“Look what I found, a rat.”
But just as he was about to enter the ruins of a shopping mall, a mocking laugh rang in his ears.
In an instant, the man's pupils shrank, and his whole heart sank.
He flipped over, wanting to rush into the sewer. These surface dwellers, who considered themselves superior and a different species from them underground dwellers, would never enter the safe houses in the sewers.
But before he could take a few steps, he heard a bang, and a small pit exploded in front of him.
The man stopped instantly, raising his hands and standing still, his mind blank.
He naturally knew what that was.
“Don't move, stand still obediently.”
An arrogant and domineering female voice rang from above. The man carefully turned sideways and looked up.
It was a man and a woman, both holding homemade muskets. The clothes they wore, although Qian Er didn't think much of them, were considered by the man to be quite bright and beautiful. They didn't look very old, probably from the generation that grew up in the post-apocalyptic world.
The woman jumped down with a gun in her hand and walked excitedly to the man.
“Those damned zombies chased me before, but I didn't expect my luck to turn around and find such a little rat.”
Saying that, the woman used the muzzle of her gun to lift the man's chin, and after carefully looking at him, she sneered.
“As expected, he's as dirty as the other rat-people. They look exactly like us. It is said that they were the same race before the end of the world, but they have fallen so low. But that's good too. According to what Dad said, killing a rat-person to offer as a sacrifice before the action will ensure smooth sailing. Brother, we've really hit the jackpot this time.”
The woman's face was full of excitement. She was clearly just an adult, the age when she should be innocent and carefree, but she was doing heinous things. What was even more chilling was that she didn't think she was doing anything wrong.
“Then kill him.”
The man, who had been on guard behind her, jumped down at this time and said in a flat tone, as if he was about to crush an ant.
“Okay.”
The woman grinned, raised the muzzle of her gun, and was about to pull the trigger, but at this moment, a gust of cold wind blew past. At first, the three of them didn't take it seriously. Although it was midsummer, there would still be wind.
But soon, they realized something was wrong.
Their bodies, they couldn't move!
The woman's pupils shrank, struggling to escape, but she couldn't move at all. Looking down, she realized that her feet were already frozen. Turning her head, she saw that everything around her had been covered by ice, turning into a land of ice.
“This… what is this?”
Fear made the woman, who had just been mocking, sound a little trembling at this time.
In the five years since the apocalypse, she had never seen such an outrageous scene.
The underground man, covered in dirt, shrank his pupils at this time, curling up as much as possible to make himself less conspicuous.
Although he didn't see it with his own eyes, he already felt it. Something huge was passing through the sky. Although it didn't focus its gaze on him, the sense of crisis, as if encountering a natural enemy, still made his whole body go numb.
It was like the sense of crisis he had when he accidentally disturbed a group of zombies with at least five hundred members.
He didn't know whether that thing was stronger than a group of five hundred zombies, after all, neither of them would have to put in much effort to kill him.
Fortunately, that thing's target was not them. They kept their heads down, only seeing a huge shadow, probably hundreds of meters long, flying from above. It had to be said, their legs went weak.
Because before, they had always thought that it was a cloud, but now it seemed that it was likely some kind of creature, hundreds of meters long, able to control ice, a creature that could fly in the sky with ice.
That creature was watching their farce in the sky, and had just left.
Cold sweat flowed down his temples, and had already condensed into ice before reaching his chin. Heavy breathing echoed in this open space.
But as time went by, the ice didn't melt. The hearts of the three people sank uncontrollably. Hunters and prey all became prey in front of higher-level hunters.
But soon, a new change occurred.
It got dark.
It was clearly noon, but it was dark, not the darkness of dark clouds pressing down on the city, but the darkness of the sun setting.
“Is the world finally going to be destroyed?”
The man, who had struggled in the apocalypse for five years, couldn't help but make a flat sound, with a hint of expectation in his tone.
The successive changes in the sky made this idea emerge in his heart.
Having survived in the apocalypse for five years, he certainly didn't want to die, but if the world was destroyed, and he had no choice but to die, that would be a good reason. Of course, the premise was that he couldn't be in pain when he died.
“Hey, rat, what nonsense are you talking about? Of course the world can't be destroyed!”
The woman roared at him angrily. Although the lives of the surface dwellers were not good, happiness was relative. The surface dwellers could still exploit the underground dwellers and have a stable source of happiness, so they naturally hoped that this kind of life would continue, and they didn't want to be like the underground dwellers who had nothing and looked forward to the destruction of the world.
“Huh? Why do you call him a rat?”
But at this moment, a strange voice, never heard before, rang out behind them. The three of them straightened up as if they had been electrocuted and turned their heads to look.
After seeing the scene behind them, the three of them were speechless.
It was a group of armored figures, holding spears, and emitting a green light. These figures had dull eyes, as if they had no emotions. Only the particularly tall figure at the head seemed to have consciousness. The words just now were spoken from his mouth.
Although they looked like humans, and there seemed to be no need to be afraid, the three of them were all cold and at a loss.
Because they watched with their own eyes as a figure walked into the building next to them, passed through the wall, and came out unscathed.
The hundreds of people moved without any sound, as if… they weren't alive.
The three of them were pale, but even paler than their faces were the faces of those figures, as pale as dead people.
“I'm asking you a question.”
Seeing that the three of them hadn't moved for a long time, the Human Emperor Flag, which had possessed the Ghost General's body to check the surroundings, increased its tone a bit.
The sudden increase in tone startled the three of them. In the end, the underground man, who had no hope for life, stood up, looked at the Ghost General's empty eyes, and told the situation of the city.
“Hoh, they're all people, and just because of the different places they live, they're divided into different classes? You guys really know how to play.”
The Human Emperor Flag was stunned for a moment. It couldn't figure out how this kind of thing could happen, and the reason for this discrimination and even persecution was too outrageous.
