Doomsday Bandits and Tramps

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The strong light dissipated, and the city of Tinis was shrouded in a dark haze.

Seth lay paralyzed on the cold stone floor, his eyes wandering, his ears buzzing, and his consciousness hovered in the gray mist for a few seconds before he woke up suddenly as if drowning, and was almost dragged back by the severe pain all over his body. Back to the dark abyss.

Seth gasped heavily, and reluctantly propped himself up to get up from the hard ground. He looked around, but he couldn't see his fingers when he stretched out his hand, and his eyes could only catch a floating gray phantom.

He coughed, and the slight cough brought pain all over his body. He resisted the urge to gag, waved his hands to disperse the gray particles filling the air, and vaguely saw a familiar figure from behind.

"Xiu? Is that you, Xiu?"

Seth narrowed his eyes, and after rubbing his eyelids several times, he finally saw the young man's back clearly.

"Repair? Repair!"

Seth hurriedly got up, but before he could stand still, his calf gave way, and he fell down on the stone brick floor again.

He didn't care about the pain on his body, and he didn't care about the broken skin and bleeding on his palms and elbows. He anxiously called Xiu's name, rushed to the edge of the harbor and hugged Xiu, only to find that his body was covered with dry and black of blood.

"Xiu, Xiu! Are you okay? Are you injured?!"

Seth anxiously inspected Xiu's body, and there were only a few bruises and bruises on his body, and it wasn't his blood that was dry and black.

However, Xiu was in a bad state. His body was cold, his eyes were bloodshot, and his eyes were dark and lifeless. He knelt down on the ground in a daze, and let Seth manipulate him like a puppet. No matter how Seth called him or shook him, He didn't respond at all, as if his soul had been taken away, leaving only an empty shell.

Seth panicked, he pulled off his coat, wrapped Xiu tightly in his arms, kept wiping the blood on his face, and called his name: "Xiu, Xiu, I'm Seth, I'm back, look Look at me, can you say something to me? Xiu, don't scare me, just look at me, Xiu!"

Seth's vision was a little blurred, bitter liquid overflowed his eye sockets, and fell down on Xiu's face along his profile, the faint temperature gradually melted away the blackened blood stains that had condensed on his face.

"Sy, Seth..."

Finally, the young man in his arms moved his lips slightly, and the moment his weak voice reached Seth's ears, he held his sweetheart's face as if he had been pardoned, and tears welled up in his eyes: "Xiu, it's me, I'm Seth, I'm Come back, look at me, touch me."

Seth grabbed Xiu's hand and pressed it to his face. His hand was cold, and his body was also cold. Seth hugged Xiu a little tighter, rubbing his body non-stop.

"Seth, you're back..."

"Yes, I'm back," Seth hurriedly replied, "Sorry, I'm late, sorry, sorry..."

While Seth apologized, he rubbed Xiu's body.

But no matter how hard he tried, Xiu's body still didn't get better, it was as cold as a piece of ice that couldn't be melted.

He looked down at the person in his arms, Xiu's face was pale, his lips were black and purple from the cold, and his body was still trembling faintly.

"Xiu, Xiu?"

Xiu slowly turned his head and met Seth's gaze: "Sai, Seth, I'm so sleepy, I really want to rest..."

"Xiu, you can't sleep, you look at me, Xiu! You open your eyes, you can't sleep! You can't sleep, Xiu!"

"Don't, don't be afraid..."

Xiu blinked his eyes, hooked his fingertips weakly on Seth's neck, and leaned into his arms: "I'm just tired, let me sleep for a while, I'll be fine in a while..."

Seth swallowed the choked sobs in his throat and forced himself to calm down. He pressed against Xiu's forehead tightly and dedicated his body temperature to Xiu without reservation: "Xiu, Xiu, be obedient, you can't sleep, you can't close your eyes , can you stay with me, please talk to me, no, you don't need to talk, just listen to me."

"fool......"

Xiu suddenly smiled, his eyelids became heavier and heavier, as if he was holding Seth's hand with the last bit of strength: "I'm really just tired..."

Seth looked at Xiu in his arms, his face was still pale, but the dark purple of his lips faded a little, and his cold body gradually warmed up.

"Seth..."

"Yes, I am."

Xiu moved his neck, looked at the sky, and slightly stretched his fingertips: "Look, it's snowing..."

The gray haze gradually dissipated, and the dark clouds covering the city of Tinis faded away their malice. The thick gray-white clouds like a quilt scattered fine snowflakes, covering the pitch-black scorched earth piece by piece.

"Snow, is it snowing?"

Seth looked at the sky and reached out to catch a snowflake. The white crystals fell into his hand and melted into transparent and cool water stains.

"Seth, will it snow in Tinis..."

"No," Seth said, "It's also the first time I've seen snow in Tinis City."

"Really, that's a pity..."

Xiu lightly took a breath, and rested his pillow on Seth's shoulder: "Did you know that in Albion, it snows every year."

"Do you like snow?" Seth asked softly.

"I don't like it..." Xiu whispered.

"Why?" Seth asked.

Xiu took a breath, and slowly said with trembling teeth, "Because it's snowing, Nemo, we're leaving..."

Seth held back his tears and hugged Xiu who had passed out.

Beside them, a huge black whale had stopped breathing.

A big hole was pierced through its body, and the dark blood gently padded under Seth and Xiu's body.

