The wilderness in the evening is not much different from the late night, and the only way people living on the upper streets can tell the time is the train whistle that carries the miners to and from the time every day.

The shrill sound of a train whistle can be heard at the edge of the city. The people who roamed the wilderness around Suyang walked back blankly like ant colonies, most of them with hollow eyes, their radiation-devastated bodies dripping pus with each movement, and occasionally someone fell with their legs and could not get up again. The rest of the people would go in another direction and continue to walk towards Su Yangcheng, while those who still had the energy would squat down and try to see if they could touch something valuable from these people.

In the first few years of the Starfall Age, in the face of this kind of thing, there would be people who would try to help them up and walk back to the settlement. But thirty years later, when these tragedies have become commonplace and become a daily occurrence, no one wants to do them anymore.

"Life is truly a great being, it can be very humble or extremely noble, and it will do anything to perpetuate. Are you right, teacher? ”

In the barren field, a gust of wind and sand obscured people's vision. Two figures, one tall and one short, slowly emerged in the wind and sand. A middle-aged man's voice sounded in the wind and sand, but it was drowned out by the wind and no one heard it.

Another old voice sounded, without a trace of emotion: "Yes or no, to put it mildly, in fact, it is just natural selection, survival of the fittest, whether it is these scavengers at the bottom of the wilderness, or a few desolate people who show off their power in Suyang City where you stay, or me who left the sky dome and those big people who still stay in the sky dome and don't want to come out, it is the same." It's just that natural selection is not chosen, so no matter how competitive it is, it's just a joke. ”

The tall figure bowed slightly, "The student has been taught." ”

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The ringtone of the alarm clock is so harsh at any time, Feng Xia closed his eyes and groped around the bedside table with one hand for a while before finally locking on to the target, after pressing the button, he angrily threw this thing on the wall, yawned a long time, opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling, only to feel sore.

My sister's advice last night was right, but I was still too anxious. The sequelae of forcibly unlocking the genetic lock with a drug finally manifested itself overnight. Now I just want to lie on the bed and stay motionless, even if I snap my fingers, it will cause a pain in my body. But fortunately, after experiencing the severe pain of transforming the body, this little pain is still within my own tolerance.

In fact, the danger of that night was far more terrifying than Feng Su thought, Feng Xia, who had no experience in unlocking the first gene lock on his own, still underestimated the energy required to build the second gene lock, and had to give up the idea of storing a part of the wild energy for the transformation of ability points after promotion, and exhausted all the wild energy to construct the second gene lock, despite this, his body was still a mess by some uncontrolled wild energy in the process of constructing the gene lock, If it weren't for the fact that Devouring Desolation felt the crisis of his master at the last moment, and operated on his own and devoured those desolate energy, he was afraid that he would not be able to survive that night.

The construction of the second genetic lock took a whole night, and Feng Xia's body trembled all night, and it wasn't until dawn that he slowly put away the folding knife that was in his heart, and he couldn't allow himself to become that kind of monster no matter what, having seen the miserable state of the living corpse beast.

Luckily, I was able to get through it, and the physical pain was only temporary, and as soon as the body adapted to the change, the pain would go away. Now the real trouble is the issue of ability points.

After unlocking the first genetic lock and becoming a wilderness, the maximum number of ability points that can be evolved has been increased from the original three to twelve. However, the unlocking of the gene lock only increases the upper limit, and if you want to get ability points but don't want to fight, you must have enough resources to support it. However, it's enough to even unlock the gene lock, where can I get the resources to transform my ability points.

The energy brought by unlocking the genetic lock only provides him with three ability points, which means that his current strength is actually about the same as that of an ordinary ability person - if you don't count the devouring famine.

It is not so simple to become a Suyang Wilderness Battalion, even if it is a Wilderness, you need to pass the assessment, and those who have two second-level abilities or four first-level abilities have this qualification, one ability point can evolve into a first-level ability, and the second-level ability requires two ability points. In other words, only a desolate with more than four ability points can be considered a true first-order desolate soldier. There is nothing wrong with such a judging rule, a ninth-order desolate warrior who has no ability is not even as good as a dog in front of a third-level ability, and ability or strength is the only criterion for determining superiority.

"As a basic ability, the "desolate body" does not occupy ability points, and it does not occupy the space of genetic evolution, just like the "realm" evolved by desolate beasts above the third order. If I had to say that they are different from other abilities, their biggest difference is the change in the nature of the genetic organization. The other abilities simply evolve new genetic organizations on top of the original ones, and these two abilities strengthen all genes, which is why they are called 'basic abilities'. ”

Feng Xia gently tapped the little head of Feng Su, who was sitting opposite, and said with a smile: "I want to tell you this to tell you that my brother, who has evolved into a desolate body, doesn't need to eat calcium tablets now." Saying that, Feng Xia picked up the calcium tablet and threw it into his sister's rice bowl, "Don't cry your nose, how old you are, still cry your nose, eat quickly." ”

"Hmph." I couldn't compete with my brother's seal, so I had to snort as a demonstration, lowered my head and began to eat obediently.

