One day in early summer, heavy dark clouds condensed in the sky, and thunder was accompanied by a rich electric light, as if planning a treacherous storm or a prosperous carnival. However, the people on the ground are unaware that because of the perennial layer of electronic protective glasses called the "Sky System" shrouded in their heads, the sky in their eyes is still sunny at this moment, the blue sky is so blue that it can melt the heart, and the white clouds bloom gracefully like gardenias. The virtual sky of the protective goggles spread all the way to the edge of the city, and only the guards on the border could witness the real sky outside the city, and they raised their heads and stared at the treacherous sky in the distance, lest demons and monsters would pop out of it.

Such worries are not groundless, born in troubled times, even those who live under a false sky every day, no one can be truly carefree. What's more, they are used to seeing the real world.

"The foehn is coming." An older guard muttered to the thunderous sky with wide eyes.

"It looks like there's going to be another tough battle on the front." The guards on the side nodded and said, their tone was not without worry, "I really don't know when those Burning Clans will disappear." ”

Foehn and the Burners were the ones who made this world what it is today. At the end of scientific and technological civilization, with the serious scarcity of resources, the ecological environment became more and more bad. The space suitable for human life was gradually compressed, and finally the five cities with resources decided to form a united kingdom called the Liuli Kingdom after negotiation. The five cities are: the eastern wasteland city with barren land but rich in minerals; a steam city with a highly developed industrial and technological civilization and a sparsely populated steam city in the west; the city of the moon in the south, with its vast forests and lakes; Humpback whale market in the north independent in the ocean, humpback whale is an island shaped like a whale, only the tail is connected to the mainland, the island is covered with ice and snow all year round, and rarely travels with the mainland; Finally, there is the Glass Castle in the heart of the city. The Glazed City was the prototype of the kingdom and one of the first inhabitants of the continent. After the kingdom was formed, the lord of the castle of Liuli, King Liuli, served as the king, and the resources of each city were uniformly allocated in order to maintain social balance. After hundreds of years of peaceful coexistence in this way, the differences between the various territories became more and more obvious, and the city lords wanted to enjoy the resources of their cities for themselves, and some city lords even came up with the idea of plundering the resources of other cities. The kingdom was divided, and the new King Liuli intervened to no avail, so the war between the cities was inevitably triggered.

Just as humanity was busy preparing for war for their own interests, a great storm struck and completely changed the world. It was not a disaster without warning, but a meteor shower that had been raining for half a month, and you could see the stars falling in the sky even during the day. After the meteor shower stopped, the sky turned red, and then countless black clouds poured out of the sky like ominous black dragons, covering the sky and engulfing all the skylight. Master Sinan of the City of Glass stood on the stargazing tower to observe the celestial phases and predicted that this was a precursor to a great catastrophe. Sure enough, not long after, from the clouds that kept shining red lightning, a black foehn erupted, this foehn wind carried a high temperature of nearly 1,000 degrees, mixed with huge energy particles, and scorched earth everywhere it went. The foehn was just a prelude to disaster, and after the storm, a huge number of monsters appeared on the continent one after another. That is, the "burning family" that people heard about later.

Humans still haven't figured out where the Burners came from, and they are called "Burners" because they usually appear with the Foehn wind. To describe them more precisely, it may be more appropriate to use the term "demon beasts", because they are like the demons who broke into the world from hell as described in ancient mythology, with teeth and claws, bloodthirsty and cruel.

In the beginning, there were only two types of Burning Clans, which were divided into primary Burning Clans and elite Burning Clans according to their types. According to the strength, it is divided into: G, E, S level. The primary Burning Clan is the primitive form of the Burning Clan, which is huge in number and has strong destructive power, but has low intelligence. They tend to appear in groups, devouring and destroying everything that has the characteristics of life. Evolved from the primary Burners, they are few in number, but they are more intelligent, with stronger strength and defense, and the S-level Elite Burners even have the ability to heal quickly.

