Chapter 1: The Abandoned City
The sun slowly fell towards the western skyline, and the cool summer breeze blew, and the entire ruined city suddenly flew sand and dust.
It is an abandoned city, and most of the buildings inside are dilapidated. After more than 30 years of wind and sand, the ruined city has become a silent ghost town.
Next to a building that had almost been eroded so that its original appearance could not be seen, a young man named Lin Yu was squatting on the ground, holding a dagger in both hands and stabbing it fiercely into the ground.
really
Looking at the ground that moved slightly, he showed a hint of excitement on his immature face.
Guessed right, there is something strange in this underground.
Taking a breath and looking up at the sunset that was about to fall westward, he wiped the fine sand from his forehead with his hand and began to move it in earnest.
This is the most famous building in the ruined city, the Twin Towers, but it was destroyed thirty years ago, and now only this fragment of the wall remains, waiting to be discovered again in silence.
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As the dagger in Lin Yu's hand continued to pry, the two pitch-black doors were opened by him from the ground.
Hey, hey, make a lot of money
Looking at the secret door that showed the gap, a long-lost smile appeared on his immature face
This is the only place he has searched for value in the past week.
The ruined city is very large, but there are very few places that Lin Yu can search, and many areas with abundant materials have been firmly occupied by others, and only where no one cares, he dares to go alone.
Even so, there are still many dangers, both to prevent people from stealthily looting supplies, and to be wary of fickle weather attacks on the ruined city.
In the five minutes that the door was opened, Lin Yu stayed where he was and did not jump down immediately. The dagger was put aside by him, and the surroundings were on guard, and he rested while enjoying the view of the ruined city at dusk.
He was waiting for the right moment, and according to what his grandfather told him, no one had been here for more than a decade.
And he has no way of knowing the time since the secret door was last opened, and if he rushes down, he will definitely be suffocated by the mildew caused by the closed air under the secret door.
When the wind and sand blew again, which lasted for more than ten minutes, Lin Xuan stood up, pinched the dagger, and jumped in.
It was pitch black inside, and as soon as Lin Yu came in, he felt that his vision was blocked, but fortunately, he had been carrying a pocket flashlight on his body, and with a slight push of his fingers, a strong light shone out of his hand and reflected on the pitch-black stone wall opposite.
With a movement of his left hand, the bright light swept over the dark stone walls of the darkroom.
There doesn't seem to be anything.
Lin Yu originally thought that there were some valuable things such as gold, silver, jewelry, etc., but after searching for it, he only found an ordinary iron box.
There was a look of loss on his immature face, and he looked at the only iron box he found in his hand, and sighed.
Throwing the iron box outside the ground door, he mustered up all his strength, and his whole body jumped. Lying on his stomach on the door, he crawled out of it.
After wasting an afternoon and only finding an iron box, Lin Yu frowned, a little unwilling.
He patted the dirt off his body and opened the tin box.
Lin Yu was dumbfounded
There was only a black card inside the tin box, which was sitting alone inside
You can't carry it like that, right?
Lin Yu was completely disappointed, and he was busy opening the secret door all afternoon, but only found one card.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and I thought I had found a treasure, but I didn't expect it to be such a thing.
Lin Yu wanted to cry, but in the past month, he hadn't found any valuable materials, and he hadn't seen a single hair.
As the card was taken out of the box, the tin box slowly began to shrink, and finally became the size of a matchbox.
Hey?
The tin box looks like a good thing.
Seeing the change in the iron box, Lin Yu's eyes lit up, pinched the iron box in his hand, and hung it towards the key chain around his waist.
It's just that for the cards, Lin Yu didn't feel any difference, it felt like an ordinary playing card, but the color and material made it look strange.
Let's put it in his arms first, Lin Yu put the card on his chest, and with a swipe, the surface of the card was actually glowing with a hint of light, and a golden black light burst out of the card and rushed directly into his forehead.
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Caught off guard, Lin Xuan was drilled into his mind by the black light, his face was distorted instantly, and he lay on the ground in pain and fainted.
Then, a pitch-black tower slowly emerged from the card, and the tower body manifested from the card, fell to the ground, and began to skyrocket in an instant, accompanied by a rumbling sound, shaking the ruined city.
The black pagoda rose from the ground with a roaring sound, and in less than a minute, it became the tallest landmark in the ruined city.
The people who were originally searching in the ruined city felt a strong shock, and they all stopped their movements, and looked up at the huge tower that was constantly climbing in the center of the ruined city, and their faces were all shocked.
"What's going on?"
In front of the window of an abandoned seven-story building in the easternmost part of the abandoned city stood an old man in his seventies, his face was dark and wrinkled, but his expression was very serious at this time, and the tattered clothes on his body swayed around him with the wind and sand.
He stared at the place where the tower had risen, and suddenly realized something. Hurriedly ran down from the upper floor, towards the place where the giant tower had risen.
His name is Lao Zhangtou, and he and Lin Yu relied on searching for supplies in exchange for food in the abandoned city, and Lin Yu always called him grandpa.
