Chapter 1: A Teenager Who Lost His Memory
More than 200 years ago, strange creatures invaded, and the gods descended on the human world.
Humanity resisted with all its might, but in the end, they were defeated by the gods with supreme power.
The world was divided among the gods, and the twelve gods ruled over the twelve cities, and the human race lived a life inferior to ants from then on.
Although the outside of the city is not under the control of the gods, strange things are rampant and dangerous everywhere.
Fifty years ago, the number of cities ruled by the gods was reduced from twelve to eleven, and the evil god Calis fell. This marked the birth of the world's first godless city.
……
Half of the red sun rose in the sky.
In the morning, a cool breeze blew into the room through the window.
In the room, a teenager lay on the bed.
The young man frowned, his face a little pale.
His body shuddered violently, and he sat up from the bed panting for air.
It took him half a moment before he came to his senses.
The boy looked up at the old hanging bell on the wall.
It's half past seven now.
"Knock knock!"
There was a knock on the door outside.
The boy got out of bed, walked over to the door, and unscrewed the door.
What catches your eye is a woman with delicate facial features.
She was wearing a black uniform, and her figure looked very bumpy and shapely.
The woman looked at the young man with a little helplessness in her eyes.
She pointed to the watch on her wrist: "Lu Kui, you look at the time yourself......"
"Have you forgotten that you still have a job?"
The woman's name is Li Yu, and she is Lu Kui's landlord and "sister".
Three years ago, Li Yu's father found Lu Kui fainting on the ground in the wild and carried him back.
When Lu Kui woke up, he found that all his memories were gone, and he didn't remember anything from the past, except for his name.
So Li Yu had no choice but to take him in temporarily.
Unexpectedly, this stay was three years, and after three years of getting along, she gradually regarded Lu Kui as her younger brother.
Lu Kui touched his head embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, Sister Li, I'm getting up late." ”
Li Yu threw a sentence at Lu Kui: "Breakfast is on the table, you take the car by yourself today, I'll go first." ”
Then he turned and walked outside.
She had important work to do today, and hurried out the door.
Lu Kui went into the bathroom to wash up.
He spat out a mouthful of foaming water and looked into the bathroom mirror.
In the mirror, the handsome face of the young man was pale, and his gray eyes had a lonely look.
"Xiao Kui, run, he's catching up!"
The voice of the woman he had never seen in his dreams before sounded familiar to him.
In the dream, her face was covered in blood, and she fell to the ground and shouted at him in despair.
He has been dreaming this dream for more than a month.
It's the same scene every time, and countless terrifying monsters are desperately chasing after them.
The woman stood in front of him, sword in hand, agile in shape, and slashed down countless monsters that pounced on them with a thunderous motion.
Just when the woman killed all the monsters.
Then, a light appeared.
The light kept moving towards them with an eerie dark green.
Seeing the green light, the woman took Lu Kui's hand and turned to flee behind.
The green light "jumped" down on the woman, and she screamed and fell to the ground.
In the dream, Lu Kui tried to pull her up, but she struggled to let Lu Kui's hand and trembled and told him to run.
Every time he got here, Lu Kui woke up.
"Who the hell is that woman?"
Lu Kui vaguely felt that the content of this dream should be what happened before he lost his memory.
And the woman who made him feel very familiar, who protected him and shouted for him to run, was it his family?
Why are they hunted by monsters?
Is she still alive now?
Countless confusions filled Lu Kui's heart.
After washing, Lu Kui walked to the dining table and ate the breakfast that Li Yu had left for him.
After eating, he was getting up to go out to work.
Suddenly, I caught a glimpse of a folder on the other side of the dining table.
Lu Kui picked up the folder and opened it, and it read the title "Xikou Middle School Bloody Report".
Li Yu works in the operations department and often needs to write some case analysis reports.
remembered the scene when Li Yu left the house in a hurry just now.
She must have been in too much of a hurry, so she left the paperwork report at home.
Lukui put the folder in his backpack and pushed the door open and left the house.
Lu Kui boarded the bus to the company at the brand new bus stop at the intersection.
The place where he works is a translation department directly above him, on the same floor as Li Yu's operations department.
It's a very remote place, so not many people come to take this bus.
Lu Kui found a place at the front and sat down.
He leaned back in a plastic chair, not knowing what he was thinking.
The bus stopped at the next stop, and a few aunts got on the bus talking and laughing.
They walked to the back of Lu Kui and sat down.
