Chapter 419
In the western region of Shen Cheng city, near the southern bank of the Huangpu River.
It used to be one of the most expensive areas of Shen Cheng city in the age of light. There used to be countless skyscrapers spread across the riverbank, and the streets in that area were always crowded with people.
However, nowadays it was only left with collapsed buildings and some broken skyscrapers that were still standing in ruins under the hazy shimmer.
After some time, in this ruined place where the hazy shimmer seemed to be the only light source appeared some small and blurry thin figures. They were crawling from one collapsed building to another one through the holes and cracks of the concrete buildings.
From the direction that those blurry figures traveled in the hazy shimmer. It appeared that this group of figures was heading towards a collapsed viaduct that was quite far away from them.
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“Look what I found!?” a young boy said loudly and then quickly slid down from a pile of ruins while waving a glass bottle in his hand. He looked around ten years old, and his excited expression could even be seen behind his dirty face.
Immediately, all other kids below the ruins began to surround the young boy.
“Second Brother, it is not that I don’t want to fight them. What can we use to fight them? The tree is gone now. The fruits we stored will only become less. Once we started to fight them, what can we use to save our brothers’ lives?” the tall man looked at the pale-faced middle-aged man and asked.
“Look at those kids!” The man pointed at the place where the kids were fighting and said.
“I have already made my decision. You don’t need to persuade me. They are not as united as they look. Akizuki clan has already agreed to join us. This kind of thing can’t be rushed. Besides, once we resumed our contact with other cities. Those people would immediately give up fighting.”
The middle-aged man frowned. It seemed like he still was not willing to give up. “Okay, Big Brother, I’ll listen to you. Let’s hope that Tachibana Akisumi will give up his ambition.”
“Tachibana Akisumi…” the tall man also frowned while gazing at the east region of the river.
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In a plain field in the eastern region of the river.
A group of 50 kids, both boys, and girls, had been stripped naked and asked to run on the land that was covered with snow.
Behind them, a man was holding a stick and constantly shouting.
“Run! Don’t ever stop! If you want to survive in this world, you must have an iron-like body. No matter how cold and painful it is, you must endure it!”
“Cowards will not be able to survive in this world!”
“From today, you will need to treat this world seriously like a samurai!”
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Suddenly, the kid who was leading the group was tripped over and fell to the group. It instantly tripped over many other kids.
The man who was holding a stick quickly got to the front and hit the kid who had caused the other kids to fall repeatedly without any mercy.
“As the future leader, you need to work two times harder than anyone else! Not to cause trouble for your people! Get up!”
The kid gritted his teeth and tried to get up several times. However, he failed every time.
The man was constantly hitting the kid with the stick and shouted.
“Get up Heiichiro! We have already lost our homeland! We can’t afford to lose any more! Get up and fight! Heiichiro!!!”
The man’s words seemed to have touched something in the young child’s mind.
“Ah!….” the kid roared hysterically with his innocent voice and staggered to his feet. Then he began to run frantically into the darkness.
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In another place that was not far from the group of fifty kids also stood a group of kids that were almost ten years old. They were split into two groups, and everyone was holding a wooden sword.
They were ordered to fight each other until there was only one person standing in each group.
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In a place further away from them, around a hundred of teenagers that were wearing armor suits, had been split into three rows.
Opposite them, roughly around fifty meters away, a live but small tentacle monster had been tied up to retain its movement.
“Charge!” A man dressed in a white robe suddenly shouted sharply in Japanese.
“Ha!” Instantly, all the teenagers began to charge towards the live tentacle monster with their samurai swords at the same time.
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After Chu Yunsheng was pulled into the mountain tree, he slowly lost all his senses.
He couldn’t tell where he was and how long it had passed. It was like he had been separated from the rest of the world. He couldn’t see, touch, smell, or hear anything. He even lost the Dark’s vision and his fourth-dimensional sensory system.
After a long time or maybe it was just he himself felt that way, he seemed to ‘see’ a black vortex spinning non-stop above him.
Slowly, he felt ‘something’ was being sucked in by the vortex above him. However, the thing was too little. It disappeared instantly. Just right after it disappeared, he felt that ‘something’ was slowly restoring.