When the tire made a "pop" sound, and then the whole car stabilized, Yang Pingtie knew he had probably reached his destination.
Sapu City ruins.
Strictly speaking, the area of Sapu City is larger than typical Protector cities. Protector cities generally consist of two to five super structures, along with slums on the ground like moss, occasionally with so road planning, but not much.
Such cities are not very livable in the first place, not to ntion that now all Cybernetically Enhanced People are relying on solar energy to survive, with a mandatory requirent for per capita sunlight area.
Therefore, the size of a city is often limited, mostly between one and two hundred square kiloters, with the difference often being that Protectors have built their superstructures more densely.
And Sapu City is a typical old-era city, with clear urban planning and construction. Although it lacks kiloter-long super structures, its average values are far above current Protector cities. Its area is also slightly larger.
And now, the mbers of the Six Dragons Sect have driven onto the remnants of Sapu City’s original intercity highway.
Yang Pingtie connected his vision to the car’s cara, checked around, and found that he hadn’t deviated from the city.
There is vegetation around Sapu City, and this may be one of the few vegetations not made by Protectors.
It is said that in tropical regions, a small number of minor organisms completed transformation during the Ichigo Biosphere extinction event. The hot external temperature gave them a little chance. But soon they faced new problems. The cultists’ viruses infect randomly, and the mutations are also very random, which caused a species group to often beco several species with weak reproductive isolation on the spot. Organisms unable to achieve asexual reproduction or self-sexual reproduction experienced another round of extinction.
Besides, there were originally dozens of labs belonging to Superman Enterprise in Sapu City, used to research benchmark species, especially economic crops in agriculture. There are so parks here too. It is said that in 2060, soone worried that benchmark crops would invade Earth’s biosphere and wanted to burn Superman Enterprise’s parks.
But as it turned out, this was indeed much ado about nothing.
Even if Earth’s original biosphere was completely wiped out, making room for newcors, these lab-developed plants could not successfully expand.
To date, those wild economic crops can only live and die within this city.
The road is full of cracks. Clumps of either purple or black plants are scattered along both sides of the road, forming sparse vegetation. Green is rarely seen.
When Yang Pingtie was listening to teachings about faith, he heard ntions that a long, long ti ago, chlorophyll was not mainstream among Earth’s native creatures. At that ti, most organisms extracting energy from sunlight were ***** purple, and extinction events caused the mainstream of producers to change, with green, representing photosynthesis, becoming the absolute mainstream on this planet.
That was over two billion years ago.
Seeing these plants gave Yang Pingtie an absurd sense of fatalism. The biosphere built on green plants was humanity’s world. And humans themselves successfully destroyed it, then the mainstream of photosynthesis... although it hasn’t reverted, is the color closer to the past?
These plants hold little significance for Benchmark Man now—they are either products of random mutation or results of economic crop wilding. Standard Benchmark Man basically cannot digest these species, they may even be toxic to Benchmark Man.
Moreover, planting plants also requires water and sunlight. Protectors rarely consider "water sources" when building cities, and civilians need to keep sunlight for themselves.
The long dry seasons also limit the expansion of these plants. Even after two hundred years, these plants haven’t even fully grown over the entire city.
Kasapon, the driving Sect Defender, was quite excited: "Boss, this road is really smooth."
"First ti here?"
"It’s truly the first ti in a place like ruins." Kasapon was very enthusiastic, "I’ve never seen such lush plants."
Kasapon was still under observation. He didn’t even know the organization he joined was called "Six Dragons Sect." In his perspective, he was rely under the Banner Leader. This is also one of the Six Dragons Sect’s social recruitnt processes.
Another thod targets famous Martial Artists, who can go directly to headquarters to slowly cultivate faith.
Currently, Kasapon’s role is "cannon fodder."
"Cannon fodder" was quite exhilarated. He said, "Boss, before we handle the business, should we take a tour of the famous black market here?"
"Hmm hmm, it’s all up to you." Yang Pingtie wasn’t too concerned. This trip was originally for an optional task, the Banner Leader letting him take along two subordinates for observation during their trial period.
Often, "having an assistant" also ans "having more tactical options," even if the martial studies skills gap between the assistant and the main hand is large, during tough battles, the assistant can stay slightly away.
Many Heroes operate using this thod of old leading the new. Utilizing this team image to operate on the edge of the Hero community, it is less likely to arouse suspicion. After all, there are countless Heroes who couldn’t make a na for themselves or retired to the sidelines due to injuries.
