Elta Project: Last Days Of Humanity

The Night and the Cloak

After I eat, I start going to the tool shop. The sky turns black. Not really, dust in the air makes the sky always orange or red. I walk down the narrow road, everyone seems to have already returned to the motel. It looks peaceful during the day, but at night the world turns upside down. Thieves, murderers, catchers are on every corner. I chose a pretty good shovel, why is it good and not new? Here, used items are considered to be the same.

There are only people with too much money like Landlords or factory owners. Landlords are those who possess enough armies to take complete control of one or more valuable locations, must be worth it, but there's no point in owning all of the toxic, arid lands out there. The factory owner is the owner of large factories, can be understood as the manufacturer of tools or utensils. This shovel is not a very good item, but it is considered to be temporary enough to use for another 2 or 3 years.

Seimei: So how much is this shovel?

Shop owner: That shovel? 10 Sac. And do you have a lighter? I just imported that item.

Seimei: Really?

Let me think a little. If the lighter is folded in an accident, it may break because Hydrogen is already flammable, but also folding in a high-radiation environment will be quite dangerous. But if there is a need, it will be really useful, like running out of manual igniters or needing to light something but there are no flammable objects around. It's probably worth it.

Seimei: How much?

Shop owner: About 6 Sac but opened new goods, reduced to 4 Sac.

Spending half money in one day is quite risky, if you don't go east at this rate, you'll starve to death. But this is not too wasteful to be safe.

Seimei: Here's yours.

Shop owner: Thank you, it's yours. It's full!

Seimei: Thank you.

Kevin: Hi buddy! again.

Seimei: Haha hello! Did you find any good deals this morning?

Kevin: My group has not very good items this time. In general, it is difficult. What about copper wire? how word?

Seimei: This guy is dumping the market. 15 Sac a kilogram of copper.

Kevin: Damn, good business.

Seimei: Thanks to you, we'll have a meal every day.

Kevin: Are you going out or staying here?

Seimei: It's late so I think I'll stay, will you come along? If you're not careful, you'll die!

Kevin: Haha don't look down on the 3rd lieutenant of the discovery team. But okay.

Shop owner: Then you two get out of here for me. It's already 9 o'clock!

Kevin: Okay, let's go, buddy!

He grabbed my shoulder and pulled me out, He's so strong! The people in the adventurer's guild are indeed different. Can be understood in the truest sense as the "white mouse" of this world. Come, try to survive, classifying areas and creatures in areas would be very dangerous if ordinary people didn't have any information.

Kevin: do you want to go to the red light district?

Seimei: Not today, I'm tired.

Kevin: How about another day?

Seimei: Yeah, but I was going to the military camp nearby to get some self-defense gear.

Kevin: Yeah, there's a bunch of Robmuers these days. Looks like it's Choas Order.

Robmour? a bunch of robbers and murderers? This world isn't harsh enough. I'd rather sacrifice everything for this damn world to be reborn again.

Seimei: These people keep getting rotten, don't they?

Kevin: Yeah, were we ever that good? But the consolation is that that fourth disaster is at least because of the energy problem.

Seimei: 4 disasters?

Kevin: Well, I remember when I was a kid there was a history program or something. There is an episode where it talks about the three great disasters.

Seimei: Kind of a big disaster?

Kevin: Yeah, I remember the first two disasters were the two ancient world wars. And the third disaster is the war of angels, the war as a timeline.

Seimei: Oh.

war of angels is the fiercest war the world has ever recorded. Huge armors were used, it had a beautiful name "angel" but it was a machine of destruction. It destroys most of civilization. Then they gave up those machines. Most of it has become huge precious metal dumps, but there are a few "angels" still active, so in the great wars between the domains, there are still one or two "angels" fighting in the battle.

Seimei: And the fourth disaster was Elta's explosion.

Kevin: Right, which I think-

"Stop it guys!" - a voice cold and disgusting to hear.

That guy was a man wearing a cloak. Wrapped around the face a long cloth, revealing only one eye. On that cloth, there is an eye icon with 2 irises. In his hand was a small knife but one hit was enough to kill me.