Apocalypse Arrival - chapter 239

The magma-like scorching flame on the skin of the fifth-order Blunt Walker suddenly dimmed, and it let out a long mournful cry, crashing to the ground in the yellow sand and dense trajectory of the sky.

A figure covered with blue smoke rushed out of the thick smoke billowing from the ground, and the green glow in his hand flashed by.

“D*mn, she really succeeded. So many people are staring at the girl who won the fifth-order crystal core,” the man wearing a blindfold on the roof in the distance couldn’t help but mutter. These fighters living in Qingdun Town all knew that there was a fifth-order demon in the town. Several strong teams tried to encircle and suppress it. He himself was even blinded because of it, but no one had succeeded so far.

“So what? This is her strength. Whoever kills the demon, owns the core.” A middle-aged man with a beard beside him sneered, “Do you want to break the boss’s rules?”

“Don’t make a noise, they found us,” a woman with very short hair and scars on her face spoke coldly.

When the giant crashed to the ground, a huge golden-eye rose in the dust, looking at them from a distance.

The other party did not launch an attack hastily. The meaning was obvious. They found someone there and issued a warning.

“Interesting, let me say hello,” the one-eyed young man laughed and ran down the vertical wall from the roof.

He ran straight to Chu Qianxun and the others unabashedly, and after a certain safe distance, he raised his hand and greeted her, “Hey, hello, my name is Peng Zi. I am from Qingdun Base. You are from outside. I don’t know a strong team like you in Qingdun.” He pointed at a roof, “We all saw the battle just now, you were really amazing.”

Although Peng Zi was blind, he was still a witty and talkative man. He put away his weapon and shook hands with Chu Qianxun, “Welcome to Qingdun. Although our base is small, the base is full of demon hunters who are dedicated to hunting demons. On the contrary, it is much more comfortable than a large base like Demon Capital. You will like it here.”

Looking at the back of Chu Qianxun and her party going away, the woman with scars on her face said, “Did you find what’s their background?”

“They are from the north, but it doesn’t seem so, I guess they don’t want to tell us.”

Dahan Hu: “I heard from those kiln sisters that Shennai on the side of the Magic City is looking for trouble with a mercenary group recently, maybe…”

Peng Zi disdainfully interrupted, “I don’t care about Shennai. It’s annoying to watch them talk about religion. But so many people have been brainwashed.”

“Those sanctimonious hypocrites, so you just stay in Qingdun and don’t bother to move.”

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Because they missed the comfortable and prosperous years before the arrival of the demons, people called the most beautiful period – the golden age.

As they progressed all the way to the populous inland areas, the architectural model of the emerging bases along the way gradually began to deviate from the style of the golden age.

Qingdun Base in front of them was located on a steep slope. The towering walls were patched and stacked with all the waste that could be used to build the walls. There were iron sheets from buses, and the gates of the factories tower outward with the sharp limbs removed from the bodies of countless demons.

It was next to the once densely populated metropolis, with a large number of surrounding demons, which was equivalent to being set on the front line of the battlefield.

In the early days, the place was just a temporary resting place for the hunters of demons who were too late to rush back to the base. As several powerful ability holders lingered there for a long time, it gradually developed into a small, strong defensive base for hunting demons. The ability holders provided a safe shelter.

But because it was in a position close to many demons, it was obvious that the place was constantly impacted by demons. The vicinity of the gate was blackened by fire and smoke, and the remnants of the demons were still hanging.

Teams of warriors riding horses passed by Chu Qianxun and the others. They were dressed in hard and thick armor, wearing cool weapons, with solemn expressions, all covered in blood, and they had obviously just returned from the battlefield.

A knight jumped off his horse and rushed toward his wife who was watching at the gate of the city. The two hugged each other for a moment. He put his arms around his pregnant wife, and excitedly described the gains of the battle while walking toward the base.

People who had returned with loads were welcomed.

A thin woman stopped the team that had just returned, “He…what about him?” 

The woman’s face was pale. Her hands trembled, and she actually understood what had happened in her heart.

The leader of the team was holding an unmanned horse with only a backpack soaked in blood on the horse’s back.

The captain glanced at her, and silently passed the bloody relic.

Chu Qianxun and her group passed through the gate, and entered Qingdun Base where many powerful men gathered. Almost all those who walked up and down the streets were armored demons’ hunters. The traded goods at the market were also mainly weapons and armors. After a short walk, two people even went to ask whether Chu Qianxun’s weapons would be exchanged.

She walked toward the mercenary union in the base and inquired about a familiar name from Peng Zi, and wanted to confirm if it was the person she knew.

In a corner of the mercenary union hall of the base, the captains of several mercenary teams stood silently around a man sitting behind a square table.

Their boss was in a bad mood, and no one dared to talk to him at the moment.

The entire Qingdun Base had no so-called leader, only a mercenary union established by the man in front. No matter who wanted to hunt demons near Qingdun, they must abide by the rules of the union. If someone used despicable means to frame others and snatch the crystal core during the process of hunting demons, once they were found out, they would lose the qualification to stand on Qingdun forever.

The president of the union was very young, tough, and grumpy, but all the captains there obeyed him.