The Path Toward Heaven

Eve was speechless. When she walked into the room, she found that the TV was not turned on. Jing Jiu was sitting at the table, and the familiar big doll was on the sofa.

This was the first time she walked into Jing Jiu's house in more than a year, but she didn't have time to observe anything, and she didn't have time to sit down, so she said directly to Jing Jiu, I told you a few days ago that I would be ready to evacuate at any time, why haven't I left yet?

Jing Jiu stood up and said, Because...

Hurry up, don't bring anything except what's on the list... Remember to destroy the organic matter... Forget it, take it with you. Eve looked at the egg in his hand, rubbed her forehead with some headaches, and said, Hurry up to the game hall. There is a meeting, and someone will take you.

Huaxi hugged the bowl into his arms, raised his hands proudly and said: I read the list, and I also received the things.

Eve sighed, followed her into the bedroom, took out the things, and signaled Jing Jiu to leave with her. As for whether the eggs and food in the kitchen and the dark things on the window sill will be stained by dark energy into spores, she can't care about it now.

Jing Jiu took the luggage from her hand. Huaxi rushed to the sofa as fast as she could, and replaced the big bowl in her arms with Xueji. In front of the 720th floor, the three squeezed into the red suspension car, and just as they sat firmly, the suspension car came into the sky.

Jing Jiu looked out the window and saw the pagoda made of Buddha's light tens of kilometers away, and saw the young monk in the pagoda, and couldn't help being curious.

The evacuation alarm had sounded for a long time, and they didn't leave because Xue Ji had no intention of leaving.

These days Xue Ji has been acting a little strange, always staring at a certain place in the distance.

Not somewhere in this world, but somewhere in the void.

The red hover car soon landed behind the wall of the game hall.

After Jing Jiu got off the car, he found that Teacher Eve didn't intend to get off the car, and the suspension car didn't turn off, as if he was about to leave again.

Holding the car door with his hand, he looked at Eve and asked, Where are you going?

Eve reached out and rubbed his hair, said with a smile, There is another family similar to yours, and I'm going to pick them up.

Jing Jiu didn't quite understand everything that happened today, nor did she understand her thoughts, so he said seriously, Don't be a hero.

It's not being a hero, it's a responsibility.

Eve said: I was so busy that I forgot the standard procedure. The community should be responsible for the evacuation of families like yours.

The red hover car left the ground and soon disappeared into the last twilight.

Jing Jiu felt that this scene looked familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

He withdrew his gaze, led Huaxi around the game hall, and came to the entrance of the underground passage.

At this time, the number of people who had not yet entered the ground was much less. More than a dozen mobile police officers were holding laser guns and watching the surroundings vigilantly. The sparse crowd slowly passed through the simple detection door.

Huaxi was a little nervous, and subconsciously grabbed the corner of Jing Jiu's clothes.

Jing Jiu looked back at Xue Ji in her arms.

Xue Ji still looked into the distance, without giving any instructions.

Walking along the sparse flow of people, just after passing through the detection door, there was a loud noise like thunder from the north, followed by a strong vibration on the ground, a lot of dust was sprayed up, and an abandoned building in the distance collapsed.

The strong earthquake caused some people to fall to the ground, and the venue became a little chaotic, with crying and screaming everywhere.

Government staff and police rushed to maintain order and help the wounded, while urging people outside to enter the underground passage as soon as possible.

Huaxi was very scared, and subconsciously grabbed Jing Jiu's clothes even tighter, and hugged Xue Ji even tighter.

Xue Ji was still staring into the distance, her dark eyes were full of complicated emotions.

No fear, just a complexity that is hard to describe in words.

In the past, no matter whether she was in the snowfield of Chaotian Continent, or in Qingshan Sword Prison, or in the sewers, her eyes were either powerful and proud, or indifferent, or timid.

At this time, the place she looked at was no longer in the void, but in this world, more precisely, it was 70 kilometers north of Wushan City.

