Alien Knights

Earth, Las Vegas Northside Site.

Twenty years after the outbreak of the singularity virus.

On a road overgrown with weeds, a modified motorcycle was driving fast towards a collapsed building in the distance.

The radio on the motorcycle played a man's voice.

"Twenty years ago, a deadly virus swept the world and wiped out 96% of the human population in the world."

"The once prosperous city has become an uninhabited ruin, and the once advanced civilization never shines again."

"Some say it's a government experiment, others say it's an alien invasion."

"In my opinion, that's bullshit."

"This virus is Mother Earth's revenge on us! Revenge on us stupid people who are obsessed with technology and have forgotten the gods!"

"We must learn to regain our beliefs and rediscover the way of getting along with nature."

"Those infected people, they are not victims, they just returned to the embrace of the God of Earth!"

"Respect them, respect death, respect mother, and in this way, your soul can be saved!"

"My brothers and sisters, join the Eclipse Cult."

"I am your Pope Carmelo Haines, remember! My eyes will always be watching you from the sky!"

The rider on the motorcycle turned off the radio, slowed down the speed, and approached a half-collapsed large supermarket beside the road.

Parking the motorcycle in an open space tens of meters away from the supermarket, the rider took off his helmet, his aqua-green eyes were particularly conspicuous, and his long golden hair slid down his shoulders like a waterfall.

Take the pistol and ammo from the side pockets, and untie the mountaineering bag from the back seat.

The blond woman carefully inspected the outdoor ground, then found a hidden entrance, and walked into the supermarket.

Looking at the shelves that had been emptied long ago, and the dried blood on the wall, the blond woman slowed down her pace.

A childish cry came from the depths of the supermarket, attracting the woman's attention.

Following the crying, along the dim corridor, the woman walked into a huge dilapidated warehouse with light everywhere.

A boy wearing worn-out children's clothes, with his back to the entrance, sat on the ground in the middle of the warehouse, covering his eyes with his hands and crying softly.

The woman first looked up and looked around, then approached the boy carefully from behind.

The woman stopped when she was less than ten meters away from the boy.

After a brief pause, the woman suddenly raised her pistol, pointed it at the boy's back, and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

There was a loud gunshot and the boy fell to the ground.

With the light on the wall, the woman finally saw the boy's face clearly.

There was a boy there, he had a beard all over his face, his facial features were crowded together, he was clearly a dwarf born with a short stature.

At this moment, the sound of chaotic footsteps sounded from all around.

Someone shouted: "She found it! She found it!"

Someone shouted again: "She's alone! Let's go together!"

The blond woman raised her pistol and took a few steps back. There was no panic in her water green eyes.

A moment later, a group of ragged, menacing gangsters surrounded her.

Someone saw the woman's face clearly, laughed happily and said, "This is the first time I meet such a high-class fellow!"

The leader of the gangsters kicked away the dwarf corpse on the ground, walked towards the woman slowly, and shouted viciously: "Drop the gun! Or die!"

A voice in the crowd shouted: "It can be used alive or dead, and it can be eaten after it is used up!"

The woman's eyes narrowed slightly, while she looked around, she counted in a low voice: "One, two, three, four..."

Upon discovering the woman's behavior, the leader asked suspiciously, "What are you doing?"

The woman smiled slightly: "There should be all the people here, right?"

The leader: "You...?"

Before he finished speaking, a gunshot suddenly came from outside the high wall of the warehouse.

The bullet passed through the hole in the wall and accurately shot into the head of the gangster leader.

Watching the leader fall, while the others were still in shock, one after another gunshots rang out from outside the wall.

The gangsters who didn't have time to find cover, couldn't even turn around and escape, turned into ghosts under the gun one by one.

Half an hour later, the blond woman was sitting on the wooden box in the warehouse, touching the pendant on her chest while watching her companions count the inventory of the thief's den.

A middle-aged woman in her forties and wearing a work vest came to the blonde woman and said, "Alice, today's harvest is good."

The young woman named Alice nodded, indicating that she wanted to hear the list of trophies.

"148 boxes of canned food, 33 gallons of clean water, 23 large and small firearms, but the bullets are a bit small."

"A simple metal processing station has about a ton of scrap metal in stock."

"These guys have a diesel generator, it's a bit worn out, but it works."

"Also... there's a freezer at the back of the supermarket with some frozen meat hanging in it, but trust me, you won't want to touch them."

Alice's eyes turned cold: "Liz, these bastards really deserve to die!"

