In the year 1550 of the Terra calendar, the Nether Territory of the Oretin Empire - Crete.

[This war is a holy war dedicated to His Majesty the Emperor!] 】

[A rebel who despises the authority of the empire and acts recklessly on the land of the empire!] 】

[It's up to us to enforce the sanctions!! 】

[God bless my emperor, we will-

Victory, glory! 】

The ruined land was littered with ruins, and ships belonging to the Oretin Empire floated in the sky, transmitting their faith in the emperor to the lower levels through the radio.

The only intact place here is a field hospital, which is full of infected runaway people, and none of their body parts are intact. People's eyes were too numb, and they were lifeless and devastated by war.

Outside the hospital's emergency room and intensive care unit.

The strong smell of disinfectant soaked in the memory, and the figure of many strangers.

Facing the white walls, people folded their hands and prayed to their respective gods, how sincere this prayer was.

The walls of the hospital listen to more sincere prayers than the church, because life is born in the hospital and it is also passed in the hospital.

Intensive care room for those who are out of control.

The dripping rain was pounding on the window outside, and Kellogg was quietly peeling apples with a fruit knife, while his wife, Hannah Alice, was lying on the bed and staring at the rain that was beating the ground, her bare skin was covered with scales, which was already in the late stage of pollution, and her whole body was beginning to be overgrown with aberrant organs.

"Hannah, come." Kellogg handed the peeled apple to his wife.

Hannah looked back, and she looked at the apple in her husband's hand, and then at the new scar on his face.

"You're going to the supply depot with those guys again, it's a dense area of war, you..."

"Hey, I know, I know, come, eat some apples to cool off." Kellogg shoved the apple into his wife's mouth, much to the displeasure of the other, who glared at her husband angrily, and then took a bite of the apple in a puff.

"Is it sweet?" Kellogg asked with a smile.

Looking at her husband's stupid appearance, Hannah, who was depressed in her heart, felt a little more comfortable, and a smile appeared on her sad face unconsciously.

"It's sweet."

*******

In order to escape the natural disasters that emerged in the eastern continent, I set out with my people from my homeland, crossed two regions, crossed the great plains of the Midwest and came to Crete, and when we arrived here, the natural disasters stopped spreading.

Along the way, I saw countless people of all colors who were escaping with us. We weren't at war with them, and the elders of the clan told me that the people who were able to walk on the land of Terra now were mostly inherited, and that ancient experience had taught them that fratricidal killing would only exacerbate their demise.

Because natural disasters do not appear regularly, today it can wreak havoc on the eastern continent of Oretin, and tomorrow it can ravage the western continent.

Historians of Terra once said that frequent natural disasters liberated the Oretin Empire from the "confinement of the land".

Throughout history, Terra's ancestors transitioned from food gatherers to food producers. And now, because of natural disasters, we are forced to start to return to the stage of food gatherers again, we have begun to wander, we are forced to turn back the clock of history.

Now, the original civilization system has been destroyed, people have been forced to become nomads, and religions, new human systems, and new ideas have begun to grow savagely in the Nether of Terra.

The people of the Nether have become more enlightened and tolerant than before, and the floating cities above have become more and more extreme.

If they are not enlightened, the people of the lower realm will surely die; Without totalitarianism, the rule of the sky will collapse.

The original social system has also undergone fundamental changes; The 'celestials' who live in the floating city discriminate against the 'gray people' of the lower realm, while the 'out-of-control' are hated by all human beings.

We quickly negotiated with the Cretan people to divide the area of residence, and they gave us a piece of land with fertile soil - only the people of the Eastern Continent still retain the customs of farming, and now the people are more inclined to buy cheap synthetic food from the Sky City - the patriarch thanked them, and we signed the "Mutual Aid Agreement" again.

If a natural disaster occurs in the area where one party is located, the other party shall provide assistance within its capacity, including but not limited to food, land, necessary daily necessities, etc.

It may sound incredible, but that's why the people of the Nether are still able to survive.

There is one more article on the agreement at the end; When the natural disaster in the evacuation area is over and the natural disaster forecaster predicts that there will be no more natural disasters in the area within 2~5 years, the evacuees should immediately return to their own territory.

In the past, when there were no natural disasters in the Eastern Continent, there were more than a number of ethnic groups in the Eastern Continent, and after the natural disasters were over, these ethnic groups would return to their homeland.

This treaty was established after the bitter experience of countless blood and tears, and in the first fifty years of the New Yuan Calendar (the second chronology commonly used by the Oretin Empire), more people died from land grabbing than from natural disasters. Ironically, while these perpetrators were cheering for their victory, a natural disaster struck.

Natural disasters are like the movements of the three celestial bodies mentioned by scholars, which are unpredictable.

We settled in Crete, and I continued my carefree life, either playing in the mud in the fields or chasing the chickens and ducks raised by my uncles.

At that time, I was in the stage of being annoyed with dogs, but I was beaten by the elders of the clan.

Someday.

"Kellogg, you're almost eight years old, and you're almost at the age of school." The clan elder smiled and said to me, who had just finished harming Aunt Jasmine's dog next door.

"Going to school?"

I remember this phrase, there were schools in the Eastern Continent, but he was still young at the time, and he was not old enough to go to school. When he reached school age, natural disasters began to ravage the Eastern Continent, and there were no more schools.

"Well, I've already done the enrollment procedures for you, and you can enroll tomorrow."

"Okay, go to school." I was not averse to going to school because it would expose me to more people and new things.

******

"The six largest floating forces in the Eastern Continent floating in the sky are: Utopia (this is a bad name because it is a city made in heaven), Factory, Heavenly Academy, Oretin Imperial Academy of Sciences, Addisi Machinery, and Peace Initiative."

"It's not so much a floating city as a floating city cluster. Every five years, they expand a new floating city. And these expanded floating cities can be separated, so there are actually more than six floating cities. ”

On the podium, the teacher was tirelessly telling the students about the history of Terra, and I was looking out the window, the huge shadows floating in the sky.

"The floating city agglomeration still maintains its domination over the ground, and each of us needs to pay tithes to the floating city to which we belong, and the one above only collects thaumaturgical stones as taxes, so ·····"

Ding Ding Ding –

When the bell rang for the end of class, the children began to get restless, so the teacher could only reluctantly announce the end of class.

