The summertime dry and hot wind blew through the street. As no one had cleaned it for a long time, layers of fallen leaves and dust accumulated on the pavement, looking extremely messy. On both sides of the road were relatively smaller six-storey residential buildings, which were B City’s old buildings. The walls turned gray and black; they were on the verge of collapsing.
“Ahhhhhh!!!! Someone died!!!!”
A sharp scream suffused with horror was transmitted from a certain building, breaking the silence of the whole neighbourhood.
It took only half a month for the news of the first case of sick patients dying and now the tidbit of “hiding in places without direct sunlight would also cause death” also spread throughout B City. Only one or two people died on the first day, but there were already four or five on the second day, seven or eight on the third day…… Until later on, unexpectedly, the growth was exponential and it actually multiplied!
It soon reached a degree where over a thousand sick patients died in a day!
The whole B City no longer had the deathly silence half a month ago. There were shouts of fear and dread, together with broken-hearted cries of sorrow. The breath of death finally mercilessly engulfed this quiet city that seemed to lay still for thousands of years, turning the little bit of the remnant original light to be completely engulfed in darkness.
From the first grief-stricken and fearful citizen on the streets to the second, the third……
In succession, countless people had come out of the buildings they had once used to avoid the sun. They no longer wanted to hole up in that small space, beginning to head out to look for the real answer, to find the hidden truth. Making trouble, □□, demonstrations, fights, although there were many people with vile characters mingling during this time who imitated dogs and stole chickens, the majority of humans could no longer hold themselves back and fought back.
Human beings are precisely this kind of organism.
When there is an existence that threatens one’s own life, there is no fear of anything that is stronger than the fear when death threatens to approach. But when the root cause reaches a certain level, the string of reason will snap, and everything perhaps really has no leeway for communication.
Standing on the top floor of a towering skyscraper, the teenager with an exquisite appearance lowered his eyes and expressionlessly looked down at the noisy and chaotic crowd downstairs. There were no emotional fluctuations in those eyes as if looking at a group of dead objects.
“Xiao Shang, why are you here?”
Suddenly hearing the voice of the man, the teenager immediately raised the corner of his mouth and turned his around, revealing an elegant and beautiful smile. He then said with a gentle voice, “Jiqing, it’s nothing. I was only casually having a look.”
Wu Jiqing also didn’t have too many doubts. He walked over to the youth and said with a smile, “Just then, a friend told us to also go down together and participate in the □□ activity together. Are you going?”
A dark light flashed through Su Weishang’s big eyes with lightning speed, and his slender brows wrinkled slightly. He said with some anxiety, “Jiqing, actually…… actually I kind of want to go and find my brother.” His voice was filled with worry and concern, and the whole of his small face was wrinkled into a ball of grievance. “Brother should be in the old residence now. That is located on the outskirts of B City. It’s also inconvenient to receive news. I’m afraid that something would happen to him.”
Having heard what was said, Wu Jiqing was stunned for a while. It was only after a long time did he understand. He sighed deeply, and then raised his hand to stroke Su Weishang’s soft hair, saying, “Xiao Shang, you are really too kind. As A’ Jing’s friend, I want to thank you on his behalf. He used to be like that to you before because his mother’s death was too much of a shock to him. I think that if he knows that you care so much about him, even risking your life to find him, he will definitely be very touched.”
Su Weishang blinked his round cat eyes, “So…… Jiqing, you agree?”
Wu Jiqing’s distinct handsome face showed a smile, “En, let’s go now.”
“Thank you, Jiqing .”
There’s no time to lose. Just after simply packing up some food and water, Wu Jiqing and Su Weishang left this skyscraper together, and drove towards the outskirts of B City where the Jing Residence is located.
Su Weishang sat in the front passenger seat. A bright smile still hung on his lips. He lifted his head to look at the scorching sun in the sky. Beside it, were the azure limpid sky and clouds flowing like silky water, so beautiful that it made people somewhat unable to perceive the tragedy of unprecedented brutality happening right on the ground below.
