Under a building on a commercial street, a police car is parked on the side of the road, and a middle-aged police officer is leaning against the side of the car and smoking. He twitched as he looked up at the screen in the building.

In the past two days, even the screens of the buildings in the shopping street have been replaced with asteroid observation broadcasts, which is the largest asteroid near the Earth discovered so far, and this gimmick is enough to make astronomy enthusiasts from all over the world rush to Central City.

It is also because of this that the police in Central City are also very busy during this time, and just maintaining law and order has already made them anxious. The only time I can take a break is to lean on the side of the road and smoke a cigarette like I am now.

"Whew. The middle-aged police officer spat out the smoke in his mouth and squinted his eyes pleasantly, the feeling of being busy is always addictive, which is probably why so many people like to go to work and fish.

He leaned back in his police car and raised his hat so that he could see the asteroid on the building's screen.

It's just a star, and I don't know what they're excited about.

The middle-aged police officer obviously couldn't understand the enthusiasm of the astronomical observers who came from all over the world, after all, he was no longer young, and he was no longer the age to pursue hobbies and ideals.

All he knew was that because of this star, he couldn't sleep well for three whole nights, and had to smoke a cigarette to lift his spirits.

Glancing at the cigarette in his hand, the middle-aged police officer's eyes were filled with some helplessness.

Obviously, I just promised my daughter to quit before, but now it hasn't been a week yet, and I smoked it again.

Forget it, he shrugged his shoulders and continued to put the cigarette in his mouth, just one cigarette, no big problem.

"Toot, toot······"

Just as the middle-aged police officer was about to finish the cigarette in his hand, the walkie-talkie on his shoulder rang at the right time.

His hand paused, and the corners of his mouth tugged at his face with a slightly ugly face, and it seemed that his rare lunch break could only end there.

He didn't even need to think that nothing good would happen every time this thing sounded.

Taking off the walkie-talkie on his shoulder, the middle-aged man tilted his head sideways and said in a tone that was not very good.

"This is 3C36, what's the matter?"

"I received a report that there is a wandering little girl in the park in the city community, who is not very old, and has been there for several days, please take a look. ”

Wandering little girls, do young people like this this year, call wandering romance and freedom.

The middle-aged officer sighed helplessly and said into the walkie-talkie.

"I understood, and I'll go over right away. ”

As he spoke, he pinned the walkie-talkie back to his shoulder, shook his head, snuffed out the cigarette in his hand and threw it into the trash can on the side of the road, opened the door of the police car and sat in.

The police car started and drove off the street with a little bit of smoke.

On the garbage cans on the side of the road, smoke wafted from cigarettes that had not been completely extinguished, and the asteroids on the screen of the building were faintly larger.

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As soon as the middle-aged police officer arrived at the park in the city's community, he noticed a puppy and a girl sitting on the side of the road.

It was also the first time that he dispelled his previous judgment, and the girl in front of him did not look like a young man who pursued freedom and romance.

Although she was also very young, probably the same age as his daughter, in her teens and twenties. But unlike the young man, she looked lifeless.

It was indeed lifeless, with no expression on his face, and his eyes stared blankly at the ground. He was wearing a tattered black coat (black robe), but it was not dirty.

Troublesome.

This will be a very troublesome thing, based on years of experience, the middle-aged police officer immediately made this judgment, and if he is unlucky, he may be involved in a big case. To be honest, he didn't like to bother with this kind of trouble, but there was no way to ignore it now.

Sitting in the seat of the police car, the middle-aged police officer's fingers tapped the steering wheel twice, and he frowned and thought for a moment.

Anyway, let's find a way to take her back to the police station first, it's not a good idea to stay here all the time.

With that in mind, he pushed open the door and walked down.

In the park, Chu was sitting, waiting for the so-called catastrophe to appear, and she was very good at waiting, especially this kind of motionless waiting, which she often sat for months when she was in the Apostolic Wasteland.

And for her theoretically endless life, a few days are just a blink of an eye.

"It's a public place, and theoretically you can't occupy it. A voice said from behind her.

When I first turned around, I saw a middle-aged policeman.

"Can't I stay here?" asked Hatsu, looking at the policeman.

"No, it's not so much that you can't stay here, but why do you want to stay here?" the policeman walked over to Hatsu's side and crouched down.

"Don't you have a home?"

"Nope. Chu answered truthfully, and there was not much fluctuation in his tone, as if he was just saying a very ordinary thing.

It was still quite quiet in the small park in the afternoon, the policeman squatted beside Chu and raised his eyebrows, he didn't know why, he almost guessed that Chu would answer like this. If you have a family, how can you stay here?

But undoubtedly, this makes things even more troublesome.

The officer rubbed his eyebrows, he wanted to smoke a cigarette, he wanted to smoke every time something was in trouble, but it was clearly not suitable now.

"Do you remember where you came from?"

As a routine, he had to at least determine the origin of the beginning.

It's a pity that Chu is just a black household with no identity, and the existence of the Apostle Wasteland is naturally impossible to tell the police.

After a moment of silence, Chu gave a very vague answer.

"A far away. ”

The police obviously can't accept such a statement, but for now, Chu has not broken the law, so Chu doesn't want to tell him, and he can't do anything.

He had no choice but to continue asking, "Do you know the way back?"

"Hmm. Chu nodded: "After I finish what I want to do, I will go back." ”

But what she was going to do, she still didn't say at first.

It's a headache for the police, so the young girl he's not good at dealing with, just like he's not good at dealing with his daughter.

However, he didn't know that the "young girl" in front of him was not as young as he imagined.

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Regardless of the police questioning in the park, another major event happened in Central City at this time.

At noon, just as people were about to have lunch and open their phones to scroll through some web pages, almost at the same time, an emergency announcement popped up in all the web pages.

Television, computers, and online video are also beginning to be broadcast at a rapid pace.

This message travels unusually fast because it's appalling.

"An asteroid is about to hit the Earth. ”

Four days before the disaster struck, panic began to appear.