Qin Shilei searched the building for quite a while before finding the entrance to the underground supermarket, concealed by some debris.
He knocked on the iron door of the supermarket, followed by faint footsteps and then a few low discussion sounds.
"Do you think it's that big shot from just now?"
"How could that be? I'm afraid he'd already be eaten to the last crumb."
"Don't make a sound, it might be some mutated beast."
"Are you an idiot? Would a mutated beast be so polite as to knock?"
Qin Shilei had no choice but to speak, "Is Jiang Shudie inside? It's me."
The iron door of the supermarket was slowly opened a crack. After the people inside found no other danger besides Qin Shilei, they opened the door halfway.
Jiang Shudie urged, "Hurry in."
Qin Shilei flashed into the supermarket.
"You're not dead yet?" the crew-cut man said in surprise.
Qin Shilei retorted, "I wouldn't die even if you did, so I've disappointed you."
"I misspoke, I hope you don't take offense, sir." The crew-cut man was also adept at reading the wind and immediately apologized sincerely.
Qin Shilei had no intention of arguing with such a minor figure. He turned to Jiang Shudie and said, "Take me to see your leader."
"Okay." Jiang Shudie turned and walked further into the supermarket.
As Qin Shilei followed her, he scanned his surroundings.
The supermarket was in disarray. The food should have been eaten or hidden. Dozens of people were sitting or standing around.
Qin Shilei met their leader, Jie Mingchen, a man in his thirties, in an office inside the supermarket.
After brief introductions, Qin Shilei got straight to the point, "Captain Jie, do you know any clues about leaving Dechuan City?"
Through Jiang Shudie's account, Jie Mingchen knew Qin Shilei was powerful, so he showed no arrogance whatsoever.
He answered readily, "According to the observations and deductions of most of the survivors in our city, our city seems to have a strange connection with another world or a small world."
"To leave, we can either wait for that world to completely merge with our Blue Star, and then we can freely enter and exit that other world and leave this city."
"Because of the merging, there are three singularities in Dechuan City where the two dimensions intersect. If we can destroy these three singularities simultaneously with great power, we can leave here."
"To survive until the other world completely merges with Blue Star, join us. There's strength in numbers, and we can definitely regain our freedom."
His best method was to wait, until the spatial barrier outside Dechuan City disappeared, then they could leave.
"Singularities?" Qin Shilei asked doubtfully, "What makes you believe there are singularities here, and how do you know that destroying three singularities simultaneously will allow us to leave?"
Jie Mingchen spread his hands and explained, "A professor said so. I don't know how credible it is. It's just that there are indeed three very special places in the city."
Experts? Professors?
Qin Shilei felt it was somewhat unreliable.
However, he still decided to go and check those places tomorrow.
After making arrangements with the other party, Qin Shilei left the supermarket and found a clean room upstairs to rest.
The next morning, Qin Shilei was awakened by a clap of thunder.
He brought his two Shadow Leopards, which had been guarding him, and headed straight to the rooftop to continue his lightning-drawing cultivation.
Perhaps because that other world was merging with Blue Star here, the thunderstorms continued intermittently.
Qin Shilei also repeated the process of cultivating, recovering his energy, and then cultivating again.
It wasn't until the afternoon that the dark clouds dispersed slightly, the thunder gradually stopped, and the rain turned into a drizzle.
"I hope this rain lasts longer, and the thunder can be even more violent."
Qin Shilei had not forgotten that his main purpose for coming out this time was to comprehend the power of lightning by utilizing natural lightning, hoping to advance to the Golden realm.
He turned and walked towards the supermarket downstairs.
Jie Mingchen had been waiting in the supermarket for most of the day. As soon as he saw Qin Shilei appear, he immediately greeted him, "Mr. Qin, let's go."
For this outing, he brought five subordinates, one of whom was the familiar Jiang Shudie.
There were also three men and one woman, all of whom had barely reached the Black Iron realm.
A young man called Monkey led the way.
Jie Mingchen and his group followed behind, cautiously walking eastward.
Qin Shilei noticed they stopped to observe every few steps, their pace very slow. He suggested, "Captain Jie, why don't the two of us ride my pets and get there quickly?"
Jie Mingchen was tempted and was about to agree when suddenly a buzzing sound came from ahead.
Immediately after, a large swarm of black shadows appeared in their sight.
With his excellent eyesight, Qin Shilei clearly saw that it was a swarm of hornets the size of sparrows.
At this moment, the swarm of hornets was chasing a large eagle.
Through his Purifying Purple Eyes, Qin Shilei discovered that the eagle actually had a cultivation of Silver Two Stars, and its speed was not much slower than Xiaoqiang's.
However, it was now being chased by a large swarm of hornets and fleeing in disarray, and the distance between them was continuously shrinking.
"Take cover."
Qin Shilei was reluctant to provoke these pack-hunting mutated beasts. He called out and flashed into a nearby shop.
Just as everyone hid, the swarm of hornets finally caught up with the eagle.
"Screech!"
The eagle's tragic cry echoed through the sky.
In Qin Shilei's eyes, he could see countless hornets being struck by the eagle and falling to the ground, but the eagle's body also began to sway.
Before long, the eagle plummeted to the ground, and the hornets also flew down to the ground, pursuing it.
After about ten more minutes, the swarm of hornets rose into the air again and flew away into the distance.
Jie Mingchen said with lingering fear, "Mr. Qin, perhaps we should walk there instead."
Qin Shilei nodded, "Alright, these hornets are indeed troublesome. However, we can slightly speed up our pace. As long as it's not a mutated beast like King Kong, I guarantee you'll be fine."
Thinking that Qin Shilei could escape from King Kong's clutches, Jie Mingchen was no longer so timid and led his subordinates to quickly advance towards their destination.
Along the way, they encountered more than a dozen giant spiders, four to five meters tall, and a pack of demon wolves the size of oxen.
All of them were easily dealt with by Qin Shilei alone.
After walking five to six thousand meters, they finally arrived near a large tree.
It was a large tree with a diameter of two meters and a height of thirty to forty meters.
Jie Mingchen pointed at the tree and said, "This tree is one of the singularities that professor mentioned. If you observe it carefully, you'll see its peculiar nature."
As soon as he finished speaking, the tree began to sway as if in the wind.
It then became flickering and almost invisible, as if it were about to disappear.
Suddenly, dozens of giant spiders appeared abruptly around the tree and then fell to the ground.
"This is how most of the mutated beasts in our city appear," Jie Mingchen explained.
At this moment, the group of spiders also discovered Qin Shilei and his companions and charged towards them menacingly.