Hearing this, the other people in the car also looked out the window, and then they all found something wrong –

So peaceful.

The biological distribution in the Level 5 Danger Zone consists of Type 4 to the weaker Type 6 Deinonychus, and the distribution is much denser than that in the Level 4 Danger Zone.

This dangerous area is also the last obstacle for them to enter the Gear City…but now, why does it feel like there is no threat at all?

“Did a strong man come here recently and kill a large number of monsters?”

Xia Ye guessed.

“Let’s stop the car for a while. I think we need to figure it out. If there are other strong people in Gear City, it may bring a lot of variables to our actions.”

Jinelle said after thinking for a moment.

An Ke nodded when he heard that and stopped the car next to a big rock.

“Xia Ye and I will go down and check it out. You guys just stay in the car.”

“OK.” “Okay…”

……

“Sure enough…there are indeed traces of people fighting…”

Ten minutes later, after inspecting the ground conditions within a one-kilometer radius, Jinel came to a conclusion, pointing to the five almost-eaten corpses of the Devil Beasts nearby.

“The attack was clean and neat. The spines of the several monster corpses here were all broken by the same attack. It should be the same person who did it.”

“The skeleton of the large monster we encountered earlier had both impact and slash wounds. It’s very likely that there was more than one person who came here before, and it was a team.”

“Can you tell the direction they are heading?” Xia Ye asked behind Jinniel.

He really has no experience in this kind of wilderness survey work, and for now he can only act as the other party’s bodyguard.

“It’s been a while, maybe two weeks, I can’t tell anymore.”

Jinelle shook her head and continued walking forward.

But not long after, she stopped and stared blankly at the large corpse of a terrifying beast in front of her.

“This is……”

“What’s wrong?” Seeing this, Xia Ye hurriedly followed.

Jinniel didn’t answer, but walked quickly forward, carefully observing the remaining parts of the monster’s corpse, and suddenly laughed helplessly.

“Okay, you can rest assured now.”

“Huh? Why?” Xia Ye was a little confused.

“I’ve seen this mark before, and I know who did it.”

“Who?”

“Phoenix’s assistant, Anne, a seventh-level spell-like ability user, her flames leave very special purple burn marks. Look here… and on the bones here, there are traces of this color.”

“Perhaps she knew we would come to Gear City, so she asked Annie to lead people to clean up the area in advance to prevent us from being unable to reach our destination or being too exhausted or even injured on the way here, which would affect our work.”

Jinelle stood up, looked into the distance, and took a deep breath.

“Phoenix… is really nice to you.” Such behavior is really rare on the Hill Continent, and Xia Ye also sighed.

“But since she knew that you would go to the Gear City eventually, why didn’t she tell you before?”

Hearing this, Jinniel turned to look at Xia Ye, and her straight gaze revealed the answer.

“I?”

Jinelle shrugged.

“Phoenix mentioned you before. She probably knows that you are a user with special abilities.”

Although Ginelle didn’t know that Karen brought the feathers, from Phoenix’s various behaviors and Ginelle’s understanding of Xia Ye, it was not difficult to guess this conclusion.

“This is also a question that puzzles me. What I learned before is that the mythical species played a decisive role in the war to exterminate the original ability users.”

“But since she knew it, she didn’t come to kill you all. Instead, she allowed you to contact me…” Xia Ye said with a frown.

“Who knows? Phoenix has her own considerations, and no one can interfere with her thoughts.”

“At the moment, since she thinks that it will only be useful if you come with us, it means that our mutant factor problem may only be solved by the influence of a real ability user.”

“I’m afraid that many of the previous arrangements were also within Phoenix’s considerations…”

“Xia Ye, do you ever feel like you’re being manipulated and pushed around?”

Suddenly, Jinniel turned the conversation to Xia Ye.

“Our encounter, the blue crystal, the highway area…the two parties that should have no intersection are constantly experiencing coincidences in some way.”

“Wouldn’t that be uncomfortable?”

“This is a philosophical question, but I have always believed in another statement–” Hearing this, Xia Ye laughed.

Maybe many things are really too coincidental, or maybe there are hands behind these coincidences.

But he was well aware that the factors that contributed to these coincidences also included his own choices.

From the beginning to now, Xia Ye and the people of Hill Continent think about problems differently.

Because he wanted to save his beloved wife, he was willing to commit many deaths that seemed unnecessary; because he wanted to know more of the truth, he was willing to touch many things that he shouldn’t have touched.

“What do you mean?” Jinelle looked at him curiously.

“All coincidences are the inevitable result of human choice.” Xia Ye waved his hand and walked towards the direction where the SUV was parked.

“The necessity of choice…”

Jinelle stared at the other person’s back in a daze, a hint of contemplation in her amber eyes.

She seemed to suddenly get Xia Ye’s charm…

55. Gear Location

At noon, a man who looked to be about thirty years old, wearing two bullet chains around his body, a black leather jacket, carrying a large-caliber sniper rifle, and a hideous centipede-like scar on his face, looked at the destroyed Shadow Claw contact point and the trembling vagrant kneeling in front of him, and took a deep puff of his cigarette with a gloomy face.

Behind him stood a group of people dressed in similar styles, all with ferocious and cold faces.