The appearance of the Burners caught humanity off guard, but due to its lack of a leader, its forces were relatively scattered, and after calming down from the shock and panic, the humans still had enough intelligence and strength to contend with it. Scientists have improved and strengthened the firmament system, which was originally used to defend against harsh weather, to resist the ravages of foehn winds and burners. Unfortunately, no greater results have been achieved, and the Burning Clan has begun a new round of evolution. The junior and elite burners have no vision, and only rely on sound waves and breath to communicate, and the protective goggles isolate the breath of humans, so they are not easy to detect humans in the city. But gradually, a group of monsters with eyesight and high intelligence spawned among the elite burners, and people called the elite burners with more than one eye "commanders". The commander is more like the shadow of the Burning Clan, few in number, without a fixed body, can be attached to the elite Burning Clan, or can be stealth and lurk in space, even with radar it is difficult to detect. Only a handful of people with keen sensing abilities in the Glass City can sense their faint fluctuations in space.

The commander has great leadership skills, and a single commander can easily command thousands of Burners. As a result, the power of the Burning Clan skyrocketed instantly, especially when the Burning Clan's leader Endwrod (period) appeared, directly rolling the world into an apocalyptic catastrophe. The period represents the end, the end of life. The body of the period is a life-size demon beast, with a pure white head, a pitch-black body, a pair of eyes shining with a demonic light on its face, and hundreds of pairs of spiky purple wings growing on its back. Possessing extremely powerful energy and destructive power, the period was almost unmatched, and was once synonymous with despair and death on the continent.

Since the birth of the Burners, mankind has been waging a stubborn struggle against them. Under the devastating offensive of the Burners, the cities had to stop the civil war and join forces to resist the Burners. Each of the five cities mobilized most of its forces and formed a resistance army, led by the King of Glass. The rebels have been holding their lines against the deserts and glaciers beyond the five cities. The main force of this army is still the warriors of the Glass City, and the other four cities have always coveted the throne of the Glass King, although they also sent many elites to participate in the war, but among the four city lords, only the Humpback Whale King and the Wasteland City Lord went to the battlefield in person to fight side by side with the Glass King.

The Burning Clan continued to grow, and after the period appeared, the resistance army was defeated and retreated, and the Liuli King was also killed in a confrontation with the period. The battle line approached the interior of the city, and when it saw that mankind was about to be buried by this disaster, there was a hero in the resistance army, who was called the glass hero by later generations, Xia Weiyang.

Xia Weiyang single-handedly successfully resisted a new round of onslaught from the Burning Clan, and even forced back the unstoppable endword. This has inspired the frontline fighters and given a respite to humanity on the verge of extinction. Xia Weiyang rectified the disheartened resistance army, selected a group of elite soldiers from them, and formed a guild called "Liuli and Cat". Then he personally visited the remaining two city lords and invited them to fight together. What King Liuli didn't do during his lifetime, Xia Weiyang did. Not only did he make the four city lords willingly obey him, but he also turned the tide of the war. In the end, the final decisive battle between humans and the Burning Tribes on the glacier, countless warriors died in that battle, Xia Weiyang used his life and the end to die together, and finally put an end to this endless disaster.

The Battle of the Glacier caused both humans and the Burners to suffer a dramatic blow, and after the disappearance of the period, the Burners had to stop the pace of aggression, although they still appeared in the Foehn Wind regularly, eyeing the human city, but after all, there was no longer the edge of the past. Mankind was also able to recuperate, Xia Weiyang became the eternal hero and legend of the Liuli Kingdom, and the Liuli Queen, who succeeded her husband to the throne, buried the bones of all the warriors who died in the Glacier Battle in the royal cemetery, and erected monuments and statues to show respect. The "Glass and the Cat" guild was used as the main force in the battle against the Burners, and only the most elite warriors could join.

