Chapter 160 Chapter 160 Chapter 160 (Two in One...
At the end of the first month of the war, Luo Shizhen and Chu Xiao fought side by side again.
At the beginning of the war, all awakened people were arranged by the command center. Except for high-level teams like Silver Cocoon that needed to stay in the central battlefield, the rest of the teams were sent to various places.
Their return now is not good news, it only proves that the command center has given up on the Sifang city.
The recall of the Awakened meant that the city they were originally responsible for defending was completely abandoned.
The first time he saw Chu Xiao, Luo Shizhen was stunned.
In Luo Shizhen's impression, Chu Xiao has always been gentle and well-mannered since he was a child, with fair skin. No matter what the situation is, he always keeps himself clean.
Even when the group was doing a mission for the first time and had no experience and was in a mess, Chu Xiao tried his best to ensure his cleanliness.
Xiao Shan often made fun of him, saying that he shouldn't have awakened the fire element but the water element. He wished he could take a bath eight hundred times a day.
Chu Xiao also loves beauty. When they were in high school together, boys of the same age were showing off with acne on their faces, but Chu Xiao would treat a pimple on her face with extreme caution. She even went to the hospital to get acne-removing medicine. From the time that pimple appeared, Chu Xiao never drank beverages or ate spicy food again.
He would also bring some pictures to Luo Shizhen and ask which one he thought had a better figure. Despite his heavy academic workload, he would even take time out for fitness.
No matter what time it is, he is always so neat and tidy, with his handsome face neatly groomed.
But even Chu Xiao, who loves beauty so much, although she is still dressed neatly, now has a scar on her face that runs from her brow bone across the bridge of her nose, and her face also looks weathered.
Seeing Luo Shizhen staring at his face, Chu Xiao subconsciously put out his hand to cover his face and lowered his eyes slightly.
"I didn't pay attention when I was fighting a level seven monster. I only discovered this wound after it was over. It might have been contaminated. By the time I went to the purification room to clean it, it was too late."
He said, smiling nonchalantly:
"Half a month ago, when Xiao Shan and his team were evacuating, they passed by the army stationed by me and said that I looked quite manly and more handsome than before. What do you think? I shouldn't be ugly, right?"
His tone became a little cautious in the last sentence.
Luo Shizhen didn't hear anything. He walked straight forward and gently pulled away Chu Xiao's covering hand.
Combat is the fastest way to advance, not to mention that Chu Xiao is an elementalist, so his advancement speed is astonishingly fast. With his current strength, if Luo Shi really wants to cover his face and not let go of his hands, he will have to work hard.
But how could he resist the hand that Luo Shizhen stretched out?
Luo Shizhen easily took Chu Xiao's hand away. He looked at the wound that was still hideous after a month, and carefully stroked the edge. His eyes instantly turned red.
Chu Xiao was still smiling and said, "Didn't you say before that you were watching Pirates? Do you like the pirates in that movie? Do I look like a pirate now? Pretty cool, right?"
He smiled, but his eyes showed uneasiness, fearing that Luo Shi would really think that he looked ugly now.
Luo Shizhen just asked softly:
"Does it still hurt?"
Chu Xiao was stunned. The words he had prepared to praise pirates for being so cool were instantly suppressed by these three gentle words.
His eyes were red as well. He looked at Luo Shizhen and shook his head: "It's okay now."
"What about you? Are you injured? I heard that the weird ones first attacked the area you were stationed in."
Luo Shizhen gently stroked Chu Xiao's cheek with his fingers. A wisp of white mist, so small that it was almost invisible, drilled into the half-healed wound, found the faint pollution hidden deep inside and difficult to detect, and swallowed it in one gulp.
"I'm fine. Yong Zhou reacted quickly and gathered a large force as soon as the strange attack occurred. I have been with everyone the whole time, and Team Sui is also protecting me."
Chu Xiao was relieved: "That's good, you are a purifier, the weird will definitely target you, with Team Sui here, it should be no problem."
In the past, he might have been jealous, but in this crisis situation, he just wanted Luo Shizhen to be safe and sound.
He was well aware of Sui An's strength. If there was anyone in this world who could protect Shi Zhen without fail, it was only Sui An.
