DPM Chapter 74-Part 1
Translated by Snowfall77
By noon the next day, Wu Xingyun and Ye Fan had returned to their residence. Although, over the past two years, Ye Fan’s residence had gradually taken on more significance. They still lived in the same place, and their building had no other residents, but the area around had become the place where mutants assembled to deal with general affairs. The building next door housed the telegraph station and its new cipher.
A small three-story building a little farther off was where major mutant leaders would gather.
As soon as Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun had gotten back, they were dragged there. A headman who’d been a member of their group for over a year informed Ye Fan: “Boss, we’ve received a message from City C.”
Both Wu Xingyun and Ye Fan were slightly stunned. City C?
Neither one of them was capable of forgetting that city.
It was from there they’d had to flee along the highway. It was there that Ye Fan had killed someone for the first time.
And it was also, Wu Xingyun clearly recalled, a place where there’d been a nuclear explosion.
“What’s going on there?” Ye Fan asked. He didn’t really need to inquire. Since he’d taken over the area, he’d blocked the mountain pass to stop any mutant animals from there scattering into his territory. Still, they’d never received any news of City C, except for rare snatches saying it’d long turned into hell on earth, and was unsuitable for any species to survive there.
“Apparently, there’s troops over there, saying they’ve been surrounded by monsters for four years. They’re asking for assistance.”
“Is that right?” Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun became quite curious, leaning over to look at the message from City C together. One of the staff who received the telegram explained: “It was transmitted with an old code, from before these last days. It says the situation in City C is awful and asks for support, the sign name given is……Commander Liu Yi, from the Southwest Military Division.”
Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun shot each other a quick glance, Ye Fan casting his mind back: “Commander Liu? When we were in City C, was that the name of the commander?”
“Yes,” Wu Xingyun said, “Yes, it sounds right. Luo Guo talked about a Liu Yi there. I’d have thought he’d died. Can’t believe he’s still alive!”
Brow creasing, Ye Fan tapped the message with a finger, finally saying to the telegraph staff: “If not for that soldier destroying the power grid and opening up a path outside the city, then even staying behind to protect us while we fled, I would have died. Send a message back, ask for the specific situation of City C.”
Yet as Ye Fan said it, he felt uncertain, rethinking his words. He turned his head, looking to Wu Xingyun.
Wu Xingyun nodded.
The two’s silent exchange practically blinded the eyes of the other people around with its sparkling saccharinity. What the hell was up with their meaningful glances? Were they trying to ask each other whether to drink soup eat or meat tonight?
Ye Fan spoke again: “The tone of this message, it seems—it seems that the troops in City C have been under siege all this time. They don’t know what’s happened outside. So don’t tell them about the Federation or Noah’s Ark. I’m afraid that they’ll collapse if they find out they were abandoned. When all this time they’ve held their post.”
Everyone agreed and a new message was sent, Wu Xingyun asking Ye Fan: “You intend to go over there?”
“Yes,” Ye Fan said, “To save people is actually secondary. You understand my principal goal.”
Wu Xingyun smiled, signifying that he did know.
Wanting and needing opportunities to continue his practices, Ye Fan was always looking for adversaries. So much so that he didn’t stint on teaching secrets from his cherished book to other mutants.
Still, no other mutant was quite Ye Fan’s match, and Ye Fan would prowl the outskirts searching for monsters to hone his martial skills on.
But within the last month, Ye Fan had found the mutated animals he battled could no longer satisfy his requirements.
If he wanted to become more powerful, live powerfully and stand strong, he needed more ferocious opponents in order to breakthrough.
Ye Fan was most interested in—after the nuclear explosion in City C with its mutant lizards, how terrible would those creatures be now? If Ye Fan fought them, would he move even higher?
Liu Yi of City C rapidly responded to their telegram.
His reply message seemed very excited, verging on incoherent. Ye Fan’s staff had to take a few moments to translate it before handing it over to Ye Fan.
Ye Fan read it carefully, then passed it over to Wu Xingyun. Wu Xingyun in turn passed it over the others when he was finished with it.
Everyone read, though almost no one dared believe its contents.
City C was the domain of the monitor lizards. Those original lab experiment subjects now ruled, having long since completely killed the horde of rats that Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun had encountered years ago.
Liu Yi, in an underground military bunker, had survived on a stockpile of compressed biscuits and rain water. He and his people been struggling for survival for four years, while continuously messaging for help.
At first by telephone, next internet, and when those didn’t function, only by telegraph.
Now, from an original team of one thousand, only twenty people were left.
In the early days, before the nuclear explosion, they’d been informed by their military headquarters to go underground and that a rescue team would be sent.
However, after the nuclear explosion, the mutant species hadn’t been destroyed. Instead, their dreadfulness had increased a hundredfold.
Liu Yi had always believed that their rescue team had sacrificed their lives trying to reach him and his people. He never imagined that no team had ever come. That he had been discarded while his superiors escaped the Earth.
Liu Yi had not once given up. He’d striven to survive in the cracks of the lizards’ reign, and kept sending out constant messages.
Until finally getting a response almost four years later.
