Wasteland Hideout: Upgrading from the Sewers

Chapter 367: Bronze-tier Brown Bear, Battle and Return

Leaving the rest area of Mountain Stone, Yu Yuan had already gathered all the supplies from this level.

In the innermost corner of the bunker, there was another staircase leading downward.

Upon entering the lower level, Yu Yuan saw a fully drawn sacrificial ritual on the floor.

The pattern of this ritual was the same as the one recorded in that book, [Religion - Sacrificial Exchange Ritual].

Yu Yuan took out his phone and took comprehensive photos of this ritual from all angles.

He didn't miss a single detail.

Because this basement wasn't a wooden floor structure, the entire ritual pattern was drawn directly on the floor. Naturally, Yu Yuan couldn't take it with him and could only destroy the ritual.

Zhi Zhi issued a warning at this moment.

"Master, a vehicle convoy is rapidly approaching this location. Visual estimate is five combat vehicles."

Yu Yuan's movements paused slightly.He immediately ran outside the shelter.

Exiting the shelter, Zhi Zhi had already transformed into the [Rat Tail Whip].

The bunker's location was behind the settlement, an area with dense woods and a cliff face over a hundred meters high.

Yu Yuan, holding the long whip, arrived at the cliff. With a running start and a jump, he planted his feet on the cliff face and leaped upward.

He swung the long whip upward. The [Rat Tail Whip] rapidly lengthened and extended, wrapping around a crooked tree growing from a crevice in the cliff.

The whip tightened, and Yu Yuan used the momentum to ascend, reaching the crooked tree. He repeated the method and soon arrived atop the cliff.

From this high vantage point with a commanding view, Yu Yuan could see the entire situation in the wasteland wilderness.

The Combat Detector had already locked onto the targets.

On the distant wilderness, five modified wasteland combat vehicles were roaring toward this location, kicking up clouds of yellow dust in their wake.

Zooming in with the Combat Detector's view, he could also see the vehicle-mounted machine guns already in position on the roofs of the combat vehicles and the eager thugs in the truck beds.

That location...

The virtual map unfolded before Yu Yuan. The direction the combat vehicles were coming from coincided exactly with the location of an ordinary thug faction.

—[Hailuo Plunder Camp].

Meaning, this group of people was most likely thugs from this [Hailuo Plunder Camp].

"The sounds of the battle here probably attracted them!"

Yu Yuan understood clearly in his heart.

Just as Yu Yuan was contemplating whether to leave or stay and deal with these thugs.

The Combat Detector actually issued an alert as well. A red dot at the edge of the visual field was rapidly approaching this location.

However, the direction the red dot appeared from was the area Yu Yuan had come from earlier, the location of that forest.

Yu Yuan turned his head to look. Because he was standing on the cliff, he saw it was actually a brown bear less than three meters in size.

Although this brown bear wasn't particularly large in size, it was very fast and quite intelligent, constantly seeking cover as it approached along the way.

The brown bear was blind in one eye, and the remaining single eye occasionally flickered with caution and hatred.

Yu Yuan raised an eyebrow slightly.

He recalled the brown bear fur cloak that Mountain Stone had been wearing.

In all likelihood, this brown bear had also come seeking revenge.

And it had likely suffered quite a bit at the hands of the Mountain Stone Shelter, hence its extreme caution.

It had probably also been attracted by the sounds of the earlier battle.

Yu Yuan watched the movement paths of the vehicle convoy and the brown bear, calculating.

"They will collide."

This was Yu Yuan's prediction.

And the facts proved exactly that.

When they were less than five hundred meters from the settlement, the thug convoy was the first to spot the brown bear's presence.

"Damn it, why is this guy here..." The thugs seemed very familiar with the brown bear.

The brown bear naturally also discovered the convoy's tracks. Although the distance between them was about a hundred meters, the brown bear showed not a hint of fear.

To be more precise, it held an equal hatred for all thugs.

It was seen raising its head and roaring at the sky, then charging straight toward the convoy.

Rat-a-tat-tat—

The thugs immediately opened fire.

Machine guns continuously sprayed bullets.

However, as the brown bear ran, the soil on the ground churned, transforming into rocks that condensed on the brown bear's body surface, actually forming a suit of rock armor.

Bullets struck the rock armor, sparking small bursts of fire. Some rocks were shattered by the bullets, but the next moment they were repaired by more rocks.

"Damn it, get out of here! This guy's gone mad!"

While the convoy was turning around, the brown bear had already closed the distance to fifty meters. It suddenly reared up on its hind legs, raising both front paws high.

Countless stones rapidly condensed between its two paws. Amidst the brown bear's roar, a rock sphere with a diameter already reaching two meters flew directly toward the convoy.

The rock sphere transformed into dozens of stones of varying sizes mid-air, shooting forth with a fierce momentum.

"Get down, get down quickly..."

Thud-thud-thud-thud—

The stones struck the metal armor plates of the combat vehicles. The metal plates instantly became pitted and dented.

Two thugs who reacted a bit too slowly were even headshot. The powerful impact directly snapped their cervical spines, leaving them dead beyond any doubt.

One combat vehicle, in its panic, ran over a rock by the roadside, causing the vehicle to flip over.

The other thugs didn't dare to stop at all, quickly fleeing back the way they came.

The brown bear charged to the overturned combat vehicle.

The thugs inside were already dazed and disoriented from the crash when they saw a shadow envelop them.

Looking up, they saw the brown bear's gaping maw.

Roar—

The bear's roar transformed into a sonic wave echoing across the wilderness. The convoy, now distant black specks, fled even faster.

The brown bear didn't waste time either. With just two swipes of its paws, it completely totaled this wasteland combat vehicle. Naturally, all the thugs inside perished.

From atop the cliff, Yu Yuan witnessed everything.

"This brown bear's strength... is not weak." Yu Yuan quickly assessed.

The value of those three bronze-tier wild boars was also re-evaluated by Yu Yuan.

Such a powerful brown bear could actually be suppressed by a pack of wild boars.

A single wild boar might not be a match for this brown bear, but once they had numerical superiority...

Wild boars could both tank and deal damage, truly a good assault troop type.

"This line of thinking is worth focusing on for development."

It just so happened that he had already obtained Mountain Stone's wild boar feed formula and the wild boar mud bath formula.

It would indeed be a pity not to utilize them.

It was just that Yu Yuan hadn't found the method Mountain Stone used to cultivate bronze-tier wild boars.

He didn't know if Mountain Stone bred them himself or captured them.

However, with the biological mutation technology of the Aurora Animal Assistance Association, turning wild boars into bronze-tier creatures shouldn't be too difficult.

After dealing with the thugs, the brown bear approached the settlement, acting extremely cautious.

Yu Yuan checked the time and said to Zhi Zhi, "Take it down!"

Zhi Zhi—

Zhi Zhi immediately leaped down from the cliff face.

This brown bear's abilities were also quite good. It could both fight and tank.

It could engage in close combat and also attack from range.

Taking it back for Jiu Feng and the others to study would be good.

In the face of absolute strength, all flashy tricks were useless.

After a series of 'crackling' commotion.

The brown bear lay on the ground.

It was finally successfully contained by Yu Yuan.

Yu Yuan also went to check the situation at the flattened wasteland combat vehicle.

The result was that everyone was thoroughly, utterly dead.

Yu Yuan shook his head, ending this exploration.

"Return~"