My Ability Pool is Superior - Chapter 393: Settlement

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The spear-shaped sharp weapon pierced halfway into the soil, its end still trembling slightly.

Lu Bai sized up this thing that attacked him; it seemed to be a steel rebar removed from a building and polished.

He conveniently pulled out this steel spike and looked in the direction from which the attack came.

He easily spotted the guy who sneak attacked him.

Because the other party didn’t hide; after missing the strike, he instead bared his teeth and claws toward him in anger.

With that angry appearance, if the other party weren’t standing on the department store rooftop, he would probably pounce directly at him.

Seeing this scene, Lu Bai was somewhat stunned.

This was the first human he had seen after coming to the ground, but from this performance, it seemed.

The humans existing on the ground didn’t have very friendly relations with each other?

The other party soon ran out from the department store.

This was a male, appearing about seventeen or eighteen years old, holding a steel knife that was polished to a shine.

He showed a fierce expression on his face that he thought was full of deterrence, pointing the blade at Lu Bai, and said viciously: “I haven’t seen you before. Where did you come from? Get out of here quickly; you’re not welcome here!”

The tone was a bit strange, but fortunately, it was barely understandable.

This made Lu Bai relax a bit inside.

It seemed that although the technology development of humans on the ground had a break, civilization was still preserved.

Lu Bai thought this in his heart but showed no sign of it on his face: “I’m not from outside.”

“Despicable outsider! Don’t try to fool me; I’ve never seen you before.”

The youth thrust the steel knife forward a bit more toward Lu Bai: “I’ll say it again: no matter where you’re from, get out quickly, or I won’t be polite.”

“I have no reason to fool you.”

Lu Bai felt somewhat helpless.

In this situation, he suddenly missed those soul searching secret arts from the cultivation world.

If he could directly extract information from the other’s brain, why bother with all this trouble.

He raised his hand and pointed downward: “I just came up from underground.”

Unexpectedly, upon hearing this, disgust surged undisguised on the youth’s face: “So you’re a descendant of those selfish cowards. Since you chose to betray, why come out?”

Lu Bai thought for a moment and said: “I was born in the shelter; that’s not something I could control, right?”

The smile on his face grew even kinder, appearing very approachable: “Now I’ve realized we should live openly on the ground, made the effort for it, and successfully came to the ground. Are you really going to push away someone like me who’s proactively approaching you?”

Hearing these words, the youth clearly became hesitant.

After struggling for a long time, the youth finally gritted his teeth and said: “Then come with me.”

On one hand, the youth was easier to persuade; on the other, it was probably because Lu Bai was the first person he had seen come out of the shelter, making it not easy to resolve to kill him.

……

In these years since humanity’s large-scale disappearance, nature’s restorative power was astonishingly terrifying, squeezing into every corner of the city overwhelmingly.

Along the way was thick green; Lu Bai saw a place that should have been a park, now turned into something resembling a primitive forest.

Tree trunks snapped in half by the riverbank were covered in fungi, emitting a faint fragrance.

Lu Bai honestly followed behind this youth, passing through some shortcuts only locals would know, like carrion flies foraging in the corpse of the dead city.

During this time, Lu Bai occasionally tried to chat with this youth.

Unfortunately, this youth was quite vigilant; he wouldn’t answer anything asked, and if asked too much, he would raise the steel knife to make a deterring action.

“Not there yet? You went so far from the settlement; is it for vigilance or hunting?”

The youth impatiently raised the steel knife and knocked on a piece of steel rebar protruding from the concrete: “Stop asking; we’re already here.”

They were now in a collapsed residential building; the slanted prefabricated slab structure above their heads looked precarious but was actually sturdier than imagined.

Hearing the youth’s words, Lu Bai stopped and, through the half-remaining window, could extend his field of vision.

The sky was deep blue, but outside the window, there were no paper cranes; instead, there was endless green, like a tsunami overwhelming everything.

The semicircular building ahead was like a small boat in a green ocean, as if it would be swallowed by the endless thick green in the next second.

“This should originally have been a sports center, right?”

Lu Bai looked at the stadium that resembled a bird’s nest in shape, his expression inscrutable.

“Mind your own business.”

The youth didn’t give Lu Bai time to sigh and immediately jumped out of the residential building along the half window: “Hurry over.”

After passing through the last stretch of green plants, Lu Bai followed the youth to the entrance of this stadium.

Inside the locked iron grille door sat an elderly person who, by appearance alone, seemed as old as someone in their eighties or nineties.

Seeing the youth, the elderly person opened the door while smiling and greeting: “Huo Yao, back so early today?”

However, upon seeing Lu Bai behind the youth, the elderly person subtly slowed the speed of opening the door: “And this young friend is…?”

“I ran into him over by the South Business Plaza; he says he’s someone who just came out of the shelter.”

The youth called Huo Yao slung the steel knife to his waist and continued: “I plan to take him to see Big Biao Ge and figure out how to handle this guy.”

The elderly person’s turbid eyes scrutinized Lu Bai and slowly said: “Yeah, Big Biao Ge should make the decision.”

The iron grille door opened, and Huo Yao walked in, conveniently grabbing a handful of unknown beans and stuffing them into his mouth, crunching away.

Seeing this, the elderly person irritably slapped his arm: “You’ve eaten them all; what am I, the old man, supposed to eat?”

Huo Yao grinned and rubbed his arm: “Uncle Xia, you just turned forty last month; why act like an old man?”

“Alright, hurry and take this young friend over.”

Huo Yao knew business was important, waved at Lu Bai, signaling him to follow.

This settlement’s original site was a stadium, so the area was naturally large.

However, stadiums are designed from the start to ensure visitors won’t get lost.

After hundreds of years, the overall structure of the stadium hadn’t changed much; just follow the main passage.

Lu Bai walked while observing the situation inside the arena.

The original audience seats inside the venue had been turned into large and small huts.

As for the construction materials, they clearly weren’t uniformly made but scavenged steel and such.

Through these huts, Lu Bai roughly estimated that the entire settlement probably gathered several thousand people.

But the problem was, where did the food come from to sustain a population of that size?

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