Feng Xia smiled and watched her sister obediently eat the calcium tablet, then she began to pick up the chopsticks, and said while eating: "Don't go out today, just stay at home, I'll go out to do something, maybe we can move tomorrow." ”

"Moving? Where are you going? Xiao Yu, who lowered his head to eat, suddenly pricked up his ears and looked at his brother with burning eyes.

"Keep your head down and eat, and you'll know when I'm done." Feng Xia pretended to knock on his sister's little head mysteriously.

"It's not tall!" Feng Su covered his head angrily and stepped on his brother hard, feeling that he had not suffered a loss, so he lowered his head and continued to eat.

Feng Xia smiled bitterly and shook his right foot, and couldn't help but sigh: "It's really a grace to take revenge, aunt and grandmother, don't step on it......"

After telling his sister not to run around, Feng Xia walked towards the elevator with his folding knife.

Over the course of thirty years, the settlements in the wilderness have gradually developed their own management system, although this system is still based on strength. However, this does not prevent those powerful people from above from constantly exploring an effective management system for the better development of the settlements under their control after obtaining power.

Luckily, the people of the old times left them with a wealth of experience to refer to. Although most of this information has been lost in the Starfall Scourge, the small fraction that remains is enough to find a way out for these people.

It's just that, as a philosopher of the old times said, "There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people." Although the materials they refer to are similar, the management systems they have built based on them are very different.

For example, the control system adopted by Su Yang, where Feng Xia is located, and nearly 100 large and small settlements within a radius of thousands of miles outside Su Yang, is to adopt the method of joint management by the two institutions of the City Lord's Mansion - Huangshi Camp.

The people of the City Lord's Mansion are mainly responsible for taxation, dealing with hunters and companies large and small in the wilderness, dealing with the residents within themselves, and tend to be civilian, while the Wilderness Battalion is composed of people who have evolved abilities among the residents of Suyang, and are responsible for maintaining order within Suyang and purging the desolate beasts around Suyang in peacetime, and leaning towards the military organization. However, it is worth mentioning that the leader of the City Lord's Mansion has always been a super strong person who can sit on an equal footing with the commander of the Desolate Battalion and unlock the three genetic locks, and only in this way can Su Yang maintain the balance between these two institutions.

The old elevator always squeaks from time to time during the ascent process, which makes people can't help but worry that it will be overwhelmed at any time and stop or even fall. But the passengers in the elevator are already surprised by this. On the one hand, it is useless to be afraid, and on the other hand, in such an era of life and death, death is also a relief to some extent.

"Hey, haven't you heard, last night the eldest young master of the Black Tiger took those people under his father to slaughter a group of scavengers on the upper street, that scene, tsk." A balding middle-aged man said mysteriously to a man next to him who seemed to be walking with him.

"Oh? What's going on? The man who was drowsy by the slow elevator was obviously aroused, opened his eyes and looked at the bald man, and asked with interest.

The bald man said proudly, "Ha, do you know the golden dust brought down by the starfall explosion two nights ago?" ”

"Huh? You say that, of course you know, it's said that it's a terrible thing, and people will die if they get it. The man had a frightened expression on his face, but then he became puzzled again, "But what does this have to do with the killing of the eldest young master of the black tiger?" ”

"Haha, you don't know that." The bald man was even more complacent, apparently pleased with his companion's reaction, "It is said that that night, the boss of these scavengers took over the business of a boss on the black market and asked for a set of radiation protection suits to use. These bastards have hit the idea on our little girl Su Yang. As a result, the radiation suit was not grabbed, so the little girl ran away, and she was killed by those golden dusts. ”

The bald man swallowed and foamed at the mouth to moisten his throat, and continued: "But who would have thought that the little girl was the person that the eldest son of the black tiger had long taken a fancy to, and when the incident happened on the front foot, the eldest son on the back foot came to the door, the boss was already dead, and this son had nowhere to vent his anger, so he simply slaughtered all the little brothers under him." ”

"Oh, it's really ......" The audience in the elevator stuck out their tongues one by one and sighed, looking unfinished.

Feng Xia stood quietly in the elevator with his eyes closed, his slender sword eyebrows were lightly raised, but he didn't care about the gangster revenge that the bald man said, these things are actually common in this era, especially for him who basically walked through nearly half of the Eastern Continent in his previous life, he has also seen bloodless and more boring blood revenge than this. He cared about what the bald man called the golden dust. Death by touch? This is new, is it a new type of radiation, or is it the impact of the failure of the development of a new wasted energy device?

Whatever it is, I have never encountered such a dangerous thing in my previous life, at least at this point in time, is it some kind of butterfly effect?

The elevator slowly stopped, opened the door, and a group of people squeezed out of the small space and walked towards their respective destinations.