I, with a long knife in my hand, can only do one move

It is a super powerful Iai slash from the hands of the sword god, which can exert its speed to the extreme and cause completely destructive damage to the target. It is said that it can even cut off the light. In the darkness of nothingness where the light is cut off, you can see To that blinding flash of light from the blade.

Therefore, it is named...

"Flash!"

Chapter 3 Sad and Lamentable

Want to embrace hope, but this world is too cruel.

This world is too harsh to be immersed in despair.

Regardless of the past or the future, it has nothing to do with the current human beings, because that is something that human beings cannot touch.

What humans are allowed is only now, at this moment, to reproduce desperately.

Even a second later, Evan himself would be wiped out at the whim of some unknown species.

Humans can only run like this desperately.

I can only keep going forward.Make a sound to let the other party know that they are here.

If you fall halfway, you have to entrust the responsibilities on your body to others, and Ewan is ready.

"I died to protect my family!"

——In this broken and mad world, born meaninglessly, living with fear and trembling, finding a tiny bit of happiness and being snatched away, then killed.

What's the point of living in that endless world?

Live to protect your companions and family——to die for someone who meets the end of the battle.

The person who answered this question was that boy, Rick.

But one day, will this cruel world usher in the dawn of the end?

Will there be a time when you want to indulge in the little happiness, live happily in the sun without worrying about anything?

If you see the light, will you want to take steps toward the light regardless of your own safety?

"A flash...

.! "

Is that—is it light?

The screaming died away.

......

When Rick didn't look back and fled into the safer forest with all his strength, suddenly, he felt like his stomach was falling down.

Gradually, he couldn't clearly outline the face of the man in his memory.An unbearable sense of loss, accompanied by an intense revulsion at the inexplicable cause.

Ewan --

During his lifetime, he was a man a generation older than himself, brave, thoughtful, and eager to help others.There is no one in Rick's generation who has not received his help.Even so, before he fell in love with his wife and married her, he was quite a shy person...

I have already explained everything about him in the past tense.

This is the era - the Great War.

Human beings are fragile and therefore cannot be judged on an individual basis, but must be considered on the basis of race.Personal feelings cannot be taken into account. Individuals are for the collective, and the collective must act for the collective.

Only by thorough calculation and rationality can human beings survive... no, they have been able to escape until now.

At the expense of someone, but also to save all the members of the settlement, always give priority to this result.

They didn't have the leeway to choose other methods, and the person who thoroughly enforced such rules was Rick himself.

So far, he has neither regret nor introspection.

but.....

"Rick, hello! Rick!"

Yalei, who still had tears in his eyes, grabbed Rick's collar and pulled him up from the ground: "Don't take everything on yourself like that, you will be crushed!"

But Rick's eyes were still dim, unable to reflect any emotion, like a black hole that could absorb all light, as if dead.

"Someone will inherit me then."

Rick just answered this plainly, and Yalei remained silent.

After judging that there were no pursuers, the two began to walk in the direction of the settlement, their steps feeling as heavy as mud.

"I said, Rick...such an era will end one day..."

"Yeah, it will end." Rick stared at the tiny pieces of hazy blue light falling from the sky, and replied slowly.

If he didn't think that way, if he didn't believe that way, he would be crushed by this weight now.

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A hand was stretched out in front of Ivan, startling his terrified face, his whole body trembled violently, and he came back to his senses.

"Can you still move?"

In human language, the guy wearing a dark cloak of unknown material in front of him spoke sentences with such meaning in his mouth.

But Ewan couldn't believe that the existence in front of him was human.

Who is he?

Such questions occupied Ewan's entire mind.

According to the body size, and everything that happened just now, the most likely is the beastman...or at least there is a dangerous existence of [Blood Bad] individual, that is a blow that breaks through the existence of the laws of physics in cognition.

But that doesn't make sense at all, why would he save himself.

Everything was like an illusion, the speed surpassed thinking, only the dazzling light made Ewan blink his eyes.

And then it's over...

The roaring low-level demon species behind him, capable of crushing fragile human bodies at will, just disappeared into the light out of thin air, without making a sound, and without leaving any traces of its existence, as if it had never appeared before .

huh...

The face that he took off his cloak was corroded by the falling black ash, and there was a tingling pain, which pulled Ivan back to reality.

This is no hallucination at all!

