Chen Ao is an extremely ordinary office worker, nearly 30 years old. He started working after graduating from high school. Until yesterday, he worked as a salesperson in a furniture store in Heyu District, working more than ten hours a day just to get the meager salary to support his family.
There are more than a dozen administrative regions in Luogong City, and Heyu District is just a relatively peripheral area. Its economic level can only be considered average at best.
Chen Ao grew up in this area. His ancestors were survivors from an underground shelter. Fortunately, they were not contaminated too much, but unfortunately, they were just ordinary people who had not mutated.
So by the time of Chen Ao's generation, they were still just ordinary people and had no possibility of awakening the Force.
In this fortified city, ninety-nine percent of the people are like him, unable to learn martial arts or awaken the mysterious and powerful Force.
The Dark Ages were different from later generations. The rulers did not cover up or conceal the extraordinary powers. On the contrary, they carried out talent selection to cultivate more extraordinary people.
Unfortunately...
No matter how much selection or training is done, the upper limit of ordinary people is there, and only a very small number of humans can break through the shackles of innateness.
When Chen Ao was a child, he also fantasized that he could awaken and become a superior force user, or at least become a martial artist. However, the cruelty of reality made him disappointed and frustrated.
Since he had no talent for studying, it was natural that he could not get into the only two universities in the city. After graduating from high school, like most of his classmates, he went out to work and contributed his meager efforts to the city's construction.
"It's over now! I've offended people! I've lost my job, everything is gone!"
In the narrow room, Chen Ao was lying on a small wooden bed, his clothes disheveled, staring blankly at the ceiling.
His girlfriend ran away with someone, he lost his job, and he offended his boss's friend, who was a powerful martial artist.
It is true that good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes singly.
Everyone has different kinds of misfortunes, but some people's misfortunes are particularly severe. Ordinary people have to think about what to eat tomorrow, let alone anything else.
Chen Ao stayed at home all day and did not go out. He was always worried that someone would come to cause trouble, but fortunately, he was a small character and would not be hated by others.
Under such high mental stress, he fell asleep without knowing when.
midnight.
Cuckoo--
Chen Ao was awakened by unbearable hunger. He opened his hazy eyes and subconsciously reached for his glasses on the bedside table. "What time is it now? I'm so hungry!"
But the hand didn't touch anything, it touched nothing.
Tick-tock——
Just when Chen Ao was in a daze, a sticky liquid seemed to drip down his head. The cold and fishy smell woke him up instantly.
He opened his eyes. Although he was born with myopia, he could see things very clearly now.
"Where...where is this place?!"
Chen Ao fell off the bed, stunned by the scene before him.
He was in a pile of ruins. The narrow iron bed behind him was covered with dust and stained with some unknown blood.
At the farthest point in sight, in the center of the city's ruins, a pitch-black spire towering into the clouds stood obliquely above the earth.
It was a strange spiral-shaped leaning tower, its entire body was as black as ink, and it kept rolling like a dark cloud. On the top of the tower was a circular vertical eye pattern, which was emitting an extremely terrifying and powerful vortex, sucking all the living things on this land.
Countless souls, with different faces, whether human or mutated animals, they all wailed and screamed in pain, and were completely absorbed by the dark spire.
At the top of the black tower, even the clouds were devoured by the atmosphere, and the atmosphere completely disappeared, revealing the true sunlight that Luogong City had been unable to see for years. Without the cover of the atmosphere, the strong light emitted by the sun should have hurt Chen Ao's naked eyes.
But in reality...
The sun has dimmed.
This black tower not only extracts energy from the earth, but also from other planets and even the sun. In the dark vacuum of the universe, the light and heat burning on the sun turn into a scorching vortex, crossing the distant space and being absorbed and swallowed by this black tower of indescribable length.
Every once in a while, the sun will get a little dimmer and its temperature will continue to drop until it finally collapses completely into a white dwarf, a neutron star, and then turns into a black hole.
Until the last moment, not only the entire earth, but the entire solar system will turn into nothingness.
"This is what the future will look like." Just as Chen Ao was terrified and nearly passed out, a gentle voice reached his ears. "With the construction of that tower, all living things will be devoured, the world will be destroyed, the Earth will disappear, stars will burn out and collapse, and the solar system will come to an end."
"And the end of all this will be in one month."
The voice was neither hurried nor slow, but it sounded unusually reassuring.
"The world...will be completely destroyed!?"
Chen Ao is just an ordinary person. His first reaction when he saw this scene was that he was dreaming, and his second reaction was to pass out. This is the physical stress response that humans make when they are unable to accept the facts.
However, the voice in his ear seemed to have some kind of magic, which not only prevented him from fainting, but made him quickly accept the fact.
He turned around but didn't see any figure. However, at this moment, a warm and scorching light emerged in his heart. The light flickered slightly, soothing his inner fear and anxiety.
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