"Meow …" A weak meow sounded from the deep underground fissure.
On a rock wall below that was about to be swallowed by the magma, a big tabby cat with burnt fur was struggling to move. Its sharp claws clawed at the rock wall as it climbed up bit by bit. In its mouth, there was a lifeless person.
When it saw Luo Kai's figure, the big tabby cat's amber eyes that had become a little dim lit up again, and a hoarse meow came out of its throat.
Luo Kai flashed over, one hand holding the cat's neck, the other holding the person in its mouth, and slowly floated up.
The big tabby cat didn't reject him at all, and closed its eyes and fell into a deep sleep.
Luo Kai and the others placed them on a huge rock at the edge of the city, and looked at the ruins in front of them.
The situation was worse than he had expected. Not only the human city, but the endless forest was also overturned. The earthquake was too powerful, and as long as one couldn't fly, it would be difficult to escape this disaster.
The few surviving beasts all buried their heads in the ground, trembling non-stop. Even after the earthquake was over, they didn't dare to come out. This was the instinct of living creatures to avoid disaster, and also the deep fear of nature deep in their genes.
In front of such a disaster, any life on the ground was incomparably small.
The resentment of the death of hundreds of millions of creatures lingered in the sky, forming a thick gray fog that didn't dissipate for a long time, full of silence and despair.
Luo Kai sighed softly. The future of mankind was like this gray sky, a haze. No matter how strong he was, he couldn't change anything. This was the law of nature, and the embodiment of the will of heaven and earth. No one could change it.
After an unknown amount of time, the person in front of the big tabby cat woke up and asked him weakly, "You … … Who are you?"
Luo Kai looked down at him and said, "My name is Luo Kai."
The person was stunned, and felt that the name Luo Kai seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember it at the moment.
"Did you save me?"
"You're badly injured, rest well."
Luo Kai waved his hand, and specks of water essence gathered and seeped into their bodies.
Stimulated by the external energy, the big tabby cat also woke up. First, it timidly meowed at Luo Kai. After finding that he was fine, it moved its body closer and rubbed its big head gently on his hand, as if to express its intimacy and gratitude.
Feeling the softness beside his hand, Luo Kai gently stroked its head, and his restless body and mind gradually calmed down.
The man he saved was called Wei Zhen. He was also a student of Shang Jing University. The two had met before. Luo Kai naturally recognized him and the big tabby cat, but he was too lazy to say much.
As for his body, it was hard for others to tell the difference between life and death.
The man and the cat's injuries were actually very serious. The external injuries were secondary, but their spiritual consciousness had been attacked by the power of filth. If it were anyone else, they might have only been able to watch as they turned into monsters that were neither human nor ghost. Fortunately, Luo Kai was there, and he had some experience with things on the spiritual level.
He chanted the Blood Buddha Sutra, and used his spiritual power to awaken everyone's inner life potential. Together, they dispelled the filth from the other world.
A few days later, the man and the cat's injuries gradually recovered.
However, Luo Kai's consumption was very high. The battle with the Plant God's incarnation and the condensation of the "Big Claw" had almost exhausted his spiritual power. Now, he couldn't make ends meet, and it was difficult for him to fly. He could only walk.
The earthquake covered a large area, but the power was concentrated. There were still many survivors in the peripheral areas. People gathered in twos and threes, and gradually, there were tens of thousands of people.
The group of refugees moved forward, and the atmosphere of sadness and distress spread among the crowd. Everyone realized that the end of the world had really come.
They didn't encounter any danger along the way, and there were gullies that were several meters wide everywhere, so they moved very slowly.
At the edge of the group, Wei Zhen looked at the golden sword behind Luo Kai and was secretly speechless. The two of them hadn't spoken much in the past few days. Every time he wanted to express his gratitude or get close to him, he couldn't find the words. Luo Kai, on the other hand, didn't speak much other than chanting scriptures.
He wondered if this man was from a noble family. He actually used gold to make a sword. Gold was very conductive, but its texture was too soft, and it wasn't suitable to be used as a weapon. However, there was an organization that liked to use gold to make weapons, and that was the Judicial Department of the Body Arts Union. The Judicial Department was a group of light cast warriors, and they needed gold to extend and amplify light energy.
Could this man be an expert secretly trained by the Judicial Department?
