"Minister Chen, please leave the underground immediately." The subordinate pushed open the door of Fade Chen's office without knocking. "The temperature is already very high. There may be cracks under the city affairs hall."
Fade Chen didn't speak, and stood up: "Where is Chief Su?"
"Someone has been sent there," the subordinate replied, "and he will be transferred to the Light Thorn's camp in Area A."
"Has the transfer of equipment and supplies been completed?" Fade Chen put on his coat, and walked quickly outside the office to the above-ground part of the City Affairs Office. "The spare storage is also taken away."
"Everything in the City Affairs Department's warehouse is under our control and is being transferred," his subordinates followed him, "but now that the monitoring is invalid, we cannot receive the news from Liu Dong's side immediately."
"Leave after the transfer," Fade Chen said, "Don't conflict with them, save your strength and don't fight internally."
The subordinates did not speak.
Fade Chen glanced at him: "What's wrong?"
"In this situation," the subordinate whispered, "will there be any foreign war?"
Chen Fei took a look out of the window. The entire main city was surrounded by flames and thick smoke. It was hard to tell which was fog and which was smoke. The only thing that was still clearly visible was the dewdrops hanging above.
The parking lot of the City Affairs Office was already in dilapidated condition. All kinds of debris flew from nowhere and fell to the ground. A car was parked beside it. Seeing Fade Chen approaching, he quickly opened the car door.
"The camp is a bit messy," Captain Li, who was sitting in the co-pilot of the city guard, turned around and reported to him, "First go around..."
"What's wrong?" Fade Chen sat down and asked.
"Residents who received them demanded that supplies be treated equally." Captain Li said, "Before, we had always halved the number of wounded, sick and children."
"When confrontation and work are required, can the wounded and children do it like others," Fade Chen said, "Why don't you say that they are treated equally when they are stationed? At this time, you still think about these nonsense... Go to the camp, no need to go around somewhere else."
Captain Li pressed the communicator: "There is a clamor over there to ask General Su to come out."
"Send Chief Su to the safe house," Fade Chen said, "What's the use of him coming out, I'll meet these people later."
"I'm afraid it's not safe." The subordinate said immediately.
"We want these people to know that surviving is no longer a certainty. Whoever wants to talk about fairness, benevolence, rights and treatment will be sent out of Area A," Fade Chen said, "In addition, the restricted entrance of Area B will be opened. , allowing healthy adult refugees without weapons to enter, but strict screening is required, and priority is given to those without criminal records in the system.”
"Minister Chen?" Captain Li was a little surprised.
"We need people," Fade Chen said, "If destruction is a foregone conclusion, keep these people alive until the end. If there is still life, what we need more in the days to come is people who can produce people, rather than guarding a bunch of people. arms."
"They can grab it." Captain Li sighed.
"Let's see how many people they can keep from Luzhu," Fade Chen said, "EZ has thousands of troops, and in the end, they all have to scrap this ending."
The car left the parking lot and drove towards the campsite.
Relatively speaking, Area A is relatively peaceful. Although there are no people on the street, the buildings have basically remained the same, and it seems to be more hopeful than other places in the main city.
But when walking through this street, the sadness and despair in my heart did not diminish because of the intact building.
Maybe these buildings can still maintain this state after the destruction.
What was recorded was the last scene where the world was lifeless.
There was a loud noise from the side, and the car shook, and the driver stabilized his direction.
"It's the cracks that are increasing," said the subordinate. "The main crack has been bifurcating ever since it broke through the city boundary."
"This is to cut the main city into small pieces," Fade Chen said softly, looking at the invisible sky outside, "What the hell... controls all of this?"
There was another explosion from the direction of the City Affairs Office behind him.
The sound was not from the crack.
Fade Chen turned his head quickly.
"What's the situation?" His subordinates immediately contacted the city guard who was transferring equipment from the City Affairs Office.
A few seconds later, he turned his head and looked at Fade Chen: "Lian Chuan broke into the back building of the City Affairs Office and went to the basement."
