Su Mo scanned the surroundings but failed to see a barrier that enveloped the entire world, like in Liangfang Town. He also could not see the end of this world with his naked eyes.
In the sky was a bright moon that hung above him and countless stars that shone brightly.
The surrounding wilderness was not covered with dense plants but consisted of various species of plants. At a glance, it could be seen that they had not been planted here for very long.
Su Mo observed the rut marks on the ground and found the checkpoint facilities that were built by the smugglers not far away.
There were two three-story arrow towers and a two-meter-high bunker with a 50 meters long wall with a door for entry.
It was very shabby.
‘Is it necessary to build it to such an extent? I’ll just not go through the door. There will surely be ways to get around your walls.’
They built walls to defend against enemies in the wilderness.
‘What kind of genius designed the checkpoint?’ Su Mo was speechless but still managed to get around the walls without a problem.
At first glance, he saw more than a dozen ordinary people chatting and playing cards around a bonfire.
Meanwhile, the four guards on duty at the arrow tower seemed to be looking in the distance but were all dozing off with their heads occasionally nodding forward.
It was apparent that Su Mo had overestimated the vigilance of these people.
‘However, it does make sense since the transportation team had just left, and the possibility of an enemy attack right after was very low.’
Su Mo knew he could quickly get rid of everyone but chose not to startle them after thinking about his exploration purpose. Thus, he continued to follow the rut marks patiently.
When he reached a distance where the guards could not see him, Su Mo surfaced to the ground and transformed into a swift road lizard to travel.
On the way, knowing that there were two more checkpoints, he did not bother to check the other two checkpoint structure and just detoured around them from the side so that he could arrive there before daylight.
Time passed by quickly. The darkness in the ruins subsided gradually, and light began to shine down from the sky.
Traveling through the misty morning light, Su Mo finally reached the truck’s “destination that was recorded by the scout robot.
However, his originally indifferent expression turned ugly after seeing the destination from a distance.
‘The worst outcome has really happened!’
As far as his eyes could see, there was no enemy base camp or human gathering place full of buildings, nor was there a super-large warehouse to store materials that were stolen from Origin Territory.
As the sunlight began to shine brighter, Su Mo saw a simple partition in the shape of a “cross” that divided the open space where at least thousands of people were gathered into four parts.
In the upper left corner, ordinary people shouted at their stalls.
In the upper right corner was a small team of three to five people with flags hanging on their stalls, also selling goods in front of them.
In the lower-left corner, small groups were walking around with carts and seemingly making transactions.
In the lower-right corner, it was the place where the previous transportation trucks had stopped.
The only difference was that it was no longer only six trucks, as he had seen before, but more than 20 trucks lined up with a grand setup.
The four parts added together had several times more people than in the basin. Plus, they were part of an energetic trading scene.
In this place, there was no large warehouse that accumulated the stolen goods or the other party’s base that was guarded with hundreds of guards as they had expected.
What had entered Su Mo’s sight was a large market that traded large amounts of supplies, similar to the era of civilization.
Su Mo returned to his human form and tried to summon his storage space to take out binoculars to observe.
However, the moment he transformed, the feeling of being watched and targeted by the game completely vanished, which surprised Su Mo.
At the same time, the long accumulated game prompts popped out one after another as soon as the game panel was opened.
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