Immortality begins by swallowing the stars

Chapter 2 Re-entering the Panlong
"clang!"

The boarded-up window at the top of the gymnasium shattered.

Lu Jing's scalp was numb as he looked at the monster that rushed in. It was covered with a smooth exoskeleton. The three pairs of hind feet were like slender sharp knives. The joints of the front feet were all tightened on the chest. The blood-colored needle-shaped mouthparts were like a sharp sword, flickering. The compound eyes with colorful lights make people involuntarily have the desire to vomit.

The screams all around him woke him up.

The outside was filled with the sound of gunfire, and the inside of the museum was filled with screaming, crying, and roaring.

The insect monster grunted, and its front legs shot out like lightning, instantly piercing a person. Then its bloody mouthparts pierced into the flesh and sucked out body fluids.

The panic-stricken crowd crowded around and pushed each other. Lu Jing held his younger brother who was too frightened to tremble and dared not speak out, and protected his younger sister Lu Shengnan with his other arm. His strength and physique, which was at least twice that of an ordinary person, allowed him to resist with ease. Following the panic attack of the crowd, he quickly moved away from the insect monster.

Fortunately, there is military defense outside. Only one fish that slipped through the net broke into the gymnasium for the time being. But even just one is not something that ordinary people without thermal weapons can deal with. But as the saying goes, when being chased by a bear, as long as it is better than others Just run fast.

After several miserable screams, the rattling sound of machine guns suddenly rang out, causing the crowd to fall into silence.

"Don't run around! Don't move!"

Two heavily armed soldiers used gunshots to frighten the swarming crowd, squeezed in through the side door, and then quickly set up their machine guns to aim at the insect monster raging in the crowd, spitting out continuous tongues of fire. The insect monster's hard exoskeleton was It was easily torn apart under machine gun fire, and colorful juices splashed everywhere.

Lu Jing nodded secretly when he saw this scene. The insect monster that broke in was indeed only a beast soldier, and it should be a junior beast soldier. An ordinary machine gun could easily tear its shell.

"It's dangerous outside! Everyone stays indoors and is not allowed to go out!" The soldiers who broke in did not delay at all after killing the insect monster. They hurriedly sternly confessed a few words and then left amidst the call of the intercom. The door was opened again. closure.

The sound of gunfire and gunfire continued to reach his ears, leaving only crying and heavy breathing in the room.

Feeling lucky to have narrowly escaped death, but also worried about the battle situation outside, people were slumped on the ground one after another. No one got up to clean up the bodies, but they all tacitly avoided the insect monster's body. Everyone's heartstrings were pinned on the outside world. The rumble of gunfire.

"Brother...will we be fine?" After this incident, Lu Shengnan had forgotten Zheng Hu, who disgusted and scared her, and couldn't help but murmured.

Lu Jing lowered his head and looked at his younger brother Lu Shengchuan, who was trembling but still holding back from crying. He touched the back of the little guy's head and nodded: "Don't worry, the last insect wave was more ferocious than this one, isn't it? Did it pass smoothly?"

Although he was so comforting, there was a fire burning in Lu Jing's heart. This feeling of powerlessness and resignation was really uncomfortable.

Strong!
Only by becoming strong can you control your own destiny and the destiny of your loved ones.

"Brother!" The younger brother who grabbed Lu Jing's hand suddenly exclaimed, "It's moving... it's moving..."

Lu Jing's expression was stern. He followed his younger brother's gaze and saw that in the gap between the crowd, one of the hind limbs of the insect corpse lying on the ground twitched!
The bug monster is not dead! ?

Naturally, the strange movements of the insect corpses could not be hidden from the nervous and frightened crowd.

"The bug is not dead!"

"The monster is still alive!!"

"Help!"

In an instant, the exclamations and screams appeared again.

Lu Jing's expression changed, and a trace of determination flashed in his eyes. He turned around and rushed out of the panicked crowd. He took a few steps to the fire box in a nearby corner. Amid shouts of surprise, he smashed the glass with one punch and took out the fire axe.

After a few steps, Lu Jing relied on his strong body to rush out of the panicked crowd again, and came to the insect monster that was struggling to stand up on its hind limbs. Under the frightened eyes of the people around him, he used all his strength to move like an axe. Lian passed away in a flash and slashed towards the bullet-torn wound next to his head.

Stimulated by the severe pain, the insect monster made a strange and harsh hissing sound, struggled wildly, and hit Lu Jing with its whip-like tentacles.

Lu Jing was unmoved at all. As if he had abandoned all pain and fear, he pulled out the fire ax and slashed in again like crazy.

After a short, weird cry, the insect monster's struggle completely disappeared, and it collapsed on the ground, motionless.