"Eh, have you heard? Recently, someone saw a black shadow near Xikou Middle School, the black shadow had no legs, as if it was floating and moving, so frightened that the person hurriedly ran home. ”
An aunt suddenly said aloud.
Hearing the aunts talking about things related to "Xikou Middle School", Lu Kui's attention was immediately attracted by the aunts.
He pricked up his ears and listened to the gossip of the aunts.
An aunt secretly looked ahead, and after confirming that Lu Kui was squinting and napping, she whispered back: "How many years have passed, and those tricks in the city have long been cleared, that person should have seen it wrong." ”
"But the next day, a few students from Xikou Middle School died in the classroom, and I heard that there was blood all over the ground, and it looked terrible......," said the aunt who spoke at first.
"Let's not discuss these things too much, it's been a long time, even if those things really appear again, it's not something we can interfere with, I believe the above will deal with it."
Hearing what they were discussing, Lu Kui was stunned.
Listening to what these aunts said, they seemed to know what was going on in the bloody case at Xikou Middle School.
In the past, Lu Kui would have laughed at their superstition when he heard someone say such a thing.
But since he started dreaming about it a month ago, Lukui couldn't help but doubt the reality he saw.
His instincts told him that the strange thing they were talking about was the same creature as the mysterious monster in his dream.
For those aunts who knew that those monsters were called monsters, Lu Kui had a bold guess in his heart.
What he was worried about now was that if it was really the kind of monster in his dream, wouldn't Li Yu be dangerous?
Thinking about it, Lu Kui's heart was a little more apprehensive.
At the next intersection, the aunts got out of the car first.
There is a vegetable market not far from here, and these aunts are here to buy food.
Lu Kui looked at their figures as they got out of the car, and suddenly felt as if the world was hiding a huge thing from them young people.
If the dream was really Lu Kui's previous memory, then he, who had not lost his memory, should know about it.
His curiosity drives him to uncover the world for what it really is.
He closed his eyes and tried to remember what had happened, and the memories of the dream came back to his mind again.
For a moment, he suddenly didn't want to remember.
He vaguely felt that it was a very bad memory.
Maybe life is good now, and there is no need to remember the past.
Arriving at his destination, Lu Kui got off the bus with his backpack on his back.
When he arrived at the company's building, Lu Kui first went to the second floor where his department was located to check in, and then took Li Yu's document report to the operations department on the top floor to find her.
Out of the elevator door, looking at the entrance of the door full of science and technology in front of him, Lu Kui seemed to suddenly understand something.
His apprehensive heart suddenly let go in an instant.
It seems that Li Yu is also hiding something from him.
Perhaps this so-called operational unit is not what it seems.
Lukui stood in the doorway, and a male voice came from the monitor on the door.
"Who are you looking for?"
Lu Kui raised his head towards the monitor.
"I came to find my sister Li Yu, and her work report was left at home."
The man on the other end of the monitor paused, then said, "You wait outside, I'll call her for you." ”
Lu Kui waited for a while, and the door suddenly opened slowly.
Li Yuzheng, who was standing in front of the door, looked at him with a smile.
Lu Kui handed her the folder in his hand.
Li Yu took the folder and said to Lu Kui with a smile: "You didn't peek at the contents inside, did you?" ”
Lu Kui shook his head: "No, I just read the title." ”
"Are you going home for dinner in the evening?"
Li Yu thought for a while and replied, "I must go home before seven o'clock." ”
With that, she turned around and left with the paperwork report.
Looking at the metal door slowly closing, Lu Kui was silent for a moment, then turned and entered the elevator.
Lu Kui returned to the second floor, where the translation department was located.
When he walked into the office, he saw his colleagues looking at something with sad faces.
He leaned over and saw that it was a newly delivered ancient book.
A colleague found Lu Kui coming over and exclaimed in surprise: "Lu Shen, you are finally here!" ”
When other colleagues heard his words, they all looked at Lu Kui.
The title of the god of the road comes from Lu Kui's strong translation ability.
The first time he came here for an internship, he shocked everyone in the translation department.
When translating texts, many of the translators have to look up the classics to know what they mean.
And Lu Kui seems to be very familiar with these texts, which are also ancient articles, and he only needs to read them once to translate the content of the article.
In the words of the head of the translation department, Lu Kui is a genius of ancient literature.
As a result, he was given the title of "God of the Road" by his colleagues in the translation department.
There are usually some difficult ancient translations, all of which are handled by Lu Kui.
"Why do you all look sad?" Lu Kui asked curiously.
