The Great Merchant in the Cataclysm

ng? That is really very exaggerating.

“I am now suspecting that your bladder is made of gold.
To think that it didn’t explode from all your drinking.”

Wang Liang’s muttering woke Zhang Mu up.
If he really drank 20 bottles of spirits and his body has no reaction, this is not just purely an issue about alcohol tolerance.

There is only one other possibility.

Zhang Mu quickly turned his head and look at his left shoulder which showed no signs of abnormality.
He immediately understood what had happened.
He had been controlled by the Bloodvine Lotus yesterday.
No wonder he felt his throat burning when he woke up.

So, the Bloodvine Lotus loves alcohol so much? That was unexpected.

Zhang Mu had no choice but to explain to Wang Liang, “It might be that my body has changed after the cataclysm.”

Wang Liang had regained his composure and replied, “you can go and find your mutated animals now since you have recovered.
I have to clear the walking dead at the North of the city.
The survival base there still hasn’t dared to act even after you sold them the special equipment.
Since they haven’t acted, I shall take over.”

Seeing the determined look on Wang Liang’s face, Zhang Mu decided to keep quiet.
Although entering other people’s territory seemed invasive, there was some sense in what Wang Liang said.
If you don’t dare to act, let me do it.

“Brother Mu, you drank too much yesterday so I helped to pick out news that seemed more accurate.
If you think is okay, you can go to the places directly without filtering anymore.”

“Thanks so much for the effort.” Zhang Mu smiled.
“You can have a look first.
I need to leave as there are quite a few areas with walking dead that need to be cleared out today.” After seeing Zhang Mu’s supportive gaze, Wang Liang nodded his head and passed the notebook in his hand to Zhang Mu before leaving the base.

Watching the troop leave, Zhang decided to act too and went back to drag the half-asleep wolfdog out.

…

Similar to yesterday, Zhang Mu went to the places filtered by Wang Liang and managed to gain close to a hundred beast cores.
The success rate was about 60 percent, same as yesterday.

What happened on the first day of his hunting must have been really due to bad luck.

When Zhang Mu returned to the base after a day of work, he realised that the atmosphere was a bit off.
He had a bad feeling.
Immediately, he ordered the mutated wolfdog to increase its speed and leaped over the gates without waiting for the guards to open it.
He didn’t stop when he entered the city but went straight to the residence of Wang Liang.

However, Wang Liang was not there.
Zhang Mu was puzzled.
He should be here.

At this moment, the wolfdog’s nose twitched and it gave a low howl to warn Zhang Mu, signaling him to follow it.

Zhang Mu noticed that the wolfdog seemed to have picked up a smell and hurriedly got onto its back.

The wolfdog brought him to a remote area at the far end of the base.
It was an empty piece of land that used to be a man-made pool.
The wolfdog was running at a fast speed.
As they got nearer, Zhang Mu was able to distinguish the smell in the air.

This familiar smell.
There is no mistake.
This is the smell of blood!