DPM Chapter 74-Part 1
Translated by Snowfall77
By noon the next day, Wu Xingyun and Ye Fan had returned to their residence. Although, over the past two years, Ye Fan’s residence had gradually taken on more significance. They still lived in the same place, and their building had no other residents, but the area around had become the place where mutants assembled to deal with general affairs. The building next door housed the telegraph station and its new cipher.
A small three-story building a little farther off was where major mutant leaders would gather.
As soon as Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun had gotten back, they were dragged there. A headman who’d been a member of their group for over a year informed Ye Fan: “Boss, we’ve received a message from City C.”
Both Wu Xingyun and Ye Fan were slightly stunned. City C?
Neither one of them was capable of forgetting that city.
It was from there they’d had to flee along the highway. It was there that Ye Fan had killed someone for the first time.
And it was also, Wu Xingyun clearly recalled, a place where there’d been a nuclear explosion.
“What’s going on there?” Ye Fan asked. He didn’t really need to inquire. Since he’d taken over the area, he’d blocked the mountain pass to stop any mutant animals from there scattering into his territory. Still, they’d never received any news of City C, except for rare snatches saying it’d long turned into hell on earth, and was unsuitable for any species to survive there.
“Apparently, there’s troops over there, saying they’ve been surrounded by monsters for four years. They’re asking for assistance.”
“Is that right?” Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun became quite curious, leaning over to look at the message from City C together. One of the staff who received the telegram explained: “It was transmitted with an old code, from before these last days. It says the situation in City C is awful and asks for support, the sign name given is……Commander Liu Yi, from the Southwest Military Division.”
Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun shot each other a quick glance, Ye Fan casting his mind back: “Commander Liu? When we were in City C, was that the name of the commander?”
“Yes,” Wu Xingyun said, “Yes, it sounds right. Luo Guo talked about a Liu Yi there. I’d have thought he’d died. Can’t believe he’s still alive!”
Brow creasing, Ye Fan tapped the message with a finger, finally saying to the telegraph staff: “If not for that soldier destroying the power grid and opening up a path outside the city, then even staying behind to protect us while we fled, I would have died. Send a message back, ask for the specific situation of City C.”
Yet as Ye Fan said it, he felt uncertain, rethinking his words. He turned his head, looking to Wu Xingyun.
Wu Xingyun nodded.
The two’s silent exchange practically blinded the eyes of the other people around with its sparkling saccharinity. What the hell was up with their meaningful glances? Were they trying to ask each other whether to drink soup eat or meat tonight?
Ye Fan spoke again: “The tone of this message, it seems—it seems that the troops in City C have been under siege all this time. They don’t know what’s happened outside. So don’t tell them about the Federation or Noah’s Ark. I’m afraid that they’ll collapse if they find out they were abandoned. When all this time they’ve held their post.”
Everyone agreed and a new message was sent, Wu Xingyun asking Ye Fan: “You intend to go over there?”
“Yes,” Ye Fan said, “To save people is actually secondary. You understand my principal goal.”
Wu Xingyun smiled, signifying that he did know.
Wanting and needing opportunities to continue his practices, Ye Fan was always looking for adversaries. So much so that he didn’t stint on teaching secrets from his cherished book to other mutants.
Still, no other mutant was quite Ye Fan’s match, and Ye Fan would prowl the outskirts searching for monsters to hone his martial skills on.
But within the last month, Ye Fan had found the mutated animals he battled could no longer satisfy his requirements.
If he wanted to become more powerful, live powerfully and stand strong, he needed more ferocious opponents in order to breakthrough.
Ye Fan was most interested in—after the nuclear explosion in City C with its mutant lizards, how terrible would those creatures be now? If Ye Fan fought them, would he move even higher?
Liu Yi of City C rapidly responded to their telegram.
His reply message seemed very excited, verging on incoherent. Ye Fan’s staff had to take a few moments to translate it before handing it over to Ye Fan.
Ye Fan read it carefully, then passed it over to Wu Xingyun. Wu Xingyun in turn passed it over the others when he was finished with it.
Everyone read, though almost no one dared believe its contents.
City C was the domain of the monitor lizards. Those original lab experiment subjects now ruled, having long since completely killed the horde of rats that Ye Fan and Wu Xingyun had encountered years ago.
Liu Yi, in an underground military bunker, had survived on a stockpile of compressed biscuits and rain water. He and his people been struggling for survival for four years, while continuously messaging for help.
At first by telephone, next internet, and when those didn’t function, only by telegraph.
Now, from an original team of one thousand, only twenty people were left.
In the early days, before the nuclear explosion, they’d been informed by their military headquarters to go underground and that a rescue team would be sent.
However, after the nuclear explosion, the mutant species hadn’t been destroyed. Instead, their dreadfulness had increased a hundredfold.
Liu Yi had always believed that their rescue team had sacrificed their lives trying to reach him and his people. He never imagined that no team had ever come. That he had been discarded while his superiors escaped the Earth.
Liu Yi had not once given up. He’d striven to survive in the cracks of the lizards’ reign, and kept sending out constant messages.
Until finally getting a response almost four years later.
