CHAPTER 505: CHAPTER 379: DOOMSDAY BUNKER ACQUISITION, THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE MYSTERY! _2

Afterwards, Xing Lingfeng borrowed an excuse to look for lost items, and since then, he disappeared without a trace.

When the leader of the Shelter and others set out with Old Sun to search, that strange door vanished, and there was no further news of Xing Lingfeng’s search.

However.

Xing Lingfeng.

This name has once again appeared now, and coincidentally, he’s one of Lin Yue’s few friends in the chat group, also quite closely connected as the leader of the Refugee Village.

Could these two Xing Lingfengs be the same person?

The possibility of people with the same name as Xing Lingfeng shouldn’t be high, and even if there are namesakes, how many would possess such agility and strong survival skills?

Moreover, from the myriad of information currently at hand, the disappearance of Xing Lingfeng recorded in the diary can actually be explained with a bold hypothesis.

In that era, when the system’s functions were extremely imperfect, and many features we now see as standard were still experimental, the function of the "Ancient Secret Realm Gate" may not have been as seamless as it is now.

The strange door that Old Sun and Xing Lingfeng found by the lake was undoubtedly the Ancient Secret Realm Gate leading to Earth, but it’s very possible that back then it was not connected to the version of Earth he and other survivors encountered, at least thirty years in the future.

It’s highly possible that it led directly to Earth of the original era, perhaps without the current rule of forced return.

Thus, Xing Lingfeng might have traveled back to Earth through this Ancient Secret Realm Gate, then hid for a long time, and upon realizing he couldn’t return to the Otherworld, he relied on the extraordinary survival skills honed in the Otherworld to become a globally famous outdoor survival expert.

After Earth’s seventy billion people returned to this Otherworld, he quickly adapted to the environment here, and soon led a group of survivors to become one of the strongest teams in the Otherworld.

Evidence?

There are indeed some.

Lin Yue remembers that in his initial transactions with Xing Lingfeng, he sought the rare resource "gasoline."

At that time, he found only this one person who could provide a large amount of gasoline on the group-wide trading platform.

After the trade, when he faced challenges with handgun bullets due to lack of raw materials, Xing Lingfeng produced a large amount of nitrocellulose, something he never imagined finding.

Later, he traded a lot of gasoline with Xing Lingfeng, and even Xing Lingfeng had considerable diesel reserves.

During successive disasters, Xing Lingfeng was extremely low-key, almost as if he had rich disaster coping strategies, as if he had experienced them firsthand.

During the last triple disaster of extreme heat, hail, and fire tornadoes, Xing Lingfeng did not utter a word and quietly survived the disaster, not asking for help, nor speaking in the world channel as Lin Yue discovered.

Lin Yue took a deep breath.

The key information shared between the two Xing Lingfengs has a significant overlap.

"Gasoline, diesel, and nitrocellulose, all things mentioned in the original Shelter owner’s diary, and my Xing Lingfeng possessed these at the start of the disasters and successfully built the Refugee Village after the first disaster... The intertwined relationships between these two Xing Lingfengs make it hard not to think deeply..."

Lin Yue feels if this is true, then it’s quite terrifying.

If his Xing Lingfeng is that Xing Lingfeng, then he’s akin to having survived twice in the Otherworld, having hidden knowledge and experience.

After three hundred sixty-nine days, the original diary owner claimed to be the last person left in the world, which is probably inaccurate.

The survival system had too many glitches back then, and people like Xing Lingfeng and the mysteriously vanished Old Sun may well have slipped through the cracks.

Yet, fundamentally, these are just conjectures.

It’s as if forcibly explaining things.

After all, things don’t unfold according to one’s wishes, and these hypotheses might just be mental exercises.

"Gaoo..." Bai’s calls echoed urgently from above.

Seeing the skeleton, Lin Yue packed up the chair and swiftly returned to the entrance to find the anxious Bai.

"What’s wrong, little one? Worried about me?" Lin Yue smiled, jumping out of the underground shelter.

The sky outside was very blue.

Breathing the fresh air, he glanced again at the underground shelter entrance, feeling as though everything inside was just a nightmare.

But the diary left by the skeleton in hand told him it wasn’t a nightmare.

The events awry with the current Otherworld still haunted his mind, making him doubt and question everything.

"Gaoo..." Bai glanced at the entrance and then at Lin Yue, seemingly confused about why the owner had stayed inside for so long without coming out.