“What? Their target is the seventh city? The place where all the strongest individuals in the ultimate apocalypse have gathered?”
“But it’s only the second stage of the apocalypse now. With the strength of those powerful individuals, it’s impossible for them to have awakened at this stage.”
“So it’s an empty city. What are they going to an empty city for?”
The female merchant asked, full of confusion.
“Even an empty city has its purpose. It’s the second stage of the apocalypse now, and similarly, many opportunities that were seized by others in later generations have now refreshed!”
“He might have gotten some news and is preparing to go to the seventh city to seize an important opportunity!”
“His target is likely the Lighthouse!” Wang Zihao said with deep eyes.
“The Lighthouse? Does that thing really exist? But… it’s said that opening the Lighthouse requires collecting all 27 tech blueprints.”
“I haven’t heard of anyone collecting these blueprints yet.” The female merchant said with surprise.
“How many full tech blueprints do we have here?” Wang Zihao asked.
The female merchant replied, “We only have 1, 3, 10, 20, 25 here!”
Wang Zihao tapped his fingers on the table twice and said, “Go chase after them now and give them all these things!”
“Since they want to find the Lighthouse, we’ll lend them a hand!”
“I’m also very curious, just how far can this man with explosive luck go?”
The female merchant was even more surprised. She quickly asked, “Supervisor, do you mean to give them away for free? Or… should we exchange something for it?”
Wang Zihao snorted coldly and said, “If the other party knows you have full tech blueprints, and the numbers they have might be the ones he’s missing…”
“Do you think you, with your abilities, are qualified to do business with him?”
Suddenly, his tone sharpened, and he said sternly, “Of course, it’s a free gift! If you want to court death, don’t create such a strong enemy for me, alright?”
“Think before you act!”
“Yes… yes… I understand! I’ll go now!” The female merchant nodded repeatedly in fear and turned to leave.
Before she could reach the door, Wang Zihao suddenly called her back.
“Wait!”
The female merchant hurried back to the desk and asked, “Does the supervisor have any other instructions?”
“I remember that when those lunatics from the Angel Organization entered the fifth city, they dug for seven or eight days just to clear the tunnel.”
“It seems that the natives caused a tunnel collapse when they activated the reincarnation device, isolating the fifth city…”
“So, take a map from here to the seventh city via the wilderness route and give it to him. Say it’s from me! And wish him good luck!” Wang Zihao added.
“Okay, supervisor, I guarantee the task will be completed!” The female merchant nodded and quickly walked out of the office.
Meanwhile…
Zhang Chen and his group had just arrived at the tunnel entrance leading to the fifth high-walled city.
And they did indeed discover abnormalities.
A total of two trains had been destroyed.
The tracks had also been dislodged from their original positions due to some violent vibration.
There were many large rocks on the ground, as well as concrete blocks that had fallen from the ceiling.
The entire tunnel was pitch black.
Zhang Chen activated his absolute vision and saw that the entire tunnel had been sealed off.
The collapsed section was over forty kilometers long, and there was no guarantee that the road ahead wouldn’t collapse.
“This road is impassable. We need to find another way!” Zhang Chen said, shaking his head.
“Do you know of any other routes?” Zhang Chen suddenly looked up at Shirley and then at Xu Ruina.
Both of them shook their heads.
Shirley’s level was only that of an ordinary person in the intermediate apocalypse, and she lacked the ability to leave the camp and survive alone in the apocalypse.
Therefore, the maps she had explored were small, and much of her knowledge was obtained through hearsay.
Xu Ruina was even less capable. Like Zhang Chen, she had maps of cities within the high walls.
But if she had to detour outside the high-walled city, she would be of no help.
Zhang Chen looked at the electronic minimap.
There were still nearly 2,000 kilometers to the seventh high-walled city from here.
The high-walled cities on the minimap were illuminated, but other than the cities, the rest of the areas were unexplored and remained dark.
Zhang Chen wasn’t worried about traveling through the wilderness; his only concern was the terrain.
Who knew what the terrain of these two thousand kilometers would be like.
What if there was a gulf in between, or several mountain ranges…
That would delay the travel time considerably.
Just then, a woman slowly walked out from the dark corner.
“Esteemed guest, we meet again!”
It was the female merchant.
“Our supervisor learned that you were leaving the black market and expressed deep regret for not having the chance to meet you in person.”
“Therefore, we have a gift for you, hoping it will be of some help!”
“Our black market is always your friend, and you are always welcome to visit!”
The female merchant did not bring any slaves this time, as the transaction involved not much, so there was no need to waste a headcount.
After speaking, she handed a small box to Zhang Chen.
Opening the box, it contained five fragments of full tech blueprints.
Storing them in his ring, Zhang Chen’s count of full tech blueprints instantly became:
1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 19, 20, 23, 25, 27.
He was still missing 15 fragments.
Among them, Zhang Chen originally had one fragment of blueprint number 1. With this new fragment, he now had two!
There were two fragments of blueprint number 1?
Zhang Chen was slightly taken aback.
This indicated that the set of full tech blueprints was not unique!
It was possible that the natives had intentionally created many sets of keys scattered around the world.
It was similar to the saturation rescue in the movie “The Wandering Earth.”
If there was only one set of keys, and even one fragment was lost, then the key to the Lighthouse could never be assembled.
That’s why they adopted this method of saturated release of fragments to ensure that survivors could collect the keys to open the Lighthouse!
If this was the case, then the possibility of natives on the Lighthouse was very high!
Another possibility was that there were indeed only one or two sets of keys, but with the reset of the apocalypse, each reset would copy an additional set, and so on…
Therefore, the full tech blueprint fragments existing in the world should be the same, but they were byproducts of the reset!
Zhang Chen then looked at the map handed over by the female merchant: “Map of Tengxiang Country.”
At this moment, a prompt suddenly appeared:
[Map of Tengxiang Country. Inputting it into the electronic minimap will provide information on the current terrain and geography of Tengxiang Country. It can only be used after inputting into the minimap.]
[Warning: A tracking program has been injected here. Once input into the electronic minimap, the other party will be able to see your movement trajectory. This effect will last until the current suppression is lifted.]
“A tracker? They’re giving me a map but want to track me?”
Zhang Chen smiled slightly. The mastermind behind this black market was quite cunning.
“Wait, I have a gift for you too!”
Zhang Chen directly called out to the female merchant, who was about to leave, and casually shattered a bottle of potion…