On a road overgrown with weeds, a modified motorcycle was driving quickly toward a collapsed building in the distance.
The radio on the motorcycle was playing a man's voice.
"Twenty years ago, a deadly virus swept the world and wiped out 96% of the world's human population."
"The once prosperous city has turned into a deserted ruin, and the once advanced civilization no longer shines."
"Some said it was a government experiment, while others said it was an alien invasion."
"In my opinion, that's all bullshit."
"This virus is Mother Earth's revenge on us! Revenge on us fools who are obsessed with technology and have forgotten the gods!"
"We must learn to pick up our faith again and find a way to get along with nature again."
"Those infected people are not victims, they just returned to the embrace of the God of Earth!"
"Respect them, respect death, respect mother, in this way, your soul can be saved!"
"My brothers and sisters, join the Eclipse Cult."
"I am your Pope Carmelo Haynes, remember! My eyes are always watching you in the sky!"
The rider on the motorcycle turned off the radio, slowed down the vehicle, and approached a half-collapsed large supermarket next to the road.
Parking the motorcycle in an open space dozens of meters away from the supermarket, the rider took off his helmet. His aqua eyes were particularly eye-catching, and his long golden hair fell to his shoulders like a waterfall.
He took the pistol and ammunition from the side pocket and took off the mountaineering bag from the back seat.
The blond woman carefully checked the outdoor ground, then found a hidden entrance and walked into the supermarket.
Looking at the shelves that had been emptied and the dried blood on the wall, the blonde woman slowed down.
A childish cry came from the depths of the supermarket, attracting the woman's attention.
Following the cry, along the dim corridor, the woman walked into a huge, dilapidated warehouse with light everywhere.
A boy wearing shabby children's clothes sat on the ground in the center of the warehouse with his back to the entrance, covering his eyes with his hands and crying softly.
The woman first raised her head and looked around, then cautiously approached the boy from behind.
When she was less than ten meters away from the boy, the woman stopped.
After a brief pause, the woman suddenly raised her pistol, pointed it at the boy's back, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
There was a loud gunshot and the boy fell to the ground.
Through the light on the wall, the woman finally saw the boy's face clearly.
That was a boy. He was full of beard and his facial features were crowded together. He was clearly a dwarf born with short stature.
At this moment, chaotic footsteps sounded from all around.
Someone shouted: "She found it! She found it!"
Someone else shouted: "She is alone! Come together!"
The blond woman raised her pistol and took a few steps back, with no trace of panic in her aqua eyes.
A moment later, a group of ragged gangsters with vicious faces surrounded her.
Someone saw the woman's face clearly and laughed happily: "This is the first time I have encountered such a high-class thing!"
The leader of the gangsters kicked away the dwarf's body on the ground, slowly walked towards the woman, and shouted viciously: "Drop the gun! Or die!"
A voice from the crowd shouted: "You can use it whether you are alive or dead, and you can eat it after it is used up!"
The woman's eyes narrowed slightly. She looked around and counted in a low voice: "One, two, three, four..."
Upon discovering the woman's behavior, the leader asked suspiciously: "What are you doing?"
The woman smiled slightly: "That's all the people here, right?"
Leader: "You...?"
Before he finished speaking, a gunshot suddenly came from outside the high wall of the warehouse.
The bullet passed through the hole in the wall and accurately shot into the head of the gang leader.
Seeing the leader fall and the others still in shock, a series of gunshots rang out outside the wall.
The gangsters who had no time to find cover could not even turn around and escape, so they turned into dead souls one by one.
Half an hour later, the blond woman sat on the wooden box in the warehouse, touching the pendant on her chest while watching her companions count the inventory of the thieves' den.
A middle-aged woman in her forties, wearing a work vest, came to the blonde woman and said, "Alice, you have a good harvest today."
The young woman known as Alice nodded, indicating that she wanted to hear the list of trophies.
"148 boxes of cans, 33 gallons of clean water, 23 large and small firearms, but a little less bullets."
"A simple metal processing bench has about a ton of scrap metal in stock."
"These guys have a diesel generator that's a little beat up, but it works."
"Also... there is a cold storage behind the supermarket with some frozen meat hanging in it, but trust me, you don't want to touch it."
Alice's eyes turned cold: "Liz, these bastards really deserve to die!"
Liz nodded: "They really deserve to die."
