Chapter 40- Meeting Riku

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This is the age of war.

Due to the thoughts of the gods, the war that suddenly came one day completely destroyed the peaceful life before. Fragile and powerless human beings live in groups, and if they want to survive, they must take "race" as their top priority.　By sacrificing one person, two people can survive. By sacrificing a hundred people, a thousand people can survive. This kind of choice that tests human nature is common to Riku.

Therefore, for sacrificing a companion, Riku does not regret, nor does he reflect. However, when he and another surviving companion, Aley, fled to a safer forest, their steps were as heavy as they were carrying a heavy burden.

Even though he was already used to such things, Riku's eyes were still dim, like a wandering soul.　The reason why the footsteps are heavy is not that the black ashes accumulated on the ground, but the things left by that person and the things entrusted to them. However the man in memory, Riku can't even clearly outline his appearance now. But even so, an unbearable sense of loss and disgust emerged from the bottom of my heart.

"Hey, Riku, don't take everything alone like that, you'll be crushed!"

Aley, who had lost his companion and still had tears in the corners of his eyes, rudely shook Riku's shoulders.

"Someone will inherit me then." Riku shook his head and answered plainly. Aley was silent for a moment.

Then, the two moved on.

"I said Riku, this era will end one day, right?" Aley asked quietly.

Riku just silently looked up at the red sky, watching the debris with a hazy green light slowly fall from the sky and accumulate quietly on the ground. Riku replied, "Yeah, it will end."

Just then, a familiar voice came from behind.

"Riku! Aley!!!" The voice was very loud. The loud voice of a man sounded, especially harsh in silent forests.

"Riku, I seem to hear Ivan's voice."　Aley said sadly.

"I heard it too... but it's impossible, he's dead, what we heard is false, it's the mind..." Riku explained while trying to control his thoughts. People experience auditory hallucinations and even hallucinations when they experience great mood swings.

"Hey, Riku! I saw Ivan coming."

Aley turned his head and saw a figure in a dirty protective suit, waving and running towards him.

"That's an illusion."

"Riku! Ivan is running towards us! Right behind us! Getting closer!" Aley was short of breath after speaking in hurried tone.

"It's impossible, it's just an illusion..."

"Bang!" Riku and Aley were directly knocked to the ground by the excited Ivan. The joy of the rest of his life stimulated his heart. He thought that he would never see his friends again, but he suddenly survived. This kind of feeling is difficult for ordinary people to understand.

"This...this is an illusion..." Riku said unconsciously.

"You guys are not a hallucination, I'm real, I'm not dead, I was rescued by Mr. Feng and Ms. Xun'er, it was they who saved me!" Ivan said excitedly.

"Mr. Feng?", "Miss Xun'er?" The real touch, and the slight suffocation that pressed his body made Riku sober. When the three were reunited again, seeing Ivan intact, Riku almost doubted his life.　

"Yeah, when I was about to be killed by the demon species, both of them appeared, and killed the demon species easily and saved me.!" Ivan said excitedly.

At this time, Riku also noticed the figure that appeared behind his companion. In Riku''s gray eyes, he noticed the figure behind Iwan. He looked at a long black-haired boy in white clothes with handsome and perfect appearance like a god. He looked 15 or 16. There was also a girls standing beside him. She had long purple black hair, she was wearing strange white purple dress. Her age was almost the same as the boy.

He looked at them and noticed difference between him and. them. Compared to the them whose heart is ashes, who has long been used to the end of the world and feels hopeless for the future, the boy and the girl don't have the same look. They have extremely strong sense of existence. Their curious look when they look around as if they are going in a picnic and the positive smile on their face is in sharp contrast with humans beings who have been beaten countless times in the last days.

"Hello. I am Xiao Feng and she is Xun'er." Xiao Feng greeted himself and Xun'er with a natural look and walked to Riku. Xun'er had returned to her previous cold temperament. She didn't say anything and just followed Xiao Feng. They walked unhurriedly.

That understatement of the pace, instead, gave Rick an extremely strong sense of oppression and majesty. How is it possible for a children of age 15 or 16.

"You... hello." Feeling the noble temperament of Xiao Feng and Xun'er, Aley quickly responded. "My name is Aley." He lowered his posture unconsciously.

"I'm Riku." Riku introduced himself, then he observed the unfamiliar pair carefully. A boy and girl of fifteen or sixteen. The boy has perfect apperance which cannot be put in words while the girl also has a very high appearance. In this highly poisonous world, their dressing is quite casual, like people in peaceful times who have never experienced danger when they were young.　 As for the purple black-haired girl, it is even more bizarre. In the outside world, she is still wearing a dress. The slender limbs seem to be broken with a touch, but they can walk in this black and gray world.

"Walk?" Until then, it was immediately surprising to discover. Only the place where the two of them are, there is no accumulation of spirit skeletons. Even the falling black ash never landed on them? Where did this magic come from? He even wondered if he was wrong, squinting his eyes several times in a row, but the scene he saw did not change.