Chu Xiao said gratefully, "Is Captain Sui here? I brought some gifts back this time. I'm going to visit him and thank him for taking care of you."
Luo Shizhen then remembered that he had not yet told his friends that he and Sui An were together.
Everything happened so suddenly.
Almost not long after he and Sui An got together, the strange forces launched a full-scale attack. Then they fought day and night. They were so busy that they didn't even have time to eat. They could only drink the nutrient solution distributed by the war preparation center. The communication signals in various cities were destroyed, and it was difficult to contact the awakened people who were sent out. Naturally, there was no chance to tell Chu Xiao and the others about this.
Although war is raging now and humanity is on the verge of extinction, Luo Shizhen will immediately feel a sense of security whenever he thinks of Sui An.
He pursed his lips slightly, as he had just retreated from the battlefield and there was still a little dust on his cheeks. He smiled with a hint of shyness, just like before.
"I was just thinking of taking you to meet him. We're together now."
Chu Xiao was silent.
He paused for a long time before asking, "Well, I know you're all in the same team. When we assign you tasks, we'll definitely let you fight together."
"No, I mean, we became partners."
Of course, it was a joy to announce the good news to friends. Luo Shizhen's eyes sparkled as he looked at Chu Xiao with a grin:
"Chu Xiao, I have a boyfriend! Hehe!"
Chu Xiao remained silent and then covered his ears.
Luo Shi was really anxious: "What's wrong with you? Does your ear hurt? Did you get injured before coming here? Sit down quickly, I'll go call a doctor!"
"Chu Xiao, can you hear me? Or can you not hear clearly?!"
Chu Xiao was helped by him to sit down and closed his eyes.
He really wanted to be deaf at this moment.
But seeing that Luo Shi was really anxious, he spoke to comfort him:
"It's okay, I just have a little tinnitus. It might be the residual effect of the strange sonic attack I encountered before. It will be fine after a while."
He took a deep breath and asked, "Have you got the marriage certificate?"
Luo Shizhen shook his head: "No, we've only been together for a short time, isn't it too early to get a marriage certificate now?"
"Okay, okay, okay."
Chu Xiao himself didn't know what he was saying: "You are still too young, don't rush to get a marriage certificate, love should be long-term, there is still time to consider it after ten or twenty years."
This was Luo Shizhen's first time in love and he had no experience, but he had seen people in his small town fall in love when he was a child, so he was a little hesitant:
"Isn't it a bit too late to get a marriage certificate after ten or twenty years?"
"It's not too late."
Chu Xiao said firmly: "Those who are awakened live longer."
Luo Shizhen thought about it and felt that it made sense. Since lifespans were different, the time to get the marriage certificate would of course be different.
"Chu Xiao, shall we go to the medical tent and check your ears first?"
Chu Xiao shook his head, his face expressionless, but each word was uttered with a gnashing of teeth:
"I'm fine. I'll go see your captain first."
"Oh, by the way, Xiao Shan and the others will be withdrawing soon. They should also want to see Instructor Sui!"
Just as Chu Xiao said, Xiao Shan, Lu Qiujin, Rong Nian, Wen Hu, Cheng Yunshao and others were also recalled one by one.
Coincidentally, the headquarters finally chose Luoxia City as its base, the school for awakeners of Luo Shizhen's class.
The official reason given is that Luoxia City has a special geographical location, is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and is large enough to accommodate refugees.
However, Sui An privately told Luo Shizhen that Luoxia City has always been the core refuge area in the official crisis plan.
For example, the old principal who bears the lives of almost all the sacrificed awakeners, the vice principal whose ability can be called a bug, and the space elevator which is so expensive that even the central city may not install it, all appeared in a seemingly not-so-big awakener school in Luoxia City.
Perhaps returning to their alma mater filled the young awakeners with energy. After Xiao Shan and the others retreated to the rear, they immediately challenged Sui An to a duel.
But of course it is impossible to fight now.
At the critical moment of human survival, every awakened being must conserve as much strength as possible for use on the battlefield.
They agreed to fulfill their promise to fight once the war was over.
If it were in the past, Sui An would have ignored it.
Only children like to prove themselves through duels.
But this time, he agreed solemnly.
