The End of the Extreme Dao: I Planted a Sacred Tree and Gained Immortality

Chapter 217 Refugees, Good People, Searching
Huo Ying and Zhang Yuqi's pickup truck was like a leaf blown by the wind, gently passing the edge of XN City.

Deliberately avoiding crowded roads, Huo Ying and Zhang Yuqi slowly approached the location of the guard team according to their memories from their previous life.

"parking!"

After passing most of the city, the vehicle had just entered the main road when it was stopped again by several guards armed with real guns.

Zhang Yuqi stopped the car steadily, Huo Ying rolled down the window and glanced at the guards in front.

"This license plate number is not from XN City. What are you doing here?" The guards looked at the license plate number and several people surrounded the stopped pickup truck.

Zhang Yuqi took out the pass and handed it to several guards: "Sir, we have just joined XN City. Here is the pass."

The leader picked up the pass, looked at it, and sneered: "What are your identities, do you two have a household registration in XN City, do you have a house in XN City?"

Zhang Yuqi was stunned. Her previous plan was to join the research community as a perfect level 3 infected person. She had never thought that she would be criticized in this regard, so she did not prepare for a household registration in XN City.

When they found out that Zhang Yuqi and Huo Ying had nothing, the guards sneered and looked at Huo Ying with disdain: "You have nothing, but you still got a pass. It seems like you two are really brave."

Squinting his eyes and looking at Zhang Yuqi's face and body, the member of the escort team curled his lips and said, "The pass is useless. Without a household registration and a house, you will be treated as a refugee. You can't come to these places. You must report to the refugee camp first. When you have accumulated enough points and exchanged them for a household registration and a house in XN City, you will be eligible to drive into the main road."

Glancing at Zhang Yuqi again, the guard said jokingly, "If you want to earn points, I have some tips. Come find me when you figure it out. It will definitely be happier than living in the refugee camp."

Zhang Yuqi's face changed slightly, and a chill appeared in her mind.

"They don't know what's good for them. Take them to the refugee camp." Seeing Zhang Yuqi's eyes, the guard snorted and laughed, then waved his hands. He had seen this kind of eyes many times, but it wouldn't be long before the owner of this kind of eyes would kneel on the ground, lick his feet, and beg him to give them a chance.

He liked this feeling very much. Only at the end of the world would those beautiful women who were obviously out of his reach allow him to insult and torture them.

Huo Ying and Zhang Yuqi came to the refugee camp in XN City.

The tents here are in disarray and the air is filled with a foul smell.

The tents where the infected and ordinary people lived were easy to distinguish. They were all refugees, but no one else would approach the tents of the infected. However, men and women with empty eyes would come in and out of the tents of ordinary people from time to time, trading food with each other without avoiding others. Many people even took over directly in front of other people's tents, and did not care even if the people inside the tents cursed.

Huo Ying looked at the refugee camp quietly. No wonder in the last life, Scar King's teammates would rather betray their brothers and steal the wood from Black Panther's car and report Black Panther. He used to think that this group of people were hateful, but now it seems that the refugee camp is the real hell.

Not all people are born evil.

But, living in hell, no one has a choice.

There was a sudden commotion in the refugee camp, and people gathered in groups of three or four and formed long queues.

In the distance, on a simple wooden platform, several guards stood there, seemingly waiting for something.

"Hurry up, come and get the food. I don't have time to serve you." A guard shouted loudly from the platform. Under his feet was a dirty woven bag filled with potatoes and dry and hard steamed buns.

The method of food distribution is extremely simple.

The guards stood on the platform and threw down food one by one. Each piece of food was not handed to the refugees in front of them, but thrown to the ground, as if throwing it to a group of animals.

Each refugee picked up the food without any expression on his face, as if he was used to this kind of insult. Even the infected people did not resist, at most they snatched one more portion from ordinary people and then quickly returned to the tent.

"What are you still looking at if you're standing? Squat down and grab the food." A guard spotted Huo Ying and Zhang Yuqi. All the refugees were hunched over, ready to grab the food that fell on the ground at any time. Only Zhang Yuqi and Huo Ying stood quietly there, looking at everything in front of them. They were extremely conspicuous.

