"Do you like this kind of job?" Li Mingyue said from the front.
"Huh?" Su Mingan responded.
"Rescue the residents in the city, get their thanks, let their crumbling lives survive, let them continue to hold on to impossible hope, and survive in this world. Let them pray to the gods who will not pity them at all." Li Mingyue said: "This is the work of the church. Do you like this kind of work?"
Su Mingan was silent for a while and said slowly:
"dislike."
"It's a pity. I was still thinking that if you like this kind of job, you can take over my job in the future. In this way..." Li Mingyue paused:
"Even if you don't go to the college entrance examination, go to Beiqing University, or get in touch with the Urban Guardian Department... you can do it even if you don't do these things. It's all okay. You can stay in this city for the rest of your life and become an anchor with Su Luoluo . This city also recruits civil servants, you can try, you can get married, and your life can be happy."
Su Mingan was slightly startled.
Li Mingyue's words seemed to be saying that if he continued on the main mission, something unfortunate would happen - it seemed that staying in a small town and never taking the first step would be the luckiest outcome.
…
[But based on your fate line, you are the luckiest now, Shao Qing. Li Mingyue still lowered her head and said to herself: "Being locked up and getting blood is already your luckiest fate." I've seen thousands of futures for you, and none of them are luckier than this. ”]
…
Su Ming'an immediately remembered the words of the national master Li Mingyue in "Lou Yue Kingdom", which seemed to overlap with the words of modern Li Mingyue at this moment.
But unfortunately, it is impossible not to follow the main line in order to complete the level perfectly.
If he were an ordinary player and didn't have so many responsibilities on his shoulders, he might really end these twenty days happily, instead of crushing his own bones step by step and walking step by step to the most dangerous and crazy place.
He is an enemy of the gods, confronts other civilizations tit for tat, and relies on drugs to maintain his sanity like a madman.
Unfortunately there is no if.
Su Mingan shook his head: "The definition of happiness is not to blind yourself. I don't want the tragedy of this city to happen forever. Even if there is a happier ending, I want to face the truth."
…
——
…
There seemed to be sounds in my ears, and it seemed like auditory hallucinations.
Li Mingyue turned back and stared at him.
The shadows of the two stretched out long, and white feathers flew in the sky, like melting snow.
The eyes of Su Ming'an and Li Mingyue met. The two seemed to be in a subtle state of stasis, and the sound of flying feathers was very clear. Until Su Mingan spoke——
"I want them to be happy, and this happiness is not equal to anything, it is unique."
"Really?" Li Mingyue actually saw his hesitation.
"Yes." Su Mingan's words were much firmer.
"Is this what you mean?" Li Mingyue asked again.
"Yes." This sentence was decisive.
"...Okay." Li Mingyue's voice sounded like regret, but also like relief.
Su Ming'an glanced back. Lu Shu followed silently and did not say anything rashly. Lu Shu was so afraid of disturbing him that he didn't say a word from beginning to end.
When Lu Shu met Su Ming'an's eyes, he was slightly startled and smiled subconsciously.
Su Mingan nodded and turned back his gaze.
"Hasn't the tragedy of this city been conveyed through the news? Do people living in modern cities outside know what is happening here?" Su Mingan asked about the tragedy of this city.
The news on the street is full of advertisements for lipstick, cosmetics, health products, etc. Images of luxury goods are not uncommon and seem out of place in a city filled with pain. It's like two worlds in one day.
"Even if it arouses public opinion, it will only be buried by more and more gossip incidents. Even if people outside know what is going on in the city, they will sigh for a while and soon forget it." Li Mingyue said calmly: "The tragedies in society are not Not uncommonly, many tragedies once caused a sensation. Even if people were angry at the time, living is tiring enough and will be forgotten soon. The Internet, where entertainment comes first, will cover up all the haze."
"The coalition government is very good at using the Internet and public opinion." Su Mingan lamented. He has seen many tragedies that have been covered up because of the Internet. All the icebergs are hidden under "happiness" and "entertainment". It seems that only gossip stars can make people care.
They were walking towards the church when they heard a loud noise.
"boom--!
"
It seemed that there was a loud noise not far away. In an instant, a violent wind wave came, mixed with the smell of gunpowder and fierce yellow sand. The huge shock wave overturned the house at the end of the field of vision, and a cloud composed of fire waves was coming. Slowly rising, the temperature increases.
