Chapter 103 Leaving the City: February 5, XXXX.
When immersively organizing your room, it is easy to enter a flow state, and time will pass very quickly.
By the time the whole room was almost tidied, it was already dawn.
Although Li Zi was very tired, she felt an inexplicable excitement in her heart because her body had been exercised, and she didn't feel very sleepy even though she hadn't slept all night.
She was just about to ask the woman if she wanted to have breakfast together, but when she turned around, she found that she was gone.
Just as she came silently, she left silently now.
"Oh, I forgot to ask her name..." Li Zi scratched his head, feeling a little regretful.
That woman was the most beautiful she had ever seen. Being able to meet someone like her before her death meant that her life was not lived in vain.
Li Zi just regarded the woman's words that she would not let her die as a good wish.
Since no one was with her, she didn't want to go to the church to eat alone and see the faces of those people.
After thinking about it, Li Zi found her wallet, counted the money and prepared to go to the street to find something to eat.
The person on duty today happened to be the son of the church deacon.
She thought that the man would be punished for letting her out without permission.
I didn't expect that I would be suppressed by the temple deacon.
Li Zi smiled contemptuously.
Her mother is also in power, but she rarely gives herself backdoors. It's really different fate for the same person.
The soldier happened to see Li Zi, and his expression changed instantly.
He hesitated there, as if wondering whether to let someone else take over.
Li Zi had disliked him for a long time.
He clearly had such a capable mother that he would have been able to rise to the top with just a little achievement, but it took him so much effort to get the position of a guard soldier in the City Lord's Mansion.
Not letting him have an easy life is equivalent to not letting the deacon of the temple have an easy life.
So she didn't give the soldier a chance to escape. She quickened her pace and walked forward, saying rudely, "I'm going out to eat. Open the door."
The soldier frowned and softened his tone as he discussed with her, "I'm afraid that's not possible, Xiaozi. My mother said that the gods are reviving these days, and it's a critical time. We can't let you go out casually.
Can you wait a few days? I'll be on vacation in a few days and I'll take you out to play in person."
Every time Li Zi heard him call her "Sister Xiaozi", she felt indescribably disgusted.
Not to mention how many days of life will be left in your life?
She glanced at the soldier and didn't expect that the deacon of the temple would protect her son so naively.
He didn't even dare to tell him that he was going to be sacrificed and would die soon.
What would happen if he found out?
Li Zi narrowed her eyes, then frowned, making an expression that was so sad that people couldn't help but feel distressed.
As expected, the soldier was very impressed by this and immediately asked with concern, "What's wrong, Sister Xiaozi?"
Li Zi was about to cry, "I... I only have two days to live... Now I just want to go out and eat something delicious and see some fun..."
As if startled by her words, the soldier was immediately surprised and stammered, "How, how is that possible? Aren't you not even eighteen years old?"
"Yes, but my eighteenth birthday will be the anniversary of my death." Li Zi raised her hand to wipe away the non-existent tears.
He sighed softly, "You should have heard about the revival of the gods, right? The temple deacon carefully selected me as the sacrifice, using my death to exchange for the life of the Daydream God..."
The soldier immediately looked as if he had been struck by lightning.
He just couldn't understand why the God they believed in would have to sacrifice a young girl to be resurrected.
Seeing that he couldn't digest the news for a while, Li Zi also felt a little bored.
She clenched the wallet in her hand so hard that her knuckles turned white, and continued to pretend to be weak: "Then can I go out? I'm dying, and I want to eat something that the City Lord's Mansion doesn't have, so that I don't have any regrets..."
The soldier thought for a long time before he nodded with a deathly pale face and opened the door for her.
Even though his worldview was being criticized, he still reminded her, "Sister Xiaozi, remember to come back early and don't let me worry."
Li Zi walked on the road and ate something to fill her stomach.
Suddenly, an interesting and torturous plan came to my mind.
Last time I was delayed for some time when I went out, and when I came back those people were so worried that they almost died. I heard that several people were punished.
What would happen if she deliberately didn't go back this time?
Li Zi did what she said and immediately went to the clothing store to buy a set of heroic clothes that she had never tried before.
The shop owner's sister thoughtfully tied her hair into a high ponytail, making her look much more resilient, not like a nun-to-be who was naive and read scriptures all day.
Looking at the somewhat unfamiliar self in the mirror, Li Zi no longer wanted to be a sacrifice.
Sooner or later, you will be found if you stay in the city. If you want to make things bigger, you have to leave the city.
So after changing clothes, Li Zi walked straight towards the city gate.
Dawn Base was always easy to get out of, but difficult to get in. There were almost no inspection procedures for leaving the city, and Li Zi left with ease.
Her abilities were too weak, and she had no offensive capabilities.
It is impossible to really go deep into the wild and fight mutants face to face.
The scenery outside the city was even more unfamiliar to Li Zi, but in the last few days of her life, she wanted to experience more unfamiliarity.
