Li Yao wanted to say, "There's a problem."
Perhaps it was because he had suddenly awakened too many memories of the past, but he vaguely felt that something was wrong. A premonition of danger shrouded him like a fog.
At this time, a shrill alarm came from the storm outside the building. It lasted for nearly a minute in the dark night before gradually subsiding.
Not long after, an Awakened came in and reported a piece of bad news to everyone. Due to the heavy rain, the reservoir upstream of the city had far exceeded the warning level, causing the dam to burst. It wouldn't be long before the city would face a flood that hadn't happened in a hundred years.
Li Yao swallowed his words back into his stomach.
They had no choice but to leave the land and reach the Ark as soon as possible.
That night, Li Yao didn't have a good rest.
All kinds of strange hallucinations came one after another, hovering in front of his eyes and mind like annoying flies.
His body, which had further awakened to inhuman powers, gave him all kinds of strange discordant feelings. It was like a machine that had a problem and needed him to get used to it again.
Photos and videos of natural disasters from all over the world, as well as countless posts that added fuel to the fire and wished for the world to be in chaos, made him even more worried. He had a feeling that a disaster was coming and that there was nowhere to run.
It wasn't until dawn that he fell asleep in a daze for a while, but he was soon awakened by the companion of the Gray Fog Lady, the brawny man named "Spartan."
Li Yao didn't know what kind of superpower this "Spartan" had compared to Uncle Hui, but looking at his full body armor — he was wearing a heavy-duty bulletproof vest that was filled with explosion-proof plates, and his bulging backpack was filled with all kinds of sci-fi style firearms, it more or less gave people a sense of security.
While the sky was still dark, the group quietly left the city and headed for the train station in the suburbs. It wasn't the usual passenger station, but an unused freight train station.
Because of the approaching flood and torrential rain, most of the passenger trains in and out of the city had been suspended. The few lines that were available were overcrowded. To take the passenger train, one had to provide their name, ID card, and other sensitive information. They also had to go through a tedious and strict security check. The buzzing flashlight on Li Yao's waist alone was definitely not enough to pass the check. If there was a conflict, it would only cause more trouble and waste precious time.
Therefore, Lady Grey Fog and the Ark Foundation behind her used some small connections to get a freight carriage and let them take the freight train to leave here in the name of escorts.
Although the conditions of the freight train were not as comfortable as the passenger train, the advantage was that all the joints were connected. When they arrived at the station, it did not take long for the train to start moving slowly. Moreover, the space on the train was spacious enough that the entire carriage belonged to them, so they could easily set up defensive measures.
What was even better was that in the carriage in front of them, there were three specially modified off-road vehicles. The vehicles were in very good condition. The fuel tanks were filled with fuel, and all kinds of weapons and survival tools were on the vehicles. Even if the train had an accident, they could abandon the railway and drive forward.
Lady Grey Fog's arrangement gave Li Yao a more intuitive understanding of the Ark Foundation's great power.
However, it did not mean that he could relax his vigilance for the dangerous journey.
"Hua Hua Hua Hua!"
Although they had already left the city and traveled hundreds of kilometers to the south, the torrential rain that filled the sky showed no signs of stopping at all. Looking into the distance, it seemed that the sky of a million square kilometers was covered with dark clouds. The dark clouds were like a broken reservoir that was pouring water with electric currents into the human world incessantly.
It was clearly nine o 'clock in the morning, and the sky was clear and bright, but the world was still stagnant in the bleak darkness. The dark clouds and the mountains in the distance merged together like clusters of shocking ink dots, giving people a feeling that the world was collapsing, revealing the mottled ground color.
The highway that was parallel to the railway had completely collapsed. Li Yao saw countless cars blocking the highway. People were curled up in the cars in despair, looking at the endless water in the distance, unable to move an inch.
Many sections of the road had even been divided into islands by the water. Human beings, the wisest of all creatures, seemed so insignificant and helpless in front of the power of nature.
Thankfully, the railway had been newly built a few years ago. Most of the sections were built on a highway that was ten to twenty meters above the ground. Also, the train carried a lot of supplies that were urgently needed in the south. Therefore, it was still able to grit its teeth and move forward in the storm.
However, the air that was so oppressive that it was about to explode still worried everybody. They did not know how long the train could go on and whether or not it could make it to the border station in the south.
The scene that seemed to be wandering in the dark night gave Li Yao a very familiar feeling.
He vaguely remembered that the legend of himself — "Cultivator Li Yao" — originated from a fast train in the Grand Desolate Thunderstorm Area of the Xing Yao Federation.
