"You're trash like this!! How can you be my opponent?!"

  "A person without dreams is not even worth a piece of trash." The ruthless and cold ridicule was like awakening the memories deep within Ye Dongchen's heart, reminding him of his own words: if one doesn't even have dreams, they're just like the trash on a garbage mountain - completely meaningless.

  It was as if by instinct that Ye Dongchen's palm, made of flesh and blood, tightly grasped the sharp sword in Bloodless' hand at the sound of those words. Originally thought to be on his last breath, Ye Dongchen suddenly made a shocking move!!

  He charged forward with a fierce determination, concentrating the explosive force on his forehead. This time, the impact sent him and Bloodless flying apart, but as the blood blade was pulled out of his heart, the gushing blood splattered everywhere, dyeing the sky red like a fountain!!!

  At the moment when consciousness was about to disappear, Ye Dongchen's memory seemed to have stayed somewhere...

  The beginning of the war-torn era is a disaster for the human world, with powerful nuclear weapons destroying the entire earth's ecological balance, leading to a series of ecological imbalances being destroyed.

  Everything in the world starts from creation and ends with destruction.

  But the problems left after the war have become the greatest obstacle and disaster for human world since its existence!!

  In the distant East, there is a country called Zhonghua Yanhuang. Here, there are countless barren lands left after wars. There is a city that people call the Forgotten Orient!!

  "The Forgotten Orient"

  The former capital of the Yan Huang country, once the most brilliant city in China, but this is also one of the areas with the most severe disasters after the war. It is one of the top ten radiation zones and is called a forbidden land by many people. Even mechanical guards are unwilling to set foot here.

  Here, millions of humans are buried, in the depths of this crimson smog, yet there is still a group of humans who survive in the midst of radiation and pollution.

  Here is also where Ye Dongchen grew up.

  The end of the garbage mountain.

  A pungent stench wafted out, and the instant it enveloped the nostrils seemed like a lethal poison. Yet, in such circumstances, people had already become accustomed to this environment.

  A desolate ruin, countless refugees rummaged around the garbage mountain for possible food to fill their hunger, rotting, foul-smelling, and dilapidated. Everything here is filled with trash, just like its name, this is a garbage mountain. People who come to live here think of themselves as trash.

  But in this crowd of decadent people, there is a young man living in his dreams, he has a dream as vast as the sky, unfortunately, he doesn't have wings to soar in the sky.

  "Hey, Xiaodongzi, one day I'll leave this place and take a look at the outside world. Will you come with me?" The young man's face was filled with anticipation for the outside world. In such chaotic times, in such an environment, wanting to see such an innocent smile was almost like a miracle.

  The boy known as Little Dongzi pouted and said in a cold tone, "No way, stop daydreaming. This is the largest mutation zone. Don't even mention whether we can get out of here or not, I'm afraid that before being caught and shot dead by the mechanical war police, we'll already have become food in the belly of some mutated beast."

  Although Xiaodong said so, the young man still looked forward to saying: "If you don't try hard once, how will you know if you can do it or not?"

  "Foolish, that's impossible, we'll never be able to escape this prison." Even in their youth, they already knew the cruelty of this world, gazing at the crimson sky, and young Dongchen couldn't help but envy the outside world!!

  The young man smiled and replied: "If we don't even have dreams, then we'll really be living like these trash. Do you want to become that kind of person, Xiao Dongzi?"

  Dong Chen was stunned, looking at the trash mountain that was in a mess, he was speechless!!

  The world's only beautiful world is even more stimulating for young people with dreams.

  Later, Dong Chen learned that the young man and a large group of people who wanted to break through the death defense line and break this lock entered the terminal station of the garbage mountain. They walked out of the dangerous area known as the radiation zone, and then...

  Never come back again, people living here have already known that it is not accidental, perhaps, once gone is forever!!

  When the little buddies around him completely left Dong Chen's side, he finally realized that the thick feeling of loneliness was full of memories about that young man in Ye Dongchen's mind.

  They grew up together, closer than relatives and more like brothers, but he couldn't accompany him to the end...

  Loneliness had permeated his soul, and solitude filled his body and mind. Just as Ye Dongchen was resolutely determined to die in the isolation zone to find his brother back, on this day, a shocking story came from the garbage mountain!!

  The group of people who disappeared for two whole years actually has someone back!!

  Not bad, they're back, but out of over 3,000 people, only one person returned, and that was the young man!!

  Ye Dongchen was almost speechless with excitement when he heard the news, but when he saw the boy's appearance, he couldn't smile anymore.

  It was as if he had been ravaged by a fierce beast, with half of his face reduced to bare white bones, and various parts of his body beginning to rot.

  The two didn't say much more, but when the unstoppable tears overflowed from his eyes and wetted the young man's body, he lay on the bed and smiled: "Xiao Dongzi, it's really great to see you again..."

  At that moment, the uncontrollable sobbing burst out of Ye Dongchen's mouth: "Why, why didn't I have the courage to go with you back then? Why wasn't I by your side?! It's despicable, I'm just a coward, I'm just a weakling!!"

