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Europa VII, 107 Vaults.

Boom! Boom! Bang!

The occasional heavy crash and cannon-like roar terrified the residents hiding inside.

"Woo...... It's horrible......"

"The teacher will come to our rescue, right?"

"Is it safe out there?"

"I want to go home......"

Since the shelter is located near a shopping street that sells mainly toys, and the alarm was raised at the end of school year, the ratio of adults to children in the shelter reached an alarming 1:5, and even with the best efforts of the shelter staff to calm down, it was still as noisy as a school cafeteria during lunch break, and from time to time the younger children began to cry inexplicably.

"It's noisy......" Hannah Abbott rubbed her ears as she walked, "why were they so bold when I grabbed the Sunny Piglets?" ”

"Well, presumably, because they know you won't hurt them," Cedric, who was carrying the Sunny Piggy doll, followed her closely so as not to get separated, "But alien words...... I guess they've all been scared of things like 'if you don't obey, you'll be taken away by aliens.'" ”

"Who knew there would really be aliens coming? Let's say we're a hinterland galaxy. Hannah tried to avoid the running and crying children, as if trying to find someone she knew, but to no avail: "I seem to have seen Kaos and his sister before, isn't it the same shelter?" ”

"Arrived directly through an undiscovered stargate, perhaps?" Cedric frowned: "I said a long time ago that relying on things that don't even know the principle will go wrong sooner or later." ”

"Then you go talk to the Governor," Hannah struck Cedric and pulled him out of the Vault Hall, "I don't think this 'alien invasion' will stop anytime soon, so while they're still struggling, we'll get the key card for the Vault's temporary accommodation." ”

"How do I feel like you're familiar with the structure of the Vault?" Cedric asked, looking at the barely indistinguishable cabins along the way.

"Of course it's because," Hannah said, pointing her chin up to a huge logo on the side of the road, "they were designed and built by my dad's company." ”

The logo is a metallic letter A and B tied together with blades of grass, representing the largest infrastructure company on Europa 7: Abo Industries.

"It's true that I occasionally see this logo in casual places......" Cedric touched his chin, "and I seem to have heard people mention it from time to time, saying-"

Hannah seemed a little happy that Cedric's attitude had not changed at all: "Say what? ”

"It's not aesthetically pleasing to say that the company makes something stupid and big (BigFool)."

"Then don't stay!" Hannah snatched the piggy doll from Cedric's hand.

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"Oversight? Do you want to issue a room card now? ”

Hannah walked around to the door of a circular office overlooking Hall 107 and peered inside.

"As far as I know, the 'Overseer' is the top manager of every Vault, are you sure he will take care of the little things that matter with the issuance of room cards?" Cedric reluctantly followed.

"That's right, but that's normal operation, and when the vault is activated in such an emergency without warning, it's usually only the overseer and a few assistants, so you basically have to do everything until the other staff members here arrive," Hannah probed around and saw that there was no one in the overseer's office, so she swaggered in and began to rummage through the cabinets: "Well, where is the key card?" ”

"Isn't that not very good...... "Cedric's face suddenly changed in the middle of his words, and he rushed forward and dragged Hannah back.

Bang!

Before Hannah could get angry, she saw a large hole in the ceiling in front of her, and the head of a silver-white and narrow battleship was poked there, although it was only a small part, but it also occupied most of the supervision room.

"I don't remember that the Star Federation had this style of warship—" Cedric was halfway through his words when he saw an oval hatch slide open from the silver-white hull, and two elderly exoskeletons, shaped like lizards, and heavily armed creatures stepped out.

"This ......"

Cedric was going to pull Hannah behind him, but Hannah seemed to be doing the same, and the result of the two of them working at the same time was that they retreated as if they were frightened.

The "lizardmen" noticed Cedric and Hannah almost immediately, staring at them for a few seconds before hissing as the bone fragments of their mouths opened and closed.

The other lizardman next to him also looked at Cedric and Hannah, and also responded with that strange hissing sound.

"Oh no, I don't understand...... Are there weapons in the surveillance room? Cedric asked Hannah in a low voice.

"Firearms should always be available under the superintendent's desk, but they are ...... powerful," Hannah said again.

"There's no time...... Get down! ”

After a few sentences, the two lizardmen seemed to come to an agreement, and together they raised their strange guns to Cedric and Hannah.

Dada! Dada!

Two bullets hit the wall, and Cedric pushed Hannah to her stomach and rolled over to the overseer's desk.

Hearing the gunshots, the crowd of evacuees in the hall below dispersed, and some guards and staff vigilantly approached the Superintendent's Office.

After the attack missed, the alien seemed to be a little surprised by his skill, but the gunfire swept all the way without stopping, and the bullets only grazed the corners of Cedric's "Mass Effect Shield", and the battery that maintained the shield frantically alarmed.

"I'll buy a military ...... later," Cedric rushed to the back of the supervisor's desk and found an Albert III automatic pistol in the bottom drawer.

Syllable! Syllable!

He reached out and fired two random shots at the alien, but was depressed to find that although he hit, the opponent's shield didn't even shake.

The alien hissed twice, as if laughing, before splitting up and closing in on Cedric and Hannah in the direction where they were hiding.

Relying on the shield to be more powerful than firepower? But they must not have guessed that what was in front of them was not "firepower" in the ordinary sense.

We are "Strangers".

Cedric slightly probed to determine the enemy's position, and then directly attached the power of "wind" to his limbs, compared to the poor effect at school, and the occasional failure, this "energy transformation" can be said to be extremely silky.

In the next second, he rushed out at a speed far beyond the alien's expectations, stretched out his arms to lock the throat of the alien who was the most taboo from him, and put the pistol on the other party's head with the other hand, and shouted regardless of whether the other party could understand or not: "If you don't want to die, let your kind stop!" …… Belch. ”

"Bastard reptiles! Give me death! ”

On the other side, Hannah had smashed the approaching alien to the ground with a two-man filing cabinet, and the unlucky man looked unconscious and still smashing.

"......" The alien who was held hostage by Cedric silently dropped and raised his hands.

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Deep underground.

Kaos lowered his hand and resumed digging.