The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Qian Shi's eyes lit up immediately.

"I didn't know it could be like this. How come I didn't think of that?" he said, but then looked troubled.

"But will your tigress agree to this? She won't tear me apart, will she?"

Li Can nodded. "We do need to ask for her opinion. Let's discuss it when we get back, otherwise you won't be able to do anything about it."

"Alright, Dazhuang, then it's up to you. You're such a loyal friend." Qian Shi chuckled and pulled the cart back up.

"And what are the benefits?" Li Can added quietly as they walked.

"Ah...of course." Qian Shi's eyes darted around, and he was about to slip by with a few compliments when Li Can saw through his act.

He made money by opening up the lobby and operating it together, thanks to Li Can's help. Otherwise, he would have just been sitting idly by, wasting his time in the shop, with no customers coming and his savings dwindling.

Therefore, Li Can's suggestion was a lifesaver for him.

After thinking for a moment, Qian Shi made up his mind, "Dazhuang, if this really works out, I'll take you to a casino before we leave the city... You know, I didn't earn this city exit fee by just a little bit of money."

"Cough." He turned his head left and right to look around, but there was nothing there. He was still a little uneasy, so he leaned against Li Can's shoulder and spoke in a softer and softer voice.

He had an air of "you know what I mean."

"This casino requires an introducer to enter. It's a toy run by a customer, so it falls into a gray area under city regulations and is difficult to manage. I only managed to get in by relying on my family."

"You're lucky, kid. I'm leaving soon anyway, so telling you now won't hurt."

Li Can looked at his eyes, which were squinted into narrow slits due to the accumulation of fat, and his pupils were gleaming.

He knew that Qian Shi's words could not be completely trusted.

Historically, anything associated with gambling has never been a good thing.

Playing the high-stakes game too much might bring you a few times your initial investment if you're lucky, but if you lose, you'll be bankrupt.

Although it's a game organized by strange guests, it's a trap that the native humans and dungeon players could fall into at any moment.

If it's really that good, and the money is just a little short of the required amount, why not take a gamble now?

It's because he now has extremely high assets, so he has to be extra careful at times like this and dares not get involved in the market anymore. He can only fill the remaining revenue in the restaurants he runs.

Then, he encountered the unexpected turn of events by entering a dungeon, which left Qian Shi feeling utterly devastated. In his anger, he ran into the store and started smashing and tearing things up.

He is quite understanding.

That being said, he was indeed very interested in that casino, and it wouldn't hurt to take a look.

"When you go to a place like a casino, don't you need some kind of weird companion? I bet there are quite a few customers there," Li Can replied.

Qian Shi chuckled, "You don't need to worry about that. The guests are also afraid of being punished by the city lord. They're not in the casino; it's all our own people inside. It's just that they set up this scheme."

"What's the point for the guests if they can't even watch it live?"

"Who says you can't watch? The casino has live video recordings that are played and replayed. Guests can watch them occasionally while playing in another area."

"You know that?"

"When I went there before, it was just what other people told me, it was all hearsay. That's not important, it's not important. The most important thing is that if I can really win a few rounds, getting out of the city will be a piece of cake."

Li Can: "..."

He didn't say anything more. He had a general understanding of the situation. Although the path wasn't a good one, it still needed people to operate it.

"We're here, we're finally here." Qian Shi jogged along, parting the dense clumps of grass in front of him to reveal the towering city wall stretching for hundreds of miles.

A large number of dead bodies were piled up beneath the towering city walls.

There were old and young, men and women.

Even when they arrived, there were still two or three corpses that had just been thrown down from the city wall.

The mountains of corpses and seas of blood piled up below formed a cushioning pad.

Therefore, the corpses that fell later were not smashed to pieces and were relatively well preserved.

"This cemetery can automatically replenish its inventory..." Li Can parted the grass and followed Qian Shi's footsteps.

His chubby figure became more agile after arriving here. He pulled the cart and quickly ran to the corner of the wall to start carefully helping Li Can select goods.

Before coming here, Li Can was actually a little curious about the "disorderly graveyard" place, but it was not convenient for him to ask too many questions.

Logically speaking, given that the people in the city are immortal and no longer reproduce, and their intellectual capacity is forever frozen at the moment of their fixed age, there shouldn't be so many corpses appearing.

He had prepared himself to come here to dig up soil and graves, and to dig out food from the ground.

But to my surprise, fresh and hot food is readily available right now.

"Dazhuang, come quick! Look at this one, it's sturdy, lots of meat, can yield a lot of vegetables." Qian Shi flipped through the corpses and finally selected a robust adult male corpse for Li Can.

Li Can felt an indescribable eeriness as he watched a human standing among the corpses of his own kind, no longer treating them as fellow human beings but merely as commodities to be selected.

His stomach began to churn uncontrollably again.

I still haven't been able to quickly adapt to the explosive nature of the dungeon world.

Why is the mental state of the humans in each instance so erratic?

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Li Can stepped forward and, imitating Qian Shi, also searched for new items that weren't too rotten.

Those squeezed to the bottom have even turned into bones, and those in the very center have been rotting for a long time; none of them can be considered.

"Alright." Qian Shi dragged the corpse by its feet and pulled it onto the wooden trailer. Thanks to the slope, it was finally placed on the trailer smoothly.

He patted the dust off his palms and said, "If our restaurant is going to become a huge hit, we'll bring an extra cart when we come out. It's not easy for us to come here, so let's pick out as many good things as possible."

He no longer distinguishes between "you" and "me" when speaking to Li Can; he treats them as one person.

"Yes, keep going."

"Okay, okay, you go to the left, I'll go to the right."

Li Can walked toward the spot where the new corpse had just fallen, a spot he remembered from his memory.

Standing at the foot of the city wall, looking up at the wall that is almost level with the sky, you can't see anything there.

"Where did these corpses come from?"

Logically speaking, based on what we've learned over this period, once we leave the city, we'll inevitably become monsters and head to their lair.

But this place will also refresh many people who are not from this city.

Could it be that, besides the existing indigenous cities and the purely supernatural cities, there is another city full of humans?

Based on the clues, Li Can determined that there were at least three cities known so far.

What is their life like?

Why were they abandoned here after they died?

In Li Can's view, not being able to rest in peace after death, and being used as food by the indigenous people to make dishes for the strange guests, is more like a punishment and humiliation.

What crime did they commit to deserve this?

While Qian Shi wasn't paying attention, he secretly released the shrunken form of the puppet vulture for reconnaissance.

He then searched through the few bodies that had just fallen down in the nearest spot.

After selecting one, he was about to pull it out when a hand suddenly reached out from the side and grabbed his arm.

"Help...help me...please...you..." It was a girl's voice.