“Ah!”
Before Gu Yi could react, he fell straight down.
Bang bang!
Long Ming jumped down after him, bullets striking the edge of the sewer entrance one after another.
Thud—
After landing, Long Ming immediately helped the fallen Gu Yi up and fled along the passage.
“Ow, it hurts! Brother, just run on your own. I can’t get away. I don’t want any of this stuff anymore—it’s all yours. Take it and get out!”
Gu Yi reached into his backpack and pulled out a double-barreled short gun and a short staff more than thirty centimeters long, cast entirely from gold, its surface engraved with intricate lines and a red gemstone embedded at the top. Then he shoved them all at Long Ming.
Long Ming was momentarily stunned as he looked at the short staff thrust into his hands. No wonder Zheng Bin and the others were chasing Gu Yi and his companion down. Although the staff was a work of art, no matter how he looked at it, it did not seem like an ordinary object. Even he felt somewhat tempted, but in the end, he still refused.
“I don’t want it. And stop saying such spineless things.”
“Brother, I really can’t walk anymore. I won’t drag you down.”
Gu Yi said through gritted teeth, enduring the pain.
At that moment, Zheng Bin and the others also jumped down. Seeing Long Ming and Gu Yi running ahead in the passage, they all changed magazines, raised their guns, and shouted viciously.
“Kid, go to hell!”
Seeing that things were turning bad, Gu Yi pushed Long Ming forward, then spread his arms and stood in front of him.
Bang bang!
A burst of gunfire rang out.
Gu Yi was like a target, shot again and again. His eyes widened as he murmured,
“It... it hurts.”
Long Ming’s expression instantly darkened. He immediately raised his single-shot rifle and fired back.
Bang—
Zheng Bin and the others hurriedly bent down to dodge.
But Long Ming’s shot had not been aimed at them. It had been aimed at the lighting on the ceiling of the passage!
In an instant, the dim light was shattered, and the entire passage plunged into darkness.
Long Ming hurriedly stuffed the items into his backpack at random, then ran forward with all his might.
“Fuck, after him!”
Furious, Zheng Bin led his men in pursuit while reloading, blindly firing ahead!
Bang bang—
Unfortunately, every shot missed.
In the blink of an eye, Long Ming rushed out through the open iron door and arrived on the extended platform.
He immediately ran toward the front of the platform.
By the time he reached the edge of the extended platform, Zheng Bin and the others had also rushed out through the iron door.
Seeing that Long Ming had nowhere to escape, they burst into laughter and shouted,
“Run!”
“Why aren’t you running anymore?”
Long Ming frowned, snorted coldly, and jumped straight down.
“Holy shit, Brother Zheng, he jumped!”
Wu Kang and the others said, dumbfounded.
“Damn it, does he have a death wish?”
Zheng Bin immediately led his men rushing over.
But when they reached the edge of the extended platform, they discovered that Long Ming, who had jumped down, was not dead. Moreover, he was fleeing in the opposite direction from the mobile fortress, already one or two hundred meters away.
“How is that possible? He jumped from this high and didn’t die?”
Zheng Bin’s face was filled with disbelief. This was over ten meters high.
“Brother Zheng, there’s an access ladder here.”
At that moment, Wu Kang noticed an access ladder below the outside of the extended platform.
“Damn it, shoot him!”
Zheng Bin immediately felt as if he had been made a fool of. He raised his gun and opened fire at the fleeing Long Ming.
Bang bang!
Unfortunately, they could not hit him at all. Before long, Long Ming disappeared into the night.
“Bastard! Don’t let me see you again!”
Zheng Bin stomped his feet and cursed in fury.
Elsewhere, Long Ming turned his head and glanced back at the mobile fortress. Then he raised his bracelet and opened the map. Discovering that there were no evacuation points nearby, he headed toward the evacuation point he had explored before.
Whoosh—
A gust of wind blew over, and Long Ming could not help but shiver. The temperature was getting lower and lower.
He forced himself to stay alert and continued forward. As long as he endured until he reached the evacuation point, he would be free.
