Long afterward.
Whenever Xu Duoduo recalled the beginning of that catastrophe, she still felt a lingering fear.
The border back then had been like the primordial chaos.
Countless monsters slaughtered one another.
Blood flowed in rivers.
Humans were caught in the midst of it too, looking tiny beside the enormous monsters.
But humanity won in the end.
Xu Duoduo had all but lost track of time. Everywhere she looked was crimson, and the heat was so intense she could barely breathe. Of course, she did not need to breathe, and she eventually held her breath, sparing her nose the scorching currents of air.
Her body was sticky, because she could no longer bear to spend her mutant ability on herself.
Her dress was covered in blood.
As for the risk of viral infection?
No one there could spare a thought for that. There was nothing but killing, killing, and more killing.
Countless monsters packed the area around them, and all kinds of flying monsters filled the sky overhead.
Everyone understood.
If they could not fight their way out, they would die. If they failed to wipe these monsters out, then once the creatures finished devouring one another and high-star monsters emerged, humanity would have nowhere to run.
One day?
Three days?
Five days?
Or had it been ten?
All Xu Duoduo knew was that more and more monster corpses were piling up. Dark masses covered everything, broken only by occasional flashes of color as the others unleashed their mutant abilities.
Those lights flared now and then.
Their colors brought hope, proving that everyone was still alive.
But many had gone dark along the way.
Xu Duoduo could only keep her head down and fight without stopping, until both her body and mind grew numb.
Sometimes she even slipped into