4 · Chapter 4
In the azure sky, white doves flapped their wings and flew between the tall buildings. The red cloak swept across the blue sky of the metropolis as usual. The fast-flying red and blue figures shattered the rare white clouds.
It was an ordinary morning in the metropolis, no different from any other day. The citizens of the City of Tomorrow went about their daily lives as per their routine, and the streets were filled with an atmosphere of peace and tranquility.
Spring brings a breath of revival to the city. The gentle spring breeze blows the green leaves, and the shadows of the trees fall on Messiah's face, leaving a hazy light and shadow effect.
Messiah walked calmly on the streets of the metropolis. After a few days of exploration, he had become accustomed to everything in the metropolis.
——Especially since Messiah had access to the Internet a few days ago, he had absorbed a lot of knowledge and information on the Internet, and his understanding of the world had already made great progress. He would no longer do the outlaw behavior of trying to run naked in the street.
The vendors of roadside food trucks greeted pedestrians with a smile, enthusiastically calling out to the passing Messiahs: "Hey, good morning, would you like a chili hot dog?"
Messiah smelled a spicy and pungent smell at the tip of his nose, and his calm expression finally changed. The familiar spicy smell reminded him of a painful experience. He couldn't help but shook his head violently to reject the stall owner's proposal, and his ahoge swayed with his movements.
A few days ago, when Messiah was exploring the metropolis freely, he had tried food with similar flavor out of curiosity. The result was that after taking two bites, he burst into tears with an expressionless face, which scared the waiter.
Messiah didn't want to experience the pain in his mouth and tongue again, so he quickened his pace and quickly moved away from the chili hot dog truck. A group of children just happened to run past him laughing.
A little girl stopped when she saw Messiah and skipped towards him.
"Big brother, good morning!" The little girl smiled brightly at Messiah. A grain of rice had grown on her missing front tooth. "You look happy today!"
Messiah tried hard to identify the little girl's appearance. Finally, he recognized her by the missing front teeth and said with sudden realization, "It's you."
It's the Superman balloon girl, the one who gave him the lollipop.
"Good morning." Messiah looked down at the little girl and replied in a steady voice, "I'm not happy."
"The lollipops are delicious, thank you."
The little girl shook her braids in confusion. The Messiah's response was somewhat incoherent. She tried to understand what the Messiah said, but she couldn't.
Fortunately, the words "lollipops are delicious" woke her up, and the little girl suddenly realized and clapped her hands.
It turned out that the older brother was asking her for candy.
The little girl rummaged through her pockets and pulled out a piece of candy. She put it mysteriously into Messiah's hand and said in a low voice, "Shh—if Tom and the others saw this, they would definitely ask me for it. I only have two candies left."
"I hope big brother will be happy in the future." The little girl patted Messiah's hand seriously, pretending to be an adult and said earnestly, "Candy is delicious, but for the sake of your teeth, you should eat less."
The playmates behind her had already started calling out to the little girl.
"Heidi, hurry up, the circus is about to start. If you don't leave now, you will miss Mr. Chaplin's opening performance—"
The little girl waved to Messiah, said "Bye, big brother", then turned and ran away happily.
Messiah looked at the little girl's back and slowly raised his right palm. The colorful transparent candy wrapper sparkled with brilliant colors under the sunlight.
He slowly and methodically unwrapped the candy wrappers, folded them up neatly, and put them together with the candy wrapper from last time.
Messiah's pockets are filled with strange things: two candy wrappers, some cat hair, a flyer, a few leaves, a piece of chocolate, each with its own story.
He didn't know why he kept these things, but he collected them all inexplicably, and the amount kept increasing.
Messiah crunched the candy in his mouth and couldn't help squinting his eyes. He liked the taste; the "sweetness" made his mouth feel very comfortable.
The gentle warm breeze blew Messiah's hair, bringing up a few strands of white hair, and his heartbeat seemed to become lighter in the warm air flow.
A white dove flapped its wings and flew over the Messiah's head. Superman's figure appeared again in the blue sky. The red and blue figure seemed to be holding something in his arms. He rushed into the blue sky at a speed faster than the speed of light and rushed out of the atmosphere.
Superman's speed was so fast that no one could catch up with him, and no one could see him, except the Messiah who looked up as if he had sensed something.
Superman?
Messiah tilted his head in confusion. Why was Superman rushing out of Earth holding a human woman?
This was the first time Messiah saw Superman so anxious, but he didn't think too much about it. His attention was soon drawn to the ice cream truck not far away.
Messiah crunched his candy and walked briskly toward the ice cream truck. He stopped in front of it.
A furry cat took the opportunity to lie on Messiah's trouser leg, rubbing its tail against his exposed ankles, and calling "Mimi Mimi" softly and coquettishly.
But the next second, everything was different.
A pitch-black nuclear bomb fell from the sky, and a huge mushroom cloud rose above the sky of the metropolis, destroying everything in an instant.
In just a moment, huge light and heat burst out, and the strong impact of the explosion destroyed everything in an instant. The scorching flames and heat waves suddenly erupted, and the explosion and heat waves swept across and destroyed everything.
High-rise buildings collapsed, broken glass melted and evaporated, green trees and grass turned to ashes and then disappeared, and the earth-shattering earthquake and impact destroyed all the buildings in sight.
The chattering pedestrians were reduced to ash by the intense heat, their shattered bones collapsing on the ground. One moment, they were smiling. The next, only skeletons remained. The next, even those skeletons collapsed and shattered.
Everything was destroyed, buildings collapsed into rubble, flesh and blood burned to ashes, and the City of Tomorrow disappeared forever.
