Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 167: Chapter 167: Night Raid on Golden Sand Town (Four More)

Xie Jun and several comrades, with their extraordinary skills and powerful firearms, have killed a large number of mutated rats and other mutated creatures, obtaining a large amount of Genetic Fragments.

As a result, Xie Jun and his comrades gradually became leaders among the survivors.

The city district where Xie Jun resided was a core area, and in an undamaged building of Century Business Plaza, there was a Genetic Store, thus Century Business Building became the stronghold for Xie Jun and others.

In the core district, there were two to three thousand survivors, all led by Xie Jun to gather food, hunt Mutated Creatures, and enhance their Genetic Evolution Level.

Xie Jun and his comrades also conquered two other Genetic Store strongholds in the district, uniting the three strongholds and forming an alliance.

Ample food supplies and their overwhelming superiority over Mutated Creatures allowed for the rapid early development of Xie Jun and others.

As a highly talented graduate of a military academy, he naturally had an edge in strategy and tactics.

Checking the map of the Genetic Store, Xie Jun made a plan to conquer the surrounding Genetic Store strongholds.

Originally, they planned to move south and take over Kongming Academy and Xianan University. Unexpectedly, Kongming Bridge was guarded by a Giant Snake, making it impossible to cross.

Xie Jun temporarily gave up the idea of conquering the university strongholds of Xianan and Kongming City and quickly moved north, conquering more than a dozen outskirt strongholds, then ordering them to hand over one-third of their Genetic Fragments to his group.

This was the reason why the overall Genetic Evolution Level in Xie Jun’s city district advanced by leaps and bounds.

The collective Genetic Evolution Level of the district reached 9 points, and even when a heavy snowstorm arrived, Xie Jun and others, shifting to fight in the subway tunnels, were still able to kill a large number of mutated rats.

Coincidentally, to avoid the heavy snowstorm, a large number of mutated rats had also poured into the subway tunnels, which was like delivering themselves as easy prey to Xie Jun and his team.

However, as time passed and the cold winter persisted, the Genetic Evolution process of Xie Jun and his team was also interrupted.

Despite not lacking food, the number of rats gradually decreased, cutting off their source of Genetic Fragments.

The Genetic Store strongholds in the suburbs subdued by them also lost their source of Genetic Fragments due to the severe winter and could no longer pay tribute to Xie Jun and his team.

The harsh winter also inflicted a significant loss on Xie Jun and his team.

The Snow Wolves did not enter the city district—both the Snow Wolves in the Northern Suburb and Southern Suburb were blocked.

Those in the Northern Suburb were hunted down by the combined efforts of the northern residents, while those in the south were hunted by Yang Xiao and Xia Luo.

When the people in the Northern Suburb hunted the Snow Wolves, they discovered the valuable Snow Wolf Armor but naturally did not inform Xie Jun and his team. By the time Xie Jun learned about the Snow Wolf Armor, over two months of winter had passed, and by then, each Genetic Store stronghold in the suburban areas had obtained over a hundred pieces of Snow Wolf Armor.

They thought the harsh snowy climate was the perfect opportunity to break free from the control of Xie Jun and others. As such, the leaders of several Genetic Store strongholds joined forces and agreed to cut off the connection with his Transmission Array.

Xie Jun pooled the resources of the three Genetic Stores in the city district and spent fifty thousand Crystal Coins to purchase 50 pieces of Snow Wolf Armor, personally leading the team to raid the nearby Golden Sand Town stronghold to seize their Snow Wolf Armor.

Among the fifty members of Xie Jun’s team, nearly thirty had entered the Primary Stage of primitive elite and possessed formidable combat power.

Being an army officer, Xie Jun was still keen on using firearms, wielding a submachine gun in his hand.

As people of the same nation, everyone could not forget festivals. Today was also the day for the survivors in Golden Sand Town to celebrate a festival, preparing some food and gathering together to commemorate the first festival of the post-apocalyptic world.

The leader of Golden Sand Town was named Yang Dayong, 22 years old, who before the apocalypse had been a lackey under a local gangster. Upon the apocalypse’s arrival, when most people died, Yang Dayong suddenly realized his opportunity had come.

