Three days have passed, under the light of the hazy full moon, on top of a shabby four story building a tall youth wearing a black cloak was standing alone in the darkness.

His body was straight like a javelin, under the cloak hood, two cold eyes gazed at the now ruined world, from here he could see the tattered skyscrapers and columns of black smoke were pretty much everywhere.

On the deserted streets scattered broken cars filled his vision, some black shadows were hoping here and there but it was probably not humans.

What was built by mankind in a few centuries crumbled like a fragile tower of cards, in just three days the world was very much reshaped.

Looking at the east of the city the youth eyes frowned, a sea of huge trees covered an extremely large surface of the suburbs, a truly dense jungle made its appearance in this short amount of time, this was the D entity effect, in the first few weeks the growth speed of the plants was multiplied by factor of ten and what’s more , looking carefully at those huge trees , some differences can be spotted like colour of the leaves , it changed into dark greenish purple and the trunks were thicker and sturdier.

The solitary youth standing on the rooftop was Ju long, in these three days he completely cleaned the remaining sub humans inside the building, but not a single Barrisium sac was found.

The screams of despair were rarely heard, meaning that there were not many survivors anymore, mostly are hiding in the cracks of the city like pitiful bugs.

After some time, people will notice that their bodies will become stronger and faster, but still far from a first order evolver, the discovery of Barrisium will be made public only by the end of the year, the military can still defend some places and establish bases, but the main cities were all conquered by mutant animals and sub humans, so humans could only flee to the countryside and less populated areas.

What Ju long plans is to reach the first order evolver level as soon as possible, only by evolving will he become more confident and operate more efficiently.

To do that he has no choice but to go to the most dangerous area, the urban centre.

“tomorrow I should depart, the reserve of food is already exhausted, the sub humans number decreased… they surely migrated to the urban area”

Then the night passed quickly without any problem.

The first rays of sunlight made their way in the greyish and dilapidated houses, a slender shadow was carefully advancing in the street.

Ju long slowly walked vigilantly looking at his surroundings, his sword was now attached to his waist, to better react to any situation, a bag pack was on his back.

Early in the morning he rummaged through some of his neighbour houses and collected some food and water.

Ju long was now farther and farther from his house, it was already five or four kilometres away, but not a single sub human was spotted.

Ju long felt strange, he knows that sub humans are attracted by fresh meat so the decrease in survivors forced them to search in other areas but at least not all of them will disappear.

His intuition is telling him that something is probably wrong, but he still didn’t stop his steps he continued to move forward.

Suddenly he heard some footsteps, it wasn’t human, with his experience Ju long could differentiate between the footsteps of humans and sub humans.

Sub humans’ steps are irregular and rushed, hiding behind a car he discreetly took a look, four sub humans emerged from the two sides of the street, they were inside the buildings.

“why were they hiding inside, it doesn’t make sense”

Ju long was more and ore alarmed, the behaviour of the sub humans was abnormal, he could see a trace of fear from their disgusting eyes.

Ughhh!

A cry was heard and another sub human made his appearance but this time, it was not far behind Ju long, noticing the fresh meat its mouth was stained with saliva.

Ju long absorbed the strengthening liquid so his body was more appetizing than other humans and the crazy greedy eyes of the sub human was the proof.

Honestly, in his current state Ju long could deal with three sub humans simultaneously but it was his limit, more than three and it would become dangerous.

And the worst happened the cry alarmed the other four which immediately revealed his position.

“I need to stay calm!”

Ju long inhaled a large amount of air and exhaled slowly, calmness is the most important in life and death situations.

Examining his surrounding, many cars were there, the nearest sub human was the one founding him first, the other four were still at 100 meters of him.

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Ju long then made a decision, he immediately took out his sword, climbed out from behind the car and rushed to the nearest sub human.

The dark silver blade shining with the light of the sun emitted a dazzling brilliance, the sub human was momentarily stunned, usually the prey will always run away but this time it rushed toward itself, the greedy eyes became even more greedy.

The four other creatures were already marching, so it was imperative for Ju long to quickly solve the one in front of him, his speed accelerated, gripping the hilt of his sword tightly, there was only 1 meter of distance remaining.

The sub human also moved he extended his greyish and pale hands to catch the prey in front of him he wasn’t slow in fact he was also quick but then the prey disappeared suddenly.

In his run Ju long slightly lowered his upper body and changed is trajectory evading the hands of the sub humans that were only one breath away from his face and then a flash of light passed through the neck of the sub human.

Ju long didn’t stop running and bypassed the frozen in place sub human, after a few seconds a head fell on the ground, and a stream of black blood spurted out.

The four others didn’t even flinch at their killed fellow and continued to madly chase Ju long.

“one down …now I need to find a way to divide them”

Ju long while running was thinking deeply then his eyes lit up, seeing some cars in front he jumped over a car then made some zig zag motions.

