Human history will never forget the day when the sky was darkened by countless alien spacecraft.
Satellites launched by various countries, observations of space, detectors sailing in the universe... there is no way to detect or predict the arrival of alien fleets; it seems like a science fiction film that does not bother to explain the background story, in a certain
One day, when human beings looked up, they saw their end.
No one knows where the alien fleets come from, no one even knows what technology, materials, and energy sources these fleets use - let alone whether there are intelligent creatures on board, and what intelligent creatures will do to them.
what.
At the beginning, the presidents of various countries gave resolute speeches.
"Currently, all communications have been lost. They are probably not friendly. But as long as they show any undue hostility, we will defend our planet at all costs and fight against these arrogant creatures that come without warning and have no good intentions."
Get out of the atmosphere!"
The most destructive weapon that human beings can produce is like a dumb cannon that was not fired during the New Year, or like a fart that was not controlled well. After a burst of "plop" sound, it went out in the air. Explosion, radiant light
, where the mushroom cloud should have occurred, several birds flew past.
The live TV stations and radio broadcasts all went silent for a second or two. That was perhaps the quietest moment on the planet since humans entered modern society.
Soon after, the creatures dispatched by the alien fleet landed in large numbers.
As they landed, the same news announcements began to be played repeatedly around the world, repeatedly warning and admonishing people not to panic and to actively cooperate, because communication has finally begun. These reasonable, kind and dear alien rulers have nothing to do with this planet.
Planet people only have very small, very insignificant requirements.
"There is a substance in the human body that our technology cannot detect so far. Our technology is not bad either. Since we can still live without knowing its existence, it must mean that it is not necessary for us."
A potbellied professor logically advised in the talk show after the news, "But this substance is a very important energy source for the people of the 'New Chapter'. You said, since they have come all the way
, we should be generous and enthusiastic, establish a good relationship of mutual help, and give this material to them. What's wrong? I suggest that various localities organize private volunteers who take the initiative to hand over as soon as possible, and they can give certain material rewards.
If you cooperate for a long time and are unwilling to hand it over in the future, you should be punished. I will sign up first and take the initiative to hand over this material."
He called alien creatures a "new chapter" and said they symbolized an unprecedented technological leap in human history. This title became popular very quickly, because after all, the original name of alien creatures is difficult to pronounce with human lips and tongue.
"I have lived for fifty or sixty years, how much cultivation and kindness have I received?" Big Belly said affectionately, "Now you tell me that I can use the nameless substances in my body to give everyone a better future. I will die.
I’m willing to do that.”
Facts have proved that his words are not exaggerated: people do need to die first before that kind of material can be mined.
*
When ordinary people realized that the alien beings sent to the ground were not officials or ambassadors, but a team of miners, and that humans were just energy mines, the heads of state and the wealthy had already fled on the spaceship.
For some reason, the pot-bellied professor who never took the initiative to register did not realize that he was not included until the spacecraft took off.
*
The miner is six meters tall, and his body is made of a flexible metal. When ordinary bullets are fired, the bullets will be reflected away without leaving a single mark on his body.
They can pull out a huge suction cup from the body, stick it into the window, press it on the wall of the building, stand on the road, block on the viaduct, stick to the ground... Humans within ten meters will be like iron filings.
Likewise, there is no use hiding if you are being sucked one after another to the suction cup. Because no matter whether there is a brick wall, a car body, or the ground in between, you will be sucked up in the end anyway.
As for whether it is complete when you suck it up, it is not a consideration of the miner. Anyway, you will end up in the tube of human porridge that the miner carries on his back.
*
"Here we come, run!"
When a muffled call sounded from the entrance of the alley, the shadows hidden in the shadows moved one after another, like a group of frightened insects. For a moment, the alley was filled with hurried limbs and legs; among the crowd, except for heavy breathing, there was no one
An extra word.
After nearly ten percent of human society has been destroyed, those who still survive are not only in good physical condition, but also have rich experience in escaping: all the packages are hung on their bodies, and they can walk away as soon as they get up. Even if the miners are discovered temporarily, they can still survive.
Try to stay as quiet as possible while escaping.
