I'm a villain, not a devil

Chapter 501: The Truth, Goodness and Beauty Team of the Groove

The ground was filled with sand and wind, and outside the mutant scorpion's nest, a group of people were fighting hard.

Paradise City is located in the center of a plain, and the surrounding area is basically the ruins of the city before the end of the world. Over the hundreds of years, the ruins have almost weathered away, and the few buildings have been visited back and forth by scavengers.

Apart from the strong men who hunt mutants and crazy beasts, there are basically no human figures nearby.

"It must have absorbed the remaining metal in this place, otherwise it wouldn't be so difficult to deal with - die!"

After stabbing a mutant scorpion, Illya wiped the sweat from her forehead.

This hunt was more difficult than expected. The mutant scorpion looked similar to the ones they had hunted before, but they didn't expect its shell to be so hard. Fortunately, before setting off, they specifically asked a blacksmith to update their equipment and also recruited Sean, a top elite, to join the team.

"I'm so lucky..." Looking at the middle-aged man with the same name as the second-in-command of [Golden Ghost], Illya showed a look of relief.

If it weren't for him, they wouldn't have gotten any harvest from this hunt, and it would have been a blessing from God that they didn't get hurt.

Sean dropped the scorpion's body and looked puzzled. "The strength of the mutant scorpion is not right. Is it the same with the ones you encountered before?"

Illya shook her head. She walked forward and took off the scorpion tail with great effort. After handing it to Sean, she said, "So I said, it might have absorbed the residual metal. Thank you, uncle. Without you, we would have suffered."

The rest of the team members also nodded after heaving a sigh of relief.

Sean didn't care much. He looked at the dark nest and asked thoughtfully, "When did you find it?"

Illya thought for a moment and said, "A week ago, we were very good at searching for mutant nests. To be honest, we have hunted mutant scorpions before, but they were not as difficult to deal with as today. However, the value of scorpion tails will also increase accordingly. Paradise City is very fair in this regard. I estimate that the points for a scorpion tail can be around 300!"

After counting the number, she said cheerfully, "There are eight in total. We were originally planning to hunt six, but your strength exceeded my expectations, and the intelligence showed that we made a mistake. How about you take... well, four?"

Seeing a strange expression on Sean's face, Illya gritted her teeth and said, "Five! After all, we fought hard, and three have to be shared among the five of us."

Sean looked at her for a moment, then nodded, "Okay."

Illya breathed a sigh of relief, called people over and started dividing.

Sean's expression on the side became increasingly strange.

Fair? It's more than fair...

This team has good coordination and is not bad in strength. Sean does contribute the most, but if the work is distributed normally, three would be enough.

Considering that Sean had just joined the team and the team's intelligence was wrong, it was reasonable to divide them into four, and there was some flattering emotion in it.

If there are five, then Sean will take the lion's share...

To Sean, a few scorpion tails made no difference, and thousands of them were not worth his second glance. What shocked him was that Illya was really distributing them fairly and justly.

Along the way, Sean has been observing this team. Through conversation, he learned that this team has only been together for a year.

One year... In the wasteland, it is very common for teammates of five or six years to fall out over assignments, and it is not uncommon for them to directly attack their teammates - this is the law of survival in the wasteland, if you don't harm others, others will harm you. Instead of being harmed by others, it is better to harm others first.

In the past, Sean would have faced only one outcome - being besieged by the entire team, killed and all the spoils taken away. Even more, the remaining team would kill each other, and the last person left alive would get all the spoils.

He has been in Paradise City for so many years and knows this very well.

In this world, trust and friendship are too fragile. Everyone has to learn a course called "human nature" from birth.

A trio like Sean Mozasheril is truly a rare thing, and is very rare even among the large-scale and well-organized [Golden Ghosts]. They are usually old friends who have worked together for more than ten years or even dozens of years, not to mention a temporary team that has only been together for a year.

What shocked Sean even more was that from the conversation among this team, he learned that there were many teams like theirs.

Fair and just distribution, gradually cultivated trust and friendship... Outside the city of Paradise, among this group of people known as 'candidates', something wonderful is actually being born.

Sean, who has been bad all his life, now suddenly felt some indescribable emotions.

"Is my experiment really working? Can the evil thoughts that people in this world are born with really be eliminated by effective methods?"

Illya on the other side raised her head and said, "What are you underestimating, Sean? Come on, you pick first."

Sean waved his hand: "It's okay, you guys pick first, I'll go in and take a look."

As he spoke, he walked into the mutant scorpion's nest.

In addition to the truth, goodness and beauty of this damn thing, he also noticed something wrong.

This place is not far from Paradise City, and he has always asked the city's personnel to monitor the mutants and crazy beasts around Paradise City. According to the information, there should be no major mutations.

The strength of these mutant scorpions is wrong, and they are not within the range of normal evolution - they are evolving too quickly.

He walked into the nest, and Illya was immediately startled. She ran over without caring about anything else and shouted anxiously, "Don't go in! There must be mutant scorpions inside the nest, and there may even be a scorpion king!"

"Oh, it's okay, let me take a look, you guys go first." Sean's casual voice came.

“Hey, come out! Not to mention the peak elites, even the peak kings would be in danger if they went deep into the nest!”

However, no matter how Illya shouted, Sean's footsteps were getting farther and farther away.

"This uncle is really something. He is an outsider who just came to Paradise City. He runs around without knowing the situation!" She was so anxious that she was running around in circles, but she didn't dare to go any further.

Inside the nest, Sean just looked around curiously.

With casual steps, he seemed to have crossed hundreds of meters, and the winding nest could not obstruct his vision at all.

When he saw the deepest scene, Sean's eyes twitched: "Is this reasonable?"

Outside the lair, the team members were extremely anxious. Illya thought about it for a long time, and finally gritted her teeth and said, "Go find someone..."

Just as he finished speaking, suddenly, the sound of an aircraft was heard.

Illya's face changed drastically: "Predator!"

When making a living outside Paradise City, everyone abides by the rules. If other strong teams appear at this moment, she will offer the spoils as a price and ask the other party to help bring Sean out. This is a very normal transaction, and she is not worried that the other party will snatch her spoils.

But the plunderers are different. They never follow the rules. People like those in his team are the objects of ridicule by the plunderers.

And when they encounter predators in the wild...they will do...the same thing they did before!