Chapter 1: The Storm Comes

As if sliced by a knife across the sky, the other half of the clear blue sky was a huge black cloud that was moving away at a slow and irresistible speed.

Bigger than the black clouds is the desert beneath the firmament, and the yellow sand spreads out in a desperate gesture, swallowing up all vivid colors.

A pickup truck, like a tiny beetle, lies limply on the edge of the dune. The man lying on the steering wheel suddenly woke up, feeling his throat grinded by sandpaper, and the pain was like fire.

After taking a few breaths of the turbid air in the car, he looked up at the rearview mirror of the car, which reflected a large bald head and an unexpectedly beautiful face.

To have such a clean appearance in this era and maintain it for more than ten years, the original owner of this body is really lucky. He quickly began to adjust to this new body. Although it is on the thin side, it is rare to be healthy. Consciousness was beginning to take over the new brain, and he was familiar with it, but unlike before, this time he needed to fuse the body's memories.

This was the first time he had used a non-blank shell.

Xuanzang ...... The name of this body, the new identity thereafter.

Your own name? He doesn't remember. He has used too many names over the centuries. As for his real name, he shouldn't have forgotten it, if it weren't for the haste of this escape.

But he did not forget his mission, it was so deeply seared in his soul that no catastrophe could wipe it out.

Xuanzang lowered the dusty car window, reached out to open the stuck car door from the outside, and stepped on the scorching yellow sand with both feet. Standing on the ground again, he felt dizzy. Not long ago, his soul was still in the ionosphere, and it was a difficult process to recover from that state of incarnation, random fingers, and accept the fact that his soul was relocked into an ordinary body.

He finally recovered from his vertigo, and looked back at the distant thundercloud, which still flashed blue-white from time to time.

In the last war, they destroyed his last soul box, and in order to prevent his soul from being captured, he resolutely launched himself into the ionosphere, allowing the soul to be reduced to plasma, barely preserved. He had been addicted to that end-of-life experience for a time, and he didn't want to return to the human world.

But perhaps it was the creation of that firm belief in the darkness that his soul reunited and connected with the thunderclouds at a low altitude with the help of an accidental ionospheric discharge.

The blue jet that ran through the atmosphere for dozens of kilometers, carrying his soul, slashed to the ground with a lightning bolt that shook the earth.

After the thunderstorm raged, leaving two charred corpses in the cargo box in the back of the car, poor people, they didn't know that sitting in the car could avoid being struck by lightning, probably because the thundercloud came too suddenly. Even the people in the car suffered the same misfortune, and the metal shell of the car, under the power of electric shocks that exceeded common sense, became some kind of device, which contributed to his arrival.

In addition to the two charred corpses, there were also several broken water tanks in the cargo box. The lightning strike caused the water in the tank to vaporize instantly, and the huge pressure blew the tank apart. Xuanzang sorted out his memories and learned that these three people had gone to the place where the rain master appeared to fetch water, and on the way back, they encountered a thunderstorm cloud that suddenly formed, so they ended up like this.

The two people who were struck by the lightning struck to death, like all the other dead people, will go to the underworld to die.

And he has experienced many illegal resurrections, and even after leaving the underworld, he can save his soul. The experience of illegal resurrection tempered his will to be extremely strong, and the body occupied by him could not withstand that transcendent will, and the original soul was likely to be torn apart, and he could not be reborn forever.

He silently apologized to the original Xuanzang in his heart, although he had killed many people, he had never carried out a living sacrifice like this.

But no matter how powerful the soul is, it will be damaged after suffering that devastating blow.

The soul boxes hidden everywhere have been destroyed by the heavenly soldiers and generals. Loyal companions and close comrades-in-arms also died one by one in the unprecedented offensive of the Buddhas. People who believed in him were sent to the underworld one after another, washed their memories on the Nai He Bridge, and forcibly died. And his soul has lost a lot of precious memories in the escape, and it is a blessing in misfortune that he can still maintain a relatively complete sense of self.

It was one of the worst battles, and he really lost it. He had lost all his strength, and all that was left was his current body, plus most of his mutilated soul......

In one lifetime, he built a base with strong troops, and their weapons were not far behind the technology of the gods, and the sky within a radius of tens of thousands of meters boiled under his warship.

In one lifetime, he gathered tens of thousands of believers, who regarded him as a true faith, and did not hesitate to use mortal power to help him fight against the entire heavenly court.

In one lifetime, he infiltrated the core of the Western Heavenly Land of Bliss, and successfully paralyzed the reincarnation net, inflicting heavy damage on the Buddhas.

In one lifetime, he even spread a deadly plague to heaven and earth, restarting this deformed world.

……

He fell down again and again, and got back up again and again.

When he died, his companions created a new body for him, allowing him to return from the crate.

When he was defeated, his followers repaired his equipment and rebuilt an incredibly large fortress on the barren land.

When he fought alone, the knowledge stored in the brain of that genius could also allow him to create magic again.

However, in this life, he lost everything in the past, all the capital of resistance.

