Chapter 1: Black Ruins

The black shadow on the horizon ruthlessly spread to the entire Sanctuary Empire, driving away the last rays of sunlight. At the same time, in the ruins of a corner of a city somewhere in the Ninth Layer Sanctuary.

Broken and full of the smell of decay. People who live in the city have always thought of it as a place to dump their garbage.

But even in such a place, there would still be people, and among the ruins, the campfire reflected the young man's delicate face, and the young man's ragged clothes snuggled up to the rubble behind him, his eyes closed. It's like a nightmare.

"Brother!" Suddenly, the boy opened his eyes, and cold sweat broke out all over his body. In the past ten years, it is not the first time that Chen Yi has dreamed of his brother who was captured by an angel. In fact, for the past ten years, this dream has tormented Chenyi every night.

"Nightmares again?" A tall and thin boy beside Chen Yi patted Chen Yi on the shoulder.

"Ming! I dreamed of my brother and the angel who took him. Chen Yi wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and glanced at several of his companions gathered around the campfire.

Like Chenyi, they lost their parents and relatives in the angelic war ten years ago, and became orphans, and they can only struggle to survive in this ruin.

"You're fainting from hunger, eat something!" The tall and thin boy named Ming gave Chen Yi half a potato.

This is the dinner of these teenagers, seven people eat four potatoes. And it's the only meal they've had from morning to now.

Chen Yi took the food handed over by Ming, and he saw that his companions were swallowing saliva. Although they were all hiding their cravings for food with a smile, the bony protest in their stomachs betrayed them all.

Shaking his head, Chen Yi put it down, this piece of food that his companions had left for him.

"Ming! How much more do we have to eat? Chen Yi turned his head to look into Ming's eyes. The faces of each teenager looked a little sallow against the firelight. This is the result of long-term malnutrition.

"It can last a day, today the convoy of the Holy See dumping garbage did not appear, so we only found these four rotten potatoes. Without food, I don't know how many more days we'll last. Ming sighed and replied to Chen Yi.

"Get rid of all our stock! Everyone's had a full meal tonight. Chen Yi seemed to have made up his mind, but from his expression, it was more desperate.

"Are you crazy? So what do we do next? Ming looked at Chen Yi's eyes in surprise.

"If we don't have enough to eat, how can we go to the Holy See's warehouse to move grain?" Chen Yi grinned.

"Do you really want to do this? Last time, a few adults went to the storehouse of the Holy See to steal grain, and they were beaten to death! Do you think it's possible for us to succeed? ”

"That's better than waiting here to starve, right?"

The Holy See is the authority that has absolute dominion in the city.

Ten years ago, angels came to the world, and in addition to establishing the Nine Layers of Sanctuary, they also established the Holy See in each of the Sanctuary Domains, and used it to rule over the human race. And the bishop has absolute rights.

The oppressive rule led to a growing gap between the rich and the poor in the cities, and the heavy taxes left the common people hungry, while the papacy was rich. It has also caused this cruel situation of Zhumen's wine and meat smelling and frozen bones on the road.

"I agree! Anyway, it's better than starving here, right? A dark, skinny teenager nodded in agreement. After that, everyone agreed, after all, living in this black ruin, living a precarious life every day, this time desperately could allow him to live a few more days.

With that, the boys returned to their lodgings and found food that they had kept safely. Someone actually took out half a bottle of ale. Chenyi gathered everyone's food together and distributed it together.

No one objected because the parents of the teenagers were dead. As orphans, they can only rely on each other to survive.

Around the fire, the teenagers silently finished their fullest meal in the days. One by one, they all came to the spirit.

"Have you eaten enough?" Chen Yi looked at all his companions and asked.

"Yes," the teenagers nodded contentedly.

"Good! Let's go! ”

Leaving the dilapidated black ruins and crossing the streets, Chen Yi led the teenagers into the Sanctuary with ease. In the past ten years, Chen Yi has long been accustomed to going out day and night, and has grown from a shivering child hiding in the ruins to a decisive teenager.

"We have only one destination today, and that is the warehouse of the Holy Church." Chen Yi whispered to his companions.

Chen Yi had not thought of attacking the Holy Church for a while, and he had even deliberately infiltrated the Holy City alone to investigate the situation. He knew the time passed by the saints on patrol in the coal detachment, as well as the actual location of the warehouse of the Holy Church.

From time to time, groups of black-robed saints passed by in the streets, holding magic wands that radiated holy radiance. But this thing is really frightening in the eyes of young people like Chen Yi.

Because they all know what kind of murder weapon it is. They are the army of humans chosen by the angels. It's a butcher and executioner with no humanity.

