My Post-Apocalyptic Territory

In the wilderness, somewhere.

Several awakened individuals proceeded cautiously.

"Brother Tao, there's no danger. That mutated beast ahead has left." An Awakened One with binoculars quickly confirmed this after observing for a moment.

The others smiled. "We've been really lucky this time. It seems we're not far from Green Shade Shelter."

"Yes, every time we went before, we spent a lot of time dodging the demonized beasts. Sometimes we fought with them and got injured, which slowed down our journey. This time we're lucky and it took much less time. Maybe we can exchange supplies and go back today instead of waiting until tomorrow."

Team leader Li Tao also looked relieved upon hearing this.

They were an awakened squad from another small shelter, Riverwood Shelter.

Creekwood Shelter and Shade Shelter are not far apart, so they have started to communicate with each other.

On this trip, they brought some "specialties" from Riverwood Shelter, as well as some surplus supplies, which they wanted to exchange with Green Shade Shelter, and also to exchange some information.

Li Tao possesses the strength of the late stage of the second level of awakening and is one of the top three experts in Riverwood Sanctuary. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the exchange operation, he always leads the team. He also wants to finish his business as soon as possible and go back.

after all,

Every minute in the wild is dangerous.

"Alright, stop dawdling and let's go. We can rest a bit when we get to the Green Shelter."

Despite remaining vigilant, the group moved quickly and soon reached the outskirts of the Green Shade Shelter.

However, Li Tao was a little confused at this moment.

He had been to Green Shade Shelter before, but something seemed off about this Green Shade Shelter in front of him.

Everywhere you look, there are ruins and broken walls.

Li Tao stared at the shattered fence and the faintly visible footprints of the mutated beast, his expression suddenly changing. "Watch out! Something might have happened at Green Shade Sanctuary!"

misfortune?

misfortune!

The others reacted quickly, crouching down to hide.

They hid behind a broken wall, cautiously scanning their surroundings, but a minute passed, two minutes passed, ten minutes passed...

"Brother Tao, something seems off," a team member whispered. "If something really happened at Green Shade Shelter, it shouldn't be this quiet. Or has it all passed?"

A hint of hesitation appeared on Li Tao's face. After pondering for a while, he said, "Let's go, let's be careful and go in to take a look."

The environment inside the Green Shade Resort was no different from what they had seen from the outside. Li Tao could even recall the original name of one of the dilapidated buildings. Without a doubt, the Green Shade Shelter had suffered a devastating disaster, and based on various circumstances, it was very likely that it had been attacked by a demonic tide.

Li Tao's expression changed.

The demonic tide has always been a synonym for terror. If Green Shade Sanctuary is destroyed by the demonic tide, what about their sanctuary?

"But why is it so quiet here? Wait a minute..." Li Tao frowned. "There are no mutated beast or human corpses here!"

If the sanctuary was destroyed by the demonic tide, even if the demonic beasts left afterward, there should still be corpses left behind, whether human or demonic beast. Only then did he realize that from the outside, the entire sanctuary's defenses looked dilapidated, as if trampled by the demonic tide, and he had seen some traces of dried blood. However, he hadn't seen any human corpses.

This is very unscientific!

It's not apocalyptic at all!

"Brother Tao, look over there, what's that?"

In the distance, an unidentified creature with a round body and thick, powerful arms was scurrying back and forth.

"Is it a demonic beast? Something feels off." Li Tao swallowed hard and noticed that the round creature was looking at them, so he immediately became wary.

He couldn't sense any aura from the round thing, so it obviously wasn't a demonized beast. However, the situation was too strange, and Li Tao dared not let his guard down.

"Brother Tao, do you think that might be some kind of legendary mechanical beast or puppet?"

When a team member said that, Li Tao also thought it sounded plausible.

Thinking about it this way, he also noticed some problems that he had overlooked earlier. "Green Shade Shelter should have survived the demonic tide, but the current situation shows that Green Shade Shelter suffered heavy losses in the demonic tide, and there are probably not many survivors."

"Yeah," one of the team members sighed, a sentiment that made them feel a sense of shared fate. "The Green Shade Shelter has at least two or three thousand people, but we haven't seen a single person along the way. I'm afraid there aren't many survivors left. So, Brother Tao, should we still go in?"

They came here to exchange supplies with the Green Shade Shelter, but since the Green Shade Shelter is now deserted, there probably aren't many supplies left to exchange.

"Go, why not go? At least we can find out what happened from the survivors! Besides..."

Li Tao pointed to the round puppet in the distance, "There should still be some experts alive in Green Shade Sanctuary. Since this place is no longer safe, we can recruit the Awakened Ones here to our sanctuary."

"high!"

"As expected of Brother Tao."

"This is a win-win situation. Those awakened ones definitely want to move to a safer place, and our Riverwood Sanctuary has more awakened ones, making our living environment safer."

A figure was rapidly approaching from afar. Li Tao smiled, "Looks like our guess was right, the people in the shade have spotted us too."

They were outsiders after all, so they didn't make any rash moves. They just stood there and waited, while maintaining the necessary vigilance—survivors in the wild should always be wary of being double-crossed when they meet.

Although Creekwood and Shade have always interacted, it cannot be guaranteed that they are safe. Of course, Li Tao does not believe that the Shade Shelter, which suffered heavy losses, poses much of a threat.

"We are from Riverwood Shelter, and we want to make friends with you..."

Li Tao was speaking when he suddenly paused for a moment.

He felt something was off.

In my imagination, the few survivors of Green Shade Shelter, who barely managed to survive the demonic tide, should be dressed in tattered clothes and probably even have injuries on their bodies.

The newcomer was dressed in a black combat uniform, with a long sword slung over his back and a pistol hanging at his waist.

Wearing such a set of equipment gives one a sense of elite skill and power at first glance.

Looking at themselves, dressed in ordinary clothes, covered in dust from traversing twenty kilometers of wilderness, it seemed as if they were the ones struggling after the shelter was destroyed.

This shouldn't be happening!

How come the people at Green Shade Shelter are suddenly so well-equipped?

Or perhaps this person is the current leader of the shelter, hence the finest equipment he's wearing.

The person on the other end looked puzzled. "Riverwood Shelter? Never heard of it. Never mind, I'll take you to see the person in charge. I'm just a lowly soldier, I don't care about these things."

Li Tao: "??!"