The Lion King Is Not Asleep

Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?

The giant, awakened from his long slumber, Opened Eyes. He didn't know who he was, where he was, or why he was in this place.

But looking at the mutated forest filled with mist before him, the giant felt a strange sense of familiarity, especially the oppressive, decaying atmosphere of the dark, dense forest, which gave him a feeling of home.

"Home? Only the Beast would call this place home."

The giant subconsciously assessed his surroundings, looked around, and then realized that he was wearing a dark green suit of armor, and there was a helmet not far from him.

After a brief hesitation, driven by instinct, the giant tucked the helmet into his waistband. He didn't know why he did it, but that's what he did.

Looking around at the unfamiliar yet familiar surroundings, the giant suddenly heard a call in his ear:

"Come here quickly, come here quickly!"

The sound came from deep within the dense forest. If a normal person heard it, they would definitely run away. However, the giant was born with a certain wildness in him, and without hesitation, he followed the direction of the sound.

What's quite amazing is that the giant, who is nearly 4 meters tall, can walk on flat ground in this damp and dense forest as if it were flat ground. No matter how narrow the gap, he can slip into it very smoothly.

This phenomenon also puzzled the giant, but the chaotic and disordered memories prevented him from discerning the truth, leaving him only able to mutter to himself:

"Could I be a forest fairy? Thank goodness this isn't Catachan."

"Catachan?"

The giant froze, and a giant toad, 3 meters tall, suddenly flashed through his mind. Not only did it look incredibly arrogant, but the toad's eyes also had a particularly smug look on them.

But when the image appeared in his mind, the giant felt an indescribable fear, and his body began to experience uncontrollable phantom pain, as if he had once been a close observer of a nuclear explosion.

This strange thought puzzled the giant, even making him paranoid. He only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the terrifying toad was not around.

You're scaring yourself!

As the giant continued forward, branches began to spring back, thorns gradually disappeared, and vines twisted and retracted. The entire forest made way for this Son of the Forest.

As time passed, and as the voice grew clearer, the giant finally remembered his name— Lion.

Al Zhuang Sen.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Lion saw a tall castle built along a river. In the river in front of the castle, an old man with a white beard and wearing a crown was fishing in a boat.

To be honest, even though his memories were jumbled, Lion still felt something was off, like they were trying to fool a child.

In a desolate, Twisted Jungle, a tall castle suddenly appears, with an old man with a white beard fishing in the river in front of it. It looks like a trap no matter how you look at it.

However, after a brief moment of thought, Lion's super intelligence, after examining his own Super Strength, directly made two choices for Lion.

The first step is to swim across. With my abilities, I can cross not only a river, but even an ocean.

The second step is to ask the old man where this place is. If he dares to attack you, just slap his head off.

But children make choices; adults want it all. Lion decided to first ask the old man where he was. If he dared to misbehave, he'd swim over and smash his head in.

For some reason, Lion always felt that the old man was looking at him sideways behind his back, just like the self-destructing toad—not only was it smug, but it was also incredibly pretentious.

"01, Old Wall Lamp, Where am I?"

The white-bearded old man didn't say anything, just glanced at it before continuing to fish.

This action annoyed Lion, so he called out again, but no matter how he called, the old man ignored him.

Such disrespect and neglect angered Lion, who immediately plunged into the water, intending to confront them.

Before he could swim more than a few strokes, Lion saw several huge shadows swimming around the old man's boat beneath the water's surface. As Lion entered the water, several more shadows swam over.

"Come back, come back quickly!"

The increasingly clear voice appeared from behind, and just then, something unexpected happened.

The skinny, white-bearded old man roared, "Fight your mother!"

In an instant, a dark golden light burst forth, and the originally extremely thin, white-bearded old man transformed into a powerful old man over 5 meters tall. He jumped directly into the water and attacked the four largest black shadows.

An indescribable, powerful force was released instantly. Through the surging waves, Lion saw the white-bearded old man holding the tail of the blue-skinned giant fish in his left hand and entering the eye socket of the Orks giant fish with his right hand.

The old man rode a slightly thin, purple-skinned giant fish as it charged toward the most robust, red-skinned giant fish.

"Damn, his combat power is at least 100,000, while mine is only 8,000."

Now there was no need for super intelligence; Lion simply turned and ran, scrambling and crawling back to shore.

