That's right!
The one who had fought against those demons before and destroyed nearly twenty large and small warp demons, some twisted psykers, demon servants corrupted by the subspace, and the nasty little girl who almost blew up an entire street, was that one. From the mountains to the west of the market, Anne Bennie ran out and wandered around alone from the abandoned mine base!
Immediately after the two parties got to know each other and introduced each other, because the other party claimed that the entrance to the so-called safe underground shelter of the other party was nearby, plus the warm invitation of the lieutenant uncle named 'Awen' , Annie thought about it and felt that it was almost dark and she was not in a hurry to go back. She could just find a place to rest first, so she readily agreed to the other party's invitation.
Of course!
The most important thing is: she is really curious about the other party's refuge, and she also wants to see that these people are still able to move and survive in this city full of subspace demons, and still have the energy to move around. How did the armed teams who searched and rescued survivors persevere?
then!
After agreeing, under the leadership of the more than 20 soldiers and armed men, Anne and the 30 or 40 survivors who were found by the other party walked among those who didn't know how many floors there were and some of them were already tilted. , inside is a steel building that is dilapidated and has a complex environment like a maze, groping forward layer by layer.
After walking for three full hours, when those people mysteriously removed a covered reinforced concrete wall and revealed a dark passage, Anne and the panting survivors finally arrived with them. The entrance to the so-called underground shelter that they had said before was 'not far at all' and 'just nearby'.
It is said that there were originally several luxurious and towering buildings nearby. It was a high-end business district integrating a magnificent luxury market, high-end hotels and resort centers. It was full of various luxury goods and attracted guests and tourists. An endless stream?
However, this place is now in ruins. In the past, the luxuries that ordinary people could not afford with a lifetime of meager wages have now become worthless garbage in the corner of the ruins of Shashuo.
Of course, those corpses scattered everywhere and with a faint stench are definitely indispensable.
Anyway, Anne saw it at a glance. Not far from the entrance of the passage, a female corpse wearing a beautiful red and purple formal dress was lying crookedly in the sand. Her lower body seemed to be suppressed by the steel building. The upper body and the luxurious clothes were already covered with maggots, and no one was cleaning or burying them.
"..."
(ー`ー)
Knowing that that kind of situation was common in this city and even on this planet, of course Annie didn't say anything more, but continued to follow Lieutenant Awen and others into the secret passage.
A few minutes later……
"Is this what you call 'very close'?"
(ˇεˇ)
When the front of the passage suddenly opened up and a steel gate appeared, and there were guards in front of the gate to answer it, Annie complained to Lieutenant Awen with some dissatisfaction:
"Walked for more than three hours..."
⊙﹏⊙‖∣°
"If I hadn't promised you before, I would have thought about not coming here several times just now!"
(﹏、)
Yes, this is Anne's truest thought.
Then, she finally realized once again that the statement "You can't believe what adults say" was really not pointless.
"Ha ha!"
However, Lieutenant Awen chuckled and explained:
"It's really close!"
"In normal times, you can get here by taking the suspended train in five minutes at most."
"But there is no other way. Now we have to be careful to avoid the subspace demons wandering in the city, and we have to shuttle between those abandoned buildings. We can't make too much noise yet..."
"It's really good to be able to come back within three hours without encountering any demons."
At this point, he stopped talking, then turned to look at Anne and called the others to join him and said:
"bring it on!"
"This is not the place to talk. Let's go in first and talk first?"
With that said, Lieutenant Awen successfully opened the steel door after passing various verifications, and then motioned to Anne, his own soldiers and the survivors they found to hurry in.
Immediately after entering the gate, they passed through a long corridor. Every few steps in the corridor, there was a dim light, illuminating the cold and relatively clean surrounding environment.
soon!
Everyone walked to the innermost part of the steel gate, then took a huge lifting platform like an elevator and slowly descended for nearly half a minute before they finally arrived at their destination: a platform located nearly 500 meters underground. It looks very bright, like a huge shelter on the ground.
Here, in the bright simulated sky environment, the dazzling sun is emitting blazing light in the 'sky' above the head, and a group of relatively clean people wearing various uniforms, but with haggard faces are walking around and busy. , just like a normal ground block.
"..."
(Д≡д)!?
Like the other survivors, Annie looked around in surprise.
Because this place was indeed nothing like the dark, humid, and turbid shelter she had imagined before, nor was it the sight of a large group of dirty people huddled together begging for food.
Here, there are not only wide and clean streets, tall buildings, luxurious living environment, transportation and various supporting living facilities, but also a complete set of planetary environment simulation system, making this place like a disaster Like a busy neighborhood before.
"So powerful?"
(⊙o⊙*)
"People thought..."
(〃°ー°)
Anne didn't say what she thought, she just couldn't help but admire it.
really!
At the beginning, she really thought that the other party's refuge was just a dirty underground bomb shelter with turbid air. However, she never thought that there were streets, shops, and several unified floors. A shopping street with beautiful buildings left and right?