The guard glanced at Zhang Yuqi and was suddenly stunned. He never expected that there was such a beautiful woman in the refugee camp. Then he took out a dry bun from the dirty sack and threw it directly at Zhang Yuqi's chest.

Zhang Yuqi slightly turned sideways, and the shriveled bun missed the target. Before it fell to the ground, someone grabbed it.

There was no outburst. Zhang Yuqi frowned. She couldn't bear to watch it any longer. Then she pulled Huo Ying up, and the two of them walked silently to the back of the line.

The guard standing on the platform snorted coldly, picked up another hard potato and smashed it hard at Zhang Yuqi. This time he used the infectious power in his body. The potato made a whistling sound in the air, and the refugees who were staring at the food retreated in fear for a moment.

Snapped.

The potato still didn't hit Zhang Yuqi, but hit the ground and broke into pieces.

"Stop, these foods were collected by the soldiers of XN City at great risk of their lives. If you don't want to eat them, you can give them to others. But if you let them fall on the ground, it will be a waste of food!" The member of the escort team jumped from the high platform to Zhang Yuqi: "Do you know that there is not enough food? Do you know how many people in the refugee camps don't have enough to eat every day? Since you have come to XN City, you must abide by the rules of XN City and know that food is hard to come by."

The guard kicked the potatoes mixed with the dirt, with a smug smile on his face: "Waste is prohibited in XN City. Eat up the potatoes you smashed."

All the refugees automatically dispersed from the circle they had formed. Seeing this, some infected people who had already grabbed food and left also gathered around. Living in hell was extremely painful. Seeing others who were more unlucky and miserable than themselves was the only bit of fun in such days.

"Are the guards of XN City so lawless?" Zhang Yuqi looked around, her eyes sweeping over one infected person after another. As long as the infected people united together, the guards of XN City would not be able to bully all the infected people. But whether they were refugees or infected people, all the people bullied by the guards not only had no consciousness of resistance, but they also gloated over those who were bullied even more miserably.

It turned out to be the case.

Huo Ying sighed. In his previous life, he had always been curious about why the fourth-level octopus could easily destroy the sturdy XN City. Even though it was built by the sea and faced the infected beasts all day long, Lianhai City had held out for a long time. Why was the more solid XN City destroyed more quickly?

Because XN City has no roots.

"These people are not worthy of being human beings." Zhang Yuqi looked at Huo Ying, waiting for his reaction. She had already made up her mind to kill him, but she didn't know what Huo Ying's plan was. Zhang Yuqi was afraid that if she acted rashly, it would affect Huo Ying's plan.

"This group of people are just as pitiful as the people they look down upon." Huo Ying spoke slowly, without a trace of anger in his tone: "You can use these foods as a symbol of power, thinking that you can control us in this way. But you don't realize that your power has long been corrupted into a double-edged sword that disregards the lives of others."

"When you threw away the food, have you ever thought that those standing here, in their eyes, see not only food, but also your arrogance and indifference." "Do you think that throwing away food and insulting these refugees can make your authority more solid?" Huo Ying smiled lightly: "They are just some self-righteous dogs, biting bones and going crazy. Building power on the suffering of others, such power is ultimately fragile. Everyone has forgotten to protect, and all they want is to snatch your resources and identities. Because of this, your lives will one day be torn apart by stronger hounds."

Be it before or after the end of the world.

Human beings often start with protection and construction and end with distribution and plunder.

No matter how many times history repeats itself, this bad habit, like hereditary and addictive, will never disappear.

"A lunatic came into the refugee camp?" The guard shrugged, looking at him like a clown: "Are you trying to reason with me?"

"No." Huo Ying shook his head.

"I just want to make killing feel more justified."

Wood Release: Spore Jutsu.

Huo Ying turned around, and suddenly dense granular spores appeared in the air. This was because Huo Ying used ninjutsu to replicate the immortal cells in his body and transformed them into parasitic spores, which spread through the air into the crowd.

The next second, roars rang out one after another.

