abyss rose

There is no fog below the floating city.

Like the underground city, in order to prevent the sprawling growth of black vines, it was artificially deserted more than 50 years ago, and the military will regularly clean up the black vines.

The huge human base is suspended above the cloud tops, and the cities gathered one after another like an archipelago cast a shadow that seems to have no boundaries, and it hangs heavily over this barren land.

Standing below and looking up, there is an oppressive feeling that the sky is shattered and may collapse at any time.

Under the huge shadow, the armored vehicle headed towards the location that Yi Shuyun circled for them.

They heard that it was a sampling area where black vines covered a smaller area compared to other places, and they could still receive signals from the floating city.

Yi Shuyun will contact the dungeon base to pick them up there.

Perhaps the road ahead is very dangerous, but they firmly believe that this is the best choice.

It took more than four hours for the armored vehicle to drive out of the shadow and leave the bottom of the floating city.

The afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on the wasteland without dense fog, Chai Yuening looked up at the huge city hanging high in the orange-red sky, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart.

They had just escaped from its envelope, but they were far away from it, too far away to see clearly what the city above the clouds was experiencing at this moment.

Are the herds still attacking the city?

Can the people in the outer city escape to safety?

Has the angry crowd been contained?

Chai Yuening couldn't help thinking wildly, even if she couldn't get any answers.

She used to think that the floating city was free, at least much more free than the dark dungeon.

Now she has gradually discovered that the places where the sun and the wind can be blown are not necessarily free.

Human cages have always been everywhere.

She thought, maybe she has nothing to do with this city anymore.

Or maybe, it's not just this city...

The setting sun fell into the wilderness, and they fled the human base and ran to the foggy area.

The signal from the dungeon base came from the communicator, and everything was moving in a good direction.

The armored car drove across the deserted wasteland, through the sand and into the misty ruins of the old world city.

The human base that can be seen as long as they turn their heads and raise their eyes has been left far behind by them at this moment, and it has become smaller and smaller in their field of vision, so small that it seems to be just a mountain hidden in the clouds, covered by mist. Once you cover it, you won't be able to see anything else.

When night fell slowly, Lu Qi, who was lying by the window in a daze, suddenly let out an exclamation.

"Look at it!"

Chai Yuening looked back into the distance after hearing the sound.

She saw an "island" belonging to human beings, flashing bursts of lightning and fire in the distant sky, tilting continuously among the dark sea of ​​clouds in the night, and finally falling downward.When it moved away from the "islands" that were supposed to be connected and was about to fall to the ground, a glaring white light shone through the entire night sky.

She squinted her eyes subconsciously, and stretched out her hand to cover a little bit of her sight.

In the next second, he looked through the slightly open fingers, and a huge mushroom cloud exploded upward.

The dark sky was ignited by the blinding fire at that moment.

Then the deafening sound, followed by an exclamation in the ear, crashed into everyone's heart.

They closed their eyes and turned away from looking again.

The sounds in the distance did not stop, and one after another outer city was blown up in the air before falling, and the roar was like the death knell sounded by the god of death for this sad world.

In the end, there is only one isolated island left, suspended in that desperate sky.

"Floating Void City... what happened?"

Chai Yuening took a deep breath: "They have abandoned the outer city."

In order to prevent the occupied city from becoming a hotbed for the evolution of alien beasts, the dungeon base has made similar decisions, but they are far from the swiftness and determination of the floating city.

Yi Shuyun said that the defense system of the floating city is far less solid than that of the dungeon. If a large-scale infection occurs in any city and is not suppressed within a short period of time, the rate of spread will be much faster than that of the dungeon base.

Because of this, in order to defend the main city, they abandoned all the outer cities.

How many people can be safely transferred in less than a day?

Probably not even one percent.

For the survival of the group, human beings are really doing whatever it takes...

As long as humans are alive, all are expendable.

Chai Yuening lowered her eyebrows and looked at Hei Teng, who was quietly curled up on her arm, her heart, which was a little shaken, became firm again at this moment.

In that quiet late night, everyone hid in the ruins of an unfamiliar city, waiting for the fighter planes from the dungeon to come and pick them up following the special positioning in the communicator.

Night, deep silence.

Chai Yuening looked at everyone in the car with reluctance in her eyes.

She stood up and gently opened the door.

Lao Xiang, who was sleeping on his back in the driver's seat, narrowed his eyes, and Chai Yuening couldn't help but feel his heart tighten.

Lao Xiang seemed to want to ask something, but he only muttered some strange noises that were inaudible in a daze, and then fell asleep again.

When everything fell silent again, Chai Yuening jumped out of the car door, glanced at his teammates in the car one last time, turned and walked towards the boundless dark fog.

She took a gun, five magazines, a few compressed biscuits and a bottle of water in her pocket, as well as some bandaging medicine and gauze.But for the current ground, there is no difference between having these things and not having them.

Anyway, once injured, there is a high probability that it will be infected and mutated.

This is very good, it is light when you come, and you are light when you go.

She will not bring Chu Ci back to the human base.

Whether it is a floating city or a dungeon, as long as humans haven't found what they want from Chu Ci, what awaits Chu Ci will only be endless torture.

