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nTranslator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

nStopping down, Su Mo began to look around.

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nAlong the way, Su Mo felt a noticeable fluctuation as he lay flat on his stomach.

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n“If I’m not mistaken, I’m in a basin.”

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nThey were three kilometers away. Looking at the road they came, the distance had become blurry, and the horizon had hidden part of the scenery.

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nLooking west, he could feel the slope of the terrain rising.

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nAfter taking a good look around, Su Mo found the site of the ruins.

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n“Is… this where the prehistoric ruins are?”

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nIt was a terrain almost identical to the shelter.

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nThere was also a small hill where the underground ruins were located. There was no perfect drainage facility around it because of the terrain, which led to the large pools of water.

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nOf course, if there were no markings on the map and the existence of the ruins, it would be the perfect place to build a shelter by choosing it as the foundation and adding pipes to clear the water.

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n“Woof woof woof!”

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nOreo retreated from the distance and asked his master for advice.

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nBecause of more than a day of heavy rain, the water near the ruins was so deep that Oreo could not cross it even in his raincoat.

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nLooking at Oreo’s frightened expression, Su Mo said without hesitation.

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n“We have to figure out this shelter. It’s the only known treasure spot near us. Wait here for me. I’ll go there alone.”

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n“Woof?”

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nOreo wagged its tail, not wanting to be separated from its master.

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nBending over and rubbing Oreo’s head, Su Mo comforted it.

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n“Don’t worry. Keep watch for your master outside. The acid rain inside is scary. Once you touch it…”

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n“Hiss! Your fur’s gone!”

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nOreo, who was still eager to have a try, was immediately shocked by Su Mo. Its eyes showed a feeling of fear, grievance, and reluctance to part with him. It simply stayed squatted in the same place and shook its big tail.

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nStanding up, Su Mo took a deep breath, pulled out his raincoat from the storage space, and started putting it on.

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nThe flowing raincoat did not hinder regular movements at all. After inspecting to ensure there were no leaks, Su Mo began to wade through the water one step at a time.

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nIt was still about two hundred meters from where the hill was.

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nThe water level was over his feet.

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nAs a precaution, Su Mo decided to walk around the hill to get behind it and try to explore in a direction that was less prone to the water pooling first.

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nThe plain soil had never been solid had become mud under the rain.

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nSu Mo walked every step with great difficulty.

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nA small part of his leg would even get stuck sometimes, and he had to spend a lot of effort to pull it out.

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nWading through the water, he walked for about twenty minutes only to have gone around a hundred and fifty meters.

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nAs they reached higher terrain, the soil began to harden, and the water gradually disappeared.

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nHowever, various footprints on the ground made Su Mo tense.

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nThe footprints looked “fresh” and could be seen clearly in the heavy rain.

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nThere were footprints split into two toes and a bunch of feline footprints.

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nA few hairs could be seen occasionally in the crevices of the soil.

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nCrouching on the ground, Su Mo carefully picked up the hair in the cracks and looked at it carefully.

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n“It does look like feline fur. With this flexibility, it’s definitely not a regular animal.”

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nWith a restless heart, Su Mo clicked on the game panel and pressed Monster Illustration Handbook for the second time today.

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nNo mutant beast presence detected within a thousand-meter radius of the player.

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nToday’s count 1

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n“That’s strange. In theory, felines should be very territorial. This can’t be its territory.”

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nFelines used claw scratches and urine to mark the boundaries of their territory and tell other animals when they passed to avoid accidental meetings and conflicts.

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nAfter looking around, Su Mo shook his head. He could not find markings nearby.

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n“Is this blood?”

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nTouching the side of the hill, Su Mo found a pool of blood that had seeped into the ground.

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nHe lowered his head and smelled the smell of the ground. Other than the stench of the earth after a rainy day, he could smell a trace of blood.

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nThere was also a lot of hair near the blood.

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nAnd…

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nA place that had been bombarded.

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n“What’s this? Holy **, was this bombarded by a grenade?”

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nThe further he went to the side of the hill, the more traced of animals there were.

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nWhen Su Mo got around to the left, he was shocked to see scorched marks on the ground.

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nThe grass beside the marks was still green, but nothing was growing in the center of the marks.

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nThe area that was bombarded was extremely unusual. According to the diameter of the center of the explosion, it was only about 50cm.

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nBesides, the land was not blown up, which made no sense for a fixed-point bomb or a hand-thrown grenade.

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nSu Mo felt had a bad feeling.

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nHe walked quickly back to the middle of the hill and walked to the top of it. As he neared the end, there were more bombardment marks.

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nBesides, a big dark hole was blasted out at the front.

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n“???”

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n“Did someone get here first?”

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nFetching a flashlight from the storage space and turning it on, Su Mo peered into the hole.

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nIt was more than four meters from the hole to the ground. It was almost the same height as the shelter. The building here gave Su Mo a sense of familiarity.

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n“Why does it feel so intensely familiar? Is this not a human shelter?”

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nIf this were an RPG game, there would be countless questions marks hanging over Su Mo’s head.

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n‘How about getting down there to check it out?’

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nA bold idea flourished like crazy after popping out of Su Mo’s mind.

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nEverything here was too strange. The inexplicable feline fur, the small bombardments at several points, and the design of structures that mimicked a human shelter all added a sense of mystery to the underground ruins.

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nAfter opening the storage space and searching around, Su Mo decided to use the original method of weaving a hemp rope.

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nIt was more than four meters high. It was easy to jump down but difficult to come back up.

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nTaking out two units of plant fiber and sitting at the hole, Su Mo began to weave the hemp rope.

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nIn less than 20 minutes, Su Mo had woven a rope about three meters long by repeatedly winding strands of tough plant fibers down it.

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nTaking out two units of iron and putting them on the ground, he tied a section of the hemp rope to the iron, and a simple up and down device was completed.

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nAt this moment, Su Mo was glad that he had joined a DIY craft club in college.

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nOtherwise, this simple job would have been a little difficult for ordinary people to do.

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nAfter putting away everything, Su Mo tried throwing pebbles around. After making sure that there was no mechanism, Su Mo began to explore the ruins for the first time.

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nHe had read a lot about tomb raiding in novels, but it was difficult to actually do it.

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nAwkwardly biting the flashlight in his mouth, Su Mo grabbed the rope and began to slide down.

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nThe rough touch of the plant fibers greatly increased the friction of the slide. Su Mo had to put a lot of effort into getting a good grip of it in each slide.

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nWhen there was only one meter left, Su Mo released and naturally fell to the ground.

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nAfter holding his breath for a long time, Su Mo gasped heavily as soon as he recovered.

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nHowever, when he lifted his head and looked ahead by the light of his flashlight, he felt a thump in his heart.

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nOne person (×)

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nA skeleton (√)

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nHe had just got rid of five hoodlums last night but looking at a skull that had fallen on the ground looking sideways at him.

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nThere was a burst of cool air behind him.

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