CHAPTER 470: CHAPTER 232: HUMAN CEMETERY

Meanwhile, a thousand miles away, in the Mountain City.

"The communicator is broken."

Lin Yu kept fiddling with the communicator in front of him, trying to press the buttons on the device to restart it.

The indicator light on the communicator indeed kept flickering after he pressed the button, but the headset built into the communicator still only emitted a low white noise.

Without a doubt, this thing is no longer functioning.

—Perhaps it hasn’t really malfunctioned, but has been disabled by some force.

But of course, the result is the same.

They can no longer use this seized communicator to contact the outside world or exert any influence on those monsters.

Their situation has returned to square one—or even worse.

Because, just now, amidst the chaos they created using the communicator, several monsters of unknown rank broke through the border defenses of Mountain City and entered its interior.

Although they haven’t launched a direct attack, their massive size has still caused considerable destruction.

The road to return has been blocked off, and their current location is the only "island" building amidst the ruins.

Unable to move forward, unable to retreat.

The only thing they seem to be able to do is "hold their ground" and wait for the final outcome.

Lin Yu let out a long sigh.

After a moment of silence, he said:

"It’s alright, we’ve completed our mission."

"According to the news from the Huaxia Army, at least the Beast Tide has been disrupted."

"The crisis in Jinling City should have been resolved, and with the Huaxia Army there, it shouldn’t be difficult to take care of the remaining monsters."

"Yeah..."

Reaching this point, the Scout also seemed to have relaxed finally.

He wasn’t unafraid of death, but rather had placed life and death aside.

Lying on the floor inside the building, he even felt like joking.

"Speaking of which, it would have been great if we belonged to the Mechanical God Sect."

"According to them, for achieving such a great deed, we should be eligible to enter the ’Holy Heavenly Kingdom’, right?"

"Theoretically speaking, we’re already in Heaven."

Lin Yu said earnestly, while the Scout snickered and replied:

"Heaven? Sir, do you really think this looks like Heaven?"

"Clearly, it doesn’t."

Lin Yu shook his head, but then continued:

"But who can say for sure?"

"Right now, our exploration of this city is probably less than one percent."

"What we see is just the surface; what’s really in this city... only ghosts know."

"Whatever it is, it couldn’t possibly be Heaven, could it?"

The Scout sat up from the ground and bit into the remaining dry food.

"Not necessarily."

Lin Yu shook his head again.

"We’ve never been to Jinling New City— or according to the Huaxia Army, it’s called Base 011."

"But I’ve heard, the real Base 011 is underground."

"The environment there... People who’ve been there say it’s not far from their imagination of Heaven."

"I see..."

The Scout nodded thoughtfully.

"I really wish I could go back and take a look..."

"I do too."

Lin Yu drank the last drop of clean water from his bottle, exhaled, and said:

"But thinking about this now is meaningless."

"You’re seriously injured, and I’m not lightly wounded either."

"We don’t have much capacity for movement left."

"If we don’t quickly find enough food and water, we won’t need those monsters or weirdos to find us; we’ll die here ourselves."

"We need to find food and water first, and then plan the next step."

"I know."

The Scout looked at Lin Yu helplessly.

"But what can we do? This area is not meant for humans to survive."

"Cold, empty... calling it a city built for humans is less fitting than calling it a ’human cemetery’ constructed by incomprehensible machines."

The words "human cemetery" sent a shiver down Lin Yu’s spine.

Indeed, the description was too apt.

Even he felt a particular sensation as he walked through this city.

As if, he wasn’t alone.

As if, there were many "wandering souls" lurking around him.....

But soon, Lin Yu shook his head and said:

"No, even if this place is a cemetery, there are Tomb Guardians here."

"There are living people here—like the one we took down."

"Since he survived, it means there must be others in this city."

"If they can survive, then we can too."

"We must try to reach their activity areas."

"Their activity area? Where??"

The Scout’s eyes flashed with a hint of doubt, and Lin Yu blinked, responding:

"I just thought of it."

"If the main part of Base 011 is underground, is it possible... that the main part of Mountain City is also underground?"

"Go underground? Too risky."

The Scout hesitantly shook his head, while Lin Yu pointed towards his chest.

"Look at the wound on your chest; what’s riskier than staying here and waiting for death?"

"True."

Once he finished speaking, the Scout figured it out.

Indeed, staying put seemed safer.

But the issue is, if they stay put, the only conclusion awaiting them is death.

What, hope the Huaxia Army arrives within days to rescue them?

Not to question their capability, even if they could, they couldn’t be that fast.

We can only rely on ourselves!

"So how do we go?"

The Scout asked.

"We need a direction; we can’t wander around aimlessly like headless flies, can we?"

"Of course not."

At this moment, Lin Yu already had a plan.

Pausing for a moment, he said:

"This city has died, but it’s reviving."

"And obviously, the areas reviving first are the most important parts of the city."

"And the most important areas must be connected to the city’s real ’core zone’.

"We must find a way to get to those places—head to where the lights are on!"

"Are you kidding?!"

The Scout exclaimed in fear.

"We will die!"

"A single Mountain City person almost killed both of us; in the lit areas, there would only be more Mountain City people like that!"

"’More’ is exactly what we need!"

Lin Yu said firmly:

"The more enemies there are, the more opportunities there are!"

"No need to fear them too much... Although there was a lot of luck involved in taking him down, you should have also seen that these people don’t have strong combat capabilities."

"At least, given equal equipment... the Huaxia Army should be much stronger than them, right?"

"Besides, we’ve come this far; are we afraid of risks now?"

"Even if we can’t find the core zone entrance for now, we can try to take down another Mountain City person."

"Their communicators are usable...getting a new one, establishing contact with the Huaxia Army, might lead to other solutions?"

"...You’re right."

The Scout finally nodded.

"Then we’ll follow your lead, sir."

"Set off now?"

Lin Yu sheathed the long sword at his feet, then said:

"Set off now."

"If this city is truly a cemetery..."

"Then at least... we can dig around and see!"