The Dark King
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Dark King
Description
Civilization is destroyed and records lost. Only Dudian survives in a cryogenic sleep. Three hundred years later, Dudian wakes up and must become Dean to survive. Who can he trust in this world overrun by monsters without and within?
Chapter 1: Frozen for three hundred years
Chapter 2: Gardener
Chapter 3: New Beginning
Chapter 4: Night
Chapter 5: Different Worlds
Chapter 6: Ideal
Chapter 7: Radiation values
Chapter 8: Silvia
Chapter 9: Scavengers' and 'Hunters'
Chapter 10: .'Light' physique
Chapter 11: Back to slums
Chapter 12: Super-chip
Chapter 13: Gathering
Chapter 14: Orientation
Chapter 15: As long as you stay alive!
Chapter 16: Stupid questions
Chapter 17: Survival training
Chapter 18: The Desert
Chapter 19: Danger
Chapter 20: Alchemist
Chapter 21: Night attack!
Chapter 22: The Creator
Chapter 23: Retaliation
Chapter 24: Solitary
Chapter 25: Alchemy Notes
Chapter 26: Ten days
Chapter 27: Rewards
Chapter 28: Judgement
Chapter 29: The Dark Church
Chapter 30: God's blessing
Chapter 31: First
Chapter 32: Noble party
Chapter 33: Dinner
Chapter 34: Invitation from the Nobles
Chapter 35: Jenny
Chapter 36: "A Tree in Blossom"
Chapter 37: Two 'blessings'
Chapter 38: Boundaries
Chapter 39: Apprentice
Chapter 40: Tubes
Chapter 41: The passage
Chapter 42: Area No 8
Chapter 43: Monster
Chapter 44: Corpse
Chapter 45: Undead
Chapter 46: Assault
Chapter 47: The first battle
Chapter 48: Death
Chapter 49: Fatal
Chapter 50: Bloodstain
Chapter 51: Heartbeat
Chapter 52: Narrow escape
Chapter 53: Climbing the wall
Chapter 54: Anatomy
Chapter 55: Third
Chapter 56: Virus
Chapter 57: Melting
Chapter 58: Injured hunter
Chapter 59: Undead' level hunt
Chapter 60: Bait
Chapter 61: Level 9 monster
Chapter 62: hunt in the high-rise
Chapter 63: immortal hunter?
Chapter 64: Beast
Chapter 65: hunting the prey
Chapter 66: trapped in the shaft
Chapter 67: Kill
Chapter 68: Infection
Chapter 70: Release
Chapter 71: Return
Chapter 72: Pastor's blessing
Chapter 73: Detention center
Chapter 74: News
Chapter 75: Magic marks
Chapter 76: Investigations
Chapter 77: Letter
Chapter 78: Meeting
Chapter 79: Crystalization of the soul
Chapter 80: Juranzhi
Chapter 81: Conflict
Chapter 82: Appointment
Chapter 83: Four major careers
Chapter 84: Area no 3
Chapter 85: Launch
Chapter 86: Disappearance
Chapter 87: Devil's cradle
Chapter 88: Taking out
Chapter 89: Awakening
Chapter 90: Black cross
Chapter 91: Mixing up
Chapter 92: Alchemy symbols
Chapter 93: New research
Chapter 94: Alloy experiments
Chapter 95: Report
Chapter 96: Talent
Chapter 97: Two items
Chapter 98: Thousands of arrows
Chapter 99: Over-training
Chapter 100: To the extreme
Chapter 101: Emergency
Chapter 102: "Black Weaver"
Chapter 103: Instant cut
Chapter 104: Movement
Chapter 105: Dudian's idea
Chapter 106: Lure out
Chapter 107: Hunting
Chapter 108: Battle with the beast
Chapter 109: Hunt
Chapter 110: Branch
Chapter 111: Eggs of the black weaver
Chapter 112: The enemies meet
Chapter 113: Ambush
Chapter 114: Bloody hunter
Chapter 115: It's him
Chapter 116: Counterattack
Chapter 117: A kind of talent
Chapter 118: New plan
Chapter 119: Monster wave
Chapter 120: Prayer
Chapter 121: fortress
Chapter 122: Free city
Chapter 123: Action
Chapter 124: Explosion
Chapter 125: as promised
Chapter 126: Return
Chapter 127: Detention center
Chapter 128: Good sword
Chapter 129: Scattered shot
Chapter 130: Again
Chapter 131: Fate
Chapter 132: Examination
Chapter 133: Qualified
Chapter 134: Kill! Kill! Kill!
Chapter 135: Choice
Chapter 136: One year
Chapter 137: Atlas
Chapter 138: Hunting Dean
Chapter 139: Runaway
Chapter 140: Dean's sin
Chapter 141: Awakening
Chapter 142: Imprisonment
Chapter 143: Sorrow
Chapter 144: Game
Chapter 145: Are you stupid or silly?
