378: Chapter 378 The Survivors

The Huangjiang Forbidden Zone! It was the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone! Lu Zheng roared in his heart; only the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone could have caused all of this.

Not long ago, Evolved Beasts from the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone attacked the city, breached Gejiang City, and began a massacre...

With communications cut off, Gejiang City could not contact the outside world, could not call for reinforcements, and without a Town General to preside over it, it suffered the catastrophe of being razed.

The reason Lu Zheng knew about Gejiang City was not simply because it was the Huaxia main city closest to the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone; there was another reason: Gejiang City was on the migration list.

The location of Gejiang City was only going to become more dangerous. Huaxia had realized this and had already begun preparations for migration, with the date set for these very next few days.

However, the Second Spiritual Energy Revival, the great upheaval of the world, and the expansion of the earth cut off all communications, directly disrupting Huaxia's plans, causing Gejiang City to be destroyed here without a sound.

If Lu Zheng hadn't arrived here by sheer Opportunity, he would never have known about this matter.

"Huangjiang Forbidden Zone, I will make you pay the price."

"I will make you pay with blood!"

Lu Zheng would not be so blind as to pit his Clone's current strength against the entire Huangjiang Forbidden Zone; the purpose of this trip for his Clone was the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone itself.

If his Clone became the master of the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone, he could constrain the entire Forbidden Ground. Without his permission, such attacks on cities would certainly not happen, which would have been enough to prevent this, but he had still arrived too late.

And this was merely a trivial matter compared to what would happen after his Clone became the master of the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone.

"Just wait, I will come."

"Huangjiang Forbidden Zone, it is time for a new master."

Lu Zheng controlled his Clone and did not leave Gejiang City immediately. He wanted to see if there were any survivors left in Gejiang City, and his massive body roamed through the city.

At the same time, he also wanted to search for anything that might record the location of the Huangjiang Forbidden Zone.

Gejiang City was large. Although it could not compare to Jianghai City, and even less so to Baiyun City, his Clone's three-hundred-meter body was not conspicuous within the entirety of Gejiang City.

Even the commotion here could not be felt on the far side of Gejiang City.

Meanwhile, in a ruin within Gejiang City, there was a place that had originally been an underground air-raid shelter, specially established long ago during wartime to defend against enemy missiles.

After being processed and renovated, it had become the current underground shelter.

The shelter was dozens of meters deep. After the Evolved Beasts attacked the city, many people had flocked here for refuge. Shortly after, the earth shook violently, and the people inside the underground shelter felt as if the sky were collapsing.

Violent tremors came from above, and the shelter rocked back and forth. If the shelter had not been built with sufficient Fortify, it would have collapsed long ago.

Immediately afterward, all the instruments inside seemed to lose their function, the lights vanished, and they were plunged into total darkness.

Everyone in the darkness was left with only their breath, and many held each other tightly.

An atmosphere of unease and terror permeated the crowd.

They did not know the situation outside now, whether the battle had ended, or if they had won or lost; no one knew.

Here, all contact with the outside world had been completely severed.

"Bang!" With a bang, the darkness in the entire underground shelter vanished. The long-lost light appeared once again, dispelling the haze in everyone's hearts and alleviating the fear in their minds.

It seemed that where there was light, there was hope.

Hundreds of people looked at the massive light. Regardless of the glare, they just wanted to look a little longer.

"It's finally fixed."

"Fortunately, there wasn't a major problem with the wiring."

"Old Liu, but this is only the backup power supply; it won't last long at all. We must find a way to get out; otherwise, once these lights go out, we will have absolutely no hope of escaping."

As it turned out, the lights in the underground shelter hadn't just come back on by themselves; they had been fixed by someone.

The elderly man addressed as Old Liu was sitting on a chair at this moment, his face looking weak. If one observed carefully, one could see blood seeping through the white bandages that Coil around his abdomen.

"Alright, thank you for your trouble."

"With light, we have at least succeeded halfway."

A trace of a smile appeared on Old Liu's pale face as he struggled to stand up. The people beside him wanted to stop him, but they were stopped by Old Liu.

"It's fine, I'm not dead yet."

"I can still hold on."

Old Liu said. The crowd was waiting for his next order. Originally, these people had been refugees here who didn't know each other, waiting fearfully in the darkness.

It was Old Liu who gathered the young and able-bodied people together and told them that at a time like this, they had to rely on themselves to survive.

The group had also come to know Old Liu; he was an old professor from a university who had returned to his hometown in Gejiang City to retire, never expecting such an event to occur.

The injury on his abdomen had been sustained on the way to the shelter.

"We don't know the situation outside right now, and we don't even know if we won or lost the battle."

"But regardless of whether we won or lost, the commotion outside ended a day ago. If we continue to stay here, we are doomed. We must find a way out as soon as possible."

"How much food do we have left?"

A young man with dry lips and a weak body spoke up at this moment, his eyes filled with gloom.

"Old Liu, after hearing your words, we went to look for other food immediately after fixing the lights."

"However, the place where the shelter stored food has been buried. Even if the outside world used machinery, it wouldn't be dug out in less than three days."

"And now, we have no food left, and no water source either."

"Under these conditions, we can only hold out for two more days. After two days..."

The young man didn't finish his sentence, and everyone knew what would happen. However, no one complained; they had already been in the shelter for two days.

If it weren't for Old Liu presiding over the big picture and distributing the little food the shelter had, perhaps they would all be too hungry to get up by now.

Old Liu coughed while looking at the crowd.

"It seems this is forcing us to find our way out."

"Xiao Qing, take the things out."

The woman beside Old Liu nodded and immediately took the items out. The various young people standing nearby, their faces pale and weak, couldn't help but be stunned at the sight, their eyes widening.

It was food. What is this?

"Cough, cough, cough..."

"These were saved by them over the past two days."

"You have been digging the passage to the outside all this time. They have seen everything you have done, and now they want to do their part as well."

As Old Liu said this, he looked at the people sitting on the ground around him—children, the elderly, women. Their eyes also looked over, filled with anticipation, hope, and concern.

This food was saved from what little they already had.

"Eat it."

"Eat it, and with our hope, go and fight once more."

"Dig open the passage to the outside world."