Apocalypse Arrives: I Become a Powerhouse by Scavenging

After walking for about fifteen minutes, Moira Lynch arrived at her destination.

As far as the eye could see, it was a stretch of buildings destroyed by cannon fire, with lingering signs of battle all around.

Moreover, there wasn’t a soul in sight.

If anyone else had come here and seen this, they would never have guessed that people were still hiding here.

Guided by her spiritual power’s scan, Moira Lynch entered the only relatively well-preserved building in the area.

After looking around, Moira Lynch walked up to a wall and knocked on it.

The wall was hollow. A hidden space was concealed within.

"Come on out. I know someone’s in there. I’m not a bad person, I’m an escort."

After a long while, a door in the wall slowly opened, and a half-grown boy cautiously stepped out.

He had a pair of golden antennae on his head, large eyes, and his skin was a pale yellow.

His appearance reminded Moira Lynch of a goldfish.

His cautious expression instantly relaxed when he saw Moira Lynch’s uniform. His large eyes filled with tears.

All the grievances he had suppressed over the past days burst forth in that moment.

Then, another dozen or so children trickled out from inside.

Moira Lynch could now roughly understand why the boy had looked at her with such a wronged expression.

The other children were all younger than him. As the "leader" of the group, if even he broke down, the younger ones would be even more terrified.

At this, Moira Lynch stepped forward, patted his head reassuringly, and said softly, "You’ve done a great job."

Then, Moira Lynch took out a supply crate of water and food from her storage space.

They had been trapped here for some time, and their food had long since run out. Now, seeing the food, they began to eat ravenously.

Moira Lynch had wanted to ask them some questions, but seeing them like this, she didn’t have the heart to interrupt. She just watched quietly as they ate.

"Eat slowly. There’s more if this isn’t enough."

After a while, the oldest child was the first to stop eating. He looked at Moira Lynch and said, "Thank you for bringing us food. My name is Ian."

The escort profession was the single most dangerous job in the interstellar community. They often went to places where danger hadn’t yet been cleared, and they could lose their lives at any moment.

Hearing this, Moira Lynch smiled and said, "You’re welcome. It’s my job. By the way, why are you all here? Where are your families?"

’Judging by the destruction of the buildings outside, they must have been attacked by pirates. But why are all the survivors children? There isn’t a single adult.’

When he heard Moira Lynch’s question, Ian’s eyes dimmed. "The adults were all taken away by those pirates," he said. "We’re all orphans from the orphanage. When the pirates rushed in, I led everyone into this hidden space to hide. By the time we came out again, the outside was already like this."

"The pirates still come back sometimes, so we haven’t dared to leave for fear of being caught. We’ve been surviving on the food stored in the secret room this whole time."

Speaking of the secret room, Moira Lynch looked toward the spot where Ian and the others had been hiding. ’If I hadn’t detected their presence and paid close attention, I might really have missed that there was a secret room here.’

The secret room seemed to have been specially treated to block spiritual power detection.

Any scanner that swept the area would conclude the wall was solid.

"Why is there a secret room here?" Moira Lynch asked curiously.

Ian replied, "Because this place is a shelter. The only reason we were here is that today was the day for our annual drill. The orphanage teachers were showing us how to get into the shelter in case of a disaster."

’So that’s how it is.’

’These kids are really lucky.’

However, Moira Lynch was focused on something else. Her mission wasn’t showing as complete. ’Could it be because I haven’t used up all my supplies?’

Thinking of this possibility, Moira Lynch regretted bringing so much.

’But it’s too late for regrets now.’

Moira Lynch offered to give Ian and the others more food, but they refused, saying that there were others who needed it more.

"By the way, Ian, you said the people here were all captured by pirates. Do you know where they were taken?" Moira Lynch asked.

Ian shook his head. "I don’t know. I was hiding in the shelter when the pirates came. But every time they showed up, they came from that direction."

As he spoke, Ian pointed in a certain direction for Moira Lynch.

Following the direction he indicated, Moira Lynch sent out a Golden Celestial Eye to investigate.

"Do you know if there are any other survivors like you anywhere else?" Moira Lynch continued to ask.

Ian shook his head again. "I’m not sure about that either. We haven’t tried to contact the outside world to avoid being discovered by the pirates."

"Alright."

Moira Lynch felt a little disappointed but understood the situation.

Noticing that some of the children had fevers, Moira Lynch left some medicine behind before turning to leave.

Before she left, Moira Lynch had Patience mark the location on the map, making it easier for the subsequent rescue teams to find and save them.

"Patience, bring up the map of Ariel Planet. Let’s head to the nearest city and try our luck."

Ariel Planet wasn’t very large. Its total population was only a few hundred thousand people.

The entire planet’s population was probably smaller than that of a single city on other planets.

But one shouldn’t underestimate Ariel Planet just because of its small population.

If Ariel Planet had nothing special about it, the interstellar pirates wouldn’t have risked a war with The Federation just to occupy it.

According to the data Patience had gathered, Ariel Planet produced only one type of resource: a purple crystal stone called the Ariel Crystal Stone. It was beautiful, like an amethyst.

This Crystal Stone was an extremely important material in many fields, and its price was consistently high.

Moreover, this Crystal Stone wasn’t mined; it grew on its own.

As long as Ariel Planet existed, it would continuously grow more Ariel Crystals.

This was how Ariel Planet had transformed from an insignificant planetoid with a population of less than a million into a mother hen that laid golden eggs.

The interstellar pirates had appeared here because they had their eyes on Planet Ariel’s value.

"I just don’t know which pirate faction these guys belong to," Moira Lynch murmured to herself.

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