Twilight 1029, spring, the first year of the Dark Ages.

In this season when everything is supposed to be reviving and planting hope, hundreds of millions of human beings have been reduced to food and low-class kinders in this year.

Although the individual strength of these creatures crawling out of the abyss of the West is not strong, they rely on their huge numbers and not weak infection ability to make the coalition defense line organized by humans collapse one after another, and suffer heavy losses.

Countless heroic warriors died in battles with foreign races, and the territories of the major lords fell one after another, so that despair began to fill this once prosperous and vibrant continent.

The once bustling city has long since been reduced to ruins, and the survivors who survived have to leave their homes and wander in despair in this apocalyptic world, seeking a safe place to escape the attacks of alien creatures, if any.

Although the people on the mainland suffered such a tragic blow, the strong people on the mainland, led by the Northern and Southern Kingdoms and the leaders of various ethnic groups, quietly established several strong and safe survivor bases for the surviving human beings in the once deserted places on the mainland.

Although there are millions of survivors in these bases, this is nothing compared to the once hundreds of millions of human beings.

Yes, these fortified survivor bases, which have been established for an unknown time, have become the last hope for humanity on the continent of Kostana to gather strength to fight back against the aliens.

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The city of Gersa.

Located on the northern border of the Southern Kingdom, this bustling city with nearly a million people gathering and trading has long since disappeared.

The desolate streets, with collapsed buildings, weeds, and desolation.

Dead branches and leaves are littered with garbage, and a cold wind blows, sweeping up from the ground, and flying together with the sand and dust in the sky, making people's vision more and more blurred.

The corpses of the tragic deaths in the city were scattered all over the place, and after surviving the cold winter, they had long since become incomplete dry bones, lying in various parts of the city, warning the survivors passing by to stay away from the city.

But......

Hunger is always the biggest survival problem facing mankind in the midst of a catastrophe.

Although they know that there is a great danger in the city, but faced with the dilemma of starving to death or being devoured, many survivors will still choose to venture into the city with relatively abundant supplies to find food and some daily necessities.

Although many people have become food for the alien beasts after entering the city, this does not stop the survivors from craving food, because both horizontal and vertical are one death.

Swarms of flies, biting on some rotting and broken corpses, occasionally disturbed by the chasing aliens, flew away with a bang, and buzzed again to find new corpses to gnaw on, with carrion scraps all over their bodies.

In the empty city of Gelsa, from time to time there was the howling of alien creatures, high and low, far and near, as if they were chasing something.

The terrifying howls and roars make people feel terrified and uneasy, constantly stimulating fragile nerves.

When the chase in a certain street stopped, a wolf as strong as a cow, covered in alien mutant wolf like insect bone armor, with a fierce bloodthirsty light in its eyes, and a bloody mouth stained red by blood, roared excitedly, as if showing off something.

An alien mutant wolf is a kind of wolf that has mutated after devouring the corpse of an alien beast, or a human or animal infected by an alien beast.

After the mutated wolves, they either die or mutate, gaining a hard exoskeleton and a more sensitive sense of smell, but they also become more brutal and bloodthirsty, and more powerful abilities, so that these mutated wolves prefer to act alone and eat their prey alone.

And just now, this alien mutant wolf was very lucky to catch a prey that could satisfy his hunger - an unlucky human survivor.

Yes, this hapless survivor, tormented by hunger, chose to try his luck in the city, hoping to find something to eat in order to prolong his life.

Although he knew it was dangerous, he would die anyway, and maybe he would be lucky enough to live if he found food.

However, things were completely different from what he had imagined.

Shortly after entering the city of Gelsa, although he acted carefully, he did not escape the nose of the alien mutant wolf with a keen sense of smell.

How can hungry and weak ordinary people escape the pursuit of alien mutant wolves?

After being discovered, he almost just escaped a few dozen meters away, and this unlucky guy was caught up by an alien mutant wolf, biting his neck and ending his pain easily.

After eating, the hapless creature was left with a pile of skeletons, minced meat, and foul-smelling internal organs, leaving food essential for the survival of flies, rats, and cockroaches, which are extremely adaptable native creatures.

Great strength, but also gives the alien mutant wolf a greater ability to digest, they need to eat a lot of food frequently to meet the energy consumption of their body.