Cities with dense buildings have become the best hiding places. Although miners can destroy buildings, their movement in the ruins is also hindered, so they generally do not cause extensive damage; instead, open fields and countryside are a good place to hide if they are attacked by miners.
Once discovered, there really was no hope of survival at all.
As long as they run out of the miner's suction range and ensure that they do not enter within ten meters of it, they will have a few more days to live after the miner leaves.
However, recently, more and more miners have come to the ground to check for leaks, and their searches have become more and more frequent. This hide-and-seek escape method has given people less and less space to survive.
"Front," a group of people were running, but they saw the shadow at the front that had just disappeared, turned back from the corner, and shouted without control, with a pale face: "There's another one over there! We are surrounded from front to back.
Got it!"
The six-meter-tall miner walks almost softly, making only a very low rustling sound. In a city full of high-rise buildings, sometimes people don't realize that a miner has arrived until they meet face to face.
In the chaotic crowd that was braking, turning around, a girl with a ponytail turned white. She grabbed her friend next to her and whispered, "Don't run away. If we run any further, we'll hit the miners!"
Almost as if accompanying her, a long scream rang out from the front of the crowd; the scream seemed to be sucked, dragging a rapidly narrowing arc in mid-air, and in the blink of an eye, it was gone.
It was cut off - only then did someone on the ground react and let out a second scream.
Ma Wei wiped away her tears, dragged her friend with weak hands and feet, and ran towards a door on the side of the road that led to an unknown location.
"If it's passable inside, go to another road..." She pulled the door that said "Employees Only" and found that it was unlocked. She breathed a sigh of relief. "As long as we stay ten meters away from the alley, we can
You can live..."
"What if the space inside is very small?" The friend with short hair suppressed crying, but did not delay his movements, and quickly followed her in. When several other people nearby saw this, they also grabbed the life-saving straw and squeezed in one after another.
Go in. "What is this place?" someone asked in a very low voice.
*
Mawei stood in the dark room, his heart sinking.
The five or six people who came in with her stood behind her and looked at the only glass window in the room that let in the skylight. Various exquisite and beautiful pastry models were still displayed in the glass display window; from the inside, looking at the glass, there were
A line of large characters in reverse reads "FancRose Dessert Baking".
Outside the big characters, a miner - it is so tall that only its scimitar-shaped feet can be seen through the glass window - is slowly bending down.
The screams of those who had not escaped into the store continued to come from outside the back door, each sound was very short. In the alley outside the door, she was already very familiar with the low rustling sound, gradually approaching them.
Already.
"How...how could there be so many...it was clear before..." A middle-aged woman spoke tremblingly, but no one told her to be silent. No matter how quiet they were, they would not be able to escape being discovered by the miners.
.
What happens next, Ponytail knows very well.
A suction cup will stick out from the center of the miner's face, break the glass window, poke his head in and sweep around... all the people in this shop will be sucked in and become part of the human porridge. This dessert shop is not big, the front and back are
There is a miner at the exit... Her life is over.
She gently held her friend's hand.
"Thank you," she said a little choked with sobs, "I can persist until now because you are with me."
The short-haired girl's face was covered with tears and she couldn't utter a word. Her shoulders twitched and she nodded.
The miner saw them. Its face opened and a sucker was poking out.
At the end of life, everyone froze. In the dead silence, Ponytail suddenly seemed to hear a long and steady breathing - the kind of peaceful and bewildered breathing that occurs when a person is sleeping deeply.
Who can be so peaceful even when death is imminent?
Ponytail felt as if her mind had paused for a moment. Perhaps it was the reluctance of her brain when she was about to die. She stared at the suction cup, and in the blank space, she heard someone mumble "Huh?" from her throat again, and she fell asleep.
As if he was disturbed.
"What's disturbing my sleep?" A male voice said, the words were still vague and the tone was quite poor.
"...Eh?" My friend made a low voice of confusion.
*
No one expected that before they entered, there was already someone in the dessert shop - and that person was sleeping on the bench next to the window.
