There were particles of dust floating in the air that were visible to the naked eye, and although these dusts could not cause substantial harm to Zheng Xiu, they still made Zheng Xiu feel uncomfortable psychologically.

The starlight and moonlight were tightly obscured by the thick dust clouds in the night sky, and it was hard for Zheng Xiu to imagine how the human beings in this world had multiplied and survived for hundreds of years in such a harsh environment.

The sky is blue, the moon is round, the air is fresh, the flowers are colorful, the water is crystal clear, the moonlight is bright, the stars are bright, and humans can happily play on the ground without the protection of protective gear...... All of the above has become a "legend" that can only be seen in books for Mia, Jim, and Jimmy, a "generation" that has lived in underground shelters since birth.

Soon after birth, they are taught how to survive on the ground, how to filter sewage, how to identify the footprints of creepers, and how to save themselves from being bitten by rats or poisonous spiders.

The "everyday" they are accustomed to is a very incredible thing in Zheng Xiu's opinion.

"Human beings are very tenacious creatures, no matter what world they are in."

Walking on the ground, I met a few creepers foraging for food, and without waiting for Zheng Xiu to make a move, Mia, Jim, and Jimmy squatted down, sneaked up silently, and completed the assassination with a dagger.

Watching them move skillfully and kill the "aberration" like a chicken in the face of the lone crawler, Zheng Xiu couldn't help but touch the orange cat's head and sighed.

Mia wiped the blood from the dagger with her cuff, inserted the dagger back into the scabbard, and passed by a corpse, Mia's eyes lit up, and she touched the corpse and pulled out a few bullets from the inner lining of the protective suit. After Mia took out the lighter and checked the type and caliber of the bullet by the light of the fire, she happily put it away, and then walked back to Zheng Xiu's side, silently alert.

Zheng Xiu knew that the reason why they chose to "stealth kill" when there was little distortion was not a risky move. Instead, this is a safer way to survive on the ground. First, it can save ammunition, and secondly, it can reduce the possibility of gunfire attracting distortion and gathering.

One creeper isn't scary, it's a bunch of creepers that are scary.

If you can dive, you can save, and you can pick up, these are the three rules of survival of the apocalyptic civilization.

Led by Mia, the group enters an abandoned cake shop.

The cake shop's sign is printed with tempting chocolate cakes, but the shelves have long since been emptied, leaving only decay and desolation.

Jimmy and Jim quickly push open the side door and enter the back kitchen to check the environment.

Mia spread out the yellowed and old paper map on the counter of the cake shop, and she did her homework in advance, and a place on the map was marked by Mia in the shape of a "bat" with charcoal.

Zheng Xiu caught a glimpse of the mark and pressed the orange cat's head down to prevent the orange cat from seeing it.

Orange cats are severely allergic to everything that is "bat-shaped" but not limited to living things.

"Why did you mark with this pattern?"

Zheng Xiu asked with a smile.

Mia was slightly stunned when she heard this. At this time, the two Gigi brothers looked around the temporary stronghold, one entered through the door, and the other climbed in through the window, nodding to Mia respectively to indicate safety. Mia wondered, "This is the 'totem' of the Night Cultists, and they themselves will use this pattern to mark their territory." ”

Zheng Xiu frowned, feeling that something was wrong and couldn't say it.

In the mouth of the orange cat, this bat-like master is evil, cruel and tyrannical, and it was he who took Fengbei away from Daqian for a certain purpose.

However, in the Night Lady's brochure, the praise of the Night Lady is all about the Night Lady, and there is no mention of the bat. But the followers of the Night Lady used bats as the totem of Fengbei.

Although the history of the past cannot be examined, there may be distortion in it. But when Zheng Xiu combined this totem with the legend of the Night Lady, he had a very subtle feeling that Fengbei and the bat master did not seem to be a simple relationship between the wicked and the captive. It's not so much that Fengbei is a captive of the bat's domination, but that ...... Zheng Xiu's face suddenly turned strange, and he looked down at the back of his head with a few handfuls of orange fluff in his arms, it was better to say that the relationship between Fengbei and the bat was more like that between him and the orange cat, a kind of ...... Cooperate.

It's like he's standing up to develop believers now, but he's using the totem of an orange cat.

Although Zheng Xiu has no evidence for this idea, he believes that if Fengbei is a captive of the bat master, then the whole praise should be a praise for the bewitching and demeanor of the bat.

The style of painting should be different.

While Zheng Xiu was thinking about the pimple on his forehead, Mia had already redetermined the course of progress.

In the ruins of the city, the "route" is no longer limited to the streets, but the gaps and holes between the corridors. Although Zheng Xiu was able to directly spread his wings and fly over, there was no doubt that this arrogant way of marching was too ostentatious.