Recently, the patriarchs and clan elders have been worried, as if because of the city that appeared in the sky, it was a floating city belonging to the Oretin Empire, and its name was - Sargon.

The school has recently prepared a special festival to celebrate Sargon's appearance in the skies above Crete and to welcome the 'celestials'.

The children were cheering and jumping because they liked to be boisterous, and at the same time they were full of curiosity about the 'celestial beings', and I was keenly aware of the strong smiles of the adults.

My uncles have been going out early and returning late late, and every time they come back they are sweating, and every time they come back they bring glowing stones, and these uncles who bring them live in another place far from the village, and the elders warn the children not to approach them.

I once asked the clan elders, why? Why don't you let Uncle Wang and them come with us, why do you tell the children in the village that they are monsters?

Because they are cursed, cursed for our sake.

I still remember the sad expression of the patriarch, and I remember that he was always amiable and smiling. Now, with his helpless side in front of me, I subconsciously reached out and stroked his face as he had comforted me when I was crying.

The patriarch was stunned for a moment, then he took my hand firmly with both hands and put my hand on his forehead.

It was as if I saw something carving scars on the patriarch's face, and his back seemed to be no longer straight, and something was crushing him.

*******

"Whoa—whoa—whoa—"

"Bang Bang Bang ——————"

Brilliant fireworks lit up the whole of Crete, and at this time the people of Crete were wearing the most important clothes, everyone was celebrating, and I was chosen by the school to be the flower girl who welcomed the 'celestial people'.

All I had to do was wave the flag and smile innocently in a specific spot.

I met the 'Celestials' on that day.

Why, I thought they had three heads and six arms, but they were just like us.

That's what I thought at the time, that celestials, like us, are human beings with one mouth and two eyes. They are not much more noble than us.

The celestials didn't seem to care much about our welcome, and they told the leaders of Crete the purpose of their trip with a clear purpose, and they didn't shy away from the fact that it was a public place, and perhaps they didn't care at all.

I can only vaguely hear words such as 'conscription', 'assessment', 'introduction of talents', and 'prevention of invasion by external forces'.

My task was quickly completed, and after greeting the celestials, the teacher gave everyone a bag of candy and let us go out to play.

Instead of following the crowd into the streets, I ran towards the Cretan region, which he knew very well. When he came to Crete, he ran wherever he could, and Uncle Easter and Uncle Eston often went up the hill to look for him, and each time he found him, his ass hurt for days.

I was going to be at the top of the mountain to see what the interior of the floating city was like, and I climbed and climbed, and halfway up the mountain, I met her.

It was dusk and I heard the sound of a girl crying on the way up the mountain.

I followed the direction of the sound, and on the high staircase, a girl was sitting on the staircase with her hands on her knees, her head buried in her knees, and the sound of staccato cries came from her.

I walked towards her, and she seemed to hear my footsteps, and the girl raised her head.

Next to the stairs, there are plane trees, the leaves on them have fallen, the dead branches cut the dim sunlight into pieces, and in the reflection of the gaps in the fragments, is a little face with pear blossoms and rain, the girl's face looks extremely red at this time, she looks at me with aggrieved little eyes.

"Hey, are you lost?" I asked the girl with concern.

“··· Well, woo woo · I, I was just separated from my parents for a while, and I thought about going up the hill to see a better view, woo woo woo ·····" The girl said intermittently.

I looked at the shadow at the top of the mountain, then at the crying girl with the eyeballs, and sighed helplessly, and I stretched out my right hand.

"Come, I'll take you down the mountain."

"Okay."

So, I took the girl's hand and began to walk down the mountain.

“··· What's your name? My name is Hannah Alice. ”

"Kellogg, well, there is no surname, the patriarch said that the people of the Eastern Continent don't need that thing."

"Are you familiar with this area?"

"Well, I come here a lot."

"You're from the Eastern Continent."

"Hmm."

"You..."

The girl was like a lark, chirping in my ear, and I was absent-mindedly coping, and my heart was still in pity that I could not see the appearance of the floating city.

"Do you know that there is a poet named Yeats in Dublin, whose poetry is very famous in the New World······"

The continent on which the Oretin Empire is located is blocked by the vast Celestial Empire, and the world outside the empire is called the New World (for the Nether Greys, of course).

"Shh

I suddenly reached out my right hand and covered Hannah's mouth, and then I took him to hide in the bushes in the mountains, Hannah looked at me nervously, and I motioned for her to be silent.

Ahead, there was a group of men in special combat uniforms, and I could see the uniform logo on their shoulders; It was a spire of a double helix and holy wings, and next to it was a Terra script that read [Heavenly Utopia].

"Remember, the corresponding deployment of this city capture campaign has been made." The leader with red epaulettes spoke to his subordinates.

"Well, we're going to definitely teach these celestials a lesson."

"Be careful."

"Don't worry, Chief."

"You guys go ahead and act first."

"Yes."

With the exception of the leader, the other members of the Tower of Babel quickly left the place, and the leader stood still thinking about something.

The thumb of his right hand unconsciously pressed the red hilt of the knife hanging on his right hand, and he flicked the hilt back and forth. The blade was pulled out of the scabbard, then pressed back with his thumb again, and he flicked the handle back and forth.

I lay on my stomach in the bushes and didn't dare to move, my hand holding Hannah was already sweating profusely, and Hannah seemed to sense that something was wrong, so even if she was terrified, she didn't dare to make a sound.

"We should be proud of who we are and actively seek to capture and use the power that belongs to the public." The leader suddenly said something I didn't understand at the time.

"I don't think I'm a good leader." He smiled self-deprecatingly, finally pushed the knife back, and then he turned away without hesitation.

After confirming that the other party was gone, Hannah and I collapsed to the ground, and fear and fear began to flood our hearts.

He must have found us, but, why?

When I was young, I was full of confusion about many things in the world.

After that, I took Hannah down the mountain.

I saw Hannah's parents, they looked dusty, probably to find Hannah suffered a lot, Hannah's mother first scolded Hannah, after scolding and crying each other, she hugged Hannah's head and cried with her.

