The settlement, no, it should be said that the rise of the small town of Tardek was only a matter of two years, and a major road ran from it to the south to Guò, which connected to the great gold rush to the west. The so-called gold panning ground is actually a widely distributed area of high-grade uranium mines, some of which are open pit mines, and most of which can be dug directly into the underground caverns. In an area of thousands of square kilometers, there are also some nuclear waste scattered and even finished fuel rods. In the old days, there used to be nuclear fuel depots and clandestine processing plants in this area, but they were completely overturned by ground-penetrating nuclear bombs, and large quantities of fuel and waste were scattered everywhere. Ecological disasters in the old era have become the norm in the new era, but those places that are polluted by waste materials have become raw materials that can be recycled after a long period of impregnation.

Two years ago, the name of the Great Gold Rush was the Land of Death, and the radiation intensity there could not be endured for long even by the strongest homeless, and only the homeless with an overdose of mutated tissue and nearing the end of their lives could move in that area, but the strong radiation would still shorten their already short lives.

Two years ago, the Crusaders of the Holy Radiance suddenly began to buy large quantities of all kinds of high-concentration nuclear fuel, nuclear waste, and even natural uranium ore, which turned the uninhabited place of death into the great gold rush of today. It was in this context that Tardek came into being. Soladin was initially the leader of a dozen armed mobs, but he had a keen sense of smell to see the huge business opportunities in the Land of the Dead, and he was very clever enough to cooperate with the Crusaders of the Radiance in a low profile like a dog, collect the nuclear materials of the Land of the Dead, organize people to transport them to the east, and finally sell them to the Crusaders of the Radiance in exchange for all kinds of supplies, food, and weapons, and then recruit more strong outcasts, form an army of his own, and wipe out the small armed mob that roamed around the Land of the Dead. Since then, it has monopolized the business of nuclear materials.

Over the course of two years, the wealth he had amassed allowed Taldek to build a fortress-like defense and a fully armed army of two hundred men. The self-proclaimed Soladin also proclaimed himself "mayor": his lofty ambitions can be seen from this title, and Tardek is barely a town with more than 1,000 people, and there is still a clear gap in wanting to become a city.

The acquisition station of the Holy Radiance Crusaders was two hundred kilometers away. Obviously, the Holy Cross was very satisfied with the agent Soladin, otherwise there would be no Tardek appearing. While they don't lack large mining machinery, heavy-duty trucks for transport, and people who can withstand the intense radiation, no one would use these heavy machinery vehicles in the Great Gold Rush when there are a large number of displaced people at their disposal. There are not many capable people, and it is impossible to use them as labor.

Heavy machinery requires energy, diesel or electricity is expensive, and a generation of displaced people who can give birth in a few years is simply worthless.

After spending half a day in Tardekri, Sue figured out the background. Rather than being taboo and rejecting outsiders, Tardeck is quite welcoming and offers services that are not available in the wilderness. Food, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, women and men, you can have whatever you want. It's open, rugged, and unabashedly adored with violence and money, almost indistinguishable from the cowboy-infested towns of the old West.

Every day, large numbers of displaced people flock to Tardek to trade their lives in exchange for radioactive material at designated purchase stations in exchange for a rectangular piece of steel. This is the currency of Taldeck, although it can only be circulated in Taldeck and the surrounding area.

The value of the currency has been stable over the past two years, not because Soladin has much understanding of the word 'inflation', which is dying out altogether, but simply because the currency itself is not easy to make. In the absence of machinery, it is clearly more difficult to press steel sheets than to obtain food. Anyway, except for those pure-blooded humans, most people in this era can eat almost anything, as long as it's organic.

After exchanging money, many people choose to eat and drink, and those who are lucky enough to find fuel rods and some money to spare will even go to a real woman. Eventually, they will keep all the qiē they earn in Taldeck.

Sue sat in one of the largest restaurants and hotels in Tardek, silently shuttling through the crowd outside the door. On the scale of Tardek, the number of people moving around the town has exceeded its capacity. Among the people who walked outside the door, there was no shortage of homeless people wrapped in rags and embellished with large piles of pink mutants. No one in Tardek discriminates against homeless people, at least not those who want to do business. The more mutated tissues you have, the more money you have. No one is going to get along with money.

None of the homeless people who work in the Great Gold Rush know how long they will live, so they never hesitate to spend money.

