Chapter 52

Amidst the rising heat, Elysia stood on the extremely hot concrete fragments burned by the flowing magma.

A thin layer of sweat permeated from the white forehead.

She lifted her wrist and pulled off the mask to wipe off the sweat from the upper half of her face.

She looked around the town engulfed by magma, her white teeth biting her dry lower lip, and her immature face stained with a hint of sadness and black-gray dust.

The geographical location of Liangzhou City is located in the inland of China where earthquakes occur frequently.

Chishui Town has experienced various earthquake disasters of different intensities throughout history.

Among them, the most recent one occurred about 20 years ago, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that occurred in a neighboring country.

However, the geological department at that time made an early warning report to the residents and took various effective preventive measures.

The earthquake did not cause serious damage to the people and property of the city.

The geological department of China has always maintained professionalism.

They have a complete set of sophisticated and accurate earthquake warning systems and have deployed hundreds of regional digital seismic stations in various provinces and cities.

In most cases, geological departments can make timely and effective early warnings of upcoming earthquakes.

Because of the existence of such a reliable warning system, the residents do not feel much fear of earthquakes.

Therefore, at the moment the air defense alarm sounded, almost all residents didn't expect the earthquake from occurring in that instance.

However, this time, the omnipotent warning system failed to play any role until the moment Chishui Town was destroyed.

Although it looks the same as ordinary earthquakes in appearance, the intensity is much more serious.

In fact, natural disasters caused by Honkai have completely different principles and causes from ordinary geological disasters.

More than a hundred years ago, a man from Russia named Mendeleev discovered the periodic law.

The world is composed of various elements, and the properties of these elements usually show a periodicity with the increase of their atomic number.

In most cases, the properties of all elements always show a stable development trend, but under the interference of Honkai Energy, these originally stable elements will gain destructive characteristics.

It's like being corrupted by that thing called "malice"

The most typical example is the death of the human consciousness. Their muscles and bones will become extremely strong after being eroded by Honkai energy.

It is very difficult for ordinary firearms to even break through the skin of a Zombie.

And this natural disaster is no exception.

The moment the Honkai broke out, all the devices within a hundred kilometers radius were destroyed, so the Geological Bureau was unaware of the earthquake that hit Chishui Town until the seismic waves spread.

The overtime surveillance workers of the local Geological Bureau issued an emergency notice to the State Earthquake Administration in a hurry.

Just when all of Shenzhou was devastated by the sudden disaster, Fire Moth had already intervened.

Although the location of Honkai outbreaks cannot be predicted, they were able to capture the specific intensity of the Honkai energy and the corresponding location.

At the moment when the Honkai outbreak occurred, the satellite monitoring network had found its location.

As a subsidiary organization directly under the United Nations, Fire Moth has a right of passage in various countries because of its neutral position.

Not to mention, most of the members who joined the Fire Moth Council are from the upper class of their country.

Therefore, the Shenzhou Council members ordered Fire Moth teams to enter Shenzhou.

They also restricted the scope of activities of all rescue teams to the outer area where the collapse broke out.

—In a certain sense, this is an act that is indistinguishable from "abandonment".

But only the members of Fire Moth knew that if ordinary people broke in to rescue other people, it would only increase the workload

In the face of this level of Honkai outbreak, there is little that can be done.

—Among these powerless people, Elysia's name was also included.

Of course, Elysia, who has received systematic training from Shirou has grown to the point where she can resist Heroic Spirits in pure physical strength.

Even if she faces natural disasters, she is not as helpless as these ordinary people.

However, even for her, the only thing she can do in this situation is to tell all the people the correct escape method to use.

There is no way to save those who have been injured or those who died in the first wave of the earthquake.

The people who were healthy and laughing just now were covered by glowing blood-red lines on their skin while screaming and escaping. They were turned into ashes on the spot.

It was extremely violent as those who survived rushed towards their companions or family members not long ago.

There was a steady stream of fire rain in the sky, and the ground was broken and separated layer by layer.

From the black cracks, magma poured into the sky like a fountain and then sprinkled on the buildings and the ground.

The colorful dragon lanterns were burning as the loud noises of houses collapsing one after another could be heard.

In the hot magma, there were bodies with only skeletons left.

Even the remaining bones began to melt under the high temperature of the magma.

All kinds of chaotic voices converged into the dying wails in this dying town.

The members of the first team who carried out the emergency rescue mission had left a few minutes ago.

The last person to leave the town was their vice-captain.

Before leaving, he took the initiative to come to Elysia and asked the cute girl if she wanted to leave with them, but Elysia shook her head and refused.

"Thank you uncle for your kindness, but you should leave as soon as possible." Facing the kind inquiry from the vice-captain, Elysia whispered

"I... still want to try and see if I can find other people."

