Chapter 419 (1/2)

In the western region of Shen Cheng city, near the southern bank of the Huangpu River.

It used to be one of the most expensive areas of Shen Cheng city in the age of light. There used to be countless skysc.r.a.pers spread across the riverbank, and the streets in that area were always crowded with people.

However, nowadays it was only left with collapsed buildings and some broken skysc.r.a.pers that were still standing in ruins under the hazy s.h.i.+mmer.

After some time, in this ruined place where the hazy s.h.i.+mmer seemed to be the only light source appeared some small and blurry thin figures. They were crawling from one collapsed building to another one through the holes and cracks of the concrete buildings.

From the direction that those blurry figures traveled in the hazy s.h.i.+mmer. It appeared that this group of figures was heading towards a collapsed viaduct that was quite far away from them.

…

“Look what I found!?” a young boy said loudly and then quickly slid down from a pile of ruins while waving a gla.s.s bottle in his hand. He looked around ten years old, and his excited expression could even be seen behind his dirty face.

Immediately, all other kids below the ruins began to surround the young boy.

A slightly older kid, who had a big head took over the bottle, and used his spit to carefully clean the dirt off the label on the side of the bottle.

“Yang… Yang… river… something…” he struggled to read the words that were displayed on the label.

It instantly caused other kids to laugh non-stop. “Haha…. Big-head Niu, what did you say!? We didn’t understand a single word. It is better to ask the Scholar to read it…”

“It must be a bottle of alcohol, I have seen one like it when I was young.” said the boy whose head was indeed slightly bigger than others. The boy felt embarra.s.sed. He stroked the back of his head, laughed with the rest of the kids.

“Haha… big head, why don’t you say that you used to see the sun? You are not much older than us! Haha…” a kid who was wearing a tattered cloth laughed.

“It doesn’t matter if you believe it or not!” The big-headed kid slowly changed his tone.

Soon, a girl who was wearing an adult-sized cotton coat was led towards them.

“Scholar, can you tell us what was written on the bottle.” said the big-headed kid.

“Yang, river, blue… oh… River Yang Cla.s.sic Blue.” said the girl after she checked the label carefully. It seemed like the girl was very weak. When she took the bottle, she almost dropped it.

“Cla.s.sic blue? What is that? Anyone heard of it?” the kid who found the bottle looked at other kids and said. However, none of them knew what it was.

“Look at the smaller words. Three are some more.” The big-headed kid pointed at the bottle and said.

“Hmm… something alcohol… company…” the girl looked at the words and said slowly.

“See! I said it is a bottle of alcohol.” the big-headed said cheerfully.

“Then, how much is it worth?” the kid with a dirty face said with envy.

“At least one big car of food!” another kid spread out his arms and said.

“All you know is eat, can you not think of something else?”

“A bunch of naive kids. We should give this to the leader. If he is happy, he might help you to become an awakened warrior!”

“Wa… you are the youngest amongst us. You dare to call us a bunch of naive kids?!”

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While all the kids were immersed in the happiness of discovering a bottle of alcohol, another kid suddenly shouted from the top of the pile of ruins. “Look, there is more!”

Then everyone saw a kid waving a red box excitedly.

Quickly, all the children began to climb up the pile of ruins and used all their energy to dig the pile of ruins as if they had just found the location of a grand treasure.

Soon, more and more stuff that they had never seen were dug out of the ruins and piled up on the side.

“We are rich! We are rich now!”

“This time I will definitely get the fruit!”

“I’ll get new clothes!”

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In a tunnel that used to be used by the subway line seven in the age of light suddenly appeared a boy. He cautiously looked around the area outside the tunnel for a few seconds, and then waved at the tunnel behind his back. Soon, another group of small kids nervously walked out of the tunnel.

The tunnel was not far away from the first group of kids, so they were immediately noticed by a kid from the first group.

“Everyone, those j.a.panese kids are here to steal from us again!” the kid who was on the watch immediately whisper-shouted.

“Where? Where?” All the kids quickly went to the kid who had whisper-shouted.

“Let’s throw rocks at them!” A kid quickly said when he saw the shadows.

“Yes. Quick, don’t let them come out of the tunnel!”

“Scholar, find a place to hide. It is dangerous here.”

“Go back to the place where you came from…”