"Hey! Can you hear me?"

Looking at the dark tunnel, Li Chenzhou turned his head and asked the person behind him. But that person didn't seem to hear him at all, staring at the mine with blood-red eyes, panting heavily.

Li Chenzhou's eyes moved, looking at the others around him. These people were not infected, all normal humans. But now they were all like the guy behind him, completely ignoring everything else, staring at the mine with red eyes, as if their father's killer was down there.

They were in a rather strange state, not attacking others, but completely ignoring them, just like the zombies behind them, having entered an incomprehensible state.

Turning his head to look at the mine, the feeling of being summoned was still there, but it hadn't become stronger. Li Chenzhou finally took a deep breath, then stepped down...

The mine's tunnel was very high, about two and a half meters, so Li Chenzhou didn't have to bend over at all. In the mine, there was a railway track. The mined ore was transported up along this railway track by mining carts.

As for now, of course, there were no mining carts moving on the tracks.

The tunnel went downwards, and Li Chenzhou walked down the tunnel. It was quite empty, with only Li Chenzhou himself. Fortunately, he didn't have claustrophobia, so he wasn't affected.

Li Chenzhou's pace was unhurried, proceeding at a normal speed. According to his estimate, he should have gone more than a hundred meters underground.

Finally, the unchanging tunnel reached its end. A hexagonal metal door full of technological colors appeared in front of Li Chenzhou.

Looking at the metal door, Li Chenzhou raised his arm and knocked hard. But before his hand could touch the metal door, the door silently slid open to both sides...

Inside the door was a space of only about two hundred square meters. There was nothing inside, completely empty. The walls were also made of metal similar to the door, and an unknown light source illuminated the entire space like daylight.

Turning back to look behind him, Li Chenzhou looked at the space in front of him again. A smile suddenly appeared on his face, and then he stepped in...

The moment Li Chenzhou stepped in, the steel door closed silently again. But Li Chenzhou didn't care, and continued to move forward.

"Swish!"

The moment the door closed, a figure appeared in the center of the room. Li Chenzhou reflexively pointed his gun at the person!

"Decent reaction!"

The figure was a middle-aged man, wearing a black combat suit, the same style as Li Chenzhou's, with a long staff on his back. He looked at Li Chenzhou, nodded with a smile, and said.

"You are..."

Li Chenzhou looked at the man, the gun still pointed at his forehead, and asked.

"My name is Li Yingning! You can also call me Instructor!"

The middle-aged man said with a smile:

"But my name is not important to you! What's important is...can you kill the Devourer like that madman!"

"Devourer? Madman?"

Li Chenzhou finally lowered his arm because he could see that although this person was quite real, he was just a projection. His gun posed no threat to him at all.

"Yes!"

The middle-aged man nodded, looked up as if to see through the walls, piercing the dark sky:

"The world became like this because of the Devourer. This place is Hunting Ground No. 17. Unfortunately, those idiots actually forgot about this place and haven't found it for ten years, so I gave them some guidance!"

"Ten years...guidance?"

Li Chenzhou was stunned. In his previous life, he struggled in the apocalypse for ten years, but...he had never heard of the Devourer.

"Little guy, you are better than the madman, because the madman is too soft-hearted!"

The middle-aged man did not answer Li Chenzhou's question, but looked at him and smiled:

"You may be curious as to why I brought the Devourer here, but I want to tell you that we have destroyed the Devourer before. Even my students have done it, and he led an era. And now, this world belongs to you!

Because of my guidance, the Devourer will descend in five years at most. Actually, it should have been three years, but I gave you two more years. These five years are your last chance. Seize it, make yourself stronger, and then kill those bastards! That's what you have to do!"

As he spoke, the middle-aged man's body began to flicker, as if he would disappear at any moment. He quietly looked at Li Chenzhou, suddenly waved his hand, and a stream of light flew from his hand, drifting towards Li Chenzhou's brow:

"This is the only thing I can do to help you. Do a good job! Kill them again! Remember, our best choice is to kill the enemy, not to avoid them. This is why I summoned them. Good luck, I hope that the next time I see you, you won't be so weak!"

The stream of light entered Li Chenzhou's brow. He instantly felt a roar in his brain, unable to pay attention to his surroundings, and even his eyes couldn't see. Everything in front of him was silver-white.

"Ah!"

Li Chenzhou screamed, then immediately pulled out his combat blade. At the same time, his left hand revealed a pistol, his body half-squatting, making a defensive posture.

"Not bad! The reaction is quite fast! Almost like the madman!"

Looking at Li Chenzhou's reaction, Li Yingning nodded with a smile. Then, in a burst of static, his figure gradually dimmed and eventually disappeared. As the middle-aged man disappeared, the technologically advanced room also immediately disintegrated, gradually turning into nothingness like a mosaic, and finally disappeared, revealing the end of a mine.

Li Chenzhou, who was screaming, had a chaotic brain. Although he was still making defensive movements, he knew clearly that he was just making a move. Even the strength to pull the trigger had been lost!

Then, his body gradually lowered, slowly falling to the ground, his hands holding the combat blade and pistol covering his head, his body curled up into a ball...

More than ten minutes later, Li Chenzhou's trembling body suddenly stopped. The body, bent like a shrimp, suddenly relaxed, limp on the ground like a puddle of mud, breathing heavily.

"In...instructor..."

He opened his eyes, looked at the rocks at the top of the mine above, and gasped. In his hand, there was a staff two meters long and about three centimeters in diameter, made of an unknown material!

Li Chenzhou struggled to get up, looking around him. The room had disappeared, and in front of him was a mine that was being mined. In front of him, at the end of the mine, there was the sound of flowing water—there was an underground river here!

Li Chenzhou looked at the staff in his hand, suddenly stood up, shook his right hand, and the staff suddenly stirred up a phantom in his hand, making a whirring sound.

"Thanks! Instructor!"

Looking up at the rock wall of the mine, Li Chenzhou murmured, then stepped forward, reached out and scooped up water from the underground river, and sent it into his mouth. Behind him, the roars of humans and zombies could be heard faintly...