Hannah's father came to thank me, and to be honest, I was a little shy in the face of adults complimenting me. From Hannah's father, I learned that they were a group of itinerant merchants who were planning to settle here in Crete.

Following.

Inside the classroom.

"Students, there is a new person in our class today, come, come here, and introduce yourself to everyone." The head teacher waved to the door, and the students all looked at the beautiful girl with blonde hair with curiosity.

The eyes of the students in the class were attracted by this beautiful elf, especially the boys.

"Hi, I'm Hannah Alice." Hannah waved enthusiastically at everyone present, as if she was looking in my direction intentionally or unintentionally, and I pretended not to know him.

Children at this age are always prone to coaxing, and only when a man and a woman are together, the children will let out a shouting sound and say who is whose little daughter-in-law.

Hannah didn't think so, and the teacher told her to find a place to sit down. Instead of going to the empty seat, she walked straight to me, and she came to my seat, and said softly to my mate:

"I want to sit here, I wonder if you can change places."

"Oooooooooooo

As I expected, the class began to make a fuss, and the teacher slapped the table on the podium to signal the students not to make noise.

I looked at my table mate pleadingly, and he gave me a "really yours" look, then quickly cleaned up his classmates and left the place with a, while Hannah sat down next to me.

"See you again, Kellogg. We'll be at the same table from now on. ”

“······”

And just like that, Hannah and I became table mates.

It was this one that another important thing happened.

Far away, Sargon suddenly turned on his naval guns, and it bombarded the Cretan Mountains indiscriminately, affecting many people, and I heard the people say that the Celestials were hunting down members of an organization called [Utopia].

I was curious to ask the clan elder what kind of organization Utopia was.

"Utopia is an organization made up entirely of people who are out of control. They are extremely xenophobic, hostile to the normal society that once oppressed them, and the members of the utopia want to be socially just in their own way, even beyond the treatment of the non-out-of-control - this is the manifesto of the empire for them. ”

"Out of control?"

"They're all poor people······"

"You'll get it later." The patriarch's eyes were full of exhaustion.

It was also on this day that the uncles who had gone out early and returned late were taken away by the celestials of Salgon, and they have not returned since.

In the years that followed, I began to understand the words of the clan elders.

******

Time passed quickly, and I was in Crete for almost ten years, during which time Hannah played the role of my tablemate.

She was always there for me, whether it was in gym class or after school. Even during the holidays, she would come to our village to look for me, and the adults in the village would always look at us with ambiguous eyes.

At first, I couldn't stand it, but then I slowly got used to her presence.

It was summer, and I was sitting under the shade vine I had built, with a chilled watermelon from Aunt Huang next to me, and a worn-out Walkman playing pure music; I picked it up from the old market, and I picked it up with a whole bunch of tapes.

The breeze caressed me, and I crossed Erlang's legs, eating watermelon and listening to music.

"Kay-Lo-G—"

Just as I was enjoying my relaxing holiday life, familiar and annoying sounds came to my ears from far and near, and I turned sideways, holding the mentality of covering my ears and stealing the bell.

Can't see, can't hear.

"Wuhu-Kellogg, Cheche-Che-"

Unfortunately, there are some things that can't be avoided, Hannah rushed in on a battery car, and I sensed the danger, so I immediately left my seat and dodged Hannah's impact.

"What are you doing?" I glared at her in exasperation, and at last she stopped the car, and my watermelon had already made intimate contact with the ground, and the earth had succeeded in staining the bright red flesh with an earthy yellow.

"I'm sorry." She stuck her tongue out at me.

“·······”

"Don't be angry, come, I'll take you for a ride."

Hannah patted the empty seat behind her, and handed me a black helmet, I looked at her speechlessly, where do you have the confidence to carry me.

"Uncle, how can my aunt agree to let you drive a battery car, isn't this old antique where your father will eat ashes?"

"Uh, O(∩_∩)O haha~"

"Okay, I see." Looking at her appearance, I can understand that her feelings are secretly opened.

"Let's go for a ride, I'm looking forward to how boring it will be here." Hannah tried to motivate me.

"Did you do your homework?"

"Does that thing need to be written?"

“······ That's right, too. Looking at her surprised expression, I didn't know what to say for a while.

"Where do you want to go?"

"Whatever."

"It's casual again, you said casual last holiday, and then after I took you to your destination, you complained about it for months." Seeing her say casually, I couldn't help but slap her.

Kellogg didn't say that it was okay, but as soon as she said Hannah, she got angry, and she said angrily to me:

"Where do you take girls to the old market to pick up goods! You were very happy at the time, chatting with the vendors in full swing, and I was bored to death. ”

"The rabbit bands you use to tie your hair now are not what I took out for you, don't you like it very much, I see you have always carried it."

"I, Kellogg, you're an idiot!!"

"How are you swearing!"

"Idiot Idiot Idiot Idiot Idiot—"

"Crybaby, crybaby, crybaby—"

We quarreled again, and the people were drawn over, and the adults looked at us with kindness, while the children came running and sang to us in the tune of singing:

"Little daughter-in-law, little husband, happy to show affection!"

"Who showed affection!" Hannah and I yelled at the children in unison.

The children said that the monster was coming, and then they scattered as birds and beasts.

"I can't go." Hannah looked at me angrily.

"Let's go." I snatched her helmet from her hand and picked it up and put it in my pocket.

"Get out of the way, I'll get out of the way." I got into the driver's seat and pushed Hannah to the back, but she didn't say anything, because she knew her driving skills.

"Sit down." I twisted the handle and instructed Hannah behind me.

“······ Well. I don't know if it was too hot, Hannah's face suddenly turned red, and she twisted and tugged at the corner of my clothes.

I said speechlessly, "What's the use of this, hold me tight." ”

"Got it, what are you yelling at!" Hannah barked like a fried cat.

She squirmed and stretched out her hands, her hands slowly extending from my sides, and then both hands clasped tightly, for some reason, she seemed to be nervous, and I felt her breathing a little rapid.

"Gone." I didn't pay much attention to it.

