The demons that fell from the sky have destroyed the civilization of mankind for thousands of years, and are also changing everything on this planet.
People gradually discovered that with the death of each monster, with the place where the monster's huge body fell as the center, all the plants and microorganisms within a radius of several kilometers seemed to be nourished and began to show vigorous vitality. The abnormal posture quickly grew densely.
Today, after many years of repeated wars between humans and demons, most of the cities, roads, houses and other buildings built by human beings on the planet in the Golden Age have been mostly buried by plants with strong vitality. Now, occasionally, a rusty figure can be seen in the lush forests, which proves the glory of human beings.
But it is not easy to collect and plant on this fertile land.
Leaving the fortified base, monsters wandering outside the wilderness will follow the scent of humans. Planting and hunting became very dangerous.
In the golden rice fields next to the base, countless farmers are busy rushing to harvest the harvest.
Despite the lack of careful care, a bumper harvest is basically inevitable as long as spring ploughing is done, but the biggest difficulty is the process of harvesting and transporting back to the base.
Because of the shortage of gasoline, mechanized agricultural equipment has been unavailable. However, the speed of harvesting was still fast and fast. Some saints with plant-based abilities stood in the middle of the rice fields, raised their arms, and large swathes of golden rice ears fell all under the drive of their abilities.
In addition to ordinary people, many low-level speed and strength saints also joined the process of grabbing at this time.
The field was patrolled by combat-type saints dressed in armor and armed with weapons, to guard against monsters that might be attracted by humans at any time.
Almost every mercenary team in Spring City would be tasked with defending and escorting the autumn harvest this season, and Chu Qianxun's Red Wolf Corps was no exception.
Chu Qianxun and Gao Yan were sitting on a low roof beside the ridge. The autumn wind swept across their cheeks, blew up their temples, and blew into the boundless paddy fields, causing layers of wheat waves.
They sat under them as chairs, with a rusty-red roof. The building was basically buried in mud. Only the short, rusty roof was exposed on the ground. There was half a dirty roof on the roof. yellow words. It seems that before disappearing completely, they are struggling to tell the world that the land under their feet used to be a service area on the highway.
Looking around, in a golden paddy field, there are several buildings with only the top floor standing abruptly. The signs that used to hang high on the road are now half buried in the ground, and the words on them can still be seen vaguely. Golden Age city names and kilometers.
Chu Qianxun was dazed at a blue street sign not far in front of his feet. The dirt-stained street sign had Beizhen on the right and Balang on the left.
baron.
Chu Qianxun's mind was aroused by these two words, and his thoughts followed the boundless rice fields, crossed the border town of Balang, and entered the vast desert.
In the center of the desert, in the lonely castle, there is a lonely and lonely person who is deeply feared by the world.
That man sat in a small room all day long, with lowered eyebrows, accompanied by the scroll.
Chu Qianxun realized that a small bud had grown out of time in his long-destroyed heart, struggling to break out of the ground in the bleak autumn wind, wanting to bloom a pink flower.
"Qianxun, look over there." Gao Yan's voice interrupted Chu Qianxun.
Chu Qianxun followed her gaze, Lin Sheng was sitting in a corner not far away, his face was contorted, and his gaze towards Chu Qianxun was full of resentment. A man like him who was once too self-abased and suddenly sought after, couldn't bear the setbacks even more. He almost regarded the incident of being rejected by Chu Qianxun in public as a major shame in his life, and he would not forget it in his heart.
"You look at his eyes as if he's going to eat you. This kind of man has a very small temperament, you must be careful." Gao Yan approached Chu Qianxun's ear, "If he makes small movements during the battle, Don't be rude. I'll help you."
Chu Qianxun snorted coldly.
In the age of the rule of law, young girls can be helpless when faced with such harassment. By this time, regardless of gender, everyone has become accustomed to the use of force to solve problems. Chu Qianxun didn't intend to be soft on a person who expressed hatred towards him if this person had a bad intention.
The captain of their team, Wang Dazhi, came over. Wang Dazhi glanced at Chu Qianxun and Lin Sheng, pulled Lin Sheng up, and called him aside.
