Battle of Dawn Chapter 1: The End of the World
April 13, 2189 at 15:48 PM
In the overgrown deserted streets, countless abandoned vehicles are almost buried in moss.
The sky tree rises from the dilapidated high-rise building, and nature merges and alternates with the scene of the end of the world.
A cold wind blew across the earth, rolling up the dry branches and dust in the sky, showing desolation.
With the wind, there is also a strong smell of blood that can stimulate people's nerves.
Swarms of green-headed flies coiled and bitten on rotting and smelly corpses.
When a three-meter-long black bear's giant paw fell, they were disturbed and scattered.
With a body full of carrion scraps, he looked for a new carrion to gnaw on.
Thousands of carnivores weave through the ruins of the apocalyptic world, and the screams that penetrate the bone marrow continue to be heard throughout the city.
The shivering man lying under the car only felt that there was nothing above, and he didn't have time to dodge when he looked at the blood that came from the bite.
More and more beasts began to join them, blood soaking down the gaps between them onto the pavement and staining the vegetation red.
The gray wolf's ears fluttered, and he turned his head to look behind him, and the corners of his blood-stained mouth were stained with red flesh, and he raised his head and opened his mouth to swallow it, letting out a wolf howl that resounded through the sky.
"Whew!"
In the alley, the boy leaned limply against the wall, a stone wall that had blocked all his retreats.
The left hand gripped the broken right hand in an attempt to stop the blood from coming out.
In front of him, a huge black cheetah was strolling along, chewing something in its mouth.
'Jingle Bell'
A mutilated thorn spat out of the panther's mouth, making a crunch as it fell to the ground.
"How many times has this been? It feels like more than a hundred times, right? ”
The boy didn't care about the approaching danger in the slightest, and stared at the clouds drifting in the sky with a distracted look.
With a bloody mouth, consciousness fell into darkness after a brief moment of pain.
The boy's name is Hao Liangfeng, 16 years old, he is very capable, but he also seems particularly sad in this era.
Ever since he first came into contact with death, he found that wherever he was, whenever he died, he would be resurrected back to a point in time.
Because of his ability, he has been wandering alone with his only sister in this last day since he was a child.
He has tasted too much of the sinister of the last days, and he has also seen too many flaws of human nature.
Death after death just to keep himself and his sister alive, but this time it seems to be different.
"Whew!"
opened his eyes suddenly, and Hao Liangfeng, who was lying on the sofa, gradually propped himself up, his face was very ugly.
Under the thick eyebrows, the deep pupils were full of panic.
A drop of sweat the size of a soybean rolled down the bridge of his handsome nose on his forehead.
The time that kept beating on the strap on his wrist: 7:30, a heavy sigh of relief.
A yellowed city map was spread out on the coffee table in front of him, and in addition to the streets, he could vaguely see a few big characters on the city map of Nangan City in the lower left corner.
In order to get the paper version of the map, it took the boy almost three days to get food from the merchants in the camp.
In order to learn to read pictures, he spent another bottle of good wine, a pack of Huaxia cigarettes, and even took a one-time life to learn a trick from the mouth of a cunning hunter.
After counting the breaths, Hao Liangfeng exhaled turbid air, picked up some sharp graphite blocks on the side, and drew crosses and crosses on the map, marking numbers.
Soon the entire map was almost completely filled with black crosses and numbers.
Looking at the dense markings on the map, Hao Liangfeng, who was slumped on the sofa, felt helpless for the first time.
Hundreds of rebirths, almost all the areas on the map that can be reached with foot strength.
All the routes, all the methods, were tried almost once.
But the beasts were like an endless stream, driving him to his death again and again.
The boy clenched his right hand and hammered it the concrete floor, and the cracks were like spider web threads, extending outward with his fist as the center.
Raising his hand and grabbing his hair hard, his face shrouded in shadows was filled with madness and hideousness.
"Brother?"
A soft cry sounded, and the lights in the room quietly turned on.
This call was like that faint light, which made Hao Liangfeng's heart full of negative emotions pour into a little light.
