From the morning, the sky is covered with rain clouds.

Everywhere was the sound of dripping raindrops, Luo Hao carried a white plastic bag full of food in one hand and an umbrella in the other, slowly walking down the deserted street.

"The situation is almost understood." Luo Hao raised his umbrella and looked at the monolith in the distance, and then continued to move towards the outer periphery.

The megalithic monument is the last trump card for human survival.

With a height of 1.618 km and a width of 1 km, this rectangular black wall is made entirely of holmium metal. Each megalith is separated by a certain distance from each other, forming a circular cage that keeps the race that once dominated the world like livestock.

This kind of scenery has been an indispensable existence in people's lives since ten years ago.

However, it is also a matter of course.

After all, only a megalith tablet made of holmium metal, which is feared by the mela, can effectively prevent the invasion of the human world by the protozoa.

Ten years have passed since the monolith divides the boundaries between human and gastrea habitation. Due to the Great War, only the Tokyo Metropolitan Government was able to survive intact. Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama prefectures, which are adjacent to Tokyo, are all divided by monoliths that divide the prefectures into their original integrity.

Nine years ago, these areas were unified by mankind, and the name was changed from "Tokyo Metropolitan Government" to "Tokyo Region", and the 43-district system was implemented.

The former central part of Tokyo was given a small number, and the closer you got to the border, the bigger the number. When the number reaches forty-three, the area is the area where the gastrulation creatures live.

Among them, the 39th ward area of the national border, which is close to the monolith and even borders the 43 districts of the Tokyo area, is a ruined capital that no one wants to live in.

They are collectively referred to as the peripheral zone.

The breath of people here is very sparse, almost nothing, and there are incredible things everywhere.

It is impossible to imagine the footprints of a giant monster from a human being......

Blood-stained chairs......

The windows of the four-wheeled car were shattered, and the inside of the car turned bright red like rust......

From between the gaps in the cushions, an unknown purple grass grows......

The most eye-catching thing is the emergency bulletin board installed here.

"Xiao Xiang, I'm Atsuko. If you are safe and sound, please contact here. ”

"To Daiki Kato, I'm at my uncle's house."

"Contact information XXXX. Aso Koji. ”

"I'm looking for this kid (with a picture of a boy around five years old. ）”

"To Yoko. Dad and Fuyumi are safe and sound......"

Ten years after the Great War, it is still covered with layers of paper of different colors. Due to the devastating destruction of the signal transfer station, the once convenient mobile phone has become a piece of garbage that cannot even be matched by bricks, and humans who hope to find their families can only set up bulletin boards here, hoping that one day they can be reunited.

Luo Hao glanced at the notes and ignored them.

The more I advanced, the wider the field of vision, and all I saw were crumbling buildings and half-ruined houses, and the buildings that blocked the view no longer existed.

In fact, there are many super-large factories set up here, and the chimneys that Luo Hao saw before are also set up here.

These are various power generation facilities such as geothermal, thermal power, hydropower, wind power, and solar power, as well as nuclear power plants. Japan was originally surrounded by the sea, and the sea breeze was strong. In addition, Japan is a volcanic country, and nearly 10% of the world's volcanoes are concentrated here, so geothermal heat can also be used. The terrain here is complex, and the terrain has a huge difference in elevation, so the effect of hydraulics is also strong.

Today, in 2031, the energy conversion efficiency of solar panels has also improved dramatically, and a tokamak fusion furnace (an experimental device for kneading a plasma with a ring-shaped electric current and a device for studying controlled thermonuclear reactions) has been set up in Area 41 for experimental operation.

It can be said that the vast majority of the central electricity is transmitted from the outer periphery.

For people in the city, there are three kinds of uses for the outer periphery. It is a site that operates a high-risk nuclear power generation, a garbage dump that generates garbage from the center of the area, and finally a sowing of genetically modified seeds called MiracleSeed, which can be harvested in large quantities in a small area, that is, the use of waste land for agricultural purposes.

None of these three uses takes into account the large number of "residents" who live here. Because in their eyes, it is not a "resident" who lives here.

Luo Hao walked on the asphalt floor, which was too neat compared to the damaged buildings, and showed an expression of thinking about something.

