Volume II Commonwealth Chapter III Supermarket
In confusion, Tianxia watched as the Maiden's private spaceship crashed headlong into the blue cover, and a fierce light bloomed around it, shining like a comet. After a moment of stalemate, the ship fell downwards as if it had failed.
What's going on?
Healy. Is Valian going to die here? Tianxia couldn't believe it, she watched intently as the ship fell down for a while, and then she found that it began to regain momentum, struggling to take off like a flying goose with an arrow, but after a while, it seemed that something was wrong with its tail, and it began to make a forced landing.......
But why is it getting bigger and bigger, and ...... It seems to be oriented to the top of its head......
Seeing the spaceship getting bigger and bigger in her field of vision, Tianxia hurriedly threw away all thoughts, slipped out like smoke on the soles of her feet, and just a few steps out of the door, an explosion came from the top of her head, and the strong vibration made her body fall to the ground unbalanced, rolling forward a few times, and almost falling down the stairs. Damn it, she tugged at the escalator in horror and gasped for a moment before she came to her senses. Valle fell a layer below his feet.
She gritted her teeth and ran down. The lower part had already been shattered by the explosion, and the metal gate of the burglar-proof had been hit by the strong air current, twisting and colliding with the other anti-theft door, but no one knew if the spacecraft would have a secondary explosion. Tianxia carefully stepped over the collapsed wall mud and mixed steel bars, and was about to slip down, when a bloody hand covered with dust pulled her tightly, "Tianxia, why are you running in such a hurry?" ”
Healy. Valen is worthy of being a descendant of the Holy Spirit, such a strong explosion did not let her die peacefully, and even, although she seemed to be seriously injured, she didn't even take a breath, could it be that those rumors about Valen's royal family were true?
"Let go!"
"Why?"
If it weren't for the danger here, how could I be in such a hurry? Tianxia tugged at her arm and tried to pull it out, but found that her strength was far greater than hers. After understanding such a cruel truth, Tianxia's tone weakened a lot, "What do you want to do?" ”
"I just think I can still rescue it, classmate summer, can you help me up?"
"I'm his sister, and besides, it's dangerous here......" Tianxia tugged a little anxiously, still not moving, how much strength this damn woman has, "Who knows when this ship will explode twice." ”
Ciri tried to wipe the blood from her forehead gracefully, but her hands were also stained with dust and blood, like a bloody mud figure rolling out of a swamp.
"Tianxia-sama, if the spaceship had exploded, it would have exploded a long time ago, you are a beautiful girl with a kind heart," she couldn't help but wipe her forehead again, inadvertently wiping another stain of blood, "I'll borrow your family first aid kit." ”
Tianxia made a long decision, and after making it clear that he couldn't escape from Ciri's wrist, he finally nodded reluctantly. I was a beautiful girl, she thought, and helped her up the stairs carefully.
"By the way, why didn't you call the police?" As soon as she asked, she regretted it, if she could really call the police, there would definitely be a special line connected to the aviation warning office on her spaceship, maybe she would have called the police a long time ago.
Sure enough, she patiently explained, "It seems that something is wrong with the Aviation Warning Office, I can't connect with them during the emergency landing, and ......." Ciri looked uneasily out of the window between the corridors in the distance, and in the sky, more than a dozen pillars of light were still supporting the lilac cover like Optimus Pillars, "Because of that cover, I found that the signal seemed to have become disordered, and many electronic devices were out of order." ”
It is true that many electronic devices have failed, such as Tianxia returning upstairs to repeatedly brush his identity card, but this access control system is not able to lift the threshold. As a last resort, she took out the key card that she had only hidden in her purse for many years and inserted it into the card slot, and after a few turns back and forth, the lock of the anti-theft iron door was unfastened, and a crack in the door suddenly appeared in front of them. As soon as Tianxia opened the door, the familiar taste of instant noodles still lingered.
