Apocalyptic Invasion: I Activated the Apocalyptic Points System

"What did you see?" Chen Jianguo asked, turning around with a puzzled look.

Zhang Yanan glanced at the darkness outside the window and asked, "What's going on outside?" All she could see was raindrops pattering against the glass.

"I just saw a city surrounded by a forest!" Qin Xu stared intently at the rain outside the window, raised his hand and tapped on the car window. "It's just across the road, in the wilderness a few kilometers away."

Just moments before, as lightning ripped through the night sky and illuminated the earth, he saw a strange city, surrounded by a forest, appear out of nowhere in the wilderness across the road!

But that place was clearly a wilderness just now!

Was I seeing things? Or was it a mirage?

The lightning illuminated the night sky for too short a time; he didn't even have time to see the details before the earth was once again shrouded in darkness.

The rain obscured his vision, so he could only wait for the next flash of lightning to illuminate the night sky.

"What?!" Chen Jianguo asked incredulously, "You said you just saw a city surrounded by forest in that wilderness?"

"How is that possible? Did you just see things?" It was raining heavily outside, and Chen Jianguo suspected that Qin Xu was seeing things.

"Where did this city come from?" Zhang Yanan asked with a puzzled look. She had observed the surroundings when the lightning illuminated the night sky.

The parking spot is on a provincial highway, with wilderness on both sides. There are no cities, villages, or even groves to be seen!

In that very instant, a bolt of lightning once again dispelled the darkness and illuminated the earth.

Everyone hurriedly looked towards that desolate area, but there was no city in sight!

"You should have seen... Holy crap! How did a city just appear out of nowhere?!"

Chen Jianguo had only spoken halfway when his eyes widened in shock as he stared at a city surrounded by forest that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere!

"This...how is this possible?!" Zhang Yanan's pupils dilated in shock, and she instinctively clenched her fists. "How could a city appear out of thin air like this?"

"It must be because of it!"

Qin Xu raised his head and looked at the huge crack in the sky that represented the source of the apocalypse; it was not obscured by the dark clouds.

As darkness fell again outside, the people inside the car fell silent.

Just six or seven seconds later, another bolt of lightning struck outside, illuminating the night sky.

To everyone's horror, the city in the wilderness had vanished!

"Disappeared?" Qin Xu muttered, his brows furrowed. "Could it be an illusion?"

"Something's wrong! We can't stay here any longer, we have to get out of here right away!"

With a grim expression, Chen Jianguo shifted gears, slammed on the gas, and sped off, honking the horn three times to warn the two cars behind him to follow.

Just as he rushed out, lightning illuminated the night sky once more, and Qin Xu was shocked to find that the city had reappeared!

"Damn! This is unbelievable! What the hell is going on... wait, something's not right!" This time, he finally realized something was wrong.

The city, surrounded by forest, seemed to be flickering and distorting, as if the image were distorted, and suddenly became blurry.

A faint red moon could be seen in the sky above that city!

"I'm afraid... something big is about to happen!" Qin Xu subconsciously clenched his fists.

"Even if the sky were to fall, there's nothing we can do about it now." Chen Jianguo gripped the steering wheel tightly with both hands, his eyes fixed on the road ahead.

A dozen minutes later.

The rain gradually subsided, turning from a torrential downpour into a moderate rain, and the lightning became less frequent, with only one flash every few minutes.

During this time, Qin Xu kept his eyes fixed on the wilderness on both sides of the provincial highway, observing the city that appeared and disappeared intermittently and the dense forest, trying to find a pattern.

He discovered that not only had a city appeared in the wilderness on the left, but a large wilderness had also appeared out of nowhere in the wilderness on the right.

The two wildernesses completely overlapped!

The subtle differences in the terrain are difficult to discern in a second or two. The reason he was able to spot them was because some figures appeared out of nowhere in the wilderness!

And when the hills, ravines, and rivers that appear out of nowhere overlap with the wilderness, the space flickers and distorts constantly, as if two similar images were placed on the same layer.

It gives people an extremely discordant feeling.

The hazy blood moon in the sky appeared and disappeared along with that city.

The instant a bolt of lightning illuminates the earth.

Qin Xu stared at the shadow of that city, and suddenly something occurred to him.

"Two images superimposed... Could this mean there's another world trying to merge with this one? How is that possible?"

The thought of this possibility sent a jolt through his brain, chills ran down his spine, and his whole body went numb from his scalp to his heels.

Just then, Chen Jianguo suddenly slammed on the brakes and jerked the steering wheel, because he had just seen a figure appear out of thin air seven or eight meters away!

The tires screeched on the wet road, and the car lurched violently before regaining its balance.

Those sitting in the back row were caught off guard and bumped directly into the front seats.

Qin Xu, with one hand on the front seat and the other supporting Zhang Yanan, asked Chen Jianguo, who was driving, "What's wrong?"

"A person just appeared out of nowhere on the road!" Chen Jianguo, covered in cold sweat, felt a chill run down his spine, his nerves on edge.

"But it just vanished into thin air again! I'm not sure if I'm seeing things."

"It should be related to that city that suddenly appeared out of nowhere in the wilderness." Qin Xu took a deep breath and voiced his guess.

"You mean there's another world that's going to merge with ours?" Chen Jianguo glanced at Qin Xu sitting in the back seat through the rearview mirror.

"If that's the case, we're probably in big trouble."

As he spoke, he drove the car into a gas station by the roadside.

The gas station was dark and deserted. The door to the service hall was wide open, and the interior was a mess, as if it had been ransacked.

The three cars stopped one after another.

Zhang Haitao immediately opened the car door and got out. He frowned at Chen Jianguo, who had just gotten out, and asked, "Did you see that city just now?"

"I saw it." Chen Jianguo glanced at the light drizzle outside the gas station and said, "Qin Xu said this might be two worlds merging!"

"How is this possible?"

Even though it's already the apocalypse, Zhang Haitao still doesn't quite believe that two worlds could merge; it's too ridiculous!

"I don't believe that guess either, but do you have a more reasonable explanation?"

Chen Jianguo reached into his pocket, pulled out a cigarette case, flicked out two cigarettes with his fingers, and handed one of them to Zhang Haitao, who looked thoughtful. A bitter smile appeared on his tired face.

"You don't actually think it's just an illusion, do you?"

Just then, Qin Xu opened the car door, walked straight to the empty edge of the gas station, and looked up at the starry sky.

That crack, spanning half the sky, remained conspicuous in the darkness! It seemed to exist on a different level from the rest of the world.

On either side of the crack, there is a full moon!

A silver moon! A red moon!

Below the red moon was a huge, dark shadow whose outline could only be seen in general—the strange city surrounded by forest from before.

"moon!"

Qin Xu turned around abruptly, his voice trembling with shock, "There are two moons in the sky!" He pointed to the sky.

Upon hearing this, Chen Jianguo and Zhang Haitao quickly ran over, looked up at the sky, and saw two moons in the night sky, one silver and one red.

Their pupils dilated in shock, their faces filled with astonishment. Zhang Haitao muttered to himself, "This... could it really be that two worlds have merged together?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the red moon in the night sky, along with the dark shadows of the city below, vanished instantly as if erased, as if it had never existed.

At this moment, everyone in the car got off and came over to ask what had happened.

Just then.

A gentle breeze, carrying an aura of utter desolation and otherworldly unease, swept through the gas station, sending a shiver down the spines of everyone present.