"Katsuko, don't you know the rules of the Red Wolf? No one cares about any woman you want outside, and the girls in the team can't touch." Wang Dazhi's face was not very good.
Lin Sheng turned his face to the side and let out a snort from his nose. Obviously he did not listen to Wang Dazhi's words.
In Spring City, the Red Wolf is a medium-sized mercenary team. The Red Wolf's leader, Han Ao, is a seventh-order saint. There are seven or eight small teams in the corps. Most of the squad leaders are saints of the fifth or sixth rank. Wang Dazhi's rank is only in the late fifth rank, and he can't hold back the members of the team, especially Lin Sheng and other members who have reached the early fifth rank.
"If you have to do this, I can only apply with the head of the regiment to transfer you to another team." Wang Dazhi was completely angry.
Demon hunting is the act of licking blood on the edge of a knife. The cooperation between the team is very important. The trouble between Lin Sheng and Chu Qianxun made his captain very angry.
Lin Sheng then lowered his head and reluctantly replied, "Understood, I just don't provoke her in the future."
Busy farmers bent over in the field ridges, tying up the harvested ears of rice swiftly with hands and feet, and piled them on the horses and carts waiting on the side of the field.
Most of these are ordinary people, who do not have enough meals on weekdays, and are so hungry that their faces are yellow and skinny, but after working all day, none of them dare to slow down. They are racing against time. In the wild, terrifying monsters may appear at any time. Even with the guards of these saints, ordinary people with low defense ability will still easily die in battle.
"It should be possible to go back. Today is a good day."
Gao Yan breathed a sigh of relief when she saw the harvesting work that had come to an end. She had even seen the leaders of other teams in the distance passing over here to close the team.
There was a sudden bang on the other side of the mountain,
Several warning fireworks were accompanied by the harsh screams of the guards, and the sunset glow that cut through the sky staggered.
A huge face turned from behind the mountain wall,
It was a face in the form of a beautiful and perfect human female, huge and expressionless, looking condescendingly from the back of the mountain wall.
Its pretty and eerily beautiful face twisted, and its bright red mouth was chewing.
There was no body under that head, and countless slender pipes-like hairs fell to the ground. The ends of those pipes crawled on the cliffs of the earth, but their speed was unexpectedly agile.
Han Ao, the head of the Red Wolf, pulled down the visor of his helmet and rushed forward first.
"Team 1 and 2, come with me! The rest of the people keep watch!"
The dense hair of the monsters plunged into the ground, crossed a section of the ground, and suddenly shot out from the ground under the attacker's feet.
Immediately, there were soldiers who couldn't escape and were strung on those steel-like black pipes.
The setting sun is like blood, the wind blows the wheat waves, and in the harvest fields, the stillness of the warriors and the giant monsters fighting for life and death stirred up the grass and leaves in the sky.
The ordinary farmer who could not escape was pierced by the sharp weapon of the monster, and even died tragically on both sides of the road by the power of the saints. The crowd rioted in a panic, but soon restored order and began to quickly avoid the battlefield and evacuate.
Chu Qianxun, Gao Yan and the others nervously guarded the convoy and the non-combat department personnel to retreat to the rear. The crowd pulled the horses, pushed the vehicles, and ran desperately with the vehicles. This is the food for the winter, and unless it is absolutely necessary, they are absolutely reluctant to discard it at will.
In the jungle by the roadside, the vegetation swayed.
A blood-red face slowly appeared in the dark forest gap.
A blood-red monster appeared from the forest. This monster was crawling on all fours, skinless all over, and a sharp and long horn protruded from its forehead.
This is a well-known wanderer among many monsters. It is not very tall, and its attack and defense are not particularly high, but it has a frightening speed.
"There is a horn on the head, it is fifth-order, and the speed is very fast, everyone be careful! All ordinary people retreat." Before the captain's words were finished, the figure of the fifth-order wanderer swayed, leaving an afterimage on the spot, and The real body had already appeared in front of Lin Sheng.
