#27 - City 023
Time was passing, and the sky was gradually brightening.
After a night of trekking through mountains and rivers, Yang Wu finally rode his beloved little motorcycle to the edge of the 023rd city's outskirts on the morning of the next day.
City 023 was formerly Suzhou. Many places feature ancient-style architecture, but unfortunately, it has now become a monster's paradise.
At this time, the sky was dimly lit, and a gentle breeze brought a chill.
“Roar!”
“Heh heh…”
Beastly roars echoed continuously from the city.
This time of day was when monsters hunted. Even without human martial artists hunting monsters, monsters would still kill each other for food.
However, these frantic roars had no effect on Yang Wu.
He put on his backpack, picked up his Breaker spear, and walked towards the city. As for the broken motorcycle, he left it by the roadside.
Monsters don't recognize valuable items, and martial artists don't care for them.
He parked it with peace of mind!
Although he really wanted to ride the bike, he was ultimately defeated by reality.
The road was just too bad.
Most importantly, highways are mostly built in barren areas where monsters rarely appear.
In the suburban areas, however, monsters are very dense. Flying ones in the sky, running ones on the ground.
Poking one is like stirring up a nest.
The vast majority of land-based monsters wander within abandoned cities, living in densely built areas. This is the monsters' paradise.
Unless humans launch attacks at all costs, tilting missiles or even nuclear bombs into the city, it is difficult to reclaim ownership of the city.
But what humans need is to recover lost territory, not a lifeless wasteland.
Yang Wu bypassed dozens of Warrior-level monsters along the way. Of course, there were also a few ignorant ones who were instantly sent to see their great-grandmothers.
Yang Wu's main purpose in coming to the wilderness was for money; otherwise, did you think he was here for tourism?
His goal was at least Commander-level monsters.
Warrior-level monsters can be killed with thermal weapons. The materials from this level of monster are like products produced on an assembly line and are generally not worth much.
Only the materials from Commander-level monsters are valuable, and Lord-level monsters are even more expensive.
However, Commander-level monsters already possess intelligence no less than that of humans.
Except for a very few monsters that like to travel alone, most Commanders are surrounded by many Warriors.
Therefore, to kill a Commander-level monster, it is best to form a team and cooperate. Wanting to take it down alone is just a waste of time unless there is a significant difference in strength between the two sides.
An hour later.
Yang Wu arrived at his first destination, a twenty-eight-story residential building.
After looking at the relatively well-preserved residential building, Yang Wu stepped into the dilapidated gate without hesitation and continued to move upward along the stairs.
The residential building was not safe. A monster might suddenly pop out from somewhere. In narrow spaces like stairs, Yang Wu's strength would also be limited.
However, this didn't affect him.
“Pfft!”
At the corner of the stairs, a Lion Mastiff monster saw Yang Wu and immediately pounced at him.
Yang Wu simply sidestepped, and the Breaker spear in his hand easily slashed across the Lion Mastiff monster's head.
Thump!
The staggering Lion Mastiff monster kicked its paws unconsciously twice.
It fell to the ground with a thud, its head separated from its body.
Advanced Warrior-level monsters facing Advanced General-level martial artists, if the former's numbers don't reach a certain point, they can only be abused by the latter.
After all, the gap between the two is too great.
Even if Yang Wu's strength was somewhat limited, the monsters hidden in the floors were okay if they didn't come out, but once they did, it could be said that he killed each one with a single spear.
The A6-grade Breaker spear was like cutting tofu when killing Warrior-level monsters.
After getting rid of some Warrior-level monsters blocking the way, Yang Wu finally walked out of the stairwell and came to the rooftop of this twenty-eight-story residential building.
In order to prevent monsters from secretly running up to the rooftop from the stairs without his knowledge, causing some unnecessary trouble.
Yang Wu closed the iron door of the stairwell and wedged it shut with an iron rod.
Although this iron rod and this iron door could not stop monsters, normal monsters would not crash into closed places, and there would be a sound if they did.
Although he was not afraid, he was still annoyed if Warrior-level monsters kept coming one by one. They were not worth much and wasted his time, unless they were Commander-level.
Yang Wu found a relatively clean place, put down his backpack, took out water and high-energy food from it, and replenished his strength.
Then he leaned against the wall and rested for a while.
After lying down for about 10 minutes.
Yang Wu got up, took out high-powered binoculars from the backpack placed on the ground, stood on the edge of the rooftop, and began searching for his target prey.
Standing high allows you to see far.
From the rooftop of the twenty-eighth floor, with the help of high-powered binoculars, the entire city could be said to be almost entirely visible.
Everywhere in sight was a scene of devastation.
Under the gray sky, there were ruins and wreckage everywhere. This dilapidated city was filled with an old and desolate atmosphere.
Yang Wu shifted his gaze and zoomed the lens to not far away.
It could be seen that on the streets, there were a large number of monsters everywhere, either crawling forward, or tearing and killing, or enjoying their prey…
“Rumble…”
A dull but complex sound suddenly attracted Yang Wu's attention. He zoomed the lens in the direction of the sound.
At about two thousand meters away from him, two groups of monsters were fighting fiercely on the street.
That's right, they were fighting fiercely!
The leaders on both sides were Commander-level monsters. A total of more than two hundred monsters were fighting each other on the street.
But Yang Wu also noticed that in another direction of the battle between these two large monster groups, in the deep and dim alley, there were several pairs of green eyes flashing by.
When snipes and clams fight, the fisherman benefits.
To hunt monsters in this abandoned city, you must be fast, accurate, and ruthless.
Otherwise, it is not only easy to cause a large-scale monster swarm riot, but it is also possible to have other monsters lying in ambush to pick up the cheap.
Moreover, in this kind of abandoned big city, a monster group is often led by several Commander-level monsters, leading thousands of Warrior-level monsters.
If you encounter such a monster swarm riot, forming a large-scale monster tide, even with Yang Wu's strength, he would never dare to charge head-on.
Still that sentence: Although he is not afraid, it is very troublesome.
He can't directly confront the monster tide head-on.
Once he is besieged, in the continuous monster tide, let alone him, an Advanced General-level martial artist, even a Mid-level War God would be exhausted to death.
But he has legs, he can run.
With his current strength, unless he is in the center of the monster tide from the beginning, or there is a reason why he can't leave, otherwise the general monster tide really can't do anything to him.
Yang Wu on the rooftop quickly locked onto his target.
“It's you!”
