DipNovel Chapter 122 This world is too bitter, we don't want to endure it anymore!
Chapter 122 This world is too bitter, we don't want to endure it anymore!
"collapse."
The tip of the Dragon Devouring Spear flicked slightly, and his wrist trembled slightly.
The rusted iron chain, as thick as a thumb, snapped in two, splashing up a few specks of black mud as it hit the puddle.
Lu Sheng kicked open the small iron door that was already deformed.
The door hinges emitted a teeth-grinding screech.
There is no light.
Only an overwhelming, pungent stench assaulted my senses, a mixture of sparks, rotting flesh, and the putrid smell of fermenting excrement.
The smell was even stronger than the garbage mountain outside, making your vision go black.
Lu Sheng stood at the doorway, backlit.
Even though he had seen countless deaths in the apocalypse, and even though his heart had been hardened by the killing, the veins on the back of his right hand, which was holding a gun, still bulged uncontrollably the moment he saw the scene inside the room.
This is not a room.
This is a pigsty.
A dozen or so chunks of meat were carelessly discarded in the filthy mud.
Yes, it's a chunk of meat.
They were once human, and could even sense faint spiritual energy fluctuations, indicating that they were once chosen ones who had awakened their sequence.
But now, their limbs are severed at the root.
The wound had long since healed, covered with a hideous black scab, as if it had been branded by fire or corroded by some kind of strong acid.
To prevent escape, for ease of management, and for... breeding.
Hearing the loud crash of the iron gate being kicked open, these already numb pieces of flesh instinctively crawled into the depths of the shadows.
"No...don't come any closer..."
"It's not time yet..."
In the corner, a woman with messy hair like a bird's nest and her face covered in mud huddled together.
She didn't even dare to look up, she just mechanically opened her mouth, and a hoarse moan came from her throat like two pieces of sandpaper rubbing together.
That's a conditioned reflex.
It is a servility etched into one's bones after countless torments.
If they just open their mouths, they'll either be fed swill or... something even more horrific.
Lu Sheng took a deep breath, feeling as if his lungs were filled with shards of glass, which caused him great pain.
He forcefully suppressed the roaring dragon within his chest and restrained the killing intent that could freeze the air.
"Don't be afraid."
Lu Sheng tried his best to make his voice sound less cold and hard.
"All the green-skinned monsters outside are dead."
He crouched down, his pristine white navy coat stained with mud and water, but he didn't care.
"I am human, Lu Sheng, commander of the Blazing Flame, from the Dragon Kingdom military." He looked at the woman leading the group. "You are saved."
Dead silence.
The only sound was the dripping of water through the gaps above, "drip, drip."
"Saved?"
The woman in the lead was stunned.
These two words were so unfamiliar to her, as if they were words from the last century.
She slowly raised her head, and her cloudy, bloodshot eyes finally focused after adjusting to the light from the doorway.
There was no green toad skin, no fangs, and no that nauseating slime.
A young man in white, with black hair and golden eyes.
are people.
They really are human.
"Oh……"
The woman suddenly grinned and let out a short, strange sound.
Followed by.
"Wow--!!!"
It wasn't cheering, it wasn't tears of joy, it was collapse.
Two streams of bloody tears streamed down her filthy cheeks, carving two bloody streaks across her face.
She tried to reach out and grab Lu Sheng's clothes, but found that she no longer had hands and could only frantically rub her injured shoulder in the mud.
"Someone's coming... Waaah... Someone's really coming..."
The dozen or so women around them also started wailing, their voices shrill and mournful, as if they were trying to vomit out all the grievances they had ever suffered.
Lu Sheng's heart tightened, and he subconsciously reached out to check the woman's injuries.
"Don't touch me!!!"
The woman, who had been wailing just moments before, suddenly let out a scream, like a wildcat whose tail had been stepped on. She shrank back desperately, her eyes filled with terror and self-loathing.
"Dirty! Don't touch it! I'm dirty!!"
Lu Sheng's hand froze in mid-air.
"I don't mind," Lu Sheng said in a low voice. "I'm here to take you home. There's a doctor, hot water, and..."
