Ten years later.

The Reinhardt site, the official name of the empire is "Second Quarantine Area".

This was once the capital of the "Rhine Empire", the most powerful country on the mainland, and it was also the most prosperous city on the mainland, no doubt about it.

Reinhardt has more than one and two million permanent residents, and people who live here prefer to call the city "Lion Heart".

But just ten years ago, the white light beam that suddenly descended destroyed the city without warning. Whether it was the magnificent Rhine Empire Palace or the low and dilapidated slums in the outer city, they all turned into ruins in just one day. More than one million people, including the Emperor of the Empire, evaporated after the light beam disappeared, leaving only less than 100,000 survivors. Whenever they asked what happened that day, these survivors were confused. Some of them even felt a splitting headache, and there were also people who went crazy...

According to the wizards, the memories of these survivors about the "Day of Arrival" have been deliberately erased...

Fortunately, when the disaster occurred, the eldest prince of the Rhine Empire was not in the capital, and the royal blood of the Rhine Empire was preserved... Although there were many turmoils in the empire in the past ten years, under the eldest prince... No, it should be said that under the rule of the new imperial emperor, the turbulent situation finally gradually stabilized, and the new capital was also established on the Linfeng Plain 1,800 kilometers west of Reinhardt.

As for this old capital that has been transformed into ruins, it has been completely abandoned.

But this does not mean that Reinhardt has become an unmanned land... In that disaster, only a very small number of survivors who survived were able to leave here, and the remaining people had not yet come back from the disaster, and the entire ruins had been blocked by the imperial army. People outside could not come in, and people inside could not go out.

The sixteen-year-old ashes are one of the survivors who are "locked" in this ruin.

Even he himself could not remember what Ash was originally named. "The Light of Arrival" not only erased his memory of the day of Arrival, but even the memories of Ashes before he was six years old became blurred. He could not even recall the appearance and voice of his parents...

When the ashes woke up from the long coma, the first thing he saw was the half-burned beam not far away, with dark and cracked charcoal scattered across his preface, and a large number of embers scattered on the ground that emitted heat... He vaguely remembered that this was his "home".

From that day on, Reinhardt, the once most prosperous city on the continent, disappeared, and replaced it with the "second isolation area".

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Ten years have passed, enough to completely disappear into this area... The ruins of this ancient city have turned into a gray forest composed of ruins. There is only one rule here - "The strong prey on the weak and the fittest survive."

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Ashes have been tracking the coyote for four days.

Four days ago, he used the small amount of food in his hand to set up a trap, but he underestimated the power of the coyote. Although the sharp wooden thorn penetrated the hind limbs, the other party still struggled to jump out of the trap and fled into the depths of the ruins.

The flesh on a coyote is enough to make the ashes not worry about food for half a month, and wolf skin and wolf teeth are extremely useful things. Even if he can't use it himself, he can get some survivors' gathering places to trade, and he can still get a lot of good things - of course, the premise is that he must have the ability to keep those things.

Two days left, the Dark Season is coming. For some reason, whenever the Dark Season arrives, the beasts wandering in the ruins will become particularly violent. Not only will their aggressiveness be greatly enhanced, but what is somewhat incomprehensible is that the power, speed, reaction ability, etc. of these beasts will also be significantly enhanced compared to the Ming Season.

In short, in Reinhardt, the danger of dark season is much greater than that of tomorrow. After every dark season, some people will not be able to live to see the next round of sunshine in the next round of tomorrow.

Ashes must be as prepared as possible before the dark season arrives in order to survive the long and dark three months.

Fortunately, the blood stains dripping on the ground of the coyote are very eye-catching. Even in the ruins with complex environments, the ashes can easily capture its traces.

"This beast... actually has the strength to escape..." Ash pressed his somewhat shriveled abdomen. All the dry food he carried was exhausted a day ago. Today, he had never eaten anything except chewing a few astringent and fishy grass roots.

The meat of the coyote is very good and has a very low fat content, so the taste is naturally not much better. However, for people in the isolation area, it is already a rare delicacy.

The ashes moved quickly against the wall. He had seen the injured coyote. After running away with injuries for four days, the coyote's physical strength and vitality finally reached its limit. He lay on the ground dyingly. From a distance, it seemed as if he was dead. Only the slightly undulating abdominal cavity proved that it still had a breath.

"This damn bug!"

When moving his eyes to the wound on the hind legs of the coyote, Ash couldn't help but curse in his heart - the surface of the wound was very ulcerated, and many gray-white parasites were densely attached to the wound. In that case, just a glance would be enough to make the scalp numb... If a patient with intensive phobia saw it, he might not have been able to sleep well for several days.

But visual impact is not the key. I am afraid that few people who can survive in the isolation area have never eaten insects. The biggest problem is not the bugs themselves, but their eggs.

This is a very common parasite in isolation areas. They inject their eggs into the corpses of animals and use the heat generated when the corpses decay to hatch the eggs. When the larvae breaks out, the rotten and pus-like corpses become the most ideal food for larvae.

Without thinking, the hind legs of this coyote must have been laid with eggs. These eggs are not afraid of high temperatures, and even if they are roasted on the fire, they cannot be completely killed. If anyone eats the meat of the parasitic eggs, then these eggs will be hatched in the body of the unlucky eggs, and then the unlucky eggs will be eaten from the inside out...

This kind of thing has not happened before, so although food is scarce in the isolation area, people have always kept their distance from this parasitic prey.

"The parasitization time is not long... If you only cut off the hind legs, the meat from other places should be able to be eaten..." Ashes thought in his mind that the most delicious part of the meat on the coyote was the two hind legs. Half of it had to be thrown away at once, which made him feel extremely distressed.

He pressed a short arrow about ten centimeters into a homemade small crossbow and pulled the string made of animal tendons. Just in case, he pulled out a blade polished with iron sheets from the soles of his boots and pressed it upside down in his palm... Just as the ashes were planning to pick up his prey, a sound came from the thorn bush not far away from the opposite side.

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Chapter completed!