Chapter 1 1: The Dead City
Xu Zhi controlled the wheelchair and slid to the window, silently looking at the gloomy sky outside the window and the black mist spreading like a tide on the ground.
This is the seventh day since she was left behind, and the seventh day since the city fell into a cordoned off zone.
Except for those who can't walk, those who can walk have been evacuated one after another. To this day, the entire city has been sealed off, and no one can enter or leave the city anymore.
Reason told her that when the disaster happened suddenly, it was right for her parents to only take away their healthy brother. Otherwise, their whole family might be trapped in this city with her as a burden. But she was only seventeen years old. How could she stay sane when her whole family was abandoned in this "dead city"?
What this frail body brought her was not more care and love from her parents, but impatience and boredom day after day. They never even tried to cure her illness, even if caring people helped her, this The money was not used for her treatment.
If it were not for the legal constraints, her family would have abandoned her long ago. After all, they already have a healthy enough son. Even if the law requires them to support themselves seriously, it is useless. They only need to maintain her normal appearance when visiting her home to express condolences. Just abuse her and throw it away. Even the price of the medicine bought for her is within the federal minor patient benefit, so the medicine cannot cure her. At most, it will keep her alive.
Now, the world is undergoing great changes. This is a perfect opportunity, so she was left behind without hesitation.
Is it hard to believe how devastated it is?
That's not the case. After all, even if there is no disaster, she will probably die soon after she becomes an adult. She can feel that her body is getting weaker and weaker. It has been two years since she missed the life-saving money for surgery. But if you are alive, federal supervision will no longer be strict for adults, and you will die of illness.
So it’s more of a feeling of “this day has finally come”. There is nothing more mourning than heartbreak, and numbness and hatred are more than heartache and sadness.
The food left at home that she couldn't take away was only enough for her to eat for about half a month. Once she finished eating, she would probably starve to death at home.
After all, today is different from the past. This city is no longer safe. An "old, weak, sick and disabled person" like her who suffers from heart disease so severe that she needs to rely on a wheelchair and whose hearing is severely damaged would probably die within an hour of going out. .
A year ago, extraordinary abilities suddenly appeared in this world, and people were immersed in the joy of obtaining extraordinary abilities. Little did they know that this was just a warning before a disaster.
One month ago, a sudden change occurred, the Tengu eclipsed the sun, and black mist enveloped the earth. Alien monsters were born from the mist. They have weird and crazy abilities. Ordinary thermal weapons have no effect on them. Only extraordinary people can kill them. , but humans who have only been exposed to the extraordinary for a year are simply unable to compete with it.
Seeing that mankind has reached the edge of life and death, the fog suddenly begins to recede in one direction like a tide.
That was Yuncheng where Xu Zhi was located.
According to observations, for unknown reasons, most of the fog will flow into Cloud City within two days, and Cloud City will become a high-concentration fog gathering area. In such an environment, even if there are no alien monsters, it will definitely not be suitable for human survival.
What's more, alien species are born in the fog and will grow in the fog. If nothing happens, Cloud City will become a monster's lair!
So the Federation issued an emergency evacuation notice. Within 15 hours, everyone must evacuate Cloud City as soon as possible and then seal the city. From then on, Cloud City became a restricted area for humans.
With only 15 hours, it was impossible to evacuate all the people in the city. It is estimated that many "burdens" like her were abandoned in this city.
But Xu Zhi is not willing to give up. She is not willing to abandon her here and die in obscurity. She is not willing to let her family live an easier life without any worries after abandoning her.
How could he give birth to her and then treat her without treatment because of her poor health, leaving her to die, and then throw her away immediately now that he had the chance?
Xu Zhi felt that she might have some psychological problems because she had been sick all year round and was rejected by her family, but she didn't care. She even felt that this was not enough. She didn't want to die like this. She wanted everyone who abandoned her to pay the price.
Xu Zhi's beautiful yet weak eyes stared straight at the black fog outside the window. There was paranoia and gloominess in her eyes that were not for her age. Her hands on the wheelchair were slightly clenched. Due to malnutrition and ischemia, her fingers were too slender. It was pale, and the joints and cyan blood vessels were clearly visible, even a little scary.
He is a child who is obviously unhealthy at a glance.
Just when Xu Zhi's reluctance reached a certain level, the black fog outside suddenly surged undetectably for a moment, and then, there was a sudden sound in the empty living room, the sound of something falling to the ground.
The girl who was immersed in her thoughts was startled by the sudden sound, her pupils shrank slightly, and then she realized that something had probably fallen to the ground. She loosened her clenched fists and put her hand on the remote control of the wheelchair to control the wheelchair. Turn around.
When she lowered her head and saw what fell to the ground, a look of surprise appeared on the girl's cold face.
It was a black and white game console.
"When did she have a handheld device at home?"
No, no, she didn't have a handheld device at home. Xu Zhi was sure of this.
She has been alone at home for almost a week. During this week, she has spent most of the day in the living room doing nothing, and has never seen any game console in the living room.
It's something that suddenly appears out of nowhere.
After realizing this, the girl pursed her lips, feeling a little confused and scared, but also mixed with curiosity and eagerness to try.
She knows that Cloud City has become very dangerous now, and maybe this game console that suddenly appeared is also one of the dangers, but anyway,
she is already dying. If nothing else, she will not survive this month, so why is she still alive? Why should we be so cautious?