From another perspective, it seemed quite strange that nothing would happen to him with his body constitution that would attract trouble, coupled with the train that was carrying key people, and in such a weather that seemed to be the end of the world.
Li Yao shook his head hard and got rid of the messy thoughts in his head. He observed everybody in the carriage.
Daniel Zhang had been crouching in the corner obediently, or rather crazily, since the moment he got on the train. He was typing on the keyboard with his back to everybody, continuing to write the next chapters of "40,000 Years of Cultivation".
Uncle Hui, on the other hand, was reading a comic book attentively. Li Yao glanced at the cover. Well, the name of the comic was "God of Fist '97".
The brawny man nicknamed "Spartan", on the other hand, was dismantling and stroking his weapon repeatedly. Compared to Li Yao's hands, which were moving as fast as the wind, his movements were rather slow but full of emotion, as if he were not touching cold steel but his lover's butt.
Lady Grey Fog was operating a specially modified laptop computer. It seemed that she was contacting the Ark Foundation's nest and receiving further instructions from "Red Pole Star". Strangely, the wires dragged by the laptop were connected to the head of the last Awakened, "Phantom Cat", and two magnetic patches were tightly attached to her temples.
What does this mean? Is it safer to use the human brain as some kind of "antenna" to transmit information in this way?
Li Yao couldn't figure it out.
Perhaps sensing his nervousness and doubts, Lady Grey Fog closed the laptop after completing the transmission of information and sat next to Li Yao again.
Li Yao took the opportunity to ask her about those … "fantasy weapons". Why did the Ark Foundation keep so many weapons that were obviously beyond the level of modern technology? Where did these things come from?
Lady Grey Fog wasn't very clear about the principle behind it. She could only give Li Yao an analogy. It was like an area in a computer that couldn't be deleted no matter how it was formatted. Even if it seemed to have been wiped clean or tampered with beyond recognition, as long as the key command was grasped, all the information in the area could be restored.
These sci-fi, magical, and even fantasy weapons that seemed to be beyond the times should be the products of the brilliant and unknown era before the "initial reincarnation". They were created by the initial heroic spirits and hidden in an indestructible space with secret techniques. Every time the reincarnation restarted, there would always be prison breakers who would awaken ancient memories and find these lost peerless divine weapons.
Up until now, Li Yao was still not very clear about the strength of the Awakened. Lady Grey Fog simply took the opportunity to briefly introduce it to Li Yao.
Regardless of whether it was the prison breakers or the prison keepers, the level of awakening was the same. Those who had just awakened and could vaguely recall the first one to five reincarnations were called "Initial Awakened". Those who could recall six to ten reincarnations were called "Deep Awakened". Those who could recall more than ten reincarnations were called "Final Awakened".
The reason for this classification was that the heroic spirits imprisoned in the prison of reincarnation would become weaker and weaker as the number of reincarnations increased. Being able to retrieve more ancient memories naturally meant more powerful abilities, all kinds of incredible divine powers, and even destructive power that was close to that of gods and demons.
In this life, being able to awaken the memories of more than ten reincarnations was the limit of most heroic spirits. Even if some people could awaken the memories of more than ten reincarnations, they were often mottled and fragmented, like gravel and dust. They didn't have much use value. Therefore, the "Final Awakened" who had awakened more than ten reincarnations became the peak combat power of the Ark and Apocalypse.
Of course, there were still exceptions.
It was said that there was a type of Awakened who could cross thousands of reincarnations and awaken the early memories of the universe before they were imprisoned. They could vaguely touch the truth of the infinite Earth and the prison of reincarnation. That was the legendary "Super Awakened".
Although it had never been explicitly admitted, all the members of the Ark Foundation had tacitly agreed that their leader, Red Pole Star, was a Super Awakened.
The leader of the Apocalypse, the "Prophet", was another matter. As a minion of the will of Earth, he might not necessarily be a Super Awakened. Perhaps he was some kind of "projection" or incarnation of the will of Earth.
Now, the ability that Li Yao displayed, as well as the special attention that Red Pole Star paid to him, made Lady Grey Fog suspect that Li Yao was also a Super Awakened. Of course, this had to be confirmed by Red Pole Star himself.
Li Yao did not know what he was exactly.
Although countless memory pieces of "Cultivator Li Yao" were hovering in his head, there was a very weird thing in every dreamy picture. The enormous silver balloon was like a 3D mirror that reflected his twisted soul.
What was it exactly?
There shouldn't have been such a weird thing in the experience of "Cultivator Li Yao".
Li Yao had intended to confess the existence of the weird balloon to Lady Grey Fog so that she or Red Pole Star could analyze it and find the answer.
But in the end, for some reason, he swallowed back his words.
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