I slowly tightened the handlebars, and the battery car began to pick up speed, and I drove it outside. The wind kissed us on the cheeks from both sides, and I didn't drive too fast because it was carrying Hannah.

"And I still dreamed that he was stepping on the grass,

Drifting and walking in the dew,

Let my song pierce easily—"

The music started from behind me, and at some point, Hannah reached into my pocket and took the Walkman inside, inserting the tape she had brought into it.

"Listen to that." Hannah waved her Walkman triumphantly behind her.

I looked at her smug look behind me and couldn't help but want to tease her. I pressed the brake lever on my right hand, and the car came to a halt and Hannah's face hit me in the back.

"Bah, it's all sweat! Wood, what are you doing? Hannah shouted disgruntled behind her.

"There's sand ahead, so you have to open it slowly." I laughed.

"I think you're looking for a fight." She reached out to hit me, and I drove again.

"Sit tight."

"Ah, drive slower."

I drove Hannah in the direction of the fields, the sun was on our shoulders, the breeze was gently blowing our faces, and the golden ears of wheat around us seemed to follow us, and they swayed their bodies.

Hannah suddenly ripped off the rabbit-shaped leather band behind her, and her blonde hair began to flutter in the wind, and a few strands of her hair floated up to my shoulders, and they smelled unusually good.

This is a very beautiful picture, sunshine, breeze, ears of wheat, young girls······

And so, I unknowingly drove Hannah out of the village, and we didn't know how far we had come, and when I realized that it was time to go back, an accident happened.

"There's a problem with the display of this car, it clearly shows that there is still 56% electricity, why don't you leave." I patted the display on the battery car.

"Ahaha——, I remembered, my dad said before that there seems to be a mistake in the display of this car." Hannah smiled awkwardly.

"It's a little bit!" I laughed.

"What now······ Hannah said with a dodgy look.

"Harm~ push back, I hope the people in the village can detect us."

I didn't say much more about Hannah's rough lines, and we started pushing the battery cart back. It shouldn't be us, but I was the only one pushing the cart, and Hannah was cautiously following me, she was a little embarrassed now, for fear of being scolded by me.

"Play a song and listen to it."

"Hmm."

This time Hannah was playing pure music, and after the initial embarrassment, she began to change back to her original form, and she was chattering in my ear again.

"Kellogg, every year there is a big test in the floating city agglomeration, and I heard that this is a system that existed in the old days. As long as we Nether people do well in the exam, they can go to the floating city to study, and if they are lucky, they can even obtain resident qualifications. ”

"Hmm."

"Kellogg, with your grades, it should be no problem to get in."

"So are you."

"So, which agglomeration do you want to go to?"

Hannah asked in a sudden and cramped tone, and I began to think.

"I'm supposed to go to the Addison Federation."

"Addison..." Hannah muttered.

"What about you?" I didn't say why, but changed the subject.

"Secret." Hannah smiled slyly.

"If you don't want to say it, forget it."

"Oh, you're really not curious."

"Not curious!"

"If you call out to sister, I'll tell you."

"Huh."

As we pushed the cart back, the sun was already starting to set, the road was starting to be difficult to see, and I was already feeling a sore ache with my hands and feet together.

I didn't hold on, I told Hannah that my physical strength was a little bad, she wanted to change someone to push, I told her directly that I didn't need to, now in this situation, we should find a place to stay and wait for rescue, the people in the village and your parents should have noticed that something is wrong, and the rescue team may be on the way to find us.

So, we came to the stone monument next to the road, and I put the car in a prominent place, and then I lay flat on the ground without any image.

"Hannah, you." I couldn't help but complain.

"People know it's wrong." Hannah sat down cross-legged next to me with an embarrassed expression, and then she carefully rested my head on her lap.

"As compensation, I'll give you a pillow."

"You have a bit of a conscience." I said a little tiredly.

"Do you want to squint for a while, maybe when you wake up, the rescuers have already arrived."

"Hmmm..." I actually squinted for a while when I was lying down.

"You can talk with me for a while, and maybe I'll fall asleep while chatting."

"Okay." Hannah said with a smile, stroking my head like a child, and to be honest, a little comfortable.

"Kellogg, what are your plans for the future?"

"I don't know, I don't have much ambition."

"Well, do you want to be in the Floating City or in the Nether in the future?"

"I'm not sure, I don't know if I'll stay in the Nether after learning about the Floating City, I'm not sure······" Sleepiness began to strike.

"yes, so do I."

"Hmmm..."

"Kellogg..."

“······” I had closed my sleepy eyes, and Hannah continued to caress my head gently, her tone becoming unusually soft.

"Kellogg, you're a wood."

“······”

"Kellogg, you're an idiot!"

“······”

Hannah looked at the teenager who was sleeping like a baby, and showed a beautiful smile, she gently rubbed the boy's face with her fingers, and after making sure that the boy was really asleep, she blushed and leaned close to the boy, the distance between them was so close, as long as they were a little closer, then the skin of the two would touch each other.

"Kellogg, I like you." The girl spat out the words softly.

Her lips pressed to the boy's.

For a long time, the lips parted.

The girl's face was as red as an apple at this time, and the boy didn't know what kind of dream he had, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

I slept very comfortably, and when Hannah woke me up, I heard a cry in the distance, and I knew that the rescuers were coming, so I immediately ran up and shouted loudly to the place where there was a light source in front of me.

"Here! Here's it! ”

The crowd seemed to hear my shout, and they started walking in my direction, and I happily looked back at Hannah.

"Why are you still sitting?"

"Nonsense, you're sleeping comfortably, my legs are numb now, help me up." Hannah muttered at me.

"Okay." I laughed and picked Hannah up from the ground.

Soon, we were found by the villagers, who took us back to the village on a bike, and the battery car tied a rope and carried it back to the village.

Back in the village, Hannah's parents were already waiting for us, and the scene looked familiar.

Hannah's mother scolded Hannah a lot, and I was scolded this time, because we both became famous in the neighborhood because of it.

*******

The shadow of Sargon once again hangs over Crete, and this time with the news of the new emperor's accession to the throne, and - the long war!

Crimson sky,

The people who screamed.

The distance is no longer the lights of thousands of homes,

It's pain and despair at hand.