When a faint trace of white appeared on the horizon, Long Ming dragged his exhausted body to the vicinity of the evacuation point.
However, he did not rashly approach. Instead, he lay prone on a sand dune and vigilantly observed his surroundings.
There was a saying: the eve of victory was often the most dangerous moment.
He did not want to be ambushed at the very end. If that happened, all his previous efforts would truly go to waste.
A moment later, after confirming there was no ambush, Long Ming glanced at the time on his bracelet. He had already survived in this world for more than fifteen hours. Only then did he get up and walk toward the mechanical platform for evacuation.
Soon, Long Ming reached the mechanical platform. Exhausted, he lay down on it and gasped for breath.
Huff—
Time passed second by second.
Long Ming suddenly felt something was wrong. The mechanical platform had not reacted for quite a while. He immediately sat up, his expression uncertain as he muttered,
“What’s going on? Is the mechanical platform broken?”
“No, that’s impossible.”
Long Ming immediately rejected that thought. He had personally seen someone evacuate from here. This mechanical platform could not be broken.
At that moment, a notification popped up on the bracelet interface.
“Notice: This evacuation point has already been used. Please proceed to another unused evacuation point.”
“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
When Long Ming saw the notification, the corner of his mouth twitched slightly. He had not expected to dig a pit for himself.
However, he quickly adjusted his mindset and immediately opened the map to check all the nearby evacuation points.
Right after that, Long Ming checked his own status.
He was now moderately dehydrated, and his stamina had dropped to one-third.
Long Ming carefully calculated his remaining stamina, checked all the evacuation points, and chose one that was relatively far away but that he could reach at his absolute limit.
The reason he did not choose a closer evacuation point was that if it was too close to the ruins, it was very likely to have already been used or to have people lying in ambush.
After Long Ming marked it, he immediately set off toward his target.
At noon.
Long Ming faced the blazing sun, panting heavily as he walked forward. His entire body was severely dehydrated, and his lips had cracked.
He lowered his head and glanced at the map on his bracelet. There were still two kilometers to go before reaching the selected evacuation point. If he just held on a little longer, he would arrive.
However, at that moment, a piercing sound suddenly came from the sky.
Long Ming was startled and instinctively raised his head. Immediately after, he saw a streak of red light in the distant sky tear across the heavens, flying toward his direction.
“No way. Am I really this unlucky?”
Seeing that red streak of light flying straight toward him, Long Ming’s face turned darker than charcoal.
If he were smashed to death by that, it would truly be an unjust death.
Fortunately, the red streak of light eventually swept over Long Ming’s head and crashed into the desert three kilometers away.
Boom!
A massive explosion erupted, sweeping out along with clouds of sand and dust.
Long Ming was stunned by the scene. He had not expected to run into something like this while evacuating.
What exactly had fallen?
Long Ming was extremely curious. He badly wanted to go over and take a look, but he also had some misgivings.
He raised his bracelet and tapped open his status, only to see red warnings popping up one after another.
“Warning: You are now severely dehydrated!”
“Warning: You are now severely hungry!”
Long Ming’s expression shifted repeatedly. Although the thing did not seem to have fallen very far away, his stamina was almost depleted, and he only had 2 hours and 16 minutes left. Moreover, judging from the direction where it had fallen, that thing was off his evacuation route.
If he took the risk of going to look, he might not have enough stamina to escape to the evacuation point. At that point, everything would be over.
But asking Long Ming to give up really left him somewhat unwilling.
The level of civilization in this world seemed very low. Normally speaking, it should not be able to produce anything too good. But Long Ming had a premonition in his heart that the fallen red streak of light might be something valuable.
Besides, the terrain here was desert. There was most likely no one nearby.
Therefore, there basically would not be anyone to fight him for it, and the risk was very low.
It would be a real pity to give up on such a rare opportunity. Moreover, if he missed this chance, even if he encountered something similar next time, he might not necessarily be able to obtain it.
But as the saying went, fortune was found amid danger. Thinking up to this point, Long Ming’s gaze became extremely firm. Gritting his teeth, he changed direction and walked toward the place where it had fallen.