Chapter 1 The Hub Era

This is a translation of a Chinese webnovel.Since my mother language isnt English,many mistakes may be found in the article,sorry!

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Seventy-seven years ago, the celestial body known as the Hub swallowed the sun and the moon and became the sole ruler of the world.The hubs send around the world an energy source called meta-entropy.It is no exaggeration to say that the world is woven by meta-entropy, and as the only "loom" in the world, the hub is naturally the supreme being.

With the help of endless energy, everyone lived a carefree life.However, a disaster known as the "Big Bang" took the lives of 80% of the world's people and almost destroyed the entire world, along with almost all historical records and technological achievements lost in the disaster.

As today's survivors lurk in megacorporations, will they reminisce about a golden age they never saw?

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On the night of March 24 in Hub Era 77

The city of Loane, a vast steel forest with 60 million people living inside, has just been hit by a downpour, but no amount of rain can wash away the city's inherent smell of corruption.

The neon lights on the tall buildings dispersed into a mist of light through the rising water vapor, and the puddles on the ground reflected the squares and rings of the sky.Catching a glimpse of the reflection in the water on the ground, the boy crossing the square between the buildings adjusted his steps a little and deliberately crushed it.The boy's waist is also hung with a celestial body shape exactly the same pendant and there are a black and a white tassel decoration.

A corner of the square in front of the teenager was marked out with a hologram as an exclusion zone.Outside the exclusion zone, dozens of Loane Guards in fully enclosed powered armor are aiming powered crossbows straight at unarmed former citizens inside the police line, each with a different part of the body covered in eerie black streaks.The Guards didn't seem to hesitate to pin down former citizens with crossbows if they made any suspicious movements.

For some special reason, the city of Loane is highly modular, with high walls separating the blocks and roads connecting the entrances of the blocks as if blood vessels and organs were living together.

The boy walked casually across the paddock and fell into the ranks of the crowd in the square, where the radio was repeating the status announcements of the Guard.According to the broadcast, the teenager learned that the area in front of him had been designated as a restricted area, and all the residents who had been evacuated from it were gathered in the square, lining up to get their supplies.Many doctors and nurses, dressed in pure white robes, provide medical services to the citizens, while tall, black-armored soldiers use themselves as symbols to form neat lines of the crowd.

"Let us go home!"What the hell are you doing?It's been nearly two hours!"Across the street from the medical station, a small group of citizens gathered at the entrance to the temporary Guard base, protesting the sudden and unwarranted blockade.

Yellow tents and a phalanx of armored explosion-proof vehicles formed the makeshift base, guarding the only entrance to the blockaded area.In front of the gate of the base, two ironguards with crossbows stood solemnly.As the guards' heads move, instruments built into their fully enclosed helmets scan for possible threats around them.

The teenager in the crowd wore a black hooded coat, under which strands of gray hair peeped out.The hoodie may seem like a common look everywhere, but the high-tech blue and white stripes and matte synthetic fabrics seem to say something unusual about its owner.

"Freeze!"An iron guard cut the boy off with a powered crossbow.The guard had been watching the boy from the moment he pushed his way into the crowd and began moving slowly towards the entrance of the restricted area.

A green, eye-shaped scanner focused on the boy as a servomotor whirled from the armor on the guard's head.

"Entropy demon!"As soon as the scan results come in, the communications system synchronizes the threat information to all the guards' headscreens.Almost immediately, all the guards guarding the base pointed their powered crossbows in the boy's direction, and a dozen reflections of cold light even made the boy's face pale a little.

At the same time when the iron guards entered the combat state, the crowd pie who had been eager to push forward a little more suddenly left a lot of space around the boy like lightning when they heard the word "entropy demon".The space left by the crowd was quickly filled with reinforcements, and dozens of guards surrounded the boy.

It was entropy demons that destroyed the old world and the golden age of mankind.

However, the teenager at the centre of the chaos took it easy enough to remove his hood and even took time to brush up on his bangs and clothes.The boy's face was handsome, if not striking, but his grey hair stood out in the crowd.

"Guards, maintain order and don't let anyone leave the scene until the medical board arrives."A woman in a black and white dress and dark blue coat emerged from the forward base.After her emaciated back, more guards rushed across the square.

After confirming that the guards had brought the crowd to a safe distance, the inspector turned her attention to the source of the disturbance - the sudden appearance of the unidentified teenager.

"According to Article 23 of the Regulations on the Prevention and Control of entropy Demons, the actions of Entropy demons outside the West District are strictly..." The insignia of the Iron Guard bureau is a shield with a tower pattern, printed in bright white on the inspector's dark blue coat as an identification mark.

However, the teenager seems to pay no attention to what the inspector is saying, he just slowly raised his left hand, the end of the wrist several times.Even though the boy's movements have been deliberately slowed down, the guards are alert enough to open the safety of the power crossbow.

The boy's coat lines on bursts of streamers.The guard, who was standing behind the boy, watched in shock as a symbol slowly appeared on the back of his coat.

Three rows and three columns of square array, with three nested rings around ...

"This is?"Am I right?"They came back?"A few guards recognized the symbol and exclaimed, but many more held their breath and said nothing.

No one doesn't recognize the symbol, but no one would expect to see it in real life.Now, the symbol of coming out of the epic is etched on the boy's back and the terminal projection on his wrist.

At the same time, the ordinary citizens, who had been cut off by the iron guard, begin to clamor again after a silence, scrambling to get a better view.

"Guards, keep order and keep out the people!"The young inspector issues his orders in an unquestioning tone, rousing the iron Guards in a state of shock.

"You've all heard the order, what are you still doing?"A hoarse voice came from one of the ironguards, who seems to be the captain, standing beside the inspector.The Captain of the Iron Guard sounded lazy, but his finger was firmly in position to pull the trigger.

With order restored, the watchman behind the signal handed over a sophisticated long strip authentication machine, and the boy graciously hands the terminal on his wrist to the detection area.

"Authentication, please wait a moment," the emotionless synthetic voice finally says again, after several breathless seconds. "Authenticated."

Code name: Ashed;Identity: Unnamed counsellor dispatched to Loane City Representative Office;more access is needed to specific information."The words appeared on the monitor screen.

"Identification, Ashed counsellor.On behalf of the Iron Guard Bureau, we would like to pay our highest tribute to the Unnamed.All, salute!"It is natural to monitor the expression on her face because she is already mentally prepared.

With the announcement of the inspector, all the guards quickly turned to gray and stood to attention, their left hands on the powered crossbows standing on the ground beside them.

The Unnamed, this organization standed up when the entropy demon trying to destroy the world .Thus in the new world after the outbreak, the Unnamed members, the so-called meta-agents, were respected by all the survivors.

As the guards saluted, the panicked crowd tried to get a glimpse of the boy's logo behind the wall of guards.

"Why did they come back?"