High priest

Many years later, the first generation of awakened people on the earth still clearly remember the scene of that day.

The sun was setting and the sky was full of blood clouds.The high priest held the scepter and looked at the mountains in the distance, and let the afterglow dye him golden red.With the wind blowing and his hair lingering, he looked back at the camera, marking the end of the last lesson of human awakening.

He told them that this is a world abandoned by the gods.

At the beginning, no one heard his implication, and only felt that the words of the high priest were alluding to real disasters, such as the invasion of monsters and demons.It wasn't until the threat value of "Doomsday" increased exponentially that they realized that this sentence had more than one meaning.

On the day when the light returns, all the mysteries will be solved.

It is true that the world abandoned by gods is a cage, a battlefield, and a place where souls are exiled.But at the same time, it is an opportunity, a trial, and more importantly—the origin of God-making!

Just because there is no god in the world, it is possible to create a god, isn't it?

It's just a pity that there are very few awakened people who can understand this and seize the opportunity.When the fog cleared and the truth came to light, they realized that what the high priest had said was echoed in the history of mankind.

Eternal, long.

The old video recorded the dusk when day and night were separated, his facial features, his smile, his voice and his kindness, were forever recorded and became the belief and goal of the awakened generation after generation.

The image is like yesterday, and it will eventually become a stunning view.Even though the journey of the high priest is a sea of ​​stars, they are so lucky to be the first place he stayed for.

At that time, it was only ordinary, but unexpectedly, it was the supreme light of the whole era.

Welcome to this world that was once abandoned by God...

Because it is No Man's Land, it is yours now.

……

At the beginning of April, the four places in Central Continent resonated again, and the degree of cracking further expanded.A new monster appeared at the boundary gate of Lingdong, and it ravaged Lingdong for about 10 minutes before being strangled by the Awakened Jiang Ziying and Shen Yunting, who were formally recruited by the military.

In early April, at the beginning of Ji Si's class, a vortex similar to "Boundary Gate" appeared in famous mountains, swamps or wastelands in the global regions.

Among them, the holy mountain of Sakura Kingdom was in turmoil, and a humanoid ghost crawled out, resembling the legendary centipede ghost woman.If it weren't for the continuous inheritance of the local mages and the descendants who dared to fight, the consequences would be unimaginable.

In mid-April, when Ji Si's lecture was coming to an end, a one-horned earth dragon emerged from the Gangdise River in Yoga Country.

Fortunately, three "saints" awakened in the temple. They not only killed the monster together, but also destroyed the temple with their own hands.Afterwards, they took off their nose rings and ankle rings, set themselves free, and declared war on the centuries-old traditional dregs of the yoga country.

In late April, Ji Si and his party were preparing to return home, and the turmoil and deployment in Central Continent had all been settled.

"It's time to go back." Ji Si said, "Choose a place you like, and I won't interfere with your choice."

April 4, new moon.The High Priest and the Awakened returned to Central Continent. When they landed at the airport, they heard the expected news on their heels: the expansion of the Realm Gate and the Devil's Nest was completed, and the second round of monsters was about to attack.

Compared with the panic of the notifier, the awakened ones are calmer than one.They formed a team to assign tasks by themselves, and rushed to the destination without any modification.

Ji stayed calmly in the capital, and before the "boy" Wang Yiyuan, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, could speak, he smiled and said, "Let's go, take me to see the first batch of awakened children."

Wang Yiyuan was stunned, and he couldn't stop talking: "The number is not many, only 15 people, and you have contacted three of them."

"Ok?"

"One is Shu Yuting, the other is... that kid is very good at drawing, but his personality is a bit autistic, and the other is a boy you met on a bus." Wang Yiyuan glanced at him carefully, "Sorry, I went to check your whereabouts without your permission, but..."

"It doesn't matter." Ji Si chuckled, "Tell me directly, who is the most dangerous among these children?"

"It's the boy who studied painting." Wang Yiyuan lowered his voice, "His nickname is 'Dongdong', his ability... is terrible, except for the little girl Shu Yuting, no one would dare to play with him."

"He, he killed a demon alone." Wang Yiyuan's expression was a bit indescribable, "This child saved the people in that whole building, but he was frightened by them. His parents brought the child to Kyoto in a fit of anger, and since then The Yanjing brigade has settled down."

Ji Si nodded slightly.

"You... don't you feel angry?" Wang Yiyuan asked, "The child saved someone, but he was frightened."

"The only way for the strong to pass, what's there to be angry about?" Ji Si lowered his eyes, "The stronger you are, the more lonely you are. The stunning view at the top can only accommodate one person."

This is the realization he had early in the morning, and it is also the truth that his friends all understand.

……

April 4, at 23:5 am.

In the big explosion area in the open sea, the salvage fleet of the five-nation alliance took half a month, and finally succeeded in hooking up a section of the alloy layer of the base covered with barnacles.The crew members from various countries cheered happily, and the fatigue of day and night was swept away.They retracted the cable and slowly lifted the alloy layer, and the waterline of the ship couldn't help but drop a lot.

"Keep this distance!" The old captain shouted, "Just drag it back like this, don't pull it up again! It is very heavy, and the ship will capsize!"

The combined fleet stopped immediately.

"Return!"

The ships broke through the wind and waves, and the big ships set sail one after another.They slowed down and dragged the alloy layer, gradually leaving the range of the open sea.Xu Shi's hard work in the past few days has finally paid off, and everyone's nerves have relaxed a lot.

While relaxing, they didn't realize that there was a huge black shadow winding under the water, circling the fleet.The radar is normal, the sonar is normal, and all the data on the clothes are normal, but the black shadow is actually wandering around, and even opened its mouth to tentatively bite the alloy layer.