Many of the displaced people Su saw were normal people who didn't have much mutation, and many of them hurried to the nuclear waste purchase point to trade the large pieces of waste in their backpacks. This is a bit different from Sue's idea, because it is difficult for ordinary people to enter the Great Gold Rush Field. Without enough mutated tissue to absorb the radiation, they can't survive even a day in the Great Gold Rush. But it's strange to see them swap out nuclear waste for money. You must know that Soladin spares no effort to crack down on any armed group that plunders the harvest of the homeless, and even any armed mob of more than five people, as long as he gets the news, will send guards armed to the teeth to wipe it out.

In Soladin's words, it is enough to have me as a villain in this land.

Whatever Soladin's intentions, it was at least a boon to the outcasts who had mutated the Order. It was precisely because of this that Su was surprised that so many ordinary homeless people were selling nuclear waste.

He spoke his question to Medirri, who was sitting at the same table, and did not deliberately keep his voice down. The girl was also a little puzzled by this, and then the strong man on the table next to her sneered and said, "What's so difficult to understand then." Soladin only exterminates the armed mob, and does not care about other people's household affairs. Those you are talking about are all parasites, they all control a few people who can enter the Great Gold Rush Field, let those people go to the Great Gold Rush to work hard, and if they find something, they will all belong to them. Those displaced people have something to do with parasites to a greater or lesser extent, such as women, children, or parents and elderly people who are dying. Soladin wouldn't care about such a trivial matter. ”

"Kid?" Hearing the strong man's interjection, Medirli was also a little surprised.

"Yes, if a child is born with a mutated organization, he won't live long anyway, so he might as well throw it into the big gold panning, maybe he can pick it up before he dies." The strong man said expressionlessly.

Wanderers in the wilderness may have children as early as 8 years old, and after the age of 1 they can run very quickly.

"Damn these parasites!" Sylvanas replied angrily. Since following Sue, he has not been exposed to much of the outside world. With Su's life-protecting character, the Western Regions of the Great Lakes under his control already pay great attention to the care of the weak, and this kind of parasite rarely appears, at least not publicly.

"Damn it?" The strong man laughed out loud, and after laughing wildly for a while, he put away his laughter, stared at Sylvanas's snow-white hands exposed outside, and then said: "Little girl, there are many damned people in this world, but not all of them are alive and well?" What can it be? A little guy like you, but there are a lot of people who want to rip off your clothes and get comfortable! Damn these guys, and so should almost everyone sitting here. But what can you do? Don't be naïve, chick! ”

After the third metamorphosis, Medirri's beauty remained, but it became much more restrained. Many times people tend to subconsciously ignore her existence and only think of her as an ordinary clean girl. As Sylvanas's abilities improved, his sense of existence became stronger and stronger, often completely obscuring Medirri's light and beauty, even if he was covered in a black robe, which made him the focus of attention.

"I'm not a ...... woman," Sylvanas was already angry, and the shrill but melodious roar was even more noticeable, and almost the entire restaurant turned their heads to look at it.

Although Sylvanas was wrapped in a black robe, it accentuated the exposed hands. Seeing the young man's hands, the men around him not only had burning eyes, but also breathed a lot heavier.

"Shut up!" Su said with a frown.

His words made Sylvanas swallow back half of the sentence that erupted later. After drinking Sylvanas, who was close to the brink of an outburst, Su glanced at the strong man and said flatly, "If you can't control your tongue, I don't mind cutting off your head for you." ”

The shame and anger made the strong man's face immediately turn purple, and his breathing stopped! Before he could have a seizure, Su had turned his head and glanced at everyone in the restaurant, and still said lightly: "You are the same, if you don't want to die, take care of yourself." ”

The cafeteria was packed with people, at least a dozen heavily armed guys, and the rest were not good either. In this era, the race of goodness has long since died. Su put down a word, and the surrounding area suddenly became deadly silent, and the oppressive atmosphere made the entire hall a lot darker!

With a click, someone pulled the bolt.

It was a large-caliber double-barreled pistol, with a thick barrel and a unique mechanical structure that showed that it was a large shotgun loaded with shotgun shotguns, and it was incredibly powerful in tight spaces and close-quarters combat. The hand holding the gun is rough, wide, and steady, and the thick green tendons jumping on the back of the hand indicate that the owner is in a state of extreme anger, and may raise the gun at any moment and pull the trigger. But a somewhat thin hand reached out next to him and pressed down on the double-shot pistol.

"Don't be impulsive! They are all clean people. ”

Holding down the gun was a middle-aged man of some age, covered in wind and frost, with several faint scars on his face. His snake-like eyes were narrow and cold, and his gaze circled around Sue, Medirri, and Sylvanas, then retracted and shook his head at the black ** man who was about to shoot.

