Chapter 1001: Chapter 998: Doomsday Marauders
Huangyang County.
On the third day after Yang Fei left, Xu Mao, Xu Xingzhou, Zhang Long, Zhu Wenjie, Yang Wen, and Xia Bingqing all arrived at the Mo Family.
When the terrifying flood began to engulf Binhai, Xu Xingzhou, Xu Mao, and Zhang Long rushed to Binhai University immediately.
Yang Wen is Yang Fei’s cousin and the family member Yang Fei cares about and thinks about the most in Binhai. So, when the disaster occurred, besides ensuring their own safety, the first person they thought of was Yang Wen.
Zhu Wenjie felt the same way.
He is a student at Binhai University and knows Yang Wen’s dormitory location. So, after the disaster struck, he was the first to arrive on the scene.
At that time, Yang Wen was with Xia Bingqing, so Zhu Wenjie brought them along to escape. Later, they met up with Xu Xingzhou, Xu Mao, and Zhang Long.
At that time, the entire Binhai was in great panic, and the roads were chaotic. Xu Mao, Xu Xingzhou, and Zhang Long were all martial arts experts. Xu Mao had already entered the Energy Transformation Realm, and Xu Xingzhou surpassed his Uncle Mao, becoming an expert in the Energy Transformation Fifth Grade.
Zhang Long was somewhat weak in his foundation, but after receiving assistance in cultivation from Yang Fei through the Six Harmonies Qi Gathering Needle Technique, he achieved the Inner Strength Late Stage Peak. Later, he joined the Qimen Management Bureau and received a small bottle of genetic liquid medicine, allowing him to enter the Energy Transformation Realm. Now he is in the Energy Transformation Second Rank.
Zhu Wenjie was the weakest. He still only had the cultivation of Inner Strength Middle Stage.
This was partially thanks to the spiritual energy revival, combined with the Zhu Family’s rise due to Zhu Tianshou’s emergence, and their kinship with Tong Yunshu. The Zhu Family is also relatives with Yang Fei, so they received more cultivation resources, allowing Zhu Wenjie to progress from the peak of External Strength to Inner Strength cultivation.
Now, with the revival of spiritual energy and natural disasters descending, although their group wasn’t exceptionally powerful, they had some means of self-protection.
Thus, when the seawater submerged Binhai, they banded together and managed to escape Binhai.
When they left Binhai, the world was still in turmoil, with the earth shaking, phones losing signals, constant rain falling from the sky, and all means of transportation like airplanes, high-speed trains, highways, and provincial roads severed, completely cutting them off from the outside world.
At that time, even as Xu Xingzhou, Xu Mao, Zhang Long, and Zhu Wenjie were cultivators, they were still at a loss, not knowing if the apocalypse had already arrived.
Fortunately, Xu Mao was older and the first to remain calm. He suggested going to Yunwu Mountain’s Base to find Yang Fei.
Xu Xingzhou agreed as well.
However, Yang Wen insisted that Yang Fei and Qin Yanyang had high cultivation levels and would certainly be fine. She was instead worried about the safety of her parents and wanted to return to Huangyang County to check on them.
Xu Mao, Xu Xingzhou, Zhang Long, and Zhu Wenjie all valued Yang Wen highly, not just for currying favor with Yang Fei, but out of gratitude towards Yang Fei.
Yang Fei helped them immensely. Without him, they wouldn’t have achieved their current accomplishments. So this gratitude transformed into protection for Yang Wen.
Seeing Yang Fei worried about her mother and brother and sister-in-law, they discussed and decided to head to Huangyang County.
After all, they were planning to go to Yunwu Mountain’s Base to join Yang Fei and Qin Yanyang, so they decided to bring all of Yang Fei’s family along and then head to Yunwu Mountain’s Base together.
As for Xia Bingqing, she was thoroughly at a loss.
