Chapter 048: The City of Gathering Souls One
As the sun sets, the barren streets look pale in the blood-colored afterglow. Overgrown with weeds, the swift cold wind raging among the rubble added a hint of sadness. The whole city is completely apocalyptic scene, with corpses piled up all over the ground becoming 'witnesses' of this shocking catastrophe, and the smoke of gunpowder everywhere tells of endless desolation and pain.
This is the city of Nantingol, once called the 'Land of Glory' in the human realm, but the glory of the past has long since passed with the wind, and now it has a new name: the City of Gathering Souls!
His name is Findell, and he is fourteen years old, an age at which a child should have received a good education in school and should have spent a happy childhood with his family, but everything disappeared with the catastrophe of six months ago. His parents and brother died one after another, but only his 10-year-old sister Ellie remained by his side, and the two young children struggled in this hell on earth, witnessing the violent and bloody groans of death and the ugly faces of human cannibalism. Despair and fear have always hung over everyone, and no one knows when those days will end. But for the sake of his sister, for the only relative who stays in this world, the boy can't choose to give up no matter what, because giving up is tantamount to death.
However, the reality is extremely cruel, the young and frail little Ellie did not escape the pursuit of the disease after all, and the high fever did not go away for three days, and her life was already dying. If my sister also goes with her parents, then what's the point of living by herself?
You must stop the disease, even at the cost of your own life. And the only hope at the moment is that in the drug store a few kilometers away, as long as she can find a fever suppressant, little Aili has a hope of survival.
"Brother......... There's no need to take risks for Ellie...... Cough...... cough, with her brother by her side, Ellie is already very satisfied. Ellie's little white hand brushed Findel's cheek, wiping tears from the corners of her eyes. Findel had long since stopped crying, and his sister's every word pierced him deeply.
Needless to say, this time to the drug store, the difficulties and dangers along the way are needless to say, and this is likely to be the last goodbye of the two brothers and sisters, but as an elder brother, Findel must be strong, I saw him suck hard, and a kind smile appeared on his face: "Don't worry, brother just go and go back, Ellie, you have to stay in the room obediently, don't run around, eat on time." Speaking of this, a sour feeling welled up in Findel's heart, and tears flowed down like pearls with broken threads, "If my brother can't come back tomorrow night, then ............ the day after tomorrow morning"
"Ellie is going to stay here and wait for her brother to come back!"
"Obedient, my brother really doesn't know if he can ............ or not"
"Does my brother hate Ellie for not wanting to go down with Ellie?" Little Ellie's pale face had already turned a tender red, and her teardrop-filled eyes stared at Findel excitedly, as if she was reluctant to say a thousand words.
After a long silence, Findel was finally relieved, he gently kissed his sister's forehead, and said gently: "Okay, wait for my brother to come back............"
Hill District, McKenn Street, a sparsely populated and inaccessible suburb of the City of Souls, is sparsely populated and inaccessible even today after the apocalypse.
If you want to survive the apocalypse, food is the most critical factor, and the value is far more than gold, and it is not uncommon for people to fight and even fight each other for food. However, after several months of baptism, the amount of edible food is either rotten or moldy, and the amount gradually decreases. The survivors set their sights on urban areas with more food and water, and although the gains are proportional to the risks, they are willing to take risks in order to survive.
And now it was Findell's turn to take the plunge, and the things that this fourteen-year-old boy had to bear may not be important in the eyes of others, but in his heart it was more important than his own life, all for love, for his sister............
A howling cold wind swept through the dry treetops, and yellow leaves fell, as if announcing the arrival of winter.
Under the cover of night, Findel moves swiftly from street to street, and while the evil spirit's sense of sight and hearing is greatly limited at night, its sense of smell is becoming more acute, so it must not stay in the same place for long. At this rate, the boy was not relieved that he had managed to reach the edge of the city along the highway in a few hours, without encountering any danger on the way.
"Could it be that I have too much heart?" The more this happened, the more uneasy Findell became, the surrounding was surprisingly quiet, and the atmosphere was really oppressive. Under the faint moonlight, everything is so treacherous.
"Boom!" In a trance, Findel accidentally bumped into the mailbox on the side of the road, making a dull noise. It is no wonder that under the effect of great psychological pressure, it is normal for mental fatigue to occur. Now he was completely awake, only to see him rush up with an arrow and hurriedly hold the mailbox that was about to fall to the ground, after all, even if the evil spirit's hearing became weaker, it would not be so weak that he couldn't even hear the sound of the mailbox hitting the ground. Even so, Findel vigilantly turned back to make sure no evil spirits attacked. But just as he turned around again.................. A pair of scarlet eyes just looked at him up close!
Findel's first thought was—it's over!
These evil spirits are twice the size of humans, with dark bodies, only the terrifying scarlet eyes of their eyes, short lower limbs, but surprisingly large upper limbs, and sharp blood claws at the ends that can tear people in half with a single blow.
Even a strong adult may not be able to save his life when encountering a ferocious evil spirit, let alone a child as young as fourteen. The only weapon in Findel's hand was a folded plastic fruit knife, and he was faced with three terrifying spirits that exuded evil all over their bodies.
"Whew~~~" The evil spirits opened their bloody mouths and roared wildly, as if to express their excitement before eating. The cold light flashed, and several sharp giant claws quickly slashed through, but Findel who stood there could not move in the slightest because of fear, he knew that he had come to this end.
A flower-like life is about to pass away!
"Ellie is going to stay here and wait for her brother to come back!"
"With my brother by my side, Aili is already very satisfied!"
"Ely............ To be with my brother forever, always, always! ”
Ellie's voice echoed in her ears for a long time, it was so sweet, so real, as if it was a natural sound. That's right, he can't just die, he can't let his sister stay alone in this world, he has to fulfill his promise: wait for his brother to come back!
"No, Ellie!"
Only a loud bang was heard, and a dazzling flash of light passed by Findell's eyes at great speed, and the earth trembled, and the waves of air churned, and wails rang out one after another. The demons were wiped out in an instant, leaving only Fendel, who remained in place, stunned, and the tall figure standing in front of him.
“hello,boy!” Zhen Shifeng pouted and smiled.