Ever since he opened his eyes, Su Weishang felt that every part of the world was so beautiful, even the air was fresher and more pleasant than before. He has been reborn, he already possesses the treasures that determine victory and defeat, and this time……
He definitely will not die before that arrogant man again!
The curve of his lips widened a bit again. Su Weishang slowly grasped tight the dark green jade in his hand, and when he thought of the various sharp objects, food, and water stored in it, he then had enough confidence.
Jing Xia. He, Su Weishang’s life has already begun!
And yours…… is coming to an end.
———
The large dark green leaves enveloped them like the cover of the sky, covering the blue sky until there’s not even a bit of light, and they could only continue to forcibly move forward by relying on the light of the flashlight. The leaves were so large that just the petiole was fully 20 centimeters long and they were fleshy, turning the original verdant and thick mountain forest into a natural super tropical rainforest.
Jing Xia used all his strength, swinging a knife out across. When it swang out, only a flash of silver light could be seen, and the caterpillar with the thickness and length of an adult’s calf was chopped apart into two sections. The two sections of its body which were cut off, squirming in a struggle on the ground and gurgling strange green juice flowed out from the incision suffused with disgusting bubbles.
But in this team, no one has any reaction to this scene.
Everyone was busy chopping apart the huge caterpillars which flooded them, and even Steward Wang, who was coughing, brandished his blade and fought hard to kill.
It was only until Ji Chuancheng’s final strike fell, chopping two huge insects apart, could this time-consuming and extremely long round of killing be finally regarded as finished.
Qin Chu wiped the fine sweat on her forehead and incessantly gasped for breath while saying, “Damn it! Where the hell did these things emerge from! There’s not really any lethality, just continuously squeezing over. It really is too disgusting.”
Jing Xia swallowed a breath and said, “Sister Qin, we must’ve broken into someone else’s insect nest, right?”
Jing Xia, in his past life, didn’t encounter too many things like this at all. Beast waves were all battles between human beings and groups of mutated beasts. There wouldn’t be such an earth-shattering scene. However, he had heard evolved humans from other districts say that in some forests deep in the mountains, there were some animals with low combat strength and a comparatively weaker evolutionary grade would usually gather and live together to use the strength of numbers to protect themselves.
The long battle caused Ji Chuancheng to also have a layer of fine sweat on his forehead. His distinct and straight brows creased. Ji Chuancheng asked, “Qin Chu, how much of our food is left?”
“It probably can only be barely enough to maintain us for…… a week.” Qin Chu said anxiously, “Young Master, ever since we’ve entered this mountain, we have already encountered three such attacks. If we go on like this, I’m afraid that we simply cannot make it to the restricted area.”
Ji Chuancheng narrowed his eyes with a grave expression and did not speak again.
And on that side, Steward Wang Guanjia could, with great difficulty, finally sit down on the big stone and rested for a long time, stabilizing his breathing.
“Jiji!”
Among the layers of weeds, a small black shadow flew into Steward Wang’s arms with a ‘whoosh’, using its small fluffy head to softly nudge Steward Wang’s abdomen. The little black dumpling closed its small eyes with satisfaction and kept making a “Jijijiji” sound.
Jing Xia got angry at the sight of this guy but seeing Steward Wang’s look of affection, it was hard for him to say anything and had no other alternative but to coldly snort with a ‘heng’, “This little thing, it comes whenever it’s mealtime and immediately flees whenever an enemy comes.”
When Steward Wang heard this, he couldn’t help but helplessly laugh, “Young Master.”
Jing Xia turned away awkwardly.
As if he’ll admit that he drank some vinegar seeing Steward Wang’s look of affection towards this little thing!
The little black dumpling also completely ignored Jing Xia. He didn’t know where such a big fruit, that was no less than half his body size, was obtained. Using his teeth, he bit hard into the fruit. The mutant hamster began to eat his own great meal.
“Jiji, Jiji!”
