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Do you dream? If you've done it, do you think it's a world?

A real world?

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"Hurry up! They're back! Open the door! ”

"Someone to carry it! Hell, it doesn't feel right, someone should be hurt, doctor! Hurry up and call the doctor! ”

"Look, their vehicle is on fire, fire extinguishers are ready."

A shout rang out at the entrance of Hakim, and a dense footstep followed one after another. From afar, I saw a convoy rush into the town gate frantically, and then crashed into the armored barrier on the side! As soon as the door opened, the driver fell out and stopped moving after a few convulsions. Blood spread from beneath him, quickly staining large swaths of the ground red. The vehicles behind were either burning or damaged, and they kept crawling out of them.

Crowds poured in from all directions, anxiously pulling the wounded out of the convoy one by one, while the turrets above the town gate raised their armor and began to turn slowly. Searchlights swept back and forth, alerting any figure that appeared within sight.

"Vic is no more, he was pierced through the major artery and was bleeding profusely."

"Frank is done too. His heart was pierced, and he was able to survive by spiritual energy. This time, the Guise team suffered heavy losses. ”

"But luckily the goods are fine."

"With this potion, we will be able to survive the rainy season. They saved Hakim. Saved us all......"

"Hurry up and get the survivors to the rescue room, we want them to survive! More people survived! ”

The town gate was in chaos, and at the same time, on a tall tower some distance from the town gate. Chen Yan just put down the pen and opened the window. From his angle, he could see the chaos at the gate of the town, and he could also see the corpses, the pools of blood. Behind him, the table was covered with parchment, with intricate and eerie lines and symbols drawn on it.

Squeak, the door opened, and a girl walked in.

This is a very thin girl, with long black and smooth hair, but her face is distressingly pale. She carried a bulky food box and placed it on the table next to Chen Yan.

"It's time to eat." She whispered, taking away the parchment that had been filled with symbols, and replacing it with a new batch.

The girl's name is Leah. is the granddaughter of a traveler.

Three years ago, the traveler found the unconscious Chen Yan in the field and rescued him. Three years is not a long time, it is not a short time, but it is enough for Chen Yan to gradually adapt to this world. Sometimes Chen Yan thinks that his nerves are still very big, and he hasn't gone crazy yet. Because when he saw creatures that had been considered illusory come alive in front of him, he felt that he had also become illusory.

It's a brutal world. Dominated by demons, multiple creatures coexist. Here, humanity is in a very weak position. A status that you won't like, but have to accept.

Demons are an umbrella term. In fact, it refers to a qiē supernatural creature in general. They were born from the idea of the main material realm (reality), but here they become reality. They possess great power, demonic technology that they cannot comprehend. Light yì can destroy a qiē resistant. Their civilization is highly developed, and they have built a large and numerous demon city. And to treat a qiē disadvantaged race as a slave. Because of their needs, they allow humans to multiply in the world, like 'domestic animals'.

On the other hand, the living conditions of human beings are extremely harsh.

The five-month-long acid rain season stifles crop growth. And the technology that human beings are good at is very ineffective here, and with the exception of gunpowder, many technologies common in the main material world have almost no effect here. Without oil, there would be no technology and machinery that depended on oil. Humans can only use the walls to defend against external threats, and the wilderness outside the town is full of dangers, the lack of medicines, minerals, resources, food, all of which knock humanity from the main material plane to the dust.

Under such circumstances, the social production activities of human beings have been greatly curbed. You can only go along with it. Fortunately, however, humanity is not without resistance. During his long contact with demons, he learned the techniques of demons and developed a survival mode suitable for humans. And so the witcher appeared. They are good at negotiating with demons, fighting. Snatch survival resources from demons while excelling at using a weapon called a 'device-like' that deals effective damage to demons.

A traveler is a person who specializes in collecting resources in the wild, surveying demon ruins, and studying demon culture. They are not of high status, but they are the 'tentacles' of human beings to stretch outward, so they are also a common occupation.

Chen Yan stood in front of the window, looking at the busy crowd below, and after a while, he glanced back at the thin little girl. Frowning slightly. "You're going to do their laundry again...... Brush those smelly shoes? ”

"I didn't ......" The girl seemed to be about to argue, but noticing Chen Yan's clear gaze, her voice gradually lowered. I just want to make a little more money. We...... We need. ”

"I'll take care of that." Chen Yan walked over and took the girl's hands. The delicate little hands were a little cold, and some blistered white wounds were faintly visible. Although it was summer, the groundwater in Hakim was cold and biting, not to mention the stinking and hard shoes worn by the men.

Chen Yan took out the ointment from the drawer next to him and skillfully applied it to the girl. His fingers are soft and light.