Han Chan flew back from nowhere, landed on Xue Ji's head, changed back to the bow, and brought back more accurate information.

Those invisible mosquitoes also flew back and spread around Jing Jiu and Huaxi.

The fluctuating aura emitted by the chilling cicadas and the mosquitoes were a little excited, probably because they saw the sea and saw some familiar people of the same kind.

The same kind mentioned here are not monsters from the Sea of ​​Dark Things, but those cockroaches used by humans as scouts.

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There are many release devices in Wushan City and the outskirts of more than a dozen other cities. The moment the space crack appeared, those release devices rose from the ground, and a large amount of awakening agent was poured into the device, awakening the cockroaches that had been sleeping for many years.

Countless cockroaches flew towards the space crack like a storm. It looked a bit like the locust plague that the Mu planet had suffered in the documentary, covering the sky and the sun, making the twilight quiet earlier, especially with the dim light emitted by the miniature sensors and bombs in their bodies, the picture was very spectacular.

A stormy swarm of cockroaches came to the northern suburbs of Wushan City and confirmed the overflow range of the Sea of ​​Dark Matter. The city authorities found that the dark energy's spread range was much smaller than the mathematical model estimated through the data collected by the satellite. They couldn't help being very surprised.

What is the reason? Could someone still block the space crack?

The night was getting dark, and the pagoda on the abandoned factory was clearer, but it was covered by lotus clouds, and no satellite could see its existence.

Monk Huanxi floated cross-legged on the top of the pagoda, suppressing the gushing out of the sea of ​​dark matter with his great Nirvana and his own supernatural powers. Suddenly, he sensed countless extremely subtle auras, opened his eyes and looked into the distance, saw those cockroaches, and raised his brows in disgust.

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Want to help? Jing Jiu turned to look at Xue Ji and asked.

He didn't know what happened today, but he always felt that Xue Ji should know the young monk far away. Because she has been looking over there.

There were scattered footsteps in the underground passage, and the atmosphere was tense and silent. Someone heard his voice and thought he was talking to Huaxi.

Huaxi opened her big eyes, and said ignorantly, I'll just hold it.

Xue Ji, who was being held in her arms, was expressionless, like a real doll, and ignored Jing Jiu.

When they came to the underground passage, they passed through two inspection doors, and they boarded the subway with the last batch of evacuated people.

He took Huaxi to find a remote seat and sat down, just like going to an interest class every day, but it was different after all.

The billboard outside the window had just been replaced with a new one 20 days ago, so the light was turned off and never came on again.

When the subway passes the junction, it will float slightly and emit a unique hum.

After passing Yanshan Station, the subway did not continue to move forward according to the inherent line, but turned to the right to another suspended track.

The wall on the edge of that track says the repair office, but it is actually a passage leading to the underground fortification.

The subway kept going down, and the air pressure in the carriages changed significantly. Some people covered their ears uncomfortably.

After an unknown amount of time, the subway finally reached the end of the journey and entered an empty, brightly lit station.

There are dense crowds on the platform of the station. According to the light curtain on the wall and the data label of the bracelet, the crowd is divided into dozens of areas.

Jing Jiu got down from the carriage, glanced at his bracelet, and quietly followed the crowd to his area. Huaxi hugged Xue Ji with one hand, and held the corner of his clothes with the other, looking pitiful and cute, even at such a chaotic time, she still attracted many people's attention.

There was a fat boy in sportswear in the crowd, looking at Jing Jiu and Hua Xi, he reached out his hand to say something, but his father patted the back of the head hard to calm him down, and sat back on the chair a little aggrieved, muttering words such as frozen pears and gifts.

The Galaxy Alliance has not encountered a sea of ​​dark matter directly invading a living planet for decades, but it has never relaxed education in this area. All residents have to learn relevant courses when they enter school, and drills are held every year.

With such a foundation, relying on the well-developed public transportation system and the efficient command of the computer, the evacuation of Wushan City went smoothly. Of course, this is also due to the efforts of the staff of the city hall and the anger of Mayor Ellen some time ago.