·······

When the new emperor ascended the throne, he began to purge the old opposition, and he was already dissatisfied with the floating city that roamed outside the city agglomeration and set up its own portal. He demanded that the wandering floating cities enter [Constantinople] and swear allegiance to their new emperor, and the warlords of the wandering cities were not fools, and they could see the new emperor's displeasure with them.

Those in the Senate also began to denounce the 'tyranny' of the new emperor, and they contacted the warlords.

Then, the war began tacitly on both sides, and the people of the Nether naturally fell victim to the war.

Sargon, one of the floating cities opposed to the new emperor's rule, was also extremely dissatisfied with Augustus's brutal rule, and formed a wartime alliance with Hammurabi, another floating city in Crete, to resist the emperor's Praetorian Guard.

Imperial thaumaturgists and thaumaturgical devices opened fire in the skies above Crete, and Sargon and Hammurabi were no less than good, and the war spread throughout Crete, and many became temporary soldiers of Sargon, or slaves of Hammurabi.

The fighting between the two sides caused the EVE particles to spread throughout Crete, exponentially exponentially in the proportion of those who were out of control, and those who were out of control were the cradle of suffering.

Hannah's family has become out of control, so they are banished from their original residence by people who have seen the runaway go berserk.

People are so frightened that those who are out of control go crazy like demons.

And at this time, I made a decision.

Crete region - a gathering place for runaways.

"It's okay, come, drink the medicine." Hannah smiled softly at the horned boy in front of her.

Perhaps the woman in front of him was too much like an angel, and the boy was infected by the gentle aura on his body, so he obediently opened his mouth, while Hannah carefully fed her medicine.

"What's your name, little friend."

"Lister, Lister Virgil."

"Come, strong Mr. Virgil, can you drink the medicine yourself."

"Yes." The boy took the medicine automatically.

As usual, Hannah treats the out-of-control and helps the others get through the current difficulties.

Exhausted, she returned to her quarters, a small, shabby-looking house, and as soon as she put her hand on the doorknob, she noticed that someone had entered her room, and the mark she had made was touched.

She pulled a lady's pistol out of her bag and slowly pushed the door open.

"Smack-"

"Long time no see, Hannah!" I smiled at Hannah as I held up the flowers.

Hannah, on the other hand, looked at me with a pistol in a daze, and I looked at her sluggish appearance and couldn't help but laugh:

"Can you put the gun down, it's fun if it goes off."

"Why are you here, get out quickly, you know what kind of place this is, you are an ordinary person who comes here to find death!!" Hannah ignored my hippie smile and yelled at me angrily.

"I haven't seen you for so long, and you're doing this to your childhood sweetheart?" I continued to laugh heartlessly.

"Hurry up and let me go." Hannah came up and tried to push me away.

I dodged Hannah's movements sideways, and I pulled out what I had prepared, a small square stone that was glowing green.

"This is——! What are you going to do, Kellogg!! Hannah, who was out of control, could clearly feel the EVE particles contained in the thaumaturgic stone in his hand.

I didn't say anything more, I put the high-radiation thaumaturgical stone in my mouth and swallowed it violently.

"You-"

"In this case, we are all out of control, and you don't have to hide from me." I walked over to Hannah's side and opened my hands.

My hands were on Hannah, and I was afraid that she would disappear from my world. Hannah was leaning against my chest, her hands beating me constantly, crying and shouting as she beat back:

"Stupid, stupid, stupid—"

"Hannah ······" I nudged her head, and then I lowered my head and spoke to her earnestly.

"What." Hannah lifted her teary-eyed face.

"Will you marry me?" I said nervously.

Hannah lowered her head, then she stood on her tiptoes, her lips pressed against mine.

We are all immature, we just know that we are interacting with each other.

After a long struggle, we finally parted due to lack of oxygen, and Hannah raised her flushed face and said to me:

"That's my answer."

*******

This is my third year of marriage to Hannah, and the war has not been pacified with the passage of time, but has intensified.

War leaves traces of resistance on the body of the warrior.

Killing is replaced by bones,

Despair turns to death.

Gradually,

It, baring its horrible fangs.

Gradually,

It's even stronger.

Adorn the sky with crimson,

Decorate the temple with white bones.

·······

Hannah's parents died, and Hannah was hit by a thaumaturgical blast during a ground contact battle between Sargon and the Empire, and Hannah cried until she fainted, and I found some of Hannah's parents' belongings on the battlefield through connections, and then simply organized their funeral.

Hannah's symptoms were also in the later stages, her whole body was covered in dense scales, and she didn't look in the mirror now, because the projection in the mirror scared her.

Those who are out of control are the cradle of suffering.

War does not stop with personal suffering, it continues to loom over everyone in Crete.

In the year 209 of the new calendar, the Great Natural Disaster broke out, and external forces began to intervene in the war of the Empire.

Outside powers such as Addison and the Peace Initiative intervened in the war, selling large quantities of weapons of war to the warlords, hoping that the empire would continue to maintain the chaotic situation, and at the same time, they began to contain a large number of runaways.

Utopian rebels began to flood into the battlefield in large numbers, and they also became the driving force of the war in order to heal the out-of-control and restore peace.

The fundamental purpose of most foreign forces is simply to want a large amount of experimental material for them to study the theories of runaway and EVE.

At the same time, the force field radiation in some places of Terra will cause the machinery and numerical control devices to be disturbed and out of control, and these places have very important strategic materials, so a large number of cheap labor is needed, and the out-of-control person is naturally cheap labor.

In the year 210 of the new calendar, Utopia called on those who had lost control to unite.

They gathered a large number of runaways and began to resist the oppression of the great powers.

Empires and warlords, foreign powers, utopias······

In the dark,

Boundless disasters are quietly born.

Greed deceives people's eyes,

Killings filled people's hearts.

Greed spreads,

Death is approaching.

The killing spreads,

The test of humanity is becoming clear.

What is Purgatory?

What is Paradise?

Under the piercing gaze of the Knower,

The last fig leaf is gone.

And under that fig leaf,

It is the ugliness and darkness of human nature.

