The sky was getting darker and darker, and all kinds of strange beast roars and some strange cries inside and outside the ruined city came and went, revealing an extraordinary atmosphere of loneliness and terror.

On a dark and chaotic street, Meng Yang helped Gustav walk slowly.

"I'm glad to see you again, Phoenix!"

Gustav's face turned slightly pale, he coughed lightly, and whispered to the female archer in front of him, "Your archery skills have improved compared to before!" ”

"To survive, isn't it, teacher." The female shooter walked ahead, her eyes swept around from time to time, and her tone was cold and helpless.

"yes, to survive." Gustav sighed softly, and then asked the female shooter with some difficulty, "How's the situation in the camp?" Don't...... Are you the only one who came out? ”

"Even if it's just me, I won't compromise with these monsters!"

The female archer's lips moved slightly, and suddenly her eyes swept towards the collapsed house on one side, and the longbow in her hand was raised abruptly, and she quickly drew a feather arrow, and shot it out in the distance, and suddenly a terrible whimper sounded.

The goddess walked quickly in the direction of the bow and arrow, and soon took out a strange bird with a hole in its chest from the shadows and walked back.

Putting down the bow in her hand again, the female archer turned to look at Gustav, and her tone was slightly lower, "Teacher, the camp is quite safe, but when they went out to look for food, they never came back." ”

"This is our calamity." Gustav looked sad and coughed suddenly.

"Hey, old man, take it easy."

Meng Yang looked at Gustav's weak appearance and raised his eyebrows slightly, the wounds on Gustav's body had been treated simply, but the blood loss and pain still made him struggle every time he spoke.

While a few people were walking along the abandoned street, Meng Yang's eyes couldn't help but glance at the female shooter who was walking not far away, to be honest, no matter what her body appearance was, she was top notch, especially the kind of indifferent temperament, which was particularly prominent.

If it were a different time and environment, Meng Yang might still be a little uneasy, but now in such a dangerous environment all the time, he just wanted to know where this Gustav student would take them.

The female archer also seemed to feel Meng Yang's gaze towards her at this time, and slightly sideways her head glanced at Meng Yang lightly.

"Teacher, did you meet this on the road?"

Gustav laughed hard, then shook his head and said, "He is Meng Yang from the Eastern Continent, I was caught by the pig-headed man outside, and he saved my life!" ”

"Thank you, Meng Yang!" Phoenix paused slightly, her pale blue eyes fell on Meng Yang, revealing a look of gratitude, "Teacher Gustav used to be the most knowledgeable person in the City of Despair, and he taught me reading and craft classes. ”

As she spoke, the woman gestured the longbow in her hand, "That's why I can make it." ”

"Huh?"

Meng Yang had seen the superb archery skills of a woman's arrows, and the longbow in the other party's hand turned out to be made by herself, which couldn't help but make him a little surprised.

Glancing at Gustav, who was being supported by him, Meng Yang once again felt that this old man was a little mysterious.

But now is not the place to speak, Gustav is injured again, and it is difficult to ask the other party.

The trio continued their way through the ruined city, and soon came to a makeshift fortress made of various masonry and wood.

"We're here!"

Phoenix, the female shooter, stopped, first looked at Meng Yang and Gustav who were reaching out, and then suddenly whistled loudly with her fingers.

Soon there was a sound in the fortress, a creaking and grinding sound.

In front of the fortress, a wooden door like a drawbridge was slowly opened, and several figures walked out of it.

"Phoenix, you're back!"

A brisk voice rang out, and the first thing that came running from under the drawbridge were two children of seven or eight years old, thin and weak, but they all smiled when they saw the female shooter.

Then more figures gradually appeared from the suspension bridge, most of these people were old and weak women and children, gray complexion, emaciated and ragged, and it seemed that life was not easy.

"I found Mr. Gustav." Phoenix reached out and rubbed the hair of the two children, and then handed the unknown bird she had hunted to a woman who came up next to her.

Soon someone in the crowd recognized Gustav, many old people and women exclaimed, and some even hid their faces and wept, apparently never expecting to see Gustav again.

