Chapter 1858 A Tragic Youth
That night, the wind was very cold.
Malone was abandoned on the riverbank outside the city, like a dead dog, and he didn't wake up until late at night.
That night, Malone understood for the first time what oppression and treachery meant.
His youthful vigor made him unwilling to accept defeat...
As dawn broke, Ma Long dragged his injured leg and crawled back to the mountain town.
We arrived at the city lord's mansion...
The Lord of Mountain City is a member of the World's Command Department, the protector of Mountain City, and the faith of its residents.
The Master said that the city lord would shed his blood and risk his life for the safety of the mountain city...
The Master also said that the city lord represents justice in the city and is also the punisher of evil...
Over the years, Malone couldn't remember exactly how many times the Master had spoken of the city lord's greatness...
However, when he knocked on the door of the city lord's mansion, he was met with indifference...
"Where did this beggar come from? This is a sacred mountain city, how can you defile it!" The one who opened the door was a white-helmeted soldier dressed in armor, who usually gave Ma Long a great sense of security whenever he went to the tribe to collect taxes.
He only managed to argue a few words before he was beaten again...
When the white-helmeted soldier made his move, he accidentally broke a flowerpot, and as a result, the young boy, Ma Long, was imprisoned in the dark prison.
That year, Malone was sixteen years old...
He only learned about it from his fellow inmates while he was in the dark prison...
The apothecary who cheated him out of a gold coin was the city lord's distant cousin...
In the dark prison, people are treated worse than pigs and dogs.
Especially for someone like Ma Long, who was penniless and powerless, he had no cotton-padded clothes in winter and no straw mat in summer, and his daily meals consisted of only half-cooked wheat bran...
He was imprisoned for two years.
Two years later, when he was released from prison, Malone learned that his mother, his only remaining family member, had died a year and a half earlier...
The Master said that the mother searched everywhere for the missing Ma Long and eventually came to the outside of the Dark Prison.
He caused a huge scene, was beaten to death by the prison guards, and even his body was used as bait for dogs...
Malone searched outside the dark prison, but couldn't even find his mother's bones...
No one knows what kind of anger was raging in the boy's heart that day.
No one knew that after the boy shed his last tear that day, he never cried again for anyone or anything.
No one knew that the boy's faith would completely collapse on that day.
After that day, Malone became unusually silent and learned to pretend.
He finally understood that his mother would never come back, and he also understood that the only thing worthwhile had faded away with time.
On that very day, the world was conquered, and it was the Wind Feather Clan again…
But why did his heart feel no sorrow, but rather such joy, when he witnessed the city lord of the mountain city fighting against the Wind Feather Clan and ultimately staining the sky with blood?
He witnessed firsthand how a powerful alien race descended from the sky and destroyed the mountain city.
The former pharmacy owner, the shop assistant, the jailers of the dark prison... everyone wailed under the slaughter of the foreign race...
His heart, apart from joy, contained none of the sorrow that the Master had described.
White Helmet soldiers arrived in human warships and led the survivors to escape the world.
Ma Long was fortunate enough to become one of them.
Because of his youth, he easily obtained a bottle of the evolution potion he had been dreaming of on that warship.
He never imagined that the destruction of the world would turn him into an evolved being...
With his mother gone, whether that human world still existed was no longer relevant to him.
Ma Long often wondered if he would have had any further opportunities if the alien races hadn't attacked.
The answer is... impossible!
A prosperous era has always been a prosperous era for those in power...
Malone boarded a warship and arrived at the 3,925th battlefield.
Because he was only a low-level evolved being, he was assigned to the army to sort through the spoils of war...
This stay lasted for five years.
Because Malone seemed to work more diligently than the others in the team, he often received monetary rewards.
In the military, as long as you're willing to risk your life...
Five years later, Malone became an A-level evolved human, qualified to enter the battlefield after each battle to collect spoils or assist in defending the city...
He worked harder than ordinary evolved beings, and was also meticulous in his thinking. Occasionally, he could also achieve meritorious service and come into the sights of military administrators...
The rewards he receives are also increasing.
Unlike other evolved beings, Malone did not squander his rewards on food, drink, or housing.
He has accumulated all the resources.
Each time Malone accumulates enough currency to purchase a higher-level evolution potion, he initiates the evolution...
Ten years have passed quickly.
Over the course of ten years, as his life level evolved, both his speed and strength increased several times over. In addition to currency, Malone also occasionally received rewards of alien flesh and blood.
Ma Long witnessed firsthand how his comrades-in-arms died one after another in the battle to defend the city.
He has already been promoted to captain of the 9852nd Logistics Team!
As one of the few surviving veterans among the city's defenders, Ma Long was even acquainted with several of the strongest generals.
The military is known for its strong bonds of camaraderie, and he has received the favor of many powerful generals on numerous occasions.
The first superpower potion Malone obtained was a bottle of B-grade Might.
She was a female powerhouse who, through the distribution of her war merits, acquired even more advanced supernatural abilities, which she then gifted to Malone.
From then on, Malone was known as a superhuman.
Twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye!
Thirty-five years have passed since he arrived on the battlefield, and Malone has long since grown into a young human.
His life level has already evolved to SS level!
Although he only has a low-level superpower, he has accumulated a lot of connections and resources due to his bravery in battle, and has become a centurion in the regular army.
He overheard that there was a special army in the military that did not need to fight on the battlefield, but instead went to various secret realms, dead worlds and other dangerous places to collect strategic resources for the White Helmet Army.
They are called the Treasure Hunting Army!
Because the casualty rate in the treasure-hunting army is extremely high, the treatment is also very generous.
The treasure hunters can keep half of the supplies they obtain in the desolate areas, and hand over the remaining 95% to the supply depot.
Furthermore, half of the supplies handed over can be converted into military merits!
A regular army centurion is the threshold for joining the treasure-hunting army.
Malone once again sought out the powerful woman and asked her to recommend him to join the Treasure Hunting Army.
It just so happens that the treasure hunting team was short-handed at that time...
Ma Long then naturally followed the army to various perilous places... Although he did not have powerful superpowers, he was meticulous in his thinking.
In the most dangerous places, even human kings can perish at any moment.
Being meticulous is more important than having strong abilities.
He returned from the brink of death several times, only to find that eight or nine out of ten of his comrades had perished.
But he survived and reaped a great harvest.
In just one month, Malone collected enough resources to evolve into an SSS-level evolved being!
Fortunately, he got separated from the main group during one of his visits to the secret realm.
He entered a ruin alone.
They found a bottle of SS-grade evolution potion that even the strongest beings coveted...
