Chapter 48

As far as the captain of the first team is concerned, it doesn't matter what dirty things the Fire Moth Council is doing in private.

A rather counter-intuitive fact is that although most of the members of the Fire Moth Council are cold-blooded and cruel politicians...

These so-called politics have no morals and bottom lines, these politicians treat human life like just another means to gain power.

But at the same time, their core idea is still stability and they do have a considerable degree of value for Fire Moth.

It's just that these congressmen will use all means to try to control the greatest power in the new world while using the strength of Fire Moth to build a new world.

The members of the Fire Moth Councils are dignitaries from various countries.

They have extracted a considerable part of the funds of their countries by any means, disgraceful as they may be, to provide a large quantity of funds for Fire Moth.

If it weren't for the huge sum of money provided by the members of the parliament, the anti-collapse organization of Fire Moth wouldn't even be able to establish and operate at all. These huge sums of money could have gone into their own pocket.

Except for scientific researchers like Mobius who can be said to have a bottomless pit of money as they have provided multiple scientific breakthroughs and set a foundation for most members of Fire Moth.

They equipped all front-line fighters from the first to fifth squads with the most cutting-edge equipment and the best mission environment. They also transferred all the families of these fighters to the economic core of the world—Mu Continent.

The family members of the fighters have a fulfilling life with guaranteed security.

Therefore, no matter how dissatisfied with the orders issued by the Fire Moth Council, the only choice the members of the first team can make is to complete this task without fail.

Compared to the Honkai disaster, this is just a young girl no matter how weird and tricky she is.

At this moment, the man in the suit standing in front of the huge screen suddenly froze.

In the night under the carnival, several sharp flames rose and flew high into the sky before exploding into falling sparks in a series of explosions.

It was at this moment that several monitoring windows on the giant screen suddenly became pitch black.

The pupils of the man in the suit shrank slightly.

He raised his arm, made a few gestures, and the surveillance screen that was originally merged unfolded instantly under his gestures.

He quickly flipped through all the interfaces classified in those windows and the pitch-black window displayed the words "disconnected".

In less than a blink of an eye, hundreds of drones patrolling at low altitudes through the night were all shot down without exception!

Moreover, at the moment when all the drones were shot down at the same time, none of the cameras of the drones captured the cause of their crash.

The man in the suit licked his lips as a surge of excitement suddenly appeared in his heart.

Before this moment, he thought that the target this time was not worthy of the two hundred elites of their first team.

The man in the suit thought that his brains were not as good as those members of the Fire Moth Council but as the one with the most combat experience among the existing members of the Honkai Squad, the scene just now was enough for him to estimate the value of the target.

If the target this time might become his subordinate or comrade-in-arms one day in the future, the man in the suit suddenly felt that this action was not so unacceptable.

"Attention all team members, the target has knocked down all the unmanned patrol aircraft! Immediately entered the first-level alert state! Immediately entered the first-level alert state!"

"Received!"

"Received!"

"Received!"

Responding to the successive responses from the micro-communicator, the man in the suit cheered up and continued to observe all the surveillance with a rigorous attitude.

Fire Moth is the most advanced technological and military organization in the world today.

It has integrated the aviation bureaus and intelligence bureaus of various countries, launched hundreds of surveillance satellites in low-earth orbit, and monitored the earth all the time.

It also uses the global Internet to access network frequency and monitoring systems in almost all countries.

As long as it's a civilized city, Fire Moths can't fail to find the target they want to search for.

However, human civilization has not spread to every corner of the world after all. No matter how prosperous a city is, there are always places that surveillance cameras cannot touch.

—Just like now, even though the first team thinks they have laid a net for this town, they still didn't realize that Elysia is happily stepping on a pair of shiny squares.

Her leather shoes bounced back and forth in the bustling snack street. She's holding a large handful of fragrant kebabs in her hand while holding a half-drunk cup of hot milk tea in the other hand.

"This one is delicious, that one is delicious too, wow, what is that! It's a long, long line! "

At the end of the snack street, there was a long line full of people, many of them raised their hands to record on their cameras the scene of the colorful dragons.

Some people were shouting, some were laughing, and many children around her age were lifted high in the sky by their parents.

After approaching the crowd, Elysia stood on tiptoe and hopped like a kangaroo behind the crowd.

"Well... no, I can't see it..."

She showed a distressed expression but was quickly attracted by a street vendor next to her, and ran over excitedly.

At this festival, the most indispensable things are probably fun and delicious food.

On the top of the building, Shirou in a spiritual state is sitting on the edge of the roof.

He was shaking his legs gently, his immature face was full of bored expressions and the brilliant fireworks were shining on his amber body.

His pupils bloom like flowers in the night sky.

"I have to admit that the so-called Servant is indeed a very convenient thing."

Through the parent-child contract provided by the "Mother Simulator", the spirits of Shiro and Elysia are linked by an invisible "thread".

