Across Deep Space: Four Men and a Play

Li Shen didn't respond. He didn't like close interactions with others. He was about to refuse when Xiao Meng interrupted him.

[Let’s go! I want to see what life is like for other people here.]

Li Shen is very powerful and his quality of life can barely maintain the level before the chaos, so Xiao Meng has not seen what life is like for other people in the apocalypse.

Li Shen heard her coquettish voice and shook his head helplessly and said to Li Feng, "Okay."

"Eh? Okay, then Mr. Li, please follow me!"

Li Feng was surprised for a moment, but still happily led the way.

Who in the entire Lincheng doesn't want to have a friendship with a powerful evolver like Mr. Li?

Although many people are afraid of him, they have to admit that his powerful strength is still something to be admired.

Moreover, if what Li Shen did was bloodthirsty and ruthless before the chaos, it is now normal.

After all, being infected means certain death. It is better to eliminate them from the beginning than to let them suffer and then mutate and threaten others.

This understanding has been accepted by everyone in recent years.

Sometimes I have to sigh that human beings have a very strong adaptability and can survive tenaciously in any environment. Perhaps this is the reason why humans can always stand at the top in countless worlds.

Led by Li Feng, they arrived at the door of an inconspicuous shop.

"Boss, old rules." Li Feng shouted as he entered the door.

A middle-aged fat woman in an apron came out. "Li Feng is here?"

"Why, is your team having another party today?"

Li Feng is a regular here. He often brings his team to this small restaurant for gatherings.

After all, after fighting and killing every day to make money, one always needs to take a break, and in this hellish world, having a good meal is considered a pleasure, so they come here every once in a while.

"No, I'm inviting a guest today. Sister Mang, please order some hearty dishes."

Sister Mang glanced at Li Shen and the neatly groomed kitten on his shoulder and thought to herself, this kid Li Feng must have met a noble person.

"Li Feng, you are so lucky."

"Your brother-in-law returned from Safe City No. 1 today and brought a lot of goodies."

"I've arranged it for you today!"

Li Feng quickly thanked, "Thank you, Sister Mang!"

"Brother-in-law has been gone for more than a month. Base No. 1 is really far away." He couldn't help but sigh. He heard that Sister Mang's husband and the sailing team went out more than a month ago.

Sister Mang couldn't help but sigh, "There's nothing we can do about it. The food from the outside world now contains dangerous concentrations of supernatural energy. Who would dare to eat it? The nearby safe cities don't trade much food. Old Luo can only follow the voyage team to the farther safe cities to exchange."

"Hey, I'm glad you came back safely."

"I don't know when this day will end. Those people in the safe city..." Sister Mang suddenly stopped and sighed heavily.

But everyone present knew what she meant by the unfinished words.

There are enough resources and food in the safe city to last for hundreds of millions of years for the entire world, but those people built a high protective zone to isolate ordinary people like them from the evolved ones with lower strength, as well as the elderly, the weak and the disabled, leaving them to fend for themselves. Who wouldn't hate them, but what can they do?

If you want to live, you have to obey.

Sometimes they even wished that the safe zone would be completely destroyed by the homeless riots of the past few years.

Those stinking rich and powerful people are worse than homeless people.

Li Feng understood Sister Mang's feelings and comforted her, "Forget it, don't think too much. Sister Mang, thank you for your help."

Sister Mang put away her emotions and said with a smile, "No problem, I'll arrange it for you!"

"You guys take a seat first!"

After inviting Li Feng and the others to sit down in a cubicle, Sister Mang went to the kitchen.

Li Feng asked the people around him to take the things they bought back first before he sat down.

"Mr. Li, that mutant..."

"killed."

Li Shen spoke lightly and held the little thing who was standing on his shoulder and looking around in his arms to prevent her from falling.

"That's good, but why is Mr. Li there?"

There are no high-level wandering bodies in that area anymore. If there are no more after a while, it will be downgraded to an intermediate area. He also wants to try his luck.

"Wandering around, that's not an intermediate area, why are you there?"

People in the outside world divide the areas where wandering bodies of different levels appear into three levels: high, medium and low.

Teams like Li Feng's, which have more ordinary people and fewer evolved players, usually only go to the intermediate area, where the level of the wandering bodies that appear will not exceed level 35.

