Civilization Paradise

Chapter 27 Insect Infestation
Time passed second by second, and more than twenty minutes had gone by in the blink of an eye.

Long Ming stood alone on the platform, speechless for a moment. It was exactly what he had feared.

However, just as the waiting time jumped to 30 minutes, the surface of the obelisk in the center of the small gyroscope-shaped mechanical platform lit up and shone with a dazzling light.

Long Ming secretly breathed a sigh of relief and became extremely alert.

He was then enveloped in white light.

After a few seconds.

As the white light faded, Long Ming's vision gradually returned.

He cautiously raised his M24 sniper rifle and turned to look around.

The sight that came into view stunned Long Ming.

Long Ming stood alone on the street, surrounded by towering reinforced concrete buildings.

The glass curtain walls of these buildings have long been broken, and gray cocoons hang on the exterior walls.

The surrounding shops were in a mess, with dark red insects crawling all over the merchandise in the shop windows and on the shelves.

Long Ming subconsciously took a step.

Click~
A crisp cracking sound rang out.

Upon hearing the noise, Long Ming quickly looked down and saw that the ground was covered with dried insect shells, with tiny larvae peeking out from them from time to time.

Long Ming got goosebumps all over his body.

He had never seen such a disgusting scene.

Someone with a weaker constitution would have screamed by now.

He then took a deep breath, calmed his racing heart, and carefully observed his surroundings.

Then he noticed that the vehicles that had collided around him, the fallen streetlights, and the scattered trash cans were all covered with insect eggs of various colors.

Over the city, swarms of flying insects can be seen, obscuring half the sky as they fly by.

Long Ming's expression grew increasingly solemn as he watched this scene unfold.

Although the city didn't look very big, it gave him an extremely dangerous feeling.

However, Long Ming was not intimidated. As the saying goes, the timid starve while the bold thrive.

He is currently in a commercial street, with shops on both sides of the road, including clothing stores, convenience stores, and jewelry stores.

However, Long Ming decisively ignored all these shops, having experienced the previous civilization and gained an understanding of market conditions.

He knew very well that only items, equipment, and medicines of purple grade or higher were valuable.

Everything else can be ignored.

However, items of purple grade or higher are not so easy to find.

Therefore, Long Ming plans to prioritize searching for equipment, which will also enhance his combat power.

After clarifying his goal, Long Ming glanced down at the map on his bracelet.

It was indeed pitch black; I had to explore and find my way to the light myself.

Long Ming carefully walked forward step by step, being extremely cautious with each step, as if afraid of stepping on something.

The entire street was extremely quiet, so quiet that only the sound of footsteps could be heard, which made Long Ming's nerves extremely tense.

As he walked past a jewelry store, he saw that the mannequin's plastic face in the window was crawling with dark red worms.

The windowsill was covered in disgusting, sticky excrement.

Inside the store, jewelry and luxury goods are displayed, and you can see worms crawling on the ornaments.

Long Ming glanced at it and had absolutely no interest in going in to search.

Soon Long Ming arrived at the center of the commercial street, where a circular fountain pool stood.

The fountain pool had long since ceased operation, the water inside had dried up, and gray fungus thrived in the cracks between the stone bricks at the bottom. The wooden benches placed around it had long been eaten away by termites, leaving only rusty metal frames.

Long Ming patiently continued walking forward.

A moment later, Long Ming stopped in front of a three-story reinforced concrete building and looked at the sign hanging at the entrance.

"Akaya Garrison."

The gates of the Akaya Garrison were wide open, and three dusty patrol motorcycles were parked on the left, one of which was lying on the ground.

Not far away lay a skeleton dressed in a tattered uniform.

Each of the skeletons was holding a pistol.

Long Ming approached and crouched down, preparing to reach for the gun.

Suddenly, a red worm with black hair crawled out from inside the white bone sleeve.

Long Ming pulled his hand back as if he had been electrocuted. Who knew if this thing was poisonous? If he got bitten, it would be troublesome.

However, this does not mean that Long Ming has given up.

He used the barrel of his M24 sniper rifle to pull the pistol over, and then picked it up.

hum~
At this moment, Long Ming's bracelet popped up a notification.

Gecko automatic pistol.

Durability: 62/100
Magazine: 5/15
Long Ming glanced at the parameters, then put the Geko automatic pistol into his pocket, and walked into the Akaya Garrison, arriving at the messy lobby.

Long Ming glanced around and saw that the hall floor was covered with spider webs and dried insect shells. Underneath the insect shells, one could see skeletons dressed in uniforms.

Long Ming cautiously walked to the registration desk in the lobby.

The computer screen at the registration desk was broken, and a bunch of keys on the table were covered in dust and sticky excrement.

Long Ming looked at the bunch of keys, his expression constantly changing, before finally reaching out to pick them up, rubbing them against himself, and then putting them in his pocket.

He then walked over to the corpses lying on the ground and checked them for anything of value.

A moment later, Long Ming found three Geko automatic pistols on the body.

He raised his wristband and scanned the three guns. Their durability levels were 89, 21, and 63 respectively. One gun had an empty magazine, while the other two had 3 and 4 bullets respectively.

Long Ming ejected the magazines from all the guns, unloaded the bullets, and loaded them one by one into the pistol magazine with a durability of 89.

Immediately afterwards, I threw away the pistol with a durability of 21, put the other two into my backpack to sell for money, and put the best one into my pocket.

At that moment, a larva with red patterns all over its body emerged from the molted shell on the ground and silently crawled toward Long Ming.

It quickly crawled to Long Ming's feet, just as it was about to climb up the shoe.

Suddenly, Long Ming raised his foot and crushed the crawling larva, leaving a sticky liquid on the ground.

Long Ming looked at the dead larvae, his brows furrowed tightly.

hum~
Suddenly, Long Ming heard the sound of mosquitoes behind him.

He turned his head and saw a mosquito about 7 centimeters long flying towards him.

Long Ming's expression changed slightly, and he immediately brandished his M24 sniper rifle, trying to drive it away.

In the end, the mosquito couldn't get close and obediently flew away.

Long Ming stared at the mosquito flying away, his expression extremely gloomy. What kind of place is this? Even the mosquitoes have mutated, and they're so big! If one bites me, I'll bleed terribly.

However, he didn't dwell on it too much and continued to explore further.

Soon Long Ming reached the stairwell and carefully climbed up the stairs to the second-floor corridor.

Several skeletons dressed in uniforms lay in the corridor, with rooms on both sides.

(End of this chapter)