Through the contract, Shirou can communicate with Elysia on the spiritual level at any time and he can also openly send Elysia all the locations of the sentry points in the town.

He looked at Elysia who was happily shooting balloons at a certain night market stall from a distance. Looking at her there was a look of doting in his eyes, similar to that of a mother.

In fact, to avoid the monitoring of Fire Moth, the two of them rarely appeared in a city most of the time during the journey.

Although Elysia has always been taken good care of by him, this child unexpectedly doesn't have a spoiled temperament at all.

Even in the sparsely populated deep mountains and old forests, Elysia never yelled bitter words at him.

For Shirou who has always doted on Elysia, he still feels distressed when he should feel distressed.

Therefore, he agreed with Elysia that whenever they hide their names in no man's land for a while, Shirou will use his ability to help her avoid the pursuit of Fire Moth

Enjoying a good combination of rest and work time to the fullest.

At first, Elysia was not very happy to go back to the city.

She really liked playing in the city and was eager to communicate with other people but compared to these things, she actually wanted to be with her "Guardian Angel" more.

This kind of thinking didn't change until she learned how to talk to Shirou anytime through a "line" that's connected with Shirou's spirit.

As long as Elysia can communicate with Shirou anytime and anywhere, it proved that the "Guardian Angel" is always by her side.

In addition, as long as Shirou's eyes sweep over her from a high place, she can always feel the other party's gaze in the dark to confirm his position.

No matter how high the kite flies, people are holding the kite string as long as the "string" does not disappear.

Even if Shirou leaves her side, Elysia can always use that kite line.

Other children have unique parents, and she also has a Guardian Angel that belongs only to her.

Thinking of Shirou, the corner of Elysia's mouth involuntarily curled up with a smile.

She suddenly turned around and pointed in a certain direction as if she was showing off something. Waving the air-soft gun in her hand with a smile on her face.

The boss sitting in front of the stall stared silently at the broken balloons on the ground, his face full of lovelessness.

Shirou shook his head with a dumbfounded smile seeing the triumphant appearance of Elysia standing in the distance

Shaking his head Shirou suddenly heard the sounds of explosions in every corner of the town.

The flames splashed all over the streets and countless fireworks rose. It seemed that even the ground was shaking amidst the continuous sound of firecrackers.

People in ancient China would set fireworks and firecrackers floating to the sky to drive away evil spirits.

In modern times, this preserved custom also implies the Chinese people's yearning for riches and blessings for the New Year.

But at this moment, Shirou's expression suddenly changed.

Because he suddenly realized that the shock he felt just now was not caused by the firecrackers on New Year's Eve.

If you want to ask why-

"Attention everyone! Attention everyone! All members of the first team! Give up the current target acquisition mission immediately—!"

Right below him, the man in the suit uttered without warning.

—With disbelief and deep-seated fear.

"The satellite has detected violent Honkai energy fluctuations! Estimated energy level - above 2500 Honkai Waves!"

The roaring siren overwhelmed the sound of all the fireworks and firecrackers as the high-decibel sound waves tore apart the scattered fireworks.

Someone sounded the air defense siren.

All the people who were immersed in the carnival were stunned as figures appeared one after another in the windows of the buildings on the street, curious and puzzled about what happened.

Most people in a peaceful country do not know that the air defense alarm is the most serious and urgent because the use of an air defense alarm means that all other alarm methods are too late.

In the next second, a terrifying shock came from the ground.

People walking on the road began to cry and run, and the buildings on the street collapsed one after another.

The long line of hundreds of dragon dancers broke up causing the long colorful dragon to be divided into two sections.

A minute ago, the singing and dancing town was still immersed in laughter.

A minute later, the sudden Honkai disaster turned the town into a city of despair.

—Mu Continent, Headquarters of Fire Moth, Institute of Meteorology.

Menacing high-heeled footsteps echoed in the empty corridor from far to near, and Mobius kicked open the door of the conference room.

After entering the meeting room, she quickly looked around the already messy meeting room.

Then locked her sharp eyes on the man sitting at the head of the meeting table, raised her hand, and pointed: "You, go out."

The Chief Meteorologist of Fire Moth felt offended as he slapped the conference table in front of him fiercely and stood up straight with a serious expression

"Dr. Mobius! This is the Institute of Meteorology! Not your Institute of Biology! This is not a place for you to be presumptuous! Where are the security guards!? What are you doing!? Get her!"

"This time the abnormal meteorological and geological changes detected by the satellite monitoring are the "new species" I estimated"

Mobius crossed her arms and sneered, "The center of the earthquake is in China and the shock...ah, it's almost time."

As if to prove Mobius' prophecy, the moment her voice fell a burst of not-so-strong shock suddenly struck.

The printer was shaken off the table and the glasses that fell on the ground were scattered.