The war.
The war ended one era and began another.
It didn't know when the night was no longer completely dark.
Under the sky, two deep, dark red fluorescent lights lit up, slowly drifting in the air.
The place covered by the faint fluorescent lights was full of thick, dark green sewage that always exuded a thick and rancid smell. Even in corners where there was almost no light, the sewage would emit a pale green glow, illuminating small areas around.
But compared with its unbearable filth, its lethal radiation was the most dangerous thing about this ubiquitous sewage.
In the puddles formed by the accumulation of sewage, all kinds of trash floated or sank: rags of the undiscernible original color, rusty iron cans, and carcasses left by unknown animals. From time to time, giant rats as big as dogs would come out of nowhere, squeaking and screaming, scurry through the sewage, and disappear into the darkness. The radiation, which was enough to kill a horse, seemed to have no effect on these giant rats. But occasionally they would drop chunks of flesh that had already rotted.
From this point of view, it seemed that they were not immune to the radiation after all.
The two red fluorescent lights floated up a few meters higher, stopping at a tilted steel beam, and scanned the world under the dark sky. The two red dots reflected buildings reduced to skeletons, houses with half-collapsed walls, and cars smashed and twisted.
The night world was lit by green luminescence everywhere.
Such a place was called a ruin fifty years ago, but now it was called a city.
A blinding flame suddenly lit up at the corner of the street not far away, and crazy and hysterical shouts were intertwined and rushed towards this side quickly.
The two red fluorescent lights were frightened, and quickly stretched four transparent wings, flapping rapidly, and flew to a high place. A flash of fire just happened to shine on it and revealed a huge beetle over a meter long, fleeing into the distance.
The man holding the torch had no interest in the beetle, he just sprinted with all his strength ahead of the crowd, roaring like a wild beast from time to time.
The fire soon faded, and the beetle vanished into the dark again.
But then a strong wind blew, and the beetle shrieked like a trembling blade. Its knife-like legs scraped against the bricks and steel bars, creating sparks. Its four wings beat desperately, but it was still pulled slowly into the deep dark.
Then, following its scream was the sound of chewing.
In a dark alley, there were sudden bursts of hurried footsteps, and a woman who looked extremely panicked rushed in. As soon as she entered the alley, she suddenly noticed a figure sitting against the wall.
The man's whole body was covered in a black blanket, his head was down, and his face could not be seen at all. From his thin and small figure, he looked more like an 8 or 9-year-old child.
The woman gritted her teeth, rushed over with a few strides, and shoved her bundled baby into the man's arms, weeping and pleading: "Please, save her!"
The fluorescent light emitted by the puddle of sewage under the wall illuminated the woman's face.
Although the light was flickering and dim, it could still be seen that it was a very young and beautiful face.
Her appearance was only about twenty, and she had delicate snow-white skin that was rare in this era, enough to make most women jealous enough to want to slap a few knives on her face. Her neck was also slender and straight, starting from the lower jaw, a straight curve drew a nearly perfect arc, extending all the way down, and then suddenly stood upright on the white breast, squeezing out a deep cleavage.
The woman's clothes were very thin, and the front buttons were only fastened a few hastily, exposing most of her plump breasts. On the shirt, two attractive protrusions could be seen faintly, and there were two small pieces of water stains around them.
Obviously, she had fed her baby not long ago.
After staying for less than a second, without waiting for the boy to answer, the woman suddenly stood up and ran to the depths of the alley. After running more than ten meters, she suddenly let out a scream that almost pierced people's eardrums.
In the slightly noisy night, the screams spread far away.
The frenzied crowd not far away immediately erupted into shouts of excitement and joy.
In less than a minute, the torches illuminated the alley, and more than a dozen mob in ragged clothes with cruelty and excitement intertwined in their faces rushed into the path, pushing and squeezing, and chased into the depths of the alley.
A particularly stout-looking guy waved a wooden stick with a few big iron nails on the top, and kept pushing the people in front of him away with his arms blocking left and right, chasing and shouting: "I'll catch that woman, I want to fuck her first! Whoever dares to fight with me, I will smash his head!"