The cold eyes of those in power,

The grief of the combatants,

displaced,

contempt for life,

Ignoring the disaster,

A mockery of human nature.

Everything, everything,

shows the fragility of human nature,

But it was created, it.

The war never seems to stop.

********

Field hospitals.

After visiting Hannah, I walked out of the intensive care unit, then on the rooftop of the hospital, I took a cigarette out of my arms, then shook the cigarette shell, took the most prominent one in my mouth, and lit it.

The depression was slightly relieved by the cigarette puff, the war of the empire forced the Crete region to be blocked, he heard that the natural disasters in the Far East East had stopped, but unfortunately now they could not get out, and the village and the people were ·······

Smack-

The cigarette butt dripped down, and before I knew it, I had finished the cigarette, and I looked at the red remnant sun on the rooftop, and under the light of the remnant sun, the shadow in the sky shrouded the hearts of the Cretans, casting a lingering haze over everyone.

······

"Kellogg, have you heard? Virgil has joined Utopia. ”

Just as I was returning from the war zone with the scavengers as usual, Old Jack whispered to me.

"How do you know, who told you." I said with a frown.

It's hard for me to make the connection between the mild-mannered teenager I remember and a rebel group like Utopia.

As Utopia became involved, the situation became more complicated and cumbersome in Crete, and other floating forces intervened in the Cretan war in the name of destroying Utopia.

"I saw with my own eyes that he was wearing a utopian uniform, but he didn't wear a face mask."

"What does that kid want to do!"

"Who knows? Maybe I can't stand it, you see that in our area, many young and strong people have joined Utopia, and elderly people like me and seriously ill patients like Hannah have not been added to it because of physical factors, but why are you ····· Kellogg?" Speaking of this, Old Jack carefully looked at the man in front of him with his dazed eyes.

"You're different, although you have the same infectious aura as a runaway, but your aberrant organ is not explicit at all, which means that you are internally distorted, and it's still a stable state, you are ······ because of Hannah"

"Okay old Jack, don't say what you have or don't." I interrupted Old Jack, and then pulled out a food bag full of synthetic cans and handed it to Old Jack.

"This is your supplies, keep them for yourself, and don't tell Hannah about this."

"Hmm."

After saying goodbye to Old Jack, I went to see Hannah as usual, and Hannah asked me out loud:

"I haven't seen Virgil in a long time, have you seen him lately?"

"That boy, I saw him outside just now, and this time he didn't know where to find a tome about Cretan mythology, and lately I've been seeing him reading in the safe zone in a hurry."

"It's nice to be a man like Virgil who can immerse himself in his own world and enjoy himself even in the midst of war."

"yes, I sometimes envy that silly boy."

Night.

I left the field hospital and headed for the place where I had been, which had been razed to the ground by the war, and where I wanted to go because Virgil had asked me out.

Today is the red moon shining, the sky is exceptionally bright red, and the earth is illuminated by the red moon, as if it has been sunburned with bright red blood spots.

I saw Virgil, who was now dressed in a utopian uniform, with a knife hanging from his right chest, the shape of which reminded me of the unsheathed knife of the Utopian leader I saw as a child.

"Virgil." I stopped the boy in front of me.

Virgil looked back at me, his eyes lost from the tenderness of the past, and now there was only grief and fortitude.

"Uncle Kellogg······" Virgil replied in a dry voice.

"What's wrong with your throat?"

"It's okay, it'll be fine in a while."

"You cried?"

"·······, no."

"What are you calling me here for?"

"Uncle Kellogg, here's for you." Virgil threw me a special tube of injections.

I took the potion that Virgil threw me, and when I looked down, the logo had been crossed out, but I could only see the tiny Terra text that was still there.

Heaven ■■U■■ belongs to.

"What is this?"

"This is a suppressant, this is what we got from Utopia, I asked for a tube from the leader, you can take this thing to Sister Hannah."

"Virgil, you ······" I wanted to say something, but looking at the inhibitor in my hand, I swallowed everything I wanted to say.

"Uncle Kellogg, I won't go back again, Virgil is dead." Virgil took out the exclusive mask of the Tower of Babel and slowly put it on, and then left the place without looking back.

Under the red moon, I looked at the distant teenager and was silent.

********

In the year 212 of the new era, the war finally reached the last pure land, and Sargon took the lead in entering the rest area that was set up as a neutral zone, and then the other three forces, led by the empire, also brazenly tore up the so-called civilian protection treaty.

This was the year the all-out war began, and old Jack died, and I heard that he was affected after the outbreak of the war, and I heard that he was directly covered by the thaumaturgical turbulence, and I hope he didn't feel pain at that moment.

The field hospital was bombed by hordes of Sargon the day after the all-out war, and I took Hannah out of the hospital overnight after the war began.

I've already managed to secure two places on the Black Ship docked in the Krai Sea area through my connections.

After entering the new calendar, most of the original ocean ships in the regions of Terra have lost their important status in the past, and the disasters contained in the sea are more terrifying than those on land, and they are more erratic.

And these abandoned ships were taken over by some high-ranking and bold people in the Nether, and these people formed a special logistics company - Sihai.

Sihai almost monopolizes the entire nether marine transportation industry, and I heard that there is a large floating city agglomeration behind them, and the black ship is a special outsourcing service of Sihai, and they rent the boat to people who are not afraid of death.

Only these people dared to enter Crete during the battle in the floating city, and try to make a lot of money here, and I paid a lot of money to get these two places.

Port of Crete.

"As is customary, you two are to stay at the bottom of the ship." The heavily armed crew said to Hannah and me.

"Hmm." I was used to the discrimination of ordinary people, so I took Hannah and silently followed them, and they took me to the lowest cabin, where the environment was dimly lit, and the only source of light was the central gas lamp.

There were several mattresses simply placed on the floor of the cabin, and some people were already sitting on the mats, all of whom were out of control.

"Find yourself a vacant seat, the ship is about to leave." The soldier said to us.

"I want to ask, what is our route?" I asked the soldier.

After looking me up and down, he didn't refuse to answer my question, he replied directly:

"After leaving the port of Crete, we will first log in to Aiden for supplies, then cross the Clay Sea, then cross the Barents Sea and then sail to the New World, where do you need to disembark."

