The earthquake was at least seven on the Richter scale.
The strong tremors had caused the people on the street to bleed and look embarrassed. Other than a few unlucky ones who had been buried by the collapsed walls, most of them were not in danger.
After all, this was a shelter, and an apocalyptic one at that, so it was quite sturdy. If the loose sand had not collapsed during the earthquake, it would have only cracked a few times.
"Someone's down there. A few people, come and help dig up the ruins!" A person shouted.
The cruelty of the post-apocalyptic world and the crisis of human survival had caused the entire society to be in a state of war. The people here were more united than before the apocalypse, and they were also more disciplined. That person shouted, and the people nearby, regardless of their injuries, all came forward to help.
Luo Yuan came back to his senses and quickly went to help move the stones.
The earthquake had just ended, but there were still aftershocks. Gravel fell from the cracks from time to time, making it difficult for people to stand steadily. Although some of them looked reluctant, no one retreated.
Luo Yuan was strong and strong. Hundreds of kilograms of concrete were nothing in his hands. With his help, the efficiency was increased by a few times.
The walls of the shelter were a few times thicker than normal walls. They were almost a meter thick, and there was even a layer of steel that was 10 centimeters thick in the middle. Even heavy artillery would not be able to break it. If it collapsed, it would weigh more than 10 tons. Even an evolved person like Luo Yuan would not be able to survive if he was completely crushed. As the stones were moved away, a few deformed corpses were revealed.
"Quick, there's one more! She's still alive!" someone shouted.
Everyone quickly gathered around and carefully moved the surrounding stones away. They realized that she was very lucky. The collapsed stones had created a space for her to move around, so she was not injured at all. When she was rescued, the girl, who looked like she was 18 or 19 years old, was pale and her lips were trembling. She could not speak, but she kept bowing to express her gratitude.
After the rescue, Luo Yuan walked around the second floor of the shelter. He found out that there was not only one place that had collapsed, but there were actually three places. The most serious one had a radius of 30 to 40 meters. Not only had the second underground floor collapsed, but the first floor had collapsed as well. A large amount of concrete and boulders had blocked the entire space. Rays of dazzling sunlight shone through the cracks at the top.
…
Luo Yuan went back to the sewers with a heavy heart. He found that the situation was even worse. Many of the pipes had been broken, and a large amount of sewage had seeped into the ground. The ground had become dry.
Countless mutated creatures were like headless flies, scurrying in all directions. As a result, Luo Yuan had to unleash his aura to stop the poisonous creatures from approaching him.
When he returned to his temporary residence, he found that everyone's faces were pale. He glanced around and realized that something had happened. It was Tong Jianliang, a man of few words and a full beard. At this time, he was lying on the ground. His face was dark, and his expression was ferocious. He looked like a devil from hell.
Luo Yuan did not care and went forward to check his breath. He found that he was no longer breathing. A trace of black blood mixed with saliva was dripping from the corner of his mouth, giving off a fishy smell.
His condition looked like he was poisoned, but after checking his body, there were no obvious wounds, and there were no bite marks on his clothes.
"What happened?" Luo Yuan asked with a serious face.
"We're not sure. He went out for a hunt, and when he came back, he started coughing. We didn't pay much attention at first, but as he coughed, he suddenly vomited blood. Not long after, he fell to the ground and stopped breathing," Xu Zhiqiang said in a low voice.
The creatures in the sewers were not of a high level, so as long as the evolved humans were careful, they would not be in any danger. They did not expect that someone would die this time.
"Cough, cough!" Wen Yujie suddenly coughed.
Everyone's expression changed as they looked at her.
Wen Yujie was baffled at first, but when she thought of Tong Jianliang's symptoms, she became nervous and said incoherently, "Why … why are you all looking at me? I didn't go out, it's just that my throat suddenly felt itchy."
Before she finished her sentence, she could not help but cough a few more times. She coughed so hard that it felt like her heart and liver were going to come out.
The crowd subconsciously took a few steps back with strange expressions on their faces.
Wen Yujie coughed until her face turned red. She could not believe it. "I … How could I …"
Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted by coughing again.
Luo Yuan noticed that there was a faint black mist around her neck. He did not dare to delay any further and quickly walked over to grab Wen Yujie.
"Luo Yuan, don't touch me," Wen Yujie said quickly. Her eyes were red. Even the slowest person would have realized that they had been infected, and that they would not be able to live for long.
"Shut up. Everyone, turn around," Luo Yuan said expressionlessly.
Xu Zhiqiang and the others quickly turned around, not daring to look.
The next moment, with a ripping sound, Wen Yujie's top was torn off, revealing her quivering breasts!
However, Luo Yuan's heart did not waver at all. He felt numb just by looking at her. Her abdomen was almost completely filled with black gas, and the dark blood vessels were slowly wriggling like earthworms. It was inhuman, and it made one's hair stand on end just by looking at it.