A thin middle-aged man behind him let out a loud laugh that didn't match his size, and mockingly said: "Come on, Black Duncan! That woman slept with a demon before. Who knows what she has in her cunt? Do you dare to stab her? Aren't you afraid that in the middle of fucking, your dick will rot first?"
Black Duncan muttered, "That's hard to say. I'm more resistant to radiation than you are." It's just that his voice obviously began to hesitate.
When he hesitated, several people immediately burst into laughter, "Black Duncan, you dare to fuck a mutated sow, why are you afraid? Could it be that your 'dagger' is already rotten? But your dagger and body are really out of proportion!"
Black Duncan roared angrily a few times, and shouted: "I don't care! Whoever thinks his dagger is bigger can go and fuck. Anyway, I won't do it!"
Suddenly someone screamed: "If all of you don't want, I will try! Anyway, half of my dick is rotten, and if I could fuck a white-skinned woman, it's worth my whole dick rotting off!"
The one who shouted was a skinny old man, with nothing but a dirty cloth wrapped around him, and nothing else. His bony body was covered with rots and sores, and the top of his head was bald with only a few pale soft hairs. He was panting all the way, and his chest made a rumbling sound as if he was pulling a set of old-fashioned bellows. He could barely keep up with the large crowd, but the black thing under his waist was as hard as a short iron rod, standing straight and abruptly between his crotch.
The alley was not long, and a dozen thugs rushed out from the other end in a blink of an eye. After the flickering firelight passed, darkness ruled here again. The mob, whose whole body was full of violence and pornography, only saw the woman's white skin shaking and didn't even notice that the shadow in the corner was a person.
In fact, even if the thugs saw him, there were people like this lying around the sewage full of radiation waiting to die everywhere, no one would care at all.
Not far from the alley, the yells of the mob suddenly became louder and louder, mixed with screams of women that were so shrill that they were not like humans.
It didn't take long for the woman's cry to whimper suddenly, as if it was blocked by something, but the laughter and screams of the mob were louder and louder, and finally completely drowned out the woman's voice.
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In the dark alley, the figure tightly wrapped in the black felt blanket moved suddenly, slowly raised his drooping head, and took out a wrapped baby from under the blanket, with half of his palm exposed from the edge of the rag. The immature silhouette of the hand clearly belonged to a child. It was icy clean and moist, shining a bit dazzlingly, and it didn't fit in with the surroundings. Within the blanket, a deep green light glowed, which was his left eye, silently watching the baby in the swaddle.
The baby neither cried nor made a noise, and a pair of big blue eyes were looking back at the deep green light. This was a girl with a straight nose, and her skin was as crystal clear as the finest cheese. She was completely different from babies in this era who were affected by radiation and were born with large black, blue, gray, or green skin. The small lips also had a rare knife-like line.
All in all, she was too pretty, especially for a not-weaned baby.
He blinked, and the green light shining on the baby girl's face also flickered a few times. Finally, he stretched out his hand and opened the tightly wrapped swaddle a little, so that the baby girl could hear the surrounding sounds, the roaring and panting of the mob, and the occasional women's screams.
The pair of hands were slender and white, and the slender fingers seemed to be the shadows of the night, blooming quietly for a moment and then retracting into the blanket.
The baby girl tilted her head slightly, her ears twitched, and she took in all the surrounding sounds and listened very intently.
Only then did he discover that there were two pointed points at the top of her ears, which were half longer than ordinary human ears.
The feast of tyranny and fornication in the distance didn't last long.
With a burst of disappointment, the mob gradually became quiet.
Then a flame shot up into the sky, and with the billowing thick smoke drifting away, there were also bursts of unpleasant burnt smell. The fire was raging, and occasionally it rushed into the air for more than ten meters. At this time, the light of the fire could even dispel the darkness in the alley for a moment.
There was nothing in the middle of the accumulated sewage in the alley, and the child who had always been wrapped in a deep black blanket had vanished.