"Okay."

********

It was our third day in the ship, and the bumpy ride had made Hannah vomit and diarrhea, and her whole face was pale, and I took care of her with distress, and her scales were even more densely covered.

"Ahem, ahem——, Kellogg·····" Hannah raised her hand in confusion.

"I'm here." I held her hands tightly.

"I seem to hear something calling out to me, can you give me the Walkman, I don't want to hear that."

"Okay." I hurriedly found the Walkman, then connected the peripheral, put it on Hannah's head, and listened to the music, Hannah's expression was much better.

For the next few days, Hannah wore the Walkman, and she said it was getting louder and closer, and on one of her worst days, she grabbed me by the collar, leaned against my chest, and said to me in a pleading tone:

"Kellogg, if I die, you must live."

"What are you talking about, hold on a little longer, when you get to land, I... I'm trying to get some suppressant drugs, you have to hold on. ”

Hannah just looked at me stupidly, and she smiled at me and said:

"You must live, I can see that there is no god at the end of death, death is death, so don't worship death, live." Hannah seemed to mean something.

Yes, there are no gods at the end of death.

This is a true portrayal of the heart of every out-of-control person who wants to live, who just wants to live, who rejects this ugly death, this death that is stripped of their human identity.

After this, Hannah's scales began to cover his face, and the runaway in the cabin stared at us with fearful eyes, and my worst fears were happening.

One day, during the voyage, the soldiers rudely rushed in.

"Come out." Heavily armed soldiers held guns at me and Hannah.

"What's going on, do you want to go back?" I took Hannah behind me and said angrily to them.

"We only came here after being reported, you should know what's going on, she's reached the threshold of losing control, as a runaway person, you should have seen them turn into monsters."

I looked around in silence, and none of the "kind" of the same out-of-control people dared to look at me.

"I don't want to say anything more, we'll let her die humanely, and definitely won't let her feel a trace of pain, so, get out of the way." The red lasers on the guns rested on Hannah's and my foreheads.

Damn –

I clenched my fists, in fact, I have a way to quickly deal with them now, my aberration organ gives me a powerful instantaneous burst ability, but what if I deal with them, there are people on the other side outside.

"Kellogg..." Hannah tugged at the corner of my coat.

I didn't pay attention to her, I knew what she was going to say, and I wouldn't agree.

"I'll go with her."

"Kellogg!"

"Hannah, you're right, there is only death at the end of death. But, for me, I can't find the meaning of living in a world without you. I smiled at Hannah.

"Fool." Hannah said, looking at me with tears in her eyes.

Both of us were taken to the deck, where the soldiers decided to execute us.

"You think about it, this is the last chance, we are also gray people in the Nether, we don't wantonly kill, we just want to survive." The soldier said to me again.

"What's your name?" I asked the soldier.

The soldier was supposed to be a newcomer, and he still had sympathy for the people of the land.

"Darlun."

"Darren, thank you."

Darlun didn't say anything more, and we were taken to the very center of the deck, where the soldiers in the distance gave us two tubes of lethal agents, which were said to be made from saliva extracted from the otherworldly toxin species, the eight-faced spider.

"When we die, the bodies should be thrown into the ocean, although it's a bit of a shame that we can't be buried together." I said jokingly to Hannah.

However, Hannah didn't say a word from the beginning until now, I thought she was scared at first, but now I feel that something is wrong, Hannah's head is hanging down, her hair is blocking her face, I can't see her expression clearly.

"Kellogg, to- live." Hannah said to me in a hoarse tone.

"Hannah, you-"

"Here we are."

"What?"

Just as I was wondering, the whole ship suddenly shook violently, followed by the sound of evil singing;

Please stop and listen to our songs!

No boat can sail through the beautiful island of Siren,

Unless the helmsman listens to our beautiful songs.

Beautiful songs give you joy and wisdom,

Sail with you safely.

"Damn, it's still some distance from the Sea of Minor, why are there sirens!" Dalun covered his ears and said bitterly.

"Is it ·····?" Darren reacted to something, and he turned his head in Hannah's direction.

Hannah, who was covered in scales, opened her mouth and sang along to the song, and Dalun didn't hesitate to shoot at her.

Bang Bang Bang –

The bullet only grazed the scales on her surface as a huge seaspout appeared near the ship, and beneath the ship, the Krakens with their mouths wide open were attacking the ship.

"MD, one in a million psychic phenomena has been encountered by us. She is a psychic of the Sirens, and this place is not far from the Sea of Seas. "The Epiphany Avenue is gloomy.

"All personnel, enter combat readiness!"

All the soldiers began to strafe the sirens who tried to get on board, but Hannah had changed by this time, her eyes became cold, and with a wave of her hand, a wall of water appeared around her to separate the bullets.

"Hannah!" I shouted at her in pain, Hannah's expression was momentarily confused, and then she turned back to her cold form, ignoring me, just waving her hands and summoning a powerful water cannon to attack the soldiers.

As Hannah attacked, the Walkman she had been wearing just fell right next to me, and I saw a line of words on the surface of the Walkman.

If I become a monster, kill me. 】

I looked at the line in distraction, and by this time the seaspout had swept through the entire ship. Strangely, Hannah and I were in an area where there was no danger at all, with the sirens fighting the soldiers, roaring, shooting, swearing·······

These seem to be separated from us by an invisible barrier, which blocks all disasters.

Suddenly, a huge gust of wind blew, and a soldier was whisked up on the spot, and the tactical knife in his hand was detached.

A tactical knife was stuck between me and Hannah, and I watched in amazement as Hannah continued to sing.

"Why—" I fell to my knees and wailed in pain.

"Why!"

"Why !!"

"We just want to live, why-"

I roared with rage, powerless,

From the outbreak of the war to the present, a sense of powerlessness has always been with me.

After the roar, I got up from the ground, I staggered to the knife in front of me, and came to Hannah's side, Hannah didn't react to my approach.

Tears filled my face at some point, and I tried to wrap my arms around Hannah, and there was a brief pause in her singing voice, but only for a moment.

I rested my head on Hannah's shoulder, and then raised the knife in my hand.

