my body.

He touched the painful area and felt a wet sensation.

It was blood, he was injured, no wonder he was hiding.

However, Chu Zihang felt that his physical condition was okay and the injury should not be serious.

He leaned forward and immediately touched a wall. This hiding place was even narrower than he expected.

Lu Mingfei told Chu Zihang that the narrower the safe house he chose, the safer it would be.

Therefore, there should be no enemies nearby.

However, out of caution, he still put his ear against the wall and listened, trying to identify any unusual sounds.

After all, this time is different from last time. If you die in a dream, you will really die.

Chu Zihang is not afraid of death, but he is even less willing to die needlessly.

One week, as long as he survives in the dream world for one week, he will automatically exit the trial.

After listening for a few minutes, everything seemed normal outside, except for the noise from an indistinguishable source that passed into his ears along the metal wall.

Chu Zihang decided to go out.

He picked up the shotgun, loaded it, and pushed open the hidden entrance.

Dim lights shone into the safe house, causing him to narrow his eyes slightly.

Chu Zihang endured the pain in his eyes and looked around, his finger on the trigger ready to fire at any time.

Fortunately, there were no malicious Bottomhive natives, nor any local creatures that coveted his body.

There were no stairs to the exit, so he put away his gun and jumped down.

The height was not very high, only three meters, but the wounds involved still made Chu Zihang frown.

He looked up and looked at the safe house behind him. It turned out to be a thick pillar leading to the top of the space.

Chu Zihang stood up on tiptoe and closed the entrance door. It seemed to be a perfect fit. There was no trace at all, and he didn't know who built it.

After hiding the safe house, he began to observe the space where he stood.

This seemed to be an abandoned storage platform, with boxes of various sizes scattered everywhere, some well preserved and others torn apart.

Obviously, this place has been cleaned up, but I don't know if Lu Mingfei did it himself.

Chu Zihang walked along the suspension bridge and towards the opposite side of the platform.

The suspension bridges, which were fastened with iron cables, creaked, but he knew they would not break.

The bottom layer of the hive city is often the first to be built, and therefore, the technological content is often the highest.

This suspension bridge looks rusty, but it is actually very strong, even if two Chimera personnel carriers drive over it at the same time, there will be no problem.

Halfway through, two men armed with weapons suddenly appeared from the opposite corner.

Chu Zihang squatted down without even looking at their faces.

Facts have proved that this reaction is quite correct.

As soon as his upper body dropped, several bullets flew over his head.

Now that the opponent has opened fire, Chu Zihang has no hesitation.

The double-barreled shotgun spurted out dazzling flames, and 40 steel balls turned into a net of death, shrouding the two men.

The huge recoil almost pushed Chu Zihang down, and the murderer who was hit by the bullet was even more unbearable.

The man walking in front sprayed out a stream of blood and fell to the ground without saying a word.

The person behind him had better luck. The steel ball only hit his lower body, and he was lying on the ground howling miserably.

Seeing the other party's miserable appearance, Chu Zihang mercifully offered relief.

Another rain of steel balls hit, and the murderer's imagination was widened.

Walking to the side of the corpse, Chu Zihang searched for a while.

Four nutritional packets, two small bags of purified water, and some worthless gadgets.

He remembered that when he first entered the dreamland trial, the price offered to him by Old One-Eye was only five nutritional packs.

Sure enough, killing people and selling goods makes money faster than working part-time.

Even Lu Mingfei was unavoidable in this period, but he still adhered to some principles.

Chu Zihang picked up the two guns again. One was an ordinary single-shot bolt-action rifle, which was of little value.

The other semi-automatic rifle is pretty good, and just makes up for the shortcomings of the shotgun's range and ammunition capacity.

He put the shotgun behind him and continued walking outside with the semi-automatic rifle in his hand.

After passing through several narrow passages, Chu Zihang came to a fork in the road.

There is still a passage on the left, I don’t know where it leads.

On the right is a suspension bridge, and at the end of the suspension bridge is a closed gate.

He was a little hesitant. Usually there is a settlement behind this kind of gate.

But Chu Zihang didn't know Lu Mingfei's current situation. What if he hid in a safe place just to avoid the gangs in this settlement?

Then if he comes to the door now, it's like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth.

But it's not good to keep walking aimlessly like this. Sooner or later, you will end up in a predator's territory or a mutant's lair.

While hesitating, the door opened.

Chu Zihang hurriedly hid aside and only used the corner of his eyes to observe the movement on the other side.

A group of people came out of the door, with a man and a little girl at the front.

Under the urging of the guards behind them, they reluctantly walked outside, and kept saying something.

Chu Zihang listened attentively and roughly understood what the man said.

It turned out that he and his daughter were believed to have contracted an infectious disease, so they were to be kicked out of the settlement.

The men were arguing loudly that what they had was not an infectious disease at all, but the guards didn't listen.

In the bottom nest, there are ten thousand reasons for human life to be deprived, and contracting an infectious disease is the most legitimate one.

Not being shot directly and then burned was already a sign of mercy.

The door was closed behind the two of them, leaving only a gap with a gun barrel sticking out.

If they don't go far enough, the gun will kill them directly.

The two of them also knew this, so despite all their reluctance, they could only drag their heavy bodies forward.

The father led his daughter across the suspension bridge. The swaying suspension bridge made her a little scared, and then she started crying.

But at this time, the man no longer had the spirit to coax the child, and just mechanically dragged her forward.

"Dad, I want to go home."

The daughter said while wiping away tears.

Although the tent was very shabby and the sewer next to it was smelly, it was still her home, with her little bed made of wire.

"Can not go back."

He sighed.

No one will believe what a man says, or no one needs to believe what he says.

Although he has some skills as a blacksmith, he can only make a living.

Now that the man has been driven out of the settlement, other blacksmith apprentices will move into his tent later.

He could even guess who it was. That guy had been jealous of him for a long time.

The two walked across the suspension bridge and entered a fork in the road.

The man sighed and just wanted to comfort his daughter, but was pulled into the shadows by a strong hand.

He was suddenly startled and wanted to take out the dagger from his waist, but was hit by a precise jab.
To be continued...