That brat Lin Xue really wanted to make things difficult for me at all costs.
It wasn't just Resident Evil — her meaning was quite obvious. The troubles in this world definitely weren't as simple as Resident Evil. This wasn't surprising at all. The great prophet had specifically asked me to personally come to this low-magic, low-energy world. If there were only a few undead here, then that brat really had nothing better to do … Cough, cough, at any rate, this planet definitely had something other than Resident Evil.
But it definitely wouldn't be like the last time we entered the End Plane, where we were contaminated by star ring fragments. Just now, the mothership in orbit had already sent out detectors, and they didn't discover any similar sources of contamination on this planet. In fact, there wasn't even anything that could be called a high-energy reaction. Apart from some suspicious large-scale natural disasters, the entire planet didn't have any signs of being smashed by objects from outer space. The Empire's theory of non-flammable garbage pollution didn't hold water here. In that case, could the "something" that Lin Xue mentioned possibly exist in a way that we couldn't detect?
This was what I was feeling vexed about. Lin Xue obviously knew what was in this damned place, but that brat just wouldn't tell me … I know that spoilers aren't good, but can't you just tell me about it and I won't tell the readers?
Cough, cough, did you guys see anything just now?
"It's so desolate. There's not a single person here …"
We led a hundred fully-armored Empire soldiers. We had no intention of hiding our movements at all. The clattering sounds of our soldiers' alloy armor echoed throughout the entire street, but not a single dead person appeared, much less a living person.
"That's strange. Was this place struck by lightning?"
Chestnut of the Poison Island was observing the surrounding skyscrapers. She hadn't noticed anything from afar, but after we entered the city, we saw that the top floors of all the tall buildings were more or less damaged. It was as if they had been struck by lightning.
"Stupid human, I don't like this place!" Mercury Lamp furrowed her brows. At first, she insisted on walking on her own and kept a distance of at least two meters from me. However, ever since we entered the city, this girl unconsciously moved closer to me. Now, she even pretended not to notice me and sat on my shoulder. "Hey, when are we leaving?"
It was impossible for Mercury Lamp to be afraid of such a small scene. Although she looked like a little doll, the curiosity in her stomach was probably even stronger than Liliana's. Rather than fear, it was more accurate to say that she instinctively hated the atmosphere in the city. This could be seen from the expression on her face.
As an incomplete alchemy creature, she seemed to be more sensitive to the death and filth here than normal creatures.
"Have the people in the city been evacuated?"
Komuro Takashi and the others were surrounded by layers of Empire soldiers. Their security level was at least twenty plus. However, after returning to this place filled with terrible memories, they couldn't help but gather together and look around vigilantly. The one who spoke was Miyamoto Rei. This girl, whom I had always thought of as half a flower vase, quickly regained her courage after returning here. Now, she was carefully observing the situation around us.
I lowered my head and looked at the holographic projection floating in front of me. "The probes have been released. In a few minutes, they will be able to return a three-dimensional report of the entire city. However, so far, there are no signs of life. They are either all dead or all running away. Hopefully, it's the latter."
"There seems to be a smell …" Chestnut of the Poison Island moved closer and sniffed. She muttered, "It smells terrible."
Ah, it smells terrible. I had smelled it enough when I was roasting bugs in the Keplu Sector. It was the smell of burning corpses!
"It's in front. But the scene might not be suitable for children."
"I'm not afraid!" The little loli, who had been protected by the adults, said in a childish voice. "With these powerful uncles protecting me, I'm not afraid at all!"
Immediately, the faces of the one hundred Empire soldiers lit up. Was it an illusion?
"Ugh …" Even though we had shown that we were calm and unafraid, when we actually went around a block and arrived at the central square, the seven members of the cockroach group vomited.
Corpses strewn everywhere and blood flowing like a river?
If that was the case, it would be better!