Lu Jing threw the fire ax with a curled edge on the ground. Before he could feel any fear, all his attention was focused on his chest - after a burst of heat, a pale pink door-shaped birthmark composed of complicated lines appeared. As if soaked in blood, every line turned bright red.

"Sure enough! At least kill the beast soldier-level life to open the door again!" Lu Jing happily sensed that an illusory blood-red door appeared in his mind again. As long as he opened the door, he could come to another world again.

But now is not the time.

Lu Jing sat on the ground to regain his strength while dealing with the concerns of his sister and brother.

It is best to travel through another world in an environment that is not disturbed by others. Otherwise, if you return without success, it will definitely be more difficult to open the door next time, and you will need to kill more and stronger beings to meet the conditions.

However, he immediately noticed that the sound of outside gunfire had completely silenced at some point, and a few cheers resounded through the sky, which seemed to be the cheers of the people taking refuge in the library and other teaching buildings opposite.

"We are victorious!"

"The insect wave is over!"

"Long live!"

After a while, soldiers entered the stadium and informed everyone that the insect wave had passed and that the military would clean up the city next.

"Brother, can we go home?" the younger brother Lu Shengchuan shouted excitedly.

"Hmph!" A familiar figure walked over, it was Zheng Hu who had been pestering his sister Lu Shengnan before.

Zheng Hu gave Lu Jing a hard look, then his eyes fell on Lu Shengnan, and sneered: "Nan Nan, don't be ungrateful. Do you think your cheap brother, who is stronger than ordinary people, can protect your safety in this world? Hehe, you have no idea what you are going to face next. We still have an old relationship after all. You can come to me at any time when you figure it out."

After that, Zheng Hu turned around and walked out of the gymnasium with his followers.

Only Lu Shengnan, who looked worried, and Lu Jing, who was thoughtful, were left.

"Sure enough, there is a problem!" Lu Jing's heart sank. Zheng Hu's brother was working for the military, so he must have known something.Since sea monsters invaded the coastal areas, beast tides have also occurred frequently in inland areas. However, the strength and scale of the monsters are far inferior to the beast disasters suffered in coastal areas. For example, Heyun City blocked two waves of beasts today. tide.

The official manpower and resources are tight, resulting in no spare capacity to maintain law and order like in peacetime. Even except for murder cases, there are no manpower to investigate and implement judicial procedures for other cases and general conflicts. Is it really so stretched that the government is concentrating resources and manpower to do this? Other preparations?
Moreover, the impact of the beast tide was far less powerful than he imagined. This beast-soldier-level insect tide could be completely dealt with with the existing weapons of mankind.

What's more... he remembered that in "Swallowing the Stars", the population of China was concentrated in the six base cities and satellite cities near the base cities.

Is Heyun City one of the six base cities in the future?
If not...where is the future for these millions of people in Heyun City?
The more Lu Jing thought about it, the more frightened he became. After all, he was different from other people. Most people might think that today's insect tide was an unbearable test. Even if they had seen the tragic invasion of returnees in coastal areas on the news, it was still too far away. .

But Lu Jing knew that the real test of the Great Nirvana Era had yet to come.

……

At night, in an original six-person dormitory in a dormitory building, the bed frames, tables and chairs were cleared away and replaced by a large bed, carpets, sofas, TVs, air conditioners and other electrical appliances.

Zheng Hu hugged the two girls on the bed and chuckled: "Baby, please bear with me. I will take you to my brother's villa after the city is cleaned up in a few days. It is spacious and has a swimming pool. Hmm, it's not like here, so I'll give it to you." I was assigned such a small dormitory and had electricity and water rationing every day.”

"Brother Hu, didn't you say you wanted to give us another sister today?" one of the girls asked coquettishly.

Zheng Hu's face instantly turned cold when he heard this. The two of them were so frightened that they were silent, not knowing what he said wrong.

"That bitch!" Zheng Hu's face was a little distorted.

As for Lu Shengnan's appearance, she was extremely beautiful for him who was just a street gangster before. The pure and top-notch girl greatly helped him gain face in front of his brothers.

But for him today, it is naturally not that amazing.

Others hate and fear today's world, but Zheng Hu likes it very much. With his brother's background and the near-apocalyptic environment, all he needs is a few bags of rice, a box of instant noodles, a box of chocolates, or just beautiful and clean clothes. , a comfortable living environment can make the women he could only covet before bow their heads.

Even the originally seemingly solid morals and laws were loosened, allowing him to experience the pleasure of doing whatever he wanted more unscrupulously than he had experienced in peaceful times.

