22 One Night

"Ah!"

Li Shu, who was still half-awake, quickly lowered her voice. She did not dare to make any sound, afraid that she would attract a monster sensitive to sounds.

She stood up hurriedly and looked at Lu Ren, who was holding a sharp weapon.

"You, you're awake!"

Lu Ren did not comment. "Why have you come to my door?"

As he spoke, he looked around to make sure that the warning devices he had set up had not been damaged. Only then did he heave a sigh of relief. Lu Ren was really afraid that he would sleep like a dead pig, and that the warning devices had sounded and he did not respond.

It seemed that Li Shu was still rational.

Immediately after, he said rather unhappily, "Please stay away from me."

Upon hearing Lu Ren's rude words, Li Shu's eyes turned red. She bit her lip and dared not say anything. She retreated silently to the side. If she really went up to pester him, Lu Ren might kill her.

Since last night, it could be seen that Lu Ren did not have any so-called tender feelings for women. Or rather, he really treated men and women equally…

Damn gender equality!

When Lu Ren saw this, he did not say anything and let Li Shu fall into her own speculation.

After checking the warning devices he had set up again, Lu Ren turned around and asked, "How did you get here?"

Li Shu understood what Lu Ren was asking, and she quickly replied, "I was very careful when I walked, and I did not dare to make any noise. Even the flash of my phone was wrapped in my hand, so that the light would not be too bright, so I discovered you had set up these things."

There was something else she had not said. From afar, she saw Lu Ren sleeping with his sword in hand. She had no choice but to find a further place to hide, afraid that Lu Ren would learn from that Cao thief and kill the enemy in his dream…

Lu Ren nodded slightly and stopped talking. He walked to a broken window and looked at the gray scene outside.

It was still the same as yesterday. Shattered buildings were everywhere, and large holes had been created by the impact of the huge object. Some white bones could be vaguely seen lying in the cracks of the ruins.

He took out a piece of high-calorie chocolate from his bag and ate it. He took a few sips of water to moisten his throat. He looked at Li Shu beside him and saw her staring at the chocolate in his hand with wide eyes. Lu Ren stuffed it into his mouth.

"Your belongings should still be down there. Go and get them yourself. It should be safe during the day. If you delay any longer, those who survived probably won't share them with you."

Seeing that Lu Ren had no intention of sharing, Li Shu finally extinguished that hope. The cold-blooded fellow in front of him seemed to have really been surviving in such an apocalypse for a long time.

Selfish and lacking team spirit.

He watched as Li Shu left cautiously and disappeared down the stairs.

Lu Ren shook his head slightly. For people who had entered such an environment, they might really be able to be united and support each other in the first one or two days, but as time passed, with no water or food, in a few days, the urge to drink the other party's blood and eat his flesh would fill his entire body. All his rationality and thoughts would revolve around the desire to live.

Perhaps his thoughts were too absolute, but to him, who had suffered such an encounter, he had to prepare for the worst from the beginning to be fully prepared.

Lu Ren did not want to team up with others. It was better to be a lone wolf than being unable to figure out what the other party was thinking.

Suddenly, his gaze landed on the magazine rack on the counter beside him. To be precise, it was the cover of a magazine on the shelf.

"The new particle discovered by Professor Chen Guohua has been named Hua Particle. It seems to be able to open up a mystic realm."

Lu Ren picked up the magazine and flipped it open to read it in detail.

"In 2046, Professor Chen Guohua found and captured the Hua particle through the super-long particle accelerator."

"In 2047, Professor Chen Guohua led a team to successfully open an alternative dimension spatial passageway in the underground experimental center of Haizhou City by concentrating high-energy impact Hua particles. This was the most glorious moment in human history! Once the exploration of the mystic realm has been completed, we will greatly reduce the depletion of Earth's resources…"

[Ding… You have read the interesting news in the mystic realm magazine and seem to have discovered the clue to the truth behind the destruction of this alternate world of ruins. Your Mental Faculty Proficiency level has increased by 3.]

Seeing this, Lu Ren could not help but look up at the world outside the broken window. This world seemed to have been invaded by monsters from a different dimension due to scientific experiments?

There was a high probability that this was the case.

However, that was obviously a fat monster in human form and a Bamboo Node Blade monster with bamboo stems all over its body. How could they be explained?

A product of sublimation and transformation? And there was also that guy who was blindfolded like a blind monk.

Although he was curious, Lu Ren still did not have any urge to probe further. The right thing to do was to survive circumspectly for seven days.

Everything else was just fleeting clouds. As for exploring, it was totally unnecessary.

Lu Ren opened his backpack and did some calculations. The high-calorie nutritional chocolate provided by Snickers was only the size of two fingers, but the energy contained in it was enough to meet the daily needs of the human body. It was a good choice for those who were training physically to replenish themselves after a long period of high-intensity workouts.

If it was one piece a day, Lu Ren had a total of six pieces in his backpack, it would be enough to last him seven days. As for the two 500ml bottles of mineral water, as long as he did not exercise too intensely and maintained slow movements without sweating, he could still survive.

However, it was still worrying. If he were to encounter these strange monsters that looked even worse than a deformed monster daily, he would have to expend a lot of energy at least to deal with them if he could not escape.

He would need to find more supplies, not just water, but also food and weapons.

If the extinction of this world had erupted around 2047, how many years had passed? There were probably no humans left in this obvious parallel world.

Lu Ren looked at the dust of at least three centimeters that had accumulated on the bar counter and could not help but sigh. It would have been at least ten years.

This was how humans were. In the face of the unknown, they would always have an extremely strong desire to explore. Although it would be accompanied by fear and excitement, this was an inevitable path for every step forward by humans. It was just that the humans of this world had stepped on a mine.

It was not known what these monsters relied on to survive. They probably killed each other.

After confirming his target, Lu Ren used some simple tools in the office and a real leather bag he had found to make an extremely crude belt. He placed the two oddly-shaped swords one on each side.

The Basic Sword Technique was not limited to the general use of a single sword. It could also be used for twin swords. However, as he had been right-handed since young, Lu Ren felt that using the right-hand sword would be more convenient.

He no longer paid attention to Li Shu and the others. In a storage room on the second floor, Lu Ren glanced at Zhao Hui, who was sneaking around like a thief looking at the corridor.

Faced with the other party's surprised expression, Lu Ren ignored him expressionlessly and quickly left the building.