More than 200 years ago, an unprecedented catastrophe and human civilization unexpectedly encountered, a fragmented star belt with a diameter of more than hundreds of thousands of kilometers overlapped in the Earth's orbit, and on that day, more than 90% of the earth's surface was affected by meteorites falling from the sky, and the cradle of life was severely damaged overnight.

After the natural disaster, human civilization and order no longer existed, evolved animals and mutated plants occupied almost the entire surface, the wilderness became a paradise for animals and plants, and the once global hegemon was once reduced to an extremely vulnerable group.

In the face of a dangerous living environment, in order to survive, the survivors had to huddle together to keep warm and resist the existential crisis, and the settlement was formed.

After living in groups, the pressure of survival is greatly reduced, but after the lack of civilization and the collapse of order, the inferior roots of human nature are amplified unlimitedly, and contradictions continue to arise between settlements in order to compete for territory and survival resources, and then they fight, and human life is as cheap as grass mustard, and the dark age of human beings has also begun.

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Life has evolved from the Cambrian period to the present, and it has taken about four or five billion years to have colorful life forms, but after the door of evolution was opened, in just about two hundred years, the evolution of all animals and plants in the world has greatly exceeded the range of human estimation, and the wilderness has become dangerous.

After the paralysis of communication and transportation, the difficulty of repair was comparable to ascending to the sky, losing contact, and the human settlement irreversibly developed towards the city-state system.

For more than 200 years, in order to resist the threat from the wilderness, the major settlements have either built artificial walls or built moats by virtue of the topography to isolate the danger from the high walls and moats.

The materials, equipment, weapons, etc., excavated from the underground, provide an effective guarantee for human beings to protect their own living place, and the high walls look like a civilized world.

In this chaotic era where there is no order and no humanity, these people living at the bottom of the settlement have no food to eat, and there is no guarantee of safety, and from time to time they have to suffer from the bullying and oppression of some people within the high walls, and their lives have no future at all.

In the eyes of civilized people within the walls, they are synonymous with dirt, greed, disease and barbarism, the root of this troubled world.

But the irony is that their seemingly civilized life is inseparable from this group of untouchables whom they consider dirty, and all the dirty work inside the high walls, from daily production to poking sewers and digging toilets, is inseparable from these poor people, without them, the operation within the high walls is impossible to talk about.

Along the outskirts of the slums, there is land reclaimed by settlements, but because of the threat from the wilderness, the area of land that can be cultivated is extremely limited, and the food grown is always more wolf and less meat.

Therefore, the rulers of the settlements set their sights on the wilderness, each of which had its own hunting and gathering teams, and these people had weapons and equipment left over from previous civilizations, cars, transports, etc., and they could go deeper into the wilderness, and the harvest was always good.

In today's wilderness, the gifts of nature are not scarce, as long as you are brave enough and lucky enough, it is not difficult to get food, but luck is a little unreliable, and no normal person will give his life to luck.

The hunting party of the settlement was able to travel through the wilderness because they had weapons, cars, and even armored vehicles......

But there are always some hungry guys with green eyes who can't help but try their luck in the wilderness, and then there are some lucky ones who are full of harvest, and then they give birth to a new profession in this troubled world...... Hunter.

Settlements are not opposed to the poor going in and out of the wilderness and acting as hunters, and even as long as you have something valuable, you can go to the material department set up in the slum within the high walls to exchange for weapons and ammunition, of course, it is also possible to buy it with money, and now the settlement alliance has jointly issued money, the purpose is to facilitate the circulation of materials.

But most of the poor people, in order to fill their stomachs, have exhausted their flood power, and can only barely make ends meet by daily toil, and there is still spare money to save there......

Of course, more than 200 years have passed, and there are not a few human beings who have evolved, but almost none of those who have evolved continue to live in the eyes of the public, and they have all disappeared without exception.

In short, evolution is still a very taboo thing for ordinary people, because in the slums, the eyes of those private soldiers are always staring at those poor people who are hungry, and they often hear them talking in private, and those hungry guys with green eyes are the most likely to show signs of evolution......

Time is the best healing agent, the extinction of human civilization more than 200 years ago, now few people mention, people can only feel from some meteorites destroyed buildings, or the ruins of cities covered by plants, the original natural disaster brought devastating trauma to human civilization.

Now, many of the small teams that came together to survive have the rudiments of civilization, and order is also breeding, of course, this kind of civilization and order is just the initial and simplest state, just to meet the means of a very small number of people to control others, and there is still a long way to go before the real civilization is restarted and the order is rebuilt.

After the collapse of order, primitive desires swelled infinitely, the inferior roots were endlessly amplified, and the moral restraint was lost, and human beings became more ferocious and savage than wild beasts.

Some people say that due to the characteristics of human beings, one day, civilization will eventually be restarted, order will be rebuilt, and the shackles of civilization will once again cover up the ugly and inferior roots.

