LIGHTNOVELSTORY Chapter 18 - Fallen Civilization
Chapter 18 – Fallen Civilization
Lu Sheng did not know where the gates to this giant city were located at, so he found a huge rift that was torn open from the top to bottom of the giant wall, and approached it carefully.
Just about ten meters away from him, there were several zombies of terrifying strength roaming around.
Lu Sheng had only stepped in a little closer to them and all kinds of alarm bells went off in his head. He was terribly frightened.
Now he felt like a newbie player who had just ventured out of the novice village, who had run into high-level monsters wandering near his location.
And right now, any of the “small” monsters around him had the ability to kill him in a second.
“The closer I get to the base, the stronger the zombies become. It’s hard to imagine what level of combat power these zombies that have me shivering right now possessed before they reanimated …” Lu Sheng sighed in his heart.
They had no consciousness, no perception, only a bit of combat instincts left in their bodies that drove them when alerted.
This is the first time I’ve ever seen something that has brought me such a strong sense of danger. These zombies were definitely unimaginably strong masters when they were alive.
Lu Sheng carefully maintained the distance between him and each zombie.
After his repeated experiments, he found that the safe distance between him and the zombies was about ten meters.
As long as he did not get closer than ten meters around the zombies, he wouldn’t be discovered and attract their ire.
Lu Sheng slowly closed the distance to the rift, all the while keeping a careful vigilance to avoid all the zombies roaming around.
It was impossible to completely hide from them. So he picked up a stone from the ground and lunged it into a distance to attract their attention.
This way, he managed to reach the foot of the target wall without having to take any risks.
This rift was big, but it was still a full seven or eight meters high above the ground.
Luckily, Lu Sheng now had the strength of a Level 1 Martial Artist, and his body was athletic. With the help of the depressions and nooks in the wall, he easily climbed up to the rift.
“This wall should have a thickness of more than 20 meters, and yet it was still beaten down to this shape …”
Lu Sheng walked in through the rift, and staggered.
After walking all the way to the inner side of the wall, the reality inside the city was presented before Lu Sheng.
All kinds of tall buildings and streets were present. The style was drastically different from the real world where he lived.
The streets were scattered with many vehicles that Lu Sheng did not recognize.
Although the vast majority of these have now been destroyed or were in serious state of disrepair.
But on top of this gray mist shrouded ruins, Lu Sheng could still imagine how prosperous this city once was.
“The technology here far exceeds from the world outside, and even my previous life attributes to nothing in front of this …”
Lu Sheng jumped down from the city walls and landed on a vehicle with an appearance much like a rowboat, with smooth lines and a feel of advanced technology.
“It should be a world with higher level of civilization. Whether it be technology or martial cultivation, they are leaps and bounds ahead of us. No wonder the Body Refining Technique and the Breathing Technique are so powerful …”
One must understand that the world Lu Sheng was living in right now only had a martial cultivation history of about less than 300 years. Many aspects were still in the preliminary and theoretical stages.
History books had also accounted that when the martial cultivation had just emerged, the most powerful martial arts powerhouse in the world was only a Level 5 Martial Artist.
And now, humanity already possessed many Level 7 Masters, Level 8 Grand Master, and even Level 9 Martial Saints.
“Such a powerful civilization, and yet defeated under the claws of those foreign beasts. If so, then what would happen to us …”
Lu Sheng was suddenly a bit worried.
In reality, his world was also fighting against those foreign beasts.
Even with the continuous emergence of strong martial artists among humans, the space for human habitation was gradually reducing all the time.
This is what was broadcasted on the TV news every day.
“No matter what, the fact that I can come here is a great opportunity … Just because this world has failed, doesn’t mean my world fail too … I can still draw strength from my cultivation here, and later, when I’m strong enough, I may be able to diffuse the knowledge I’ve gained from here …”
Lu Sheng’s eyes became firm at the thought, at the same time, there was an additional burden of responsibility on his shoulders.
The shock and impact brought by this devastated remains of a once great civilization was too great. And his outlook had changed a bit.
The number of zombies inside the city walls was huge, but their strengths were largely weak, and he scarcely would one encounter a “high-level” monster.
This phenomenon had a simple explanation.
The walls protected the vulnerable civilians, and those with strength, naturally converged on the front lines of the battlefield.
Lu Sheng’s exploration progressed much faster inside the walls.
He walked into a tall building.
It was an ordinary residential building.
Lu Sheng randomly found a house and walked into it; there was no one in the house.
The house was separated into several small rooms, but the overall space was small.
A table was placed in the middle of the living room, and some dishes and tableware lay scattered on the table.
Lu Sheng imagined that the family was eating when the end had come, without warning.
Lu Sheng’s mood soured inexplicably.
The house did not contain any presence of zombies. Lu Sheng guessed that under that horrible black fog, ordinary people might not even be qualified to turn into zombies.
It was also possible that they had once turned into zombies, but after long years they were too weak to sustain themselves any longer and slowly decayed over time.
Lu Sheng walked into a room and found something like a photo frame on the room’s bedside table, but there was no photo inside.
Lu Sheng guessed that this might be something like an electronic photo album, after the energy was exhausted, the photos inside naturally disappeared.
The remaining room should be the child’s room.
In the corner of the room was a single crib, as well as a bookcase and desk.
Lu Sheng tried to find some items that could record information.
But this world’s civilization was far too advanced, and paper-books had gone defunct, and found no signs of anything similar.
Finally, Lu Sheng found a palm-sized, less than half centimetre thick, gray-colored disk on the desk, with traces of writing left on it.
“Tian … Heng … Technologies …”
[TL: The character 天 (Tian) translates to sky/Heaven; 恒 (Heng) translate to Constant/Eternal/persisting.]
Lu Sheng wiped away the dust on the disc and identified a few small words printed on the bottom of the disc.
After reciting these words, Lu Sheng’s mind shook from shock.
He actually knew these words?
The words used by this fallen civilization were exactly the same as the words used in his real world!