Edge of the Apocalypse

The break of dawn is 423 years.

On the first Sunday of June, the black and yellow earth was dead silent.

In a corner of this land, a rock moved, and a rock scorpion with a head and tail of nearly a meter in length arched away from the rock and climbed out. After the Battle of Dawn, 50% of the original species on Earth have completely disappeared. However, most of the remaining ones have already evolved into dangerous creatures.

The surviving humans call these creatures "dangerous species".

The Rock Scorpion was looking for food, and a huge breath suddenly rose from a distance. This breath is so huge, it is like a mountain coming from across the sky. When the rock scorpion looked up, he saw a creeping shadow.

This shadow is so vast that it almost spans the entire horizon. It advances at a slow but constant speed, and it casts a shadow on a floating island comparable in size to Texas. It is one of the greatest creations of mankind after the War of Dawn. The Floating Island of Babylon is driven by Rubik's Cube energy, and continues to orbit the planet like a near-Earth satellite according to a set orbit.

Until the evening, the floating island of Babylon became a silhouette of the distant sky. At this time, the Gobi became lively again. Some of these dangerous species, like rock scorpions, gradually moved towards the western edge of the Gobi, where there is a small town where people live by mining. Humans, in the eyes of dangerous species, are the best food.

The town is small, with hundreds of people living in it. The houses are simple, and the iron sheds that can keep out the wind and rain are already luxury houses. More, they are bungalows built up randomly with wooden boards and rusty iron sheets.

On the periphery of the town, there is a circle of barbed wire and a wooden fence with a sharpened end. They can effectively prevent some low-level dangerous species from breaking into the town, and at night, there will be three or five hunters acting as guards, holding torches at the exit of the town.

The night is not necessarily completely dark, in the wilderness outside the town. Blue, green, and red, little strange fluorescence is swimming. Suddenly a rough gunshot sounded from the entrance of the town, and the sound from gunpowder and firearms echoed in the wilderness at night, so the fluorescence swaying in the night was much less.

One wears a cowboy hat and a checkered shirt with patches. The man wearing a pair of frayed jeans and his legs in greasy boots was putting away a double-barreled shotgun with blue smoke from the muzzle. He is in the prime of life, with gray-blue eyes, and the cyan beard on his well-defined face is like steel thorns.

"Damn, there are more and more dangerous species." The man cursed in a low voice.

"Come on, Uzi. You are the best hunter in our town. The more dangerous species you make, the more you earn? I think you are stealing." A bald black man joked, his left eye Without the blindfold, the lower joint of the right leg is equipped with a mechanical prosthesis. The black man was carrying a submachine gun, which was second-hand, but it was more powerful than the shotgun in the cowboy's hand.

"Shut up, Bigger. I mean it." The cowboy said a little annoyed.

"Okay, don't mess with Uzi. He is in a bad mood now." The last hunter, wearing a miner's hat and leather jacket, looked a bit nondescript. He was playing with a dagger in his hand, and the dagger whirled between his five fingers as if it were spiritually light, shining the firelight in the dark night, pulling out a circle of orange rainbow light.

The black man patted his head and laughed: "By the way, I almost forgot that Lanny seemed to be giving birth tonight."

"This is not the worst, Bigger. The biggest problem is that our Uzi boss doesn't seem to even kiss Lanni's little mouth, but they are going to give birth."

So arrogant laughter with a little sarcasm sounded in the town, and then Uzi's angry voice echoed in the night sky: "God is here, if you don't shut up, I will use this gun to stab your assholes. !"

However, the anger not only didn't work, but it made the laughter of the two people even louder. Just when Uzi wanted to act, a woman's stern cry rang from the town. Hearing this scream, all three hunters looked into the town. The black man sighed, "I don't know which **** is so lucky to be able to take Lanni this hot girl. But the son of a **** has abandoned a woman like this, it's really a **** man!"

The hunter who was playing with the knife looked at the cowboy and said in a deep voice, "What are your plans, Uzi? Lanni is no longer a girl, but a mother."

"No matter who she is, I will take care of her!" Uzi's tone cannot be refuted.

Under the dark night, at the entrance of the town, a light sigh that seemed like nothing went away with the wind.

In a fair tin house in the center of the town, a few middle-aged women circled around a bed.

"Put harder, Lanni. I have seen his little head."

"For God's sake, you stretch it a little bit further."

"Yes, that's it. Use the power of your abdomen, miss!"

Production is so difficult, but this is only the first difficulty the new life has to overcome. Fortunately, this little life has a strong mother. With a hoarse cry, the new life was finally born smoothly.

