Chapter 19 : The Good and the Bad

There were more than fifty people in this shelter!

A dozen of them were well-equipped and looked physically strong.

They stood tall, sitting on stone chairs looking down at the people kneeling below.

And not only were these people bruised and looking unusually tired, the clothes on their bodies were also in tatters.

Just by looking at the current scene, Chris understood what had happened.

These dozen or so people were obviously from the same organization, teaming up to enslave other participants after entering the survival game, making others their free labor.

Looking at the thin and bony appearance of these participants, it was only that they could not get enough food.

Chris had no sympathy in his heart for these participants, and he could not afford to stand on the moral high ground to teach them a lesson about this organization.

Simply because, now is the end of the world, they asked for life.

Some people know how to help each other, know how to respect and love each other.

That's why there was that scene of common honor and disgrace before.

But, some people are different.

It couldn't be more normal for something like this to happen.

After switching between a few live rooms in silence, Chris completely closed the live interface and exhaled a mouthful of cloudy air.

It was as he had predicted at the beginning.

Other than the individual shelters, the other eighty or so live rooms struggling to survive were all scenes of slavery and oppression.

It looked exceptionally depressing.

Sitting on the bed, Chris listened to the pattering outside and stroked Max's soft fur.

Slowly entering dreamland.

Only, this time, entering dreamland was a confirmation that nothing unexpected would happen, and actively closing his eyes.

....

"Doomsday Calendar, Year 1, January 6."

"Congratulations, you have successfully created a simple ventilation system, and your shelter has reached a comfortable living level. (Survival Points +35)"

"Congratulations on successfully surviving the acid rain disaster, you have traveled well during the natural disaster. (Survival Points +50)"

"You slept very soundly last night, and your mental and physical strength is fully restored. (Survival Points +10)"

"Congratulations, you have managed to survive another day and are being evaluated on what you did today. (Survival Points +10)"

"Final settlement, you have gained a total of 105 Survival Points this time, with a total of 370 Survival Points remaining"

Along with the system's prompt, Chris opened his eyes.

Although, he rested late last night, Chris didn't let it give him the idea of sleeping.

Survival game, was a game of fighting for every second, every minute and every second could not be wasted.

After popping out of bed, Chris suddenly had a happy face.

Outside the shelter, the pattering rain had disappeared.

Looking out from the skylight, one could see a blue sky with a few clouds floating in it, and the sky was exceptionally clear.

Chris's face was delighted.

Unexpectedly, the acid rain had only lasted for the duration of one night, and had not lasted for several days in a row as he had expected.

Thanks to that, he had stocked up on food.

Although Chris spat in his mind, his heart did not give birth to complaints because of this.

Following the stairs and pushing open the heavy stone door, Chris climbed outside the shelter.

After experiencing the baptism of the rainstorm, the air had become unusually refreshing, and he exhaled deeply and stretched his back.

It was really comfortable!

Although it had rained an acidic rain last night, there wasn't much stagnant water above the shelter because Chris had built a drainage system in advance.

After more than an hour of direct sunlight in the morning, the land above the shelter was surprisingly dry.

And in the more low-lying areas next to the shelter, the standing water had all seeped down as well.

It wouldn't take more than a few hours for it to be completely dry.

Max also scurried out from the shelter at this time, constantly wagging his tail.

It seemed that it also very much liked the air after the rain and the scenery after the rain.

It was just that Chris' heart was a little heavy as he looked at the refreshed scenery after the rain.

The scenery in front of him was no different from before the arrival of the acid rain, but Chris knew that it was completely different.

This acid rain had taken away the lives of four to five hundred people in this small area where he was.

And put into all the small regions, at the very least, tens of thousands of people had lost their lives because of it.

With a heavy heart, Chris scanned his surroundings before hurrying back into the shelter.

Max followed him back into the shelter and closed the heavy stone door.

However, just around the corner that Chris didn't notice.

Several pairs of eyes were watching Chris' every move.

After seeing him return into the shelter, several dark shadows came out from hiding.

"Boss, it looks like there's a lot of good stuff in that kid's shelter!"

"How about it, should we do this one?"

A thin man with a slightly stooped figure said to the tall and strong big man next to him.

"It's just, that dog next to him doesn't look like he's easy to deal with!"

A naive looking fat man next to the strong man scratched his scalp.

"You're stupid, let's just sneak attack, we have to go for a frontal attack!"

"When that kid comes out, we'll just shoot him in the back!"

"Let's make sure we kill that kid in one go!"

