Ten days had passed since the second explosion at Skyfire Industries.
More than seven thousand battleships had arrived from all over the universe. Some of them were engaged in the battle to annihilate the monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter; but most of them were waiting in the deep space for the next order. If the space crack couldn't be melted and expanded further, they had to carry out the evacuation order given by the central computer.
Fortunately, the Joyous Monk had brought a great number of monsters with him after he entered the Sea of Dark Matter, so the pressure on this side had lessened considerably. The melting of space was going on in an orderly manner, and the seven ascendants were taking turns. If nothing unexpected happened, the situation should be under control in forty days.
"It would be great if Shen Yunmai was still here." Ceng Ju sat next to the medical bay. His right hand, which was severely injured by the high-temperature particles, was placed in the low-temperature repair cloud. He looked at the image on the light screen and subconsciously mumbled to himself.
Shen Yunmai's body was special, and his experience and ability in this aspect were far superior to that of ordinary ascendants. If he was the one presiding over the space melting, even though this space fissure was much larger than the one on Huangyu No. 2, it would not be as difficult as it was now.
The Sword Immortal En Sheng had been lying in the medical cabin due to his severe injuries. He pushed Ceng Ju's hand away with a mechanical hand and asked, "What happened to Shen Yunmai?"
Ceng Ju said, "Happy Monk thinks he's dead. I don't think so."
Sword Immortal En Sheng raised his brows slightly and said, "If Ancestral Master wants to kill his son, there must be a reason."
"When I first came to this world, I visited that girl just like all of you. I don't know what she said to you, but I still remember what she said to me very clearly. "Ceng Ju's voice was slightly hoarse." She said that there is no logic in the universe. "
There was indeed no reason in the universe, and there was no karmic retribution, because it was all human.
The temperature in Skyfire Industries had dropped considerably. The crack in space was clearly visible on the screens.
Ceng Ju suddenly felt that something was wrong. He silently calculated for a moment, but couldn't find anything.
At this moment, the battleship received a message from afar. It was a message from the Happy Monk.
Knowing that the Joyous Monk had come out from the other side of the Sea of Dark Matter unscathed, Ceng Ju was pleasantly surprised; but then he fell silent.
The coordinates sent by Happy Monk were very clear. He was on a habitable planet at the edge of the Scorpion Nebula.
The reason he could come out from the Sea of Dark Matter was that another space crack had appeared there.
Ceng raised his body and issued an order to the thousands of warships in this universe.
Prepare to evacuate all the humans in this star region.
Then, he sent a confirmation of authority to all the officers and soldiers on the Scorching-Sun Battleship.
"What is it?" Sword Immortal En Sheng sat up in the medical cabin, stared into his eyes, and asked.
What answered him was an emergency alarm from the communication system — a spatial rift had appeared on the fourth residential planet of the Starguard 2 galaxy!
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"Even if we rush there at the fastest speed, it will still take seven days."
"There are actually habitable planets in such a remote place?"
"9.6 million people … isn't a lot. There were 700 million people here, and if they were prepared to evacuate at any time, most of the warships could not be moved. Furthermore, the Heavenly Fire's spatial rift is on the verge of melting successfully. We can't be careless. "
"What was the initial evacuation plan? Why aren't there any warships there? "
"That place is too far, and 9.6 million people … is really not a lot."
"According to the latest news from Patriarch Great Sorrow, monsters have already appeared, and there are even Dark Ones … They won't last for seven days. Even if we rush there, it'll be useless. According to the relevant regulations, we should consider cutting off the space passage leading to the other side. "
"That's right. As long as the space passage is destroyed, the Sea of Dark Matter won't affect this side."
"What about the people on this planet?"
"It sounds inhumane, but we all know that this is the best choice. I don't mind taking this responsibility."
"This war is so cruel. We have to give up one galaxy after another. Can't you people come to your senses?"
"Why didn't you give up the Stargate Base then? Why didn't you give up the Huangyu 2? Every planet has an underground base. As long as the local government responds quickly, it is possible to evacuate all the residents underground before the monster invasion takes place. The resources in the bases are enough to support them for ten years. As such, Cultivationists, we don't have seven days, but ten years. "
"That planet is very backward, so the government has never paid attention to it. Nobody knows if the underground fortifications and resources can still be used. Even if they can support it for ten years, what will happen after ten years? I'd like to reiterate that this is indeed a cruel choice; but the Stargate Base is different from the Huangyu 2! If we can't use the multiphase nuclear bombs with a large yield, we have to deploy a large number of ground troops. Who can bear the responsibility of sacrificing tens or even hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers for the sake of the nine million and six hundred thousand people on that planet who are on the relief rations? "
The seven ascendants expressed their opinions in the command system.
