Twilight blooms at dawn.

Barrenness gives birth to hope.

The night sky of this era is no longer pure darkness, and the day is also shrouded in a layer of gray.

At night, a small figure swiftly walked through the alleys, in which puddles of sewage glowing with a pale green glow could occasionally be seen.

The alley is flanked by the towering skyscrapers of yesteryear, and the crumbling steel structure can occasionally be seen on the white concrete walls.

The radiant storm didn't seem to have reached the area, so that the graffiti on the walls was still faintly visible.

It is a prophetic poem of the end times, from the last believers of this age.

"Stop!"

As soon as the short figure ran through the alley, the figure suddenly froze, and then a shout was heard.

In the wasteland of the city, that person dared to speak so loudly, naturally he had some ability.

Really.

Under a pale light, three or five people blocked the mouth of the alley, and the person who spoke earlier had a sturdy figure that was extremely inconsistent with this era.

The next two should be twin brothers, although they look a little thin, but they are still very energetic in their eyes.

On the contrary, it was the last person, and it was slightly tempting to take a closer look.

It was a woman, a woman who wasn't very good-looking.

In this era, a woman who can show her face in front of outsiders so unscrupulously is either her man has the ability, or she has the ability.

The short figure briefly looked at everyone, and the four people also looked at him.

Compared to the undisguised nature of the four of them, this short figure was shrouded in a gray-black blanket, and looked like a nagging ghost on the side of the road that was contaminated by radiation and was about to die.

The stout man at the head was about to frown, but the short figure took the initiative to lift his hood and stood up.

The face under the hood looks a little delicate, and there is a bit of cowardice between the eyebrows and eyes, which looks like a newcomer.

Newcomer.

Thinking of this, the stout man grinned.

"You are Chen Jue?"

“…… Be. ”

"This is Li Fei and Li Xiang's brothers, her name is Zhang Tong. As for me, you can just call me Brother Hei. ”

After Brother Hei's brief introduction, he grinned, and his white teeth looked extraordinarily brilliant.

It's just that he didn't say his real name, and he didn't even have the heart to say a fake name, but Chen Jue didn't want to pay attention to such a scheming at the moment.

His gaze passed through the four of them and landed on the light not far behind Zhang Tong.

There was a two-person high light door, full of light points constantly overflowing, just scattered but sucked back by the light door, so that the circular outline of the oval light gate outlined.

Hidden Secrets.

The only hope in this time of despair.

I can't remember if it started with the war, or if it started with a strange beast, in short, for people in this era, they just need to know that they live in an era of (eggs), and that's enough.

Losing the shackles of the rules, the vast majority of people in this era have turned into primitive beasts, completely forgetting the instinct to think.

Chen Jue is one of the alternatives.

He clearly remembered the coming of the end times, and knew that the root of it all came from the ancient mines east of Auxer.

The era called Reiki Revival was accompanied by the awakening of earth consciousness and the unprecedented condensation of human consciousness.

At the cost of the extinction of nearly nine adults in the world, the rest of the people have the power to make their dreams come true, and that is the hidden realm.

The Hidden Realm, as a product of human consciousness, connects countless human dreams to the world.

Those worlds come from a universal convergence of ideas, perhaps a widely circulated piece of literature, perhaps a popular film and television play, or something else.

Chen Jue didn't want to explore whether the essence of the hidden world was the embodiment of the consciousness of this planet, all he needed was such a space.

At the mouth of the dim alley, with the miserable white light emitted by the light gate of the hidden secret realm, the faces of the black brothers also showed a strange pale.

As if noticing that everyone had no intention of moving, he beckoned.

"Alright, everyone is here. Let's go! ”

"Wait."

He was just about to take someone away, but Zhang Tong, who had been silent, suddenly said something.

"Chen Jue, what is your ability?"

Chen Jue glanced at Zhang Tong when he heard the sound, the previous hidden secret realm was too conspicuous, so that he didn't care too much about Zhang Tong except for the leading black brother and the Li Fei brother standing in front.

Now it seems that this woman's appearance is not bad, and the most important thing is that her figure is indeed very valuable in this age.

It's just that the way she speaks, there is a faint sense of vigor and resoluteness, as if she was the shrewd and capable boss in the past. That kind of superior strength is inexplicably a little disgusting.

"Was she a female boss before?"

A thought flashed in his heart, Chen Jue swallowed a mouthful of saliva somehow, but he caught a glimpse of Brother Hei's strong figure out of the corner of his eye, and the thoughts in his heart faded a lot again.

"I can summon towers."

