Updated: 2012-09-17

Lan Qi was lying on the raft, which was drifting down the river. The river flows at a moderate speed, and it floats leisurely through a hundred kilometers of waterway with a raft.

There was still a long way to go, close to more than 500 kilometers of waterway, and according to the constant flow rate of the river, it would not be until the evening of at least three days later that Lan Qi would reach the downstream area. He'll lay careful traps there, and if Zero doesn't die, then Lan Qi will snipe him downstream.

The bald eagle had its eyes closed, and the sniper rifle "Vulture" lay flat on its chest. He staggered his hands on the cold gun, Lan Qi's breathing seemed to be nothing, and his heartbeat had slowed to a critical point, which made the temperature of his whole body drop to an incredible degree, almost the same low point as the river. This is the ability that Lan Qi learned during his five years of adventure in the Southwest Land, using specific breathing methods to reduce all vital functions of the body in order to avoid the perception of certain deadly creatures.

In the turbulent years, at least seventy percent of the 100 mutant creatures possessed the ability to sense heat. This is the ability to metamorphose out of necessity for survival, after all, the most delicious food for mutant beasts is humans. Humans, on the other hand, have a higher body temperature. It is only natural that the ability to evolve thermal energy sensing in order to capture them is a matter of course.

And the body that Lan Qi learned itself allowed him to dodge the attacks of mutant creatures many times. Therefore, knowing that the Ramassen River is not calm, he still dares to build a raft down the river and go down the river, out of confidence in his own ability.

In fact, everything was exactly as Lan Qi expected.

For the megalodon, the largest group of deviant fish in the Ramasson River, nothing more than lifeless wood floats over the river's surface. Even though the wood is deliberately tied together, the wood is the wood, and it does not become fresh meat because it is tied together. Therefore, the megalodons did not care at all, and with their pitifully small brain size, they could not understand what the raft represented as an artificial creation.

As for the mutant crocodile triangular crocodile with three long horns on its head, like an ancient ceratosaurus. They are not willing to attack humans unless they have no food. These guys are much smarter than megalodons, and the horned crocodile knows that humans are far more difficult to deal with than the ubiquitous megalodon in the river. Even if it's not the troublesome humans who possess the power, or the indigenous tribes that inhabit the Grim Reaper, their homemade crude weapons are capable of injuring or even killing the horned crocodile.

While humans are certainly tasty, the lazy crocodile prefers to hunt for schools of megalodons. So even if there were groups of crocodiles lying on the river's edge with their eyes closed, and when Lan Qi's raft passed by, they just rolled up their cloudy triangular eyes and glanced lazily, and then went back to sleep.

The road was calm until a sudden earth-shattering explosion occurred in the direction of Death Canyon.

Lan Qi, who had his eyes closed, first felt a strong light. He opened his eyes and saw a corner of the night sky reflected red. Then, there was a thunderous rumbling sound in the distance. Lan Qi immediately looked in the direction of the explosion, and a cloud of fire suddenly rose from the location of the Death Canyon in the distance. The cloud of fire retracted, then exploded in both directions.

As a result, a clear line of fire appeared in Lan Qi's eyes. The line of fire nearly set the entire Death Canyon on fire, and the loud explosion was accompanied by a violent wind caused by the shock wave that swept through most of the Grim Reaper's Ridge, completely shattering the peaceful night.

The tremors from the Big Bang from Death Canyon were quickly transmitted to the Ramarsen River, where the riverbed shook and the water boiled, causing the schools of megalodon in the river to go berserk. These kitten-like megalodons leap out of the river in schools and then fall into the water. Hunger and irritability make the megalodons red-eyed, and they even bite each other in the air and in the water.

The body of the megalodon is not small, and the head is particularly large. A row of canine-like teeth is placed on their upper jaws, and the mutant fish's lower jaws have a row of teeth corresponding to the upper jaws to contain the teeth when the megalodon closes its mouth. But when they bite their prey, the giant teeth of the upper jaw and the fine teeth of the lower jaw will cooperate with each other, and in the face of the bite force of the megalodon up to nearly 100 kilograms, any prey will be easily torn apart by it.

And the bites of megalodons are not unprecedented, these neurotic mutant fish usually provoke and bite each other when they are fine, not to mention that the explosion coming from Death Canyon has made them go berserk. As a result, the already unquiet Ramasson River became even more chaotic.

With the naked eye, it can be seen that the undercurrents are created when the megalodon fish bite each other in groups, and the undercurrents affect the normal flow of the river, and the raft where Lan Qi is located also becomes unstable. Lan Qi, who was awakened by the explosion, could no longer maintain that strange breathing, so the heat in his body gradually appeared.

And some megalodons that were not involved in the fight immediately discovered the biological heat energy of the river.

As the sky shone on the surface of the Ramason River, Lance saw shadows swimming back and forth near his raft, and he realized that trouble was coming!

Far away in the northland, more than 4,000 kilometers away from the Grim Reaper's Foot, on the Blue Ridge Mountains, hundreds of kilometers of woods have been cleared. A modern industrialized city was created on the cleared hills, surrounded by a ten-meter-high metal wall, which was not allowed to pass through except for an artificially constructed road facing the hills.

This metal defensive wall has machine turrets every 100 meters, each with ten soldiers, to form the city's basic defenses.

The cities under its protection have water purification plants, logging plants, refineries, weapons processing factories, and even an army training ground. This modern city has no residential areas at all, every inch of the city is invested in the most efficient operation, and the city is not built for people to live, its main function is to mine civil resources, produce equipment and weapons, and then sell these resources to lower-tier cities or bases for huge profits.

The city is a large, efficiently functioning factory, and a circular plaza has been developed in the center of the city. The square is paved with white stone bricks, but golden and dark green bricks are used to create a tulip pattern in the center of the square. It was the coat of arms of the Parkland chaebol, and a 16-storey building towering over the plaza served as both a residence and office for important members of the Parkland family.

It was daytime, and when the sun fell through the radiation clouds and fell on the city, the city's processing plants were already in action. And on the training ground, the private troops belonging to the Parkland family began to assemble and began a new day of training under the yelling of the instructor.

At the very top of the building, when the huge quartz clock on the upper floor pointed to nine o'clock, Sauron was woken up by the butler and went to the 16th floor of the building.

This floor is owned by the rulers of the Parkland family, and today old Brant wants to meet Sauron, the grandson he despises the most. But what Sauron didn't know was that in Old Brandt's office, trouble awaited him.

(It's been a shift lately, and it's been so hard to hold back.) Put one more here to breathe!)