【Name: Lin Qun.】
【Level: 5（0/1200）】
【Strength: 12】
【Agility: 10】
【Physique: 13】
【Energy: 6/20】
【Prompt: the standard value for ordinary people for all the above data is 10】
【Talent: Card Draw Bonus Ability.】
【Remaining card draws: 0.】
Lin Qun's Agility had finally reached 10 points, reaching the Human standard value.
What excited him was that his Physique had actually increased by two points this time!
With two more points of Physique, he could now headshot an Opponent with twenty-six points of Physique.
That was 2.6 times the Human standard value!
With such a high number, if he ran into a Bakatan person again, wouldn't he be able to slaughter them at will?
Lin Qun's eyes couldn't hide his excitement. He came down from Building No. 2 and merged directly into the Survivor Team coming in from outside the Residential Community.
The two newly arrived squads were also Troops from the sixth armored division.
They had brought a large number of Survivors, over two hundred people all crowded together.
Bringing so many Survivors was also the reason they had become the Bakatan people's target.
Most of these people had been rescued along the way. Lin Qun saw a decayed feeling in them; most of them had no light on their faces, appearing lifeless, like walking corpses.
The location where Lin Qun had bought his house was rather remote, already close to the edge of Modu, so it hadn't suffered a devastating Strike from the Bakatan people at the very start. These people, however, were different — the places where they had lived had almost all been destroyed by the Bakatan people, and many had lost their loved ones.
Among the crowded two hundred-odd people, there wasn't even much noise.
That kind of desolation and numbness was even worse than in the Dragon City Imperial Scenery Residential Area, exuding a faint bleakness of the Apocalypse.
The Military personnel had indeed converged together, but all three squads were understrength — together they numbered just over twenty people, and now they had to protect more than four hundred Survivors.
They could still only follow the original plan, concentrating the Survivors in a few buildings for ease of centralized protection.
But from their expressions, one could faintly tell that the situation was not optimistic.
At this moment, Fan Wenchuan came running over from the front with some people, specifically to help the Military welcome and take in these Survivors.
Although he held no official title, he was already practically the head steward of this entire Residential Community, holding considerable prestige and power among the Survivors.
He had latched onto connections with the Military, and behind him stood an expert like Li Xinghe presiding over things, with many followers at his side — it would have been hard for him not to rise to prominence.
Lin Qun's gaze moved.
He wanted to find someone to ask about the current situation outside.
The countdown in his eyes was about to end. Lin Qun had a feeling that by then, the situation would probably get even worse. This Stronghold, the Dragon City Imperial Scenery Residential Area, perhaps he wouldn't be able to stay much longer — he would ultimately have to head into the very center of the Vortex of the Battlefield in Modu.
So, it was always better to know some things in advance.
The Military was busy and tight-lipped, so Lin Qun decided to find someone among these newly arrived Survivors to ask.
But what he hadn't expected was that before he could find anyone, someone came looking for him first.
Someone patted him on the back and said with pleasant surprise, "Lin Qun? Brother Lin, it's really you!"
Lin Qun turned around and saw a young man in his early twenties.
Memories of the original host flashed by...
"You're... Li Jie?"
Lin Qun's gaze moved, looking at the pretty woman behind Li Jie, his expression tightening: "Manager Qian?"
The two people standing in front of Lin Qun turned out to be former colleagues from before the Apocalypse.
Li Jie was Lin Qun's good friend at the company, cheerful and enthusiastic by nature, younger than Lin Qun, only just over a year out of university.
The other one was their former direct superior, department manager Qian Yingying.
Perhaps because of the Memory, Lin Qun felt a sense of familiarity when he saw them.
Especially Li Jie — back at the company, they had been very good friends.
Lin Qun also felt a bit dazed, with a sense of warmth.
In a great calamity like this, nothing was more joyful than seeing a familiar face.
Li Jie even gave Lin Qun a bear hug directly: "Bro, you have no idea how excited I was when I saw I'd come to your Residential Community. I was so afraid you'd already... it's so great that you're still alive!"