Turning to look at her companions who were carrying the goods behind her, Liz approached Alice and whispered: "Last week, a group of Solar Eclipse cultists sneaked into our camp and wanted to preach, but they were chased away by Matt.
Get out."
Alice frowned: "What's wrong with this?"
Liz: "There's nothing wrong with that, but Matt's methods of driving away the believers were a bit excessive, and some people in the camp began to waver because of the preaching."
Alice asked: "Liz, tell me, do you believe in God?"
Liz sighed: "In a world like this, it's hard to convince yourself not to believe in gods, but at least, I don't believe in the false gods of the Eclipse Sect."
Alice touched the pendant on her chest without saying a word.
Liz looked at her and said softly: "This thing you have been carrying can be regarded as your father's relic."
Alice raised the pendant on her chest. It was a piece of pitch-black scales, and it was impossible to tell what creature it originally belonged to.
Alice: "Since I was seven years old, I have had that nightmare many nights."
Liz: "That nightmare of bloody sky and flaming earth?"
Alice nodded and looked at the pendant on her chest: "But I don't know why, as long as I put it on, I can feel calm."
Liz wanted to say something more, but suddenly a companion rushed into the warehouse in panic and shouted: "The infected are coming!"
Alice jumped down from the wooden box and asked the visitor: "How many? What level?"
The person who came in gasped and said: "There are many, probably a medium-sized group of corpses... However, I saw the fourth type of infected people inside."
Alice opened her eyes wide and shouted to the people around her: "Everyone! Give up all your luggage! Return to the vehicle and evacuate immediately!"
Seeing Alice rushing outdoors, Liz shouted anxiously: "Where are you going?!"
Alice said without looking back: "If there are Type 4 infected people, the speed of the vehicle will not be able to get rid of them! Someone must lead them away!"
Before Liz could say anything else, Alice quickly left the supermarket, ran back to the motorcycle, put on her helmet, started the vehicle, and sped off in the other direction.
While driving her motorcycle, Alice used a telescope to observe the corpses in the distance.
Amidst the diffuse smoke and dust, a group of infected people covered in parasite tentacles were running towards the city.
At the front of the group of corpses were several bone-spurred undead that were all white and covered with spikes, which were the "fourth type of infected people" in Alice's mouth.
After looking in the direction of the supermarket behind her, Alice took out a flare from the side bag of her motorcycle.
She rubbed and lit one end of the flare, and orange-red smoke instantly burst out and quickly dispersed along the direction of the motorcycle.
The group of corpses that spotted the smoke let out bursts of screams, turned around, and accelerated toward Alice.
Alice drove her motorcycle toward the city.
She relied on her skilled skills to avoid the scrapped vehicles and scattered debris on the street, and continued to widen the distance between herself and the corpses by turning and accelerating.
Ten minutes later, she could no longer see the smoke and dust raised by the advancing corpses in her rearview mirror.
Just when she thought she was safe, a sharp bone spur struck from above her head and pierced into the back seat of the motorcycle.
The startled Alice quickly drove her motorcycle and used S-shaped evasion to avoid the attack of several bone spurs.
Out of the corner of her eye, she finally saw the identity of the attacker.
The three bone-spurred undead, relying on their agility and fast speed, climbed on the collapsed building and kept approaching Alice.
Alice drove her motorcycle quickly through the collapsed buildings, hoping to find an open space to escape the pursuers behind her.
Inadvertently, Alice entered the site of the nuclear explosion in Las Vegas.
Listening to the radiation reading siren on the motorcycle, she realized something was wrong.
Hurrying on with a gas mask, Alice wanted to drive away from the nuclear explosion site quickly, but found that the speed of the car was getting slower and slower.
I lowered my head and saw that the fuel tank of the motorcycle had been penetrated by a bone spur at some point and a large hole had been leaking downwards.
"Damn it!" Looking at the empty environment around her, Alice looked around for a hiding place and took out the short-barreled shotgun from the side bag of the motorcycle.
Carrying the shotgun behind her back, Alice rode her motorcycle to the center of the nuclear explosion, where she wanted to use the terrain for a last-ditch effort.
Abandoning the motorcycle without fuel and carrying a radiation counter, Alice ran like crazy toward the crater at the nuclear explosion site.
Three bone-spurred undead souls followed her closely, and the distance between the two parties became closer and closer.
Alice raised her shotgun and fired a shot at the nearest bone-spur undead. The latter jumped sideways and dodged the bullet.