The scene in the square could no longer be described as "corpses strewn everywhere". Even those "things" no longer had the shape of humans. These charred remains could only be called "objects". They were fats and organs that had flowed out of human bodies after being burned by the high temperature. Then, layer upon layer, they covered the entire square and solidified into coke. The circular area with a radius of a few hundred meters was covered with a meter thick layer of corpses. Hundreds of thousands of corpses were gathered together and burned like sardines in a can. It was impossible to distinguish whether they were male or female, old or young. They had been burned into a whole piece of carbonized fat. At this moment, many thoughts flashed through my mind, but the first one that popped up was …
It really looked like the cake that Sandora baked for me the day before yesterday … Ugh … That girl's cooking was too nauseating.
What was even more disgusting was that the surface of the mountain of corpses that covered the entire square was occasionally embedded with one or two recognizable human faces. Under the effect of the high temperature, the muscles of these human faces were distorted, and they looked like monsters that were sealed in hell. Alice burst into tears.
At the same time, I also felt that Mercury Lamp was trembling slightly. This puppet might have no pressure to kill people, and she might be able to face the corpses calmly, but just because she wasn't afraid didn't mean that she wasn't disgusted by such a scene. Zhang Fei probably threw his shoes when he stepped on sh * t. This had nothing to do with courage. Mercury Lamp was simply disgusted. If she was fully functional, she might also vomit right now.
Thanks to Rozen-sama who had already passed away, Mercury Lamp didn't have a stomach. This girl was now riding on my neck …
And to be honest, I was also disgusted.
"This … What's going on …"
Hirano's facial expression was complicated. Halfway through his sentence, he suddenly felt like vomiting, but he endured it for a long time and swallowed it back down.
As a result, Shiki, who was next to him, suddenly vomited.
"It seems that the evacuees finally found a way to gather most of the corpses in this square, and then set this place on fire." I looked at the pile of metal wreckage in the center of the square, which could no longer be seen. Perhaps that was the tombstone of the last few living people in this city. No matter how I looked at it, in such a tragic scene, there was no way for humans to escape, unless they lost the cheat code and a helicopter parachuted here.
"And it seems like they didn't finish burning it."
Mercury Lamp, who was riding on my neck, suddenly noticed something unusual. She pointed to the end of the street and said, "Those disgusting garbage, are they the zombies that stupid humans are talking about?"
That thing was called Dead Body in this world. Can we pay attention to the copyright issues?
"Damn it, there really is that kind of thing-" Shiki said angrily, and then habitually tried to find a weapon around him, but someone was more professional than him.
"B-6 Form Combat Armor!"
The accompanying officer of the Imperial Army immediately gave the order. After a series of mechanical clicks, the Empire soldiers around us switched to three six-barreled particle cannons, the most effective and cheap weapon to deal with vulnerable groups of soft targets.
At this moment, a dense mass of black shadows gradually appeared at the end of the street. Dead bodies, these incomplete corpses that were roaring unconsciously, finally appeared in front of us. Their bodies were covered in rotting flesh as they staggered forward. Every expert in the medical profession would be screwed to death in the field of biology and physics. At this moment, I also recalled Lin Xue's words, "… They've probably evolved. Tsk, what a third-rate plot."
They had indeed evolved. In the original plot, the corpses had no five senses other than hearing. But now, it was obvious that they did not follow the sound to this place. The clashing of the armor of the Empire soldiers beside us could not have attracted the enemy from more than ten streets away. The information from the probes showed that even the corpses on the other side of the city had started to move in this direction.
"Fire at will!"
The moment the imperial officer gave the order, more than a hundred meat grinders on the battlefield started spitting out tongues of fire. Even a storm wouldn't be able to describe the firepower of these fierce soldiers. The astonishing firing rate of the triple-headed, six-barreled particle cannons fired tiny plasma balls that carried an astonishing electric field and temperature. The energy clouds formed from the resonance of the plasma balls formed a flat wall. Komuro Takashi and the others didn't even have time to scream before the area around us was cleared.
It was so clean. At least twenty reinforced concrete buildings were vaporized into atmospheric matter as soon as the officer beside me said the word "fire". As far as the eye could see, the surroundings were flat, just like Pandora's airport that had not developed for hundreds of thousands of years. Since the plasma balls could instantly turn the surrounding materials into plasma after being released, many of the buildings that had been vaporized were neatly cut as if they had been cut by a knife.
