After diligently searching for a while, Zhang Yanhang had to admit that there really was nothing of value around here.

Of course, if you insist that low-level Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures of the First and Second Tiers have value, then there are some, but Zhang Yanhang was too lazy to pick up such useless things.

So, Zhang Yanhang quickly searched for the location of Niger on his phone, and then began heading in the direction of Niger.

After all, Niger is in Africa, so it's about ten thousand kilometers away from Qin Island City. In the past, this distance might have been far for Zhang Yanhang, but now it only takes about three to four minutes of flying time to reach there directly, basically as convenient as going downstairs to buy breakfast.

While flying all the way, Zhang Yanhang also checked the population centers in Niger. Indeed, they could only be described as gathering areas, as there really weren't any decent cities around here, and there were constant rebellions.

So, there were only about three more densely populated gathering areas in the entire Niger, with the one more towards the west, which was mentioned in the choices as the location of the rebels, seemingly near the Ayer Mountains. This area is a mixture of desert plains and mountainous terrain.

Though it doesn't sound great, it's actually the most livable environment within Niger.

After all, the majority of Niger's territory is located within the Sahara Desert, and being a completely landlocked country, having a mountain range to help block some of the sandstorms is relatively speaking the peak of livability, even if the soil of these mountains is quite poor, making farming yields very low.

But people, after all, have to die eventually, and starving to death isn't really shameful.

In short, to repeat, there are plenty of lives to live even if some people starve, others can still manage to feebly survive and continue to reproduce.

It's fair to say that, as one of the world's least developed countries, the environment here is comparable to Haiti, but while Haitians can eat dirt when hungry, here, there's only sand and even eating dirt isn't an option.

Moreover, Haiti's GDP per capita is nearly two thousand dollars, while Niger's is only six hundred dollars, and that's just because the country can artificially raise it by mining a massive amount of mineral resources, including uranium; otherwise, the average wage might not even reach a dollar a day.

Of course, adhering to the African principle of the poorer the population, the more they want to reproduce, the average woman of childbearing age in Niger births more than seven children, the highest fertility rate in all of Africa, with the number of newborns far surpassing those in any other African country.

Within the country's population structure, children under fourteen make up more than half, while only about 2% live to the retirement age of sixty.

Therefore, in this country, not starving and living peacefully until retirement age would practically make someone a rare talent.

From this, it can be seen that although there are many newborns, the death rate is higher. Even if a woman gives birth to seven children, generally less than half survive until fourteen, and having two or three make it to adulthood is considered good.

Fortunately, the local marriage age is low, significantly reducing the proportion of women starving before they can become pregnant, so overall, the population is still growing rapidly. Remarkably, this nation of only twenty million people manages to increase its population by about a million every year, with a growth rate of around 5% annually.

In contrast, Asian countries often experience negative population growth as soon as birth rates drop to a few permille, not even because of starvation but because of an inability to afford housing.

Zhang Yanhang didn't know whether to call this an African hell joke or an Asian hell joke—perhaps an Afro-Asian hell joke would be more fitting.

Regardless, because of this, the Sahara Desert region, including Niger and other neighboring countries, has consistently been among the fastest population growth areas, unchallenged for many years. It could be said that as the global population grew from seven billion to eight billion, Africa contributed significantly to that increase.

When Zhang Yanhang actually arrived in this 'talented land' of the desert nation Niger, he immediately realized that he had indeed underestimated the harshness of the environment here. As soon as he arrived, he saw rebels driving monsters to kill people recklessly.

"It seems that after the Spiritual Qi Recovery, these inland African countries won't need to worry about starving to death; they only need to worry about whether they'll be killed by rebels or monsters instead."

Under such circumstances, Zhang Yanhang believed that even the luxury of whether one could still see the sun tomorrow morning was a significant question.

Zhang Yanhang first briefly observed the situation of this rare oasis settlement he was in, then quickly located the position of the Permanent Transmission Channel. After all, it was conspicuously erected next to a shabby shack, standing only about three or four meters high.

Zhang Yanhang had never seen such a short Permanent Transmission Channel before; he estimated that this Permanent Transmission Channel was only at the Second or First Tier at best.

The rebels were the usual kind of rebels, not wearing uniforms, so it was unclear which faction they belonged to, but there were several low-level Awakened among them. It was these Awakened who were driving monsters to massacre the settlement's residents.

To be honest, Zhang Yanhang had no idea what they were after. After all, killing doesn't earn Soul points, a fact he had learned a long time ago from the group leader, one which could be considered both significant and insignificant.

The monsters driven by these rebels were a group of Desert Spiky Lizards about two or three meters long, and another kind was black giant scorpions of a similar length.

Upon seeing these large scorpions, Zhang Yanhang suddenly had an unreasonable craving for fried scorpions, but he wasn't sure if these black giant scorpions were poisonous. He preferred eating the poisonous ones, as they are more nutritious and healthy.

Moreover, considering his current size, eating these two or three meters scorpions seemed quite suitable.

Of course, as a resource-conserving Awakener, Zhang Yanhang would certainly not waste resources, and had already taken out the Demon Refining Pot to automatically collect the scattered souls around.

The whole settlement, or oasis city of Akrellep, had only tens of thousands of people, and by the time he arrived, more than 80% of them had been killed. But souls dissipated very fast, so he definitely couldn't collect those who had died earlier; he could only collect those who had just died.

The rebels numbered only in the hundreds and mainly relied on driving monsters to hunt down the residents here.

"Speaking of which, the name Akrellep really is strange. African culture truly is completely incomprehensible."