However, for safety reasons, Li Zi did not go far after leaving the city.
Just walk along the main road and camp in the first uninhabited wooden house you find.
Everyone in the Dawn Base is a religious believer, so naturally many missionaries were born.
In order to facilitate the missionaries' travel, many shared empty houses were built around the base.
Li Zi learned how to find the missionary hut from the formal nuns in class.
At that time, he also talked about many cases of missionaries being attacked by aggressive evolved species roaming in the wild.
Li Zi and the other nuns in preparation were terrified when they heard this and were almost scared to death.
The nun asked everyone to pray for the missionaries who were away from home and thank them for their selfless dedication to God.
But when Li Zi asked afterwards, she found out that almost everyone was busy praying for themselves and their families.
I hope that none of our people will ever have to become missionaries.
It seemed that only Li Zi was afraid, but at the same time she sincerely admired the missionaries and really prayed for them.
Thinking of this, Li Zi realized belatedly that the seeds of hypocrisy among the nuns had already been planted.
They didn't suddenly change one day, they have been like that for a long time.
Li Zi thought of this and even smiled helplessly.
The fear of the unknown then pales in comparison to the foreseeable death we face now.
Missionaries who are willing to travel are generally fanatical believers of the God of Daydreams, and they will be as strict with themselves in their daily behavior as Wan Fangfei.
Keeping the house clean is the most basic thing.
This missionary hut was clean and tidy except that it was covered with dust as it had not been lived in for a while.
Li Zi wiped the table, swept the floor, and then moved in.
She packed a lot of food before leaving the city, and she could get clean water herself using her supernatural powers.
She planned to spend the night here and go back tomorrow when the whole world was in chaos.
Just like in the storybooks, the real protagonists always appear at important moments.
Since she was free anyway, Li Zi started flipping through the books left by the missionaries who had lived here before.
Most of them are scriptures.
However, compared with the books I have used for eighteen years and are still brand new, these books are in a state of battle damage.
Almost every book has a curled cover and yellowed pages, filled with their own opinions and comments.
The inner pages are well taken care of as there are no missing pages or words.
However, it was still very interesting to see the insights into the scriptures written in different handwritings on the edges of the books. Li Zi felt as if she was communicating with them across the air.
When they were in church, they all adhered to the understanding of the church deacons and formal nuns, and everyone would break down the scriptures and explain them to them.
This is good, but it reduces the opportunity for reflection.
People like Li Zi, who appear docile but are actually stubborn, often feel disconnected while learning.
Many of their understandings of the scriptures were different from her own.
Suddenly, Li Zi found something that looked like a diary in the drawer.
Driven by the desire to pry into other people's privacy, she silently opened it.
February 5, XXXX
Today we arrived at a new location again. After asking God, the captain finally agreed to stay here.
Thank God, all this torture is finally over.
It has been three years since the advent of the Evolutionary Era, and not a single day has passed without us toiling on the road, searching for the place guided by the gods.
Is there really a God in this world?
I have no idea.
But in this world where rats can eat people, insects and snakes are bigger than horses, and even passing flowers and trees are dangerous, I hope there is.
The first diary entry alone kept Li Zi in a daze for a long time.
This diary is from over a hundred years ago! When the world didn't have superpowers or evolved species!
Her heart was pounding, and she was curious whether people a hundred years ago had seen gods.
So she held her breath and continued reading.
However, the owner of the diary does not seem to have time to write in it every day, and the next time he wrote in it jumped to the end of February.
February 29, XXXX
Oh my god, we have encountered a powerful evolved species again. This is the first time I have seen a squirrel grow to three meters tall.
I am now beginning to doubt whether God really exists. God did not appear when we were first attacked.
When we were attacked for the tenth time, God still did not show up.
I am now beginning to doubt the captain. She said that God told her that this is a good place for everyone to set up camp, so why are there so many evolved species?
We were attacked almost every other day, and the land we planted was dug up by wild boars.
It's even more dangerous than being in the wild. I can't live like this anymore.
Let's hold on a little longer, luckily we haven't started dying yet, everyone is still alive.
Looking at the contents of the diary, Li Zi broke out in a thin layer of sweat.
Now the relationship between humans and evolved species has become stable.
The evolved species have evolved into a relatively stable form.
People also awakened their special abilities and developed weapons suitable for use in doomsday, so they would not be unilaterally suppressed.
But a hundred years ago, humans seemed to have suffered repeated defeats in the face of evolved species.
When Li Zi thought about how everyone was trying to survive unarmed and how they worked hard to build the Dawn Base, she felt inexplicably moved.
She was hardly moved by the God of Daydreams and felt that everything she was enjoying now was ordinary.
But when the glory of her ancestors shines on her, her heart will really be filled with ripples.
After calming down, she turned to the next page and her pupils suddenly contracted.
April 4, XXXX
There is no God in the world. The captain, the younger sister, and the elder sister are all dead...]
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