"Clean people?!" When the ** in the restaurant heard this, the atmosphere immediately changed subtly. In Tardek and the Wilderness, the Clean Man has a special meaning, referring to pure-blooded humans. Only powerful organizations or families have the resources and medical conditions to remove mutated tissues and maintain the purity of human blood. Here, most pure-bloods have another identity, that is, an important figure of the Holy Radiance Crusade.

Taldeck was founded by the Radiant Crusade, and Mayor Soladin openly regarded himself as a loyal dog of the Radiant Cross. To the people around the Great Gold Rush, Soladin was a vicious dog. In any case, if these three clean people were really from the Holy Radiance Crusaders, then there were really not enough people in the restaurant to kill. Offending Shenghui Cross is equivalent to ruining a way to survive in the Great Gold Rush Field.

After a few words, Sue was concentrating on the food on the table, not looking around again, as if he didn't know the anger of the people around him, and that most of them had more than one gun.

The silence didn't last long, the restaurant calmed down, the anger quickly subsided, and many chose to silently check out and leave.

There are many people, and this sentence is no longer applicable in the new era. Guns are reliable partners, but they are not omnipotent. What a few clean people who don't carry guns at all means, people with a little insight know it very well in their hearts. In this bloody era where a disagreement can lead to the possibility of pulling out a gun and blowing up the opponent's head, arrogance and provocation must be prepared to pay the price. Those who survive are smart people who know the benefits of being alive, and those who act faster than they think are almost dead.

After cleaning up the last scraps of meat on the plate, Sue led the boy and girl to the bar. Behind the bar was a middle-aged man, with a neatly trimmed mustache, and he had been doing his job all the time during the conflict, as if he had no curiosity at all. Seeing Sue coming over after finishing his meal, he handed over a small bag full of steel sheets, then made a gesture to follow me and walked to the second floor. Above the second floor is the hotel, where Sue booked a room. What was used to pay for the room and converted into money was a full three cubic meters of cut whale meat, which was much stronger than the Tardeck steel.

The room is very simplely furnished, with two beds, a single sofa, and a table. However, the bed in the room is very clean, which is quite rare. In the wilderness, these high-end inns are reserved for the real big or the wealthy, most of whom sleep out or share a room with a dozen people in a shack that is so shabby that they can only keep out the wind and rain.

Upon entering the room, Sue buried her body in the couch, half-closed her eyes, retrieved the map from the permanent memory area, and began to think about her future actions. He didn't expect that there would be a Tardek here, and that it would be so prosperous. And not far away there is a stronghold of the Holy Radiance Crusade. Medirri stood in front of the window, thinking about something. She is calm on the surface, but if you look at her for a long time, you will feel a slight dizziness, and the dizziness will become more and more intense. She seemed to be stationary, but in fact, her whole person was vibrating slightly at an extremely high frequency. This is her unique training method, which is a sword pose before her ability reaches the fourth order, and after reaching the fifth order, it is changed to a slight shock. After holding the slight oscillation for five hours, she will gain a full evolution point.

Micro-amplitude oscillation can not only temper ability, but also be a ferocious means of both offense and defense in strength. After attaching a slight high-frequency shock, the wound of a person who is cut by the blade of Medirri's heavy sword will no longer be a cutting wound, but a terrifying burst wound. As for defense, if you are hit, then the instantaneous shock can make it difficult for the enemy to exert force, so that the full effect of the attack cannot be exerted.

Sylvanas occupied the large bed alone and slept deeply. His ability had just been promoted, and he had been repeatedly exercising by overdrawing the energy in his body along the way, and now it was time to relax and rest, and he finally couldn't hold on. It's also time for his body to repair and adapt to his new abilities.

Sue, on the other hand, is seriously considering the possibility of a war with the Holy Radiance Crusaders.

Having evolved to the level of him and Medirri, it would take a lot of evolution points to go further. Su himself had the possibility of advancing to the tenth order, Medirli had the potential of the tenth order before the transformation, and the potential was obviously further after completing the third complete transformation. How terrifying the eleventh-order ability is, Su has no concept at all. While riding the dragoon, he only had access to a limited amount of Rank 9 ability information. But how many resources it will take to qualify again, he knows very well.

Subconsciously, Su once again activated the ability of fault detection. In his perception, the world blurred again, like several very similar images superimposed on top of each other. In addition to the earliest discovered shadow faults, there are now several new layers of shadows. However, the newly discovered faults are very unstable, coming and going, and some even occur only once. And the new faults are not continuous, and in some places they are not covered. Su knew that her perception was improving, and being able to see more broken faults was proof of that. However, the tomography detection is not so simple, in the perception again and again, Su felt as if he had touched something hiding behind the whole world, and strangely, it seemed to be alive.

