“She’s a simple girl, she’s full of life;”
"Sexier than a dream, lonelier than a highway;"
"The world she lived in was burning in a raging fire;"
"She was filled with endless suffering, but she was unwilling to live in this state."
Under the clear blue sky, there is an endless expanse of yellow sand.
In a corner of the desolate desert, a fiery heavy motorcycle is speeding through the flying sand and dust, and the heavy drumbeats of songs from the car's audio system are echoing in the vast wasteland.
The person driving the motorcycle was a hotly dressed girl, her long hair fluttering in the hot wind, and the orange sunglasses on her nose sparkling in the sunlight.
She was wearing tight denim shorts and a black tube top, with her long legs crossed on both sides, and her large expanse of snow-white skin enjoying the brief coolness brought by the extreme speed.
The pink bubbles expanded and shrank with her cheeks, complementing her fiery red car perfectly.
She also had a shiny silver double-barreled shotgun slung over her right shoulder. It looked brand new and didn't seem to be used often. It seemed that its owner just carried it on her back as a decoration.
Her fingertips tapped on the handlebars to the rhythm of the music, she blew bubbles and looked down at the rearview mirror.
The sunglasses slid down the bridge of his nose, and a pair of cunning eyes were reflected in the rearview mirror.
"We didn't get much out of it today. Never mind, it's almost enough."
Behind her car, more dust rose up, like a storm.
That wasn't the motorcycle's influence. Amidst the endless dust, huge black shadows surged, chasing the motorcycle at the same speed.
She twisted the handlebars with her right hand, and the motorcycle began to speed up. The dark shadows followed closely, roaring.
The yellow sand dispersed, and ugly monsters were exposed in the sunlight.
This is a group of alien insects.
There are about ten of them in this group, all looking similar. They look like mantises with ten legs, and their towering limbs make them look like spiders magnified hundreds of times.
The insect's entire body was a disgusting flesh-colored, its trunk covered in protruding thorns that seemed to be oozing pus. Hundreds of insect legs clattered across the hard, barren earth, their pounding like the sound of war drums.
After running fast in a straight line for a few minutes, the motorcycle driven by the woman suddenly turned a corner and headed towards a dirt slope not far away.
Under the huge kinetic energy, the motorcycle jumped up along the slope and flew in the air.
At this moment, the song reaches its climax:
“This girl is invincible;”
“This girl is unstoppable;”
“She walked through blazing fire;”
"Dazzling and sparkling."
On the leaping fiery red motorcycle, the woman raised the corners of her mouth and snapped her fingers with her raised left hand.
Deafening explosions sounded in the rear. Countless mines that had been buried underground exploded at this moment.
Some alien insects wanted to escape, but a strange arc of light appeared on the ground, blocking their way.
Smoke and waves of fire rose into the sky, and the terrifying alien insects all turned into food for the bombs, with their limbs and legs flying everywhere in the strong wind.
The woman casually spat out the bubble gum in her mouth and whistled proudly with an upturned note.
With a wave of his hand, five or six gray-white robot figures appeared out of thin air.
They turned their mechanical legs equipped with small wheels and ran into the insect corpses on the ground; they stretched out their spring arms with spiral patterns and rummaged through the broken corpses.
While the little robots were busy, the woman felt a vibration around her waist and her cell phone rang.
She temporarily turned off the music, and when she saw the caller's name on the screen, a look of joy appeared on her face. She answered the call without hesitation:
"Senior Sister, are you out of seclusion?"
"Well, re-cultivating this secret method of spiritual consciousness seems to be much easier than I previously thought." A clear female voice came from the other end of the phone. "Let's not talk about this for now. As soon as I succeeded, I noticed something strange here. You'd better come and take a look."
"Senior sister, when did you learn to keep people in suspense? Is there some good news?" The woman giggled, revealing her white teeth in the sunlight.
"You're so clever." Senior Sister scolded with a smile, "Come here earlier."
"Okay, I'll come find you after I sell this batch of goods."
The woman was Chu Yao, and the one who called her was Bai Yuejian.
Today is January 10, 2515 in the Tianren calendar, the third year of the Insect Tide Era.
Three years have passed since the outbreak of the insect swarm.
Three years ago, the people of Lingyuan Star who were struggling to survive the insect invasion did not receive reinforcements from the Yali Company, but a protracted war.
The war lasted for three full months and ended with the defeat of Ke Yun, the president of Yali Company. As the winner, Steel Dome Company became the new owner of Lingyuan Star.
Steel Dome's method of dealing with the insect swarm was simple and crude. They used dozens of high-yield nuclear bombs that had been modified with magic stones.
This kind of nation-destroying magic nuclear weapon can greatly reduce the impact of radiation, which may be the last mercy left by Steel Dome Corporation.
The effect is significant. Although the Zerg crisis has not been completely resolved, the number of Zerg has been reduced to a controllable level.
But it left behind countless disastrous consequences.
In order to reduce radiation just to protect resources, this group of war maniacs had no regard for human lives. Hundreds of millions of people were buried together with the Zerg in the mushroom cloud of the nuclear explosion.
These nuclear bombs landed on land and sea, leaving only scorched earth wherever they hit.
Chu Yao and the others were lucky. The Third Continent held a special position on Lingyuan Star: because of the presence of branches of various interstellar companies, Steel Dome Company had adopted a more moderate approach to avoid becoming a target of public criticism, and New Capital and Liberty City were less affected.
But other places are not so lucky.
The southern part of the first continent and the western part of the third continent were both turned into wastelands under the influence of the nation-destroying nuclear weapons.
The worst-hit continent was the second, where, except for some cities in the central area, the rest were reduced to ruins.
The heat generated by the nuclear bomb explosion evaporated a huge amount of sea water, the sea level dropped, the land area continued to expand, the distance between the second and third continents was shrinking, and even straits were formed between the bordering lands.
Due to the impact of war and nuclear weapons, as well as the subsequent Steel Dome's almost exploitative resource extraction, desertification on Lingyuan Star has become increasingly severe. Except for a few intact cities, all that can be seen is vast desert and wasteland.
After the little robots finished their work, Chu Yao put them and the demon pills into the storage bag, then took out a large sack and put all the valuable materials stripped from the insect corpses into it.
Chu Yao tied the bag tightly with a hemp rope, tied the bag firmly to the back seat, and got back on the motorcycle.
The music sounded again, accompanied by the engine and blowing sand. The speeding motorcycle was like a fiery red meteor, galloping through the silent desert.
About twenty minutes later, several white protrusions appeared at the end of the desert, and a number of slightly simple tents came into view.
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