"As expected, haha."
Xu Shu stood silently for a mont, then climbed down from the top of the lighthouse.
The deep, oppressive sea in front of him finally confird a suspicion he had in his heart.
There was no doubt, the "Sea of Death" of the real world and the "Nether Sea" he just experienced in the legend were indeed the sa ocean!
"I noticed on the world channel that every ti a recruit call for the Night Parade of Hundred Demons Ruins is ntioned, there’s always a need for a ’boatman’, it seems like it’s because the seawater here is special?"
"However, not only the Sea of Death, but even the Violent Sea, Mist Sea, etc., all require the team to have a ’boatman’. Could it be that other seas are just as deep and dark as the Sea of Death, without a place to anchor, making it impossible to navigate by oneself?"
"This indeed is a question worth studying. I can look into it later."
"Alas, it’s a pity Teacher Pan is out of contact, otherwise she could’ve fulfilled her duty as a teacher to educate and solve mysteries."
Xu Shu shook his head and sighed, then thought for a mont before opening the Promotion Drive and sending a ssage to Gu Yue Ming, whom he could currently contact:
"Aunt, how have you been in the D8B4 District lately?"
After sending the ssage, he didn’t wait for a reply.
However, in families with such a heritage, going into seclusion for ten days or half a month was a common occurrence.
Xu Shu didn’t dwell on it much, calmly walking down from the mountaintop, preparing to head to the seaside.
Earlier, while looking into the distance, he saw a group of people gathering on a reef by the shore, most likely preparing for a journey to explore the sea.
They say practice yields true knowledge, especially when there’s no one to ask for guidance.
Moreover, the Tai Chu Scroll was fulfilled today, so he was right on ti to personally explore the current state of the Sea of Death, avoiding a situation of complete ignorance on future journeys.
This ti he wasn’t in such a hurry, Xu Shu descended the slope leisurely, first returning to Yinli Village.
This small town was at the border and didn’t appear prosperous.
The local specialty seed to be a strange type of locust wood, the color dark red like blood, with occasional convoys of trucks loaded with sawn planks raising dust as they left the road.
There were only a few passersby in the street, suggesting that this place was similar to the western border’s ’Treasure Mountain’, perhaps even slightly inferior.
Xu Shu estimated ntally that the permanent population here should be under twenty thousand, not too much.
Of course, it was because his ’horizon’ had been spoiled by the prosperous conditions in the Penglai area.
A town of twenty thousand people on the Wasteland, if placed at Xu Shu’s old ho near the D8B3 District, would undoubtedly be the number one refuge across the entire Wasteland, bar none.
But in the Penglai District, this scale was just that of the poorest, most remote township.
"Co to think of it, with this calculation, the entire Penglai region, without counting the inside of the Safe Zone, just considering these various sized divisions on the Wasteland, probably holds a population of almost fifty million, right?"
"And inside the city, there would clearly be even more... Hiss, it’s truly terrifying. Thinking back, the total of inside and outside the city used to be less than three million people before, nowhere near even a fraction of this now!"
"The gap between a First-class Safe Zone and a Third-class Safe Zone is just unimaginably vast."
Xu Shu marveled, sighing for a while, while also purchasing so easy-to-carry water and food at a wholesale departnt here in case of need.
He then headed east, passing through a plaque saying "Welco to Hospitable Penglai". Suddenly, sounds of chaotic barking dogs from afar reached his ears, intermixed with faintly discernible angry curses, screams, and cries for help, rising and falling in waves.
"Hmm?"
Xu Shu slightly frowned imdiately.
Sothing’s happening?
He did not stop, continuing forward, and soon saw a factory area with the sign ’Yinli Wood Developnt Technology Company’ on it, many trucks loaded with wood parked outside.
Hmm, just a lumber mill.
Having spent quite a few days in the Penglai District, Xu Shu was sowhat of a "local", imdiately judging from the na that this lumber mill was where the local garrison was located, what the local villagers referred to as the "leading enterprise".
This held the sa status as the Golden Treasure Mountain Mine in Jin Baoshan, the Snake Spirit Villa in Xinglong Manor, responsible for guarding the area, equivalent to the role of the "local police departnt".
The difference was that they did not fall under the control of the Astronomy Association, but belonged to the local superpower, Bai Yujing.
Ordinarily, this place would be the strongest defensive area in the town, responsible for patrolling the surroundings to prevent any monsters from harming the populace.
But at this mont, the lumber mill was in disarray, with over a hundred people in white uniforms fleeing the underground building in terror, running everywhere, yelling and escaping the scene, seemingly like dogs that lost their ho.
"What happened?"
Xu Shu took the initiative to step forward, grabbing a young man by a truck, dressed in a lumber mill uniform and covered in several horrific festering wounds.
The man, face pale, didn’t recognize Xu Shu but panted painfully, "I can’t make it, don’t bother with ... Run... go, notify Lord Guardian! It’s out of control! The lab’s out of control... Hurry! Or else, it will be too late..."
"It’s a pity, I can’t escape, I’m contaminated, it’s too late... cough cough..."
His breath grew weaker, blood seeping from his mouth and nose, on the brink of death.
Xu Shu casually took out a self-defense spray bottle filled with cat saliva and sprayed it over the man’s chest and abdon a few tis.
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