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Chapter 98: Living a Mere Survival

Seeing this, Dong Qi was curious and wanted to know what those people wanted to do in that area of ​​the mold base.

The other people were dressed in tattered clothes, and each of them carried a plastic bucket or a bamboo basket or similar container on their backs.

They were also holding various homemade melee weapons, seemingly about to enter the moldy base for exploration.

But when those people were about to approach the seaweed area, they immediately stopped.

Then, to Dong Qi's astonishment, after those people stopped, the wooden sticks in their hands were able to assemble into a wooden pole about four or five meters long, with a sickle-like blade at the top.

Dong Qi never expected that those people used this homemade tool not to explore the mold base, but to harvest the dark green seaweed on the outside.

Watching those people use homemade tools to cut some seaweed from a distance, and then use another homemade tool to drag the cut seaweed back, Dong Qi never expected to see such a scene.

Perhaps it was this behavior of those people that attracted the attention of the mutated marine creatures hidden in the seaweed.

As they harvested the seaweed, every now and then a mutated marine creature would suddenly rush towards them from the dense seaweed.

Because they use homemade tools for harvesting seaweed, which are three or four meters long, the distance between them and any mutated marine creatures that suddenly appear from the seaweed field gives them enough time to react.

Several guards wielding spear-like weapons in the crowd immediately greeted the mutated marine creature with smiles on their faces after it rushed out of the seaweed.

Perhaps because they often encountered this situation, the group easily killed the suddenly appearing mutated marine creature and, with smiles on their faces, dismembered it on the spot, placing the edible parts into a basket on their backs.

Seeing the skilled movements of those people, Dong Qi couldn't help but sigh. Even in the face of disaster, humanity can find ways to survive in desperate situations.

Dong Qi initially thought that those people were harvesting seaweed to alert the mutated marine creatures hidden among it.

But seeing those people smiling as they filled their baskets with seaweed, Dong Qi knew that the harvested seaweed must have some value.

It's just unclear whether those people use the harvested seaweed as a raw material or eat it as food.

However, judging from the seaweed's appearance, which resembled kelp, Dong Qi thought it was more likely that those people were using it as food.

At this moment, Dong Qi suddenly thought of something. After entering South Korea, Dong Qi still chose to drive along the roads near the coast.

Unlike the Great Xia, which deployed people to guard the coastal areas, South Korea has completely abandoned the coastal areas, which have long since become a paradise for mutated marine life.

So even though Dong Qi traveled along main roads during this journey, he didn't see any other humans because he was close to the coastline.

In fact, Dong Qi was unaware that when faced with the invasion of mutated marine life, South Korea chose a completely different approach than Great Xia.

Upon seeing the mutated marine creature, the South Korean troops immediately launched an attack with firearms.

In the early stages, this fighting style resulted in almost zero casualties for the South Korean forces.

Just when South Korea thought it had easily solved the invasion of mutated marine creatures and wanted to study the corpses of those mutated marine creatures,

Mutant marine creatures kept emerging from the sea, constantly putting pressure on the coastal defense forces.

However, those mutated marine creatures, even with their mutated bodies, were still just mortals, so they were no match for gunfire and were easily dealt with by the South Korean garrison.

However, as time went on, the amount of ammunition in South Korea's stockpile decreased dramatically.

As ammunition supplies dwindled, the South Korean troops did not attempt to engage in close-quarters combat like those on the Great Xia side. Instead, they chose to retreat and relinquish the coastal area.

Because of this behavior by South Korea, they discovered earlier than the Great Xia that even if they allowed the mutated marine creatures to land, those mutated marine creatures could not occupy too much coastal land.

Because of this discovery, South Korea abandoned all coastal areas, reduced its population, and began to transform inland cities and build large-scale survival bases.

Some people couldn't stand the heavy work in the survival base, so they chose to escape the South Korean government's jurisdiction and stay to live near the coast.

However, precisely because of this, having lost the supplies provided by the South Korean government, they had to find additional sources of food on their own.

In contrast, the Great Xia region used hardened criminals to conduct experiments to verify which body parts of mutated marine creatures were edible.

These people chose a very simple and crude method for verification: they simply arrested people for verification.

In contrast, in Daxia, it usually takes about ten days to half a month to verify the safety of food.

As long as the food doesn't die from poisoning on the spot and doesn't cause any abnormal reactions within two or three days, it will be considered edible by them.

Just when Dong Qi thought that the operation had gone very smoothly and that they would leave once their baskets were full, an unexpected incident occurred.

One of the defenders, who were originally armed with melee weapons and responsible for dealing with the mutated marine creatures that suddenly rushed out of the seaweed to attack them, suddenly started vomiting.

When the others around saw someone vomiting, instead of checking on the person, they all immediately became nervous.

Those who were harvesting seaweed with long poles immediately retracted their poles and quickly disassembled them into the same components they had brought with them.

Then everyone quickly took the items they brought with them, and also put the baskets that were originally placed aside on their backs on their shoulders.

Then, ignoring the person vomiting and their unusual behavior, everyone slowly retreated.

After everyone had gone far away, the person who suddenly became unusually nauseous and began to stagger toward the area where the seaweed was.

During this slow process, not a single mutated marine creature emerged from the seaweed to attack the other.

Seeing this, Dong Qi was speechless for a moment, not knowing what to do.