Liz nodded: "They really deserve to die."

Turning her head to look at her companion who was carrying the goods behind her, Liz approached Alice and whispered, "Last week, a group of followers of the Eclipse Cult sneaked into our camp to preach, but they were driven away by Matt. out."

Alice frowned: "Is there anything wrong with that?"

Liz: "There's nothing wrong with this, but Matt's method of driving out the believers was a bit too much, and some people in the camp began to waver because of the preaching."

Alice asked, "Liz, tell me, do you believe in God?"

Liz sighed: "In such a world, it's hard to convince myself not to believe in gods, but at least, I don't believe in those false gods taught by the solar eclipse."

Alice touched the pendant on her chest without saying a word.

Liz looked at her and said softly, "The one you've been carrying is probably your father's relic."

Alice lifted the pendant on her chest. It was a pitch-black scale, and it was impossible to tell what creature it belonged to.

Alice: "Since I was seven years old, I have had that nightmare many nights."

Liz: "The nightmare of the blood-colored sky and the flaming land?"

Alice nodded, looking at the pendant on her chest: "But I don't know why, as long as I wear it, I can feel calm."

Liz wanted to say something more, when suddenly a companion rushed into the warehouse in a panic and shouted: "The infected are here!"

Alice jumped down from the wooden box and asked the visitor, "How many? What level?"

The person who came in panted and said, "There are many, probably a medium-sized group of corpses... But, I saw a fourth type of infected people inside."

Alice opened her eyes wide, and said loudly to the people around her: "Everyone! Give up all the baggage! Return to the vehicle and evacuate immediately!"

Seeing Alice rushing outdoors, Liz shouted anxiously: "Where are you going?!"

Alice said without looking back: "If there are fourth-type infected people, the speed of the vehicle will not be able to get rid of them at all! Someone must lure them away!"

Before Liz could say anything more, Alice quickly left the supermarket, ran back to the motorcycle, put on her helmet, started the vehicle, and sped off in another direction.

While driving the motorcycle, Alice observed the corpses in the distance with a telescope.

Amidst the smoke and dust, a group of infected people covered in parasitic tentacles were running towards the urban area.

At the forefront of the group of corpses were a few ghosts with bone spurs all over their bodies, which were all white and covered with spikes. They were the "fourth type of infected" in Alice's mouth.

Looking in the direction of the supermarket behind her, Alice took out a signal flare from the side bag of the motorcycle.

She rubbed the end of the ignited flare, and orange-red smoke burst out instantly, and quickly drifted away along the direction of the motorcycle.

Discovering the group of corpses in the smoke, they let out a burst of screams, deflected, and ran towards Alice at an accelerated speed.

Alice drove the motorcycle all the way towards the city.

Relying on her proficient skills, she avoided the scrapped vehicles and scattered debris on the street, and by turning and accelerating, she kept increasing the distance from the corpses.

Ten minutes later, she could no longer see the smoke and dust raised by the marching corpses in the rearview mirror.

Just when she thought she was safe, a sharp bone spur struck from the top of her head and pierced into the back seat of the motorcycle.

Surprised, Alice hurriedly drove the motorcycle and evaded through the S shape, avoiding the attack of several bone spurs.

Out of the corner of her eye, she finally saw the identity of the attacker.

The three bone spur undead, with their agility and fast speed, climbed on the collapsed building and kept approaching Alice.

Alice drove the motorcycle and quickly passed through the collapsed buildings, hoping to find an open place to get rid of the pursuers behind her.

Inadvertently, Alice entered the site of the nuclear explosion in Las Vegas that year.

Listening to the alarm sound of the radiation reading on the motorcycle, she realized that something was wrong.

Hastily putting on the gas mask, Alice wanted to drive away from the nuclear explosion site quickly, but found that the speed of the car was getting slower and slower.

Looking down, the fuel tank of the motorcycle was pierced by a bone spur at some point, and oil was leaking downwards all the time.

"Damn it!" Looking at the empty surroundings, Alice took out a short-barreled shotgun from the side bag of the motorcycle while looking for a place to hide.

With the shotgun behind her back, Alice rode a motorcycle to the center of the nuclear explosion that year, and wanted to use the terrain to make a last-ditch effort here.

Throwing down the motorcycle without fuel, and taking the radiation counter, Alice ran madly towards the giant pit of the nuclear explosion site.

The three bone spur undead followed her closely, and the distance between them was getting closer and closer.

Alice raised her shotgun and fired a shot at the nearest bone spur necromancer, which jumped sideways and dodged the bullet.

