I, holding a long sword in my hand, only know one move

During this period, there were times when technology was developed using the technology of other races, but these did not last long.

The body is weak and has zero magical adaptability. It is unable to use magic and cannot detect even being used by others. It has no ability to resist other races and can only survive in secret. It must always be alert to the movements of other races in case it is affected by the battle. Even a stray bullet would be devastating.

"So we can only keep a low profile...because once humans are regarded as a possible threat by other races, they will suffer a crisis that is close to genocide."

"Hey, then for the sake of the survival of the human species here, it's better for us not to be too ostentatious."

Cheng Rang sighed helplessly, patted the scabbard on his waist and murmured: "Unless you see the Star Cup, or the God of War named Artexu... If you attack other races easily, Although it doesn’t matter to me, it would be outrageous to say that the entire human race on this planet would be wiped out because of me alone.”

After all, even the ashes turned into the corpses of the third-ranked Elf species when they die can keep falling from the sky like snowflakes... So this war... this world, for the humans here In other words, there is no other existence than despair.

Sorting out a total of five main tasks, except for the task of "witness" to witness the birth of the heart, Cheng Rang has no clue for the time being. It seems that the other conditions are very demanding.

I don't know what the "Star Cup" looks like, what are the conditions for its appearance, and how it appears. I can only place it backwards.

The same goes for defeating the God of War Artho...

Looking around at the endless scorched earth, the possibility of the God of War appearing in such a ghostly place is close to zero. The only thing that can be done at the moment is to try to find traces of humans.

You can probably complete the last task even if you do nothing, but you must first "witness" it before you can complete it.

"Let's hit the road... I hope my luck won't be too bad."

Cheng Rang is even ready to spend several years here. The time flow rate ratio given by the system is still 1:24. In the twenty-four days here, only one day will pass in the main world.

The road here is still very long. If you don't meet other humans, you will even need to be alone day and night, not to mention that you will encounter more troubles if you run into a fight between other races.

On the plain where only black ash roared, a long series of footprints connected on the carpet of ash, extending to the horizon where no dawn could be seen.

Cheng Rang was alone, walking firmly on this land where only despair existed.

Towards a hope that may not exist...

Chapter 2: Cutting off despair (3300+)

Seven days had passed since Cheng Rang traveled alone, and he had a rough understanding of the size of the planet.

He stopped and looked back at the stretching footprints on the ground behind him. The footprints in the distance had been covered by falling black ash, but the surrounding scenery still showed no sign of changing.

At the speed of ordinary human beings, Cheng Rang still did not walk out of the ruins of this battlefield after seven days of non-stop advancement, and he did not encounter any individuals of other races during this period.

He didn't even cover his whereabouts, and there were only a few wild beasts. The battle on this battlefield should be completely over, and nothing else would appear.

If it weren't for the lack of food and water, a human being without any supplies for seven days would probably be dead.

The black and gray should also have the effect of blocking the elves' perception. The other races here seem to have some magical adaptability or strong physical support. If they are not specifically looking for traces of humans, they should not be easily detectable in this case.

"Is it both highly poisonous and also a refuge in some sense?"

This area had no more meaning to him, so Cheng Rang decided to speed up and get out of this dead plain without any sign of life.

Whoosh——

The subtle sound of breaking through the air disappeared as Cheng Rang's figure suddenly blurred. The black ash during the fall was rolled up by the air flow displaced by Cheng Rang's high-speed movement, and a piece of fine blue fluorescence was rolled up.

After increasing his movement speed, it even took Cheng Rang a few more hours to see the mountains not far away, surrounding the place as smoothly as the foothills surrounding the plain.

Ten minutes later, after crossing the mountains, Cheng Rang looked at the rugged mountainous land in front of him and opened his eyes wide as if he suddenly came back to his senses.

"Wait...this...can't you tell me!"

A somewhat absurd idea came to his mind. Cheng Rang returned to the mountains and looked towards the plains where he came from.

Although the falling black ash blocks the view, one can look to both sides based on the flat arc extending from the mountains below...

This shape looks a bit like a huge crater struck by a meteorite or something.

There is something refreshing about the moment you pass over the rolling mountains.

The air rushed towards him, which surprised Cheng Rang.

He originally thought that there were the remains of a battlefield, an endless plain.

But until now, standing at the top of the mountain range and looking to the ends on both sides, slightly rounded peaks surrounded the entire plain in the black and gray snow and fog.

He suddenly realized that the place he had walked for a long time might just be a bomb crater left after a certain war!

What kind of terrible consequences can this weapon of war have?

Compared with this huge crater like a plain, human existence is as small as an insignificant grain of dust.

The gunpowder-like smoke finally dissipated as Cheng Rang moved away from the huge "crater".

But he couldn't use the huge traces to deduce which race caused this result.

This thing is more than 10,000 times more shocking than the nuclear bomb, the most powerful weapon that humans can create under the general technology tree.

Just when Cheng Rang was still indulging in the shock caused by the traces left by the unknown weapon, a slight vibration came from the ground under his feet, which immediately attracted his attention.

Put your hand on the ground and carefully feel the direction of the vibration. It shouldn't be very far from here.

Cheng Rang, who had not seen any living creatures for a whole week, felt that he should at least investigate what it was, so that he could more or less confirm what race's sphere of influence the place he was in was, otherwise he would encounter another one like before. In this environment, apart from wasting more time and becoming more aware of how tragic this war is, there is no other help for me.

...

This weak vibration was also felt by another group of people. There were three figures in animal skin cloaks. They seemed to have made an appointment. They lowered their postures at the same time and rushed into the darkness to hide.

These three people are humans. They came here in search of usable intelligence, supplies, and data from the goblin airship that crashed here due to a conflict a few weeks ago.