Now 8 years have passed since the Battle of the Glacier, although human beings have changed from passive resistance at the beginning to active encirclement and suppression of the Burning Tribe, but those who have experienced that period of time will never be able to forget it. Looking at the guards of the city in the sky with lightning and thunder in the distance, everyone had solemn faces and did not dare to slack off.

"Open the gates!" A voice pulled the guards' gaze back, and a gray airship was slowly heading towards the city gate, the airship was a translucent enclosed space, in which sat several rows of people, all wearing uniform gray-brown robes, with their heads bowed, and electromagnetic handcuffs on their hands, which would automatically pull together when the two hands were separated beyond a certain range. From the cockpit of the airship stepped four guards in white armor and helmets. On the front of the helmet was a black goggle that kept the guards' eyes out.

A middle-aged man with a hard black beard at the head showed his ID to the guards, glanced back at the people on the airship and said, "These are the 'remnants' of this month, and they will be sent to the 'Burial Bone Plain' today according to the regulations." ”

"Remnants" is the first policy introduced by Liuli City in recent years, and other cities have followed suit. As the fighting slows down, the boom and surplus population has become a new and severe test for the major cities. Resources and land are very limited, and most of them have not yet recovered from the destruction of the Burning Tribes and Foehn winds, but the population is increasing day by day. Later, Professor Green, an academician of the Senate of the Glass City, proposed a method for distributing materials according to the degree of contribution, and invented a set of corresponding testing procedures. Professor Green stipulated that except for members of the royal family, children under the age of fifteen and the elderly over sixty, the rest of the people, both men and women, needed to work in order to accumulate their contribution points. Eligible citizens must go to the local police station to download the program into the electronic ring as a communication tool, which will not only be used as a daily communication device, but also record the owner's contribution value. The main group targeted by the "survivor theory" is still the lawbreaker, because as long as they do not break the law and commit crimes, the contribution value will not decrease, even if it does not increase. In the event of a crime, the Ring will automatically reduce its contribution value according to the crime recorded, and the data will be uploaded to the computer terminal in each region every month, and the contribution value will be filtered out for people with 0 contribution value. These people will be banished to a place called "Bone Field" outside the protective goggles, and they will be left to fend for themselves, commonly known as "remnants".

When the decree was first introduced, it was opposed and protested by many people, who accused it of being inhumane and abandoning people outside the protective goggles, which was tantamount to a death sentence. But the national situation is there, and there is really no better way to solve it. In short, after resisting for a while, in the end it can only be enforced. Those whose contribution value is zeroed do not have the right to live.

After several years of implementation, the decree was fruitful, and the population and materials tended to be balanced. However, as the number of remnants grew, so did the complaints and accusations. It is rumored that some of the remnants have survived, and they are resentful, forming a rebel army, and have been waiting for an opportunity to fight back to the city.

Therefore, for the transportation of the remnants, the border guards have also been strictly controlled, one is to ensure that the remnants are sent out of the city in time, and the other is to ensure that they will not hide information that is unfavorable to the castle.

The captain of the guard looked at the listless crowd on the airship one by one. In the first row were a few wanderers who were in a state of mind, and in the second row were a few lean men hugging a burly giant man with several scars on his face, and a thief with a thief's eyebrow and a mole on his right eyebrow sitting next to him, and two people sitting in the corner of the first row, whose bodies were completely covered by blankets, and could only see the face of one of them, quite young, with fluffy black hair, and deep eyes staring at the dark clouds that had risen outside the city gate, and his face was a little careless.

"As a rule, we need to verify the identity of the 'remnants', please open the hatch." The captain of the guard suddenly felt that this young man was a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen him, and he couldn't help but be suspicious.

The Blackbeard leader didn't listen to the order, he pressed the electronic ring on his left hand, and a fluorescent document appeared from the void in the ring. Blackbeard said to the captain of the guard, "This is the release permit authorized by Vice President Alice personally, we must get the people there before the foehn comes, time is pressing, the captain of the guard should not bother with that kind of details." ”

Alice is the vice president of the Ukiyo Guild and one of the few young elites who returned alive from the Battle of the Glacier, and has a high reputation in the city. The captain of the guard did not understand why she would personally inquire about such a trivial matter as the repatriation of the remnants, but he had to obey the order to let them go directly. After confirming the voice and fingerprint information on the command, he nodded to the two unusually tall guards behind him.

