Chapter 1: The Living Dead

The three life cores not only won Ye Xi a chance to be reborn, but also got a weapon of barely passable quality, the big sword. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This was Ye Xi's dead skin and face for almost half an hour before he rubbed this big knife over. In fact, Ye Xi wanted a gun even more, and there was no doubt that no one would like to fight a Heka in hand-to-hand combat.

However, Chloe's attitude was very tough, and he had no choice but to compromise and try to fight for the cheapest big knife under the counter.

Carrying his own knife, Ye Xi left Chloe's shop contentedly and walked down the street, which was lined with simple houses full of cracks.

The street is not vast, but for the living, it is vast, because there are not enough of them to fill this narrow street. Ye Xi occasionally glanced at the people who passed by him, most of them were men in leather clothes, and when they walked down the street, the people around them would always stay away.

In this era, the only people who can afford to wear leather clothes are hunters, and hunters are a profession that can hunt monsters in the Chaos Zone, but... no one has stipulated that hunters cannot use the same skills as monsters to deal with humans.

In the small crowd, there were only a few hunters, and more were shirtless, unclothed men carrying rocks and women in extremely revealing clothes, and they were wearing all kinds of gems and pearls, if they were placed in the old days. They must be the most noble young ladies, but this is the dark age after the cataclysm, and their jewelry is not worth a bowl of rice.

The women stretched out their hands on the side of the road to the passing hunters, settling in various poses, gently lifting their glamorous skirts, and the sensitive parts loomed so that many men could not help but swallow.

Ye Xi thought that after he became a hunter, after he came back from hunting, should he break down with a woman, he lived so big, he hadn't tried the taste of a woman, and he heard the uncle next door say that this taste was very refreshing.

Just thinking about these things, Ye Xi suddenly noticed that the corners of his clothes were pulled down, and he turned his head to see that it was a girl who looked like fifteen or sixteen years old, she looked at Ye Xi with big eyes and sullen anxiety.

"Big brother, do you want to come for the night? I'm cheap for just four cookies. The girl's hands trembled, and she stammered as she spoke, not daring to look directly into Ye Xi's eyes.

The long black hair covered the girl's eyes, but Ye Xi could see the tears slipping down his face, and he subconsciously moved his gaze down and looked at the girl's body.

"Your body is flatter than the floor, I see that you are soft, and I am still messing with you, aren't you making me laugh." Ye Xi laughed out loud. The girl was wearing a tattered black dress, which had not been washed for a long time, and even her face was dark and filthy, and her hair was as messy as a bird's nest.

"I... I can do any pose." The girl's voice became weaker and weaker, and to the last few words, it was even drowned out by the beep of the girl's stomach.

"You go find someone else, I'm not interested in you." Ye Xi said helplessly.

The girl lowered her head and did not speak, but silently shook her head.

"Cut~" Ye Xi smiled contemptuously, sarcastically saying something.

This world is so cruel, in order to survive, you have to pay something, I can live until now is the favor of Lady Luck, if one day, human beings are extinct, I will not be surprised, but will take it for granted.

Look at the living dead in this dead world, they don't have the feelings that life should have, but empty numbness, puppets dominated by despair. Obviously, there is no point in living, it will only make them suffer more, but they still give up what they have in order to live, and watch the world gradually decay and make the pain deeper, which is the despicability of life.

To be alive is not to feel joy, only to be more desperate, to die in the world, to die in the race.

Ye Xi impatiently threw two biscuits to the girl, and said coldly: "Get out of here." ”

"yes, I'll get out right away. Thank you very much for your kindness. The girl took Ye Xi's biscuits like a treasure, looked around expectantly, and hurriedly put the biscuits into her arms, and after doing these, the girl kept lowering her head and thanking her, until Ye Xi really couldn't help it, the girl didn't leave.

"It's really disturbing." Ye Xi cut his voice.

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Ye Xi returned to his dilapidated house and pushed open the door, it was all dust, all the furniture was tattered, only a low table and a few chairs that could be used in front of him, this shabby place even spiders did not want to come.

Well, it seems that there is no bed, for Ye Xi, this table is his own bed, and he doesn't have the money to buy that kind of real bed. For wanderers, being able to eat is more important than anything else, and if you don't have enough physical strength, you can't run away from those monsters, and because of this, Ye Xi can only use all the money he earns to fill his stomach.

Ye Xi sat on the table, took out the rune he got from Kloe, pinched it in his hand and rubbed it repeatedly. Regarding the knowledge of fusion runes and the like, Ye Xi has long been able to memorize it like a stream, he has been preparing for this day for too long, and he even does not hesitate to fight with his life.

Taking a deep breath, Ye Xi bit his ring finger and swiped on the rune, the scarlet blood color made the breath on the rune even more weird, closing his eyes to sense the power of the rune, Ye Xi could feel a force entering his body, this may be the process of fusing the rune.

Just as Ye Xi breathed a sigh of relief, a sharp swelling pain suddenly appeared in his mind, as if his brain was about to burst, Ye Xi subconsciously wanted to scream, but the severe pain deprived Ye Xi of the strength to speak, instinctively rolled down from the table, knocked over the chair, the white foam in his mouth couldn't stop rushing, and the reason in his eyes quickly faded, leaving only a sluggish color. The movements of the struggle became weaker and weaker, and gradually, Ye Xi's hand stopped moving, and lay on the ground like a dead man.

There seemed to be something in the blood, as if it was the undoubted king, angry at the intervention of the rune power in his own domain, and the rune power was like a lonely boat in a rainstorm in the face of this will. The huge waves kneaded the runic power in the palm of his hand at will, unable to resist.