As for why Zhang Yanhang still has the leisure to ponder city names instead of immediately killing monsters, it is because he discovered that the monsters within this permanent teleportation channel are still pouring out continuously, suggesting that it might be a newly opened permanent teleportation channel.

Therefore, he plans to wait until all the monsters come out before taking them down, to avoid alerting them and making them reluctant to come out. After all, this teleportation channel is likely a First Tier Teleportation Channel. If the monsters don't come out, he can't go in either, and can only watch the monsters before him without being able to kill them, which is somewhat frustrating.

During Zhang Yanhang's wait, the transmission channel continuously spewed out a type of huge beetle that resembled dung beetles. Of course, considering the proximity to Egypt, they might be referred to as Sacred Beetles here.

Zhang Yanhang quickly scanned the strength of the Desert Lizards, Black Giant Scorpions, and Sacred Beetles, which now generally maintained around First Tier Two Stars.

Although their strength isn't significant, their numbers are quite large, about tens of thousands, after a tenfold increase.

When the entire oasis city of Akrellep was practically covered by monsters, the permanent teleportation channel finally stopped releasing monsters. After waiting a bit longer, Zhang Yanhang promptly unleashed a Death Wave covering the entire area.

Accompanied by a transparent ripple rapidly spreading in all directions, all along the way, both monsters and humans fell into a silent state, their bodily fluids forcibly squeezed out, gradually gathering on the oasis's ground, forming a river of dark red blood and beetle fluid, silently nourishing the parched ground.

Compared to using a Death Wave to kill humans, Zhang Yanhang prefers the sensation of killing Sacred Beetles with a Death Wave because the cracking sound of their exoskeletons breaking sounds like stepping on autumn leaves, giving him an inexplicable sense of relief.

While killing humans is relatively dull, only resembling the continuous leaking of blood like bursting a tomato, although occasionally with limbs flying everywhere, the overall remains relatively intact.

Or, one could say, not being turned directly into meat paste by a Death Wave is quite fortunate, given that this attack originates from a Fifth Tier Awakened. It's safe to say that Death Wave does have considerable insights in preserving whole corpses.

[Successfully killed First Tier Two-Star Monster 'Desert Spiky Lizard (Common)' ×1, Soul Points +6.]

[Successfully killed First Tier Two-Star Monster 'Desert Giant Scorpion (Common)' ×1, Soul Points +7.]

[Successfully killed First Tier Two-Star Monster 'Desert Sacred Beetle (Elite)' ×1, Soul Points +10.]

......

The Death Wave now covers up to 10.5 square kilometers, and Zhang Yanhang only needed one shot to cover the entire Akrellep. Simultaneously, a continuous stream of kill notifications began appearing in front of Zhang Yanhang.

If it were in the past, Zhang Yanhang might have been directly overwhelmed into a system crash by such high-frequency notifications, but now it's clearly not the case. Just a few tens of thousands of monsters; he believes even simultaneous kills of more than a hundred thousand monsters wouldn't crash him. Those days of being crashed by kill information are long gone.

Therefore, after clearing the field with a single Death Wave, Zhang Yanhang calmly started reviewing the endless kill information, trying to find kill data related to rebels, but found absolutely none.

"Seems like killing humans indeed yields no benefit."

If killing humans could yield Soul Points, even if just a single Soul Point, Zhang Yanhang could instantly acquire tens of billions of Soul Points just by striking Earth once, probably enough to last him to the Sixth Tier. Unfortunately, there's indeed no revenue.

Of course, even with benefits, he wouldn't do it, after all, he's still not that anti-human unless the benefit is substantial, like destroying Earth would instantly make him a god and turn eighty billion souls into his believers, praying for him daily.

But such matters; his abilities certainly don't fit. If he possessed Zhao Yalan's Gathering Power, it might be possible, but unfortunately, his Talent is Multiple Choice.

"Just now, I eliminated several tens of thousands of First Tier monsters in one swoop. Even if they yield tens of thousands of Soul Points, it should be impressive, right?"

As he thought of this, Zhang Yanhang couldn't help but glance at his Soul Points.

[Soul Points: 531340 (+425113)]

"Previously, I had a total of 106227 Soul Points, and now it's increased to 531340 Soul Points, granting me a total of 425113 Soul Points, not bad."

At least by the standards of a First Tier Permanent Transmission Channel, Zhang Yanhang felt that the yields of this Desert Permanent Teleportation Channel are quite good, especially given that the earnings from the Raccoon City were nowhere near this Desert Permanent Teleportation Channel.

"By the way, what about the Lord Monsters? Weren't there supposed to be ten of them?"

Zhang Yanhang carefully checked the information and found only details on the three types of monsters, with no other monster information. He suspected that the Lord Monsters might still be on the other side, not yet emerging.

Curious about the Lord Monsters, Zhang Yanhang promptly flew next to the teleportation channel. After attempting to reach his hand through, he sadly discovered that it indeed was a First Tier Transmission Channel, and he truly couldn't enter now.

Under normal circumstances, Zhang Yanhang would easily pass through the Permanent Teleportation Channel by reaching out, but now his hand felt like it hit a solid wall.

As he reached out, Zhang Yanhang clearly saw the environment and remaining monsters on the other side through the teleportation channel. As he expected, it was a desert environment, and not far from the other end of the channel he saw several giant spiders circling around, refusing to approach.

Zhang Yanhang reasonably believed these creatures were the Lord Monsters of this Desert Permanent Teleportation Channel. Unfortunately, he couldn't enter, and they wouldn't come out, leaving him entirely helpless against them.

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