40,000 Years of Cultivation

As night fell, the patter of raindrops became denser and denser.

Perhaps it was the gunpowder that had just been born a few days ago that still lingered in the sky for a long time. The raindrops were eroded and turned into black as thick as ink, splashed on the ground, and enveloped in all directions more blurred and chaotic.

The city is like a rotten corpse.

The toppling tall buildings are its canine bones.

In the ruined walls, the children are like hungry hyenas, running wildly between raindrops and lightning.

Everyone's posture was a bit anxious, and they couldn't wait to catch the two defectors with their own hands instead of others.

But there was a bit of a rush. I don't know if someone defected will affect them and make the Purifier leave a bad impression on the entire batch of "Children of the Holy Light."

The rain drops like a waterfall, gradually blocking the view ten meters away.

The sound of rain also blocked most of the sounds, including the alarm sound of the portable crystal brain.

The torrential rain brought an illusory sense of security to the children, making them think that they could stretch their will to their fullest without being noticed by anyone.

And their route has long since deviated from the "safe area" set by the instructors and entered the unknown area in the deepest part of the city.

Some children lost their way, stumbled and fell into the depths of the ruined wall, leaving the army.

There are also children who occasionally find each other in the black raindrops and face each other quietly, until the lightning illuminates their pale faces, only to realize that the other party is not the target of hunting, and they leave in disappointment.

Some more suspicious rumors spread like a virus in the short-term contact of the children.

Some people say that the two classmates who ran away were a man and a woman. They violated extremely serious rules during the mission and had to be expelled from the examination room and sent to the temple for purification, just like the kid who stole the giant soldier model yesterday, so , They took the risk and fled outrageously.

Some people say that the entire Black Fort star was occupied by the Empire and the Holy League twice in just a few decades, and most of the area was turned into a piece of scorched earth. However, the Holy League’s strength was severely insufficient, and it only controlled the occupation at the moment. 1% of the planet's surface area is colonized towns, starports, and mining bases, while the remaining 99% are vast and uninhabited areas.

As long as they can escape to the no-man’s land, they will win. It is impossible for the Saint League to mobilize a large amount of manpower and material resources to enter the no-man’s land to catch two unknown men.

Others said that in the underground of the Black Fortress, there are still countless secret passages, arsenals and dungeons of the imperial army, and there are hundreds of imperial guerrillas resisting. These people welcome the holy league’s youth very much." On the one hand, it can bring them the latest intelligence, on the other hand, it can also show the "effect" of the demon erosion, so it will give the holy ally a very generous treatment. It is estimated that the two fleeing teenagers and girls just wanted Escape outside the city, go deep underground, and find the Imperial Guerrillas.

As long as they stay with the imperial guerrillas in the ground, they can’t shrink back for a year or a half. If the imperial army can make a comeback and occupy the Black Fort star again, then they will achieve the goal of "from the holy alliance to the empire", maybe even more. It will become a propaganda object for the empire, and will be touted as a hero who "departs to freedom".

These rumors are like gloomy ghost fires, burning faintly in the dark night, no matter how the torrential rain is raging, they cannot be wiped out.

As for who said "someone said", the children were confused, but no one said it clearly.

Searching all night, Thangka didn't find the shadow of the two defectors, and even after one staggered and fell into the mud, he was separated from his classmates.

There were raindrops flying sideways in all directions. The mud splashed by the heavy rain stuck his gas mask, took off the mask, and flew into his eyes and mouth again and again, making him unable to open his eyes.

Even the portable crystal brain squeaked, and the three-dimensional images presented were chaotic and distorted. Lingwang was severely disturbed by storms, lightning, and thunder. It was unable to communicate with the students, nor did it receive the tutor and dean’s advice. instruction.

"Squad leader!"

"where are you!"

Thangka stumbled and felt like a little ant, and the tall and towering silhouettes all around were black tombstones. After walking for more than ten minutes, he became increasingly confused about the direction and area. See the existence of half of the classmates.

In Thangka's heart, a weird thought suddenly came up.

In the whole town, it seems that I am the only one left.

And all the classmates, mentors, and soldiers of the purification unit are searching for the two escaped classmates, perhaps running farther and farther in the opposite direction.

If he also escaped at this time, wouldn't it be possible to escape from this abandoned city, go deep into no man's land, or even find an underground stronghold of the imperial guerrillas?

Not "someone said", the empire welcomes such holy allies who take the initiative to defect to the past, will they become "heroes" in the empire's propaganda caliber?

Then he can completely get rid of his current life.

