Half an hour later.
Inside the van.
Shen Qiu sat in the back row and used his wristband to browse the news online.
Suddenly, two very eye-catching news flashes caught my eye.
The first emergency message: Because the strange tide was strongly blocked in the eighth administrative district, Yinglu City, the strange tide was diverted and the sixth administrative district, Rose City, was impacted. A level 3 warning is hereby issued.
The second emergency message: Because the strange tide was strongly blocked in the eighth administrative district, Yinglu City, the strange tide was diverted and the seventh administrative district, Monger City was impacted. A level 3 warning is hereby issued.
There are a lot of comments below these two news items.
"What's going on? Wasn't everything fine yesterday? Suddenly, Districts 7 and 6 issued warnings?"
"I'm in the Rose City. In fact, I was impacted a few days ago, but there was no official notification before."
"Hey, my eldest brother is serving in the Monger City Army and has been urgently recruited."
…
"Oh my, what's wrong with this world lately? Why does it feel like nowhere is safe?"
"It's true that nowhere is safe. In fact, it's not just us who have problems. There have also been incidents with the Blue Alliance and the Gray Alliance."
“Is this true?”
…
After Shen Qiu saw this information, his brows slightly frowned.
He then tried to circumvent the firewall to view the external network, and soon he was able to log into the external network.
The first thing I saw was a very popular post and a video with billions of hits.
Shen Qiu immediately clicked on the video.
A prosperous city with tall buildings comes into view.
Shen Qiu is very familiar with this city. It is the Blue Alliance Magados City, known as the city where night never falls. It is the city with the most developed nightlife in the Blue Alliance. Shen Qiu has been there several times before.
At this moment, the whole city was sounding shrill alarms.
In the distance, buildings collapsed one after another, and flames from the explosions rushed into the sky.
The streets were jammed with vehicles in long queues, and many cars collided with each other in a chain reaction.
At this time, the video camera moved towards the explosion area, and it can be seen that this video was shot by a drone.
When the drone approached, it saw an unidentified creature over 100 meters tall floating in the air. The monster was round like a tumor, with pits and dents all over its surface, and dark red tentacles.
At the same time, distorted faces appeared on the body, some of which were monsters and some were people who had been swallowed.
Looks very disgusting and creepy.
At this time, you can see the Blue Alliance troops and Aegis experts using various weapons and things to desperately pour firepower on the monster.
The surface of the monster's body was like pustules exploding.
Sticky liquid and poisonous gas spread.
Anyone who was touched, even if they were wearing a gas mask, would grab their necks and scream, and their skin would turn black and fester.
The monster moved forward, penetrating and swallowing any dead bodies it touched along the way.
Shen Qiu squinted his eyes and observed carefully, trying to enlarge the video, and soon saw an MX111 logo on the monster.
After seeing this sign, Shen Qiu couldn't help but shook his head, then turned off the video and checked the information about the City of Magados. The result was as he expected. The City of Magados had fallen half a month ago and the Blue Alliance announced its abandonment.
Then Shen Qiu checked the relevant information about the Gray Alliance.
As a result, he saw even more explosive information. The Gray Alliance lost two cities in a row. Of course, one of the lost cities was related to him. It was caused by the monster he led away.
Shen Qiu kept reading relevant information and comments from netizens.
At this time, he discovered something. In the past, whenever someone lost a city, there would always be people who gloated over it.
But this time it was not the case. All the message boards were filled with condolences and some pessimistic remarks.
Shen Qiu even saw a message with over 10 million likes.
"We are unfortunate to be born in the worst era. We can do nothing but wait for death quietly."
Under normal circumstances, there would not be such a high number of negative comments with likes.
Just when Shen Qiu fell into deep thought.
The van suddenly stopped. Shen Qiu came to his senses and looked up to ask Chen Ye who was driving.
"What's wrong?"
"I don't know. There's a traffic jam ahead! There are a lot of people watching, and it seems there are soldiers from the Sky Clearing Corps."
Chen Ye looked out and said.
"I'll go down and take a look."
Shen Qiu was just feeling anxious.
"I'm coming with you too!"
Yun Xiaoxi immediately followed up.
"Okay, Chen Ye, you and Qi Dong stay in the car and guard Basil."
Shen Qiu explained to Chen Ye and the other man.
"Um!"
Chen Ye and the other man responded in a deep voice.
At this time, Basil, who was wearing a black hood, spoke.
"Don't worry, I won't run away. This is your territory. How can I run away?"
Shen Qiu didn't say anything and got out of the car with Yun Xiaoxi.
They walked up to the crowd and squeezed in with some effort.
I saw a middle-aged man with protruding hair, wearing a black suit and looking crazy. He was holding a box of Alliance Coins in the middle of the road and walking around like crazy!
He cried out in despair.
"This world is going to end! The end is coming, and we all have no hope!!!"
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“How pitiful!”
The people around were talking about it.
If it were any other day, there would have been a lot of people picking up the money. But no one picked it up, and everyone just sighed.
At this time, a reporter was filming.
"Why!"
At this time, a sigh was heard.
Shen Qiu turned his head and looked over, sighing. There was a young man standing next to him. He then tried to ask.
"Brother, what happened to that guy?"
"What can he do? His spiritual support collapsed, so he went completely crazy! But it's normal. If I were him, I would probably be the same as him."
"Can you tell me what happened specifically?"
"That man is called Zhou Xiao. He was originally a well-known wealthy businessman in the Fifth Administrative District, Missy City. He is my fellow villager."
"Well, then what?"
"Mixi City was flooded by a tsunami, and his daughter was washed away by the tsunami. Later, he brought his son and wife to immigrate to Clear Sky City. As a result, they were attacked by monsters on the way, and his son died on the way. Only he and his wife were left to migrate to Clear Sky City."
"That's pretty miserable."
"What's worse is yet to come. Last night, there was a partial overlap in Clear Sky City, and monsters came in and attacked his home. As a result, his wife died on the spot. Later, the patrol team from Clear Sky City arrived in time to save him, and then this incident happened today."
"Why."
Shen Qiu sighed deeply, not knowing what to say.
At this time, Zhou Xiao had spent all his money. He picked up the black and white photo frame on the ground, then pulled out a pistol from his waist, pointed it at his head, and shouted in despair.
"Wife, son! Daughter! I'm coming to see you."
The soldiers from Clear Sky City who were maintaining order all around saw this scene and immediately rushed forward, knocked Zhou Xiao to the ground, and held his hands tightly.
"Don't do anything stupid!"
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"Let me go! Let me die."
Zhou Xiao shouted in despair.
This voice also hurt everyone who was watching.
"Shen Qiu, he is so pitiful!"
Yun Xiaoxi said with red eyes.
Shen Qiu couldn't help but shook his head, but at this moment his eyes inadvertently swept across the photo frame that fell on the ground, and then he was slightly stunned.
He hesitated for a moment, then walked out of the crowd, walked to the scattered photo frames, squatted down, reached out and picked up one of the photo frames.