honor me as god

Chapter 977 Grand Finale: Journey of the Youth

The sunset at dusk is always so lazy, with a touch of blood in the orange light, illuminating half of the sky, competing with the dark night rising from the east.

At this time, Xicheng High School is like the setting sun, lazy and lethargic. The campus before the winter vacation is always like this. The high school students are absent-minded, forgetting the books and homework in front of them. They are all thinking about where to go this holiday.

The last class of Class 14 ([-]) in high school was a class meeting. The teacher knew that the children were not in the mood to study, so he simply turned on the TV news for everyone to watch. It was a small prelude before the winter vacation.

"Evening news, let's focus on a few newsletters today."

"Comrade Leng Luan, the newly promoted general, inspected the Xicheng Military Region today, met with leading cadres above the division level of the military region, and extended his greetings to the group army. Fulfill the sacred mission of protecting the people."

"This year's Nobel Prize awarding ceremony ended perfectly. The church's chief honorary knight Joan Leeson became the new Nobel Peace Prize winner. He called on people from all countries to join hands to protect endangered animals. The earth does not only belong to human beings, but the common home of all living things .”

"According to the Federal Media Agency, a human-shaped UFO appeared over the west coast of the Atlantic Ocean, which is suspected to be some kind of high-tech advanced weapon. Federal military spokesman and five-star general Aglonso told the media that the news about the human-shaped UFO is not true. To be precise, the military does not have any plans to develop humanoid weapons."

"According to the latest wealth statistics, Mr. Chen, the richest man in the world, continues to top the wealth list this year. He recently humorously responded to the rumors about building a doomsday spaceship, saying that 'today's Internet users have witty imaginations', and joked that he is willing to work with Roland. Emmerich and director to create a film that goes beyond 2012."

"Capital Science and Technology Times summarizes that Chinese scientists have achieved major research results in the field of AI. The first generation of implantable smart chips was officially named "Future". Life becomes possible. "

The hosts on TV are constantly broadcasting news in various fields, but compared with the attractive winter vacation, the news is too far away.

The students in class two (14) were all absent-minded. Some were packing their schoolbags, and those who had finished packing were staring out the window in a daze, counting the countdown to the end of get out of class in their hearts.

"Ding dong dong dong—"

Finally, the crisp bell for the end of get out of class rang, and joyful cheers rang out on the campus.

The liberated students ran out of the classroom cheering and celebrating the upcoming winter vacation.

The head teacher of class two (14) came in with a small box and said: "Students who left their mobile phones with the teacher at the beginning of the semester can come and pick up their mobile phones."

Several students bounced over and took back their mobile phones. The head teacher talked and laughed with them, and told them not to patronize and play during the winter vacation, but to remember to study every day. In the end, the response they received was a few lazy words, "Got it." ".

Among the classmates who received the mobile phone was a thin boy, his appearance was unusually handsome, his skin was very fair, his eyes were jewel-like rose red, and he was as delicate as a doll.If it wasn't for the short hair, people might believe that he is a girl.

A boy with a schoolbag on his back walked up to the boy and patted him on the back: "Luo You, come to my house at night to drive black, five blacks are short of one."

The handsome young man named "Luoyou" waved his hand, smiled apologetically and said, "I'm not going, my sister is also on winter vacation, and I'm going to visit Xicheng today."

The boy poked Luo You's waist: "Oh, I'm a dead girl, I forget my friends when I see my sister! All right, all right, I'll call someone else."

Luo You smiled and rubbed her waist, then impatiently picked up the phone, walked out of the classroom, and dialed the number marked "Wei" in the address book.

"Beep, beep." Soon, the call was connected.

Luo You couldn't hold back her smile, and hurriedly asked with a smile, "Xiao Wei, I'm out of school, where have you been?"

A girl's sweet voice came from the other end of the phone: "Brother, you're still on the road and haven't gotten off the highway yet."

Luo You snorted: "Didn't you and Dad set off at noon? Why are you still on the highway?"

"Don't mention it, it's almost New Year's Eve, the highway is full of cars." The girl said, sighing faintly, her voice lowered, hey, why did my parents want it back then? If they were still together, we could spend every day met"

Luo You pursed her lips, and her expression became a little lonely.

He is a child of a single-parent family. His parents divorced early, he followed his mother, and his younger sister Luo Wei followed his father.