Back in the shelter, Chris first took out some chicken and made a pot of porridge.

It had been this recipe for several consecutive days, and Chris was more or less a bit tired of it.

Although, it was an extravagant request for other survivors to eat a meal like Chris' once, Chris was indeed tired of it.

After watering the seedlings in the three-layer vegetable cultivation pots with spiritual energy water, Chris opened the system's communication interface.

After the natural disaster, all sorts of situations were bound to occur.

Therefore, it was necessary to pay attention to the chat interface to keep up with the latest intelligence.

"The first natural disaster came in such a hurry that many of the survivors didn't even have time to prepare themselves."

"Right, so they gave up their lives while we could chat here."

"I didn't realize that the first natural disaster made nearly half of the survivalists in our small region lose their lives, I don't know what the next natural disaster will be like, and in which way it will come."

"Upstairs, don't crow about it, I'd rather the next one come a year later."

"Significant intelligence! Significant information!"

"You guys know that quite a few survivalists died in this natural disaster, right? And after those survivalists died, all the items in their warehouses exploded!"

"It's rumored that someone saw a Survivor explode a small mountain of stone ore directly after his death, it's simply amazing!"

"Moreover, it's not just the items in their warehouses, their shelters have also become ownerless shelters, and believe me, there must be quite a lot of good stuff in their shelters as well."

"There are already quite a few survivalists on their way, they call themselves scavengers, and their aim is the relics of the survivalists who died in the acid rain."

"Some of them will be occupying unclaimed shelters, and some of them are there to gather the supplies left behind by the dead survivors."

"But, believe me, most of the scavengers are no good."

"Most of them will go and kill a survivor who is still alive, and then hijack his shelter as well as his supplies!"

"Someone saw with their own eyes that three dark-haired scavengers stormed into a survivalist's shelter, killed the other person, and then took off wrapped in a large amount of resources."

"I'm sure we all don't want to be victims in this story, so for your own protection, all you survivalists reading the news."

"Don't trust any Survivor you're not familiar with at this stage, and even if you are, you can't trust them completely!"

Chris couldn't help but feel a chill down his back after seeing those words on the chat interface.

The matter of a group of scavengers collecting the resources of the dead appearing after the acid rain was something he had expected.

Even, he had thought about whether or not to do it.

It was just that the risk of doing it was too great.

It was like opening a blind box, searching for a day would not necessarily result in finding the relics of a few seekers.

And not many of those relics would necessarily be valuable.

It was time-consuming and laborious, so it would be better to honestly obtain the resources on your own.

So, Chris dismissed the idea.

Only, what he didn't expect was that there were people who were hunting other Survival Seekers under the guise of Scavengers.

Chris had long been mentally prepared for the deception amongst the survivalists.

But, he still didn't expect these people to be so despicable!

He could think of their tactics.

Pretending to be scavengers, letting the survivalists relax their guard, and then giving the defenseless survivalists a fatal blow.

Despicable to the extreme!

After shutting down the chat system, Chris suddenly had a heartbeat.

No, search for it.

I need to search for any potential threats in the neighborhood!

As soon as he thought of this, Chris opened the system's creature illustration page.

Scan!

Waiting for the ripples to finish rippling across the map, three red dots appeared in front of Chris.

Chris raised his eyebrows.

Unexpectedly, having already swept through all the surrounding national creatures yesterday, new prey had been added on today.

Chris, who thought that these red dots were still ordinary prey, casually clicked on the red dots.

However, his original somewhat contemptuous gaze became grave.

The red dots on the map were not stoic chicks or mutated silver ring snakes.

It was a human!"

Seeing the appearance of a similar species in the vicinity, Chris did not have half a bit of joy in his heart.

He associated it with the ones he had just seen in the chat interface, the scavengers who targeted the relics of other survivalists.

These three people were, most likely, scavengers.

Moreover, it was possible that they were the kind of scavengers that specialized in hunting other Survivalists!

It could not be left unguarded!

In an instant, Chris's vigilance was at its highest.

On the map, the three red dots hadn't moved, which was unusual.

In the past, when scanned prey moved, the red dots on the map that represented those prey would also move.

The fact that these few red dots representing humans hadn't moved meant that the other party must be waiting for something.

Or rather ambushing something.

Not good!

Suddenly, Chris's scalp exploded as he thought of something terrifying.

Just now, when he had gone out to poke around and looked around, it was likely that he had been discovered by these scavengers.

It was very likely that they had discovered the entrance to their shelter!