She knew that if she said such a thing, this group of idiots, who would risk their lives for the sake of loyalty, would definitely follow her to the fog zone, to the abyss that could swallow up human beings.

She could be desperate for Chu Ci, but she couldn't take them to die together.

So she left alone, in a silent late night, walking quietly.

She wants to take her to wander, to places that humans can no longer find, to the farthest, farthest, farthest place that her legs can go.

If tomorrow is her doomsday, she doesn't care about using the rest of her short life to send that prison bird who has never been free in her life away from the shackles of the world.

Chai Yuening walked in the night mist, alone, her figure was as lonely as dust that could be blown away by a gust of wind.

In a daze, she remembered the day when she first met Chu Ci.

They supported each other and walked through the long night together.

At that time, she knew where she should go, but now, her way forward is very uncertain.

How long do we have to go?Where are they going?When will the danger come quietly?

She didn't know and didn't want to know.

The world is big and everything is unpredictable.

Just like the ruins in front of me, there were obviously humans who came here not long ago. Chai Yuening found a blood-stained small armored vehicle. The damage was not serious. The feet are much faster.

She stepped on the accelerator and drove into the depths of the foggy area. The gust of wind poured into the car from the broken glass window.

For the first time after such a long wait, she truly felt alive.

You can make your own choices, you can no longer be silent involuntarily, and you can no longer blame yourself for being unable to do anything.

When the sky was twilight, the communicator attached to Chai Yuening's waist rang frantically.

The car was still moving in an unknown direction, the little black vine slowly wrapped around her waist, and the branches and leaves lightly touched the communicator that kept ringing.

Chai Yuening didn't pay attention, just walked through the ruins of the city in silence.

It wasn't until the fuel in the car was empty that she jumped out of the car with Hei Teng.

"We're not going back." Chai Yuening whispered to her.

After a brief silence, she picked up the communicator Yi Shuyun gave her, and listened to it for a while.

She heard an extremely anxious questioning voice after another, and finally, when the dungeon fighter landed, Liandong cried and begged her to answer.

Chai Yuening thought for a long time, and finally only replied lightly: "Don't wait for me, I won't go back."

It was clearly a decision to abandon everything, and his tone was as flat as if he was just saying that sentence to his beloved family: "I won't go back for dinner tonight."

In the end, she took two deep breaths, raised her hand and threw the communicator into the distance.

At that moment, the arc thrown by the communicator fell at the end like fate, and shattered into broken pieces.

It may be broken and no longer useful to humans.

But from now on, no one can control where the confidential samples of the Floating Void City and the person who stole the samples will go, whether they are exposed to the sun or rain, whether they live or die.

Chai Yuening looked at the desolate surroundings, at this once or once prosperous city.

Thick fog shrouded the ruins, countless black vines clinging to the dilapidated tall buildings, and red-purple rays of light flowed from the vine branches, smudged with the color of the fog in the morning light.

These black vines were completely different from what she remembered.

They "grow up", and the biggest one, like a thousand-year-old tree with intertwined roots, grew between two tall buildings, and gave birth to countless vine branches, penetrating into and wrapping around the seemingly crumbling and dilapidated place.

And at the other end of the high-rise building crossed by huge vines, a black vine flower that covered the three-story building broke through the wall from a high place, blooming silently in the strange mist.

Chai Yuening stood under the tall building, as insignificant as a speck of dust.

She thought that what she saw before her might have surpassed human understanding of Hei Teng.

But in this world, human cognition is no longer worth mentioning.

Chai Yuening has never been to the deepest part of the foggy area.

She couldn't help but wonder, the places close to the outside have become like this, what will be in the depths of the foggy area?

The black vines on his arms suddenly tightened, and Chai Yuening came back to his senses, holding his breath and concentrating.

A strange hissing sound was approaching here.

Chai Yuening stepped back lightly, turned around and hid when she was close to a broken building, and climbed upstairs, covering her figure with the ruined walls.

Soon, she came to a high place and looked in the direction of the sound.

She saw a giant serpentine beast about two meters long without a tail.

On the huge body, there is a red and purple light similar to that carried by black vines, flying low like a kite over the ruins of the city, and the winding body slowly walks through the abandoned and uninhabited streets shrouded in fog.

It was approaching here, as if it had found its prey, without a single pause.

As it got closer, Chai Yuening gradually saw its appearance, it was an existence that was completely beyond her comprehension.

It was a giant centipede with countless pairs of insect wings. Its upper body was incompletely covered with hard scales, but its lower body only had a layer of dark red transparent membrane. Inside the membrane, there were blood-colored creatures wriggling faintly. The jumbled remains of something.

Perhaps its undigested prey.

It gets closer.

This is no ordinary gun/gun to kill.

"Perhaps, I can only send you here."

At that moment, my heart beat fast.

Chai Yuening's words were indescribably peaceful.

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The author has something to say:

High energy ahead——

A little angel asked about how many chapters, this is not easy to calculate, I can only say that it is not long, the current progress is more than half a while, there are three volumes in total, no surprises, the second volume will end tomorrow, and it should be completed within the next month.