In Su's perception, some microscopic energy is constantly escaping from space. Medirri's high-frequency micro-oscillations were resonating in space, and several shadow faults appeared and disappeared around her, and each time the fault opened, some energy would be spewed out, a little of which could be absorbed by Medirri, and most of it was scattered in this world. The sleeping Sylvanas was also absorbing energy, but much less than Medirri. Some of the dissipating energy drifted to Su's vicinity, and he tried to absorb it, but to no avail. Even if he reached out and touched those few wisps of energy, they were just broken and scattered, and they couldn't absorb them at all. If it weren't for the ability to activate fault perception, Su didn't know that he had touched the energy filament. These energies were too faint and too subtle, and if it weren't for seeing Medirri and Sylvanas indeed absorbing, Sue wouldn't know that this could also be used. Could this be the true source of evolutionary points?

The most traditional and effective way to obtain evolution points and obtain energy to transform the body is still to fight and eat, which requires the support of a lot of resources.

After thinking about it for a long time, Su finally decided to take down the strongholds of Tardek and the Holy Radiance Crusaders, and start a war with the Holy Radiance Crusaders to plunder the resources they occupy, and cooperation was impossible. And there are apostles who can track and detect in the fault space, and evasion is not a way. Even if he fled south to another continent, he would be found by the apostles sooner or later. Winning Pandora once is not the same as defeating the apostles. Sue believes that while he and Medirli are making rapid progress, no one else will do nothing.

Strength, power is the devil, power is a qiē!

The mysterious and unpredictable apostle gave Sue a very mixed feeling, ranging from deep fear to unspeakable excitement, and even ...... There is also a deep desire.

The question is, is it really a good idea to go after the Radiant Crusaders? I remember that a long time ago, Su once carried out an assassination mission, and the intriguing words that the target said before he died sounded in his ears at this time: "Go to the north, go to the Holy Radiance Crusade, there is the answer you need." ”

It's been a long time......

Sue opened her eyes and sighed softly. However, at this moment, something seemed to flash in his sight!

It was like a shock in the dark night, and the flash of light made Su's thinking pause! In an instant, almost every cell in his body stopped moving, and the blood flow was stagnant!

"What's wrong with you?!" Medirri noticed Sue's abnormality for the first time, stopped the slight shock of her body, and looked at Sue with concern.

"It's okay......" Su raised his hand and stopped the girl's inquiry, then took a deep breath, closed his eyes again, and began to read the memories he had just received bit by bit.

All the scenes that the line of sight has just swept are reconstructed and then moved little by little, as if in slow motion. Sue discarded all her emotions and began to search for all the details in the frame. Finally, after much confirmation, he found what he had just seen.

It was a plastic bucket in the corner, about 30 centimeters in diameter, with the top half cut off. Except for the barrel wall thickness of up to 2 cm, there is nothing out of the ordinary. It was meant to be used as a trash can in the room. The bin is sturdy and clean, by the standards of the wilderness, of course. After a long period of washing, the original pattern on the barrel has long since faded. It's just that near the bottom of the barrel, you can see that there is a string of more than a dozen digit numbers, which are also worn out so badly that I can only barely make out a few of them.

The plastic bucket is actually very special, the material is extremely hard, and it can resist all kinds of high temperature and strong acid erosion, and it is translucent, so you can roughly see what is inside, but it will not be affected by the light. Numeric numbers are actually very common and have no meaning in themselves. But when combined, it means very different to Su.

A picture suddenly appeared in Sue's consciousness.

It was a turquoise world, and everything he saw was a little vague and turbulent. He understood that it was because of the result of seeing it out of the water. He could see, he was conscious, but he couldn't move, as if his body wasn't his own at all, only a lone consciousness floating in the water.

In front of him, there were two old men in white robes, looking at Wen Jiàn in his hand, pointing at him, and talking about something. Though separated by an invisible and strong barrier, he could 'hear' the two men. But strangely, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't understand what they were saying. It was a language he had never heard before.

At this moment, another person in the same costume hurried past behind the two old men. He cautiously held a round container, which could be seen through the walls of the barrel to contain most of the blood-red viscous liquid. The lower edge of the barrel is stamped with a row of numeric numbers.

In an instant, half of the trash can in the room coincided with the container that the man was holding carefully, and the missing figures had found their place!

At this moment, a thunderous roar shattered the picture, and Su also woke up from the depths of consciousness. He finally knew that it was not just an illusory dream, and that it was not just an illusory dream. C