the only savior

Chapter 1023 Ancient Lens Star Treasure

ancient star.

Central Continent, the core area.

Federal City No. 7, in the dark zone.

Located in a bar in the center of the area.

This is the 32nd tavern built by Wildfire Tavern on this planet, and it is also the only tavern in this No. 7 city.

Now, after nearly three years of hard work and development, Wildfire Tavern has initially completed the construction of a tavern in Central Continent on this planet.

All this is due to the strong adaptability and expansion capabilities of the Wildfire Department of the Covenant Alliance, but also thanks to the group of "underground workers" headed by the tunnel worm Xiaolan who are diligently digging tunnels between cities.

In the past few years, although Zhang Xiaoman, the star master, has never been here, the "Nydus Worm Project" he once set was successfully implemented.

Centering on the passage area city where the World Tree branch base is located, it began to expand radially outward, and a large number of underground passages were dug out.

Through the natural racial abilities of the Nydus Worm, these passages are solidified and hardened.

Even if a high-yield nuclear bomb is detonated in the city above, the rock formation here is still as hard as iron, and it will not be destroyed by the shock at all.

This point used to be the most troublesome place for human beings on this planet, but now it has become the key to saving people.

In order to improve work efficiency, the Covenant sold a way to sign a contract with the Nydus Worm in the Wildfire Tavern.

Through this simple contract, bounty hunters with dark spiritual power can capture their own tunnel worms.

Then by feeding spirit fruit and other methods, add a certain amount of spirituality to it, and finally use the contract to subdue it as your own spirit beast.

Of course, this process is very cumbersome.

Not only do you need to be a real dark spirit, but you also need to have enough points to redeem and learn contract spells.

After learning all this, it is still necessary to find an adult Nydus Worm that is alive and well and not infected.

Finally, after a period of spiritual fruit cultivation and emotional cultivation, he was subdued as his own spiritual beast through the power of the contract.

Basically, among the entire wildfire department, there are only a handful of people who can meet the above conditions.

For these bounty hunters, just the first step-becoming a dark spirit is already very rare, not to mention the following conditions.

However, the harsh conditions are exchanged for higher returns and benefits.

If a tunnel worm can be captured as their own spirit beast, then this team will get a continuous and stable source of points contribution.

Just use tunnel worms to dig underground tunnels, and the team can get money and points rewards according to the length of their excavations.

It can be said that as long as a tunnel worm is harvested, even if they don't do anything on this planet in the future, as long as they let the tunnel worm dig tunnels, their income can surpass many of their peers.

This is a long-term stable investment with an astonishing rate of return, which has attracted the attention of countless bounty hunters.

It's a pity that because of its strict conditions, the number of all registered tunnel worms so far has not exceeded twenty.

Part of the reason for this is also related to the increasingly rare number of wild tunnel worms on this planet.

After the scarlet day came, the original ecological chain of this planet was completely broken.

In land and shallow sea areas, there are basically no normal wild animals.

Either the animals were affected by the scarlet light and turned into terrifying deformities, or they lost the ability to survive because of the destruction of the ecological chain.

Only in the underground world and the seabed where light radiation cannot reach, will there be wild creatures survive, silently continuing the ecological history of this planet.

The deep seabed is okay, after all, it is an area isolated from the land, and it can be said that it has its own unique ecological chain, which is less affected.

But tunnel worms are different. Although they usually live underground, they always have to return to the ground.

And under such circumstances, once it returned to the ground, it would be tantamount to being polluted by the scarlet light, becoming a deformed body that lost its mind.

Coupled with related issues such as food sources, the Nydus Worm, which has always been known for its survivability on the Ancient Lens Planet and caused a headache for the federal government, is now on the road to extinction.

Including Xiao Lan captured by Zhang Xiaoman, the nineteen existing tunnel worms are almost the last wild tunnel worms that the Covenant has found in the detectable area.

Each of these bugs is a treasure.

They are not only the treasures of the bounty hunter team they belong to, but also the precious property of the entire Star Alliance, and even the survivors of the entire Ancient Prism. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are "ball treasures".

Now, with the help of these treasures, the Star Alliance has roughly connected the entire Central Continent area.

Although not every small urban area can be divided, such an underground passage is generally arranged in the large cities in Central Continent.

And this place located in the No. [-] city in the core area of ​​the federal central continent was one of the most prosperous cities in the former federation, and it was naturally connected to the underground passage from the Star Alliance.

In City No. [-], in the Wildfire Tavern, a dozen or so figures were sitting scattered.

They kept a certain distance from each other, and they were roughly divided into four groups, which seemed to be four bounty hunter squads.

Unlike the first Wildfire Tavern established on Ancient Lens three years ago, almost all the bounty hunters here are survivors from this planet.

With the expansion of the Wildfire Tavern, more and more survivors learned of its existence through the Light of Hope Circle in the sky.

Now everyone knows that on this planet, if you really can't survive, maybe you can try your luck at the Wildfire Tavern.

The Wildfire Tavern is an institution affiliated to the Wildfire Department of the Star Alliance. It is responsible for converging survivors on the planet and guiding them to the location of the World Tree base.

At the same time, if you can complete the tasks here, then with the rewards you get from the tasks, you may be able to live a better life here.

For the Ancient Lens people who have lived in this era for several years, there is nothing more tempting than survival.

Some survivors entered the World Tree base through the Wildfire Tavern, which caused the originally very empty living environment in the base to become crowded.

In the end, the World Tree base could no longer accommodate new survivors. Before the further expansion was completed, others could only stay in the dark zone outside the base, or stay in the original city.

