Gao Wu: I have a dimensional gate

Due to excessive blood loss and deep-seated hatred, the girl's words gradually lost their logic, becoming nothing more than an outpouring of emotions.

But her repeated mention of "Source Energy Resonators" piqued Lu Qiu's interest—it was a power system completely different from the main world.

The girl's explosive ability is very similar to her innate ability, but its destructive power does not seem to be as strong.

Moreover, she was used to it, and it seemed that many of the refugees had the ability to empathize with her.

Lu Qiu squatted down and took out a D-grade internal injury medicine that he hadn't used before: "This can stop the bleeding and speed up the recovery of injuries."

The girl's eyes widened suddenly, her gaze fixed on the potion. She then forced herself to turn away: "Get out of my way. I don't need the Fire Thief's kindness."

Lu Qiu pinched her chin and poured the medicine down her throat.

"Get your facts straight. Either I kill you, or you explain what happened in Yecheng, and you can leave."

"you!"

The girl glared at Lu Qiu with grief and indignation, then put her right hand down her throat and gagged for a long time, seemingly trying to vomit up the medicine.

But in the end, not only did it have no effect, but her eyes also filled with physiological tears, like a stubborn kitten.

"Speak," Lu Qiu said expressionlessly as he squatted down, leaning on his long sword.

The girl spoke resentfully, her voice hoarse: "Thirty-two years ago, the Fireseed Company came and wanted to build your lousy base."

She pointed to the equipment on Lu Qiu's body, as if pointing out a murder weapon.

"The entire city of Ye is working for you, digging mountains, filling soil, laying power lines, transporting supplies... in exchange for the protection promised by the company."

"Then the mutation began. Even grass could eat people. The base was sealed off, and not a single person from Ye City was allowed in."

"A city with a population of over one million, after three months, had less than ten thousand left."

She spoke those two numbers calmly, her eyes vacant, as if she had lost her soul.

Lu Qiu pried open her hand that was tightly gripping her wound: "It will affect the effectiveness of the medicine, continue."

"Later, my parents gathered a group of survivors and established the first settlement, and all the living people flocked there."

The girl's eyes began to glaze over—the effects of the D-grade potion were too strong for her, and drowsiness was making her eyelids droop.

She pinched her thigh to force herself to stay awake: "Not long after, you fire-stealers arrived—saying it was for negotiations."

Lu Qiu didn't speak, but changed his squatting position and moved the knife tip pointing at the girl out of his sight.

"Many people died that day. My dad and mom didn't come back. My sister took me and ran away. I was eight years old then."

"and then?"

"Then ten years later, you practically controlled the entire Ye City. Those who refused to be governed by the Fire Seed Company were refugees like me."

"The refugees can only fight for territory with the monsters in the abandoned city, and they also have to face the pursuit of other survivors."

As she spoke, the girl nonchalantly lifted her jacket, revealing a hideous scar on her lower abdomen: "One vial of Source Energy Resonance Agent can drive all the survivors mad, even betraying friends who have been on the run together for years."

Lu Qiu remained silent.

The Great Cataclysm in the main world was not much better than the Nirvana Era here, but the pioneering warriors established the Human Alliance and upheld the bottom line of human civilization amidst the destruction.

The Fireseed Corporation could have played the same role as the Human Alliance, but they chose a more selfish path.

"What's your name?" Lu Qiu asked.

"What, you intend to hand me over to the fire thieves?"

The girl blurted it out, then paused for a moment.

She looked Lu Qiu up and down again. He didn't have the arrogance of the people from the new district. When he looked at her, it wasn't like he was looking at an experiment. There was only a hint of curiosity in his cold eyes.

"My name is Li Zhao," she paused, "You just woke up? Back then, the Fire Stealers said they woke up from their hibernation pods and didn't know what was happening outside."

Hibernation chamber.

Lu Qiu thought of the last page of Lu Xiaotao's diary—"Only cowards go into hibernation pods."

However, according to the diary entries, six months after the mutation began, Lu Xiaotao led her staff to relocate. What if a group of people didn't leave, but instead entered hibernation pods and hid for over a decade before emerging...?

He didn't refute Li Zhao's judgment; this misunderstanding was too useful.

Mistaking themselves for fire thieves might make it easier for them to infiltrate the new city district. According to Li Zhao's description, the fire thieves in the new city district possess considerable resources of the new era.

This includes a drug that can turn people into "source energy resonators".

"Where is the new urban area?" Lu Qiu asked.

The points required for talent potions in the training base are far too many. If we could obtain a "resonance ability" similar to a talent ability from here, that would be even better.

"How pathetic," Li Zhao laughed. "Do you think they'll accept you and then let you share their power?"

Lu Qiu shook his head: "No, I want the Source Energy Resonance Agent."

"Save your breath," Li Zhao mocked mercilessly. "To the fire-stealers, refugees are just rats that need to be cleaned up occasionally. New fire-stealers like you are the heretics that need to be eliminated."

"If you enter the new city dressed like that, countless survivors will tear you apart like jackals and take your head for the bounty."

Lu Qiu said earnestly, "If they were all as weak as you, I wouldn't be afraid."

These so-called Source Energy Resonators are physically too weak.

If Li Zhao had martial arts knowledge, he would know to use resonance ability only after tempering his body to be strong enough.

Even with a three-dimensional average of only 8, Lu Qiu would turn and run away without hesitation upon seeing Li Zhao.

A blush crept onto Li Zhao's pale face: "I'm a Level 1 Resonator, Level 1! Those lowlifes, I can blow their heads off in three explosions!"

Three times.

Then her face turned even redder. The speed at which Lu Qiu had killed the Skull-Crushing Cat with two slashes was enough for her to die ten times in the time it took her to clench her fist three times.

But Li Zhao still stubbornly insisted, "Do you think they don't have any experts? My sister is a level two Resonator, she can kill a Skull Crusher Cat in one move, but she almost got killed by them when she went to steal a set of equipment for extracting medicine."

Lu Qiu grasped the key point: "Your sister is badly injured?"

Li Zhao then realized he had said too much, but considering that the guy in front of him was a new fire thief and neither the refugees nor the new city would accept him, he felt relieved.

"What's it to you? Hurry up and leave, you're finished if the people in the new district find you."

Li Zhao raised his arm and pushed Lu Qiu, then paused for a moment, looking at his left shoulder as if he remembered something.

The wound there began to close, and scabs formed at the edges. Although it still hurt, I could move around freely.

She risked her life to attack the skull-crushing cat in order to obtain medullary glands to treat her sister's injuries, but the medicine Lu Qiu fed her was too effective. If only she had that medicine...

Li Zhao swallowed hard, looking at Lu Qiu expectantly: "The potion you just gave me, three bottles... no, five bottles, I'll make you a bottle of Source Energy Resonance Agent!"

Lu Qiu replied decisively: "One bottle."

Four bottles.

"One bottle."

Li Zhao gritted his teeth, glaring at Lu Qiu and saying fiercely, "One bottle it is!"

"make a deal."