Breaking Day Hunting

Chapter 1 Under the Dark Tide
Ninth Yao Country · Fengyao City

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hiss……

A burst of burning pain came from his back. The pain caused Ling Xun to take a breath, and suddenly opened his eyes. He gritted his teeth and cursed secretly: "It's started again, this pain is really timely!"

Enduring the pain and sitting up from the bed, Ling Xun lifted up his clothes and turned his back to the window.

From the reflection of the window glass, it can be vaguely seen that there is a "cross" mark on his back, which glows faintly in the dark, like a brand mark.

As the brilliance on the "cross" mark flowed, bursts of burning pain spread all over his body. Ling Xun sat on the bed, clenched his fists, and gritted his teeth to endure the torment of pain.

About 3 minutes later, when Ling Xun was sweating profusely from the pain and his muscles twitched slightly, the brilliance of the cross marks on his back disappeared, and the pain quickly dissipated.

Phew... Ling Xun breathed a sigh of relief, touched the cold blanket, and blankly glanced at the small room with simple furnishings.

In the early hours of the morning, the night was dark, and a faint golden light was projected from the window lattice, scattered on the small table. The light was very strange, neither moonlight nor starlight, but a bit like sparse sunlight.

"[Yaozhi Tower] dispels the light of hope in the dark night, but it cannot protect the residents in the suburbs..." Ling Xun moved his lips slightly, muttering with a hint of sarcasm.

Outside the window, there is the sound of whining wind, occasionally mixed with crazy shouts, and even weirder roars...

"Ugh……"

Ling Xun's head fell on the pillow again, and he sighed helplessly. In the past month, every time he woke up from the pain, he hoped that everything in front of him was not real, but a false dream.

I hope that after waking up, he has not traveled to this world. Everything in front of him is just a nightmare of a social animal beater waiting to be unsealed during isolation at home.

Unfortunately, every time the result is disappointing...

beep...

Just as Ling Xun was thinking about it, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, followed by a sound in the living room.

After a while, there was a sound of closing the door, followed by slight footsteps, Ling Xun knew that in this world, his sister went out to work again in the early morning.

"The outskirts of the city are almost completely covered by [eclipse fog], and the Kuroshio is about to erupt. How can you still get odd jobs at this time? Do you really think of me as a naive 16-year-old boy?"

"Sister's so-called odd jobs, wouldn't they be the same as mine?"

"I should get up too, in order to survive!"

Ling Xun got up, quietly came to the door, opened a gap, looked at the living room, and confirmed that his sister had really left.

Then I dragged out a dilapidated small suitcase from under the bed, opened it and fumbled for a while, took out a vest full of claw marks and bite marks from the first compartment, put it on my body, and took out another one that was well washed. A white, oversized trench coat with a hood.

Then, from the second interlayer, I took out a leather glove, a small iron awl, and other props, and put them one by one into a row of pockets on the inside of the windbreaker.

Afterwards, in the third interlayer, Ling Xun took out a small bottle, which was covered with a layer of faintly glowing black sand.

"There is only so little left, don't use it if you can't use it!"

Putting the small bottle into a small pocket inside the left sleeve of the windbreaker, he murmured cautiously.

After getting dressed, Ling Xun came out of the room, picked up two hard steamed buns and a piece of bacon on the plate in the living room, devoured them hungrily, and ran into the bathroom to wash up.

"Grow a little taller..."

Looking at the young man in the mirror, his handsome face was hidden under the high-necked windbreaker. Ling Xun measured his height with his hands. This month, he has grown a little taller, successfully surpassing the 1.7-meter height. "A 16-year-old In terms of age, there is still room to break through 1.8 meters, or even 1.9 meters."

Immediately, Ling Xun shook his head and smiled wryly. With such a face, his body is quite popular in Blue Star, but here...

After finishing all this and tidying up his windbreaker, Ling Xun came to the door, held the doorknob, took a deep breath, and prayed secretly: "I hope today, I can have a good harvest!"

Kacha... Opening the door, the cold wind rushed in. Ling Xun shivered all over his body. He quickly turned up the high collar of his windbreaker to prevent the loss of body temperature, then closed the door and walked out.

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The sky is bright.

Ling Xun was walking on the deserted street. The doors and windows of the shops on both sides were smashed, and the valuables inside were looted.

There is an unpleasant smell, the smell of burning, and the smell of corruption... Who would have thought that more than 20 days ago, this place was one of the busiest streets in the suburbs of Fengyao City.

Following the slight sound, Ling Xun crossed the road, turned into an alley, heard the sound of "Hang Chi, Han Chi", and immediately saw a wild dog with red eyes eating a headless, rotting corpse.