But after all, she was his girlfriend before the end of the world, and although Lu Shengnan's little girl was extremely rebellious back then, she still kept her bottom line and didn't let him succeed in the end.

As the saying goes, the best thing is what you can't get, but the girl who never completely gave it to him violently aroused his bad possessiveness and made his greedy heart itch.

Zheng Hu touched the fingerprints on his arm that were caught by Lu Shengnan's inexperienced brother. A cold light flashed in his eyes. He stood up and drove away the two girls. He picked up his mobile phone and made a call: "Brother..."

……

"Finally we can go home!"

Many people hiding in various shelters in the city these days are happily looking at the latest text message notifications on their phones.

After a day and night of hard work, the military has cleared away the remaining insect monsters in most urban areas. Therefore, a notification was sent via text message. Those who want to go home can leave the shelter and go home on their own until the next monster tide warning. Return to the shelter.

The military has specially deployed a lot of forces to guard nearby reservoirs, water plants and power plants, so most residences can still enjoy limited-time water and electricity. After all, densely populated shelters are only suitable for short-term management. In the long run, sanitation, food and accommodation will be insufficient. Fewer problems.

Lu Jing also took his sister and brother back to his home, which was fortunately still intact.

Many residential buildings in the city were destroyed by the insect wave yesterday, mostly caused by human thermal weapons. After all, in this kind of battle, it is impossible for the military to deliberately avoid residential buildings with artillery fire.

It was almost evening, and Lu Jing became more and more anxious. Night was undoubtedly the best time to come to another world.

Just after washing up, the text message rang suddenly.

Lu Jing picked up the phone and couldn't help but his expression changed slightly.

"What's wrong?" Lu Shengnan on the side also looked closer and saw the content, and immediately looked panicked: "How could this happen? It's too sudden..."

The content of the text message was clearly a military recruitment order. You must report for duty tomorrow. At the critical moment of human life and death, it is naturally impossible to rely on voluntariness. After the last insect wave, soldiers suffered many casualties, so the military conducted a forced recruitment to replenish soldiers.

But this is naturally bad news for siblings Lu Shengnan and Lu Shengchuan. They both saw the insect monster with their own eyes yesterday. Even if they were hiding in the shelter, it is self-evident how dangerous the soldiers on the front line fighting the monster are.

"This... this must be the fault of that bastard Zheng Hu!" Lu Shengnan was heartbroken: "If I had known... If I had known, I would have promised him... I will beg him now!"

Although she had always been at odds with Lu Jing since she was a child, on the one hand it was out of hostility towards her stepmother who had taken away her father, and on the other hand Lu Jing had excelled academically since his rebirth and became the control group "other people's child", which made her Living in the shadow of her cheaper half-brother, she developed a rebellious mentality.

But since her father and stepmother passed away from the RR virus, she has only these two close relatives left in the world who depend on each other, and their relationship has improved a lot. What's more, since entering the shelter, Lu Jing's protection and extraordinary determination and strength have also impressed her. The former rebellious girl felt a bit of admiration for her.

"What are you in a hurry for? Come back!" Lu Jing drank it back, dumbfounded.

Tears overflowed from the girl's eyes: "Brother, I know you are stronger than ordinary people, but you are not a superpower like Zheng Hu's brother. You are no match against those monsters!"

"Even without Zheng Hu, I would have already planned to join the military!" Lu Jing sighed and reassured with a smile.

He didn't lie. Joining the military was a path he had long thought about.

On the one hand, he needs more information from the higher-ups. He needs to know the current trends and future plans of Heyun City's top-level officials so that he can respond better.

On the other hand, every time he activates his golden finger, he needs to kill a lot of lives, and they are at least beast-soldier-level lives. With his current strength, it is too dangerous to go to the wild alone. Joining the military will naturally make it much safer.

Finally, he is not an orphan who can feed himself and the whole family. Even if he can use the mysterious door to come to another world and embark on the path of becoming a strong man, he still has a sister and a half-blood brother. His parents have passed away. , both emotionally and rationally, he has to shoulder the responsibility of his elder brother, or rely on official protection to have a greater chance of allowing his only two remaining relatives to survive the early stages of the Great Nirvana Era.

"I have some insights into a secret book of Chinese martial arts that I collected before. I will practice in seclusion tonight. If I haven't gone out tomorrow morning, don't disturb me unless you have to!"

After Lu Jing comforted and warned a few words, he returned to his bedroom, lay down on the bed as if sleeping normally, closed his eyes, and faced the bloody door in his mind.

"This gate can only lead to one world - the Panlong World. Even though there was no substantial gain last time, it can be regarded as laying a certain foundation. It seems that we must take a risk this time!"

(End of this chapter)