Stomp, stomp! The neat footsteps of the saints passed, and Chen Yi raised his hand to signal the teenagers behind him to stop. Everyone huddled in the dark shadows behind the wall, holding their breath.

If they are discovered by these inhuman creatures, they will use their magic wands to blast themselves into ashes. The saints passed in front of the teenagers, and Chen Yi waved his hand to signal the teenagers to disperse.

"I'll go in first, and I'll throw the food out of the wall when I get it, and run as soon as you get the things. We meet in the black ruins. Chen Yi turned around and whispered to the teenagers behind him.

"Good! Listen to you! ”

"Be careful!" Ming patted Chen Yi on the shoulder and said.

"Don't worry!" Chen Yi said with a grin.

After speaking, Chen Yi's tanuki-like figure passed through the dark corners of the city. Chen Yi, who has been struggling here for ten years, can be said to be self-taught about the ability to hide and escape.

He knew every street here, and he knew the time of every patrol of saints. With the help of the dark shadows of the near night, Tatsumi dodged the last wave of saints and finally dodged into the church.

The church ordered the people living in the sanctuary to pay a large amount of money and food as taxes every month. So there is enough food here, but it is heavily guarded.

However, Tatsuyi knew a secret passage to the church's warehouse.

"Here." Chen Yi grinned quietly.

Chen Yi pushed aside the messy grass, and what appeared in front of him was a hole in the wall, just big enough for his stature to burrow into.

Chen Yi grinned and burrowed into the hole in the wall, and entered the interior of the holy church through the hole in the wall. Seeing that the warehouse was not far from the entrance of the hole where he entered, Chen Yi turned over and hid behind a thick tree, and waited until a small group of patrolling Saints passed by, and with the help of the dark shadows of the night, he came directly to the door of the warehouse.

Click! A door lock was expertly picked open by Chen Yi. The nimble figure of a tanuki flashed into the warehouse in an instant. At this time, a small group of patrolling saints happened to pass by the door of the warehouse.

Call! With a sigh of relief, Chen Yi secretly sighed that his timing was just right.

"Come on! Let's move! Moving his shoulders, Chen Yi smiled as he looked at the grain bags filled with sacks piled up in the warehouse.

Removing the mountain of sacks full of grain, Chen Yi poured out half of the grain and tied it up. Carrying a bundle of half-sacks of grain, he hid behind the door of the warehouse, staring closely outside. Counting the numbers in my heart.

A small patrol of the saints passed by again. When the last saint walked by, Chen Yi took a deep breath, held his breath, picked up half a bag of food and rushed out directly.

With the help of the black shadow, Chen Yi instantly returned to the wall, and without hesitation, he directly threw half a bag of grain out of the wall with the strength of his own running.

And then he quickly hid behind a tree. After the patrolling saints walked by, Chen Yi rushed back to the warehouse again. And so on and so forth.

At the same time, the teenagers who were waiting outside the wall only saw half a bag of food being thrown out of the wall. Under the leadership of Ming, each person has a bag, and two or three bags on their backs with good physical strength, the excited teenagers do not stop and run back to the black ruins, with these foods, if properly arranged, they will be enough for these people to eat for more than half a month.

When the last bag of grain was thrown out, Ming whispered Chenyi's name outside the wall.

"Chenyi! That's enough! Come out! Ming anxiously shouted Chenyi's name, but Chen Yi didn't answer.

Because at this time, Chen Yi was staring at the sky in a daze, because he had just seen a man with a pair of huge wings land in the church.

"Angel!" When he saw the angel for the first time, Chen Yi was shocked.

Faintly, Chenyi felt that this angel seemed to be a little familiar, because he would appear in his nightmares every day.

"It's him!" Chen Yi was surprised and panicked.

Surprised because he finally saw the angel who took his brother from him ten years ago, and panicked because he didn't know what he should do with this angel?

He simply doesn't have the ability to kill an angel.

"Chenyi! Let's go! Outside the wall, Ming shouted Chenyi's name with an anxious face.

"Ming! You go first, I still have something to do! Chen Yi whispered close to the wall.

"What did you say?" Ming didn't seem to hear what Chen Yi was saying clearly.

Because in his impression, Chen Yi is definitely not a reckless person. But Chenyi's behavior today is a bit abnormal.

"Black Ruins Converge, don't wait for me!" After speaking, Chen Yi disappeared directly into the darkness.

Although he knows that his strength is like an ant compared to an angel, Chen Yi is still unwilling to give up this opportunity to observe the angel up close, not to mention that this angel may be the guy who captured his brother ten years ago.