Liu Yuxin sat at the highest point of a city facing the night wind, a tower-shaped landmark building built by the city in the old era. All the structures are made of metal that is not easily weathered. The meticulous design and reliable quality have allowed it to stand firm after more than 100 years, and will continue to be isolated here for hundreds of years, thousands of years, until the entire city and it are submerged in yellow sand.

Looking at the civilization slowly disappearing over the years, Liu Yuxin lay down on her back. Under the erosion of wind and sand, most of the tall buildings in the city had collapsed, and the ruins were covered by several meters of yellow sand and left only a piece of ruins. Instead, those relatively small industrial complexes withstood the test of time and formed the general outline of the city's ruins.

When Liu Yuxin saw the traces of human demise for the first time, she inevitably felt sad in her heart. It was not seen with her own eyes that she could hardly imagine that the rise and fall of civilizations buried in dust on TV would be vividly displayed in front of her in this way. This time, they are the protagonists in the story!

Suddenly, Liu Yuxin caught a ray of light in this dark city, and a very obvious flame rose on the ground several kilometers away from him in the direction to Liu Yuxin's left.

There are other people in this place? Or are the sand people still not giving up? Liu Yuxin decided to go over and touch the situation. He jumped a few times and fell back to the ground from the apex of the landmark building and rushed towards the flames.

When he moved to his destination soon, Liu Yuxin slowed down and carefully used the surrounding ruins to hide her figure slowly approaching the abnormal point.

After approaching the building that emitted the light source, Liu Yuxin found that the source of the fire was just an iron bucket with a diameter of about two meters. Several yellow-skinned humans were burning the fire around the iron bucket, and from time to time threw some flammable materials retrieved from the ruins into the barrels burning with raging flames to ensure that on this cold night when blood can freeze, they would not be frozen to death on the rooftop due to loss of temperature.

"So hungry!"

A delicate girl with eyes in the crowd kept rubbing her stomach with one of her hands. Her food supplies were lost during the daytime escape. It has been more than ten hours since she had eaten it at noon and has not yet been dripping rice.

"I have some high-energy biscuits here, so let's eat them!"

An armed man who was obviously an escort took out a two-finger-wide strip wrapped in aluminum foil from his tactical pocket.

The girl quickly pushed the cookies back:

"Brother Zhang, how can this work! How can I eat your food? The whole team still depends on you to protect the safety! This is absolutely not possible!"

"Yes, yes! The rescue team doesn't know when it will arrive. You must maintain enough physical strength before they come!"

Another old man in the team also started to speak out and handed a small bag of high-energy cookies to the girl wearing glasses:

"Xiaoli, I have a little more here. Let's take it to cushion your belly first. We will find a way when it's dawn."

"Teacher Sun, why are you so embarrassed..."

Although Xiaoli was talking politely, her eyes kept staring at the small bag of biscuits, and the corners of her mouth were squirming from time to time, looking really hungry.

The old man directly patted the small bag of biscuits in Xiaoli's hand:

"I am an old man. If you can't eat so much, you can eat with confidence! Besides, we have sent a distress signal. A rescue team will come in less than two or three days. If you save a lot of food, you can still hold on until that day."

"Then I'm not polite, thank you Teacher Sun!"

Xiaoli took the old man's biscuit and poured it into her mouth. While tasting the fragrance in her mouth, she muttered vaguely:

"Didn't we have already negotiated with the slaughter people? Why do they still attack us?"

The old man smiled bitterly when he heard this:

"Probably because the things we study violated their taboos? In their minds, the kingdom of heaven is a sacred and inviolable thing, and our actions are undoubtedly blasphemous in their eyes..."

After hearing what the old man said, the girl with glasses was shocked and even forgot to swallow the biscuits in her mouth:

"Ah! Teacher Sun, isn't that Sister Juxiang who was captured by them very dangerous?"

The old man did not speak up, but just threw a piece of abandoned rubber into the fire bucket in silence.

At this time, Liu Yuxin had confirmed that this group of people was not Shamin, but a group of difficult alliance members, and generously walked out of their hiding place.

"Who? Stop! Or I'll shoot!"

The armed man quickly pulled out a bp2000 from his leg and pointed the gun at Liu Yuxin.

"Don't be impulsive! I was chased into this place by Shamin, I just want to help you!"

Liu Yuxin raised her hands to show that she had no malice and slowly walked into their sight:

"Which college are you students? I have a truck that is parked a few kilometers away, and maybe there are things you need on it."

The reason why they are judged as students is that in this unmanned land, except for some people with ulterior motives like themselves, only researchers will go deep into this because of the topics they are studying. In addition, there are some illegal personnel who transport contraband between various safe areas. The group of people in front of them are obviously not the last one.