His joy wasn't fake.
Lin Qun's gaze, however, looked somewhat oddly at the space between the two of them.
Li Jie and Qian Yingying's hands were holding each other.
Li Jie grinned: "Bro, Manager Qian is my girlfriend now."
Lin Qun instantly looked dumbfounded.
This Qian Yingying was pretty, and was also their superior — she had always been someone they both loved and hated.
He remembered Li Jie once saying that someday he'd win Qian Yingying over, so everyone could finally relax a little.
He hadn't expected that he'd actually succeeded.
Li Jie was a chatterbox, and running into Lin Qun made him especially excited. He said, "Bro, you have no idea what we've been through, everything outside has gone crazy. Those Bakatan people, they even have these Psionic Masters, killing without blinking an eye, even more terrifying than us folks with Awakened Talents..."
"Psionic Master, what's that?" This was an unfamiliar term to Lin Qun.
"I don't know either, I've never seen one myself, but apparently they're extremely powerful Bakatan people, holding an extremely high status among the Bakatan people, kind of like the mage classes in the games we used to play — one of them can take on a dozen or more Bakatan people by themselves. Anyway, if you run into a fearsome Bakatan Psionic Master, even our army has to flee in defeat if their Firepower isn't enough..."
Li Jie's words made Lin Qun's heart jolt.
He instinctively thought of that terrifying Bakatan person he'd caught a fleeting glance of that day, flying over the distant end of the City.
The Bakatan people, just like Humans, were also a Civilization that could participate in war — they could level up, and could strengthen their abilities using Contribution Points.
Among them, there were also Top-tier Experts.
A single one of them could hold off an entire army!
Lin Qun took a deep breath and said, "So, what's the situation outside right now? Between the Military and the Bakatan people, who actually has the upper hand? Has our Reinforcement arrived yet?"
"I don't know who has the upper hand, but outside, especially near the Central City District, Bakatan people are everywhere, and there's no shortage of Top experts among them either — apparently that area is littered with corpses everywhere... As for Reinforcements, there's simply no way we're getting any!"
Li Jie had come from outside and been through a lot, so he knew a lot of information. At this point, he lowered his voice and said, "This bunch of Bakatan people landed ahead of schedule, and Modu has already been placed under Blockade — people outside can't get in, people inside can't get out. Where would any Reinforcements come from?
"Right now it's just... either the Bakatan people kill all of us, or we kill all of them, or maybe once the Global Battlefield fully opens up there'll be some kind of new development..."
What Li Jie said was almost exactly the same as what Lin Qun had heard before.
Hearing this, his heart sank, and he said, "Is this true?"
"Of course it's true. A Warrior we followed at the very start, when we were fleeing for our lives, told me... but don't tell anyone else, you're my Brother Lin, that's the only reason I'm telling you." Li Jie said in a low voice, "Right now the Military is keeping a lid on this news — whoever spreads it and causes panic, that's going to be a problem..."
As he said this, Li Jie even pointed up at the sky.
Lin Qun could of course figure out the reason behind this himself.
The people of Modu couldn't get out, and Reinforcements from outside couldn't get in — which meant Modu only had this many people, these Warriors, while the crack in the sky up above had been there all along, meaning the Bakatan people could keep coming in an endless stream.
With one side waning as the other waxed, regardless of whether Humans or the Bakatan people currently held the upper hand, what would ultimately happen to Modu was plain to see.
Even with sheer numbers alone, the Bakatan people could overwhelm Modu completely!
Modu's struggle right now looked no different from a dying struggle.
"They... are the strength of an entire Civilization. Even if they might also be blockading and attacking other Cities, here with us... there's only the people of this one City..."
The excitement from Lin Qun's successful Hunt just now receded like a retreating tide.
In its place came a chill that cut to the bone.
As if... the fate of everyone in Modu was already sealed.
Unless some new development occurred.
Or... unless someone could single-handedly confront the entire Bakatan Civilization.