"Look, it's a boy." A woman with short hair wrapped the baby in a tattered blanket and put him in front of her mother's bed.

The young mother looked at her own flesh and blood wearily, her small **** face, a long and straight nose, and a pair of big bright red eyes looking curiously at this strange world. His lips were pressed tightly into a knife-like line, with a little stubbornness. Unlike other newborns, he doesn't cry or make trouble, and is too quiet.

Several women next to each other talked about it, and they shut their mouths until they were stared at by the short-haired woman. The short-haired woman said softly: "Lani, he is your son. Have you already thought of a name?"

The young mother nodded and looked at the baby, her eyes full of complex emotions, but she uttered a word in a soft, windy voice: "Allen, his name is Allen."

When he heard the mother's voice, the baby's expression condensed slightly. Then he turned his head and looked at the woman who gave birth to him. Finally, the tight lips pulled an arc.

He smiled.

Seeing this immature smile, my mother felt the flame in her heart calm down a lot.

The first picture he remembered when Allen was born in June 423, the day of dawn, was his mother's beautiful and tired face. What people remember is a baby who doesn't cry, but no one knows. Alan, who was just born, already has a memory!

The world is still advancing at its own pace, and the gears of time are turning. The nobles on the floating islands of Babylon are still looking for fun. Mobit, who has just been elected as the new president, has just finished a feast of celebration, but in an inconspicuous corner of the surface, an extraordinary life ends there. Born.

Destiny always likes to leave a little surprise when people don’t expect it.

Dawn calendar 428, the last Saturday of the end of autumn, the sound of banging banging sounded in the town.

That was the assembly number for buying winter supplies. When a woman walked into an alley with a big bag of food, several men sitting on the corner nodded and followed.

It's getting late and night falls.

In the alley, the woman had spotted the stalker behind her. She quickened her pace. Just as the men were about to do something, a double-barreled shotgun suddenly protruded from the shadow in the corner, and the black muzzle immediately calmed them down.

Just like five years ago, Uziping, still in a cowboy costume, walked out of the shadows holding a shotgun. There is a cigarette on his mouth, and the cigarette is almost burnt out. Uzi spit up the cigarette butt, and said in a deep voice, "Fuck me!"

Under the threat of firearms, several men gradually retreated and disappeared in the alley. Uzi then put his gun away and walked towards the woman: "I came back in time. Lanny."

The woman lifted her turban to reveal a beautiful face. She sighed, "I owe you another favor."

"Don't do that, I'm still looking forward to getting your free treatment when I'm injured." Uzi raised his cowboy hat with his muzzle, showing an open-minded smile.

"Come on, let me carry it for you, it looks heavy enough."

The cowboy took the bag from Lanni and walked back to the town with her. It was a tin house, simple, but finally solid enough to block the snow and ice in winter. As soon as he entered the house, a small figure slammed into Lanni's arms. Lanny squatted down and picked him up. Under the light is a five-year-old child, but he is stronger than a child of the same age.

With rare short gray gray hair, under the reflection of the light, the blue glow shines like a star firefly.

The boy has a childish face and already has a knife-like outline~www.readwn.com~ It can be imagined that when he grows up, he must be a handsome man. It's just that now there is a small bruise on the kid's cheek, which makes Lanny frown, "What's the matter?"

There was a trace of panic in the boy's eyes, and then he looked at Uzi as if for help. Uzi smiled and shrugged, indicating that he could do nothing. The boy had to bit his lip and said, "Moss next door today said I am a white pig, so I..."

He looked at Lanni, who had a stern expression. The boy had to say: "So I gave him a punch in the nose, and then he pushed me to the ground and knocked me accidentally. But don't worry, mother, I have cleaned up that guy, he will definitely not Dare to scold me again."

Uzi whistled: "Yes, Alan. The little guy Moss seems to be a year older than you."

"To be correct, he is 13 months older than me!" the boy corrected.

Lanni gave Uzi angrily, who obediently shut up. She sighed, touched the child's hair and said, "Ellen, not everything can be solved with a fist. Besides, you will always run into a guy who can't win. What will you do then?"

The boy's big bright red eyes rolled around, and he blurted out: "I will run away, and then wait until I grow older and stronger, and then come back to make him look good!"

Then he said triumphantly: "But mom, there is no one I can't win. The things Uncle Uzi taught me are so useful."

Uzi suddenly became embarrassed. When Lanni turned her head, he smiled bitterly: "I only teach him something to protect himself, really."

"Well, I suddenly remembered that Peter wanted to discuss something with me, so I'll leave first."

The cowboy fled, looking at the man's back, Lanni shook her head: "Come on, we should eat."