kill dawn

In a closed room in the Midnight District, it was extremely dim.It was the break time, and many people leaned against the wall and fell asleep, their eyes full of tiredness that could not be concealed.

Suddenly, a seven or eight-year-old boy woke up, a faint ray of light seeped into the room through the gap, and fell on the boy's face.He sat up, looked curiously along the direction of the light, and saw many flying dust-like particles flying in mid-air.

Under the ambiguous light, the flying dust is like grains of gold powder, attracting the boy's attention.

He hadn't seen the outside world for a long time.

He has lost contact with his family since those monster-like things came to Midnight District to kill people.In the chaos, he fled around with Chief Luo Shan sent by the tower area, and settled here after going to many places.

Many people say that they are tired, but he knows that there is still a long way to go.

This ray of light dispelled the haze that had weighed on the boy's heart for many days, and also illuminated a corner of the room.He carefully walked around the sleeping people and walked in the direction of the light.

Chief Luo Shan was not there, and several soldiers under him were too tired to hear the movement.So the boy cautiously walked out under the eyes of everyone.

The outside of the house is not as scary as the adults say.But the boy had seen the appearance of the monsters, as long as he thought of the disgusting mucus oozing from them all the time, he would feel a chill.At first, he was vigilant, sticking his head out of the door to observe, and didn't dare to go out until he really didn't see the monster.

The line of sight is wide, and there are no monsters outside the house.

But the strange thing is that there are a lot of dust-like particles, and the color is like the color he saw when he covered his eyes while playing hide-and-seek with his friends under the scorching sun.

Scarlet, hot.

The boy walked out the door and unconsciously took it with his hand, the dust melted into his body like water.For a moment, his eyes widened in fright, and he hurriedly wanted to slap it off, but only a few chocolate beans came out.

——This was given to him by his sister before he left.

The boy was a little frustrated, but soon, he was distracted by the flying dust again.If you look closely, the dust is not dust, and it seems that you can't touch it, but if there are too many particles, they are densely packed together, like a transparent net.

No... It's a bit like fog again.

He shook his head, not knowing why, a little absent-minded.I don't know that he is already far away from that house.

My mother said that he is a sentinel, and he must always pay attention to his mental state, otherwise if there is a problem, it will be very troublesome.

"You'll lose yourself, you'll become crazy, you'll never forget that you're a human being."

I can still vividly remember the expression on my mother's face at that time.

But these fogs are very beautiful. The boy has never seen such a beautiful fog. If he can touch it, it must be like his mother's palm.He was thinking in a trance, his head was dizzy and he couldn't lift his strength.

However, suddenly, a roar that did not belong to humans resounded from behind——

"Roar--"

The boy was startled, turned his head suddenly, and saw a monster dormant very close to him.

The monster is humanoid, but not human at all.High levels of radiation and pollution are all over its surface, all kinds of rotten and filthy things are mixed together, and if you look closely, there is even blood.

He remembered that Chief Luo Shan called it a "pollution body".These things are quick to move and know how to use encirclement tactics. It will take a lot of effort for Chief Luo Shan to wipe them out in one fell swoop.

But the boy couldn't think of so much right now, he was just instinctively afraid, and his upper and lower teeth were clenched too tightly, making a creaking sound.

"I'm a Sentinel...I'm not afraid of you...I'm a Sentinel...I'm not afraid of you..."

He could only repeat this sentence over and over again.

But the polluting body can't understand, even if it understands, it can't be afraid of this child.The slime on the monster's body ticked down at the boy's feet with its movements, and the dripping sound sounded like a death knell in this silent night.

"Tap, tap, tap."

The polluted body had had enough observations, and then suddenly jumped at the boy!

"Boom-"

The boy closed his eyes, and the approach of death almost made him forget to breathe.But the pain lasted for a long time, he was puzzled for a while, then slowly put down the hand covering his head, and looked up.

The tainted body had its head chopped off, and green water flowed from the wound.Not far away, a tall man in a gray-blue uniform put away his dagger and came against the light.

Fang Jue looked at the dagger full of sewage, frowned and did a long time of mental construction before inserting the dagger back into the scabbard.

Xueqiu had just finished dealing with a polluting body, and accidentally got some dirty water on his paws. He hadn't licked it off for a long time, and was about to ask Fang Jue for help. When he looked up, he saw this man frowning repeatedly. it.

"..." Xueqiu choked with anger from this look, was speechless for a while, and decided to be self-reliant.

The bodily fluids of these things are made of something, but they smell like water, which can be smelled from a distance of 80 to [-] meters.Fang Jue himself killed in it with ease, and didn't touch any dirt, but he suffered from such a huge monster as Xueqiu.

While licking its fur silently, it silently sang Little Cabbage Dilihuang in its heart.

Licking and licking, a thin layer of water suddenly fell from the sky.Xueqiu raised his head suspiciously, and saw Jiang Bieqiu holding a palm-sized watering can, spraying water on it.

"Spray some of this, the smell will dissipate quickly."

Jiang Bieqiu withdrew his hand, and took out a handkerchief from nowhere, and wiped Xueqiu's four feet carefully, even the corners.It rubbed until its paws opened, comfortably revealing the innermost pink pads.

