Chapter 1 The Wind Chime of Corpses

A wind chime made of corpses emanated an elegant beauty filled with the aura of death, sending shivers down one's spine.

Before arriving at Kuangxi Island, Li Tianran had imagined the island's tragic state in his mind.

After all, Kuangxi Island had experienced a civil war and been attacked by a beast tide. It would certainly be a scene of a tragic human hell. Li Tianran had even imagined that Kuangxi Island would be a mountain of bones, a river of blood, with corpses everywhere, leaving no place to set foot!

The tragic scene Li Tianran had imagined did not appear, but this huge human wind chime, mixed with a strong sense of death art, was far more visually impactful than a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and even more able to make people feel a strong chill from the depths of their hearts.

If it was just a simple massacre, it would be nothing, but this kind of behavior with strong revenge and demonstration made Li Tianran think of many things.

"Take those corpses down." Li Tianran issued instructions to the adult-level combat warriors, and then said: "Ding Lu, Hanhan, Qin Yiming, Professor Nan, you go to the southern district to select a farm base!"

"Tang Su, Lu Chi, Xiao Hei, come with me." After Li Tianran finished speaking, he summoned a tank-level combat warrior. Several people sat on the shoulders of the tank warrior and went straight to the northern city.

The remaining people responsible for selecting the base took the helicopter again to the south of the island.

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Li Tianran stood in the center of the city. The buildings here were more severely destroyed than in the southern city. In the large ruins, only a small part of the buildings were still standing.

There were tens of thousands of corpses in the city. After several hours of work by the adult-level combat warriors, a mountain of corpses was piled up in the square in front of the former Blue Star Hotel.

Li Tianran looked at these twisted human corpses, and waved his hand after a moment of silence.

Several helicopters took off, pouring a lot of gasoline on the corpse mountain below, and then ignited it. In an instant, a huge ball of fire rose into the sky!

Tang Su looked at this scene, seemingly a little uncomfortable.

The smell of burnt corpses was disgusting, but if they were not cleaned up in time, the entire northern district could not be used.

Moreover, he didn't know if it was an illusion, but since the advent of the Second Cataclysm, Li Tianran felt that the temperature seemed to be starting to warm up, and through the hazy sky, he seemed to see a new "glowing body" outside the sky.

This situation was very unreasonable, but thinking that since the Cataclysm occurred, there have been too many unreasonable things in the world, then the reappearance of a star in the solar system that is enough to replace the sun for light and heat does not seem too outrageous...

Once the temperature starts to warm up completely, these corpses will soon rot, breed plagues, and emit a strong stench!

Li Tianran didn't want Kuangxi Island to become a public toilet.

"I have a feeling that the Beast King should not have completely abandoned this island..." Li Tianran looked at the sea in the distance, which was full of broken ice floes, and said: "The ice floes here are very broken, and there are no large areas of freezing, which means that the Beast King has been very active here during this period."

Tang Su raised her eyebrows and said, "Is this one of the Beast King's land nests?"

"It doesn't look like a nest..." Li Tianran was silent for a moment, shook his head and pointed to the Blue Star Hotel building in front of him, and said: "Have you noticed that the human corpses taken from this building just now have great differences in their clothing."

"Among them are those wearing Cape Country military uniforms, and those wearing Nantes Country military uniforms, and their bodies are relatively well preserved... unlike the cities that have been attacked by beast tides, those tragic and broken corpses are completely different."

Tang Su was a little puzzled and asked, "What does this represent?"

"I have always thought that the human wind chime in this building was the evil taste of a certain Beast King, but now I think about it, it may not be that simple." Li Tianran licked his lips, and then looked at Tang Su and asked, "Have you ever eaten dried salted fish? Have you ever seen how dried salted fish is stored?"

Tang Su's pupils suddenly shrank.

She suddenly turned her head to look at the towering Blue Star Hotel, thinking of the scene of those human corpses hanging on it before, and a scene of fishermen hanging fish corpses on ropes to dry salted fish suddenly appeared in her mind.

"You mean," Tang Su trembled, "this may be..."

"A table for a certain, or a group of powerful Beast Kings." Li Tianran said calmly: "They store humans plundered from various places on this island as food, just like humans are drying meat and preserving dry food."

In an instant, Tang Su and Lu Chi felt a little numb.

Humans have always occupied the top of the food chain, and all creatures must be inferior to humans; but now a group of creatures have been born in the world, they regard humans as rations and use the methods that humans used to treat beasts to deal with humans.

"Fucking... fucking..." Even Lu Chi, who has always been calm and fierce, couldn't help but blurt out.

The enemies he had faced before were just humans, but within a short period of more than ten hours, Li Tianran had brought him to the point of facing another powerful species.

Tang Su was speechless. She thought that Kuangxi Island would be a barren and unclaimed land, and she could continue to live in seclusion with Li Tianran.

But reality is extremely cruel. After arriving at Kuangxi Island, the peaceful life of the past may be gone forever.

"What should we do?" Lu Chi asked.

"We'll deal with soldiers with generals, and water with earth. If the Beast King wants to compete with us for territory... in a word, just do it!" Li Tianran never thought that the contradiction between humans and the Beast King could be resolved through peaceful means. This is an irreconcilable contradiction that can only end with the complete destruction of one side: "If they dare to come, I dare to set the fire!"

Beast King meat is delicious and fatty, and has a powerful benefit to evolutionaries. It is a resource that Li Tianran will never give up.

Even if the Beast King does not attack Kuangxi Island, Li Tianran will actively hunt the Beast King.

Hearing Li Tianran's words, Tang Su couldn't help swallowing her saliva when she thought of the delicious taste of the Beast King meat she had tasted before, but the next second she smelled the pungent smell of burnt corpses, her face changed, and she vomited violently...

Not long after, the fire went out, leaving only ashes on the ground.

Li Tianran said expressionlessly, and issued orders to the adult-level combat warriors and Tang Su and others again: "Immediately conduct a comprehensive search of the ruins of the northern city, looking for all resources and equipment that can continue to be used, and don't let go of any of them!"

The adult-level combat warriors spread out again and dispersed into the city.

At the same time, Qin Yiming also sent a message that he had found a perfect place to station, both in terms of location and scope.

Qin Yiming and Ding Lu were in the southern mining area, observing the terrain below from a helicopter, and nodded with satisfaction.

"This area relies on natural dangers in the rear, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the terrain is very high! It can effectively resist typhoons and rainstorms. After calculation, this is the best place to station." Qin Yiming looked at Ding Lu and asked, "What do you think?"

"You say it's good, it's good." Ding Lu had no experience in this kind of thing, just nodded calmly.

"That's it! This is the place where our future will prosper!" Qin Yiming was very excited.

Professor Nan sat in the back, hesitant to speak.

"Professor Nan, do you have any opinions?" Qin Yiming was very observant, and he also respected this old man very much, and asked softly.

Professor Nan was silent for a moment, then slowly shook his head.

For some reason, since coming to this island, he has inexplicably felt a burst of palpitation, always feeling that something is about to happen.

But he didn't know where this feeling came from.

Relying solely on sixth sense has no persuasive power at all...

"Nothing can happen, right..." Professor Nan's left eyelid twitched wildly, and he comforted himself: "There should be nothing!"