"He's looking for equipment." Fade Chen frowned, "He's the only one?"
"There is also that traveler, Ning Gu," said the subordinate, "Ning Gu's ability is too strong, so he didn't stop him."
Before Fade Chen could speak, Captain Li's communicator rang. He hummed a few times and turned his head: "The cleaning team and travelers have occupied the eight bridges in the southern city boundary... What are you doing occupying the bridges at this time? The cars in the ghost town are also I haven't been here..."
"I want to grab the engineering vehicle," Fade Chen reacted immediately, and waved his hand, "Turn around and go back to the City Affairs Office."
"Back?" Captain Li was stunned, "It's too dangerous!"
"There is no safer place than there," Fade Chen said, "Look back, I want to see Lian Chuan."
"The temperature down here is quite high." Ning Gu touched the walls on both sides of the basement passage, "Either there is a crack at the bottom or there is a crack at the side."
"Well," Lian Chuan also touched the wall, "there is an energy store in front, and it is estimated that it has been boxed and transferred. If you can find a little bit, it is a little bit."
"We can go to the camp in Area A to grab it." Ning Gu said.
"There is a spare on the construction vehicle," Lian Chuan said, "It will be enough for the cleaning team to disassemble a part, we will see the situation first."
"Yeah." Ning Gu patted the big bag on his back, "Anyway, I just wanted two sets of clothes at first."
Most of the warehouses are already empty, and even the office supply warehouse is more than half empty. Walking between several warehouses, there are debris all over the place, and there is a dead silence everywhere, giving the illusion of a post-apocalypse.
There was a rustling sound from the horn in the passage.
Lian Chuan and Ning Gu stopped.
"Lian Chuan," Fade Chen's voice came out from the loudspeaker, "I'm Fade Chen, I'm going into the warehouse alone now, let's talk."
"What does he want to do!" Ning Gu suppressed his voice, he didn't have the slightest affection for any leader in the main city.
"He probably knew about the cleaning team and travelers going to grab the construction truck." Lian Chuan walked into a nearby warehouse and looked at a communicator hanging on the wall. "It may be a threat, or it may be cooperate."
"Cooperation?" Ning Gu frowned.
"Liu Dong and Xiao Lin have teamed up, and he is isolated now," Lian Chuan said, "Commander Su... probably has given up. If he doesn't want to give up in the end, he can only come to us."
"Let him give up." Ning Gu was very disdainful.
"Warehouse No. 3." Lian Chuan pressed the intercom.
Ning Gu looked at him: "Aren't you afraid that he will harm you again! If this kind of person lives in a ghost town, I won't let him live for a day."
"We need supplies," Lian Chuan said, "and all kinds of things in the main city database, maps, passage entrances, and all the information. We can't get close to Area A, and we need someone to cooperate with us."
"I understand the truth," Ning Gu turned his head away, "I'm just upset."
"I'm not happy either." Lian Chuan said.
Fade Chen walked into Warehouse No. 3 alone, without any weapons on his body, not even a communicator.
Lian Chuan looked at him without speaking.
"What equipment are you looking for?" Fade Chen asked.
Lian Chuan kicked the protective clothing box next to his feet.
"Do you need anything else?" Fade Chen said, "I don't have much on hand. Most of the equipment is in the Internal Defense Department, and the city affairs department has a small stock."
Lian Chuan still didn't speak.
"Okay, let me just say it straight," Fade Chen nodded, "I know what you want the construction vehicle for, and what plans do you have for the next step, I can help."
"What do you want?" Lian Chuan asked.
"If possible, a powerful new main city." Fade Chen said.
"Impossible." Lian Chuan asked again.
"Then there's nothing to think about," Fade Chen said, "I'm not like Liu Dong, even if he is the only one left alive, he will do whatever it takes. I don't want to be a god."
"Communications, weapon energy, equipment," Lian Chuan said, "the cleaning team needs these."
"Yes," Chen Fei said, "what else?"
"I want a three-dimensional map of the main city including the Black Iron Wasteland, a detailed distribution map of the melting pipeline, and the location of the interface." Lian Chuan said.