The Fairy Swordsman En Sheng didn't say anything. All he did was look at Ceng Ju. It was because he had the highest authority and was the leader of the group as long as Chen Ya hadn't arrived yet.
Ceng Ju said calmly, "We still have to go and have a look. What if something bad happens?"
It was then that the authorization of all the officers and soldiers on the Scorching-Sun Battleship had been verified.
Most of the officers and soldiers, including the researcher in the gray checkered shirt, had volunteered to take part in this rescue mission that might not come back alive.
The Scorching-Sun Battleship turned around slowly in the space and flew toward the edge of the Scorpion Tail Nebula.
It was unclear if they could see any living people when they arrived at the planet called the Full Moon.
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The meeting in the City Hall of Foggy Mountain on the Full Moon Planet had been held for the seventeenth day.
The quarrels had lessened, replaced by mockery. Words such as "it was a false alarm" and "overreaction" were echoing in the meeting hall.
The situation at the Heavenly Fire Industrial Base was under the control of the battleship fleet, and they didn't have to worry about the monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter drifting to the remote countryside through the warped black holes. The Mayor, who had requested the people to prepare for the evacuation a few days ago, became the target of mockery in secret.
Those regular residents who had packed their luggage according to the list of regulations and destroyed all the organic food in their homes had waited in a tense and fearful atmosphere for more than ten days. As a result, they resented the Mayor more than ever.
No matter from which perspective, the Mayor had no chance of winning another term in the election, and he might even be impeached in a few days.
A voice suddenly burst out in the meeting hall.
Compared to the noises everywhere, the voice was a bit too calm and a bit tired. Though it was not very loud, it was clearly heard by everybody.
"It's the first event. All of you, get ready to evacuate."
This was the first statement made by the Joyous Monk after he came back from the Sea of Dark Matter. He was still at the end of the deep pit that was more than forty kilometers long.
A dozen cities on the Full Moon Planet heard this statement at the same time.
The defense system of the planet issued a warning of the highest level. The ear-piercing sound rang out in the City Hall, the residential buildings, the television news, and the wristbands of the residents, and then the relevant regulations were broadcasted by the mechanical and electronic voices.
In the beginning, nobody responded.
The nine million people on the planet were taken aback.
What was the first event?
Why did they suddenly have to evacuate?
Was this another maneuver?
Didn't the Mayor think it was not enough?
In the City Hall of Foggy Mountain, an official recalled what the first event was. "The space … the space crack," he exclaimed while looking at the Mayor with a pale face.
His voice was heard by the people in the surroundings and then spread to a distant place, causing a great deal of discussion; but nobody took any action.
Did the space crack appear on our planet?
Was it the rumored space crack?
It was impossible.
Our planet is so remote and far away from all the prosperity that it is not even known by the majority of people in the Federation of the Milky Way. We don't have any heavy industrial equipment or a large gravitational field generator. We are so poor that we don't have anything; how could there be a space crack?
The Stargate Base and the Heavenly Fire Industrial Base both have the word "base" in their names. They are the most important places in the Federation of the Milky Way, which is why they are qualified to have such an event. How could we be qualified? We don't deserve it, okay? Please don't make such a joke, okay?
All kinds of emotions emerged in the minds of the people in the City Hall and then intertwined with each other.
The Mayor leaned forward slightly with his hands on the small square table on the rostrum. It seemed that he was still listening to the voice, with a bewildered expression on his face.
It was then that the aged manager of the Trade Union leaped onto the rostrum with a vigorous posture that didn't match his age. He slapped the back of the Mayor's head heavily and yelled in a deep voice, "Ellen! Wake up! "
The Mayor looked at the old man while covering his aching head with his hands, his lips trembling slightly. He didn't know what to say.
"Uncle, I've watched you grow up! I know you can take care of these things, but you need to wake up first! "the old man yelled in his ear.
The Mayor had finally come to his senses. Looking at the people in the hall who were looking at him after a moment of silence, he said in a hoarse voice, "Let's get started then."
The distribution map of the hot zones on the surface of the planet and the high-precision satellite map appeared on the light screen of the City Hall. The evacuation orders were issued one after another. The government departments of a dozen other cities had also reacted and started an emergency joint meeting.
The automatic search and confirmation of the system computer was completed soon. The middle area of the high-precision satellite map was displayed. It was an obvious black spot, with a brown glowing layer on its edge. Beside it was a line of eye-catching words — Type-2 Space Crack.
The people on the planet didn't have any wishful thinking anymore. They just looked at the location of the space crack. The sighs and exclamations in the City Hall of various cities had different emotions. That space crack was the closest to Foggy City, about seventy kilometers away in the northern suburbs.
