Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Hunting Tournament Day 21

According to the news released on the official forum of the base today, there are still forty-five contestants remaining in the peace zone, thirty-one remaining in the danger zone, and about twenty to thirty who have successfully entered the restricted area.

Not only did the number of people entering the restricted area this year double that of previous years, but five drones also successfully entered the restricted area this year, and a technical team even went deep into the hinterland to broadcast the scene live.

Since the announcement of this news, the ratings of the base’s official TV station have soared by five percentage points, reaching at least 35 percent.

There will also be post-match broadcasts, and people across China can click to watch the latest videos uploaded to the Capital Forum.

There are also millions of people in the Capital Base who are paying attention to this event held in the Second District. After all, such a large-scale hunting conference is an eye-catching event not only in Jiangcheng, but also in the whole of China.

Currently, the five drones that have penetrated deep into the restricted area are flying in the forest at a certain frequency. Currently, all that can be seen through the Internet in the base is the drones taking pictures. Because of the artificial intelligence flight mode, after setting the time and flight trajectory, the drones will look for heat sources, that is, places with the temperature of living objects to shoot.

Unfortunately, only three of the five drones that went deep into the depths survived. The remaining two lost their signals in the thick fog just after they entered. When they reappeared in everyone's sight, there were only drones lying on the ground and the branches of mutant plants wriggling in front of them.

Muchen and Liao Yunyun's team had been lost in the restricted area for five or six days. They always felt that they were going around in circles in one direction. There was always thick white fog around them. No matter how they walked, they seemed unable to get out of the broad-leaved forest in front of them.

The group's food was almost exhausted.

When they entered the forest, they only brought about a week's worth of food. When the food was almost exhausted, Self-Defense Force members from the safe zone would deliver their portion of the food supplies to the danger zone as commissioned. The amount of supplies at one time was about three days to a week's worth.

Liao Yunyun glanced at Muchen, whose face had turned pale, and handed over her remaining energy bar with some concern.

Mu Chen sat down, holding his knees with both hands, and shook his head: "Sister Yunyun, I don't need it, I can still hold on for a while."

"Don't hold on any longer. You haven't eaten anything since yesterday morning, and you've almost finished your water. If you continue, your body won't be able to handle it. Listen to me and eat quickly."

Mu Chen wanted to refuse, but then he heard Liao Yunyun continue, "If you really fall down, you will only become a burden to all of us. You don't want to drag others down, do you?"

Muchen hesitated for a while, and finally opened his mouth, as if saying "thank you", before taking the half piece of energy bar that was only five or six centimeters in size.

He quickly swallowed the energy bar and drank the water in the bottle. After ten minutes or so, Muchen felt a little better.

At this time, Captain Li of the guard team who was exploring the nearby area returned to the team.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead. He was sweating in the forest with a temperature of only about 20 degrees. It was obvious that he was running at a very fast speed towards the dried-up river he had passed by before.

At that time, they analyzed that the stream that had been spreading from the bottom of the valley was very likely to have a water source, but because they were in a hurry to get out of this place, everyone did not continue to follow the stream.

Although in most cases the exit of the forest can be found based on the direction of the river, this method is not very effective in the restricted area because there will be animals where there are rivers, and they did not dare to take the risk at the time.

But now everyone is on the verge of collapse both physically and mentally, and they don’t know how many days they will have to stay in this place. If they continue like this, they will be short of water and food before they are attacked by mutant beasts.

Captain Li had just found a spring along the stream. The water was relatively clear and there was no strange smell. He couldn't help but drink a few sips from the spring. Then he quickly filled a pot and gave it to the other people in the team who had no water left. He then briefly explained what he had discovered.

So the group decided to get up and head to the water source immediately.

***

Somewhere in the restricted area, a team of players was finishing a fight with the demons.

Two A-level special demons were cut in half by a long knife and fell under the tree roots. The other one died in an even more miserable way, falling on a stone in a twisted posture, with its bloody mouth still open and saliva constantly dripping from it.

Shen Lian raised his head and looked at the sky today, which seemed too empty compared to the past. It could be said that he was looking up through layers of branches and leaves. The sky here was very low, and an earthy smell began to permeate the air. This earthy smell was different from the usual one, like the smell of blood. If you smell it too much, your chest will feel stuffy and you will feel physically uncomfortable.