Fade Chen looked at him and was silent for a while: "Yes."
"Take off the limiter," Lian Chuan said.
"A laboratory environment is needed," Fade Chen said, "I can authorize you to let Chunsan come back to operate."
"Then there is no rush," Lian Chuan said, "Let the EZs you can control be scattered and placed near the cracks."
"Is there anything special about the crack?" Fade Chen said.
"Not sure yet." Lian Chuan replied.
It took a long time for Fade Chen to nod his head: "OK."
Lian Chuan has never seen a complete three-dimensional map of the main city. Every time he goes deep underground, whether it is the internal defense department or the training department of the city affairs department, he can only make a rough estimate based on his own judgment.
The map that Fade Chen handed over to Lian Chuan was drawn systematically, and neither Chunsan nor Lei Yu had ever seen the most complete map. The map includes a part of the Black Iron Wasteland around the main city, but not all of it, so the boundary of the main city is unknown, just like the ghost town.
There are more people than usual in the tent of the headquarters of the cleaning team. This map data may be helpful to the scavengers when they attack, so the team leader and Li Xiang also gathered in the tent.
The map is a three-dimensional image projected from a small memory, and no one spoke while waiting to be read.
The map is shown bit by bit from top to bottom. The golden part is the ground building, the blue part is the underground building, and the red marks the molten pipe and the former molten layer.
Lian Chuan noticed that the part of the core area of the main city that went deep into the ground was much deeper than he had previously judged, while the other parts of the main city that corresponded to it were not completely solid below.
Deeper in some of the subterranean structures, there are huge voids that do not mark any entrances or exits.
"What are these places?" Lei Yu stretched out his hand and flicked lightly on the projection in the air, and the map slowly rotated.
"Like a naturally formed bubble hole," Chunsan walked to the map, "Like the Valley of Lost Path, the Valley of Lost Path is suspended in the air."
The Valley of Lost, which is as complicated as a nest of intertwined roots, is itself in a huge hollow. Except for the position of the ground exit, there is no place connected to the wall of the hollow.
Lian Chuan remembered the map of the Lost Valley.
Although Nine Wings might not tell them who left him the map, but now they can almost guess that it was left by Sun Yi.
Why did Sun Yi leave a map of Lost Valley to Nine Wings
And it seems that on the map in front of me, the part of Lost Valley is far less detailed than Lost Valley.
"I found," the group leader said, "if you look at the map this way... Lost Valley is the center of the entire map, and I always thought that District A of the main city was the center."
"Indeed," Chunsan took a few steps back and looked at the map, "it's like a bearing. If the Lost Valley is indeed left by the main city of the previous generation, what is the significance of its existence?"
"If the main city is destroyed, the entrances of Lost Valley are disconnected from the main city," Lei Yu said, "does it mean that the people inside can survive?"
"It's possible, but what about the people inside?" Chunsan looked at him, "There are no people from the main city of the previous generation in Lost Valley."
"Conscious." Lian Chuan said.
Chunsan looked at him: "Consciousness?"
"According to E, a poet is a container that constantly absorbs consciousness." Lian Chuan said.
"What about consciousness?" Ning Gu asked.
"No one knows when the main city started. The first person, the first building, the first technology, the first step in development, is it human or consciousness?" Lian Chuan said, "The main city has no starting point, like a In this book, when you turn a page, no one will be able to see the previous page, and this page has neither a beginning nor an end."
When walking out of the tent, Ning Gu followed behind Lian Chuan and whispered, "According to Ye Xi, destruction means disappearance."
"Yeah." Lian Chuan nodded.
"If it stops at the last second like his world," Ning Gu said, "it's like a page that has been turned over, no one will ever see it again, and a new page begins... Where did it start? here?"
"This place no longer exists," Lian Chuan said.
"You said the end of the world, will it be the next page?" Ning Gu said.
"It might be the previous page." Lian Chuan said.
"Whatever, I don't know how to read anyway." Ning Gu waved his hands nonchalantly.