"Are you scared stupid? You obviously have the courage to risk your life to fight for the chance of survival for your companions."

Cheng Rang reached out and pulled the hood of the middle-aged man in front of him back on. Regardless of his stiff body, he pulled him up.

"We have to get out of here, how about taking you home?"

"No!"

The man who was still in a daze just now refused immediately.

It is impossible for me to return to the settlement with such a dangerous existence. Even if I survived temporarily, I still bear the lives of more than 2000 companions in the entire settlement.

Although he saved his own life, he didn't have any reason or motivation. It might just be to win his trust, and then find the settlement to start a massacre.

Human beings will not be saved so unreasonably by other races...all this will be the beginning of a more terrible price.

After all, in the eyes of other races, human beings are as humble as bugs, and even worse than bugs.

Just for fun, or simply "fun" is enough reason for them to kill.

"Is there anything left unfinished?"

Apart from the statement that Evan flatly refused just now, he had no words.

We neither exist, nor can we exist, because we do not exist without being noticed.

If discovered, it means death.

The man in front of him suddenly put his hand behind his waist, and the cold light of the sharp dagger flashed away.

clang!

The dagger that stabbed Yiwang's own neck was knocked away by the long knife that was unsheathed in Cheng Rang's hand, and it swirled and stabbed into the ground with a snap. The wire didn't come across.

"What do you want to do?"

Damn it!Ewan cursed secretly in his heart.

on

You can't even commit suicide in front of him!

Escaping is even more impossible.

The purpose of this guy in front of him is not clear yet, but he doesn't seem to be in a hurry to kill himself. Now the only way to go is negotiation. Ivan relies on this and intends to obtain information.

"Have you saved many people?"

"You were the first one I saw."

"Why save me?"

"..." Cheng Rang paused, at this moment he found the hostility and distrust in the eyes of the man in front of him.

Combined with his actions, Cheng Rang couldn't help sighing secretly, the human beings in this world...

It has even reached the point of despair, to the point where I no longer believe in the existence of hope.

Even if they see real hope, they will not admit it, they will only retreat into despair, and continue to deceive themselves with the lie that "there will be hope", and in this unreasonable, cruel and tragic continue to live in the world.

He never believed in miracles, nor believed in anyone other than his companions. With his last strength, he struggled in despair and escaped from everything.

How sad.

But after understanding the situation of human beings in this world, how can it be a pity that they can survive and have not yet become extinct?

Chapter 4 Cruel Lies

This is a round trip of four days.

The settlement that Rick and the others are going to has to continue to advance in the wilderness where the black ash is flying down, and enter the deeper part of the snow-enclosed forest.

Located at the foot of a sharply raised rocky mountain, in a hidden cave.

Rick took down an old oil lamp hanging from a pole, took out the tinder box from his pocket, and lit it.

Relying on the dim orange light, the two headed towards the tunnel dug deep in the cave.

Carefully cross the trap to prevent wild animals, and then see the outer wall built with many solid logs.This is a gate built to block wild wolves or bears that escaped the trap by mistake.

Of course, if the invaders are "other races", it makes no difference whether there is such a thing or not.

Rick moved closer to the door, knocked in a rhythm, and waited.

Finally, with a creaking sound, the door slowly opened from the inside, and the boy in the fur cloak poked his head out: "Welcome back, you have worked hard."

Rick and Alec just nodded in response, and then passed through the door.

"... Where is Mr. Ewan?"

Rick shook his head silently.

The gatekeeper took a deep breath, and then said to Rick again as if he was enduring some emotion: "Thank you..."

After passing through the door, there is an open space in the cave, which is a secret base for nearly 2000 people.

They relied on the spring water gushing from the depths of the cave to ensure drinking water resources and raised livestock where they could see the sky.

Of the two entrances, the other leads to a bay on the coast, where salt and fish can be obtained.

For human beings who will die if they encounter "enemies" outside, this can be regarded as a stronghold for a safe life.

This thick rock wall can also bear the minimum - the stray bullets flying due to the battles of other races.

Even though that's just human wishful thinking.

When Rick appeared in the settlement, the residents who were working in the square spotted him and all focused their attention on him.

A young girl rushed from the crowd. Although she was petite, her bright hair and blue eyes shone with the brilliance of life even in this cave.

"It's been too long~~! Brother, how long do you have to worry me before you are willing!"

"I'll be back as soon as possible."