C16 Going out in the Smog Remember to Wear a Mask

The lead gray clouds cover the sky.

This scene had already continued for twenty-three days and nights. At first, the shrimp people thought that this was a normal cloudy day, so they didn't pay any attention to it.

However, from the eighth day onwards, large amounts of fruit trees withered and died.

This wasn't a small problem. The shrimp people were tall and large, so it wasn't easy to directly extract water from the canal. Hence, using fruits to replenish water and other things was an essential part of the shrimp people's lives.

The prawns could not find the reason, and even the knowledgeable Shrimp Leader did not know the reason. He could only order the dead plants to be disposed of first and move the surviving plants closer to the water source.

This still did not solve the problem.

On the 15th day, the shrimp people who were herding reported that a large number of dinosaurs, which were the source of meat, were dying.

The shrimp people checked the corpses of the dinosaurs. They did not see any internal injuries, nor did they find any infectious diseases. But these dinosaurs... seemed to have died from suffocation?

The prawns began to panic, but they quickly suppressed it under Shrimp Leader's means.

The living dinosaurs were isolated, the dead dinosaurs were burned and thrown out of the valley.

The shrimp people did not have a lot of resources, but no shrimp people dared to take the risk to eat these dinosaurs with unknown causes of death.

However, the dinosaurs were still dying in groups.

On the twentieth day, some shrimp people died.

It was a shrimp man who was born after the war. Shrimp Leader still remembered when this shrimp man was still a little guy. He had great talent in cultivating the Path of Runes. When he became an adult... Like the other shrimp men, he devoted himself to the modification of the valley, and even solved a few problems in the engineering and runes that he could only solve himself in the past.

And now, this talented young prawn man had fallen to the ground, turning into a corpse.

The shrimp people carried out an examination, and the cause of death was suffocation.

This was only the beginning.

Every day, similar news was continuously reported, from one digit to two digit, then to three digit.

And now, after three days, more than half of the prawn people had died. Every day, a large number of prawn people's corpses were burned, and ashes were scattered around the valley.

The shrimp people didn't dare to send these inexplicably dead people back to the altar according to the ancient etiquette, so they could only use this method to let the dead rest in peace.

As the number of deaths increased, Shrimp Leader gradually realized that this was not an ordinary attack. Although the enemies in the past had also created some big scenes, they had never been like this before.

There was no way to deal with it, no way to resolve it, and no way to escape.

This was most likely the divine punishment of the enemy, Evil God. It was even possible that the enemy, Evil God, would personally take action.

As for our god... Shrimp Leader looked at the center of the square. His mountain-like body was still as tall as before, but it clearly showed his weakness.

Was this the end of the people of fire?

Shrimp Leader raised his head.

It was a lead gray sky where no sunlight could be seen.

Perhaps he was really old.

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Du Kang recently had a bad feeling. He felt as if he had caught a cold.

His head was dizzy, but he did not feel like sleeping. His body was heavy, and he did not want to move at all.

At first, he thought it was just a small illness. He just needed to rest for a while, and his body's resistance would help him recover.

However, after a few days, Du Kang realized that his illness had worsened. At the same time, he also noticed the strange behavior of the prawns.

Plants withered and livestock died. Du Kang saw how the prawns handled the situation cautiously.

Then, a new change occurred.

The shrimp people, who spent most of their time hiding in the rock wall, pulled out a large number of corpses of their kind from the rock wall. Du Kang could still vaguely recognize that some of the dead shrimp people had climbed over the rock when they were young.

Now, they had become corpses, and the ashes that had been burned by their companions had also been taken out of the valley. He did not know how to deal with them.

It should not be an infectious disease, Du Kang silently calculated. There was no infectious disease that could spread across so many species. Plants and animals could be called natural disasters, but the changes between shrimp people and himself were not that simple. He was a completely different species from those shrimp people. One should know that Du Kang, as a giant Mantis shrimp, was a standard marine creature. Although those shrimp people also had shrimp heads, shells, and a pair of appendages, but looking at their bodies and legs, one could tell that the ancestors of these shrimp people were clearly dinosaurs.

Thinking about it, when did the change start... Du Kang felt a little dizzy, but he still tried his best to keep thinking. If there was a problem that he did not know the reason, he would push it forward. There would always be some unexpected change that would cause this change.

Speaking of which, how long has it been since I felt warm sunlight on my body?

Supporting his body, Du Kang raised his huge prawn head.

The lead gray clouds covered the sky.

Unlike the bodies of the prawns that evolved from dinosaurs, Du Kang's prawn eyes were the eyes of the real Mantis shrimp.

Du Kang's prawn eyes discovered some familiar things from the thick layer of clouds.

After reminiscing for a while, this familiar thing matched with the figure he remembered.

"Gan!"

Du Kang's body began to move. His abdomen began to accumulate strength. His tail legs and tail were on the ground. His pair of eyes stared at the cloud layer above his head and silently adjusted his angle.

Although he wasn't sure if this situation was caused by the other party, since the other party would appear in this place at this time, it definitely had something to do with it.

Du Kang started to accumulate strength by moving his limbs.

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Shrimp Leader noticed the unusual movements of the gods.

He found that after the gods raised their hill-like heads, they curled their bodies into a ball.

Was the gods suffering as well? Shrimp Leader guessed. Due to the huge difference in body structure, Shrimp Leader did not understand that it was the prelude of a battle. Instead, he understood that it was a cramp caused by pain.

The people of the fire obtained too much from the gods. The burning flames, the knowledge of runes, the direction in which they moved, and the glory of the people of the fire.

Without the teachings of gods, the people of the fire would still eat raw food like the Deep One.

And what did the people of the fire give to the gods? Endless problems? Dragging the gods into war? And they were still suffering from such pain?

For a long time, Shrimp Leader had never thought about this problem. The long time that the god had no desires and desires made him feel that the god should stand on his side. After experiencing the test given by the god, it was enough to exchange for the help of the god. Everything the god had was for the sake of the people of the fire.

But was that really the case?

On the square, the god was still curled up. His towering body was twitching, and his hill-like head was swaying.

The god did not take anything from the people of the fire. Even the sacrifices that were offered to the god would be generously shared by the god. What did the people of the fire do?

Shrimp Leader was immersed in self-blame. He did not know that he was about to witness the true power of his god.

That was the Divine Battle.