"What the hell?"

Is it? Are they from some high-ranking race? Thinking of this, Riku couldn't help breaking a cold sweat. Riku thought, "Ivan on the side is still talking to Aley, but he doesn't know that he has brought big trouble to the settlement!"

"Humans do not exist."

Because only if it doesn't exist, it won't attract the attention of the upper race, and it can continue forever.

"Are you afraid of us?" Xiao Feng's voice sounded.

"....you, Who are you?" Riku spoke with fear in his eyes. He was also slightly hostile. But rather than hostility, it is more a struggle when facing the upper race. Riku felt he was seen through when Xiao Feng looked at him. He never had this feeling before. He hated it but he knew that he couldn't resist.

"Treat us as an adventurer who travels around to a new places." Xiao Feng spoke with a smile on his face. He wasn't angry with Riku's behaviour because if he was in the same situation he would also do the same.

"Adventurer", "Traveler" Riku took a deep look at the strange pair of boy and girl. He judged from the dialogue that the pair in front of him are not bad guys. After all, all superior races treat humans like ants, just as they treat livestock and animals.

"Have you been to many different places?" Riku asked. He didn't understand what Xiao Feng meant by saying new place.

"Well, I have indeed been to many places. At least the situation there is much better than here. As for where I will not tell you." Xiao Feng replied, his tone was mysterious when he spoke the last sentence.

"Very mysterious." Riku was slightly vigilant for Xiao Feng's mysterious way of talking.

"All in all, can you take us to your settlement? It's a reward for saving your companion." Xiao Feng asked.

"Yes, But may I ask you one last question." Suspected of the existence of a superior race, Riku, who remained rational, asked hesitantly while trying not to offend the other party.

"The last one." Xiao Feng nodded when he heard the question of Riku.

"Which side are you on?" Riku spoke cautiously.

"It's hard to say. If you insist, We prefer Humans but we will do what we want. We will stand alone." Xiao Feng smiled faintly.

"Humans".."Alone"...." Riku was puzzled. Not claiming to be a species and claiming to prefer humans, but these abilities are clearly not human-like. But that's fine, at least knowing that Shenhui is not the enemy. There are so many natural enemies of human beings, if there is another highly intelligent being to notice them, even the continuation of life will be a problem.

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Ivan and Aley stared at each other with wide eyes.

"Let's talk." Xiao Feng spoke as Ivan and Aley looked over.

"We just arrived, and we don't even have a place to sleep. Can you take us to the human settlement."

"Yes." Riku nodded. In the dust-proof goggles, in Riku's vision, he only saw that the man seemed to have the sun behind him, making it difficult to see his face.

Riku's answer was the same as Ivan's previous answer. It takes at least two days to return to the settlement. Also, if you want to avoid the higher races, it will take longer to get home.

And Xiao Feng and Xun'er naturally couldn't wait that long. After Riku told them the approximate location of the settlement. Xiao Feng shaped his fingers.....

Suddenly, a crisp finger snap came out.

A black wall like space channel appeared near here, with a very smooth surface.

For the wall that suddenly appeared, the three of Riku's group just stomped in place. They couldn't help feeling incredible and shocking.

"It...it's floating over!" Aley said in fear.

I saw the figures of the five people slide past the space channel, when the three of Riku's group noticed that their bodies were included and could not be stopped at all, they closed their eyes in despair. But, after waiting for a few seconds, no pain came.

"We have arrived. You guys should open your eyes." Xiao Feng looked at them in embarrassment and waved his hand.

The space channel quickly drifted past, shrank rapidly, and disappeared in front of everyone.

"Uh..."

When Riku and the others opened their eyes, they were surprised to find that they had come to a hidden cave.

Decayed pillars, several old kerosene lamps hang there. The depths are dark tunnels with traps beside them to prevent wild beasts from entering by mistake. When they realised that this was outside the settlement, the three of Riku's group were shocked again.

Xiao Feng took Xun'er's hand and walked inside.

It's just that he complained in his heart alone. "These guys are so shocked just by space channel. If I had a shock system, I would probably have harvested countless shock points by now."

Seeing Xiao Feng and Xun'er leaving, Riku and others quickly followed.

At the end of the cave is a wooden door. After Riku talked to the gatekeeper, he let him go and they walked in.

Human settlements, narrow spaces. seve

As a settlement where human beings linger, the tribe's dilapidation and backwardness did not exceed Xiao Feng's expectations. He had already seen it in the movie. But Xun'er couldn't bear it. She felt pity and spoke.

"Brother Xiao Feng when other sisters also come out let's help them."

"Okay, Xun'er. Xiao Feng also agrees. When he watched the movie he also felt pity for humans in this world. Since, he has come to this world he will try his best to save them.

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