When the miner's suction cup shattered the glass, Ponytail saw a figure leaping into the air in the silvery reflections like rain; he seemed to be planning to fight (fight? How could humans fight against the miners?), but as soon as he saw it,
Although he knew what was outside, he seemed stunned for a moment and fell back on the chair.
"...What the hell is this?"
Before he finished shouting, the figure had already been sucked into the suction cup.
*
The ponytail and the friend were also pulled off the ground; everything in the store stood in place, except for the human beings who were being dragged one after another deeper into the spiraling suction cup amidst the screams.
*
But she never expected that when she came to her senses the next second, she fell heavily to the ground. When she was spinning in pain, she vaguely felt that her friend also fell beside her with a loud bang, and she made a reassuring sound.
moan.
Did the suction disappear? No, it didn't disappear... Her body was no longer rising uncontrollably; but the suction weakened and was not enough to suck her up.
what happened?
*
"Hey, who knows what this is?" In the air, the male voice shouted in a irritable tone. "You look rude, why do you come up to me while others are sleeping?"
Eh?
Ponytail reluctantly raised his head, and in the severe pain, he could barely see clearly - the figure who should have disappeared into the depths of the suction cup was still there at this time; not only that, he was stepping on the left edge of the suction cup with one of his long legs.
, the long knife in his right hand was pressed against the right side of the suction cup. With only one person's strength, he was able to steadily withstand the suction force that could swallow dozens of people.
He turned his head, revealing a fierce and young face under his messy black hair - so young that it made people feel that if they were beaten by him, there would be no need to worry about him not having enough physical strength and giving up halfway.
"Are you dumb? What is this?"
...He, doesn’t he know?
*
"It's a miner!" my friend shouted, "it's scary, the bullets are all——"
Before she could finish her reminder, the miners had already moved; they had never encountered any decent resistance, and even the army was only the first batch to be absorbed into the clean energy mines.
In other words, no one has ever actually seen the killing methods of miners.
For the first time, Ponytail saw behind the miner, two soft and tough metal limbs were lifted up from nowhere; there were dark holes embedded in the ends of the limbs, which were as big as a human head, and they were pointed at the black-haired young man.
"Run, it's an alien—" Ponytail yelled hoarsely.
The dark-haired man looked up.
*
Ponytail never understood what happened, even though she kept her eyes wide open.
The change happened so fast, far faster than her eyes could see.
She only remembered seeing a figure leaping high into the sky - how could a human jump so high? In an instant, he became a small shadow, looking down at the six-meter-high miners below - even the foreigner
The star creature didn't seem to be able to react in time. When she raised her gaze, she also hurriedly raised the two metal ribbons behind her and aimed them at the figure in the air again.
She had never seen or heard of a "fourth dimensional weapon"; but a certain instinct in Ponytail made her feel it. Under the space, countless undulating things were irritating the black-haired man.
It shoots away, as if there are snakes crawling under a quilt, and people can only see the fleeting shape of the snake as it swims.
*
No one could tell what happened, but the miners suddenly stopped moving.
The black-haired man landed on the ground, facing the miners, with his back to everyone. He twitched his arm back hard, but it didn't twitch. He cursed in a low voice: "You won't let go even if you die?"
What is he doing? What is the situation now?
The ponytail looked at him blankly. After his second failure, the black-haired man suddenly felt an almost visible anger; he simply let go and stopped pulling back, instead kicking the ground.
He kicked the miner's machete-shaped supporting foot - while everyone was stunned, the right half of the miner's body slowly fell backwards, and with a bang, he fell on the road between the buildings.
The left half of the body lost its support and finally could no longer stand. It swayed back and forth a few times and crashed into the wall of a nearby building. Like extremely tired travelers, half of the miners slid down the wall and stopped motionless.
A long knife fell from between the miner's split body and fell to the ground with a clang.
Cut...for the miners?
*
"This is a lesson for waking me up," the black-haired man seemed to be still upset, and kicked the miner's leg a few more times, causing a wave shape in his leg. "Put it in my face again.
, use your home planet to wipe my feet!"
Ponytail looked at him blankly and called out, "Um...hello?"
*
The black-haired man turned around, and the lines between his brows were as deep as blades. He only glanced at the ponytail and heard several people behind him running away in a hurry; she hurriedly reached out and grabbed her friend.
