THE HUMAN EMPEROR

The Human Emperor Side story.

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THE HUMAN EMPEROR
Side Story C1 - Doomsday!

Side Story Chapter 1: Doomsday!
Rumble!

The land was devastated, the trees dried and shriveled, while churning dark clouds swept over the land. This sort of gloomy and apocalyptic atmosphere engulfed the entire world.

In a corner of this land stood a ruined city. It was like a small boat amidst raging waves, alone and dark. Its collapse was imminent.

The walls had already collapsed in many places, scattering eroded bricks across the ground.

And in the mud outside the city, a youth in ragged clothing, his body covered in wounds, crawled on the ground as he struggled on death’s door.

His breathing was weak, and there were such long pauses between movements that he already seemed dead. But the occasional arching of his spine indicated that he still lived.

…Even if this life was like a guttering candle that could go out at any moment.

This ruined city with shattered walls was called Chang’an. Apparently, it had once been the birthplace of many mighty civilizations and empires.

At present, it was now the place where the Han of the Central Plains were having their last gasp.

This youth crawling on the ground was called Li Taiyi. In this apocalyptic world, he was the lowliest existence.

“Trash!”

As Li Taiyi crawled like an ant on the ground, he endured the savage lashings of a stalwart Hu man.

Pa! Pa! Pa! Li Taiyi’s clothes were made even more ragged, and the skin of his body broke open, spilling out blood.

Hungry!

Too hungry!

He was so hungry that he didn’t have the power to resist. Only when his gaze passed over the whip-wielding Hu was there an imperceptible flash of hatred in Li Taiyi’s eyes, and an intense sorrow.

The disease had attacked the vitals, and there was no cure!

He alone could do nothing to change the situation!

“Hahaha, this is the Han…”

As he watched the blood-drenched Li Taiyi tremble under the lashing of the whip, the Hu smugly laughed, and he tightened the grip on his whip and began to strike even harder.

Seemingly thinking that the whip wasn’t good enough, the Hu suddenly kicked Li Taiyi in the face.

Thump! Li Taiyi was kicked so hard that his body flipped over.

It felt like the world had turned upside down. In Li Taiyi’s blurred vision, he felt like he could see the starvation scourging the land, the barren and desolate soil, his people eking out an existence by the broken walls, the scattered white bones, the women clutching the bodies of their dead children as they wept. He saw the decaying bodies of his people in the streets, and also… those people who were like walking corpses, their expressions numb as they gnawed on dead bodies due to their extreme hunger.

All of this wracked Li Taiyi’s heart with pain.

Who could have imagined that this had once been a prosperous and thriving city that had given birth to numerous mighty civilizations?

But now, it was desolate and barren… It was like an undeveloped and primitive land that made one want to flee.

They clearly resided in the land of the Central Plains, but they were laughably being bullied around by foreign peoples.