"What the hell is going on?" Tianxia helped the Vallian princess into the bathroom, and while looking for the family emergency medical aid kit, she asked nonchalantly, "What's the matter with those pillars of light?" ”
Ciri shook her head, "When these visions arose, my head of security advised me to evacuate here in a private spaceship, but he didn't know exactly what was going on, and I'm confused, Tianxia, but one thing is clear, we're quarantined. ”
Isolation? Tianxia looked out the window worriedly, there seemed to be fireworks burning everywhere in the federal capital, on the street, countless people ran from the streets, some people wanted to start the hovering car, but before they could take a few steps, the malfunctioning electronic autopilot system fell into an emergency paralysis, they were forced to switch to manual mode, but those who have never manually driven a car since they got their driver's license How could they escape from the chaos in a car, and soon the ground traffic was completely paralyzed, The vast majority of people have to walk to get out of the area.
Chaos has taken over the streets at some point, screams and cries have been passed from one floor to the next, and one can't help but fall into an unconscious fear, what is going on here?
"Is it the invasion of the Lothar Federation?" To be able to create such a big anomaly, Tianxia really couldn't think that maybe only the large-scale invasion of the Republic of Lothar, which competed with the empire in this star field, could affect the earth. But Heeri shook her head affirmatively, "Their gold fleet and three silver fleets are far away on the other side of the star field, and the only bronze fleet stationed nearby is still under our surveillance, not to mention," her face was gloomy, "this situation can't be caused by them at all." ”
She had already taken care of most of the abrasions on her body, but fortunately she didn't suffer deeper bone injuries from such a severe impact, at least Tianxia couldn't see it.
"Can you go?" Seeing that Ciri skillfully treated all the visible wounds, she ordered the eviction.
"Why are you in such a hurry to get me away?" Ciri asked softly, "Tianxia-san doesn't like to see me like this?" ”
"I'll get out of here too," Tianxia didn't look at her, "the notice may not be transmitted through the communication broadcast, but the loudspeaker has already sounded, and even the old bell has been ringed, which means that the shelter has been opened, isn't the princess going to take refuge?" ”
"I'm not a princess, just call me Ciri," Ciri frowned, and sighed again, "Forget it, let's go together, you won't refuse me?" ”
Tianxia nodded reluctantly, she understood that in the chaos, it was always good to have one more person to take care of her.
When they walked out the door, they found that the elevator had stopped working, and they had to go downstairs, but fortunately she lived on the fourteenth floor, not the fortyth floor, otherwise they were afraid that it would take them half an hour just to get out. Soon, the two walked out of the building, and the outside was far more chaotic than expected, the clogged cars kept screaming, the two men who collided with each other beat each other, and thousands of chaotic cars were moving around like ants, trying to squeeze out of this gray sea of cars, and the neighbors nearby pushed their children and elders towards the underground shelter in the distance. They could still remember the way near the Refuge on Emperor Street, but when they looked up, in the direction of Emperor Street, an orange-red pillar of light was standing on the ground in front of them, one of the countless beams of light that formed the lilac cover. They tried their best to see how high the pillar of light was, only that its end merged with the energy shroud that covered the sky.
Should they really go over? Tianxia pinched her palms, the shelter was ahead, and they had no choice. They walked on foot, more people walking beside them, children weeping and snuggling in their mothers' arms, fathers walking slowly with their elderly supporters, and drivers stumbling through a torrent of steel cursing damn traffic and damn accidents. Wailing, sobbing, roaring, screaming, and all sorts of emotions mingle to make their attachment to the shelter surprisingly strong.
They crossed Queen Street and the adjacent Queen Street, passed the Empire State Building, and marched in the gray and black crowd towards the soles of the statue of the Mother of the Milky Way, and finally, they were almost at Emperor Street. But the people of Emperor Street seemed to be rushing towards them, like a black wave, sweeping towards them. No, to be precise, swept behind them, they were fleeing from the shelter.
Not only them, but many more people saw them flee the shelter and followed them out, even if they didn't know what was inside.
"What happened to the Vault?"
"How is that possible," Ciri said incredulously as she pulled Tianxia to hide by a breakfast cart to avoid the dark sea of people, "the shelter is enough to protect against conventional thermonuclear weapons," and right now, they can't find even the slightest trace of an unconventional weapon, unless, apart from there, there is something else?"
