Chapter 1: Dreams? Rebirth!
A dilapidated jeep was running through the wilderness, the body was covered with traces of time, the windshield and rearview mirrors were gone, the windows had been converted into iron mesh, the front crossbar was also uneven, and there were several basin-sized depressions in the tail.
There were four people sitting in the car, and the driver was a burly strong man, with a face full of scars, and there were also large and small scars on his bare arms.
He glanced sideways at Zhong Lingxin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, the only female member of their hunting party.
The woman next to her was skinny, and she held a reddish knife tightly in her hand, and the mottled knife was stained with blood, as if to tell others that this woman was not easy to mess with.
In this desperate world infested with alien beasts, everyone can only struggle to survive.
Most of those who survive the ten years of the Starfall Calendar have become numb, sluggish, and lifeless.
Her eyes were clear and clean, and there seemed to be a bright moonlight in the middle.
Let those who can only be muddy in the dark can see a ray of hope through those eyes.
The two people in the back seat sat together with a large pile of alien beast corpses, and as the body shook wildly, silently complaining in their hearts about their captain's rough driving style, a jeep drove a racing car.
The jeep drove into a wide avenue in silence, and the two people in the back let out a cry of surprise, and the shadow of a building loomed not far away.
"The transit station has arrived."
The jeep drove slowly along the road, and when it saw a car coming, people with yellow faces and thin muscles squatting on the side of the road immediately swarmed up.
"Captain Blade, you're back so soon, didn't you hit any high-level alien beasts?"
"Captain Blade, if you have something good, sell it to my brother first."
Blade just glanced at it, and continued driving, looking ahead at himself, when the car suddenly stopped in front of a dilapidated building.
The people who climbed on the body of the car and greeted enthusiastically were not annoyed, but they just secretly looked at the woman sitting in the passenger seat, and disappeared into the crowd.
"Captain, you go to the trading point to exchange supplies first, I have something urgent, and I'll meet you later."
Zhong Lingxin seemed to see something, stepped down from the passenger seat of the car, and rushed into a bungalow next to the building before the words fell. At the door of the bungalow, there is a handwritten sign on the ground.
Everyone waved at her as they were accustomed to it, and carried the harvest from the back seat out of the car.
In the dimly lit room, there was only a desk with paint peeling and a few uneven chairs.
"Uncle Bao, has you found the person with news of my brother?" Zhong Lingxin respectfully held a bag of blood crystals and said to the old man sitting in a chair with a radio.
The old man nodded slightly, motioned for Zhong Lingxin to wait, and continued to fiddle with the rustling radio in his hand.
Zhong Lingxin had no choice but to lean on the edge of the table like a wooden man and stared blankly.
Her younger brother Zhong Lingnan was in the 3rd year of the Starfall Calendar, and when the mid-level monster descended, he disappeared into the panicked crowd and has not been heard from since.
Zhong Lingxin didn't believe that her brother was dead, and had been trying to find him all these years, and all the materials she had obtained, except for the necessities, were spent on "Bao Inquiring".
However, in the face of the overwhelming number of strange beasts, even survival is a luxury. Not to mention, find someone.
"Terrible! The Tianyi survivor base in Huashan District was breached by the beast tide and turned into ruins overnight. ”
"The largest Heaven Survivor Base in Tianlong District has fallen, all members of the Heaven Group Headquarters have been wiped out, and witnesses say that the murderer is the Devil-Faced Demon God, a man who is even more terrifying than the Devil."
Zhong Lingxin sighed in his heart, that monster that is more powerful than a high-level alien beast, he is slaughtering the city again, right?
The invasion of the sea blue star by alien beasts has brought not only killing and death, but also countless humans with powerful abilities.
The Ghost-faced Demon God, a very mysterious high-level supernatural being, always wears a ghost mask on his face, and does not show any skin on his body.
Therefore, many people suspect that he may not be a human at all, but a humanoid beast.
It wasn't until later, when the Ghost-faced Demon God destroyed one underground research institute after another of the Heaven Group, that the outside world learned that he was a supernatural who had been secretly experimented by the research institute.
The Demon God's name is due to his rare dual-line ability, a pair of giant wings of light that can be converted into black and white.
On one side is a ruthless god, with snow-white wings of light, scattering white light feathers in the sky, destroying the heavens and destroying the earth.
On one side is a cruel demon, and with a wave of dark black wings, a terrifying black aura spreads out, devouring all things.