Chapter 146: Indifference
Chapter 147: I'm not like you! (1)
Chapter 148: I'm not like you! (2)
Chapter 149: I'm not like you! (3)
Chapter 150: Crazy
Chapter 1: Frozen for three hundred years
Rainy season...
In an instant, gloomy black clouds enveloped the sunny sky. The slum dwellers doing their daily activities immediately went back to their houses in fear as rain started pouring down heavily.
Rainwater began to accumulate and spread rapidly in the streets of the slums, immersing the poor houses to their limit. The drainage system that had been unrepaired for ages was not doing its job as the entire outer wall of the slums became a vast expanse of rainwater.
In the Meishan orphanage.
Near the door, a woman in her thirties led a dozen children ranging from seven to eleven years old to carry sandbags that had been prepared, stacking them on top of the threshold in hope of blocking the raging floods.
"Dean, come over to help!"
"It's useless to call him, he's a fool."
"Really!"
A few sweating boys, exhausted from holding sandbags saw a little boy standing quietly not far from the window. Even though they were angry, they knew it was useless. They could only bite their tongues and continue handing sandbags to be sent to the door.
The little boy looked seven or eight years old. His thin, but tall frame made him look more similar to an eleven-year-old. The most conspicuous detail was his color. He was very white, maybe even a bit morbidly pale. His skin color caused the other children to envy him, as everyone else was dark due to exposure to the bright sunlight.
Dudian sighed in his heart. Although he had been left in cold storage for more than three months, his body had yet to recover enough to life anything.
It was exceedingly difficult for him to stand, let alone carry sandbags to block the rain.
Howeve
r, such a situation could be regarded as fortunate. After all, the Institute had just made the very first freezer when the disaster spread to China. As there was nowhere enough time for an experimental change, nobody knew about this type of failure. It was already a miracle that he was able to sleep in the freezer for three hundred years.
Nevertheless, he did not feel happy.
He survived, but his parents and sister stayed down and had to face the terrible disaster. Even if they had been miraculously lucky and survived, they would have long been buried in the dust after three hundred years.
In this vast, new world, he no longer had loved ones. He would have to face this new world alone.
Although he grieved, he did not despair because he knew his parents had given him a second chance at life. He would not allow himself to go down easily. He would not just live well and get by, but also do what it takes to make his deceased family proud.
Fortunately, God finally sheltered the human race. When Dudian had just climbed out from cold storage, the first thought that came to mind was that he was the only person alive on the earth. Only when he walked out of the garbage dump of the cold storage warehouse did he find that humans were not yet extinct. Only a few people seemed to have survived the disaster, but the human population had grown to a decent size after three hundred years of development.
Unfortunately, technology and civilization had long been destroyed by the disaster. Dudian could not find a trace of any symbol of the old era of science and technology. The loss of knowledge about the electric power added difficulties to basic life.
The storm outside the window gradually came to a stop as Dudian was lost in his thoughts.
All the people in the house felt relief as they watched the water level behind the sandbags dropping. Exhaustion seeped into them as if they had just experienced an everlasting battle. The middle-aged woman raised her head to observe the dark clouds gradually scatter to reveal a sunny sky and said: "Get ready to go to the cafeteria for dinner."
The children's eyes lit up as soon as they heard the word "eat". Their previous fatigue was instantly swept away as they scurried back to the room, put on their wax-grass shoes, and lined up in an orderly manner.
"Dean, get ready to eat." At this time, a voice called out to Dudian. The voice came to him from a seven-year-old boy. He patted Dudian shoulder and pointed in the direction of the canteen.
Dudian remembered this boy named Barton. Barton was one of the few children in the orphanage that was well-intentioned. As the language had changed in the past three hundred years, Dudian did not understand it and stood silent from the time that he entered the orphanage, causing everyone to think that he was retarded or had brain problems.
So naturally, he was placed into the group of the deformed children with Barton.
The children at the orphanage were generally divided into two factions. The first were those abandoned by their parents. The second were those who were abandoned by their parents due to physical deformities.
Dudian nodded and followed Barton to the lines by the column. Just as Barton was about to tell Dudian to first put on the grass sandals, he inadvertently looked down. Seeing that Dudian had long been wearing a light green pair of sandals, he could not help but feel stupid.
Plastic had yet to be invented in this world. Wax-grass shoes and clothes became the most common form of rain gear. This natural variation of grass that could been found everywhere had a fine convex layer of wax that effectively blocked radiation rain and thus became an essential household item.
Everyone carefully walked alongside the threshold before the narrow half meter high stone paved trail. Although the rainwater only came up to their ankles, even the strongest of them would inevitably become seriously ill if they feel into the water.
Because of the limited seating available, the best seats in the cafeteria were immediately seized by those healthy children. Dudian, Barton, and the rest of the deformed kids had long ago become accustomed to their tables in the back corner made from several stacked stoner.
"I heard that a doctor and construction worker have come this time for the adoptions"
"Aunt Dai said to seize this opportunity and put on a good performance"
"It would be awesome if you could be adopted by a doctor."
"I would rather be adopted by the construction worker. There might be a chance to climb the giant wall of Silvia and see the outside world."