The two guards were wrapped in silver armor, revealing only two glowing green eyes. They bowed slightly to the captain of the guard, then moved to the gate, and from his armor a scaly hand pressed against the gate. They are the oldest inhabitants of the Glass City, and scientists have extracted genes from them to match the firmament system, and no one can open the city gates except them.

Several currents burst out of the palm of his hand, and the city gate opened. A heat wave hit the face, but fortunately, the foehn wind has not yet blown, and this heat wave is still within the range of human tolerance. Blackbeard saluted the captain of the guard, then hopped into the cockpit with his teammates and sped away from the city, into a completely different world.

The people on the airship looked in horror at the desolate wilderness around them and the clouds that turned from black to red in the distance. Only the black-haired boy, who seemed to be no longer interested in everything after leaving the city, covered his head with his hood, closed his eyes and recuperated. The man leaning next to him was still motionless in a blanket.

A man was standing on the highest stargazing tower on the border, silently watching the airship that had left the city gate. A young and beautiful woman, dressed in a delicate black gold-rimmed military uniform, with a black cat jumping into the air painted on her epaulette, which is the totem of the "Glass and Cat" guild. This person is none other than Alice, who signed the release certificate for the airship just now. Judging from her appearance alone, it is difficult to associate her with the high-ranking military rank of Ruri and Vice President Cat. Alice was born with a delicate baby face, as if the years had nothing to do with her, and even after 8 years of the Battle of the Glacier, she was still like a girl. Her shoulder-length blond hair was curly and she wore a pair of old-fashioned brown sunglasses on the bridge of her nose. The glasses were a kind of video recording device, and everything that had just happened in front of the city gate, and the airship that was now moving farther and farther, were all recorded in Alice's glasses.

"Xiao Yan, my sister can only help you so much." Alice muttered to herself by pressing the stop button on the edge of the frame.

"Sure enough, it's you." A vigorous voice came from behind her.

Alice turned around and noticed an old white-bearded man in a wheelchair unknowingly appearing behind her. The corners of the old man's eyes and forehead were covered with fine wrinkles, and his snow-white hair was meticulously tucked back his head. The most peculiar were his eyes, one red and one green, two-tone eyes peculiar to magicians. Only a wizard with profound mana can have such colorful eyes. Although the old man is in a wheelchair, it does not make people feel decadent, but the light in his vicissitudes of wisdom gives people a sense of oppression that is not angry and self-threatening.

"Master Sinan." Alice smiled and said to the visitor, "What are you talking about, what am I?" She asked Master Sinan with wide eyes on her innocent face.

"Gu Lian recently complained to me that Xiao Yan secretly took Xiao Lan out of the city several times and asked me to take care of him. I was thinking about how a teenager could have such a great ability to go out of town without permission, and then naturally I thought of you. Master Sinan said to her unhurriedly, with no anger on his face, "In the entire Glass City, only you will come from that child's temperament, this is doting." ”

"This is a great wrong," Alice pursed her lips disapprovingly and said to Master Sinan, "If you want to talk about doting, aren't you the same mage?" Back then, you even lost your legs in order to save them......" Speaking of this, he was a little embarrassed, but Master Sinan didn't care, he took over, "So, if you don't want my legs to be sacrificed in vain, don't let him out without permission in the future, you don't know how dangerous the outside world is, in case something happens to him and Qianlan, how can you explain to Weiyang and Gu Lian?" ”

When she heard Weiyang's name, Alice was stunned for a moment, her eyes darkened slightly, but this emotion disappeared from her face in an instant. "Xiao Yan has always wanted to find out where the Burning Clan's lair is, even if I don't let him out, he will definitely find a way to get out." Alice said as she looked in the direction of the long-vanished airship.