Lin Sheng shouted loudly, raised the shield in his hand, and slammed into his shield with a bang.
He is a power-type power user. Although the impact is huge because of the speed of the rogue, he can barely hold it. At this moment, the man caught a glimpse of Chu Qianxun out of the corner of his eyes, his mind moved, and a vicious thought flooded into his heart. The hand slanted to one side, and the wanderer's sharp horns slid along the shield under the huge momentum, and charged towards Chu Qianxun, who was not far behind Lin Sheng.
Even at the same fifth rank, Chu Qianxun's speed was far from keeping up with the speedy wanderers. In such a short distance and time, she could only barely deflect her body to avoid the oncoming attack.
But behind her is Gao Yan, if she dodges, the fourth-order Gao Yan can't dodge anyway.
Chu Qianxun hesitated for a moment, and it was too late at this moment. She almost watched helplessly as the blood-red sharp horn pierced her skin and penetrated her abdomen. The sound threw her into the air.
Chu Qianxun was thrown to the ground, she covered her abdomen with one hand and barely stabilized her figure. She had tried her best to avoid the fatal point at the last moment, but a huge pain hit her body, and she could clearly feel the hot liquid pouring out from between her fingers.
She endured the pain, frowned tightly, raised her arm, and a hurricane rolled up out of thin air, overturning the wanderer who was still swimming like a phantom under the intensive attacks of the team members.
Gao Yan's gravity ability cooperated with the timely depression, crushing the monsters that were too late to get up to the ground. The hurricane and gravity controlled the fallen monster at the same time, and even though its limbs struggled desperately, it couldn't get up for a while.
A small wind blade made a sharp sound, flashed in the air, and cut the back of the monster's neck accurately, revealing a little green color, which is the location of the devil.
"Okay! Hold it down, I'll get the demon seed." Lin Sheng, who was near the demon, was overjoyed.
According to the rules of hunting demons, the obtained demon species and demon bodies will be distributed to the team members who contributed to the battle. And the one who finally gets the Demon Seed can not only get a higher proportion, but even have the qualification to be selected first. For the fifth-order Lin Sheng, what he needs most is the fifth-order demon species. This dying monster happened to land at his feet, which is a godsend.
Lin Sheng couldn't wait to reach out and grab the monster's neck.
Just when his hand was about to touch the monster, the corner of his mouth began to smile. The gravitational field that had been suppressing the monster suddenly disappeared.
The blood-red monster jumped up.
When everyone's eyes flashed, when they saw clearly again,
The monster's long horn had penetrated Lin Sheng's heart and nailed him to a thick tree trunk.
Lin Sheng blinked and looked at the terrifying monster in front of him in disbelief. He raised his head again and looked at Chu Qianxun who was supported by Gao Yan in the distance.
He was full of fear and panic.
At the moment before dying, all kinds of pictures from the past flashed in front of my eyes. I was working on the construction site. Although it was a little dirty and tired, my life was very fulfilling and stable. The coworker's daughter, Xiaocui, was very kind to him. The girl's face was flushed, and she always looked at him with admiration and joy in her eyes. Unlike the woman in front of her, her eyes were cold and without a trace of warmth.
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With the crash of the two monsters, the lives of more than a dozen warriors and ordinary people will remain here forever.
There was no time to grieve, or even to collect the bodies for them. All the people quickly packed up the blood-stained ears of rice and brought the food they had exchanged for their lives back to Spring City. And those who died on the battlefield, they were left in the fertile land of the wilderness, and returned to the life cycle of nature together with the body of the monster.
Lin Sheng was dead, and Chu Qianxun was seriously injured. After treatment, he still lay in bed for half a month.
When they are too busy, people generally don't have the heart to be sad. But once you have free time, especially when you lie in bed for half a month, your mind will inevitably fluctuate from side to side.
Sometimes at night, looking at the bright moon hanging in the sky, Chu Qianxun would think of the moonlit night seen in the desert.
Perhaps because Ye Peitian was afraid of the dark, the windows of every room in the castle were very wide open. Lying in the room and sleeping, he could clearly see the stars in the desert at night.