In just a few seconds, Metropolis went from a vibrant city of tomorrow to a dead and silent ruin.
Messiah watched all this with a blank expression. The ice cream cart melted into liquid in front of him, and the vendor's skeleton still maintained the action of handing ice cream to Messiah before it shattered and collapsed.
Messiah stood in the middle of the ruins, his expression blank and his mind blank, not knowing how to react.
He subconsciously clutched the ice cream in his hand. Everything around him was destroyed in the nuclear explosion, and only Messiah and the ice cream in his hand remained intact.
Everything was gray, even the metropolis's eternally azure sky had turned a dull, pale gray.
The ice cream began to melt, and the melted liquid dripped onto Messiah's hands.
There was another snap, and something rolled to the Messiah's feet.
Messiah looked down and saw that it was a loose tailbone from the kitten that had been rubbing against his ankle.
Originally, the kitten was lying on his feet, but when Messiah stepped forward to take the ice cream, the kitten twitched its tail and sensibly made room. At this moment, the kitten still maintained the posture of snuggling against his legs, its body only a skeleton.
The ice cream was intact, but the kitten was destroyed.
Messiah crushed the ice cream in his hand with a snap, knelt on one knee in silence, and picked up the tailbone from the ground.
He carefully put the tailbone into his pocket and put it together with the candy wrappers he had received earlier.
The moment he touched the candy wrapper, Messiah suddenly thought of the little girl. He suddenly looked up and looked around, and all he saw were ruins of broken walls and ruins.
He listened with his ears and looked with his eyes, trying to find the familiar existence and the familiar life, but there were only ruins and dead silence.
The Messiah found nothing.
The City of Tomorrow disappeared, all life disappeared, everything was destroyed, nothing was left.
Messiah looked at all this in confusion. He subconsciously covered his pockets which were filled with many things, not knowing how to react.
He doesn't understand, he doesn't comprehend, he doesn't know.
Is this what Superman wants him to observe? But all he sees is destruction.
An emotion that Messiah could not understand was boiling in his heart. His heart was beating rapidly, and the gentle breath that had been acquired over the past few days condensed into a cold blade.
Life. Fragility. Destruction.
Messiah watched everything in Metropolis with an expressionless face.
Before this, Messiah could hardly separate the game from reality due to his amnesia. Even though he knew that this was a game, he could not look at it from the perspective of a player. He had to think of himself more as a part of this place.
But now, the Messiah is more awake than ever.
This is a fake game, so the metropolis will suddenly be destroyed and life will disappear at will. But he is the only real player, so the ice cream in his hand will remain intact after the metropolis is destroyed.
He is different from them.
Players didn't need to empathize with the fragile creatures in the game. Messiah told himself that since he didn't know how to react, he didn't need to react. It was normal for players to be indifferent.
Messiah looked at the ruins in front of him with indifference until a shrill cry was heard, and then he came to his senses.
He subconsciously looked towards the source of the sound. Are there still living creatures in the metropolis...?
A shrill wail resounded through the sky, and the God of the World knelt on the ruins of the metropolis, wailing like never before.
The City of Tomorrow has disappeared, but the Son of Tomorrow is still alive.
...Is the Son of Tomorrow really still alive?
[Plop, plop, plop.]
At the same moment that Messiah heard Superman, Superman also heard Messiah, and it was the only heartbeat in the dead silence of Metropolis.
Superman rushed through the ruins with red eyes and appeared in front of Messiah in an instant.
"It's you."
Superman looked at Messiah's bewildered expression and forced a smile, trying to convey warmth to this child who had lost everything like him, but his aching heart and boiling anger prevented him from doing so.
"Great, you're still alive." Superman's smile was even more terrifying than his angry expression. He spoke soothing words, but every word sounded tearful. "You are the only survivor in Metropolis."
Superman tried to say something more to the Messiah, but the sadness and anger stuck in his throat prevented him from speaking.
Messiah nodded slowly. He looked at Superman's twisted smile and whispered, "You too."
The two of them are the only two survivors of Metropolis.
"Very good." Superman gripped Messiah's shoulders tightly with trembling hands, his tone almost forcing, "Messiah, stay with me, follow me."
"I will protect you, I will avenge Metropolis, I will avenge you."
Messiah looked at Superman's ferocious expression with his red eyes, and his consciousness became clearer than ever.
No, he said in his heart, not for me.
Revenge for me is just an excuse. The one who wants revenge is you, Superman.
But Messiah nodded slowly.
It was just a game anyway, so it didn't matter. If he didn't follow Superman, he didn't know how to continue the game after Metropolis was destroyed.
The game panel is triggered at the right time:
[Main Mission: Follow Superman]
[A nuclear bomb was dropped on Metropolis. After Metropolis was destroyed, Superman proposed that you follow him for revenge. What should you do?]
But looking at Superman whose expression softened a little because of his nod, Messiah inexplicably remembered what Superman had said before.
——"No one can dictate or force you, not even me."
"Very good." Superman nodded, his expression full of hatred, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Come with me, let's go find the Joker together."
Superman stared into Messiah's eyes, the rage burning in his eyes almost eroding his brain: "It was him, it was the Joker who destroyed Metropolis! He is the culprit of Metropolis!"
He grabbed Messiah's arm as if he was grabbing the last straw.
"I will kill Xiao Chou and avenge Metropolis."
【Author’s words】
That’s right! It’s unjust!
After laying so much groundwork, I finally get to the nuclear explosion hehehehehehe [sunglasses]
The comment section is so cold that I am shivering. I want more comments. [burst into tears]
(The two lines of text actually match the format [狗头])
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