The monolith that catches your eye has become quite large, indicating that he is very close to the border. Luo Hao walked slowly, came to a sewer lift with his feet, and kicked the manhole cover two or three times.

After a while, the lid opened upwards with a heavy thud.

"Who? Yes! It's my brother back! ”

The voice that seemed a little slurred because she spoke too quickly sounded, and a young girl poked her head out of it, and when she saw that it was Luo Hao, she immediately showed a very happy expression. Of course, when she saw the plastic bag in Luo Hao's hand, her expression became even more excited.

"These are ......"

The girl tilted her head and looked at Luo Hao expectantly, she was about seven or eight years old, and her pupils were red, indicating her identity as a [cursed child].

"Of course these are for you, but can I go in and say? It's raining outside! ”

"Ahh I'm sorry! It's Mary who is rude! ”

The little girl apologized with a smile and climbed straight down. After she left the ladder, Luo Hao threw down the plastic bag in his hand, and then climbed down the ladder and restored the manhole cover.

The inside of the sewer is surprisingly spacious and cleaner than outsiders might expect.

However, even after careful cleaning, the stench of domestic sewage still cannot be removed, but the girl has become accustomed to the smell of the place, picked up the plastic bag on the ground, and trotted to share the delicious food with the children living here.

"Brother, I'm leaving too."

"Well, go ahead."

Luo Hao smiled and watched her back leave.

"Luo Hao, you're back."

"Yes, Elder Matsuzaki."

Luo Hao looked at the place where the voice came from, where a man was sitting.

He is not tall, has white hair but is not yet hunchbacked, wears a pair of glasses, and even gives an intellectual impression. He carried a wooden staff with a rubber mat at the bottom, but it was too early to call him an "elder" because he looked young.

By the way, "elder" is the children's affectionate name for him, and Luo Hao also called him by the way.

This man is not a homeless man, nor does he have children living here, but a good person who sympathizes with these [cursed children] and spontaneously comes here to help the children. In addition to taking care of children who don't know how to survive, he is also responsible for teaching them literacy and reading.

In addition, the food and clothes secretly donated by some well-wishers in the city were also through his contacts that finally fell into the hands of the children. For the children living here, it is not only this sewer, but all the children living in the periphery, he is a relative whose status can be replaced by no one.

For this kind of good old man, Luo Hao has always been disgusted.

Matsuzaki sighed and said, "It's always bothering you to buy things for them, and it's before you earn it yourself, so I really don't want to go!" "It's nothing, I like these kids. It's just easy anyway. ”

Luo Hao smiled disappreciatively.

That day, he took the little girl he met to buy a lot of food in the city, and then came here together, and learned about the situation here. Later, he used Matsuzaki connections to contact a number of scientific research institutes, and paid them for providing them with the corpses of the original intestines.

In addition to his own use, Luo Hao bought more things for the children living here. In the process, Luo Hao established a very good relationship with these [cursed children], and at the same time, he reluctantly realized the cruel fact that he alone could not save all the girls.

There are so many girls living in the periphery that the basic cost of food and water is not a small amount of money every day, and the money given by the scientific research institutions alone is not enough to feed them. No, to be exact, if you rely on this money alone, there are not many little girls who can support them.

And in the process, more than a dozen children disappeared after going to the city to find food. In fact, Luo Hao, the children, and Elder Matsuzaki all understood that these children were not rescued by well-wishers at all, they were either abducted and bought into a dirty place by perverted guys, or they were killed.

Judging by previous experience, the latter is more likely than the former.

"What are you going to do in the future?" Elder Matsuzaki put the fallen glasses up with the middle finger of his right hand and looked at Luo Hao seriously, "You can't just live like this for the rest of your life." ”

“？”

"With your ability, you will be able to achieve great things with ease. If you really care about these children, help them after they have achieved something. Elder Matsuzaki said seriously, "After all, the strength of you and I alone is limited, as long as you mobilize more people to help them." You should already know this. ”

"Hmm."

Luo Hao nodded.

Immediately, he laughed: "I just had some ideas before, but now I ......"

As far as the eye could see, Shak, whose body was made of nothingness, was flying down through the wall from above with an extremely bored expression on his face.

"It's time to act!"