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"Roar...... Isn't this Lao Lu, why is it a vole today, a vole...... I can only give you five dollars a catty, because the Sixth Hunting Team has just returned from the wilderness, and they have captured a cartload of voles, and it will be cheaper if the demand is less! ”

In the evening, at an acquisition point in Settlement 367, a soldier in charge of buying the harvest of the hunt said mockingly.

The person called Lao Lu wore a hood on his head, covering half of his face, and he couldn't see his true appearance, but his figure looked a little thin.

No way, in the slums, most of the poor people have the same body as hemp rods because they don't have enough food sources, and occasionally meet a fat, hungry and swollen body or some big person within the high walls.

Lao Lu's figure is good, he has the ability to make a living in the wilderness, although his life is hard, he will not starve.

The identity of Lao Lu is somewhat mysterious, he suddenly appeared in the slum of Settlement 367 a few years ago, and has been living by hunting all the time, and no one in the entire slum knows the details of Lao Lu.

The slums of troubled times are like this, most people have done their best to survive, and they still have the heart to care about other people's affairs.

"Hmmm......"

Lao Lu snorted from his nose and put the vole weighing more than ten catties in his hand on the scale of the acquisition point.

A vole weighed fifteen pounds, and the soldier threw Lao Lu a handful of change: "I said Lao Lu, you are an old hunter, take advantage of your youth, get more wild boars and elk and other large prey, leave a way back for yourself, you can't run in the future, and you can have a little spare money to support the elderly......"

"Hehe, in the slums, I haven't seen a guy who really dies, now in this troubled world, just live today, what the sun will look like tomorrow, who knows!"

Lao Lu responded as if he was self-deprecating while counting the money.

"Hehe, Lao Lu, don't be so pessimistic, although life is hard, don't you continue to live, instead of living pessimistically, it is better to look down on everything and live happily in the moment!"

Another soldier in charge of bookkeeping looked up at Lao Lu: "Lao Lu, you are different from others, if you hunt, you don't need to cost at all, you look at other hunters, and you have to supply weapons and ammunition, just the consumption of ammunition will take up half of their hunting rewards!" ”

The soldier's words are right, Lao Lu hunts with a homemade longbow, arrows don't need to be bought at all, there are many tall bamboos in the wilderness, and making traps is also his specialty, and voles are captured by the traps he sets.

Ignoring the ridicule of the soldiers, Lao Lu carried his bow and arrows on his back and turned around and walked in the direction of the 'Veteran's Tavern' in the slums.

The people who can open taverns in the slums have more or less connections within the high walls, otherwise the luxury of wine is not available to the poor.

Of course, most of the people who can afford to drink are doing business and opening shops in the slums, and the special group of hunters is the only group of people who can afford to drink as poor.

Every night, Lao Lu would go to the 'Veteran's Tavern' to have a few drinks, and the burning sensation and drunkenness brought by the inferior soju could make this hunter who had been devastated by the troubled times forget his unbearable human nature for a while, and in the haze of drunkenness, there would be no more ridicule in the world.

"The old rule, a pot of wine, a plate of beans and rice, and half a catty of steamed buns after drinking!"

After entering the door, Lao Lu sat down at the window where he often sits, and said to the guys in the store.

"Okay, Uncle Lu, wait a minute!"

Beans and rice are obtained after soybeans are fried in sand, and the tavern does not charge money, which is considered a business method of the tavern owner.

After drinking and eating, Lao Lu walked out of the tavern slightly drunk and walked towards his home.

The slums were darkened at night, unlike the lights in the walls, and the poor who had worked all day fell asleep early, recuperating for the next day's travel, and who had exhausted all their energy to fill their stomachs.

As soon as Lao Lu walked into the mouth of an alley, his body was pushed away by a strong force, and a black shadow rushed past him and hurriedly ran farther away.

The slightly drunk Lao Lu was pushed away, frowning and looking behind him, because someone was chasing him.

"Catch up, that woman must be out of the high wall, a woman with fine skin and tender flesh, it's rare in the slums, a few brothers are so refreshing tonight......"

"Boss, will there be a problem, after all, she is the one inside the high walls?"

"Hmph, the black light is blind, after you finish dealing with it, the ghost will know who did it, don't hesitate, she will run away in a moment!"

Hearing this, Lao Lu leaned sideways against the corner of the wall, and waited for these people to run over before he walked out again.

"Hey...... Another miserable woman! ”

Just when Lao Lu sighed, the previous figure ran from the alley on the other side, and after hearing Lao Lu's muttering, she paused and rushed to Lao Lu, and after stuffing him with a package, she said, "Save him!" ”

Lao Lu was stunned, and the woman turned around and ran into the dark night......

"Bah...... Yikes...... Babble! ”

Suddenly, the package in his arms twisted, and there was a baby's babbling sound, Lao Lu looked down, and a seven or eight year-old baby's head poked out of the package, and its two eyes were like shining stars in the night.

"Nima's ...... An old bachelor, you just stuff me with a child, can I feed ...... him? ”