Chapter 1: The Black Mist Descends
Most of the time in the Land of the Free is dimly lit, especially when the dome passes over the huge figure of the high-rise continent, and the sunlight is already a very precious resource for this once glorious ancient country. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Mountains and a millennia of unchanging soil, as well as the mottled ruins dotted between the continents, are the only vestiges of a civilization in the land of freedom.
When the terrifying black fog spreads to all corners of the world, the once ancient civilization is not spared, and this shattered continent has now completely evolved into a chaotic place for refugees and criminals.
And it does not exceed the floating land level of the third orbit at most, and the resource exploitation of the inhabitants extermination, even the Bright Divine Court, the founder of the order of the new civilization, has little interest in it.
It's so barren that even the most difficult adventurers wouldn't choose to try their luck here.
As a member of the Free Lands Floating Continent group, the environment of the Grande Floating Continent is particularly poor. Domestic garbage, production garbage, broken gunboats, half-cut prime power guns, and even expensive power armor parts - this kind of expensive is compared to many "garbage", many speculative merchants in the upper continent will use this as a terminal for dumping garbage, and they do not have to bear any tax rates and follow-up costs when they put garbage here, so this bottom continent that is in the lowest orbit and does not have any city-state jurisdiction slowly has a veritable nickname - garbage heap.
Night was about to fall on this dim bottom floating continent, and the figure of an upper continent just blocked the faint light of the moon, so Grande became even darker.
The people living on this barren continent, trembling in the night, wrapped in thin clothes, when the time reaches midnight, they will face the coldest and darkest night in the Grande Floating Continent every month, the deepest and most terrifying danger, no one can tell how many people will disappear forever in this night.
The faint roar of the beast in the night was bleak and terrifying, and the sound sources of these sounds in the Black Fog Zone revealed the brutal excitement of the imminent killing.
The Black Mist Zone, which was once the primitive home of human existence, was no longer a human being until a thousand years ago when the terrifying Black Mist Beast descended on this world along with an even more terrifying black mist. Mankind has failed to defeat the black fog despite all its might, until the appearance of the first city in the sky, which carries the great feat of the highest technological essence of mankind, and has become the only hope for mankind.
The tentacles of the black fog spread across the continent, but could not fly to the sky, when the new sky cities rose from the land, human beings finally had a room to breathe, but there are still countless civilizations that have been swallowed up by the black fog forever and remain in their homeland.
The reconstruction of civilization is full of hardships and hardships, especially when the black fog gets thicker and thicker with time, even the sky may not be a permanent place to live.
Finally, when the great prophet of mankind, the first god-emperor Rost Lee's first power armor was released, which combined modern technology with the treasures of the ancient civilization of the Force, and successfully immune to the erosion of the black fog, a new civilization, Nirvana, was reborn!
However, another problem facing humanity at this time is that the material of power armor is extremely rare and rare, it is only born in the thick of the black fog, where there are countless terrifying and brutal black fog beasts. Besides, even if humans can penetrate deep into the black mist, what can they do to defeat the black mist beast?
The black fog that spreads and grows all the time will not be affected in any way, and even the great first god-emperor Rost Lee can't do anything about it.
But he was convinced that light would overcome darkness, and that in the future, there would be the next savior in the world who would change everything!
The belief in light quickly spread to all the cities in the sky, and under the leadership of the Great God Emperor, people always believed in the emergence of this day. So a hundred years, a hundred years, another hundred years......
The vicissitudes of the world, things change, the old sky city falls, the new sky city rises, everything is changing, but that person has never appeared......
"There is no eternal myth in the sky castle of Orjincho, but faith is immortal!"
This is the epilogue of the last chapter of the Bible, the epitome of the great will of the first god-emperor, which has affected countless people for hundreds of years, and now, it is dumped on the land of Grande in a garbage hauler, and flows through the hands of a wounded teenager, which is useless in the coming horror of midnight except to be the firewood for the boy to light the bonfire.
The people of the lower continent only care about how to struggle to live, as for faith?
Scold...... It was a luxury that only the upper class was qualified to pursue, and the will of the first god emperor had long since slowly died out with his death. Where does tomorrow lead? The dead don't have a chance to know.
The dancing flames of the campfire illuminate the young man's youthful face, black hair, black eyes, typical of Sean's human signs. Under the straight and stiff eyebrows, the slightly raised corners of the eyes are as sharp and resolute as knives, the straight and straight nose bridge is like a pillar supporting the atrium, the edges and corners of the knife-like face are more distinct under the illumination of the beating flames, and the slightly pursed lips intentionally or unintentionally exude maturity and courage that are in no way consistent with this age.
It's just that the only fly in the ointment is that his skinny body is full of deep and shallow wounds, some of which have not been effectively bandaged and treated, and have ulcerated and inflamed, and even whitish muscles and bones can be seen faintly.
A young man in the prime of his youth should be enjoying life, and he should never be like this.
