Those who reincarnate must die.

Qingyang City, as its name suggests, is the capital of Qingyang Prefecture, and it was the largest and most prosperous city that Zhang Lang visited before the apocalypse.

The capital of Lu, Shengjing, was the most prosperous metropolis in the country, and even the world, more than a thousand miles from Zhang Lang's hometown. However, due to his financial constraints, he had never traveled that far and had no chance to experience its grandeur. He had once fantasized that if he continued to grow stronger and could travel a thousand miles in two or three days, he might hope to see the ruins of Shengjing in the not-too-distant future…

However, instead of enjoying the magnificent scenery, they will be scavenging the remaining resources.

Before the apocalypse, Zhang Lang had visited Qingyang City several times. In his memory, it was a large city with towering walls and high-rise buildings.

Especially in recent decades, with the Industrial Revolution and the significant increase in productivity, small villages have grown larger thanks to steam power and the abilities of various extraordinary individuals, large villages have expanded into small towns, and various previously large towns have also expanded rapidly.

The ancient city walls of Qingyang have been converted into the inner city, where the old city still retains its antique style. The outer city, on the other hand, has been transformed with new materials and machinery, resulting in the construction of towering buildings that were unimaginable in the past. A longer and taller city wall surrounds these prosperous and towering outer cities.

Zhang Lang arrived outside Qingyang City. The huge city gate was wide open. The once smooth stone road was now overgrown with weeds and vines. Many of the tall buildings were dilapidated and collapsed, and some places were covered with layers of huge spider webs.

The streets were filled with abandoned steam locomotives, rusted and worn. There were also collapsed iron blocks along the roadside. Zhang Lang had seen them in the newspaper before; they seemed to be called water hydrants, connected to water pipes, used to spray water and extinguish fires. Small towns like Anning Town didn't have this feature; it was a privilege of big cities.

Zhang Lang's crossbow had been damaged during the battle with the giant bear. Now, he carefully walked into the outer gate of Qingyang City, carrying the Tiger Roar revolver in his left hand and a javelin in his right.

The population of Qingyang City is at least a million. With such a large population, there are naturally a lot of mutated monsters. As a result, almost no buildings on the streets, whether they are residential houses, shops, apartments, or shopping malls, are intact. There are traces of monster destruction everywhere.

So much time has passed, and most of the monsters in the city would have hunted and killed each other, which means that those that survived in the end must be the strongest and most dangerous ones.

The seemingly dilapidated and peaceful city of Qingyang hides a considerable danger.

However, Zhang Lang didn't need to go too deep. The city's defense troops were usually stationed on the city walls, and the weapons and equipment he wanted could basically be found in the towers and barracks on the city walls.

Of course, these are generally standard equipment. Whether the wealthy merchants and officials in the city have any special or superior weapons hidden away is unknown to Zhang Lang.

He decided to first assess the harvest on the city walls before considering whether to venture deeper into the city.

The outer wall of Qingyang City was about five or six zhang high, roughly seventeen or eighteen meters. Zhang Lang looked up, tucked his javelin into his back, crouched slightly, and then leaped up, easily surpassing the height of the city wall. He then used his hand to grab the battlements and jumped over.

With his current strength, which is several tons, it's really not difficult for him to support his weight of over 100 kilograms and jump 20 or 30 meters.

On the city walls, one can see many skeletons dressed in soldiers' uniforms, some relatively intact, but others gruesome skeletons torn in half or separated by limbs. Even on the hard bricks and battlements, one can often see deep scratches and cracks.

Zhang Lang picked up the fallen gun from beside a corpse. Sure enough, in a large town like Qingyang City, the standard issue for soldiers was bolt-action rifles. But unfortunately, the quality of these standard-issue weapons was far inferior to the Tiger Roar revolver. After being exposed to wind and rain for so long, they were all severely rusted, and the wooden handles were also severely weathered, making them basically unusable.

Zhang Lang simply ignored these things, walked along the city wall, passed through a gun emplacement, and entered an arrow tower not far from the city gate.

Inside the watchtower, there were also some broken bones and weapons. Although the tower had shielded them from the wind and rain, they were all severely rusted.

Zhang Lang descended the spiral staircase to the thick platform of the arrow tower, its outer side protruding from the city wall, sturdy and able to withstand cannon fire. The interior, near the inner side, was hollowed out to serve as a warehouse for storing weapons and supplies, and also connected to the barracks on the inner side of the city wall for soldiers to rest.

There must be well-sealed and better-preserved weapons in the warehouse.

Soon, Zhang Lang found the armory. The door was tightly shut, seemingly untouched since the apocalypse. Zhang Lang pushed hard; the door was sturdy and difficult to break. Both the top and bottom locks were open, showing no signs of being locked. Had it been locked from the inside?

It was probably at the last minute that someone escaped the monsters and fled into a sturdy warehouse. With so much time having passed, even if they hadn't mutated, they would have been trapped and died inside long ago...

We need to find a way to open the door! There's no way he can even squeeze his hand through the crack in the warehouse door. If we had a saw or something, maybe we could get in through the crack and saw off the bolt, but if someone inside is really trying to escape, they'll probably be using something else to hold the door open. Just breaking the bolt might not be enough, and who knows if the bolt is made of wood or iron?

Or, if he doesn't mind the trouble, the gate is ultimately no match for his powerful weapon, and if he keeps hacking at it from the outside, it will eventually break.

As Zhang Lang was pondering this, suddenly, a drop of viscous liquid landed on his hand!

Zhang Lang was startled and instinctively dodged to the side. Almost at the same time, a slender figure descended from the sky, its sharp claws slashing and cutting several marks on the stone bricks on the ground, sparks flying everywhere!

Something was definitely going on!

Zhang Lang squinted and looked at it. It was a monster that looked like a human, but with extremely thin limbs, sharp and long nails, and a naked, hairless body!

The monster, having missed its first attack, stood up, opened its large mouth full of sharp teeth at Zhang Lang, and stuck out its long, thin, purple tongue, leaving behind sticky saliva.

Good heavens, this monster looks thin, and Zhang Lang didn't pay much attention to it at first, but when it stood up, it was probably more than three meters tall, practically a bamboo pole monster!

Zhang Lang narrowed his eyes, scrutinizing the monster, when suddenly Xu's voice echoed in his mind: "Quick, kill him!"

"What?" Zhang Lang was taken aback. Xu seemed like a chatterbox, but he usually worried about the altar, scores, enhancements, and things in the mission world. As for his activities in his home world, as long as he didn't do anything reckless that threatened Xu's existence, he rarely interrupted. He would only answer if Zhang Lang asked him. This sudden outburst surprised Zhang Lang.

"Just listen to me!" Xu's voice was tinged with excitement. "You'll see once you kill him!"

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