He and Luo Wei live in different cities, and they can only get together during winter and summer vacations, so they cherish every meeting and always feel sorry for the distance between the two places.

As the older brother, Luo You took the lead in adjusting her emotions, and said comfortingly, "Okay, mom and dad have their own choices, anyway, I will graduate from high school in two years, and then I will go to your city to study at university, and I will come to accompany you every day after school. You play, okay?"

The haze in Luo Wei's voice was swept away, and she smiled sweetly: "Okay~"

Luo You warned: "Then I'll go back and help mom cook and wait for you, let dad drive slowly, and be careful on the road."

"Uh-huh."

Luo You walked out of the teaching building, the campus after class was filled with laughter, and the air was filled with the scent of leaves and grass.

High school students gathered in groups of three or four, some were sweating on the basketball court, some were walking with their crush on the playground, and some couldn't wait to run out of the campus and throw themselves into the arms of their parents who were waiting outside.

When Luo You passed by a bench, she happened to hear a few students from the same school sitting there, crossing their shoulders and talking about interesting things.

"Have you checked the forums recently? There are news of mysterious buildings on the Internet again."

"Mysterious building. You mean 'cube'?Isn't that thing fake? Officials have refuted the rumors. "

"But recently, it seems that someone risked his life to sneak into the blockade area. It is true that there is a cube, and all the photos have been sent out."

"It's fake, it's absolutely fake, I've seen that picture, it's so blurry, the mosaic is covered in pulp, it must be P's."

"Hey, it will be great when this world will be turned upside down. Reading is really boring. I want to be like the protagonist in an online article, fighting monsters and upgrading every day."

"Then you have to be the protagonist first! For rookies like us, throwing it into the net is like cannon fodder that doesn't even deserve a name."

"You must be cannon fodder, Dad, I am definitely the protagonist, hahahaha!"

"Fuck you!"

Luo You looked at the rowdy classmates, they were discussing a very popular topic in recent years.

All in all, there are rumors that a mysterious cube-shaped building appeared in some parts of the world. I don’t know if it was made by aliens or some underground civilization. It is also said that there are monsters nearby, and people who approach it can awaken abilities and so on.

This matter was quickly denied by the local officials, saying it was a rumor. The official Weibo also posted a blog post full of ridicule, creating a meme of "XXX, the teacher called you to go back to school to calculate the area of ​​the cube".

However, this is also the fault here.

The rumors passed away in a gust of wind, but the places where the cubes appeared in the rumors really became a blockade area, and travelers who heard the news were not allowed to approach. It was a geological disaster or a military exercise.

This is a bit of an "official certification", and it is hard not to associate it.

Of course, apart from a few online pictures that have been circulated badly, there is no real hammer, so it only stays at the level of conspiracy theory.

Luo You shook her head, put the cube behind her, and walked out of the campus humming a brisk song.

He went to the mall to buy some snacks that Luo Wei liked to eat, and when he was waiting for the traffic lights on the sidewalk on the way home, he saw a little girl with a dog on her leash.

The little girl was born in pink and jade, with a cute ball head. She is pinching the dog's face into various shapes with her hands, giggling, and the dog is also wagging its tail happily.

This scene reminded Luo You of her childhood.

When he was a child, his parents had not yet divorced, and he still lived with Luo Wei and went to the same elementary school.

Every day after school is so happy, he and Luo Wei will take the change to the canteen to buy their favorite snacks, play marbles on the playground, or find a quiet place to sit and watch the sunset together.

They also had a puppy before, and they picked it up from the side of the road. Together with Luo Wei, he took the puppy home to bathe, gave it something to eat, named it, and imagined how it would grow up in the future.

But unfortunately, the puppy had already got canine distemper when it was picked up, and died not long after, which made the two siblings cry for several days.

The past is vivid in his mind, and the beautiful and innocent childhood scenes floated in Luoyou's mind. In his eyes, the little girl seemed to have become Luo Wei himself. Watching her smile happily, he was immersed in the memories of the past unconsciously. inside.

Just then, an accident happened.

A stray cat came out of the corner and crossed the road. The little girl's dog instinctively chased after seeing it.

The little girl was holding the dog leash in her hand, but she was caught off guard and failed to hold the dog, and was dragged into the middle of the road.