"The degree of decay of this corpse, it should have been dead for two days..."

Standing in the shadow, Ling Xun observed the corpse. Judging from the torn clothes, it should be the uniform of an employee from a nearby shopping mall.

There should be some money in this uniform..., Ling Xun murmured to himself, and observed the wild dog eating the corpse for a few seconds, judging the gap between the two sides.

Then, from the inner pocket of the windbreaker, he took out a thick leather glove full of bite marks, put it on his left hand, and carried a small iron awl in his hand, and walked up slowly.

Roar……

With a low growl, the wild dog immediately rushed over, opened its mouth wide, and aimed at Ling Xun's neck.But he bit the thick leather glove with one bite, and smelled the strange smell on the leather glove, making the wild dog stunned for a while.

The next moment, a 12cm-long small iron awl pierced the wild dog's left eye, piercing the dog's head at an oblique angle of 30 degrees. Tie Zhu made more than a dozen strokes.

Then, with a sharp flick of his left hand, he smashed the wild dog against the wall.

"call……"

Ling Xun took a few steps back, looked at the corpse of the wild dog that had slid from the wall, took out a rag, cleaned the blood on the cone, and shook off the carrion on the leather glove.

After confirming that the wild dog was completely dead, he turned around and came to the headless corpse. Enduring the rotten smell, he squatted down and groped skillfully to see if there was anything valuable.

Sorry!I also want to survive, if you have a spirit in heaven, don't blame me... Ling Xun muttered to himself.

After a while, Ling Xun took out a coin from the pocket of the uniform jacket of the corpse, and he was greatly disappointed.

"5 yao coins!? This is too little, did you bring such a small amount of money before you died... Maybe it was picked up by other corpse pickers"

Putting a red copper coin with the number 1 printed on it, with a sun pattern on one side and a spherical triangular tower pattern on the other side, he put it into his pocket. Ling Xun shook his head helplessly, got up immediately, and continued to look for the next target.

This is Ling Xun's way of making money - picking up corpses! ?

The reason why he would do such a thing was that Ling Xun had no other choice.

He has been in this world for a month, many aspects here are very similar to Blue Star, but the living environment is much more dangerous than Blue Star.

There is a terrifying natural phenomenon in this world-the Kuroshio.

In the Kuroshio, there is an invisible and terrifying creature - [Nightmare].

Every eruption of the black tide means a large-scale invasion of [Nightmare], which is a devastating disaster for the humans there.

For a long time, the way humans have fought against it has been to use the brilliance of the [Yuan Tower] to resist the invasion of [Erotic Nightmare].

Once losing the protection of the brilliance of the [Yaozhi Tower], for ordinary people, there is often only one end-death!

However, just one day after Ling Xun crossed over, [Eclipse Fog] appeared on the outskirts of Fengyao City, indicating that the Kuroshio would break out in January.

If you want to survive, you can only enter the city of Fengyao, which is the area shrouded in the glory of [Yao Tower].

However, a pass to enter the city requires one hundred thousand coins!
As for Ling Xun, who traveled over here, he was a student who hadn't graduated from the No. [-] Yaoneng Academy in the suburbs. He didn't even have a job, let alone any savings.

His older sister's monthly income of 2000 Yao coins is usually used to pay his tuition fees and the daily expenses of the siblings, and there is no money left at all.

For the Ling Xun family, a passport worth [-] coins is an astronomical figure.

In order to survive, Ling Xun had no choice but to pick up corpses. In just over 20 days, he has quite adapted to the current state.

However, during the past week, the daily harvest has become less and less, and Ling Xun's mood has become more and more anxious. He didn't even have the money for a city pass.

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The sky with lead-colored clouds gradually lit up, and Ling Xun's footprints of "picking up corpses" crossed the Xijiao Square from the street where his home was located, and came to the neighborhood of the Bell Tower in the outskirts of the city.

"I can't do it today!"

Looking at the towering bell tower in front of him, Ling Xun was very disappointed. The harvest from today to now can be regarded as the worst in 20 days. "Can the harvest of the first corpse really determine the luck of the day? Is this true? Mysterious..."

Suddenly, a faint light flickered on the bell tower, Ling Xun was taken aback, then rejoiced, judging from his 20 days of experience in picking up corpses, there were good things there!
With the small iron awl upside down in his right hand, Ling Xun quickly climbed up the bell tower. On the railing on the top of the building, he found a dead body hanging from the railing.

Standing at the stairs, Ling Xun carefully observed the death of the corpse, his face slightly solemn, "Is this... the wound caused by [Nightmare]?"