——Ivan tried to suppress his accelerated heartbeat.

He held his breath and concentrated, shrank his body, and looked at Rick and Ya Lei, who were also hiding their figures.

And Ya Lei's eyes also subconsciously looked at the expressionless Rick. It was obvious that this young man with eyes as calm as a pool of stagnant water was the leader of the three.

I saw Rick taking off his gloves, taking out the knife, and without hesitation, he thinned the tip of his index finger. Press the exposed nerves against the ground and collect the information coming from the ground with your fingertips. Put your other hand behind your ear and listen attentively.

There is no need to consider visual confirmation, because sticking your head out is simply an act of suicide.

However, lying down on the ground with your ears to the ground is not considered, because you also need to use your ears to hear sounds other than the ground.

Rick used that perfectly reasonable method to analyze the intelligence that the enemy had inadvertently leaked.

Even if it is just vibrations and sounds, depending on their degree and rhythm, it can be inferred to be quite specific.

Ivan licked the chapped lips on the inside of the dust mask and watched the gesture conveyed by Rick - about fifty meters away, walking on two legs, one...

(Distance: 104 meters, walking on two legs, bulky and slow, 6.4 meters tall, cannot be human.)

Cheng Rang, who put his hands on the ground to sense the presence of moving objects in the distance, came up with more accurate results than Rick.

Hey, this is a lie, right? Cold sweat broke out on Yiwang's back.

It has a huge body that is more than three times that of a human being, and its movements are slow - which means that the other party is looking for something.

Then, a deafening roar echoed all around

what is that? Cheng Rang suddenly raised his head and narrowed his eyes. Hiding behind the rock, he heard voices from other races for the first time.

(——Damn it! It’s a demon species!!)

There was no need to wait for Rick's gesture. Ivan had already determined that it was a monster created by the sudden mutation of the Phantasmal Species - the "Demon King".

Basically a monster with low intelligence, it can be said that it is a beast with half a degree of intelligence.

They have terrifying power, but "prey" like Yiwang and others discovered its existence. Precisely because they have half-baked rationality, they have also lost the instinct to sneak close to prey, let alone walking around in such a place at this moment. The demon species is the lowest species among the demon species.

It's probably an ogre or a troll - so can Ivan and the others be able to fight it with their strength?

Impossible, this is crystal clear.

That's right - it's impossible.

No matter how low-level the opponent is, humans will turn into pieces of flesh as soon as they touch them. The reason why they don't take the instinctive actions of beasts such as realm and lurking is because there is no need for it.

With the weapons they carry, no, no matter how carefully prepared they are, there is no demon species that humans can kill.

And there’s no point in doing that.

Even if you use wisdom, strategy, and traps to successfully defeat a demon species, what's the point?

They will only be discovered by highly intelligent upper-level demon species, who will decide that humans are a "threat" to them, and will then be exterminated without any resistance.

Run away....don't have to consider other options.

"We neither exist nor can we exist, because by not existing we will not be

find. "

Human beings are not allowed to resist and can only be hunted "prey"

"Ivan, this is an order."

Ivan slowly turned around and looked at Rick. He had already guessed what words he would hear next.

Rick told him.

"I order you to die here."

"Swear to your will and leave it to me."

Yiwang agreed without hesitation with a wry smile.

He handed the luggage on his back to Ya Lei and stepped forward as a matter of course.

"Hey...hey...!"

Looking at Ya Lei taking the luggage with trembling hands, Yiwang smiled and comforted him: "You know it very well, Ya Lei. Someone must die at this time."

That's right, one person acts as a bait and the other two take the opportunity to escape. This is the only way.

Fifty meters, a distance that a human could cover in about eight seconds.

If you encounter a demon species at such a close range - you have no choice from the start.

If the three of them escape together, the best case scenario is that they are all destroyed after being discovered, and the worst case scenario is that they are tracked to the settlement - the "enemy" has that level of intelligence.

What Rick was thinking about was where to sacrifice whom... and that was all.

"We can't lose Rick... Ya Lei, you are still young, so it will be clear who to let go of."

There is no better reason to die than to protect your friends and family, right? With this thought, Ivan patted Rick on the shoulder: "Then I'm leaving, Rick. My family - my children, I leave to you."

Rick remained motionless, he did not move his eyes away, looked straight at Ivan, nodded and replied: "Okay, leave it to me."

...

Just when Cheng Rang collected information about the monster and planned to avoid it and leave, a human roar suddenly cut through the dead air, shaking the blue and black gray.

"Haha! I'm here, come chase me!!!"

What? !

Shocked that there were still humans nearby, Cheng Rang suddenly opened his cloak and leaned out from behind the rock to look at the huge airship wreckage not far away.

A male figure was shouting loudly, waving his arms and running like crazy, with the giant monster that attracted his attention closely behind him.

Is that a demon species?

Is this human crazy?

As soon as this thought flashed in his mind, Cheng Rang immediately spotted two other human traces escaping quickly from the opposite direction.

.....

"I see."

Is this the reason why humans can survive so far in this world?

"But since it took me so long to find you...then you can't die in front of me so easily."

With a soft sound, Cheng Rang's thumb pushed the blade, and the snow-white long sword - Chu Xin, revealed her fatal edge in the dimness.

After confirming again that the intelligence of this demon species was low and that it was the only one acting alone nearby, Cheng Rang finally slowly walked out of the rock where he was hiding.

"As long as my knife is one step faster than your thoughts, then you, who are already dead, will not be able to detect the existence of humans, right?"

When Yiwang was chased by the giant monster behind him, he was about to close his eyes and welcome death, but he found a white light flashing in the distance in front of him.

That snow-white light is so dazzling...

It is so dazzling that it is like a ray of light that can cut off despair in the endless night——

A ray of light called hope!