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It had been almost four years since the end of the world.
The dark land was full of scars. The surface cities that once symbolized civilization and prosperity were now as cold and empty as the dead. Apart from the cold bones, there was not a single person to be seen.
Instead, there were towering steel monsters that emitted thick smoke as they continuously released cold and ferocious robots from afar.
In the great battle three years ago, the last army was crushed under the torrent of the robot army, and they lost all power to resist.
People hid underground, just like their ancestors who walked out from here thousands of years ago. They came back here again, lingering on with their last breaths.
There were people who once quietly crawled out of the ground and spread the news that they saw alien spaceships passing through the starry sky and heading towards the depths of the universe. The disaster might soon be over.
This statement was very popular, because from the day of the end of the world until now, no one had seen the appearance of aliens. Their enemies had always been those cold machines.
But at the same time, this statement could not be verified. The ferocious machines on the ground were still looking for something everywhere, and there was no sign of them leaving.
Nika listened to the men discussing the future in the dark underground cave while skillfully crafting explosives by hand.
In the first two years, she often woke up from nightmares. The scene of the escape from Space Station 39 was always repeating in her dreams. Behind the glass door, Colimin's shadow was always so clear.
In the next two years, perhaps because she was used to seeing all kinds of bloody massacres, that kind of dream rarely appeared again.
But last night, she dreamed again. She dreamed that after the space station exploded, Colimin drifted in the cold universe and gradually suffocated to death. His protruding eyes seemed to stare at her fiercely, making her feel oppressed and unable to breathe.
After she woke up, she found that a smelly man was trying to climb on top of her and tear off her clothes. In the end, he was scared away by a dagger hidden in her sleeve.
This was a fallen world, a world where civilization was destroyed and fallen. It was also a world where the weak were prey to the strong and there was no order!
There were only three things that people could do: find food, reproduce, and wait for the aliens to leave.
"Done?" In the dim light, a man whose specific appearance could not be seen bent over and climbed to the opposite side.
"Just a little bit more." Nika used her hand to feel around in the darkness and said: "The raw materials are still not enough."
The man lay down on his side, looking for a barely comfortable position in the small cave, and said, "We'll look again tomorrow. There might still be remnants in a former factory."
Four years ago, when the space station and the airport were destroyed, the alien signal waves unimpeded control of all electronic products and automated equipment on the entire planet.
There were no aliens landing on Earth like they had imagined, and there were no ugly aliens eating humans raw. The war came from everything modern around them.
The aliens in space sent a series of modification programs, turning all modern products into tools for the aliens. In the end, they controlled these tools, the factories, and all objects that could be controlled, creating a torrent of steel. Any large-scale weapons could only stay on the launcher forever. Holding modern mechanical weapons without chips, fighting against the robot army, the result was self-evident.
This might be a war in space. In the spaceship of the aliens, they might just control a few programs like a game, and then they would be killed by the world they created.
Therefore, the rumor of the alien spaceship passing through space was indeed believed by many people, because there was no need for them to come down.
The man carried out the bags of explosives. After the last trip, he lay down beside the woman and said in a low voice: "Nika, Des has given us his conditions."
The woman's body trembled slightly, and then she said calmly: "What conditions?"
The man hesitated for a long time, and finally said: "Des said that since two years ago, the aliens don't care whether we live or die. As long as we don't use electronic products, as long as we obediently hide underground and avoid the deep wells they drilled, we can continue to live. The aliens will leave one day, so there is no need for him to let us go and cause a commotion in the cave in his territory."
The woman's face could not be seen in the darkness, and her voice was calm but somewhat cold: "What else?"
The man took a deep breath, as if he was ashamed, but helplessly said: "He wants you, he said he has never met a student from the imperial capital Ma Mingcheng University in his life …"
The woman suddenly interrupted him, and said in a low voice: "Dun Lou, are you sure that the place behind Des' cave is the place we are looking for?"
The man hesitated for a moment: "Yes, Nika, this is our last chance. It is very likely that it is the spaceship left behind by the cosmic race that the emissary belongs to. As long as we reach there, we can escape from this demonic world."
At this time, the woman's voice became calm again: "You tell Des, I agree."
The dim light coming from the flowing lava shone on the man's face, freezing his painful expression for a second. Then, he recovered his perseverance and hope, but didn't say anything. He retracted his hand that wanted to caress the woman's cheek, and crawled out of the cave.
A day later, Nika followed the man and about thirty other men and women. They crawled deeper into the cave, but they could stand up straight in front of a large cave with a better environment.
Des was sitting at the entrance of the cave, blocking their way in. From this angle, it was as if Nika and the others were kneeling in front of him, unable to stand up.
In terms of appearance, Des didn't look too different from other humanoids, but he also didn't belong to the delicate category. His eyes were deep, his skin was pale, and his mouth was slightly upturned, revealing a chilling coldness that made people shudder.
"Des, we agree to your conditions." Dun Lou crawled in front, trying to raise his head, trying to make up for his humiliating kneeling position.
Des looked at him without moving. After a while, probably feeling that he had humiliated them enough, he laughed and moved to the side, watching them crawl out from under his feet one by one.
Dun Lou, who was crawling in front, just stood up, suppressing the humiliation and anger in his heart. Just as he was about to say something, he saw Des suddenly step on the tail of the last girl. The girl let out a sharp scream, and a cold smile appeared on his face.
"Des, what are you doing? Didn't we have an agreement? "Dun Lou wanted to step forward, but was immediately pressed down by Des' men.
Des patted the armrest of his seat, then stood up and said viciously: "I've never seen such a stupid fool like you. Do you think a woman can make me agree to you messing around in my territory? Do you think I don't know what you did in He Mingke's cave last time? You alerted the aliens. You want to die, but I don't! "
"You, you, what do you mean?" Dun Lou's face was stuck to the ground, struggling and panicking.
"Nothing." Des kicked the girl who had fainted from the pain to the side, came in front of him, squatted down, and said with a faint smile: "I lied to you, I tricked you into coming here to play."
"Des, you, you are shameless!" Dun Lou understood, and his face turned pale.
"In this world, shameless people can't survive." Des didn't care in the slightest. He stood up and walked to the panicking crowd brought by Dun Lou. He pulled the pale Nicar out, threw her to the ground, and said with a lewd smile:
"As expected of a great beauty. It is said that a descendant of the royal family gave up the chance to escape to her for her sake. I really have to thank this descendant of the royal family for leaving her for me to enjoy."
Dun Lou, who was stepped on the ground, struggled with all his might and cursed loudly. But after being kicked in the mouth, he could only mumble.
"If you shout again, I'll kill you!" One of Des' lackeys fiercely gestured a dagger in front of his face.
Des ignored him, but he noticed that one of his lackeys was still standing there blankly, not at all as quick-witted as he used to be. He didn't know that he had dragged Nicar into his "room". Des immediately became furious, and reached out to slap the lackey's head.
Then, amidst the panic of the thirty men and women, amidst Dunlou's stammering voice, Nika pulling out a hidden dagger from her sleeves, preparing to perish together with Des, and amidst the laughter of Des's group of thugs and his lackeys.
That dumbfounded lackey turned his head, his gaze as sharp as a sword.
Des instinctively sensed a dangerous aura, and the next thing he knew was that he was flying. In the small cave, he was flying backwards at high speed.
"The location is wrong again, where is this?"
At the same time, from the "sky", an ice-cold robot made by the aliens came out from the bottom of the cave and scanned for explosives.
^ (To be continued.)
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