Chapter 111: One of the Nine Strongest Humans

Liancheng is a coastal city with a thriving economy and a booming tourism industry. Due to its unique geography, a cross-sea bridge was constructed to prevent traffic congestion, functioning as an exclusive highway connecting one side of the city to the other.

After the appearance of predatory creatures, the survivors began to migrate. Ultimately, they chose to retreat onto the cross-sea bridge, blocking off both ends so the predators could not reach them. This plan saved one million survivors in Liancheng.

However, in the third month of the apocalypse, Tier 1 predatory creatures invaded. The Liquid Walkers of the Giant Night Civilization entered the sea, absorbing the power of the ocean and star energy to rapidly evolve into Tier 2 predators. Countless sea beasts also mutated, eventually overturning the cross-sea bridge. All one million survivors perished instantly.

Such a horrific sight was something no survivor could ever forget. Of course, those who survived such a catastrophe were truly one in ten thousand. One of them was Hai Hanting, a man with the talent for "Ocean Force," who, before Qin Hao reversed time, was one of the nine people most likely to ascend to godhood. He was a recipient of the second batch of the Hero System and the youngest mayor in Liancheng’s history, at only 30 years old.

It was unclear whether this disaster had already begun.

Qin Hao activated his [Biological Scanner]. Instantly, a dense array of red dots appeared along the coastline. These red dots accounted for only one-tenth of the number of green dots representing humans. With one million humans facing one hundred thousand Liquid Walkers, the outcome was obvious. The humans were doomed.

Seeing this, Qin Hao immediately stopped.

"I have something to attend to. I will be back in a week."

Zi Hui was startled, then quickly added, "I’ll give you another 'Eye of Ten Thousand Sects' so we can gather more intelligence."

"Agreed!"

Qin Hao took the Eye of Ten Thousand Sects and activated his Teleportation Disk. He locked in his coordinates and set it to maximum range.

*Hum!*

A beam of light from the disk enveloped him, and Qin Hao vanished. When he reappeared, he was a thousand kilometers away. He activated the disk again, teleporting another three hundred kilometers to reach Liancheng.

Inside Liancheng, predatory creatures were everywhere, and dense hordes of zombies had begun to emerge. As Qin Hao walked down the street, he found himself facing a horde of hundreds of zombies surrounding a Carrefour supermarket. They wandered incessantly, appearing restless. Qin Hao understood that there must be survivors inside who had fortified the building, preventing the zombies from entering.

The appearance of a living human immediately drew the attention of the hundreds of zombies. Their murky eyes seemed to glow with a sickly green light, and saliva dripping from their mouths corroded the ground, leaving behind concentrated viruses. If any human were to fall here and graze their skin, they would likely be infected with the zombie virus.

"Die!"

Qin Hao exerted his mental power, unleashing a series of wind blades. Wind exists everywhere at all times; it is one of the easiest elements to manipulate. The wind blades whistled through the air, severing the heads of the zombies.

*Swish, swish, swish!*

The heads of the hundreds of zombies rolled to the ground. They were wiped out in a matter of seconds. Qin Hao then casually set a fire to incinerate the remains. Without lingering, he sprinted toward the cross-sea bridge.

Meanwhile, inside a Walmart, the survivors watching from an observation hole gasped in shock.

"Was that a hero just now? He killed all the zombies outside."

"Phew, maybe. I heard from some survivors that if you're starving or pray for help, a mission might be generated, and a nearby hero will come to save you. Maybe he came for us!"

"Ah, he’s leaving."

"The Star Energy Diamonds—he didn't take the Star Energy Diamonds from the zombies' heads!"

The survivors' eyes lit up, and they began to stir. Of course, they were even more grateful to Qin Hao. Qin Hao didn't care about those three hundred diamonds, nor had he received a mission; it was merely a casual slaughter.

He swept through the streets like a storm until he reached the entrance of the cross-sea bridge, killing four Voodoo Demons along the way to reduce the viral infection in the city. By the time he reached the bridge entrance, it had already become a battlefield.

Trenches had been dug, and high above, a spatial black hole was spewing out predatory creatures. Qin Hao was stunned to see this; it was a spatial black hole from the Ancient Demon Civilization.

Flame Demons were constantly crawling out of the black hole, only to be engulfed by seawater that extinguished their flames and caused them to suffocate to death. Even terrifying predators had weaknesses, and the Flame Demon’s weakness was water.

The trenches had been fashioned into a massive water channel where seawater swirled violently. Blades were hidden within the currents, capable of piercing the Flame Demons' skin and bodies. Some "Evolvers" continuously channeled seawater into the area, while others used iron hooks to drag the Flame Demon corpses onto large train cars. These cars had no engines; instead, humans manually pulled them toward the cross-sea bridge.

Before reversing time, Qin Hao had spent a long time with Hai Hanting, who had spoken of Liancheng with great emotion. The city once had a population of six million. When the apocalypse hit, half died instantly. The fact that a third of the remaining three million had followed Hai Hanting showed the sheer scale of his influence and popularity.

But the pressure that followed was immense. Hai Hanting used to joke about his ability to command the elements, but in reality, with two hundred thousand Evolvers among the million survivors, he spent every day worrying about how to feed them. The consumption of predatory creatures had begun as early as the third day, even before Zi Hui’s messages could reach this far.

That Hai Hanting dared to block the Ancient Demon Civilization’s spatial black hole for hunting was something Qin Hao had never imagined. In truth, this was due to another video Zi Hui had broadcast via the Eye of Ten Thousand Sects, specifically designed for powerful groups. The content even featured Qin Hao, showing how to block spatial black holes and hunt the creatures.

Many powerful Evolvers had seen it and taken action. The Claw Civilization had become the victims, hunted nightly by Tier 2 Evolvers. Most importantly, these Evolvers, unlike Qin Hao, did not need the god-level genetic fragments of Devourers or Giant-Mouth Demons. By blocking and killing the Iron-String Demons, each of which yielded 30 Star Energy Diamonds, they gained enormous wealth.

As for Hai Hanting, he needed food and meat. Iron-String Demons, Flame Demons—he needed them all. Flame Demons were even better, as they were easily drowned. However, Hai Hanting had no idea that other creatures were already eyeing them covetously, and a massive crisis was about to descend.