Chapter 8

The journey began again, and this time there was no accident. They arrived safely at a gathering place of humans.

The first thing that catches your eye is a kind of metal plate and a "city wall" mixed with concrete.

"This is a broken world, and the remaining humans are in an endless battle with the remaining orcs. Humans are born weaker than orcs in power, and can only rely on the city wall to protect everything they have."

"Nonsense, the power of rat people is obviously weaker than that of humans." Su Yuan complained in his heart.

There is a very typical style of apocalyptic human gathering place in the town. There are various abandoned machinery and random other parties, some of which Lu Qiming can't tell what it is. It just looks very high-end. But now, these machines have long been abandoned.

The humans in the town dressed very much like the earth. They were once connected to the two worlds. This is understandable. However, some differences can still be found in their dress. The most intuitive thing is that many of the animals on their clothes are completely different from those in Su Yuan's memory. Most of them are hand-painted. The clothes are also made of some kind of crude linen, and some are simply made of fur.

Everyone in the town seemed to know Ethan, and many people greeted him. Ethan responded slowly. However, his face became less and less beautiful.

"What happened? You don't look very good?"

"Did you notice it? They are relocating. The place is about to be abandoned."

"What?"

Ethan did not respond to Su Yuan's questions, but walked quickly to the center of the town and took Su Yuan into the largest building. An old man with a somewhat bald head came up.

"Hi Ethan, I heard you cleared another orc camp. We should really thank you. It's a pity that we don't have time. Is this?"

"If you encounter it on the road, don't care about this. What do you mean by Murphy, you seem to be giving up here? As far as I know, this place is not exposed."

"No, but by the time it was exposed, it was too late. We had already obtained the right to live in the Hei Tower, and they lost a lot of manpower and needed to be supplemented. Our town was selected."

"…..." Ethan suddenly fell silent. He seemed to have no idea how to deal with this news.

"Don't blame us, Ethan. I know you have paid a lot for this gathering place. For so many years, if it weren't for your constant hunting of orcs around you, we would have been exposed. But this was not a long-term solution. The residents of the town made a choice, and they thought that entering the Black Tower was the safest. I couldn't control their will. I'm really sorry."

"No, it's not your fault, it's really. Actually, I'm very tired too. If you enter the protection area of ​​the Black Tower, I can take a break." Ethan said it very easily, but Su Yuan could feel that his tone had an indescribable decadence. It was as if life had lost its goal all of a sudden.

Ethan's silence did not last long, and after just a few seconds, he spoke again.

"By the way, we're here to need your help. I need to start that machine."

"......If it were before, we needed time to discuss it. But now, we are all leaving anyway, so there is no problem. Come with me."

Unexpectedly, Murphy agreed to Ethan's request very happily and then took them to a basement. There was a dilapidated machine that could hardly be seen in real shape. However, if you looked closer, you would find that the hidden structure and operating system of the thing were far beyond Suyuan's knowledge reserves.

Simply put, that thing looks like an instrument that often appears in science fiction movies and is used to shuttle space. However, there is also a huge, computer-like thing in the room for assistance. This is also natural. The technology of dimension shuttle must require nearly infinite computing power to be positioned.

But no matter how Su Yuan looked at it, he found that there was no sign of starting the thing. However, the shuttle instrument in front seemed to be still in operation.

"No need to look at it, the thing next to it is broken. In fact, we don't know what it is. Including the shuttle device in front of us, we also don't understand the technical principles. These technologies have been lost for a long time. We can't repair these instruments at all.

Fortunately, the instrument stores the coordinates of your world. So we don’t need to recalculate it. We cannot understand the energy of this instrument. But based on some signs, we can judge it. This thing can only be used once or twice. When the energy is consumed, it will be completely abandoned." Murphy explained on the side and said to Ethan.

"You can operate this thing, right? I also have to sort out some things and arrange the evacuation. I'll leave it to you."

Murphy left, Ethan walked to the instrument, fiddled with a few buttons, and only a buzzing vibration sounded.

"This is a charging sound, it takes about half an hour. Wait a minute." After saying that, Ethan sat on the chair beside him and stopped talking.

Su Yuan also sat down with a sigh of relief. He was actually very tired, but the joy of being able to go home immediately made him feel anxious. However, seeing Ethan's decadent look, he felt a little unbearable. The two of them had only been together for about three days. They didn't say a few words in total, and if they wanted to understand, there was no way to start.

However, Su Yuan could feel that Ethan was a person who was cold on the outside and hot on the inside. For some reason, he seemed to have been protecting this gathering place for many years. But now, the people here are leaving, as if they are going to a safe place. This made Ethan feel that he had lost his goal in life. Su Yuan thought for a while and took the initiative to raise the topic.

"Can you tell me those stories? Those orcs, those wars, those enemies, the black tower, and the one you mentioned before..."

Ethan's eyes lit up slightly, he pondered the words and told some of the things he knew.

"The origin of all this is almost unknown. We don't even know how many years have passed. It's just based on word of mouth, and it's vaguely remembered that this world was invaded. The power of darkness eroded the entire earth. Countless humans were infected and turned into orcs you saw.

The remaining manpower rose up to resist. The war seemed to be endless. Civilization was broken and the times ended. Everything was gone. And after countless years, the whole world was left with us, the only ones, were left to survive."

Su Yuan can understand this. Judging from the technological level of the world that was able to open up dimensional channels before, it is undoubtedly more than one order of magnitude beyond the real world. But now, their weapons are not as good as the armed forces of a second-rate country in the real world.

Although you can still see some shadows of cutting-edge technology. Except for the dimension shuttle instrument in front of you, the rest are basically damaged. The traces of civilization from the previous era have almost been completely cut off. The civilization of the entire world has regressed to nearly extinction.
Chapter completed!