The apocalyptic livestream attracted a lot of haters, alarming the government.

There were actually survivors?

Ye Xiao and his group did not let their guard down and carefully followed the guy into the abandoned house.

The dimly lit, abandoned room was illuminated by a burning campfire.

Four adventurers sat around the campfire, making a total of five, including the one who led the way.

As soon as they reached the door, Ye Xiao and his group smelled a strong stench of blood.

Ye Xiao's gaze quickly swept across the room, and then his eyes locked onto the figure leaning against the wall.

The man's hand appeared to have been severed by something, and the remaining half of his arm was tightly wrapped in bandages, yet the overflowing bright red blood could not be contained.

Even in the orange-red firelight, his slightly thin face still couldn't hide his paleness.

"Boss!"

The short man who led the way ran over quickly. The group of people by the campfire turned to look at Ye Xiao and his companions. They were all in a sorry state, with wounds of all sizes, but none of them were as badly injured as the guy called "Boss".

Ye Xiao winked at the white fox beside him, and the white fox immediately nodded, walked forward, took off the backpack on its back, and took out a first-aid kit from it.

After taking out the emergency treatment medication, the white fox handed over a few painkillers.

"This is painkiller, take some first."

"Great!"

The people around the campfire breathed a sigh of relief as the white fox skillfully began to treat the other person's wounds again.

"What do you call it?"

Ye Xiao walked towards the campfire, sat down on the ground beside it, and asked the guy with the missing arm a question to distract him.

The other person looked Ye Xiao up and down carefully, then gave a bleak grin.

"Just call me Dafeng. We're from the Dongmu Squad. Hehe, it's a pity there are only so few of us left now."

His smile was bleak. The men around the campfire gritted their teeth, their eyes filled with angry hatred. The short man leading the way sniffed, his voice trembling slightly.

"Damn it, those bastards, we have to get revenge!"

Ye Xiao and his group exchanged glances but did not speak, listening in silence.

A man by the campfire clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth, saying:

"Those Rattlesnake bastards, they deserve to die a horrible death!"

Rattlesnake Squad? Ye Xiao stroked his chin and muttered to himself:

"This name sounds familiar!"

Chen Ge leaned over and said, "The adventurer team that took on a special mission from Boss Tang during the rainy season before, they are no pushovers."

Ye Xiao searched his memory for a while and recalled the team.

"They're back?"

To be able to go out during the rainy season and return safely, it seems that the Rattlesnake Squad members are no ordinary people.

Zhou Hu and his companions had naturally heard of this adventure team before, and looked at them, asking:

"What happened to them? Did they cause you all this?"

Dafeng took a deep breath, his voice trembling slightly from the pain.

"Were you also sent in on a mission from the base?"

Ye Xiao shook his head. "No, we didn't accept a mission, but we ran into Red Shark and Thugs. They accepted the mission and came in together to investigate, saying they were looking for missing adventurers."

"Damn it, those bastards, they've set a trap again!"

The men from Dafeng began to curse angrily. Chen Ge sensed something was wrong and his expression turned serious. "Setting a trap? What do you mean?"

Dafeng took a deep breath and said:

"We've been tricked. Those guys didn't come to us to ask for our help with their mission."

He let out a long breath, the hatred in his eyes almost tangible.

"The Rattlesnake Squad brought a group of people from an unknown place. Those people were probably not from the base. I don't know what kind of agreement they reached with the base, which led to the base issuing the mission to explore this area."

"They organized us to come here together, but it wasn't to have us, the adventure team, assist them at all."

At this point, Dafeng suddenly chuckled, seemingly hating his own stupidity.

"No, it should be said that those guys were just using us adventure teams as cannon fodder."

"They deliberately assigned us tasks, making us split up to explore, which was actually to let us scout ahead first."

"This place is extremely dangerous. Many adventure teams have lost a lot of people along the way. We always thought those guys were taking a different route."

"Unexpectedly, they were actually following behind us, making us scout ahead for them. Only after we lured the danger away did they follow us through."

Upon hearing this, Zhou Hu and his group frowned deeply.

Dafeng continued, "After we realized their intentions, we refused to continue being cannon fodder. However, those guys had too much firepower. Later, they forced us, and even deliberately forced us to approach those dangerous plants, and then observe the changes in the people who were caught by the plants."

"what?"

Han Yu gasped, "Why? Why did they do this?"

Dafeng shook his head. "I don't know. In some places, we could have avoided the danger, but the rattlesnake followed that group of people and kept throwing us into the plants' attack range one by one."

"Yes, right, it seems that one of them is a researcher, enthusiastically recording everyone's changes with his instruments."

Everyone was alarmed upon hearing this. Although the campfire beside them was burning brightly, Ye Xiao felt a chill run down his spine.

A perverse sense of humor? No, could that guy be a researcher recording mutations and conducting experiments?

White Fox frowned as he stitched up the severed arm. Da Feng, a tough man, endured the excruciating pain and spoke haltingly.

The white fox couldn't help but ask, "What happened to your hand?"

Dafeng chuckled helplessly, "I was injured by those plants, and I was afraid of causing a mutation, so I chopped off my arm!"

[Three Foxes: Holy crap, that's ruthless!]

[SilverMoon315: What a man!]

[All five internal organs damaged: Awesome!]

[Big Cousin: Damn, just looking at this makes my hands hurt!]

……

Ye Xiao was also shocked. Looking at the bloody and mangled arm, he couldn't help but twitch his eyes, feeling a phantom pain in his arm.

That's a real man!

Just then, Chen Ge suddenly asked, "Are the people that Rattlesnakes are with outsiders? What are their characteristics?"

The shorter man spoke up, "We don't know either; those guys were talking with their backs to us the whole time."

One of the young adventurers said, "Their firepower is fierce, they have many guns, and there are many of them, more than twenty!"

Dafeng took a deep breath. "They don't look like ordinary homeless people; they seem to be from some organization."

"By the way, I noticed that one of them had a flame-shaped tattoo on his hand!"

A flame-shaped tattoo?

Ye Xiao's brow twitched, and he and Chen Ge spoke in unison: "People from Freefire?"

"Freefire?"

Upon hearing this word, Da Feng and his men all fell silent. The short man gritted his teeth and said:

"Damn it, no wonder!"

Da Feng seemed to have expected this, saying, "I had my suspicions, but I didn't expect it to really be them?"

At this moment, Old Ghost moved closer to Ye Xiao, nudged Ye Xiao's arm, and said:

"Hey, do you remember that thug saying that the base sold the Level 3 mutants to Freefire? Are they cooperating with Freefire now?"

Ye Xiao took a deep breath, his expression unusually serious, and looked up to glance at the comments in the live stream.

[Chichi Ike: What is Freefire? Can someone explain it to me?]

[Milk Egg Isn't Bland: Xiao Ge's enemies aren't good people!]

[Three Foxes: Holy crap, how did those Freefire people get here? They're like a persistent ghost!]

[A salted fish can't turn over: Those people have no bottom line, Xiao Ge and the others are in danger!]

[Black framed message: If anyone from the Gaotang base has contact with Freefire, leave the Gaotang base immediately!]

……

The "black frame" was exactly what Ye Xiao had been thinking. Having received the "black frame's" suggestion, Ye Xiao silently nodded and said:

"It seems we can't stay at the Gaotang base anymore. Those people from Freefire are dangerous. They're probably conducting some kind of dangerous experiments and research. Those guys obviously don't care about human lives when it comes to conducting experiments and research."

"If those people at the Gaotang base are on their side, then we'll be in serious danger. We must find a way to leave as soon as possible!"