The wind and rain stopped in the early morning, and every tree was as clean as if it had been washed.
In this vast forest that can almost be called a forest, there are many evolutionists living. They may be strong or weak, but they all have one thing in common... They cannot live without this place.
The hunting grounds here, the roulette here, the fertile soil, the clear streams, and even the trees themselves are all the conditions they depend on for survival.
In a very remote place, there is a waterfall that is not too high. Behind the waterfall is a bare cliff more than 200 meters high.
In the other three directions, two are the habitats of high-level mutant life forms, and on the other side is a small but extremely dangerous Jedi.
It can be said that this is almost a forgotten place.
But right here, it is a busy scene at the moment.
Ye Zhongming stood on the crown of a big tree, using the cover of the thick trunk to quietly look at the group of... women and children below.
He could easily tell that they were all a group of evolvers. Most of them were at a five-star level, and five or six of them were six-star evolvers. There was even a woman wearing silver equipment.
He is even a seven-star evolver.
In addition to these women, there are more than a dozen children, ranging in age from seven or eight to more than ten years old, playing under the pool formed by the waterfall.
But both the busy woman and the children were quiet, and even when they spoke, their voices were very low.
This is a camp, a camp where retailers have escaped from the pigs.
The woman named Xiaohua told Ye Zhongming the location here.
Now, her mouth was sealed, her body was tied, and she was fixed to the tree trunk. Her head was beside Ye Zhongming and could be crushed at any time.
Ye Zhongming pointed to the Qixing woman who was washing a child's hair, looked at Xiaohua, and after getting confirmation, he didn't say anything, but continued to stand here and watch.
There are several wooden houses built beside the pond, and more than fifty people live here.
Xiaohua told Ye Zhongming that they all ran away from the Zero Chamber of Commerce. There were more than 200 people who ran away at that time, but after being hunted for a period of time, many died one after another, and some of them found this hiding place.
Those who died in the process, and some died for this small camp.
As for how he died, Ye Zhongming can imagine.
After breakfast, half of the nearly forty women here jumped into the pool. There was a kind of blue fish there. It had a low evolutionary level but tasted good. It was their main source of food. The rest of them stayed behind, except for some.
There were more than a dozen people who formed a gathering team and went to the surrounding woods to collect some edible wild vegetables, mushrooms and the like.
As for hunting, they are not good at it. On the one hand, according to Xiaohua, they basically only have good evolutionary levels, but do not have bloodline skills and professions. They are also extremely lacking in equipment and have very little combat experience. Going here with those nearby
Mutated beings with a very high evolutionary level are just trying their best to give away food.
According to Xiaohua, in order to avoid the Zero Chamber of Commerce, they had to choose such a barren land as a camp. In order to survive, she and some sisters were sent out to adapt to the end of the world, and at the same time, try to bring back professional scrolls, skill scrolls, and lineage to the sisters here.
Crystals and various equipment, and impart to them the knowledge and experience they learned outside.
However, the Retail Chamber of Commerce has issued a reward. Once they are recognized, they will be caught and sent back. Of course, because of their high evolutionary level, many small forces take the risk to take them in in order to enhance their own strength, hoping to train them into qualified
warrior.
These small organizations are the goal of Xiaohua and others, to join such a team to study and live, and then bring a living house and... hope to other people in this camp.
This is a very risky plan, but there is no other way. They all stay here to wait for death, but it is just as dangerous to go out. They have sent three groups of sisters out, each with about fifteen people, and they may be able to come back again.
, no more than five in each batch.
The leading seven-star evolver woman is named Wang Xiaorui. She is the only one alive among the first batch of evolvers sent out. She has come back many times and brought back almost half of the materials and equipment here. She was elected as the leader by everyone.
, stay here to manage the camp.
Now, including Xiaohua, there are only nine people who are active outside and still keep in touch with here.
Ye Zhongming was not entirely sure what Xiaohua said was true. Even though he felt that the woman did not lie to her through his unparalleled mental power, for the sake of insurance, he still came to the camp from the road that only these women knew.
Observe this place through your own eyes.
Seeing that the people in the camp were separated and there were only a few people left in the camp, even some older children had gone out to work. After knocking Xiaohua unconscious, he nimbly jumped down from the tree and entered the camp.
With his strength, no one here can discover him.
Ye Zhongming came to the back of a wooden house. He just saw the Seven-Star Evolver Wang Xiaorui and two women entering here, taking a lot of fungi, which should be briefly processed and then waited for the sun to dry.
Inside the house, they were obviously more relaxed and talking more normally.
"Let's look at today's harvest. If we catch a lot of blue fish, we won't go hungry in the past few days. I'm afraid there will be less fish in the pond after the rain yesterday. It was like this before. I don't know why. It's going to be cold now.
I don’t know if we can survive it.”
A woman skillfully removed the roots of the fungi in her hand and threw them into a rough wooden basin nearby.
"Sister Rui, the sisters outside haven't come back for many days. I'm a little worried."
Another woman looked up at the silent Wang Zhirui.
"Have some confidence in the sisters." Wang Zhirui replied, paused for a moment and said: "The last time Mengmeng came back, she brought back a career scroll, three pieces of equipment and a lot of food. The last time it was Xiaohua who came back, she was outside.
My life is the best now, I brought back two skill scrolls, a bottle of six-star evolution potion and seven or eight pieces of equipment."
"They all worked hard to get these things. It's not easy. I don't know how long it took to save them. We waited slowly."
The three women remained silent, because although this kind of life was thousands of times better than working as a meat pig in a retail trade association, it was also very difficult.
"Winter is getting closer and closer, the temperature here is expected to be very low, and the food we can find will be greatly reduced. If there is no new way out by then, we will go out."
Wang Zhirui suddenly said this. She is the leader and wants to find a way for her sisters to survive. When the weather is good, there is no problem here. As long as they don't make too much noise to provoke the mutant life, they can still survive. But once winter comes,
There is no food around, and the blue fish in the pond may even disappear. At that time, if you don't want to wait for death, you have to leave.
"But we..."
The companion stopped talking after half a sentence, but all three of them understood that they were meat pigs of the Retail Chamber of Commerce, and people outside wanted to catch them back to collect the reward. If they did not have enough ability to protect themselves, they would die if they went out.
Even if they can travel a long distance away from here, where can they go if they know basically nothing in the vast world?
"Last time Xiaohua came back and said that there was some kind of national ranking list outside. The team currently ranked number one is called Yunding Villa. Their boss Ye Zhongming has a guard team composed of seven-star evolvers, called the Red Makeup Guard.
Rumor has it that these people escaped from the Retail Chamber of Commerce before, and we...maybe we can join them."
A woman's words attracted the attention of the other two people, and they started a discussion around this possibility, which made Ye Zhongming, who was listening outside, feel a very strange feeling. He did not expect to hear his name when eavesdropping.
By now, he was basically sure that Xiaohua was not lying. As for why she told him everything, Ye Zhongming felt that firstly, his ability to crush her and the threat played a role, and secondly, it might be Xiaohua who knew about this camp.
We were on the verge of being unable to sustain it. When I heard that I hated the retail merchants, they would sympathize with them, so I took a chance on my luck.
After Ye Zhongming quietly left the house, he returned to the big tree where he was hiding. He planned to wake up Xiaohua and ask her to take him to see Wang Xiaorui, because Xiaohua said that only Wang Xiaorui knew everything about the Ling Chamber of Commerce.
If Zhong Ming wants to know, he can only ask her.
But before he took action, he looked not far away, where the women who had just gone out to look for food were running towards here crazily, and there was a rumbling sound behind them.