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

Su Mu suddenly turned around.

The woman jumped out of the second-floor window.

His body slammed onto the concrete floor with a dull thud.

Blood spread from beneath her, quickly forming a small pool. Her posture was contorted, her limbs bent at unnatural angles, her head tilted to one side, her eyes half-open, gazing at the sky.

His expression was calm.

Su Mu stood there, staring at the mangled corpse, and remained silent for a long time.

For a moment, something seemed to stir within him, but he quickly shook his head.

A surge of anger seemed to rise within him...

He didn't expect her to do that.

He thought that after she vented her anger, she would try to live. But she chose to die.

Su Mu sighed.

He walked over, took a spare jacket from his backpack, and covered the woman with it, concealing the unsightly marks.

Then he stood up and continued walking toward the third building.

The dead are dead, but the living must go on living.

The third building was a warehouse; the door had been blown off, and the inside was empty, with only a few toppled iron frames and some scattered parts remaining. Su Mu quickly searched it, but found nothing.

The fourth building was a garage with several military trucks and jeeps, but they were all burned to their skeletons by the blast. He rummaged through them and found a few cans of fuel, which he put into his backpack.

The fifth building was a separate two-story building that looked like officers' quarters. Su Mu searched it and found some living supplies... bedding, clothes, a few unopened bottles of wine... but nothing of value.

He packed the bottles of liquor into his backpack. Grain-based brewing was too expensive, but if there was ready-made liquor, it could be used directly to make medicinal wine, saving the brewing process and costs.

After searching the last building, Su Mu stood in the open space and looked around.

The military base yielded far more than he had anticipated... two firearms, a large quantity of ammunition, forty grenades, smoke grenades, flashbangs, and various materials and supplies. But some things puzzled him.

He couldn't find the chest belonging to that level 5 monster.

The number of boxes containing the monsters that were blown up last night was far less than he had expected.

Perhaps those foreigners collected them!

As he was thinking, a faint sound suddenly came from afar.

It wasn't the sound of the wind, nor the sound of buildings collapsing, but...

The sounds of battle.

The sounds of ping-pong balls, mixed with shouts and screams, came from behind the second building... the officers' quarters... The sounds were faint and not close, but exceptionally clear in the quiet ruins.

Su Mu frowned, stood up, and looked in that direction.

Just then, he noticed something.

The woman's body was nowhere to be found where she jumped.

He had clearly covered her body with his coat, but now, that coat was still on the ground, soaked in blood, crumpled and lying there. Underneath the coat, there was nothing.

There were no bodies, nothing at all.

Su Mu's pupils suddenly contracted.

He strode over, crouched down, and lifted his coat. There was a large pool of blood on the ground, but the center of the pool was hollow, as if something had dragged the body away from the blood.

Su Mu stood up and glanced around. There was only this one pool of blood on the ground, with no trace of it extending outwards.

At that moment, he suddenly remembered... that none of the monster corpses inside were left.

It's important to know that after a monster drops a box, its corpse should remain in place.

He had previously assumed that the box wouldn't be blown to pieces by the explosion, but that the bodies would be torn to pieces in the blast. However, he overlooked the fact that... none of the bodies were there anymore.

He had completely overlooked this point before...

Su Mu swallowed hard.

A thought flashed through his mind, sending a chill down his spine.

Those bodies weren't blown to pieces; something took them away.

What is that collecting corpses?

Su Mu took a deep breath, suppressing the chill in his heart. He glanced in the direction of the officers' quarters... the sounds of fighting continued, growing ever closer.

He didn't want to go there.

He didn't want to get involved in what was going on over there. He had already gained enough today; there was no need to take any extra risks.

Su Mu turned around and walked back the way he came.

He had only walked a few steps when he suddenly stopped.

His gaze suddenly shifted to the corner of the officers' quarters... There, a dark figure rushed out from around the corner, moving with incredible speed, heading straight for him.

Su Mu's pupils contracted.

.......

Hundreds of meters away from the military base, at the edge of a dense forest, Han Lei lay hidden behind a clump of bushes, holding binoculars and carefully observing the movements inside the base.

"It really is a military base." He lowered his voice, his tone tinged with excitement. "I felt something was off when I saw it from the cable car, and I never expected it to be an armory."

"Last night's explosion should have cleared out most of the monsters inside, right?"

Sun Lei squatted down beside him, a hammer in his hand, his eyes gleaming. "Even if there are any left, they'll definitely be badly injured. If we can get our hands on the supplies inside, will we still need to put up with Zhao Hongyuan's attitude?"

"Keep your voice down." Zhou Xiaojie glared at him, gripping the short knife in her hand, and warily scanned her surroundings. "Something's not right here; it's too quiet."

Han Lei didn't reply, continuing to scan the interior of the base with his binoculars. Suddenly, his movements froze.

"Wait... there's someone over there."

The others immediately tensed up and looked in the direction Han Lei pointed. Through the sparse trees, they could vaguely see several figures moving at the edge of the base.

"They're foreigners." Han Lei frowned, adjusting the focus of his binoculars. "Five... no, six people. They're sneaking into that building; they look like they're after the armory too."

"Damn it, I'm late." Sun Lei spat.

"Don't rush." ​​Han Lei put down his binoculars and lowered his voice. "Let them scout ahead first. There's no way this place would be completely empty."

The words had barely left his mouth...

"ah......!"

A piercing scream came from the direction of the base, breaking the silence of the early morning.

Han Lei suddenly raised his binoculars.

At the edge of the base, the foreign team had just slipped into the shadow of a building and hadn't even had time to disperse when a gray-white shadow darted out from the ruins.

fast.

Incredibly fast.

Han Lei's binoculars couldn't keep up with the shadow's movements at all; he could only see a blurry afterimage weaving between the six people. With each pause, one person fell down.

"What is that thing?!" Zhou Xiaojie's voice trembled.

No one answered.

Everyone was staring intently in that direction, trying to see the true form of that shadow.

Six people, in less than five seconds, all collapsed.