The apocalypse struck, and I became a druid.

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Several powerful Awakened Ones, led by the burly man, were captured, while the remaining invaders were forced to retreat under the combined attack of Chairman Wu, the vice-chairmen, and the Awakened Ones.

The army was defeated like a mountain.

"boom!"

"what!"

The sporadic gunshots were drowned out by the roars of the crowd.

Soon, all the surviving invaders were bound tightly and gathered on a ship.

After discussion, Chairman Wu decided to interrogate the group of people separately, just like the police interrogate criminals.

……

Inside a small bedroom on a sailboat.

The burly man and his three henchmen were bound together by layers of vines and collapsed to the ground.

As expected of an Awakened One, his vitality is tenacious. The burly man whose limbs were broken by Han Ning earlier has stopped bleeding, but his face is pale and he looks like he is barely breathing.

Han Ning and Chairman Wu were in charge of interrogating them.

"Who are you? Where did you come from? Why are you attacking us?" Chairman Wu's voice was filled with suppressed anger.

"To tell you the truth, I will give you a quick death."

The burly man kept his mouth tightly shut, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the ceiling, not uttering a word.

The emaciated man next to him was the first to break down.

He felt Han Ning's icy gaze, his body trembled violently, and he begged for mercy repeatedly:

"Don't kill me! I'll talk, I'll tell you everything!"

“We…we were all migrant workers trying to make a living in the western part of Bailu City. There were white-collar workers, self-employed shop owners, and construction workers…all sorts of people.”

He spoke very quickly, as if afraid that if he spoke too slowly he wouldn't have a chance.

"Later, we awakened our abilities for various reasons, and our situation was probably similar to yours."

"Later, they were taken in by a man named Sun Wuyan. He was very capable and ruthless. If you didn't go with him, you would die..."

The gaunt man swallowed hard, his voice trembling.

“We were originally staying at a large hotel in the west of the city. There were quite a few of us, over a hundred Awakened Ones.”

"But a while ago... those soldiers in the west clashed with the Black Serpent Monsters."

"We were affected because we were close by."

His face showed lingering fear.

"We can't stop them, we can't stop them at all. Those snake monsters are too powerful. They even destroyed the hotel with the flood they controlled, and many people died... We were also scattered."

The skinny man pointed to the slumped, towering giant.

"We kept running eastward to escape the Black Serpent Monster until we met you. He is our captain."

Han Ning frowned.

Soldiers...aren't those the army?

And then there's Sun Wuyan, the Black Serpent Monster Horde...

This guy provided a lot of information.

"Is he Sun Wuyan?" Han Ning asked, pointing at the burly man.

The skinny man shook his head:

"No, no, no, his name is Lei Gang. He is a captain under Sun Wuyan. Sun Wuyan has a total of 6 captains with considerable strength, known as the Hexagram, who manage over a hundred Awakened Ones and several hundred ordinary people."

"And I... am just his deputy."

Upon hearing this, Han Ning and Chairman Wu couldn't help but exchange a glance.

They had just witnessed Lei Gang's strength firsthand.

If placed at Biyun Resort, Lei Gang would definitely be a top-tier fighter, even stronger than some of the club presidents.

But this person... is just a captain under that "Boss Sun"?

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(Two more chapters to come today)

Chapter 84 Audacious

There was silence for a moment.

Chairman Wu stared at the gaunt man and asked:

"How strong is that Sun Wuyan?"

The skinny man glanced at Han Ning subconsciously and replied:

"Boss Sun is indeed formidable, but..."

He paused, then couldn't help but steal a glance at Han Ning, his voice even lower.

"This guy is even scarier to me than Boss Sun."

"Old Master Sun couldn't possibly have beaten Captain Lei to this state in one move..."

In his eyes, Han Ning's strength was probably even greater than that of Sun Wuyan, who could gather hundreds of awakened individuals.

Han Ning's face remained expressionless.

