Chapter 224 Meteor

At Chen Xiao'er's command, everyone stopped moving instantly.

Xiaotong immediately bent down to pick up a few more, but the candy beans were blown into the water by the "wind" and turned into strands of energy that flowed into Chen Xiao'er's body.

"Alright, let's go." Chen Xiao'er grabbed her sister's wrist and reached for Ling's with her other hand. Ling took her hand in return, and the three of them, chased by the waves, stepped through the door and rushed into the corridor.

"Hey," Xinnaya was about to run out when she saw a flash of red in Milo's eyes.

Killing Intent

Without hesitation, she jumped into the spreading pool with a splash.

Bang, boom.

Milo fired two shots at the water surface, and the bullets were swept into the water and disappeared.

"You should have let me come."

My students are nearby.

"I won't be discovered by them."

Oh, I believe you are a ghost.

Miroku put the gun back on his waist and ran towards the corridor before the water completely covered the soles of his boots.

Tap, clatter.

Their footsteps were scattered as they ran from the hollow half of the building to the solid part.

"Huh, huh... As long as I run over there, I can go downstairs..." Chen Xiao'er spread her legs and rushed towards the sealed door, and together with Ling, she turned the rotating door handle with force.

Her smile froze the moment she opened the door: there was a sound of gurgling water behind the door, and the wet splashes in the corridor had already reached her calves.

"How could this happen?" She realized belatedly that something was wrong: "There's not that much water in the pitcher, is there?!"

"It wasn't a water tank." Milo hurried over from behind and explained seriously, "That person pressed the pump button. The machine below was simultaneously pumping groundwater and releasing previously stored water, which is why it flooded up so quickly."

"After the projection of the unknown entity dissipated, the overflowing energy tore open the rift. It had been blocked for a long time, and there was also a reserve of energy with unknown purpose. The effect of a single eruption would be spectacular."

I see...but even if I understand, there's nothing I can do!

Chen Xiao'er led them through the water, treading water to the other side. The pumping speed was now much faster than the drainage speed. If the machine was not turned off, the whole building would be flooded sooner or later.

What’s even worse is that most of the office building is underground. They are not familiar with the structure, and the elevator has stopped working. They don’t know if they will have enough time to escape to the ground.

Milo asked the devil in his heart: Where are my students?

The devil answered honestly, "It's nearby. We're almost there."

Soon they heard the sound of orderly footsteps running down the stairs.

Chen Xiao'er excitedly went to meet them, but when she saw Lin Lang and the others, she jumped up anxiously: "Wait, why are you all running down there? It's flooding down there!"

"I know~" Lin Lang waved the thing in his hand and threw it over with a whoosh. "Catch it, it's for diving."

Chen Xiao'er didn't notice what Lin Lang was holding at first. After she threw it over, she found out that it was a diving suit and matching lenses.

She breathed a sigh of relief and quickly asked, "Where's the oxygen tank? Did you even bring an oxygen tank?"

Lin Lang choked. She had used the protective suit to deceive him, but it didn't completely fool him. Where on earth could I show you the oxygen tank?

Fortunately, the people behind reacted quickly. Zheng Lu patted the box used to store rare items and said with certainty, "We've brought them all. Everyone has one. How can we go to the underground reservoir without these?"

A hint of doubt flashed through her mind, but Chen Xiao'er didn't pay much attention to the logic of this sentence. She only noticed that everyone brought oxygen tanks, and her mood immediately relaxed a lot.

"Okay, let's dive in, find the passage leading to the first floor underwater, and slide out together!"

The classmates jumped into the water one after another. Chen Xiao'er hurriedly changed into her diving suit. When she looked back, her sister was gone.

"Xiaotong!" She screamed in fright, and then she looked again and saw that Xiaotong was held in Professor Milo's hand, and the two of them, one big and one small, were swimming staggeringly into the water.

In her eyes, Xiaotong changed into a children's diving suit that she had gotten from somewhere, struggling and meowing: "Let me go, I won't cause any trouble, I want to swim with the big sisters!"

"Let me go! I'm not hungry! I want to go with the believers!"

Professor Milo glared at her with a smile, then turned to Xiao'e and said, "I'm a good diver. Let me take her swimming with me."

That would be great, after all, you can't let a child dive alone. Even if the professor hadn't said so, she would definitely ask Zero for help.

Chen Xiao'er quickly agreed: "Okay, Xiaotong, I'll trouble you. I will follow behind and keep a good eye on her."

"Woo-gu." Chen Xiaotong cried out and stopped struggling. The professor dragged her hand into the water.

They entered the water one after another, the icy sensation gradually warming to the touch, like the sun-kissed sea surface. Chen Xiao'er relaxed, letting her muscle memory guide her joints into a slow, gentle swim, swam alongside Ling in the corridor.

The cramped corridor slowly widened, doors and windows opening one after another without anyone noticing. They followed their classmates as they paddled upward, swimming towards the brighter shore.

Wow, wow~

A beam of white light and the sudden increase in the sound of water caught Chen Xiao'er's attention. She and Ling kept alternating positions, gently pressing against each other in the current and then separating from each other, gliding quickly towards the light source.