"Teacher Sun..."

When Xiaoli heard that Liu Yuxin had a truckload of supplies, she stared at the old man with a hint of gaze, obviously she was already moved.

The old man looked Liu Yuxin up and down several times before asking:

"Why do you want to help us?"

Why help them? Perhaps it was just because of their mutual assistance that was rare in the end of the world that touched her? Liu Yuxin shook her head and threw the thoughts in her mind into the void:

"No one who can do research projects in no man's land will be poor. I hope that my rescuers will receive a generous reward when they arrive."

Of course, this is not the real idea in Liu Yuxin's mind, but it is indeed the easiest explanation nowadays. After hearing what he said, the few people in front of him put down their guard and gathered together and discussed in a low voice for a while, the old man walked to Liu Yuxin and stretched out his hand:

"The deal is completed! You will receive a generous reward in a few days! My name is Sun Li, and I am a professor at a certain research institute."

"My name is Wang Li, and I am a student of Teacher Sun!"

Wang Li also posted it over. She was a little curious about the masked man in front of her, because his eyes and exposed skin both showed that he had very generous living conditions. Why did a person like this appear in this crisis-ridden no-man's land?

Liu Yuxin smiled at them, took out a bag of jerky from her body and threw it to Wang Li:

"A gift for you!"

"It's jerky! I love you so much!"

Wang Li took the jerky with a cheer, and couldn't wait to open the packaging and stuff her mouth full.

"My name is Zhang Hong, I wonder if you are the guard in the team?"

Zhang Hong also lifted the bp2000 and inserted it back into the gun holster.

"My name is Liu Yuxin, a freelancer, and I come here with my companions to find something."

Liu Yuxin pointed to the location of the truck

"My truck is in that position, are you with me now?"

Sun Li nodded and said:

"We're basically lost in the daytime, there's nothing to clean up, and we can meet with you now."

At this time, several other people in Sun Li's team also came to introduce themselves, and these people were Professor Sun's assistants.

Professor Sun seems to have two brushes...

Liu Yuxin thought to herself that with the capable guards, there were several assistants next to her, and this old man Sun might be the big shot in the academic world again.

"Are everyone in the world? We're going to set off now!"

"Actually, we have a companion, Sister Ju, but when she stayed in the daytime, she was caught by those sand people..."

Zhang Li talked about her companion, and her face was filled with worry.

It turned out to be theirs!

Seeing Zhang Li's worried look on her face, Liu Yuxin couldn't bear to tell her the truth, but just comforted her softly:

"Auspicious people will have their own appearance..."

Gong Liang was shocked when he saw Liu Yuxin go out for a while and hurriedly pulled Liu Yuxin aside:

"Who are these people? Why did you bring them all here!"

"Brother Liang, don't worry, they are all scholars doing research. We will help them through these most difficult days. After they are rescued, they will ask them for some spare parts for the mecha."

Gong Liang's eyes were observed among the group of people several times, but he didn't see any danger, so he relaxed. After all, it was very rare to meet a few normal humans in the wilderness. Gong Liang quickly got into a chorus with them.

"By the way, what are you here for? There is nothing here except alien species and sand people."

After Gong Liang became familiar with them, he asked about the purpose of Sun Li and his group.

Sun Li sighed:

"It's all my fault... I don't want Mr. Su to waste his life's hard work. I have to complete the unfinished career of my missing old friend and unveil the mystery of the mythical heaven. I followed the clues left in his work log to this unmanned land, trying to find the ladder to heaven. Unexpectedly, the first day of research angered those sand people and almost ruined the entire team."

"The Kingdom of Heaven? The Ladder to the Kingdom of Heaven?"

These things that sound very mysterious suddenly aroused Gong Liang's interest.

Faced with Gong Liang's curiosity, Sun Li hesitated for a moment. After all, this was related to an S-level secret, but when Gong Liang, who helped him in his desperate situation, he couldn't bear to refuse directly.

Anyway, he wouldn't have been exposed to such high-end secrets, so it doesn't matter if he mentioned it a little, right?

"The Kingdom of Heaven, just treat it as an ancient ruin. Only specific people can reach that place through some means, but ordinary people cannot enter. In order to facilitate communication with people, people have specially opened up a passage to wherever they go, which is the "stairs of the Kingdom of Heaven". Only through that legendary passage can we reach the legendary place and explore the mystery in it."

Gong Liang had long been shocked by this horrifying hearing. Heaven? Only specific people can enter? Ordinary people need to follow the inherent passage? Why does it sound like a myth?
Chapter completed!