Wasteland Development Diary

Zhou Yi stared at the remote control.

The three-person team was very patient. They stayed outside the Warrior Crab's patrol range, trying to find a path to bypass the defense line.

When they realized it was impossible, they stopped.

Only three human figures could be seen on the screen. Apart from the red light of the leader being stronger, there were no special appearance features.

Zhou Yi ordered to turn on [Bird's Eye View].

Immediately, text information appeared above the heads of the enhanced individuals.

——Guarded by a considerable number of E-grade monsters. This person is not ordinary, so be careful.

——A character like this coming to the desolate Mao Gu Town and starting to build a camp, especially at this time… They are most likely here for that thing.

——We must take the initiative and strike while they haven't gained a firm foothold. This is the best opportunity. Fortunately, we brought the latest weapons; dealing with these monsters won't be a big problem.

Zhou Yi frowned.

This person has a gang behind him.

One of the enhanced individual’s companions thought more simply.

——So sleepy. I really want to go back to sleep early.

——Why hasn't the boss called it quits yet? We didn't go robbing today, running so far, not moving, not fighting… The boss is getting more and more timid.

Another person's thoughts caught Zhou Yi's high attention.

——How did A Jin get to know this outsider?

——He is single-minded and not the kind of person who knows how to adapt; otherwise, he could have been our inside man.

——Last time, my hand wasn't steady enough, and the short spear didn't hit his vital point. I must kill him today. This kid should already suspect me…

Zhou Yi's eyes sharpened.

This person is a resident of Mao Gu Town.

Zhou Yi immediately called A Jin, who was still laying grass on the container house, and asked him about the inside story.

The boy, who was originally excited about living in a new house, looked gloomy: "I know. There are looters in the town."

"The mountain cave where Mao Gu Town is located, the Light Nascence definitely won't come, but the looters have never come either, which is strange in itself."

"If they attack, whether it's lighting a fire in the cave to smoke us out, or scaring us and blocking the entrance, we can only escape and be robbed. The people in the town don't have much combat experience and lack metal weapons, so there's no way to fight."

"But the town has never been robbed. Everyone says it's because we're too poor, and the looters are too lazy to risk rushing in, lest they get injured in the cave full of sharp stones, which wouldn't be worth it."

"I believed it when I was a child, but later I found out that if everyone picks up good things outside, like valuable copper and iron, and gems, or cuts off leather from monster corpses, they will be robbed immediately. Even if they hide it, they will be threatened to hand it over."

The boy's face was full of bitterness: "I was lucky to meet you this time, Master. Otherwise, I would have been dead."

"Many people in Mao Gu Town know that there are looters hiding in the town. Now everyone is wary of each other, afraid that the other person is a looter…"

Zhou Yi sorted out the information.

The looter gang here is adopting a pig-raising strategy. They won't directly kill the residents of Mao Gu Town, preserving the underground market town in the cave. The looters need the people here to be their free labor, collecting resources everywhere, and then they select the valuable items to take away.

They keep the locals in a numb state where they can barely make a living but find it difficult to escape.

"One person I'm sure of is Gap-Tooth. That day when you came to town, the one who came to the door wanting to exchange the hat you gave me was Gap-Tooth."

A Jin frowned and said, "Every time Gap-Tooth goes out at night, he always disappears quickly. No one knows where he went, and few people see his tracks."

"He also asked me if I was willing to work as a handyman in the hunter group, doing some dirty and tiring work, but it needed to be kept completely secret. I felt something was wrong and didn't agree."

"Once, when I was picking up dry dung by the river, I saw Gap-Tooth washing his hands. He didn't see me, but he took off his clothes and changed into a set buried under the stones. After he left, I went over and saw that the clothes were full of human blood, still warm."

"That day, someone in the town was killed, saying that he had offended the looters and refused to hand over his things, so he was killed. His head was thrown at the entrance of the cave to warn the people in the town."

Zhou Yi was now basically certain that the enhanced individual outside was also brought by Gap-Tooth.

The target is the remote control of the Red Falcon.

Since they are enemies, there is nothing to say.

Years of training in the Dead Sea have proven that any leniency towards the enemy will cause a cruel boomerang effect on oneself.

Zhou Yi ordered the complete annihilation of the enemy.

The Warrior Crabs, who were on standby in the Dead Sea, moved out quickly and began to quietly outflank.

On the screen, 45 green dots launched a rapid encirclement of the enemy on a larger scale. The three looters were caught in close combat when they realized what was happening. The battle lasted for 1 minute, and the three enemy red dots disappeared.

Zhou Yi was puzzled.

Why did the enhanced individual feel about the same strength as an ordinary person, breaking with one touch?

The Red Falcon expanded the search area, confirmed that there were no other suspicious life forms in the vicinity, and confirmed that the enemies were all dead.

Zhou Yi then rode his bike over.

Using a flashlight, he saw three broken corpses lying on the ground, all killed by a volley of poisonous kitchen knives. The three looters were still wearing masks when they died, and only their terrified eyes frozen at the moment of death could be seen.

Zhou Yi lifted their face masks.

Sure enough, one of them was Gap-Tooth with a bone chain around his neck. His face was green, and his lips were slightly open. The other ordinary person was a bald teenager with a fierce face and no eyebrows.

The dead enhanced individual was a man in his twenties with a stiff and bewildered face.

His hair was neatly plastered to his head, looking like he had used oil. He was wearing a leather jacket, boots, and a brown linen coat over it. The man was holding a brass pistol tightly in his hand.

This was a flintlock pistol with a wooden handle and copper buckle. It needed to be loaded with gunpowder and bullets to fire, and there was no time to draw and shoot in the event of a sudden attack. It was normal to be killed by the Warrior Crab's poisonous throwing knives.

Zhou Yi thought of this.

It seems that there is also technology for making guns in this era. The cave-dwelling life in Mao Gu Town should only represent a part of the poor and backward areas.

The enhanced individual carried a leather suitcase.

Zhou Yi found a copper badge, a stack of papers nailed to the bottom, a charcoal pencil, some oiled small cloth bags in a wooden box, a water bottle, a comb, and a simple toothbrush inside.

He collected these things and returned to the seaside camp.

The three corpses were carried by the Warrior Crabs and thrown into the Dead Sea.

The death light will quickly decompose the remains and return them to nature.

……

Sitting on the soft leather sofa in the new house, Zhou Yi turned on a portable lamp, which provided better lighting, but it consumed batteries, so he had to use it sparingly.

Under the light, he took out the captured flintlock pistol.

The gun body was engraved with a Y-shaped mark, next to a number "19941".

Zhou Yi's understanding of guns was limited to various TV shows and games. The only time he touched one was during military training, but unfortunately, the instructor only allowed him to fire blanks, just going through the motions.

He pulled back the hammer and tried to pull the trigger.

With a click, the flint fixed on the hammer struck the flash pan.

In the era he lived in, this was a museum antique, but now it is an enhanced individual's personal weapon.

Zhou Yi opened the small cloth bags soaked in oil. Sure enough, they contained bullets. These bullets looked like lead, heavy, slightly soft, and there were two marks on the outside of the bullet shell.

One was painted with a black circle, and the other was painted with a blue circle.

Two bullet models representing different functions?

Zhou Yi compared the two lead bullets. There was no difference in appearance at all.

Should I try a shot?

Thanks to the alliance leader Feng Sheng Xiao Xiao~