"go home?"
The woman interrupted him with a bitter laugh, her laughter more unpleasant than crying.
She struggled to turn over, exposing her abdomen, which had been hidden beneath her, to the dim light.
In that instant, Lu Sheng's pupils contracted sharply.
That's not a pregnant belly a human should have.
His belly was stretched so thin it was almost transparent, and the bluish-black veins looked like ugly earthworms crawling all over his abdomen.
Beneath that belly, a hideous black shadow was writhing violently, occasionally thrusting out a sharp protrusion—a webbed claw.
"Sir...did you see clearly?"
The woman stared at her stomach, her eyes as empty as a dry well: "This isn't a child, it's a monster, a seed that those beasts forced in."
"Looking like this, where can we go?"
"Go back to humanity, and be the mother of monsters?"
Beside her, a girl who looked to be no more than twenty years old now looked as old as a woman on her deathbed.
She slammed her forehead against the ground, making a dull thud.
"Big brother, you're a Spirit Source user, right? You must be very strong to have managed to break through here, right?"
The girl raised her head, her forehead dripping with blood, which mixed with mud and water, flowing into her mouth: "Please... kill me."
"I don't want to give birth to it... I don't want to be a mother to these beasts..."
"Kill me! Please!"
"My man was being devoured right in front of me... I've survived until now just to see if these beasts get their comeuppance, and now that I've seen it, it's time for me to go find him."
"Give us a quick death! This world is too bitter, we don't want to endure it anymore!"
group of people.
A group of Spirit Source users who once possessed dignity were now humbly begging for death, as if they were pleading for some rare treasure.
Lu Sheng stood up.
It felt as if a huge boulder weighing ten thousand pounds was pressing on his chest, making it hard for him to breathe.
save people?
How to save him?
Take them back?
Let them, heavily pregnant, give birth to a litter of cannibalistic monsters amidst the pointing fingers and whispers of tens of thousands of survivors?
Or should we perform abortions on them now, letting them drag their mutilated bodies and eke out a living like maggots in a corner of the apocalypse?
For them, living might be the cruelest punishment.
The woman in the lead seemed to notice Lu Sheng's hesitation.
She forced a smile that looked worse than a grimace, her eyes filled with a heartbreaking resolve.
"Sir, if you can't bring yourself to do it, at least leave us a knife."
"We'll figure it out ourselves. Whether we bite our tongues or bang our heads against a wall, we'll die eventually."
"We would be content if we could see our fellow human beings storm in before we die, knowing that humanity is not yet extinct."
Lu Sheng closed his eyes.
silence.
After a long while, he opened his eyes again.
In those golden vertical pupils, all emotions vanished, leaving only an absolute respect for life and the solemnity of a send-off.
"it is good."
Lu Sheng's voice was a little hoarse.
He slowly raised his right hand, and in his palm, a pure, warm, yet vast golden spiritual energy began to condense.
"I promise you."
"Farewell, everyone!"
A flash of golden light appeared.
There was no roar of an explosion, nor the pain of burning.
Lu Sheng precisely controlled every wisp of spiritual energy, and the golden radiance, like the warm sun in winter, instantly filled this dark and damp corner.
A ray of light swept by.
The dozen or so women who had suffered so much had their bodies melt away like snow under the warm sun, their consciousness disappearing silently.
Their faces showed no pain, but rather a relieved smile of liberation.
It was as if, at that moment, they had truly returned home, back to that afternoon without monsters, without the apocalypse, only sunshine and a gentle breeze.
A few seconds later.
The light dissipated.
Only a dozen or so corpses with smiles on their faces remained on the ground.
Lu Sheng stood still, maintaining the raised hand gesture, without moving for a long time.
In this cannibalistic world, sometimes death becomes the greatest luxury.
"receive."
He spoke softly.
The space fluctuated, and the corpse on the ground disappeared into thin air, being stored in a corner of his storage space.
After doing all this, Lu Sheng turned around.
His white robes were still as pristine as snow, but the chill in his eyes was even colder than the deep sea in this apocalyptic world.
P.S.: Today's update (4/4).