Re: Evolution Online-Novel

As the fox arrived near the next gate, Liam could see death and destruction everywhere. The road was littered with numerous casualties. 

This gate had opened up right in the middle of a residential area, and that too was one of the posh residential areas, so it looked like even police forces had arrived on the scene. There were signs of struggle.

But how could ordinary cops stand up to the beast wave? Several officers lay dead near the gate, their bodies only barely recognizable as they were being feasted on by a group of beasts.

On the side, several beasts were gathered outside a bungalow and threatening to break through the gates. Similar scenes could be seen throughout the street. 

The entire place was riddled with beasts from top to bottom. Everyone outside on the streets was mauled and ripped apart by the beasts, leaving behind only those who were confined within the safety of their houses.

Even that seemed as if they were only barely holding on. As the number of beasts increased further, the pressure on these buildings continuously increased. 

Though the beasts were rampaging everywhere, one or two kept adding to the existing group that was gathered outside the individual bungalows, threatening to break down the barriers.

As Liam and Luna drifted in the sky, observing everything that was happening below them, they finally noticed some gunshots being fired. 

10 miles away, at the local police station, some of the policemen had gathered and were putting up a fight. But clearly, this small resistance was also only minutes away from crumbling. Maybe they would last for another hour if all the luck was on their side.

However, all of this wasn't surprising to Liam. He had seen this and so much more already. The first wave was miserably devastating, even though it consisted of only weak beasts. 

This was because of the element of surprise. No one was prepared for this chaos. Everyone was still in the aftermath of the tutorial's shutdown and worried about their economic status. 

Even otherwise, no one in their right mind would predict something like this to happen except for some paranoid nutcases, or rather, apocalypse enthusiasts. 

These were the people who had bunkers built in their houses and safe rooms specially constructed, but right now, they were also the ones who were going to survive. 

The incoming death and destruction would simply be too much for the common folk. Only specific people, like the military or the big families with bodyguards and personal armed forces, had a high chance of surviving. 

Everyone else needed luck on their side. And in the end, the few others who somehow managed to survive by hook or crook would then be taken advantage of by these powerhouses in society. 

In the name of maintaining a semblance of the previous world, the burden of manual labour fell on these stragglers. The ones at the top would also not bother to improve themselves, and in the end, with every subsequent beast wave, humanity would be wiped out little by little.

This was the cruel fate Liam had experienced in his last life, and now history was repeating itself.

Liam watched as the rich and affluent of society cried and begged for their lives from the confines of their houses. He frowned at this sight in deep contemplation. However, he did not feel any pity for them.

These were the same people who had mercilessly continued to torture him. These were the same people who had grabbed his underage teenage sister by her hair right in front of him.

Though he had already taken care of the main family responsible for his personal misery, the Gu family was just one of the many aristocrats in the district. There were others, and they weren't that different.

That being the case, why should he help these people? This was because… he needed more manpower.

Heh. Liam grinned. That was right. He was indeed planning on helping them. After all, someone needed to do the hard labour. 

In his last life, these bloated pigs continued to enjoy their sweet life even after the apocalypse without shedding a single drop of sweat, but this time, things were going to be a bit different.

He decided to worry about these things later. After all, he was just a single person. He did not plan on going around and rescuing the entire world.

Instead, what he planned to do was just establish a circle around their central territory. To be more precise, he wanted to test the limits of his soul minions.

At this distance, he was still able to feel them clearly and sense everything that was happening back where his sister, Shen Yue, and others were fighting. 

So all the gates within this radius where he was able to feel his soul minions would be his. Liam decided to start with this strategy and go from there.

Everything had happened too fast. He was still planning the quests and items he needed from the tutorial game, so he hadn't clearly mapped out this part of his future just yet. He had to plan and execute on the spot.

"Let's go down, Luna." 

Liam pointed to one of the houses, the tenth bungalow on the street. Inside this building, two small children were standing on the terrace and crying, hugging each other. They were terrified of the roars they could hear outside.

Luna immediately stiffened up. She also agreed with Liam's decision. Moreover, she was touched that her master was so kind-hearted. She landed right in front of the bungalow with a proud smile, still praising her master in her head.

The next second, the fox opened her mouth, and a fire wave blasted every single beast in sight. Liam hopped down from the fox at the same time, but he wasn't rushing inside to comfort the children.

Instead, he coldly gazed at the dozen corpses that were burnt to a crisp, more specifically, trying to pay attention to the dozen souls that these beasts possessed. 

A part of him was actually a bit nervous, wondering if he could sense the souls of these creatures as well as he could back inside the game.

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