Chapter 423: Past, Present, and Future (I)

This was Levi's first encounter with the entity. A humanoid ball of light, unable to see its interior, unable to see its face, completely invisible to everything about it.

It could only be seen from the approximate size of the body wrapped in clothes, that it was a man of about the same height and size as Levi.

Now, Levi's focus is no longer on the light man of the system, but on the so-called gods it seems to want to meet.

"Who!" Levi suddenly looked up and saw next to the light man. And yet nothing.

"You're not a creature of Mora? Who is Tiamat? Who are you? Levi looked at the system, the light man who was saluting like a waiter at this time.

This was the first time he had faced the system directly, and after meeting Moro, he had always thought that the system would be the insurance left by Moro, and after Moro saw the deaths of Abdullah and Abigail with his own eyes, he gave him the last insurance for the fourth traverser.

But now the truth is in front of his eyes, and the system is not the product of Mora, but the backhand of another unknown god.

"Who the hell are you?" Levi looked at the system, this guy who was short-sighted to the extreme, and at this time, this light man who was shining all over.

And the light man seemed to stop his pompous performance, turned around slightly, and watched the light on Levi's body slowly dissipate.

But in an instant, Levi was shocked to the extreme, and it was as if a great earthquake had erupted in Tong Kong.

Because that is, his own face.

"Because, I am you, graduated from the Department of Geography of Agriculture and Forestry University, and became a student of forest firefighters, Li Wei!" Li Weimeng took a step back, and he looked at the system at this time.

That's what he looks like. But it's not what he looks like, he's not that young, neither before his death nor now.

"I'm you, Levi!" The system appeared in front of Levi in an instant, and looked at Levi in four eyes.

…… In an instant, time and space shattered, and Levi seemed to feel it falling, falling and falling, until he landed on the ground.

"This is the ......" shook the ground, and in an instant the houses collapsed, the roads cracked, the mountains began to roar, and huge stones rolled down and flew mercilessly towards the buildings, and in a few seconds, a bustling city became a ruin.

Sirens cut through the sky after a nap, and the city fell apart...... Levi trembled all over, and the scene here was completely connected to the deepest fears of his childhood memories.

"Here is ......" earthquake! A disaster in the deepest part of memory. Levi walked through the debris-strewn ruins, he couldn't see the living, he couldn't see the sky, the huge smoke and dust obscured the sky, and the collapsed old school building buried countless elementary school students who were not awake from their naps at this time.

"Hey! Is anyone else alive! Levi roared among the ruins. However, no one responded, and he searched the ruins for all traces.

But there was no one alive, only he searched the ruins. This is his hometown, and it is also the familiar rural teaching house from his primary school days.

At the same time, it was also a ruin that he knew to the extreme...... There were no living people, no response, deathly silence.

"No matter who it is, there is no living person!" Levi roared. But at this moment, the sound of crying came from under the ruins.

"There are still people alive!" Levi carefully cleared the rubble, and then saw a little boy covered in blood slumped at the bottom of the rubble, sitting in the corner of the wall, lucky enough to have a breathing space in front of him.

However, under this ruin, there was an unrecognizable corpse, which had just erupted from the earthquake, but all those corpses were about to emit a smell, as if more than a day had passed.

The little boy was stuck in the corner, and he stretched out his hand with all his might. Levi also stretched out his hand, and at this moment, a hole was carved into the ruins, and the afternoon sun shone in.

Levi took the little boy's hand, and the little boy looked in that direction. All he could see was the scorching sunlight emanating from the hole.

Probably because he had been under the rubble for so long, he couldn't even open his eyes, he couldn't see the man who had reached out and pulled him out...... All he saw was a glow that seemed to burn through his retina............ The little boy was successfully rescued by the rescue team.

He was not buried deep in the rubble, but seemed to have crawled out with all his might. Everyone thought it was a miracle, and his house was unfortunately in the worst area of the earthquake, and unfortunately it was even more unfortunate that it hit a landslide, and everyone died, but he was the only one who survived.

He was on a stretcher, looking at the sky blankly. There was no sun in the sky, and the dust and smoke from the ruins completely obscured the sky, and he didn't know what the light was when he was most desperate to die.

At this time, everyone was feeling happy that this life had been saved, and the little boy just looked at the sky blankly, as if looking for the sun.

None of them noticed the man with the threaded mask not far away, as if he was transparent.

As the boy grew up, he excelled in his studies and was finally admitted to the most famous agriculture and forestry universities in several nearby provinces.

After graduation, he did not choose to go to a more prosperous place for further study, but signed up to become a forest firefighter in this land and chose to stay here.

The mountain village where he was a child was completely submerged by landslides and there was no need to rebuild it, so the survivors all left the place and gradually turned into a deserted forest.

Ten years later, it was a protected forest. He became the forest's firefighter, patrolling the forest every day, preventing fires, reporting wildlife sightings, and cleaning up the trash left behind by travelers who camped or explored the forest.

This kind of life is a few years at once. This is the forest that he Levi is extremely familiar with, this is the place where he has worked for several years, and it is also the forest that he wants to protect with his life, the Southwest Protected Forest, 142 Forest Area.

It was late at night, and a masked man with a threaded mask was just strolling through the dense woods, and for some reason, he gradually walked to a familiar watchtower.

This is where he often lives, and the familiarity seems to be engraved into his DNA, surrounded by slightly messy weeds and footprints, large garbage bags under the watchtower, and the familiar smell of fast food.

A little smoke rose in the distance, and it wasn't long before the lights inside the watchtower came on, and the fire alarm lights at the top of the watchtower were lit up.

