Even the noon sunlight appears dark, with dense lead-gray dust clouds covering the sky, allowing the scorching sun to be directly watched.

On the desolate and desolate land, there are large patches of small hills made of metal wreckage. Some black and gray hills will still have dark red lights, and the mechanical structure inside is not completely decayed.

Houses built of metal garbage and rocks form villages among these metal hills. The densely packed dilapidated houses are made of abandoned metal plates, roughly polished rocks, and inorganic garbage slags. A dark brown river winds and circles among many hills. Most of the villages and towns are built next to this wastewater river.

If you look from the sky, with this dark brown line as the starting point, town structures like spider webs spread around them, like dark fruits born from a branch.

Next to the river, there were figures passing through the decaying ruins. They were wearing simple and dirty cloth and searching for parts that could be used from the ruins. Sometimes they could hear ecstatic cheers, and sometimes they could see several voices escaped from the collapsed hill of debris. Then there was a violent explosion that caused the black and red smoke to enter the sky, bringing a pungent and horrifying stench.

These smoke and dust will turn into pungent acid-eroded ash rain, invading the land, taking away all corpses and ruins, and then pouring into the river.

The upper reaches of the river is Shangcheng, where the river water is translucent and light gray, which is not high in radiation or heavy metal fertilizers. However, after being used and re-treated by Shangcheng, the remaining wastewater is like this dark brown.

But even so, it is at least water. Asuras can drink the water of the Styx. All the wilderness outside the upper city live on this river and rely on the ruins and hills to survive.

Sūtra was born between the Black River and the Misty Hills.

Sidor is fourteen years old this year. For the people of Xuqiu, fourteen years old is already considered mature and a crop that can be harvested. At the beginning of every year, when the mayor was burning knowledge with an artificial thinking initiator in the village center, she could see the scene of the selected fourteen-year-old children in dozens of villages and towns around the Heihe River being taken away by the executive guards of the city.

As part of the contract, Shangcheng will give villages and towns new genetic factors and various precision advanced processing components, which can be used to make various precious machinery, such as Savaha water purifier, artificial uterine maintenance device, red lotus-level main engine furnace heart, etc.

Those brand new genetic factors may give birth to several newborns with superior talents in the artificial uterus. They are excellent genetic factors that have not been affected by the radiation of Xuqiu. Maybe a guide can appear in it. In that case, a brand new acropolis may emerge in the Xuqiu. In time, it may not be impossible to become an uptown.

Of course, the chance of that is too small. At least for so many years, even half a director has never appeared in the Xuqiu.

This is the realm of Huntian. In the fifth era, the Asu Islands group protected by the Dharma Guardians, is the most insignificant wilderness on an unknown island.

In the endless sky, many islands float between the land, with different time flows of "time weak water" and "Samadhi Divine Wind" that are almost on the crystal wall. The weak water and divine wind are mixed with the "clouds and mist" formed by the "maha karma" that the guardian god will be lost if the Arhats are accidentally lost.

The islands are actually all realms, but they only exist in the Huntian.

The Dharma Protectors' Army is an absolute power group that runs through the entire Huntian and countless island groups.

What is hostile to the Dharma Protectors and Buddhist Army is the "unprecedented evil demon" who has risen for some reason, comes from nowhere, and does not know why it wants.

The Asu Island Group has a diameter of 16.5 billion light-years, with 8,000 large islands and 90,000 middle islands. For example, Sidora now lives in countless small islands, but there are very few islands that can provide residents with inhabited by the tribes, not to mention that one-quarter of the Asu Island Group has fallen due to the invasion of evil demons.

Xuqiu Island is the aftermath of the battle between the Dharma Protectors and the evil demons. It is a brand new island formed by nearly 100 main Indra-class guardian ships being destroyed by the evil demons, and their wreckage is mixed with the wreckage of other islands.

The Asuras living above them are semi-synthetics who specialize in harsh environments. They cannot be reborn by normal sex, and can only be reorganized by artificial uteruses receiving genetic information and being born after transformation in the culture warehouse.

At the age of fourteen, Asuras with mature brains will generate a gene seed on the back of the spine, which is their genetic information. Those with excellent genetic information will be taken away by the guards of the upper city for special cultivation.

Those that are too inferior will also be taken away. After destroying the genetic seeds, they will enter the animal realm for specialized labor modification, or they will be directly invested in the Hungry Ghost Realm Resource Recycling Center for biomass and scrap metal recycling.

Only the most ordinary, stable species without optimization or deterioration will be left in the Xuqiu, and will survive the residual high spirit radiation from the engines of the main guardian ships of Indra in the Xuqiu, waiting for possible mutations in the future.

Xuqiu Island, and all the surrounding Xinsheng Island formed by the battle between the Dharma Protector and the evil demons, all the creatures, many uptowns, as well as countless acropolis, villages, tribes, and all the Asuras who survived therein originated from those guardian fleets fighting on the dark sky, and the seeds cast on the earth. They deliberately arranged for them to spread freely to supplement the biological community of recruits and consumables.

