Chapter 29
On the night of the alien attack on the city, the moon was blood red. It was three times larger than usual, hanging brightly and shockingly in the sky. The blood-red moonlight covered the entire continent with a layer of blood, as if the mountains of corpses and thick blood outside the human city were spread evenly across the earth, making it look not so tragic.
July is a month filled with gun smoke and blood. Countless lives have been lost during this period. The roar of beasts, the sound of cannons, and the blood and smoke have continued on this land for more than seven hundred years.
Humans have human nature, and animals have animal nature. Human nature is greed, and animal nature is driven by instinct. It seems that humans and other species are destined to be unable to coexist peacefully.
Unable to coexist peacefully, and unable to completely eliminate the other side, humans and alien species can only survive in a fighting mode with the ultimate goal of destroying the other side.
When alien species attack cities and collide head-on with alien species, the border cities always suffer the heaviest losses, but this does not mean that the cities inside are safe. In fact, during the period of alien species attacking cities, even the central city cannot be said to be safe.
Because aliens are not beasts, they have more bizarre and varied abilities, larger bodies, more powerful strength and considerable intelligence.
On the ground, underground, in the air, on the sea, as long as you are on this planet, there is no real safety.
However, while almost every city has suffered different attacks, the border town of Sala, which borders the southwest of the Endless Sea, has not yet been attacked by alien species.
This is a very puzzling and strange thing!
In the seven hundred years since the great change, there has never been a city bordering the Endless Sea, the alien base camp, and it has not encountered any alien attacks during the Alien Attack Month!
Upon hearing the news, the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Legions all turned their attention, but due to the overwhelming attack of alien species on the city, they were too busy to take care of themselves and unable to investigate the matter. They could only keep the matter in their hearts and investigate again after some time had passed.
The atmosphere in Sala City was quiet yet tense. The residents of Sala City were glad that the alien species did not come, but at the same time they were highly alert for their arrival at any time.
Amidst the envious, jealous, and hateful comments from netizens in various cities on the internet, the people of Sala City are actually not as happy and relaxed as they think.
On the contrary, it is precisely because we don’t know why the alien species didn’t come and when they will come, and we wonder if they are holding back a big move?
Thinking about these things, the people of Sala City kept their spirits tense to the extreme level all day long, and would subconsciously think that any disturbance was an alien attack on the city.
After a full half month, although there were no casualties in Sala City, everyone's spirit was almost broken.
This is a kind of mental torture, which is agonizing and terrifying at the same time.
The streets that used to be bustling with traffic were now empty of vehicles, and almost all the businesses and street vendors were closed. The few that were open dared not make any noise, as if any noise would bring about an alien attack on the city.
Therefore, the entire Sala City seemed to have made an agreement, and did everything very cautiously, as if they were afraid of waking up the aliens who had "fallen asleep" for some unknown reason.
At the gate of the courtyard leading into Yongxiang Street in the chaotic area, Jiaojiao was wearing a duck raincoat, with her two tender white hands clinging to the edge of the door, looking up at the sky curiously.
There was a thunderstorm all night last night. The rumbling thunder scared Jiaojiao so much that she kept hiding in her father's arms. When she woke up this morning and found that the rain had not stopped yet, she ran out of the house excitedly wearing a raincoat, as if she had completely forgotten the fear she had felt when the thunder struck yesterday.
There was still a light drizzle falling from the sky. Jiaojiao turned her head to look at the flowers in the yard that were wilted by the rain, and stood on tiptoe to stretch out her tender white hands to catch the rain.
Jiaojiao felt a cold feeling in her hand, and she felt a little uncomfortable before she even bent her eyebrows, and she couldn't help but wrinkled her nose.
Yin Zheng came out of the living room with some milk in his hand. He walked over, squatted down, picked up Jiaojiao's little hand, and looked at it. He found that the white and tender palm was slightly red. He rubbed it gently with his fingertips, and a low voice escaped from the corner of his mouth: "It will be uncomfortable if the rain falls on you. Jiaojiao, be careful and don't get wet."
Especially the rain during this period of time in Xicheng, which contains several times more substances harmful to the human body than before, making it more uncomfortable after being touched.
"Jiaojiao gets it. I won't get wet in the rain next time." Jiaojiao said as she obediently took the bottle handed to her by her father.
"It's okay. If you like, we can go there later. When we go to the central city, dad will accompany you and let you get caught in the rain." Yin Zheng, who always indulges Jiaojiao, said.
"Hello, Daddy." Upon hearing that, Jiaojiao smiled and threw herself into her father's arms, rubbing her face against him.
Yin Zheng looked down at Jiaojiao in his arms. Seeing the happy look on his fair and tender face, his heart softened slightly. He couldn't help but raise his hand to touch his head with the little yellow duck raincoat and hat on.