Although the two are not related by blood, Lin Xuan was raised by him since childhood, and for Lin Xuan, Lao Zhangtou is his only hope for life.
Lao Zhangtou had just contacted Lin Xuan through the walkie-talkie before, and knew that Lin Xuan was looking for supplies at the place where the giant tower was rising, and when he saw the giant tower appear just now, he hurriedly shouted to the walkie-talkie in his hand: Xiaolin, where are you, hurry up and leave the center of the abandoned city.
But no one responded on the other side, the walkie-talkie was pinned to Lin Yu's waist, and he was caught in the air by the spire at this time.
The giant tower is getting bigger and bigger, originally Lin Xuan was just a spire, but as it continued to get bigger, the spire turned out to be bigger than Lin Xuan, directly covering his whole body evenly. It continues to skyrocket.
In less than three minutes, the entire tower was far beyond the surrounding dilapidated buildings.
The sun had completely sunset, and as night fell, the entire ruined city was completely shrouded in darkness, and the stars in the sky began to flicker faintly.
When Lin Xuan woke up, he found himself lying on the spire of a huge tower.
What's wrong with me?
"How could I be here"
Lin Yu touched his painful head with his hand, subconsciously looked to his side, looked up at the bright moon in the night sky, and his heart was full of questions.
Under the giant tower, many humans who were hiding in the ruined city to search for supplies had gathered, but at this time, they were all staring at the main entrance of the giant tower. No one spoke.
"Is it really reappearing?"
A man in a black cloak stood at the foot of the tower, looking at the giant tower, his eyes were thoughtful, it seemed that the ruined city was really not so easy to abandon.
He seemed to see something, though.
With a light sigh, he turned and walked out of the crowd. In the blink of an eye, the whole person had left the giant tower hundreds of meters away.
Standing on the spire of the tower, Lin Yu's hair stood at this time, this was originally a vacant land, but now a huge tower suddenly appeared.
And he was still standing on the top of the spire, looking at the giant tower at his feet, Lin Yu's heart panicked.
"Xiaolin, where are you?"
The walkie-talkie hanging from his waist beeped. Lin Yu hurriedly opened it and heard Lao Zhangtou's anxious inquiry
"Grandpa, I'm on top of the giant tower in the center of the ruined city"
Lao Zhangtou, who was standing under the tower, heard the voice finally coming from the walkie-talkie, and his heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Xiaolin, why are you there?"
Old Zhangtou's face was full of worry, and he shouted into the walkie-talkie.
For Lin Yu, he has regarded him as his own grandson, although the two are not related by blood.
"Hurry down"
Old Zhangtou's worried voice came out of the walkie-talkie, Lin Yu hurriedly looked around, and saw a small door behind him, so he turned around and slowly moved towards the small door.
The small door was carved with ancient ornaments, but no matter how Lin Xuan pushed it, the small door did not move at all, and it seemed that it could only be opened from the inside.
After working hard for a while, Lin Yu had to give up, grabbed the walkie-talkie and said to Lao Zhangtou
"Grandpa, I can't get down from this tower"
Lin Yu's forehead was black and wrinkled, and in addition to helplessness, he was more disappointed
"Can't get down?"
The old man who was standing under the tower, with a suspicious look in his eyes, circled around the tower, sighed, and shouted into the walkie-talkie: Xiaolin, you stand on it and wait, I will find someone to drive a flying boat to pick you up.
Lin Yu at the top of the tower nodded with the walkie-talkie and said, "Okay, grandpa."
For more than half an hour, a dilapidated flying ship slowly rose into the air and flew towards the forest at the spire of the tower.
"Saved at Last"
Lin Xuan breathed a sigh of relief, jumped into the flying boat, stood beside Lao Zhangtou, and finished speaking with a relaxed face. As the flying ship slowly descended, it fell towards the ground.
Among the people standing in front of the tower, some people couldn't resist the curiosity in their hearts, and walked towards the main entrance of the giant tower, wanting to enter and have a look, but unfortunately, no matter how they pushed, the main gate did not show the slightest sign of loosening.
Lin Xuan, who jumped from the flying boat, looked at the giant tower, and he only now realized that this giant tower was so big, and the entire tower completely occupied a radius of 30 meters. Looking up, the spire is barely visible.
It's so high
Lin Yu couldn't help but praise
"Okay, Xiaolin, let's go home, let's not make up this kind of excitement"
Lao Zhangtou grabbed Lin Yu with his calloused right hand with an indifferent face and walked out of the crowd.
"Grandpa, do you know what's going on with that tower?"
Lin Yu asked curiously
"I don't know"
Lao Zhangtou didn't explain much.
What does it mean for this tower to appear?
The old man pulled Lin Yu and thought in his heart as he walked.
It stands to reason that it was destroyed 30 years ago, but why did it appear again, he thought to himself, but he didn't tell Lin Xuan.
After all, no one wants to mention that painful past, and neither does Lao Zhangtou.