This is the most primitive and powerful immortal cell. No matter whether it is an ordinary person or an infected person, without an indomitable heart and an inextinguishable obsession, they will be blown up by this terrifying immortal energy.

A burnt smell suddenly spread in the air, and the bodies of several guards began to twist unconsciously, their limbs became increasingly stiff, and their backs bent slightly.

Roar!
The guard who had just mocked Huo Ying suddenly roared, and then his eyes widened, and the whites of his eyeballs began to turn scarlet. His skin was pale, his bones were trembling under his muscles, and his back suddenly bulged, as if something had exploded inside, fiercely stretching his spine. Then came a tearing sound.

It was his spine that was forcibly twisted, as if part of his body was rapidly changing.

"Uh……"

The guard's low groan became more and more painful, blood flowed from the corners of his mouth, and with a strange snapping sound, his bones suddenly burst from his body, the joints of his limbs deformed wildly, and even his skin began to swell like a biological mutation, expanding rapidly and covered with strange wart-like protrusions.

At the same time, the refugees who inhaled the spores also mutated.

Some people's hands deformed rapidly. The bones on their fingers began to crack and turned into sharp tentacles, as if reaching out to invisible targets in the air. Their internal organs expanded violently and made tearing sounds. With a crisp sound, their chests split open, revealing the wildly growing black tentacles.

Some people's bodies swelled rapidly, their originally thin bodies became abnormally large, their muscles grew violently, and their bodies were covered with hard scaly skin, as if covered with a thick layer of armor. Their entire appearance began to become extremely strange, and they grew claws like sharp blades.

The power of the immortal cells was too strong to be controlled. People's faces were completely devoured, and every inch of their bodies was wantonly changed by the immortal cells. The disgusting monsters' muscles were tense, and their claws, tentacles and even fangs quickly broke through the skin and were exposed. Everyone became unlike humans, like demons crawling out of hell.

In the refugee camp, some people who were too far away to absorb the spores began to scream in panic and began to flee in all directions. However, their screams attracted the monsterized failures, and soon the entire refugee camp was flooded with blood.

"Monsters! Monsters have entered XN City!"

Zhang Yuqi looked at the bloody scene in front of her, her pupils full of surprise. She had no pity for these people. Since she was selected for the human experiment and was forced to become a volunteer to participate in the experiment, Zhang Yuqi had no objection to depriving others of their lives.

All people are equal.

Equality be damned.

During her time as an experimental subject in the genetic laboratory, Zhang Yuqi met all kinds of people, some were forced, and some volunteered, but Zhang Yuqi had never seen any academician or child of a high-ranking official who wanted to contribute to humanity and took the initiative to become an experimental subject.

All the experimental subjects were forced.

Part of it was forced upon me.

Part of it is due to poverty.

So, those guys who force people, damn it.

Those guys who make people suddenly poor without any warning should also die.

"What a pity, immortal cells are not contagious." Zhang Yuqi shook her head with some regret.

A monster-like member of the guard team rushed towards Huo Ying with the last bit of hostility left.

Zhang Yuqi was about to intercept but was gently pulled back by Huo Ying.

A warm stream of water wrapped around the two people and then pulled them to the back of the battlefield. The chubby Aquarius rushed in instantly and raised his hand to release his water control ability. The water contained dense microorganisms, which instantly swallowed up the monster that pounced on Huo Ying.

"You guys go quickly, leave this to me."

Aquarius rushed into the refugee camp and tried hard to save the survivors, seeming out of place compared to the guards who fled in panic.

"Really? Why do good people exist in this world?" Zhang Yuqi looked at Huo Ying. The same was true in the genetic laboratory, where there would be people like Huo Ying who wanted to save the experimental subjects. The same was true in today's refugee camp, where there would be warriors like Aquarius who would save the survivors at all costs.

If there were no good people in this world, Zhang Yuqi would have killed all the infected people she saw and absorbed all the power from them.

"So do you want to be a good person or a bad person?" Huo Ying and Zhang Yuqi left the refugee camp side by side.

"I..." Zhang Yuqi thought about it seriously and replied, "I want to be a bad guy with a little bit of kindness. In this world, only by becoming bad first can you be qualified to become good."

(End of this chapter)