God after all

Chapter 4: The Forgotten Metropolis Dies
In the winter of 2999, on the fifth day after the holy disaster broke out in the forbidden area, a giant iron pillar fell from the sky and split the earth, reaching hundreds of meters underground, mercilessly isolating the infected.

In that confusing and horrific scene, the innocent who didn't get out couldn't get out again.This is where the nickname of the taboo area comes from.

At that time, there were three world-renowned giant airships "Emperor", which landed twice in the forbidden area.

They passed through the dense iron pillars that were closely connected on all sides and vertically vertical to the sky, and flew to their destination from the depths of the thin air clouds.

People call them "carriers in the air" or "three emperor brothers". When they landed above the forbidden area, they looked like alien spaceships covering the sky and the sun, and the giant bodies standing upright shocked the world.

The Emperor can carry [-] reconnaissance planes and helicopters and transport a population of [-] people. Unfortunately, less than [-] people were rescued back then.

When they took off in the forbidden area for the second time, they did not have a chance to leave safely. The giant fuselage exploded at high altitude, and the wreckage fell violently along with countless people who were smashed to pieces.

Blood, flames, and strong winds are raging, crushing and submerging the isolated taboo area crazily.

The chief culprit who destroyed the Emperor was the members of the dark nobles who caused the birth of the Gorefiend. Their terrible crimes made the human beings all over the world tremble.

Those who failed to escape from the taboo area will end up being reduced to food for blood demons. With the shrinking population and the expansion of the number of blood demons, the army has to intervene to sweep the crisis and kill those who are still alive.

The tragedy of that war has always been very taboo to the outside world. Although it really happened, no one wants to remember it firmly.

Are there still living people in the forbidden area of ​​the forgotten city?No one knows.

The gorefiend, who hides its tracks, enters a deep sleep state to maintain life in the absence of food, and can sleep for hundreds of years.

It is also an indisputable fact that the chrysalis they gave birth hatched more Gorefiends.

Leng Ji often enters and exits forbidden areas, and wherever he goes, there are thousands of dead bones. The wreckage of the Emperor lies quietly on the ground, exposing the terrible wounds that were once ravaged by explosions.

Time passed silently.

Iron pillar fence surrounds the border of the forbidden area, and there is an area called the place of death.

At the junction of the border of the forbidden area and the place of death, the interior of the 52-meter-wide abyss reveals endless darkness, reflecting a world as if mockingly, and no light can illuminate the abyss.

The impenetrable iron pillars of the guardrail stretched into the abyss rift to a depth of [-] meters, like an impenetrable fortress, tightly bound the taboo area.

Back then, God lowered a round iron pillar with electric current from the sky to prevent the disaster from spreading.

The earth is open with eerie wounds, where the deepest darkness condenses, in ironic contrast to the light of day.

There are seven or eight groups of children around the edge of the abyss, some of them are very close to the broken gap, and the timid ones shrink back in fear, not daring to look into the abyss below.

They are even more afraid to approach the stone arch bridge connecting one end to the other.

The bridge spans 52 meters long and is the only special link between the forbidden area and the place of death.

People call it Naihe Bridge, which is a well-known ancient name.

The stone arch bridge connects to the hell-like taboo area. Those who want to go to hell must be led by the holy envoy chosen by God to pass.

The holy envoy is an old man who runs a grocery store, and his name is Hongye.

Children like to call him blind daddy, or Mr. Red Leaf.

Before the stone arch bridge was built, he appeared with the storefront, accompanied by an orange cat.

Papa's shop is at the end of the place of death, facing north, only separated by an abyss from the forbidden area.

The children remembered very clearly that every time the Man in the Iron Mask came and went, the old man would be used to sitting on the low stool at the gate and waiting for him to return, holding the foot-long metal key in his hand.

Dad is a person chosen by God, and he is responsible for opening the only portal in the forbidden area.

His hands can touch the iron pillars with high voltage of tens of millions of volts. It is because of this magical power that he has been respected by the residents of the controversial "Place of Death".

The only portal in the taboo area was not made by humans. It existed on the fifth day after it fell from the sky from the iron pillar fence, and it seemed to be a passage left intentionally by the gods.

"You are really not afraid of death, and dare to hang around here, are you not afraid of being captured by the dark nobles?"

The old man scolded the brats for their audacity, and felt helpless for their damned naivety.

"Isn't there a masked adult?"

"Yeah, with the big hero brother here, we are not afraid."

The children yelled and drank, and refused to go home.

In fact, each of them was terrified of dying, but in order to be able to see the man in the iron mask, they suppressed the fear in their hearts and waited here.

"I believe Master Mask will protect us, he is the hero of the Forgotten City!"

The boy, who seemed to be in his teens, was a little thin. He needed two hands to hold the handle of the umbrella to hold up the heavy black umbrella. The umbrella hat was big enough to cover his younger sister who was wrapped in the straps behind his back.

The old man didn't say a word, and calculated the time, thinking that he should be back soon.

Seeing that the old man sitting on the bench by the door finally moved, the children's excited eyes sparkled, and they hurriedly shouted:

"Father! Are you going to pick the lock? Take me with you, okay?"

"I also need to go!"

"And me!"

"I want to go too!"

The children spoke in unison.

Of course the old man ignored the little kids wandering around him, picked up his crutches to explore the way, went to the house and took out an umbrella and went out, telling them to be obedient.

"If something happens, my shop may be overturned by your family. The man in the iron mask doesn't want you to have any accidents, right? You just stay here and wait for him to come back."

Before the old man left, he distributed a few fruit candies to each child, leaving behind an obese cat drenched in rain.

The meowing orange cat and the children who suddenly fell silent watched the hazy rain curtain in the center of the bridge where the hunched back disappeared.

Ten minutes later, they saw the person who came, a black figure walking out of the illusory white gauze in the center of the bridge, clearly crashing into the children's field of vision.

"Here we come, Master Mask is back!!"

I couldn't help shouting with excitement.

Even though they were far away, Leng Ji could still hear the children's laughter, and their black pupils could clearly see their smiles.

"They like you very much, and praise you as a hero all day long."

Leng Ji stopped, without intending to leave, turned around and faced an abyss, his eyes fell in the distance.

The old man beside him didn't move, just stopped.

"Members of the Dark Nobility haunted the Forgotten City this time, and openly came looking for me. I suspect they have found out my identity."

"Isn't it good to hide your true identity? Maybe they just came to trouble the man in the iron mask.

These guys who deserve to die are the worst people who can save those who are suffering. Even your master was brought down by them, and now they come to deal with you again. "

"It appeared too suddenly, I don't think it's that simple. If you want to deal with the man in the iron mask, why wait until now."

There was some truth in these words, and the old man was speechless.

"I can't detect their existence in the place of death or even in the taboo area."

"Did you hide somewhere? Or did you leave the Forgotten City?"

"It's all possible." Leng Ji replied to the old man's speculation with an emotionless voice.

"When I came here, I was killed and threatened that I was looking for the man in the iron mask.

Now that you've appeared in person, it's hard to find them.So... Could this be a demonstration to fool the world? "

Seeing that Leng Ji did not answer, the old man no longer struggled with his conjecture.

(End of this chapter)