This was not the first time that their Light Chasers team had entered the restricted area. When they first arrived in Jiangcheng before the hunting conference, they had gone deep into it once. But the experience that time was not very good. Not only did they have to get familiar with the environment, but the thick white fog here was at least several times thicker than it is now. They were forced to retreat after only half a year, and Yun Lin and Liu Xingwu were both injured to varying degrees.

Chao Linfeng, who was also a psychic in the team, was squatting on the ground, touching the ground with his hands. After a few minutes, he slowly opened his eyes and said solemnly, "There is a large living creature three kilometers away, and it seems that there is more than one."

Shen Lian glanced at Liu Xingwu, who had just been injured due to carelessness in the battle, and said calmly: "The rest of you wait where you are. I'll go over and take a look. Lin Feng, you can tell me the exact location through mind sharing."

Psychic abilities can share minds. The so-called sharing of minds here means that one can sense each other's emotional changes and some information elements in the brain. For example, in Chao Linfeng's brain at this moment, the location where the living object appears is clearly pointed to the east. Through sharing of minds, Shen Lian can easily find the location sensed by Chao Linfeng.

However, although both of them are psychics, there are actually big differences in the way they use their powers.

For example, Shen Lian is good at using mental control to control the opponent's brain consciousness and easily take away the opponent's five senses. He can turn people with weaker mental power than himself into puppets in an instant; and Chao Linfeng's is the perception of the five senses, which is exactly the same as Xu Qingzhi, but there are slight differences in the strength and range of the perception ability.

After Shen Lian left, the injured Liu Xingwu immediately glared at Yun Lin with displeasure and cursed: "Yun Lin, I asked you to lure the monster just now, couldn't you be faster? Not only are you slow, but you're also cowardly like a waste. Damn, today is really unlucky. If it weren't for you, I would have been injured..."

Yun Lin lowered his head and dared not say a word. It was indeed him who was responsible for using his water-based abilities to attack the two demon species. When the demon species turned to attack him, Liu Xingwu and Dong Zhi were responsible for attacking the two monsters from behind. However, he did not expect that the two mutants were extremely vigilant. They immediately realized that this was a trap and changed direction in time. Moreover, they targeted Liu Xingwu, who was a metal-based person, at the same time and took advantage of the fact that it took at least twenty seconds for Liu Xingwu to activate his metal abilities to attack him.

It was at that time that Liu Xingwu was scratched on the arm by one of the demons. Although he had received timely treatment, he still felt excruciating pain in his arm.

He took all his injuries out on Yunlin, the youngest member of the team with the lowest ability level. Only in this way could he cover up the fact that he was incompetent.

In fact, in their team, except for Shen Lian who is S-level, Chao Linfeng is A-level, Dong Zhi and Liu Xingwu are both experienced B-level psychics, and both of them are ready to start striving for A-level abilities after the hunting conference. The only one left is Dong Zhi, the youngest who has just been promoted to B-level psychic, and he is usually well cared for by everyone in the team.

In previous missions, in order to train the team's execution capabilities, Shen Lian would not easily take action unless the animals were mutants of A-level or above. But this time, there were two A-level demons, and they were special bodies. Logically, Shen Lian should have taken action, but this time he chose to let the team members handle it themselves. After all, the deeper they go into the restricted area, the more likely they are to encounter greater dangers, and the ability of the entire team must be quickly improved, so he let the remaining five people cooperate to kill these two demons.

However, Liu Xingwu usually doesn't dare to be so arrogant when Shen Lian is around. Although Shen Lian is usually gentle, in fact, the eyes behind the lenses see through everything. He will never show mercy to those who destroy the unity of the team. Liu Xingwu once had his five senses forcibly controlled by Shen Lian in the name of training. The pain of feeling as if his brain was about to split and his whole body seemed to be pierced left a deep impression on him until now.

Therefore, as long as Shen Lian is around, Liu Xingwu will always behave himself, but once Shen Lian leaves, his true nature will be exposed, and he will pick on the weak. Yun Lin, who is usually gentle, has been often bossed around by Liu Xingwu.

