Chapter 1: The New World
"Where is this?" Li Xiangli opened his eyes.
What he saw was a small room, estimated to be less than twenty square meters, dark and damp, and the musty smell stimulated his keen sense of smell.
The pervasive smell of inferior perfume made him can't help but sneeze, and soreness suddenly swelled from his limbs.
This feeling is all too familiar to him, every time a muscle and bone are broken, there is always a period of recovery time, which is a sign of long-term immobility and muscle atrophy.
Even with his physique, I am afraid that he will not be able to recover to his peak without ten days and half a month.
Only, shouldn't I be dead? Recalling the last moment in his memory, he put his hands on the descending-level "god" and rushed into the nuclear power plant with him without hesitation.
At this moment, he could still clearly feel the satisfaction of that perfect divine body when it was reduced to ashes in front of him.
No matter how strong the "god" is, he still succeeds in the end, although the end is the same end.
At this moment, his ears moved slightly, the muscles of his whole body subconsciously tensed together, and his half-squinted eyes were like hunting tigers, staring at the footsteps that were getting closer and closer to the wooden door.
"Quack ......" unlubricated metal hinges are squeezing and deforming.
Li Xiang will never forget this moment, the golden afterglow of the setting sun blurred the silhouette of the girl, and the elongated shadow extended all the way to his face.
Behind her, the slum-like decaying buildings hung white trousers like flags of surrender.
"Are you awake?" The girl walked over quickly, and the faint fragrance on her body suddenly diluted the inferior perfume in the room a lot.
She took off her shoes, stepped on the cold ground, and methodically hung her satchel on a small iron nail on the wall. "I originally wanted to send you to the temple for treatment, but Sister Hong thought you were too heavy, and we didn't have the money to invite the divine envoy to the door, so we could only carry you up first."
Speaking of this, she remembered the way the two of them carried a big man upstairs today, those big smart eyes narrowed into two crescents, and she smiled to herself. "It's good that we live on the second floor."
"Where is this?" Li Xiang's voice was a little hoarse, his throat was dry, and his lips were cracked.
"D13 area. You don't look at the place is not very good, from where I work, take the light rail for only an hour, the light and ventilation conditions are good, here except for a little noisy, a little leaky on a rainy day, the rest is simply perfect, at that time I was soft grinding hard soaked for a long time, before renting this place. Guess how much rent a month is? She poured a glass of water and walked over, a slight smug expression on her face.
Li Xiang didn't know where D13 she was talking about, he remembered that before the catastrophe called "God Descent", every place, down to a street, should have its own name.
Therefore, after taking the glass of water, Li Xiang took a sip, feeling that the water quality was average, and put it on the wooden cabinet at the head of the bed, without answering the girl's question.
"How about a thousand three? Cheap, right? Sister Hong is next door, and she is not as good as me, so she costs 15,000 a month. But Sister Hong earns a lot more than me every month, and this can't be compared. She sighed, and seemed to be starting to feel a little lost again.
For fifteen-year-olds, sorrow comes quickly.
"What year is it?" Li Xiang moved his body, leaned against the wall, and stretched his limbs vigorously, feeling the soreness that made him feel new.
"65 years of the apocalypse. Are you all sleepy? The girl pulled over the only chair in the room. Apparently not very used to being in such contact with strangers, sitting against the wall.
"65 years of the apocalypse?" Li Xiang couldn't help frowning, thinking about when to change the chronology.
"Thank you for saving me." Li Xiang never dwelled on these questions that he couldn't understand for the time being, turned his head to look at her, and asked, "Are there any other survivors besides me?" ”
"What survivors?" The girl's face was full of doubts, "We picked you up on the side of the road, looking at the clothes on your body, it shouldn't be from our 13th district, right?" ”
Li Xiang fell silent. But I found that I couldn't figure it out.
If he did survive, then the "God Hunting Team" would definitely find him as soon as possible, and it should be in the nuclear power plant on the edge of Sunset City, it can't be in this D13 area.
Judging from the degree of atrophy of the body's muscles and muscles, it should have been a long time, but if this is the case, how can it not die?
Struggling to get out of bed, Li Xiang walked towards the door step by step.
