Swallowed Star (All Chapters) Volume 1

Volume 6 - Chapter 10: Cleansing of The Soul

"A drop in the ocean" Luo Feng slightly nodded as he sighed.

"No, you don't understand" Li Da Wei shook his head, "Without personally experiencing the struggle for life every single day back then, there is no way you can understand how my generation feels!"

Luo Feng froze.

Li Da Wei sighed: "I was born in a beautiful time. The year I was born in was during the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong: 1997! My family can't be considered rich, but we were well off. I grew up without any worries: I played online games and read web novels. My parents would always scold me a bit every day, which irritated me quite a bit"

Luo Feng looked at Li Da Wei with shock.....

Online games? Web novels? In this age, all the students spend their free time from class in the 'Dojo'. Becoming a fighter is the dream of every young person.

"Don't look at me like that. Since you haven't experienced such a peaceful period, it is unimaginable" Li Da Wei let out a smile as his eyes looked back on his memories, "During that time, we would even chat on online discussion boards and shitpost. We could gather for dinner and go on field trips. There truly were no worries at all!"

"However——"

"2015! It all started on January of 2015!"

"We instantly fell from heaven to hell! That year was the year I was preparing for my high school exams..... however, there were no exams!"

"Nightmare befell!"

"The virus spread across the entire world via air. Anything that needs to breathe was infected. My friends died one by one. The girl I had a crush on, the brothers I played basketball with, my neighbors, my guildies from my online games, all of them died one by one! I almost broke down. I thought I was going through a nightmare....."

"Sadly, I realized that that was just the beginning of the nightmare!"

"On the second half of the year of 2015, countless mutated monsters started attacking the cities where humans gathered! From a few scattered battles to full blown wars! We didn't care about these primitive monsters, since we thought they wouldn't stand a chance against human weapons. But we were wrong!"

"The real disaster began!"

"Cities were invaded and humans started running for their lives! Almost six full years of running. I passed by the angel of death multiple times. I struggled for my life every single time, for failure means death. Because of that, I had to pull through. From a simple youth who never experienced pain, to a cruel, experienced warrior!"

Li Da Wei's voice became low: "In those six years, I watched my father die for me!"

"I watched the girl I love who escaped with me lose her life to the mouth of a monster. I could only clench my teeth and run away while wiping my tears!"

"I trained bitterly and squeezed out my body's potential!"

"Finally, humans relied on laser cannons and powerful fighters to end up in a stalemate between the monsters on land. And thus, the Grand Nirvana period ended. Humans entered the 'headquarter city age'. And I..... officially joined the army!"

"With a blink of an eye, around 30 years passed"

Li Da Wei seemed to smile without worry, but Luo Feng felt like that smile contained too much bitterness to express.

"For 30 years, humans and monsters fought. Even though the scale wasn't as large as the battles in the Grand Nirvana period, it never stopped" Li Da Wei shook his head as he said, "Just counting the armies under my control, do you know how many people have died in the past 30 years?"