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Chapter 428 - 103: Xu Shu’s Three Expeditions (Request for Monthly Tickets)_2

Chapter 428: Chapter 103: Xu Shu’s Three Expeditions (Request for Monthly Tickets)_2

The Nagoul Demon who had stealthily laid the Array was a fourth-order "Lord of Famine"!

As everyone knows, the life of every Lord of Famine was spent either eating or on the hunt for something to eat, and this time the Lord of Famine didn’t crave human flesh, it coveted the eggs laid by Racan, wanting to taste the flavor of the crab roe.

Therefore, it had used an inconspicuous First Rank minor demon as the focus of the Array, setting it up covertly here, while it huddled inside, busily carving into the other’s small nest.

One was the Alien Species Duke looking for a relatively safe place near the border to lay its eggs, to prevent them from being eaten;

The other was the Lord of Famine, ready to sacrifice everything, including its dignity, to stoop low and become a "boring thief" for the sake of food.

Just as the Lord of Famine was about to succeed, who would have known that Xu Shu would show up at this moment and dig up its Array focus.

To avoid detection by Racan, it had intentionally chosen a relatively weak demon to construct the Array because any stronger presence would certainly have attracted Racan’s attention.

But, as fate would have it, Xu Shu unexpectedly took the path.

Once the Array focus was broken, Racan, who had been sleeping, reacted and discovered its nest was nearly breached by the Lord of Famine, and furiously launched an assault on the Lord of Famine.

The battle between the two massive beasts was earthshattering; and the troublemaker Xu Shu immediately took to his heels and ran.

His escape owed much to Racan, whose sheer dominance forced the Lord of Famine onto the defensive with no chance to counterattack, ensuring that Xu Shu, who almost robbed the Lord of Famine of its prize, could narrowly avoid death.

Because its prey had slipped through its fingers, the Lord of Famine was so furious that it wished it could blow Xu Shu to death in one breath.

In the end, Xu Shu successfully retreated to the border line, and the great battle behind him had nothing to do with him anymore.

After coming back, Xu Shu carried on westward with the two young girls from the Gu Family, feeling sorry for not having the chance to taste the fourth-order crab roe, which must surely be a delicacy of the human world.

After several hours of travel, they reached the lighthouse supply point at (15,19).

This supply point had been abandoned, but the structures remained intact, and the sky was still clear, just past noon. So after a brief rest, Xu Shu set out once again.

This was the first time that he crossed the border line in the same journey not once, but twice; after all, in the past, each outing either involved risking death to identify a safe route or it was over as soon as it began.

This time, shortly after leaving the border line again, Xu Shu encountered something unexpected.

A dilapidated residential complex lay in ruins, overgrown with weeds; clearly a relic from the era of the Great Catastrophe when human homes were destroyed.

This would usually be insignificant—the world is so vast, with either a hundred million or eighty million ruined human homes, hardly notable.

But what made this home unique, it was where Xu Shu had once lived.

Xu Shu was born in the time of the Great Catastrophe, and naturally, his birthplace was near the D8B3 Safe Zone. When he was just two or three years old, he still lived here.

At that time, the Safe Zone had just been established, and many refugees still survived beyond the border line, with the folks from the Supervision Bureau being quite simple and earnest in their efforts to search and rescue people to bring into the Safe Zone.

Xu Shu’s biological parents had succumbed to the disasters one after the other, and it was only later that he was picked up by his adoptive father and eventually settled in this current Safe Zone.

The name of this apartment complex was quite commonplace yet carried a hint of elegance—the Guihua Garden.

Back then, Xu Shu was too young, too small; his only memory of this "home" was a sudden surge of red and black light, the sudden collapse of skyscrapers, the roads twisting like they were in a disco dance, and the desperate effort to throw him out before being buried beneath a collapsing building.

But no matter how fuzzy the memory, he could not mistake it—this was his childhood home.

Xu Shu had never imagined that he’d return to his childhood home in such a manner, and it was quite a shock to his "young" soul.

Then, he realized he was being besieged.

A group of creatures, bare and hairless on the lower half like humans while completely monkey-like on the upper half, had him surrounded.

These were a common species of aberrant monsters on the wasteland, scientifically known as "Xiao Ren," artistically dubbed "man-monkeys."

They were so named for being half-human, half-mountain spirit.

With a notoriously vile nature, rivaling that of werewolves, they were infamous for abducting human females into their caves for sport; however, they appeared less frequently in the Wasteland, mainly on the wild plains, so their infamy did not spread as far as that of the werewolves that often infiltrated the border line.

His old home, now in ruins, holding scattered memories from the past, was occupied by a gang of cruel humanoid monsters and became their nest. How could this be tolerated?

Even if Xu Shu could endure, these "man-monkeys" could not!

The fight between seven ambushers against one happened in an instant.

Xu Shu stood undaunted in the face of danger, leveraging his robust physique and Guanyin’s mysterious powers, relentlessly trading wounds for lives, and somehow fought his way out.

The battle lasted a long time, with Xu Shu continuously using the ruins for tactical maneuvering, and eventually, he managed to win against all odds.

Xu Shu stood proud on the relatively undamaged open ground of the Guihua Garden sign.

In a surprise battle, he killed seven opponents and could boast that not all of them were low-ranked; their ranks were a mix of blue and green, with many between fourteenth and sixteenth level.

Xu Shu only wanted to ask, with the world teeming with numerous heroes, given his strength, who among his peers could be his match?