Dongzhi pulled Yunlin to the side, handed Yunlin a bottle of water, and whispered, "He takes it to heart. That's the way he is. Besides, it was clearly him who was yelling in the back just now. That's why a few demons were stimulated and rushed towards him. You've done a good job."

Dongzhi is only three years older than Yunlin, but he is an extrovert and has some kinship with the Shen family. He can be said to be a distant relative of Shen Lian's mother, and also Shen Lian's cousin. His parents work in the capital base government. Although Liu Xingwu can't stand Dongzhi's sometimes erratic temperament, he dare not provoke Dongzhi.

"Thank you, Brother Dongzhi. I'm fine. I just feel that if my ability could be stronger, I might not be a burden to everyone."

Dongzhi slapped him on the back of the head, pretending to be angry, "What nonsense are you talking about? How can you be considered a burden? We have relied on your ability to get water during the time we were in the restricted area. If it weren't for you, we would have to look for streams everywhere, and we would encounter more dangers."

Yunlin smiled, and his mood became a little better.

Dongzhi raised his head and looked at Chao Linfeng again, "Brother Chao, how big is the giant mutant beast you just mentioned?"

He frowned at Lin Feng and said slowly, "I'm not sure, but it must be twice as big as the mutant black bear we met before."

Yun Lin asked with some fear: "Then the captain won't be in trouble, right?"

Although the mutant black bear they encountered before was only a level two mutant beast, it took more than forty minutes to deal with it. This was simply because the mutant black bear had thick skin and flesh, and Yun Lin's water attacks had no effect on it at all. Even the sharp metal needles transformed by Liu Xingwu's metal ability could not penetrate the fat of the black bear.

Finally, Dongzhi came up with a plan. He used his special abilities to dig a pit about five square meters and more than four meters deep on the ground, and then lured the mutant black bear into the pit. Liu Xingwu and Yun Lin attacked at the same time. Chao Linfeng could also use his special abilities to slightly dazzle the mutant black bear, causing it to have hallucinations and unable to climb out of the pit for a while. Finally, under the continuous attacks, it finally died.

What they are worried about now is that Shen Lian will encounter a mutant beast that is more difficult to give birth to than the mutant black bear. Even though the captain is an S-level psychic, it does not mean that the S-level is completely safe. You must know that every time China has tried to suppress the beast tide, it has lost more than three S-level psychics.

When the news was announced nationwide, flags were not even lowered to half-mast in honor of these sacrificed psychics.

So it’s not without reason that they were worried about Shen Lian getting into an accident.

On Shen Lian's side, following Yun Lin's ability of spiritual sharing, he easily found the giant mutant beast, which turned out to be a huge mutant wild boar.

But this mutant wild boar is at least three or four times larger than the mutant wild boars seen in the safe zone. It is at least one meter wide and more than three meters long. It is even larger than the mutant black bear encountered before. More importantly, the hair of this mutant wild boar is brown-red, and there seems to be a faint flame burning on it.

Is it a superpower?

Shen Lian narrowed his eyes and was somewhat surprised to find that this mutant wild boar actually had superpowers, which seemed to be fire-related superpowers.

In fact, it is not the first time that mutant beasts with superpowers have appeared in the public eye. In several missions to suppress the beast tide, many mutant beasts that can use superpowers have appeared. For example, the demon species can also be controlled mentally, and other special mutant beasts can also use their own superpowers.

Moreover, this special mutant beast must have a crystal core in its body, and the value of the crystal core is at least ten times higher than that of an ordinary crystal core.

Therefore, every time the meridian core of a special mutant beast appears on the black market, it will cause quite a stir.

Just like last time, the special demon species caused an immediate frenzy as soon as it appeared at the auction.

The red behemoth obviously also noticed Shen Lian's presence, and at this moment a drone flew slowly to within a dozen meters of the two people, and the camera accurately captured the scene of Shen Lian and the mutant wild boar confronting each other.

At this time in the base, crazy barrages of comments were pouring out on the live broadcast channel.

[Fuck, isn't this the S-rank expert from last time? ]

[Looks like he's the captain of the Light Chasers. Is he going to crush them one-sidedly again this time?]

At this moment, an angry hissing sound came from the sky. The drone changed its angle and found another huge winged creature whizzing past in the sky.