Luckily, the Tianlong district is very far away.
Before Zhong Ling thought deeply, the desperate screams of the crowd came from outside the door, and I don't know who shouted: The beast tide is coming!
The entire transit station was shrouded in the sky-high killing intent, and the army of alien beasts was like a monstrous tsunami, engulfing everything in an instant.
Countless blood-red eyes are like bright light bulbs, flickering with a terrifying light.
The roar of strange beasts came from the wind, and with the footsteps of war drums, Zhong Lingxin could only pull out his machete and pounce on the beasts in despair.
In the sky above the transit station, a pure black demonic wing of light suddenly flashed, even if it was seen from a distance, it was terrifying, constantly hovering in the air, as if looking for something.
Even though life is so hard, I really want to live.
This was the last thought that flashed through Zhong Lingxin's mind before she died, as if she saw her brother and mother smiling and waving at her.
***
There was a darkness that seemed like eternity, and then the blood red bloomed like a firework.
The black and red suddenly shattered like glass, and Zhong Lingxin's consciousness returned to his body.
The paper on the desk rustles with an electric fan, and the sound of people greeting each other is incessant.
With a bang, Zhong Lingxin stood up from his seat suddenly, his muscles tense.
The habit that the strange beast developed after its arrival, Zhong Lingxin quickly grasped the office paper cutter on the table, and she began to look around vigilantly, quickly grasping the situation around her.
It's a small office, neatly arranged with more than a dozen desks, and the electronic clock on the wall shows that it's 9 a.m. on September 29, 2023.
Zhong Lingxin was dumbfounded all of a sudden, clean windows, clean tables, clean clothes, clean faces, even the air was so fresh.
How could such a scenario exist! Out of nowhere, the breeze with the scent of lilies penetrated Zhong Ling's nostrils, causing her to take several greedy sips, with an expression on her face that looked like a smile and a cry.
If it was before Starfall, such an office scene would certainly be normal.
Human civilization has been destroyed for ten years, how can such a scene still exist?
Or is this the world of the dead? Or is it just a dream that wakes up from?
"Zhong Lingxin, you are really working hard, let's work overtime all night, pay attention to your body, it's not good to sleep on the desk."
A short, stocky short-haired female colleague at the lead table said with concern.
Zhong Lingxin turned her head sluggishly and looked at her in a daze, the other party didn't mind, just when she just woke up, she wasn't quite awake.
Zhong Lingxin? Yes, I'm Zhong Lingxin.
But am I not dead? That monster tore itself apart! The kind of picture that has been eaten away little by little seems to have just happened in front of you.
The huge contrast between reality and memory made it difficult for her to wake up completely for a while.
The street outside the window was full of traffic, and from time to time a few horns came in.
She finally remembered that this was the newspaper where she worked before the end of the world.
Before the end of the world, Zhong Lingxin was an ordinary newspaper editor.
I had just completed three months of internship at this newspaper, and I worked overtime all night because I was in a hurry.
The female colleague next door is called Gao Ya, and she has a good relationship with herself.
It's been ten years, and her memory is a little blurry, and many people in the newspaper are a little unrecognizable.
The reason why she could immediately remember the name of this colleague at this moment was because of another thing.
On the day when the alien beast fully descended on the sea blue star, she blindly ran away with the panicked flow of people in the office building.
Because the crowd was too flustered, Zhong Lingxin was pushed from behind and fell, and at that time, a terrifying beast had already walked less than ten meters away from her.
Zhong Lingxin's hands and feet were weak for a while, and she couldn't stand up, so she could only scream for help, hoping that someone would stop and help her.
Just when Zhong Lingxin thought that she would be eaten by the monsters that came over, it was this colleague who was fat and not tall, panting and running to pull her up.
It was the first warmth she had ever received in that hideous and somewhat cruel time.
The arrival of the alien beast quickly destroyed everything on the sea blue star.
All civilizations, all technologies will be devastated, and humanity will become the saddest character in this catastrophe.
The humans on Aquamarine have fallen into a dark and bloody hell from which they will never recover. Peace, order, law, and even goodness exist only in memory.
For ten years, Zhong Lingxin, as a survivor of the wasteland era, has been struggling to survive, but he still can't escape death.
Zhong Lingxin gently pressed his chest, and clearly felt his heartbeat, so powerful, so vivid.
She's alive!