In an instant, people screamed in fear from all directions. Several black crow-like aircraft flew across the sky, and pitch-black objects fell from high altitudes into the city.
"That's..." Su Mingan held up the barrier and said in surprise: "Air raid?"
He didn't expect that someone would recklessly drop artillery bombs in the city - this is a city where hundreds of thousands of people live!
Li Mingyue raised her head and glanced at the fleet of aircraft in the sky:
"Maybe it was done by other countries, maybe it was a force that wanted to make a fortune from dead people... But the biggest possibility is that it was the old Holy See. The old Holy See often massacred cities and villages for no reason. After the "First Union Agreement", the world's The focus is entirely on the Meng Xun family, the military power has been taken away, and the old Holy See has become more and more unscrupulous. They have always enjoyed killing people and creating negative emotions."
"Are these people purely bad?" Su Ming'an couldn't understand - there are people who want to destroy the world so much. Creating negative emotions will only make the aliens on the front line stronger. The old Holy See was a group of anti-social elements?
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He no longer stayed where he was and ran towards home. Su Luoluo was still there. She was just a first-level rookie and couldn't resist the shells at all.
"Boom-boom-boom-!"
The fire kept emerging, rising like a growing mushroom. As far as the field of vision can be seen, flying dust is flying around.
The sound of bombings rang in my ears one after another, and people ran here and there like escaping rats. An old man was killed on the spot, his limbs flying everywhere. The mother and her children hid in the air-raid shelter in a hurry. "Kakaka" The sound of steel bars breaking and roofs falling was heard endlessly. Everything in front of them collapsed like a sandcastle, and the air trembled fiercely.
“Help—help!
"
"why why why!"
"Help me, no, don't throw yourself here! Mom——"
Sparks bloomed on the ground one after another, rapidly expanding in all directions, like ferocious beasts turned into flames, swallowing up houses and fleeing residents. The gunfire sounded, and there was a tinnitus in the ears, and the high-decibel sound seemed to pierce the eardrums.
A total of twenty cannonballs landed on this devastated land, and flames continued to bloom on the ground, taking away lives mercilessly. No matter how roaring and wailing the people made, the war did not let them go.
The residents had experienced many air raids before, so there were ruins everywhere. Ever since the black fog filled the air, cities in such remote areas had no protection system at all. The old world is almost the same as the apocalypse. Only the coalition government still maintains a semblance of dignity.
Su Mingan had no idea that life in a small town was peaceful one moment, and suddenly turned into a horrific scene of war the next moment.
Most destruction occurs without warning.
Li Mingyue burned the talisman and used a huge barrier to block the shells in this area. Residents rushed to take refuge, but there was no way to protect further areas.
Loud noises rang in Su Mingan's ears over and over again. Ten minutes later, a group of bombers hovered over the city for a moment, leaving only miserable cries and mutilated bones on the ground.
"Ah-ah!"
"Help, help me..."
In just ten minutes, the scene in front of me completely changed. The already chaotic and incomplete city seemed to have been turned inside out again, revealing an even denser group of cannon pits and ruins. There was crying, sadness and despair everywhere.
Su Mingan stared at the group of bombers that were gradually leaving, and released the purple-level pet "Crimson Bird" to follow the group of bombers. He had to figure out who these guys were.
Then, he continued to rush towards Su Luoluo's house.
Only the fourth level can resist heat weapons. Su Luoluo only has the first level, so she can't resist it. Su Mingan could only hope that the shells did not fall into the area of her home.
Arriving at the door of Su Luoluo's house, Su Mingan raised his head——
He saw - a pile of collapsed ruins under the dark clouds.
A dark cannon pit fell not far away, and wind and waves overturned all the houses in this area.
...Obviously, her home was not spared and was even very close to the explosion area.
Among the fly ash, bright red flocculent matter floated in the air. The tip of the nose was filled with the smell of blood and gunpowder, and the skin could feel the heat in the air.
"Su..." Su Mingan didn't know how to call her. Everything in front of him was flying dust. The old residential building had disappeared. The stairs of her house and the old tree in front of the residential building were no longer visible.
