Chapter 354: 13 Life "Ignorance" Falls "Beam"

Chapter 354 Life in "One Three" "Ignorance" Falls "Light Beam"

A few hours later.

The sky completely darkened.

The "One Three" human town closest to the front-line base has already lit up, and the church located in the center of the town is also emitting a sacred light to the surroundings.

The factory is in endless operation, and only the workers who are "parts" have begun to work in shifts and rotations.

The workers who have finished their work began to leave the factory one after another, and walked along the streets with street lights on to their respective residences.

One of the middle-aged workers with unkempt hair and dirty faces, wearing a work uniform with cuffs and collars that look "greasy" due to the secretion of human body oil, as well as years of wear and tear and lack of washing, wandered outside a meat shop.

His eyes were fixed on the cooked meat, ham and other foods behind the window.

"Ah!"

But after struggling for a moment, the middle-aged worker finally sighed helplessly and walked into another "food store".

Not long after.

The middle-aged worker came to the residential area on the east side of the town with two boxes of "food" in his hands, and walked to a dilapidated and extremely crowded residential building.

When he stepped onto the stairs, it seemed that every step he took was as heavy and slow as if his feet were filled with lead.

When the middle-aged worker came to the door of the east room on the middle floor, he took a few deep breaths, adjusted his mood, and then smiled reluctantly, took out the key and opened the door.

Squeak. Ya!

When the door opened, the hinges made a harsh sound.

"Dad is back!!"

"There is meat to eat today!!"

As the door opened and the middle-aged worker walked into the house, he could hear the excited cheers of the two children.

The middle-aged worker closed and locked the door, turned around and looked at the living room, and saw two boys and girls around six or seven years old, quickly surrounding him.

"I'm back!"

The middle-aged worker opened his arms and took the two children into his arms.

It seems that the middle-aged worker is a single father with a son and a daughter to support.

In fact, this middle-aged worker, whose full name is Christopher Loren, has heard his parents say since he can remember, "Son, you must believe in God devoutly",

"When you grow up, you must inherit your father's position, work hard and live hard, so that you can go to heaven",

"Don't question the church! Everything the church says is God's truth!" and other remarks.

So when he grew up, he naturally inherited his father's position and went to the factory to work day and night.

As for his father?

He retired quickly due to overwork, and was taken away by the church on the grounds of "cultivating the body and mind and serving God".

Since then, Loren has never seen his father again, and his mother also passed away early.

After he completed the "big things" such as blind dates and having children according to the church's assignment, he thought he could live a different life.

Who knows, the long hours of work, as well as the troubles of food, heating, and raising children, made Luo Lan, like his parents, increasingly numb.

When his wife died a few years ago due to air pollution and overwork, Luo Lan completely lost hope for the future.

The reason why he is still alive.

First, there are still his eldest son and youngest daughter waiting for him to raise and grow up with his meager salary.

Second, according to the church, if he commits suicide, his soul will never go to heaven, but will fall into the depths of hell and suffer endless destruction and torture.

Therefore, Luo Lan forced himself to work and make money with his exhausted body and spirit until

his son inherited his position and his daughter got married?

By then, he might be taken away by the church like his father to "cultivate his body and mind and serve God". Right?

Anyway, Luo Lan would rather believe that the church is eliminating the elderly who have no use value, so that the whole country can reduce the burden and load, rather than admit that his father is really "retired".

However, even if he is more open-minded than others, what can he do?

The forces of hell continue to expand their territory, and the town where he lives has become a border area.

Maybe before he "dies of exhaustion", the town has been occupied by the forces of hell.

So Luo Lan is trying to save money and try to send his son and daughter to the rear.

"Dad!"

After the family hugged each other for a short while, the daughter looked up at Luo Lan and asked:

"Is there meat to eat today?"

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Hearing this, the son also raised his head and looked at him with expectant eyes.

"The meat is all sold out, sorry."

