From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Mr. Bai started the car, his tone leaving no room for argument.

"That plan to subdue the monsters?"

“It can be done simultaneously; Mark is steadily gaining control of his power.”

Boss Bai shifted gears, stepped on the gas, and the car sped off in a cloud of smoke towards the other side of W-38...

···

"Master, what are you looking at?"

In the driver's seat, Wu Chenxi saw that the girl in red was staring out the window, not understanding what was so interesting about the monotonous desert, the steep and uneven rock walls, and the strangely twisted vines.

“Ground (real) survivors.”

There were only two people in the car, so Miss Hong spoke frankly about what she had discovered, saying, "We might encounter this again later, so be careful."

Unlike her, Lu Jin, and Zhang Zhiwei, they were willing to take the initiative to contact the hunters of the Lighthouse because they were eager to understand the specific situation of this world as soon as possible.

But what about the other survivors in the local timeline?

Before being taken away by Jiang Liu, Hong Guniang had worked as a bandit in Changsheng Mountain for a period of time, and knew what it was like for people who couldn't survive.

During a great famine, people resorted to cannibalism.

She hadn't witnessed it firsthand, but the trafficking of children by parents was commonplace, shattering trust between people.

But what about this space-time?

In the early stages of the mana epidemic, the system was broken, everyone was in danger, and mutual vigilance was the norm.

Even now, survivors on the ground are very likely to gather together and establish corresponding rules, but as long as there are multiple survivor groups, they will be wary of each other and even hostile to each other in order to compete for survival resources on the ground, which may lead to life-and-death conflicts.

Therefore, Miss Hong could understand why the six people only watched from a distance, and she would not be surprised if a conflict arose with them later.

"When you encounter them and a fight breaks out, don't feel any sympathy. Just point your gun at their heads."

Hong Guniang took out a Mauser pistol from her storage ring and handed it to Wu Chenxi.

"The common people must not touch the people's weapons."

Wu Chenxi held the steering wheel with one hand and reached out with the other, but stopped in mid-air, hesitating.

"First of all, although I am the captain of the second team of the city defense army, I have not undergone genetic testing, am not an upper-class citizen, and am on the fringes of the Lighthouse system."

Red Girl had her reasons: "Secondly, this gun wasn't obtained by exchanging contribution points from the Lighthouse, but belongs to my boss."

Finally, I am your master.

The master's orders are greater than anyone else's.

Upon hearing this, Wu Chenxi felt a warmth in her heart. She took the pistol, tucked it into her waistband, and then asked curiously, "Master, you have a boss too?"

I thought Zhang Zhiwei and Lu Jin were your subordinates!

"It's not the two of them, it's Jiang Liu, a guy who has temporarily lost contact with us... We want to take control of the Lighthouse, partly because we want to use the Lighthouse's research data on the Mana ecosystem to find him."

The young woman smiled slightly and recounted how Jiang Liu had "abducted" her, saying, "If we can find him, perhaps we can wipe out the entire Mana ecosystem!"

"Is he that good?"

Wu Chenxi was astonished, "Even more skilled than Master?"

"You know that the world we live in is a ball, right?" the girl in red asked with a smile.

"know."

Wu Chenxi felt offended by her master. "Although I did not receive higher education from the upper class, I am aware that we live on Earth."

"Then you'll have a sense of his strength."

"what?"

"If he goes all out, it could cause the entire planet to collapse!"

Wu Chenxi: "!!!"

# Chapter 1158 W-38 Resource Gathering Point

An hour later, the fourteen vehicles arrived at their destination for this supplies collection.

W-38 material collection point.

As the girl in the red car got off, she looked down into the canyon, which was as smooth and flat as a mirror. The bottom was about a thousand meters away, and there were vine-like things that were intertwined with each other, as if they were woven into a large net.

That is the ground vine.

Legend has it that in the early stages of the cataclysm, these strange "plants" grew from the ground, causing frequent earthquakes and volcanic eruptions around the world.

According to the lighthouse's records, due to the influence of the creeping vines, the Australian and Asian plates collided, forming the continent we see today—Australia.

However, after the earth vines grow out of the ground and release spores, they gradually cease their life activities and turn into something resembling a fossil. Their exterior is extremely hard, like steel, and human weapons, except for heavy missiles and bombs, can only cause very limited damage to them.

Only vines of this strength could support the spaceship.

And speaking of spaceships—

Looking down, the girl in red saw a columnar spaceship, over 500 meters long, embedded in the large net woven from vines, like the heart of a flower, which was quite spectacular.

How do we get down?

Wu Chenxi looked around and saw no ramps leading down to the bottom of the canyon. Moreover, the canyon seemed to be hundreds of kilometers long, and the car's energy would definitely not be enough to get down there.

"Oops!"

Looking down, Suiying pointed to the broken section of the ground vine and frowned. He said to the girl in red, "According to the records of the previous hunter Mark, this was originally a ground vine with a diameter of more than 20 meters, which connected the platform where the spaceship is located with the edge of the canyon where we are now. The car can drive directly across."

But the creeping vine seems to have broken.