Pei! The Granduncle Mouse, has brought its own rations, who will fight over food with you! Pei pei!
Steward Wang looked helplessly at the appearance of this person and this mouse when fighting. Both sides were angry, he felt distressed for both sides, and in the end, he also actually didn’t know what should be done. He had no choice but to smile, treating it as if he had seen nothing.
After just a few minutes of rest and a few bites of food, a group of four… and one mouse went on the road again.
From that night after the morinda root was taken out for the first time, this black little mouse followed Jing Xia’s team and was not willing to leave anymore. Talking about chasing it… In this entire team, even Ji Chuancheng cannot catch up with it. Talking about rushing, having just chased away… this little thing followed on again!
Afterward, Jing Xia straightforwardly threw all the morinda roots to it. That little guy actually looked at it for a while, then ran holding the bag in its mouth. It followed them again!
Really a piece of dog skin plaster!
According to Jing Xia’s words, then it is——absolutely shameless!
However, Steward Wang actually seemed to quite like this little guy. He is the first one who couldn’t bear it, holding that little guy in his palm while rubbing it when resting. As it happened to be, little thing still especially tactfully rubbed against him, making Steward Wang’s heart that felt lonely because he had had no children yet was already old, even more comfortable.
Jing Xia’s cold eyes were saying: Pei! You still know how to act coquettish!
But no matter what, within a few days, this little thing took advantage, staying on Steward Wang’s shoulder no matter what and was unwilling to get off. Although Jing Xia had always wanted to pinch this small thing to death, whenever he saw the happy smile on Steward Wang’s face, his heart softened again and couldn’t say anything or make a move.
Yet, later on, the cruelty of the environment and the danger of the situation also didn’t let him have the time to care about this matter.
Since the four of them crossed the first mountain, it was not known whether or not the second mountain was more thrilling or if the evolution of the outside world has entered an accelerated stage. Many vegetation on this mountain have all begun to mutate to various degrees.
For example, clearly the coniferous pine should’ve grown loosely. Now, let’s not talk about that trunk that is so thick that three people are needed to wrap around it, even the thick round pine leaf that is more than ten centimeters, has already exceeded the normal standard. Jing Xia has never been so glad that this round of evolution has the option to renounce. Otherwise, don’t talk about beheading enemies. In this kind of coniferous pine forest, they will only make progress with great difficulty.
Although evolution will choose to renounce, in the future world, almost everyone’s physical quality has been greatly improved. Even casually finding one of the evolutionary abandoners and putting them before the end of the world, then it is also definitely the level of a national athlete.
And now, during this journey full of hardships and obstacles, whether it is Jing Xia, Ji Chuancheng, Qin Chu, or even Steward Wang, their physical qualities have been improved by a level. Otherwise, hurrying after such a long time, Steward Wang’s body would be the first to be unable to bear it.
Whenever he thought of this, Jing Xia felt somewhat lucky.
“Little bastard, do you want to drink some water?”
“En.”
Qin Chu passed the kettle over, Jing Xia very quickly took it and then sent it back again after only taking two sips. He looked towards that side seeing the appearance of Steward Wang who was in the middle of pinching the squashy face of the little black dumpling, and there was a little more worry and fear in his eyes.
In the past half month, Steward Wang still coughed constantly, but…… no other symptoms appeared. As he himself had said, it was just a cold, nothing more and didn’t hinder him at all.
Although Jing Xia could not deceive himself in his heart, he remembered that Steward Wang should’ve passed away not long before the end of the world. Yet, up until now, Steward Wang was still standing alive in front of his eyes.
Perhaps…… something had really changed.
The author has something to say:
Xiao Xia 【Stare】: You shameless thing!
Granduncle Mouse【Stare】: Jiji! Jijijijijiji! (Tsundere! You bad tempered shou!)
Major Ji 【Glance】: Shut up.
Xiao Xia: QAQ A’Chuan!
Granduncle Mouse: QAQ Jiji!