"Ga—" the alloy layer sank, and the cable wailed as it was about to break.

The strange sound immediately aroused the vigilance of the sailors, and they instinctively raised their guns to aim at the source of the sound, but all they could see was the undulating alloy layer except for the cables.The sea wind is extremely strong, the waves are rough, and the bright light of the day conceals the anomalies at the bottom of the water.

The taste of the alloy layer was not good, so Sombra let go of his mouth.

"Is it my illusion? I feel like the thing I'm dragging... seems to have flicked just now?"

"An illusion?" But the person who answered was vigilant enough, "No, no matter whether it is an illusion or not, I will inform everyone first that we haven't left the open sea completely, just in case..."

Before they finished speaking, they heard a muffled "boom" from the bottom of the boat!It sounded like hitting a rock, but it caused a large ship to tilt at fifty degrees, forcing seven or eight crew members to fall into the water unexpectedly.

Under the water, there was a huge black shadow coming up, before the body arrived, the waves surged first.

When the surface of the sea curves, when the silhouette becomes clearer, when the onlookers react and understand that this is an enemy attack, a bloody maw with intertwined fangs suddenly bursts out of the sea, ready to catch the bait!

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Suddenly, a light golden chain shot out, nimble as a live snake, and shuttled between the waist and abdomen of the person who fell into the water extremely quickly, and a second before the monster's upper and lower jaws closed, it violently lifted a group of people into the air.

The eyes of the onlookers instinctively followed the person who was thrown into the air, and saw a man in a black windbreaker descending from the sky, shoulder to shoulder with the rescued, and immediately shook his hands to gather the chains, turning into a spear and fiercely Plunge down.

At this moment, the monster's fangs twisted together, forming a natural barrier.The defense is so solid that even ammunition can't break it.

But the golden spear was not a good stubble, it clanged forcefully into the monster's teeth, and stabbed into its throat unabated.Accompanied by a shrill scream, black blood spurted out.

The man was particularly lacking. When he lightly landed on the edge of the boat and stood there, he looked indifferently at the black figure churning under the water, raised his hand and clenched it—fingers spread out in an instant.

"Hey!" The spear that penetrated the monster's body turned into countless bullets, which tore the monster's flesh and directly smashed it into a sieve.

The sea water was dyed black, and the lifted crew members fell into a pair of big blue palms without falling to the ground.

It happened too quickly, was performed too flashily, and ended too quickly.The onlookers only had time to open their eyes and open their mouths, and uttered a national curse, and saw the pair of big blue hands put the crew back on the deck, and dropped another man out of thin air.

"Pass?"

"Come on." Shino City suddenly turned his head and said to the United Fleet, "Leave here quickly, don't dawdle."

"Hey, yes!" Everyone froze.

Immediately afterwards, they saw the two men jump up lightly, like two falcons with spread wings, flying 80 [-] meters away from the water surface with just a touch of their toes.After a few ups and downs, they quickly disappeared from sight.

"This, this..." Someone held the side of the boat tightly, "Awakened!"

"It's the Awakened!"

The belated shouts and boiling cheers are intertwined, which is the joy of rebirth after the catastrophe and the excitement of meeting legends.After a long while, a crew member from Central Continent said loudly: "I, I remember! They are single-digit awakeners, and they are one of the batch of geniuses who awakened before the high priest started the class!"

"I answered the questions for us after class before, do you remember?" He clenched his fists excitedly, his eyes sparkling, "It's Sinocheng and Qi Xinli, it's the two of them!"

The conversation on the boat suddenly stopped.

"I remember those two too." The other replied, "Others show their faces, but these two don't. One shows a slide show without saying a word; the other recites Amitabha and asks someone to recommend hair tonic. The Awakened who just said 'Hi everyone, I'm trash, no, I'm not trash' is even more weird!"

Crowd: ...

Speaking of which, the personalities of those single-digit Awakened are really hard to describe.

For example, the Awakened person surnamed Jiang, the second he got the Awakened person's number plate, tears fell down: "I applied so early, why is it not 1, but 2? When I think about it, I will be called 'second child' in person." ’, should I be okay or shouldn’t I be okay?”

Another example is the awakened person surnamed Yu: "Stop howling, I shouldn't listen to you and apply first, but I got a 3. It's better to be called the second child than to be called 'little 3'!"

"Stop making trouble, it's all ugly." Lackey held up his number plate, "Number 4. Please don't call me '4 Dad' in the future, the homonym is not good, I can call me 'Terrorist 4'."

After the memories were over, the expressions of the crew members were a little stiff.However, judging by the speed at which the two Awakened ones dealt with monsters neatly, they should be very reliable... right?

While speeding across the sea, Qi Xinli complained: "The numbers given by the country are poisonous, and I'm actually 8. It's so embarrassing!"

Si Nuocheng replied: "What's wrong with the number that means sending out?"

"Tsk, look at this 8, whether it is placed forward or backward, both ends are bald, without a single hair, does it look like two bald heads chanting scriptures together?" Qi Xinli was convinced, " Wouldn't it be good to give me a 5? At least the back of the 5's head still has hair."

Sino City: ...

He found that since Qi Xinli had half of his hair cut by Ji Si, he looked "bald" in everything, as if the world in his eyes was barren.

To some extent, Qi Xinli is really a poor person...

"By the way, what's your number?"

"11."

Qi Xinli was stunned: "Shouldn't our batch be in single digits? How did you become 11?"

"Because Ji Si's number is 1." Si Nuocheng said, "I can't lose to him in every aspect, right? So I have to have one more 1 than him. This is the number I obtained by writing a special application."

"At least in terms of numbers, I'm better than him!"

Qi Xinli: ... I think you can't be more than 3 years old this year!