Since Zheng Xiu left the Fire Rat Gang...... Ah no, after the camp of the Orange Cat Club, when they came to the ground, the feeling of being spied on in the dark came from all around, making Zheng Xiu and the orange cat feel very uncomfortable.

He felt the false god's gaze beside him, but for a moment he couldn't determine where "he" was hiding.

"Is it possible that that guy also used the form of 'developing believers' to imprint humanity and make humanity believe in Him? Humans also act as His eyes? ”

Zheng Xiu chatted with high-speed divine words and asked about the orange cat.

"It may be possible," the orange cat knew that the totem of the bat was printed on the map, and hid his head in Zheng Xiu's arms a little unpleasantly, focusing on a blind out of sight. She replied in a muffled voice: "But in order for God to be believed and worshipped, there must always be an intuitive and visual 'symbol'. It's like Fengbei's 'Lady of the Night'. The limitations of human imagination and ideas prevent them from understanding what God is and believing in things they cannot understand. ”

"Even the most abstract totems, what 'peace', what 'food and clothing', what 'light', these are all things that human beings can understand. If that thing really follows the old path of developing believers, it will definitely leave some 'symbol' in the world. Indeed, if we can find this 'symbol', it will be easier for us to find it. ”

Buzz Buzz......

The conversation between the orange cat and Zheng Xiu became a buzzing noise in the ears of the other three, and they covered their ears at the same time, showing discomfort.

Zheng Xiu stopped the "high-speed prophecy" and asked Mia to choose a route, and then walked out of the cake shop and got back on the road.

The "banquet" of the Lady of the Night believers was in their assembly hall. On the map, the meeting place for the Night Lady believers is a large shopping mall with five floors and a subway station entrance on the basement floor. If it weren't for the fact that the underground passage leading to the mall station at the entrance of the Orange Cat Club would have collapsed and been abandoned, the few of them would not have to go to the ground at all, and they would have been able to reach the territory of the Night Cultists from underground.

Nothing happened along the road, and after about half an hour, a fiery red light could be seen in the distance, and a faint red light was reflected in the dust cloud.

From time to time, winged creatures swept across the sky.

At intervals around the mall, an oil drum is filled with flammable garbage, which is poured with gasoline and used as a makeshift torch. The surface of each burning oil drum is painted with a hideous bat totem in bright red paint, and it is also marked with bloody warnings such as "death to the intruder". Some of the oil drums also have sticks stuck in them the corpses of scavengers or aberrant creatures, and the other oil drums encircle the mall, and in this way, the cultists of the night have arrogantly and high-profile enclosed their territory.

"Strange, why is there no one to guard it?"

Jim's face changed slightly as he looked at the scavengers stuck in the oil drums. He seemed to recognize the identity of the scavenger. Most of the scavengers living in Area 32 are familiar with each other, and in the past, some people were not used to the character of fire rats, so they chose to form their own groups, and formed several loosely structured survival groups on the edge of Area 32, which were not considered formal gangs.

Ever since the followers of the Night Lady came from the south and broke into District 32 with no one in sight, the entire district became tense because of this.

"We ...... Now what? ”

Jimmy gasped for a few breaths, the time-running filter making it difficult for him to breathe. He casually replaced it with a new filter, and the sound of breathing was reduced. The two brothers opened their backpacks to check the number of filters left and calculated how long they could still be on the ground.

They looked enviously at the "humanoid boss" who could move freely on the ground, thinking that the humanoid race deserved to be the darling of the new era.

Mia also looked at Zheng Xiu through the mask, waiting for the boss to make a decision.

It was the boss's order that they came to find the Night Believer, and she didn't know what the boss was going to do when he found the Night Believer.

Bang!

Suddenly, a sudden gunshot broke the dead silence of the night, and Jim and Jimmy subconsciously shrunk their necks and skillfully rolled behind cover.

"They shot!"

"We've been discovered?"

The brothers' first instinct was to be ambushed.

Mia also quickly hid behind the oil barrels, in the direction of the mall, followed by a dense burst of gunfire.

The crazy howls converged, and the believers were crazy or not, Zheng Xiu didn't know, but listening to the gunshots and howls, Zheng Xiu felt that they were quite happy.

Bang bang!

In the abandoned building of the mall, sparks burst out like twinkling stars, and it was the fireworks of the devotees' guns.

The distortion of the wings on its back took advantage of the darkness to flexibly hover in the sky and take the opportunity to pounce on the mall.

Mia pulled down the binoculars from her mask, looked at it for a few seconds, and immediately said, "It's a demon!" Saying that, she glanced at Zheng Xiu, there were traces of "demons" in Area 32 very early, and Mia suspected that there was a demon's lair in Area 32 before, which was also one of the reasons why Mia mistook Zheng Xiu for a demon when she saw Zheng Xiu flapping her wings and flying down on the first day.