After all, her boyfriend is also a kid, and he thinks highly of these young people.
Luo Shizhen is very used to this kind of battle situation, whether it is when he is in school or after forming a team.
His stereotype of the awakened is that they never stop fighting, either against monsters or against their own people.
It seems that the words "live in peace" will never appear in the dictionary of the awakened.
But now, foreign enemies have united the awakened people from all over the world.
Even the two sexes, who had always been deliberately separated, gathered together, but lived separately. When they fought, they would divide the battlefield into the farthest areas.
The presence of the opposite sex does make the awakened ones feel anxious and have a strong desire to attack, but isn't that weird? Just attack the weirdness.
One after another, long-legged and solemn female awakeners stepped onto the battlefield, leaving Luo Shizhen, who had never come into contact with female awakeners, stunned.
OK, that's cool.
This is what he imagined his grandmother to be like when she was young.
When Luo Shizhen was a child, he would watch TV dramas and whenever a female hero appeared in them, he would immediately imagine himself as his grandmother.
Luo Shizhen couldn't help but look over there again and again. He was handsome, with clear eyes, and not too old. He looked shy and immature. The female awakeners who noticed him naturally didn't feel offended. Some of them who liked to playful waved and greeted him when he looked over secretly.
When being greeted, Luo Shizhen was stunned for a moment, then he became happy and waved back enthusiastically.
Sui An stood in the middle at some point, seemingly carefully identifying the half-strange corpse in his hand, with a slightly frowned look, looking somewhat distressed.
"What kind of species is this? Shi Zhen, can you help me take a look?"
"good!"
Luo Shizhen was fooled and trotted over actively: "This is Manman, a flying monster. Is this the only one? Manman has two bodies and often flies together. If one dies, the other will become the real body, and the memory is intact."
The Classic of Mountains and Seas records that the Manman has one wing and one eye, and flies in pairs, making it a loyal bird. But in fact, it is a bird with two wings and two eyes, but its body is separated, which is equivalent to having two lives.
Sui An threw away the half of Manman in his hand and praised:
"You still remember it clearly, it's almost weird. There should be another one. Let's go and find it together."
"good!"
Luo Shi was so happy to be praised that he not only forgot that every awakened person now wears a software to detect strange identities, but also forgot that he was greeting the female awakened people. He followed Sui An to look for the Manman who had lost half of his body and escaped.
Xiao Shan and others, who had just finished a battle and were sitting in front of the tent to rest, looked at this scene and sneered.
"vinegar concentrate."
Rong Nian said angrily: "It's just that Shi Zhen can't see it. Wait, he's so old, sooner or later Shi Zhen will dislike him."
As a mermaid with a relatively young appearance, the fact that Luo Shizhen chose Sui An, who was several years older than him, really shocked Rong Nian.
Lu Qiujin still had her usual gloomy expression: "Not necessarily. Shi Zhen is a sentimental person. As long as Sui An is unwilling to let go, he will definitely not give up on Sui An. If we insist on interfering, Shi Zhen might get angry. We don't need to break them up, we just need to join them."
Cheng Yunshao looked at them indescribably, then looked at Chu Xiao, and pulled him over to express his desire to join the warmth of this family.
"Let's go. The battle line over there is almost unsustainable."
Wen Hu quickly stood up as well. A huge tiger appeared in an instant and followed Cheng Yunshao. Behind it, mechanical tigers followed with their tails wagging.
Chu Xiao also stood up: "Let's go, it's useless to talk about this now. After we win this battle, there will always be a chance."
Xiao Shan had already stood up and was putting on protective gear one by one. "It's been just the past few days. The command center said that the weird attacks have been getting more and more intense these days, but it's always been weirds below level seven that are charging into battle. They've detected several weirds above level nine heading towards our country. When they arrive, it should be the final battle."
Chu Xiao: "Didn't they say that foreign monsters can't enter Xia Country? Maybe they can't get in."
"Maybe, that's all I can hope for."
The border of Xia State.
The giant fallen angel slowly opened his eyes from his deep sleep.
He had maintained the same posture for a long time without moving. He gently flapped his wings, and the stones on his body fell off. The cliff under his feet was cracked by his movements.