The grey skinned sub human at this stage was still a dumb creature led by instinct and the moves It can make are still sloppy, so when Ju long Jumped over the car and disappeared from their vision, three were blocked by the car and in a state of confusion and one got around the car still chasing.

In fact, Ju long didn’t go too far, he was hidden again behind an abandoned car, his goal was to fade from their field of vision.

Ju long took a stone and threw it on the ground at a near distance from his position, after a few seconds footsteps could already be heard, the moment the sub human appeared, Ju Long appeared silently like a trained assassin behind him and pierced his back penetrating the heart at the same time ending its life cleanly.

Without waiting he changed his position again and repeated the same process killing the three remaining others.

“thanks to the terrain I could kill them cleanly, if it was an open space then it would be another story”

Ju long breathed a sigh of relief and sat on the floor leaning on the car, don’t look at Ju long easily killing the five sub humans but a slight error in judgment could become the end for him.

But then something horrible happened, the alarm of the car he was leaning on was suddenly triggered, the sound was so loud in this deserted street.

“fuck! How could I make this kind of mistake!?”

Ju long knew what the result of the alarm meant, suddenly footsteps from all around were heard.

“one, two, three…fifteen…oh shit…”

Looking at all the sub humans like evil spirits surrounding him, Ju long cold face had a trace of anxiety, he climbed on top of the car, there was another van slightly taller, he jumped on it directly securing his safety temporarily.

The sub humans surrounded the van looking at Ju long crazily but their hands can’t reach which made them even more mad, the scene was like a flock of starving hyenas attracted by a piece of bloody meat.

“why were there so many hidden inside the buildings?”

Just thinking about this question, the ground began to tremble, the wreckages and the stones on the roadside were jumping around.

Ju long brows were wrinkled tightly, an uneasy feeling filled his mind.

Even the sub humans that were struggling a moments ago were now petrified, in the end of street where a there was a junction, innumerable black spots filled the vision of Ju long.

As the black spots approached, the ground trembled even more, it felt like a mini earthquake, from the left side and the right side of the junction black spots continued to appear like flood.

The vision of Ju long was better than ordinary people, he clearly saw the identity of the black spots.

“The worst fucking type …mutant rats!”

Mutant rats, a type of evolved animals, before the apocalypse their living habits were to be in groups and to eat everything that is edible.

After being exposed to the D entity, their shape and appearance didn’t change much but their size tripled, now they were bigger that a cat and more aggressive, their size clearly becoming inconvenient for them to live in closed space like sewers, they emerged like a plague grinding everything in their passage.

“a single mutant rat isn’t a problem, but a horde is not something to cope with, even a second order evolver will flee at their sight …”

Looking at the sea of rats, Ju long expression became extremely dignified, tightly clutching his sword and preparing for the horde.

“at this height I should be somewhat safe”

The first wave of rats already reached the van, it incessantly shook due to the continuous impact of the rats, the dozens of sub humans were instantly submerged, after a few moments they couldn’t be seen anymore.

Some of the rats jumped from the horde and attacked Ju long, their defence was weak, he continued to wave is sword, left and right, dividing in two every rat coming near him.

Rat intestines, organs, heads endlessly rained, soon the dark cloak of Ju long was red stained with blood, he was like a man directly emerging from hell.

Wave after wave flocked constantly, Ju long felt tired, his forehead was full of sweat, the rat’s number didn’t decrease and twenty minutes already passed, this was evidence about how horrible a mutant rat tide truly was.

Another ten minutes passed, Ju long was nearly at his limit but fortunately the number of mutant rats had signs of decreasing indicating that this is probably the last wave.

“pant …pant …finally… “

Ju long crumbled on top of the now bloody van, he didn’t mind the multitude of disgusting remains of the rats he killed around, he just laid there on his back and closed his eyes, the muscles on his arms were painful, sore and full of lactic acid.

Where was the sub humans? not a single speck of them was left by the mutant rats, they devoured everything even bones were not left.

One hour passed already, Ju long moved slightly feeling that regained some strength he jumped of the van, he wasn’t afraid of any danger now, with the remaining breath of this mutant rat horde, no creature would dare to come here.

Then Ju long made a strange action, he collected the meat of the mutant rats that he killed inside plastic sacs and stored them inside his bag pack about forty kg of meat was collected, if he could he would collect more but his bag pack couldn’t support more.

Unlike sub humans that have Barrisium sacs, mutant animals Barrisium is stored inside their meat, so mutant animals’ meat is highly beneficial for humans, the more powerful the mutant animal the more effective it is for evolving.

These mutant rats are still in the zero order so the amount of Barrisium in their meat is negligible but still it’s better than nothing.

After collecting the meat Ju long decided to find a place to take a rest so after restoring some more strength he continued on his road.