Chapter 22 22. Immortal
"Wait a minute."
The mysterious armored man put his sword back into its sheath and stopped the survivors who were about to move.
"Brother Li Jian, why?" Everyone looked at him in confusion.
"He saved us." Li Jian said solemnly.
After calming down the survivors, the man came to Su Hong and stretched out his right hand, "Hello, unknown successor, my name is Li Jian."
"My name is Su Hong."
Su Hong held the man's hand, and the tense atmosphere eased. Wang Chengzhi finally breathed a sigh of relief and climbed onto the platform.
Li Jian looked at Su Hong's eyes and noticed the blood ring surrounding his pupils, "I'd like to ask, how did you see through the identity of the different minions?"
"Sorry, I don't know what a minion of disagreement is." Su Hong pointed to his eyes, "I just think there is something abnormal about him."
"You don't know about the minions of differences?" Li Jian reacted greatly, his breathing suddenly became heavier, and his eyes changed when he looked at Su Hong, "You are a survivor."
He changed his title of Su Hong from successor to survivor, seeming to realize that Su Hong was not his kind.
Su Hong couldn't deny it. Successor was an unfamiliar word to him. Even if he lied, it would be easily exposed. It was better to openly admit his identity as a survivor.
After the real confirmation, Li Jian's pupils shook and his expression was in disbelief. It was only the second day of the apocalypse, and a survivor whose momentum and power approached him appeared.
The man in front of him had to kill many disaster monsters to get here.
Su Hong put his hands in his pockets, "Brother Li Jian, is this how you treat your guests? Let me stand here like this."
"Sorry." Li Jian came to his senses. He invited Su Hong and Wang Chengzhi to climb the stairs, leave the platform, and enter the subway station.
This subway station is the Diguang Station on Shengshi Line 7. Because of its remote location, there is not much traffic on weekdays.
After the end of the world, half of the subway station was crushed by a giant object. Under the leadership of Li Jian, the remaining survivors united to clean up the invading disaster monsters.
Along the way, the light in the subway station was extremely dim, and the ground was full of messy traces. The survivors moved forward in the dark. The strong flashlight in Su Hong's hand became the only light here, attracting the attention of many survivors.
Li Jian invited Su Hong into the subway station office, and he closed the door to block out the sound.
As soon as Su Hong and the two sat down on the sofa, the man picked up the two bottles of milk on the desk and placed them in front of them.
"Sorry, the conditions are poor."
"Actually, we are very short of supplies here and cannot survive for a few days. I have already made plans to transfer the survivor team."
"May I ask where you two found this place?"
Without hiding anything, Su Hong told him the information about the Huayuan Community.
Li Jian's face suddenly became serious, "If those survivors want to continue living, they'd better move underground, otherwise some people may not survive the tenth day."
"Why?" Su Hong tried to knock out some apocalyptic information from his mouth.
"On the tenth day of the end of the world, the frost will come, everything will wither, and the global temperature will plummet to more than ten degrees below zero. This is just the beginning."
"The walls of houses in Shengshi are thin and generally not insulated. In addition, the entire city has a power outage and cannot use electrical appliances. Staying in the community is almost like waiting to die."
"Can you imagine frost covering everything and burying human civilization?"
Su Hong was shocked. The arrival of the disaster monster was just the beginning. Will there be a more terrifying frost disaster next?
"It's not that I don't believe you."
"I would like to ask, where did you get the news about Frosty Day?"
Li Jian's face was calm, "You can think that before the end of the world comes, some historical organizations have already predicted the end of the world in advance, but they are not sure when the disaster will start."
The man's answer was cautious and vague, and did not reveal the relevant background. Su Hong could only ask about other things, "Have you already decided on the transfer destination?"
"That's right."
Li Jian borrowed a flashlight and illuminated the subway map on the wall.
"We need to start from the Fenguang Station along the subway tunnel, away from Chengnan District, transfer to Line 3, arrive at the Jishan Terminal, and then go to the No. 307 Disaster Shelter on the outskirts of Qinghai District, Sheng City. There are professional facilities there that can guarantee the safety of ordinary people. People will survive." Su Hong's heart moved slightly, and he captured the key word - stay away from the south part of the city.
"What's wrong with Chengnan District?" He looked directly into the man's eyes.
Li Jian leaned against the wall, his face a little gloomy, "Since you can walk here from the Garden Community, you must be no stranger to disasters."
Wang Chengzhi was still sucking milk. When he heard what Li Jian said, he curiously asked: "What is a disaster?"
"You can understand it as the new order that emerges in the world after the sun goes out and is swallowed by the void."
"In our eyes, the world is gradually entering death and destruction, but in the eyes of the undead under the new order, this is rebirth and the beginning of an era."
"Whether it is disaster monsters, disaster items, or those weird buildings, they are all born from disasters."
"The power of disaster is weird and powerful, but it is the only way for us to fight against the apocalypse and survive in the apocalypse."
"The concept of life and death will become more blurred as the fire disappears. The living will pass away, and immortality will grow. Human beings who can integrate into the new order will exist as immortals, just like the disaster monsters you encounter."
"Therefore, humans who can be compatible with disaster items and master disaster items are also called immortals. The undead are the new humans who can finally integrate into the new world."
"The undead will coexist with the disaster monsters, and together they will welcome the arrival of a new world in the apocalypse."
Su Hong thought of Xue Jing, "Those who lose their minds and become like disaster monsters..."
Li Jian shook his head, "They are not immortals, they are disasters closer to their nature, and they are the servants of gods who lead the immortals."
"If you have the idea of saving the disaster, I advise you to give up this idea."
"Disasters do not need to be saved. This kind of behavior is like the people of the old order trying to interpret the new order with unconventional thinking. They have to use a carriage to pull the train. It is just wishful thinking."
The game suddenly pops up a prompt.
"You have come into contact with the New Anthropology, and you feel like you are about to grow a brain. Your disaster potential is +100."
Su Hong was stunned and forgot to respond for a moment.
Feeling that the atmosphere was a little solid, Li Jian changed the subject, "To answer your initial question, why should we stay away from Chengnan District."
"The emergence of disaster monsters is not without purpose. There must be a huge source of disaster pollution in Sheng City. It radiates to the entire city and makes the disaster endless."
"And I guess that the source of the disaster pollution is located in the south area of the city."
As for why he was so sure, he did not give a reason.
"Continuing deeper into the southern part of the city, you will encounter the terrifying spider nest. They are the guardians of the source of disaster pollution. They are countless in number. Even the undead can only die in pain if they are submerged in it."
Su Hong stood up and said, "Since you are leaving, take the residents of the Garden Community together to find a disaster shelter. I can join your team."
Although Li Jian's destination was different from his, it did not prevent him from going to Disaster Shelter No. 307 to investigate the situation.
And judging from the current bad situation, whether they can arrive smoothly is a question.
He had a hunch that his eyes would eventually fall back on the spider nest.
“A pleasure to work with.”
Li Jian looked slightly relaxed and shook hands with Su Hong. With such a powerful undead joining them, their journey to the disaster shelter should be much smoother.
He walked to the desk, pulled out the cabinet, and handed a sticky white vesicle to Su Hong.
"This is a disaster item dropped from the corrosive spider. We don't have any survivors that are compatible with it. I hope you can help me find its owner."
"With one more immortal, we will be much more relaxed."
The vesicle dropped into Su Hong's hand with mucus, beating like a heart, as if it contained life that was about to be conceived.
"It is found that the disaster item corrodes the vesicle. Should it be refined?"
Su Hong remained calm and put the white vesicle back into the bag first.
(End of chapter)