But when Lion returned to the shore, the turbulent river waves vanished instantly, and the scene of the white-bearded old man fishing returned.

But Lion's efforts were not without reward, for he finally found the speaking creature, a small figure draped in a green robe, who appeared before him.

"Where am I? Why is that old man with the white beard ignoring me?"

A faint, fragmented telepathic message echoed in Lion's mind, "This is home. He's not replying because your question is wrong."

"Could this white-bearded old man be a deity?"

"Shh, don't say that."

However, the robed figure's warning came too late. In an instant, dark clouds gathered in the sky, and a giant, dark golden hand descended from the heavens, slapping Lion to the ground.

Perhaps still not satisfied, the dark golden giant hand slapped Lion twice more, finally embedding Lion into the ground.

It was impossible for Lion not to be angry after being beaten up for no reason. He even wanted to say a few harsh words, but the little man in the robe pressed his mouth down:

"Are you out of your mind?! He's even biting dogs now. If he hadn't been eating those green stones all the time, he probably would have gone crazy by now. You'd better get out of here."

It was at this moment that Lion suddenly noticed another road beside him, and there was another castle on that side.

Perhaps sensing Lion's thoughts, the little man in the robe explained to him while digging in the dirt:

"We can explore that area later! Your current strength is insufficient; these are all illusions."

Since arriving at this river, Lion has been constantly frustrated, and each riddler has been more disheartening than the last.

But at that very moment, Lion smelled a stench of decay that shouldn't exist in the real world.

Without any hesitation, Lion took off running towards the source of the corruption, much to the dismay of the robed figure. But Lion felt a exhilarating sense of freedom, a liberating release of his true nature, and he shouted as he ran:

Didn't you say these scenes were all hallucinations?

Before he could finish speaking, everything in front of him vanished instantly, and a terrifying behemoth appeared, attacking the humans.

Lion didn't know if this was an illusion, and his memories were a jumbled mess, but driven by instinct, he still couldn't tolerate the harassment of humanity.

Faced with the sudden appearance of the giant, the surviving humans were stunned. Then they saw the giant, with just his bare fists, quickly and easily beat the beast to its knees.

Having finally met an opponent weaker than himself, Lion laughed loudly, stepping on the giant beast's head, as if all formalities had been abandoned.

Why is the adult laughing?

"I have no idea!"

The survivors thought the handsome old man in front of them might be a little dim-witted, perhaps a Death Angel, but possibly with a damaged brain.

In an attempt to bring the giant back, the survivors even tried to lure him with food.

Watching the giant man engrossed in his food, Mikiya, the squad leader, felt a surge of maternal instinct. "Eat slowly. Even though it's the end of the world, the camp has plenty of supplies. Nobody will take your food."

"The end of the world? How could the world end! We're still standing here, aren't we? Is this the afterlife?"

Upon hearing this, the entire camp was filled with a joyful atmosphere. Everyone awkwardly explained that it was just a rhetorical device, and that the sir was quite humorous.

Although his memory was hazy, Lion felt that the other person was praising him, so he just grinned foolishly and laughed along.

When Kakiya suggested coming with us, Lion immediately agreed, but Lion was too big to fit into the driver's seat and had to squat in the pickup truck bed.

Through conversation, everyone became increasingly convinced that the person before them was definitely Astartes sage, exactly like the one in the camp, except that, compared to that one, this person was a little less intelligent.

Soon after the patrol team arrived at the camp, the camp leader also came out.

The man was tall and imposing, walking with a powerful stride. His black armor was as dark as the night sky, and the winged sword emblem on it was particularly eye-catching. The hood on his helmet added to his air of mystery.

When the camp leader saw Lion crouching in the back of the pickup truck, he instantly pulled out two Bolter from his waist and fired.

But Lion was faster, dodging all the bomb attacks with a single dodge, and charging forward at an incomprehensible speed like a whirlwind, pinning the Space Marine to the ground.

When Lion's hand touched the cold Adamantium armor, all his memories surfaced.

Traitor Horus, noble Sanguinius, the madman Koz, Atlas being devoured, the Ambition Guilliman, the origin of the black armor before you, and the Caliban Civil War.

"I remember now, I finally remember! I am the Lord of Caliban, I am the Imperial Warmaster, I am Lion El..."

Zhuang Sen.

And you, traitor!