"Towers?!"

A simple sentence set off a lot of waves among everyone, Zhang Tong subconsciously asked rhetorically, and glanced at Brother Hei suspiciously.

Obviously, the convener this time is Brother Hei.

In the desolate night, the occasional sound of rustling could be heard, the sound of mutated creatures moving through the night.

Brother Hei also seemed to be quite sophisticated, and as soon as he heard this sound, he knew that the beast repellent incense arranged around him was about to dissipate, and he explained impatiently.

"What's the big deal, isn't it just an archer? Do you really think he'll build you a tower? ”

Seeing Brother Hei's impatient expression, even Zhang Tong's strong temper suddenly became half a head shorter.

If the Hidden Realm is the last Garden of Eden for mankind, then the so-called ability awakening is the apple that humans stole from that Garden of Eden.

Based on the strange hidden world, the awakening ability of human beings is also strange, but it is generally divided into two categories.

One is self-oriented ability, also known as professional ability, which can be a sword immortal inherited from Shu Mountain, a Hogwarts wizard, or even a biochemical superhuman warrior who transcends technology.

The other is the ability to use foreign objects such as utensils to assist abilities, such as mecha warriors, or even the captain of a star destroyer, and slightly worse there are also hardware craftsmen who make pots and pans.

Chen Jue's ability at the moment can barely be regarded as the mid-stream level of auxiliary ability, neither reduced to the point of being a tinker in the apocalypse, nor strong enough to bring his own gundam.

As for the so-called summoning towers, there are actually quite a few types.

Some are defensive towers of medieval castles, while others are all kinds of bells and whistles in the game world.

What he can summon now is the simplest and most basic Wooden Arrow Tower, which requires wood x3 and stone x1.

It sounds simple, but it is very tedious to collect materials, and the time it takes to summon defense towers makes it basically a logistical engineer.

Zhang Tong and the others saw Brother Hei's face, and they didn't say much at this time.

Although the group interrogated Chen Jue a few words, they did not introduce their professional ability outside the words, and there was a faint meaning to exclude him.

In fact, this is also the standard treatment of ordinary people with artifact ability, and simply relying on external objects to improve oneself is always not as strong as one's own bloodline and body.

At the beginning of the New Era, artifact abilities dominated almost all gathering places, but as professional abilities grew, machine guns and cannons, which used to seem imposing, thermal weapons no longer had a deterrent effect.

Even super-level weapons such as Gundam robots can't escape sneak attacks, after all, even the most sophisticated instruments need to be piloted by humans.

People make mistakes, and no one is exempt.

The one who works as precisely as a machine, and who moves perfectly with every step, is God.

After a few simple words of inquiry, Zhang Tong took the initiative to turn around and walk towards the huge light gate, and the two brothers who followed behind him smiled at Chen Jue teasingly, without hiding their contempt for him at all.

Even if they are temporary teammates, that kind of superior ability discrimination is still so shallow, if they meet in the wilderness, I'm afraid that they have already done it now.

Today's world has become a jungle, wild and full of killing.

Chen Jue is just a person with artifact ability, and his ability to summon defense towers has so many drawbacks, so he is naturally discriminated against in this team.

He seems to have seen a lot of such a situation, and he did not show any unnecessary emotions except for being silent.

Brother Hei didn't care about this kind of trivial matter, but he hesitated when the corner of his eye swept over the expression on Chen Jue's face.

He didn't know why he hesitated, it was just that he instinctively felt that something wasn't quite right.

It stands to reason that a novice with a weak temperament will be more or less gloomy when provoked, and maybe a little bloody and directly clamoring to do it.

But right now, this man named Chen Jue seems to be a kind of natural blandness.

It's so natural, it's so natural, it's not like a novice.

"Not a newbie? What would that be? ”

A thought secretly flashed in Brother Hei's heart, but unfortunately before he could think about it for a while, he unconsciously walked into the huge light curtain.

The white light curtain is not completely insensitive, but faintly like a clear spring, making people feel cold in their hearts but without any sense of touch on the surface of the body.

As the light curtain passed through the heart, even the eyes were blank, and the next moment, both hearing and vision disappeared, and even his own existence gradually disappeared.

It was as if it had sunk into the endless depths of the ocean, and everything had become nothingness.

Without time, without self-awareness, there is only a vast expanse between heaven and earth.

I don't know how long it took for Brother Hei's eyes to gradually become clearer.

Only then did he regain consciousness, and suddenly found that Chen Jue was still standing in front of him, but faintly it seemed that he had already regained consciousness.