"Don't do it again. Leah, if you want to make money, it's obviously easier to sell **. But will you? ”

"Maybe......" Leah winced to avoid Chen Yan's gaze, biting her lip slightly. Maybe. ”

"Of course not." Chen Yan shook his head and touched the girl's hair with a smile. The girl's hair is smooth. "Don't try what you can't do, that's not courage, it's stupidity. You're a good girl, Leah, and I want to see you live happily and happily instead of suffering in pain every day. By the way, have you taken all the medicine for you? How have you been feeling lately? ”

Leah has a severe heart disease, myocardial ischemia, and insufficient oxygen supply to the body. So her body has been very thin and can't be cured.

"I ...... I ate them all. Leah lowered her head and replied timidly.

The room was quiet, Chen Yan was silent for a while, and then took out a small plate of potion from the drawer next to him and handed it to Leah. He didn't speak, but his eyes saw that Leah was lying. At present, the supply of the town is insufficient, the price of potions is soaring, and even the mercenaries cannot get sufficient supplies, how can Leah, who is short of money, ensure that she takes her medicine on time? She must have used all the money from the medicine to buy supplies, for the next plan of the two of them.

"Take your medicine on time." Chen Yan repeated again. He didn't blame Leah because that's the reality.

"Don't worry about the money, Leah, we'll have the money when this batch of papers is translated."

"Yes...... But ......" Leah raised her head, plucking up the courage to refute Chen Yan for the first time. "Don't you also suffer from Yan zhòng's migraine? Even you don't take medicine, why am I ......"

"Leah!" Chen Yan interrupted the girl. The tone became a little harsh. So the girl fell silent, and it took a long time before she took the medicine handed by Chen Yan.

"I'll take my medicine, but...... You want it too. ”

"Okay." Chen Yan laughed and gently stroked the back of the girl's head. The girl also leaned obediently into his arms, and a smile appeared on her face for the first time. It seems that Chen Yan's embrace is the safest harbor in the world.

In the silence, the girl's voice rang out. "Chen Yan, I miss grandpa."

"I want to, too." Chen Yandao. Leah's grandfather died of illness a year ago, and now only the two of them are left to survive.

"Will you leave me?"

"No, it won't." Chen Yan replied categorically. So the girl was satisfied, closed her eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

The lights on the table were flickering, and Chen Yan's gaze looked out the window over the girl's head, and the sky was a little gloomy.

It's going to rain.

The town of Hakim is now in a tense mood. As the acid rainy season approached and the Kuroshio Current, they needed a lot of medicine to keep them alive. It's a third-tier town, with poor armed forces, with only one town guard being the main force of regular defense, and the rest having to rely on mercenaries to maintain it. And such a defense is clearly insufficient.

Unless, there are enough witchers here. Their class device will change a qiē.

The quasi-device is a product of demonic technology. It is considered the exclusive armament of the witchers. It has a very powerful effect. A class device can be a gun, a knife, or a hair. But it only shows its true colors when it attacks. Implantable devices require a magic pattern as a foundation, so only witchers can use them.

The wind was blowing outside the window, and he lifted the hair on Chen Yan's forehead, he lowered his head and put a dress on Leah, and then glanced at his left hand.

There was nothing unusual there, but with Chen Yan's gaze, gray lines appeared from under his skin, extending from the tips of his five fingers to his heart. Patterns are not symbols, but rather geometric patterns of integrated circuits. Its color seeps into the deepest part of the arm, and it can't be washed off.

This is the magic pattern. The 'base' of the device.

Chen Yan didn't know where his magic pattern came from, it had it from the moment he woke up. However, his magic pattern is a little special, and other people's magic patterns are only awakened a little bit, and it takes the technology of the demon hunter to perfect, but his magic pattern is complete from the beginning, but it has no effect.

Sometimes, Chen Yan even wondered if it was a magic pattern. And just an ordinary 'tattoo'?

Just thinking about it, Chen Yan suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his head, and he snorted involuntarily. It's another seizure...... This damn brain tumor.

He hurriedly put Leah on the bed, then pressed the back of her head with one hand and the other against the wall. The sharp pain stimulated his nerves, but he gritted his teeth and didn't make any sound. Before he knew it, his fingers were sinking deep into the wall, and his vision was a little blurry. There have been no killings for three years, and the attacks of this brain tumor have become more frequent and stricter. Chen Yan didn't know when it would kill him. But he felt that day would not be too far away.

Is it time to leave?

Tranquil life...... Such extravagance?

In the severe pain, Chen Yan thought vaguely...... But he didn't notice that the magic pattern on his left arm seemed to be a little deeper.

The magic lines were deep, twisted by the flickering lights of the room, like a smiling face.