At this time, the signal light did not change color, and a large truck was coming. The driver was so frightened that he slammed on the brakes, but the large truck had too much inertia and could not stop at all.

Seeing the ferocious truck rolling over, the little girl froze completely in fright, and stood there blankly, unable to make any reaction, and would be crushed into a pulp in a moment.

Luo You didn't think about anything at the time, really didn't think about anything.

His mind was blank, and before he could make a rational judgment, his body moved first, rushing to the little girl and pushing her away.

What am I doing? The moment I pushed the little girl out, this thought came to Luo You's mind.

The little girl fell forward and was pushed out of the rolling range of the big truck, and Luo You took the little girl's original position.

"Boom!—"

First there was heavy pressure, and then there was a severe sense of weightlessness. Luo You felt that his whole body was flying, and the huge impact force rushed through his whole body, and he could even hear the sound of his own bones breaking.

Immediately afterwards, he fell heavily to the ground, his sight became scarlet, the sky soaked by the setting sun distorted, and the crying of the little girl, the barking of the puppy, and the terrified scream of the driver lingered in his ears, all of which finally became indistinct clear.

am i dying
When he was about to die, what Luo You thought of was not the deep pain, nor the regret of the young man's early death, what he thought of was his family.

I'm dead, what should my family do?
Mom is usually alone.
will daddy be devastated
Mom and Dad still have one child left, what should Xiao Wei do?
Xiaowei won't have a brother in the future, she will cry miserably
I don't want her to cry.
I still want to protect her when I grow up
I don't want to die.
i don't want to die
The sudden drop in blood pressure caused Luoyou's consciousness to begin to slacken, and her heartbeat became slower and slower, on the verge of collapse.

He tried his best to stay awake, but his surroundings kept turning black, as if he had been thrown into the boundless black ocean, dragged by the vortex to the depths of the seabed.

i don't want to die
i don't want to die
i don't want to die
With a strong desire to survive, he struggled in the black ocean, desperately trying to stick his mouth and nose out of the water, but was constantly submerged and sunk by the incoming waves.

He was undulating in this black ocean, and above the surface of the sea was the deep and dead space of the universe. The stars that had been shining for hundreds of millions of years stretched out into a vast sea of ​​stars. He in the water was like a speck of dust on this scale.

When sinking, he suddenly saw something through the water.
He wasn't sure if it was a real sight or a horrible nightmare
He saw that the deep stream of light in the deep sky diffused and converged, forming an eye.
A giant eye hidden behind the stars
That giant eye is so huge that it occupies the entire sky, overlooking everything like a god.

Suddenly, it turned its direction and saw him struggling in the black sea of ​​death.
Under the gaze of the giant eyes, Luo You felt that there was some kind of abnormality in the deepest part of her body. It was deeper than flesh and blood, deeper than bones, and even deeper than bone marrow organs. It reached the center of every cell, deep into the The bottom of the genetic chain.

In that place that human science cannot explore, something is waking up.
Luo You opened her eyes suddenly, and saw the endless night sky.

Am I dead?
No I didn't die.
Was it just a dream?

No, no, my body hurts, this is not a dream
In the end what happened.
Luo You sat up with difficulty, suddenly, he felt something was wrong. Why could he sit up? !

He collided with a big truck just now and was crushed firmly. It stands to reason that his body should have been smashed to pieces.

He looked down at his body, his whole body froze there, and the scene in front of him completely defeated his reason.

His body had indeed been smashed to pieces, and broken bones could be seen all over his body protruding from the flesh, bloody and exposed to the air.

However, at this time, these flesh and blood were undergoing some kind of mutation. They split into fine scarlet blood threads one after another, entwined and entangled in the air, and re-formed into intact tissues and squeezed back to their original positions.

The broken bones are also growing rapidly, and the broken bones are squeezed away by the new bones, and the bone cracks proliferate with perfectly fitting bone, joining each other and recovering.

The same goes for the blood splashed by the huge impact
The blood stained on Luo You's body, spilled on the ground, and stuck to the wheels of the truck seemed to have life. They didn't solidify or dry up, but kept pouring towards Luo You.