The shooting continued. Even though they had switched to cheap ground weapons, the lethality of these Empire weapons was still not something that those joking moving pieces of meat could withstand. In fact, other than a flash in front of us, the corpses did not appear in our field of vision again. Until now, we could no longer see what these Empire soldiers were doing — the enemies had long been 'wiped out' from our sight.
"Wow! Is this really a machine gun?! "
The fatty Hirano had completely forgotten about the panic that he should be feeling at this moment. Instead, he pounced forward like a hungry tiger to study the huge machine cannon in the hands of one of the Empire soldiers. Of course, he was immediately kicked to the ground by a certain pink ponytail girl. However, he did not change his nature and insisted on crawling to the feet of the nearest Empire soldier. As expected, otakus were the bravest and most tenacious creatures in this world.
"Let's go. It seems that there is no one alive in this city." I glanced at the information that the probe had sent back. There was no sign of human life. Furthermore, we had personally entered the city center and there was nothing worth paying attention to. There was no longer any value in exploring this place. "Prepare for teleportation."
A white light flashed before our eyes. A second ago, we were still firing the cannons amidst the deafening explosions. The next second, we had arrived at a high ground far away from the city.
The Seven Roaches of Gakuen looked around blankly. It was obvious that they did not understand what had happened. Even though we had seen many unimaginable technologies in the City of Shadows, it was still different to personally experience such military technology.
"Teleportation? That's … amazing! "
The fat otaku Hirano pushed his glasses up and looked envious. Looking at the equipment of the soldiers around him, he almost drooled. I had no doubt that as long as I gave him the same equipment, he would do it even if I asked him to run around naked on the streets.
"It seems that the people in this city have been evacuated," Miyamoto Li muttered to herself. Miyamoto Rei muttered to herself as if she was comforting herself. However, Jukawa Shizuka, who was next to her, displayed her observation skills. "The population of a city of that scale is probably only a few hundred thousand. The corpses that appeared and the corpses in the square have already … I have always been very sensitive to numbers."
"Most of the citizens have probably turned into dead bodies," Saya Takashiro said with an ugly expression. "There are many martial law signs and temporary road signs on the streets. There are sentries at every intersection. There are also many shops that have been converted into warehouses at key locations. This means that this city was once used as a shelter. A large number of survivors gathered here and no one escaped. Then, the dead bodies exploded from within …"
It seemed that what Lin Xue saw was true.
"It must be a lie …" Miyamoto Rei covered her mouth in disbelief. Her companions' faces were quickly covered with a layer of grey. Only Kuwako Kanishima's face remained calm. She knew the truth, but she could not bear to tell her companions that there was a doomsday weapon above their heads that had locked onto Earth.
Now, it was almost time to prepare for the launch.
"No matter what, there is no need to preserve that city anymore," I said, interrupting their thoughts that had started to spread to a deeper level.
I interrupted the cockroaches' thoughts that were starting to spread to a deeper level. I pointed at the modern city that still looked grand and prosperous from the outside. "Burn!"
An energy halo that was visible to the naked eye flashed under my feet. Two seconds later, under the horrified gazes of Komuro Takashi and the others, the city in the distance suddenly burst into flames. Then … a monstrous magma storm erupted from between the high-rise buildings of the city, tearing everything into pieces. In an instant, the entire city turned into flying debris in the destructive flames, slowly sinking into the sea of magma that had just appeared.
It's not that I'm boasting, but Archimonde wasn't as clean as me back then.
"Hey, hey … This, this is too exaggerated! Magic? Forbidden spell? Or did it happen to be a burning city? "
Saya Takashiro's glasses almost fell to the ground in shock. At that moment, he was almost incoherent as he pointed at the sea of magma in the distance. He turned around and looked at me as if I was a monster.
Find your high school physics teacher. I'll explain the principle of gravity with him.
