"Why?" Natsuki didn't understand.

"We are here to live, not only for ourselves, but also to try to pass on the fire to others. If, the devastated Earth is now recovering. If, people outside are waiting for good seeds in the seed bank...... How, then, are we qualified to interrupt the revival of humanity? Security Captain Kerry said.

The doors are opening.

The warning sound is deafening, the gears mesh turn, the dust shakes off, and the locking bolts are ejected with a crisp sound.

Immediately afterward, the pneumatic kit made a "hiss" sound, spewing out the air that had been dusty for two years.

The huge hatch moved back, and a chill blew in from the outside. Natsuki saw a few sensational strange figures outside, they were demons!

"You're cheating!"

"Leave that kid behind!"

"I'll kill you!" The enraged Vault residents had already discovered Captain Kerry's covert operations, grabbing shovels, shovels, gardening hoes, and iron pipes and rushing over.

"Get out of here! Kid," security captain Kerry stepped back, "live well, maybe look up at the unspoiled blue sky." ”

"I'll turn into light and come back! Shine a light on here! Natsuki promised, and then rushed out with his back to them.

There were many frozen corpses in the passage outside, and they desperately tried to enter the shelter, but they were cut off and killed by the bitter cold.

At the end of the passage, frost demons of all sizes roared and rushed over.

Natsuki unleashed her magic power and turned her body into a strong light, illuminating the entire passage and melting the ice on the frost demons.

What a strong sun!

Stellar rays, the demons are all too familiar. And the light in Natsuki's hand has increased to an unprecedented level, far exceeding the normal flux of sunlight photons, and the harmless warm light has turned into an overwhelming particle bombardment.

As soon as it touched the light, the ice shell on the Frost Demon's body hissed rapidly, sublimating into a burst of white mist that reflected a variety of colors.

They stared in horror at the infinite light in the passage before them, and within seconds they were evaporated.

Natsuki crashed into it in one go, and the Frost Demon let out a crazy roar before dying, swinging its claws desperately forward, slapping in all directions, but to no avail, they were destroyed by heat and light.

The glow of the sun attracted more frost demons, and all the demons of Svalbard rushed over.

Natsuki rushed outside in one go.

She looked at the vast and silent sky, is this the earth now? There is no God, and there is no master.

"Roar!" A frost demon rushed down from the top of the snowy peak.

It is more than ten meters tall, like a horned giant, and with every step it smashes the mountains under its feet, causing massive earthquakes that trample the entire mountain with a roar.

Natsuki looked at the more and more frost demons that were surging in, raised his hand and lowered it again.

She didn't feel cold, nor did she feel scared.

She just unleashed the fury of the sun on them, and it was as if a fusion reaction erupted in her body, everything around her melted and collapsed, and the magic condensed into a corona-like scene, like a ring of fire on the surface of the sun spreading out and burning everything.

In the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Circle, a giant lotus made of pure light blooms, like the arrival of summer.

……

……

"Ahh

"It's Natsuki! Her light was too dazzling. Zhang Su picked up Saho, dodged a round of bright light, and then took her to fly up.

In the vast snow-capped mid-mountain area, they saw a small, warm figure, very familiar.

It's Natsuki kneeling on the ground!

She shone brightly and dug through the stone with her hands, so that her hands were covered with blood.

What's going on?

Zhang Su saw that the mountain peaks in front of him were in chaos, flying stones and solid ice were rolling wildly, and he had obviously experienced a large-scale conflict.

"Natsuki!" Saho ran over from behind and hugged Natsuki.

Natsuki's body trembled violently.

"They're still alive." Natsuki's hand grabbed the crumbling stone, "They must still be alive, you tell me, right?" They are alive! Still alive! ”

Zhang Su lifted the stones and moved them away.

Only then did he realize that it had been a tunnel to an underground shelter, but that everything had collapsed in the conflict.

This was accompanied by numerous rubble breaks, and it was clear that there had been a massive earthquake here.

The surrounding area is full of the remains of large and small demons, frozen for a long time.

The corpses of the demons were destroyed, then frozen again, forming black tombstones.

Natsuki and the demons had fought here, but that must have been almost a year ago.

Ever since the battle, Natsuki has been digging for rocks here, trying to find a way back to the shelter, but her magic can't destroy the collapsed mountain.

Even if she burned the stone into glass, she couldn't remove it.

"Natsuhi! I'm coming, listen to me, Natsuki, calm down. Zhang Su knelt beside Xia Xi on one knee and hugged her with one hand.

"Woo...... Woo-ah-ah...... I'm going back...... I'm going back to help them......" Xia Xi's head rested on Zhang Su's shoulder.

"Kill me to make you happy, don't cry." Saho also ran over and knelt beside Natsuki, holding one of her arms with her hand.

