There was no trace of humans at Shijiazhuang, and Shen Cong left disappointed.

With the Super-Thunder Wave Navigator he had no fear of getting lost. He could go straight by what the map showed, and with two Qilin Arms on it, no obstacle on the ground was any trouble at all for the Vajra Fortress.

Over hills and ridges, he pushed west toward Meng County.

"The whole way here seems to have been barren zone. Only now am I finding the free Activity in the air rising in concentration. I must be getting close to an oasis." Particle-grade Activity waves let Shen Cong sense the finest change in Activity and read the situation around him.

Growing skill with radiative eye material had also made the visible range of his Third Eye Activity wave shoot up.

The Third Eye Radar's blurred-vision field ran seven or eight kilometers in radius, larger than the area of a county town. Almost at a single glance, everything in it showed up in his sight.

Before long.

Just as he was about to reach the ruins of Meng County town, he found something out of the ordinary.

At roughly where the map put Nanlou Town in Meng County, traces of a battle had been left behind, the whole scene a wreck. Shen Cong drove the Vajra Fortress toward the battlefield at once. A dozen-odd minutes later, cutting through thorn and briar the whole way, the Vajra Fortress reached the place.

"This wasn't just evolved beasts fighting each other. There's a lot of man-made damage... and plenty of traces from large mechanical equipment. Could there be a very powerful human survivor organization here?" Shen Cong felt a stir of pleasant surprise. Finding new human survivor organizations was the whole point of this trip.

But then he frowned again. "By the marks on the battlefield, it looks like two survivor organizations, with fighting breaking out between them. Not simply humans hunting evolved beasts."

He was not a tracker, and could not read very much out of the traces.

But the basic information he could still assemble easily enough…