Li Yu nodded slightly.
"Indeed, I possess some abilities that ordinary people do not."
The old man sighed softly.
"That's good. Humanity is already on its last legs and should help each other. No matter where you come from, why don't you stay in our village for now? After all, there are no safe places left in this world."
"You still haven't told me why this world became like this?"
Li Yu pressed, his gaze falling on the yellowed animal hide map on the stone wall inside the house. The villages marked with red crosses on the map were mostly completely destroyed.
The old man scrutinized Li Yu again with a peculiar look.
"Alright, perhaps you, guest, have suffered some shock and completely lost your memory. Then I, this old man, shall tell you what exactly happened in this world."
He stroked his snow-white beard.
"Ever since I can remember, we humans and Void Beasts have lived peacefully together in this world. Deceased humans would all transform into Void Beasts."
"And whenever a human female became pregnant, a Void Beast would transform into a spirit particle, merge into the female's womb, and change back into a human. This was the cycle of life and death, as it should be."
"However, at some unknown point, these Void Beasts began to devour their own kind, hunting humans. They went mad, attacking all living creatures they could see."
"The boundary between life and death was broken. Frail humans were simply unable to resist these powerful Void Beasts. The world gradually spiraled into collapse, and humans had no choice but to hide underground… barely surviving to this day…"
What a peculiar world. Those monsters outside were actually transformed from deceased humans?
With the birth of every newborn, a Void Beast would transform back into a human?
The monsters inexplicably started attacking humans?
The old man had not finished speaking when someone outside the house suddenly shouted.
"Village Chief, Yumiko is going into labor!"
The old man suddenly stood up, his expression becoming serious.
"This guest, you, like Ade, possess some unique abilities, don't you? Please come with me. After all, this village can no longer withstand greater losses."
"Everything you want to know, I will tell you once the child is born."
With that, the old man, leaning on his cane, quickly walked out. Li Yu followed behind the old man, arriving outside a solitary stone house at the edge of the village.
Inside the house, a woman's desperate cries could be heard, mixed with the midwife's encouragement.
"Push harder, Yumiko, the baby is almost here!"
Outside the house, a man squatted on the ground, his hands clutching his head, muttering to himself.
"No, don't give birth. It will attract a large number of Void Beasts… Everyone in the village will die!"
"Shiba, look up."
The old man gently tapped his shoulder with his cane, his expression showing an unquestionable resolve.
"If we don't even dare to welcome newborns, humanity will perish sooner or later."
Shiba suddenly looked up, his face covered in tears, his pupils dilated with fear.
"But the last few times… every time a child was born, hundreds or thousands of Void Beasts were attracted! I can't forget last time… they tore apart the stone house, and even the newborn child…"
His voice caught in his throat, as if something was blocking it.
"Shh, quiet, they're coming!"
Everyone hid behind the stone house, instantly falling silent. Even the painful cries from inside the stone house quieted down.
From the shadows of the rock wall, a huge head slowly emerged. It was a Void Beast, its head covered in white bones, its eye sockets burning with a pale blue flame.
This monster's limbs were long and slender like a spider's, with a metallic glint at its joints, and it silently crept towards the stone house.
The midwife in the stone house had already fled out of the stone house and retreated into the crowd the moment the monster appeared.
There was a moment of silence, only the painful groans of the woman in labor still echoing from inside the stone house.
"I hope it's only this one…"
Li Yu heard the man praying in a low voice.
Unfortunately… more and more Void Beasts slowly squeezed out of the rock wall… The man desperately clutched his head, not daring to look further.
Just then, the young man named Ade suddenly rushed out of the crowd. He stood in front of the pregnant woman's stone house, his right hand emitting a faint, ethereal glow.
The young man raised his right hand and coldly shouted.
"Void Beasts, disperse!"
His right hand emitted circles of blue light waves, which actually fixed most of the Void Beasts within the rock layers!
Many Void Beasts, having only half emerged, were unable to move.
Even so, more Void Beasts continued to pour out!
It was evident that doing this was a huge burden for Ade.
Large beads of cold sweat seeped from his forehead, and his slender body trembled violently!
The old man stood up and shouted loudly.
"Ade, come back, you can't do this…"
The young man gritted his teeth, stubbornly shaking his head.
"No, I can't, I can't just watch Yumiko be torn apart by Void Beasts!"
Li Yu knew that this peculiar four-eyed young man must have something special about him, and he absolutely could not let the young man be killed by the Void Beasts.
"Village Chief, is it enough to just let one Void Beast through?"
The old man subconsciously nodded.
"Yes, but I'm not sure if it will work, after all, it's been a long time since a newborn successfully came into the world…"
Before he finished speaking, he saw this strange guest walk forward, his pupils constricting.
"This guest, come back quickly, you don't have Ade's abilities…"
When Ade saw Li Yu approaching, a slight smile appeared on his tender face.
"Your Excellency God, I knew you wouldn't stand by and do nothing…"
Li Yu extended his right hand and pressed it against the rock wall. He said faintly.
"I am not a god. You can call me Li Yu…"
To the disbelief of all the villagers, the moment this strange young man touched the rock wall, a layer of white frost spread along the stone wall like a tide.
All the Void Beasts that had not yet emerged from the rock wall were instantly frozen into ice sculptures, either roaring with open mouths or extending terrifying claws, lifelike.
"This, is he really Your Excellency God?"
"Too, too strong. This person is even more powerful than Ade!"
Li Yu nodded to Ade.
"Leave this to me. You rest for a bit!"
Ade withdrew his right hand. He sat down weakly on the ground, his face full of gratitude.
"Thank you, Your Excellency God…"
At this moment, the long-legged Void Beast that had first appeared had already approached the stone house.
Li Yu had intentionally left this one; he was actually very curious about how a Void Beast would transform into a fetus.
The stone house instantly collapsed under the Void Beast's long legs, revealing a pale-faced woman inside. The Void Beast showed no mercy, raising its slender forelimb and thrusting it towards the woman's bulging abdomen.
The woman, however, extended her hands towards the Void Beast, a look of relief on her face.
"Child, Mama has been waiting for you for a long time!"
The eyeballs on the Void Beast's body stopped rotating. Its eyes became clear, and it let out a low cry.
"Ma… Mama…"
Its attack abruptly stopped one centimeter from the woman's abdomen. Then, this Void Beast, under everyone's gaze, transformed into a sky full of blue light particles, surging into the woman's abdomen like young swallows returning to their nest.
Waa!
Waa!
As the newborn's cries rang out!
The man named Shiba stumbled over, tightly embracing the woman and the baby.
The Void Beasts frozen by Li Yu gradually retreated, and no new Void Beasts appeared.
All the villagers stood up, the old village chief with tears in his eyes.
"Born, finally born!"
"This is the first newborn in how many years!"
"We humans still have hope!"
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