The officials of various levels in the City Hall of Foggy City were communicating with their subordinates. It was a chaotic scene everywhere. But everyone was looking at the light screen out of the corner of their eyes subconsciously. At this moment, all the chaos stopped temporarily, and the atmosphere became extremely tense.
Mayor Ellen was the first to calm down this time. She gently tapped on the intercom and said, "Continue to work."
"Ellen, good luck."
"I hope we can meet underground in a few days."
"My dear, no matter whether we live or die, we will meet underground."
At the emergency joint meeting, the mayors of the other cities expressed their good wishes and then cut off the communication.
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The blessings were sincere, and the mutual hatred was also from the bottom of their hearts. It was their habit to love and kill each other, but those cities couldn't do anything to help Foggy City.
Now, no one could help the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Foggy City. They could only rely on their own strength to survive in such a dangerous situation.
The emergency evacuation order had been issued for twenty minutes. After two drills in the past few days, the government had made a lot of preliminary preparations, and the citizens had also gained some experience. They suppressed the fear and uneasiness in their hearts, brought their carry-on luggage that they had prepared, and went to the planned gathering point. Then, they used public transportation equipment such as maglev trains and large transfer rail cars to go to the nearest entrance of the underground fortifications.
In the evening, the sky was dark, and the street lights were turned on in advance, illuminating all the streets. The light screens on the buildings kept playing relevant news and various orders from the government. From time to time, light screens popped up on everyone's wristbands, indicating their location, describing the route, and then giving accurate guidance.
Eve and her colleagues were responsible for the old factory dormitory building. There were now four thousand people living in the seven building areas, and they only had a total of twenty people. The work was very stressful. Without the guidance of the computer system, they would have collapsed a long time ago. Even so, they were still very busy.
The residents nervously left the dormitory building, passed the road next to the heating pipe, came to the small square in front of the second game hall, and then entered the subway one by one. In front of the subway passage, a temporary simple identity verification door was set up. When people passed through this door, the information on their wristbands would be automatically collected, and then they would be assigned a number, which corresponded to the position of the subway and the order in which they would receive their daily necessities later.
Beep, beep, beep, beep. People carried their luggage, and in groups of families, they walked to the underground passage in silence. No one was arguing, and no one was making trouble. The passage was very fast. Eve pointed at the list on the light screen on her wristband, making sure that they would be able to evacuate in the stipulated half an hour. She was a little relieved, but when she thought about how long they would have to live underground in the future, she could not help but feel a little lost.
She saw a fat boy in sportswear. He must have come with his parents. He was eating a frozen pear in his hand. She couldn't help but laugh. What a child. He was still greedy at this time. How careless. The fat boy felt her gaze and smiled embarrassedly. He said, "Miss Eve, I've given all the others to others, and I only have this one. I can't give it to you."
Some young boys and girls around looked over. Seeing that it was Miss Eve, they were a little less nervous, and they all greeted her. The energetic voices sounded in the twilight, breaking the dead silence in front of the underground passage. There was finally some expression on people's faces.
Miss Eve did not see Jing Jiu. Thinking of the intelligence problems of the siblings, she was a little worried that they had forgotten her reminder a few days ago. She pulled up the list and found that she had forgotten something else. She shook her head in self-blame. After confirming the time, she handed the work in her hands to her colleagues, ran to the back of the game hall, and started her private hover car, flying to the burning buildings not far away.
When the emergency evacuation began, the flight ban on the surface of the planet automatically became invalid. In Fogshan City, under the sunset, all kinds of aircraft taking off and landing in a hurry could be seen everywhere. The light beams from the aircraft of the powerful departments were especially dazzling. It felt like a scene from a movie.
The light red hover car flew through the distant light beam and into the night sky. Dozens of kilometers away, there was a looming golden light. Eve did not dare to think about what was over there. She drove as fast as she could to the 720 building and parked the car crookedly on the flower bed, almost crashing into the birch trees.
Thin snow spattered, and the cat paw prints on the snow were all destroyed. Eve got out of the car and looked at the light in the 720 building. She could not help but feel a little surprised. She quickly put on her glasses and scanned the building twice to make sure that there was no one in the building. They must have been in a hurry to evacuate and forgot to turn off the lights.
She rang the doorbell, and the unit's iron door opened with an unpleasant grinding sound. Then the door was also opened.
Hua Xi was holding a big bowl full of porridge, and there was a grain of rice at the corner of her mouth.
She was stunned when she saw it was Eve outside the door. After a while, she reacted and asked, "Miss, have you eaten?"
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