Eve was speechless. She walked into the house and saw that the TV was indeed not turned on. Jing Jiu was sitting at the table, and the familiar big doll was on the sofa.
This was the first time she had walked into Jing Jiu's house in over a year, but she did not have time to observe anything or sit down. She directly said to Jing Jiu, "I told you a few days ago to be prepared to evacuate at any time. Why haven't you left yet?"
Jing Jiu stood up and said, "Because …"
"Hurry up and leave. Don't bring anything except the things on the list … Remember to destroy the organic matter … Forget it, just bring it." Eve looked at the egg in his hand and rubbed her forehead with a headache. She said, "Hurry up and go to the game hall. There's a gathering. Someone will take you there."
Hua Xi hugged the bowl to her chest and raised her hand proudly. "I saw the list and collected the things."
Eve sighed and simply followed her into the bedroom. She took out the things and gestured for Jing Jiu to leave with her. As for the eggs and food in the kitchen and the black things on the windowsill, she did not care whether they would be contaminated by the dark energy and turn into spores or not.
Jing Jiu took the luggage from her hands. Hua Xi rushed to the sofa as fast as she could and replaced the big bowl in her arms with Xue Gie's. When they arrived at Building 720, the three of them squeezed into the red hover car. As soon as they sat down, the hover car rose into the sky.
Jing Jiu looked out the window and saw the tower formed from Buddhist light dozens of kilometers away. He saw the young monk in the tower and could not help but feel curious.
The evacuation alarm had been ringing for a long time. They did not leave because Xue Gie had no intention of leaving.
Xue Gie had been behaving strangely for the past few days. She kept staring into the distance.
It was not somewhere in this world, but somewhere in the void.
The red hover car quickly landed behind the wall of the game hall.
After Jing Jiu got out of the car, he found that Teacher Eve had no intention of getting out. The hover car did not turn off either, as if it was going to leave again.
With his hand on the door, he looked at Eve and asked, "Where are you going?"
Eve reached out and rubbed his hair. She smiled and said, "There is another family similar to yours. I'm going to pick them up."
Jing Jiu didn't quite understand what had happened today, nor did he understand her thoughts. He said seriously, "Don't be a hero."
"It's not about being a hero. It's about responsibility."
Eve said, "I was so busy that I forgot the standard procedure. For a family like yours, the evacuation should have been arranged by the community."
The red hover car left the ground and quickly disappeared into the twilight.
Jing Jiu felt that this scene was somewhat familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.
He withdrew his gaze and led Hua Xi around the gaming hall to the entrance of the underground tunnel.
At this time, there were fewer people who had not entered the underground. More than a dozen mobile police officers were holding laser guns, vigilantly watching the surroundings. The sparse crowd slowly passed through the simple detection door.
Hua Xi was a little nervous and subconsciously grabbed the corner of Jing Jiu's clothes.
Jing Jiu turned around and looked at the Snow Girl in her arms.
The Snow Girl was still looking at the distance, without giving him any instructions.
They walked forward along the sparse crowd. As soon as they passed through the detection door, a loud thud like a muffled thunder could be heard from the north. Soon after, the ground quaked violently, and a great deal of dust sprayed up. An abandoned building in the distance collapsed.
Some people fell to the ground due to the strong earthquake. It was a bit chaotic, with cries and screams everywhere.
The government workers and police officers came over to maintain the order and help the wounded, and at the same time urged the people outside to enter the underground tunnel as soon as possible.
Hua Xi was very scared. She grabbed the corner of Jing Jiu's clothes more tightly reflexively and hugged the Snow Girl even more tightly.
The Snow Girl was still gazing at the distance, her dark eyes full of complicated emotions.
There was no fear in her eyes, but an indescribable complicated emotion.
In the past, her expression was simple and clean, be it in the snowland of Chaotian, in the Sword Jail of Aoyama or in the sewers, be it strong or proud, indifferent or timid. However, her expression was complicated at the moment.
The place she was looking at was not in the empty space, but in this world; more precisely, it was seventy kilometers to the north of Foggy City.