Barton and several other children whispered and chatted. None of these children looked normal. Some were missing an ear while others had scarring on half of their faces.
Dudian's eyes flashed as he heard their words, but he kept silent.
"Unfortunately, Dean's brain is no good. Otherwise he would definitely be selected by those people with that kind of appearance and body." Barton sighed suddenly as he looked at Dudian with regret in his eyes.
The other children looked at the unresponsive Dudian, all shaking their head.
Other children also looked at the unresponsive Dudian but just shook their heads.
Long ago they agreed that no matter who got adopted, they would do their best to come back and help the rest of the children. On the surface, Dudian was no double the most promising candidate to be adopted, but his chances were very low with that type of brain problem. His situation was even worse than the deformed kids, such as the one with a face full of lumps. Although they might look scary, they were at least physically and mentally able enough to find a job in the future.
At this time, Leng Heng, a thin child seated close by, heard Barton's words and contemptuously said, "They are a bunch of mutilated things, yet they still want the opportunity to be adopted."
His words immediately attracted the attention of others. Disdain and disgust filled their eyes as they fell on Dudian, Barton, and the others.
Relative to the deformed children, they are physically sound but abandoned people.
Dudian did not say anything as he quietly glanced at these people. Although he is still a child, his heart was much harder than most adults.
Mo Yang's eyes gazed at Dudian.
"Look at this fool. He won't understand even if you call him."
"No wonder he was abandoned. A fool!"
"You wanted to be adopted? Why don't you just obediently wait until you turn thirteen years old and they throw you into the mine as manual labor!"
These children did not attempt to hide their contempt and disgust. Instead, it was a form of pleasure for them.
As the food was given out, the middle-aged woman lightly shouted, "Quiet down! Do you not want to eat?"
Hearing this, the arrogance on their faces quickly took on looks of innocence as if nothing happened.
...
The next day.
Silver-gray clouds gradually stretched out to let the sun spill down onto the slums.
In the rainy season, this type of good weather was rare.
Today was also the long-awaited big day for the children of Meishan Orphanage - Adoption day!
All of the families booked in advance for the chance to come to the orphanage on this day and pick a child.
Although it was early in the morning, Dudian still got up on time. This world may no longer have alarm clocks, but his biological clock had never been wrong. After getting up, he quickly cleaned up his bedding and washed his face with simple filtered well water. As he picked up his clothes by the pillow to get dressed, he suddenly found a purple handkerchief within the cloth.
Dudian was startled and could not help but think of that cold night when he was led to the orphanage by a little girl. Unfortunately, the sky was too dark to see each other's appearances. In the past three months, he learned that only those in the upper reach of the outer wall were able to afford this type of fine cloth.
The handkerchief was left to wipe the dirt off his face.
Dudian put the handkerchief away and left for the open space outside the orphanage.
Although the only parents in his
mind were his biological ones, he wanted to get adopted as soon as possible. If he reached the age of thirteen without getting adopted, the orphanage would give up on taking care of him and send him to the Meishan Chamber of Commerce to be used as permanent free labor. Meishan Chamber of Commers is the controlling body of the mine. As free labor, he would be forced to work until he died of exhaustion or old age. He would never again have the opportunity to see the light of day.
On the same day, all the children of the orphanage washed themselves, dressed in their nicest clothes, and were neatly put in a line.
Nobody would bear to be near you if you were covered in a bad odor.
This is what the aunt controlling the orphanage told them.
As all the children stood in line, the adults walked up and observed the children who they might potentially adopt as their own under the care of Diana and the other orphanage workers.
Under the guidance of Aunt Diana, the children and workers knew not to speak of the deformities. Wu Yuliu's eyes were full of innocence, desire, and hope as they welcomed the grown-ups. Her eyes were so teary that some of the adults could not help but feel sad or bear to not choose her.
Soon, the thin and tall Dudian became the focus of all the adults' attention. His skin, as pale as snow, was too eye-catching. His temperament differed vastly from the surrounding children. This child had a very calm and extravagant aura surrounding him.
The adults were surprised as they did not expect an orphanage in the slums to have such a good seedling.
For a time, many of their hearts were wavering.
Chapter 2: Gardener
The other children were sensitive to this change. An eight or nine-year-old petite little girl immediately said, "He is Dean. His brain is always in a daze and he cannot speak. Please do not take offense."
She was young, but the brutal living environment forced her to quickly mature into a clever and crafty individual. She did not show a hint of jealousy, only pointing out Dudian's defect as if helping. In a sense, it was the smartest move for her.
"Yeah, yeah!"
"Uncle and Aunts, he really can't talk!"
The other children quickly echoed her response.
Barton and the several deformed children living with Dudian were shocked upon hearing the little girl's words. No one expected her to say such a thing. An ugly look flashed across Barton's face upon hearing the other normal children point out Dudian's defect. Nonetheless, he would not dare speak up for Dudian for fear of leaving a bad impression on the Aunts and Uncles.