Just when Alice was about to fire the second shot, the soil beneath her feet suddenly collapsed, and her whole body instantly fell into a deep hole.
Alice fell to the ground and tried to get up.
The severe pain in her right ankle made her scream in agony.
Leaning her body against the rock wall, Alice supported her body with her arms and tried her best to stand up.
Hearing the screams of death coming from the ground, Alice glanced at the dark and narrow passage deep in the cave.
With no other choice, she limped sideways and squeezed into the passage, continuing towards the depths of the underground.
To Alice's expectation, although the passage went all the way down, it became wider as it went inward.
Just when she rekindled a glimmer of hope for survival, the screams of the dead suddenly erupted behind her, causing her to close her eyes in despair.
A sharp thorn shot through the air and was about to pierce her body.
At this moment, a long sword shining with light blue light suddenly swung out.
There was a crisp sound of metal and stone hitting each other, and the bone spur was picked up by the long sword and inserted diagonally into the rock wall.
As Alice watched in disbelief, a knight in black armor appeared from the darkness, walked past her, and blocked the path of the undead.
The first bone-spurred undead screamed and pounced on the knight.
Before it could hit the ground, the knight's blue long sword cut it into two pieces from head to tail at a speed invisible to the naked eye.
The second bone spur squatted on the spot, shook its body, and shot the bone spurs on its back towards the knight.
The knight advanced slowly, his black armor transforming into sharp limbs, knocking down the bone spurs in mid-air one by one at extremely fast speeds.
Walking calmly in front of the second bone-spurred undead, the knight swung his sword and cut off the attacker's head.
The third bone-spurred undead faced the knight and actually began to retreat slowly.
Without giving the opponent a chance to turn around and escape, the knight picked up a bone spur from the ground and threw it hard.
The bone spurs penetrated directly into the back of the third undead's head, nailing it firmly to the rock wall.
This lightning-like battle, from start to finish, only lasted a few seconds, but it shocked Alice to the point of doubting her life.
After dealing with the three undead knights, he put away his sword, crossed Alice on the ground, and walked slowly towards the depths of the passage.
After looking at the remains of the undead on the ground and then looking at the dark passage, Alice made up her mind, got up from the ground, followed the knight step by step, and walked slowly towards the depths.
After walking for who knows how long, Alice was surprised to find that the numbers on the radiation counter were close to normal, and the passage was getting wider and wider, with many traces of artificial construction on both sides.
Following the knight into a huge stone door, Alice found herself in a vast and boundless hall.
Stone pillars carved with dragon patterns, floor tiles paved with green boards, and wires emitting light blue light one after another bring a touch of science fiction to this medieval retro-style hall.
On the high platform deep in the hall, a group of tall women carrying bows and arrows looked at Alice intently. They would argue fiercely among themselves from time to time.
Looking at the knight who continued to move forward, Alice hesitated.
Faced with all this unknown, she had some thoughts of retreating deep in her heart.
However, returning to the ground, intense radiation, dangerous groups of corpses, lack of food, water and vehicles, plus injuries to her legs and feet, there is no doubt that her chance of survival is close to zero.
In desperation, Alice could only continue to follow.
The knight walked through a wide underground corridor.
There are many exquisite murals carved on both sides of the corridor, depicting birth, struggle, death, redemption... which tells a dusty past, an ancient legend.
Alice looked at the mural and felt a strange feeling in her heart, which became stronger and stronger.
The knight finally came to a huge and empty square underground.
As soon as Alice entered there, she was so frightened by the sight in front of her that she forgot to move.
Thousands of knights in black armor were half-kneeling in the square with their heads facing forward.
The knight who had saved Alice walked into the crowd, found his position, held the sword in his hands, knelt on one knee, and stopped moving like a stone sculpture.
The air was so quiet that apart from the sound of her own heartbeat, Alice could not hear even a hint of wind.
Alice wanted to turn around and leave, but there was a voice in the dark that kept telling her to keep moving forward.
After passing through the ranks of knights, Alice finally arrived at the deepest part of the square.
Standing on the cliff at the edge of the square, Alice looked down.
Beneath the bottomless depths, there is a clear and shiny "lake".
The light blue "lake water" has no ripples or ripples. They are like countless floating light blue particles gathered together, beautiful and mysterious.
Staring at the light blue "lake", Alice vaguely saw a huge shadow emerging from the "bottom of the lake".
A pair of golden dragon eyes slowly approached the woman.