Cold Cicada flew back from somewhere and landed on the top of the Snow Girl's head, turning back into the bowknot, bringing back more accurate information.
Those invisible mosquitoes had also flown back, scattering around Jing Jiu and Hua Xi.
The energy ripples coming out from Cold Cicada and the mosquitoes were a bit excited; it was probably because they had seen the patch of ocean and some familiar fellows.
The fellows referred to here were not the monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter, but the cockroaches used by the humans as scouts.
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There were many releasing devices in the suburbs of Foggy City and a dozen other cities. As soon as the cracks in the space appeared, those releasing devices rose up from the underground. A large amount of stimulants were poured into the devices, awakening the cockroaches that had been sleeping for many years.
A great number of cockroaches flew toward the cracks in the space like a storm, looking like the plague of locusts on the Shepherd Planet in the documentary. The cockroaches blocked the sky and the sun, making the twilight fall earlier. It was a magnificent scene when the tiny sensors in their bodies and the dim light emitted by the bombs were added to the cockroaches.
The swarm of cockroaches arrived at the northern suburbs of Foggy City and ascertained the range of the Sea of Dark Matter. Through the data collected by the satellites, the municipal authorities found that the range of the dark energy was much smaller than predicted by the mathematical model; they couldn't help but feel surprised.
What was the reason? Could someone block the cracks in the space? … …
It was late at night. The Buddhist pagoda on the deserted factory was even clearer; but it was blocked by the lotus cloud, so no satellite could see it.
Sitting cross-legged on the top of the pagoda, the Joyful Monk employed the Grand Nirvana and his own magic to suppress the outflow of the Sea of Dark Matter. All of a sudden, he sensed countless tiny energies. He opened his eyes and looked at the distance. As soon as he saw those cockroaches, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows in disgust.
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"Do you need help?" Jing Jiu turned his head and asked the Snow Girl.
He didn't know what had happened that day, but he felt that the Snow Girl should know the young monk in the distance. It was because she had been looking in that direction the entire time.
The scattered footsteps could be heard in the underground passage, and the atmosphere was tense and silent. Someone heard his voice and thought that he was talking to Hua Xi.
Hua Xi said innocently with her eyes wide open, "I'll hold her in my arms."
The Snow Girl in Hua Xi's arms was expressionless, looking like a real doll. She didn't pay any attention to Jing Jiu.
They came to the underground passage and passed two inspection gates before they boarded the subway along with the last group of evacuating residents.
Jing Jiu led Hua Xi to a remote seat and sat down. It was like going to a hobby class every day, but it was different nonetheless.
The billboard outside the window had been replaced twenty days ago, and the light on it had been switched off since then.
The subway would float up slightly when it passed the junction, giving off a distinctive buzzing sound.
After passing the Yanshan Station, the subway didn't move forward according to the original route, but turned to the right onto another floating track.
It was written on the wall by the edge of the track that was for maintenance, but it was actually a passageway leading to the underground fortifications.
As the subway traveled downward, the air pressure in the carriage changed noticeably. Some residents covered their ears uncomfortably.
After a long while, the subway had finally arrived at the end of the journey and entered a brightly lit and spacious station.
The platform of the station was crowded with people. According to the instructions on the light screen on the wall and the numbers on the bracelets, the crowd was divided into dozens of areas.
Jing Jiu walked out of the carriage and glanced at his bracelet before he followed the crowd to his own area quietly. Hua Xi held the Snow Girl in one hand and the corner of Jing Jiu's cloth in the other, looking pitiful and adorable. She attracted the attention of many people even at such a chaotic time.
A fat youth in a tracksuit was in the crowd. Looking at Jing Jiu and Hua Xi, he extended his hand in an attempt to say something; but he was slapped on the back of his head forcefully by his father. He sat back in the chair feeling wronged, mumbling something like a frozen pear and a gift.
The Federation of the Milky Way hadn't encountered the invasion of the inhabited planets by the Sea of Dark Matter for several decades; but they had never slackened their education in this regard. All the residents had to learn the relevant courses when they entered the school, and the drills were carried out every year.
