Because of the different time zone, it was getting dark here.
It was pitch black all around, with only the car headlights shining like fireflies in the night.
The scorching downpour continued relentlessly, pattering down on the roof of the SUV.
The ice has now melted, and the terrain has returned to its former uneven state.
Unable to proceed any further, Liu Kai had no choice but to drive along the newly revealed road.
His enhanced "scan" covers a radius of 12 kilometers, and its accuracy has also been significantly improved.
The feeling of having a god-like perspective overlooking mountains and rivers is quite magical.
It's like "divine thought" in the world of cultivation.
Fortunately, his brain had been reinforced multiple times; otherwise, he might not have been able to withstand the impact of such a massive amount of information on his nerve cells.
With the scanner fully open and your eyesight excellent, you can take in the entire surrounding area.
It is precisely because the brain is strengthened that things that were about to be forgotten in memory reappear.
Every book I've read, every movie I've watched.
At this moment, it all seems as clear as if it happened yesterday.
To Liu Kai's surprise, he discovered that he had actually learned English!
My mind drifted back to the vast vocabulary I had memorized during my student days, and the grammar and collocations I knew so well.
It even benefits from precise control over the throat muscles and vocal cords.
He can make every sentence he reads sound authentically British or American.
The saying goes, "It's never a bad thing to have many skills."
Next, Liu Kai had the smart glasses teach him the purest Japanese.
Perhaps it will come in handy when you catch someone and start interrogating them!
With focused practice, Liu Kai's Japanese has improved rapidly.
He opened his mouth with an impeccably authentic colonel's accent: "There's an old Chinese saying, 'Those who diligently pursue their duties are heroes...'"
...
The rest of the journey went very smoothly.
But as he walked along, he only saw one empty house after another.
There was no trace of any living person found!
It seemed that the vast majority of animals had died in that cold snap; there were no noisy frogs or grasshoppers in the dark forest.
Even though the ground was covered with the rotting corpses and bones of humans, no carrion crows came up to enjoy their meal.
Only the tenacious maggots stubbornly continued to wriggle.
Perhaps because the vehicle was moving very quietly and the smell was blocked out, the mutated animals remained quietly in the shadows and did not attack.
Apart from the sound of raindrops and rolling wheels, the world was completely silent.
Liu Kai felt that it was too quiet here, eerily quiet.
It was as if the entire vast world was devoid of any life except for him.
He has never believed in ghosts or gods, and possesses formidable strength, so he is unafraid of any threat.
But the fear of loneliness is a biological instinct.
This boundless loneliness sent chills down Liu Kai's spine for no apparent reason.
So I released Little Black from the storage space. Having a living creature by my side made me feel much more at ease.
However, looking at Xiao Hei beside him, he once again sensed that subtle bond he had felt when he first woke up.
One of those traces came from the husky, Xiao Hei!
However, this feeling was too mystical, and it disappeared when he tried to sense it seriously.
Liu Kai wasn't one to dwell on things; he believed that one day he would figure out what this feeling was all about.
Anyway, it doesn't seem like a bad thing now.
Right now, he's vaguely recalling what happened inside the storage space.
I know that Xiao Hei has also been strengthened by his "plundering" and absorbing energy.
A careful scan of Xiao Hei's body revealed that it had indeed become much stronger, and even its brain capacity had increased slightly.
Fortunately, it hasn't grown any bigger, otherwise this SUV might not even be able to fit it.
The increasingly intelligent Xiao Hei can also sense the desolation of the outside world.
The usually lively and active animal sat quietly in the back of the SUV, gazing into the distance through the car window and the boundless darkness.
As the off-road vehicle moved further forward, Liu Kai's sense of loneliness grew stronger.
Because at this point he was less than 12 kilometers away from Shimotsuma City.
The entire cityscape gradually scanned into his mind.
As always, all that remains are corroded skeletons exposed after the ice melts, but not a trace of human habitation!
He was naturally unaware that Xiao Rizi was attempting to imitate Dong Shixi and engage in the so-called "house-swapping tactic".
This resulted in the entire territory being a desolate and uninhabited area.
Two months ago.
All Self-Defense Force soldiers and ordinary survivors (now militia) had long since been transferred to the northwest coast of Japan.
Also gathered on the northwest coast were Japan's small number of armored units and a large number of civilian vehicles.
The whole scene was absolutely spectacular!
Liu Kai was unaware that shortly after these little ones gathered on the northwest coast, the first wave of thawing rays suddenly struck.
A scorching ray, tens of meters in diameter, was launched into space from a ground base in China.
After being reflected multiple times by reflectors in space, it filled the skies above this island nation.
Ultimately, the ray struck the sacred mountain in the eyes of the Japanese soldiers with unerring accuracy: Mount Fuji.
In an instant, the dense, persistent clouds in the sky were rapidly melted and pierced through.
The earth finally welcomed the long-awaited sunshine.
But tragedy struck as Mount Fuji erupted violently!
Large amounts of lava, scorching smoke, and toxic gases filled the sky, obscuring it.
Although the smoke and dust reduced the destructive power of the rays, the erupting magma successfully raised the temperature here.
Soon, the reflector in space adjusted its angle.
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