When he woke up, those pains were gone, Ye Xi rubbed his forehead, feeling his body, without the slightest feeling of discomfort, as if those pains had been a dream, but the white foam traces on his sleeves silently told that this was a reality that had happened.

"That guy from Chloe can't give me a fake, I've never heard of such a pain after fusing runes." Ye Xi cursed, looked at his arm, I don't know when there was an extra line on the arm, look closely, those lines are exactly the same as the lines on the runes engraved by Ye Xi.

"Luckily, I didn't have the courage to try a second time." Ye Xi was talking to herself with palpitations.

Trying to swing his fist, Ye Xi could clearly feel that his strength was stronger than before, this was the power of runes. When one's own genes are fused with runes, the shackles of living beings will be broken, for ordinary people, ten points of power is almost impossible, but after fusing runes, ten points of power is a breeze, it is difficult to get close to the limit, but if the threshold of the limit is raised, it will be more difficult than that.

"Now that the runes have been fused, it's time to go to the guild to register the identity of the hunter."

Ye Xi took the cheap big knife he had brought, walked towards the Hunter Guild, and came out of the residential area, Ye Xi came to a huge building, which was conspicuous, but not too conspicuous, it is worth mentioning that this building is brand new, it was built after the cataclysm, not the ruins of the residential area.

Ye Xi walked to the front desk and said to the woman with heavy makeup, "I want to register as a hunter." ”

The person in charge of the front desk is a blonde woman, her face is good, much better than the woman standing on the street outside, and she wears heavy makeup to make the woman's temperament more charming.

"Huh? Have you already engraved the runes? The woman with heavy makeup lowered her eyes and looked at Ye Xi, and then lost interest, Ye Xi was dressed in the clothes of ordinary residents, and she didn't even have a leather coat, this kind of person either hit a fortune or happened to get an inferior rune.

"Turn left into the measurement room and go by yourself."

The woman with heavy makeup impatiently sent Ye Xi away, Ye Xi was dissatisfied, but she could only stare at it, it was not good to have a seizure, and she could do it in the Hunter Guild. Either it's a hunter, or there's a hunter behind it, neither of which he can afford to mess with right now.

Ye Xi walked to the measuring room, there was a three-person hugging device in the room, well, in the Dark Ages, the instrument was limited to the legendary things of ordinary people, this is a rune skill that has been developed after the cataclysm.

There were six crystalline stones with a size of more than 30 centimeters suspended on a shelf, which was very magical, and the man in charge of the test stretched his waist when he saw Ye Xi coming over.

"After waiting all day, you are the third, and there have been fewer and fewer new hunters lately. Boy, sit on it, don't be nervous. ”

Ye Xi didn't say anything, sat on the shelf, and let the light from the crystal stone shine on him, and after a while, the man took out a report with a little surprise on his face.

"Huh! Did you only recently seal the runes? ”

"What's the matter, could it be that my rune power has not been successfully imprinted?" Ye Xi was a little nervous in his heart, what happened last night was really a little different from the engraving process he knew.

"That's not true, you do have the power of runes engraved on your body, but you don't look like a trained wrestler." The man didn't explain and handed Ye Xi a piece of paper.

Ye Xi looked at the data on the paper, and suddenly understood what the man meant, after the data tested by the measuring instrument, Ye Xi's strength was unexpectedly 11 points high. For hunters, this is nothing, but Ye Xi has just imprinted the power of runes, and even if his strength has increased, it will only be two or three points at most.

Engraved Rune: Violence

Ye Xi remembers very well that the last time he tested his body data, Ye Xi's strength was only six points, while among the other body indexes, endurance and speed were the best, eight and seven respectively. After imprinting the runes, they all broke through and increased by three points.

"It's true that I only engraved the runes yesterday."

"Maybe your body is very compatible with the runes." The man didn't think much about it, this matter was not worth his attention.

"Take your data to the front desk and get the Hunter Badge." The man waved his hand to signal Ye Xi to leave.

Ye Xi didn't stay long, and after arriving at the front desk, he handed the data sheet to the woman with heavy makeup.

"Very well, maybe you will be a good hunter in the future, and it's a good thing to be a hunter, isn't it? Don't you celebrate? After the woman with heavy makeup learned about Yang Yang's information, she couldn't help but look at Ye Xi a few times, and the corners of her lipstick mouth rose slightly.

"What's the celebration?" Ye Xi smiled, not surprised by the change of face of the woman with heavy makeup.

"A wonderful night, maybe you can show me the endurance and strength beyond the limits of ordinary people." The woman with heavy makeup stroked Ye Xi's chest and teased.

"Unfortunately, I don't think you can withstand my strength, maybe only those monsters can." Ye Xi rejected the proposal of a woman with heavy makeup, this woman is much better looking than the outside, but the price is naturally much more expensive.

"Cut, the fee for registering a hunter requires three pie tickets." The woman with heavy makeup lost interest.

There are two kinds of currency in this world, one is food stamps, which can be exchanged for food, which is the currency of ordinary people, and the currency of hunters is the core of life.

"I remember that it doesn't cost anything to register as a hunter." Ye Xi said with a frown.

"No, the Hunter's badge is made of fairly sturdy metal, and these aren't free."

"Okay... remember to greet your mother for me." Ye Xi said with a smile on his face, and as he spoke, he took out three cake tickets.

This may be the old-time culture that Ye Xi currently knows, which seems ridiculous, but if you think about it carefully, you take it for granted. It is not surprising that the post-cataclysmic pain has left survivors complaining every day that they have forgotten science, wealth, and dignity, and have only memorized the dirty words and used what they know to vent their despair about the world.

"Sadly, my mother is dead." The woman with heavy makeup is not Chinese, otherwise she must know that this sentence is not just a simple greeting.