Section 1 The Man in the Ruins

I have never been afraid of death, because I firmly believe that I will live.

I've never tasted alive because I've been ...... since I opened my eyes I'm already dead............

The 7th Universe, Planet X35, 275 years in the last days......

It has been 275 years since the bright light of nuclear annihilation, and this once-glorious planet has long since become a dead place. No matter how splendid a civilization is, there will be a day when it will end. Most of the humans who were once spirits of all things have been killed by weapons of their own making. The rest can only struggle with despair and death......

No one can escape this place of death. Human beings always have to pay the price for their arrogance.

Dark clouds rolled in the sky, and strong winds swept across the land. It's like a sharp blade. Torture and slaughter all creatures that dare to appear before them. It is a desolate land. As far as the eye can see, there are sharp rocks and large chunks of gravel. Occasionally, pitch-black steel bars can be seen pouring out from under the ground. It's like the fangs of the devil.

This is the world of death...... So says the once alive. At that time, they were able to snatch a little bit of supplies to sustain themselves under the threat of the death wind. You can still see a little bit of sunlight every morning, and you can collect a little bit of dew from the steel bars of abandoned buildings. While this dew is not enough to sustain everyone, it is enough to give people hope. At that time, there were far fewer mutated creatures on the ground than there are today. People can also occasionally step out of their hiding places and find hope for survival in a land full of radiation and death.

But now......

The winds of death have been raging on this barren land for decades. In the face of their terrifying speed of nearly forty meters per second, not many creatures still dare to survive. The mutated creature that was once regarded as a tiger and wolf is just as fragile as a baby in front of it. The earth has been completely torn apart. Everywhere there were rocks torn apart by the wind. The entire planet is rapidly gritting. It's hard to see a little bit of green anymore.

On the current X35 planet, only the huge ruined cities of the former civilization are still stubbornly standing. The darkness was like a wounded and dying giant, complaining to the sky of their anger and powerlessness.

The sky was cloudy, and the winds of death were still unleashing their violence. But in the distance, on the horizon, the ruins of a huge city are gradually coming to the fore. As the field of view closes, the outline of the ruins quickly zooms in. This is a standard pre-civilization level 3 city ruins. The high-rise buildings of reinforced concrete resemble a concrete forest. As far as the eye can see, the city is littered with huge collapsed buildings. Despite the strong winds outside, the wind into the ruins is less deadly under the blockage of these buildings. Near the entrance to the ruins, a tall building with more than thirty floors stands strongly. The top half of it has been broken, but the remaining building still has two numbers faintly printed on it.

“27”

Ruin Vault 27.

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Under a certain cement slab in the ruins, a pair of eyes were quietly staring at the clearing not far away, and the owner of the eyes was very quiet. Even if the wind swept through the front of the sand and gravel crackled, he didn't blink. In the shadows, he was like a lifeless stone. There is no breath of life.

Quiet, I don't need to breathe. That would reveal my bearings.

Heartbeat, a little bit slowed down. I will be at one with the environment.

I am a stone, a lifeless stone.

It won't see me, it won't feel me.

I am a stone, a lifeless stone......

Under the cement slab, the eyes of the blood pupil stared at a huge black shadow thirty meters away. It was a sandworm. He waited five hours for his prey. Although in this damn apocalypse, most of the animal's ** tissues are inedible. The sandworm is an exception, as it can always find some uninfected flesh in its bloated body, and it is fat and juicy.

Strictly speaking, sandworms are not too dangerous prey. Although it has a length of more than five meters and a stout **. However, they generally lurk in the sand sea and do not actively attack passengers. But this is the only exception. Just an hour earlier, Bloodpupil had seen three predators trying to get close to it being eaten. The sandworm has a good appetite and can satisfy its stomach with any food. So the three trappers don't have a single hair left now.

Gently covering his mouth and nose, the blood pupil tried to hide himself a little deeper. In order to get a head start on the upcoming hunt. ,

He is also a trapper. In the last days, this is a profession that most men have. But the Blood Pupil is different from ordinary predators, he knows how to hide, he knows how to observe, and he knows how to use his natural weapons.

So it was easy for him to know the difference between the sandworm today. This is a sandworm that is about to lay eggs. Because only during this period will they crawl out of the sea of sand outside the city. Enter the ruins. It is for the waste steel bars that can be seen everywhere in the ruins. These rebars will provide the sandworms with the metal elements they need. in order to make its spawning smoother. Small sandworms are stronger.

But sandworms are also the most dangerous during this period. The trappers just didn't pay attention to this and were eaten. Ovulatory sandworms are extremely aggressive and will attack any creature that tries to get close to them. Its characteristic mouthparts can expand to a diameter of three meters. The sharp teeth inside are enough for the metal plate to be chewed away in an instant. The Blood Pupil watched the three trappers get eaten by the sandworms. From his distance, he could even hear the creak of sandworms chewing bones and the screams of predators. But he watched motionlessly, his eyes cold and merciless.

This is the end times, and moral sentiments and anything have long since ceased to exist. All life strives to be alive.

There was a strange sound in front of the "Suo Suo ......," and the sandworm finally ate a scrap steel bar and hiccuped in satisfaction. It resembles a fat white maggot, with only a split in its head. Normally, it will be hidden in the sand. It's only today that it has to go into the ruins of the city and have to expose its body to the surface.