It's like throwing spores on the rotten wood, waiting for it to grow many fungi, and then picking various mushrooms that can be used.

From time to time, new and abandoned guardian ships were abandoned on this island, which was the "whale fall" that the fungi most longed for. The abandonment of a warship was enough to make the island nurture several upper cities, countless villages and Asuras, and fungal mushrooms all over the earth.

Sidor is such a fungus.

She is the young mushroom.

She is one of the young people who are about to be taken away because of her ‘excellence’.

Sidora's wisdom is far higher than that of her peers. She could open her eyes and observe the surrounding world when she was born in an artificial womb. When she was two years old, she could observe the differences between hills and select the safest ones from them, pick up some edible alloys to supplement nutrients.

The cells of Asuras can secrete high-intensity alloys. They can swallow gold and eat iron. According to the needs of each Asuras, they will allow themselves to grow anti-joint limbs, several arms, or multiple eyes and long horns.

But those who did not make any sense. In Sidor's eyes, no matter what he changed his appearance, the people living in Xuqiu had long been dead.

There are fifteen days left, and I will die.

As a high-quality gene provider, Sidora knew that she would not be sent to the animal realm and the hungry ghost realm, let alone being made into a living resentment tower and entering the hell path to provide energy to the upper city. Her future is highly likely to be entering the human realm and becoming a part of the upper city citizens.

But so what? What is the difference between dying in the upper city and dying in the ruins?

The Asuras have no family, no parents, no teachers, no inheritance, and no descendants. They come out of the artificial womb and are given knowledge and wisdom by artificial initiation instruments. They have to rely on themselves to survive in the ruins since childhood, and they will not have their own children, disciples or any spiritual inheritors.

They have lived without roots, and naturally they have no seeds to succeed. They live longer and better, and they are nothing more than wasting decades on this dark land.

Sidoro saw through it all.

All the lives born in the ruins will be branded by the uptown. The strong can become laborers, the intelligent can become a secretary, and the beautiful can become a vase, and those without these can only become the cornerstone.

However, as long as you fail to become a guide, become a "heavenly man" and become a member of the Dharma Protector and Buddhist Army, all sentient beings on the earth are just colonies, nothing more than larger, smarter, and colorful colonies.

Just like the iron-eating clusters that grow on the armor of the wreckage of warships, they are either accidentally trampled or destroyed, or they are used as seasonings and picked up and eaten.

But what's the use of seeing through it?

She could only stay here, waiting for herself to rot, or go to the upper city to rot the more boring decay.

Soon, she was going to go to the mayor's place to receive the last initiation before being taken away by the guards of the city, and she had knowledge about the teaching of the guide's practice.

Maybe she can understand the method of practicing extraordinary power from it, and then break this cage, transcend the sad cycle of reincarnation among the Asuras, and become a member of the Dharma Protectors' Guardians. Just like the legend of the "master" who created the Xuqiu Shangcheng, she left her own legend and city.

Let yourself leave unique traces on this deserted land.

Of course, this is a luxury that is just like a dream.

Sidor, who was too intelligent, went to the end of the Heihe village group with several partners who had explored in the ruins. She had seen the world outside the scope of the upper city forces and other upper cities.

She keenly realized that the wreckage of warships around Xuqiu Shangcheng had been almost plundered. Xuqiu Shangcheng was too old and the warship ruins it excavated did not have many remaining high-energy parts and available resources.

In contrast, Honghe Shangcheng can extract enough raw materials from the leaked biomass river from a newly fallen starship seven hundred years ago to cultivate more Asuras. In contrast, they do not have many mineral resources and they must expand, otherwise they will die out by the explosion of people.

There will be a battle between the upper city and the upper city, and the one who survives is the most potential. The Dharma Protectors and Buddhist soldiers do not have the energy to care about these trivial matters. Their enemies are evil demons in the sky, and the killing of sentient beings on the earth is their own choice. It is already their limit to protecting these islands, so they will naturally not care about these private battles.

What's more, such struggle can promote the evolution and sublimation of gene seeds - the Asuras have countless knowledge and experience in the genes, and only combat can awaken those ancient knowledge.

Xuqiu Shangcheng has been prosperous for a long time. Its creator is a true guide who has become a heavenly man. It occupies the Xuqiu area with the most wreckage of warships in the past and is the oldest upper city, no doubt about it.

But the guides are celestial beings. After they ascended to heaven, they will not return to the earth. After a long time, the upper city of Xuqiu has begun to weaken. As the resources in Xuqiu gradually exhausted, the upper city has begun to shrink its sphere of influence. The other upper cities naturally approached without mercy and took away the shelter that originally belonged to Xuqiu and swallowed all the population, resources and land into their stomachs.

Now, with the rise of Honghe Shangcheng, the already weak Xuqiu has become the one to be challenged. Even if the lean camel is bigger than a horse, Xuqiu Shangcheng still controls high-end force, but it is not high. The troops in Honghe Shangcheng have begun to provoke, rob and abduct some people on the border line frequently.

