Chapter 45: The Lamentation of Humanity

  "Player mission completed, proceeding with random teleportation."

  "Attack on Titan: The World 4."

  Lü was somewhat perplexed - what were these "Advancing Giants"? He hadn't heard of them before; they must be new.

  "Main Quest: Uncover the secret of the giants and do everything possible to prevent their invasion. Protect the protagonist of this world, but who the protagonist is needs to be found by the player themselves."

  He's got to be kidding me. The system hasn't even seen this anime, how is it supposed to know who the main character is?

  But soon he would know that he had been worrying in completely the wrong direction. What he needed to worry about was an existence far, far more terrifying than this one.

  How to survive in this world is what he needs to worry about most. And he will find out soon.

  "The player's body has reverted to human form, and the abilities previously rewarded cannot be used in this world. Please rely on your own efforts to become stronger, completing side quests can exchange points for books related to fighting skills and techniques. Warning: This world is extremely dangerous, please work hard to improve your strength."

  "Players can obtain any skill upon completing the task, but will be permanently deleted if they fail. Good luck to players who can complete the task."

  After finishing the digestion of the system's words, he asked Xiao Nuo if she could tell him about the basic information of this world. However, it was disappointing that Xiao Nuo said the overall system did not allow disclosure.

  Lu Yu gave up the idea of taking a shortcut and decided to figure it out herself.

  He opened his eyes to find himself in a small village, with old-fashioned houses that seemed to be from an underdeveloped area. However, what puzzled him was the gigantic wall that looked too conspicuous and clear even from a distance. Why would there be such a huge and intimidating city wall? How could such a wall have been built?

  The people passing by his side all looked like Westerners, was this world probably a place where only Westerners lived?

  He found that his body hadn't changed, still with black hair and eyes, but had shrunk into the appearance of a ten-year-old.

  Judging from the gaze of the people around him, it's probably rare to see someone with black hair and eyes here. He slightly narrowed his eyes, thinking about how he was going to survive here, first and foremost, he needed a place to live, but he didn't have any money.

  As he was thinking, he saw a woman selling fabrics. The person was about forty years old, with blonde hair and green eyes, although her face had already left some marks of the passage of time, she looked very kind and had a gentle smile.

  Lü thought he might be able to get her to adopt him. After making up his mind, Lü looked at the hemp clothes on his body and thought that the system was really considerate, so he roughly wiped his eyes with the coarse fabric, making them red, and then stumbled towards her.

  Pretending to accidentally bump into the fabric stall, he stopped and looked up at the woman without saying a word.

  The woman squatted down and asked gently, "Where are your parents?"

  Lü still didn't speak.

  The woman thought for a moment, and her expression showed some sympathy. It was clear that without needing to say it herself, this kind-hearted person had already imagined the things he might have encountered.

  A slightly rough yet warm and soothing hand rubbed his hair, making Lu feel inexplicably guilty.

  "Want to go home with Aunt? Aunt will take good care of you."

  Although he didn't say anything, it can be said that he deceived such a kind-hearted person and made her heart feel a bit uncomfortable. In the future, I will try my best to take care of her more and help her with some things.

  Aunt Aim's husband was a middle-aged man with a big belly, always carrying a bright smile, Mark-Renard. Also known as Uncle Mark.

  Aunt Aimée also has a child, five-year-old émile-Léonard. He is a brown-haired blue-eyed little boy.

  Everyone in this family is very good, although they are not rich, but the life of a family is very happy and fulfilling.

  Yout was infected by this overly warm family atmosphere, every day doing his best to help Aunt Em cut fabrics, watch the stall, and clean the house. Aunt Em said with a small mouth, but her eyes were slightly red, and she cared more about You than Little Emile.

  In this happy atmosphere, Lu Ming seemed to have forgotten the system's deliberate reminder, or warning.

  This is an extremely dangerous world.

  Living in this small town for a month, Lü thought about helping Aunt Aimu with more chores every day, but ignored the system's prompt to enhance his strength.

  In one month, if he wants to, there are many things he can accomplish.

  As he was playing with Little Emil on the street that day, a skinless head popped out of the huge city wall.