The fallen angel finally opened his eyes and looked at the strange figure in front of him that was very small compared to him.
He spread his wings, let out a sharp cry, and rushed towards the strange humanoid creature.
The attack was blocked, and the black-haired young man slowly landed, looking at the huge fallen angel in front of him that was filled with pollution.
"Even if you are assimilated into our species, do you still want to protect humanity?"
Bai Po said softly, "This world is truly admirable, as it can produce warriors who continue to fight even after death."
Behind him, a man with a crew cut said coldly:
"Bai Po, you still have so much nonsense. Get out of here if you don't want to fight!"
Bai Po glanced at him lightly and said, "I have come to respect Him and do not want to hurt Him."
"You come."
The man with a crew cut rolled his eyes, tore off his clothes, and instantly expanded to the same size as a giant fallen angel. A beast with a deer body, a cow's tail, horse hooves, covered in scales, and horns on its head appeared in the mountains.
It is the Qilin recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas".
At the same time, on the other side, in front of a huge fallen angel, stood another ferocious beast, like a tiger with wings. Its hair waved gently, and all the tree trunks it touched turned into venom.
Zi Feng stood beside Him, slowly twisting his body, and also transformed into an ugly monster with an exaggeratedly large mouth and head.
The fallen angel with long black hair lowered his eyes and looked at the two powerful and strange creatures in front of him. Instead of retreating, he took a step forward.
Behind Him, another fallen angel left the mountain where he had been stationed for twenty years, and cried out as he and his companions attacked the two monsters.
Luoxia City——
Luo Shizhen looked towards the distant sky. "Ying He said that the fallen angels stationed in the four corners of Xia Country were once like them, angelic awakened beings responsible for protecting the four corners. All awakened beings who have been transformed will lose their sanity, and the same is true for the fallen angels. But even though they have no memories or emotions, they still remember that they are stationed in Xia Country, guarding the four corners of Xia Country and resisting the weirdness."
"Those ninth-order monsters want to come in, and they'll first attack the fallen angels. Can they stop them?"
Sui An held him in his arms and gently stroked his back:
"Yes, and even if not, we are still here."
——Black feathers stained with blood slowly fell from the sky, and a huge angel figure suddenly fell to the ground without a sound.
Bai Po watched the battle end quietly.
The phone in his hand rang. When he answered it, it was Zi Feng's voice:
"The two fallen angels here have been dealt with. I will be reuniting with Lu Ming as planned."
Bai Po hung up the phone and looked at the injured man with a crew cut who also fell from the air and said:
"Mo Yi, your strength has declined."
"This guy is too difficult to deal with. Even with his bones broken, he still tried to stop me. Tsk, he's clearly one of us, yet he still wants to protect those weak humans. How stubborn."
The man with a crew cut brushed past the wound unhappily, and a black mist drifted past, and the wound instantly recovered.
"Bai Po, have you found your brother? Are you sure he's in Xia Country?"
Bai Po's tone was still calm:
"The only ones who haven't been swept away by the night are the Awakened. It seems my brother is among them."
Mo Yi hesitated for a moment, frowned and said:
"Ye Jiang really can't hurt my brother? Actually, it doesn't matter if we kill these humans slowly. It's only a matter of time before we occupy this place. If you hurt my brother, I will kill you."
Bai Po was still looking at the fallen angel's corpse on the ground:
"Don't worry, it's just a night fall. My brother is much stronger than you."
"It's just that you don't know, and my brother himself... doesn't know either."
He looked towards Luoxia City, and a hint of joy finally appeared on his usually calm face.
"We said we would come back, and now it's time to fulfill our promise."
Mo Yi tutted his words. "We said that? When did we say that? Haven't we just been here thirty years? Bai Po, why do you always talk so strangely?"
Bai Po did not respond to his question, but slowly flew into the sky:
"Let's go, it's time to go meet our brother."
In Luoxia City, the command center received one call after another.
Everyone was on edge until the person who answered the phone hung up dejectedly.
"Report, all fallen angels... have been sacrificed."
An atmosphere of despair instantly filled the command room.
Several fallen angels have always been the strongest line of defense for the Xia Kingdom. No matter how many strange invasions from outside there were in the past, they would be stopped outside the country by the fallen angels.