Luo Lan shook his head with a wry smile, got up and walked to the dining table, and put two boxes of food on the table.

Then, he opened the simple package and said:

"Wait until the day after tomorrow. I'll see if I can buy ham the day after tomorrow. Today I can only eat some protein blocks."

"Ah, protein blocks again. Okay, okay."

After hearing her father's explanation, the daughter was disappointed, but she didn't make any noise.

The son also looked disappointed, walked to the dining table with a dejected look, and then took out a piece of protein block that looked like a black and gray "brick" from the box and began to chew and swallow it.

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Seeing that his son and daughter were very sensible, Luo Lan felt even more bitter, but he still smiled reluctantly and said:

"Eat these first."

There was no other way. If they wanted to send the children out of the border town, they had to save money.

If they ate one more meat meal, they would have to wait one more day, and the danger would increase.

Therefore, Loran had to buy protein blocks mixed with mice, cockroaches, and a variety of "substances" to fill the children's stomachs.

After all, it doesn't matter what you eat, as long as you can hold on until they grow up.

The family of three finished dinner in silence.

After cleaning up, the three of them came to the statue of Jesus in the living room and prayed in a seemingly pious manner.

Loran closed his eyes slightly, not knowing what he was thinking.

However, his son and daughter were a little hyperactive, and they would tease each other from time to time. Obviously, they did not take the prayer after dinner as a serious matter.

Moreover, Loran was not like other parents, who strictly required their children to pray "from the heart" and fear God.

If God really had mercy on mankind, why didn't he send down more miracles?

Anyway, Loran had already let it go.

But if a person like Luo Lan really revealed his true thoughts to outsiders, maybe the next day, a group of judges from the church would come to his house and regard him and his children as "heretics" and burn them with fire as a warning to the public.

Because the church needs "ignorant" people to farm, work and fight.

Boom. Boom--! !

Suddenly! A deafening sound came from outside the window.

And along with the violent noise, the lights in the house began to flicker until they were completely extinguished.

The whole house fell into darkness in an instant.

"Dad, what happened?!"

This sudden change made the daughter stand up and hug Luo Lan, and looked out the window with a crying voice.

"Dad"

The son, who knew more than his daughter, raised his hand and tightly grasped the corner of Roland's clothes. He also looked out the window and asked worriedly:

"Is it a demon attack?"

"I don't know."

Roland tried to stay calm. He first raised his hand and gently stroked his daughter's head, then patted his son's shoulder, and then walked to the window and looked outside.

I saw that there were several collapsed areas on the towering city wall standing on the east side, and there were also several places in the city where raging fires were burning.

Among them, there was a power plant that supplied electricity to the entire town.

The imperial soldiers stationed in the town, the knights of the Reborn Knights, and the nuns of the church hurriedly walked through the streets and marched quickly towards the collapsed areas of the city wall and the city gates.

Roland, who saw the scene in front of him, immediately realized that the town they lived in was very likely to have been attacked by the forces of hell.

It must not be long before the endless demon creatures and human heretics will sweep here like a tide.

Buzz~——Woo————!

At this time, the piercing alarm also confirmed Roland's guess.

"Pack up!"

Roland didn't have time to think too much, and hurried to the bedroom, ready to put the savings he had accumulated for many years, as well as some necessary items and utensils, into his backpack.

His son and daughter didn't ask too much, and also ran back to their bedrooms to pack up as quickly as possible.

From this point of view alone, Roland can have such a child, which is also one of the few main reasons in the dark world that makes him prefer to work hard and not choose "self-understanding".

In less than two minutes.

The family gathered in the living room again.

"Dad, where can we escape to?"

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Hearing his son asking him, Roland fell into a brief silence.

Indeed, as his son asked, where can they escape to?

The west of the town can lead to the inland area of ​​the Holy Roman Empire, but there are checkpoints guarded by knights and soldiers at the gate.

Without a formal pass, ordinary residents have no right to enter and exit freely.

