Stimulated by the excitement, countless youngsters who lived in tents or lair cities and relied on earthworm meat and monster organs to make food to survive, had no jobs, and could not see a way out became restless.
But they had to be approved to go out of the city to hunt and colonize.
Normal people who had not awakened to supernatural abilities had a high mortality rate in the wild.
If they were bitten to death by monsters, it would still be considered straightforward, but if they were bitten by monsters until they were covered in wounds or even paralyzed, who would pay for the medical fees?
Also, they had to pay taxes when they hunted monsters, and they had to pay attention to planning when they opened up the wild. They had to work together with the related departments to attack the main direction. They could not randomly open up the land. Otherwise, even if they temporarily built a pathfinder, it would be easy for monsters to take down the place, and they would waste valuable resources.
Most of the pathfinders were normal people, and their fighting strength and equipment were not up to standard. Naturally, they could not get approved by the related departments.
But a piece of paper could not stop the youngsters from building a career and reaching the peak of their lives.
Even though the Survival Committee repeatedly emphasized the dangers of colonizing the wild, over the past year, countless unlicensed pathfinders still sneaked out of Dragon City and went deep into the wild to set up their developing lands.
One group of pathfinders was really lucky. They casually found a col and set up camp there. They did not run into any high-grade superbeasts for a whole three months. Normal monsters attacked them multiple times, but they gritted their teeth and used firearms and basic martial arts to force them to retreat.
And Dragon City expanded faster than everyone imagined. A few mega corporations set their eyes on the very strategically important col. Universe Corporation's mine exploration team even discovered a crystal mine near the col. Because of it, the col that no one paid any attention to instantly became a hot spot, and it was worth a lot of money.
Logically speaking, the pathfinders had not been approved and could not bring out any professional licenses, so it was impossible for them to be acknowledged as their ownership of the land.
But when they considered practical factors, the pathfinders had indeed survived for three months in the wild surrounded by monsters and forced back wave after wave of monster attacks. They had also paid a heavy price for it. One-third of the pathfinders died, and another third were heavily injured. Everyone in the developing land had bloodstained medals on their bodies.
Besides, there were a lot of unemployed people in Dragon City. There were no suitable jobs in the city, so they ran out of the city on their own. This spirit of working hard was worthy of encouragement. At the very least, they should not be criticized.
If they did not acknowledge the results of their hard work, millions of unemployed youngsters would turn into ticking time bombs at any moment.
After considering various factors, in the end, Universe Corporation came to an agreement with the pathfinders. They spent a sum of "humanitarian aid", which was actually a "land expropriation fee" to buy the land around the developing land from the pathfinders.
They also arranged for all the pathfinders to join Universe Corporation so that they could secure a stable job.
Then, through his connections in Universe Corporation, he helped them apply for all sorts of licenses and permits. He could be considered to have taken a roundabout route and solved the problem of legality.
Of course, there were only a handful of lucky people who could successfully build their developing lands in the wild and lasted until the Dragon City until the Red Army or mega corporations arrived.
Of course, there were only a handful of lucky people who could successfully build a developing land in the wild and last until the Red Dragon Army or mega corporations arrived.
Most of the developing lands would be slaughtered by monsters within a few months after they were built.
Because the pathfinders had to stay. to survive. and by, they were. and they were.
Thousands of unemployed youths were driven by ambition, and they turned into incomplete skeletons in the wild as well as monster feces.
Thousands of unemployed youngsters were driven by ambition. They ended up as incomplete skeletons and monster feces in the wild.
In a world filled with zombies and monsters, death was not something to be afraid of compared to living in a dark and damp basement and eating earthworm cans while watching superhumans shake the world and having beautiful women around them.
What was even more terrifying than death was being poor and having no future.
The problem of unlicensed pathfinders was that they wandered in a gray area of the law.
The Survival Committee could not provide enough jobs, so they could only turn a blind eye and let the youngsters find their own way out.
Theoretically speaking, it was not legal.
However, as long as the settlement was successfully established, the settlement persisted for a long enough time, and the visible changes were made to the environment, the Survival Committee would acquiesce to the explorers' ownership of the land and offer generous compensation when the expansion began.
Basically, regardless of whether it was collecting fees or arranging for the pathfinders to join the mega corporations, they could ensure that the pathfinders did not have to worry about food and clothing for the rest of their lives. They could live stable and dignified lives.
But the other side of being responsible for their own profits and losses was that they had to live and die on their own.
Dragon Citizens fought defensive battles in the city, and they were considered to be protecting their homes. Every time they killed a monster, they would get points, and if they kept accumulating points, they could get all sorts of resources.
If they were injured or died, they would have the chance to get medals and enjoy the treatment of heroes and martyrs.
If they left the city without permission, they could not get points from the monsters they killed. If they wanted to bring monster materials back to the city to sell, they had to pay the highest taxes. If they were killed by monsters in the wild, they would not get any compensation or compensation.
But there was nothing they could do about it.