With such a foundation, with the help of the developed public transportation system and the efficient computer command, the evacuation of Fogshan City went quite smoothly. Of course, this was also due to the efforts of the City Hall staff and Mayor Ellen's anger some time ago.
Six hundred thousand residents of Foggy City had been evacuated from the ground and entered the corresponding underground fortifications. The underground fortifications were powered by the nuclear power furnaces and had complete resources and life-sustaining systems, which could ensure that the residents could live in them for more than ten years.
Who would have thought that the seemingly smooth evacuation operation would have such a huge problem at the end?
Four thousand residents in the old industrial dormitories were taken to the entrance of the underground base by the subway, but they couldn't get in.
It was because the alloy door sealing the entrance couldn't be opened.
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Except for Mayor Ellen and a dozen officials, the rest of the staff in the City Hall had gone to the frontline; it was much more deserted than usual.
The evacuation of Foggy City was carried out smoothly. Seeing the confirmation from the computer in the system and the residents entering the base one after another, Mayor Ellen felt much more relaxed. He picked up the teacup and drank a mouthful of tea; then he heard the terrible news.
He spat out the tea leaves that had been soaked in water and cursed, "How long has it been?! Why didn't you report it earlier?! "
The official in charge of the opening of the base said in a trembling voice, "We wanted to have a try."
"F * ck you!" Mayor Ellen flew into a rage and cursed all the dirty words he could think of. It wasn't until then that the officials close to him remembered that Mayor Ellen's family was from the trade union, and he was not as mild as he had been in recent years.
He didn't have enough time to curse to his heart's content. He turned to a supervisor of a department and asked with a terrible expression, "Is this the result of the inspection?"
After the first explosion of Dreamfire Industrial Base, he asked the relevant departments to start checking the situation of the underground base. After the second explosion, he repeated it again, but there was still a problem, and it was such a low-level but extremely troublesome problem.
The earthquake just now showed that the space crack was expanding, and the multi-faceted monitoring system had indirectly detected the existence of dark energy. In the fields north of Foggy City, no one knew how many cockroaches exploded and died, and the shadow was coming to the city. If the 4,000 residents of the industrial dormitory area couldn't enter the base later, they would definitely all die, and then become the terrible sequence in the files …
At this time, the video footage of the underground station was finally connected. The people on the platform still maintained order and waited with unimaginable patience, but if the alloy door never opened, could the people still maintain their current calm?
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The sound of discussion began to grow louder and louder on the platform.
After the people were evacuated to this place, there was no more movement. It was unknown what the officials and policemen were doing in front of the door, which naturally aroused a lot of speculation and uneasiness. The fear was gradually magnified, and it was very likely that it would break out at any time.
The door in the side wall of the platform was about ten meters high, and its width was even more astonishing. It was hard to imagine that it was a door if it didn't have a clear label on it, and no one could imagine that the seemingly ordinary cement wall contained the strongest alloy developed by the Federation of the Milky Way.
The fear and uneasiness of the crowd fell on the officials in front of the door, especially the three technical officials who were responsible for opening the door. Their faces were pale, and their uniforms were soaked in sweat. When they found that the alloy door couldn't be opened, they implemented three backup plans as quickly as possible, but they still didn't succeed. It was not a problem of password or identification, but the most troublesome problem of physics.
According to the latest self-examination report of the computer, the alloy door was slightly deformed after being squeezed by a powerful external force for decades. The deformation was transmitted to the main lock, which directly led to the physical jamming, which meant that the door was stuck. The external force came from the underground rock stratum itself, and the deformation of the rock stratum was due to a more complicated reason, which should have something to do with the smuggling tunnels dug by the pirates in the past …
Regardless of the reason, the door couldn't be opened unless someone could mobilize a battleship to help.
Thinking of the dreadful scene to come, the officials breathed more and more heavily. A technical official couldn't stand it any longer and knelt down on the ground with his legs going soft. This scene triggered more unfavorable speculations. The crowd started to get restless; some of them started to cry, and some of them started to curse.
In the midst of the chaos, a youth in a blue tracksuit walked to the alloy door with a little girl holding a doll.
"Do you need any help?" he asked.
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