"Daddy, look." Jiaojiao, who had just emerged from her father's arms, squatted in front of a small puddle with her bottle in her mouth, pointing to the water. "Where's Jiaojiao?"
Yin Zheng squatted with him in front of the puddle. The small puddle reflected his and Jiaojiao's faces, as well as the sky with a light blue color after the dark clouds dispersed.
"Dad, Jiaojiao, Yunyun, the sky, and the house." Jiaojiao pointed at the scenery appearing in the puddle and said one by one, and curved her eyes after finishing speaking.
It's not uncommon to see these puddles in basins of water, but the water in one's own basin is different from the puddles formed by rain falling from the sky, so it's always more novel to look at.
As she watched, Jiaojiao stood up and walked to a place a little distance away from her father. She raised her feet wearing water shoes and stepped tentatively into the puddle, as cautiously as if she was afraid that there were some little monsters hiding in it. After her feet landed in the puddle and she found that there was no danger, Jiaojiao stepped on it again with a little force.
The water splashed up and down, and Jiaojiao was so happy that she pursed her lips and showed her small teeth.
"Dad, it's fun." Jiaojiao looked at her father, her dark and bright eyes filled with sparkling smiles.
Yin Zheng, who was squatting on the ground, tilted his head, and a trace of doubt flashed across his face, which always exuded a hostile aura. He had traveled countless roads in the rain and stepped on countless puddles like this, but he never thought it was fun?
Thinking of this, he stood up and walked forward. When he raised his foot and tried to step on it, Jiaojiao quickly stopped him.
"Daddy, put them on." Jiaojiao took off her warm yellow waders while holding the bottle in her mouth, and handed them to her daddy while standing shakily on one leg.
Yin Zheng looked at the rubber boots in his hands, which were no bigger than his palm, feeling very embarrassed. He lifted his feet to show Jiaojiao and said simply, "It's too small to wear."
Jiaojiao looked at the shoes in her hands, then looked at her father's big feet, and opened her mouth in surprise. Her father's feet were so big!
The bottle fell straight down from his suddenly open mouth. If Yin Zheng had not caught it quickly, it would have had an intimate contact with the ground.
Holding the bottle handed to her by her father again, Jiaojiao shakily put on her shoes with her father's hand. Then she lowered her head to lift up the raincoat outside her clothes. Her two little hands struggled to grab four crystal coins from her small pocket and handed them to Yin Zheng: "Dad, buy me some big shoes."
Seeing him struggling to hand over the crystal coin, Yin Zheng's heart softened uncontrollably, his ferocious face no longer looking so terrifying. He reached out and took a crystal coin from Jiaojiao's hand, saying in a low, hoarse voice, "That's enough."
Jiaojiao carefully put the remaining three crystal coins back into her pocket, clapped her hands, and then raised her brows and stepped on the puddle. She looked up at her father and said, "It's fun."
Yin Zheng looked at his happy little look, and imitated his movements and stepped on the water. Suddenly, water splashes much bigger than Jiaojiao's splashed high up and landed on Jiaojiao's raincoat.
Jiaojiao smiled cheerfully, then she pulled at her father's trouser leg with a bit of worry and said, "Dad isn't wearing a raincoat, his pants and clothes will get wet."
Upon hearing this, Yin Zheng turned around and went back to put on the same little yellow duck raincoat as Jiaojiao. Jiaojiao asked him to buy the raincoat because in his little boy's opinion, if Jiaojiao has one, his father must have one too.
Just like that, two people, one big and one small, wearing exactly the same raincoat, stepped on a small puddle one by one. The sound of stepping on the water was mixed with the soft laughter of the children, which made the people living nearby feel better.
It is difficult to hear such soft laughter in the chaotic area, because here both adults and children are troubled by the poverty of life.
The children of hunters who were a little better off, because of their fathers' tough education since childhood, were more likely to fight and play. When they laughed occasionally, they were also very noisy, which made people feel annoyed when listening to them.
It’s really a bit fun!
Normally, I wouldn't feel anything when I stepped into a puddle while passing by, but now, Jiaojiao and I are stepping in the puddle one after another, listening to his rare laughter, smelling the unique smell after a summer rain, and watching the clear sky ripple in the puddle with each step, and the water splashing high up, and then falling like dewdrops, some splashing on the raincoat, some splashing on the shoe surface, and some falling farther away. It is indeed a bit of joy.
Behind the wall, the hunters living nearby were attracted by the child's happy and soft laughter, and they couldn't help but stand in front of the wall and tiptoe to look.
Sunlight pierced through the clouds, setting in the quiet, deserted alley. Two children, one big and one small, wearing identical rubber duck raincoats, stepped through the puddles. The sound of splashing water, soft laughter, and the tender voices calling for "Daddy" drifted through the air.