Can't give up yet!
He turned his head to look at his sister who was walking towards him, and smiled a little reluctantly.
"I'm sorry, sister, I woke you up"
"Brother, are you having nightmares again?"
Hao Lin'er, an 11-year-old girl, has a pair of big eyes that shine through the glass under her long eyelashes, revealing a trace of worry.
"It should be..."Listening to Hao's graceful reply, the girl raised her hand to gently wipe the sweat from his forehead and hugged the latter's arm.
"Brother, will you not want me?"
"No, never ......"
Snuggling up to each other, feeling his sister's mood, Hao Liang tried to calm his emotions.
Gently stroking her head, she said secretly: "I will definitely be able to take you out alive... Certain! ”
Knock knock!
"Come into the room and wait for me!"
A knock on the door interrupted the silence.
After putting away the map, Hao Liangfeng pinched the girl's face and smiled slightly, turned around and walked towards the door.
"Hao weigh the wind to Lao Tzu out!"
'Knock knock! ’
Pushing open the door, several young men with steel rods were standing in front of Hao Liangfeng viciously.
Hao Liangfeng, who has experienced countless rebirths, is familiar with them.
The Caucasian at the head is none other than Ente, the younger brother of the security captain of this outcast.
Because of his brother, he often bullied men and women in this camp of less than 1,000 people.
"You kid, you actually made Lao Tzu wait for ......"
"Shut your foul mouth!"
Before Ente could finish speaking, Hao Liangfeng directly interrupted.
"What did you kid say? … Yes! ”
Hao Liangfeng grabbed the latter's finger.
Pulling hard, Ente's howl mixed with the sound of broken bones resounded throughout the U-shaped residential building.
"Made, what else are you looking at, call me...... Cripple him!! ”
Taking two steps back, Ente watched Hao Liangfeng and yelled at his subordinates beside him.
Looking at the number of people rushing towards him, Hao Liangfeng's body moved slightly, and the iron rod almost brushed along the bridge of his nose.
The fist was swung out hard, and the person in front of Hao Liangfeng directly spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm.
With a wave of his feet, he kicked back the two people who were about to step forward.
After doing all this, Hao Liang Feng raised his arm, and happened to meet the iron rod that was swinging towards him from the back of his head.
Just when everyone thought that the slender arm would be broken, they found that the iron rod was bent in an instant where it came into contact with it.
"You... Are you the Awakened? ”
The man wielding the stick looked up at Hao Liangfeng with a frightened face, only to see Hao Liangfeng hit an elbow down, directly cracking the latter's front teeth.
In the blink of an eye, several people brought by Ente fell to the ground.
"Made!"
Entre pulled out a pistol from his bosom, but before he could hold it down, he found that the gun in his hand was gone.
"The shot is mine now!"
Hao Liangfeng opened the safety and pointed at them and said, "Get out of here now!" ”
"You wait for me!"
Looking at the black muzzle, Ent swallowed a mouthful of saliva, pinched his broken finger and hurriedly ran downstairs with his subordinates.
…
"Boss, this kid is actually an Awakened One! It's so deep! ”
"What's wrong with the Awoken! Tonight, take the guy with you and kill him! His sister can exchange a lot of money! ”
The young man running in the stairwell looked at his subordinates who were hanging colors beside him, and his face was full of hideousness.
Hao Liangfeng exhaled, looked around, looked at the homeless people in the residential buildings who were sticking their heads out to watch, and turned back without the slightest emotion in his eyes.
"Brother, they?"
The girl looked at Hao Liangfeng who came back, and her face showed a worried look.
"It's okay, it's still a little useful for these people to stay, pack up, let's leave this place now!"
The girl nodded and turned to walk into the room.
At the end of the 21st century, after the Fourth Industrial Revolution, mankind entered an era of great technological development, and the life expectancy was also extended to about twice as much as before due to the replacement of organs.
But with the gradual increase in the population of the earth, the home planet is no longer suitable for human reproduction, and the solar system development plan has begun...