It was that night, the night a forest firefighter died in a forest fire. And Levi saw the busy figure in the watchtower, he just lay down a little, and a wide trench coat appeared in his hand, which he wore on his body, pressed down the hood, and completely covered himself.

Soon, a man in a fireproof suit trotted down from the watchtower and headed for a village near the smoke.

It was a man of about twenty-five years old, or a boy, whose face and temperament were obscured by heavy fireproof suits and helmets, and this was a forest firefighter.

He didn't seem to be able to see the masked man standing to the side at this moment, but hurried away in one direction.

"Hey, don't go any further, retreat, your mission is done." The masked man stared at the forest firefighters, his shadow stretched in the distant firelight.

And the forest firefighter turned his head and saw the masked man in the moonlight, he didn't seem to feel too much doubt, but said.

"I'm sorry, I have to go, but you should retreat quickly, the forest fire is spreading very quickly, quickly retreat to the other side of the road." The firefighter seemed to be in a little hurry.

"The emergency disaster warning will sound soon, it will not matter if you go or not, if you go, you can only do evacuation work, and it is more likely that you will also take it." The masked man looked at him, looking through the void of the mask, and his tone seemed to be angry.

"That's enough." The firefighter didn't seem to listen to the second half of the sentence, and finally finished speaking, and rushed into the other direction of the fire.

The masked man didn't stop him, just looked at the fire in the distance, which had turned into a skyrocket. The fire spread so fast that it only took a few minutes for it to turn into a flame, and not far away the helicopter began to take off, but for such a flame, the helicopter could only watch from a distance.

"Do what you think is right, forest firefighters." Finally, the masked man just said to the back of the flames.

The forest was completely turned into a sea of fire. When a forest fire spreads, there is no way to stop it, and the only solution is to divide the forest into areas by roads and rivers, and the roads will clear out a part of the quarantine area around the road, thus acting as a separation zone.

Until everything inside the barrier is completely burned out. In the distance, the fire spread to the edge of a village with less than 100 people left.

This village is the only villager in the area, there are no young people, only the elderly and children left behind.

"Run! Everyone, run! Throw away the sacks and pots and bowls in your hands! Run! Escape! Forest firefighters in recommended protective clothing roared loudly.

Flames began to burn through the village, even though it was all brick houses, but the flames and smoke still ignited the entire village.

"Run! Crossing! Crossing! Crossing! The creek is the best barrier! Escape all to the other side of the river! The forest firefighters coughed and took all the villagers to the ferry, preparing to take them to another place without a hitch, at least to the next place where it was safer.

"Just baby! Did you escape? An old man roared loudly, and when he found no one, he fell to his knees and began to cry.

"Anyone else hasn't escaped?" The forest firefighter asked eagerly.

"Just the baby is still inside, his house is in the third house in the second group, his house is so close to the exit, I thought he had escaped a long time ago!" The old man roared loudly, saw the forest fireman's badge, and clung to his clothes.

The forest firefighter looked at the village that had been completely covered in flames, and slowly said, "You cross the river quickly, and I will go back as soon as I go." He threw down the dozens of old people and children on the ferry, and stepped into the flames of the village again.

Because he was in a hurry to go out, he didn't carry a breathing filter, and he could only cover his face with clothes dipped in water.

The flames set the brick building on fire, the beams collapsed, and the electrical appliances exploded. And at that moment, a figure smashed the door that was almost burned.

His body seemed to be bathed in flames, and his suit had been burned through and covered with sticky melt.

But the person in his arms was only slightly burned. He rushed and charged the little boy in the middle of the fire, completely ignoring the clothes that had been ignited on his body, as if it was just an obsession, and as if he was crazy.

He held the child, who had already passed out in the smoke, and tried to break out of the flames...... However, he fell to his knees completely, and the unconscious child in his hand threw forward.

The forest firefighter seemed to be completely dead, and he fell to the ground, the flames covering his back completely, and soon his entire body.

"At least...... The kid ......" the forest firefighter moved, but the flames had burned through his muscles and drained his blood.

But his eyes had already begun to freeze into the lake, and in front of him, only the young child was still in mid-air, about to fall to the ground, and then die in this hell with nothing but smoke and fire.

However, a pair of hands suddenly caught the little boy. In the last moments of his life, the forest firefighters saw a masked man cross over his body and rushed over to catch the boy.

"Thank you...... Xie ...... "This is the last sound of his lungs and vocal cords. The masked man took the boy in his hand, and he looked at the charred corpse that had completely lost its voice at this time, still burning slightly on the ground, like a relay, and passed the forest firefighter and caught the boy.

The masked man turned his head and left with the boy in his hand. Flames boiled behind him, and the masked man seemed to ignore the smoke and fire behind him.

He crossed the river and gave the little boy the simplest treatment for multiple burns.

Soon, professional disaster relief workers arrived and saved the boy with multiple burns. When the number of people was counted, it was found that no one had died, and everyone was cheering.

"Fireman, that firefighter is still inside! He didn't come out! An old man yelled.

But in the forest on the other side of the river, only the flames were soaring, and even on the other side of the river, you could only feel the heat rushing towards your face.

Until, the flame burned out completely. No one found the bodies of the forest firefighters, not even any traces, and the fire buried everything.

"Report to the headquarters, at this time, no one died in the forest fire, and one person was burned, a 5-year-old boy named Chen Gang. Victim...... One person is a forest fire prevention officer in the 142nd forest area of the Southwest Protected Forest...... Levi. Debriefing is complete. ”