Wen Yujie, who was blushing, lowered her head to take a look. Her body trembled and her face turned pale. She looked desperate and tried to get away from Luo Yuan, "Leave, I can't be saved … Leave this place."
Luo Yuan did not seem to hear her. His left hand was like an iron hoop, holding her smooth shoulders tightly. No matter how hard she struggled, he could not move. Wen Yujie could feel his determination, and she could not hold back her tears anymore.
Suddenly, Luo Yuan raised his right hand. Soon, his palm was covered with a layer of light. He pressed hard on her chest. As his Will turned into healing power, the black mist that was spreading quickly suddenly stopped flowing. After a few seconds, it began to slowly disappear.
Wen Yujie was shocked. She gradually forgot to struggle. She felt a burning warmth flowing into her chest through Luo Yuan's palm. Her itchy lungs gradually subsided after the heat flowed into them.
She had never felt so comfortable before, and she could not help but moan.
When the shadow of death disappeared like snow, shame crawled into her heart again. Her face became red, and even the tender skin on her chest was smeared with a layer of rouge. That scorching hot palm seemed to have a magical power, causing her whole body to go soft, almost unable to stand!
"Are … are you done?" Wen Yujie saw that her skin had become white and tender again. She could not help but ask in a trembling voice.
Luo Yuan did not say anything. He continued for another 10 seconds before letting go of her palm.
Wen Yujie quickly turned around and put on her clothes. However, it was an emergency, and her clothes had been torn by Luo Yuan. She could barely cover her chest.
"Wear this!" Luo Yuan took off his coat. It was not a piece of equipment. He had found a new coat when he went back to his house.
Wen Yujie shyly agreed. She picked up the coat and put it on carefully. There seemed to be a very comfortable smell on the coat, and she could not help but be immersed in it. She could not help but blush as she thought about it.
Luo Yuan suddenly felt a headache when he saw her acting like a little girl. It was not easy for him to deliberately cool down, but it seemed to have warmed up again.
Xu Zhiqiang and Xiao Baihong turned around and were shocked to see that Wen Yujie, who had been poisoned to death, had now completely recovered. This was especially so for Xu Zhiqiang. As the leader of the evolved special forces, his level of confidentiality was higher, and most of the confidential information was open to him. That was why he knew very well that Luo Yuan was an earth based evolved human. However, it was also because of this that it was even more shocking.
Since when did an earth based evolved human have the ability to heal?
"We can't stay here anymore. We have to get out of here as soon as possible." Luo Yuan's voice interrupted his thoughts. "I suspect that the earthquake caused a huge crack in the sewer, and some powerful poisonous beasts have been lured out."
Everyone thought about the people who had been poisoned one after another, and they could not help but be shocked.
They were in the sewer, a dirty and humid place that attracted all kinds of poisonous insects and beasts.
The mutated creatures in the sewer were usually cleaned up, so they were not much of a threat. However, as a large amount of sewage seeped into the sewer, a large number of poisonous insects and beasts gathered there. What was worse was that the Desert City had not been cleaned up even once since it was built. The mutated beasts were of a higher level, so they were more dangerous.
Before this, the shelter had a thick foundation that could block most of the mutated beasts outside. Only some small or newborn mutated beasts could enter through the cracks. However, the earthquake this time had obviously expanded this loophole by many times.
"If we don't stay in the sewer, where should we go?" Xiao Baihong asked, feeling a little worried.
"We'll go where we should go!" Luo Yuan hesitated for a while and said, "Now that the market has basically returned to normal, and the wanted posters for all of you have been canceled, I believe there will not be a repeat!"
As he spoke, Luo Yuan suddenly had an idea. Perhaps it was his intuition, but he had always suspected that the real mind controller was not dead, but was hiding and waiting for the right time!
If he followed this train of thought, then the two people who had been executed previously were also half real. The man might be real, as he had seen it with his own eyes, and the other one might be fake.
For a strong mind controller, it was too easy to control a person to die. After all, there was a precedent when they surrounded the mutated beasts in the underground train station!
Everything fell into place.
If he were to make a bold guess, even the leader who was standing in the open was controlled by the mind controller, but the other party might not know about it.
If that was the case, the mind controller was too scary. Even he did not dare to believe that he would be completely immune to the mind controller when he faced the person.
However, he was just scaring himself. If that was the case, he would have been exposed for the past few days, and the other party would have had the opportunity to do so. Since it did not happen, the other party obviously could not do anything to him.
Now that so many of the other party had died, the strength of the mind controller had fallen to the bottom.
Xu Zhiqiang and the other evolved humans were the strongest in the Desert City besides him. If he was the hidden mind controller, he would not have let these people go.
Perhaps this was an opportunity to lure the snake out of its hole.
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