March 1, AC784, Danchester.

The city is located on a plateau with an average altitude of about 1,500 meters, and the vast majority of the year is clear and cloudless, with moderate humidity and slightly strong winds, and it is not the best of the several test flight sites that Sneve has discovered, but in the end he has set up his airship research institute here, because Zhuojia likes the environment.

After a busy day in the institute, Sneve dragged his tired body back home, recently there was an infectious disease in the city, infected many people, the hospital was overcrowded, the people in the city were panicked, many people hid at home and did not go out, and even the workers hired by his institute had many people on leave or even absenteeism, so that he had to do many things himself, and the workload had at least doubled.

As soon as he entered, he lay down on the sofa in the living room, not wanting to move a finger.

"Really, are you a kid too?" Sneve heard Zhuojia's reproachful voice, and he looked up to see her coming out of the room in her pajamas, and putting the shoes he had thrown in the doorway on the shoe rack to straighten them up.

After disposing of her shoes, Zhuo Jia walked to the edge of the sofa and squatted down to look at her husband, "Smell yourself, it's all stinky, go take a shower, I'll go warm up the meal." ”

"Zhuo Jia, do you dislike me? With a pitiful expression, Sneve reached out and pinched his wife's face.

Zhuojia opened her hand and said angrily, "Don't make a fuss, Ellie just fell asleep." ”

Looking at her bulging cheeks, Snake knew she was really angry, made a grimace, and fled into the bathroom.

After being washed with water, Sneve felt much better tiredly, Zhuojia handed in dry towels and clean clothes from the outside at the right time, and then she sat down with her back against the bathroom door, through the frosted glass on the door, Sneve could see her back, "There are also infected people in our neighborhood today. ”

Sneef paused as he dressed himself, and he could feel the uneasiness in Zhuo Jia's voice, "Tomorrow I will arrange a test flight, and after collecting the necessary data, we will leave, take a vacation, and come back when the limelight has passed." ”

"Hmm. Zhuo Jia stood up and walked away.

Sneef quickly got dressed and walked out of the bathroom, where Zhuojia had already brought the steaming meal to the table, and he sat down on the table and picked up a slice of bread, only to find that the jar of jam was empty.

Zhuo Jia, who was sitting across from him, noticed this embarrassment and explained: "The people in the city are panicking, and the women who sell jam are no longer here. ”

Sneve grinned as he pressed the bread into the hot soup and muttered, "What the world." ”

Zhuo Jia smiled as he watched him enjoy dinner and asked, "How's the progress of the airship?"

"It's okay on the subject side. Snake took a sip of the soup, then picked up the small bottle of pepper on the table and started to demonstrate, "There is no problem with vertical take-off and landing, but the power of propulsion is still insufficient, and it is still too reluctant for an alpha core to bear the power source, I have already submitted an application for two more, but from the existing data, it is difficult to say whether the three alpha binli can be effective, it would be nice if there were omega cores." ”

"You know that's impossible. Zhuo Jia said with a smile.

"yes. Sniff sighed and put down the small bottle in his hand, the entire Vulcan University only kept an Omega core, it was still an old antique left over from hundreds of years ago, and the University Society would definitely not give it to this project in his hands that no one was optimistic about. Because of the ban on magic, the eternal alchemy of the Moro people has plummeted, and they are no longer able to create that kind of powerful power source, and even a large number of alpha cores have to be created by the Empire.

"Can't you try to improve the propulsion system?" asked Zhuojia.

"I'm working on this, but I'm afraid it's not going to be fruitful in a short period of time. Sneef shook his head, because of the quarrel with his colleagues at Volkan University, he came to Danchester alone, without the assistance of any researchers, all the calculation and design aspects had to be done by himself, he didn't have much time to focus on improving the propulsion system, so the progress has been slow, but he has never told Zhuo Jia about this.

But Zhuo Jia was the one who knew him best after all, and she could see a lot of things on his face, and she leaned over and said, "Let me help you." ”

Sniff's head shook like a wave drum.

Zhuo Jia looked at him angrily, "Are you doubting me? I'm also a bachelor recognized by Volkan University!"

Sneve lowered his head and tapped the bowl with a spoon, "Zhuojia, you know, it's not for that reason. ”

Yes, it's not for that reason, Zhuo Jia is his best student, no one, he never doubts her ability, but since Ellie was born, Zhuo Jia's health has not been very good, the work of the airship research institute is very heavy, if Zhuo Jia is added, she will definitely take away a lot of tasks, so Snake is reluctant for her to join.

"That's it, I'll take Ellie tomorrow to see where her dad works. Zhuojia got up and went back to his room, not giving Sneve any chance to refuse, leaving him alone to stare at the plate on the table.

......

The next morning, despite studying the drawings last night until late at night, Sneve woke up early, he still didn't want to take Zhuojia and his daughter to the studio, and was planning to get up early, while they hadn't woken up yet, and secretly left.

It's a pity that Zhuo Jia seemed to have anticipated his thoughts, and got up earlier than him, crossed his waist, stood at the door of the room, and looked at him with a smile.

Sneef was deflated all of a sudden, "Do you have to go?"

Zhuojia nodded, "Of course. ”

He sat on the bed in a daze, watching Zhuo Jia prepare clothes and bottles for their two-year-old daughter, and finally sighed, just go, anyway, there is only one flight test today, and after collecting the necessary data, they will be ready to go on vacation.

Because of the epidemic, the streets were extremely cold, and Snake and Zhuojia did not even meet a single pedestrian on the way to the airship research institute, which was nothing, and the most difficult thing for Snake to accept was that none of the workers in the institute came.

"What's wrong?" asked Zhuojia, hugging Ellie.

"It's nothing, you wait for me here. Snake sighed, fortunately, the preparations were completed yesterday, and the test flight only needed to pull the empty boat out of the factory.

Sneef got into the tractor, pulled the empty boat, and walked out along the guideway, when he suddenly heard a loud bang and felt a clear earthquake. He jumped out of the tractor, ran out of the factory, and looked outside, where thick black smoke rose in the direction of the city.

Zhuojia was soothing the frightened Ellie, and when she saw Kneve she immediately ran over, "What's the matter?"

Sneve shook his head, "I don't know. ”

As soon as his words fell, another loud bang sounded, accompanied by a huge tremor, a fire rose in the direction of the city, and then the siren sounded, which was the siren of an emergency evacuation.

Not knowing what was going on in the city, Snaef climbed into the tractor, dragged the empty boat from the factory to the open field outside, untied the rope, and pulled Zhuojia to the hanger.

Under his control, the airboat overcame gravity and gradually climbed, and Zhuojia carried Ellie to the porthole and pointed out the scenery outside the window to her. The airboat quickly reached a sufficient height, and Sneve took out his binoculars from under the rudder and pointed them in the direction of the city.

Danchester was burning, fires and smoke were rising everywhere in the city, the streets were full of ant-sized people running, Snake adjusted his binoculars to focus on the running crowd, and some people who obviously looked abnormal were slaughtering their kind with kitchen knives, iron rods, and other weapons they could find! This is not an isolated case, this is happening everywhere in the whole of Danchester.

Sneef put down his binoculars, he couldn't believe what he had just seen, he didn't know what was going on in Danchester, but he knew they had to get out of here, he turned the rudder, adjusted the direction of the airboat, and prepared to head out of the city.

"Snef, what's going on?" Drojia picked up the binoculars he had put down and looked down.

"Oh my God!" she held up her binoculars with an incredulous look on her face, "Wait, Sniff, there's somebody out there!"