"Damn it, that guy actually dared to shoot at us!"
The group that was warned glared angrily at Yang Yuan, but none of them dared to take a step forward, as they couldn't be certain of Yang Yuan's abilities.
Yang Yuan walked backward, letting Zhao Jiayan guide him while he kept his eyes on the group, not turning his back to them to avoid a sneak attack.
"This feeling of having a thorn in my side is really uncomfortable. My attack power is enough now, but my defense is too weak. It seems I must get my hands on some armor or an exoskeleton for protection once I return."
He thought to himself.
Does the military safe zone have such things?
In the distance behind the crowd, Liang Gao looked astonished at the shooter.
"It's him? He's really awakened? That's definitely not the power of an ordinary handgun!"
Liang Gao's eyes were filled with shock and a deeper sense of regret; why hadn't he insisted a little longer yesterday?
Suddenly, Yang Yuan glanced over, his expression changed, and he quickly lowered his head, turning to leave.
"Damn it, this glory should have been mine too, but now I feel guilty every time I see him."
He felt annoyed, growing more distressed the more he thought about it.
"Ah..."
Suddenly, something emerged from the underground like an earthbound creature, biting off his lower body.
"No! Help..." His expression drastically changed, wanting to cry for help but it was too late; he was dragged underground by that thing.
Soon, crimson blood emerged from the ground.
"Earth Crawler!"
"Everyone run, it's an Earth Crawler!"
All the ordinary people fled in panic, while the Superpower Users showed a look of vigilance.
"Liang Gao is dead..." Zhao Jiayan said in shock, but thinking about yesterday's betrayal, a sense of satisfaction arose within her.
Yang Yuan nodded mildly, not paying much attention.
Among the group warned by Yang Yuan, the three leaders glared at him, jointly stomping their feet in demonstration.
With a "boom," the ground exploded ten meters away from them, revealing a monster like a pangolin but with a muddy body, along with half a corpse.
Walking backward, Yang Yuan raised his hand and fired a shot.
"Bang!"
The Earth Crawler's body was blasted through, creating a bright hole, and a Spirit Monster Core was knocked out.
The faces of the three Superpower Users across him changed again.
"Whoosh!"
Suddenly, a Superpower User from the crowd picked up the Spirit Monster Core and ran.
"Damn, stop..."
"Wow, I have never seen someone so shameless, stop him!"
A group of observing Superpower Users hurriedly chased after, faces excited.
They were not Combat Superpower Users, and their awakening time wasn't long, a Spirit Monster Core was still very precious to them.
However, Yang Yuan and the three Superpower Users ignored this scene, just coldly watching each other.
Soon, Yang Yuan and his group disappeared from sight.
"Damn it, his ability is like an Armor-Piercing Bullet, others might think he's really using a handgun. If it was any other Superpower User, I'd have dealt with him!"
One of the Superpower Users snorted, spat on the ground, then glared at the distant crowd: "What are you looking at?"
"Hehe..."
The distant Superpower Users left one after another, not showing much awe toward that guy.
...
"Yang Yuan, you were so cool just now!"
After getting away from that group, Zhao Jiayan looked at Yang Yuan in amazement.
"Big brother was so cool just now!" Jiang Yiyi also chuckled.
Twenty meters away, Ling Zhi'an, helping to carry bird corpses, also showed admiration: "Bro, you're impressive, intimidating so many people alone."
"Thank you for your praise, Brother Ling." Yang Yuan smiled faintly, but secretly heaved a sigh of relief.
People die for wealth; in this environment, such a huge vicious bird corpse, even Superpower Users covet, without enough strength, it's impossible to guard.
He discreetly switched his pistol to his left hand, putting his numb right hand into his pocket, inwardly cursing, this recoil is way too much.
"After returning, I must get an exoskeleton... even a mechanical arm, otherwise, this growing recoil is too unbearable!"
Yang Yuan once again strengthened his resolve to get an exoskeleton.
Neither side spoke again, still guarding against each other, even while cooperating, lacking genuine trust.
On the way, they encountered quite a few people, but fortunately, although there were many greedy ones, truly fearless people were few; they returned smoothly to the safe zone.
However, the bird corpse was heavy; Ling Zhi'an's team had only him as a Superpower User, and he wasn't a strength-type Superpower User, thus they walked and paused, arriving at the safe zone by the afternoon.
The soldiers standing guard at the entrance merely raised an eyebrow seeing them bringing back such a big vicious bird but were not overly surprised.
"Hello, I'm here to pay the balance for the Safe House."
Yang Yuan greeted the soldiers at the gate of the safe zone.
The soldier remembered Yang Yuan, took out a walkie-talkie, and said a word.
Soon, a soldier came out to escort them: "Move it in."
"Move it directly in; you'll get your reward shortly." Yang Yuan said to Ling Zhi'an.
"Alright."
Ling Zhi'an promptly directed his subordinates to lift the black bird's corpse and follow.
The safe zone was still under construction, but had completely transformed since morning.
At this moment, the soldier from the morning was still at the entrance of a space vortex, moving items out, now this time, it was all kinds of large weapons.
Yang Yuan and others were wide-eyed.
"How strong is that person's space ability? It's been nearly a day, not done moving yet?" Zhao Jiayan was stunned.
Ling Zhi'an surprised: "That brother moved things all day? Did the military find some super-large space treasure in the Ancient Ruins?"
He showed envy, wishing that he had such a large space.
Yang Yuan felt envy too, if he had such a large space treasure, he wouldn't need to pay people to move things, just pack into space treasure and transport.
Although it seemed like the soldier from the morning said, that it's something like Space Carrier ability?
Space Carrier?
Yang Yuan quietly noted this ability.
Soon, the leading soldier took them to the prey dissection and processing room.
Here, specialized personnel was responsible for dissecting and appraising the value of the prey, as not only did Yang Yuan's group hunt, other Superpower User teams also hunted prey.
Especially, the safe zone itself would also organize teams to hunt.
"Your bird... meat counts as six pounds per ordinary Spirit Monster Core, totaling two hundred eighty pounds of meat, counted as forty-seven Spirit Monster Cores, feathers and bones counted as forty Spirit Monster Cores, altogether eighty-seven Spirit Monster Cores."
The logistics personnel responsible for value assessment told Yang Yuan and others: "Would you like Spirit Monster Cores or something else?"
Spirit Monster Cores were the current universal currency; when humanity first arrived in this world, one thousand pounds of ordinary Exotic Beast Meat could exchange for one Spirit Monster Core.
But now, with famine, food had become extremely precious, ten pounds or even nine pounds of ordinary Exotic Beast Meat could exchange for one Spirit Monster Core.
"Eighty-plus Spirit Monster Cores..."
Zhao Jiayan and Jiang Yiyi were excited.
Ling Zhi'an and others showed envy.
Yang Yuan looked at Ling Zhi'an.
"I'll take twenty pounds of this bird's meat." Ling Zhi'an said.