This group of people all had the Shadow Claw logo on their chests.

Captain Cavendish didn’t expect that something like this would happen just one week after he left the house.

He was ordered to come to Katari three years ago to take over the Shadow Claw contact point. With his fierce work style and strong wilderness combat capabilities, it only took him three years to make Shadow Claw take root here.

It will probably take another year or two for this place to develop into a branch-level scale, and he will be promoted from team leader to the head of the branch, and will be able to have a say with the second and third in command of the headquarters.

The headquarters probably doesn’t know about this yet and hasn’t sent anyone to investigate.

No matter what, we have to find the culprit first, stick the barrel of a gun into his mouth and crush his internal organs.

The tragic scene around him made the veins on Cavendish’s temples and forehead throb wildly.

He was trying to suppress his already overwhelming murderous intent.

Cavendish raised his hand, walked forward slowly, and inserted the thick cigarette directly into one of the kneeling man’s eyes.

When he came back, he happened to see the man sneaking out of the house with a few cans in his arms.

“Ahhhh!!!”

The screams of a pig being slaughtered rang out in the dilapidated office.

“Caven…Lord Cavendish!”

“I was wrong…I was wrong! I’ll tell you everything I know!”

“I…I know who did it!!!”

“I’ll tell you everything! I’ll tell you everything!”

But this man had no intention of resisting. He kowtowed with a cigarette stuck in his eyes.

The man in front of him carrying a sniper rifle is a genuine mid-level sixth-level warrior, and the squadron leaders and team leaders around him are all from third to fifth levels. With such strength, few people in the entire Katari dare to take action in front of them.

What’s more, if you fall into their hands, dying cleanly and neatly would be considered comfortable.

“Go ahead.” Cavendish squatted down, the centipede on his face wagged its tail in disgust, and an ugly smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

“They are a group of outsiders who came two days ago…”

“A few days ago, make it clear.” Cavendish pulled out the cigarette covered with red, white and black sticky liquid, causing another round of pig squeals.

“Three days! Three days ago!!!”

“They came from the south! They drove an SUV, one man and four women, and the man used a crowbar as a weapon!”

“Someone saw that man and a woman with him coming in your direction. Because no one dared to approach your contact point, no one knows what happened afterwards!”

“But that man was very arrogant. He beat up Quark from the Fox Gang right after he arrived. It must have been him who did it!”

“And that day, someone from your headquarters came as well. It seemed like they were bringing in an important person. That man must have come for him and kidnapped him!”

Although no one would normally monitor Shadow Claw, no one knew the truth about what happened that night.

But the most important thing right now is to beg for mercy from the other party. These fragmented footage and speculations are enough to make up a suitable explanation.

“Where are they now?”

“We left before daybreak! We went east…”

“East… Clock City…” Cavendish took another cigarette, took out his pistol and fired a shot at the cigarette to light it.

“What’s the strength of that man?”

“I… I don’t know, maybe… maybe… about the same… as you.”

The man kneeling on the ground answered tremblingly.

“Would you like to smoke?” Cavendish nodded and handed the cigarette to the man’s mouth and asked.

“I…I don’t know how to smoke.”

“You’d better take a puff. It can numb your nerves and make you walk more comfortably later.” Cavendish pinched his chin and stuffed the cigarette directly into his throat. He patted his shoulder, stood up and shook his hands.

A tall man came forward as if he understood what he meant and grabbed him like a chicken and walked straight out.

Looking at his men leaving, Cavendish took a deep breath.

An attacker of level six strength…

Suddenly, he grinned.

It’s been a long time since someone of this level challenged me.

“Leave one squadron behind. When I come back, I want to see everything restored to its original state. The others follow me.”

…………

“You said Phoenix asked someone to help us clear the road?”

Xia Ye and Jinniel returned to the car and explained the situation in general. Karen was quite moved and sighed.

“Phoenix… woooooo… she’s so nice…”

“I’ll thank her in person when I get back this time. Anyway, we should be able to head to the Gear City without any worries of encountering a group of high-threat monsters.”

Jinelle said, leaning against the window.

Phoenix always does things cleanly and efficiently, and will definitely not leave any tails.

Just like that, the group set off again towards the Gear City.

After clearing the Level 5 danger zone, the road became smooth. The occasional appearance of one or two Type 4 monsters could not cause any obstacles to Xia Ye and Karen’s fighting power.

Therefore, the driving progress of the group was greatly accelerated. In the evening, they officially arrived at the location of the gear city marked on the map provided by Canaanzi – the eastern area where the parts of the level 5 danger zone were scattered.

The surrounding scenery gradually changed into another appearance as the off-road vehicle drove on.

The twisted trees embedded with crystals in the wilderness gradually decreased until they disappeared, and were replaced by some brass metal pillars of varying heights and strange shapes.

“It does look like the ruins of some kind of civilization, with a style that I’ve never seen before.” Looking at the rare scenery around her, Jinelle took out a notebook and began to record and draw, while also explaining to everyone.

“Further east is a fairly large uninhabited area called the Enshifik Plain. Only after crossing it can we reach the new large-scale human settlement.”

“The border of the Enshifik Plains intersects with multiple regions, perhaps it is a civilization from some unknown border area that has not been explored.”