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Chapter 193 - 129: Mechanism: Phase Transition

Now that he had what he wanted, Lin Ye had no intention of lingering.

The Linchuan Ruins had been devastated by the bug swarm, and nearly all the high-level mutant beasts had been wiped out. It no longer had any value for leveling up.

He needed to move on to his next destination.

Before he left, Chan Jiale called out to him again, handing over a heavy tactical backpack.

"Xiaoye, we really don’t know how to thank you. All we could do was prepare some supplies."

Inside the backpack was a brand-new, military-grade, high-performance protective suit, along with plenty of purified water and high-energy compressed food.

"Good luck passing the selection!"

Sincerity was written all over the young man’s youthful face.

His eyes already showed signs of being worn down by the harshness of reality, yet they remained clear.

Lin Ye smiled and took the backpack, patting his shoulder.

"Thanks. You all do your best, too."

With that, he said no more. He turned and walked toward the western wilderness without a backward glance.

...

Dozens of kilometers from the camp, Lin Ye arrived in an uninhabited, hilly area.

He took out the map Chan Jiale had given him from his pocket.

This was an incredibly detailed map of the fallen zone!

It showed the direction of mountain ranges, the location of rivers, and changes in elevation. It also detailed the environment, approximate temperature, and radiation intensity for different zones. Everything was marked with astonishing precision.

This was undoubtedly a military-grade map, one the army must have expended immense effort to create using satellites and high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft!

On the map, different colored light dots marked the distribution of major mutant beast populations, as well as the officially assessed threat index.

Lin Ye’s gaze was quickly drawn to two highlighted areas.

To the north was a massive, bottomless rift valley that stretched from east to west.

The entire rift valley area was enclosed in a glaring red circle, with an exclamation mark next to it.

[High-Risk Area: Northern Great Rift Valley]

[Primary Threat: Remnants of the Shadow Scale Race.]

[Intelligence Description: This alien race possesses exceptional stealth, camouflage, and ambush capabilities. They are tenacious, have strong regenerative powers, and favor ambushes. Extremely dangerous.]

[Overall Threat Index Assessment: 350–500]

A threat index starting at 350!

Even if these Shadow Scales weren’t level 35 to 50, the system would definitely classify them as elite or lord-tier enemies.

For the selection’s participants, whose average strength was in the Early to Mid Stages of Meridian Opening, this was an absolute death zone.

Lin Ye’s gaze moved to the western side of the map.

There lay his originally planned destination—

—a black forest that looked utterly bizarre, even when viewed from high above.

It was also circled in red.

And marked with a conspicuous exclamation point.

[Extremely Dangerous Area: Western Black Forest.]

[Primary Threat: Unknown Celestial Abyss Race. Suspected activity of human traitors.]

[Intelligence Description: An extremely strange, unknown Celestial Abyss Race is present in the Black Forest. It could be a single individual or an unidentified group; this has yet to be determined. However, a few eyewitnesses have reported being attacked by other human Martial Artists, who are suspected to be human rebels.]

[Overall Threat Index Assessment: Unknown!]

’Human... traitors?’

He had considered many possibilities, but he never imagined that here, on the front lines of the war against the alien races, on this very soil soaked in blood, there could be humans who had betrayed their own kind.

It seemed the human civilization of this world was not monolithic.

In the face of the Celestial Abyss Race, there would always be some weak-willed scum, or degenerates blinded by greed, who chose to collaborate with the enemy.

Lin Ye put away the map, lost in thought for a moment.

The Black Forest to the west was full of uncertainty and was also too far away; the journey alone would take about a day.

The Great Rift Valley to the north, however, while equally dangerous, contained known enemies and threats.

And it was closer.

’I’ll go to the northern rift valley, then!’

His decision made.

The next moment, Lin Ye’s figure shot off like an arrow from a bow, speeding toward the endless wilderness due north.