If every unemployed youngster ran into the wild recklessly and got eaten by monsters, they would get compensation from the Survival Committee.
Dragon City's economy and finances would have collapsed hundreds of times already.
In any case, the forward operating base of Soaring Dragon Construction was considered a regular army.
The developing land built by unlicensed pathfinders was considered a guerrilla army.
When the regular army mentioned the guerrillas, they were still guerrillas who did not listen to their commands and often acted on their own. Naturally, they regarded them with disdain. In fact, they were full of complaints.
But even if they complained, they were not too far away from each other. Something as dangerous as a monster horde had happened, so they had to pay attention to their situation.
Even if the developing land of unlicensed pathfinders was destroyed by monsters, they had to collect their corpses. They could not let their corpses be left in the wild or turn into monster poop.
This was related to the dignity of all humans.
"Do they have superhumans? How's their equipment?" Meng Chao asked.
"There are three superhumans. The strongest one seems to be in Spirit Transformation Realm. The other normal people have received militarized training. Their shooting skills are pretty good, and they have a lot of ammunition." As for heavy equipment, I think they have two armored vehicles and some unmanned aerial vehicles. The Red Dragon Army has been changing their equipment recently, so second-hand weapons and equipment are getting cheaper, "Manager Jiang said.
"Many of the unlicensed pathfinders think that they can do whatever they want in the wild just because they're fully armed. Hmph, their scrap metal can handle Demonic Halberd Pigs and Iron-armored Rhinoceroses, but if they run into the King of Nightmares or Hell Beasts, they'll die!"
Meng Chao ignored Manager Jiang's complaints. He felt that as long as the developing land did not run into a large-scale monster horde, it might be able to survive.
He decided to go over and take a look.
Manager Jiang thought about it and called a superhuman at the peak of Earth Realm to lead a Dragon Fang Commando Squad that was armed to the teeth to follow Meng Chao to take a look.
The developing land of the unlicensed pathfinders did not have the ability to develop it on a large scale.
In truth, their plan was to defend the place in the wild for a period of time. Once Soaring Dragon Constructions' forward operating base continued expanding, they would sell the developing land and the land around it to Soaring Dragon Constructions. Then, they would turn from a guerilla squad to a regular army.
Hence, both sides had come into contact with each other before, and Manager Jiang knew the specific coordinates of the developing land.
The armored vehicle carrying more than twenty Dragon Fang Commandos drove south for more than twenty minutes. The ground gradually became muddy and bumpy.
Ahead of them was a lush forest.
There were also swamps with hidden dangers, but they were also incredibly fertile. They were very suitable to be turned into gene farms for etherealized plants.
There was a fence around the perimeter of the forest, and there was also barbed wire.
There were also intersecting tire tracks on the ground.
There was also a big wooden plate with a yellow smiley face sprayed on it. There were four words under the smiley face.
[Happy Farm.]
This was probably the name the unlicensed pathfinders gave to the developing land.
But …
Meng Chao used his maglev and floated more than ten meters in the air. He saw threatening black smoke drifting at the edge of the forest.
He could even smell the pungent stench of blood.
Meng Chao sighed and returned to the ground.
"It's bad," he said.
"Everyone, be on guard. There might be more monsters inside."
The group carefully stepped into the forest.
Soon, they saw a sealed building that was half-hidden underground like a silver eggshell.
They also saw monster carcasses all over the place.
A fierce battle had indeed taken place here.
But the situation was not what the people imagined.
They did not see any human corpses.
Instead, it looked like a one-sided massacre between humans and monsters. Monster limbs were scattered all over the place.
Meng Chao knelt down on one knee in front of a monster carcass that was rather complete. He dipped his finger in some monster blood and rubbed it.
Judging from the viscosity of their blood, they had only died a moment ago.
"Strange."
Meng Chao frowned and mumbled, "There are dozens of Demonic Bloody Moon Wolves, Ghost Leopards, and other lion-type monsters here. Many of them are Nightmarish Beasts.
"By the looks of it, their original territory was taken by the Tyrant Mammoth, and they were forced to run to the human developing land in search of a new nest.
"But they were … killed cleanly by humans with fierce and peerless methods."
Meng Chao had injury examination skills that surpassed Master Level.
Naturally, he could tell that these monsters had been killed by one or two humans in just a few minutes.
In fact, based on the distribution of the monster carcasses, he could roughly imagine the scene at that time. First, the fierce monsters confidently launched an ambush at the human settlement. They nimbly dodged the humans' bullets and thought that they would be able to start a bloody feast the next second.
But against their expectations, they soon ran into humanoid beasts that were ten times more brutal than them. In an instant, they turned from hunters to prey. Their killing instincts were completely destroyed by fear, and they fled, but they could not escape from the shadow of the God of Death.
Their stomachs were cut open, their spines exploded, their limbs were torn off, their eyes were gouged out, and their jaws were pulled apart. They could be said to be brutal killing methods, and even Meng Chao, who was a veteran of the apocalypse, felt his heart pound in fear and broke out in cold sweat.
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