The exchange price of clean water increased several times, and the news immediately spread throughout the West End. When everyone heard the news, they were about to collapse.

It's a pity that no one has a way around this. Because the Yellow Steward said that this is caused by the deepening of the pollution of groundwater. Non-human can change.

All they can do now is collect as many parts or other valuable items as they can to exchange for precious water.

For a time, the waste pickers in the entire West District were all panicked.

In order to get enough water, the scavengers, who were normally normal, immediately turned into robbers, not only searching for valuable parts, but also robbing other weak scavengers in an attempt to get more parts from them.

In this way, the order of the entire West District quickly fell into chaos. And the strange thing is that Lord Huang Guan didn't care about this matter at all, and let everyone fall into a new round of madness.

As a result, in just a few days, hundreds of people fought for precious parts, and the result was either all dead or both lost.

Prices are skyrocketing and there is a lack of constraints.

It can be that the order of the entire Western District collapsed in a short period of time, and this collapse was not due to external forces, but to man-made.

And Lin Chen's side quickly felt the influence of this undercurrent!

Originally, there were nearly a hundred people following him, and these people could basically be regarded as Lin Chen's diehard faction.

But as the exchange price of drinking water continues to rise, the quality of life of his small collective has plummeted. Many waste pickers have to spend several times as much time frantically collecting parts to basically maintain the life of their families.

And such a high frequency of travel is inevitably accompanied by certain risks.

In just a few days, five or six people were robbed by other scavengers, and one even ventured deep into the depths of the Sea of Mist, where he was attacked by insects and beasts in foraging. But one arm has become food for insects and beasts, and has become a veritable one-armed man.

Seeing this situation, Lin Chen couldn't help frowning.

He didn't know why the Lord's Mansion suddenly raised the exchange price of drinking water, but what he knew was that if he couldn't think of any more solutions, it was estimated that this improvised small group would break up.

So in the past few days, Lin Chen has been looking for Bi Yuwei and several other old scavengers to understand the situation.

Due to the weakening of human civilization and the death of a large number of human beings, there is not one person who can know what happened before the end of the world.

Even if they survive, there are still many people who have not survived the invasion of the mist miasma and returned to the West early.

Bi Yuwei's father was once an outstanding aerospace engineer, but unfortunately died early due to the influence of miasma. If it weren't for the death of those experienced old people, humanity wouldn't be getting weaker and weaker.

However, now is not the time to regret it, Lin Chen learned from some elderly people that the problem of water pollution is not overnight, but a slow process.

According to these old scavengers, the surface water was drinkable at first, but as the miasma became thicker, the surface water became more and more polluted.

After about three years, the entire surface water was completely unusable. A large number of lakes and ponds are full of fish, and even the most vigorous aquatic plants are dead.

Surprisingly, however, after all life in the water had died, the reservoirs and Hubozhong became unusually clear, without any pollution. It seems that this highly toxic substance can purify water sources.

But no matter what kind of animal it is, as long as it drinks this highly poisonous water, it will die violently within a few minutes.

The only people who can drink these sources of water are insects and beasts.

It can be said that these spore trees have completely changed the environment of the earth, turning the entire global environment into a world that is more and more suitable for the growth of insects and beasts.

After surface water became undrinkable, humans turned to extracting groundwater. In the beginning, it took only a few meters to reach the surface to collect enough drinking water, but over time, the groundwater was also contaminated. This led to a brutal civil war between the remaining humans over clean groundwater.

And at what time, the entire SH was divided into four districts.

Two of the zones are resource areas with large groundwater extraction facilities, while the other two rely on arms processing to trade with those with water sources.

One of the two sides controls the water source and the other controls the arms, and neither of them can do without the other. This has led to the current situation of the entire city of SH.

And now the yellow steward has raised the exchange price of drinking water, which is simply life-threatening. It's a pity that no one dares to question the yellow steward, because the yellow steward's reasons are bright and bright. Almost everyone knows that groundwater pollution has been getting worse, and sooner or later, existing groundwater pumping facilities will not be able to draw enough water, and fewer people will survive than they do today.

After saying that, the old scavenger couldn't help but sigh.

His real name is no longer reliable, but everyone calls him Lao Zhao. It is said that before the end of the world, this old man was still a famous professor at a university, but no one knows exactly what the situation is. Lao Zhao didn't mean to preach either.

After all, it's the end of the world, and the academic background has no effect on the at all. The only thing that everyone can rely on is their own hands, and things like academic qualifications have long been thrown into the garbage heap and no one cares.

After understanding the situation, Lin Chen thought about it for a while and thought of a way.

That is, to manually dig a well out. Since the groundwater is drinkable, he will draw a scoop according to the gourd, and also draw a groundwater out, won't the problem be solved?

Thinking like this, Lin Chen immediately converted all the gold he had recently collected into gold points, and then put his mind into the detection skills.

As a second-level alchemist, Lin Chen's detection skill can cover all objects within a radius of about one hundred meters, and under normal circumstances, only one golden point is enough for each detection skill. Complex probes will continue to consume gold points.

But this time, Lin Chen was ready to play big.

He plans to follow the building where Bi Yuwei is located, with a radius of one kilometer, to explore the trend of groundwater.

Due to the complex underground conditions and the need to detect extremely deep positions, each detection needs to last for more than an hour to detect all the conditions within a radius of 100 meters.

And this was just the beginning, Lin Chen needed clean water, not already polluted water.

So once he finds groundwater, he needs to use his detection skills to conduct a more in-depth analysis of the composition of the groundwater.

Unfortunately, the results of each probe were not optimistic.

Through the Book of Truth, Lin Chen found that most of the water sources he found contained poison.

As the old man said, these spore miasma is gradually seeping into the ground, causing the underground world to gradually become dead silent. Whether it's insects or some underground plants, they're all dead.

Lin Chen probed for a long time and spent hundreds of gold points, just to understand the trend of underground groundwater.

Through the three-dimensional network like a 3D structural map, the underground conditions of the entire one-kilometer radius were clearly seen in Lin Chen's mind. But these map search results are frustrating!

"Damn, even fifty meters of groundwater is polluted, if this continues, everyone will die, is this world already doomed?"

Seeing this terrible situation, Lin Chen couldn't help but feel a little upset.

If even the most basic water source cannot be solved, the human race in this world will become extinct sooner or later. Even if Lin Chen was a genuine god, he couldn't solve this problem.

But what is it is puzzling is what these spore plants are and why they have such a serious impact on the entire earth's environment.

This is simply worse than the invasion of the demon army in hell.

Although the demon army claims to destroy everything, only human souls are really interested, and as for other animals and plants, these greedy and lazy demons have no interest in exterminating them!

"Damn, it would be nice if at this time, my own material transformation alchemy was still there. Not to mention the toxic water source, even the nuclear reactor can be turned into a pollution-free garden for you! ”

Just when Lin Chen was complaining, he suddenly discovered that there was something unusual in the groundwater!

It was clean groundwater. The feedback from the detection skills told him that this is a pollution-free mineral water with excellent water quality. Extracted, there is no need to filter, and it can be bottled directly as mineral water to drink!