Not knowing what that person was doing at the moment, Chu Qianxun often couldn't help but wonder if he still stayed up all night, sitting in that small room, reading by the lights.
Did he get angry because he couldn't keep his appointment to visit him
After these days, Chu Qianxun was almost certain that the world she dreamed of definitely existed somewhere. Gao Yan's mean and indifferent appearance hides the gentleness, Jiang Xiaojie's hand-made moves, Ye Peitian's softness after notoriety, especially his almost identical cooking skills. It can never be just a coincidence in a dream.
But no matter how close the relationship between Chu Qianxun and Ye Peitian in that dream was, they were still just two strangers here. He is a prestigious ninth-order boss who lives alone in a desert castle. If you get close to him, you are destined to become a dodder that is guarded in the castle.
Chu Qianxun recognized the reality and sighed in his heart. He stretched out his hand to pinch off the tender bud that had just sprouted in the field of his heart. He touched it cherishly and let it dissipate with the wind.
When the morning light came in through the window, Gao Yan carried a food box, pushed open the door and walked in.
"Look, what did I bring you today?"
She opened the lid like offering a treasure, brought out two dishes of side dishes, and poured out two bowls of white porridge that was so thin that you could see the shadows of people.
A small plate of salted cucumbers and a plate of blackened omelettes.
"How about it, it's rare, white porridge, cucumbers and eggs. Eat while it's hot." Gao Yan gave Chu Qianxun a pair of chopsticks and sat down opposite her.
These few things were indeed rare, and Chu Qianxun was intrigued, sat up, took a chopstick and slapped the cucumber into his mouth.
"Ah, it's so salty." Chu Qianxun complained, "It's too salty."
In line with the principle of not wasting it, she swallowed it whole and drank a few mouthfuls of clear porridge.
"What's the matter with you? You still complain about such a good thing?" Gao Yan quit.
She raised her chopsticks to take a bite, and almost didn't spit it out, "It's really salty. I'm not thinking that there are rare vegetables, so I can eat a few more meals if I make it more salty."
Chu Qianxun drank the porridge leisurely, one mouthful at a time, accompanied by slapped cucumbers that were too salty and battered fried eggs, thinking of the dining table made of yellow sand in his mind.
The dishes served by that person are always fragrant and delicious, moderately salty and spicy, as if they were made according to their own taste.
The fingers that served the dishes were fair and beautiful. The people serving the dishes are also nice.
When cooking, he stood in front of the stove with his back to himself, his legs were slender and straight, his head was slightly lowered, his soft and curly hair swayed, revealing a smooth and beautiful back of his neck.
On Chu Qianxun's heart, which had just been strangled to death, four or five tender buds popped out again, swaying in the wind.
When Gao Yan came up again at noon, Chu Qianxun was gone, a note was pressed on the table,
"Leave a few days, don't read."
Chu Qianxun's injuries did not heal, so he didn't dare to be careless. He followed the caravan from Spring City to Balang and then entered the desert from Balang.
When we arrived at the Yellow Sand Castle, it was just in the evening.
The orange-red sunset slowly sinks on the desert horizon,
The setting sun shines at night, and even the air is filled with a layer of orange brilliance.
Chu Qianxun reached out and knocked on the gate of the castle, her heart couldn't help beating with excitement, she held her breath and listened for a long time, but there was no movement in the castle.
She knocked again, reached out and pushed on the door, the door was unlocked and opened slowly with a creak.
The hall was a little dark, and fine dust fluttered up and down in the light beam that slanted in.
Ye Peitian sat in the faint sunlight and looked at her, which startled Chu Qianxun.
When Chu Qianxun left, he was sitting in this position.
Nearly a month has passed now, and if he hadn't changed his clothes, Chu Qianxun would have almost suspected that he hadn't left that position for half a step.
Ye Peitian's face was haggard, and there was a thick layer of melanin under his eyes. He stared at Chu Qianxun and said that he was full of inexplicable emotions.
Chu Qianxun walked in and was about to speak.
