Qin Feng sprinted through the mountain range.
As expected!
Acting alone, he was much faster.
With a physique twelve times that of an ordinary person, his speed and endurance far surpassed those of other team members.
See?
In less than an hour, he had covered twenty kilometers in the difficult terrain of the mountains.
Today, he wasn't just expanding his base to recruit ordinary members.
He had another important objective.
For example, Wang Shouli.
Qin Feng had never heard of him in his previous life, nor did he know his potential.
He was only actively trying to recruit him now because his healing skill was valuable at this stage.
But!
He hadn't considered him a core member yet.
Who knew what he would be like after level 5?
Level 5 was a watershed moment.
However, some individuals, in Qin Feng's memory from his previous life, had later grown into top-tier powerhouses.
These people.
Were the true core of the team!
There was a master in the place he was going today.
His name was He Dong.
In his previous life, He Dong was one of the strongest defenders Qin Feng knew, commonly known as a tank.
It was a pity!
In his previous life, He Dong was extremely reclusive.
He kept to himself and didn't interact with outsiders.
He didn't expand his territory, nor did he accept recruitment from others.
He stubbornly defended his small base, only to be completely annihilated by monsters due to a lack of manpower.
...
Ten miles away.
A large team was advancing through the forest.
Over a hundred people in total.
A burly man led the way.
It was early winter.
He wore a thin, single-layered garment, revealing his bulging muscles. His body was covered in dark blue tattoos.
"Brother Long! There's an air-raid shelter ahead!" a subordinate said, holding a pair of binoculars.
"An air-raid shelter?"
Shi Tianlong's eyes lit up.
Before, he was a gang leader, known in the underworld as Master Long.
After the nuclear explosion.
He led his subordinates away from Shangjing.
First, they temporarily settled in a small village on the outskirts of Shangjing.
Then, the cold wave hit.
Relying on his more than a hundred men, and with most of the village's young adults working elsewhere, he forcibly occupied the village.
Burning firewood.
Heating their rooms.
They managed to survive the ten-day cold wave.
But!
The elderly and children he had driven out had almost all frozen to death outside.
Then, the zombie outbreak occurred.
He accidentally discovered the secret of crystals and became one of the first native residents of the post-apocalyptic Star Plain to gain superpowers.
With superpowers and a group of loyal followers.
He hunted many zombies.
His strength grew continuously.
Until...
The zombies evolved!
Level 2 zombies were too strong. He no longer dared to stay in the village, fearing discovery by more zombies.
So, he led his men into the mountains, searching for a place to settle.
"Someone's here!"
A subordinate went ahead to scout.
From a distance, he saw that the entrance of the air-raid shelter had been newly walled up with stones.
The wall was over a meter high.
Someone peeked out from inside, and the subordinate immediately spotted him.
Soon.
The large group of over a hundred people appeared at the entrance of the air-raid shelter.
"Who's inside? Come out!" Shi Tianlong shouted.
Behind the wall, one person peeked out...
Two...
A group of people.
The one in the lead was a middle-sized man with a kind face. "Big Brother, my name is He Dong, and I am..."
"I want this place!" Shi Tianlong roared.
"You..."
He Dong was stunned.
What kind of person was this?
So overbearing!
Before the nuclear explosion, he was leading a construction team in the suburbs, working on a housing project.
Because it was far from the city center.
The nuclear blast hadn't caused too much damage, and the casualties weren't too high.
Knowing that the city center was a definite no-go zone after the nuclear explosion, he led his workers into the mountains.
They had been living here for over half a month.
What right did he have to just claim it?
"On what grounds?!"
A young man jumped out, pointing at Shi Tianlong and yelling, "We've been living here for almost a month, and you show up and tell us to leave?"
"Where are we supposed to go? Wait outside to die?!"
*Whoosh!*
Two sharp wooden spikes, each a meter long, appeared out of thin air.
The young man had no time to react.
The wooden spikes instantly pierced his body.
One of the spikes had already gone through his heart.
The young man didn't even have time to scream. He collapsed and coughed up blood.
"On what grounds? On this!"
Shi Tianlong's face contorted.
"Zhu Zi... Zhu Zi!" He Dong rushed to hold the young man.
He was a construction foreman.
But, by no means a bad boss.
These workers were brought from his village.
Most people in his small village shared the same surname and were related in some way.
"Uncle... Save me..." the young man weakly said.
After uttering three words.
He closed his eyes and died on the spot.
"Who else?!"
Shi Tianlong didn't seem to care about killing someone.
He liked the apocalypse.
Before the nuclear explosion, the world had laws, and the government was cracking down heavily. People like him, involved in criminal activities, had to be cautious, always fearing discovery by the police.
Now, it was different!
The entire world had collapsed.
There were no restraints.
No laws.
Those with strength could do whatever they pleased.
This allowed his true nature to be fully unleashed, making him reckless and unrestrained.
"You... You..."
He Dong was both shocked and enraged.
He didn't yet know about the secret of crystals and superpowers. Shi Tianlong's control over the wooden spikes filled him with dread.
"I... I'm willing to leave. Don't kill me!" Most people immediately surrendered.
"That's more like it."
Shi Tianlong squinted, watching as person after person emerged from the air-raid shelter.
"Zhu Zi, Uncle will take you."
He Dong, unmindful of the bloodstains, carried the dead Zhu Zi on his back.
He didn't dare to be confrontational.
He didn't dare to challenge the other party.
The opponent possessed heaven-defying abilities. To resist would only result in... more deaths!
He didn't want to see anyone else die.
Suddenly!
As everyone filed out of the air-raid shelter, Shi Tianlong's eyes lit up.
Women!
At first, he had only seen men.
In fact, there were women.
The female dependents had stayed inside and hadn't shown themselves.
Among them was a young girl...
Clearly not yet an adult.
Only thirteen or fourteen years old, yet she was beautiful, like a porcelain doll.
"You! You! And you!"
Shi Tianlong pointed at woman after woman.
He specifically chose the young and good-looking ones: "You will stay. The rest of you can leave."
"No!"
Suddenly!
He Dong cried out in alarm. Still carrying Zhu Zi's corpse, he shielded the young girl behind him. "Big Brother! No... she's still a child!"
His wife had died in the nuclear explosion.
This was his daughter.
And his only known relative!
"Don't you dare touch my wife!"
"Are you even human?!"
Several young men exploded in rage.
Besides He Dong's daughter, three other women had been chosen.
They were either their wives.
Or their girlfriends.
"You dare insult me?!"
Shi Tianlong's face turned cold, already harboring murderous intent.
However.
The next moment, he suddenly smiled. "You don't want me to touch them? I'll touch them right in front of you!"
"I'll fight you!"
He Dong suddenly charged forward.
*Bang!*
Shi Tianlong kicked him.
Although not a physical ability user, as a gang leader, he had fought his way up with his fists.
Moreover, other types of superpowers also enhanced physical attributes.
He Dong was no match.
As soon as he was kicked back two meters, Shi Tianlong lunged for his daughter.
"No... Dad! Save me..." The little girl retreated in terror.
But her sleeve was still grabbed.
With a tearing sound.
A section of her sleeve was ripped off, revealing her soft arm.
Seeing the tender skin, Shi Tianlong became even more excited. "I'll have fun doing it in front of your dad!"
"Beast! You animal!"
He Dong charged forward again.