Reincarnation Paradise: The Crucible

In Qingshi Town, the killing on the edge of the town is still going on, and the scale is gradually becoming larger as time goes by.

More and more zombies are rushing in from all directions following the sound, and the billowing smoke and dust even completely cover most of the streets. At the top of the flooding smoke and dust, a faint fire is always proud and unextinguished.

Although these zombies transformed by unknown diseases are powerful, their stiff limbs inevitably lead to their relatively slow attack speed, and this is also the main reason why Ji Jun and his team can persist to this point. Only the front is their only way to survive.

Behind the team, fierce and rapid footsteps mixed with hoarse roars one after another, like drumbeats, constantly hitting Ji An's relatively immature young mind, immediately arousing a huge wave, compared with the firm belief of his parents, his mind is almost blank.

Faced with this extreme situation of life and death, Ji An's age of just over ten years old is not enough to support him to continue to maintain his sanity.

So fear, anxiety, panic, the pain of powerlessness, the unwillingness of being weak, and the bitterness and resentment of this unprovoked disaster...all kinds of negative emotions began to surge like waves.

And in the depths of the soul that no one could observe, a dark soul seed with dense cracks on its surface was also rising and falling with the surge of negative waves, and every time it rose and fell, it would swallow up the surrounding negative emotions, and at the same time, the cracks on its surface continued to expand.

In the outside world, Ji An was not aware of the strange changes in his body. In his desperate run, his instinct for survival had already covered everything. Even with his mother's hard drag, the whole journey was still an extremely long distance for him.

Fortunately, every time he was about to run out of strength, with a faint light flashing in the depths of his eyes, his body that should have dried up long ago would once again emerge with a stream of warm currents that supported him to continue running.

Maybe it was just a few minutes, or maybe nearly half an hour had passed. Ji Jun could no longer remember how far he had run and how many zombies he had killed. The bright flames on the special torch were still bright, and his right hand holding the long sword began to tremble slightly.

Blood dripped continuously through his fingers, and it seemed that not only his clothes were dyed red, but even the vision in front of him gradually emerged with a touch of scarlet.

Finally, as the last hunchbacked zombie that was in the way fell heavily to the ground, Ji Jun saw a wide open space in front of him. As far as he could see, they had escaped from the coverage of Qingshi Town. In front of them was a barren wilderness, and behind the wilderness was the thick fog sea that obscured the entire vision.

This fog sea has stopped thousands of small town residents in the past month. Of course, today it may stop three desperate escapees again.

But before stepping into the fog sea, they still need to solve the last problem, that is, the many zombies wandering in the wilderness.

A month ago, a large number of residents who had sensed the outbreak of the disease began to flee outside the town. However, due to the existence of the thick fog, they could not break through the barrier and could only be forced to stay in the open space between the town and the fog.

In desperation, some disheartened residents finally returned to the town, but some of those who were unwilling to give up chose to stay outside the city. Unfortunately, whether inside or outside the city, they could not avoid becoming zombies in the face of the spreading disease.

Even due to the lack of shelter, the residents who stayed outside the city met a miserable end of annihilation in less than half a month. After all, in the desert where they could see everything, even if they could avoid the invasion of the disease by chance, they would definitely not be able to resist the many hideous zombies that began to feed on humans.

So apart from the fog, these residents who originally planned to flee outside have now become another barrier to the later fugitives in a very ironic way.

At the outskirts of the wilderness, looking at the dense group of wandering zombies not far away, Ji Jun's cold and hard face did not change at all. He could observe the weakening effect of moonlight on the fog, and naturally knew that there must be a large number of zombies in front of the fog.

This number of existence is far from being easily broken through by the long sword in his hand. The end of reckless advance can only be completely submerged, but since he dared to act, he would never be unprepared, but the price he paid would be a bit heavy.

"Jun Lang."

The familiar call of his wife came again in his ears, and the coldness on Ji Jun's face suddenly dissipated like ice and snow. Looking sideways, he saw that Yun Niang's cheeks still had a little faint blush due to intense running, but the pair of beautiful eyes under her eyebrows had long been filled with crystal mist.