"Today, there is an ancient book sent to it, which is said to be the work of a great writer who changed the times 300 years ago."
"We translated the first few pages, but we couldn't understand what it was about." Sister Wang, an old man in the translation department, explained to Lu Kui.
"Let me see." Lu Kui took the ancient book and turned the first page.
The page was a yellowed one, with a few lonely words gathered in the middle.
"Lu Xun's Collected Quotations."
Sister Wang spoke: "According to the sentence written on the first page of it, this book should be a record of the collected quotations written by a person named Lu Xun. ”
Lu Kui turned the second page and looked towards the article below.
"If there is no torch after that, I am the only light."
This sentence is the first sentence of this article, and it is also introduced.
For some reason, Lu Kui vaguely felt as if he had heard this sentence somewhere.
After reading the first article, Lu Kui closed the book and said to the crowd: "The task of translating this book has been entrusted to me, and I will strive to translate all this book within this week." ”
With that, he returned to his desk with the ancient book and sat down, continuing to read the next article of the ancient book.
For him, this ancient book is not difficult to translate, but the difficulty is to understand the meaning of the book.
It took him a week to understand the meaning of the book and mark it out.
Hearing his words, everyone in the translation department was stunned.
A young translator said incredulously: "I heard you right, the god of the road actually said that it would take him a week to translate this ancient book?" ”
In the past, Lu Kui translated ancient books, and no matter how difficult it was, he could translate them within three days.
This time he said that it would take a week to translate, and everyone was surprised.
……
The sky was exceptionally sunny and it was noon.
West Exit Middle School.
A white car pulled up at the school gate.
A man pushed open the door and got out of the car.
Five of his team members followed him in the car.
The man walked to the back of the car and opened the trunk.
Inside the trunk lay three small metal boxes.
He handed two of the boxes to the two team members, and carried one in his own hand.
"We split into three groups and installed psionic monitors in three different places, and I applied to the top for some miniature monitors, and our mission this time was to install these psionic monitors in the places where there was the most likely to be weird."
"The old rule, I am in a group with Wu Jian, and we are responsible for the installation of monitors in the teaching building."
"Chen Yong and Wu Nan are in a group and are responsible for the installation of monitors in the dormitory."
"Xiaoyu and Xiaoqing are in a group of two girls, responsible for the installation of monitors in the open areas of the school. Remember, we must gather at this location before the sun sets, the number of monsters here is unknown, and there is one whose strength seems to have surpassed the third order, which is not something that a few of us can deal with. ”
Several people listened to the man's words and nodded at him.
"Don't worry, Captain, we know."
A team of six people walked towards the school with small metal boxes.
Due to the bloody incidents here some time ago, the school is temporarily closed.
The huge campus is very eerily quiet.
After entering the campus, the six of them dispersed in pairs according to the detachment.
Li Yu glanced down at the small box in his hand, and said to Xiaoqing next to him: "Let's hurry up, I promised my brother that he would go home for dinner before seven o'clock in the evening." ”
Xiaoqing is a very cute-looking girl, and she naughtily spit out her pink tongue at Li Yu: "Okay, Sister Li." ”
The two moved quickly.
Li Yu handed the small box to Xiaoqing, reached out and clicked on the button in the middle of the box, and then opened the box.
A dozen small glass bottles lay quietly inside the box, containing miniature psionic monitors.
Li Yu picked up a small glass bottle, and then pulled the stopper on it.
She pulled out a tiny monitor from it and placed it on a low tree next to the playground.
After setting up the detector, Li Yu turned around and found that Xiaoqing was gone, leaving only the small box lying alone on the ground.
She couldn't help frowning, and her beautiful eyes looked towards the dormitory building not far away.
Xiaoqing slowly walked into the dormitory building, and her figure disappeared from Li Yu's sight.
Seeing this, Li Yu hurriedly followed.
The stairs of the dormitory were dim, and the electricity was cut off when the school was closed.
The lights don't come on.
Li Yu took out his mobile phone and turned on the flashlight, and shone towards the staircase in front.
Xiaoqing was standing quietly in front of her, staring at her blankly.
Li Yuxun frowned slightly, stretched out his slender fingers and touched Xiaoqing's little face.
Suddenly, she felt a chill in her back, as if something was watching her.
Li Yu's right hand touched the knife on his waist.
The next second, she pulled out the knife and turned around sharply.
Under the light of the flashlight, Li Yu saw a pitch-black humanoid ghost staring at her coldly.