In this way, the remaining survivors can only seek new sources of supplies through the Wildfire Tavern.

They can struggle to survive in such a doomsday environment until now. It can be said that each of them has two brushes.

This specialty can be reflected in extraordinary combat effectiveness, and can also be reflected in sufficiently good vigilance and survival experience.

In order to obtain more supplies, these survivors joined the Wildfire Tavern one after another, became a bounty hunter, and began to exchange for points and rewards by accepting tasks.

Therefore, in every survivor gathering area, the number of people in the Wildfire Tavern can be said to be the largest in the area.

The Dark Zone used to be known as a black market, but now with the establishment of the Wildfire Tavern, people began to spontaneously gather here.

With the tavern as the center, a unique set of doomsday bazaars has been established to exchange materials by bartering.

It may be because the Wildfire Tavern in City No. [-] has just been established, and it has not been discovered by the survivors yet.

So compared to the taverns in other cities, it seems too deserted.

At the moment in the tavern, a group of survivors who have just become bounty hunters for a few days are still carefully analyzing the mission, planning to find the beginning of their hunter career.

The clothes these people wore were almost the same as those of the survivors in other cities. They were almost all composed of fiber light jackets and various rusty metal pieces.

It doesn't look like a planet with a higher level of civilization than Shuilanxing, full of strong cyberpunk style.

While these people were looking for their own tasks, they also secretly focused their attention on a man in silver-white clothing in the middle of the tavern as if they had made an appointment.

The man was sitting there alone, drinking the rumk wine, a specialty of the dark zone, without saying a word, as if he was waiting for someone.

"Hey, Yagao, have you heard? This person is a bounty hunter from another city. He seems to be the awakened member of the Star Alliance. He looks very powerful."

"The awakened ones of the Star Alliance? Oh, that alien civilization that claims to want to save our world? I know that. I heard that they opened the Wildfire Tavern."

"Hehe, save the world...God knows if they brought this doomsday disaster. The so-called saving the world is probably a means to rule our planet..."

"Yeah, I've seen a lot of sci-fi movies before, and the aliens in them used this method to invade us. First destroy us with biological and chemical weapons, and then put us in captivity in the name of salvation, In the end, let us squeeze out the last trace of our remaining value while working hard for them..."

"..."

On the surrounding tables, several survivors were discussing something in low voices.

From their words, it can be seen that these people don't seem to be interested in the arrival of the Star Alliance, and they don't have any gratitude and excitement when the victims see the rescuers.

This situation is actually the norm on this planet.

After all, the appearance of the Star Alliance is too coincidental.

Not long after the doomsday broke out, a group of aliens came to this planet, saying they wanted to save it.

No matter how you look at this storyline, it looks like a conspiracy.

In many other urban areas, taverns have also encountered similar suspicions when they were first established.

But with the passage of time, everyone's dissatisfaction is gradually subsiding, at least on the surface, few people will continue to say similar things.

After all, the Wildfire Tavern really gave them the daily necessities they needed.

Even if he still has doubts about the Star Alliance in his heart, he will definitely not say it out of his mouth.

Everyone knows that disaster comes from the mouth. For them, survival is the first priority.

However, the tavern in City No. [-] has just been established, and the trust of the nearby survivors in it is still at a relatively low level.

Most people are still in the wait-and-see stage, and the number of bounty hunters is pitifully small.

"Shh, keep your voice down! I heard that the physical fitness of those awakened ones is stronger than the genetic warriors, so be careful to let him hear you!"

At the wine table, a middle-aged man hurriedly interrupted his companion's complaints.

"Tch, just hear it, they invaded our planet and turned our home like this, my wife and children have also turned into the kind of monsters that are neither human nor ghost, I will fight them ! Anyway, I don’t want to live anymore!”

Someone couldn't help but increase their voice.

His companion hurriedly covered his mouth, looked at the man sitting in the middle with a panicked expression, and heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that he didn't seem to have any reaction.

"Mel! You don't want to die!"

The middle-aged man gave him a hard look.

"You don't want to live anymore. We haven't lived enough. If you want to die, don't implicate us! You should have seen what happened to the guys who came here to make trouble earlier!"

As soon as he said these words, the expressions of the other people changed as if they had thought of something terrible, and then fell silent collectively.

Even the person who complained the loudest at the beginning didn't dare to speak any more, but still muttered something in a low voice with his head down.

"Look, the clothes on his body should be the Corona battle clothes, right? I heard people say that this kind of clothes has a strong light-shielding property, as long as you wear it, you can leave this damn light-free zone, Going to explore the wild, those red rays of light are useless even if you shine on your body!"

"It seems to be the case, I have heard of it, but the Corona battle suits are originally military supplies, and the reserves in the city are limited. In addition to this damn doomsday, the black market has already fetched a sky-high price. Let's forget about it." , I’m afraid I won’t be able to afford it in this lifetime.”

"Tch, what kind of Corona suit do you want? Even if you wear that thing, do you think you can go out of the no-light zone and go to the wild without dying? Do you know the mutant beasts there? Humans turned Sa Varudo is so difficult to deal with, do you want to touch the Savaludo who turned into those mutant beasts?"

A basin of cold water was poured down, making everyone a little downcast.

"Hey? Wait a minute! Look here!"

At this time, a person suddenly pushed a small red book in his hand to the middle of the wine table, pointed to an area above and said:
"Look here! There is actually a reward for the Corona battle suit here! We only need... 16 points, and we can exchange for a Corona battle suit!"

(End of this chapter)