Just when Alice was about to fire the second shot, the soil under her feet suddenly collapsed, and her whole body instantly fell into a deep hole.

Alice, who fell to the ground, tried to struggle to get up.

The severe pain from her right ankle made her utter a scream.

Leaning her body against the rock wall, Alice supported her body with her arms and stood up with all her strength.

Hearing the screams of the undead from the ground, Alice glanced at the dark and narrow passage deep in the cave.

With no choice, she limped sideways and squeezed into the passage, and continued to move towards the depths of the ground.

To Alice's surprise, although the passage is all the way down, it gets wider as you go inward.

Just when she rekindled a glimmer of hope for survival, the screams of the undead suddenly erupted behind her, making her close her eyes in despair.

A sharp thorn shot through the air, and it was about to pierce her body.

At this moment, a long sword shining with light blue light suddenly swung out.

There was a crisp sound of gold and stone hitting each other, and the bone spur was picked up by the long sword and plunged obliquely into the rock wall.

Under Alice's unbelievable gaze, a knight in black armor appeared from the darkness and walked past her, blocking the way of the undead.

The first bone spur undead screamed and rushed towards the knight.

Before it landed, the knight's blue long sword chopped it into two pieces from the beginning to the end at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

The second bone spur squatted on the spot, shaking its body, and shot all the bone spurs on the back towards the knight.

The knight moved forward slowly, and the black armor transformed into sharp limbs, knocking down the bone spurs in midair one by one at an extremely fast speed.

Calmly walking in front of the second bone spur undead, the knight swung his long sword and directly chopped off the assailant's head.

The third bone spur undead faced the knight and started to back away slowly.

Without giving the opponent a chance to turn around and escape, the knight picked up a bone spur from the ground and threw it forcefully.

The bone spurs were directly inserted into the back of the third undead's head, firmly nailing it to the rock wall.

This lightning-like battle, from the beginning to the end, only took a few seconds, but it shocked Alice to the point of doubting her life.

After dealing with the three undead knights, he put away his sword, passed Alice on the ground, and walked slowly towards the depths of the passage.

Glancing at the wreckage of the undead on the ground, and then at the dark passage, Alice made up her mind, got up from the ground, followed the knight step by step, and walked slowly towards the depths.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Alice was surprised to find that the numbers on the radiation meter were close to normal, and the passage was getting wider and wider, with many traces of artificial construction on both sides.

Following the knight into a huge stone gate, Alice found herself in a vast hall.

The stone pillars carved with dragon patterns, the floor tiles paved with blue boards, and the wires emitting light blue light one after another bring a touch of sci-fi to this medieval retro-style hall.

On the high platform deep in the hall, a group of tall women with bows and arrows on their backs stared at Alice intently. They argued fiercely with each other from time to time.

Looking at the knight who continued to move forward, Alice hesitated.

Facing all this unknown, deep in her heart she had the idea of ​​retreating.

However, returning to the ground, intense radiation, dangerous corpses, lack of food, water and vehicles, plus leg and foot injuries, there is no doubt that her chance of survival is close to zero.

In desperation, Alice could only continue to follow.

The knight walked through a wide underground corridor.

There are many exquisite murals carved on both sides of the promenade, coming into the world, resistance, death, redemption... There is a dusty past, an ancient legend.

Alice looked at the mural, and felt a strange feeling in her heart, which became stronger and stronger.

The knight finally came to a huge and empty square underground.

As soon as Alice entered there, she was so frightened by the sight in front of her that she forgot to move.

Thousands of knights in black armor were half kneeling on the square with their heads facing forward.

The knight who had saved Alice walked into the crowd, found his place, held the long sword in both hands, knelt down on one knee, and stopped moving like a stone sculpture.

The air was so still that Alice couldn't hear the wind except for the beating of her own heart.

Alice wanted to turn around and leave, but in the dark, there was a voice that kept telling her to keep moving forward.

After passing through layers of knights, Alice finally came to the deepest part of the square.

Standing on the cliff at the edge of the square, Alice looked down.

Below the bottomless bottom, there is a clear and shining "lake".

The light blue "lake water" has no ripples or ripples, they are like countless floating light blue particles gathered together, beautiful and mysterious.

Staring at the light blue "lake", Alice saw a huge shadow emerging from the "bottom of the lake".

A pair of golden dragon pupils slowly approached the woman.

A familiar and warm voice echoed in her ears.

"We once had an agreement..."

(End of the book)