To be honest, if there were not a lot of soldiers setting up positions at the exit and using weapons of various sizes, machine guns and other things to face the elevator entrance, and there were even turrets and other things in the distance and waiting for it, she would Maybe you really thought you were on a pedestrian street!
"Ah!"
"It's spectacular, isn't it?"
Seeing the expressions of Annie and other surprised survivors, Lieutenant Awen could not help but say with regret while being proud:
"Actually, this is pretty average. Those official shelters are larger than here, with more complete supporting facilities and better environment. They even have underground ecological forests and ecological farmland. They claim to be able to stay isolated from the world and the planet. To be self-sufficient for hundreds of years despite the serious deterioration of the external environment?”
"At that time, when the disaster broke out, many people naturally took refuge in various official shelters as soon as possible. At that time, there were also military and police to maintain order."
"But unfortunately, those shelters didn't last long."
"Because almost all high-level psychics have become enemies and twisted demons..."
"Led by those twisted psykers, almost all official shelters have been occupied by demons in the past two months. You can imagine the fate of those who hide in such places!"
"On the contrary, places like this kind of shelters, underground warehouses or underground markets that are not registered and belong to private companies or certain individuals can continue to exist."
Seeing the increasingly surprised expression on Annie's face, Lieutenant Awen couldn't help but sigh, and then stood aside, watching those people come to settle down and directing the survivors not to run around, while continuing to give Annie a ride. Introduced without a hitch.
"That is to say!"
(°ー°〃)
"This was originally a market?"
(.)
Anne, who followed the other party a few steps forward, took a look. She could vaguely see traces of the prosperous scene of Gui Market from here, so she asked curiously.
"Yes."
"But it's not an ordinary market, it's a black market, a high-level black market, the kind that ordinary people can't access?"
With a bitter smile, Lieutenant Awen didn't mean to hide anything, and directly told the predecessor of this place openly.
"black market?"
(゜-゜)
Anne was even more surprised when she heard that such a beautiful place was actually a black market.
"Yes!"
"It's the black market!"
"You know where the black market is, right?"
Lieutenant Awen looked at the street in front of him and was talking with some emotion. Then, Lieutenant Awen, who suddenly remembered that Annie was still a little girl, turned around and asked.
"I know!"
(^▽^)
"A place where bad guys evade taxes, avoid regulations and sell contraband?"
(゜▽＾*)
After winking playfully, Anne said with some disdain: Although she is indeed a little girl, she is not a fool.
This kind of place is similar to the Knockturn Alley in Diagon Alley that she has been to. She has seen many of them.
Moreover, she, the Head of State Anne, once sold some "firecrackers" or "fireworks" toys in a black market on the Citadel Space Station.
Of course, she would not admit that she was a bad guy. The bad guy was Sister Shepard. Who told her not to give her a little more money? And she was too embarrassed to steal and rob openly, so she could only take out some of her valuable toys and exchange them on the black market.
(…)
(●￣￣●)
"You're right!"
"It's probably a place like that, but this black market was opened by big shots, and it's different from the ones you mentioned."
"After all, no matter where it is, there is always some darkness that cannot see the light."
As he said that, Lieutenant Awen nodded and sighed, as if he remembered something bad, but he didn't want to say more.
"Originally there was a company building above this place, but now it has collapsed and the original entrance has been completely buried."
"But you know, there's more than one entrance and exit to a place like this, and there's another backup."
"A few years before the disaster, I accidentally discovered this place while working on a case. I thought I would never come back again, but I never thought..."
"Finally, only half a month after the catastrophe, we couldn't hold on anymore. After escaping from an official shelter, I took my soldiers and some refugees to hide here, and we stayed here of people have persisted to this day.”
"Fortunately, because this is a black market that is independent of the city's regulatory system, there is no shortage of materials or energy. Otherwise, the survival of hundreds of thousands of us would be a big problem!"
Speaking of this, Lieutenant Awen didn't know what he thought of, and his face showed expressions of trance, pain, and gnashing of teeth.
"There are as many as hundreds of thousands of people here?"
!(;o)o
Annie asked again, somewhat surprised.
"certainly!"
"In fact, it's not a problem that hundreds of thousands of people can be accommodated here in theory!"
"Otherwise we wouldn't go out searching for survivors so often."
"Moreover, there are hundreds of similar places in Guixi Market, large and small. We are all connected to each other, but it is only limited to contact, but our respective locations will not be easily exposed."
"After all, demons are not the kind of monsters without intelligence. They can also use advanced technologies, so we have to guard against them."
Speaking of demons, Lieutenant Awen's originally relaxed face couldn't help but become a little solemn. It seemed that they or someone had suffered a big loss in things that didn't pay attention to confidentiality?
"Too!"
(~)
"But although this place looks nice, it won't work if it continues like this. Sooner or later, it will be discovered, right?"
(O ^~^ O)
Although underground shelters are very safe, it depends on the era.
Anyway, in Annie's opinion, in this interstellar era, especially for those psykers who have colluded with the subspace demons, waiting for the time to slowly find and clean up the humans hiding underground is not good for them. It shouldn't be difficult for them?
