The whole nation is trying to survive on the cable car; I'm choosing one of three options at ea

Food and water. Two chocolates, a pack of compressed biscuits, and a bottle of mineral water. Traveling light, not planning to bring too much.

Finally, there was the backpack. He stuffed everything into it, zipped it up, and slung it over his shoulder. The backpack wasn't heavy; with his current strength, the weight was practically negligible.

After finishing organizing, Su Mu opened the daily intelligence interface.

[Current available uses: 1]

【use or not? 】

confirm.

[Intelligence 1: There is a golden treasure chest inside Ash University, approximately 16 kilometers from your current cable car. Please note that this area is teeming with monsters, including a Lv8 mutated creature.]

[Intelligence 2: There is a secret realm entrance in the Ash City Zoo, approximately 53 kilometers from your current cable car. Please note that this area is inhabited by mutated creatures of level 10 and above.]

Two.

Su Mu raised an eyebrow slightly. He was lucky today, getting two intelligence reports. But when he saw the details, his brows furrowed again.

Lv8. Lv10.

These two numbers felt like two mountains pressing down on him.

He's currently level four, with 133 Strength, 102 Constitution, and 69 Agility. He's more than capable of dealing with level five blue-quality Lickers, but level eight? Level ten? He has no confidence whatsoever.

Furthermore, the intelligence report described it as a "Lv8 mutated creature," without specifying its quality. If it were of ordinary quality, he might still be able to handle it. But if it were green, blue, or even higher... then it would be dangerous.

But the words "golden treasure chest" and "secret realm" made it impossible for him to give up easily.

The gold treasure chest is two levels higher than the silver one.

He had opened bronze and silver levels before, and knew how much improvement each level brought. He had gotten blue armor from bronze and purple job books and power fruits from silver.

What can you get from those gold coins? Purple equipment? Orange-level character classes? Or something even more advanced?

Needless to say, the secret realm was even more extraordinary. The owner of that diary died in the secret realm.

Before he died, he gathered all his equipment and went in with the determination to "do or die." Although he ultimately failed, it at least proved that... there were indeed good things in the secret realm, and good things worth risking one's life for.

Su Mu remained silent for a moment, quickly calculating in his mind.

But then, a question came to his mind.

Are the monsters in this city generally of a very high level?

The cable car was shut down for 72 hours in Ash City, an overwhelming army of monsters attacked the city, and the city walls bore countless traces of battle... All of this indicated that Ash City was no ordinary city.

It is the front line, the battlefield, the fortress that those monsters want to breach.

How could the monsters be low-level in a place like this?

Su Mu walked to the window and looked outside.

Then he paused for a moment.

Last night, he could clearly see the cable cars on the cable line next to him... those foreign cable cars, only a few hundred meters away from his, he could even vaguely see the outlines of the cars. But now, the view outside the window is empty, and the cable line has disappeared.

No, it didn't disappear.

The distance has increased.

The cable car had been traveling all night, and the distance between the two cables had widened to a point where they were indistinguishable to the naked eye. It was also possible that the cable layout changed after the cable car entered the skies above Ash City... He remembered that after entering the barrier last night, the cable car made several turns and changed direction.

Su Mu didn't dwell on these details. He looked down at the city below the cable car.

........

Less than 100 meters above the ground, everything in the city is clearly visible.

The streets of Ash City are teeming with monsters.

It wasn't the scattered distribution he had encountered in Xishan before, but a real, overwhelming rampage.

Hordes of zombies roamed the streets. Not the slow, unsteady Level 1 zombies, but Level 2, 3, and even 4. They moved faster, reacted more nimbly, and some could even trot across the streets. Su Mu saw one zombie pounce on another, tearing at it a few times before leaving the corpse behind and continuing to roam... They were preying on each other.

Goblins. Not the small, level-one kind, but larger, more muscular goblin warriors. They crouched in groups of three or five at street corners, clutching rusty iron rods and wooden clubs, warily observing their surroundings.

Minotaur. Su Mu saw at least three, larger than the ones he had seen in Peace Town before.

There was one standing in the middle of the crossroads, at least three meters tall, covered in black fur, holding a huge stone hammer, and exhaling white mist from its nostrils with each breath.

There are also things he has never seen before.

On a main road in the distance, several five-meter-tall giants were walking slowly.

Their skin was grayish-brown, like rough rock, and the ground trembled slightly with every step they took. Su Mu counted at least five, lined up in a row, as if on patrol.

Further away, there were other things he couldn't make out clearly. They were larger and moved faster, weaving between buildings, occasionally revealing half of their form before quickly disappearing from sight.

This is a city full of monsters.

Su Mu withdrew his gaze and took a deep breath.

His earlier guess was correct... It wasn't that his two intelligence monsters were high-level, but rather that the monster levels throughout the city were generally quite high. Level eight and ten might only be considered "relatively strong" in this city, not "the strongest."

But he wasn't intimidated.

He opened the chat channel and first checked the Ash City public channel.

The number 53 is displayed in the upper right corner.

Fifty-three cables. More cables have been added since last night.

Based on the initial 1,000 people per cable, there should be 53,000 people.

But after the deaths of the past few days, only about one-third to one-half of the survivors are still alive. A rough estimate suggests that there are at least 20,000 to 30,000 people currently in the skies above Ash City.

There were significantly more messages in the public channel than last night, but there was still no fluff. Each message consumed one Mystic Stone, and those who could speak here were all people with power and resources.

"Looking to buy breakthrough runes of level 3 or higher. Can be exchanged for blue materials. DM me."

"To explore the Ash University area in a team, you need to be level 3 or above and have a combat class. Send me your stats via private message."

Su Mu went through the list one by one, silently noting down the frequently appearing IDs. Ash University... that was also his target. Someone was teaming up to explore that area, meaning he wasn't the only one eyeing that school.

He then turned on the regional channel of his cable.

The atmosphere is completely different from that on public channels.