Obviously, Yun Niang had guessed what would happen next.

When their eyes met, Ji Jun did not explain too much, but directly handed the torch in his hand to Yun Niang. As a couple who had been together for more than ten years, he believed that she could understand his choice. In the face of life and death, they were not qualified to act on impulse.

"This is the only way, my wife, at least we have to let An'er live."

"...Okay!"

Without crying or questioning, Yun Niang just tried to swallow the mist in her eyes, and then used the fastest speed to deeply engrave the handsome face opposite her, which was already familiar to her, into her mind again, and then took the torch and quickly turned around and ran towards the open space in front of her right.

Behind him, as Yunniang dragged Ji An away quickly, Ji Jun's gentle expression turned cold again. Finally, he looked at the mother and son's backs that were getting farther and farther away with great affection. He suddenly raised his sword and slashed it hard at his right wrist. In an instant, blood splattered and gushed.

The serious injury that almost cut off half of his wrist brought him a clear mind under extreme pain, and the sweet and greasy smell of blood that was almost pungent.

The gushing blood quickly dyed most of his clothes red, and also made his originally pale face flushed. Without any hesitation, after cutting his wrist, he first turned around and threw a lot of blood at the zombies that were gradually approaching from behind, and then threw his legs and rushed straight towards the even larger zombie wave in the wasteland.

"Come on! Come eat me, monsters!!"

In the wilderness, Ji Jun's roar spread with a strong smell of blood, and this ostentatious move successfully attracted the attention of all the zombies around.

For a while, the roars were overwhelming, and countless zombies, like sharks attracted by the smell of blood in the sea, began to rush towards Ji Jun's position, and even ignored the two thin figures approaching the thick fog at the edge of the desert.

Zombies, a strange life form, do not have wisdom, and are even far inferior to the beasts roaring in the jungle. All their actions are just following the purest biological instinct, so they are thirsty for blood and afraid of fire, but it is precisely because of this characteristic that Ji Jun, who chose to sacrifice himself, can easily attract the attention of all the zombies.

Faced with hundreds of zombies blocking the way out, he really couldn't think of any other way to send his wife and children away safely except fighting with his life, even if the price was that he would be cruelly eaten up.

……………

“Mom, what are you doing?! Dad is surrounded, we have to save him!!”

“Mom! Don’t run, Dad will die!!”

“Mom, I’m not afraid of zombies anymore, let’s save Dad, please! Please…”

………

On the other side, just when Ji Jun was completely surrounded by a large number of zombies, a series of childish cries with strong crying tones rang out from the edge of the fog.

Shortly after being dragged away by his mother, Ji An watched his father rush towards the huge zombie tide with a resolute attitude. Although he was young, he could still understand what kind of miserable end this action would bring. In the past month, he has witnessed more than once the bloody scene of humans being eaten alive by zombies.

So he was angry and struggled, even though he knew that the only result of his rushing forward would be to be swallowed up along with his father.

But no matter how he shouted, he never got a response or stopped by his mother. In the end, Yun Niang simply picked him up, and his struggling limbs were tightly wrapped by a pair of arms. Then the mother and son stumbled into the thick fog.

During the whole escape, Yun Niang did not dare to look back even once. She was afraid that she would lose all the courage to continue running after seeing her husband surrounded by countless zombies.

Sometimes, seeking death only requires determination, while seeking survival requires more courage to face blood.

As for Ji An, the last scene that stayed in his eyes was a few crystal water droplets blown by the breeze in front of his eyes, and the blazing fire rising in the center of the large zombie tide in the distance.

The water droplets came from his mother, and the fire was the last trace left by his father.

"An'er, your parents can be gone, but you must live!"

The thick fog gradually obscured all vision, and at the same time, the mother's murmur slowly reached his ears.

And in the depths of the soul that no one noticed, a huge amount of negative emotions were madly rushing towards the dark magic seed covered with cracks. Finally, with a strange "click" sound, a huge crack almost completely split the entire magic seed in two.