The boy ran across the wilderness, soldiers and hunting dogs pursuing closely. Gradually, a sea of lights appeared, a massive city emerging beneath the cliff. The boy leaped forward amid the soldiers’ shocked and angry cries!
The wild wind howled past his ears, lifting the pendant on his chest.
The boy closed his eyes during the rapid descent, the last image reflected in his black pupils: a lonely, cold, endless night.
“Those who have died shall rise again and enjoy eternal life—”
He thought to himself:
“Amen.”
2019, T City.
The young man sat up in the darkness, electric-like pain surging through every nerve. Dizziness from the pain caused immediate retching. However, having not eaten for a day, his stomach could produce nothing, only his internal organs twisting violently. After a while, he finally caught his breath, his vision barely focusing, revealing a small, dark cell with weak light filtering through the iron bars.
Where is this? A prison?
How did I get here?
He tried to search for useful information from his chaotic mind but couldn’t even recall his own name, and any attempt to think caused unbearable headaches. Just as he tried to get up from the low bed, footsteps and voices suddenly came from outside the cell.
The soldier behind him left with empty hands, and the young man’s pupils narrowed slightly – now was the moment.
“Bring the Omega to the helicopter, don’t let them escape, transport back to base…”
The soldier was about to respond when suddenly he felt the young Omega in his arms slightly shift, leaning towards the ground from his arm.
His first reaction was to bend down and grab him, but in that instant, the young man who had been deeply unconscious reached for the holster at his waist, hooked and pulled out the gun, dropping to one knee.
This change was too sudden. The soldier’s roar had not yet escaped his throat when in the same second, the young man’s long leg swept out, instantly knocking him down.
Bang!
“What’s happening? Stop!”
Shocked cries erupted around them. The young man grabbed the Alpha soldier’s hair and slammed his head into the ground, then lifted the blood-covered soldier, pressing the gun barrel against his temple, using him as a human shield: “…Retreat…”