Therefore, this hapless emaciated fellow obviously did not fill the stomach of this alien mutant wolf, it needs to continue hunting, looking for new prey, otherwise it can only devour those disgusting zombies that exude a rancid smell.

The alien mutant wolf looked around with a greedy gaze, pricking up its pointed ears to listen intently to the movements in the city.

After a few moments, the alien mutant wolf lowered its head in disappointment and looked at the unlucky guy after its bite again, hoping to see if there was any delicious fresh meat missing.

Suddenly, a scent belonging to a human drifted into the nose of the alien mutant wolf with a gust of wind blowing.

The alien mutant wolf shrugged his nose, which was still stained with blood, to confirm the direction of the scent, and as soon as his body moved, his sturdy body quickly rushed towards the direction of the scent.

It needs to move fast enough to capture this delicious prey before the other alien beasts arrive.

When it ran out of two streets, a "food" dressed in black with a bag on his back was standing at the end of the empty street, and beside him lay the corpses of several bleeding alien beasts, apparently just dead.

And this black-clad "food", holding a pitch-black long sword that was still dripping blood, was looking at the alien mutant wolf on the other side of the street with cold eyes.

"Yo...... The nose is smart enough, and it was discovered so quickly, and since it was discovered, let's delay a little longer. ”

The survivor in black didn't care about the alien mutant wolf, whether he could understand his whisper or not.

Immediately, the black-clothed survivor raised the pitch-black long sword in his hand, which was still dripping blood, and pointed at the alien mutant wolf very provocatively, as if he was about to attack at any moment.

The alien mutant wolf was hesitant by the survivor's strange behavior.

It had never seen a single piece of food, and it would be so calm when faced with it.

Shouldn't it have fled in a panic when it found the food? And what did he mean by this action?

However, this hesitation only lasted for a breath or two.

The feeling of hunger emanated from its abdomen, stimulating its voracious appetite.

The alien mutant wolf let out a low growl, and then rushed to the strangely behaved "food".

The distance of fifty meters is not far for the alien mutant wolf, and under its full sprint, it is only a few breaths before it has come to the front of the "food".

As it excitedly opened its bloody mouth stained with disgusting mucus, ready to bite off the survivor's neck and press it under its claws to feast on it, the strangely behaved "food" suddenly moved.

I saw this "food", and when the alien mutant wolf was about to use its usual tricks to launch a thunderous blow to this "food", the "food" suddenly exerted force in both legs, and flashed sideways at will, and when the "food" dodged its bite, a slender black shadow, with a touch of cold light, split the hard bone armor that it was proud of very easily.

The huge wolf head of this alien mutant wolf was instantly separated from its neck, fell heavily to the ground, rolled a few times with a grunt, and with an unwilling look, it stopped after touching a stone on the side of the street, ending its life.

After the one-hit kill, the black-clothed survivor shook off the remaining blood on the longsword with some disgust.

"The smell of blood is too strong, you have to leave quickly, otherwise you will be discovered by the alien beasts who keep rushing to grab the corpses. ”

After the black-clothed survivor muttered a word, his figure flashed quickly, like a ghost, and he didn't make a sound in the city of Gelsa, avoiding other alien beasts, and quietly disappeared into a relatively intact building somewhere.

Yes, this survivor dressed in black is none other than Lance Ramson, who has disappeared for a long time.

After that battle in the valley, Lance's aura and appearance changed dramatically.

His beautiful blonde hair had completely turned into a pitch-black color like a sword in his hand, and his face was much more gloomy, even at noon, when the sun was at its strongest, it looked extremely cold.

I'm afraid that even Ike Lele, who knows him best, won't recognize this friend who grew up together in the past if he doesn't look closely.

Lance came to the city of Gersa, which had been overrun by alien beasts, for the same purpose as the other survivors, in search of food and supplies to use.

If he could encounter a few lone powerful alien beasts, he wouldn't mind using them to sharpen his strength.

After more than a year of wandering, Lance has learned to control the powerful dark force in his body, although he will still be manipulated by that force when facing a desperate situation, but the number of times it is doing so is becoming less and less.

After killing a few alien beasts who had stumbled upon him, Lance came to a small two-story building with a dilapidated gate.

However, it is not difficult to see from this relatively complete building that a rich man must have lived here.

This kind of building is a favorite place to search for in Reims.