The summertime dry and hot wind blew through the street. As no one had cleaned it for a long time, layers of fallen leaves and dust accumulated on the pavement, looking extremely messy. On both sides of the road were relatively smaller six-storey residential buildings, which were B City’s old buildings. The walls turned gray and black; they were on the verge of collapsing.
“Ahhhhhh!!!! Someone died!!!!”
A sharp scream suffused with horror was transmitted from a certain building, breaking the silence of the whole neighbourhood.
It took only half a month for the news of the first case of sick patients dying and now the tidbit of “hiding in places without direct sunlight would also cause death” also spread throughout B City. Only one or two people died on the first day, but there were already four or five on the second day, seven or eight on the third day…… Until later on, unexpectedly, the growth was exponential and it actually multiplied!
It soon reached a degree where over a thousand sick patients died in a day!
The whole B City no longer had the deathly silence half a month ago. There were shouts of fear and dread, together with broken-hearted cries of sorrow. The breath of death finally mercilessly engulfed this quiet city that seemed to lay still for thousands of years, turning the little bit of the remnant original light to be completely engulfed in darkness.
From the first grief-stricken and fearful citizen on the streets to the second, the third……
In succession, countless people had come out of the buildings they had once used to avoid the sun. They no longer wanted to hole up in that small space, beginning to head out to look for the real answer, to find the hidden truth. Making trouble, □□, demonstrations, fights, although there were many people with vile characters mingling during this time who imitated dogs and stole chickens, the majority of humans could no longer hold themselves back and fought back.
Human beings are precisely this kind of organism.
When there is an existence that threatens one’s own life, there is no fear of anything that is stronger than the fear when death threatens to approach. But when the root cause reaches a certain level, the string of reason will snap, and everything perhaps really has no leeway for communication.
Standing on the top floor of a towering skyscraper, the teenager with an exquisite appearance lowered his eyes and expressionlessly looked down at the noisy and chaotic crowd downstairs. There were no emotional fluctuations in those eyes as if looking at a group of dead objects.
“Xiao Shang, why are you here?”
Suddenly hearing the voice of the man, the teenager immediately raised the corner of his mouth and turned his around, revealing an elegant and beautiful smile. He then said with a gentle voice, “Jiqing, it’s nothing. I was only casually having a look.”
Wu Jiqing also didn’t have too many doubts. He walked over to the youth and said with a smile, “Just then, a friend told us to also go down together and participate in the □□ activity together. Are you going?”
A dark light flashed through Su Weishang’s big eyes with lightning speed, and his slender brows wrinkled slightly. He said with some anxiety, “Jiqing, actually…… actually I kind of want to go and find my brother.” His voice was filled with worry and concern, and the whole of his small face was wrinkled into a ball of grievance. “Brother should be in the old residence now. That is located on the outskirts of B City. It’s also inconvenient to receive news. I’m afraid that something would happen to him.”
Having heard what was said, Wu Jiqing was stunned for a while. It was only after a long time did he understand. He sighed deeply, and then raised his hand to stroke Su Weishang’s soft hair, saying, “Xiao Shang, you are really too kind. As A’ Jing’s friend, I want to thank you on his behalf. He used to be like that to you before because his mother’s death was too much of a shock to him. I think that if he knows that you care so much about him, even risking your life to find him, he will definitely be very touched.”
Su Weishang blinked his round cat eyes, “So…… Jiqing, you agree?”
Wu Jiqing’s distinct handsome face showed a smile, “En, let’s go now.”
“Thank you, Jiqing .”
There’s no time to lose. Just after simply packing up some food and water, Wu Jiqing and Su Weishang left this skyscraper together, and drove towards the outskirts of B City where the Jing Residence is located.
Su Weishang sat in the front passenger seat. A bright smile still hung on his lips. He lifted his head to look at the scorching sun in the sky. Beside it, were the azure limpid sky and clouds flowing like silky water, so beautiful that it made people somewhat unable to perceive the tragedy of unprecedented brutality happening right on the ground below.
