Wasteland Lord: Starting from Thirty Days to Live

Emma was on the run, weaving through the streets and alleys, using her knowledge of the terrain to shake off the monsters behind her time and time again.

Yes, her shout just now was very brave and she successfully saved her classmate, but she also successfully enraged the monster.

Now, the monster has abandoned everyone and is relentlessly pursuing Emma.

Emma, ​​being just a child, despite her agility and familiarity with the terrain, managed to keep swaying, but the monster gradually closed the distance.

Emma saw the monster behind her getting closer and closer, and suddenly noticed a stone hut in front of her. Emma's eyes lit up.

This little house used to be inhabited, but it has been abandoned in recent years. Sometimes she and her classmates would come here to play.

Emma darted through the door, ran inside, and quickly crawled under the wooden bed.

Emma hid under the bed; it was a narrow space, almost too small for an adult to fit through.

She felt that the monster probably couldn't get in, or even find her.

Sure enough, the next second, the monster's tentacles suddenly broke open the door. Because its body was too huge, it could only stretch out three tentacles into the room with great effort and grope around inside.

The tentacle explored up and down several times, and even almost touched Emma once, but Emma's small body suddenly squeezed into the depths of the crevice, and in the end, she escaped the probe.

About two minutes later, the monster seemed to realize it couldn't touch anything and finally pulled its tentacles back.

Emma felt a surge of joy and pride in her own cleverness.

Did that monster finally give up?

However, the next second, something surprising happened: a tremendous, teeth-grinding sound of destruction suddenly came from outside.

It's like a giant is constantly pounding on this house.

The house, which had been abandoned and unmaintained, finally succumbed to the force of the violent impact and collapsed inwards.

Emma hid under the bed, but had nowhere to hide, and could only watch helplessly as the stone house collapsed toward her.

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Edmund walked anxiously across the ruins of the trading town.

Although he was a knight of the castle and usually served in the castle, that was only during the day. Most of the nights, he would return to the trading town to spend the night with his family.

Because his wife and daughter didn't like the atmosphere of River Bend, he spent his savings of several years to buy a house in the commercial town.

He went to work at River Bend Fort as usual during the day, but when he looked down from the top of the mountain, he noticed that there seemed to be some strange changes happening inside the commercial town on the other side of the river.

Without having a chance to ask for leave, he chose to leave early and hurried towards the small house where they lived together.

Upon arriving in Shangbu Town, he was astonished by the changes. The town was now dilapidated and in ruins, with many injured people lying on the roadside, groaning incessantly.

It was as if some enormous monster had attacked, like wheat being harvested by a scythe, with houses lying flat and collapsed.

He heard the exact news from some injured people groaning by the roadside.

A spider-like monster suddenly appeared near the church during the day, attacking everyone indiscriminately. Now the monster has disappeared and headed towards the gold mine.

Edmund couldn't care less about anything else; all he wanted to know now was news of his wife and daughter.

When he got home, he saw his wife's anxious face as soon as he opened the door, and he felt half relieved.

Thankfully, my wife is safe.

He quickly stepped forward, grabbed his wife's hand, and asked about the whereabouts of their daughter, Emma.

However, his wife's answer made his heart sink.

"Emma didn't come back. Emma is gone."

Edmund's heart, which had just been lifted, sank again.

Edmund quickly grabbed his wife's hand and comforted her, saying it was alright and he would go out to look for the child immediately.

He then went out onto the street, and according to Emma's usual route, she should have just left the homeroom teacher's residence.

So he first went to ask the tutor, but the tutor was not at home, and his house was also damaged.

So Edmund had no choice but to follow his daughter's footsteps home, searching place after place.

Finally, when they reached an intersection, a strange woman called out to them.

Who are you looking for?

"I'm looking for a little girl, about this tall, with braids like these."

The plump woman shook her head sadly.

"That monster just chased him, right there in that alley."

Edmund's heart was pounding, but he still thanked him and hurried toward the alley.

He remembered there was a small stone house in that alley where the girl often played, and sometimes she would invite him to come along.

They would play knight games in that room, which was actually him teaching his daughter basic knight combat skills.

These things are forbidden at home because his wife doesn't like him teaching his daughter these things.

Thinking of the past, he became increasingly anxious, and finally he arrived at the stone hut.

But the scene here almost chilled him to the bone.

The hut had completely collapsed, and was in even worse condition than any other building he had seen on the street.

He paused for a moment, then rushed forward like a madman and began digging.

Shortly after he dug through three or four stones, he heard a sound coming from under the rubble.

"Dad...is that you?"

That was his daughter Emma's voice.

Edmund went mad; he began moving stones with his bare hands, ignoring the cuts and scratches from the broken stones and wood.

With his full power, the ruins from which the sound came were cleared away in about ten minutes.

Beneath the ruins, he carefully pulled out a mangled body.

His daughter, his little Emma, ​​the little girl he cherished like a treasure.

She was now like a rag doll. Her limbs were twisted, and she was spitting out mouthfuls of blood. Her body was covered with wounds of all sizes, and there was a large hole in her abdomen from which blood was constantly flowing.

Edmund's hands trembled, his eyes were bloodshot, and he kept comforting Emma.

"It's okay, Emma, ​​Daddy will take you to see a doctor. They'll definitely be able to save you."

However, Emma only spat out a mouthful of blood and softly repeated a sentence.

Edmund couldn't hear clearly, so he had to put his ear close to it to listen.

She said, "Daddy, I saved other children. Am I a good knight now?"

Then Emma's eyes turned gray and empty; a pure soul had left her small body forever.

Edmund could no longer hold back and burst into tears, clutching the mangled body in his arms amidst the ruins.

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Now, in the second simulation, in front of the Hemu Church in Shangbu Town.

Edmund stared intently at the monster before him, his expression changing upon seeing its old woman-like face.

That wasn't an ordinary change of expression; it was more like a ferocious beast that had finally found its target for revenge, with a terrifying look of relentless determination.

"Thirteen years ago, I verified the monster's appearance with many people in the town. They said the monster had eight tentacles and moved like a spider."

"And most importantly, they said that the monster was a young girl on the front and an old woman on the back."

Edmund practically spat out those words through gritted teeth.

"Did you kill my daughter Emma?"

However, the old monster woman opposite only rolled her eyes when she heard Edmund's tearful question, and gave a nonchalant reply.

"Murder? I've killed too many, I don't remember."

Edmund suddenly laughed, first a low chuckle, then a loud laugh, seemingly a sense of relief that "so that's how it is," and also a determination to take a gamble.

He exhaled a long breath of stale air through his nose.

He lowered his head, half of his face hidden in shadow.

"Very well... I'll kill you a thousand times."

"No, even ten thousand times isn't enough."