[That's it]

The light shines through the open door frame, causing the metal to reflect colorful colors in the water, forming a door made of pure light.

Chen Xiao'er gently touched Ling's arm, and together they supported each other, darting through the light gate like fish. The water gathered into a spiral at the exit, drawing them in firmly and then blasting them out with all their might!

Hualalalal——

With their chests buried in the water, their faces first, they emerged. Amidst the silvery splashes, the two "little fish" opened their eyes, greeted by the overly bright light of the sky.

Chen Xiao'er blinked, looking at the sky. Belatedly, she realized it was late at night. The sky was pitch black, and the lights in the office had long since dimmed. So, what exactly was this bright white light...?

Rustle, rustle.

The pure black sky suddenly flashed with ripples, reminiscent of the snow on an old television. A sound like lightning piercing metal echoed near my eardrums, and then stars appeared one after another.

Chen Xiao'er looked up at the starry sky that suddenly lit up. To her, these were just the clear and beautiful scenery after the clouds dispersed.

But to everyone and even the monitoring center, these stars emitted a scarlet and unclean light, like evil eyes filled with blood and mucus.

Everyone held their breath amid the waves that stung their eardrums, and those with fragile souls could even hear crackling sounds coming from their bodies.

The parable of “Don’t Look Directly at the Sky” is not to prohibit humans from stargazing at any time, but to warn them not to commit suicide by using their naked eyes when special celestial phenomena appear.

But at this moment of escaping death, how many people can always remember the endless warnings?

It’s over...Xing Shuyao’s throat couldn’t make any sound, and a line of blood and tears slid down his left eye.

He was not talking about himself and his classmates, as they still had the protection of Chen Xiao'er and the Newborn Snake. When he saw these "stars", his thoughts skipped the long process and went straight to the most likely ending.

He knew this astronomical phenomenon, a precursor to a meteor shower.

He also knew that this starry sky held numerous dangers. What was the universe like? Just look at the Red Star.

The core of a star is the mysterious power of an entire planet. Meteors will shed their outer shells when they fall, slamming the indescribable weirdness into the surface, instantly increasing the radiation value of a large area and bringing a new round of catastrophe to the red star.

Red Star has a very long human history, so it has naturally witnessed many meteor showers.

Most of the debris in a meteor shower is just stone shells or ordinary objects, but there will definitely be several meteorites that are strange enough to cause great damage and new strange things after falling.

One meteor shower is nothing, but the last meteor shower was three years ago.

Meteor showers used to occur every thousand or hundreds of years, then a hundred years, then a few decades... Now they've been reduced to three years. And then, will they become everyday occurrences?

As soon as humans open their eyes, they will see new monsters falling from the sky. Is such a life really worth living?

A deep despair gripped his heart. This feeling of despair was not unique to the sensitive Xing Shuyao. Everyone was temporarily speechless after seeing the celestial phenomena clearly.

rustling.

A golden-green celestial body streaked across the night sky.

It seemed to have sounded the horn to kick off the event. Two, three, five, six orange and purple stars changed their orbits and slowly fell in arcs.

There will definitely be a grand meteor shower tonight. What else can humans say in the face of such desperate destruction?

"It's a meteor!" Chen Xiao'er's surprised voice broke the silence. The water droplets on her body scattered as she jumped, reflecting the bright flashes.

"So beautiful—" The girl opened her arms and smiled brightly at everyone's shocked expressions.

"......" Xing Shuyao blinked, and the corners of his tense mouth gradually relaxed.

The faint sounds finally returned from the sky to the earth, and people began to talk in low voices. The invisible shock and mental damage disappeared at this moment.

Liu Ping'an patted Xing Shuyao's shoulder, then walked over his stiff body.

"Yeah." She walked over to Chen Xiao'er and stretched, and together they looked at the falling meteor. "It's really beautiful..."

......

Beep-beep-beep-

Sharp alarms blared in every corner. Similar high-level alarms were activated not only in the monitoring center but also in every important location of the organization.

The meteor shower is coming.

Ordinary people would go crazy and run away in panic if they just looked at the sky, and if they were not careful, they would rush into the wilderness and never be seen again.

Only those with super powers were in relatively good condition. Most of the experienced mercenaries still remembered the chaos three years ago. Even though they were terrified by the time interval, it did not stop them from running one by one to a place with a roof.

The mercenaries who were assisting the Church of Light in driving energy stakes in the desert looked up and were so frightened that they quickly hugged the pillars and squatted down.

The captain pressed the emergency button on the communicator, sending a "Meteor" alert. They all covered their eyes with their hands, ignoring the flickering light in the sky, and dared not look far into the distance.

The only people who couldn't close their eyes were the lookouts, who also had to keep an eye out for any anomalies. Don't be so focused on preventing meteor pollution that you end up getting eaten up by a passing anomaly. That would be too embarrassing.

He didn't dare to look at the sky, and could only roughly scan in all directions, activating the magic object on his ear at the same time, so that if anything approached from the sky, he could avoid it in time.

"Hey, what is that?" He squinted his eyes and looked at a fast-moving green light. It seemed that the green light wanted to bypass us and run into the ruins behind us?