  Seeing him like this, Ye Dongchen's heart was filled with deep self-blame.

  "I still have a lot I want to tell you, and also want to share with you all of my experiences. Do you want to hear about everything we've seen?"

  It was as if it were a dying declaration, deeply moving Ye Dongchen. He knew that this might be their last conversation, yet he still nodded his head. That night, the youth told Ye Dongchen many things: about their adventures, their experiences, and then their deaths, until finally the youth's breath ran out...

  "Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!"

  At the moment when the young man let go, the majestic emotions that had been overflowing in his heart could no longer be controlled and burst forth, tears streaming down like an unstoppable river.

  In his mind, however, was the lingering image of that young man's excited smile, and that half-skull face, which was the most brutal battle he had ever experienced.

  In his mind, it seemed as if he was recalling the words spoken by a youth to himself.

  "Hey, Dong Chen, I wasn't wrong, it's really beautiful outside. The so-called radiation is just a scam. Unfortunately, we're too weak now. Don't go out there until we have enough power..."

  "All these years, having you by my side has been really great."

  The garbage mountain where the wind blows, in front of the young man's grave, Ye Dongchen slowly raised his head: "I will live on, to prove everything you said, from today on, I am no longer alone, I will work hard with your share too, and then pass on everything that has been proven to you in heaven!!!"

  However, in the blink of an eye, six years have passed.

  He was forced to enter the game world, but the world outside the garbage mountain terminal seemed like a forbidden land in his heart that he couldn't touch. Once he touched this most vulnerable moment, he involuntarily echoed his youthful companions.

  Up until now, everything I've done, what have I been doing anyway...

  When the merciless sword pierced his chest, the god of death seemed to appear behind him and enter the countdown to death. All the memories in his mind were like fragments of a movie flashing by, and that one sword was like awakening the most forbidden taboo sleeping in his heart.

  "Dong Chen!!" The familiar voice awakened the dormant Dong Chen in his memories. Although he had just been stabbed in the heart, he instinctively dodged and avoided a fatal blow to his internal organs. When he suddenly came to, he heard Wang Xian's roar echoing in his ears!!!

  In the somewhat vague consciousness, the bloodthirsty figure was still there, holding a bloody sword, and was slightly surprised by his own counterattack, but without a doubt, every move Ye Dongchen made thoroughly enraged this blood-colored devil!!

  "You little brat, you've thoroughly enraged me! Accept your punishment of death!!!" Dong Chen had already lost his fighting strength. The gap between him and Xue Wuqing's power was too great. From the very beginning, Xue Wuqing had crushed all of Ye Dongchen's hopes with overwhelming force.

  A sword flies horizontally!!

  Cut off Dong Chen's palm, when the sword in his hand pierced the ground, everyone in the audience couldn't look directly at the tragic scene in front of them. To know that in the game world, if one's arm is cut off, unless there is a spiritual medicine or a super doctor, even a regenerating beast can restore it.

  Blood has no emotion, this is the revenge of Chi Guo Guo!!!

  "I'll let you taste what hell is!!" Another icy sword, the flashing cold light took away another finger of Dong Chen's, and the 100% pain under such torture would drive a person crazy!

  "Dong Chen!! Give up the fight, admit defeat!!" On the side watching, Wang Chen's forehead and arm veins bulged, he couldn't help but rush onto the stage to stop this battle.

  "Admit defeat?" Ye Dongchen thought, but the words hung on his lips and he couldn't say them out loud. He wanted to win, to walk shoulder to shoulder with Wang Chenluo and Luo Wei like they did. If he fell here now, perhaps he would never be able to keep up with those two again!!

  Even wanting to say it out loud, but ultimately didn't have the courage to say those two words.

  "Stop it, don't hit him anymore, haven't you already won?! Xue Luo also exclaimed in shock among the crowd, tears wetting his cheeks, unable to bear seeing Dong Chen's painful appearance."

  But such a brutal scene, although cruel, was applauded by those in power, and some even coldly ridiculed that this is the price of provoking bloodthirsty people.

  When Dong Chen's half arm was exposed with deep wounds that could be seen to the bone, Ye Dongchen's abuse still did not stop.

  "Host!! Hurry up and announce the end of this match!! This bastard, instead of killing Dong Chen, is using this method to torture him, Luo Yu's lungs are about to explode!!"

  The host responded quickly: "Unless he speaks out, I have no such power. I can't stop a man who has made up his mind." Even the host felt Ye Dongchen's determination to win, so he refused, because this was a matter of a man's dignity and Ye Dongchen's only obsession in his heart!

  Obsession with victory!!

  The purpose of existence is actually to bring joy to people, although this book starts with a bit of heaviness, I believe that in this world, everyone's life is different, whether it's great sorrow or great joy, there's always a process. Of course, I'll also let this book gradually develop into a more relaxing and enjoyable read. In reality, I'm actually a cheerful person, but for some reason, I keep writing tragic stories.