Liu Ying and his brothers died in battle, and Yan Kuan fled.
This is the news Liu Nian heard from Chen Ling.
I was chatting with Yan Kuan yesterday, and today it's turned into this.
Life is unpredictable; that's the only word Liu Nian can use to describe it.
Young Master Zhu, one of the four great families—this was the first time Liu Nian had ever heard of such a thing.
As a former homebody who would go home and play games after get off work, interpersonal relationships were just a concept to me.
However, I can find some time to "visit" Young Master Zhu.
After all, it's only polite to reciprocate!
Without the market and hotel, the neighborhood was no longer the place Liu Nian needed, so he turned and left, heading home.
The anti-corrosion agent remained pressed tightly against Liu Nian's arm. Looking at the bottle in front of him, he felt a chill run down his spine. Did this thing really have such high defensive capabilities?
The unknown.
Five masked people were having a heated discussion around a long table.
"I object. It's only been ten days. If you do this, you're sending them to their deaths." The voice belonged to a woman wearing a fox mask.
"A merciful person cannot command an army. How can you train troops if you are only kind-hearted like a woman?" the man wearing a bear mask at the opposite table retorted.
"The war is going against us, don't you know that?"
"And we haven't even settled the score with you for delaying the update without permission yet," the voice on the other end, wearing a wolf mask, added insult to injury.
"Don't talk nonsense, it's just a data error," the dog-masked man on the same side as the woman said, trying to smooth things over.
"Besides, do you have any evidence? Be careful, or I'll sue you for false accusation!"
Then both sides started hurling insults at each other, pointing fingers at each other.
"Enough, quiet down." A man wearing a tiger mask in the center of the long table couldn't stand the atmosphere any longer and slammed his fist on the table.
Everyone seemed to be afraid of the man. After he spoke, they stopped blaming each other and all looked at him.
The man looked around with satisfaction, cleared his throat, and said, "Time is of the essence, so this is a last resort."
"Activate the Cataclysm mode to drive them out of the city; they still need to undergo further training."
"Boss..." The fox-masked man stood up and looked at the man, wanting to say something, but was interrupted by the man raising his hand.
"Open the hiring hall at the same time. If that doesn't save them, it would be merciful to let them die now."
After hearing this, the woman lowered her head and stopped talking, and the situation was indeed as the man had described.
"I hope there won't be any more data errors this time, otherwise I'll blame everyone here." The man spread his hands on the table and looked at everyone.
An invisible pressure spread, and everyone hurriedly nodded in agreement.
"Then proceed as planned. Meeting adjourned!"
[WARNING: All players please note that a version update is coming soon]
[WARNING: All players please note that a version update is coming soon]
[WARNING: All players please note that a version update is coming soon]
"Why has it been updated again?"
Liu Nian listened to the system notification with a puzzled expression.
He was unaware of the impending danger and was busy putting supplies into his spatial ring in the room.
[Cataclysm Mode Begins: 30 Minutes Countdown]
Mission: Successfully escape the city.
[Mission Successful: Reward 500 Experience Points]
Mission Failed: Death
Five hundred experience points? You should know that killing a boss only gives two hundred experience points.
This task is difficult, and a bad thought flashed through Liu Nian's mind.
Seeing the task timer, Liu Nian didn't bother to take anything else and ran downstairs.
"Hurry up and leave," was the only thought left in his mind.
When I got out onto the street, I realized that the moon had turned blood red without me noticing.
Even more bizarrely, under the glow of the blood moon, the entire street seemed to be shrouded in a layer of blood-red mist, just like fresh blood.
Seeing this scene made Liu Nian's heart race. Remembering that the mission was to escape the city, he calculated the direction and turned to head north.
Fortunately, most of the infected along the way were cleared out, and the few infected that appeared out of nowhere quickly perished under Liu Nian's army of summoned creatures.
Time passed little by little, and in the blink of an eye, the timer came to an end.
At the same time, the Blood Moon Gate opened again, and countless purple "meteorites" began to fall to the ground, tracing their paths.
The sturdy reinforced concrete buildings in the city collapsed quickly under the bombardment of the meteorite.
The fires sparked by the meteorite spread wildly throughout the city.
After being ravaged by the meteorite, the horned monsters and hellfire crawled out from the meteorite's impact point.
Hellfire, composed entirely of stone, was transformed using secret techniques and now emits green flames.
They seem to have built-in tracking capabilities, attacking the player closest to them.
The entire city instantly transformed into a chaotic paradise.
At this moment, Liu Nian was being chased by a group of enormous hellfire.
The summoned skeletons and ghouls were quickly killed by the combined forces of the Hellfire.
The skull shield, with its excellent defensive capabilities, was destroyed along with its bones in a single blow; it was a completely overwhelming force.
Even mid-tier units like the Wraiths couldn't withstand the Hellfire's attack; the flames clinging to their bodies made it impossible for the Wraiths to do anything.
Every time the Yin spirit makes a move, it injures the enemy by a thousand while losing ten thousand of its own.
Not to mention the demon child, who was trampled to death.
The vehicles on the road greatly hindered Liu Nian's movements, but posed no threat to Hellfire.
With their long legs, they can easily stride over vehicles.
Fortunately, none of them had ranged attack capabilities, and Liu Nian's shoes had built-in movement speed boosts, otherwise he would probably have been in grave danger.
Carefully dodging the attack from the hellfire behind him, the ground behind him trembled under the blow.
Feeling the scorching heat behind him, Liu Nian dared not be careless in the slightest.
The cold sweat on my forehead evaporated before it could even solidify.
The sweat on my clothes had long since dried, constantly shifting between dry and wet.
As we passed the former ice cream shop, the army of followers behind us only grew larger, forming a dense, continuous line that followed us all the way.
As Liu Nian watched the road ahead widen, he dodged an attack from one of the Hellfires and risked his life to pick up a bicycle from the road.
Fortunately, the bicycle wasn't locked, and Liu Nian couldn't escape the Hellfire's clutches on his own speed.
We were only able to delay the journey by relying on the slowing effect of the ghosts.
The spirit was now very weak from the backlash of the flames, so Liu Nian summoned it back to the dark space to rest.
After getting on his bicycle, Liu Nian's speed increased significantly. Watching the Hellfire gradually recede into the distance, he felt a little relieved.
Now, as long as you carefully avoid the meteorites falling from the sky, you can leave this place safely.
Xiao Hei hovered in the air, providing Liu Nian with a view of what lay ahead.
Living in a relatively remote area has its advantages; those who live in the city center should just pray for good fortune!
The tollbooth was already in sight, and Liu Nian pedaled his bicycle at breakneck speed.
It must be because we've reached the suburbs; here, only sparse meteorite showers are falling.
Without having time to sweep away the dry branches spread on the Hummer, Liu Nian hurriedly took out his keys and opened the driver's seat.
Looking at the burning city behind him in the rearview mirror, Liu Nian realized that the army of hellfire had caught up. He quickly stepped on the gas and sped away from the tollbooth.
(End of Volume 1)
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