There were particles of dust visible to the naked eye floating in the air. Although these dust could not cause substantial harm to Zheng Xiu, they still made Zheng Xiu feel psychologically uncomfortable.
The starlight and moonlight were completely obscured by the thick dust clouds in the night sky. It was hard for Zheng Xiu to imagine how humans in this world could thrive and survive in such a harsh environment for hundreds of years.
The sky is blue, the moon is round, the air is fresh, the flowers are colorful, the water is crystal clear, the moonlight is bright, the stars are bright, and humans can be happy without the protection of protective equipment With their hearts playing on the ground...the above-mentioned scenes have become "legends" that can only be seen in books for the "generation" of Mia, Jim, and Jimmy who have lived in underground shelters since birth. .
Soon after they are born, they are taught how to survive on the ground, how to filter sewage, how to identify the footprints of crawlers, and how to save themselves after being bitten by rats or poisonous spiders. They have lived in a world of "trying to survive" since childhood. worldview.
The "daily life" they were accustomed to was something very incredible in Zheng Xiu's opinion.
"Human beings are very tenacious creatures, no matter which world they are in."
Walking on the ground, they encountered several crawlers looking for food. Before Zheng Xiu could take action, Mia, Jim, and Jimmy crouched down, sneaked up quietly, and completed the assassination with a dagger.
Seeing them move skillfully and kill the "abnormality" like a chicken when facing the lone crawler, Zheng Xiu couldn't help but feel the orange cat's head and let out a sigh.
Mia wiped off the blood on the dagger with her cuff and put the dagger back into the scabbard. Passing by a corpse, Mia's eyes lit up. She touched the corpse and took out a few from the lining of the protective suit. bullet. Mia took out her lighter and used the firelight to check the type and caliber of the bullet, then happily put it away, and then walked back to Zheng Xiu, silently alert.
Zheng Xiu knew that the reason why they chose "stealth killing" when there were few distortions was not a risky move. This is instead a safer way to survive on the ground. Firstly, it can save ammunition, and secondly, it can reduce the possibility of gunshots attracting distortion.
One creeper isn't scary, it's a group of them that's scary.
Dive when you can, save when you can, and pick up when you can. These are the three survival rules of a doomsday civilization.
Under the leadership of Mia, several people entered an abandoned cake shop.
The cake shop's signboard showed tempting chocolate cakes, but the supplies on the shelves had naturally been emptied out long ago, leaving only decay and desolation everywhere.
Jimmy and Jim quickly opened the side door and entered the back kitchen to check the safety of the environment.
Mia spread out the yellowed and old paper map on the counter of the cake shop. She had done her homework in advance. At a location on the map, Mia made a "bat" shaped mark with charcoal.
Zheng Xiu caught a glimpse of the mark and pushed the orange cat's head down to prevent the orange cat from seeing it.
Orange cats are severely allergic to all "bat-shaped" things, including but not limited to living animals.
"Why did you mark it with this pattern?"
Zheng Xiu asked dumbfounded.
Mia was slightly startled when she heard this. At this time, the two Gigi brothers looked around the temporary stronghold. One entered through the door and the other climbed in through the window. They nodded to Mia to express safety. Mia wondered: "This is the 'totem' of the Night Believers, and they themselves will use this pattern to mark their territory."
Zheng Xiu frowned, feeling something was wrong but couldn't tell.
In the mouth of the orange cat, this bat-like master was evil and cruel. It was he who took Fengbei away from Daqian for a certain purpose.
But in the brochure of Lady of the Night, Lady of the Night is praised throughout, without any mention of the bat. But the followers of the Lady of the Night use bats as Fengbei's totem.
Although the past history cannot be studied, there may be the possibility of distortion. But when Zheng Xiu combined this totem with the legend of Lady of the Night, he had a very subtle feeling that Feng Bei and the bat master did not seem to be simply a villain and a prisoner. Rather than saying that Feng Bei was a prisoner of the bat master, it would be better to say that... Zheng Xiu suddenly looked strange and looked down at the back of his head with a few tufts of orange fluff exposed in his arms. It would be better to say that Feng Bei's relationship with the bat was more like that between him and him. Like the orange cat, it's a kind of... cooperation.
Just like he is now standing up to develop believers, but using the totem of the orange cat.
Although Zheng Xiu had no evidence for this idea, he believed that if Feng Bei was a prisoner of the bat master, then the whole poem of praise should be praising the enchantment and grace of the bat.
The style of painting should be another.
While Zheng Xiu was picking at the knot on his forehead and thinking, Mia had already redetermined the route forward.
In the ruins of the city, the "route" is no longer limited to the streets, but the gaps between corridors and holes in the ground. Although Zheng Xiuneng spread his wings and flew directly over, there was no doubt that this arrogant way of traveling was too ostentatious.