The boy was probably thinking about something, and he stared at the faint flames in distraction, his dark pupils out of focus. But if an experienced Force warrior is here, you can tell at a glance that he is meditating deeply, capturing the extremely rare Force dust of the lower continent.
Suddenly, a bright light flashed in the gloomy night sky, followed by the continuous sound of heavy objects falling to the ground. The young man who was attracted by the sound woke up from meditation, and subconsciously ran to the door, listening carefully to the sounds outside.
Then he turned around to extinguish the bonfire, and carefully pushed open the boulder of the top door, and the broken metal door creaked open a gap of only a dozen centimeters, and through the gap the boy looked out cautiously.
The faint light of the first quarter moon was scattered, and the shadows of the upper continent were finally gone, bringing only a faint light to the pitch-black Grande.
The boy carefully closed the door, covered it with a tattered tarpaulin, and then sprinkled some dust to make it blend in with the surrounding garbage from the outside, and then crawled out of the stinking garbage heap.
The young man's movements were too cautious, his tense body could bounce up at any time, and he even had a feeling that the grass and trees were all soldiers.
And as an "aborigine" who has lived in Grande since he can remember, the thirteen-year survival record of the teenager reminds him over and over again that no matter how cautious he is at this moment, the first quarter moon over Grande is like the scythe of death, whenever the moon is the darkest and the light force is weakest, it is the season when the black fog beast in the black fog area is boiling and carnival.
The carnival of the monster is a disaster for mankind, especially the bottom continent on the verge of the black fog area, due to the lack of sufficient energy, the floating continent is difficult to fly high, and at this time it will often become the first target of the black fog beasts, and the only thing they can do without protection is to hide in a corner, trembling and waiting for the dawn to come.
The boy should have been hiding in his dilapidated dwelling tonight, and what made him risk his life to go out before midnight?
The answer is not far away, a huge transport ship is moving away, countless loads are pouring down from its open rear hatch, the powerful blue tail inflammation proves that it is at least a beta-class carrier ship, and the "WS" logo on the hull is even more eye-catching and abnormal, what does this sign represent?
No one knows better than the people who live here all year round that household waste! This ship is carrying the household garbage of the upper continent, and the domestic garbage often means another term for the people here, food!
Yes, food!
Food will drive anyone living in the barren Grande Continent crazy, even if it's a broken piece of cheese! The teenager was no exception, he had not eaten for three days, and he was in the stage of rapid physical development, and it was especially difficult for him to endure hunger. That's why he chose to leave his home during this time.
Time waits for no one, and the garbage will soon be cleared by the crowd that rushes up, and the teenager doesn't want to run into the stronger adults because he goes late.
Now he had to speed up, he wasn't the only one who dared to take risks, there were even crazier than him, and the garbage dump was next to his home, and it was a great opportunity for him to find all the resources he could find before midnight!
The boy tightened the long backpack on his back, like a nimble and swift cat, crawling on the undulating garbage heap, he blended in with the environment in the night, and the high and low garbage mountains could not stop him from moving forward. Plagued by the cruel Grande all year round, some of the boy's physical qualities are stronger than those of wild beasts, but he is too thin due to nutrition and food.
Without alarming anyone, it only took him ten minutes to reach the target point, and after cautiously looking around to make sure that there was no one else around, he plunged headlong into the garbage heap.
Ignoring the deep and shallow wounds on his fingers, the boy rummaged through them quickly and vigorously, and in a short time the bags on his back were stuffed with things, but these were only preliminary gains, and it was up to his luck to pick out how much to eat in the end.
Time passed quickly, and the more people gathered at this time, and glancing at the crescent moon that was about to go overhead, the boy knew that he had to leave, midnight was approaching, he could already feel the black fog spreading in the air, and the more obvious beast roar was in his ears.
So he rushed out of the crowd without thinking, even though there were still many edible items under him that had not yet been picked up. Food is precious, but life is even more valuable.
More and more people are congregating, and the periphery of the garbage heap is especially chaotic, with many people fighting for a little food, even a rotten apple.
As one of the first scavengers to arrive, he was lucky that this time he no longer had to fight with others for food, and the harvest behind him would ensure that he would never add more scars to his body for the week ahead.
Still walking close to the ground, the boy tried to minimize his exposure as much as possible, and at this juncture, he didn't want to be targeted by others. Just when he successfully got out of the outer crowd and was about to get out of this land of right and wrong, the sky did not fulfill people's wishes, and after climbing over a mountain of garbage with a considerable height, the boy ran into a group of people head-on.
It was a group of young people about the same age as him, they gathered in twos and threes, the number of them was nearly ten, at this time they were staring intently at the crowd in front of them, their eyes revealed hunger, as the last group of people to arrive, especially a group of half-grown teenagers, they did not dare to compete with those adults who were already crazy.
So when the appearance of the young man full of harvest was like a gift from God, this group of young people who had been hungry for a long time immediately looked at each other and immediately surrounded them.
"Damn it!" The injured young man cursed secretly, he was very careful along the way, he didn't expect to be planted in the last step, the group of young people in front of him can be regarded as his "acquaintances", he has fought with them in the past for food.