"It's okay, now everyone is here, it's okay. I'm here to remove all these stones, don't worry about shelters. Zhang Su was relieved.

Saho helped Natsuki to the side.

Zhang Su looked at the collapsed tunnel, he walked forward and began to dig.

His strength was so great that the Martial God could separate the mountain with a slight flick, and the large stone was placed aside, clearing a path for people to pass through.

Zhang Su strode in.

A passage leads to the Seed Vault itself, littered with cooled demon corpses and a large number of long-dead refugees.

Temperatures of minus forty degrees had frozen their dead faces, and they were not corrupted, and the frost on the corners of their mouths and the sad smiles on their faces could be seen.

Natsuhi had been fighting the demons here, and the refugees had fallen to the ground, seemingly unable to enter the shelter, and had been cut off.

Seed shelters have a limited capacity. Zhang Su thought silently.

He opened the door to the half-sheltered Vault, where some people died, dressed in blue Vault uniforms, hugging each other, cold and inseparable.

It seems that because of the running out of fuel, the heating equipment is unable to stop the cold from penetrating. Zhang Su looked back, the passage was very long, the overall structure had been distorted, and the originally straight ground was now cracking everywhere. Without construction machinery, Natsuki would have to spend years digging up the passage by herself.

It seems that due to the blockage of the outer passage during the battle, the residents were unable to go out, and without Natsuki's support, they all died of cold.

Zhang Su walked forward.

Most of the furniture in the vault was gone, the bookshelves were empty, and all the wood, plastic, and paper products were missing, perhaps burned by them as fuel.

Zhang Su walked through the living quarters, which were also silent and empty.

He searched his way down to the Big Seed Insulation Warehouse, where the power storage facility had been shut down and the seeds had been damaged by frost damage in the bitter cold and had to be recycled in time. It's like a graveyard of plant genes.

It would be nice if Qingxiao was here. Zhang Su thought.

Rather than the dead seeds, Zhang Su wanted to find the survivors.

"Anyone?" He shouted, his voice echoing for a long time. Zhang Su's voice is very penetrating, if you can't call people like this, it means that no one is alive......

He walked through the botanical lab, the tray was empty, and all the plants were gone, as if they had been violently pulled out.

Even the plants they used for research were taken and burned, and many things were no longer important in the face of the shadow of death.

At the bottom of the shelter, Zhang Su saw a huge cone, piled high, like a mountain of people.

When he got closer, he realized that it was indeed a mountain where people had piled up.

All the dead in the vault were here, and they all froze to death.

Holding hands and hugging each other, they had no clothes on them, but piled them all on the outside, forming a large fabric barrier, and the clothes were covered with thin cut plastic, trying to resist the hypothermia.

Zhang Su couldn't help but stand still and mourn for them.

Judging from the direction of the line, they were surrounded by the last energy generator of the shelter, that is, the last heat source, before they died.

The pile mouth next to it was full of plant ashes, Zhang Su checked the traces, and they tried to burn everything they could, and held on until the last moment.

Judging from the contents, first the oil, then the wood, then the books, then the plants, and finally, Zhang Su saw that there were still human ashes inside.

With nothing more to rummage through, he walked over to the mountain of corpses, slowly peeling off the outer layer of fabric.

He carried away the remains of the old men from the outermost part, followed by the bodies of the men. Then, he carefully separated the woman's body from inside, like a giant flower of a corpse, petal after petal.

Zhang Su felt himself close to the core of the device.

Here, younger people are holding hands, expressions of compassion and sadness. There were a few people with tranquil and sacred expressions, as if they had seen something beautiful before they died, believing that they were about to go to a place that was no longer cold and no longer terrifying.

After Zhang Su moved them out, he saw a child in the center, holding a breathable incubator in his arms.

There's a singular plant inside.

Its leaves were shiny and shiny, like jade, and its roots were clinging to the wall of the box, and it seemed to begin to revive when it sensed the approach of Zhang Su's heat source.

The leaves are so large, they have the excellent appearance of wheat and rice, and they are as productive as tuber plants.

This is the last relic of the Svalbard Sanctuary.

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……

Zhang Su left the shelter with the plants and some seed heritage.

He saw that Natsuki was still in tears, and Makoto and Bomb Bomb climbed up the snow slope, maintaining restraint and not interfering, and Saho hugged Natsuki and didn't let go.

"Are they all dead?" Natsuki looked up, her face full of horror and despair.

Zhang Su handed the incubator in his hand to Xia Xi.

She recognized the abundant plant inside, and reached out to pick it up and hold it in her arms.

The light moistens the abundance, and it begins to grow. Natsuki began to cry at the thought of the promise she hadn't kept.

"Let's go home and plant it." "We want to make it all meaningful." There are graves for bodies and substances, but we can't bury hope. ”

(End of chapter)