Under the dim light, the corpse was beyond recognition. There were hideous claw marks on the back. From the shoulders to the waist, almost the entire back was cut open, and the rotten organs of the abdomen could be seen.

This kind of wound is almost exactly the same as the wound caused by [Erotic Nightmare] on the picture in the book.

In the past 20 days, Ling Xun also came across some corpses that died in [Nightmare], but most of them were too broken, or the corpses were rotten and swollen out of shape.

This is the first time Ling Xun has seen such a typical [Nightmare] wound.

After observing for a while and making sure it was safe, Ling Xun approached slowly, put on his gloves, and began to touch the corpse.

Soon, he found the source of the shimmering light, and swallowed a round pendant necklace inlaid with fine gemstones and made of gold in the tightly closed teeth of the corpse's head.

Yaojin is a special metal in this world, because it has a certain ability to resist the erosion of [Erosion Nightmare], it has become the most precious metal in this world.

"Developed! The harvest of the first corpse when you go out determines the luck of the day. This statement is pure bullshit!"

Ling Xun's eyes glowed, and he carefully knocked open a tooth of the corpse, and took off the gold necklace in its entirety, "The workmanship of this necklace is average, but with the fineness of the gold, it should be worth five or six thousand Yaobi!"

Looking at the necklace, Ling Xun was delighted with the appraised value. Just as he was about to put the necklace in his pocket, he suddenly felt something strange. On the end of the pendant of the necklace, there was a small protrusion, which seemed to be a button.

"In this pendant, there are things like photos..."

Ling Xun muttered, and subconsciously pressed it, and the pendant opened in response. As he guessed, there was indeed a thumbnail-sized photo inside.

The photo is of a girl.

"This is..., that senior assistant teacher..."

Ling Xun's delighted smile froze, and he stared blankly at the familiar face of the girl in the photo, looking at the girl in the photo wearing the school uniform of the Fourth Solar Academy in the suburbs, with a pair of bright brown eyes...

A month ago, when Ling Xun first transmigrated into this world, he was in the final training of the third year at the Fourth Lunar Academy on the outskirts of the city.

At that time, Ling Xun was in a daze, completely confused about the situation. It was the senior sister who had just become a trainee teaching assistant who took the trouble to guide him through the training.

It wasn't until Ling Xun understood the situation in this world that he realized that he even forgot to ask the senior for the name of the teaching assistant.

But for this senior, Ling Xun has always been very grateful in his heart. For the first person who showed kindness to him when he first arrived in this world, he has a deep memory...

Staring blankly at the corpse, Ling Xun suddenly felt his stomach churning, and a sour, salty thing flowed up his esophagus. He covered his mouth tightly and swallowed back the food remnants from his stomach.

At this time, the sky was bright, and pieces of fiery red fragments rose from the east. Those fragments were like a broken sphere, blooming with yearning brilliance.

This shattered sphere is the sun of this world—a shattered sun!

Under the sunlight, the [eclipse fog] on the outskirts of the city has faded a lot, giving people a short respite...

There were bursts of bells ringing from the center of Fengyao City, and the [Yao Tower] standing in the city center hummed every morning.

After the top of the towering triangular tower, the spherical top of the tower released the light all night, the light began to weaken, and the light shield covering the entire city gradually dimmed.

That pale golden brilliance is the light that protects human beings from being invaded by [Nightmare], but only people in the city can enjoy this right to live.

The towering city gates that block cities and suburbs, when the Kuroshio erupts, are heaven and hell for people inside and outside the city!

In the distance, figures began to appear on the streets of the suburbs. Hundreds of people rushed out from every corner, waving their arms, screaming, and rushed to the junction between the blocked city and the suburbs, flapping the towering city gate like crazy , printed a series of bloody handprints on the city gate, but they were unwilling to leave. They just wanted to squeeze into Fengyao City and get a chance to survive.

In the bell tower, Ling Xun was carrying the bloated corpse on his back, panting, his legs trembling, he walked down the stairs, and put the corpse into an old cabinet.

After closing the cabinet, Ling Xun leaned against the side panting like a cow, and murmured: "Sorry! Sister, I can only help you find such a place with my strength."

"If I can survive this black tide and successfully buy a pass to enter the city, I will definitely come back in the future and find you a cemetery so that you can sleep peacefully..."

After saying what was regarded as a eulogy for a while, Ling Xun sighed, raised the high collar of his windbreaker, and turned to leave.

　The body is still in the recovery stage and can only guarantee stable renewal.

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(End of this chapter)