  Before I could even react, the seemingly impenetrable city wall was breached.

  Immediately, one. Two. Countless.

  The giant entered the town.

  The concept of giants is still vague, and the law that only exists on paper can only stand still in confusion, watching as the giants surge forward. The footsteps of these enormous creatures cause the entire earth to tremble faintly.

  People were equally stunned and shocked, standing still, forgetting to escape.

  Until the first person was snatched up by a giant, because of chewing and biting off limbs that spurted out blood and flesh mixed with debris.

  Cries of despair, wails of agony, those who could still move scattered in all directions, while those paralyzed with fear were like weak and helpless lambs, being torn to shreds by the giant's jaws, in unspeakable terror.

  Lü looked at this town that was sunny and bright just a moment ago, but in just a few short minutes, it had turned into a hell on earth.

  It wasn't until now that he realized why the system had specifically reminded him - this was an exceptionally dangerous world.

  He suppressed the urge to vomit and looked in the direction the giant was heading, his pupils rapidly constricting. That's... where Aunt Em sells her wares!

  He looked down at little Emil who was still somewhat bewildered but also a bit scared, then looked around at the fleeing people and made a decisive decision.

  He took off the new overcoat that Aunt Aimée had made for him, gritted his teeth and tore it into strips, with which he tightly bound little émile to his chest.

  He patted Little Emil's head and coaxed him hastily. "Emil, be good, brother will take you to find mom."

  Then Lute flew quickly towards the place where Aunt Aim was. Along the way, houses had been destroyed, and panicked people were rushing in disorderly towards the direction of the inner city. Lute dodged through the crowd, holding Little Emile tightly in front of him.

  They arrived at Aunt Em's stall, but there was no one in sight. Lu yelled out loud, "Aunt Em! Aunt Em! Where are you?"

  No response.

  Lü Zheng was thinking about whether Aunt Ai had arrived at a safe place, but saw a piece of fabric floating down not far away.

  Suddenly looked up and saw Aunt Em being held in... a giant's hand.

  "No! ————" Lu Si shouted out loud and ran desperately towards that direction.

  That loud cry made Aunt Aim notice Yu running against the crowd towards her, and in front of Yu's chest was a young Emil.

  She showed a hint of relief in her eyes and shouted at Ryou. "Don't come over here! Go to a safe place with Emir... Please, take care..."

  Before she could finish speaking, Aunt Em was crushed into two sections by the giant's teeth.

  His eyes were filled with bloodshot, crazy shouting. "No! ————"

  The blood that spurted out of the void was like a layer of bloody shadows, shrouding Lü's field of vision. It dyed everything in this world into a ferocious crimson.

  It wasn't long ago that she was smiling and saying to herself, from now on our family will be four people.

  This morning, she was still holding a new set of clothes and said to him, "From now on, I will help you make new clothes every year and dress you up as the best-looking kid."

  Obviously... The system had warned him, this world was very dangerous.

  Why did he waste all the time. If, for this month, he had been working hard to get stronger, working hard to grasp knowledge, and predicting the possibility of such a thing happening, would the outcome have been different?

  Then would that kind and gentle Aunt Em say to him again, "Are you hungry? I've made your favorite egg drop soup."

  The little head in front of him moved slightly, and Lutz lowered his head to look, Little Emil was twisting his small body to try to turn around.

  He raised his left hand and pressed it against Emil's head, holding him close to himself, whispering softly. "Don't look back. I'm here."

  Emil stopped moving and obediently lay in Lut's arms.

  Lü's left hand still pressed against Emile's head, and with his right hand raised, he bit down hard to stifle the sob that was about to burst out.

  Until the strong smell of rust and the salty taste of tears filled his mouth, Lu's expression finally calmed down.

  He calmly turned around and ran towards the inner city, without looking back again.

  In his eyes, what burst forth was an unprecedented firmness.

  He will definitely go all out to become stronger and slay the giant. Not for some government or country's pretty words, nor is it for the main quest that has been going on all this time.

  He will fight for those who have died.

  Fighting for Emile who lost his mother.

  Fight for those who live.