Six hundred thousand Wushan citizens have been evacuated from the ground and entered the corresponding underground fortifications. Those underground fortifications have nuclear power furnaces as energy sources, and have extremely complete resources and life support systems, which can guarantee that they can live in them for more than ten years.

No one thought that the seemingly smooth evacuation would end up with a big problem.

The 4,000 people in the old industrial dormitory area were taken to the entrance of the underground base by subway, but they could not enter.

Because the alloy door that sealed the entrance couldn't be opened.

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Except for Mayor Ellen and a dozen officials in the city hall, the rest of the staff have gone to the front line, which seems much deserted than usual.

The evacuation of Wushan City went smoothly. Looking at the confirmation made by the computer in the system and the people who entered the base one after another, Mayor Ellen felt a lot more relaxed. He picked up his teacup and took a big sip before hearing the very bad news.

He spat out the soaked tea leaves from his mouth, and cursed: How long has it been! Why didn't you report just now!

The official responsible for the opening of the base in front said with a trembling voice: We want to try.

Try you XXXXX! Mayor Ellen was furious and cursed all the swear words he could think of. Only then did those officials close to him realize that Mayor Ellen's family was from a labor union, and he was by no means as gentle as he has been in recent years.

Time was running out, and he didn't dare to scold people to his heart's content. He turned to look at a department supervisor, and said with an ugly face, Is this the result of the inspection?

After the first explosion of the Menghuo industrial base, he asked the relevant departments to start checking the situation of the underground base. After the second explosion, he reiterated that there was still a problem, and it turned out to be such a low-level but extremely troublesome problem.

The earthquake just now showed that the cracks in the space are expanding, and the multi-faceted monitoring system has indirectly detected the existence of dark energy. Just in the fields in the north of Wushan City, an unknown number of cockroaches blew themselves up to death. The shadow is coming towards the urban area. If the 4,000 residents of the industrial dormitory area cannot enter the base later, they will all die, and then become the terrible sequence in the file...

At this time, the video screen of the underground station finally picked up. The people on the platform still maintain order and wait with unimaginable patience, but if the alloy door still cannot be opened, can the people maintain their current composure?

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Discussions began to sound on the platform, getting louder and louder.

The people were evacuated here, and then there was no further movement. Those officials and policemen in front didn't know what they were doing in front of the door, which naturally caused a lot of speculation and anxiety. The fear gradually amplified, and it was very likely to erupt at any time.

The door in the side wall of the platform is about ten meters high, and the width is even more astonishing. If there is no clear text mark on it, it is hard to imagine that it is a door, and no one would have thought that the inside of the seemingly ordinary cement wall is the highest strength alloy developed by the Galaxy Alliance.

The fear and anxiety of the crowd fell on the officials in front of the door, especially the three technical officials who were responsible for opening the door. Their faces were pale, and their uniforms were already drenched with sweat. When they found that the alloy door could not be opened, they implemented three sets of backup plans as quickly as possible, but the result was still unsuccessful. This was not a password problem, nor a recognition problem, but the most troublesome physical problem.

According to the latest self-test report of the computer, the alloy door has been squeezed by a strong external force for decades, and it is slightly deformed. This deformation is transmitted to the master lock, which directly leads to physical incarceration, that is to say, it is stuck. This external force comes from the underground rock formation itself, and the deformation of the rock formation is due to more complicated reasons. It should be related to the smuggling channel dug by the pirates in the past...

Regardless of the initial reason, this door cannot be opened unless someone can mobilize the battleship.

Thinking of the tragic scene later, the officials were breathing more and more heavily. A technical official couldn't bear it any longer, and his legs softened and he knelt directly to the ground. This scene triggered more bad guesses, the crowd started to stir up, some people started crying, some people started shouting and cursing.

In the chaos, a boy in a blue tracksuit led a little girl holding a doll to the alloy door.

Need help? he asked.