"Where are you going?" The girl stood up anxiously, but she didn't dare to pull the person in front of her.
In her eyes, the tall and thin young man in front of her should belong to the rich kind, which can be seen from the clothes on his body. Maybe it's the big people who live in Zone C, or even the big guys in Zone B.
However, she has been working in the top two conference halls in the B13 area since she was thirteen years old, and she has seen many people with heads and faces, but she has never seen anyone dressed like this.
What makes the girl most curious is that even when he faints to death, every time he approaches him, she always feels an inexplicable sense of oppression, like facing a steel beast.
It was something she had never felt before.
She followed him out, and suddenly found him holding his hands on the second-floor fence, his black eyes fixed on the towering temple in the distance.
He wept!
The girl had seen countless scenes, but at this time she was completely panicked, she stood beside him, her face was full of anxiety but she suddenly didn't know how to comfort the man in front of her.
"Is this what you call a temple?"
The man suddenly spoke, and the cold voice frightened her, goosebumps erupted all over her body, and a cold feeling surged from the soles of her feet all over her body, making people feel like falling into an ice cellar. Looking at those eyes that were almost emotionless, she trembled slightly, and opened her mouth but couldn't make any sound.
The man was obviously aware of something, his brow furrowed, and the cold light in his eyes was like lightning in the air, and the silence was restored.
She was already sweating profusely, and even her forehead was oozing with sweat.
"I'm sorry, I don't mean anything." The man's explanation is an understatement.
The girl clenched her fists, silently thinking that this was my house, and then suppressed the urge to escape, and asked almost desperately, "Don't you like the temple?" ”
As soon as she spoke, she found that all the negative feelings in her body had disappeared.
The young man in front of him seemed to have lost all his strength all at once, leaned against the fence, and asked with tears streaming down his face, "We failed, right?" ”
The man's eyes fell on her chest, and his face was full of apologies.
The girl was really panicked now.
She stood helpless, looking at her suddenly emaciated face, apologetic, not knowing how to respond.
In fact, from seeing the towering temple standing between heaven and earth hundreds of miles away, looking at the golden figure above, and the aura blooming like a sunflower behind him, Li Xiang instantly understood.
Five years of struggle! They failed in the end.
Isn't that statue of a god in the distance the same god who once died with him?
The entire thirteen districts are like a huge gossip map, and the towering temple is located right in the middle of the yin and yang fish.
The cobweb-like transportation network divides the so-called 13 into three areas.
The green circle around the temple and the scattered villas are the first floor, the steel torrent of high-rise buildings is the second floor, and beyond is the chaotic civilian area.
Just like where Li Xiang is at this time, like a migrant worker dormitory building, a white "garbage belt" with a width of three or four kilometers is formed around the second floor.
"Don't be like this, you're like this, I'm afraid." The girl's eyes were slightly red, and she couldn't see others crying.
Every time Sister Hong came back after being wronged, she didn't know how to comfort her, but the two of them hugged each other and cried. But she knows that as long as she does her best and gets through it, life will slowly get better.
The divine envoy of the temple said that she can live to be thirty years old in this life, and if she can do her best diligently in this life, if nothing happens, she will be able to be reborn in a good family in the next life, not to mention Area C, it is possible to be in Area B.
You must know that those big people who live in Area B have been serving God for several lifetimes to cultivate their blessings. In this regard, she and Sister Hong are convinced.
Li Xiang realized that he had scared the girl in front of him, but he had never been good at pleasing girls, so he just looked at the temple where the sunset was fading behind him, and said, "I want to go out and have a look." ”
"No, you're not in good health, how can you run out casually." The girl's worries are very deep.
Recover? Li Xiang has never been worried about this. With his own body comparable to the "advent level" of a god, it may take ten days and half a month to recover to his peak, but if he is just like an ordinary person?
In the girl's exclamation, Li Xiang pressed his palm, twisted his body and crossed the fence, jumping directly from the second floor.
When he was close to the ground, his legs kicked slightly, and he was already fully steady.
