352: Half a month later, the Jiangshizi Water Car Team

You Lang nodded, his gaze fixed on that drop of unknown liquid, carrying a desire that seemed to stem from the very instinct of life.

"Boss Tang, this thing, you're really giving it to me? I have a feeling that this thing might even be able to enhance my E-rank Talent!"

"A drop of something I picked up by chance. Unfortunately, there's too little of it. It's only useful for Wood-element Talents, and at most, it can only enhance an E-rank Talent to D-rank. I might need to leave for a while soon, and I need you to help me guard this post station, as well as my younger sister and father."

"Don't worry, Boss Tang. My life was saved by you in the first place."

Afterwards, You Lang entered seclusion, and the One-armed Man and the Saber-carrying Woman also stayed behind.

The One-armed Man was named Zhao Lei, an E-rank Lightning-element Talent User. He was born in Bai Shi Town in the Star Domain, a small town with a population of only a few thousand. In that town, Zhao Lei was considered the most promising person. Now, having been a Wasteland Hunter for over a decade, he had settled in the Xingyao Safe Zone, owning a small house in the outer city.

As for the Saber-carrying Woman, she was also not from the Xingyao Safe Zone. The place she was born in was considered a large town, and she came from a fallen family. Unfortunately, the shelter item was lost, and the family gradually declined. Her Talent was to materialize a Black Blade, an E-rank Talent.

This was Tang Ping's first time managing a post station in the Wasteland. Every day, he saw many teams of Wasteland Hunters coming and going—some replenishing supplies, some buying potions, and others eating meat, drinking alcohol, and staying overnight.

But most of them were first-level and second level Talent Users. It wasn't that there were no Level Three Talent Users; Level Three Talent Users basically all went deeper into the Wasteland.

The areas where first-level and second level Talent Users ventured were basically low-danger zones. There were no powerful Pollution Beasts or Infected here, and naturally, there were no rare resources either.

Therefore, there were very few Level Three Talent Users here.

The Star Domain was a territory jointly governed by the Xingyao Safe Zone, Spark Safe Zone, and Taohai Safe Zone. Within the domain, there were also many first, second, and third-class Safe Zones, as well as first, second, third, fourth, and fifth-class towns.

As for villages, there were none, because villages were completely incapable of surviving in the Wasteland due to their size.

However, there were still some remote areas where small human settlements widely existed. For various reasons, they were unable to migrate to towns and thus remained stranded.

As for outside the Star Domain, such small settlements were even more numerous, but most of them also relied on the behemoth that was the Star Domain, obtaining clean drinking water and food by hunting Pollution Beast materials and gathering medicinal herbs.

Therefore, water-selling caravans still widely existed in this Wasteland, and their profits were extremely high. However, similarly, traversing the Wasteland was naturally extremely dangerous, essentially trading life for money.

Most water caravans basically had Level Three Talent Users, making them considerably stronger than ordinary post stations.

Some powerful ones even had Fourth-Level Talent Users. As for Level Five, at this level, they no longer needed to rely on low-level professions like water-selling to obtain resources. In the water-selling circle, these people were at least high-ranking guild officials.

On this day, a water caravan had just left the Xingyao Safe Zone, preparing to head to remote northern settlements to sell water.

Traveling about two to three hundred kilometers per day, a round trip often took the better part of a year. The clean drinking water from over a hundred water carts would eventually be exchanged for various medicinal herbs, leather goods, and rare Pollution Beast materials to be brought back to the Xingyao Safe Zone.

Due to the existence of the exotic treasure, the star source tower, the Xingyao Safe Zone possessed extremely advanced contamination material processing methods. Therefore, Pollution Beast corpses were no longer as shunned as they were in the past.

"Why has the Jiang Lion Water Caravan recruited so many Wasteland Hunters this time?"

"I heard the north hasn't been peaceful lately, with many powerful Pollution Beasts appearing. Probably, the Jiang Lion Water Caravan is also worried about that."

"Is it that serious? Isn't the Xingyao Safe Zone dealing with it?"

"They are dealing with it. It's just that those Pollution Beasts—you know how they are. A few months ago, a Beast Tide erupted in the North Ridge Forbidden Zone, so there are still many Pollution Beasts lingering there. They're all over the mountains and fields; even if the Heavenly King and Heavenly Queen came, they couldn't eradicate them completely. They can only grind them down slowly over time. It's estimated that it will take at least several years to return to how it was before."

"A Beast Tide! There was actually such an incident. I just came from the south and haven't heard about this yet. Is it very dangerous over there now?"

"More than just dangerous. There are even Level Five Pollution Beasts. A month ago, the Chi Long Wasteland Hunter Team, whose members were all Level Four, encountered a peak Level Five Giant King Worm. Seven people—three were directly swallowed, two were crushed to death, and the remaining three were severely injured. If they hadn't been discovered by a Mysterious Star Envoy, probably none of them would have survived."

"Giant King Worm!" The man's expression changed. "There are actually such terrifying Pollution Beasts. The Jiang Lion Water Caravan is risking their lives!"

The short man next to him shrugged. "The greater the storm, the more valuable the fish. There's never a shortage of people who take desperate risks."

Hearing this, Tang Ping, who was calculating accounts, paused his hand.

Because the location where he had hidden his resources—the nearest one was when he left North Ridge, in an inconspicuous small mountain outside North Ridge, where he had placed a small Qing Realm Space.

This was also the first stop he planned to go to.

"Brother! I've returned from my trial!"

Jiang Yaya, who had undergone the Half-Month Trial, had also returned at this time, but she was followed by a youth.