Chapter II: Sequence A
"Alert, Containment N-2814 discovered...... Containment N-2814 found ......"
A screeching alarm echoed through the control center. A large screen of more than 100 inches hangs in the middle of the room, and people in standard uniforms move between the extremely sophisticated equipment.
Tang Wen stood in the command position of the control center and conveyed the command through the headset: "Where is the position?" ”
"Xiangjiang District, Kangtu City, between Tongle Supermarket and the nearby residential community."
The image on the screen changes as the correspondent responds. A map is punched in the frame, and an orange-red exclamation point is punched between a map of the city.
"Who's the nearest commissioner?" Tang Wen asked.
"It's Commissioner Crow." Next to him, a young man in a gray suit straightened his wide glasses and reported to him, "Commissioner Raven has been alerted, and he is on his way to ......"
"No, let him keep his distance first." Tang Wen interrupted, "Don't startle the snake, wait for backup first." ”
The young man in the gray suit was stunned and asked, "But now, Commissioner Crow is the Operations Commissioner of Sequence B." His strength ......"
"It's not enough to cope." Tang Wen interrupted irritably, "You really should do your homework, Xiao An." The leak of Containment N-2814 is likely to be the most dangerous containment leak in Kantu City in the last three years, with a hazard sequence of Level 3 or higher.
The Holy Maiden had an encounter with it last week, but it still fled. ”
Xiao An's eyes widened: "The holy woman is...... The ...... in Sequence A"
"Yes, it can fight the Holy Maiden and get out of it. That's telling. So let the crow wait for backup......"
Before Tang Wengang's voice fell, the piercing alarm echoed in the control center again. Tang Wen's face changed instantly.
"What!?"
It's a hell of a day. This siren, like the one just now, represents a high-level alert incident. But a high-alert event is no bigger than a supermarket discount, and it's rare to see this happen once in a few years.
But in just a few minutes today, the same alarm went off twice in a row. I'm afraid this is the first time since the establishment of the Tianyan Society.
"Sir!" A correspondent shouted, "Something is breaking through the atmosphere!" It's so fast, it's almost ......."
I didn't even finish the debriefing.
Because the people are coming too fast, the time is too short.
Like a meteorite from out of the sky, it flew across the dark sky and into the city, hitting the empty streets near midnight with a deafening bang. The asphalt was blown to pieces, and the pitch-black debris rained down like a rain. Columns of water spray into the endless night sky from the ruptured pipes, as if they were fountains adorned for a grand advent.
"The signal is interrupted, the picture is lost!"
"Trying to restore road monitoring ......"
The control center was in chaos for a moment, and the crackling keyboard clicks seemed to form a special symphony.
Tang Wen looked at the huge screen that suddenly went blank, and an extremely ominous premonition crept into his heart.
Studies have shown that cats rush up trees and dogs dig restlessly before certain disasters strike. Because they can sense something, they can sense the coming calamity.
Just like he feels right now.
It was as if a voice whispered in his ear, telling the truth that it was meant to happen.
It's going to change.
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Xiangjiang District.
The unknown thing made a "grand" appearance, and when it landed, it exploded an amazing crater on the road, and the billowing smoke and dust were like thousands of horses.
The man in the white suit raised his arm to protect him, squinted his eyes and stared directly at the storm, as if he wanted to see the figure of the ground through the smoke.
Through the thick gray smoke, a figure floated out of the smoke screen.
Silhouette of a girl. She floated above the crater, her feet dangling in the air, a cloak fluttering behind her like a battle flag.
The cold gaze pierced through the smoke, and the gaze swept over the white suit without pause, as if it had no interest in him.
Her eyes soon fell on Jiangbei, whose heart was pierced and her body was blown away by the storm she landed after she swallowed her breath.
The man in the white suit turned his cane twice, and the sky was suddenly covered with thunderclouds. The black cane seemed to have some kind of power authority transformed into an entity, and with a light sweep, it was like a general wielding a sword. The blue lightning was his army roaring down from the other side of the black clouds.
The tumbling arc of lightning tore through the sky like thunder for nine days. In the imagination of the ancients, it was a power that belonged to God, a power that should not be held by man, and a divine punishment from heaven.
The moment before being hit, the girl's attention was on the corpse not far away.
Thunder fell, almost engulfing her figure. The pale blue lightning bolt pierced through the smoke screen, and the electric light surged in all directions like a tidal wave. All the street lamps along the street were blown up in the mournful roar, and the electric sparks turned into a torrential rain of thunder.
Black smoke rises, and the space seems to be distorted by the heat. The girl stood in the middle of the remaining beating arcs, slowly turned her head, and looked at the man in the white suit, as if she had only noticed his presence now.
The man in the white suit froze along with his movements and expression.
The reaction was like saying, sister, don't take it seriously, I just had a joke......
The girl's eyes turned red. Her beautiful eyes seemed to have melted into lava and turned a magma-like crimson. Red-hot lines spread radially under the white, transparent skin around her eye sockets, and the rapidly rising temperature distorted the space.
Two ultra-hot laser beams roared out of those eyes.
There was no room to dodge at all, and the red-hot laser beam had already hit the body of the white suit in an instant. It was as if it was a pair of eyes of death, but whatever she saw was destined to be burned to ashes, and there was no fluke and no mercy.
The elaborate white suit was melted down in an instant, but what was followed by not a human body, but a black distorted form. The cane melted into the body and seemed to become a part of it.
In fact, hidden in this white suit is a body with extremely terrifying power, with a power beyond the scope of ordinary people's comprehension. It's just that this point is completely unmanifested at this moment, it is like a fallen leaf that has accidentally fallen into the torrent under that crimson hot gaze, and there is no choice but to go with the flow.
A red-hot beam of light lifted its body, and the monster in the white suit struggled to be launched into the dark night, the crimson light seemed to lead straight to the end of the world. The terrifying impact sent it kilometers away, before it was completely melted and crushed in mid-air, vanishing in the night.
The beam vanished, and the crimson light dissipated from the girl's eye sockets. She turned around and gently landed beside the dead Jiangbei, tilting her head thoughtfully.
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0:15.
Tang Wen stood at the devastated battle scene, his face full of incredulity.
"Let me clear my mind," he said, "you're telling me that an extraordinary—most likely a transcendent with the ability to fly—descended from the sky and spawned for us as if it were N-2814, a high-risk containment object of the Danger Sequence Level 3 or higher......
...... And it only took a moment? ”
The research team members in white overalls looked at each other.
"You're the leader, old Teng." Tang Wen designated one of them, "You have also been in the research group for many years, you have a lot of experience, and you have always done a good job - otherwise you would not be able to do the position of team leader."
So you tell me with your vast professional experience...... Is this reasonable? ”
Lao Teng of the research group had a bitter face: "Uh...... Sir, if you were to ask me if it was reasonable, I would certainly say that it was absolutely unreasonable.
All surveillance signals were cut off the moment it landed, so we had no way of knowing what it was. However, all remaining signs of the scene do point to this result - some transcendent descended from the sky, and N-2814 was as weak as a baby in front of it. ”
Tang Wen took a deep breath: "So it means that we now have a Sequence A transcendent, and the details are completely unknown?" ”
Lao Teng was silent for a moment, then shook his head solemnly.
"No, sir." He said word for word, "Sequence A is conservative." ”