The two looked at each other, and in the end, they chose to leave. Because more and more people are fleeing, and in the distance, the color of the pillar of light seems to become deeper and clearer, and at the beginning of the summer, I thought it was my own illusion that was doing tricks, but .........
Could it be that the rout in front of him has something to do with the deeper and deeper pillar of light?
"Shall we continue towards the Vault?" She asked, skeptically.
Ciri only thought for a moment before deciding, "Let's leave the capital. She turned affirmatively, "I'm afraid something happened to the Vault." ”
They followed the flow of people outside, and in the same way, some unknown people were rushing towards the shelter, and the two streams of people collided together, forming a huge turbulence of the sea of people, and those in the turbulence could neither go to the shelter nor go back smoothly. In order to avoid this chaotic scene, Tianxia and they had to go around and around, and the march was extremely difficult.
At some point, flames began to roll up in the center of the capital, and under the pillar of light, the dark smoke dyed the sky a terrifying gray, and the alarm sounded, fire trucks, police cars and even ambulances wanted to go to the center for rescue, but the cars on the road had long forgotten to give way to them at the moment, and when Tianxia passed by, several citizens could be seen pushing and shoving the police to make them turn around.
They walked for a long, long time, until the sky was getting dark, the sunset was full of the distant horizon, and it was completely buried by the outline of the mountains little by little, the capital of the Earth Federation, had already been swallowed up by the red flames of most of the city, the flames were gluttonous on the ruins of every tall building, the smoke was dancing like a frenzied group of demons in the night, the center of the capital, the tower-shaped building that stood tall, behind the tower-shaped building of two thousand meters, the orange-red pillar of light was like a skyscraper with the Empire State Building as the hilt, Blood-red rays of light like flames swirled around it.
In the faint twilight, it seemed to be about to fall at any moment, slashing at them as tiny as ants.
After just a few glances, Tianxia didn't dare to look more, this pillar of light always made her uneasy, and the changes in the capital made her heart sink like a sea. What happened here, is it just the capital, or is it everywhere in the world? The 13th Detachment of the Second Fleet was stationed in the Free Federation Harbor, and they should have arrived long ago, but why hadn't they come to their aid until now? She was suddenly a little scared to know the truth.
The place where they are hiding at the moment is a supermarket near the suburbs, and the sign at the entrance of the supermarket is a bright green neon sign, but the supermarket is already empty. In order to get here from Queen Street, they can be said to have exhausted their energy, and their feet have never stopped. Even so, there are still people who walk in front of them. She once grabbed a passerby and asked them why they were running, but the man couldn't say, "Everybody's running." ”
When she got the answer, she had some kind of ridiculous self-deprecation, they would run from Queen Street in the center of the federal capital to this unknown place for unknown reasons, and she had planned to find her missing brother.
Tianxia found that the princess of Navalian was taking down a few pieces of bread from the shelves of the unmanned self-service supermarket, so she couldn't help but step forward, "You must know something, tell me, what happened?" ”
Ciri was busy stuffing the bread into his mouth, unscrewing the mountain spring water and pouring it down, his head shaking like a rattle.
"You think it's fun to lie to me?" Tianxia gritted her teeth and asked, "You would never have planned to leave Earth for some inexplicable reason, it wasn't as chaotic as it is now. ”
Ciri swallowed the remnants of her mouth, and she calmly looked at Tianxia with those golden eyes, "What if you know?" ”
"I just want to know the truth," she put her hand on Ciri's shoulder, unconsciously exerting a little force, "Summer is missing, I'm looking for him." ”
Ciri burst out laughing, this light laughter made Tianxia even more irritated, why did my brother's disappearance make her so happy? Did she hate him too?
"I don't know why your brother disappeared, but if you want to say that this strange situation has something to do with him, Tianxia, I think you should eat something."
She thought I was hungry and dizzy? Tianxia was angry, and regretted saving her for a while. She still didn't give up, "Tell me, do you know anything?" “
The silver-haired princess pursed her lips, "I did leave because of what happened this morning. ”
Tianxia looked at her in a daze, "What's the matter?" ”