The Last 299 Days of Humanity

He felt the entire building shake noticeably. This tremor dislodged the fire doors that were blocking the water flow, causing water to suddenly pour down from the upper floors along the stairwell.

This violent flow eventually dismantled the entire water system control mechanism, and the water flow became unstoppable, like a breached dam.

Clearly, the donkey-headed wolf was also frightened by this sudden change and scattered and fled.

But the violent impact of the rocks had already created a large hole in the building, and water gushed out instantly. Moreover, the hole was being widened and widened, and the water was flowing faster and faster. Yu Qing could feel the water level rising sharply.

Since the house's water inlet is connected to a distant water source, water from there will continuously flow into this valley until their water levels are at the same level. Theoretically, this would be higher than the rooftop.

At that time, it can easily jump into the water and swim to any place to get ashore.

The wolves weren't so lucky. The rapidly rising river left them with nowhere to escape.

Besides, by the time the wolves realized the danger and tried to escape, it was too late. They couldn't run in the water and could only let the current carry them downstream.

Their only chance of survival should have been to run upstream against the current, but they didn't know what it meant to live against all odds, so they ran downstream to race against the flood.

It is estimated that eight or nine out of ten of them will eventually drown in this river.

Yu Qing hoped the water level would rise to the top floor quickly so they wouldn't have to jump from the high platform and could swim directly to the riverbank.

When the floodwaters were about to reach the rooftop, Yao Dan followed Yu Qing's instructions and carried him upstream.

Finally, they found a suitable spot, grabbed onto a cliff tree, and climbed up to the top of the mountain.

However, what Yu Qing saw at first glance took him by surprise: before him stretched an endless expanse of water!
Maps of Yaodan show no lakes at all. Could someone have built a large reservoir here?
Putting all that aside, this left them in a desperate situation once again. Moreover, on the distant water, they could see the dome of the Fourth Paradise, which protruded about twenty or thirty meters above the water.

Yu Qing's heart tightened; this meant that most of the Fourth Amusement Park was already submerged underwater. And the roof, which should have been transparent, was now a deep turquoise.

Without sunlight and submerged underwater, the Fourth Paradise must be finished.

Is this the work of nature, or was it done intentionally?
Yu Qing's plan to use the Fourth Paradise as a barrier to attract various forces to fight there seems to have failed.

He is now in a dilemma. If he reveals his location now, he will be completely defenseless and in extreme danger.

If she continues to conceal her whereabouts and keeps people in the mistaken belief that she is in Yu Wa's car, it will put Yu Wa in the spotlight.

Making a nine-year-old girl take a bullet for you is utterly shameless.

So what is the current situation on Yu Wa's side?

Let's put aside what's happening with Yu Qing for now and see what's going on with Yu Wa.

At this moment, within a 300-mile radius of Yu Wa's car, a complex and ever-changing situation was unfolding, with various forces at play.

No one expected that Lok Yu Tsui would trigger the largest new type of war since the Sixth World War.

We know that ancient warfare was the era of cold weapons, where even the bravest warrior could only kill one person with a single strike. Slightly more advanced warfare involved using natural forces to kill large numbers of enemies, such as the burning of the Red Cliffs and the flooding of the seven armies.

With the advent of firearms, bullets and explosives have proven their power, making it very convenient to kill large numbers of enemies.

The nuclear age has a much greater destructive power, capable of destroying one or even several cities in a single attack. But fundamentally, they all operate on the same principle: to cause visible damage or even disintegration of the enemy's body.

Since World War Sixth, everyone has realized that such wars have no final winners; they are merely a battle of barbarians tearing each other apart. Because science has become highly advanced and transparent, anyone has the capability to manufacture such weapons.

When everyone is free to carry bombs and guns in the streets, such weapons become a ridiculous burden and a liability for everyone. They not only fail to make one safe, but instead place everyone in a man-made danger.

Surprisingly, the Sixth World War was not triggered by a powerful empire conquering weaker nations. Instead, it was an act of venting anger by some weaker nations that had refused to be annexed by a powerful one!
This is the principle of "the barefoot are not afraid of those wearing shoes." If you are wearing shoes and facing dozens of barefoot people, and you don't have enough shoes to give to them, the best solution is to throw away your own shoes as well.

As a result, the world gradually reached a consensus to prohibit anyone from producing or using large weapons that can damage people and buildings.

Weapons capable of killing more than ten people within one minute are defined as large weapons.

