The Fire Chaser of the Collapsing World

The fog was getting heavier and heavier, like ink rippling in the water. In just a few tens of seconds, even the asphalt road under your feet could not be seen clearly.

In the darkness, the low and depressing cough continued, enveloping the three of them from all directions.

The voice was sometimes approaching, sometimes far away, sometimes real, and sometimes ethereal, Xier's thin body trembled violently, Mikael and Ellie, who didn't know why, gradually approached, and the two surrounded Xier, so in the thick mist, They held hands, shoulder to shoulder, and the only thing they could feel was each other's breath and body temperature.

It's as if the whole world has been swallowed up by nothingness, and the boundary between sky and earth has been easily broken and ceased to exist, so that even "up" and "down" cannot be perceived.Cities, trees, whether they are the creations of civilization or natural landscapes have all drifted away like dreams, so there is no longer south, east, west, north, front, back, left, or right.

The only one, the only one, there were only three people standing solemnly in the mist, but soon, the mist further intensified, and even each other's faces began to blur.

"What a strange fog."

Mikael closed his eyes, perceptions in various senses continued to grow along with the power of space, until the space with a radius of nearly [-] kilometers was completely covered.

But there doesn't seem to be a particularly prominent Houkai reaction.

The smog is still mixed with a very small amount of Houkai energy reaction, but considering that the Houkai energy radiation has spread to every corner of the world, the concentration of the Houkai energy can be ignored.

In other words, this is a completely natural phenomenon, not a creation of Houkai?

But anyway...

"It can't go on like this."

The cyan light spots put together the outline of Mikael's body, until his childish hole turned red, and his hair that grew suddenly flew up in the air.

In an instant, the wind blew up, the wind was so gentle, it was just the touch of a pair of hands gently caressing the face, but it also easily blew away all the mist accumulated in the previous few minutes, and then, what appeared in front of the three of them, It is still a lifeless "metropolis"...

And the girl who happened to walk past them.

"Cough cough cough! Hey!"

"That... hello."

Mikael hesitated to say hello, but the girl did not rush past like the previous pedestrians.

She just stared at Mikael with dull eyes, two patches of blush appeared on her cheeks.

Alicia glanced at her mouth and tousled Seele's short, smooth hair.

It wasn't until Mikael called for the third time that the girl with long light yellow hair reacted belatedly.

"Ah-ah, hello!"

"Excuse me, what happened here? We came here for vacation... But, it looks a bit..."

"Well, a little too desolate, isn't it?"

"Um……"

"That's it."

The girl nodded slightly. Seeing Mikael's puzzled expression, she couldn't help but repeat again:

"That's the way it was. Attica was like that a long time ago."

"Then on the Internet..."

"This is not a resort for a long time. Because of the impact of the climate caused by the disaster, less than one percent of the people choose to stay here."

Mikael slapped his forehead - he seems to have chosen the wrong resort again...

Chapter 3 Where Chaos Abounds

"So, in the final analysis, it is caused by this strange weather?"

Mikael folded his hands on his chest, and walked in front of the girl named Anatia side by side.

Xi'er led Ellie, who was looking around, to walk behind... For a moment, she couldn't tell who was the child and who was the adult.

"Yes, but no."

Anatya shook her head. The pink childlike hole looked blankly across the tall buildings beside her. The glass windows were densely packed like a honeycomb, but the hot summer sun shone on it, but there was no reflection at all—they had been covered by thick dust. covered up.

"The smog has indeed brought many changes to life, but it is not enough to make people flee. What is really scary is not the smog, but the human beings themselves when the smog permeates."

"Is that so..."

Mikael sighed, and realized it in his heart.

But Xier didn't understand.

"Humans themselves... what does that mean? Do people still hurt themselves?"

Anadia's eyes swept over Xi'er, and some inexplicable expressions appeared in her lifeless eyes:

"Ah, Miss Seele still doesn't understand anything. Please imagine, if a person finds that under the thick fog, he can't even see the faces of people twenty or thirty centimeters away in just a few minutes. What does it mean?

"It means that most of the things he did during this period of time will not be noticed by others.