"I love you, Hannah."

Whew——

The scales that were strong enough to resist the bullet were pierced by an ordinary tactical knife, and it was not only Hannah who pierced through, but also me, who wielded the knife.

"I-too-love-you"

Hannah stopped singing, a smile appeared on her face, blood dripping to the ground, forming a pool of blood, and my consciousness began to blur.

Just let me sleep, whoever it is, please, don't wake me up, I want to sleep like this forever······

My consciousness fell into endless darkness, I let this darkness swallow me, I didn't want to open my eyes, I was so tired.

It's too tiring to be alive.

"Live!"

Hannah's voice came from afar, a light from the darkness, and I subconsciously reached out my hand to touch the light.

********

“··· Please, don't die... Live, please... Please live... I've seen too many dead people, why do this kind of experiment, O Empire, Your Majesty, we will all go to hell, we will all go to hell!? ”

I reached out to touch the light, and mine seemed to be held by a pair of hands, which were small hands, it should be a child, and I opened my heavy eyelids.

The strong surgical light made my eyes uncomfortable, and in front of the operating lamp, a handsome young man held my hand, and his tone was a little sad and called out to me.

"Han... Nah..."

I asked the boy in front of me in a dry voice.

I'm here.

"Han... Na, where are you..."

I heard Hannah's voice and looked around, but the boy remained silent.

Kellogg, I'm here, I'm here.

Hannah soothed me in a gentle voice, and I felt as if someone was holding me behind my back, but there was nothing behind me.

You have to live and find a reason to live, and I am sure you will find it.

"What are you talking about, Han... My consciousness began to blur again, I reached out, waved helplessly in the air, and then, I fell asleep again.

＊＊＊＊＊

"You're awake." A majestic voice came from my ears.

I struggled to get up from the operating room, and then I saw the bright purple robe, which only one person was allowed to wear in the Oletin Empire.

"You are..." I looked at each other in disbelief, the words coming out of my throat were so dry that I felt a little strange, and I subconsciously stretched out my hands.

This is my body...

"You are the only body that has been successfully created by the angelic technology that imitates the kingdom of heaven, the qualified person for the [Spear of the Sun God], and the compatibility between [Sparta] and you is also the highest."

The purple-robed emperor looked at the successful test subject in front of him and said to him:

"I'm not curious about anything about your past, I just ask you, are you willing to fight for the Empire."

When I heard this, a wave of unwarranted anger engulfed me, and I stretched out my hand to the emperor's neck.

He didn't struggle, but looked at me silently, expressionless.

"Anger, that's good."

I increased the strength in my hand, and the emperor looked at me with a blank face, and my strength could not shake him in the slightest.

"It's better to live with hatred than anything."

"What do you want!! I screamed and questioned the purple-robed emperor, my eyes bloodshot.

"Peace, stability, unity, and everything I can see."

"That's all for this, that's all for this..."

"You can dislike me, just as humans don't like the heat of the sun. I can give you a chance, a chance to take revenge on the enemy, a chance to swing a knife at those maggots in the Senate. ”

"I'll kill you first!!"

"No, you won't."

Looking at those deep amber eyes, under the gaze of those eyes, I began to regain my senses, and finally, weakly put down my hand.

"I can give you control [of Sparta], give you the opportunity to join the Forbidden Army, you can gain power, you can choose to end the war in your own way, you can shelter the gray people of the Nether······"

The purple-robed emperor looked at me condescendingly.

"You can have it all, and there's only one thing you need to give: loyalty."

***********

Terra Calendar 1590.8.7.

The once imposing Senate is now a victim of war.

Under the flames of the Five Tyrants, this ancient building was devastated.

The once majestic façade is now shrouded in soot, and the heavy boulder walls have cracked open, revealing countless cracks and fissures. The tall square pedestal was full of traces of war, the gate had been blasted open, and the wide steps were the remains of the ruins.

Once inside the House, the tragedy is even more heartbreaking. The massive dome has crumbled, and the beams and arches have been shattered like a withered flower.

The once magnificent dome no longer shines brightly, replaced by darkness and dead silence.

The walls of the hall were once decorated with ornate frescoes and sculptures, but they have been burned by the war and are in ruins. The massive pillars had collapsed, no longer supporting the dome, and fell to the ground as the remains of the ruins.

"Love... Country··· How dare you!? ”

On the broken steps, wearing the Ring of the Patriarch, wearing a knee-length short-sleeved tunic and a purple stripe five inches (13 cm) wide on his right shoulder, the Grand Elder covered his wounds and looked at the new Commander of the Imperial Forbidden Army and the Commander of the Imperial Legion in front of him, who was covered in black armor.

"On the orders of the emperor, all rebellion is corrected."

I stepped up the blood-stained steps to the Grand Elder and held aloft the [Spear of the Sun God].

"Patriot, you know what you're doing..."

Puff –

"I know, I've always known, because I've been witnessing everything."

"We're all on our way to destruction, but you'll be one step ahead of us to him."

I pulled out my spear and looked around, the usually arrogant elders were all dead under the spears of the forbidden army, and the ruins were stained with bright red, and the former [tyrant] was hanging high in the sky.

The army of the Empire knelt down on one knee, put his right hand into a fist in his heart, and shouted to the sky:

"Glory to Augustus !!"

"Glory to the Olympin!!"

"Glory to the !! of Constantinople"

I didn't kneel, but I couldn't help but look at the sky.

The huge Constantinople was guarded by five [tyrants], and the purple-robed emperor held high the [Imperial Staff of Constantinople] in his hand, stepped on the corpse of the rebel and announced to the world:

[All the glory of the empire bows to it!] 】

In the sky above [Constantinople], there was a huge beast.

And the beast had ten horns and seven heads, and on ten horns he wore ten crowns, and on seven heads there was a blasphemous name, and the shape was like a leopard, and its feet were like a bear's feet, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth."

I know what the seven heads on that beast are, and they are the Seven Hills of the Oretin Empire.

I know that the man above has only two options:

Either lead the empire to ruin, or take the empire to glory.

I will witness all this.

Originally, quite a chapter testimonial was sent for free, but it seemed to be over 10,000 words, and I didn't let it······