An explosive device capable of destroying a building of 1,000 cubic meters in one go is also classified as a large weapon.

As for those early mecha weapons designed to target humans, they were not only explicitly prohibited, but also became ridiculously clumsy due to technological advancements, and no one has produced them for a long time.

Because humans discovered a microscopic substance called a "decoy," which can induce neutrons in all metals and polymers to escape abnormally, causing them to deform or disintegrate instantly. Therefore, the emergence of decoy weapons has rendered mechs obsolete.

Pointing a decoy weapon at any part of the mech's structure instantly mutates the internal matter into a chaotic mess of impurities, worse than a block of tofu. Who would spend a fortune on such a useless contraption?
Furthermore, the decoy weapon is only about the size of a palm, yet it has an attack range of one thousand kilometers. Just imagine how large a vehicle would be needed for a thermal or light-powered weapon with a range of one thousand kilometers?

The biggest advantage of decoy weapons is their precision and controllability, as well as their ability to be used silently and without limit. If used to attack any of your organs, such as the eyes, the eyes will be permanently disabled instantly, but from the outside, they will appear completely undamaged and will not harm the surrounding tissues.

Of course, it also has its drawbacks; the decoy weapon has a six-second cooldown time before firing. But this also perfectly meets the condition of "not killing more than ten people within one minute".

But humans have never had a problem with how to eliminate their opponents: if dozens of decoy guns are used alternately, they can attack the enemy continuously.
Because the types and quality of weapons are so transparent and almost identical, quantity is both a defensive and offensive weapon on such a battlefield.

Of course, the first opponents on the battlefield are no longer humans but intelligent soldiers: they are not expensive things, but cheap artificial birds mass-produced on assembly lines, which people call "sounding birds".

The harbinger bird, under human command, will attack its target or block an opponent's attack without hesitation. Its structure is very simple; besides possessing bird-like flight capabilities, it has a decoy launcher installed in its abdomen, and its attack is initiated by opening and closing its beak. Currently, the forces of Shengtian and Shengdi companies have transported tens of thousands of crates filled with harbingers to the vicinity of Luoyuzui, with each crate containing five thousand harbingers.

Several thousand more combat-type humanoids also arrived at the scene, but there were only nine people from each side involved. Including Yu Wa, there were only 19 people in total on the battlefield of this conflict.

However, the number of people observing and monitoring from all over the world reached over 100,000, who gathered within a 200-kilometer radius or at an altitude of 20,000 meters.

Sensing the gathering of so much power around her, Eying reported the situation to Yuqing via Lingxi.

Yu Qing was now in a dilemma; the breathing time Yu Wa had bought for him had been wasted. He either had to immediately reveal himself to attract the attention of all sides, or let Yu Wa and the others withstand the overwhelming pressure.
He must make a decision immediately.
Frankly, he wasn't entirely clear on the exact balance of power between Shengtian and Shengdi. If Shengtian was powerful enough, then the safety of the decoy was temporarily not a problem.
However, he couldn't afford to take any chances. He had to shoulder this pressure; he couldn't let a child bear it.

He only had a few hundred combat personnel at his disposal, including six individuals; the rest were outdated combat-type humanoids. This was a number provided to him by his remote assistant; he hadn't even seen them yet.

He instructed Eying to tell Yuwa to get out of the vehicle immediately, reveal her identity, and show all forces that she was just a child, not Yu Qing, whom they wanted to deal with.

He then issued instructions to his six men through his assistant: all of them should appear on the spot under the banner of Yu Qing to confuse all forces and disperse the center of the storm to different places, so as to reduce the pressure on themselves.

At this moment, Sheng Tian's power was, in effect, his own protective shield, even though it was not yet under his control. He wanted to use it to deplete Sheng Di's power as much as possible.

Those currently in control of Shengtian understand the terrible consequences of any mishap they might face, and therefore feel compelled to fight desperately to prevent the people of Shengdi from killing them. However, they do not wish to prevent the people of Shengdi from crippling or rendering them incapable of acting.
At this time, Yu Qing was unaware that they had secretly deployed forces to make him a vegetable at the opportune moment.
Yu Qing's order did not achieve the desired effect; in fact, it had no effect whatsoever, because Yu Wa refused to get out of the car and reveal her identity.

She told Eying to tell her older brother Yuqing that she wanted to make the bad guys think she was him!