Even if an accident happens, there is still time to run.

"Well, the team is too big and the burden is too heavy. Plus, several of the Evolers are stuck at level 33, so we wanted to try our luck."

To upgrade this evol, one must fight more with wandering bodies, but there will be no level 33 wandering bodies in the intermediate area, and several of his teammates have been stuck at level 33 for a long time.

Everyone was getting a little impatient as they couldn't level up the level 30 wanderers. Thinking that the area was also going to be downgraded, they wanted to see if they could encounter level 33 wanderers.

[Note: Naturally occurring strays in this world will automatically respawn, so they are inexhaustible. However, human mutations will not respawn. Human Evolers who win battles against natural strays will gain a harmless energy that allows them to upgrade their Evol.]

"The high-level area hasn't been downgraded yet, so don't take any risks." Li Shen thought for a moment and reminded, "The wandering bodies that appear in the first few days of the downgrade are high-level but not very damaging. You can try it then."

The regional level is determined by the exploration of the people in the gathering place. Each gathering place has a management team, whose members are the top 20 people in the gathering place.

They usually don't do anything but detect the level and energy risk factor of the area near the gathering place and then publish it on the bulletin board of the gathering place.

It was a piece of cake and it would also benefit them so no one would refuse. Li Shen was also in the management team.

People with strong strength basically only go to high-level areas, so when they find that high-level wandering bodies in high-level areas no longer refresh, they will tell the management team. The management team will observe for a period of time. After confirming that there will be no high-level wandering bodies, they will announce the downgrade of the area.

Li Feng was stunned. "Thank you Mr. Li for the reminder."

This was the first time he heard of this. In the past, even if a high-level area was downgraded, people would not go there immediately, because there would still be high-level wandering bodies appearing in the first few days after the downgrade. At that time, it was usually a strong team that would clean it up.

No one has said such news.

Those people hid it really well.

[Li Shen, what is a sailing team?] Xiao Meng curiously tugged at Li Shen's collar, looking at him with her big, watery eyes.

Li Shen shook his head at her. "What's going on with the expedition team?"

Li Shen didn’t know, but Li Feng in front of him knew.

"Well, it's a bit like a traveling merchant group, traveling around various gathering places and safe cities."

"The captain of their team is said to be very powerful, and even the Safe City has to give him face."

"Many people who want to go to the safe city to trade can join the team by paying money."

"Is Mr. Li also interested?"

Li Feng was not surprised that Li Shen didn't know about this long-distance sailing team. After all, everyone in the gathering place knew that Mr. Li only fought against wandering bodies every day.

"No."

Li Feng smiled knowingly, and suddenly seemed to remember something and said, "By the way, Mr. Li, someone has been asking about your whereabouts recently. You have to be careful."

Xiao Meng curled her lips [It must be that guy with the buzz cut, so annoying!]

How come this person is so idle? He causes trouble for them every day.

"I understand. Thank you." Li Shen looked at her angry expression and couldn't help but reach out and touch her back soothingly.

He was just a clown, and he didn't take him seriously.

"You're welcome. It's my duty, but..." Li Feng's gaze fell on Xiao Meng. No one knew before that Mr. Li had raised such a cute little guy.

"You might need to pay more attention to your cat. They're trying to find out your whereabouts for unknown reasons. If they can't find you, they might turn their attention to her."

Li Shen lowered his eyes and looked at the little guy in his arms. He grabbed her claws and pressed them. The claws, as sharp as knives, were pressed out from the pink pads.

"Yes, but the little guy's claws are very sharp." The little claws that can even hold down mutants are not something that ordinary people can touch.

Li Feng saw the claws reflecting the cold light and thought to himself that it was indeed Mr. Li's pet and was as dangerous as he was.

"The dishes are here!" Sister Mang took a tray and placed several dishes on the table.

The steaming hot braised pork and the fiery red spicy chicken both exude an enchanting aroma. Although it’s not much, just a small bowl, it’s still considered rich.

Not only was Li Feng drooling, but Li Shen's fingers also moved almost inaudibly.

After all, he hadn't eaten fresh meat for a long time since the chaos. Most of the food he had eaten was dry food and instant candy.