Ever since Zheng Xiu left the camp of the Fire Rat Gang... ah no, the Orange Cat Club, and came to the ground, the feeling of being spied on in the dark has been coming from all around, making Zheng Xiu and the Orange Cat feel very uncomfortable.
He felt that the false god's gaze was around him, but for a moment he could not determine where "He" was hiding.
"Is it possible that that guy also used the form of 'developing believers' to leave a mark on mankind and make mankind believe in him? Human beings also serve as his eyes?"
Zheng Xiu chatted with high-speed divine words and asked about the orange cat.
"It's possible," the orange cat knew that there was a bat totem printed on the map. He hid his head in Zheng Xiu's arms a little unhappily, saying that he was out of sight, out of mind. She replied in a muffled voice: "But if God wants to be believed in and worshiped, he must have an intuitive and vivid 'symbol'. Just like the 'Lady of the Night' in Fengbei. The limitations of human imagination and concepts prevent them from understanding anything. They are gods and cannot believe in something they cannot understand.”
"Even the most abstract totems, such as 'peace', 'food and clothing', and 'light', are all human beings can understand. If that thing really follows the old path of developing believers, it will definitely leave a mark in the world. What kind of 'symbol' is there? Indeed, if we can find this kind of 'symbol', it will be easier to follow the clues and find Him."
Buzz buzz...
The conversation between Orange Cat and Zheng Xiu became a buzzing noise in the ears of the other three people. They covered their ears at the same time, showing discomfort on their faces.
Zheng Xiu stopped the "Highway God's Word" and asked Mia to choose a route, then walked out of the cake shop and started on the road again.
The "banquet" of the Lady of the Night believers is in their assembly hall. From the map, the gathering place for Lady of the Night believers is a large shopping mall with five floors, and the first floor below is a subway station entrance. If it weren't for the fact that the underground passage leading to the shopping mall station from the station entrance where the Orange Cat Club is located has long been collapsed and abandoned, they would have reached the territory of the Night Believers from the underground without walking on the ground.
Nothing happened along the way. About half an hour later, a fiery red light was visible in the distance, reflecting a faint red light on the dust cloud.
From time to time, aberrant creatures with wings pass by in the sky.
There are oil drums placed at regular intervals around the shopping mall. The oil drums are filled with combustible garbage, and after being sprinkled with gasoline, they become temporary torches. On the surface of each burning oil drum, a ferocious bat totem was painted with bright red paint, and bloody warnings such as "Death to intruders" were also marked. Some oil drums also have the corpses of scavengers or aberrant creatures stuck on a stick. Oil drums like these have surrounded the mall in a large circle. In this way, the believers of the night circle their territory arrogantly and high-profile.
"Strange, why is there no one watching?"
Jim looked at the scavenger stuck on the oil drum, and his expression changed slightly. He seemed to recognize the identity of the scavenger. Most of the scavengers living in Area 32 are familiar to each other. In the past, some people couldn't stand the character of the Fire Rats and chose to form separate groups. Several loosely structured survival organizations that were not considered formal gangs were formed on the edge of Area 32.
Since the followers of the Lady of the Night came from the south and broke into District 32 in a defiant manner, the entire district has become tense.
"What...what should we do now?"
Jimmy took a few big breaths, the filter that had run out of time made it difficult for him to breathe. After he casually replaced a new filter, the sound of breathing became lessened. The two brothers opened their backpacks to check the number of remaining filters and calculated how long they could still move on the ground.
They looked enviously at the "humanoid boss" who could move freely on the ground, thinking that humanoids were indeed the darlings of the new era.
Mia also looked at Zheng Xiu through the mask, waiting for the boss to make a decision.
It was the boss's order for them to come to the Night Believers. She had no idea what the boss wanted to do with the Night Believers.
boom!
Suddenly, a sudden gunshot broke the dead silence of the night. Jim and Jimmy subconsciously shrank their necks and rolled skillfully to hide behind the bunker.
"They shot!"
"We were discovered?"
The brothers' first reaction was that they had been ambushed.
Mia also quickly hid behind the oil drum, and then intensive gunshots came from the direction of the mall.
Crazy howls merged into one. Zheng Xiu didn't know whether the believers were crazy or not, but listening to the gunshots and howls, Zheng Xiu felt that they were quite happy.
Bang bang bang bang!
In the abandoned building in the shopping mall, sparks burst out like twinkling stars, which were the fireworks flashing from the muzzles of believers.
The aberration with wings on its back hovered flexibly in the sky through the dark night, taking the opportunity to pounce into the shopping mall.
Mia pulled down the telescope from the mask, looked at it for a few seconds, and immediately said: "It's a devil!" As she said this, she glanced at Zheng Xiu. There were traces of "devils" in Area 32 for a long time. Mia had suspected 32 before. There is a demon's lair in the area, which is one of the reasons why Mia mistakenly thought Zheng Xiu was a demon when she saw Zheng Xiu flying down with wings flying on the first day.