Her attitude caught Yu Qing off guard. He had always thought she was just an obedient and well-behaved girl, never expecting her to be so decisive and courageous.

In this way, Yu Qing's act of having the six people around him appear under his name only made all parties more certain of their current judgment: Yu Qing was in Yu Wa's car, and the six fake Yu Qings were trying to help the real Yu Qing out of trouble.

Yu Wa made herself the sole center of the storm.

Now, all forces have surrounded Yuwa like an iron barrel, with layers upon layers of defense, and a great battle is about to break out.

Centered on Yuwa, the area within a 30-kilometer radius quickly became dark and gloomy, filled with tens of millions of birds.

First, a red tide surged towards the yellow tide, the two waves violently crashing together between heaven and earth. The red ones were the birds of victory, and the yellow ones were the birds of victory.

Then the yellow birds formed an angry dragon, rushing straight towards Yu Wa. The red birds, like dozens of steel knives, sliced ​​the dragon into disjointed segments.

In the nick of time, the dragon head had already approached within 300 meters of Yu Wa's vehicle. If it weren't for the dense swarm of red birds surrounding Yu Wa's vehicle, the yellow birds' attack would have already succeeded.

Because the decoy weapon requires 0.02 seconds to aim, in order to avoid being targeted by the enemy, the harpy flies very fast, usually making 100 trajectory changes in 1 second. Therefore, the greatest battle damage is not being shot down by the enemy, but being smashed to pieces after colliding with each other.

The scene was filled with the sounds of crashing and the sharp cries of the birds, and a downpour of birds falling to the ground began.

Suddenly, a huge yellow ring about two kilometers in diameter surrounded Yu Wa's chariot and kept shrinking, while thousands of red spheres rolled toward the yellow ring with lightning speed, as if hammers were smashing a jade bracelet.

The yellow rings swiftly transformed into countless sharp swords, piercing straight towards the center. The red spheres immediately became sheaths, perfectly concealing the swords. Then, the sheaths shattered, the swords broke, and scattered across the ground.

Meanwhile, yellow and red harbingers continued to pour in from all directions, flowing like a mighty river towards the center of the battlefield.

Suddenly, a loud bang was heard, and all the red harbingers vanished, replaced by a chaotic mass of yellow harbingers, indistinguishable from each other. Meanwhile, some of the yellow harbingers suddenly turned red again, creating a scene of alternating yellow and red, as if everyone was playing a game of pretending to be the other.

It seemed the two sides were evenly matched for the time being, with neither able to gain the upper hand. Even the onlookers were unsure who was who. The battle had reached a stalemate.

Both sides were clearly very anxious, and both deployed several thousand combat-type humanoids to the front lines. Each combat-type humanoid was essentially a war machine assembled from tens of thousands of jingling birds using a special process, but due to rule restrictions, it could only carry nine decoy guns.

This fighting-type humanoid retains its combat strength as long as nine individual Screambirds survive. Therefore, it can still fight even when riddled with wounds.

Within ten minutes, the battlefield was filled with many fighting humanoid creatures missing limbs, heads, or eyes, but they were still fighting.

These combat-like humanoids darted up and down, left and right in the air, their strange forms intertwined with each other, engaged in a relentless and deadly battle.

Some of the fighting humanoids had been cut into several pieces, but each piece fought alone. Because they were all made in human shape, the scene was terrifying and chilling to the bone for humans to witness.

Yu Wa saw this scene through the car window and burst into tears. E Ying held her in her arms and comforted her, telling her that the severed limbs were not human tissue, but only similar in shape.

But she continued to tremble and kept calling out that she wanted to find her older brother. Eying said, "If you want your older brother to be safe and sound, you can't expose yourself by crying."

Yu Wa then stopped crying.

However, Yu Qing sensed everything that was happening on E Ying's side through his spiritual connection and told her, "Immediately open the car window and let Yu Wa sit in the car and wail loudly. That way, we'll be in the air for victory, and Yu Wa will be safe."

Eying asked, puzzled, "Wouldn't all our previous efforts be in vain? How can you still say that victory is in sight? Besides, hasn't Yuwa become a target because of this?"

Yu Qing said, “Do as I say. Under the watchful eyes of the whole world, no one would dare to lay a hand on a crying child. That would provoke the wrath of every thinking animal on Earth. Besides you, who else do you think would be so foolish?”

Eying said, "Even so, Yuwa is safe, but you are not. They will soon be looking for your location. Can you protect yourself?" (End of Chapter)