The golden sunlight fell on the puddles of various sizes on the ground, reflecting the colorful rays of light that intertwined and fell on their raincoats, as if putting a layer of dreamy colorful clothes on the two people, one big and one small.
This was an extremely healing scene, and it calmed the viewer's mind. They no longer felt heavy over the numerous casualties reported online, nor were they bothered by the strange phenomenon surrounding the attack on Sala City.
But when they saw clearly who the tall person in the yellow duck raincoat was, the faint smile on their faces that was healed froze instantly.
Then who?!
Tell me who is that?!
Come and tell me that person is definitely not that monster Yin Zheng?!
Hurry up!!!
Did you know that my three perspectives are ruined?!
The people in the border town have always admired the strong, especially the hunters, where this admiration for the strong is even more outrageous. So although they are wary of and afraid of Yin Zheng, it does not prevent them from secretly recognizing his strength.
There were even several discussions on Skynet with people from other border towns about who was the strongest hunter, and they had heated arguments with people from other border towns over Yin Zheng.
In the minds of the hunters in Sala Border Town, Yin Zheng is undoubtedly the strongest among the hunters. This is certainly not because Yin Zheng can easily hunt level four alien species in the Endless Sea, but because in the past few decades, Yin Zheng has killed many alien species and turned the city walls red.
During the month when alien species attacked the city, the hunters cooperated with the army to take turns guarding the city walls, but Yin Zheng guarded a section of the city wall alone every time. Remember, he guarded the city wall alone for an entire month.
The hunters in Sala City all had a scene deeply imprinted in their minds: that tall figure, soaked in blood, standing silently and ferociously on the city wall.
Many people in Sala City had a vague feeling that as long as he stood on the top of the wall for one day, the wall would not be breached by alien species.
The hunters guarding the city wall were rotated every day, except Yin Zheng. Someone wanted to kill him and deliberately refused to rotate, so he remained silent and did not resist, and just stood guard for a whole month.
He was sixteen years old at that time and still thin. Since that incident, no one dared to provoke him and they all called him a monster in private.
Now, you tell me, this is such a ferocious monster, wearing a rubber duck raincoat and playing in the water with a two-year-old child?
And they look like they’re having fun?!
Shocked my whole family!!!
"Has Yin Zheng finally gone crazy raising a child???"
On the virtual screen, group messages in a group called Sarah Hunters were updating rapidly.
"That should be it. My wife used to be so calm, but after taking care of the kids, she's completely different. She's so fierce that she can beat three of us at once!!!"
"My wife is the same, especially when she's tutoring the kids. She's scarier than the aliens."
"Me too. Whenever I hear my kid scolding me, my heart trembles."
"What are you talking about? What's this about children or not? Why did Yin Zheng go crazy?" asked an unknown person.
"Same question?"
A brave hunter quietly controlled the terminal to take a photo of Yin Zheng and Jiaojiao stepping on a puddle and sent it to the group.
"Brother Six!"
"Brother, you're awesome!"
"Brother, you're awesome!"
"We will remember you!"
“I’ll drink to remember you every year on this day!”
"I express my admiration and respect!"
This is someone who knew in advance.
"Fuck!"
“Oh my god!”
"My eyes are going blind!"
"You know what, the more I look at it, the more I feel a strange harmony!"
This is for people who didn't know about the photo beforehand and suddenly saw it.
In the end, whether they knew about it in advance or not, their unanimous conclusion was that Yin Zheng had gone crazy with the child!
No wonder I saw him running around the street in hospital gown some time ago. It turns out he was taking care of his child!
Yin Zheng, who was stepping in puddles with Jiaojiao in the alley, turned around and looked in one direction.
Behind the wall in this direction, the hunter who had just taken the secret photo was now squatting in the corner in fear, muttering in his heart, "You can't find me, you can't find me, you can't find me!"
After watching for a while without noticing any danger, Yin Zheng turned around, completely unaware that the photo of himself stepping on a puddle in a little yellow duck raincoat had spread quickly among the hunters in Sala City, and was even showing signs of being spread outside.
In the photo that was circulated quickly, a man who looked tall, fierce and cold-blooded was wearing a very childish little yellow duck raincoat that was incompatible with his personality. Next to him was a small and adorable baby, wearing the same little yellow duck raincoat. At this moment, the baby was looking up at the tall man with its fair and tender face. No one knew what the baby was saying, but the big, bright, dark eyes were filled with a smile that was full of broken stars.
This extremely impactful picture gives people a strong sense of incongruity, but at the same time it inexplicably touches people's hearts, making them soften unconsciously and feel inexplicably healed.
It's like seeing a trembling, soft and white flower blooming on a battlefield full of smoke, which makes people subconsciously pay attention to it and feel happy about it.
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