Her hometown was in the north, and now with signals down, she couldn’t contact her family. In a world like this apocalyptic world, staying with Yang Wen’s group offered her more safety, so she joined them.
The six grouped together and headed from Binhai to Xiangxi, encountering some vehicles that could still start along the way. As long as the roads allowed, they traveled by car.
When roads were blocked and the group’s strength couldn’t repair them to continue, they abandoned the vehicles and proceeded on foot.
In this way, after enduring hardships and crossing mountains and rivers, they finally arrived at Huangyang County.
Seeing her mother, brother, and sister-in-law were alive, Yang Wen cried tears of joy.
Yang Hao and the others were even more delighted to see Yang Wen.
During their conversation, they learned Yang Fei had been here three days prior and had already gone to Binhai to search for Yang Wen’s whereabouts, leaving Yang Wen deeply moved.
Now, with transportation inconvenient and phones unable to get through, they had no way to reach Yang Fei. After discussion, they decided to wait here for a few days.
Because Yang Fei said, whether or not he found Yang Wen, he would return to take them to Yunwu Mountain’s Base.
Mo Deqiang and the Mo Family members treated these guests warmly.
Regardless of their good relationship with Yang Fei, even if it wasn’t there, given Xu Xingzhou, Xu Mao, and Zhang Long’s cultivation realms, in this chaotic apocalypse, they could easily take everything Mo Family had for survival.
Their presence here instead made Mo Family safer.
That afternoon, everyone was barbecuing in the large courtyard of Mo Family’s old residence, and the chimney was stewing mouth-watering wild meat.
Suddenly, a Mo Family member rolled and crawled over in panic, shouting loudly, "Uncle, something’s wrong, Uncle."
Mo Deqiang furrowed his brow, lowered his voice, and scolded, "What’s the panic, calm down, speak properly."
The Mo Family youth looked to be about twenty-four or twenty-five years old. His face was pale, his body still trembling as he pointed outside the estate and said, "Uncle, there... there’s a group of people coming here to plunder resources. They... their martial arts skills are high."
Everyone’s expressions slightly changed.
Mo Deqiang said to Xu Xingzhou and the others, "Please wait, honored guests, I’ll go take a look."
Xu Mao stood up and said, "We’ve troubled Mr. Mo here for so long, what kind of honored guests are we? In this chaotic world, there are those who want to take advantage of the situation, ignoring Minister Qin’s cultivated practitioners’ statutes, treating the Divine Continent like a chaos. Since I’ve taken the salary, I can’t just ignore this."
His words were bold and stirred everyone present to admiration. Xu Xingzhou agreed, "Uncle Mao is right, even though it feels like the apocalypse now, precisely because of this, we cultivators must prevent lawless people from running rampant and restore order in the Divine Continent."
Zhang Long also nodded, "That’s right. Besides self-defense and fitness, us martial artists must have a spirit of chivalry. Let’s go and check the situation."
Mo Deqiang felt reassured.
Since the disaster, he had been on guard, knowing human nature is the most vulnerable to testing. The Mo Family was considered a major household here, rich in resources, and in this apocalyptic world, who knows if someone would target the Mo Family.
Now, with Xu Xingzhou and others here as guests, he felt much more at ease. With these martial arts experts, the Mo Family’s safety was more assured.
Xu Mao said to Zhu Wenjie, "Wenjie, you stay here and keep an eye out. If things look bad, evacuate them first, understand?"
Zhu Wenjie, originally wanting to see the commotion, didn’t expect Xu Mao to assign him this task. Though young, he was steady in handling things and nodded, "Rest assured, Senior Xu, I know what to do."
"Hahaha, who would have thought there’d be so many pretty women here and such delicious food. We can finally feast."
"Most importantly, the feng shui here is excellent. This large estate is perfect for us to station and recuperate."
Just then, several loud voices came from outside.
Soon, four or five figures swiftly dashed from afar and directly leaped into the courtyard within the estate’s walls.