"The burden of our generation should not fall on the shoulders of a single child." Master Sinan said in a deep voice, he drove the suspended wheelchair to the edge of the stargazing tower, and also looked out of the city. "Weiyang has already given too much for this world, and his younger brother should not bear this anymore."

"But he has already taken on the ......," Alice still looked at the outside of the city and said euphemistically, and suddenly turned her head and said to Master Sinan with a smile, "We all grew up watching him, his ability mage should know better than me, Qianlan is also my proud disciple, the outside world should be a kind of exercise for them." And I asked them not to approach the front line and return on the same day. ”

"This is a bit irresponsible," Master Sinan reproached, "Even if they don't go to the front line, the foehn alone will be enough for them." I can't sit idly by, Xiao Yan should be 17 years old this year, I decided to send them to Liuli Academy. If you really want to destroy the Burners, you have to become a real warrior. ”

"Liuli Academy? So, you're willing to let them join the Glass and Cat Guild? Alice asked in surprise, Liuli Academy is a training base specially built for elites. It is equivalent to a concentration camp for the strong, and only those who are already highly gifted are eligible to enter. It is also known as the green channel to enter the Liuli and Cat Guild, and anyone who graduates from Liuli Academy can basically enter the Liuli and Cat Guild directly.

"Only those who have graduated from Liuli Academy can join the guild." Master Sinan was noncommittal.

"With Xiao Yan and Xiao Lan's talents, it is not difficult to graduate from Liuli Academy." Alice said confidently.

"I have no doubt about it." Master Sinan nodded slowly and said, "I don't advocate letting them go to the battlefield so early, but it is always good for them to receive systematic training. One more thing, from this year onwards, I will no longer be the dean of Liuli Academy. ”

"Hey, who's the new dean?" Alice asked with some curiosity, Liuli Academy can be regarded as one of the facades of Liuli City, and it must not be an idle person to be the dean of this academy.

"It's also a member of the guild, and it's still a comrade-in-arms of our team," Master Sinan said with a smile, "Mr. Bai of the Senyue clan." ”

"What?" Alice said in shock when she heard this, a face with a sinister smile appeared in her head, "Why him?" ”

"Mr. Bai is also one of the heroes of the Glacier Campaign, whether it is qualifications or strength, he is more than enough to be the dean." Master Sinan Zhengse said, "I invited him when the academy was first established, but he didn't agree. This year, he is willing to take time to be the dean of Liuli Academy, and he has also proposed some reform plans, and I believe he is the best candidate for dean. ”

"Heroes? The most he did was just to compete with Weiyang for the title of the first warrior. If it weren't for his plan, Weiyang wouldn't have ......," Alice said emotionally.

"Alice, I understand that you have a prejudice against Mr. White. But it's been so long, and you should be relieved......" Master Sinan said with a sigh.

"I'm not unreasonable, I only believe what I see, and it has nothing to do with time." Alice calmed down and said, then bowed slightly to Master Sinan and walked down the tower.

Master Sinan looked at her disappearing back and sighed again. Then he turned his head slightly and said to a dark shadow in the corner, "Squid, you go with me, in addition to ensuring their safety, you also have to record the scene." ”

The corner of the wall was just a dark place where the sun could not shine, and there was nothing. After Master Sinan finished speaking, a person actually came out of the shadows. As the name suggests, the squid people are gray all over, with their hair scattered like seaweed, and their eyes are dull, making them feel like ghosts of nothingness. He didn't know when he stood there, and even Alice didn't notice it.

Master Sinan took out a dark gold card out of thin air, handed it to the squid and said, "Take this command and go out of the city." ”

The squid took the card, nodded to Master Sinan, and disappeared into the shadows again.

Master Sinan looked at the lightning and thunderous sky again, and several dazzling lightning bolts were reflected in his eyes, and muttered to himself, "After so many years of cultivation, you are about to see the results, right?" ”