Thinking of this, Xu Zhi's expression became calm. She controlled the wheelchair to the game console, then bent down to pick up this seemingly valuable handheld console.
After getting it, Xu Zhi was a little confused. How to use this?
She has never played any game consoles. Her only entertainment method is the TV at home, which can only be turned on within the specified time. Other than that, it is textbooks. She cannot go to school like normal people and can only watch her brother's unwanted movies at home. She wants to learn some knowledge by herself, but her parents will not take the initiative to teach her knowledge or hire a tutor for her.
If the disease hadn't occurred in the fifth grade of elementary school and she had already learned some knowledge, Xu Zhi would have even felt that her parents would have made her illiterate.
She would also take out the exercise books that her brother didn't use and do them, but her results were not ideal. She could only hover around thirty or forty, with a full score of one hundred and fifty.
But even so, for Xu Zhi, learning is a very interesting thing.
A girl with such a poor life naturally doesn't know how to use a handheld device.
Fortunately, before she could press any button, the screen of the handheld device suddenly lit up on its own.
A pixel progress bar appeared in the center, and in about five seconds, the progress was loaded.
The pixel game screen shows a gloomy sky. In the sky, the black sun is dripping black liquid into the world like a source of pollution. This scene forms the initial background of the game. Then, a line of subtitles appears in the center of the screen.
[At the beginning of the original period, everything was born from the sun, and everything was annihilated in the darkness. ]
[All things rotate, and the old order and ancient gods are buried by time. Now, a new order has been born. Do you desire to become a god of the new order?
Do you have the courage to commit your life to this no-holds-barred dispute?
If you are ready, then please choose your dependent family. 】 Xu Zhi naturally couldn't be scared off by these few lines of words. For some reason, it was just a pixel background image and a few lines of words, but it gave her a strong sense of "reality", as if if she clicked OK, it would I will really embark on this journey.
"It's quite interesting."
Xu Zhi murmured, then decisively clicked OK and entered the family selection interface.
[Since you have not unlocked any level of Familia, your initial choice is only random low-level creatures with weak vitality] [
Currently available choices:]
[1. Frog (Lv0)]
[2. Snake (Lv1)]
[3. Sparrow (Lv0)]
Xu Zhi was silent for a moment, that’s it?
However, she looked at the un-unlocked prompt and guessed that after she raised her level, higher-level options would appear?
There is no need to worry about what to choose now, the snake is Level 1 after all.
After selecting, the small pixel black snake slightly enlarged, and a row of attribute lists belonging to it also appeared in the center of the screen.
[Spirit: 1
Physical: 3
Attributes: None
Traits: None]
"Looks a bit weak."
The girl's voice fell, the screen faded, and then the game screen was officially loaded.
When it lights up again, there is already a small pixel snake in the center of the screen, and the game screen is also made of pixels, but the viewing angle is very strange, it seems to be a picture in the form of a heat source formed from the snake's perspective, and the viewing angle is very low and the distance is quite short, resulting in Xu Zhi couldn't see his surroundings clearly.
In the lower left corner of the screen, there is a line of prompts.
[Please avoid danger, find food and evolve to survive in this dangerous land. ]
[Current evolution points: 0/10]
Then, a row of black options appeared in the center of the screen.
[This is a green belt in the park. There seems to be no danger nearby. ]
[Please choose the direction of travel: front, back, left, right]
Since there was no danger, Xu Zhi chose to move forward casually.
In the screen, a small black snake was twisting and sliding forward. Not long after, the first living creature appeared on the game screen.
Due to the perspective of the heat source, Xu Zhi could only see the general shape of the living creature. It was not difficult to guess from the shape that it was a frog.
【You found a frog, do you want to hunt? 】
There was nothing to hesitate about, Xu Zhi decisively chose yes.
So in the game screen, the little black snake quietly crawled behind it, then decisively attacked, swallowing the small frog in one bite.
[Hunting successful. 】
【Current evolution points: 1/10】
The black snake in the picture spit out the spit, and seemed not satisfied with this small prey.
[Please choose a direction to move forward. 】
Next, Xu Zhi controlled the snake and wandered around in this safe green belt for a while, and only encountered five prey. After gaining a total of 6 evolution points, a line of prompts appeared in the center of the screen.
[The energy of the Familia has been exhausted and hunting is no longer allowed for the time being. Please rest for two hours before starting any activities. 】
The girl frowned slightly when she saw the prompt. She was in the middle of playing, and suddenly the progress of the game was stuck due to physical reasons. Who can bear this?
"Forget it, it's only two hours. Let's have a meal first and then continue." It
was quite troublesome for her to cook some food for herself, and it would take a lot of time.
After putting down the game console, Xu Zhi looked at her watch, and then a look of confusion appeared on her face. Unknowingly, she had been playing for almost two hours, and she was concentrating on it.
But her energy is not enough to support her playing games for such a long time. She usually has to read a book for half an hour and then take a break.
"Are you too obsessed?"
Moreover, even though it was already past dinner time, she didn't feel hungry.
Because of her health, once she didn't eat or take medicine on time, the feeling of weakness that seemed to emanate from the bones in her body was enough to make her restless and unable to concentrate.
But until now, she hasn't felt any discomfort.
Xu Zhi was keenly aware that something was wrong.
(End of chapter)