Not to mention the current chaotic stage, anyone approaching the checkpoint may be killed or shot by the knights and soldiers guarding the checkpoint.

Silence for a while.

Roland said: "Let's wait and see, maybe the army can hold the line, and we will continue to live as usual.

If it fails, you two will run away with me. No matter what, you can't stay here and wait for death."

"Yeah"

The son nodded lightly.

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As for the daughter, she was holding the teddy bear that Roland made for her, sitting on the shabby sofa quite obediently.

Anyway, she didn't know as much as her brother, and she couldn't say anything, so she just listened to the arrangements of her father or brother silently.

Da. Dada!

The east side of the city wall began to sound dense gunfire.

Roar. Roar. ! !

At the same time, extremely creepy howling was also mixed in the gunfire.

Boom-boom-! !

And the large-caliber artillery set up on the city wall also poured shells out of the city one after another.

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Such intense gunfire instantly made the daughter look terrified.

She instinctively wanted to shout, but she immediately raised her hands and covered her mouth, fearing that she would disturb her father and brother.

Realizing that a fierce battle had broken out outside, Loran walked out the door and told his son behind him:

"Kronto, you stay with Carrie, I'll go upstairs to see."

"Okay!"

The son nodded and walked to the sofa to comfort his sister.

As for Loran, he opened the door, walked up the stairs to the top floor, and then climbed the ladder to the roof.

Although he couldn't see everything at a glance, it was enough for Roland to observe more clearly.

Moreover, many neighbors who had the same idea also gathered here and looked towards the east wall.

Through the collapsed area of ​​the wall, Roland and his neighbors could vaguely see that thousands of imperial soldiers relied on trenches and defensive bunkers with machine guns and artillery to fight against countless demon creatures and human heretics.

More than a hundred knights of the Reborn Knights, as well as many nuns wearing white robes and heavy armor, held giant swords or spears and engaged in close-range hand-to-hand combat with demons and heretics.

Knights and nuns with super physical fitness were able to suppress demons and heretics in the early stages of the battle.

But as the forces of hell continued to charge like sharks that smelled blood, without fear of casualties, the defense line began to crumble.

The figures of knights and nuns were gradually swallowed up.

After the armored forces of the Hell Forces appeared, the guns and artillery advantages of the Empire soldiers also began to disappear.

After all, the initial series of explosions destroyed part of the town's defense system.

Soon.

The flying demon creatures took advantage of the chaos and successfully poured into the city from the collapsed area of ​​the city wall.

! !

"We can't hold on here?!"

"Nonsense, why don't you run!"

"Where can we run to? Church? Yes! Church! God will bless us!"

Seeing this situation, the neighbors who were already terrified were completely panicked.

However, half of them had a fluke mentality, thinking that they could get the protection of God and the forces of heaven by running to the church.

But Luo Lan didn't have that idea.

And when the demon creatures poured into the town, Luo Lan had already run back home, and took his son and daughter to flee in the direction of the west of the city.

Even though Luo Lan had not received much formal education and had a large gap in cognition compared with the residents of the human empire, he was over 40 years old and knew very well that staying in this town would only lead to death.

The imperial soldiers, knights, and nuns could not withstand the impact of demons and heretics at all. The difference in numbers was too great.

It would not take long for the defense line to completely collapse.

As for going to the church to seek protection?

If the church could really resist the erosion of hell, how could the occupied areas be explained?

Even though Roland was not educated, he understood this logic, so there was no other way to go except to escape.

Howl!

Suddenly, several demon creatures that looked like hairless vultures and had dense tentacles on their eyes and abdomens flew over the street with howls.

And one of them seemed to have set its sights on the little girl following behind her father and brother.

It circled a few times, then folded its blood-stained wings and swooped down quickly towards the little girl's position.

However

Ri~咻————! ! !

A beam of light emitting golden light directly pierced through the demon vulture.