"The Schilling people were once known as the Destroyer of Worlds. This power is only the most basic of skills. Can't the nuclear bombs created by humans achieve the same effect?" I shrugged my shoulders indifferently. Out of habit, I fired a cannon that covered the entire area, but I forgot that apart from the Empire soldiers, there were a few ordinary people around us. What a blunder. "You guys haven't seen Pandora go crazy. Doesn't she often fight with her sister? The first time they fought, they caused the land of a few million square kilometers to sink by more than ten kilometers. The deepest cannon hit the earth's mantle. When that girl goes all out, if she fires a cannon at the South Pole, the North Pole will become a hole. The entire planet will be destroyed just like that. In this day and age, if you want to dominate the universe, you have to have some skills. "
"Hey, stupid … human." Mercury Lamp suddenly knocked on my head. "That Pandora and Visca, are they really that powerful?"
I replied, "… If I remember correctly, you secretly drank Pandora's yogurt yesterday afternoon, right?"
It was obvious that the chairman was feeling guilty.
Just as we finished reorganizing ourselves and were preparing to board the transport plane to see if there were any living people nearby, a sudden tremor on the ground almost made Chestnut of Poison Island fall to the ground.
Earthquake!?
It really was an earthquake because the solid ground was now twisting and heaving before our eyes as though it had softened. Huge cracks suddenly appeared on the ground and continued to extend. The violent tremor made it hard for people to stand on flat ground. If it wasn't for the tower-like Empire soldiers being used as handrails by Poison Island and the others, the seven roaches would have all been dead by now.
The tremor lasted for about ten minutes before it gradually calmed down. Then, everyone looked at each other.
"Japan really has a lot of earthquakes." I tapped my forehead, but my heart wasn't as calm as it sounded.
What happened just now … wasn't an earthquake. It was an energy explosion from the earth's core!
"Your Majesty, the scouts have discovered a gathering of humans three hundred kilometers ahead of us!"
The accompanying commander's report suddenly interrupted my thoughts. This was the first time they had heard news of living people ever since they arrived in this world. Poison Island and the others immediately revealed a surprised expression.
"Lin Xue only said that there's no need for treatment in this world." I leaned forward and whispered into Poison Island's ear, "But I didn't say that I would give up on the refugees here — — Don't worry, humans won't go extinct."
The distance of three hundred kilometers only took an instant to teleport. When we suddenly appeared in front of the group of malnourished refugees, it unsurprisingly caused a panic.
The refugees, who were already frightened by the mere twang of a bowstring, cried out in shock when they saw the hundreds of black-armored men appearing out of thin air. They then planned to scatter and flee in all directions. The familiarity of their movements was evident from the nightmarish experiences they had gone through over the past few months. For these fellows to be able to survive until now, at the very least, their instinctive reactions when faced with danger were extremely sharp.
"Everyone, calm down! Officer Nakaoka, please help us … Don't attack recklessly! May I ask who you are? "
After the refugees instinctively fell into panic, a police officer with long purple hair stepped out from the crowd to maintain order. I never thought that there would be a police officer in this situation … Hm? This person is …
"Shizuka? Why are you here? And these students … You are all still alive!? "
I remember now, it's Jukawa Shizuka's close friend, Minami Rika. But to be honest, I don't have a deep impression of her. After all, when I was reading the school's Silent Revelation back then, all I could remember was the various kinds of shaking to pay respect to the artist.
"Rika, it's really you!" The school doctor who accompanied Komuro's team, Jukawa Shizuka, who used her intelligence to sit on the throne of natural idiocy, finally recognized the policewoman in front of her who was wearing a tattered police uniform. Her face was covered in dust and exhaustion. "That's great, I can still see you … Quickly bring these people and evacuate with us! We have a shelter and medical facilities. These Empire soldiers are very powerful … "
"Empire soldiers?" The policewoman named Nan Lixiang didn't shift her attention away from us. She had been staring at the one hundred two-meter-tall, fully-armed Heavy Armor Warriors. Not only did she see her good friend with these strange people, but she also called them soldiers of the Empire. She immediately became suspicious.
"To put it simply, these refugees are now under our protection." I took a step forward and said to the vigilant, domineering woman holding a gun.
"Shizuka, who is this common-looking person?"
Me: "…"
Was the older sister in the original work so rude when she spoke?
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