The first quarter moon above his head was approaching, and the anxious young man's eyes inevitably brought murderous aura, and he roared fiercely at the opponents who were slowly surrounding, "Get out of the way!" ā
After that, his upper body fell to the ground slightly, his left hand was tightly supporting the ground, and his right hand grabbed the backpack on his back, to be precise, the "bracket" that supported the strip backpack, from the shape, like a long stick with a slight arc.
Looking at the young man's action, the group of young people on the opposite side suddenly retreated neatly, obviously usually suffering from his losses, although their opponent was only one person, but judging from the lessons of the past, even if all of them were all up, they might not be able to eat him.
"Flash! Don't be ignorant, hand over the food and we'll let you go, or you won't want to leave here today! The leading young man let out a loud cry, and was driven by hunger to muster up the courage to approach the young man named Shem step by step.
The boy named Shem subconsciously wanted to refuse, but when his gaze touched the moon in the sky, he couldn't help but become gloomy, and the time was getting tighter, and he had to rush back to his residence before midnight, otherwise no one could guarantee that his body would not become food for others the next day.
"Thirty percent, at most thirty percent will be given to you." Flash snorted softly through gritted teeth.
When the leader on the opposite side heard that there was a joke, his expression became even more greedy, and at that moment the lion opened his mouth and said, "No, we can only let you go if you hand it over!" ā
"Jackal, you don't want to get an inch!" Flash let out a low roar, and he couldn't help but clench his fists angrily.
"To hand in a word or not to pay!" The young man named Jackal bared his teeth and grinned.
"It seems that the lesson I gave you last time is still not enough, otherwise this time I will also give you the right side of your face, just to make a symmetry?" The excessive anger made Flash's tone cold, his eyes were as black as ink, and his right hand clenched on his back could make a move at any time!
The young man on the opposite side subconsciously touched a scar on the left side of his face that was still red, although the scar was not a cutting wound, but it really hit half of his face.
It's okay not to mention this stubble, when it comes to the temper of a teenager of this age, it is naturally impossible to swallow his anger, and the current leader is full of anger, and scolds, "Don't think that you will have nothing to fear by ordering a three-legged cat, today I want to see if you really have three heads and six arms, so that you can escape!" ā
"Then try it!" Flash also scolded, and wanted to pounce forward!
At this moment, a violent tremor suddenly came from the direction behind them, followed by the frantic screams and shouts of the crowd.
"Beast tide! The beast tide is coming! The beast tide is coming! "A terrible howl pierced the night, and in an instant it alarmed all the people!
"Damn it!" Hearing this, he cursed the beast tide that was advancing again, and while his opponents were in a panic, he sprinted out of the crowd and fled!
Flash's actions immediately woke up the teenagers besieging him, "Boss, what are we going to do?" Otherwise, go back, the beast tide is coming! A timid subordinate hurriedly persuaded as he looked into the distance in a panic.
But the jackal is on fire, and the young man who is surging with fire is not something that ordinary people can persuade.
"What are you afraid of! Follow me! We will go wherever he goes, can't we still control one of us?! ā
"But the boss ......"
"If you don't dare to chase, get out of here! I don't want a wolf to be a bastard without eggs! The jackal roared, got up, and chased after him.
The rest of the young people couldn't help but look at each other, although they were very resistant to the jackal's decision, but at the thought of being kicked out of the group if they didn't keep up, they gritted their teeth and followed.
Not everyone can survive alone like Shem, and for most people, countless bloody lessons teach them that only the group is necessary to ensure that they can survive in the Grande. Unarmed teenagers, in particular, can easily become targets for adults when they are alone ā cannibalism is no longer uncommon in Grande, where food is too scarce.
Flash ran quickly, silently thinking that nothing would happen to him, but when he skimmed over a low mountain of garbage, he once again ran into something he didn't want to meet. This time, his opponent was not of the same kind, but a black mist beast with an adult body and green pupils!
"Damn it! It turned out to be a two-legged dragon! Flash almost scolded, his good luck seemed to disappear after finding food tonight, and the sudden encounters one after another really made him angry!
However, cursing and cursing did not affect his fighting posture that he had done well at the first time, his right hand behind his head clenched hard, and on his left wrist, a worn-out and oily ring, with the rhythmic ups and downs of his lower abdomen, was emitting a faint light!
With the leap of light, the slender ring greets the light, and dense metal threads poke out of it, and in a moment it forms a golden metal fist, attached to his left hand!
The blue brilliance of the Force flowed through the clear-grained runes of the Force, flowing like the blood that empowers humans! The full body of the fist glove shines brighter!
Power Armor! It turned out to be power armor!
Although this is only a tiny part of the power armor, although this part of the parts is only half of it, this does not change the fact that it is indeed power armor!
Who would have thought that in a floating continent like Grande, which is full of garbage, in the hands of a dirty scavenging teenager, there would be expensive and powerful power armor?
Smelling the danger, the bipedal wyvern snorted violently, and fluttered its huge wings to fly when it landed!