The Six Dragons Sect has always been conducting small-scale activities in this region.
Kasapon also knows that this wave is here to kill a few insignificant poor guys. He doesn’t feel a bit nervous, and even has the mind to look around.
Yang Pingtie quickly sensed sothing. The vehicle entered a new route. This should have entered the city area of Old Sapu City, where there once was an extrely complex three-dinsional transportation system, almost a maze. And now, most of the overpasses have collapsed due to years of disrepair, leaving only a large number of pillars and a few broken bridge sections, casting maze-like shadows on the ground.
Yellow-brown hyphae cling to the lower part of the bridge piers and repeatedly dry out, forming crack-like patterns.
As the vehicle entered the shadow area, Yang Pingtie stood up, then quietly opened the exit at the car roof, poking his upper body out, stretched lazily like a Natural Person,
For a Benchmark Man, this is undoubtedly a sign of "yet to rid of natural instincts." Actions like "stretching" an nothing to chanical bodies.
Yang Pingtie even rubbed the back of his head.
At the raised elbow, a small missile shot out straight.
The ambusher leaping in mid-air fell into despair in shock.
He had just leapt mid-air, exactly at a point without leverage, and didn’t have any propelling equipnt, nor any heavy weapons that could be thrown out in an ergency to change his posture, with his only firearm strapped to his back, unable to be drawn hastily.
When Yang Pingtie returned to the car, the ambusher was exploding mid-air.
"Impressive," the Sect Defenders tutted in amazent, "Chief, really impressive. The car’s cara caught the ambusher? That accuracy..."
"More or less. Didn’t I just go out for a look?" Yang Pingtie’s tone remained unchanged.
Just now, through the car’s cara, he observed three to four ambushers on the bridge pier ahead. And those ambushers didn’t take out firearms. Therefore, Yang Pingtie deliberately showed his head, creating a flaw.
After killing one ambusher, Yang Pingtie observed through the cara that the other ambushers quietly retreated.
Kasapon felt a bit regretful, "Why did they all retreat? I heard Green Forest people were quite reckless."
"That’s not Green Forest. There shouldn’t be any large Green Forest teams nearby."
"How could there not be?" one person refuted, "My entire family was killed."
But there was no sadness in the tone.
"Maybe over a decade ago," Yang Pingtie leaned back comfortably in a corner, holding his weapon, "A lot happened over the past ten plus years. First, there was a sweep by soone suspected to be a Martial God, then we ca, and shortly after, the Martial Chief from Africa found the morale here usable, strengthening the chivalrous power."
These Sect Defenders don’t know they serve the Six Dragons Sect, but they are aware the "Banner Leader" is pursuing matters related to the Martial God. They naturally feel excited about this topic.
"People suspected to be a Martial God" is like a "rumor" in this area. But it’s not without foundation. According to what Yang Pingtie knows, an aggressive activity by the Six Dragons Sect more than a decade ago created several "personality masks similar to the Martial God," and these "quasi-Martial Gods" possessed abilities worthy of their original forms, and unsurprisingly, went out of control, leaving records showcasing divine-like presence in various places.
The nearby Six Dragons Sect groups also began expanding their teams during this period. They controlled the direction of rumors here while searching for hidden "quasi-Martial Gods" or their relics.
But that was many years ago.
Yang Pingtie even thinks the Banner Leader plans to gradually remove so peripheral personnel, or send newly developed mbers to the Mars headquarters for faith education.
For this, Yang Pingtie only feels fortunate. He is already a formal mber and won’t be easily abandoned by the sect.
After crossing the outermost part of the city, the group from the Six Dragons Sect entered a jungle of ruins.
So buildings from the old tis still stand here. It is said that at the end of the 21st century, humans required construction concrete to "maintain safe support for two hundred years" without maintenance. It’s not that more enduring building materials couldn’t be made, but city builders believed that except for a few commorative landmark buildings, more enduring materials weren’t needed. Most of the city’s buildings would be demolished and rebuilt with developnt, and no need existed for buildings lasting two hundred years.
And now, most buildings barely remain within the "safe period."
The vehicle drove straight in. Due to Yang Pingtie showing his skills in the city outskirts, no new trouble-seekers appeared along the way.
The three from the Six Dragons Sect soon reached their first destination, the Monunt Square located on the west side of the city.
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