The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

There are still people alive here?

Li Can was immediately startled and, with trembling hands, pulled the girl, who still had a faint breath, out of the pile of corpses.

"Are you alright?" He touched her face with his finger to check her breathing.

The girl in front of me looked to be in her early twenties, wearing a long white cotton-linen robe.

Judging from their clothes and appearance, they are definitely not locals.

Her long, flaxen hair was draped behind her head, but now, due to pain, cold sweat clung to her face in strands.

Her upper body was severely injured; it appeared that someone had pierced her chest with a spear and then pulled the weapon away, leaving a large, bloody hole in her chest.

This was the most serious and fatal wound on her body.

Fresh blood and yellow pustules spread from the punctured wound, severely soiling her white clothes.

Fortunately, both legs are still in good condition and should not be broken.

Li Can bent down and ran his hand through her hair, finally being able to see her face clearly.

His face was deathly pale, as white as paper, from prolonged blood loss.

She weakly tried to open her eyes, and Li Can's reflection was in her dark pupils.

"Please, save me..." Even in this dire situation, she did not give up hope of living and continued to try to save herself.

Looking at her face, her brows furrowed in pain, Li Can thought of his younger sister, Li Lan, who must also be having a very difficult time in the post-apocalyptic world.

He shouldn't have treated this girl of unknown origin in such an unknown environment, but Li Can still felt a pang of pity.

To be honest, he hesitated at that moment.

Unexpected complications can easily lead to undesirable outcomes, but...

During the few seconds he hesitated, the girl weakly tugged at his sleeve a few more times.

Then, an embroidered pouch appeared in his palm. He pulled on the drawstring and saw more than a dozen heavy little gold ingots inside.

The certificate he carried in his pocket seemed eager to be used, as if all he wanted, the bag of gold ingots could be converted into the amount on the certificate in the next second.

He was startled and carefully sensed the sensation.

If all of this money could be converted into certificates, it would be worth approximately 600 million.

That way, I'll only have a few hundred thousand yuan left in debt, and I can leave the city as soon as possible...

But after only a few seconds of thinking, Li Can chose to take out an empty capsule toy from his consciousness space, put all the gold ingots in it, and hide it in the toy box in his space for safekeeping.

Now is not the time to flaunt wealth. I still need to deal with people like Huang Xiaoqi when I get back, so it's better to save it and take it out to convert when needed.

After carefully storing the items, Li Can re-examined the person in front of him. The girl's action of taking out this bag of gold ingots was not as simple as it seemed.

She possesses some kind of spatial storage ability; at least among these corpses, Li Can, after searching through them, found that not a single body still carried any items.

Apart from the clothes she was wearing to cover her shame, it was clear that she had been killed, searched thoroughly, and then thrown down to the city wall.

"This is impressive." Li Can was already hesitant, and now that he had taken her money, he had no reason not to save her.

All I can say is that I tried my best.

Moreover, given this situation, if this person can be saved, it will greatly benefit their future development and their understanding of the entire eerie and mysterious city.

She could pull out 600 million gold ingots at once; if she woke up, she might pull out even more to repay me…

Isn't this better than working to earn money or gambling?

Stable, safe, and quick to make money—it has all the advantages.

"You absolutely must not die, try your best to live on."

Li Can silently picked up the girl and carefully placed her in a spot on the side of the wooden trailer.

In her semi-conscious state, her last words were, "Thank you..."

After saying that, he fell into a deep sleep.

Li Can touched her forehead and found it was burning hot, clearly due to inflammation and fever caused by a wound infection.

"Dazhuang, what are you doing?" The sudden question from behind interrupted Li Can's thoughts.

Qian Shi, covered in sweat, dragged a corpse over to the car. While talking, he didn't notice the girl and prepared to place the corpse on top of her.

"Come on, lend a hand, I can't lift it by myself."

Li Can waved his hand and, together with Qian Shi, placed the other bodies on the other side of the trailer.

Qian Shi took a step forward, puzzled, and looked at the girl who was being ignored by Li Can. He tentatively extended his index finger and probed between her mouth and nose a few times.

Startled, she immediately grabbed Li Can's waist.

"My God, how are there still people alive!... Ugh..." Qian Shili cried out in a dry voice for a second, but Li Can quickly covered his mouth with his hand the next second.

He sobbed and quickly signaled that he knew to keep his voice down, because he almost rolled his eyes back from suffocation and died before the girl.

"Cough cough cough, Dazhuang, what's going on?" Qian Shi gestured wildly, looking completely bewildered, and asked in a low voice.

"I don't know," Li Can said, shrugging his shoulders and pretending to know nothing.

"That shouldn't be the case. There's never been anyone alive here before. They were dead when they fell off the wall, how could there be someone still alive..."

"Hey, what do you think? If we secretly revive this person, might we be able to get some information about the outside world from her?"

Qian Shi huddled close to Li Can, racking his brains as he thought rapidly.

Li Can naturally thought so too, and nodded.

So Li Can and Qian Shi, who seemed to have hit it off immediately, quickly picked out some other corpses from the mass grave, crossed the bushes they had come from, and returned with the girl.

Throughout the journey, Qian Shi was quite nervous, constantly looking around to check the surroundings.

They were afraid that other indigenous people or strange guests might bump into them.

Compared to when I went out, my vigilance was several levels higher.

Qian Shi was pulling the cart in front, with a thick rope around his shoulders.

Li Can was behind, gripping the handrails with both hands as he pushed forward.

The wooden cart was heavily piled with a stack of "goods".

The journey back was unusually quiet for the two of them.

"Dazhuang, what exactly is outside this city? I've only ever seen people who look like guests, and I've never seen anyone who looks like a human again."

"Actually, the original group of us who worked at the dry restaurant had long suspected that the corpses in the mass grave had quite a history."

"We can't talk about what happened today when we get back. We need to find a place to hide them..."

Li Can looked back at the city walls receding into the distance and agreed, "Yes, we need to be careful."

Everything was gradually confirming the suspicions, and the mist over the eerie city seemed to be dissipating before their eyes...

Vultures flying in the distance for reconnaissance also transmitted real-time signals.

It can only fly to about half the height of the city wall; beyond that, there is an air wall, preventing it from flying very high.

This is quite bad. Li Can has lost another way out; he will no longer be able to sneak out of the city by air.

If you can't fly up there, you naturally can't see who threw the corpse at the top, or what the situation is like there.

So Li Can only let the vultures fly around the city wall for a short while before bringing them back.

The city wall appears to be a giant circular ring that completely encloses the area, divided into four corners: east, south, west, and north. There is a mass grave with abandoned corpses in almost every corner.

In other corners, some indigenous people, like Li Can and Qian Shi, came out to stock up on goods during the closing time.

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