In this devastated world, even survival is an incredibly difficult challenge. With this ordinary body, how can we regain enough strength?

Can we just give up? Pretend not to know the truth and live under the rule of the gods and Buddhas like everyone else......

No!

He clenched his fists, and the yellow sand reflected in his resolute eyes like a sea of fire. Thunderclouds flickered like chariots crushing the sky.

No, what are you kidding?

What bullshit gods and Buddhas! Why do those hypocritical cowards, brutal liars, live on the filthy heavens with self-righteousness!

Who gave them power, monopolized technology and resources, and lived a life of debauchery after the apocalypse, leaving countless people who did not know the truth to survive in the wasteland!

Even if you fall into such a situation, even if there is only a slim chance of winning......

This god and Buddha will also be pulled down from the altar by him, and he will fall forever, and the world will be pure!

The air intake on the front cover of the car suddenly opened, the engine let out a wild roar, and Xuanzang stepped on the accelerator fiercely, raising a sharp trail in the boundless sand sea.

The body's memory did not contain much useful geographical knowledge, and his range of activity was limited to the desert near the Golden Mountain, and he also knew where the Golden Mountain was located in the whole world.

But Xuanzang found a person from his memory, Fa Ming, the leader of the Jinshan Cave, a rare calm and enlightened old man in the wasteland, who seemed to know more than the others.

Therefore, Xuanzang decided to meet Fa Ming first and determine his position, so that he could calculate the route of the counterattack and the resources and time required, make an impossible plan, and then make it possible.

Suddenly, he heard a noise, strangely, it seemed to come from his head.

There was another murmur, and there was staccato talking, and he quickly stopped the car, his heart racing.

Could it be that they have already locked him in? So fast?

“…… Can you receive ...... This is the F...... Call...... Can...... ...... close," an electronic synthesized voice sounded in his head.

Xuanzang's heart skipped a beat: "FTB, is that you?" ”

"It's me, master."

"You're still alive!"

“…… Yes, I traced your last coordinates in the ionosphere and added the soul trait parameter...... It's nice to be connected to your brain domain again...... I lowered the track urgently...... to get away with ...... It's a bad situation here......"

Xuanzang smiled in surprise, but he didn't expect that he didn't have nothing, and there was still an armed spy satellite left.

"Master, the weapon module is completely damaged...... Worn out when lowering the rails...... And...... All current energy ...... Maintain the stealth module, but only for another ten minutes......"

"Can you contact any other device?"

"Eighty percent of the equipment has been destroyed, except for me...... Rest...... are offline, if you can't ...... I'm about to crash......"

He closed his eyes tightly, concentrating on maintaining the faint connection.

"Confirm my bearings, I'll pick you up at the drop point, perhaps...... Injuries can be reduced. ”

"Your ...... Deviations occur, connections are limited, and precise positioning is not possible. ”

"What's going on? Aren't we having a conversation? ”

"Targeting requires passive feedback, and you can't do it where you are. I only saved the range of the landing point deduced from the last ionospheric coordinates and turned on the feature encryption broadcast within a hundred kilometers. ”

As the minutes passed, Xuanzang quickly tapped on the dashboard and thought about countermeasures.

This is perhaps the only device that hasn't been destroyed, the last hope...... It must be saved!

"FTB, put the remaining energy into the radar, scan all enemy equipment offline in this range."

"The number of targets met is zero."

He gritted his teeth, and it looked like he was going to take an adventure. "Then, scan all enemy equipment, determine the target of the invasion by yourself, and transfer all systems."

After three breaths, the satellite responded: "A faulty black impermanence has been locked, and after this transfer, modules other than the carrier function will fail." Master, the target can only use the enemy's base wireless network, and will no longer be able to use the Brain Domain connection after transferring. ”

"It's okay, I'll give a signal."

"Understand that a task failure will execute the self-destruct program by default. All orders have been confirmed, counting down to one hundred and twenty seconds. ”

Xuanzang counted silently in his heart.

"Master." The last message came from the satellite, "I'll find you again." ”

He nodded, though it couldn't be seen.

The rusty pickup skirts a huge sand dune, and on its back, is a hidden cave. This is a small mountain, but due to years of wind and sand erosion, it has become what it is now. The exterior of the dunes provides good cover, and closing the gate and shaking the sand above can make the settlement difficult to spot.

Xuanzang issued a secret signal and drove into the gate after obtaining permission. Several people quickly gathered around, both men and women, all of them with bald heads like him, except that they had lost their hair because of cancer.

"Where did these two pieces of charcoal come from?"

"That's a corpse, idiot! Who burned them to death, Xuanzang? ”

"Did you run into a group of bandits?"

"I was unlucky enough to run into a thunderstorm and was killed by lightning." Xuanzang shook his head and replied.

The others immediately stood up straight, and silently recited an excessive scripture with one hand and a palm, and Xuanzang did the same. Then the men moved the corpse out of the car and carried it to the cave, ready to check whether the charred corpse was still edible.

Suddenly, someone discovered something more important.

"Why is the water tank broken, where is the water?"

"Where's the water!"

"The water is gone!"