Chapter 360 The Sign of the End

This world is coming to an end.

Huai Shi realized this like never before.

He raised his head and saw snowflakes falling from the sky and landing on his nose - soon, it became a layer of gray.

It is tiny dust that is difficult to see with the naked eye.

Bits of dark snow.

Black snow has been falling from the sky a week ago, and it has continued to fall until now, like the ashes of something burned out.

until everything is completely covered.

Just like adding earth to the coffin after a funeral, everything is buried slowly.

Now when Huai Shi raised his head, he could see that under the pale sky, the earth had turned into pitch black.

On the dark earth, the mist was thick and slowly rising.

There was faint laughter from behind.

Huai Shi continued to walk forward without being surprised. Following the direction of the wind, beside him, the appearance of a village vaguely emerged in the mist. In the gentle firelight, there was a vague figure waving to him. He walked over, closer.

Huai Shi glanced back, the mist whined, shattered, and the illusion dissipated.

He had seen too many such hallucinations in the past two days. After the whole world was covered in ashes, it seemed that it had completely turned into this unpleasant mess.

Everywhere seems to be a strange trap and cage, waiting for people to fall into the trap.

Then he was run over straight by Huai Shi.

Not a tile is left behind.

However, it seems that there are many people who have been run over like this.

As they advanced, Huai Shi paused and saw the huge ravines and deep marks around them.

When he climbed up a mountain ridge and looked down, he saw that the ravines several meters deep were full of regular marks, just like... huge ruts.

But even the rut marks were a bit too huge.

It was as if a city had equipped itself with tracks and wheels and then slowly passed by, heading south against the strong wind.

Huai Shi tried to look up at where the rut was, but saw nothing. It was obvious that they had passed here for a long time. But even the endless black snow can't cover up the traces they left.

After discovering this, Huai Shi suddenly became happy for some reason.

Even the signs of destruction cannot drown out the traces of its past.

There must be something left behind.

Even the wreckage and ruins are fine.

That is proof that life existed.

He continued on his way, with the wind blowing behind him.

Anyway, there are no main missions left to do now, it's like he's just wandering around in a sandbox game after clearing the level.

Aimlessly.

He had been heading in this direction for the past week, because the wind had started blowing when the black snow fell before the week began.

At the beginning, the distance was so far that I couldn't feel any airflow, but the further I moved towards the direction of the airflow, the wind speed became more and more violent.

The black snow rolled into the sky, making it completely difficult to see the way ahead.

He wanted to know where the wind was blowing.

Anyway, it’s idle time, so why not exercise? So Huaishi decided to hit the road decisively. Once he left, he walked for a week...

After seeing the mark of the rut, he walked forward again for a week.

At the end, the strong wind behind me was like a natural disaster, and huge rocks kept flying up and being swept into the air.

But Huai Shi continued to move forward as if nothing had happened.

It's like a planetary engine in a certain work. When he's hungry, he chews rocks. It's crunchy and he's very hungry.

Now he can dig a hole directly from one side of the mountain to the other side of the mountain after eating one meal. He can take care of himself for a long time after eating one meal, but in fact...it seems that there is no problem if he doesn't eat.

If he was thirsty... he wouldn't know what to do if he was thirsty.

Because water sources have become increasingly difficult to find recently. However, after he drank the entire lake in one breath last time, he never felt thirsty again or felt dry at all.

And it got bigger and bigger, until finally, he had lost all sense of his own size.

The strong wind could not move it at all, as if it were a small mountain. To him, the highest mountain range around him seemed to be as high as a wall. He could climb over it with just two pulls.

I haven't seen anything bigger than myself.

With every step he took, the ground made a loud roar, and many hills collapsed on their own as he approached. More often than not, he needed to be careful and tread lightly, otherwise he would sink into the ground.

"Isn't this a little too unscientific?"

Huai Shi turned around and asked the souls chanting hymns in the bare back: "You won't break through the atmosphere in the end, right? But having said that, do you have such a thing as an atmosphere here? The sky is infinitely high, even outer space. You don’t even have this concept..."

"Holy!"

The souls of the lizardmen sang in unison.

Huai Shi scratched his head and asked, "Do you have any clues?"

"Holy!"

The deceased praised passionately.

"..." Huaishi's dog head twitched, and she couldn't help but sigh: "Aside from Shengya, will you say anything else?"

"Holy! Holy! Holy!"

The souls in the back of the light sang more and more enthusiastically, as if inspired by Huai Shi, making Huai Shi particularly powerless.