The girl's face grew in horror, and she didn't run downstairs quickly until she was sure that Li Xiang was not injured. She glanced back at the floor that was more than three meters high, and said with some fear: "You are really not afraid of death." ”
Li Xiang didn't explain anything. Any martial artist who enters the innate realm, let alone three or five floors, will not have any problems even if it is a dozen floors, not to mention that he is already in the innate five realms at his peak.
The soreness in his body had eased, and Li Xiang stretched out his hand to point to the temple in the distance and said, "How can I go there and have a look?" ”
What has become of the world?
How long have I been asleep?
What happened after that war?
For Li Xiang, this world is so strange that he can't start.
Only, so what?
The girl said: "The fastest way is to take an empty bus, but the price is too expensive, and ordinary people can't afford to sit down." We usually take the old-fashioned light rail, which is 90 percent cheaper. ”
"How about taking the light rail?" Li Xiang wondered.
The girl fell silent, lowered her head and counted a sum, two people went back and forth, and the ticket alone cost 800 yuan, which was enough for her food and clothing for a month.
"Do you really want to go?" The girl looked at Li Xiang.
Li Xiangli nodded.
The girl suddenly smiled brightly: "Okay." Actually, I haven't been to the main shrine yet, but I've heard that there are gods living there, and some of our colleagues have been there, and we've seen the real gods, and since then he's been promoted to manager. Maybe this time I will be able to see the gods and grant my wish. ”
It was as if she was convincing herself.
Raising his head, full of anticipation, he said to himself, "What wish do you want to make?" The manager is too big, and if I meet a god, I'll make a wish to be a foreman. That's six thousand dollars a month. I can also buy some cosmetics like Sister Hong. ”
God?
In Li Xiang's heart, it was the invader of the earth. In the short period of five years from the arrival of the first "god" on earth to the death of him and the descending god. Human beings have experienced countless disasters, and the technology and thermal weapons that have been passed down for hundreds of years have been powerless to resist in the face of that almost natural force, and they have only lasted less than a year. In the following four years, if it weren't for the appearance of ancient warriors who had been retired by humans for thousands of years, I am afraid that the earth would have fallen in less than two years.
What's going on?
Li Xiang shouted in his heart.
The girl quickly ran back upstairs, took her little satchel, and soon became elated.
"I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Mina. In two months, he will be sixteen years old, and he is a civilian in D13 District. Working at the Shenguang Club. At the station two kilometers away, the girl swiped two round-trip tickets to Area A with her ID card.
"Li Xiang." Li Xiang replied simply and clearly.
Being able to come out to play, Mina was obviously very happy, while jumping, looking at Li Xiang with her hands behind her back, and asked, "Have you really forgotten where you live?" ”
Li Xiang just nodded.
Mina said, "That's not going to work. People must work, and if they don't work, they won't contribute anything to this world, and they can only be a civilian in the next life. Maybe it's even worse, reborn as a pig, a chicken, or something like that, and being eaten by someone accidentally. ”
The two walked into the old-fashioned light rail like an iron box, and Li Xiang was no stranger to this mode of transportation.
"Who told you this?" Li Xiang quickly found the location of the two of them, sat down and asked first.
Mina was dissatisfied: "You are so rude, and the lady doesn't understand first." ”
Despite this, she quickly sat down and replied, "As the oracle said, there is a responsible oracle in every region, who specializes in solving problems for people. If you hadn't woken up today, when Sister Hong came back in the evening, we would have sent you to the Divine Envoy. ”
"Is the oracle snow-white, with a pair of wings and a horn on his head?" Li Xiang tried to ask.
Mina smiled, "You don't know anything, do you? ”
She didn't feel it at all, and the cold light in Li Xiang's eyes flickered. The speed of the light rail is extremely fast, and if it is not for the stops in the middle from time to time, the maximum speed can reach more than 200 kilometers per hour.
It took nearly forty minutes for Mina to walk out of the light rail station with Li Xiang.
Looking up, the two-hundred-zhang golden temple, even at night, exudes a fascinating luster.
At the top of the temple, a golden figure with three rings behind it flickering, illuminating the entire Area A.
"The main shrine is so magnificent, so magnificent!" Mina threw her head to the limit and let out a sigh of admiration.