I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 126

Chapter 126

Puchi!

The middle-aged man looked down at the tip of the knife protruding from his chest, his eyes gradually dimming. Blood spurted from his heart, outlining the shape of the knifepoint.

Puchi!

The knife tip was pulled out, and the corpse fell to the ground. The monster, its form revealed, sniffed lightly, glanced back at Stone City, and walked forward.

At the edge of Stone City, a survivor heading out of the city went straight towards Shen Shan Town. As he walked, a flash of light caught the corner of his eye. He turned his head and saw a barrier slowly dissipate, revealing a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes. The baby hadn’t made a sound the entire time, and the survivor almost missed it even with his Mental Power scan.

The survivor tucked his wooden knife into his waistband and approached. He discovered that the baby was coated in some kind of oil, which seemed to absorb Mental Power, making it easy to overlook with a Mental Power scan.

In addition, a simple and elegant jade pendant hung around the baby’s neck. The jade pendant had intricate and delicate patterns, but they were somewhat dim at the moment.

The survivor picked up the baby with some pity and looked at it. The baby’s clear eyes looked back at him, smiling, but without making a sound.

“Poor little guy.”

The survivor shook his head slightly. He didn’t need to think to know what had happened. In the apocalypse, this was not uncommon.

Holding the baby in one hand and the wooden knife in the other, he was slightly startled when he saw a corpse in front of him. After scanning the area for a moment, he walked over. This person had died from a backstab.

It should have been a knife that pierced through the back and out of the heart. The person had no ability to resist. Obviously, the attacker was either very strong or someone close to the deceased.

However, the survivor was slightly alarmed when he saw the equipment orbs floating above the corpse.

“Monster?”

Not just a monster, but a very powerful monster!

The survivor quickly collected all the equipment, then turned the corpse over to look at its face. He glanced at the baby’s face, didn’t say anything, and immediately prepared to leave.

But before leaving, he suddenly saw something on the corpse’s chest.

A piece of paper?

The wound on the corpse’s heart had also torn the clothes. The survivor looked at the corner of the yellow paper exposed from the wound in the clothes and immediately took it out.

The yellow paper was as big as a newspaper and looked quite old, like it might be valuable, but it was already soaked in blood. The survivor didn’t look at it closely, he just stuffed the yellow paper into his pocket, held the baby, hesitated for a moment looking ahead, and finally chose to detour.

The survivor’s name was Luo Qing. Looking at the corpses on the road, he muttered to himself.

“Take a detour, I can’t possibly be walking on the same path as the monster, right?”

Luo Qing immediately chose a direction and moved forward quickly.

“My luck shouldn’t be that bad.”

Luo Qing held the baby in one hand and the wooden knife in the other, cutting through weeds and bushes as he moved quickly. He was from Shen Shan Town, he wanted to go home.

Besides that, Luo Qing also wanted to find the archer who saved him and thank him properly.

“I was forced into the city because of an accident. Although that archer was much stronger than me at the time, he went out of the city. I should be much stronger than him now, right?”

Luo Qing thought as he walked forward. He chose a wilderness area, not a road at all. In the wilderness full of weeds and bushes, although it was a little troublesome to walk, he could be sure that the monster was not walking in this area.

So although the speed was slow, he walked with more confidence.

The baby in his arms was probably tired and fell into a deep sleep without making a sound.

As a town on the outskirts of the city, the wilderness between Shen Shan Town and Stone City was not large. Luo Qing quickly passed through the wasteland and arrived next to a rice paddy. After identifying the direction, Luo Qing, feeling a little safer, walked towards his home.

However, the more he walked, the stronger the ominous premonition in Luo Qing’s heart became. When he saw a corpse in front of him, his heart skipped a beat.

One fatal blow!

A backstab through the heart!

The identical wound instantly raised Luo Qing’s vigilance to the highest level. Without any hesitation, he turned around and rushed in the opposite direction, running with all his might, quickly covering several hundred meters.

But the throbbing in Luo Qing’s heart did not dissipate for a long time, it even intensified!

This made Luo Qing tense up. Gritting his teeth, he ran forward at full speed, not daring to delay at all!

In the rice fields of Shen Shan Town, a young man was running fast with a baby in his arms, as if there was a dog chasing him. But looking behind him, there was nothing.

However, when a gust of wind blew past, the outline highlighted by the fallen rice plants was horrifying.

Luo Qing seemed to sense something. He gritted his teeth, and his speed increased even more. But the outline that occasionally appeared behind him was getting closer and closer. Luo Qing only discovered it when he occasionally saw it.

This monster was actually an invisible monster!

This discovery made Luo Qing’s eyes widen. Just when he thought he was going to die here and his heart was filled with despair, the outline of a building suddenly appeared in front of him.

“Shen Shan Town?”

“No, Shen Shan Town is not here yet, it’s not Shen Shan Town, it’s a survivor base with a high wall!”

A hint of surprise surged in Luo Qing’s heart, but his brain was not overwhelmed by the surprise. Instead, he continued to think calmly, and during this process, he continued to run forward at full speed, even though the pain in his lungs felt like they were convulsing, he didn’t slow down at all.

“There’s a magical beast behind me, if you don’t want to die, call someone! Otherwise, we’re all going to die!”

Luo Qing shouted loudly. On the city wall in front of him, there was an arrow tower at intervals. The people on guard were his only chance of survival.

The magical beast behind him was too close, so close that Luo Qing wouldn’t survive even if he ran inside the city walls!

Luo Qing knew very well that the experts in the gathering place were his only hope of survival.

After shouting once and seeing that he had attracted the attention of the people on the arrow tower, Luo Qing suppressed his fear and didn’t shout again. Instead, he scanned left and right. When he saw a dry wasteland, he gritted his teeth and stopped.

Under the gaze of the two people on the arrow tower, Luo Qing stood still for dozens of seconds before a gust of wind blew up, and dust instantly rose on this open space.

The gust of wind disappeared after it blew past, but the dust it stirred up had to settle slowly.

Luo Qing didn’t care about that. His heart felt like it was about to explode, and an extremely strong sense of unease and danger filled his mind, making him run forward with all his might.

However, every few steps he took, Luo Qing suddenly realized that it was too late.

A large hole suddenly appeared in the flying dust, and the wind howled. Under the reflection of the dust, a huge monster resembling a praying mantis appeared in front of Luo Qing.

The monster caught up with Luo Qing almost the moment it appeared. Below the city wall, feeling the unbridled howling of the monster behind him, Luo Qing gritted his teeth and turned around abruptly.

A sharp claw flash fell towards Luo Qing’s heart amidst the howling wind, unstoppable!

Luo Qing’s eyes widened instantly as he turned around. Inside the city wall, three sharp, urgent whistle sounds rang out!