Chapter 504: Chapter 345: Otherworldly Life from Zero (3)

Until Xue Dili completely stepped down the steps and onto the street, that bloody handprint reappeared on the bottommost step, moving step by step towards the abandoned shrine above.

Outside, bloodstained vehicles were scattered across the road, as if a severe series of car accidents had occurred.

The doors of every car were tightly shut, but there were no bodies visible inside, only viscous black liquid covering the interiors.

He began scanning again, but there was no sign of any living person.

Even the breath of animals was scarce, with only a few crows croaking hoarsely in the sky.

"Your world has been destroyed for at least 200 days," Xue Dili said, reaching out to touch the rust marks on a vehicle, estimating based on the oxygen level and humidity in this world.

"Hmm?" The Witch was momentarily stunned. She looked up at Xue Dili, once again seeing those abandoned vehicles marked with accident traces.

"So you still think I destroyed your world? I don’t know where your hostility towards me comes from, but I won’t kill any life still worth saving. Likewise, I won’t spare any scummy individuals," Xue Dili said quietly, expressionless.

Or rather, now he was too weary to control the Cursed Blood to adjust his facial muscles to show normal emotions.

"There should be an Evil Ghost here, right?" Xue Dili asked.

"Mm..." The Witch nodded, silently following behind him.

"But I can’t see it, is there a way for me to see the Evil Ghost?"

"Mm..." She continued to respond as if she were a puppet.

Xue Dili clicked his tongue. It looked like she was completely broken, with what little brain she had left mostly occupied by yellow waste, and the remaining part that could think seemed to be as if it had given up all ability to think.

The sky darkened, the twilight sun casting its rays on blood-spattered billboards, and the whole city seemed to fall into some kind of twisted eeriness.

Except, Xue Dili was unaffected.

As he walked past, the once-swaying doors ceased to tremble, the twisted streetlights stood up straight, and the alleys, previously filled with indescribable sounds, fell silent in an instant.

The entire city seemingly devoid of any living humans, even after using his perception to scan, he didn’t encounter any large creatures.

Only those insects living in the sewers and soil testified that there were still living beings in this world.

Oh, and those crows in the sky.

"There truly seem to be no living humans left." Xue Dili said without fluctuation in his voice, but the Witch in clogs beside him gave no response, staring blankly at this world, saying nothing, as if she had completely died.

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At night, Xue Dili found a supermarket-like area to spend the night.

Inside, several human-shaped bloodstain shadows appeared, and the door, walls, and even the floor of the supermarket bore scratches from nails, extending a trail of blood from the door.

Xue Dili began constructing the scenario in his mind, hypothesizing that three people, no, four, hid here after the apocalypse, along with traces of a child.

They all died, their traces dragged all over, as if some unknown monster had grabbed them alive and dragged them out.

Though he could analyze like this, these marks were half a year old, rendering them blurred by nature’s hand.

He sighed deeply, wondering what could have happened in this world half a year ago to bring about such a state.

Apostle invasion?

Seems unlikely. Although apostles are immoral, with morals akin to the filth in a sewer, they wouldn’t entirely obliterate a life planet, especially one where humans originated.

Even the Sixth Apostle only transformed humans into alien insects, not spread humanity like a smear across the city.

This was utter extinction, crueler than any apostle-induced catastrophe.

The supermarket shelves had large amounts of food taken, and the remaining items had become filthy and disordered over time. However, it could be seen that this world had been in the information age.

Potentially, it was even more technologically advanced than Earth, though now everything had fallen to ruin.

Xue Dili built a fire on the spot, the two sat by the flames, with only some items taken from the supermarket as makeshift seating.

At night, the whole city was eerily quiet, with no insects chirping, no birds, and not even any ghosts, only the crackling sound of wood in the fire.

Sitting by the fire, Xue Dili began pondering the situation of this world.

It seemed a bit like this "strangeness" the Witch mentioned might have triggered the world’s destruction.

As if a supermassive strangeness suddenly enveloped the entire city, obliterating all humans within its scope, leaving only this strangeness and some insects with extraordinarily resilient life force.

Xue Dili hadn’t thought of Evil Ghosts and Demons, because he saw no Evil Ghosts at this moment, and Demons had corporeal forms, yet he hadn’t even seen a single corpse.