Seth could see clearly that at the moment when the strong light fell, the black whale used its last strength to push away Xiu...

In the city, the alien beasts disappeared.

Outside the city, there was no trace of the strange beast.

The fire and smoke had dissipated, and there was still some floating ash in the air. The corpses of humans and beasts were mixed together. A few inches of land could be seen, and a few running water could be heard, but no one cared.

Everything will be covered by this heavy snow.

"It's over, it's over..."

Diana sat slumped on the ground, looking exhaustedly at the snowflakes falling in the sky.

Eloquent, flying and hovering in the air, covering the earth.

There is no joy of victory, no cheers from the living, only endless emptiness and devastation.

"The Sword of Brionac has been shut down, its energy has been depleted, and the system is about to enter sleep mode."

Inside the temple tower, the mechanical female voice sounded for the last time.

Diana breathed a sigh of relief, and said to a messy Konggang, "It's been hard work, let's have a good rest."

"Drip...drip...drip... Insufficient energy, the defense mode is released, the sword of Brionac has entered the cooling down, it is expected to take 24 hours, it is confirmed that it cannot be restarted, the statistics have annihilated 5313 alien beasts, and the system is about to shut down ..."

"and many more!!!"

The mechanical female voice disappeared, but her last words gave Diana a chill.

5313 ......

If I remember correctly, before the Brionac sword was activated, the number of scanned beasts was 5314...

There is one less beast! ! !

Unknown fear was spreading, and an inexplicable sense of suffocation instantly spread among the crowd.

"What's going on? Why 5313? Didn't you say there were 5314 alien beasts?"

"Isn't there a system error?"

"Yes, there must be a system error. The alien beasts have been wiped out. There can be no alien beasts in the city!"

"But, in case one is really missed..."

"Ah, it's just a leak, it's just one. There are so many of us, and there are people with supernatural abilities, how can we be afraid of just a small strange beast?"

"But, but, why do I have an ominous premonition, why do I feel that the ground is trembling..."

The speculation and discussion in the crowd lasted only a few seconds, and the city of Tinis was trembling, the soil was boiling, and the air was clamoring. In the gap where fear still gripped everyone's nerves, there was only a loud noise of breaking the ground, and the brown-brown shape was like a sky pillar. His body leaped out of the ground, and the terrible roar came back with a stench, eroding the broken land again.

"Death Worm! It's a Death Worm!"

Amidst the exclamation of the crowd, the death worm crashed straight into the temple tower.

"Boom, boom!"

The body of the tower cracked, and the amplifier on the top of the tower fell suddenly, making a deep hole on the ground, and it was torn apart.

"Damn it! Did this guy sneak into the ground and escape!"

The tower swayed violently. Diana clenched her saber and inserted it into the cracked ground to barely stand still. She hurriedly pressed the headset: "Doctor! Doctor! Kafka! Franz! Can you hear me! Evacuate immediately Temple Tower! Please evacuate the Temple Tower immediately!"

"Listen...listen...Diana...we...leave...right away..."

"Quick! Evacuate the temple tower quickly! I'll hold it back! Evacuate as soon as possible!"

"Hey! Diana! Can you hear me!"

The laboratory was trembling, books and materials fell all over the floor, and test tubes and instruments were smashed to pieces due to the trembling tower.

One of Franz's mechanical arms grabbed the nearby railing, and the other grabbed Kafka. Kafka yelled into the communicator, but only Diana's intermittent voice could be heard.

"Quick... evacuate... I... hold on... as soon as possible..."

"Diana! Come back! Diana!"

Kafka yelled at the communicator, suddenly there was a burst of explosion outside the laboratory, the glass on the outer wall shattered like rain, the chill poured in, and the strong wind rolled snowflakes into the room, blowing the data into chaos fly.

"Doctor! Doctor! Please evacuate as soon as possible! The general is buying time for us outside! We must evacuate as soon as possible!"

There was a strong wind outside the window, and Diana restrained the death worm by herself and drove it away from the temple tower.

The tower was no longer shaking, and Franz reluctantly took the small white ball off the test bench and put it into the insulating container, but was overturned by a strong wind, and the temporarily spliced ​​insulating container immediately fell into several pieces, and the small white ball rolled down. Stuck on the corner of the stairs.

"Damn it, at this time..."

"Wait, Franz."

The small white ball stuck in the corner emitted a bright blue light.

The two people's eyes widened, the small white ball made a faint clicking sound, and then, the seamless white ball popped out a fingernail-sized protrusion, and blue light shot out from the protrusion, printing on the white wall of the laboratory.

"what is this?"

Franz manipulated the robotic arm to pick up the small white ball, and the blue light constantly changed its image with the movement of the robotic arm.

"It's a projection. There seems to be some kind of information recorded in this little white ball."

Kafka took the small white ball, and after adjusting the angle several times, what they saw was a complete map of the mainland.

only......

"We studied for a long time, just for a map of the world?"

Franz frowned, and Kafka beside him stared at the map fascinated.

In the next second, he suddenly cheered like a treasure: "This, this is the map of Fallows! I found it! Finally..."

"Doctor! Go away!!!"

Downstairs, a soldier's howl interrupted Kafka's cheers.

He hastily put away the little white ball, and when he went downstairs, he saw the tragically dead bodies of two soldiers, and...

A strange figure in a robe.