The blood dripped densely on Luo You's body, and was squeezed back into the body from the wound. Finally, as the epidermis healed quickly, his whole body returned to its original state, as if the injury just now had never occurred.

confused
shudder
fear
Looking at her super-regenerated body, Luo You didn't feel the slightest joy, only despair and confusion, as if everything she was familiar with suddenly disappeared, leaving only the unknown.

"How is this going"

He looked around in a daze. After hitting him, the truck hit a utility pole on the side of the road. The front of the truck twisted around the collision location, and was squeezed into pieces of twisted metal.

It was dark now, and it should have been a long time since the incident happened. The little girl and the driver didn't know where they went, and why no ambulance came to the scene.

This neighborhood used to be the busiest business district in Xicheng. The streets are always full of feasting lights, but now there is not even a single person there. There are scattered luggage, broken cars, and shoes that fell from someone's feet everywhere. Messy.

In the end what happened.
Luo You groped around aimlessly, and suddenly touched a fragment of a reflector that fell from a truck.

After hesitating for a moment, he picked up the fragment and pressed it tremblingly into his palm, wanting to confirm what happened just now.

The fear of pain made it difficult for him to start, and he tried to exert force several times but gave up.

Finally, in order to verify the reality, he gritted his teeth and rowed down cruelly.

With excruciating pain, his palm was cut by fragments.

don't show up again
don't show up again
don't show up again
Luo You prayed desperately in her heart, praying that everything before was an illusion.

However, reality gave him the cruelest response.

The fragment cut open the palm, blood spilled out, but in a very short time, the blood returned to the body in reverse, the wound closed instantly, and it recovered as before.

"Ding Dang." The fragment slipped from Luo You's hand and fell to the ground.

His eyes were completely broken.

"What have I become?"

At this moment, he thought of the scene when he was dying
He thought of the black ocean that symbolized death.
I also thought of the dead and violent deep space of the universe, the shining stars, and the eye overlooking him behind the stars
From this moment on, his logic to known things completely collapsed, and the world was no longer what it was in his eyes.

He no longer had the courage to look directly at the starry sky.

Luo You sat on the ground with his head in his arms, trembling with every breath. He tried his best to divert his attention, telling himself to focus on other things.

Focus on other things.
"Xiaowei." Suddenly, Luo You thought of his family, he kept groping around, and found that the phone was missing.

But soon, he found the mobile phone not far away. It was thrown out of his pocket when the car accident happened, and it was not crushed.

Luo You pressed the side button, the screen lit up, the phone was not broken, but the message on the screen made him completely flustered.

It is 4:13 in the morning, and there are more than 100 missed calls on the phone, including those from parents and Luo Wei. The latest call is from Luo Wei, an hour ago!
She hasn't called for an entire hour!

Luo You tried to call back, but only heard a cold notification that he couldn't get through. He looked at the screen and found that the signal had no bars.

He looked around and soon saw the tall buildings of the nearby shopping mall.

Maybe there's a signal up there
Luoyou rushed into the shopping mall, the place was in a mess, the shopping carts collided together, the shelves were almost emptied, and useless packaging bags were scattered on the ground, it seemed that there was looting not long ago.

what happened
what happened.
Luo was so worried that he took his mobile phone to the elevator entrance, and the elevator was still working, so he took the elevator directly to the top floor.

It was dawn at this time, the sky was no longer black, but a depressing dark blue, the wind on the roof was raging and noisy, carrying the unique coldness of winter, it cut the face like a knife when it blew past.

On the ground, the cityscape was blocked by tall buildings, and Luo You couldn't see anything.

At this time, when he came to the top floor, the tall buildings stretched in front of him, Xicheng had a panoramic view, and he finally saw the truth of everything
Luo You is a native of Xicheng, born here, raised here, lived here for 17 years, and knows the streets and alleys of this city like the back of his hand.

But is the place I see now really the Xicheng that I am familiar with?
The streets of the city are full of black gunpowder smoke, and there are collapsed and burning buildings everywhere. Vehicles collide with each other on the congested streets, sounding sharp sirens, and people run like ants in a panic.

There are still tanks and chariots on the street. The engines of the armored forces roared like roars. They savagely smashed through the obstacles on the road. You can also see the flames of guns and main guns firing.

In the area where the gunpowder smoke is the thickest, the buildings have long been turned into ruins, and there are shocking corpses everywhere. Those are not humans or animals, but some alien species that have never been seen in nature.