The floor of the ruins is of cement and steel. Even sandworms are not easy to penetrate.

The blood pupils in the shadows still hid their breath. Quietly watching the prey. Full-fed sandworms will return to the sand sea the way they came. That's his chance. For this moment, he had already buried more than thirty sharpened steel bars on the way when the sandworm came. As soon as a sandworm passes by, sharp steel bars will cut through its belly. Pull out its internal organs.

......The sand worm was still making that weird sound, and it was finally starting to return after eating. Slow as a giant maggot, it stretched and shriggled, leaving a disgusting mucus in its path. Gradually, little by little, he approached the trap of the blood pupil.

Blood Pupil's breathing began to rapid. The hand covering the mouth and nose is also gradually pressing. On his other hand, he held a sharpened steel bar firmly. The back of the hand erupted with green tendons.

Five-meter ......

Three-meter ......

The blood pupil wasn't far from the location of the trap, so he could clearly see the sandworm approaching little by little, and then crawling over the place where he had set the trap. The sandworm has no eyes, so it doesn't know that the road is now covered with sharp steel bars like dogs' teeth.

"Whew!!"

The crawling sandworm suddenly let out a roar. Curled up violently. At that moment, the blood pupil clearly saw a long wound on its abdomen. Green mucus is constantly flowing out of it.

It's time!! The blood pupils scurried out. The amount of strength that had been accumulated for five hours completely exploded at this moment. Let him be like a cannonball that flies close to the ground. His sprinting movements are strange, and he doesn't run on two legs like a normal person. Rather, it is on all fours like a cheetah. Such a posture not only makes his movements more explosive, but also more flexible. At any time, you can rely on the force of your hands to support the ground to change direction.

It's all about making changes to survive. The Blood Pupil is more adaptable than most, so he's still alive.

The short distance of a few tens of meters swept under the dash of the blood pupil. He had come to the vicinity of the sandworm's back. Because he hid it so well, the sandworms didn't even notice his existence. But instinctively, the sandworm still senses the impending danger. Let out a piercing roar.

At this moment, the blood pupil jumped violently.

He knew that the sandworm was about to start an instinctive counterattack, spitting out extremely corrosive acid from his mouth. This spitting is all-encompassing. If it gets the acid, it will dissolve in an instant.

But this was the moment he was waiting for. In an instant, the muscles in his legs stretched out powerfully, giving him an explosive amount of force. In this jump, he actually jumped more than three meters high. I stepped on the back of the sandworm in one fell swoop. Then he scurried three times in a row, and climbed up the sandworm's neck with both hands and feet. With a flick of his right hand, the sharp steel bars were already piercing the top of the sandworm's mouth. ,

There was a sarcomatous bump.

"Poof!" With a bang, the sarcoma was pierced by the steel bar, bursting out a large cloud of white pulp. The blood pupil pounced on it without paying attention, and began to devour it in a big gulp. This is the brains of sandworms. The sarcoma is the brain of a sandworm, which is usually hidden, and only reveals itself when it is about to spit acid. In order to obtain this information, Blood Pupil spent two pieces of high-quality copper ore on the black market.

"Whew!!" The sandworm let out a roar of pain, rolling and wriggling desperately. But the fingers of the blood pupil were as deep as steel claws into its body. Say nothing and don't let go. While swallowing heavily, he did his best to hang on to the sandworm's body. It's like an octopus. In this case, no matter how hard the sandworm tried, he couldn't hurt him, at most because of the struggle and rolling, adding some scratches to his body.

The sandworm struggled desperately, roaring, and its huge body rolled on the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust. At the same time, a large amount of green liquid is spit out of the mouth. As soon as the liquid splashed on the ground, a large amount of white mist came out, corroding the ground into large craters.

The blood pupil avoided most of the acid because it was clinging to the sandworm's body, but it still accidentally got a little bit on the sandworm's tumbling as it rolled, and immediately the clothes on his body were corroded off, and there was a burning sensation on his skin. In pain, his body twitched involuntarily. But he was already hanging dead on the sandworm, and he wouldn't let go of anything.

Those who survive in the last days must learn to be ruthless, not only to their prey, but also to themselves.

Although the acid of the Blood Pupil Zhi Dao Sand Worm was terrifying, the slightest contamination would not melt him. At best, it's just pain. But if he can't hold on and fall, then he will be devoured by sandworms in an instant.

The sandworm is still struggling violently, and as a creature of the end times, its vitality is very strong. But the outcome of this hunt was predestined from the start. After struggling continuously for more than ten minutes, the sandworm's movements finally slowed down, and finally stopped moving. When the last trace of life disappears from it. The blood pupil fell from its body. Then sit on the ground with a butt.

At this moment, he was already covered in scars. There are large traces of corrosion on the back. But he was still expressionless, and he dragged a large bag of tools from his hiding place and began to decompose the sandworms.

The fight between him and the sandworm lasted for more than ten minutes, and the blood pupil didn't know if anyone would find out and rush over at this moment. But he still didn't want to take the risk.

Every bit of food in the last days is worth the effort. The Blood Pupil doesn't want to go from being a predator to a prey.