"Go to Lost Valley." Lian Chuan said.
"Are you looking for Nine Wings?" Ning Gu asked.
"I see on the map that Lost Valley is not connected to the main city except for the entrance and exit," Lian Chuan said, "But in the map of Nine Wings, are there any passages extending along the edge? Where do those passages lead? Will it be the same as the crack? Can it lead to the other side?"
"Will Nine Wings say it..." Ning Gu felt depressed when he thought of the new Nine Wings in Lost Valley, "What if he turns back to that lunatic who would rather stay alive than die..."
As soon as he walked to the entrance, a strong light suddenly lit up in the direction of the main city behind him.
The light instantly turned the surroundings into white, and even the shadows cast by the two of them on the ground could hardly be seen.
When Ning Gu turned his head, apart from white, everything in his field of vision was only a blurred shadow.
After a few seconds, the strong light slowly disappeared, and the surrounding things gradually appeared in the sight again.
"What's going on!" The surrounding crowd was a little confused.
"It's dewdrops." Lian Chuan said.
Ning Gu looked over the main city, and the dewdrops had changed.
Around the huge bubble, a circle of small bubbles appeared, arranged one by one, like a string of necklaces.
"Prepare for battle." The group leader issued an instruction to the traveler.
The order was transmitted along with the howl of the traveler.
Then all members of the cleaning team were already in place, and there was a blue light behind them. Although Fade Chen agreed to establish communication and provide energy supplies and weapons for the cleaning team, it was impossible to be in place in such a short time. If there was a fight, the force of the cleaning team would probably be around It will be exhausted after this time.
"Where is the traveler closest to the dew?" Lian Chuan asked the head of the group.
"Entrance B3, Area C," said the group leader, "Li Xiang is there, I'll go there right away."
"Let's go first." Lian Chuan pulled Ning Gu and rushed out.
Travelers are a group full of uncertainties. When the group leader is absent, facing a sudden battle, they may rush out excitedly to die just because of the word "cool"...
Ning Gu's ears were filled with the sound of wind, mixed with the buzzing sound of fierce flames, all he could see were ruins under his feet, the main city that he had envied so much was almost destroyed.
Lian Chuan's speed was very fast. After a while, he could already see many travelers running towards the direction of the dewdrops.
The necklace around the dew suddenly exploded when they crossed the boundary of Area C.
The orange light shot out from the small bubbles made Lian Chuan stop abruptly and landed on the roof of a broken building.
"This light..." Ning Gu looked forward in shock.
"This is the light of the patrol's weapon." Lian Chuan, who could keep his composure in the face of everything, was surprised in his voice.
"The patrol team went in? What does dew have to do with them?" Ning Gu felt a little unable to think.
Then the small bubbles exploded again, and a series of shots lined up with red light.
"Dewdrop is copying," Lian Chuan kicked his legs suddenly, and rushed out again, "Tell travelers not to attack first! I don't know if Dewdrop can copy abilities..."
Ning Gu let out a high-pitched whistling sound, and then heard a response.
Lian Chuan turned his head and glanced at him.
"What?" Ning Gu asked.
"You startled me." Lian Chuan said.
"Take cover!" Li Xiang shouted, "Don't expose your abilities!"
The travelers around him quickly dispersed, disappearing among the various ruins.
"What's in the bubble?" Sister Qi suddenly leaned against the wall next to him, and poked her head out to look over there again, "Isn't the bubble attacking? Is the main city attacking? What does copying mean? "
"Look at the meaning..." Li Xiang glanced at her, "What comes out of the bubble is the same army as the main city, and the bubble copied the army of the main city."
"What are those?" Liu Dong suddenly jumped up from the screen, pointing at the screen uploaded back, "What are those?"
The door of the command vehicle was slammed open, and a city guard rushed in, panting heavily: "Luzhu... is attacking, and they are all... people like us."
In the picture on the screen, continuously gushing out of the small air bubbles around the dewdrops were troops in the uniform of the main city.
Holding the weapons of the city guards and patrols, they lined up and pushed out.