"...Okay, if you continue singing, you can still be a BGM, right?"

Today, the consciousness and souls of all lizardmen are contained in Huaishi's body, and their essence runs in Huaishi's blood.

In short, Huaishi is like a small box that contains the last consciousness of the lizard people... Although this metaphor is a bit strange, it is still true.

Their consciousness is sleeping in the bones of Huaishi, and the remaining instincts and beliefs have turned into this halo of light, praising the holiness and greatness of Huaishi all the time.

It would be too fanciful to expect them to respond. It would be nice to sing a song to yourself.

At least there was some noise and it wasn't too lonely.

Just listening to the lizard man's single cycle, Huai Shi continued to move forward.

Until finally, he stopped.

He raised his head and stared at the distant sky.

Okay, he finally knew where the wind was coming from... There was a big hole in the sky.

All the air was lost from the huge gap and disappeared into the unknown darkness.

Huai Shi tried to throw a piece of iron over there, but after the iron piece flew into it, it quickly dissipated. The feeling returned in the end was only an extreme emptiness and coldness, which could not allow anything to exist in it.

It is conceivable that if the air continues to flow at this speed, the whole world will soon become a vacuum, right?

Just as he stood scratching his head, he saw dots of light shining on the sky through layers of black flying snow.

The stars seemed to get a little bigger.

Then, it got a little bigger, and then a little bigger...

Until finally, Huai Shi finally reacted and opened his eyes wide in shock.

He finally understood.

——The stars are falling.

Four days later, the burning six-winged phoenix descended from the sky and landed on the dry desert, where he saw Hydera waiting here.

"Didn't you say you would wait for me at the beach?" Phoenix asked doubtfully.

"That's what I said."

Hydra's nine heads replied expressionlessly: "Two days ago, this was the seaside."

"..." Phoenix was silent for a long time, and then asked in a dry voice: "Where is the thing you want to show me?"

"follow me."

Hydra turned her huge body and walked slowly towards the depths of the dry ocean.

They walked forward for three days and then stopped in front of the huge mountain of steel.

That piece of rough black iron fell from the sky, smashing the skeleton of a whale, and then crushed countless barnacles and corals. It left a deep ravine on the seabed and wedged it deeply. In the broken seabed.

On the huge iron block, there is still a trace of faint blue fire burning slowly, like a candle in the wind.

"Don't you want to see the falling stars?"

Hydra raised the tip of her tail and pointed, and said in the face of the Phoenix's ugly expression: "This is it..."

In the distance, in the dry seabed like a desert, countless large and small iron blocks have sunk into the sand, and the majestic and glorious appearance once was no longer visible.

This is the final destination of the stars.

"Gather everyone."

After a long silence, the six-winged phoenix spread its huge wings and soared into the sky: "This is not something that one person can solve..."

Huai Shi stood among the black snowflakes that had stopped falling.

This should be the edge of the Kingdom of Fog, a place where he once immersed himself in fantasy. He even fought against landlords here with two buddies who didn't know where they came from.

But now, there is nothing left here.

There was only dead silence.

In the deepest part of the dissipating fog, Huai Shi found several skeletons nestled together. Before the end, they had fallen asleep in each other's arms.

Freedom from fear and despair.

Huai Shi stood there blankly for a long, long time. He raised the tip of his tail, dug a pit for them, carefully put them in, and covered them with soil.

Because she didn't know their names, Huai Shi didn't even know how to set up a tombstone for them.

"I originally wanted to take you with me..."

Huai Shi scratched his head, sighed gloomily, turned and left. After walking a few steps, he turned back and thanked sincerely: "Thank you for the stew."

No one responded.

In the curling mist, the old silhouette of Grandma Cat seemed to emerge, waved to him, and then disappeared.

Huaishi didn't know where else to go.

The whole world seems to be ending.

Along the way, he didn't see any living things at all, and could only find decadence and distortion in the increasingly serious depth index.

The whole world is slowly dying, as if it has truly become the world after death.

It became hell.

While Huai Shi was meditating, she felt the sky above her head shaking slightly.

He thought it was an illusion, and the sky shook again.

When he raised his head, he saw that in the center of the sky, the light of the big fireball was rapidly attenuating... like an old light bulb, struggling to shine twice.

went out.

The world fell into darkness.

The sun is gone.

Huai Shi opened her mouth blankly.

He began to feel lucky that he still had a huge light bulb with him.

Two updates are completed. I have changed the input method in the past two days. There are many typos. I will correct them in time. Please forgive me. (And, what a card...