This thought flashed through his mind like a sharp lightning, causing Thangka to tremble deeply, and couldn't believe it was his own thought.

"Old Yao——"

Thangka tremblingly asked, "Did you lead me to think this way?"

"No, I'm not so mean, it's your own thoughts."

Li Yao was silent for a while and continued, "Maybe someone has led you to think so, but it's not me."

"What, what do you mean?"

Thangka became more and more confused.

The world around it was like a black beast with a big mouth, swallowing him and his bones.

Although the space on the planet was billions of times wider than that on the starship, he felt suffocated.

Settling down, thangka quickly shattered this absurd idea.

The most important thing is that the squad leader is not by his side. Even if he really wants to escape, he must be with the squad leader, right?

wrong! Of course not! How could he escape? He has unlimited faith in the gods, and he is extremely loyal to the best masters. How could he have such absurd and evil ideas? This is blasphemy, this is a shame, and this is the deepest and heaviest sin!

"Wow!"

At this moment, a lightning bolt resembling a dragon pierced the sky, illuminating the streets with a radius of 100 meters.

Thangka saw a classmate stooping and staggering ahead.

"Hey!"

Thangka yelled and chased him up, "I'm here, what class are you in, wait for me!"

Perhaps it was because the rain was too loud, and the student did not hear his voice. He still limped forward, speeding up a bit.

However, his leg injury was very serious and was soon overtaken by Thanka.

"Shao Jie?"

Thangka turned on the lighting mode of the portable crystal brain, and shook his face, and found that it was a classmate in his own class, and said excitedly, "Why are you here, where are the other classmates, the class leader, have you seen the class leader? , Or are you separated from everyone?"

"I……"

The boy named Shao Jie stammered, "I also separated from them, looking for them, why don't we look for them separately?"

He was bruised and swollen by the deputy monitor Liao Meng, his facial features were distorted and he showed a look that was both hideous and pitiful.

Thangka blinked, and the light moved from Shao Jie’s face to her body, and she found that Shao Jie carried a huge mountaineering bag on his back, and he was carrying two small bags in his hand. It was full of Dangdang all for food—not the academy for them. The synthetic foods made are the imperial foods picked up from the city, or high-energy nutritional supplements based on compressed biscuits and energy bars.

Looking at Shao Jie's flickering eyes again, Thangka understood everything.

"Do you want to run away too?"

Thangka took two steps back and murmured, "How can you betray the best master and the gods like this!"

"I do not have!"

Shao Jie's face seemed to be punched again by an invisible fist, and he screamed, "I don't want to run away, no!"

His cry was instantly torn apart by the rainstorm, and the whole person seemed to be drowning in the rainstorm.

"Then what did you do when you picked up such a big backpack, it was still full of high-energy food that we would never allow to eat!"

Tangka's righteousness is strict, and he forgets that he is still eating Hesai in the supermarket during the day. "We have emergency supplements with us, which are enough to support a temporary task at night. If you don't have to travel long distances, you secretly take these. What do things do!"

Like Thangka, Shao Jie was only a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy. The lie was exposed and immediately turned into a discouraged ball.

"Let me go, Thangka, I can't go back!"

Shao Jie cried and said pitifully, "You know, I just had a fight with Liao Meng-he is the deputy squad leader and has the right to discipline his classmates, but I never have the right to fight with him. I, I have fallen, I If I violate the way of perfection, I will definitely be sent to the temple to be purified. I don't want to be like that, I don't want to become a muddle-headed miner or warrior.

"You, you have never seen me, OK, Thangka, please!"

Thangka was silent, his mind was in a mess, and he murmured: "You, you really shouldn't hum the empire's tyrannical voice."

"I didn't mean it, I swear it was not intentional, but those voices came out of my nose for some reason!"

Shao Jie exclaimed, "Nothing happened originally. Liao Meng insisted on holding on to me. He couldn't control his emotions. He still said me? I, I have nowhere to go, Thangka, let me go, no People will know!"

Thangka has never seen such a weak and pitiful look in Shao Jie's eyes, or in other words, he has never seen it in the eyes of any classmate.

His psychological line of defense retreated and collapsed step by step, and his legs trembled.

"You can't let him go."

Li Yao sighed, "Go up and stop him."

"what?"

Thangka was stunned, wondering why Li Yao, who is a "devil", would say something like this, "You don't want him to'depart to freedom'?"

"He can't escape, and neither can you."

Li Yao coldly said, "Someone is staring at you. This is part of the'ultimate test.' The torrential rain is just an illusion. Your every move is under the spotlight and is closely monitored."