Although he had accompanied the hunters to the ground many times when he was still a Dustman codenamed 4068, this was his first time visiting the W-38 resource gathering point.

The best option right now is to turn back.

Heading to other supply collection points?

impossible!

The distance between each resource collection point is not short. The closest resource collection point to W-38 is R-49, which is also where Mark went down to collect resources for the second to last time, a distance of 200 kilometers.

The vehicles can indeed reach R-49, but if an accident occurs, such as encountering a Devourer, they may not have time to reach the designated location for the lighthouse to guide them.

It's important to understand that the ground environment is harsh, and the Mana ecosystem occupies the ground. Their unique magnetic field makes it difficult for them to contact the lighthouse when they are on the ground. Therefore, every time the hunters go down to the ground, they have to plan their mission time and determine the rendezvous point. It is simply impossible for them to notify the lighthouse to pick them up.

Furthermore.

Even if they could maintain contact with the lighthouse, change their plans, and head to R-49's location, the supplies there had already been mostly collected during the last operation. Even if they loaded all the remaining supplies, it probably wouldn't even cover the cost of the fuel they would expend to reach it...

If he wants to maintain his position as the commander of the hunters, in addition to capturing Mark and bringing him back, he must also excel at other tasks such as collecting resources on the ground!

The amount of supplies brought back each time must be close to the amount brought back when Mark was still the commander!

Mind this.

Suiying had already made up her mind not to go to R-49, nor to turn back directly. She pointed to another vine nearby that was over a hundred meters long and ten meters in diameter, but twenty meters above the top of the canyon, and said, "Captain Red, how about we take that path to the spaceship?"

Hong Guniang noticed the vines that pierced the bottom of the cliff and frowned, saying, "Although the vehicle is equipped with a flamethrower system, it can levitate and even fly a short distance. It's easy to fall but difficult to rise. The car can't fly more than twenty meters high."

"The vehicles won't go down; the people will. We'll hang ropes along the edge of the canyon to move the supplies." Sui Ying definitely didn't want to leave empty-handed.

Not to mention the ridicule from the upper class.

Other Dust People also had to secretly say that his abilities were not as good as Mark's... His genes were those of a Dust People, but his status was already that of an Upper Class. The only thing he could do was to use his abilities to shut everyone up!

Having discerned the other party's thoughts, the Red Girl did not answer immediately. Instead, she used her mental power to scan and explore the surroundings, confirming that there were no Devouring Beasts in the area.

Afterward, she focused her mental energy on the earth vines and found that the roots of these earth vines were intertwined, spiraling and twisting, forming a sphere with a diameter of more than 100 meters. There was a special magnetic field fluctuation in it, which ordinary equipment could not detect at all. If her mental energy scan had not been blocked, she would not have been able to find out the problem.

Above that peculiar spherical section, where numerous vines intertwine around a central root, lies a fist-thick passage leading upwards to the spaceship. This passage creates openings at both the top and bottom of the ship, as if something is violently ejected from it…

"Was this canyon created by earth vines?"

Putting aside her mental probing skills, Red Girl focused her attention on the smooth, flat cliffs on both sides of the canyon, noting that "the marks look more like they were carved out by someone."

"Uh······"

Suiying didn't know how to answer.

Even though he had personally witnessed the “miraculous appearances” of Hong Guniang, Zhang Zhiwei, and Lu Jin at the lighthouse, he did not believe that it was possible for human beings to carve out such a canyon that was hundreds of kilometers long!

but.

If it was caused by creeping vines—

He didn't believe it either.

Since becoming a citizen of the upper class and the commander of the hunters, he has not only been enjoying himself. In addition to training, he has spent almost all his free time using his citizen and hunter privileges to catch up on his studies. He has learned that the growth of earth vines can move the earth's crust, but it is absolutely impossible to create such a smooth canyon cliff.

Even if the old world possessed large-caliber laser weapons that first carved out this canyon, and then these earth vines happened to grow from it, it's difficult to explain why the sides of the canyon, except for the areas embedded in the earth vines, are so smooth...

"Our target is the supplies inside the spaceship," Suiying changed the subject.

"Well."

Seeing his insistence on his own opinion, the Red Girl did not try to persuade him. She said to the twenty city defense reserve soldiers and twenty dust people who came down with her for the actual combat, "You first group is not very lucky. You may not encounter the Devouring Beast this time, which will cause you to miss a very important training exercise."

However, most of the city defense reserve and civilians in the first group breathed a sigh of relief.

Not very lucky?

Do not!

They're incredibly lucky!

Then--

"But please rest assured, after the second, third, fourth and fifth groups have conducted live-fire exercises, I will take you to the ground again to make up for the lack of live-fire exercises this time."

Hong Guniang stated that she would absolutely be fair and impartial.

Everyone: "......"

"Alright, don't be discouraged, cheer up!"

Red Girl clapped her hands and divided the city defense reserve into two teams. One team stayed by the canyon to guard the vehicles; the other team went with her and Suiying to the spaceship to collect supplies. Now that they were on land, they couldn't just play minor roles; they had to help carry the supplies!