【Wow, it smells so good.】

Xiao Meng couldn't help but stretch out her claws.

"Mr. Li, it's nothing special, please don't mind it." Li Feng was still a little embarrassed. His bowl was so small, he didn't know whether Mr. Li would like it or not.

In his opinion, as a person with extremely high combat power, Mr. Li should live a very privileged life and should eat these things often.

"will not."

Li Shen calmly held down Xiao Meng's restless paws, picked up a piece of braised pork from his bowl, divided it into small pieces, and passed it to her mouth.

"Um, Mr. Li, this is..." Li Feng was stunned when he saw that she actually opened her mouth and ate.

"It's okay, she can eat."

Li Feng looked at the scene in front of him and began to doubt his life. Can cats really eat what humans eat?

No way, right?

But looking at the kitten's sleek and energetic appearance, it should be fine, right?

After eating, Li Shen exchanged a few polite words with Li Feng and left with Xiao Meng.

Sister Mang looked at Li Shen who was leaving and asked Li Feng, "Xiao Li, who is this person..."

Li Feng: "He is Mr. Li."

Sister Mang was startled. "Mr. Li? That..."

"Yes."

"Isn't he a murderer? Why does he look..." not very ferocious?

People are also very polite.

Li Feng said meaningfully, "It's not good to judge people by their appearance."

Sister Mang nodded. "I heard he keeps to himself. How did you get to know him?"

"An unexpected incident. By the way, did Brother Luo bring back any goodies from Base No. 1?"

"Of course I have. Come with me." Sister Mang pulled Li Feng mysteriously to the back room.

This time, her husband Luo got some very rare medicines!

If someone asked her, she might not tell them.

.....

On the other side, Li Shen continued to stroll around the market with Xiao Meng. When they passed by a small stall, Li Shen stopped.

[Li Shen, why did you stop? ]

"fine."

The stall owner looked at the man holding a cat who suddenly appeared in front of him and was a little confused, but he still greeted him with a smile.

"Would this gentleman like to order something?"

"Yeah." Li Shen nodded and started looking at the stall.

This is a stall full of small accessories, with a wide variety of jewelry placed randomly.

Things that were rare in peacetime were now piled up carelessly.

"Well, how much is it?"

Li Shen pointed to a flower pendant inlaid with dark blue crystal.

The boss took a look at it, picked it up, and handed it to Li Shen. "If you like this, sir, I'll give you a fair price: two level 2 cores."

Li Shen stroked his subordinate's pendant and threw the two cores to the boss.

Seeing that Li Shen was so happy, the stall owner also gave him an adjustable silver necklace.

"Sir, if you want to give it to someone, you'd better add a pendant to make it more wearable. This is for you. Come back next time~"

【Why did you buy this? 】

Xiao Meng didn't quite understand what he was going to do. Li Shen never seemed to wear jewelry. Was he buying it for her?

"for you."

Li Shen spoke softly and put the necklace around her neck. The silver chain was very thin and was covered by Xiao Meng's white fluff as soon as it was put on.

However, the small flower on the crystal pendant was clearly exposed, making the already noble kitten look even more lively.

Seeing this, Li Shen's eyes flashed with satisfaction.

"Like it?"

[I like it!] Xiao Meng's voice was filled with obvious joy. She always liked shiny things.

What's more, she was just guessing whether Li Shen was going to give it to her, but before she could ask, Li Shen put it on her!

Who doesn't like receiving gifts?

"nice! You love it."

Li Shen let out an almost inaudible sigh of relief. This was his first time giving her something, and he was afraid he might not have given her the right thing, but it seemed like she liked it very much.

Where are we going next?

Xiao Meng went from standing on his shoulder to lying in Li Shen's arms, her two paws constantly fiddling with the pendant around her neck.

"Don't you want to go shopping?"

"Let me show you."

[Okay.] Xiao Meng thought Li Shen would take her home. After all, he didn't seem to have any interest in shopping.

In this way, the two continued to stroll around the market, stopping from time to time to buy some small things.

It was also at this time that Xiao Meng clearly realized that Li Shen was so rich and basically never bargained when buying things.

And there are too many advanced cores at hand.

[Li Shen, are you so rich? ]

Xiao Meng was shocked for a while when she learned about the trading currency and prices in this world.