As the end of the old year approaches, and the beginning of the new year, Sidoro quietly asked about his companions, but the result was very bad.

Honghe Overhead City recently captured the city of Toma. They took advantage of a great acid storm to launch an attack and directly seized three-quarters of the land of Toma Overhead City. After the acid storm ended, they used the sea of ​​people to break through the guide shield of Uptown.

The Red River Upper City, which took away all the resources of the Upper City, could no longer suppress its ambitions. They were preparing for war and preparing to continue attacking the surrounding areas.

With the information conveyed by the scattered refugees and the acid rain clouds that have been dyed iron-brown, Sidora can basically confirm that more than 90% of the biological population in the upper city of Doma was destroyed, and all those who did not escape were dead.

The population of Honghe Uptown itself was already explosive enough. After they got the resources, they could not accept those populations. They wiped out all the resistance forces in that area and erased all the things related to the Uptown of Doma.

The buildings were flattened, the cities were burned, the population was recycled, and the machines were moved away. What followed was the colonists of the Red River, who started to build brand new villages and towns on the rotten corpses of the city of Doma.

Sidoro saw that like a locust, wearing simple and damaged armor, holding guns or cold weapons, the Red River Guards turned villages and towns that had existed for hundreds of years into flat land, built solid fortresses, and confronted the fortresses in Xuqiu Shangcheng.

The two sides often exchange fires at the border, leaving hundreds of corpses behind each time, and even several artillery fire support called by both sides. Like a meteor, hypersonic superheavy armor-piercing bombs easily smashed the underground positions of both sides, and even caused several earthquakes that shocked Xuqiu.

And just above the bumpy ruins, new fortresses and fortresses were immediately built, and another group of new people and soldiers arrived to start a new round of confrontation.

What made Sidor the most speechless were the identities of those consumed soldiers.

They are the "excellent" gene holders who have been summoned into the city by Xuqiu Shangcheng in the past few years.

Sidoro knew that everyone had already died and he had died.

She couldn't sleep and didn't want to sleep. Whether it was inferior, medium, or excellent, it was a consumable for the uptown. Without defeating the invaders of the Red River, the Xuqiu would be washed away by blood and defeating the invaders of the Red River, they were also consumables for the city.

Everyone is a consumable - even the winner Red River, who can only recover from mad chaos to stable order by consuming excess population resources in battle.

Sidoro tossed and turned, she wanted to call a few companions to escape, whether it was Xuqiu, Honghe, or this world, and she felt suffocated. She wanted to escape to the world of freedom.

But where can I escape? Where is the world not Xuqiu?

The battle between Honghe and Xuqiu is just the most boring daily life between all the upper cities in this world. The most common cycle is that thousands of wars have occurred repeatedly since the entire island was generated. This is just a battle between the upper cities. Not to mention, the villages and towns under Xuqiu often fight for high-quality genetic genes and metal hills that have not been discovered, and seize ownership.

Shangcheng is encouraging about this. Only blood can water real abilities and potential burst out from blood.

Similarly, the battle between the upper city and the more advanced existence may also hold such an idea.

Only the guide.

Only by becoming a guide can one transcend all the cycle of reincarnation and become a man from heaven, and ignore this mortal world, the endless misery of the world.

So, even if she takes any risk, she will become a monk.

After sleepless overnight, Sidoro found the mayor. Now there is still some time before the initiation at the beginning of the year. Generally, no one will go to see the manager directly appointed by the upper city.

But Sidora often went there. The mayor liked the body of young girls. Although the Asuras had no natural fertility, they still had five desires. He often invited young girls to their residences, and those girls could get safe, radiation-free water, enough food and safety.

Sidoro is also one of them.

The mayor was not surprised by this. Sidoro was very smart. He knew very well that the other party would become a member of the upper city citizen, but it was because of his intelligence that he would not refuse his transaction. He even had channels to make the medium-sized genetic seeds or inferior girls alike, by becoming a citizen of the upper city and some big-name slaves, so that he could become a member of the upper city and avoid the fate of being destroyed.

The mayor also speculated what Sidoro was going to do this time. He estimated that the other party wanted to know how to go further and find the possibility of becoming a "guidor".

Although he didn't know the answer, it did not prevent him from trading with Sidor. Anyway, a underage girl would not be able to do anything to him.

During the warmth of the night, Sidoro killed the mayor. She changed into the mayor's eyes, seized the other party's memory chip, and then activated the artificial thinking initiator.

The mayor never dreamed that Sidoro was so bold that the manager appointed by the Upper City would be chased to death by the Upper City, and sent to the Hungry Ghost Path to be decomposed by the nanorobot. It is said that before the nanorobot swallowed up the frontal lobe and neocortex, the person who was decomposed could experience the most extreme pain in the world.

But Sidoro had already realized that she knew that the city of Red River was about to attack, and she also knew that as long as she did not become a guide, living would be no different from death.

Since that's the case, she has only one choice.
To be continued...