He looked at the group of refugees in front of him and asked carefully, "Mr. Luo, do … do you think the end of the world is really coming?"
The big tabby cat behind him also raised its head and meowed, as if it was asking the same question.
Luo Kai was silent for a while, and then shook his head gently. "No. Species may die, but this world won't. Everything is just the next cycle."
The defense line of the southwest region was also destroyed by the earthquake. Along the way, they constantly encountered large groups of refugees, both ordinary people and soldiers.
Two days later, they finally walked out of the earthquake zone. The scope of the earthquake this time was unimaginable. It almost covered most of the southern part of Higashimogami Province, and even the entire land had an imperceptible deflection.
Luo Kai separated from the group of refugees and walked alone in the wilderness. Wei Zhen hesitated for a while, and then followed him.
The big tabby cat didn't have much to worry about. It had been raised in captivity in human society since it was young, and it yearned for the wild world. After it recovered from its injuries, it would occasionally burrow into the forest to play with other mutated creatures.
Every once in a while, it would come back with small animals like rabbits, snakes, and mice in its mouth. Actually, they couldn't be considered small animals. Now, even an ordinary mouse was very large, almost four to five times its original size.
The big tabby cat completely ignored its owner, Wei Zhen. Instead, it put all kinds of small animals in front of Luo Kai.
Usually, Luo Kai wouldn't be moved. Occasionally, when it praised the big tabby cat, it would be so excited that it would float.
Wei Zhen secretly scratched his head as he watched from behind. He knew his own beast's personality. It was extremely cold and arrogant, and often showed disdain towards its owner. But what was going on now?
When they crossed a small mountain, they heard the roar of a vehicle from afar. There was actually a convoy of vehicles driving slowly on the dilapidated road below.
In the middle of the convoy, there was a double-decker bus, and in front of and behind it were four or five modified off-road vehicles. The scale was very large.
Wei Zhen's expression was happy. With their current speed, it would take them a long time to return to the human city. He didn't know if the other party was willing to give him a ride. He hurriedly grabbed the big tabby cat that was running around in the wilderness, and rushed towards the convoy.
When they saw a man and a cat suddenly coming down from the side of the mountain, the convoy immediately stopped, and rows of guns aimed at them.
"Who is it!"
Wei Zhen raised his hand and said, "I'm a human, can I hitch a ride?"
A head popped out from the leading off-road vehicle. It was a middle-aged man with a resolute face. He carefully sized them up for a while, then looked at the big tabby cat behind him and asked coldly, "Will the beast behind you attack people?"
Wei Zhen hurriedly picked up the big tabby cat and shook his head, "No, it won't. It's very obedient."
The big tabby cat also cooperated with him and meowed.
The middle-aged man hesitated for a while, then went back into the car and said to a young girl, "Miss, we met a physical trainer with a beast. Should we bring him along?"
"Bring him along." The young girl looked outside and said softly.
"Okay."
The middle-aged man got down from the car and said, "You go, I'll take the middle bus."
"Thank you."
Wei Zhen hugged the big flower and walked a few steps, suddenly thinking of something. He slapped his head and said, "Big brother, there's someone else. Wait a moment."
He hurriedly went back to look for Luo Kai, but there was no one there. At this moment, he suddenly realized a problem. He had been unconsciously ignoring this person, or rather, he had forgotten about this person without realizing it. Otherwise, with his powerful memory as a physical trainer, how could he not remember this person? This person was really too mysterious.
The bus was very crowded, and the small space was filled with people and supplies. When he got on the bus, everyone's eyes were on him, but they didn't pay attention to him after a glance, and turned to stare at the big cat in his arms.
Wei Zhen noticed that there were many monks wearing Buddhist robes and wearing prayer beads in the bus. All of them were full of vitality, and their gazes were soul-stirring. Their physical skills and spiritual power were extremely high. No wonder this group of people dared to let unfamiliar physical trainers get on the bus. It turned out that there were so many experts in the bus, and they were the most terrifying Ascetic Monks.
Ascetic Monks were actually not that common. He immediately guessed the origins of these people. In the West, there was a group of fanatical Light Apostles. In the East, there were mainly Buddhists. This time, the earthquake was concentrated in the southern part of the continent. The one that was affected the most would definitely be Longyang Temple. Could it be that Longyang Temple was going to move?