Ever since he opened his eyes, Su Weishang felt that every part of the world was so beautiful, even the air was fresher and more pleasant than before. He has been reborn, he already possesses the treasures that determine victory and defeat, and this time……
He definitely will not die before that arrogant man again!
The curve of his lips widened a bit again. Su Weishang slowly grasped tight the dark green jade in his hand, and when he thought of the various sharp objects, food, and water stored in it, he then had enough confidence.
Jing Xia. He, Su Weishang’s life has already begun!
And yours…… is coming to an end.
———
The large dark green leaves enveloped them like the cover of the sky, covering the blue sky until there’s not even a bit of light, and they could only continue to forcibly move forward by relying on the light of the flashlight. The leaves were so large that just the petiole was fully 20 centimeters long and they were fleshy, turning the original verdant and thick mountain forest into a natural super tropical rainforest.
Jing Xia used all his strength, swinging a knife out across. When it swang out, only a flash of silver light could be seen, and the caterpillar with the thickness and length of an adult’s calf was chopped apart into two sections. The two sections of its body which were cut off, squirming in a struggle on the ground and gurgling strange green juice flowed out from the incision suffused with disgusting bubbles.
But in this team, no one has any reaction to this scene.
Everyone was busy chopping apart the huge caterpillars which flooded them, and even Steward Wang, who was coughing, brandished his blade and fought hard to kill.
It was only until Ji Chuancheng’s final strike fell, chopping two huge insects apart, could this time-consuming and extremely long round of killing be finally regarded as finished.
Qin Chu wiped the fine sweat on her forehead and incessantly gasped for breath while saying, “Damn it! Where the hell did these things emerge from! There’s not really any lethality, just continuously squeezing over. It really is too disgusting.”
Jing Xia swallowed a breath and said, “Sister Qin, we must’ve broken into someone else’s insect nest, right?”
Jing Xia, in his past life, didn’t encounter too many things like this at all. Beast waves were all battles between human beings and groups of mutated beasts. There wouldn’t be such an earth-shattering scene. However, he had heard evolved humans from other districts say that in some forests deep in the mountains, there were some animals with low combat strength and a comparatively weaker evolutionary grade would usually gather and live together to use the strength of numbers to protect themselves.
The long battle caused Ji Chuancheng to also have a layer of fine sweat on his forehead. His distinct and straight brows creased. Ji Chuancheng asked, “Qin Chu, how much of our food is left?”
“It probably can only be barely enough to maintain us for…… a week.” Qin Chu said anxiously, “Young Master, ever since we’ve entered this mountain, we have already encountered three such attacks. If we go on like this, I’m afraid that we simply cannot make it to the restricted area.”
Ji Chuancheng narrowed his eyes with a grave expression and did not speak again.
And on that side, Steward Wang Guanjia could, with great difficulty, finally sit down on the big stone and rested for a long time, stabilizing his breathing.
“Jiji!”
Among the layers of weeds, a small black shadow flew into Steward Wang’s arms with a ‘whoosh’, using its small fluffy head to softly nudge Steward Wang’s abdomen. The little black dumpling closed its small eyes with satisfaction and kept making a “Jijijiji” sound.
Jing Xia got angry at the sight of this guy but seeing Steward Wang’s look of affection, it was hard for him to say anything and had no other alternative but to coldly snort with a ‘heng’, “This little thing, it comes whenever it’s mealtime and immediately flees whenever an enemy comes.”
When Steward Wang heard this, he couldn’t help but helplessly laugh, “Young Master.”
Jing Xia turned away awkwardly.
As if he’ll admit that he drank some vinegar seeing Steward Wang’s look of affection towards this little thing!
The little black dumpling also completely ignored Jing Xia. He didn’t know where such a big fruit, that was no less than half his body size, was obtained. Using his teeth, he bit hard into the fruit. The mutant hamster began to eat his own great meal.
“Jiji, Jiji!”
