At the village…
Wu Fan was tending to his wound inside his house. Although the Shura axe was not the one which injured him, the wound was caused by its impact and the machete's spine. It was a nasty wound which would need several stitches if they were still living in civilized times. However, Wu Fan had nothing of that, so he just smashed a few pills and concocted a paste which he then applied to his neck. Adding his phase-3 physique, he'd recover faster than an ordinary person.
Suddenly, someone knocked on his door, and a humble voice came from outside, "Brother Wu Fan, it's me, Zhou Zhu."
Wu Fan kept treating his wound, and he said expressionlessly, "Come in."
Wu Fan was surprised and confused with the purpose of Zhou Zhu's visit, but he would not show it as he rarely showed any emotions. He didn't have a good impression of Zhou Zhu.
"Brother Wu Fan," Zhou Zhu kept smiled nervously as he took out a jar of pickled-carrots.
"What is the meaning of this?" Wu Fan was more confused now. According to his knowledge about the base, only evolutionaries owned such jars. Commoners, like Zhou Zhu, were incapable of acquiring something like that.
"It's out of respect. I'm afraid that you may not know it. Chu Han and I were neighbors, our houses were next to each other." Zhou Zhu carried the jar of pickled-carrots and bowed as low as he could.
Wu Fan's pale face revealed how shocked he was. It was the first time he showed such an expression after Chu Han's departure. He had never expected the Zhou Zhu, and Chu Han were neighbors.
Looking at Zhou Zhu's humble demeanor, Wu Fan saw through him. Zhou Zhu's position was really low, but he was working hard to promote it. Food meant a lot to ordinary survivors, but it meant nothing to evolutionaries.
At that moment, he wanted to get Wu Fan's protection for the sake of his old friendship with Chu Han. Nobody would go against Wu Fan, except for the leader. Zhou Zhu's life would become more comfortable if Wu Fan decided to support him.
Wu Fan was willing to protect Zhou Zhu. The village's eastern area was occupied by evolutionaries, and Wu Fan planned to treat Zhou Zhu the same as an evolutionary.
"Thank you! Thank you!" Zhou Zhou kept bowing, and his head almost reached the ground.
When Zhou Zhu put down the bottle and left, Wu Fan kept shaking his head. He took out a pickled-carrot casually, but it was awful as it had a thick muddy texture. It was worse than what he had. Wu Fan didn't care and ate two of them.
He sighed in his heart. Chu Han's neighbor was so different from Chu Han. One was humble and weak, and he often acted according to the situation. He even took out his most precious possession to beg others.
Chu Han was better than Wu Fan. He was not only the top ranker with an S+ score, but he was so powerful that the military had been seeking after him. Most importantly, Chu Han could surmount people of a higher phase, which was rare.
Zhou Zhu went out from Wu Fan's house, and he walked toward his old residence. He closed the door and then a voice came from inside the house.
"Hay! You are very fast!" Fu Jialiang, sitting on the only chair, sneered.
Zhou Zhu was surprised when looking at Fu Jialiang, and then he bowed and smiled brazenly, "I have settled everything.'
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It had been two hours since Chu Han had entered the testing area. He had spent much more time than in the phase-1 test. It was unknown if he had entered the dimensional space or not, but his name was still in the phase-1 list, so he was still alive.
...
In the early morning in a hazy mist, a man dressed in a black robe, hiding his figure and appearance, suddenly appeared in front of the village's gate. He was also accompanied by a tall and strong young man. The speed of the two people was breakneck. They did not care about the traps under their feet and the concealed blades into the soil. They took a step in the wind and did not take long to appear in front of the base gate.
The two guards, one of which was Zhang Wenchang who Chu Han had met, were shocked. He was the quickest one to respond and opened the gate. He bowed to the man in black robe respectfully.
"Leader, you are back."
The young man said nothing. The leader with the hidden face was slightly quicker than him, and he entered the base directly. The burly young man stopped for a while and looked around the base with a hint of curiosity. Then, he moved again and followed after the leader.
When the two people disappeared from the guards' sight, Zhang Wenchang breathed in relief and couldn't help but ask in confusion, "Who is the other person?"
"Who knows? We should not make unnecessary questions!"The other evolutionary hurried to stop him
The leader was a scary existence. Not even Wu Fan, a phase-3 evolutionary, could defeat him. Nobody knew who their leader was or how he looked like. The only thing they knew about him was that he had never taken off his black robe.
The man in black and the burly man walked in the base, and everyone who saw them was all respectful. They didn't dare to try and flatter or greet them as they knew that their leader liked quietness. If it weren't for that, they wouldn't be afraid of snoring or making the slightest sound at night. The leader was tyrannical and powerful.
"Yang Tian." The burly man walking beside the leader asked, "These people look at me with strange eyes!"
Nobody except Wu Fan knew that the leader was called Yang Tian. When he heard the burly man's words, the leader's voice carried a trace of a strange smile, "It's because you're the first evolutionary I've personally brought."
"Oh." The young man nodded, and he hurried to say, "You lead such a good life in this base? It seems that I, Jiang Hongyu, have struck a goldmine!"
The two men had already reached the most luxurious residence in the base. They had not yet entered, and they saw Fu Jialiang running in panic. He had an expression of terror on his face, and his voice sounded from far away, "Leader, something bad has happened! Brother Wu Fan was killed!"
Yang Tian stopped, so did Jiang Hongyu. Suddenly, the atmosphere turned cold, and Yang Tian's aura erupted!
'Boom!'
"What did you say!?"