Chairman Wu secretly breathed a sigh of relief and continued to press for answers:

"What kind of creatures are those black serpent monsters?"

Mentioning this name, a hint of fear appeared on the gaunt man's face:

"Monsters, they are terrifying monsters, their numbers are frightening."

"They have snake scales on their bodies, facial features that resemble those of monkeys, vertical pupils in their eyes, and mouths that stretch to their ears."

"It has the lower body of a snake, but it also has two arms that look like a human, so it's both human and snake!"

"These monsters possess a certain level of intelligence, know how to use tools, and have a complex social structure."

"A group of black serpent monsters gathered together can control floods within a certain area."

"The individual will also spew out black smoke like ink, which will quickly rot if it touches the skin or flesh."

"These ghostly things weren't originally in the west. It was the soldiers who discovered them first, and then they started fighting."

"We don't know much about these monsters yet. We only know that they are incredibly numerous. The weak ones are weaker than ordinary people, and the strong ones I've seen are even stronger than Captain Lei. In any case, they could overwhelm us just by sending out those weak snake monsters and using a swarm tactic."

Han Ning thought of the endless coral monsters in the eastern waters.

The various monsters in this world are truly despair-inducing.

They're already so full of lice they're not afraid of being bitten anymore.

He tried his best to stop thinking about it and changed the direction of his interrogation:

"The soldiers you're talking about... are they the army troops stationed in the west?"

The gaunt man nodded repeatedly: "Yes, it's them."

"So your guns... were stolen from them?" Han Ning continued to ask.

"Yes...yes...Sun Wuyan led us to ambush a group of soldiers and we stole their weapons." The skinny man swallowed hard and said uneasily.

"You guys are really bold," Chairman Wu couldn't help but gasp. "Aren't you afraid they'll come after you in retaliation?"

Han Ning frowned slightly. Ambushing regular troops and seizing their weapons—these people were the most desperate of the desperate.

"hehe."

Just then, Lei Gang, who had been lying silently on the ground, his limbs shattered, like a puddle of mud, let out a cold laugh:

"Retaliation? You think those guys in military uniforms are a united front?"

"I've been transported to this godforsaken place. The rules of civilized society are long gone."

"Human selfishness and greed can grow wildly like weeds."

"Would subordinates who have awakened their abilities still willingly listen to their superiors who are just ordinary people?"

"Without the state apparatus to keep them in check, whoever has the biggest fist is the boss."

"They've long since split into several factions, fighting amongst themselves to the death. How could they possibly care about us?"

Han Ning felt that this situation was not impossible.

But there should still be people with firm beliefs who are loyal to their superiors.

It’s hard to say.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have been divided into several groups.

"They have firearms and can fight the Black Serpent Monster head-on, so they must be very strong, right?" Han Ning asked.

This time, Lei Gang neither refuted nor answered; he simply closed his eyes, as if he disdained to speak again.

His gaze shifted to the gaunt man.

The skinny man felt Han Ning's gaze, trembled, and quickly replied:

"Yes, they are very strong. They have firearms to shoot monsters, which is much more efficient than ordinary Awakeners. They accumulate energy very quickly. As long as they are Awakeners, none of them are weaker than me. The strongest ones are even no weaker than you. I have no idea how strong they are."

Hearing that the army had traveled through time together, Han Ning roughly guessed this.

Although he has a character panel, his monster-killing speed in the early stages is definitely not as fast as that of fully automatic rifles, submachine guns, or even some more powerful heavy weapons.

He felt that even in his fully transformed state, he was still slower than a bullet. His body could probably block bullets, but it certainly couldn't withstand a barrage of heavy fire.

The sheer force of human steel should not be underestimated.

But without a production line, the ammunition will eventually run out.

"Not necessarily. Human beings awaken all sorts of abilities. Perhaps someone will awaken abilities similar to machine tools, or even manually conjure ammunition?"