Chapter 3: Hope

"Wei Guangming !!" A roar tore through the silent streets, and a boy of about thirteen or fourteen years of age, sneakily walking through the alley, with his thin and somewhat black palms, touched his lips covered with oil, and behind him were seven or eight children of about the same age, but obviously much taller.

At this moment, they were quickly chasing Wei Guangming who was evading, looking like they were going to eat him, this child called Wei Guangming was desperately avoiding their pursuit, and from time to time he glanced at the thing in the other hand.

The thing wrapped in oiled paper, it looked like a roast chicken, combined with the oil stains on his mouth, I am afraid that eight or nine will not be far from ten, just when he was distracted, he suddenly hit his head on something, and Deng was ejected a few meters away, ouch ouch screamed, and the thing in his hand was accidentally thrown out.

At this moment, the chasing people behind them arrived, and they surrounded the child named Wei Guangming, and the first one shouted, "Run, you run again!" ”

Seeing that he was about to suffer, this child named Wei Guangming quickly swept his eyes around, but in despair, he found that there were courtyard walls on both sides, and the roads on both sides were blocked by these people.

The person who stopped in front of him was called Gao Peng, who was the child king of District 03 of Hope A, and among the group of people chasing him, the leader was this person's younger brother named Gao Sheng.

Goldman Sachs was followed by the children left behind in this neighborhood, most of whom were orphans like him, but with a slight difference, he was adopted, and it was Lao Xiang's wife who died at the beginning who adopted him, and she also had a son named Xiang Shaojie, who was his friend and friend.

And our protagonist Wei Guangming is the baby rescued by the sacrificial Wei Anguo, and their Hope fell here after breaking through the darkness, so this place is named Hope.

Originally, the two were inseparable, but today was Shaojie's mother's birthday, and they wanted to surprise her together, so they went their separate ways to prepare.

As a result, when Wei Guangming was buying roast chicken, he met his and Shaojie's rivals Gao Peng and Goldman Sachs, so there was the current scene.

More than ten years have passed since the catastrophe of that year, and after all these years of hard work and exploration, these only remaining people have to unite.

After years of research and exploration, it has gradually become clear that the monster that pursued the Hope back then is no longer living creatures, or that they are not their original form on Earth.

These creatures include animals, plants, and humans killed along the way, and when they die, they are infected by some mysterious force and turn into terrifying monsters.

Originally, with the strength of human beings, it was simply not enough to fight against these monsters, but fortunately, the thirteen pillars of light that fell from the sky opened up space for them to survive.

I don't know if it's intentional or not, as long as they stay within the range of the pillar of light, they will not be attacked by creatures in the dark, if they dare to approach the pillar of light, they will be burned and corroded at least, or turned into flying ashes on the spot.

As a result, the surviving human beings, centered on the pillar of light, forged a high wall at the edge of it, forming thirteen iron-walled fortresses, and people took turns to be on duty every day.

Nearly a thousand smooth mirrors stand on top of the high walls, and under the control of the machinery, they continue to sweep into the darkness, clearing and warning the monsters that are about to move around them with the expanse of the sky.

As Westerners once said, God closed a door for you, but in order to open a window, human beings after this catastrophe, the body began to change, in the first few years, they just felt that the body became stronger, and at the same time, the mind became smarter, and the skills became sharper.

After that, some people began to be able to feel some different powers, some powers that were not originally human, which were inexplicable, a bit like the magical abilities recorded in the fantasy novels before the Catastrophe, or something like Genki.

And this ability can not only affect humans, but even animals and plants, and because of this, the 13 districts, which were originally all ruled by humans, were actually taken away by animals and plants.

It's just that the number of human beings is not too large now, not to mention that the largest light pillar area of 10,000 square kilometers is now in the hands of human beings.

Compared with animals and plants, which are born with their own supernatural factors, human beings can only truly manifest them after the age of fifteen.

Of course, this does not mean that human beings are not good, but before the age of fifteen, all they can feel is physical and mental changes.

It may be that over time, with careful research, human beings will be able to activate their own abilities at birth, just like the surviving animals and plants.

It's just that Wei Guangming is an exception, not only did he not feel the ability, but he couldn't even feel his own physical strengthening.

As for the reason, no one knows so far, after the sacrifice of Wei Anguo and Lao Xiang, the rescue team survived a few people, and everyone worked together to raise the child, when he was five years old, a woman came from elsewhere, she is now Wei Guangming's guardian, and Lao Xiang's wife Xu Qing.

Xu Qing can be said to regard Wei Guangming as her own, but because she is alone and has to pull two children at the same time, she is nearly forty years old, but she looks like she is in her fifties.

Wei Guangming knows that the other party really cares about him, so he has been well-behaved and sensible since he was a child, but unfortunately in this post-catastrophe world, he is well-behaved and sensible but not as useful as his own quality, so he is often bullied and scolded as a useless waste.

Among them, the two brothers who scolded the most fiercely and bullied him the most were the two brothers of the Gao family who were the children of the neighborhood king, because of their physical advantages, the two brothers were quite tall and burly, far taller than children of the same age.

It is precisely because of this that the other children were forced to join them and became accomplices in bullying Wei Guangming.

If it weren't for Xiang Shaojie who has been protecting Wei Guangming all these years, his growth experience would have been even more exciting.

At this moment, Gao Peng condescendingly glared at Wei Guangming, who fell to the ground, revealing a fierce gaze, while his younger brother Gao Sachs asked the younger brother to pick up the oiled paper bag that flew out of Wei Guangming's hand.

When Wei Guangming saw all this, he immediately became anxious, and hurriedly got up from the ground and rushed to the little brother regardless of the pain, shouting loudly, "Give me back the roast chicken, that's the birthday gift I prepared for my mother!" ”

But what greeted him was the contemptuous sneer of the younger brother and the fist stretched out to him, only to hear a bang, Wei Guangming was knocked to the ground with a punch, and half of his face instantly swollen.

There were bursts of ridicule all around, but Wei Guangming changed his previous cowardice, wiped the blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, got up like crazy and rushed over.

Gao Peng and his younger brother Gao Sheng pinched their waists, smiling and watching Wei Guangming being knocked to the ground again and again, this is really a good pastime for the two brothers.

But what they didn't notice was that there was a faint light circulating in Wei Guangming's pupils at this moment, and the droplet-shaped mark on his left arm hidden in his sleeve also flickered slightly at this moment.