Hearing the girl's voice, the vice-captain felt that it was the first time Elysia had suffered such a tragedy, and she probably hadn't fully accepted her current reality.

He sighed deep in his heart as he walked forward, he wanted to pat Elysia on the shoulder and persuade her with a few more words.

In the eyes of the vice-captain, the little girl who has been running around in the collapsing town and telling all the survivors she met the correct escape route has done the best she can.

Thanks to the assistance of this lovely girl, the first team has rescued at least three times the number of survivors expected to survive.

Although she is talented, she is still a little girl who hasn't experienced much.

But the moment the vice-captain approached Elysia with such thoughts, his footsteps stopped suddenly.

Looking at Elysia's profile, he shivered instinctively.

This little girl with pink hair observed by Fire Moth always wore a crystal mask that could cover up the upper half of her face without exception.

This time was no exception.

Although the child still wore the mask, judging from the outlines of the cheeks and chin that were still somewhat fleshy, the vice-captain was almost sure that this little girl should have a pretty cute face.

However, at this moment, he saw something in the other party's pupils that did not match the word "cute".

The tone of the clear response was so gentle, but in the pupils of this cute girl there suddenly appeared a kind of silence and solemnity.

It looks like a ruler holding a scepter... In a certain way, the pupils appeared as they awakened the blood of the gods

Looking at Elysia's majestic "divine pupil", an indescribably fear instinctively exploded in the vice-captain's heart.

But just as the vice-captain's rationality was about to be swallowed by fear, a series of artillery fires suddenly lit up intensively from a certain direction.

A series of rail guns tore through the night sky, rushing towards the other direction like a meteor shower.

The vice-captain suddenly raised his head, and exclaimed dumbfounded: "Then... that direction, could it be that our fleet landed...?!"

In a second, hundreds of red lights shot through the sky, heading towards the incoming artillery fire, successfully blocking the attack in a series of flames and explosions.

At the same time, a low-pitched sonic boom suddenly sounded in the airspace directly above the two of them.

In the next second, a huge airflow swept over, causing both the vice-captain and Elysia to raise their arms to protect their faces.

Two pairs of eyes were exposed to the spaceship that was leaving at a very fast speed.

—For Himeko, seeing the captain commanding the first team on the main ship is not unexpected.

Entering the cabin of the main ship, she closed the cabin door, first patted the pilot on the back, and after barely settling him on the seat on the side, Himeko pushed him away without any politeness.

"Olga! What are your people doing?!"

The man in the suit sitting in the driver's seat name was called out for the first time.

After hearing Himeko's straightforward questioning, Olga couldn't help showing a sour expression.

Seeing that Olga didn't reply, Himeko quickly walked to the back of the driver's seat, raised her palm, and slapped him hard on the scalp.

"Let me tell you why I was hit by the latest technology of the Fire Moth the first time I entered this area. How dare you provide the firepower to the enemy?!"

Thinking of the miserable end if she failed to react when the main ship of the fifth team was hit by the first rail gun, Himeko's nose crooked, resulting in a second slap to the scalp followed by a kick to the nose

"How did your fleet fall? What the hell is the opponent? Where are the members of the first team? Don't tell me that you are the only one who escaped from the entire team?!"

Before the second slap came, the man in the suit grabbed Himeko's wrist and said angrily

"Hey hey hey! That's too much! It's fine if you hit me once, but continue to kick me in the nose?!"

"Hehe, I kicked your nose on your face after I slapped your scalp twice?"

Himeko, who just walked through the gate of life and death, is completely at odds with the first captain of the team.

She sneered and said in a bone-chilling voice

"If not for that brat's assistant...Tsk, the fire support came in time and luckily all the members of my fifth team survived."

"You handed it over to the enemy's fleet! Not to mention slapping you twice, sending you to the military court of Fire Moth, or simply ordering you to kill yourself on the spot! You have to suffer my wrath!"

Hearing Himeko's angry voice, the man in the suit gave up immediately. He let go of his five fingers pinching Himeko's wrist and sat down in the driver's seat with a long sigh. His voice was helpless

"I know, no matter what the reason is, it is an undeniable fact that the landing area of our fleet was invaded by the enemy. But you have to wait until we resolve this incident before holding me accountable! Internal conflicts can wait. Can we agree to this?"

"If I wanted to settle accounts with you here, I wouldn't have asked you these three questions, but would have just shot you to death." Himeko snorted coldly and urged

"Quickly tell me, what the hell is the opponent? Something? How did your fleet get into the other party's hands? Even if you didn't hand over the operating authority to the other party, the opponent must have used some method to forcibly seize it."

"Actually, no."

The man in the suit sighed again, pouted his mouth in a certain direction outside the cabin, and said weakly

"Look."

"Look, what?..." Himeko subconsciously directed her gaze toward the direction Olga pointed to, causing her to close her mouth.