"Demon", like "Creeper", is just a type of aberrant creature, because of its hideous face and wings on its back, it has gradually been named "demon" by later generations of humans, and it is not the class that fought the "divine war" with the Night Lady hundreds of years ago.

The Aberrations flew down from the clouds, where they had previously hidden, and it was no wonder that there were only a few of them in the distance. The arrogant rally of the Night Cultists in the mall attracted the attention of the demons, who launched an aerial attack at this moment.

"Praise be to the Lady of the Night!"

"Praise be to the Lady of the Night!"

The believers laughed and threw Molotov cocktails at the demons hovering in the sky, but the hit rate was touching. In the blink of an eye, the demon pounced into the mall, and its sharp claws instantly grabbed a believer and grabbed him into the air.

The believer who was caught in the sky unhurriedly lit a Molotov cocktail, and in the blink of an eye, the man and the demon ignited a raging flame in the air, falling to the ground, and as they fell, there was a human laugh and a sharp and piercing scream of the demon.

Demons are weak fire, this is common sense.

But igniting demons in such a way that they all die together is unheard of for Mia, Jimmy, and Jim, subverting their worldview and outlook on life that "everything is based on survival".

"Crazy, crazy, these crazy people."

Jim looked at the people who were caught in the sky one by one, and did not hesitate to set fire to his own believers, his face was horrified and muttered to himself.

Jimmy swallowed hard, a clear "grunt" in his throat, already wondering if it was appropriate to provoke the madmen.

At this time, a slight earthquake occurred around the mall.

Earthquake?

No, it's not.

Zheng Xiu's eyes froze.

The rubble around the mall shook and decomposing corpses crawled out of the darkness of the night. The movement of the corpses against the remains caused an earthquake-like effect.

"What's that!"

The corpses coalesced together at a terrifying speed, and in the light of the fire, the decaying flesh of the corpses squeezed, stacked, and wriggled toward a central point as if manipulated by something. In an instant, the corpse that crawled out of the ruins was "reassembled" into a "giant" with a height of nearly thirty meters.

The surface of the "corpse giant" was pitted and white, and under the control of some force, a huge arm suddenly grew out of the corpse giant's wriggling shoulders and threw it into the night sky like a whip.

Syllable!

The corpse giant had a nimble that didn't match his appearance, and the whip flicked in the air, whipping down patches of demons with incredible precision.

Seeing this scene, Zheng Xiu was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "It turns out that it's really 'Madam'." ”

He flicked his fingers and signaled. At the same time as Zheng Xiu sent out the signal, a certain "lady" hidden in the mall, a certain "brand" of a certain "part", vibrated slightly.

The corpse giant who whipped the demon defense assembly center like a flesh monster, turned his head suddenly, and looked at Zheng Xiu.

Jim and Jimmy were so frightened by the corpse giant's action that their scalps tingled, and their lips turned white: "It found us!" ”

Mia felt that something was wrong, why did the giant suddenly clamp his legs?

Ink-colored wings grew out of Zheng Xiu's back, sweeping towards the sky, and the pale gray streamer seemed to divide the night in two.

"Dad, use my 'freeze'."

It only took a moment to sweep into the sky, and Zheng Xiu spent more time struggling with what way to keep a low profile without revealing his divinity. When Zheng Xiu was entangled, the place where the "ice crystals" on his chest was printed trembled slightly, and the arrogant and indifferent voice of the snow boy came out.

"Listen to him, their sub-authority does not carry divinity, since you want to pretend to be a humanoid, try to use the power of your authority as little as possible, and it will be more like using 'frozen' sub-authority."

Po~ The orange cat squeezed his head out of the pectoralis major muscle, which was as strong and comfortable as a pillow, for fear that Zheng Xiu would have an impulse to show his authority, and hurriedly said.

"Okay."

When Zheng Xiu learned the identity of "Madame", he no longer hesitated, there was no nonsense, and in a flash, his hair turned snow-white, and even his eyebrows were covered with a thin layer of ice crystals.

A layer of frost centered on Zheng Xiu's chest spread out towards the surface of his body, and the inky wings behind him were frozen in an instant, turning into a pair of wings composed entirely of ice crystals.

When Zheng Xiu flew high into the air in such a gorgeous posture, there was a moment of dead silence among the night believers who looked crazy.

Zheng Xiu's right palm was weakly grasped, and he pulled it out little by little, and an ice crystal long knife condensed on the way, magnificent and perfect.

Zheng Xiu swung out a knife, and the snow-white knife cut through the night in a few fan-shaped pieces.

Hundreds of demons frozen into ice sculptures fell.

(End of chapter)