Pei! The Granduncle Mouse, has brought its own rations, who will fight over food with you! Pei pei!
Steward Wang looked helplessly at the appearance of this person and this mouse when fighting. Both sides were angry, he felt distressed for both sides, and in the end, he also actually didn’t know what should be done. He had no choice but to smile, treating it as if he had seen nothing.
After just a few minutes of rest and a few bites of food, a group of four… and one mouse went on the road again.
From that night after the morinda root was taken out for the first time, this black little mouse followed Jing Xia’s team and was not willing to leave anymore. Talking about chasing it… In this entire team, even Ji Chuancheng cannot catch up with it. Talking about rushing, having just chased away… this little thing followed on again!
Afterward, Jing Xia straightforwardly threw all the morinda roots to it. That little guy actually looked at it for a while, then ran holding the bag in its mouth. It followed them again!
Really a piece of dog skin plaster!
According to Jing Xia’s words, then it is——absolutely shameless!
However, Steward Wang actually seemed to quite like this little guy. He is the first one who couldn’t bear it, holding that little guy in his palm while rubbing it when resting. As it happened to be, little thing still especially tactfully rubbed against him, making Steward Wang’s heart that felt lonely because he had had no children yet was already old, even more comfortable.
Jing Xia’s cold eyes were saying: Pei! You still know how to act coquettish!
But no matter what, within a few days, this little thing took advantage, staying on Steward Wang’s shoulder no matter what and was unwilling to get off. Although Jing Xia had always wanted to pinch this small thing to death, whenever he saw the happy smile on Steward Wang’s face, his heart softened again and couldn’t say anything or make a move.
Yet, later on, the cruelty of the environment and the danger of the situation also didn’t let him have the time to care about this matter.
Since the four of them crossed the first mountain, it was not known whether or not the second mountain was more thrilling or if the evolution of the outside world has entered an accelerated stage. Many vegetation on this mountain have all begun to mutate to various degrees.
For example, clearly the coniferous pine should’ve grown loosely. Now, let’s not talk about that trunk that is so thick that three people are needed to wrap around it, even the thick round pine leaf that is more than ten centimeters, has already exceeded the normal standard. Jing Xia has never been so glad that this round of evolution has the option to renounce. Otherwise, don’t talk about beheading enemies. In this kind of coniferous pine forest, they will only make progress with great difficulty.
Although evolution will choose to renounce, in the future world, almost everyone’s physical quality has been greatly improved. Even casually finding one of the evolutionary abandoners and putting them before the end of the world, then it is also definitely the level of a national athlete.
And now, during this journey full of hardships and obstacles, whether it is Jing Xia, Ji Chuancheng, Qin Chu, or even Steward Wang, their physical qualities have been improved by a level. Otherwise, hurrying after such a long time, Steward Wang’s body would be the first to be unable to bear it.
Whenever he thought of this, Jing Xia felt somewhat lucky.
“Little bastard, do you want to drink some water?”
“En.”
Qin Chu passed the kettle over, Jing Xia very quickly took it and then sent it back again after only taking two sips. He looked towards that side seeing the appearance of Steward Wang who was in the middle of pinching the squashy face of the little black dumpling, and there was a little more worry and fear in his eyes.
In the past half month, Steward Wang still coughed constantly, but…… no other symptoms appeared. As he himself had said, it was just a cold, nothing more and didn’t hinder him at all.
Although Jing Xia could not deceive himself in his heart, he remembered that Steward Wang should’ve passed away not long before the end of the world. Yet, up until now, Steward Wang was still standing alive in front of his eyes.
Perhaps…… something had really changed.
The author has something to say:
Xiao Xia 【Stare】: You shameless thing!
Granduncle Mouse【Stare】: Jiji! Jijijijijiji! (Tsundere! You bad tempered shou!)
Major Ji 【Glance】: Shut up.
Xiao Xia: QAQ A’Chuan!
Granduncle Mouse: QAQ Jiji!