Ye Peitian suddenly looked away and stared at the ground in the lower left corner.
Then a dry, hoarse voice sounded, "You go. Get out of here."
"What's wrong?" Chu Qianxun was stunned.
Ye Peitian didn't look at her, frowned and closed his eyes,
Chu Qianxun felt a little uncomfortable, but she was no longer the kind of girl who was blindly impulsive and emotional during adolescence. She didn't want to cause misunderstanding between the two people who were originally getting along well because of anger or not explaining clearly.
"Calm down first, have you misunderstood something? I didn't come to see you as agreed because I was injured in the battle and had to recuperate for half a month." She explained as gently as possible.
When Ye Peitian heard this, he raised his head suddenly, his eyes fluctuated, and he raised his hand slightly, as if he wanted to say something.
But then he slowly lowered his eyelashes and lowered his hand,
"Let's go, leave now, and never come to me again," he said.
Chu Qianxun took two steps forward, she didn't understand why.
Ye Peitian raised his eyes, his eyes were flushed red, and for a moment that gentle boy was like a veritable bloodthirsty devil.
"Leave here, take another half step forward, I..." He almost gritted his teeth, and the violent killing intent almost filled the darkening hall.
Chu Qianxun didn't understand why, but she made it clear that Ye Peitian wanted her to leave. She was silent for a while, and finally turned around and left here.
Step by step in the cold sand, Chu Qianxun touched his chest, feeling that it was both sour and sad. When the wanderer pierced his abdomen, his body did not seem to be so uncomfortable.
It shouldn't be, it's just a man. You've been through all kinds of hardships, how can you still care about such trivial things? she said to herself.
On the horizon, the brilliance of the setting sun is slowly disappearing, and there is gradually a strange smoke and dust,
Only when there are a large number of people approaching from all sides can such a battle be raised.
There were hurried footsteps behind Chu Qianxun, she turned her head, Ye Peitian rushed out of the castle and grabbed her arm.
"It's too late, you come with me." The man seemed depressed and sad.
Chu Qianxun was dragged all the way back to the castle by Ye Peitian.
The two returned to the hall of the castle, and before they could catch their breath, Ye Peitian raised his hand, and the gate of the castle slammed shut.
Inside the castle, the sand rustled, and the walls made of yellow sand rose at the same time at all the doors and windows. With all the vents sealed, the light in the hall quickly darkened.
The ground began to shake slowly, and the entire castle was sinking.
The mountains shook, the sky turned upside down,
Ye Peitian's eyes were only fixed on Chu Qianxun in front of him.
At this moment, Chu Qianxun suddenly understood, the reluctance and sadness in his eyes.
"Is there an enemy coming, what are you going to do?" She grabbed Ye Peitian's arm.
The last ray of light from the tall windows was about to disappear.
Ye Peitian took out a small night light from his arms and turned it on. He pulled Chu Qianxun's hand down and carefully placed the lamp in Chu Qianxun's hand.
His lowered eyes lingered on the cheap plastic lamp for a moment, then he raised his hand, and the gravel on the wall separated, and he passed through it.
Chu Qianxun took two steps forward, and the gap in the wall quickly closed in front of her eyes.
The ground beneath his feet shook more and more violently, even creating a sense of weightlessness. Chu Qianxun knew that he was burying himself into the ground with the entire castle.
She didn't know how long it had been sinking, but everything went silent, and she could only hear faint sounds from the ground above her head.
There, a fierce and desperate struggle is taking place.
But the entire castle where she was located was quiet and stable, dark and dull, all doors and windows were closed by yellow sand, it was deep underground, and the air couldn't support it for a long time.
Chu Qianxun held the slightly lit small lamp in his hand, and walked forward while touching the wall.
A small circular hole appeared in the wall in front of him.
The hole became bigger and bigger, and gradually became a tunnel that one person could barely pass through. The tunnel extended toward the endless darkness ahead.
Chu Qianxun knew that this was what Ye Peitian meant, and he told himself to walk along this tunnel.
The man was fighting numerous enemies on the ground, yet distracted himself and let himself escape.