High Above

Memories and thoughts flowed out and were transformed into an inexplicable thing.

If you are a strong adult man or woman, or a child without much memory, you may be able to withstand this process.

But how could the old man endure this?

Aunt Lydia finally managed to hold on to her senses, stood up straight, and used her relatively strong arms to take her unconscious husband, an old man with a bald head, from her son's hands.

There was a huge wound on his head, and he was holding a bloody kitchen knife tightly in his hand. He obviously escaped with his son after fighting together.

"Where's Rika?"

Carrying her husband, the old woman asked for news about her daughter in a trembling voice, but received good news: "Have you forgotten? Didn't my brother-in-law say that he wanted to give Lika a surprise the day before yesterday? That guy bought it in Axle Town A new carriage took the whole family to see the flowers at the Dandelion Baron this morning."

The man's voice was also filled with joy: "At least they are not in danger, hurry up, let's go find the guards..."

They ultimately failed to escape.

When another successful escapee in the apartment building, Miles, the mother and son, relied on the swordsmanship he had practiced since childhood to fight his way out, carrying his unconscious mother and escaping from a pool of blood on the ground. It's like a hellish apartment building.

He saw the man's mutilated body on the street not far away.

The young man recognized the other man. He was the son of Aunt Lydia, who took great care of him. His name was Daan, and he was a generous carpenter.

Uncle Da'an usually helps the residents in the building repair small tables and chairs for free. Even the charges are very reasonable. He has always been deeply grateful to him. He even practices swordsmanship because Uncle Da'an gave them to him when he was a child. He has a wooden sword.

He longed for Uncle Da'an's majestic figure who could support his family and take good care of his parents. Moreover, because he lacked father's love since he was young, he had always secretly hoped that he could have a father like Uncle Da'an.

If it doesn't work out, I also want to be a good father, son and husband like Uncle Da'an.

But now, he died here.

Although the corpses of several crazy weirdos fell around him, the carpenter's knife in his hand was really not good at fighting, and his upper body was covered with vague flesh and blood scars and tooth marks from being buckled.

Behind him, the bodies of two old men, whose life and death were unknown, were leaning against the wall - they had obviously fought, and their bodies were covered with scars, but their unknown dizziness and weird absence of consciousness eventually made them lose their fighting ability and eventually collapsed. Down.

"Grandma Lydia?! And Grandpa Leisen!"

If he hadn't been carrying his mother on his back, Miles would have wanted to run over and check on them, but now, he could only carefully observe the surrounding situation, and then approached the corpses at a somewhat slow pace.

What surprised and saddened him was that Aunt Lydia, one of the two old people, was still alive.

But her eyes were lifeless and she was obviously dying.

"Miles? And Ruixi...you are all still alive...good...so good..."

The old man struggled to spit out a mouthful of blood, then held the grieving Miles with his trembling hand, trying to help him: "Don't help me, I'm going to die... Miles, I'm sorry, this is all." It's time, but I still want to ask you to take care of Cynthia..."

The old woman moved away. Blocked by the old man's body and the old woman's body, she was biting her arm. The little girl, who was trying to be as quiet as possible without making a sound, raised her head with tears in her eyes.

"Miles..." Aunt Lydia's voice became weaker and weaker: "Miles... protect..."

"Protect your mother...she has suffered too much and has not had time to enjoy happiness...and Cynthia, protect...them..."

"I will, I will definitely do it..."

The young purple-haired man felt that the strength in his palm was quickly disappearing, and before he had time to say anything - whether it was thanks for so many years of help, or the admiration-like affection that had been hidden in his heart for so many years, he couldn't say anything. Too late to tell.

Aunt Lydia stopped breathing before him and closed her eyes.

"Fuck, why?!"

Seeing this scene blankly, Miles felt cold in his heart, but a rush of blood rushed straight to his forehead. His worst fantasy about the future was only one ten thousandth of what it is today. Even the entire Grand Dukedom of the West had turned into an empire. The buffer zone against the Flying Flame Land, but it has nothing to do with those of them at the rear.

Although the prices are a bit more expensive, most of the expensive ones are sublimation materials, and the food of ordinary people has not been affected much.

He originally thought that his future would gradually get better, that he would gradually stand out, lead a good life with his mother, and repay the kindness of those who helped him little by little... This is what he originally thought, and this is what he originally hoped for. .

But hope is the easiest thing to be dashed.

"Why, they are all very good people, but why do such good people have to die...What happened in the city?!"

The man held the sword tightly in his hand. He looked around the entire Azure City. He could already hear the screams and roars that were gradually becoming noisier, as well as the faint roars coming from the other side of the street. The abnormal madness just now was just a prelude to the real chaos. Appeared.

At this moment, Miles was not in a very good condition. Seeing Lydia's family, who was deeply grateful to him and treated him like a real grandma, dying in front of his eyes, his eyes began to light up with bursts of scarlet. The halo, and the look became more ferocious and crazy.

It's just like those crazy weirdos before...even far more terrifying than them.

"Grandpa? Grandma...Dad...wuwu...Mom..."

"What happened to me just now?"

At this moment, the cry of the little girl Cynthia broke Miles out of his abnormal state - he regained consciousness and felt incredible about the pain and despair that suddenly overflowed from his heart just now... He did Still very sad, but not to the point where I want to destroy the world.

It felt like other people's emotions were spilling out of nothingness and infecting him.

"There is someone! Cynthia, don't cry, and keep your voice down if you can't help it. Let's go first!"

Hearing the noisy footsteps coming from the street, the man didn't care about anything else for a moment. He carried his mother on his back and the little girl in his hand, and hurriedly hid in the usually deserted alley.

…

Terra 773, September 18, late at night.

The Setar Empire, the Grand Dukedom of Thorin, and the Viscounty of Avak.

Azure City.

Azure City, as the name suggests, is where you can see a blue sky. When the second generation Viscount Avak founded this city to develop deep mineral veins in the hilly area, he saw the endless blue sky when he looked up. Color names the city.

After the mineral veins were exhausted, the city gradually transformed into a light industrial city with a concentration of small workshops. Many of the baskets and rattan frames, furniture, tables and chairs in Grand Duke Solin's territory were processed and made here. It is not considered rich or famous, but People have a high sense of stability in their lives.

But this recognition of a peaceful life has been used by big shots as a shield to hide from others.

When the convoy arrived at the edge of Azure City, Ian, who was overlooking the city through a drone, was already frowning.

"This place...has completely become a dead city."

he whispered to himself, while everyone else watching the drone footage nodded in agreement.

At this moment, the moonlight was dim, but there were no lights in the city. The streets were filled with corpses and bloodstains, as well as all kinds of broken small objects, as well as the remains of overturned carriages and horses.

The doors and windows of the buildings on the side of the road were smashed. Even the street lamps were often bent or fell down, and the air was filled with a strange white mist, which muddied the field of vision and forced the drone to get closer to see the scene on the street.

More than that.

Ian even saw vague human figures swaying on the streets deep in the city...and those figures were undoubtedly the 'undead' in the world of Terra.

To be precise, it is a fungal organism formed after the relatively complete human corpses that have died long ago are controlled by corrupt fungi.

The peaceful and quiet Azure City in the past has now become a gathering place for dead bodies.