"It does!"
"More than two months have passed, almost three months. As you can see, the situation on the ground is not optimistic. After the demons have cleared away the resistance and living people on the ground, it must be our turn next. Are these rats hiding underground?"
"They know that we are underground, but they just don't have time to deal with it for the time being. After all, no matter how different the survivors are on the ground and in the ruins, there are still 10 to 20 million."
Lieutenant Awen had obviously thought about this issue.
But thinking about it, they couldn't do anything about it. They knew that staying here was waiting for death, and they knew that sooner or later the demons would come to their door, but they didn't have many good ways to do it.
"Then you haven't thought about breaking out and running out?"
(.)
"Just waiting to die here?"
(ˇˇ)
Hearing what the other party said, Anne couldn't help but be a little surprised and asked tentatively.
"Breakout?"
"Ah!"
"It's useless. How can we break through with so many people?"
"A small team may be fine, but how are these hundreds of thousands of people going to get out?"
"I'm afraid that one or two thousand people will be discovered by the demon before they can get up there. Then there might be another massacre!"
He continued to sigh, and before Annie could ask again, Lieutenant Awen continued to say bitterly:
"But it's too late to break through so far!"
"Those demons seem to be targeting us. Recently, we can always find them appearing and wandering nearby, and they have deliberately avoided attacking us several times."
"Although we have ambushed and eliminated their pursuers several times, but..."
"After a few times, they became more and more cunning. At first, they were just followed by ordinary demons, but in recent days, some demons with detection equipment have been found, and there are even demon dogs that are good at tracking. They even started to Using some simple tactics, it’s getting harder and harder to deal with.”
"So, I plan not to go out in the near future, otherwise something bad will definitely happen."
Then, as he spoke, he expressed one of his thoughts.
"Difficult to deal with?"
(.)
"Is it like what happened today?"
(⊙⊙)
Anne couldn't help but interjected and asked.
Because she remembered that the demons today were indeed very cunning, and seemed to have strategies to deal with everything. They could not help but lurk around, and prepared so many demon dogs, that is, she, the Head of State Anne, would have been replaced by the one in front of her. Uncle Awen, I'm afraid those dozens of people will definitely be wiped out, right?
"That's right!"
"I have to admit, they are getting more and more difficult to deal with!"
"At the beginning, they were just the kind of monsters that only relied on numbers to rush forward. They had no wisdom at all."
"But now"
Sighing, Lieutenant Awen didn't want to continue talking.
"Let's go!"
"have to go now."
"Shall I take you to meet our leader?"
Then, he turned around and saw that the survivors they found today had been registered and reviewed by specialized personnel. After seeing that he didn't have to worry about those little things, Lieutenant Awen thought for a moment, Then he motioned to Annie to follow him into this shelter that looked like a bustling street.
"??"
(°ー°〃)
"leader?"
(.)
"Uncle Awen, aren't you the leader here?"
く(＾_)ゝ
Anne couldn't help but be a little surprised by what the other party said.
"Ha ha!"
"Have you ever seen the leader of a base go on an adventure by himself and then fight the devil?"
Shaking his head, Uncle Awen asked Annie with a hearty smile.
"Of course I have seen it!"
o(*^*)o
"That's it!"
()hey-hey!
As she spoke, Annie straightened her back somewhat proudly, with a proud look on her face.
Because, as the head of the Koprulu Sector, the Queen of the Fire Land, and the leader of other chaotic forces and sects, she just likes to wander around alone, and she just had a big fight with those demons. Woolen cloth!
She thought it was fine and there was nothing wrong with it.
(…)
(●￣￣●)
"Anyway!"
"I am just the military chief here, mainly responsible for security matters. There are other people who manage the order and decision-making here."
"bring it on!"
"Shall I take you to meet our leader first?"
Shaking his head, Lieutenant Awen was a little dumbfounded, but he was unwilling to say more, and he didn't take Annie's words seriously. He just motioned for her to follow him and not get lost.
After all, Annie is a powerful being who can fight against an entire group of subspace demons by herself. They have witnessed it with their own eyes. There is absolutely no other person with such combat power in their shelter!
even……
He has never seen anything like this in his many years in the army!
So, he really wanted to try and see if he could convince their leader and let the little guy in front of him stay?
"But why do you want to see your leader?"
(ω‖)
"By the way, do you take care of the food?"
(▽)
Somewhat complaining, Annie, who was still a little unhappy at first, suddenly thought of something important before she ran up to the other party and asked in a serious and expectant manner.
You know, it's already dark outside now. If she doesn't want to go back to the base immediately, then the other party has to take care of the food.
"Ha ha!"
"Do not worry!"
"I can't treat you badly!"
Rarely, Awen was amused by Annie.
Then he said no more, and ignored the sad-looking survivors around him who cast doubtful looks at him and little Annie beside him. He just motioned for Annie to follow him quickly.
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(End of chapter)