"You, you can kill the miners? How do you do it?" Ponytail endured the shock and whispered, "You are... you are the hope of mankind. We have been on the run for a few days... ah, I, I
Your name is Joli. Who are you?"
*
In the eyes of the black-haired man, there may not be much difference between her and a seven-star ladybug; but the other person actually also has the inertia brought up by human society, because after he said "Huh?", he subconsciously answered: "My name is
My name is Kurosawa Ji."
*
"Please save everyone," my friend said, wiping tears. "We are completely helpless against these alien creatures. You are the first person I have ever seen who can kill miners..."
"No one can deal with such a low-level thing?" Kurosawa Ji seemed to be getting more and more impatient as he listened. He looked at the curled long knife and threw it to the ground with a loud sound. The two girls trembled in fright and dared not speak.
"If you can't even evolve and become stronger, then why not let me just kill you here, which will save you a lot of torture and pain in the future."
When Kurosawa Ji said this, his eyes were unblinking and he was very serious.
*
Joli and her friends watched helplessly as Kurosawa turned around and walked into the dessert shop again, wondering if he was going to continue sleeping.
Although she didn't dare to continue the request, she was unwilling to leave the only person who could kill the miner. She stood outside the store and stared blankly for a few seconds, and then suddenly took her friend's hand.
"Wait, look," she whispered, "doesn't it seem like a lot of the desserts on the shelves and in the freezer have been eaten?"
*
It must be. There are several layers of cheesecake, fruit tart and other desserts in the freezer. At this time, there are only empty plates left, and there is also a small spoon stained with cake crumbs. If the label is not still there, Joli
I don’t even know what was originally sold in the freezer.
*
In other words... this man named Kurosawa Masaru accidentally broke into a dessert shop, had a feast, and then... then fell asleep because he ate too much carbohydrates and sugar?
After being woken up by the miners, he was... angry about getting up?
Joli clapped her hands and felt that she understood everything.
Some people's talents can only be stimulated after certain conditions are met. She has heard this theory a long time ago; that is to say, this man named Kurosawa Ji has the talent to kill miners, but he must
Only when you are angry!
*
"I have a way," she murmured, "I have a way to save everyone!"
*
Joli is very active and has a certain idea. She immediately found more survivors and started the wheels of the plan. Her plan is not complicated: everyone tries to get all the desserts nearby that are still edible and can be used to make desserts.
All the raw materials were collected and Kurosawa Ji had a good meal. When he felt sleepy after eating and just fell asleep, he sent some agile people to lure a miner over and wake him up.
As long as he is angry when he is offended, he will naturally not care about who is stronger and who is weaker, and whether he should take action, right?
Of course, the plan had to be kept hidden from Kurosawa, and they had to go out to discuss it. He wouldn't hear it. Didn't he wake up when his group first entered the store?
Fortunately, he didn't wake up, otherwise he might have been split in half.
*
She thought she was secretive, but all discussions and actions took place outside the dessert shop, so of course she did not hide it from Kurosawa Kagito.
He sat cross-legged on the bench and listened for a while with his brows furrowed. Several times, he opened his mouth, as if he couldn't help it anymore and wanted to say something - but he hesitated for a few seconds and still said nothing.
...is also a way.
We have to give ordinary people a way to survive, right?
*
Four months later, Kurosawa Ji not only gained a little weight, but also looked a little more blue and black.
Since he came to this broken world, he has not even slept a full night's sleep, but he has never been willing to change his place to stay.
Who knows when we will meet someone like Joli again?
I'm really sorry that the extra chapter took so long! But I actually wrote five thousand words in the extra chapter. I have my hands on my waist. I don't know what happened this year. I got sick again in October... Do I have to say goodbye (.I
Discover, there is inertia in coding, and there is inertia in not coding. After the end of the world, I am like an old car with slow response (18), creaking slowly, slowly, and recently it has almost stopped completely... I am in debt
The next big boss is Ye Shang Yue. Whose extra story do you want to watch? (I pray it’s not a puppet master, I pray it’s not a puppet master, otherwise Kavin will be stuck)