"Demons", like "crawlers", are just a type of aberrant creatures. Because of their ferocious appearance and wings on their backs, they were gradually given the name "devils" by later generations of humans. They were not the ones who fought with the Lady of the Night hundreds of years ago. The arms of "God War".
The deformed demons flew down from the clouds. They were hiding on the clouds before. No wonder there were only a few of them from a distance. The arrogant gathering of night believers in the mall attracted the attention of the devil, who launched an aerial attack at this moment.
"Praise to the Lady of the Night!"
"Praise to the Lady of the Night!"
The believers laughed and threw Molotov cocktails at the demons hovering in the sky, with an impressive hit rate. In the blink of an eye, the devil rushed into the mall, and his sharp claws instantly grabbed a believer and grabbed him high into the air.
The believer who was caught in the sky calmly lit a Molotov cocktail. In the blink of an eye, the man and the devil ignited a raging flame in the air and fell to the ground. As they fell, the laughter of humans and the sharp and shrill screams of the devil could be heard. Call.
It is common sense that demons are weak to fire.
But to ignite the devil in this way of dying together is unheard of for Mia, Jimmy, and Jim, and it subverts their world view and outlook on life in which "survival is the primary purpose of everything."
"Crazy, crazy, these crazy people."
Jim watched each of his followers being grabbed into the sky, without hesitation setting fire to his followers, looking horrified as he murmured to himself.
Jimmy swallowed hard, and there was a clear "gurgling" sound in his throat. He was already doubting whether it was appropriate to provoke these madmen.
At this time, a slight earthquake occurred near the mall.
earthquake?
No, it's not.
Zheng Xiu’s eyes narrowed.
What shook was the ruins around the mall. In the dark night, rotten corpses crawled out from various places. The movement of the corpses pushing the wreckage actually caused an earthquake-like effect.
"what is that!"
The corpses gathered together at a terrifying speed. Under the firelight, the decaying flesh and blood of the corpses seemed to be manipulated by something, squeezing, stacking, and squirming toward a central point. In an instant, the corpse that climbed out of the ruins was "reassembled" into a "giant" nearly thirty meters tall.
The surface of the "Corpse Titan" was pitted and had pale heads. Under the control of some kind of force, a huge arm suddenly grew out of the squirming shoulders of the Corpse Titan and was thrown into the night sky like a whip.
Snapped!
The corpse giant has agility that is completely inconsistent with its appearance. The whip swings in the air, and it can whip down swarms of demons with incomparable accuracy.
Seeing this scene, Zheng Xiu was slightly startled, and then smiled: "It turns out that she is really 'Madam'."
He gave a signal with a flick of his finger. At the same time that Zheng Xiu sent out the signal, a certain "brand" of a certain "lady" and a certain "part" hidden inside the mall began to vibrate slightly.
The corpse giant, which was beating the demon defense assembly center like a flesh and blood monster, suddenly turned its head and looked towards Zheng Xiu.
Jim and Jimmy were so frightened by this move of the corpse giant that their lips turned pale: "It found us!"
Mia felt something was wrong. Why did this giant suddenly cross its legs?
Ink-colored wings sprouted from Zheng Xiu's back and flew toward the sky. The light gray stream of light seemed to split the night into two.
"Dad, use my 'freeze'."
It only took a moment to fly towards the sky. Zheng Xiu spent more time struggling with how to keep a low profile without revealing his divinity. When Zheng Xiu was struggling, the place where the "ice crystal" was printed on his chest trembled slightly, and the proud and indifferent voice of the young man Xue came out.
"Listen to him, their secondary authority does not have divinity. Since you want to pretend to be humanoid, try to use the power of your authority as little as possible. Use 'freeze' secondary authority to pretend to be more like it."
Bo~ The orange cat squeezed his head out of the pectoralis major muscle, which was as firm and comfortable as a pillow. He was afraid that Zheng Xiu would show off his authority on impulse, so he said quickly.
"good."
When Zheng Xiu learned the identity of "Madam", he no longer hesitated or talked nonsense. In a flash, his hair turned snow white, and even his eyebrows were covered with a thin layer of ice crystals.
A layer of frost centered on Zheng Xiu's chest and spread towards his body. The dark wings on his back were instantly frozen and turned into a pair of wings made entirely of ice crystals.
When Zheng Xiu flew high into the sky with such a gorgeous posture, there was a moment of dead silence among the crazy night believers.
Zheng Xiu held it in his right hand and pulled it out bit by bit. A long ice crystal knife condensed on the way, magnificent and perfect.
Zheng Xiu swung his sword, and the snow-white sword light cut through the night in several fan-shaped shapes.
Hundreds of demons frozen into ice sculptures fell down.
(End of chapter)
