"Ye Feng, your quality of life is really good... You even use a water purification system to filter the stored water first!"
"And this water purification system is not only automated but also solar-powered. Even before the great cataclysm, it would have cost a lot of money to buy!"
On a rock in the middle of the river, Wu Ye Lin couldn't help but mutter as she looked at the two large devices next to Ye Feng.
"Uh... the water dispenser can hold quite a bit of water. If it's not sterilized and filtered first, it'll probably go bad in a few days..."
Ye Feng spread his hands helplessly.
"By the way, Lin, do you know who created this Arcane Talisman called 'Tong Xi'?"
After a pause, Ye Feng asked Wu Ye Lin.
"This..."
Wu Ye Lin frowned. "It's said to be the work of a genius Arcane Talisman Master from the City of Arcane Arts, Fu Kuang... but he's not exactly from the City of Arcane Arts!"
"Not from there? What's going on?"
Ye Feng was a bit puzzled.
"More than twenty years ago, Fu Kuang was driven out of the City of Arcane Arts for some unknown reason... Since then, the 'Tong Xi' talismans on the market began to decrease, and eventually became almost extinct..."
"But for some reason, in the past few years, 'Tong Xi' talismans have reappeared... And it's clear they're not from the City of Arcane Arts..."
Wu Ye Lin quickly explained to Ye Feng.
"Is that so..."
...
Around three in the afternoon,
After Ye Feng and the other two collected water, they returned to the vicinity of the overpass where they had encountered zombies earlier.
Xiao Xiao, Qiao Ying, and Wu Ye Lin were cooking, while Ye Feng was killing zombies on the overpass. Occasionally, zombies would fall from the overpass...
On the overpass,
"There are quite a lot of zombies here, nearly three hundred... Did someone build a survivor base here before, only to be infected by the zombie virus in the end..."
Ye Feng muttered as he looked at the zombies with their heads blown off all over the ground. Then he leaped directly from the overpass.
...
"Big brother, come and eat lunch! It's freshly steamed sticky rice with pork ribs! ~"
Seeing Ye Feng jump down from the overpass, Xiao Xiao called out to him from a distance.
"Oh, okay! ~"
...
After lunch,
"Ye Feng, you don't need to worry too much about the 'Tong Xi' talisman. Although that thing can make an Arcanist blend perfectly into the environment, it has a time limit!"
"And this method requires a large environmental feature as cover. For example, water-attribute arcane energy can only be hidden in rivers, lakes, and the like; it can't be hidden in a teacup!"
Wu Ye Lin saw Ye Feng looking a bit pensive and thought he was worried about the 'Tong Xi' Arcane Talisman, so she spoke up to remind him.
"Oh~"
Ye Feng replied indifferently. He was indeed surprised by the 'Tong Xi' talisman, but he had actually been thinking about the Raiders, the Kuleji, and the Dark Holy Cult...
"Speaking of which, the power of these Arcane Energy Guns is truly great!"
Ye Feng took out a handgun, which he had obtained from the leader of the Raiders. He had tested it earlier, and at close range, it could easily pierce steel plates, like an armor-piercing round.
Before, at the Tyrannosaurus Rex base, he had bought firearms of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. After using them for a while and finding they had little power and poor accuracy, he hadn't paid much attention to them...
"Indeed!"
Wu Ye Lin nodded. "Arcane Energy Guns are very troublesome for surprise attacks, especially at long range. Their power is no less than that of conventional weapons!"
"As conventional weapons become scarcer, especially bullets, the importance of Arcane Energy Guns becomes increasingly apparent!"
"This is also why the Huang family's 'Ghoul-Absorbing Array' clothing sold so well, to the point where it was out of stock!"
Wu Ye Lin quickly explained to Ye Feng.
"Is that so..."
Ye Feng frowned slightly and took out an Arcane Energy Gun he had bought at the Tyrannosaurus Rex base before.
He had studied it before but found nothing.
Hesitating for a moment, Ye Feng's Tang knife flashed, directly cutting the barrel of the Arcane Energy Gun in half.
"Ye Feng, what are you doing?"
Wu Ye Lin exclaimed. "Even if this Arcane Energy Gun can't condense arcane energy into bullet shapes and its accuracy is poor, it's still worth a lot of money to sell!"
"Damn..."
Ye Feng glanced at it roughly and was a little disappointed. The cut Arcane Energy Gun barrel just had ordinary rifling and thick steel walls; there seemed to be nothing special.
"Big brother, it's Liu Lao Tou and the others up ahead!"
At this moment, Xiao Xiao, who was driving, spoke up.
"Hm?"
Ye Feng was a little surprised. Although Ye Feng's destination was also the Adventurers' Guild, he had encountered zombies or goblins on the way, so he would have deviated from his course to gain usable points.
Therefore, after Liu Lao Tou, Lei Jian, and others discussed it, they separated from Wu Ye Lin and headed directly to the Adventurers' Guild.
After encountering those Raiders today, Liu Lao Tou and his group should have been far ahead of Ye Feng and the others. He hadn't expected them to catch up...
The Humvee quickly stopped next to Liu Lao Tou's convoy.
"Uncle Liu, what happened?"
Wu Ye Lin frowned as she looked at the damaged off-road vehicle and the injured adventurers.
"Someone ambushed us here... There were landmines, Arcane Energy Guns, and conventional firearms..."
"But one thing is strange, those people didn't come up to rob us; they just ran away!"
Liu Lao Tou looked puzzled.
"Let's rest and then continue!"
Wu Ye Lin was also a bit perplexed but had no better solution.
A moment later, the adventurers set off again, but Liu Lao Tou's group was left with only one off-road vehicle...
...
In the Humvee,
"Huh?"
Ye Feng was examining the barrel of the Arcane Energy rifle he had cut open and noticed faint patterns in the rifling.
Immediately, Ye Feng said to Xiao Xiao, "Xiao Xiao, where is the magnifying glass you used to start the fire earlier? Can I use it?!"
"Oh, okay! ~"
Xiao Xiao nodded. A flash of light appeared in her hand, and she handed the magnifying glass to Ye Feng.
"Holy crap... It really is an arcane rune... But the arrangement is quite special... And it's actually laid out along the rifling of the barrel... so precise..."
Ye Feng exclaimed in surprise after observing it with the magnifying glass. "Could this Arcane Energy Gun be... an Arcane Rune Array?"
As this thought crossed his mind, Ye Feng immediately tightened his grip on the magnifying glass and began to study it carefully...
Wu Ye Lin, who was about to say something to Ye Feng, saw this and gave up...
...
In the evening,
"It really is like this..."
After studying over a dozen Arcane Energy rifles and a few handguns that looked quite similar to Desert Eagles, Ye Feng sighed softly.
He was quite excited because, after an afternoon of research, he had basically understood what these so-called Arcane Energy Guns were.
Simply put, it was an arcane rune array arranged inside the barrel along the rifling to gather arcane energy. The Arcane Yuan Coins inserted into the magazine were used to provide arcane energy, which served as bullets...
"Let's try it out~!"
Then, Ye Feng took out the barrel of an infantry fighting vehicle and began to try to engrave arcane runes along the rifling inside the barrel using arcane energy...
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