He took a few steps forward, then a few more, and the bricks under his feet kept making a "creak" sound. Dust and debris covered everything.
A half-exploded Dream Patrol helmet fell into the ruins, with a trace of pink graffiti remaining. This was her helmet. The sofa and chairs next to him were vaguely visible, and even the cotton on the sofa had turned black. Several burnt photos were stacked among the bricks, in which the little girl Zitong smiled brightly.
A section of an arm lay quietly between the steel bars. The skin was burnt black and the nails had been cracked by the explosion. The broken wine bottle was still tightly held in his hand. Su Mingan immediately knelt down to check and found the tattoo on his arm - it was Su Luoluo's father's arm.
Next to it was the mutilated body of Su Luoluo's father.
What about her? She had gone home and she could only be near her father.
Her family is not big, and her father is here, so she can only be among the ruins.
"Click, click, click."
Su Mingan lifted up the wooden blocks, dug away the bricks, and used the priest's staff as a digging stick to pry open the stone bricks one by one and dig down bit by bit. Li Mingyue had been standing quietly behind him, holding a thick book in her hand, not knowing what she was thinking.
Twenty minutes later, Su Mingan dug up all the open spaces nearby, but she was not seen. Only torn pieces of cloth and mutilated limbs could be seen, and it was impossible to identify who these were.
Su Mingan looked at these strands of flesh and blood and stopped digging.
In a world of ruins, wars are a common occurrence. The seventy-two years of Caiusta saw more than five billion casualties. Countless cities have been bombed.
But only when it was truly presented in front of Su Mingan, he could intuitively feel what it meant every time a war red dot appeared on the command map, and every time the tens of millions of casualties reported to him by his subordinates.
……too suddenly.
……Too strange.
War turns out to be this kind of thing.
"Su... Luoluo?" Su Ming'an stood up straight and stood among the ruins. He looked at the unidentifiable corpse in the open space and was at a loss.
No one responded to him.
There are many people digging like him around here. They are in ragged clothes and have no tools. They can only use their hands to dig wildly at the collapsed ruins. Their arms are full of blood and their nails are broken. They are digging and crying for their loved ones. name:
"Shanshan—Shanshan—!"
"Xiao Le! Come out! Come out! Just shout, okay?"
"Mom - where are you, Mom!"
Su Mingan looked back at Li Mingyue, who was looking at the sky.
"If it were a bomber from the Holy See in the old days, the fuselage would have a built-in self-destruction system. Once the pilot is killed, the self-destruction system will be activated directly, and the plane will fall and cause an explosion." Li Mingyue said to herself: "It is impossible to intercept this explosion. It’s bound to happen…”
Su Mingan sensed his Scarlet Bird, which was already tracking behind the fleet.
But where is Surolo?
The red-black sky was filled with smoke and dust, and thick black clouds lingered.
Su Mingan stepped back step by step. He looked at the incomplete ruins and the incomplete pink Dream Patrol helmet on the ground with a dazed look in his eyes.
until--
"Little cloud."
Suddenly, the red and black colors in the sky rose with the wind, and seemed to be blown away a little.
A trembling voice came from behind:
"...little cloud."
Su Ming'an turned around and saw the confused girl Zi Tong walking from another building that was still intact. Her arms were covered with bright red blood, and her voice was mixed with crying.
She didn't seem to expect that she would suddenly encounter these things. This air raid was too sudden and the war was so unkind. Without any warning, just twenty pieces of metal took away the lives of countless people.
Su Mingan was startled for a moment before confirming that the dusty face was Su Luoluo.
"Little cloud."
The girl called him for the third time.
She stood between the fire and the thick fog, coughing and walking towards him, her eyes full of fear and fear, and her voice was like a trembling wheat sieve.
"Originally, I had some money, and I planned to send my mother to the hospital for cancer treatment this morning... I also asked my father in the morning if he wanted to send my mother together. He said he didn't want to send her to me, and he wanted to stay at home and drink... "Su Luoluo said tremblingly: "Who knows, the shells will fall on my house, but the hospital will be safe..."
She saw the mutilated body of the man in the ruins and realized the impermanence of fate.
If he could go and see his mother off, would this death not have happened?
Her expression seemed to be crying, smiling, relieved, and sad.
