The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Chapter 67 Amusement Park's 14th Anniversary Celebration

It wasn't quite what he expected.

The scene over there was peaceful, with blue skies and white clouds, and it was a sunny day. There were even a few small birds perched on the trees by the roadside, looking over with some curiosity.

In the distance are rows of pure white, round houses, which appear to be places where the strange guests live.

The courtyard is surrounded by a wooden fence, and the furnishings of each household are slightly different.

The most recent one even had a swing.

Compared to the dark environment where the indigenous people live, it's unbelievably beautiful.

No wonder so many people yearn to leave the city.

In everyone's eyes, it would be a paradise where one could escape all constraints and toil.

However, Li Can, who learned the truth from Shen Yuan, knew that it was all just an illusion, a mirage.

The man stumbled and rushed toward the barrier, his body then enveloped in a pale purple light.

"Ah!!!" His face was full of pain, but he was still looking forward to it with great excitement.

"This is..." Li Can looked at it quietly.

The other onlookers leaning against the perimeter didn't seem surprised at all, as if they already knew about the process.

The flesh and blood on the man's body were peeled away bit by bit, leaving only a skeleton. The bones on his body then scattered on the ground like powder, as if he had been plucked from the sky.

Before long, he was officially freed from the constraints of his physical body, and his entire form became the same as those strange beings.

It floated in mid-air, and after enduring a brief period of pain, it never looked back at the city where it had once existed. Without turning back, it disappeared into the Peach Blossom Spring, its figure gradually shrinking into a single point.

Until it truly disappeared from everyone's sight.

He went on to pursue his bright future.

The indigenous people waited until the men successfully escaped from the city before they finally made a sound.

A group of people rushed towards the edge of the barrier like ferocious dogs pouncing on their prey, scrambling for the man's detached body parts.

"God bless us, bless my whole family to leave the city as soon as possible this year!" An old woman was the first to grab it, and she held it in her palms with great reverence as if it were a precious treasure, constantly chanting.

The others were much the same as her, making wishes over the pile of rotten flesh.

It seems that as long as you do this, you will receive good luck.

Li Can's eyelids twitched; she didn't quite understand their logic.

Here, not only is there no divine protection for all living beings, but even those who leave the city are pitifully miserable.

He brought about his own demise, and for a brief period of his remaining days, he still had control over his own life.

Just as Shen Yuan said, in the end they will all become toys of the people of the upper city, manipulated to come to the lower city to seek pleasure and play games in the human world.

If Li Can didn't know the facts at this time, he might also have had the same unrealistic longing as them for a short period of time.

But now he only felt a huge sense of absurdity welling up inside him.

There is also a deep sense of powerlessness.

The city dwellers are pitiful, manipulated at will, and unable to save themselves. Even if someone tells them the truth, their memories will be erased due to mental pollution.

This seems like a dead end.

An endless cycle of reincarnation.

"Ah!!!" Li Can turned around and was about to leave when a miserable scream suddenly came from behind her.

Among the onlookers, a child who looked quite young rushed out, seemingly trying to slip out of the city while the barrier was still in place.

However, he was instantly attacked by the barrier. Unlike the men, he did not have a permit to leave the city and was killed on the spot.

His small body lay limp and lifeless on the ground, like a dead fish.

This time, however, the city dwellers didn't scramble for the loot. They simply shook their heads, sighed a few times, and left one by one.

Only one woman ran up to him, squatted on the ground, and cried helplessly.

"Waaaaah, you naughty child, why don't you listen to me? I told you not to run around like that, waaaaah!"

She looks like the child's mother.

She felt utterly helpless at that moment.

Holding her own child in her arms, no matter how much she scolded or disciplined him, she could no longer get a single response.

Even rebellious words spoken in dissent.

The city gate guards ignored everything and silently closed the city gate again, restoring it to its original state, where it remained frozen in place like an unremarkable stone statue.

The woman, carrying the body of her dead child, began to walk back, looking utterly dejected.

"You brat, you're all I have left. If you leave, how am I supposed to live?" She was still crying, but her face was numb.

"Waaaaah..."

Li Can didn't linger there, but headed towards the city center, the sound of crying behind her growing ever more distant.

He was preoccupied with worries the whole way.

The woman's weeping, the man's screams, and the old man's prayers echoed in his ears.

Even before you know it, you've arrived at a brightly lit area where eerie creatures roam about, seeking out attractions, creating a bustling scene.

"Guest, would you like to come in and have some fun? The amusement park is having its 1400th anniversary celebration, everything is 20% off, would you like to come in?" A man with slicked-back hair forced a smile as he promoted the park to Li Can.

From his perspective, Li Can was a strange guest who seemed a bit lost and unsure of what to do.

This was a perfect target for him to come out and solicit customers for his promotion.

He was holding a large stack of colorful flyers in his arms, and he stretched out one hand to Li Can.

Li Can first scanned the flyer, which was very similar to what she had seen in real life.

Nothing special about it.

It's just a recommendation of some amusement park attractions.

Then her gaze moved upwards, lingering on the man's face for a long time.

This face looks somewhat familiar; it's as if I've seen it somewhere before.

Immediately, a flash of inspiration struck Li Can. Yes, he had seen it on the resume of the superhuman sent to him by the First Base.

"Wang Defa..." Li Can recalled the details: a Class C ability user, belonging to the base's propaganda and security department.

He had previously seen on his phone that the guy who used the measuring orb to test and close the dungeon's vortex channel was also him.

"Guest, would you like to check this out? It's a really good deal right now, it would be a shame not to come and have a go. The promotion ends tomorrow." Wang Defa lowered his voice when he saw that Li Can hadn't responded for a while.

He dared not displease the strange guests, for if they became annoyed, they might devour him at any moment.

Just like his other colleagues whom he had met at the amusement park, he died a very gruesome death.

"If you're not interested in the amusement park, you can go look around elsewhere, haha, it's okay, there are fun things to do in the shopping mall up ahead, haha, cough."

Wang Defa smiled bitterly, wondering what kind of fate he had. He had only wanted to get those two dungeon access cards, but now he hadn't even found the person he was after, and he was stuck working in the dungeon.

Life is too hard.

There is no hope of leaving the city now, and the future looks bleak.