The reason why Xia State was able to maintain a stable living environment was largely because it did not have to worry about foreign invasions and only had to deal with internal weirdness and pollution.
But now, the fallen angel has also sacrificed himself.
There was no change in the commander's expression, but his slightly trembling pupils showed that he was not at peace inside.
"Get ready for the final battle."
Almost immediately after the words were spoken, all lights and electronic equipment in the command room were turned off.
Even if there was no light, it was daytime and the sun was at its brightest, so the command room shouldn't be dark.
But no, there was no light at all.
"What's going on?"
"Turn on the flashlight."
"Report, the flashlight is out of service!"
"Report, all equipment has failed."
The commander suddenly realized something and stood in front of the window, looking up at the pitch-black sky.
The sky above the command room was completely dark. Although it was not dark in the distance, it was also being swallowed by the invisible darkness. In just half a second, all that could be seen was a vast expanse of blackness.
His awakening ability is related to night vision. Even though it is dark all around him now, he should be able to see clearly.
But no, I can't see anything.
There was only the endless darkness, quickly swallowing up the entire earth.
The commander in another command room also stood by the window.
In the darkness, she silently recited what she had read in the Classic of Mountains and Seas:
"With a human face and a snake body, it is day when its eyes are open and night when its eyes are closed. It controls time and light."
"It's the Candle Dragon that has appeared."
In the darkness, the resettled refugees were in chaos. People in the dark will instinctively feel panic, not to mention that it is still a wartime state.
But the panic dissipated in less than a few seconds, and the tension in people's eyes turned into chaos.
Some awakened people noticed something was wrong: "Cover your mouths and noses! There's pollution!"
"Medical! Energy user! We need to remove the pollution here!"
Soon, energy users tried to remove the pollution, but were surprised to find that it was useless.
"My abilities can't suppress them!"
"Me too, I can't transfer this pollution away from people!"
Even the energy users who could deal with the pollution were unable to do anything about it. Chaos quickly ensued around them. The polluted people quickly became alienated and attacked those around them who had not yet been alienated.
The guards rushed forward to help, but were soon alienated by the pollution in the darkness.
Even the awakened ones gradually showed signs of alienation.
People have always known that there would be a decisive battle, that the end was approaching.
But no one thought that the other party didn't even launch a formal attack.
A night fell, and in less than two minutes, most of the human race had been killed, and it was still ongoing.
All responses have become empty talk.
Without light and technology, humans can’t even find where their enemies are.
The other party does not need to do anything, just watch quietly as the darkness swallows up the entire earth, and mankind will naturally perish.
However, things did not develop in this direction.
A white fog that was extremely dazzling in the dark night appeared out of nowhere, with a majestic appearance, growing like a huge tree, with branches and leaves spreading out, covering all parts of the camp. Every leaf was swallowing up the pollution in the dark night, and soon the pollution concentration in the camp was diluted.
Standing above the clouds, Bai Po, who had kept his eyes closed, curled his lips slightly and opened his eyes.
He looked down at Luo Shizhen who was trying hard to dispel the pollution with white mist, and smiled seductively.
"Brother, you are here."
Hong Ruo beside her became excited: "Look! Look! I told you that was my brother! But you didn't believe me!"
Bai Po ignored him and just pondered: "How can it be so small? It was clearly here thirty years ago."
Luo Shizhen seemed to have noticed something and looked up suddenly. Although it was pitch black all around and everyone was blind, his vision was not affected at all.
Therefore, it is also possible to clearly see the black-haired young man standing on the clouds, who is obviously a bad guy.
He stared at the other person with hatred, wishing he could rush up and bite that person, but he saw that the black-haired young man just smiled slightly and moved his mouth, as if looking at him and saying something.
Of course I can't hear it from such a distance.
Luo Shizhen immediately stared at him intently.
Ha! He learned lip reading when he was in Awakener School!
Luo Shizhen was multitasking, using his white mist to devour the pollution while trying to interpret what the black-haired young man was saying.
you……
Why……
Luo Shizhen figured it out, but he couldn't understand why this weird creature said that.
——"Why do you always stand on the side of humans?"
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