"In the beginning, it was just stealing something, or slapping someone who didn't like it - who was the first to do it? No one knows, but since there is the first perpetrator , there will be the first victim, and the victim cannot regain his rights and interests through normal channels, or maybe he does not want to regain his rights at all, but is inspired, so the second perpetrator is born from this, and then the The third, the fourth, the fifth... until almost everyone changed.

"Because people who don't want to be perpetrators can't live in such an environment.

"However, people quickly discovered that once this smog came, it would last as little as half an hour, sometimes even half a day—the time was enough, as long as they wanted, they had time to do anything.

"And so the evil started to escalate: from petty theft to organized robbery, from simple violence like a slap or a kick to bloody killing.

"That's why Attica got here."

"This this……"

Seele choked her throat and couldn't speak.

"But, it's obvious on the Internet... Besides, Xi'er saw the real shot of the street scene here two days ago! Obviously... there are obviously a lot of people, and it's very lively..."

"Naturally, the coalition government will not let people find out that an international metropolis has fallen to this level. I have overlooked this point. In fact, if you search carefully, you should be able to find it on some... er, such websites. This is the current situation in Attica City."

"Yes, that's right." Anadia replied sternly, "As for the real shot of the street scene that Xier mentioned...that's just a background composited with special effects, and those of us who stayed here were hired to do it. Group performances. It’s all just a measure to appease the people, I heard that even Changkong City, which was inexplicably turned into scorched earth two years ago, has been rebuilt on the Internet, haha.”

"Yes...is that so..."

Sometimes the truth is like this, and when you know the truth, you also have to bear its weight.

Mikael frowned, turned and looked at Ellie subtly.

"So, where you are taking us now is..."

"Ah, not everyone is willing to leave, and not everyone has the ability to leave. Most of those who choose to stay have moved to the original Faliro seaside area. Although life is a bit hard, but There are also advantages, for example, you can live in a sea view villa that you never even thought about before?"

"villa……"

"Actually, I don't dare... There were indeed people who were greedy for a moment of comfort and moved into the villas where the rich lived, but they were quickly killed in the mist-the empty villas are too insecure, even There are more than a dozen people living in it, and the security is very lax, so it is better to honestly find a hidden nest of a few square meters.

"However, in my opinion, it's not impossible to live in it now. After all, at the beginning, everyone would regard property as the most important thing because of inertial thinking, but it's different now-food, food is everything fundamental.

"In a city made of steel forests, it is difficult to be self-sufficient in food. Even if someone tries to go fishing or open up land for farming, their harvest will disappear.

"Nowadays, the main source of food in the city is relief supplies from the coalition government and all kinds of speculation. Remember those people you said before, who hurried past and ignored you at all? They just planned to take advantage of the fog to attack The moment sneaked into the coalition government workers' quarters near the airport to steal food.

"In the underground market in Faliro Marina, as long as you have food, you can buy anything you want, for example: you only need half a catty of compressed biscuits to get a young girl's...

"No, those little things should have been sold out by now, right? They are replaced by products similar to the slave trade, and they are not bad. If you really can't survive, you can put a feather on your head and run away. In the underground market, if you meet a benevolent owner, you can survive, if you are luckier, you will be bought by outsiders, and leave here, as for the worst luck-it is nothing more than death."

In all honesty, Anadia's voice is ethereal and clear, but the words she spits out are cold and cruel. Even Alicia, who has experienced the third collapse, feels that she cannot bear all of this.

After all, although there were not one million people in Canghai City at that time, the survivors still lived a dignified and orderly life under the protection of the fire-chasing moths.Everyone's daily food is strictly rationed by the logistics team. Anyone who dares to trade or rob other people's food privately will be whipped for the first time, and shot directly for the second time...

How could the city of Attica be so dark!

Moreover, Canghai City was only a few days away at that time, and the chaos in Attica City started from the global climate disorder caused by the fourth collapse, and it has been a full year and a half.

For a full year and a half, Alicia couldn't imagine...

Don't dare... But for Xi'er, she couldn't.