Just as the plan was well underway, in 2126, darkness swept across the solar system, and a cosmic substance called Shining invaded the area.
The planets in the solar system also began to mutate with the spread of such material.
In just over five years, the ecology of the major planets has undergone earth-shaking changes, and they have begun to appear water, oxygen and many other elements suitable for human habitation.
The Earth, which was originally suitable for human habitation, has undergone a mutation due to the absorption of Shining matter, which directly causes the Earth's core.
The Earth's core emits "source radiation" energy that is so diffuse that it covers almost the entire solar system.
Due to the strong radiation of the energy source, human beings in the solar system who cannot adapt began to die, and the direct reflection is that the world's population of nearly 20 billion has dropped to about 1.8 billion.
And a very small number of humans who survived this disaster began to become different from others as a result.
"Brother, where are we going?"
"Nanshan!"
As the siblings walked down the stairs, they heard two guards armed with automatic rifles whispering.
"Brother Chuan brought back a pitiful amount of prey today, and it is said that there are more other beasts outside!"
"Really? There won't be another beast tide! ”
"Shhhh
Listening to the conversation between the two, Hao Liangfeng looked down at the clock at 9 o'clock on his watch, and his face was a little solemn.
Walking down the street, listening to the familiar chatter of the homeless people around me.
His eyes revealed a depth that he shouldn't have at his age, and he muttered to himself, "Time is a little rushed!" ”
The girl's little hand tightly grasped Hao Liangfeng's fingers and said a little puzzled: "Brother? ”
He picked up Hao Lin'er on his back, turned his head and smiled at his sister.
"It's okay... Hold on to me! ”
"Hmm!"
Quickly shuttling through the dilapidated streets, Hao Liangfeng observed the environment while running.
Outside the ruined shops, the crumbling asphalt road has been baked by the scorching sun, and the cold bones of futuristic technology have melted into the ruins.
The charred corpse on the side of the road leaned against the wall as if it had been sucked of flesh, and the strange tender seedlings growing on his body were shaking their torsos in the hot wind.
Just as Hao Liangfeng ran to the storefront of the fresh porridge shop, he suddenly squatted, and a bullet almost grazed the end of his hair.
"Boy, do you want to run away after hitting my brother?"
A middle-aged man walked out of the alley beside him with more than a dozen people.
Hao Liang Feng looked at the man coldly.
Cressie, Caucasia, Ente's older brother, the captain of security in this outcast, and an authentic Awakened.
The Awakened may be the last gift left by nature to mankind in this era.
Their bodies have the ability to store and release Shining substances.
Longer lifespans and greater strength and physical strength give them the ability to survive and have a status beyond ordinary people in this chaotic world.
It's not just humans who are mutating on Earth.
Cressy stuck out her tongue and licked his thick lips, holding her fingers of the silver pistol and resting lightly on the trigger.
"Hand over the girl behind me, I can consider sparing you from dying..."
Hao Liangfeng stepped back, looked down at the second hand running on his wrist, patted his sister behind him and said, "Don't be afraid! ”
Staring at the man, Hao Liangfeng exhaled a breath of turbidity and whispered to himself: "13, 12..."
"Give you ten seconds to think about it, and kill you like the girl behind you!"
Almost at the same time, they read "10..."
Hao Liangfeng's deep eyes twitched slightly, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw a black figure squirming quietly towards them in the corner.
"Boy, it's time, let's hit the road!"
"What is this!!"
After the countdown, just as Cressy was about to pull the trigger, there was a sudden chaotic shout from the crowd behind Cressie.
A giant black panther about two meters long bit off a person's skull with all its might, and the falling corpse kept twitching, blood splattering down the fracture.
The panther's long smooth black hair was wet because of the blood.
It stared at everyone with its golden vertical pupils without the slightest emotion.
Looking at the panther coming towards him, Cressy didn't care about the wind, and quickly turned around and shot at the bloody mouth that bit him.
Hao Liangfeng took advantage of the chaos and turned into an alley with the girl on his back.