Wasn’t the apocalypse the kind of lawless, do-as-you-please world he had always dreamed of?

Relying on his ferocious reputation from the past and the Genetic Evolution Ability acquired after the apocalypse, Yang Dayong quickly rose to be the leader of the Golden Sand Town Genetic Store stronghold.

Every gangster leader had one hobby, which was to toy with women.

Among the thousand-plus local survivors, of the four hundred females, those with the slightest beauty could not escape Yang Dayong’s clutches, and for survival, they had no choice but to swallow their pride and endure the humiliation.

Yang Dayong was later conquered by Xie Jun. Faced with Xie Jun’s guns and bullets, he finally caved in, accepting Xie Jun’s leadership and agreeing to contribute one-third of the Genetic Fragments he obtained each month to Xie Jun.

However, the harsh winter gave Yang Dayong an opportunity. He led his men to successively kill a hundred or two hundred Snow Wolves, obtaining nearly a hundred pieces of Snow Wolf Armor and gaining the preliminary ability to resist the severe cold.

He figured that with the weather this cold, if he just closed the Transmission Array to Nanmu City, Xie Jun would not possibly trek twenty kilometers to find him.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven; everyone wants to be the boss.

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In the center of Golden Sand Town, there is a Golden Sand Building with over ten stories. At this moment, a celebration is taking place on the first floor of the Golden Sand Building, where more than a thousand people have gathered to enjoy the festivities.

The tables are laden with large chunks of wolf meat, as well as staple foods like rice and steamed buns.

Yang Dayong is sitting in a private room, where a basin of charcoal burns.

There are about a dozen people in the private room, apart from two beautiful women, the rest are his underlings who also help him manage Golden Sand Town.

”Come on, brothers, drink up. Today is a holiday, and we shall not stop until we’re all drunk. The apocalypse has its benefits, right? There’s nothing to be afraid of; now we have Genetic Evolution Superpowers, plenty of food, and beautiful women, haha... We are the kings, living life however we please. Could you have imagined such a life before the apocalypse?”

”You’re right, Brother Yong. Since we’ve entered the apocalypse, let’s just enjoy it to the fullest. Here’s a toast to you, Brother Yong, cheers!”

Yang Dayong clinks glasses with his underlings and, with his arms around the two beautiful women next to him, laughs and says:

”Brothers, the apocalypse is great, isn’t it? Before the apocalypse, Miss Ying was the town mayor’s daughter, and Miss Xue’er from Golden Sand Bank, a newly assigned beauty, would they have ever looked at me? But I never dreamed that I could have two beauties at the same time. This is the good fortune bestowed upon us by the heavens, right? Who cares about the apocalypse when we can be happy just the same?”

”You’re absolutely right, Brother Yong. Cheers!”

Everyone drinks another round.

One of the underlings asks:

”Brother Yong, we’ve closed the Transmission Array to Nanmu City; will Xie Jun be mad? That guy is a soldier and has guns, he’s not easy to mess with.”

After downing a glass of alcohol and kissing one of the beauties beside him, Yang Dayong laughs loudly and says:

”Screw Xie Jun, thinking he can control me, that’s not so easy. To be honest, I’ve been pissed off for a while. He actually made us hand over one-third of our Genetic Fragments every month. That’s a rip-off.

I am not an idiot. I reckon this cold winter won’t fade away within half a year. Have you seen the snow outside? It’s several meters thick, and with no sunshine, how could it melt away?

With temperatures at minus thirty degrees, could Xie Jun actually walk here to find me? He would have frozen to death, haha... Cheers!”

”Bang!”

The door of the private room is kicked open.

”Who the f**k is looking for death? Coming in without knocking? Don’t you know Brother Yong is here?”

A small-time leader sitting with his back to the door yells out, fueled by alcohol.

With a ’puff’, a blue Longsword is thrust into the body of that little leader. The man doesn’t even get a chance to cry out before slumping onto the chair.

Everyone can even see a layer of thin ice instantly covering the body of the stabbed leader.

Yang Dayong and the others abruptly look up, their chopsticks and wine cups dropping to the floor in shock.

”Jun, Brother Jun, you, you’ve come?”

Indeed, the person is Xie Jun, holding a blue Longsword in his hand, with five people following behind him.