It is said that Twilight Street is a world-famous no-nonsense area, but for her, her childhood memories have long been blurred. Judging from her experience in Twilight Street in the past year and a half, it is not as good as she imagined. fear.

[To be honest, I have recently followed up, changed sources, and have many voices for reading aloud, .yeguoyuedu Android and Apple are both available. 】

Although she also knew that quietness was only on the surface, after all, if a large-scale conflict really broke out, Master Qian would be angry.

but here...

and so……

Mikael stopped in his tracks.

"So, Anadia, who are you? I don't think an ordinary person can know the things here in such detail."

"You finally asked this question. I thought I didn't give enough hints."

The girl chuckled twice, and handed a certificate to Mikael.

"Let me re-introduce. I'm Anatia from the Intelligence Section 2 of the Humanities Department of the United Government. I've known you for a long time. Mr. Mikael and Miss Alicia."

Neither Mikael nor Alicia showed an overly surprised expression, on the contrary, Xier was pulled behind Alicia to protect her before she had time to say anything.

"You three don't need to be nervous. Your legend is no secret in today's coalition government. I can't guarantee how others will be. At least as far as I am concerned, I still admire and believe in you. Of course, you should also Have some confidence in your own strength."

"So how did you keep track of our whereabouts?"

"This is really an accident. Before explaining these, can I introduce my mission first?"

Mikael snorted noncommittally, motioning for her to continue.

"The things I just said are the information obtained by several of my predecessors in exchange for their lives, but most of them only left text messages. My task is to record these in the form of video and submit them to the .so that someone notices these things. And then...then maybe it will change all of this."

Mikael looked into her pink eyes until her eye sockets were reddish and steamy, and then asked:

"Do you really believe the last word you said?"

Anadia pouted her lips, clenched her fists and shouted softly:

"I, of course I do! No, I have to. After all, if I do nothing, nothing will happen, Mr. Mikael, what do you think?"

Mikael was silent for a few seconds, then shrugged:

"Okay, come on, what do you need us to do?"

"Whee!"

The girl wiped away her tears and smiled for the first time:

"Yes, that's right! I contacted the well-known 'Vigilante' in the seaside area to investigate as my informant, but four hours have passed since our agreed meeting time, I..."

"Vigilante..."

Mikael gave a playful smile.

Chapter 4 Hello, Cosmo

"Don't run!"

On the empty avenue, seven or eight strong men in black relentlessly chased the boy for three blocks.

Naturally, the boy being chased would not answer, and he even thought about asking in his mind:

[If you want to catch up with me, shouldn't you run while holding your breath?Why shout out?Do they think I'll stop because of this?Unreasonable. 】

"Don't run!"

Seven or eight strong men in black behind him chased him relentlessly, and had already chased him for three streets.

The boy's running posture is very abstract, his head is turned to the right, the corner of his left eye glances forward, and the corner of his right eye glances behind him.

[The seaside villa area is open and not suitable for hiding.If you run further east or north, you will run out of the seaside area, and the situation there is unknown and impossible.I can only think of a way to lead them to the shack area in the south...]

Silently planning the route in his mind, Cosmo saw the black muzzle of the gun in the corner of his right eye.

[Can you finally bear it? 】

Cosmo is very clear that the reason why the opponent has not fired is nothing more than three reasons: first, they are confident that they can catch up with them; It is pointing the direction for the other party; third, bullets are very expensive, especially pistol bullets, and half a catty of compressed biscuits can be exchanged for three bullets, and it is completely opposite to a certain commodity - bullets are often priced but not marketed .

But it doesn't matter, isn't it just a gun?Cosmo showed a smile that he thought was "that's all", and his body was already sprinting towards the side alley.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

There were three consecutive gunshots behind him.

The first bullet hit a street lamp in the distance, leaving a small black hole in the white pole.

The second bullet shattered the window on the second floor of the roadside villa, and wailing and screaming came from the house at the same time, and even a small amount of blood and pieces of meat flew through the window to the middle of the road, leaving deep red spots.

The third bullet flew past the boy's waist, tore off a corner of the black shirt, and then hit the thick wooden railing, sending pieces of wood flying everywhere.