Meng Yang could see from these people that there were blond hair and blue eyes or other Westerner characteristics, and there were also some black-haired and black-eyed Orientals, but all of them had a bleak life.

"Hand him over to me!" A woman of about forty years old, dressed in coarse linen clothes but with an elegant temperament, walked up to Meng Yang and pointed at Gustav with a smile.

"Sheila, you're alive, it's great to meet you!"

Gustav, who was already a little dazed, cheered up a little at this time, and looked at the middle-aged woman who came over and said hello with a forced smile.

"I'm glad to meet you, too, Gustav." The middle-aged woman nodded slightly, her eyes wandering over Gustav, "It seems that you are not lightly injured." ”

"Life is not easy." Gustav forced a forced laugh.

At this moment, the middle-aged woman named Sheila suddenly had a faint green light wrapped between her hands, and as her fingers danced, these green rays gradually penetrated Gustav's body.

Meng Yang was slightly surprised, he saw some subtle wounds on Gustav's body, which were almost visibly beginning to heal.

"It's a force of nature." Gustav explained with some difficulty, and then glanced around at the crowd, "This is all the survivors of the City of Despair, you can settle here first." ”

After saying that, Gustav's breath weakened again, and the woman named Greece and an old man next to him hurried over to help.

"Gustav seems to be hurt more than I thought."

A trace of worry flashed in Meng Yang's eyes, although the wounds on Gustav's body were healing, the spirit that had been strong all the way seemed to have become languishing now.

However, Meng Yang also found that there was nothing he could do, and after handing over Gustav to a woman with extraordinary healing powers, he followed everyone all the way along the suspension bridge and walked into the fortress with curiosity.

It is said to be a fortress, but Meng Yang can vaguely see that this should have been transformed into a residential area, about the area of three or four football fields, except for some low-rise buildings that still maintain the original style, all sides rely on some of the original buildings to strengthen and widen, made into a wall four or five meters high, and there are old people and children patrolling on the wall.

In the entire fortress, Meng Yang hurriedly glanced at it, and roughly calculated, the total number of people was about fifty or sixty people, basically women, children and old people, and the young and strong hardly saw it.

Most of the people looked numb and discouraged, and Meng Yang could probably see from this gathering point of the survivors that in such a world, the people in this stronghold basically belonged to the part that was eliminated.

There are no skills, no combat effectiveness, and it is probably this fortress and a few capable people who have survived to survive until now.

"This is the only place we have to live now."

Just as Meng Yang was wandering around, a pleasant female voice sounded in his ears again.

Behind Meng Yang, the female shooter Phoenix walked over at some point, "I just heard the teacher say that you just came to the place of despair, and you don't know what happened here." ”

Meng Yang nodded slightly, Gustav had talked to him before, but he didn't know much about the specifics.

"The City of Despair is our only reliance on this continent, and for centuries we have fought monsters with the help of it, but now, as you can see, it has fallen. It has become a paradise for monsters, and the hundreds of thousands of people who once gathered here have been reduced to food for all kinds of monsters and beasts, and people can only survive on this land.

This camp was set up by my teacher Gustav, but he stepped out of the fortress in order to find a way out of life for the people here. So...... Thank you very much, stranger. ”

On the cold face of the female shooter Phoenix, she once again showed a trace of gratitude to Meng Yang, for this camp, Gustav's existence is of great significance.

"Old ...... Uh, Mr. Gustav helped me a lot too, well, that, I'm grateful for you taking me in. ”

Meng Yang also expressed his gratitude, although he had learned more or less from Gustav's mouth before, after entering the Forest of Bones and the City of Despair, he saw the city that seemed to be in ruins, but when he really arrived at this gathering place, he still felt far more difficult than he imagined.

At this time, Meng Yang was already able to deeply feel the cruelty of the world he was in, this was a paradise for monsters, maybe before the fall of this city of despair, the descendants of the exiles and refugees from the Eastern and Western continents who lived here could barely survive, but after the city of despair that had been established by countless generations was broken by monsters, most of the people had been reduced to the food of monsters, and the people who escaped were only struggling to survive here.