Woohoo!

Professor Jiang!good man!

Professor Jiang couldn't understand, but it didn't prevent it from understanding Xueqiu's meaning.He patted Snowball's head tenderly before walking to the other side.

The boy they rescued was so frightened that he couldn't tell the difference between a man and a monster. He could only scream for a while, "I'm a sentinel, I'm not afraid of you" for a while, and "Don't come here!" ", finally whining and crying, "Mom, Dad, sister, where are you?"

Fang Jue was quite patient at first, but the child's screams were too frightening. His senses couldn't withstand such a close-range bombardment. Just as he was about to back away, he saw a dagger pierced into the boy's body with a "Zeng" sound. feet.

A little higher is the boy's lifeblood.

The crying stopped abruptly and turned into hiccups again and again.

"Still crying?" Jiang Bieqiu said with a smile, "I still have a dagger."

The boy opened his eyes wide, but the tears kept rolling down. In the haze, he even recognized the person in front of him: "Jiang...Jiang...Jiao..."

"Hey, you know me, that's easy." Jiang Bieqiu withdrew the dagger, wiped the hem of his shirt and put it back into the sheath, and said, "Professor Jiang only likes quiet and well-behaved children. If they are too noisy, I will chop them off." .”

The boy froze.

Then "Whoa-"

Fang Jue: "..."

Snowball licking fur in the distance: "..."

Jiang Bieqiu was so annoyed that he couldn't really do anything to the child, so he just frowned and said, "What's there to cry about? Is my father dead or my mother is gone? I was much worse than you when I was seven or eight years old. No one can cry like you!"

He annoys people crying the most, especially children.Crying is useless, what should be suffered is not what should be suffered.

Some humans might be patient and loving to their cubs, but Jiang Bieqiu just felt noisy.This kind of little life is born in this doomsday where life is involuntary, it is better to die early and be reborn early.

Jiang Bieqiu and Fang Jue rushed all the way from the midnight area to a location near the center, and they didn't know how many pollutants were dealt with.When it was getting dark, they were looking for a safe place to rest when they saw the child.

With a radius of several hundred meters, there is no one in this wretched place, except for pollutants, which are pollutants. How did this kid come here alone?What about the rest?What about Luo Shan?

Don't say anything, just cry, it's better to kill it!

Fang Jue patted Jiang Bieqiu's shoulder and said softly, "Don't worry."

At this time, Fang Jue, who seemed unkind, was coaxing faster.

It's just coaxing, but it doesn't count, because when Fang Jue's cold face appeared, the boy's crying was reduced by half. In addition, he just witnessed the whole process of Fang Jue's killing the polluting body. Burned a seal in my heart.Not to mention that Fang Jue said "shut up" coldly, which directly silenced people.

Snowball just licked the fur clean, looked at it from a distance, and whined twice.

Or the owner looks more scary.

Professor Jiang's gentle face seemed to threaten people as if he was joking.

Fang Jue glanced back at it inadvertently.

Snowball: "..."

It understood what Fang Jue meant, and ran over to rub Jiang Bieqiu's hand da da da.

"Hmph~" Snowball hummed intentionally, which instantly made Jiang Bieqiu laugh out loud.He didn't know what to think of, his eyes flicked back and forth between Fang Jue and Xueqiu, and his smile became more and more uncontrollable.

Only then did Fang Jue withdraw his attention, and turned to ask the boy, "I'll ask, you answer."

The boy looked at Fang Jue in fear.

In fact, the boy is only seven or eight years old. It is normal to be afraid, but a child of this age can easily remind Fang Jue and Jiang Bieqiu of a bad memory at the same time.

Emotions are contagious, especially among psychic beings.

Fang Jue collected himself, squatted down and looked at the boy at the same level, and said as gently as possible: "Tell me what you know, and shake your head if you don't know, so that we can take you home."

The boy shed tears again in a daze, and nodded vigorously.

"Do you know Chief Luo Shan?"

The boy nodded.

He thought for a long time before saying in a hoarse voice, "It was Chief Luo Shan who saved us."

Fang Jue nodded: "What about others?"

"...I don't know, he said he was going out to clean up some pollutants, and then he left alone."

Jiang Bieqiu and Fang Jue looked at each other, and they both saw solemnity in each other's eyes.

If they find a place to take refuge, Luo Shan will not venture out again, unless they can't find a safe enough place, Luo Shan can only clean up those dangers.

Moreover, Luo Shan is just an ordinary person, even if he has protective clothing, how can he fight against so many pollutants?

Fang Jue frowned and didn't think about it, and continued to ask: "Where are you staying?"

Boy: "In, in an air-raid shelter on the ancient earth, everyone is crowded together..."

It seems that the situation is the same as when Yuhang evacuated, except for Luoshan.

Fang Jue was thoughtful: "The last question—how did you come here alone?"

The boy's face went blank for a moment.

It seemed that a memory was taken out of thin air with one hand. He had clearly experienced something himself, but he couldn't remember it.

Suddenly, the boy seemed to suddenly recall a certain segment, those scarlet colors, the silent but dynamic mist, and... the breath of death.

He looked into the distance, in mid-air, there was nothing there.