There are bright green strange insects all over the body, monsters covered with biological bones, and even a giant beast with a body length of [-] meters and taller than a building.

"Boom—" There was a deafening sound wave from the dome.

Luo You raised her head and saw the fighter squadron tearing apart the sky, leaving long trails in the sky, crossing the smoky battlefield and attacking into the distance.

Looking in the direction of the fighter plane, Luo You saw the rumored thing
An unimaginably large cube
Just like the rumors, it was a regular cube-shaped giant. Even if it was at the end of the horizon, it still towered into the sky, and its height completely surpassed the current human technology.

The surface of the cube is densely covered with traces of non-stop flowing light, and the energy force field is surging like a stormy sea, and the surrounding space is constantly distorted, and those fierce beasts just rush out of the void one by one, endlessly.

Luoyou stood there in a daze, staring blankly at this city that was peaceful and normal yesterday, but suddenly turned upside down today.

He raised his mobile phone, and there was a signal at the high place, and he dialed Luo Wei's number with trembling hands.

"Beep, beep, beep."

The phone was connected, and Luo Wei's cry came from the receiver: "Brother! Is that you? Talk!"

Hearing Luo Wei's voice, Luo You sat down on the ground as if relieved, and quickly responded: "It's me! It's me!"

Luo Wei cried and said, "You have been unable to get through the phone, I thought you were dead."

Luoyou comforted: "I'm fine, I just didn't have a signal before Xiaowei, are you with mom and dad? Where are you now?"

Luo Wei's voice trembled and was almost hoarse in crying: "Brother, Mom and Dad are dead."

"Boom!." The violent heartbeat caused Luo You to be in a trance for a while, and his consciousness almost fainted.

Luo Wei's sobs came from the phone: "Last night, a monster rushed into our house. In order to protect me, Dad took a knife to fight the monster, but... woo... Mom pushed me away and told me to run. She led the monster to Upstairs, and then I heard . woo. woo.”

Listening to Luo Wei's cries, Luo You's heart was heavy as if a huge stone was pressing on his chest, and it became difficult to breathe. He prayed that this was a nightmare, but the reality came on mercilessly.

Tears rolled in his eyes, he was trembling all over, unable to say anything, memories of being with his parents and those happy reunion times in childhood appeared in his mind.

He couldn't accept that his parents died just like that, and he couldn't even imagine what life would be like without them. The great grief almost overwhelmed his heart.

"Woo, bro. What should I do?"

Luo Wei's sobs kept echoing in his ears, beating Luo You's consciousness again and again. He struggled to raise his hand and beat his head hard, forcing himself to wake up.

he can't despair
Mom and Dad are gone, but Luo Wei is still alive
This is my only relative
If he is desperate, Luo Wei will definitely be even more desperate.
Luo You tensed her body tightly, not letting herself cry, and said in as calm a tone as possible: "Xiao Wei, don't cry, tell me where you are first?"

Desperation followed, maybe the nearby signal tower was destroyed, and the signal from the high place also began to disappear, and Luo Wei's voice on the phone became indistinct, full of malfunctioning rustling.

Luo Wei cried intermittently: "Soldiers. A lot of soldiers took me to the car. We were driving towards the direction where the sun was rising and we passed your school just now."

Luo You looked towards the east, relying on his familiarity with Xicheng, he roughly locked on the area Luo Wei mentioned.

As far as the eye can see, there are armor like clouds and flags everywhere.

The army established a blockade line in the eastern urban area. The armored troops gathered in groups and stretched together with the soldiers array to form an endless line of defense. The red blood flag fluttered in the wind above the position, like a group of burning fires in the morning sun.

The signal failure sound in the earpiece was very obvious, Luo You held the phone tightly, and said without hesitation: "Xiao Wei, listen to me!"

"I'll come to you!"

"It doesn't matter where you've been, or how long it's been."

"I am sure, I will come to you!"

The sound of failure drowned out everything, Luo You didn't even know if Luo Wei heard his words.

Not important anymore.

Because these words are not only for Luo Wei, but also his promise to himself.

Luoyou's eyes reflected the distant army blockade, all the confusion receded, leaving only unshakable determination.

The 17-year-old boy faced the rising sun and went to his own battlefield.

(End of the book)

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